Medieval Fantasy ~ Out of Wild Sherwood

Posted on September 1, 2024August 19, 2024 by writer35_bg

All through September ~

stories Out of Wild Sherwood, from Edie Roones.

Beware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries.

Fall begins with Medieval Fantasy!

Join the wrestler Dav, Tall Brigit and Arthur a Bland, Irishman Finn Callum, Much the Miller’s son, and the Faerie sentinel Fenric as they battle corruption, injustice, and pure evil, all lurking outside Sherwood Forest.

5 Stories of Medieval Fantasy & Crime

“Dangerous Gold” / Sept. 1

Strong Temptation for Two Young Thieves

Two young outlaws decide to steal the Nottingham mayor’s gold as revenge for a false accusation. Haunted by misgivings, Dav of Doncaster keeps a wary eye on them … only to discover a lethal trap is closing fast.

“Keen-Edged Dagger” / Sept. 4

Murder needs a Tricky Vengeance

Orphans learn early that life is a precarious balance and justice has a keen edge. When Brigit is falsely accused of murder, how can she reveal her innocence?

“Silver Dreams” / Sept. 8

A Double Twist for a Double Theft

Finn Callum is guilty of much but never a blood crime. The Irishman thinks Nottingham is ready for prime plucking.

Quick of fingers and fleet of foot, he’s always escaped any hue and cry. To wake with a knife aimed between his eyes is a shock.

“Poisoned Roots” / Sept. 12

A Deadly Sin caused Dishonor

Envy is a deadly sin, and it killed Much’s good name and honor. That loss still aches like an unhealed wound. Cast from his family, he carved a place in Robin Hood’s band. Will a dying wish rip open that old wound?

“Memory of Magic” / Sept. 16

A Faerie Confronts Human Evil

After a visit to Robin Hood’s camp, the hunter Fenric stumbles upon slaughtered deer, killed for neither food nor sport. The trail leads this Faerie beyond Sherwood’s border and to a freehold stinking of evil.

Out of Wild Sherwood / Sept. 2

Beware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries.

A Collection of Medieval Fantasy, crime and magic, foul sins and eldritch deeds.

Buy the individual short stories or the collection.

Short stories are ebook only.

The collection will be available as ebook, paperback, and audiobook.

For the Collection:

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCLQKTGT

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The Individual Short Stories:

“Dangerous Gold”

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“Keen-Edged Dagger”

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“Silver Dreams”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCG29ZTV

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“Poisoned Roots”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCW7KQ7F

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“Memory of Magic”

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCW8JCK4

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Out of Wild Sherwood

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Backstabbing double-crosses.

False accusation of murder.

Double-twist on a heist.

A hidden murder concealed in a Evil deed.

Blood magic and a foul enchanter.

View the Trailer Here.

https://youtu.be/ENKYL_Qi9u4

Enjoy your FALL READING!

Free Fiction: Summer Sieges

Posted on August 31, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Free Fiction

Take a W.Ink with a First Chapter Glimpse.

Edie Roones’ fantasy Summer Sieges, ordinary people battling extraordinary odds and foul sorcery.

Chapter 1

Her body jerked.

Beren muddled her way up. Slowly. Into the pain.

Another jerk.

Return was . . . sluggish. A great darkness. A lesser one. She wanted to retreat from waking, crawl back into the deep blackness, but pain pulsed in her head and throbbed along her arm, denying any escape.

Her body jerked again.

Hands were on her. At her hips. Metal clinking. A lift. She groaned.

The hands stilled then gave another jerk that peeled something from beneath her.

And then a growl, deep, predatory. As black as the darkness. Danger as old as time.

Whoever had pulled at her scrambled away. She tried to open her eyes then realized they were open, to night-black. The dancing lights weren’t in her throbbing head. They were torches bobbing, some bigger and brighter, others distant, like the will o’wisps that hovered over deepest springs and in magickal glades.

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Summer Sieges: medieval fantasy

Posted on August 30, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

The first book in the alternate medieval fantasy by Edie Roones: Seasons in Sansward

& Edie Roones’ First Book

& the First Book Published by Writers’ Ink Books

Summer Sieges

Honor and death? Or cowardice and life? Stark choices, and not that easy.

Beren, a warder at Caldew Keep, swore an oath to defend her lord and lady. The

arrival of the Watrani horde, allied with the Gitane Witches, changes the world she has known. The Witches are sorcerers who have been exiled from Sansward for generations.

