Who is the Fae Mark’d Wizard in *Weave a Wizardry Web*?

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Fantasy Set In A Renaissance World

Weave A Wizardry Web by Remi Black

Least becomes great.  Greatest becomes least.

Two wizards travel sharp-bladed roads in Weave a Wizardry Web.

  • Wizard against sorcerer. 
  • Fae against dragon. 
  • Wyre against Rhoghieri.  

As children in the Wizard Enclave, Camisse and her niece Alstera recited that catechism daily.  Yet the war against sorcery seems far from the Enclave, and the current leaders have forgotten that childhood chant.

What happens when forbidden magic lures wizards?

How many die when shape-shifting wyres invade the Wizard Enclave?

Can Alstera escape the spidery lure of corrupted magic? Or will she become the shifters’ next target?

Meet Alstera at this link. 

Meet Camisse in this excerpt.

Click here for information about Web and the Enclave: 

https://remiblack.blogspot.com/2021/05/weave-wizardry-web.html

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Twisted Magic in *Weave a Wizardry Web*

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Twisted magic. Foul sorcery. Dark corruption.

Weave a Wizardry Web

Frost Clime threatens the Wizard Enclave. Sorcerers and their servants, shape-shifting wyre, have stolen into the city of Tres Lucerna, home to the Enclave.

Alstera is the greatest of the young wizards in the Enclave.

She’s treated like the least.

Alstera is desperate to join the war against Frost Clime, but the chief wizards refuse. Denied her wish, Alstera explores other ways to increase power.

A Fae disguised in glamour courts her aunt Camisse … but for what purpose? Does Camisse have latent power that the Fae will control? Will a forbidden linkage unlock her magic?

And what of Alstera’s cousins, who have joined an outland wizard’s circle? They dabble in twisted magic.

Danger walks the streets of Tres Lucerna, yet the chief wizards refuse to acknowledge it. Rumors fly … of a taboo nexus of power, of vile blood spells, and of enemy shape-shifters in the heart of the Wizard Enclave.

Then wizards are murdered.

A grim future awaits any wizard lured into forbidden Twisted magic,

And a grimmer death awaits wizards caught by the shifters.

Can Alstera escape the spidery lure of corrupted magic? Or will she become the shifters’ next target?

A dark fantasy of twisted magic, Weave a Wizardry Web by Remi Black is first in the Fae Mark’d Wizard series. Dream a Deadly Dream and Sing a Graveyard Song continue the series.

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Weave a Wizardry Web :: free glimpse of the Fae Pearroc Seale

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Here’s a free glimpse at an opening chapter of Weave a Wizardry Web, by Remi Black, available exclusively from Amazon

Weave a Wizardry Web ~ book 1 in the series Fae Mark’d Wizard

Why has the Fae Pearroc Seale assumed the glamour of a Wizard?

What’s his goal?

Chapter 1

Pearroc Ciele poured Fae power into the newly learned wizard spell.  Even as it flashed lightning bright, he recognized the weakness that shattered through the spell.

“If you are to pass yourself off as a wizard during the Trials, you must defend as a wizard would, not as a Fae would.”

He twisted his shoulders.  The aged man never missed a point when teaching

wizardry.  He might be too weary to rise from the chair provided by the arena master, but his black eyes snapped onto a flaw and his quick mind decoded the reason for that flaw.  Fae spell contorted to look like wizardry:  most wizards would miss the foundation hidden by the swirling energies.  Pater Drakon never missed it.

Sine Pearroc’s springtime arrival, Drakon had trained him.  Pearroc had selected the aged man, one of the few clan leaders who supported Faeron.  A Blade sent in secret to the wizards by his queen the Maorketh Alaisa, he fumbled like a child at some lessons.  He didn’t regret his apprenticeship to the master wizard, but it was High Summer, and still he trained.

The old wizard had a point.  The Fae sparked power from the tangible element:  a flame for Fire, soil for Earth, and on to Air and Water.  Then they built the spell based on the power borrowed from the element.s  Wizards needed nothing to spark power;  it came from their essence.  Though Pearroc wielded wizard-shaped power, he still needed a tangible element to initiate his spells.  And as he fought to twist his spells to match to wizardry, he often dropped back to the easy Fae wielding.

The sudden clash of steel against steel jerked his head around.  Power sparked at his fingertips.

“Stand down,” the Drakon clan leader said.  “It’s a practice arena.  Are you expecting someone to assassinate me?”

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Writing Challenge Rewind

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A Spring Writing Challenge / from 2021 / Offered by The Write Focus Podcast.

