Today the Dragon Wins
"Today the Dragon Wins" offers information from Fantasy Author and Professional Editor Sandy Lender. You'll also find dragons, wizards, sorcerers, and other fantasy elements necessary for a fabulous story, if you know where to look...
About Me
- Name: Sandy Lender
- Location: Misbehaving in Candlelight
Sandy Lender is the editor of an international trade publication and the author of the fantasy novels Choices Meant for Gods and Choices Meant for Kings, available from ArcheBooks Publishing, and the series-supporting chapbook, What Choices We Made.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
A Dragon's Moving Day
Far above the shadowed cave, shafts of light stab down from errant cracks in the mountain. The cavern has become unstable here. In her dream state, she has sensed it.
An observer could hear the smooth scratch of shifting scales. The air moves with the changed rhythm in her breathing. What had once been an uneasy mustiness churns with dust and a fetid, rank meat smell from the moist cavern. She has awakened. She stirs, and a ray of light glances off a patch of onyx scale.
With a groaning of bones she labors to raise her head. The graceful black neck glistens through a shaft of light. The dragon has been asleep for years; only instinct forced her tongue to lash out for the morsels that dared to creep by during her slumber. Now the stink of rotted tidbits offends her as she flares her nostrils at the garbage dotting her bower.
As she drags energy into her muscles she moves a wing for support. This disturbs her treasure-bed. Gold and silver and pretty trinkets cascade from her mound, clanking and clunking to the stones below. The sound is satisfying. Even its echo through the halls of her lair pleases her, but the clutter from sleepy feasting does not. She snorts a vicious blow. Dead things scatter with a clatter, and the lighter of her trophies scratch across the floor. Dust and rocks swirl among them, dinging little clinking sounds.
She’s cleared a path. It’s time for the dragon to move.
Fantasy enthusiasts will find her at http://todaythedragonwins.wordpress.com/.
"Some days, you just want the dragon to win."
Tags: dragon, wordpress, cave, treasure
Far above the shadowed cave, shafts of light stab down from errant cracks in the mountain. The cavern has become unstable here. In her dream state, she has sensed it.
An observer could hear the smooth scratch of shifting scales. The air moves with the changed rhythm in her breathing. What had once been an uneasy mustiness churns with dust and a fetid, rank meat smell from the moist cavern. She has awakened. She stirs, and a ray of light glances off a patch of onyx scale.
With a groaning of bones she labors to raise her head. The graceful black neck glistens through a shaft of light. The dragon has been asleep for years; only instinct forced her tongue to lash out for the morsels that dared to creep by during her slumber. Now the stink of rotted tidbits offends her as she flares her nostrils at the garbage dotting her bower.
As she drags energy into her muscles she moves a wing for support. This disturbs her treasure-bed. Gold and silver and pretty trinkets cascade from her mound, clanking and clunking to the stones below. The sound is satisfying. Even its echo through the halls of her lair pleases her, but the clutter from sleepy feasting does not. She snorts a vicious blow. Dead things scatter with a clatter, and the lighter of her trophies scratch across the floor. Dust and rocks swirl among them, dinging little clinking sounds.
She’s cleared a path. It’s time for the dragon to move.
Fantasy enthusiasts will find her at http://todaythedragonwins.wordpress.com/.
"Some days, you just want the dragon to win."
Tags: dragon, wordpress, cave, treasure
Labels: dragon
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
What Choices We Made Vol. II Available Now
Or...The Dragon announces another book release...Woo-hoo!
This should be a longer post, but I'm swamped right now. Here's the scoop:
If you're waiting for Book III in the Choices series, the item to tide you over is What Choices We Made, Short Stories from the History of Onweald, Volume II. It's available now, as of today, at Amazon! Check it out now and get your Choices fix, complete with a deleted scene from Choices Meant for Gods and the novella The Influential Love Story of Ella and Rohne.
Enjoy!
http://tinyurl.com/WCWMII
"Some days, you just want the dragon to win."
Tags: What Choices We Made, fantasy, Choices, Amazon, dragons
Or...The Dragon announces another book release...Woo-hoo!
This should be a longer post, but I'm swamped right now. Here's the scoop:
If you're waiting for Book III in the Choices series, the item to tide you over is What Choices We Made, Short Stories from the History of Onweald, Volume II. It's available now, as of today, at Amazon! Check it out now and get your Choices fix, complete with a deleted scene from Choices Meant for Gods and the novella The Influential Love Story of Ella and Rohne.
Enjoy!
http://tinyurl.com/WCWMII
"Some days, you just want the dragon to win."
Tags: What Choices We Made, fantasy, Choices, Amazon, dragons
Labels: dragons, fantasy, What Choices We Made