Beren’s keep lady orders her to protect the Eye, a magical crystal that increases a wielder’s power.

Besides the magnification of power, the Eye has two other important purposes: 1) It can remove the curse that transformed the fighting Prica warriors into wolves. 2) It will free sorcerers who were trapped in stone at the end of the Great War between the mages and the witches.

And the Gitane Witches are searching for the Eye.

Lady Treasache intends to steal away with the Eye in a desperate bid to keep it from the Gitane. The Prica Storr thinks to use the Eye to shift back into man.

Will Beren sacrifice herself in a futile attempt to guard the Eye? With only a sword as defense against sorcery, can she survive a battle against the Gitane? Or will she discover that the road to death is littered with people who chose honor over life?

Available now.

Outlaws of Wild Sherwood from Edie Roones

Posted on August 20, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Outlaws of Wild Sherwood

In this anthology, five men are the Outlaws of Wild Sherwood, and they encounter Robin Hood’s enemies as well as the Faeries of British legend.

Wild Sherwood collection 2 — Cover by Deranged Doctor Design

First up, Dav the Wrestler, a friend of Robin Hood and his men.

A Twist of Faerie Magic

Twist after twist reveals the true heart.

Dav spent months earning prizes for wrestling, all to raise enough coins to marry his love Edrys.

On his return to Nottingham, however, he discovers Edrys married another man during his absence. When he sees bruises on her, he threatens her husband.

Then the man is found dead, and Dav is accused.

How can a twist of Faerie magic reveal the true culprit?

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No fighter, unskilled with knife or bow or sword, the singer Alan discovers a way to defeat Robin’s enemies.

“A Faerie Song for a Feast”

Masks, Mummers, and a Faerie Song

When a corrupt abbot double-charges the rents of simple farmers, Robin Hood and his men decide to intervene. Alan-a-Dale risks playing a song learned in the land of Faeries to help Robin Hood and his men.

Yet the Faerie Elandrielle warned him never to play music he learned while visiting Underhill.

What will she do when he breaks her command?

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Arthur à Bland joined the outlaw band. What will he do when he believes Little John has wronged his sister?

“Mischief Of A Faerie”

A Challenge With Quarterstaves

Arthur’s sister names a bearded giant as her newborn’s father. The only bearded giant that the young poacher knows is the outlaw Little John. Arthur storms off, resolved to force John to support his child.

He can’t shame an outlaw into honor. He can’t force a man taller and stronger than he is to shoulder his responsibilities.

Will the Faerie Iofrin’s mischief lead to the answer?

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The outlaw Jack Greenleaf only belongs to Robin’s band of men.

“The Green Man”

A Venture With Destiny

Bad luck has plagued Jack Greenleaf for years. Abandoned, evicted, and rejected, he joined the other outcasts in Sherwood Forest. The Green Man of the Faerie may seal his fate.

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Gilbert Whitehand works the bar at the Tinker’s Wife Tavern, but he’s a great friend of Robin Hood.

“The Prize of a Golden Arrow”

By Hook or Crook or Arrow

Gil vowed never again to take up the long bow. Then he learns the May Day archery contest is a trap to capture Robin Hood. He resolves to foil the Sheriff’s plan.

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The bundled anthology is available Now!

Lovers of fantasy and the Robin Hood legends, Edie Roones and M.A. Lee enjoy fusing the stories of the medieval English outlaws with the dangerous faeries of British myth.

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Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B92V1PKT

the trailer https://youtu.be/aCftiZFqq1E

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The first five stories with the Robin Hood legends fused with the British faeries appear in the anthology Into Wild Sherwood, which is also available now.

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Watch for more stories about Wild Sherwood, men driven to crime to fight evil and corruption.

Robin Hood,

Will Scarlet,

Little John,

and Much the Miller’s son

August Celebrations

Posted on August 1, 2024June 7, 2024 by writer35_bg

A Rare Month at Writers Ink Books

August Celebrations are important here at W.Ink. We celebrate our usual book anniversaries. August is a rare month because each of the 3 writers has a major publication.

More importantly, three of these books are significant anniversaries for our writers.

A Book Anniversary from our collaborating Edie Roones and M.A. Lee

1st up, a fusion of historical legend and fantasy

Short Stories in the second Wild Sherwood collection ~ Outlaws of Wild Sherwood

All Through August

Five men encounter the Outlaws of Wild Sherwood and the Faeries of British legend.