Daily entries to inspire you to Write a Book in a Month, by Remi Black.

Daily check-ins include the project stage progressing word count as well as speculations on writing in general and the writing business in particular.

Click this link to visit TheWriteFocus blog.

Criteria for the Challenge ::

1] Daily Word Count

2] Length to Goal

3] Reason for the Goal

 

Each of these daily episodes runs less than 10 minutes. Listen briefly every day or hoard up several episodes for when you fix a quick dinner, drive a short commute, or take a brisk walk.

Lessons for writing happen along the way!

Each episode from April 2021 will conclude with the two quotations from professional writers (Hemingway! Heinlein! Atwood! More!!!) that opened and closed a day’s writing session for Remi Black.

We’re currently in Season 5, in a Defeat Writer’s Block series, on Episode 5:08, so you will have to search to find these entries.

Episodes ::

March 31 :: Introduction and Writing Wonderland. It’s Episode 2:14. :: listen to the audio on Podbean here.

April 1 :: No Fooling / 2:15

April 2 :: Change of Plans / 2:16

April 3 :: Stick with the Plan / 2:17

April 4 :: Nix Distractions / 2:18

April 5 :: Watch for Warnings / 2:19

April 6 :: Life Rolls / 2:20

April 7 :: Win-Lose-Wind / 2:21

April 8 :: Critical vs. Creative / 2:22

April 9 :: Eat the Frog First / 2:23

April 10 :: The Tax Man Cometh / 2:24

April 11 :: Cocoons / 2:25

April 12 :: Six Words Short / 2:26

April 13 :: Wonders Never Cease / 2:27

April 14 :: One Project, Two Project / 2:28

April 15 :: Promotions / 2:29

April 16 :: Covers / 2:30

April 17 :: Frittery Jittery / 2:31

April 18 :: Flipping Out / 2:32

April 19 :: Input / Output / 2:33

April 20 :: Looking Ahead / 2:34

April 21 :: Short Post / 2:35

April 22 :: Biz Monday / 2:36

April 23 :: Master Book / 2:37

April 24 :: Expect the Unexpected / 2:38

April 25 :: Carpe Diem as Writers / 2:39

April 26 :: Nose to the Grindstone / 2:40

April 27 :: Writers’ Groups / 2:41

April 28 :: First Celebration / 2:42

April 29 :: Writers Conferences / 2:43

April 30 :: An End that’s Not an End and Lessons List / 2:44

 May 5th :: Aprés-Draft Update / 2:45

 

Listen on the following sites. 

Bookmark your favorite to come back daily.

Podbean: The Write Focus (podbean.com)

Apple podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-write-focus/id1546738740%20

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4fMwknmfJhkJxQvaaLQ3Gm?si=0GFku2PbShWXiDhRp7JaDQ

YouTube Channel Writers Ink Books – YouTube

Join us!

 

Resources 

Amazon links are given because it’s easy, and for no other reason.

Purchase Write a Book in a Month at Amazon here.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0848MWXGD

Also mentioned in the first 10 episodes (March 31 to April 5) ~

Patty Jansen’s Self Publishing Unboxed Amazon.com: Self-publishing Unboxed (The Three–year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction Book 1) eBook: Jansen, Patty: Kindle Store

Purchase Think/Pro at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Think-like-Pro-Advent-Writers/dp/1983248266/

The Think/Pro planner for writers can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Pro-Planner-M-Lee/dp/1983248673/

Dwight V. Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Selling-Writer-Dwight-Swain/dp/0806111917/  

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gifts from the Sea https://www.amazon.com/Gift-50th-Anniversary-Anne-Morrow-Lindbergh/dp/0679732411/

Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing/dp/B00RC3ZGN4/ 

 

 

Writers’ Block, Anyone?

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for Writers

The monster we call Writer’s Block has 3 manifestations, and we reveal them on The Write Focus podcast.

It’s a Series on this slimy bugbear > that really doesn’t exist.

Episodes started in February.

Introduction https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/506-defeat-writers-block-introduction/

Overcoming Type 1 https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/507-defeat-writers-block-overcoming-type-1/

Overcoming Type 2 https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/508-defeat-writers-block-type-2/

Overcoming Type 3 https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/509-defeat-writers-block-overcoming-type-3/?token=be9e8379ee2ebd4690d8f7f70ee115a5

 

And the episodes continue with Pro Writers’ Advice on Defeating Writer’s Block.

Right now, host M.A. Lee is prepping an episode for mid-April and is looking at topics into May.

Who knows how long this will take us?