{"id":1833,"date":"2014-05-07T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2014-05-07T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:00:33","slug":"guest-post-author-dana-michelle-burnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2014\/05\/07\/guest-post-author-dana-michelle-burnett\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Author Dana Michelle Burnett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Faery<\/a>I\u2019m so excited to be on the blog today talking about the Fairy Realms<\/em> Bundle<\/a>! I have always loved stories about fairies of every sort. As a kid I devoured anything about them that I could get my hands on about fairies, sprites, or pixies. As I grew older, I kept my passion for fae under wraps.<\/p>\n

I kept my fairy books hidden under my bed, out of sight from any of my friends that might stop by. While I still loved the fanciful stories, they were not the sort of thing to make you popular in the seventh grade. See that was in the days before Kindles or iPad, reading wasn\u2019t exactly the cool thing to do and reading about fairies…Well, that was just social suicide.<\/p>\n

Of course secrets always have a way of getting out and sure enough I outed myself one day in study hall. I sat there, barely awake, doodling on the cover of my notebook. What was I doodling? A wood nymph…Yeah, that spread like wildfire as soon as one of those snobby too-perfect popular girls looked over my shoulder and saw it.<\/p>\n

So yes, I was known as the freak, the one with her nose stuck in a book, the one reading about forest nymphs. That followed me all the way through high school, but that\u2019s okay. When I became a writer, I never forgot those \u201cfairy tales\u201d from my youth. I wrote my own twisted version of one of my favorite fae legends and something amazing happened…readers actually like it.<\/p>\n

Yes, suddenly I wasn\u2019t alone. There were other people out in the world that loved the idea of magic as much as I did! It was as if all of a sudden I was that humiliated kid again and could thumb my nose at all of the \u201cpopular kids\u201d that made my life hell for years.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to why I\u2019m telling you all of this, thanks to my own little Gypsy Fairy Tale Series<\/a>, I got the chance to work with some really great authors that love all things fairy as much as I do. In fact, my novella Once (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book One)<\/a> is included in the Fairy Realms Bundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, now that we\u2019re friends, and I\u2019ve confessed one of my most embarrassing moments, I\u2019d like to ask you to go and download Faery Realms: Ten Magical Titles<\/a><\/em>: Multi-Author Bundle of Novels & Novellas for 0.99 cents. You could read it just because it\u2019s so popular right now on Amazon, but you could also read it for that poor girl that was ridiculed in the seventh grade for loving fairies.<\/p>\n

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Find out more about Dana on her website<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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