I'm so excited! Finally . . . Victoria: A Tale of Spain has a new cover to complement its makeover. I've worked through and touched up numerous covers for my books over the past year, but only Consuela got a completely "new" cover from the one it was released with initially, so this is a big thing that means Victoria is being re-released. I'm so grateful to my cover designer for helping me through the last year with multiple projects!

And I am pleased to announce that City of the Invaders has had an overhaul of the cover too. Although it still uses the same type of design as the first cover, the lovely new cover produced by my designer really wows me and helps to bring out the quality of this exciting futuristic adventure better than before. Consuela also got a mild tweak so the fonts line up and now both books will be released on multiple platforms. So excited! 

And there will be more updates. 

I did a post on Sekana, the heroine of "Jurant" in Facets of Fantasy, a year ago. But after a while it didn't quite reflect her, so I'm doing another one. In a year an audience's feelings about something (or someone) can change pretty noticeably and you've always got to keep up with the flow of that. For one thing, there are a lot of characters in Facets of Fantasy. She's just one and possibly isn't even a front-runner. She's a bit deeper down towards the heart of the book, which makes sense because she only appears after two introductory stories.

I found this awesome fantasy art image for her! In the story she morphs from a shy, vulnerable-looking girl with knock-knees, who seems forced to attend a military academy, into a purple-haired warrior from a hidden group called the Kinari. Investigating her is the main drive of the story, which stands in the middle of Facets, as its center. Sekana isn't exactly hard to spot, although in her less-powerful form she probably thinks she is. (Don knew she was up to something and he wasn't trying, so it must have been easy.) But she is pretty sneaky too, a link she shares with his grandfather who's trying to use her powers. In other ways, she and Lord Andre aren't friends, but they have a shared perambulation around the obvious, a desire to blend in while they follow their own plans.

The story is just one angle of Facets, so it didn't go on to follow Sekana's journey once she was visibly-all-purple-warrior and went back to Rindon. Once again, she's not as subtle as she thinks she is and it's clear there's something that's being hidden about what the Kinari are like. Don feels loyal because she used great power to help him out, but he must wonder where that power comes from. After all, the only person caught reading a history of Rindon was Sekana herself. Maybe something in their past might hold a clue to Sekana's future.

And there will be more updates.