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Oct 92 min read

SheaCon: Games (Unscrambler, Cryptograms & Madlibs)

The release of SheaCon games continues and this time I have some excellent printable options to share with you, so you can give your eyes a screen break and still have fun!

Previews of the unscrambler cryptograms and madlibs

Magical Beings Word Unscrambler

Unscramble the names of these magical beings (example: Elf) found throughout my books (so they are not restricted to one series). Note: the first page is the list of words and the second page is the answer key so don't look at the second page until you are ready to check your answers! Thanks to Cheybri for creating this!

Magical Beings Word Unscrambler (all books)

Quote Cryptograms

Popular book quotes from various K. M. Shea series have been encrypted (i.e. each letter in each quote has been swapped with a random letter). Use the letters given in the key and your puzzle-solving skills to decode the quote. Thanks to Cheybri for creating these too!

Timeless Fairy Tales Cryptograms

Elves of Lessa Cryptograms

Fairy Tale Enchantress Cryptograms

Magiford Supernatural City Cryptograms

Gate of Myth and Power Cryptograms

Magic on Main Street Cryptograms

Second Age of Retha Cryptograms

Sheaverse Madlibs!

Replace words from an existing book scene to be story accurate or a hysterical monster! Thanks to LouBerry for creating these!

MADLIB REMINDERS:

A NOUN is the name of a person, place or thing. Blood, toddler, chicken and finger are nouns. PLURAL means more than one.

A VERB is an action word. Eat, flip, jump and fly are verbs. Ate, flipped, jumped and flew are PAST TENSE VERBS.

AN ADJECTIVE describes something or somebody. Happy, fluffy, awesome, colorful and tall are adjectives.

AN ADVERB tells how something is done. It modifies a verb and often ends in -ly. Quietly, violently, smoothly and never are adverbs.

Baking Cookies - Order of Blood and Ruin

Capturing Orrin - Lies of Vampires and Slayers

Waking Up in a Ship - The Revived

Sledding Down a Hill - The Queen's Crown

Mayor Pearl Defending Timber Ridge - United

Experimenting with Training - Magic Forged

Sep 222 min read

French Fry Appreciation Week Wrap Up

The first ever Character Appreciation Week was, September 8th - 14th, and it stared the loveable trash griffin/pigecoon, French Fry, from the Gate of Myth and Power trilogy!

Thanks to all my team for making this silly and fun event happen! I had so much fun looking over the entries but it wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Facebook Group moderators and Discord Mod Squad!

French Fry Appreciation Wrap Up Post featuring the three faces of French Fry

If you weren't able to participate, don't worry, you can still have fun with me reviewing all the awesome Champion creations!

Memes

The Discord Champions did not disappoint and successfully defended their title as the reigning "Experts of Memes". To see the full list of hilarious entries check the Discord server (Not sure how to join Discord? There are instructions on this webpage.) or I will be posting samples every Monday on my Facebook page and Instagram for the next several weeks! Here's an example by Lexi Jo:

French Fry (the character) artwork

There are so many talented Champions who are part of our community! There were so many cute fan art and fan works, and yes I loved all the coloring page entries as well. If this inspired you to color you can find French Fry's coloring page on my website. You can see all the entries on the Facebook Group and tagged on my Instagram profile, and I will also be posting samples on Thursday on FB and IG last week and this week. Here's an example of French Fry crochet art by @alexandramason27

French Fry (the food) photos

Ok, I realize this was a really strange game - asking everyone to take photos of french fries is not a typical book game - but it was super fun to see the entries! French Fry would definitely approve! I'm going to share all of them in this post (I modified them to include French Fry and the name of the photographer!). You can find the originals on the Facebook group!

Sep 43 min read

SheaCon: Jigsaw Puzzles (Book Covers and Maps)

SheaCon is a weekend of K.M. Shea themed fun held on a private discord server different from Kitty’s main server. SheaCon 2024 was in July but for the first time ever this year we are releasing many of the games as blog posts so you can have fun with them whenever you want!

The Jigsaw puzzles have been an ongoing SheaCon favorite game which also means there are a LOT of them we can share with you! We are breaking them up into multiple posts so the list is not overwhelming and the first set is book cover images and maps! (Just for K. M. Shea books, the A. M. Sohma books will be featured later.)

Helpful Puzzle Hints:

If you want to be able to save your progress and not accidentally lose your work, you do have to sign up for a jigidi account. (It is the website where all the puzzles are hosted.) This is free, and you can come back to puzzles you’ve started to finish later.
If you sign up for a free account, you can go under the puzzles tab and bookmark puzzles that you want to save to complete at a later time. Under the same puzzles tab, you can also access puzzles that are in progress or puzzles that you’ve completed and want to finish again.
There is a zoom feature (the + and - in the corner) that can be very helpful in limiting optometrist visits after looking at small puzzle pieces.
Use the three dots icon in the upper right corner to open the puzzle panel to view the image and access the more advanced features like:
- Change the background color under the puzzle timer. (Just click a colored box, and you’ll be able to try out which background color you prefer.)
- You can pause the puzzle timer if you need to step away but still want to keep time.