Happy New Year's 2024!

Happy New Year, Champions! Book #2 in the Magic on Main Street series will be out in less than two weeks! But in honor of the New Year's holiday I wanted highlight a short story featuring a cast of characters from a different Magiford series, The Court of Midnight and Deception. Click here to read the short story: A New Year's Celebration This short features the yearly ceremony of the New Year that is hosted by the Day Court and the Night Court in Magiford. I mentioned this exact ceremony/event in the Court of Midnight and Deception series, but I knew it wouldn't make sense for the plot to add this in--particularly since Rigel was gone for Leila's first celebration--so I'm happy I was able to share this extra short story with you! It takes place after the end of the trilogy so it has spoilers if you haven't finished all the books yet!

I hope you have a fabulous New Year, Champions, and that 2024 brings you lots of laughter, fun, and good books!

Short Story: Family Bonding

Are you ready for a bonus short story? The Lies of Vampires and Slayers is now out, which means we have officially kicked off the next Magiford Supernatural City trilogy! Book # 2 will be out January 12th and book #3 will be out in early April. I'm really sorry for the delay between books 2 and 3 but my writing speed continues to be slow thanks to my pesky health problems and it takes me a lot longer to finish a book than it did in 2020 or earlier. But enough sad talk, time for some happy news! The reviews are in and I am so happy to see the Champions reaction to this book. I was sick with a cold for the whole week leading up to the book launch so I might be a bit more emotional than usual but my Champions are the best! Once again your honest, detailed, and oh so sweet reviews have let this author touched and humbled. So thank you. We hit the 100+ reviews between Goodreads and Amazon in record time-if I hadn't been sick for over 10+ days I would have posted this earlier! And now the moment we have all been waiting for! The bonus short story featuring Jade and her family of vampire slayers: Click here to read Family Bonding.

What did you think? I knew from the moment I started writing this series that I needed to do a short story starring Jade's family. It allows you to see how intense they are and I hope gives you a more detailed understanding as to why all her task force teammates are in awe of her. :) I'm also sharing the version of the Spot It tracker that includes the names for all the Places and People in The Lies of Vampires and Slayers. Click here or on the Spot It image below to get the "easy" version of the cameo tracker. And let me know what you thought of this fun activity - were you able to find all the cameos?

If you still haven't read The Lies of Vampires and Slayers here are the book links so you can jump right in:

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The Lies of Vampires and Slayers: Spot the Cameos

We are just hours away from Jade's new trilogy, Magic on Main Street launching!  I've got the links to the pre-orders one more time if you need them but I'm also using the post to launch a special treat that Vin, our Discord Chief Moderator, and I have dreamed up for you for while you are reading The Lies of Vampires and Slayers.

Amazon.com | All other Amazon Stores The Magic on Main Street series doesn't deal with the Paragon's search (which he talks about in the Gate of Myth and Power series) and because of that Jade doesn't interact with most of the other series characters you know and love (other than the Drakes!). But since this is still the same city as the other books I've sprinkled tons of cameos of characters and places you will recognize! Some of them will be pretty obvious and some of them will be harder to identify, even if you took my advice to re-read the other books. To help you track down all the cameos Vin created a "Spot it!" tracking graphic for you. Click here or on the graphic below to download it and then color it in/mark it when you find each cameo. 

This is the extra hard version of the "Spot it!" tracker that doesn't have any of the answers included, it just has a clip art representing the place/character. When I release the bonus short story for reaching 100 honest reviews on The Lies of Vampires and Slayers I will post the version that has the names included. For now, I'm going to give you one hint - not all of the characters Vin has listed in the "People" section represent actual "people". Vin and I had a lot of fun putting this together so let us know what you think of this activity!