Cover Reveal for a new DRAGON book!

The Dragon Courage series is a middle grade/young adult fantasy series that has ten-year-olds to grandparents raving. What's all the fuss? It's a clean read of adventure and character quality building set in a new world. According to one reviewer, "Not since reading Christopher Paolini's Eragon have I read a book about dragons that made me want to be a part of that world". Each book has a theme skilfully woven into the plot so younger readers won't even realize they are being taught important life qualities. The series is a "fabulous adventure for younger readers that will fill their minds with the magic of dragons, friendships found and worlds from far, far away".

Today, fantasy author Kandi J. Wyatt is introducing book three in the Dragon Courage series, Dragon's Revenge. 

Book one took the reader to the northern canyon country of Three Spans Canyon where Kyn became a dragon rider. 

Book two followed Braidyn, a youngling born in the canyon country, who moved to the south along the River Sur. When some nestlings are stolen, Braidyn goes seeking retribution. His search takes him to the sandhills to the east of the inland sea. In book three, our story revolves around Kyn. He travels across the inland sea to a new land of marshes and red dragons.

Blurb:

In search of his place in the world, Kyn visits his new friend, Ben’hyamene. Together, they meet an ailing dragon rider from the marshes of a land called the Carr. The rider recounts a people beset by anger, depression, and despair. After befriending and healing the rider, the group travels to the rider’s home. There they discover a breed of wild dragons, called drakes, which have been at war with humans for four hundred years.

One sleepless night, Ben’hyamene uses his new abilities to communicate with the lead drake. This sets Kyn and Ben’hyamene on a path that could bring peace to a conflict that’s nearly destroyed a whole people. Can revenge be set aside and enemies be called friends?

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/PXabYw2HG4k

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And now for the cover!

Isn't it stunning? Thanks, Kandi, for allowing me to share your new cover!

Monday Book Review: Cora and the Nurse Dragon by H. L. Burke

I love to read, especially fantasy, and when I fall in love with a book I like to share my enthusiasm by writing a review. This is the first review I've actually featured on my blog, but this is an extraordinary book, and I want readers of MG fantasy to know about it!

Cora and the Nurse Dragon by H. L. Burke feels like a historical fantasy, because the author has obviously done a lot of research to make her setting feel like the early 20th century, with the addition of very believable dragons. The main character, Cora, is smart and spunky, and I loved taking this journey with her.

The writing was superb, and sucked me in from the very first page. The story is compelling and full of suspense as the stakes (and the danger) grow ever higher. The supporting characters are well-drawn, and Cora's best friend Abry makes me wish I had a friend like her, who is loyal AND good at math!

I don't want to reveal too much about the plot, but just be prepared to fall in love with the dragon pictured on the cover, and don't begin reading this book at bedtime, or you will stay up late to finish it. It's THAT good!

I whole-heartedly recommend this to dragon lovers of any age, but young fantasy readers especially will enjoy the story and feel like they've made several new friends, both human and dragon.

I bought both the Kindle AND the paperback. You can, too: http://www.amazon.com/Cora-Nurse-Dragon-H-Burke-ebook/dp/B01ACV79BO
 

Monday Blog: I'm not in Texas any more...

For weeks now I've been forgetful and confused. I missed a doctor's appointment because I forgot what day of the week it was. Even though I write things down, I can't keep up with the simplest activities. I've been blaming it on chemo brain.

It's not chemo brain. It's just that I'm not living in 2016 Texas right now.

Let me back up. In November I signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo for the first time, and successfully managed to get my writing focus back. Yay! I finished book 3 in my fantasy series and got a good head start on book 4. Feeling a great sense of urgency, for I don't know how long I'll stay in remission this time, I wanted to keep pressing with the daily word count and signed up for an 85K writing challenge (85,000 words in 3 months, from January 1 through March 31). I'm almost halfway to that goal, which means more than halfway through book 4. I'm so totally immersed in my fantasy world that I get annoyed when I have to do mundane tasks, like washing clothes, ironing, cooking for my Twin Towers (my 6'4" hubby and his father, who lives with us).

I'm living in Levathia, circa 1100's, with dragons and some of my favorite characters ever.

A very nice young man named Joshua Smolders redid my hand-drawn map of Levathia, with stunning results! Now I know where I'm going in Levathia, and you are welcome to journey with me!

