Tara Maya's Tales

I'm honored to be a part of this new collection of novels about the fae! I hope you'll check it out and discover some new favorite series. A stunning collection of the first books in six fan-favorite series by bestselling, award-winning fantasy authors! Discover the many worlds of Faerie in these novels filled with adventure, love, and – of course – Fae Magic. Amazon       Amazon UK Barnes and Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords Including... The Unfinished Song (Book 1): Initiate by Tara Maya Dindi can't do anything right, maybe because she spends more time dancing with pixies than doing her chores. Her clan hopes to marry her off and settle her down, but she dreams of becoming a Tavaedi, one of the powerful warrior-dancers whose secret magics are revealed only to those who pass a mysterious Test during the Initiation ceremony. The problem? No-one in Dindi's clan has ever passed the Test. Her grandmother died trying. But Dindi ha...

    Chances are, you already have a good idea if you want to write a series or not. But let's say you don't. Let's say you have a bright, shiny idea for a story, but no idea how BIG this idea is -- is this an idea that can last a series, or is it the right size for a book, or is really just a short story. Ideas stretch. So this is kinda a trick question. There are three main factors: 1.) Expanse 2.) Medium 3.) Genre The expanse of the idea is a big topic, so I'll postpone that to a later post. Right now I'm going to talk about medium and genre. First, though, let's get the obvious caveat out of the way: It's less about the idea itself and more about your enthusiasm. I can think of a lot of good ideas for series that I know would bore me after one or two chapters, never mind books or episodes. If you are a novelist, your enthusiasm has to last over the long slog. You can't just shrug it off after a book and ...

  "The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ... The story is primitive, it reaches back to the origins of literature, before reading was discovered, and it appeals to what is primitive in us. That is why we are so unreasonable over the stories we like, and so ready to bully those who like something else." -- E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel