Inspiring Mondays

Today's picture is of a Drow. Drow are dark-skinned elves that live underground. In Champion of Valor, they tend to be all about themselves and often clash with their underground neighbor, the dwarves.

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In honor of working hard on finishing up Champion of Valor before the end of the month, here's a picture of a selkie. One of the main characters in CoV is a selkie named Selliki.

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I love the coloring of this. That is one kick-ass sword.

And thanks so much to everyone that responded on Friday's post about what you like and don't like about my blog. I'm going to play around with the layout and maybe remove a few things and see if that helps to make the page load faster.

Inspiring Mondays and other Pics

I think this is too awesome - a castle in a cave! Wonder who lives there, why they're underground, if they have any magic...

And some other pictures from my life:

 My pumpkins at Halloween (I know, it takes me forever to upload my pictures onto the hard drive!)

The boys all dressed up in Christmas-y type clothes to see Santa at the mall.

My new haircut - sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. It looks nice here but it doesn't always. It had been a couple inches from my elbows so I had a ton cut off.

 Son #1 loves to wear hats - especially mine. We both got DeSean Jackson jerseys for Christmas.

 And a few wedding pics:

 Me with the lovely bride, my oldest friend (since the 1st grade)

 Me and the Turner girls

My family with the happy bride and groom

The wedding party

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Here's a lovely picture of a winter queen. Methinks there's something magical about the wintry forest behind her. I love her cloak. And dress. I would so buy that outfit.

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I love the colors in this, the blues are beautiful. Who is she? Who is she waiting for?

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Credit for picture

I think this picture has so many possibilities. The explorer - where did he come from? What is he looking for? Is he hiding from something or someone? And the house - what's inside? Is it a temple? Or is it hiding a terrible secret beneath its stone floors?

And another issue of The Medieval Chronicle is now available! Click here to read my article. Enjoy! :)

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Credit for picture

Today's picture is a Kelpie. If you've read Knight of Glory, you already know all about this mysterious creature but if you haven't - the Kelpie is a water demon horse. It commonly looks like a lost pony and its mane is constantly dripping. To touch it could mean death, the horse is that cold. And if you should climb onto its back, it will race to the nearest body of water and drown you. Not the nicest of creatures, huh?

Extra little tidbit - the Kelpie will make a return appearance in Champion of Valor. But sh, I didn't tell you that! :)

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Twofer! Steampunk and Disney.

Loglines and Inspiring Mondays

Today I'm part of a logline blogfest courtsey of Steena.

I'm gonna post two loglines for two different stories. Feel free to comment about one or the other or both!

Logline #1:

Hidden in Shadows
urban fantasy with romance elements

(side note: I've been having some real difficulty with this one. There are three major components to the story: the revenge, the love, and Lorna's discovery of her powers. All three are important and related in the story but I can't quite figure out a way to show how they are connected within the logline. Here's my best try.)

Traumatized by witnessing her father’s brutal murder, Lorna masters her feelings of powerlessness by becoming an assassin. As Lorna grows closer to finding her father’s murderer, she strives to master her newfound shadow power, the ability to create and hide in shadows. When she falls for a new target, Lorna must make a choice – love or revenge.

REVISED based on comments:



Traumatized by witnessing her father’s brutal murder, Lorna masters her feelings of powerlessness by becoming an assassin.  As a paranorm with the ability to create and hide in shadows, shegrows closer to avenging her father's death but when she falls for her latest target, Lorna must make a choice between love and revenge.

One-line:

As a paranorm with the ability to create and hide in shadows, assassin Lorna grows closer to avenging her father's death but is torn between duty and desire when she falls for her latest target.

Logline #2:

Alexia's Pen
fantasy YA

When fifteen-year-old aspiring novelist Alexia is given a mysterious pen that writes of its own accord, she discovers the mystical, but real, Land of Imagining, which is threatened by great evil. To save the inhabitants and her kidnapped family, Alexia must use the pen’s power before the Land of Imagining becomes the Land of Terror.

I also have a one-liner which I agree with everyone is better than the two line logline:

When fifteen-year-old aspiring novelist Alexia is given a mysterious pen that writes of its own accord, she discovers the mystical Land of Imagining, a land only she can save from demons.

Looking forward to reading and helping you all to have awesome loglines! And before I forget, here's today's photo for inspiring Mondays (a female assassin picture in honor of Lorna)

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A Halloween-type picture.

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I'm thinking evil villain's fortress of doom.

If you have the time, stop by this site. I'm talking about the history of Halloween. Leave a comment and you could win an ebook, either Woman of Honor or Knight of Glory!

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I love this picture. It could be historical or fantasy, definitely romance.

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Danielle asked for a paranormal romance picture so here's a picture of vampire love:

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Time for another picture:

Let me know if you have a certain genre that you would like me to find a picture for.