HERE BE NEWS for Monday May 12, 2025

 

 Monday May 12, 2025 

Welcome to HERE BE NEWS, where each monday we bring you all the latest from the fantasy romance authors at Here Be Magic:

 I died and was resurrected, and I don’t know why. 

My name is Casi Clarity. I was 26 years old when I died in 1969. Then I woke up in the 21st century—whole, sane, and unblemished. And at the same age I was when I died.

What's more, when I came back, I brought a friend with me. His name is Coheed. He's a corporeal spirit, and he is also my protector. Against what, you ask? Well, it seems that ever since my return, I've been chased by ghosts. Demons. Ancient evil. Monsters. You name it.

Why are they after me? Because they want to know my secret. They want to wreak havoc on mankind and bring about our ultimate destruction, and the only way they can accomplish that is by being fleshy beings again. To inhabit as many bodies as they can to cause untold horror. They are determined to discover how I returned from the dead, even if it means trapping me, torturing me, and ultimately killing me again to see if I'm resurrected a second time.

My name is Casi.

The undead call me Mouse.

Coheed calls me Miracle.

Warning! Contains a houseboat, explosions, a rain of ashes, invisibility, sanctuary, a forbidden testament, and a love that was prophesied thousands of years ago.

May Box Set

The Miracle Trilogy
(blurbs and excerpts)

That Finished First Draft Feeling

 Yesterday, I finished a first draft of the cozy fantasy Walking on Moonlight that I've been working on since January. It came out to 94k which is a long first draft for me (65-80 k is more typical), but no where near the monster 140k that Little Mansion in the Jurassic topped out at.

As always, even though there is at least two more drafts and much work to be done, I like to spend a little time basking in the glow of accomplishment. I created another novel out of nothing but my mind which is pretty cool when you think about it. Walking on Moonlight is my 49th novel written (not published, written) which is not nearly as prolific as some, but still a respectable body of work.

As I near the end of a draft, my pace always picks up, my word counts rising from an average of 700 during the middle of the novel to 1200 a day. Yesterday in my frenzy to finish, I wrote 3388 words.

Am I going to take today off? Um, no. While Walking on Moonlight will rest on my hard drive for a few months so that I can revise with fresh eyes, I will be moving my Project B into my Project A slot and continuing with that. A change is as good as a break for me. However tonight we will order out so I don't have to cook and I will read the ebook I bought myself as a treat yesterday.

Accomplishments should always be celebrated.

 

 

HERE BE NEWS for Monday May 5, 2025

 

 Monday May 05, 2025 

Welcome to HERE BE NEWS, where each monday we bring you all the latest from the fantasy romance authors at Here Be Magic:

Tuesday April 29, 2025: Linda Mooney treats us to Chapter Four of her Fantasy Romance, THE IMMORTAL.

Now Available! The MIRACLE Trilogy Box Set by Linda Mooney

 I died and was resurrected, and I don’t know why. 

My name is Casi Clarity. I was 26 years old when I died in 1969. Then I woke up in the 21st century—whole, sane, and unblemished. And at the same age I was when I died.

What's more, when I came back, I brought a friend with me. His name is Coheed. He's a corporeal spirit, and he is also my protector. Against what, you ask? Well, it seems that ever since my return, I've been chased by ghosts. Demons. Ancient evil. Monsters. You name it.

Why are they after me? Because they want to know my secret. They want to wreak havoc on mankind and bring about our ultimate destruction, and the only way they can accomplish that is by being fleshy beings again. To inhabit as many bodies as they can to cause untold horror. They are determined to discover how I returned from the dead, even if it means trapping me, torturing me, and ultimately killing me again to see if I'm resurrected a second time.

My name is Casi.

The undead call me Mouse.

Coheed calls me Miracle.

Warning! Contains a houseboat, explosions, a rain of ashes, invisibility, sanctuary, a forbidden testament, and a love that was prophesied thousands of years ago.

May Box Set

The Miracle Trilogy
(blurbs and excerpts)