Happy Valentine’s Day 2023

Happy Valentine’s Day, Champions! Valentine’s Day continues to be one of my favorite holidays–an entire day dedicated to sweets and showing everyone I love how thankful I am? Sign me up!

In previous years I used to do a free book to mark the day, but we’re kind of in the middle of Magiford stuff, so I’m shifting my annual Newsletter-Champion-Picked book to the summer so we can properly mark it. But! I still want to give you Champions a valentine, so here we have it, a new coloring page!

Above is the JPEG version, but you can also download the PDF version and print it out–here’s the link!

This coloring page is for Cinderella and the Colonel, my stand alone, fantasy retelling of the traditional fairy tale, without the insta-love. Cinderella is closer to Leila of Court of Midnight and Deception with both her sarcasm, and her obsession with money (Cinderella is also destitute, and has something of an enemies-to-lovers romance.) but her spit fire temperament is accompanied by the kindness that is so key to the Cinderella fairy tale. (Though her spend thrift ways make this book one of my favorite fairy tales. I can’t help it, I love budgets!)

If you want to check out Cinderella’s story, you can find it in Kindle Unlimited/on Amazon here, but feel free to share the coloring book with friends/family! I asked @olena_shkavron to make this page specifically for you, Champions, so have fun with it!

I hope you have a wonderful day, Champions, filled with love from all the people you hold dear! (And maybe a few sweets and good books, too!) Thanks for reading!

Audio Books: Snow Queen and Queen’s Crown

SO MANY exciting audio book updates today!

First of all, after a very looong wait, The Queen’s Crown is finally available on Audible! Once again this book was narrated by the combined talent of Avery Caris and Charlie Thurston. I hope you enjoy it!

I do want to acknowledge that this book was significantly delayed compared to the first two books, but unfortunately there wasn’t anything I could do about it. The first two books of the Court of Midnight and Deception series have been available for weeks but I can’t control how quickly Audible’s review process finishes, and they told me they were extra busy right now when I reached out to them. 🙁 But I’m glad it’s finally ready! If you were waiting for the final book go and get it!

The other update for the Court of Midnight and Deception series is that the issue with Crown of Shadows chapter eight (5 minutes of junk audio at the end) has been resolved, and you can now get the clean version on Amazon. If you delete the book from your device and redownload it from the store you will get the correct version. Special thanks to the Champions who helped me test this out to confirm we could get the new version!

Last, but definitely not least, I am happy to announce that you can also get the complete Snow Queen series as one single audio book download! All three books are narrated by the wonderful Courtney Patterson and Nick Thurston. Get The Snow Queen: The Complete Saga audio book.

This is the first audio boxset I’m releasing so I’m interested in what you think (please comment below if you liked this!). If this is well received there might be more audio boxsets coming in the future!

I’m also interested in hearing about what you think of the narrators! I’ve selected different narrators for each of my audio book projects so far – do you have a favorite? Do you like the two narrator style I’ve been using or do you prefer a single narrator through the whole book?

Snow Queen Series: Sale and Extras

The sale for The Snow Queen: The Complete Saga is still going on (99 cents for the whole series!) and I wanted to make sure you were aware of all the freebies/extras I have for this series!

First up, the bonus short story! The boxset has most of the Snow Queen related short stories I have written, but there is one story, The Robber Maiden, that you can only find on the Fairy Tale Freebies page. It is from Phile’s point of view and it gives you a glimpse into what she was up to before she joined Rakel’s crew.

The Fairy Tale Freebies page has a few more Snow Queen related things you should check out:

1. The Maps section has a map of Verglas from the time after the end of the series.

2. The Character Interviews section has appearances from Rakel and Farrin in the 2019 Heroine Pool and the 2018 Hero poll respectively.

3. If you’ve already read the Timeless Fairy Tales series (or if you don’t mind massive spoilers!) the Series Timelines may be useful to make sense of how everything fits together.
   

I’ve also picked out a few of my old blog posts that I think you will like! If you’d like to hear my sarcastic overview of the original fairy tale, The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen check out this blog post. And if you’d like to read more about how the characters in my series compare to the original fairy tale, take a look at this blog post.

Get the series: Amazon.com | All Other Amazon Stores

P.S. One more extra I think you’ll love is all the quote images on the Snow Queen Pinterest board. Admittedly, most of them are Phile quotes (she has some of the best lines after all!) but you will see some from other characters including some of my favorite Rakel quotes from Sacrifice.