Miranda Mayer's Blog

Starting with the Wizard King, the Red Slipper Series has stepped into the Audio world. This is an exciting new endeavor.

You can get the first book in the series on Audible.com here:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Wizard...

A Problem of Ghosts is underway. So keep checking in for more installments of the Red Slipper Series.

The Seed of Winden paperback is now available on Amazon. The eBook will be available at the end of April. 
Nieve spent her entire life in the dry, lifeless lands of the desert, a girl out of place in her own country. Her aunt’s recent marriage allows them to move to the one remaining patch of green in the known world—a lush, vibrant oasis that sits upon a plateau, guarded by manpower and magic. This land is everything she hoped for, a place she finally feels at home.
Tammin Halenwood was born into power and privilege, a son of one of the greenland’s noblest families. His attraction to Nieve is as strange as it is immediate. But it is their visit to the mysterious stones atop Winden Hill that seals their fates.
The act of stepping into the magical circle together sets off a chain of events that endangers the greenlands and exposes the land to the curse of the hungry, living sands. As the desert encroaches into this last vestige of life, destroying everything in its path, it is up to Nieve and Tammin alone to break the curse and save their world from being consumed by the sand.

...and finally, Audible users, the first of the Red Slipper Series is about to be launched in audio! YAYS! Talented voice actor Yvette Keller has brought the brooding Arnsword and sweet Ynith to life, along with the other characters we've all come to love! She's fabulous! A link will be soon provided once production is tied up. Woohoo!


In other news, I will be at the Jane Austen Tea and Fair in Aurora Oregon on April 26 and 27, 2019 again. I will be hawking the Red Slipper Series, with it pretty new matching covers, the Audiobook project and also the line of Red Slipper Complementary Teas, two of which you will be able to obtain for yourself. So come and see me and Yvette Keller too!

After the death of her husband, Evvie of Ravensroost returns home embittered by her unfortunate marriage and determined to cut herself off from society. But when a rugged Bask warrior darkens her doorway, Evvie’s world is turned upside down. Impulsively, she leaves everything behind for an icy, foreign nation where she has no friends or connections—other than her Bask warrior—and where everyone thinks she’s a witch, a legacy she’s reluctant to accept. She discovers this new identity comes with a mysterious, deadly and vengeful enemy. Armed only with knowledge gleaned from books and with the overzealous assistance of her new eccentric aunts and a particularly helpful librarian, Evvie must confront her witchly nature before her legacy destroys her.

Copies will be available on all major channels soon! 

I am a terrible blogger lately. Usually I can't get enough of posting this and that randomness on my personal blog, and occasionally remembering to tend to my author page. Shame on me! And worse, there's been SO much going on lately.

Did I mention that I'm co-authoring a series with author Shéa MacLeod? Yes, I am. And the first book has been released! Behold!

The new series!

Book 1~ Click here to go to Amazon & buy it, because it's AWESOME SAUCE!
Oh Noz!
I also released another installment of the Red Slipper Series at last! 
More Awesome Sauceness (with werewolves!)
Click & Buy yo~!I will be at Wizard World Portland along with my co-author again this year, so come by & grab a bookmark, say hi, buy a book and get a tin of tea!

What's going on this weekend? Well, Rose City Comic Con in Portland is going on of course. So here I am with my spocky eyebrows and crazy hair to tell you what we're up to at the Convention Center.
 

It's the UNIPIPER! I couldn't think of it in spite of saying Unicycle guy with Flaming Bagpipes! Gargh! Want to see the cover for the newest addition to the Red Slipper Series? Here it is. :D


Come by to chat Werewolves, and get yourself a tin of the Wizardly Summer Pudding Tea!

Rose City Comic Con -- be there or be square like a minecraft character.

Voting will be opened on September 1, 2016. It will take place here: https://metamorphpublishing.com/summer-indie-book-awards, so be sure to find A Problem of Ghosts and The Wizard King, and please vote! Thank you!

I'm trying to up my social media game, and that means posting teasers. I've been making them pretty consistently for a little while, but I thought I'd share them here.

Teasers for the Trilogy of Tinna (my favourites!)




The Red Slipper Series
Book 1, The Wizard King: 



Book 2, A Problem of Ghosts



 Book 3; The Beast With Silver Eyes (TBR in September)
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There you have it so far. These are really fun to make!
And lastly, here is a little peek at what the costume for the cover of The Beast With Silver Eyes (a very subtle peek). Sumptuous velvet trimmed in silver (which looks a little gold in the yellow light).

Join a bunch of Portland Authors (including me!) for a fun-filled takeover; full of great giveaways from the participating authors.  If you're logged into Facebook, click on this link and say you're going to this giveaway!

Participating authors:

AJ Harmon 
Stace Lee
Shea MacLeod
S.M. Stryker
AK Layton
Roslyn McFarland 
Jenna Bayley-Burke
Angie Merriam
and ME! 

So jump in, get involved in the chats, get to know excellent Portland/Oregon based authors and have some fun. See you there!

Full Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/484783058380318

In celebration of the release of A Problem of Ghosts, I'm offering a giveaway of some nifty bookplates for the ardent reader. 
All you have to do is click the image to enter (and be a member of Amazon.com, naturally). 
Enter now!
Click here to enter the giveaway!

Yes, it's taken me this long to recover from Wizard World Portland Comic Con. It's a pretty epic con and I sold SO MANY BOOKS, and met SO MANY AWESOME PEOPLE! I love the conventions so much, I can't stop doing them. I'm really looking forward to the Rose City Comic Con coming up in September.  I hope you'll drop by and visit!

Problem of Ghosts is off to a lovely start. I'm really having a great deal of fun with the Red Slipper series (Regency, With a Twist!)--and I think I'l be doing more of these books. Regency with wizards; Regency with Ghosts, and coming up soon (I hope) Regency with Werewolves and Regency with Giants! There are so many fun places to go with this one.


I also have some other genres on the cooker, and am slowly pecking my way through them. I've tried to refine my production process and stick to one project at a time. Being a Fly-By-The-Seat-Of-My-Pants kind of writer, with a healthy dose of attention deficit disorder, I tend to go Squirrel too often. But my mentor Shéa MacLeod is teaching me that focus is what works, and Problem of Ghosts is evidence of that. So apart from stopping to write down the new ideas that come along while on a project, I have been working exclusively on the book tentatively called Magpie.

Will I go back to epic fantasy, and possibly Tinna's world? I don't know yet. Tinna's trilogy has sort of burned itself through me and left me breathless. So now I am focusing on lighter fiction.  The time may come when I go back to check in on Tinna, her two husbands, Avria and the baby Istvan.

In the meantime; I sold MANY of the trilogy at Comic Con this year.  I even snagged a Lady Sif who was so reminiscent of Tinna in book 2, I had to have a photo op.

My table assistant cosplayed at Tinna from book one, but would you believe I didn't get a decent image of her? I'll bug her and see if she got one.  She spent the convention like a little embassador, roaming wildly and spreading the word of Tinna and her world.

I'm plugging along! I'll have a fabulous giveaway to offer soon, so stay tuned!