Enter to win a Fantasy Winter Escape

My favorite genre is fantasy, and my favorite writer's group is Clean Indie Reads. So it doesn't get much better than hanging out with 15 fellow CIR fantasy writers in a fantastic giveaway event February 5th & 6th with a Facebook party and everything! The BIG prize is a new 7" Kindle Fire preloaded with all 16 of our books. I've donated a copy of my YA fantasy, Mercy's Prince, and all the other books are MG or YA fantasy. A great selection! There will also be prizes at the Facebook party, including this little guy I'm donating:

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New Book Release: Vision of the Griffin's Heart

My fellow Texan, fantasy writer, member of Clean Indie Reads AND founder of the fun and fabulous Book Nerd Paradise is releasing Book 5 in her Andy Smithson series: VISION OF THE GRIFFIN'S HEART.

About the book: Four years ago, Andy Smithson discovered he is the Chosen One to break a 500-year-old curse plaguing the land of Oomaldee when he unexpectedly and mysteriously found himself there. To do so, he must collect ingredients for a magical potion. Thus far he has gathered the scale of a red dragon, venom from a giant serpent, a unicorn's horn, and the tail feather of a phoenix. Now he must ask a griffin for one of its talons. There's just one problem: humans have poached griffin treasure, causing these mythical creatures to attack on sight.

Complicating matters, the evil Abaddon, sovereign of Oomaldee's northern neighbor, is turning more and more citizens into zolt in his ongoing campaign of terror as he sets in motion the final steps of his plan to conquer the land. Things really start to heat up in book five!

If you loved Harry Potter, you'll love the Andy Smithson series. These books are full of mythical creatures, newly invented animals like zolt, herewolves, and therewolves, a complex plot with evolving characters, and positive themes including responsibility, diligence, dignity, friendship, and more.

Purchase Kindle and Paperback.

Here are the rest of the books in this series:

About the author: L. R. W. Lee credits her love of fantasy with her introduction to C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Later on, she enjoyed the complex world of Middle Earth brought to life by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The multiple dimensions of the worlds mixed with a layer of meaning, captivated her and made her desire to invent young adult fantasy and epic fantasy worlds others could get lost in, but also take meaning away from. More recently, Lee has found inspiration from J. K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series as well as Brandon Mull and his best-selling Fablehaven, Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series.

Lee writes to teach her readers principles that can transform their lives: overcoming frustration, impatience, fear, and more. She also shows why responsibility, diligence, and dignity are the keys to true success in life. She lives in scenic Austin, Texas with her husband. Their daughter is a computer engineer for Microsoft, and their son serves in the U. S. Air Force.

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A new dragon book is about to be released!

One of my favorite fantasy authors is about to release her newest DRAGON book!

Cora and the Nurse Dragon is a new middle grade fantasy adventure by author H. L. Burke. It follows the adventures of Cora Harrison in a world where Dragons no longer live in nature but are a resource exploited by humans.

For ages 9 and up.

The book releases January 31st and is available for pre-order at the special price of 99 cents. I've ordered mine already!

Blurb: Cora's a young girl with two dreams: to be a dragon jockey when she grows up and to own a pet dragon now. She constantly buys "egg packs" at the dragon emporium in hopes that one will hatch into a rare pet-sized dragon, but only gets short-lived mayflies. However, when an unexpected egg does develop into something new, Cora may be over her head.

Author Bio: Born in a small town in north central Oregon, H. L. Burke spent most of her childhood around trees and farm animals and was always accompanied by a book. Growing up with epic heroes from Middle Earth and Narnia keeping her company, she also became an incurable romantic. 

An addictive personality, she jumped from one fandom to another, being at times completely obsessed with various books, movies, or television series (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Star Trek all took their turns), but she has grown to be what she considers a well-rounded connoisseur of geek culture. 

Married to her high school crush who is now a U.S. Marine, she has moved multiple times in her adult life but believes that home is wherever her husband, two daughters, and pets are. 

She is the author of a four part fantasy/romance series entitled "The Scholar and the Dragon", featuring the books Dragon's Curse, Dragon's Debt, Dragon's Rival, and Dragon's Bride as well as the YA/Fantasy Beggar Magic and (my personal favorite so far) a MG fantasy, Thaddeus Whiskers and the Dragon. Her current projects are a young adult steampunk fantasy and an epic fantasy trilogy.

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New year, new release, new giveaway!

This book, more than any I've written, truly feels like my "baby." It took more than 22 years from conception to publication, a testament to pig-headedness, er, persistence and believing in one's story. I wrote more about it when the book was first accepted by Pauline Books & Media. Now the challenge is to get the word out! This story inspires me, and I believe it will inspire many others, too.

I believe that strongly enough that I'm doing a Goodreads giveaway already:

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Giveaway ends January 19, 2016.
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