Flame

by Erin Manning

“It started at Glumgate. The school for wizard losers with useless magic. My new school. I’m no loser. Back home in Ragvale I led all the most successful pranks. My use my talent for making mischief to fight our wicked principal. Nothing could go wrong—or so I thought. Until my real magic showed up. And with it, the people who know who I really am—the ones who want me dead.”Rogan Brandle doesn’t know which is having a loser magic gift, or having to go to Glumgate School to learn how to use his useless power. But things aren’t at they seem either at Glumgate or in Rogan’s life. Family secrets and mysterious powers collide, with Rogan in the midst of the chaos he helped create. Can he discover the truth about his magic and his identity in time to escape what he has set in motion and survive an attack from hidden enemies he never knew existed? One thing is his safe, happy life in a quiet village is gone for good.

337 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2020

About the author

Erin Manning is a professional photographer, teacher and television personality living in Los Angeles, California. Television viewers know Erin best as the digital photography expert and host of DIY Network’s Telly-award-winning TV series The Whole Picture. She has also appeared as the techno-lifestyle guru on Enable Your Home and is the author of Portrait and Candid Photography, and Make Money With Your Digital Photography, published by Wiley. She helps people understand photography and technology by translating technical mumbo-jumbo into everyday words and by facilitating their learning with a clear, friendly teaching style.

Erin first fell in love with photography at age seven when she discovered a book entitled The Family of Man. That early encounter with images of people from all over the world shaped the direction she was to take with her photography – capturing moments with and between people.

Whether in front of the camera or behind it, photography has always been a part of Erin’s life and synthesizes her experience and education in art, technology, and entertainment. She specializes in lifestyle imagery for clients such as AT&T, Bank of America, Disney, various lifestyle magazines, healthcare organizations and individuals. Erin spent several years honing her craft by working as a commercial, portrait, and stock photographer, as well as working for Getty Images, and completing a degree in Studio Art/Graphic Design from Loyola Marymount University.

Erin serves on the Board of Directors for the Digital Imaging Marketing Association and is a member of the American Photographic Artists, Women in Photography International and the Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group, whose purpose is dedicated to advancing the art and science of digital imaging.