Legacies meets Lost Girl in this fast-paced new urban fantasy trilogy.
When the supernatural world decides to kick your ass... Smile and kick it right back.
The Blade of Balance
The White Raven Book 3
by M.J. Moores
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
No
job. No alliance. No clue...
This isn’t about Dray
finding herself anymore. This is war. Her BFF-Familiar is holding the
fort at the club. Wolf Boy is in uber Nexus protection mode, and the
drive-her-mentalist is tracking a missing dragon.
It’s
time to go hunting... but seeking the essence required to jumpstart
the Blade of Balance drops Dray squarely in everyone’s crosshairs.
Really, nowhere better to be than on the brink of social annihilation
behind enemy lines. Unfortunately, the key to unlocking the power of
the Blade lies with Dray’s less-than-strategic ability to negotiate
with severely unbalanced forces... and deciphering the meaning
of the final riddle.
If Dray is only the Seeker... who,
then, is the Wielder?
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Lost
Girl meets Legacies
If you like your urban fantasy rife
with sassy resilient heroines, diverse characters, and a hint of
mystery be sure to snatch a copy of The Blade of Balance today!
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The Soul Collector
The White Raven Book 2
It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No... it’s
a murder-hornet!
Stuck in raven
form after her run-in with the most insane wizard alive, Dray is
content to focus on healing. But the djinn she negotiated help from
has other plans. He sends a warning via stinger in mid-air, forcing
Dray to shift before she’s ready. The hostile calling card parrots
in her head as she plummets to the ground: Time’s up. Favour’s
due.
Back on the asphalt, Dray barely has time to take a
breath, or a step, before getting blasted by a second summons. She’s
on the fae council’s radar, big time. No one else can root-out the
maniac wizard who spliced her soul (Public Enemy No.1), so the
council offers Dray a deal she can’t refuse. Being a high school
outcast never prepared her for this kind of popularity contest.
Can
she survive spying for the good guys while breaking the djinn (Public
Enemy No.2) out of jail right under their noses?
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Lost Girl meets
Legacies
If you like your urban fantasy rife with sassy
resilient heroines, diverse characters, and a hint of mystery be sure
to snatch a copy of the second book in the White Raven
series The Soul Collector today!
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The Hollow Kiss
The White Raven Book 1
Bloody Walls and Supernatural Espionage Were Not on the Final
Exam
Graduation meant a whole new world away from the
labels of outcast and freak, but a supernatural
abduction leaves Corvina Dray with a hole in her memory and a deadly
kiss.
Inexplicably drawn to a dark stranger in a back
alley, Dray’s soul-sucking lip-lock lands her with a DB and the
local PD on her trail. Then, a girl she doesn’t remember shows up
out of nowhere and helps her dispose of the corpse.
Dray’s
dead-body-bestie initiates her into an underground world with only
one rule— expose the fae and suffer the consequences. But
navigating this piranha-paradise to hunt down the maniac responsible
for her transformation is likely to kill her... or worse.
Can
Dray reverse the curse before she spends the rest of her life in an
orange jumpsuit?
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Lost Girl meets Legacies
If you like
your urban fantasy rife with sassy resilient heroines, diverse
characters, and a hint of mystery be sure to snatch a copy of The
Hollow Kiss today!
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MJ Moores has dabbled in all things writing since the age of nine. With a minor in creative writing, a decade teaching high school English and Drama, and more than twenty full-length works of fiction under her belt, her seven years as a freelance editor can only be the cherry on top of a life surrounded by story and words. Lately, you can find her working at the library on the days she's not dealing with a flurry of words for her latest book.
MJ loves to write upper YA adventure in sci-fi, fantasy, and suspense. Her newest series, The White Raven, is a fast-paced urban fantasy with a strong female lead, and a hint of mystery. Imagine Legacies meets Lost Girl -- Hold your breath and dive into the adventure.
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GUEST POST
Blog 4 – Writing Process/Story Ideas
One question that readers ask that surprises me, but probably shouldn’t, is “what’s your writing process
like?” It fascinates me that something as mundane as how I write, should intrigue them—lol! Having
written chapter books since the age of 9, being part of English and creative writing classes and
workshops, I have naturally observed how my fellow authors write and get inspired. I’ve always just
“known” how people write simply through osmosis.
For me, though? Any number of things can inspire a story idea. I have 2.5 dream journals filled with cool
stories I’ll never have the time to write. I also get inspired by people and their reactions to things. Like
with my first series, The Chronicles of Xannia. It was New Years Eve, 1999, and the world was divided
into two camps.
1) We’re all gonna die! (yes, I’m being melodramatic, but that’s what it seemed like)
2) What’s your damage? We’ll be fine. (leave everything to the smart people to figure out)
So, for anyone unfamiliar with Y2K, the internet and digital management of finances, etc. was still in its
infancy. For some reason, the world wasn’t sure if all of the digital information stored on computers was
going to be lost with a re-set to 1900, instead of moving forward to 2000. Of course, this would be
catastrophic if it didn’t turn over properly, as we’d be shunted back into the pre-computer era and no
one would be able to access their money. However, as you likely know, that didn’t happen. Mainly
because a lot of smart and desperate people figured out how to fix the system.
My then-boyfriend (now husband) was firmly in camp 1, and I was happily oblivious (not really, I knew
what was going on) in camp 2. His utter devastation as the clock clicked closer to midnight had me
considering for the first time whether or not he might be right. And that, was the birth of a story idea: A
world unknowingly on the bring of disaster with only ancient texts foretelling of some apocalyptic event
in the future. This story had to be science fiction (because that’s what my boyfriend enjoyed reading),
and had to be part adventure fantasy (what I enjoyed reading). And so, the birth of a book.
Other story ideas have simply come from having fun and playing with memes and silly book title
generators. A new cozy fantasy series I’m researching stemmed from one of those, as did book one in
my current White Raven series: The Hollow Kiss. I followed the prompts and substituted my first initial of
my last name, my month of birth, and numerous other factors into developing this simple book title.
With a prompt from the blogger (Tara Sparling) to then write the blurb that might accompany this story,
my mind was hooked on where this new idea might take me.
Now, I’m a planner at heart. My ideas tend to follow what I was taught in English class regarding that
plot chart I’m sure we all had to complete for a book report at some point: Opening, inciting incident,
rising action, climax, denouement. This was how school trained my brain to think. In my early writing
days, I used to plan out in great detail what would happen, when, why, by whom, etc. After a while, I
stopped finding writing “fun.” So, I adopted a hybrid model where I have just those plot graph points
vaguely outlined and a first chapter bubbling in my head, impatient to be written. Then, I write. I outline
what should happen in the coming chapter, then I write it, and so on until the book is done.
Sometimes the characters surprise me; sometimes the plot dips, dives, twists, and turns (it is an
adventure after all), but eventually I make it back to that next point on the plot graph as an anchor for
my thoughts and lighthouse beacon to keep me, mostly, on track. ��
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