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Just for fun I spent most of Monday afternoon making two quizes, both of them tied to the Peers of Beinan Series. Ready?  LET’S PLAY! What is your favourite Beinarian food? Which Beinarian royal are you? #crab #slatko #play #book #queen #Princess #quiz #beer #ale #character #cocoa #wine #lobster #game #king #royal

Character name: Amanda Jane Ross Parents names: Don and Evelyn Ross Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Books appearing in: Amanda in Arabia-The Perfume Flask, Amanda in Spain-The Girl in the Painting, Amanda in England-The Missing Novel, Amanda in Alberta-The Writing on The Stone Profile:   Amanda is an average North American girl who dreams of travel and adventure. Her kind, caring and curious nature gets her into trouble as she can´t stop helping people in need. She d

This article reposted from BookDaily.com explores the subject of point of view in writing. —————————- Boudicca: Britain’s Queen of the Iceni takes a Celtic-British point of view. In writing lingo we refer to point-of-view (POV) as the character through whom we tell the story. We get into the head of a particular character and see the story through her eyes. Sometimes we have one POV through the whole story. Other times we have multiple POVs. Recently while reading a book, I b

Parents:  Lord Healer Devon of house Ten-Ar, Lady Healer Keelia of house Ten-Ar Date of Birth: BE 6767, beinor 50 Place of Birth:  An-Men Ten-Ar Healing Center in the capital city of Hejing Books appearing in: The Great Succession Crisis (prologue only), The Ghosts of the Past (central character), Princess Anyu Returns (central character) Profile:  a flawed hero, we first meet Elendir just shir-ors after his birth.  After losing first his father, then his mother to terrorist

The following is re-blogged from http://writersrelief.com/blog/2014/05/write-characters-people-care-about/ Princess Anyu from Laurel A. Rockefeller’s Peers of Beinan series “In a previous article, we explored five ways to make your characters more three-dimensional. Once your characters are believable as living, breathing individuals, the next step is to make readers care about them. When readers are invested in the characters’ struggles and personal stories, they are much mo

This hospitaler, a stand in for both Lord Knight Corann and for Lord Knight Elendir, stands as the perfect medieval knight. This afternoon I gave across one of the most poignant columns on writing and the writing process I’ve seen in a rather long time.  The subject:  literary cliches. http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-storytelling-cliches-that-need-to-disappear-forever It is very hard to disagree with Mr. Hart here; he hit a lot of the bigger cliches right on the head — a

Every adventure n In book one, The Great Succession Crisis, we meet Corann, son of the legendary knight Cariadoc and Lady Priestess Cordelia.  At least one reviewer to date describes Corann as “archtypical” and in many ways they are right. Based in part on medieval literary figures such as King Arthur and Sir Lancelot of Camelot and historical figures such as King Richard I (Lionheart) and Prince Edward (the Black Prince) of Woodstock (historical note: Edward was not called t

Where in the world is Princess Anyu? Where is Princess Anyu?  You tell me!  If D425E25 Tertius turns out to be Earth, where should the princess spend her seven yen-ar long exile and why? –Laurel A. Rockefeller The Peers of Beinan series http://www.peersofbeinan.com http://www.amazon.com/Laurel-A.-Rockefeller/e/B008YVJJFE/ #writing #plot #return #book #Earth #Princess #story #character #Beinan #exile #quest #medieval #novel #adventure

Ghosts of the Past is book two of my Peers of Beinan series.  Set three generations after “The Great Succession Crisis,” and spanning four generations, Ghosts follows the descendents of Princess Anlei as they struggle with terrorism and violence.  Readers of “The Great Succession Crisis,” will remember the revenge promised by Lord Janus.  Now Janus takes his revenge from the grave directly through his new incarnation and through his descendants in this story where you never k