The Realms of a Fantastical Mind

We have come to the end of another great year. Together we have met some wonderful authors and my reading list has gotten bigger and bigger. As 2013 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the joys and triumphs of the year. To that end, we bring you the 2013 Blog Ring of Power Year in Review Giveaway Hop !  We’ve teamed up with this past years’ BRoP interviewees to bring you 22 days of “year in review” guest posts and 20 fabulous giveaway prizes! Each day we'll share a new guest post on the year in review from a previous BRoP interviewee and you’ll have another opportunity to enter the giveaway—so get hopping! And be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post! A. W. Exley A few things have happened since I last appeared on the Blog Ring of Power. I had two short stories published in anthologies where 10% of proceeds are being donated to no-kill shelters. They were a bit of a departure for me as I ventured out of my steampunk wor...

Welcome to this week’s Blog Ring of Power guest, Joshua Legg. He resides in San Antonio, Texas, with his dog, Ruby. He studies history and English, as well as about a dozen other subjects. His debut novel Etched in Soul and Skin  was released this year by Musa Publishing. Don’t miss the rest of his BRoP interview at: Part 1 @  Vicki  – Tuesday, October 1 Part 2 @  Terri  – Wednesday, October 2 Part 3 @ T.W. - Thursday, October 3 Part 4 @  Emily  – Friday, October 4 Part 5 @  Sandra  – Monday, October 7 Section #4: About Your Current Work BRoP: Tell us about your new book—what is it about—and when it is out? Where can people purchase it? JL: “Etched in Soul and Skin” was released on May 17 this year. It’s available at the big e-book retailers like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords and the publisher’s website. The plot follows Adanna, a member of a nomadic tribe who wanders through a world of ...

Welcome to another Blog Ring of Power post.  Check out A.W. Exley.  First thing I thought when I saw her picture. (Wow that would make an epic L.A.R.P.ing outfit! No armor though, but we could  tweak  that) okay, I know, I'm such a nerd. You do have to admit though, the girl has style. Her answers to our grilling were just as good.  Enjoy! Books and writing have always been an enormous part of Anita's life. She survived school by hiding out in the library, with several thousand fictional characters for company. At university, she overcame the boredom of studying accountancy by squeezing in Egyptology papers and learning to read hieroglyphics. Today, Anita writes steampunk novels with a sexy edge and an Egyptian twist. She lives in rural New Zealand surrounded by an assortment of weird and wonderful equines, felines, canine and homicidal chickens. Part 1 @ Terri Bruce –  http://www.terribruce.net   Wednesday, April 10th Part 2 @ T...

Today on the Blog Ring of Power I'm excited to welcome Pauline Baird Jones.  She's here to talk about The Writing Life, and I love her answers.  To find the rest of her progressive interview, don't forget to stop by all the other Blog Ring of Power sites. Part 1 with T.W. Fendley ~ May 10 Part 2 with me, today ~ May 11 Part 3 with Sandra ~ May 14 Part 4 with Dean C. Rich ~ May 15 Part 5 with Terri Bruce ~ May 16  Pauline Baird Jones began her writing career penning romantic suspense (fictional murder doesn’t get you strip searched!) but she had a secret longing to ramp up the spills, chills and daring do.   By chance she wrote a science fiction romance, realized she’d been mixing fiction into her science since high school (oops, sorry science teachers!), and thought, why not go where she hasn’t gone before? After that, it was easy to stir in some steampunk.  The Key  was the first in her  Project Enterprise  series...