I'm back with some more cover news! I wasn't planning on getting new covers for my YA fantasy book, Princess Ahira, but I saw this cover by Fieriz and I just fell in love with it! Isn't it beautiful?!? It has the perfect cozy fantasy vibe to match the Princess Ahira story! I've already updated the ebook and audiobook covers but I wanted to let you know about the change before I switched the paperback cover (just in case you wanted to order a paperback with the old cover). Buy

I’m excited to announce the return of my annual Reader Survey! Woohoo! It's been a few years since I last conducted one of these but to give you a quick overview, I ask my Champions to fill out this short survey (it's only 7 questions long) and once you submit your answers you are treated to a brand new never-before-seen Magiford themed short story! The questions help my team learn more about you Champions (such as your favorite book genres) and give us direction on what my t

It's pretty rare to find a fairy tale where the woman is the only one who can save the day but the original tale of The Wild Swans (AKA The Six Swans) is exactly that! In this classic story a group of brothers is turned into swans by their evil stepmother and it's up to their sister to save them by knitting shirts of stinging nettles for each of them. Since this fairy tale is lacking a Disney animated movie or other pop culture adaptation I recommend reading my sarcastic summ

The ultimate fairy tale for cat lovers, starring a character made well know by the Shrek franchise: Puss in Boots! In the original story the cat, Puss, was just as amazing as his Shrek version, but his owner is... useless. (If you don't believe me, click here to read my sarcastic summary of French tale told by Charles Perrault.) It's not as well knows as other fairy tales but but by working with the awesome readers who follow me on social media we managed to come up with a li

You know I love to give you free books, and I don't know about you but I personally think it is time to freshen up my TBR with some new options. So here is the perfect solution! Free books for you! Once again, my fellow fairy tale author pal, Gabrielle Landi, has screened a group of authors to offer you free clean/sweet fantasy romance books for the month of August! Click here to see the full list of Clean and Sweet Fantasy Romance books! And if you have any questions about t

Do you know someone who has an Audible Premium Plus membership? (Maybe it's you?!?) If you are unfamiliar with it, readers who have an Audible Premium membership will also have access to a select catalog of audiobooks (AKA the Audible All You Can Listen library) that they can listen to free -without having to buy them or pay a credit for them. And don't worry, authors still get paid if a reader listens to our audiobook via this catalog! The good news is Audible curates this c

This is the last week you can enter the giveaway for a free audiobook promo code for Audible.com and Audible.co.uk and the prize this week is the brand new Princess Ahira audiobook! If you hurry you can still enter the giveaways for this week it before it closes on Friday. Visit the Facebook Group or Instagram. Whispersync And don't forget that you still have time to grab one of the Whispersync audiobooks from this list of fantasy authors (many of whom you'll recognize from p

My team and have been working to come up with fun ways for you to spend more time with the Magiford main characters and one idea we had was to give you an insider glimpse of text message conversations between them. We decided to kick things off with a fun Noctus text message chain that could have taken place during the events of book 1, The King's Captive. To clarify, didn't actually happen in the events of the book (so it isn't considered "cannon") but it accurately captures

Do you love audiobooks? Do you wish there was a better way to feed your audiobook addiction? Audible has a program called Whispersync that allows you to buy the audiobook for a discounted price if you own the matching ebook or have the book borrowed via KU! Whispersync is unfortunately not available in all countries and Audible decides via their own process if an audiobook is eligible or not so it can be tough to track these books down. Since we are celebrating audiobooks thi

This summer I am once again focusing on my audiobooks but I switched the giveaways to this month (July) which means the first one is already live! Giveaways Every week in July I'm offering a giveaway for audiobook promo codes. The codes only work on Audible.com and Audible.co.uk so you must be able to use one of those websites to be eligible. I’m picking a different audiobook each week to highlight and you can comment on the Facebook group post and/or the Instagram post for t

Over a year ago the Facebook Group Champions did their own challenge where they had to poorly describe a book plot in the style of a Reddit AITA post. Most of them picked a Magiford story and since I had so much fun reading these the first time I knew they would be perfect to share on my social media in the lead up to the release of Managing the Vampire's Mansion! But I know not everyone checks my social media so I decided to do this wrap up post sharing all of them for every

The main problem I faced in Embittered, which actually started in Enchanted, was figuring out how to introduce Lancelot to Britt and my readers. Lancelot has appeared in every book—he’s the knight Britt runs into in Enthroned when she first retrieves the sword and is running back to the tournament (You can go back and read it and see that he is dressed in his colors and his dapple grey horse is with him.) and he and his cousins are the knights Britt encounters in the woods in

Enchanted was inspired by a paragraph I read in King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles. The paragraph described the visitation of King Lot’s wife to Camelot after Arthur beat back Lot and his allies. King Lot’s wife was sent to spy on Arthur, but after she meets him she confesses that her husband sent her as a spy and purposely leaves Gawain, her eldest son, with Arthur so Arthur can use him as a hostage against Lot. And yes, all of this happens in a single paragrap

Before researching my brains out for Enthroned, I thought that King Arthur ascended his throne the way the Disney movie, Sword in the Stone, shows it. I thought he pulled the sword from the stone, people wigged out, and BAM, he was king. I thought wrong. Britt’s story follows the original timeline of Arthur’s crowning. He did pull the sword on New Year’s Eve, but many people refused to recognize him as king so there were a number of other contests in which knights, princes, b

Previously, the ebook and paperback versions of the King Arthur 3-packs had bonus short stories and extra content about my research. This was an ongoing issues because the extra content angered the quality checkers on Amazon every time I touched the book entry. So I pulled all the extra content out of the books and now I will be releasing them on my website so you can read them anytime! First up, there are TWO short stories that have been newly added to the website: Embittere

This was originally supposed to be a pre-order announcement but Audible goofed and released it instead. Opps! But I guess it's a gain for all the Champions who love this story?!? The audio team has been secretly working on the audiobook for Princess Ahira since December! It's been soooo hard to keep it a secret, but we are so excited because now you can finally hear it! And since I'm sure this will be number one question on the mind of all the fairy tale fans. Yes! We are pla

Book covers are an interesting thing in that they offer clues to a book's genre and are a unique visual representation of the story. As trends and best practices changes I've updated the covers on several of my books and now it is time for some of the Magiford books to get the same treatment. To save time, I'm going to tell you about all of them in one go! You probably already noticed that the Hall of Blood and Mercy ebook boxset cover changed earlier this year: This was act

When I first decided I wanted to try writing a book in the Magiford world during my recovery process, I knew I couldn’t do it within the city of Magiford. My brain was—and still isn’t—functioning to a point where I’d be able to nail all the details and crossovers of characters that are necessary in Magiford. So I decided to try writing a book that took place in a small Wisconsin town. However, with the limiting factor of my health keeping me home so I couldn’t check out any n

For the first time ever I released a Magiford book that is based in a real life city/town! Midwest small towns have their own special personality and I've visited Algoma in the past so I want to tell you a little about it so you can get a better idea of the worldbuilding in my new book and some of the details I wasn't able to include! Algoma is in the Northern part of the State and is located on the piece of Wisconsin that sticks out into Lake Michigan. As a quick side note,

Managing the Vampire's Mansion released on April 24th (click here if you still need to read it) and thanks to all the awesome Champions the reviews have been pouring in on Goodreads and Amazon which means it is time to share the bonus short story with you! (This short story has SPOILERS for the book so only proceed if you are ok with spoilers!) Click here to read the story! I had so much fun writing this short because I could picture it immediately as soon as I started planni