Jan 7, 2013 | Cephrael's Hand, Contests, fantasy, Uncategorized |
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the Cephrael’s Hand whirlwind tour by posting reviews, excerpts, interviews, and reviews. I am incredibly grateful for your generous support and interest! I’m pleased to announce the winners of our big contests...
Jan 4, 2013 | Contests, fantasy, Uncategorized |
Okay everyone, it’s time to get creative and compete for huge prizes as part of Novel Publicity’s Cephrael’s Hand Whirlwind Tour. We’re hosting one gigantic contest with two separate parts, which means you can enter once, twice… as many times as you...
Dec 16, 2012 | Cephrael's Hand, eBooks, Excerpts, fantasy, Uncategorized |
This week I thought I’d give you an excerpt from Cephrael’s Hand. This chapter provides our first glimpse of the constellation and its ominous implications. “To know love is to know fear.” – Attributed to the angiel Epiphany The...
Oct 4, 2012 | fantasy, Plot Development, Story Concepts, Tropes, World-Building, writing |
The word trope is defined in most dictionaries as “a word or expression used in a figurative sense,” but trope has become reinterpreted in today’s vernacular to refer to an often overused plot device. The conflict inherent in tropes as they apply to genre literature...
May 26, 2012 | Character Development, fantasy, World-Building, writing |
“What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” So says Juliet in her soliloquy about Romeo. As Shakespeare points out, names are a combination of symbols, associated with sounds, which are assigned to represent a person or thing in our minds....
