Because The Angel Who Wasn’t is novel length, I got to play around with different elements, focus a little on secondary characters, and other fun stuff, instead of getting straight into the story and telling it as succinctly as possible. Some of that fun stuff included introducing a new major secondary character. And one of […]
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We’re only two weeks away from the release of The Angel Who Wasn’t. As usual, I’m providing the first chapter of the book…and this week, I really can provide the first full chapter! 1: A Visit from Dr. Michael Jones The tall man in the front passenger seat of the black Ford Explorer hadn’t spoken
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You bitched discussed, I listened. Although there was a large degree of self-interest in switching the Harley Firebird stories to novel length — writing novelettes is a lot harder than writing novels. 🙂 As I mentioned the other day, when I was talking about length, that I would give you a heads-up when The Angel
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I always write these posts a little way ahead of when they’ll be published on the site. I’m writing this post the day after typing “The End” on the newest Harley Firebird story, and I’ve been reflecting on the experience. After six novelettes, book 7, The Angel Who Wasn’t, is a full length novel, which changes the
There’s a fascinating discussion going on in one of my author groups, about writing short. So I thought I’d ask you about reading short(er) stories. Just to give you some perspective on that; traditional, NY-based publishing, the books you see on the shelves in bookstores, generally runs to around 100,000 words, if not more. Fantasy
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We’re two weeks away from the release of Touched by Faelight. It’s time for the first chapter. Only, there are no chapters for this story. Instead, I’ll drop a largish excerpt, below. Enjoy! EXCERPT FROM TOUCHED BY FAELIGHT COPYRIGHT © TAYLEN CARVER 2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Touched By Faelight We were crossing the Bosphorus in
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I’ve received a lot of emails since I released The Dragon of Falconer, most of them a variation of: “Why are you writing all this short stuff? When are we going to see Harley Firebird in a novel?” And I get that. I do. I’m one of those people who walks around with their fingers
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Last year, I participated in the UF anthology Street Magic (which is still available here, and there’s some damn fine story-telling in it, too!) My story in the anthology was “Touched by Faelight”. Now I have the rights back to the story, I’ve published it as a standalone story and it’s now available for pre-order.
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The sixth story in the Harley Firebird series will be released in a couple of weeks, which means it’s time for a long-ish excerpt from the beginning of the book (in lieu of the usual Chapter One). Excerpt EXCERPT FROM THE FIREBIRD’S REGRET COPYRIGHT © TAYLEN CARVER 2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Firebird’s Regret Harley
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