Author: Tara Maya

  In the future, we will need to travel. We will need to fight. We will need to deliver food to the famished. We will need to go to other planets in tacky tourist shirts and take pictures with our embedded borg eyes. We will need to do all these important things in spaceships. And…

Marisa MacCallum always believed that the man of her dreams was out there somewhere. The problem is—he’s in another dimension. After the death of her father, eighteen-year-old Marisa’s life is on the verge of imploding. She seeks comfort on her daily ride through the woods of Gold Hill, but when a mysterious lightning storm strikes,…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “Purple Faery” by Arwen Robertson   Dindi … the laces to his legwals. While Dindi tried to guess what the fae was up to, the pixie untied two pairs of laces on either of Hadi’s legs, then retied the wrong strings together. Meanwhile, another…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “Contement – Siamese Kitten,” L.A. Berry   Dindi …formed a circle and shoved Dindi back and forth, finally pushing her into the dust. They laughed and flounced away. The dust tasted like dung. They were right. No one from Lost Swan Clan had ever…

Graceling by Kristin Cashore She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of every branch. And so she was astonished when a man stepped out of the darkness and grabbed her from behind. He wrapped his arm around her chest and held a knife to her throat. He started to speak,…

Ok, I realize I started posting excerpts from Initiate on my blog without letting you know what I was up too, and maybe that was overly mysterious. You might be saying, “Hey, Tara, I’ve already Initiate. Duh! In fact, I just re-read it last night, for like the seventeenth time, because that’s how much I…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) Dindi … by their movements, tracing out incandescent symbols with their bodies. The dancers themselves glowed too, in the same color as whichever costume they wore. Even now that Dindi knew what to look for, she couldn’t see it all the time, only if…

The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel)   “From the Ashes,” by Stephanie Pui Mun   Dindi Every head in the square was riveted on the Tavaedies. Drum, rattle, and flute flared into dramatic music. The masked men and women leaped into motion. Occasionally, to emphasize the moves, the dancers chanted…