On the 1st~ ~ ~ “A Twist of Faerie Magic”

A twist of murder. A twist of Faerie magic. And Dav the wrestler caught between.

When Dav is accused of murdering his true love’s husband, will magic reveal the true culprit?

On the 5th~ ~ ~ “A Faerie Song for a Feast”

Masks, Mummers, and a Faerie Song

Alan-a-Dale risks playing a song learned in the land of Faeries to help Robin Hood and his men. Will the song help or hinder the outlaws?

On the 10th~ ~ ~ “Mischief of a Faerie”

A Challenge with Quarterstaves

When his sister names a bearded giant as her newborn’s father, Arthur storms off to force Little John to support them. Yet how can a simple poacher defeat a man taller and stronger than he is?

On the 15th~ ~ ~ “The Green Man”

A Venture with Destiny

Bad luck has plagued Jack Greenleaf for years. Abandoned, evicted, and rejected, he joined the other outcasts in Sherwood Forest. The Green Man of the Faerie may seal his fate.

On the 20th~ ~ ~ “The Prize of a Golden Arrow”

By Hook or Crook or Arrow

Gil vowed never again to take up the long bow. Then he learns the May Day archery contest is a trap to capture Robin Hood. He resolves to foil the Sheriff’s plan.

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The anthology published on the 9th. We couldn’t wait!

Online Everywhere https://books2read.com/u/4Aj99N

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B92V1PKT

View the trailer https://youtu.be/aCftiZFqq1E

The following 3 Novels are the major reason for our August Celebrations!

A Significant Book Anniversary for Remi Black

2nd, a Dark Fantasy

**Dark Fantasy with Weave a Wizardry Web.**

This epic novel begins the Fae Mark’d Wizard series and launched Remi Black’s writing career, back in 2017.

a wizard travels sharp-bladed roads.

Alstera is the greatest of the young Enclave wizards, granddaughter to the leader of the Enclave. Yet the wizard leaders thwart her wish to fight sorcery.

Desperate to help the fight against sorcery, she explores ways to increase magical power. Her search leads to the Nexus, a forbidden spell once used to enslave wizards.

Additional dangers threaten the very heart of the Enclave. Shape-shifting wyre kill wizards. A sorcerer controls them from inside Enclave walls. And rumors of vile blood spells increase the danger.

*Weave a Wizardry Web* begins the dark fantasy saga of twisted magic against foul sorcery and the dark corruption that people can sink to.

Find it here for Amazon shoppers and

View the Trailer here: https://youtu.be/jePz27U2Y6U

Another Significant Book Anniversary, this time from the prolific M.A. Lee

3rd, historical mystery with a dash of romance. The 12th and last book in the Hearts in Hazard series of mystery and suspense with a dash of sweet romance.

A Hazard with Hearts

A very vintage Gothic romantic suspense :: Two wives haunt the castle. Will she be the third to die?

The new bride to the Earl of Sheldrake, Vivienne Northrup claims to be too rational to believe in ghosts.

Yet two wives haunt Sheldrake Hall. Will Vivienne become the third wife to die?

Her husband Max Herrick lost two brides tragically, the first to suicide, the second to an accident. Or were they murdered? Is he a Bluebeard, killing his wives, one after another?

Amazon shoppers: Fetch it here.

Worldwide, online: here it is.

A Third Significant Book Anniversary, for writer Edie Roones and for Writers Ink

4th and final, classic fantasy and another 1st.

Summer Sieges

the Celebration that Tops all August Celebrations

August Celebrations have to include this novel, our first ever as well as the first for Edie Roones

A classic fantasy, set in an alternate medieval world of mages and sorcerers, fantastic enchantments, and bitter battles.

All of her life, Beren has taken orders to the defend the castlekeep, first from her father and then from Lady Treasach. Then the Watrani Horde with their Gitane Witches came and broke the siege.

To save a magical crystal, Lady Treasach orders Beren to gather a small party and they flee through the under-veil to the mountains.

But the Gitane Witches continue to track them.

With the help of a disenchanted Prica, the warrior Storr, can Beren protect the lady and her magical crystal? Or will she fall to the Gitane and the Watrani?

Still only on Amazon Fetch it here.

This novel not only launched Edie Roones’ writing career but is also the first book published by Writers Ink.

Rejoice throughout the month with us. Our August Celebrations are major achievements!