She’s the last priestess of a hidden temple and he’s a ruthless mercenary who’s been sent on a mission to raid the Tower’s secrets.
World-building Exercise Part III Cities and Landmarks
Now that your country is mapped out, it's time to figure out where everybody lives!
World-Building Exercise Part II
In Part 1, we laid the foundation for our fantasy world. Now that we know where everything goes, it’s time to start putting some names to these places. Honestly, this is one of the hardest parts of world-building to me. This can be a black hole of coming up with new names if you’re not…
An Exercise in World Building
When writing a story set in a fantasy land, one important thing a writer has to do is create a world that the reader can understand and believe.
Release Date for Trial by Song
As you can probably imagine this is an exciting time for me. It's taken several years to get Trial by Song ready to send out into the world. When you're the youngest of seven brothers blessed with faery gifts, it's easy to feel like you have something to prove. So when Jack Sorley sneaks out…
Cover Reveal
Here it is! The cover design for Trial by Song!
Guest Post by U. L. Harper
I'm very happy to present this guest post from U. L. Harper, author of The Secret Deaths of Arthur Lowe, on a discussion about prologues. *** Raise your hand if you remember watching The X-files. I watched the hell out of some X-files. The first scene of the show would always be the introduction to the…
One Journey Ends, A New Quest Begins
Amazingly, the trees are thinning and I'm starting to see the end of the road for my five-years-in-progress YA story, Trial by Song.
Walking the Line: How I Outline the First Draft
So I thought I'd talk a little about my process of starting a story. This past week I broke ground on the sequel to my novel, Trial by Song, which I'm prepping for publication, so I've been paying a lot of attention to how to get this new story off to the races. I'm always interested…
Stolen
These days this kind of cloak and dagger stuff is riskier than ever, which was why the red caps sent me—I’m expendable.
Alicia Gaile 