As a prelude to (finally!) writing War’s Last Refuge, I’m rereading select Daughters of the People novels. Recently, I reread Say Yes, a spinoff of Tempered, an interstitial novel in the Daughters of the People Series that was a finalist in the Georgia Romance Writer’s Maggie Award for Excellence in 2015 in the Paranormal Romance…Continue reading Spring Break Sale
Banana Split Landscapes?
I was rereading The Choosing the other day and ran across an interesting typo: near-dessert. My first thought was, “What kind? Banana splits? Brownies? Raspberry swirl cheesecake?” That would make for quite the alien landscape, eh? But, of course, what I meant was near-desert. The funniest thing about this isn’t the imagery of people living…Continue reading Banana Split Landscapes?
Thank Anne McCaffrey
For the past few years, and especially for the past two, I’ve been contemplating the direction I want to take with my writing. When I started writing my first (finished) novel, The Prophecy, back in 2013, I was writing for the love of it. Words spewed out of me like lava from an erupting volcano.…Continue reading Thank Anne McCaffrey
Ten Years Later…
Ten years ago this month, on 10 February 2014, my first novel was published. The Prophecy kicked off my first ever series, a Contemporary Fantasy Romance set primarily in my home state, featuring the descendants of seven immortal sisters. My 113th story and 24th novel, A Witch Called Justice, written under another pen name, will…Continue reading Ten Years Later…
The Witch King’s Shadow is here!
The Witch King’s Shadow (The Witch Kings, Book 1) is now available at Amazon. This fun novella was originally published in Runes & Royals: A Limited Edition Anthology under my other pen name, Celia Roman. As soon as I finished writing it, however, I realized it was too romance-y for that pen name. When the story’s…Continue reading The Witch King’s Shadow is here!
Book Cover Makeover
I decided to rebrand The Pruxnae Series ahead of the release of Sweet Surrender, the second novel in the main story line, either later this year or in early 2024. The rebrand entails everything from revisiting the blurbs to deciding what to do with the audiobooks to possibly re-editing the prequel novella, Thief of Hearts.…Continue reading Book Cover Makeover
Kobo Plus Expands into the US and the UK
Kobo has expanded its Kobo Plus reading and listening subscriptions to the US and the UK. The subscription prices are quite low and include an option to subscribe to both the reading and listening services for $9.99 per month. For readers, this means having a lower-cost access to the many indie (and other) titles, like mine, that…Continue reading Kobo Plus Expands into the US and the UK
Vanessa Kinley, Witch PI
I’ve got a relatively new series that’s being published under my other pen name, Celia Roman, that I think you’ll enjoy. The Celia Roman pen name came about because I had this character and story world (that later became the Sunshine Walkingstick Series) that I wasn’t sure I should publish under the Lucy Varna name.…Continue reading Vanessa Kinley, Witch PI
BOGO at Kobo on Romances
Kobo is having a major BOGO sale on Romances through the end of the year. Many of my titles are part of this sale, including all but the first Daughters of the People novels (the first is freely available pretty much everywhere) and the two “official” Pruxnae stories. Click on the covers below to pick…Continue reading BOGO at Kobo on Romances
The Pruxnae: Earthside
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working to shape up the back end of things. One huge change is to the Pruxnae Series: those have been divided into two series, one for the main storyline laid out in The Choosing (the first story published in this series) and one for Pruxnae adventures on Earth.…Continue reading The Pruxnae: Earthside