This week's blog post:
The Character Who's Both Protagonist and Antagonist
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#Today 09.1
Good day!
I always say to celebrate even the smallest milestones…
Over my blog’s eleven year history, I’ve had people ask if I’ve published any fiction. Always, I replied, “Not yet.”
Today I replied, “Yes, yes I have.”
Squee…!
Be everwell.
EVERWELL
A short blog post about thankfulness. Have a great day, everyone, whether you celebrate the holiday or not. There's food, family, and football in my future, along with visiting with a lot of animals.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/everwell/
Trust in the Forgotten, an otherworld historical fantasy is live on Amazon today (paperback tomorrow).
Riparia Dellbane, a rebel courier striving to vanish, overnight becomes evil’s quarry, alive or dead, while a handsome man offers assistance to someone who's no one. To survive, she must find out why.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMYBTTTR?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100
At long last…
Trust in the Forgotten, Book1 of the Kovenlore Chronicles is available for ebook preorder & live on 11/19. The paperback will be available on 11/20.
My thanks to everyone for all your support. It's been a long, long road to this point, the ups & downs too numerous to mention.
Book2? March 2025.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMYBTTTR?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100
This week's blog post:
12 Reasons Why I Hike - Anti-Aging is Just the Beginning
The title says it all…
Oh, and there are pictures!
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Free fantasy read with no obligations:
The Voice that Cries
Ontyre fantasy short story loosely linked to Trust in the Forgotten, a novel I'll publish in Nov..
A young woman, an assistant at the greatest theatre in the city, avoids relationships, but most of all avoids the arts, the deadly secret within wanting release.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/the-voice-that-cries/
Free fantasy read with no obligations:
The Bridge in Distant Farthing
A heartfelt witchcraft flash fiction of Ontyre set in Pannulus.
A mother who lost her husband too soon to the war struggles to keep up with the precocious daughter who has her own ideas...
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/the-bridge-in-distant-farthing/
Free fantasy read with no obligations:
Gryphon Gray
A historical tale of Ontyre.
A young elfin girl facing the end of her culture literally climbs towards safety, a trap, or what only her brother understands.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2020/04/04/gryphon-gray-2/
Last week's blog post:
An Introverted Protagonist? Of Course it Can Work
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Blog post:
My 1st Time Using ProWritingAid on a Novel
The good, the bad, lessons learned, and why I'm grateful I didn't pin all my hopes on an app, but instead on myself.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/my-1st-time-using-prowritingaid-on-a-novel/
This week's blog post...
As someone with lifelong anxiety, part of publishing is positive self-talk.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/the-road-to-publishing-7-things-i-tell-myself/
Blog Post
For the Reader - Assembling a Fantasy Novel
I write for me, but I share for readers. That's my guiding principle. It really is that simple.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/for-the-reader-assembling-a-fantasy-novel/
Blog post:
WORRY - Confronting Baseless Fears and Saying, NO
It's relentless? Yeah, well, I've devoted myself to also being relentless. I've devoted myself to fighting back because there's too much I want to do and too much I want to enjoy to put up with that garbage.
That's why, I've taken another step.
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/worry-confronting-baseless-fears-and-saying-no/
Hiking and Stories - Journeys of Exploration and Discovery
The parallels were rather striking. A post I wrote in my head on a rock slope in a canyon I had to myself.
Well, except for one black ant...
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This week's blog post:
Where Life Makes Sense and My Mental Health Resets
Hiking helps me reset. Given the world, I need that more these days, it seems. It also clears my mind, washing out the worries so I can write.
This last hike, I took a closer look at what happens...
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Last week's blog post:
5 Benefits to Having a Redemption Arc
The biggest redemption arc I've written runs through much of The Kovenlore Chronicles series. It wasn't planned.
What sparked this blog post is that I'm currently editing Book-2 and the spark that caused the arc occurs here, and so I thought about the ways that benefited the series...
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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/5-benefits-to-having-a-redemption-arc/
Last week's blog post:
Incident Metamorphosis - Don't Underestimate a Moment's Value
Many people believe they’ve never experienced anything worth writing about. Often, it isn’t about what they’ve experienced, but how they perceive their experiences.
From one event we can develop multiple ideas.
So, I conducted an experiment...
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Last week's blog post:
My May Publishing Update - Several Milestones Passed
It was one of those months when I look back and say, I did all that?
Yes, Christina, you did.
I'm also on schedule for publishing Book-1 in the autumn, but now find myself in Book-2. How exciting!
It's kind of like an early birthday present.
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