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Free Fiction Friday

Happy New Year everyone! To wish all our Newsletter subscribers the best this year, and to thank you all for sticking with us, we have 2 stories instead of 1 this month: a fantasy story of a young girl taking her first steps into magic and a contemporary fantasy m/m short about a young man, his dragon, and his best friend. You can find both of these for Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press.

These stories are exclusively for subscribers of our newsletter, but anyone can join and it's really easy.

It is completely free to become a member and all you need is a valid email address. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and you’re done. Don't worry if you join after the 1st Friday, the password for the month will be included in the welcome email after you subscribe.

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• Send you an email on the 1st Friday of the month to remind you about the short story and give you the password for the month as soon as the story goes live.
• Send you information about new books, competitions and events, so you don’t miss anything.
• Give you two Free eBooks just for joining.

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This Month's Short Stories

The Wand
by Sophie Duncan
Genre: fantasy
Length: ~3.5K wds

Description:
Aelwin is a Maker, like her mother before her: she knows this in her heart, but will the fae Match her to her calling? When a hostile Shadow Coat arrives to perform the New Year Matching Ceremony for her and her friends, disaster threatens. 
Only Aelwin can stop it, but she doesn’t know how.

Mark of the Dragon
by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Genre: contemporary fantasy, m/m, adult
Length: ~3.5K wds

Description:
Luke has always known he has a destiny, after all he has the manifestation of a dragon on his skin that moves around as it pleases and a book in his head that explains all about it. However even dragons can't help with relationships, or can they?

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Free Fiction Friday

Happy August everyone, we hope you are not sweltering too much in the Summer heat. We have some contemporary fantasy for you this month for Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press. This month's exclusive short story is an exciting tale of magic and self discovery, as ever, free to our wonderful subscribers.

These stories are exclusively for subscribers of our newsletter, but anyone can join and it's really easy.

It is completely free to become a member and all you need is a valid email address. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and you’re done. Don't worry if you join after the 1st Friday, the password for the month will be included in the welcome email after you subscribe.

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• Send you an email on the 1st Friday of the month to remind you about the short story and give you the password for the month as soon as the story goes live.
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This Month's Short Story

Sistiri: Awakenings
by Sophie Duncan
Genre: contemporary fantasy, magical realism
Length: ~8.5K wds

Description:
‘Skin as white as ice, heart as black as coal.’

That’s how Sky understood Mountain Elves, blood enemies of Hearthfae, and, a nerd that she was, allergic to magic, the last thing she expected was to end up tutoring the first diplomatic exchange student at the Interpeoples College for Magical Sciences. 

Freya Bloodstone is powerful, scary and determined, and she is about to awaken depths in Sky that she never knew she had.

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Read An eBook Week 2018 - Wittegen Press Free & Discount eBooks at Smashwords

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Title: The Chronicles of Charlie Waterman
Author: Natasha Duncan-Drake
genre: contemporary fantasy
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A Matter of Will by Natasha Duncan-Drake #FreeFictionFriday

Free Fiction Friday

And November is here - soon it'll be Christmas and we won't know where the year went :). It's the first Friday of the month which means it's Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press. This month we have a novelette for our lovely readers, with werewolves and vampires and magic.

These stories are exclusively for subscribers of our newsletter, but anyone can join and it's really easy.

It is completely free to become a member and all you need is a valid email address. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and you’re done. Don't worry if you join after the 1st Friday, the password for the month will be included in the welcome email after you subscribe.

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This Month's Short Story

A Matter of Will
by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Genre: paranormal, romance, vampire
Length: ~8.5K wds

Description:
Edwin and his pack have beaten the invading vampires, but they lost people doing it. One of those lost meant far more to Edwin than he would like to admit and his heart is breaking. The problem with vampires, though, is some of their kills come back.

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Free Fiction Friday - The Beast in Me by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Free Fiction Friday

It's the 1st Friday of August and that means it is Free Fiction Friday over at Wittegen Press. A new short story is now up for all the subscribers to our newsletter.

It is completely free to become a member and all you need is a valid email address. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and you’re done. Don't worry if you join after the 1st Friday, the password for the month will be included in the welcome email after you subscribe.

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This Month's Short Story

The Beast In Me
by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Genre: paranormal, contemporary fantasy
Length: ~8K wds

Description:
There are worrying reports about the Misomene Corporation's business dealings. Teiji Inoue was sent in to investigate, but he cover was blown. Now Teiji must survive Misomene's attentions as he discovers that the rumours of illegal practices pale in comparison to the reality.

Misomene are engaged in occult research and Teiji has become one of their experiments. Even if he comes out alive he may not come out sane.

