H. Danielle Crabtree's Blog

New Release: Fire Prince It’s Live!!!! Struggling through graduate school and a pandemic while working in health care really put me behind on releasing the second book in the Fire & Reign series, but it’s officially here! Check out Fire Prince, available now on major retailers in ebook format and in print from Amazon. Amazon Barnes & Noble Kobo Google Play Fire Wolf now available wide Fire Wolf, book one in the Fire & Reign series, has been expanded to multiple outlets for the e-book edition. It...

FIRE PRINCE will be released on Oct. 19, 2021. Keep reading for a sneak peak of the first chapter of the second book in the Fire & Reign series. Fire Prince Fire & Reign Book 2 By H. Danielle Crabtree ©2021   Chapter One Soot, salt, and blood sucked the last of the moisture from Skye Lamar’s lips. His tongue smacked the roof of his mouth in search of a hint of saliva, but found only more of the same. His tongue swept across his chapped lips too, yet all he uncovered was the taste of death. Revul...

Young Adult Fantasy Cover Reveal: Fire Prince COMING OCT. 19, 2021: Fire Prince (Fire & Reign) Myah has been betrayed. Nordlin City lies in flames, destroyed by the Osten Army, and her greatest nightmare has become her greatest sorrow. To avoid capture, Myah has no choice but to trust the master of the Osten Elite Guard to protect her and keep her out of the hands of her enemy and his people. However, trust is a fragile thing, easily fractured when her companion keeps his secrets as close as his...

Fire Prince (Fire & Reign): Coming soon! If you’d like to help spread the word and share the Fire Prince (Fire & Reign book 2) cover, you can sign up at Xpresso Tours. Fire Prince will be released on Oct. 19. It will be available for preorder on Aug. 19 through Amazon, and available through major retailers beginning Oct. 19. About Fire Prince: Myah has been betrayed. Nordlin City lies in flames, destroyed by the Osten Army, and her greatest nightmare has become her greatest sorrow. To avoid capt...

Part Six: A Dedicated Life When I was a little girl, my grandmother, Eliza, would take me to the park to hunt fireflies at dusk. She would watch me dance about, trying to capture the bugs in my small hands. I remember the smile on her face, and the love I felt from her in that moment, and it’s a knowledge that I’ve carried my entire life—the absolute truth that my grandmother loved me more than life. As I was growing up, I lived on the other side of the country from her, but I also felt connecte...

Part Five: A Cover that Leaves You Speechless Never judge a book by its cover. Yet, it’s the eye-catching covers that draw a reader’s eye in the bookstore when they are perusing the shelves for their next favorite author. I knew from the start, before I had even finished the first draft of Fire Wolf in 2013, that I wanted a book cover that I loved as much as I loved my story. I wanted something organic and alive, so I went on the hunt for stock images licensed through Shutterstock for artwork th...

Part Four: Why I Write Young Adult I’ve always had a passion for writing and reading, but until about 2007, I’d pick up a book, read, and if I liked it, I’d finish it. If I didn’t, I put it down and moved on. I read everything from Timeline by Michael Crichton to Harry Potter to the Bridget Jones books to Shakespeare without any thought to genre. I wrote what I wanted, without any idea of what genre or type of story I was crafting. The genre was whatever my imagination said to write, and I read ...

The day has finally come when I get to share with you the new cover of Fire Wolf (Fire & Reign Book 1), and I have to say, I’m really excited about it. After seeing my stock art image constantly crop up in other book covers, I commissioned artist Janice …

Sending your draft off for developmental critiques is like sending your child off to kindergarten. You hope you’ve prepared him or her for what is to come, but you know that there is something missing, that the child is young and innocent and in need of shaping to grow into …