September Updates!
Twisted Magic is well and truly launched, and I’ve been thrilled by the responses. This series will always be near and dear to my heart, because it helped me get back in touch with the things I love about writing. I love these characters. I love this setting. But ultimately, this was my first foray into “romantasy” (although that label hadn’t become a thing yet when I first started these).
As my bio says, I grew up in a house with thousands of science fiction and fantasy books, and I cut my reading teeth on Tolkein, McCaffrey, the Myth books, the Star Trek novelizations (both original series and cartoon!), and many more. I fell in love with sweeping stories that took many books to tell, with complicated histories and complicated characters, and all the trappings of these speculative epics.
When I was in high school, a friend gifted me with a brand new book. She was not herself a fantasy reader, but she knew I was, and this book had a beautiful horse on the cover, which she also knew I liked. That book?
Yes, this was the second book of the trilogy, but I read it and fell in love with it, and proceeded to devour all of Mercedes Lackey’s books.
Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey, Barbara Hambly—all their books (that I read) were fantasy, but they were also romantic, and I wanted more of that. I started reading romance novels, and those were great too! But most of those were a story fully contained in one book, lacking the epic feel of the SFF I’d grown up on.
And so, I’m happy now to see more people embracing the combination of the two, and opening the door to epic romantasy. Twisted Magic was the beginning for me, but will not be the end.
On that note, book 2 will be out in December, and preorders are available now! You can order at your favorite platform from https://books2read.com/Twisted-Loyalties
That’s all for now. We’ll talk again soon!