C.L.’s Comments (group member since Feb 17, 2015)

C.L.’s comments from the Brain to Books Cyber Convention (FAIRGROUNDS) group.

Maddy wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Maddy wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Maddy wrote: "Invaders"
I'll give you a little more than one line (for context). This is from Magic-Scars (Book2 )...

“That land isn’t theirs,” Draken repl..."

Good morning, Maddy! Thanks for playing my game. You won the $5.00 Amazon gift card! Message me your email address when you get a chance, and I will get it sent to you.

Thanks again :)

Belinda wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Have you played the 1st Line Scavenger Hunt yet?
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I have"

Belinda wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Have you played the 1st Line Scavenger Hunt yet?
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I have"
Great! Thanks for stopping in ;)

Kylie wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Kylie wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Dahlia is a half-dragon, half-human shapeshifter from a parallel world. She has the ability to generate and wield fire as well as shift into a reptilian huma..."

Kylie wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Kylie wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Dahlia is a half-dragon, half-human shapeshifter from a parallel world. She has the ability to generate and wield fire as well as shift into a reptilian huma..."

Awesome! It's definitely not for the squeamish :)

Kylie wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Dahlia is a half-dragon, half-human shapeshifter from a parallel world. She has the ability to generate and wield fire as well as shift into a reptilian humanoid form. She's also empat..."

Hey, Kylie :) Thanks for stopping in. Yeah, Dahlia can definitely kick ass. Must be from all the coffee she drinks :) Can't imagine where she got that from....

The following excerpt is from Magic-Borne, the final installment in The Crown of Stones Trilogy.

The front of the herd hit the base of the mountain. The mass of bodies ascended incredibly fast, crawling up the rocks, crawling over each other. Making out individual forms became impossible. The eldring were an enormous rolling, dark wave ascending the slope. Those who lost footing bounced off, hit the ground, and didn’t get back up. The rest didn’t hesitate. They gave no thought to the dead or their potential for joining them.

As the edge of the wave poured into the cave mouth, I shut my link to Jarryd, and pulled in all I had. My sense of the eldring vanished. There was merely the frigid fire in my veins and the pain of too much pleasure nipping at my nerves. Color swirled in my eyes and bled up through my skin. Auras fused and whipped, rotating and blossoming like a building storm. They begged for dominion and I gave it. I released my grip on the reins for the first time since the raid on our camp, and I did so eagerly. Bowing to magic’s might, forfeiting my discipline and control. Surrendering to the swirling upsurge of vibrant energy; I languished in its embrace, trying to recall when I’d last channeled freely. When I’d last permitted myself such relief, letting the pangs of hunger and restraint drown beneath the hot, wet kiss of magic snaking over my skin.

The sensation flicked at my thoughts, brushing them away, making it hard to remember anything, let alone how long I’d been living in my prison of deprivation.

It felt like forever.

The notion of my reward, of my impending satisfaction, quickened my breath as I stared up at the ridge. Eldring had already made it inside. I had no idea how many.

With a prayer that I wasn’t too late, I made my wishes clear as I expelled the crown’s magic. It left me in a long, sensual rush. Color burst from my skin and claimed my eyes. Rapture seized my body. Gratification drove me to my knees. A swell of auras remained behind, rippling over me, healing the damage my body had sustained in the fight. My existing scars prickled with heat as a fresh set scored into the flesh of my back and left leg. I cried out as they curled and burned, snaking their way across my skin.

My sight resumed. Weakness kept me down, winded and kneeling on the sand, watching the auras I’d released spin over the eldring in a tempest of throbbing, misty hues. As the magical whirlwind dissipated, like smoke thinned by a stiff breeze, it took fur and hide with it, stripping the eldring down to meat. Muscles, veins, and organs wilted. Bones weakened, separated, and dissolved into ash. One by one, those dead on the beach, those scaling the mountainside—all the invading eldring on Kabri, living and dead—returned to the land, reverting to the forms from which they’d been so selfishly resurrected.

Their dust blew serenely around me in the breeze. It was likely the closest thing to peace many of them had ever known.

Ashley wrote: "Hi C.L., ace cover to Flash Point :) How did you find swapping genres? Heaps of fun I bet"

Thanks! It was hard at first. I had lived in Ian's head (and his world) for so long! But once I really got going with the project, Flash Point was a blast to write. I still miss Ian and the gang some times :) But this one has a completely different feel. It's exactly like you said- fun!

Maddy wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Books & Coffee make for a perfect Saturday in my world!



What's your go-to combination for a great Saturday?"

Books and a blanket to snuggle with."

Yes! Definitely need a blanket :)

Books & Coffee make for a perfect Saturday in my world!



What's your go-to combination for a great Saturday?

