Showing posts with label Genre: fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genre: fantasy. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 August 2023

Short Narrated Stories - Funny Fantasy - Tales with Tasha wk93

Purple lightning over a white background, snooty looking yellow and gold dragon with one eyebrow raised, Tales with Tasha - week 93 - Funny Fantasy

Tales with Tasha Week 93
Funny Fantasy

Last week at Tales with Tasha the aim was to make everyone smile with Fantasy Comedy Stories. Mostly I was in a mood for cute magical creatures and these are the shorts I came up with.

Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy them.🥰

Defender of the Weak?

Some critter are not quite what they appear to be - this can be a good thing.


Pet Pet Pet

Dignity and diplomacy are not always viable bedfellows...


WARNING! Don't Touch!

When it comes to a witch's familiar there are certain expectations.


Protect The Puppy!

It's not your fault you didn't know he was a werewolf!


No! Bad Boy!

Dragon Whisperer, yeah right, more like glorified babysitter!


Don't Be DECEIVED!

Don't pet the unknown magical creature, even if it is cute!


Save Me NOW!

Outed by a unicorn!




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Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Cat's Call - #WordSeach Fun No.3

Blurred Word Search with the title "Cat's Call - Word Search" over the top.

Cat's Call Word Search Fun!

My apologies for being a little late this week - I have trapped a nerve or strained something in the base of my neck/back (not sure which) and until today I was typing with only one hand. 😎 As you can imagine, this was not very fast.

It's Word Search Wednesday again. How do the weeks go so fast?

N.B. Don't forget, this month's competition puzzle is still open for entries until May 13th, so check it out if you haven't already.

This week I was feeling fantasy inclined so the word search is based on my book Cat's Call. This is the first book in The Chronicles of Charlie Waterman (a trilogy at the moment) and it is full of magic and shapeshifting and multiple universe and many more exciting things. It even has dragons and vampires.

Charlie is a character very close to my heart, because he was one of the first I came up with when I decided to write books professionally. I sat down one day with no idea what I was going to write at all and simply started putting words on the page. That first chapter has long since been mostly deleted and recreated, but it gave me the essence of Charlie and for that I will always be grateful.

Q. Writers - do you ever sit down and just start to write to see what happens, or do you prefer to think it all through and plan before putting words on a page?

Round word search with a blurred word list and the word "preview" across the front.

Options for Solving

  1. Click the button below and start solving online. If you create a free account with MyWordSearch.com (you only have to pay to create word searches) you can save your progress and come back later.
    Create account - top left of pop-up.
  2. For those who prefer the old school pen and paper, click here to download the PDF so you can print it.

Solution

For those who would like to check their answers or who can't find that last word, here is the solution:

Q. What is your favourite kind of puzzle?

Book of the Week

Cat's Call - Chronicles of Charlie Waterman Book 1
by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Cat's Call by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Charlie doesn't believe in destiny, unfortunately destiny believes in him.

Accosted by a small clay, feline figurine, Charlie finds himself the chosen of the Cat Spirit, one of the Seven Great Spirits who protect the Balance of Existence. When he wakes up with a tail that will not go away no matter how he ignores it, he has to believe what is going on is real.

At eighteen, Charlie isn't old, but he's two years past the threshold for dealing with magic for the first time, apparently. This makes him weird, even in Between, a realm of magic, prophecy and shapeshifting. He could live without the earthquakes, thanks.

So now he has to: figure out magic; get along with five scarily competent sixteen year olds and one prickly vampire to form a team; and last but not least, be prepared to go to any world, in any universe when sent there by the Seer, so the Balance of Existence isn't destroyed by agents of chaos. All of which his mentor, Akari, assures him he did say yes to, even if he doesn't remember that part!

Charlie has never thought of himself as a hero, but Existence depends on him coming to terms with the fact that he is.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Free Books for All - To Get You Hooked!

Free Books for All

Free Reads


Greetings, lovely people. I hope 2021 is going well for you and things are looking up after the garbage fire that was 2020. 💖

I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce/remind everyone of the free books I have available out there, which are (mostly) shamelessly trying to get you hooked on the series they are part of.

N.B. On Amazon these books will be price-matched to free where that is possible. I apologise if Amazon does not price-match in your region, but they only allow us to pub for 99c minimum and then price-match if we ask very nicely. They also have a nasty tendency to remove price-matching at random intervals so I have to re-request it. I do my best to keep on top of this, but apologies if I have missed one.

Books by Natasha Duncan-Drake


Soul reader is a series of short stories (free) and novellas (not free). There are 3 books in the series at the moment.

Forgotten Soul (Book 1 of Soul Reader)

Forgotten Soul - Soul Reader Book 1
John knows that at best he can be described as a male escort and at worst as a whore, but it's what he does and he's good at it. He sells his body and his clients come with fangs so it's more about blood than sex. Hiding behind a false smile and his acting skills is the only way he survives, but when he meets one of his latest clients, Michael, his professional detachment is severely threatened, leading him into very dangerous territory.


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Fortunate Soul (Book 3 of Soul Reader)

Fortunate Soul - Soul Reader Book 3
With a lot of help from Michael, John is recovering slowly from his kidnapping ordeal at the hands of his previous employers. However, John has noticed changes in Michael's behaviour towards him now that he has been marked by the organisation's captive vampires. He's worried his scars will be too much for their fledgling relationship.

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If you would like all 3 books of the series in one package in eBook or paperback, they have been bundled for your reading pleasure:

Soul Reader 1-3 (£1.99, $1.99 or £8.99, $10.99)

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Me Myself and I: Superheroes and Supervillains or Concussion? 

(Book 1 of Dark Reflections)

Me, Myself and I
Tristan is an actor and he plays a supervillain in the movies. At least he thought he did, but then he has an accident and he wakes up surrounded by the world of the films. Now he has to figure out if he's hallucinating, if somehow the movies are real and he's been transplanted to another world or if he is actually Devon, a supervillain having a psychotic break. Whatever the answer: it's frighteningly crazy.


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And the other book in the series so far:

Dreams and Reality: Superheroes, Sex and Succour (£2.19, $3.29)

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Books by Virginia Waytes (my alter ego)


A Lamb in Wolf's Clothing: Testing of a Werewolf (The Manor #1 s01e01)

A Lamb in Wolf's Clothing: Testing of a Werewolf
Luciana Smythe, Lucy to her friends, owns and runs The Manor, an adult only establishment nestled in the heart of the English Countryside, specifically designed for fun and games of the sexy, X-rated kind. What makes it unique are the residents, supernatural beings hiding in plain sight. Some, like Lucy, a vampire-succubus hybrid, are very powerful paranormal creatures. Others need The Manor's protection.

The Manor takes in strays and those with nowhere else to go, and Lucy's latest lost sheep is a young werewolf, Joshua, on the run from his own pack. Inside The Manor's walls await a new pack, safety, and possible romance, but first Lucy needs to make sure this asylum seeker is what he appears to be and poses no danger to the rest of her found-family.

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Training Day: Drawbacks of Werewolf Demonstrability (The Manor #13 s02e01)

Training Day: Drawbacks of Werewolf Demonstrability
Josh is still dealing with an overactive libido as well as unpredictable magic thanks to joining with Lucy and the pack to save his sanity. It has been months and it is clearly not lessening. The obvious solution is to give up being a bartender and join the sexier side of the business at The Manor.

Unfortunately, there are two questions he needs to ask first:

1. As his mate, how will Pippa react to the idea?
2. Can he control his magic and the wolf at his core to be safe taking clients among normal humans?

He needs Pippa and Lucy to help him answer both.

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