Finally! A Complete Fantasy Series!

When I started writing Dragons Walk Among Us, I knew I wanted to produce a series, but I didn't put much thought into planning/plotting/outlining the subsequent books. I had the sense that what I had written was good, far better than what I had ever produced before, but I wasn't confident that I'd find an agent or publisher.

To Self-Pub or Not Self-Pub

I queried at least thirty agents and small presses without much luck. I had one or two requests for partial manuscripts and one asked for a complete manuscript, but that was it. I knew I needed to polish the manuscript—I just wasn't sure how. I lucked out and found a great deal on a manuscript editing through Pacific Northwest Writers.

Having an editor mark up the entire manuscript was just the beginning of a significant edit. Seeing things through the eyes of an editor gave me some ideas for improvements. Around this time, I pondered going the self-publishing route. Ultimately, I chose not to because I was having good luck getting short stories published regularly. That scratched my itch to publish at any cost.

After working with the editor and doing a major self-edit, I submitted to The Wild Rose Press, and the rest is history. I had learned of this press years ago as primarily a romance publisher, but it had subsequently expanded into YA and other genres. The Bane of Dragons will be my fifth book with them and the fourth and final volume of The Allison Lee Chronicles. Finally, I have a complete fantasy series—bucket list goal checked off!

The Allison Lee Chronicles—Now A Complete Fantasy Series

As you can tell by the titles, dragons feature prominently in the novels. I expounded on why recently. For a taste of the writing, you can read the prologue here.

Dragons Walk Among Us

Shutterbug Allison Lee is trying to survive high school while suffering the popular girl's abuse. Her life is often abysmal, but at least her green hair is savage. Her talent for photography is recognized by the school paper and the judges of a photo contest. While visiting her friend Joe, a homeless vet, Allison's life irrevocably changes after an attack leaves her blind. All her dreams as a photojournalist are dashed as she realizes she'll never see again. Despair sets in until she is offered an experimental procedure to restore her vision. But there are side effects, or are they hallucinations? She now sees dragons accompanying some of the people she meets. Can she trust her eyes, or has the procedure affected her more than she can see?

The Blood of Faeries

Allison Lee wilts under the bright light of celebrity after being exposed as a shape-shifting monster. She'd rather be behind the camera than in front of it. Being under the tooth and claw of her monstrous mother is even less enjoyable. All she desires is for everything to go back to the way things were before she discovered her true nature. But, after she accidentally kills a mysterious man sent to kidnap her, she realizes piecing her old life back together is one gnarly jigsaw puzzle.

When Allison's sometimes boyfriend Haji goes missing, Allison and her squad suspect his unhealthy interest in magic led to his disappearance. Their quest to find Haji brings them face-to-face with beings thought long ago extinct whose agenda remains an enigma.

The Wrath of Monsters

Can Allison and her friends save the world without becoming monsters?

Allison hoped her life would be free of torment after escaping the faeries. No sooner than Allison and her friends return home, the government imprisons Bria and Haji on a military base where scientists experiment on them. Allison’s plan to rescue them backfires when she reveals Bria’s location to the faeries, who mount a raid to capture the faery child. With Bria’s blood, they can create more enthralled super magicians to wage war against humanity.

The attack on the military base is just the beginning. When an electromagnetic pulse knocks out the power for the west coast of the United States, it is clear more powerful foes than the faeries are invading Earth.

The Bane of Dragons

Monstrous forces from across the multiverse have set their eyes upon Earth to create a beachhead in the universe humanity calls home. The problem with that? Humans will be enslaved…and used as food stock for skaags, ravenous shapeshifting super soldiers.

Allison, a teenage alien human hybrid, is humanity’s only hope. She must travel the slipstream, the super highway through the multiverse, to bring the conflict to the enemy’s turf. With a crack squad of miscreants as allies, she does just that, but the plan goes awry.

They end up as the prisoners of angry terrestrial octopi. Their attempts at negotiation only see them handed over to General Bane, the skaag supreme military commander feared throughout the multiverse. Allison discovers that to save everyone she loves, she must unravel the magic binding General Bane and his kind to their overlords. To accomplish that, she must face her greatest fear, herself.

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