When Shauna E. Black was a young teen, her
English teacher made the mistake of offering extra credit for original short
stories, and was suddenly swamped with Shauna’s writing. Dutifully reading each
story (at least, she wrote encouraging things in the margins), this teacher inspired
Shauna to follow her dreams, leaving her with a warm spot in her heart for all
English teachers.
Today, Shauna still keeps a box in the attic full
of early manuscripts, most written in pencil on lined paper. She lives in the
high desert of the southwest with her husband and four children. On springtime
hiking adventures to the many Ancestral Puebloan ruins near her home, she finds
inspiration for her writing. She also likes to experiment in the kitchen, perform
in local singing groups, and travel to exotic locations to collect wind chimes.
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"Soul in Ashes Series - As an exile studying the healing arts in a foreign land, Alswyn discovers ash magic that could destroy a delicate peace treaty and plunge the countryside back into war. Now she must reveal the truth of her sordid past, risking her new life as she uses forbidden knowledge to counter the ash magic and catch the sorcerer before her adopted homeland is destroyed.
Out of the Past: Episode 1 - Alswyn can no longer avoid the peace treaty delegation from her homeland when Lady Serrin, the king's foreign bride, falls prey to a mysterious illness, and Koen discovers a demon summoning circle in the castle's slim tower."
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Snippet Time!!
“Somebody
escort that boy to safety,”
Ghalad said.
“No!”
I yelled as a soldier moved toward
the boy.
Suddenly,
the boy’s expression shifted.
His skin took on a waxy appearance, like a candle held too long
near the fire.
He grew, shooting up until his head nearly touched the ceiling.
He was now
easily twice as tall as Talorc. His body became blackened wood.
Muscles exploded
under sharp thorns that jutted out along his limbs and around
his head. … where
its mouth should have been was a hollow cavity that held a
glowing red coal.
Before
anyone could react, the golem
grabbed the nearest soldier in massive hands of gnarled wood and
lifted him up.
The man screamed and hacked at the golem’s hand as he neared its
face. The scream
petered out. The man struggled and gasped for breath. When he
came close to the
golem’s face, a blast of hot air blew from the coal in the
golem’s mouth and
enveloped the soldier. His body exploded into ashes.
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