Tara Maya's Tales

 If you're looking for a great movie to watch tonight, after Treak-or-Treating, here are three movies I recommend. Here they are, in no particular order. The Sixth Sense.  This movie stands the test of time. It's spook and creepy enough to warrant being a Halloween classic, without being TOO scary or gruesome. Personally, I also prefer the tear-jerker ending to the "monster attacks to the end" technique employed in a lot of Horror films.  Ghostbusters. The original. Accept no substitutes. Sing along.  I Cast A Spell On You. There just aren't enough Paranormal Romance movies in general, not even themed around Halloween. I found this one this year and I really enjoyed it. It's like a Cinderella story, except if the story started with the Ball and the Glass Slipper was magic powers.  The hero is a Warlock who accidentally loses his magic to True Love's Kiss. He has to find the woman who stole his magic and his heart... even though he's trapped in an arran...

  Excerpt: My Only Love Sprung From My Only Hate... “We match,” Julia teased the handsome young man across the table from her. He was staring at her as if he had never seen a girl before. Julia knew she wasn’t especially beautiful, so there could be only one reason he was staring at her with a flabbergasted expression. This must be Shawn Strongclaw, the boy her mother wanted her to meet. He had probably seen a photograph of her and was now too shocked to say anything to her face. She had guessed as soon as she had seen him come in, that he must be Shawn, because of his costume. Her mother must have told his mother what Julia was wearing, and the two wolf wives conspired. He blinked at her. She felt a strange flutter in her heart. His expression right now was adorably goofy, but she had seen him when he entered, cocky, and sure of himself.  At first, Julia hadn’t been impressed. He was lanky, with a plain face. But when their eyes met, something struck her with the force of an ...

  From now until Halloween, Initiate is on sale for only $0.99 on Amazon and FREE on other sites! Excerpt: Rthan Rthan surveyed the damage to his water spell. Weeks of fasting, planning, traveling and dancing, ruined. The careful crystalline lines he had built up around the mountain snows had been realigned, the original configuration would have unleashed a flood of snowmelt several months from now, with spring’s kiss. No longer. The new glowing blue lines of magic would sluice the melt water harmlessly down a dozen smaller arroyos, instead of toward the enemy settlement in the main valley below the mountain. Someone had protected the Rainbow Labyrinth tribehold. "Who could have done this?" he asked aloud. The other six men and women with him only mirrored back to him his own bafflement and bemusement. They shivered and wheezed in the snow, not used to either the temperature or the altitude. He knew they were wondering if he would order them to stay the long weeks required ...

  Cody regarded the office like a snake might look at the skin it sloughed off. It looked familiar, but wrong: hollow and smaller than he remembered. Spencer might not be happy to see him because he feared Cody was here to challenge him for the position of Sherriff, but Cody felt he’d outgrown that role. He wasn’t sure that was something his older brother was prepared to understand. “I’m now with the DAA,” Cody said without preamble. “Agent Longford is my partner. We are both going to be stationed here in Arcana Glen. Your department is asked to provide all due cooperation.” Cody pulled out his secret weapon, a wad of papers embossed with official seals and signed by high-ranking muckity-mucks. Spencer raised his eyebrows higher and higher as he perused the documents. “So... let me get this straight.” Spencer tossed the papers on the desk when he was done reading the fine print. “You’re going to work for me as a Deputy Sheriff again... but not really. In reality, you’re going to be...

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  It happened again that morning. As usual, I had no hint anything would go wrong that day. I was playing ball on the veranda with Kotho and Bo. Normally, I wouldn’t have been allowed to play unsupervised without Mama or Papa nearby, but Mama was so busy today that she’d not noticed when I followed my brothers outside. Summer heat made staying inside unbearable, but Mama had warned us children not to leave the villa. The delicious scent of roasting venison and cornbread wafted from the inside. There was to be some feast later, and Mama, as Vaedi wanted us nearby when it was time to present us to the elders. My younger brothers were going to perform a war dance. Nothing about that was strange. Although Kotho was only eight and Bo was only seven, they already showed the promise of becoming powerful warrior-dancers like Papa. My other four brothers were even younger. I had six brothers altogether. All of them had magic, Mama said. All of them would grow up to be great Zavaedies, Papa ...

  For October, I combined one of my favorite love stories with my favorite holiday to make a sweet paranormal Romeo and Juliet novella! I'm sending out the whole thing, chapter by chapter to my fans. Join here if you want in on it . Or you can buy the book here .  Sneak Peek: Chapter 1 Swear Not By the Moon, The Inconstant Moon 2020 October 31, Saturday Blue Moon (Second Full Moon of the Month) Halloween/Samhain As her mother pulled her hair into the last braid and pin of an elaborate, medieval style hairdo, Julia Grayhide studied herself in the full-length mirror. Instead of the t-shirt, jeans, and messy ponytail she normally wore to school, she wore an elaborate Renaissance Princess gown in deep maroon and royal blue that complemented her pale skin, blue eyes, and tawny-brown hair. She looked more like an elegant Elf Lady than a Lycan. The Renaissance costume, historically accurate, and lovingly sewn with real velvet, silk, and pearl beads, had probably cost hundreds of doll...

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  October is my favorite month because it includes both my birthday and my favorite holiday... Halloween! Naturally, I had to find some great deals to share with you. Here's some Freebies from many genres.  If you see this post and the opportunity is dead and gone, here's a sweet Cozy Mystery with a feisty middle age sleuth who sees ghosts: The Ghost on the Stairs by Mathiya Adams