The first part of Penny Lane's sweeping SciFi epic now available as an ebook!
A trade caravan toils over a remote mountain pass. One of the guards notices a body lying off to one side... it is no ordinary body, and the consequences of their discovery will shake a world.
An unconscious girl is discovered on a remote mountain pass by a caravan. Everything about her raises unusual questions. She is taken to the trader's destination, where her memory returns...
Her story is met with disbelief but a kidnap attempt changes everything. A fantasy? Possibly. Mystery? Several times over. Romance? Just ask the Prince. Adventure? Oh, yes.
Dropped into an unfamiliar setting - and an unfamiliar body - the stranger struggles to understand her surroundings and why she is there at all. Just the beginning of an adventure with foes two-legged, four-legged and six legged!
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I’ll buy the books if the last has those chapter before the epilogue you have been holding out on.
hugs :)
Michelle SidheElf Amaianna
Chapters before the epilogue?
If you mean, what happened next in the original thread when Garia returns, then I would advise you not to hold your breath.
That happened a year after she departed Anmar and will be told in Return to Anmar, of which I have about 10 chapters written so far. Given the current speed of writing and the fact that some of it depends on what happens in Voyage of the Visund, I'm limited as to how far I can go before I finish that.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
I should say...
I really like your cover art. Except if that is supposed to be Garia in the foreground, I sort of pictured her with the typical Japanese school girl Pixey cut and look for her hair. Of course since she's out doors, maybe it is just the wind in her hair.
Cover art
Actually, since I can draw no better that the average Gorilla, the cover art is by courtesy of Erin. I merely provided some textual starting ideas. I think it is intended to represent Garia at the very start, when the caravan is coming down the mountains and has yet to reach Palarand, so her hair is the untidy mix it was before Shelda got to work on it.
As with all things commercial, the image is a compromise between what is in the text and what is likely to sell. Thinking up covers for the rest of the books is going to be a lot harder.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
Art
The art is the result of about six hours of writing careful prompts and watching Chat-GPT twist my suggestions into Something Else Entirely. :) I can't take much credit for the really rather excellent images, but I he'ped, and I did do most of the typography. And Penny acted as art director, nixing various attempts and suggesting changes through the iterations.
I can draw and could do a cover with all those elements, but not with near photographic realism, and we would still be waiting for delivery of the cover when the lake thaws at the end of the next ice age. :)
This works, and the AI is credited inside the book and in the metadata; no one is fooled, least of all the appaloosapotamus (dranakh).
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
AI being twisty...
I'm using NotebookLM to help me with tracking characters. I'm still not pleased with it. Frankly I just want a list of all the names I've used in the story.... It doesn't even do that well....
Aleph Two ?
Aleph Two ?
Glad to see this get a wider audience.