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To Curse the Wyre ~ Available now!

 Here's the link to the Amazon store.

After April, the whole Spells of Air trilogy will go w.i.d.e!

Finished!

 To Curse the Wyre is finished! On preorder at Amazon for March 5th. Waiting for the link.

I loved writing this novella. Actually, I loved writing the whole series Spells of Air with To Wield the Wind and To Charm the Wind, but I have to say that the book I put up for sale today is my favorite!

Next comes compiling the bundle, re-configuring the three dark fantasy novels in Fae Mark'd Wizard, with the bundle of those coming about in late summer.

What's up next for writing? I want to do another fantasy novella series in Fae Mark'd World next, followed by Dance to Bone-Edged Music (or maybe I'll switch that title out for Kindle a Fae's Wrath). That's 2022 figured out!

Here's the book description:

Hunter. Hunted. Who is who?

The sorceress and her servants, the shifter wyre, seek to destroy Orielle’s allies in the Wilding. Orielle has gathered Dark Fae and Rhoghieri to defeat them.

She rides with the Dark Fae Lord Skull and Lady Bone—but can she trust them?

To Curse the Wyre completes the fantasy trilogy Spells of Air. The novella series is part of Fae Mark’d World, from Remi Black. Also available are the three dark fantasy novels Weave a Wizardry Web, Dream a Deadly Dream, and Sing a Graveyard Song, featuring the wizard Alstera.

For elemental magic and dangerous Dark Fae allies, treacherous shape-shifters, and a twisty sorceress that seeks to defeat a wizard, look no further than To Curse the Wyre.

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Each novella in the Fae Mark’d World is a complete story, yet the stories are interlinked. The concluding To Curse the Wyre is especially interlinked, and readers will experience a greater enjoyment after reading To Wield the Wind and To Charm the Wind.

No Fooling ~ Write a Book in a Month

This blog is taken from Write a Book in a Month, the writing challenge for any writer.

Current Project:  To Wield the Wind

Writing Stage:  Sketching Ideas

Today’s Word Count:  200 ~~ Total Word Count:  5,920 / 33,000

Goal:  5,000 words per week > Weekly Words Achieved 200

Project Start Date:  March 25

Projected End Date:  May 5 Publication

These blogs are a day-by-day account of my writing time, along with method and focus as well as everything that interferes and distracts from my goal.  Sometimes I will have a lot to say;  some days, not so much.

The goal is 1,000 words per working day, with 5,000 words as the weekly goal.  I want to write for 30 straight days, then Proof Plus for 10, and publish on the 10th day.

What is *Write a Book in a Month*?

In April 2019 I gave myself a dare.

I wanted to write a novella, about 30,000 words. I decided to log my successes and failures as an open blog for other writers. That dare turned into this: Write a Book in a Month, #2 in Inspiration 4 Writers.

Prior to April I certainly didn’t have a steady record of 30,000 words in a month. In the previous year, I needed eight+ months to write 96,000 words. That works out to be 12,000 words a month.

It’s actually 24,000 words on average that came through my fingers per month. My work process is to do a complete Rough and a complete Draft as separate documents: the rough hand-written and the draft into the word processing software. 

Handwriting the Rough gives me permission to scratch out mistakes, to fly through scenes, and to slog through problems.

Still, the previous high point of 24,000 words is far short of the 30,000. Not counted in the challenge were the blogs associated with the Daily Log, an account of my writing along with method, focus, disruptions, and distractions. Sometimes I had a lot to say;  some days, not so much.

I set myself this challenge because I needed the push to stay disciplined with my writing.

The goal is 1,000 words per working day, with 5,000 words as the weekly goal. I want to write for 30 straight days, then Proof Plus for 10, and publish on the 10th day.

How did I arrive at this daily and weekly word count as my goal?  The 4 Bes:

1] Be realistic. Don’t push for what I wish, but for what I can do.

2] Be time-aware. Use writing time wisely. Find places in the day to achieve the goal.

3] Be devoted. Stick to the fiction project. Keep focused throughout the day on achieving the daily goal.

4] Be specific. Know what I’m doing, when I’m doing it, why, and how.

