Tara Maya's Tales

My daughter has a guest post today!  for Halloween my mom  is going to dress as Sally and dad is going to dress as Jack skeleton  and I am going to dress as a creeper from minecraft for Halloween!

  Today I'm working on the November novel of the Arcana Glen "Elf Tarot" Major Arcana series.  The first round of edits for this book were done in June, but after some feedback from my Alpha reader, I undertook another round of revisions, which means another round of edits. That's where I am now. Then I'll send it to Beta readers (email me if you are interested) and hopefully not have to revise TOO much more before it is published on November 1.  This is Raziel's story. If you've been following the series, you will have seen him in several previous books. Now his secrets are stripped bare to the world... Meanwhile, the book immediately before this one, The Tower & the Star , is coming out in three days. If you buy it on Pre-Order, it's 20% off. Click here to order . You can also read the first book in the series, The Magician & the Fool , for free .

Agent Scott Egan attempts to define the genre of Women's Fiction .   First of all, in most cases, women's fiction is told from the point of view of a female. ... These are stories that are looking at the world through a female lens, therefore, the need for a female protagonist. Hm... well... okay. A lot of the fiction I read has a female MC. Some of the characters ride dragons, some fall in love with dragons, some fight on spaceships... But that's not Women's Fiction. And Egan agrees.   Now, like all pieces of logic, if women's fiction is told from the point of view of a female, then every story out there with a female protagonist is women's fiction. This is false.   Remember, when I say we are looking at the world through a female lens, we are also looking at how the female brain is processing what she sees in the world. The main focus of these stories is to see how women think, see the world and react to things in the world. For all of you academic people...

  Some fantastic books about Fae Romance! If you enjoy Paranormal and Urban Fantasy Romance ,  you might also enjoy the Arcana Glen Series .

  This week I'm editing the final three books of The Major Arcana series set in my Tarot Elves Arcana Glen universe.  Try as I did to keep each book completely independent, as I delve more deeply into the series and the world, the connections between books grow closer together. The underlying "side" plot about the mystery of who killed the original Guardians and the Elven War loom larger in the stories as the conclusion of the series. October's book, The Tower & the Star , will show the reader a glimpse into Winterdom, the land of the Jotun (Ice Giants), the Storm Dragons (also called the Silver or White Dragons), and the Azir (the Winter Elves).  November's book, Judgment & the World, features a character I've become quite fond of -- Raziel Ranaci, a Fallen Angel , who betrayed the Seraph Michael in The Magician & the Fool and who has appeared in the tales of several more couples since January.  The last book in the series will be The Tree ...

  Science Fiction and Fantasy books for September. Grab your copy now! If you enjoy Science Fiction short stories, check out a fun collection: Space Jockey .

  Grab Free Epic Sci-Fi & Fantasy this September! If you love Epic Science Ficion, my novel STRAT a Military Science Fiction Novel .

  Not only some great books but a chance to enter a Hocus Pocus contest .  You can get The Magician & the Fool free by clicking the cover.  

  Great Dragon Romance books for September! If you love Dragon Shifters in Paranormal Romance, you might also enjoy  my book The Dragon & the Slayer.

  "Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching force for the creation of the habit of anticipation. Our children should be studying Arthur C. Clarke, William Tenn, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Robert Sheckley, not because these writers can tell them about rocket ships and time machines but, more important, because they can lead young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront these children as adults." —  Alvin Toffler  ( Future Shock )

  Get the book  on your favorite site. An  Arcana Glen  Sweet Paranormal Romance ( click here  to buy): Dahlia was hired to hunt down a Lion Shifter who stole a deadly weapon. Aaresh was a mild-mannered school teacher by day. By night, he turned into a monster he couldn’t control… But when Dahlia hunts him down and he traps her in his lair, who is the hunter and who is the prey? The loneliest portion of her run home was through a thick pine forest. When Dahlia entered the tree cover, she heard another runner’s footsteps pacing behind her to match her foot falls. Someone was following her. He was using stealth, trying to hide his presence. Almost certainly he was up to nothing good. It was going to be one of those nights when some cocky, predacious Shifter attacked Dahlia to rob her, rape her, kidnap her or kill her. Awesome. She looked forward to taking out another loser who thought to prey on the weak.  Adrenaline zinged through her body, followed by the z...

This week it's been so hot that I've found it difficult to concentrate. Nonetheless, I've accomplished a few things (very early in the morning, before the heat knocks me into a siesta). I've finished the artwork for two more Tarot cards ( Moon and Sun ), which means I was also able to finally finish the cover for The Moon Bunny & the Sun Lion , the latest Arcana Glen novel. I've also been working feverishly (literally, in this heat!) on the final edits for the last three books in the Arcana Glen Major Arcana series.  I'll be honest. I have not worked on The Unfinished Song this week. I needed a mind-refreshening, a break from fantasy, so I've been working on Science Fiction for a while. In my experience, nothing induces "writer's block" more than trying to force the mind to a creative task. Creativity comes from the subconscious. Like the huntress in  The Moon Bunny & the Sun Lion , you have to hunt down your own creativity by sometim...