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Dragon Diaries - Reflections - A to Z Challenge 2017 #AtoZChallenge #AtoZChallengeReflections

elcome to my reflections on the Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2017:

Dragon Diaries

Each day, I'm told you about a dragon - a dragon inspired by a name that I generated randomly using a name generator (I didn't look up the derivation of any of these names, I just ran with how they made me feel, their sound on the tongue).

I told you all about my Dragon of the Day, and shared some flash fic about their lives. Any genre, any character, any look - I hope folks were surprised and entertained by my dragonly inspirations :). And now I want so share a few thoughts about this year's A to Z Challenge, and honorary mentions of blogs I enjoyed.

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So, it was a big change this year, in that we did not have one list to sign up to, we, instead, were signing up each day to a post on the A to Z blog. This was designed to make the A to Z more sociable and ensure everyone on the list was taking part. Well, I suppose it achieved its second aim, because, logically speaking, if you had given up on the challenge, then you wouldn't be joining each day, but, I would say I don't think this new sign up method increased the social aspect of the challenge - not for me, anyway. I actually found a lot of the blogs I wanted to read during the challenge during the theme reveal posts and I had already made my own list of places I wanted to remember to visit. This really helped me during the challenge, because, since the daily sign ups were not in the same order every day, I wasn't always sure if I'd visited the blogs on the list. I did add a few people to my list throughout the challenge in one of two ways:

1. When someone visited my blog who I hadn't visited and I then hopped on over to them.
2. The people just above me on the sign up days.

I'm not sure what the key to making the A to Z more sociable is, maybe being a lot clearer on subject categories, so people can find the kind of things they are interested in - although I have to say, I did find myself reading the odd random blog (type 2 above) on subjects I would not have picked from a category list. What could be interesting might be a 'take me to a random blog' option, but, unhelpfully, I know of nothing that would offer that kind of functionality for a signup list :(.

Having said all that, thanks to all of you who work hard and run A to Z and make it possible, and you were brave to try something different. Thank you also to everyone who visited and commented on my blog, because it was great to get the feedback on my dragons and great to talk to you.

And, of course, I did enjoy visiting the blogs I found this year and there were quite a few I went back to regularly (though none everyday, I have to admit, because some days I struggled to get my post up, let alone visit anyone else, which was just down to mad things happening in real life). So. below are a few honourable mentions in no particular order :).  

Person	Theme	URL
Shalini	A to Z Indian Dishes to Die For	http://somethingiscooking.com/
AJ Vosse	Music & Memories	https://ouchmybackhurts.wordpress.com
Patricia Lynne	Strange Feelings	http://www.patricialynne.com/
Hilary Melton-Butcher	Rare Breeds	http://positiveletters.blogspot.co.uk/
J Lenni Dorner	Telepathy and Misused Words	http://jlennidornerblog.what-are-they.com/
Sarah Zama	40's Film Noir	http://theoldshelter.com/
Josie Two Shoes	Full Circle (FF)	http://www.josie2shoes.com/
Jean D Davis	Editing	https://jeanddavis.blogspot.co.uk
Pamela Wright	The Scottish Highlands	https://thewrightsdaysoffun.blogspot.co.uk
Sara Snider	Magical & Medicinal Herbs	http://saracsnider.com/
Rae Squiggles	Abbeys and Cathedrals of UK	https://thequietwriter.com
Tamara Narayan	Conspiracies and Controversies	http://www.tamaranarayan.com/
Zalka Csenge Virág	WTF - Weird Things in Folktales	http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.co.uk/
Mary Burris	Billboard Hits of 70's	http://www.jinglejanglejungle.net/
CD Gallant-King	Weird Canandian Facts & History	http://www.cdgallantking.ca/
Melissa Ann	Book Reviews	https://mycreativelyrandomlife.blogspot.co.uk
Roland Clark	Alternative History of Kanata	https://rolandclarke.com
Nick Wilford	Snippets from Black and White	http://nickwilford.blogspot.co.uk/
Laura Clipson	Storytelling	http://mybafflingbrain.blogspot.co.uk
C R G Galvin	Life on a farm in 50's and 60's	https://earlieryears.blogspot.co.uk
	Books before the blog	https://1001armchairadventures.wordpress.com
David Jesson	Materials Science in Fantasy and Sci FI	https://abackoftheenvelopecalculation.wordpress.com
Jodie	Fairytale Characters	http://believeinfairystories.blogspot.co.uk
Djinnia	Anime Characters	http://djinniaandtheenglishlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/
Yolanda Renee	Alaska	http://yolandarenee.blogspot.co.uk/
Anna Tan	The Princess and ...	http://blog.annatsp.com

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