Take the dare! Succeed with the 4 Bes.

Come along to see how well I did and get 55 lessons to help Write a Book in a Month. These lessons will help all writers achieve their project goals.

MY fantasy series of the Fae Mark’d World include To Wield the Wind (Spells of Air I) and Weave a Wizardry Web (Fae Mark’d Wizard ~ I). Write to me at  winkbooks@aol.com

The other books in Inspiration 4 Writers are Just Start Writing and Enter the Writing Business.

Celebrate!

 The rough draft of To Curse the Wyre is complete!

The final draft of the novella is 75% complete.

I'm on track for an early March publication!

Then it's putting the three novellas together to form Spells of Air, which is set for April 5.

I'm excited. These novellas are my most magical yet!

I've had lots of fun twisting Orielle and Grim into tough situations.

Snippets from *To Charm the Wind*

 The Dark Fae play a large part in the Spells of Air series of the Fae Mark'd World. Here's just a few snippets from To Charm the Wind that presents their interactions with Orielle, our protagonist. ~

1]

Volk looked around the room, then he found Orielle. He lifted a marble-skinned hand. “Aiwaz Solksen,” he called, using the Dark Fae name for her. “Lady Bone requests your presence.” His sharpened teeth flashed. “We ride the Hunt tonight, and you swore to ride with us.”

2]

“To where do we ride, Lady Bone?”

“Nowhere and everywhere.”

That didn’t answer Orielle’s question. “You speak in riddles, Lady.”

“You speak in truths, Aiwaz Solsken. Do wizards need Rhoghieri that much?”

3]

Volk knelt before Lady Bone. He kissed the hem of her white gown, stained with his blood. Her long-fingered hand touched the white crown of his head. He looked up. His face shone, retaining that strange glow that had healed him.

4]

The Kyrgy lord came out of the shadows. He wore his silver hair cropped close to his skull. His face looked narrowed than the Lady’s, with bones as sharp as blades.

The Sorceress and her Wyre are not the only evil creatures that Orielle and Grim fight against ~

1]

Orielle shivered. Her hands prickled again. Her face prickled. Her back crawled. Ice shivered over her. Ice that felt like slime. Ice that felt weighty as storms.  Ice that was sorcery.

2]

Whoever was in that room with him worked foul sorcery. To enchant him?

3] 

He seized the knife. A shudder wracked him, then he jerked it out of Zairantze’s breast.

“No!” Orielle cried, too late. As soon as the knife left Zairantze’s body, it dissolved, melting in his hand, the water evaporating into a mist.

 4]

Crackling sorcery hit her barrier, weakening it to a translucent shimmer. The two shape-shifting wyre plunged into the fighting on her right.

5]

The knife was embedded to the hilt in the woman’s breast, just like Zairantze. No blood had seeped around it. And a wraith lifted its head out of the hilt.

 It poured up, striking at Orielle with hooked claws.

The Rhoghieri are supposed to be allies of the Wizard Enclave ~ but the Rho aren't interested in renewing the alliance.

1]

When he’d laughed enough, Elder Tobit pointed at Orielle. “Prepare” was his only warning. He clapped his hands together.

A boom shuddered under her feet. Orielle staggered.

Brok grabbed her arm and hauled her back. The ground where she’d stood had cracked open.

2]

Orielle saw the open door, darkness inside, her protective seal broken.

3]

The gate’s iron bars were thick, black and unrusted. No Fae would touch the iron, but the metal wouldn’t hold a wizard, not unless it was spelled with a bane. Would it hold a Rhoghieri? One push of Air from Grim would send the gate flying.

 4]

An orb of fire shot through the door. Flames exploded over Trebetha. She screamed then crumbled … and writhed on the ground as the fire consumed her. People screamed. The crowd behind them thinned.

The Relationship between Orielle and Grim continues to grow ~ 

1] 

“You counting your enemies? That’s the first bit of wisdom you’ve had.”

2] 

“Have you not learned that I’m a better fighter than that?” Orielle asked.

Grim smirked. “You do have a tendency to jump into trouble.”

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