Happy Saturday! Welcome back to the Cy Con!
Since it's day #2, I thought I'd start off with an excerpt of book #2 :)

The following is from Magic-Scars, the 2nd installment in The Crown of Stones Trilogy...

Slicing open the man bearing down on me, I shoved him aside and spun to fell the one sneaking up from behind. I ran a sword through the soldier to my right, stepped and smashed the club into his companion’s forehead. Another rushed up, then another, then three more. Like fools, they kept coming. Obliging their idiocy, I kept killing them. Some fought back more competently than others. But anger concealed the pain. It made up for my fading strength as I chopped into one fat, fleshy body after another, gutting them like the pigs they were. Mercy didn’t enter my mind. These men were not Malaq’s followers. They weren’t spelled. They were simply cruel and brutal, and staunchly loyal to Draken. They fed off violence and blood. I gave them both. Shattering bones with my borrowed club, tossing one wrecked body after another into the flames; I roasted their merciless souls with the heat of their own fires.

It still wasn’t enough. Even standing amid a pile of Langorian carcasses, I couldn’t overlook the ones beneath. I couldn’t forget I was doing battle on top of the fallen; trampling on the ruined bodies of the men, women, and children that had come here to escape the fight. The people that had given me a glimpse of a kind of peace I never thought possible had become twisted, ruptured casings, sinking into the mud like yesterday’s garbage. Their senseless deaths drove my thoughts to the future, to Malaq’s scarred face, the deserted, ravaged camp with the rows of graves, to the bodies hanging from the wall.

I knew damn well not to trust an oracle spell. It was one possible event in a future that was always changing. But doubt was a nagging bitch. It whispered in my ear. What if Fate has already decreed it so? What if he’s chosen the future I saw as the only one?

What if nothing I do matters?

The answer was simple. Then they’re all going to die.

Joshua wrote: "Good morning, C.L. I hope you are enjoying the event. :D"

Morning! Thanks for stopping in. There's certainly lots to see and do :) Hope you are enjoying it as well!

Maddy wrote: "C.L. wrote: "Maddy wrote: "Invaders"
I'll give you a little more than one line (for context). This is from Magic-Scars (Book2 )...

“That land isn’t theirs,” Draken replied, oblivious to the veile..."

You're entered! Thanks for playing :) Wish there was a 'like' option on these comments!

Maddy wrote: "Invaders"
I'll give you a little more than one line (for context). This is from Magic-Scars (Book2 )...

“That land isn’t theirs,” Draken replied, oblivious to the veiled distress in Malaq’s voice. “It never was. The Rellans were invaders."

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Ashley wrote: "Hello!"

Hey, Ashley! Thanks for stopping in :) How are you?

After being marked for execution on her world, Dahlia fled to the other only place she had a hope of blending in-the human realm. Since then she has worked to protect humanity from what really goes bump in the night. Sometimes, she's too late...



Flash Point is available on Amazon in paperback and for Kindle
http://mybook.to/NF1

Dahlia is a half-dragon, half-human shapeshifter from a parallel world. She has the ability to generate and wield fire as well as shift into a reptilian humanoid form. She's also empathic. Dahlia can see and feel the trauma of others. It can be a big help when investigating a murder, but it isn't always pretty....



Flash Point is available on Amazon in paperback and for Kindle
http://mybook.to/NF1

After finishing The Crown of Stones Trilogy, I wanted to do something different. Flash Point is the 1st book in my new urban fantasy series-and it's definitely different! Inspired by such shows as Supernatural, X-Files, Lost Girl, and Jessica Jones, Nite Fire is an action-packed blend of crime, mystery, urban legends-and dragons!



Flash Point is available on Amazon in paperback and for Kindle
http://mybook.to/NF1

GAME TIME!
I'll be posting excerpts from all three books throughout the weekend. But in the meantime...

Want to know more about The Crown of Stones?
Comment with a single word. I'll post a line from the trilogy that contains that word!

Want to win a $5.00 Amazon Gift Card? You reply with the next line. Serious, funny-you decide what comes next! Contest is open until the Cy Con closes. Random winner will be announced on Monday

I love fantasy maps! The Crown of Stones Trilogy takes place in Mirra'kelan, which means The Restless Land in ancient Shinree. Plagued with quakes, ravaged by war and torn about by prejudice and fear, Mirra'kelan is a dark world where legalized slavery is used to suppress the once powerful Shinree.

The following map is from Magic-Scars (Book 2). To avoid spoilers, the maps in the trilogy develop as the story does.



What are your favorite fantasy worlds?

Clare wrote: "Morning! Just stopping by, and wondering how Nite Fire 2 is progressing. Looking forward to more Dahlia and Evans. :)"

Hello! Evans is a lot of fun to write! I can kind of geek-out with him :) Unfortunately, some nasty things are happening in Sentinel City at the moment that are keeping him (and Dahlia) very busy. But what else is new :)