Hitting The Floor Running!

1/31/2013

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Well, what a month it's been already! I never thought 2013 would have me hitting the floor running but between moving house and getting ready to launch my new book Betrayers of Magic I just haven't stopped.
To top it all I was lucky enough to be invited by Steven Ramirez to do a  guest post on his website, Glass Highway.  I decided I wanted to do a piece that would hopefully give writers a little inspiration and by all the twittering and Facebook comments it appears to have worked.
I have added the link below so you can see for yourself how I find my own inspiration and beat writers block and perhaps this could help you too.
http://bit.ly/YjDDak

So what's next on your agenda I hear you cry? Well, I think it would be really interesting to find out more about Steven Ramirez.  Steven has written quite a few books and is also a screenwriter with a film under his belt.  Steven in based in LA and is currently working on his next novel which gives me a perfect excuse to ask him to be my first ever blog guest.  Steven has kindly accepted the challenge and I am going to publish the interview on Thursday 28th February so I hope we have a lot of people out there who are willing to show their support to us both.

So on that note I will start to prepare for the 'big day' and look forward to hearing your comments after I post Steven's interview.

All the best everyone and here's to a crazy 2013!
Lynette

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Betrayers of Magic Is The Next Step In The Right Direction

1/7/2013

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First of all a Happy New Year to you all!

 Well, what a busy few weeks it has been for all of us!
To be honest, I’m secretly glad Christmas is all over because now I can finally  sit down and have a rest.  For me Christmas is such a busy time of year with having such a large family. Not that I’m complaining, far from it, but it does generate an enormous amount of Christmas preparations (and mountains of washing up!).

However, I have to say, Christmas day was wonderful (I think). I cooked, (as usual) and because my youngest son was starting his new job that very day, dinner had to be put on hold until 4.30 pm. I wasn’t too pleased, but needs must and Alex was very grateful to have a job and get his dinner made for him all in one day. We had so many gifts to open it took us over two hours to finally throw the last of the wrappings away. The feeling I get when I have my family around me on this very special day as I watch pleasure glow from their faces makes me so grateful to have been blessed with such a full and wonderful life.

New Year’s Eve saw me and my family out at a party at the Habrough Hotel and I have to say it was a lovely bash. The room was beautifully decorated and the food was very lavish, (although far too much seafood for my liking if I’m honest). The firework display at midnight was out of this world and the evening was so mild that no one wanted to go back inside once they finished. The bacon rolls which we received afterwards were most welcoming and by 2 am we were all back at home, drinking tea.

Now I have seen the New Year in there are a few things happening for me and my books. Firstly, I have a feature with Rebecca Sweeny Graf on the 13th
of January which I am really looking forward to reading and I will add this to
my own blog once it is out and in circulation.  I have also been asked to do another feature about how I find inspiration and ideas for my stories for Steven Ramirez who is an American author whom I met through Facebook. 

Now, hold your breath avid readers of fantasy as things are happening with Betrayers of Magic.
I have just had my friend Liz Lane contact me this morning. Liz is a lady I met through a close friend and who is a medical publisher (sadly not a fantasy  publisher).  Liz has been reading the manuscript in preparation for the editor and she said she loved the second book as much as the first and found it very engaging.  This is simply fantastic news as I really enjoyed writing the second book and was hoping she would say that. She is getting in touch with the printers as I type so I’m hoping the second book is not going to be much longer before it’s out to buy.

As a special treat to my readers I am adding the synopsis of Betrayers of Magic below and in the next few days will place the first taster chapters on Facebook  and on my website.  I’m positive that if you enjoyed Sinners of Magic you’re going to adore Betrayers of Magic and that’s a promise!

Betrayers of Magic book two in the 'Magic' trilogy:

Finding the separation from her immortal people too much to bear, Crystal soon returns to Nine Winters. Her homecoming coincides with the Feast of the
Four Quarters Festival where the magical realms come together to choose this
year’s new apprentices who will join, if chosen, the Supreme Circle of Mages. 
 
On this very special day, the princess meets a bold and courageous apprentice called Niculmus DeGrunt who is like no one she has ever met before but is there something sinister lurking behind those mysterious dark brown eyes?

Outside the city, trouble is brewing and there is unrest within those who deem themselves above the law. Conspirators take matters into their own hands and soon the royal family is forcibly separated. Everything will hang in the balance when Crystal has no choice but to find the Book of Souls and free the fourth mage from inside it.

Beware! The power of the revengeful mage is about to be unleashed ...
 
I hope the synopsis has you hooked and I look forward to your comments.

 Best wishes,

 Lynette

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