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August Featured Author: H. O. Charles

August 28, 2019 by H. O. Charles in category Art, Cover, Design by H. O. Charles, Featured Author of the Month tagged as Best Selling author, fantasy, Featured author, HO Charles, The Fireblade Array

H. O. Charles Featured Author for August

H.O. Charles is an Amazon Top 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy author of The Fireblade Array – a #2 best-selling series across Kindle, iBooks and B&N Nook in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy categories (#1 would just be showing off, right?) Okay, it did hit #1 in Epic Fantasy in all those places . . . BUT DON’T TELL ANYONE because no one likes a bragger.

Though born in Northern England, Charles now resides in a white house in Sussex and sounds like a southerner. Charles has spent many years at various academic institutions, and cut short writing a PhD in favour of writing about swords and sorcery instead. Hobbies include being in the sea, being by the sea and eating things that come out of the sea. Walks with a very naughty rough collie puppy also take up much of Charles’ time.

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Books by H. O. Charles

ASCENT OF ICE

SNOWLANDS

FALL OF BLAZE

VOICES OF BLAZE

BLAZED UNION

ANOMALY OF BLAZE

NATION OF BLAZE

CITY OF BLAZE

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A Parting by Neetu

August 26, 2019 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as A Parting, Neetu Malik, poetry

A Parting

 I hold fragments
 of you
 in my ash-grazed hands
 to put them 
 in an urn

 they sound like 
 empty shells as I 
 drop them one by one

 the fullness 
 in my heart leaves
 no room for echoes

 I know your footsteps
 will never return.
 
© Neetu M

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Wanted Romance Writers by Nikki Prince

August 25, 2019 by A Slice of Orange in category Spotlight tagged as Bakersfield CA, New Writers Group, Writers Wanted

Do you write? Are you wanting to get published? Need a critique partner or two? Are you published? Or do you just want to be among those with like minds?

Looking for other creatives who write in the romance genre under any of the sub-genres.

Ages: 18 and up.

Please contact me at one of the following links:

Bakersfield Romance Writers Facebook Group

Bakersfield Romance Writers Twitter

Bakersfield Romance Writers Facebook Page

Nikki Prince email

Nikki Prince Facebook

Nikki Prince is a mother of two, who always had a dream to be a published author in the romance genre. Her passions lie in raising her children, gaming, reading, and writing. Her mother can now breathe easy about the child who used to get into trouble, because she was hiding books everywhere and reading when it wasn’t appropriate.

She’s a multi-published author with several publishing houses. She loves to write interracial romances in all genres but wants to let everyone know to not box her in because there’s always room for growth.

Nikki’s a member of Romance Writers of America, Passionate Ink RWA, and president of the chapter for 2017 and 2018, past member of OCC/RWA, and was a member of the board as President from 2015 and 2016, and was Programs Director for two years prior. She’s a member of DARA (Dallas Area Romance Authors) and the Philadelphia Chapter, CIMRA (Cultural, Interracial and Multicultural Chapter), FF&P RWA (Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Chapter), The Beaumonde RWA, and the Rainbow Romance Writers (RRW).

Nikki would love to hear from you…

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The Many Colors of Me by Veronica Jorge

August 22, 2019 by Veronica Jorge in category Write From the Heart by Veronica Jorge tagged as historical, multicultural, Veronica Jorge, writing

Veronic is on vacation this month, so we are rerunning one of her more popular posts. She’ll be back September 22, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy:

The Many Colors Of Me

Most people are a combination of various cultures, though I think their ancestors tended to confine their marriages and unions to one continent. Mine didn’t. As a teenager, growing up in the 1960s, I was always asked, “What are you, black or white?” I’d usually answer, “Both,” or “Neither,” not because I was afraid or wanted to fit in, but because it was true: Nicaraguan and Dominican parents, Middle-Eastern and French grandparents, and Chinese and African great-grandparents. (Hope I didn’t miss anyone). And born in Brooklyn, New York. “How sweet it is!”

This ethnic mix probably explains my preferred genres; Kid-Lit, because I am always looking for someone like me in children’s books; and Historical Fiction, because like working on a jigsaw puzzle, I travel the globe, mostly through books, in search of all of the pieces of me that, once united, will make me whole.

This quest has made me an avid multicultural reader. In every reading exploration I discover something about myself. Everything I write contains a key to who I am that reveals an aspect of my essence. It’s an awesome journey.

And while I seem to connect with everyone, I don’t really fit in anywhere; yet I love the empathy toward others that these various cultures have generated in me because it leads to a deeper kind of listening and understanding, which in turn informs and directs my writing.

I’m always learning, and changing, and growing, and I often have so much to say that I don’t know where to begin, or how to put it all together…like now.

So, thank you ancestors, for being willing and unwilling globe-hoppers. I am wonderfully made and you have given me much to think of and write about.

~Veronica