Author: Tara Maya

  • Blood Review from Rebekah B.

    Blood Review from Rebekah B.

    Blood has been out for a little over a week and I’m loving your feedback! While my blog tour was coming together, I heard from a fan who wanted to join and share a review, but hadn’t got sucked into blogging (yet!). I offered to share her review here. So here are Rebekah B.’s thoughts…

  • Blood Is Here!

    Blood Is Here!

    The Unfinished Song (Book 6): Blood is ready to download its way to your e-readers TODAY! Amazon Barnes and Noble Kobo Smashwords Enjoying Blood and want to talk about it? Tweet your thoughts with the hashtag #TUSBlood. Dindi and Umbral have an uneasy truce, forced to work together to defeat a greater enemy: the Bone…

  • 3 Days of 99c Fantasy — Part 3

    3 Days of 99c Fantasy — Part 3

    It’s the last day to stock up on some great reads with the 3-day 99-cent fantasy e-book promotion, featuring The Unfinished Song (Book 2): Taboo. Through the end of today we’ll have a total of 10 books discounted to 99 cents. Today I’ll be featuring the final 3 books in the promotion. Encrypted Professor Tikaya Komitopis…

  • 3 Days of 99c Fantasy — Part 2

    3 Days of 99c Fantasy — Part 2

    I’m back with more of the books in the 3-day 99-cent fantasy e-book promotion, which features The Unfinished Song (Book 2): Taboo. (Considering the first one is free, you can essentially own 1/6 of the series of only 99 cents!) From February 10-12 we’ll have a total of 10 books discounted to 99 cents. While…

  • 3 Days of 99c Fantasy — Part 1

    3 Days of 99c Fantasy — Part 1

    I’m really excited to be joining some other fantasy authors for a 3-day 99-cent fantasy e-book promotion, featuring The Unfinished Song (Book 2): Taboo. From February 10-12 we’ll have a total of 10 books discounted to 99 cents. While all of the books are available at 99 cents throughout the promotion, I’ll be featuring 3…

  • New Fiction from Kevin O. McLaughlin

    New Fiction from Kevin O. McLaughlin

    “Ad Astra” launches STARSHIP, fresh episodic fiction from award-winning author Kevin O. McLaughlin. The first season of five episodes, released weekly, will carry the reader through a single novel-length adventure from Earth to the stars, and from broken spirits to humanity’s unlikely heroes. If life knocked you down, would you risk everything you had left…

  • Blood To Be Released on Valentine’s Day

    Blood To Be Released on Valentine’s Day

    Dindi and Umbral have an uneasy truce, forced to work together to defeat a greater enemy: the Bone Whistler. The Bone Whistler’s scheme to sacrifice humanity and resurrect the Aelfae will culminate during an eclipse on the spring equinox…in three days. Their fragile alliance may not withstand the terrors they face. Dindi hides as a…

  • How To Take Criticism Of Your Writing

    How To Take Criticism Of Your Writing

    Now, we always give advice on how to crit, but, as we discussed 
earlier, perhaps it is more important to discuss how to receive 
crits. Personally, if one receives a crit that tells you, “Your basic 
idea is all wrong,” how should you take this? image: xkcd 1. Get some perspective. I look at something…

  • Three Ways To Do Dialogue Attributes Wrong

    Three Ways To Do Dialogue Attributes Wrong

    One of the first novels I wrote, 
when I was, ye gods, twelve or thirteen, I don’t remember (or I have 
thankfully blanked the memory from my brain) was Star Trek 
fanfic. On the first draft, the dialogue looked something like this: “Maybe the attacker was a Klingon,” said Kirk. “That is not logical, Captain,”…