The Ratta Arc

 The Ratta Arc or Blood Arc of the Ghostwolf series starts with Raven Manor. 

Raven introduces the characters, the Lexicon, and some of the secrets our world hides. The Del Mulanti Ruv being one of the main secrets as well as the existence of Le Ratta Lexicul.  Both are explained under Pages at the right.

 The Blood Lexicon continues the Arc by bringing in some more of the secrets and explaining more about the Lexicon and its Keeper. This book gets down to the nitty gritty. 

 In the third book we learn why the Shavora are so important to both the Ruv and the world as a whole as well as more of the Lexicon's secrets.

These three books are what I have planned right now for the Ghostwolf series. That doesn't mean there aren't more coming in the future but these are all I have written down in my idea journal.  Not to mention I have 30 other books just waiting in the wings to be written. All started but on hold until their bunny starts thumping away at my brain.

I picked the Roma as the Ruv's chosen because I think they would be more accepting of the Ruv. Being on the end of discrimination themselves at times, I think they would welcome the Ruv as 'brothers' and 'sisters' and would not judge them harshly.  I am not expert with languages but I researched Romani and found different dialects/versions. So I mixed them together. The common language of the Ruv and Roma would have changed over the centuries, they and it are not static, and made a mashed up Common Tongue. There is a glossary under Pages at the right.

I have Lexicon and book one of the Song Saga open right now. When I get stumped or have writer's block on Lexicon, I work on Last Song until I can go back to Lexicon. I plan to have them both done by the middle to end of 2021. 

So check out the first book Raven Manor. Special pre-order price of 99 cents.

Holiday Resolutions

 Raven Manor is up for pre-order and will be published in the new year. 

The second book of the Ghostwolf series has been started and is underway.

Last Song, the first book of the Song Saga, is also started. 

I plan to finish the last two and publish them by the end of 2021. Book 3 of the Ghostwolf series will be published in 2022. That will finish the Ratta Arc of the series. 

This time of year is a time of reflection. Thinking about the past year and about what the new one will bring. Making plans to improve. 

However those plans usually fall by the wayside within months if not weeks as life moves on. Old habits die hard and life itself just gets in the way. I try to make goals that I know I will reach, that I will strive to reach. Humans can be lazy creatures and I'm guilty of that far too often. But once I set my mind to something I get it done, though it may be later than planned.

I have thousands of stories in my head. The ones that get done are the ones with the more vicious bunnies that thump my brain. Some of those bunnies are like Bunicula and sink fangs as well as thumping until I satisfy them enough that they give way to one of the others. The stories will get written, just the when is in doubt.

So the only resolution I really make is that I will keep writing. That I will strive to improve said writing and network with and support my fellow writers.  Beyond that I make no promises. 

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 Raven Manor is up for Pre-order.

Dark Fantasy or supernatural crime drama is how I would categorize it. 

I set the date of publication as January 11,2021. I might have to change that. It might be sooner.  We'll see.

Everything is done except for the paperback. I haven't received the proof yet. 

An unusual murder scene just before Halloween starts off this savory read. 

The unusual isn't strange around that time of the year. People seem to go more crazy then and Detective John Hanlan has seen a lot of insanity as a homicide detective.  But this sends shivers up his spine.

There is more to this than just murder. 

Start the new year off right with this unusual read.

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OOOPS

 I realized after I changed my main blog address that all my business cards have the old blog address. So instead of wasting the cards and getting new ones, I set up a blog on my old address to direct them to this blog. Hopefully that doesn't discourage them. Or confuse them.

Raven Manor is as I have said an introduction to my supernatural yet contemporary world.

 Del Mulanti Ruv live among us, virtually indistinguishable from us but for their eyes. Cognac colored until they are hit by strong emotion or when they transform, then those eyes turn topaz and gleam. They lived among their chosen Roma for centuries before venturing out on their own and settling in every corner of the World. But they kept the Romani language and some of their ways, integrating both their ways and laws with the Roma's.  They have adapted to the world around them while keeping their own.

But make no mistake, the Ruv have not been tamed. 

Ghostwolf series: the Ratta trilogy

 Le Ratta Lexicul or the Blood Lexicon is at the heart of these first three books. Raven Manor introduces the book, The Blood Lexicon shows its power on both humans and Ruv, and the third book in this series will be about the necessity of the Shavora or the Companions. These three books are all I have planned right now.

 

That doesn't mean there won't be more. Just that these are all I have story ideas wrote down for right now. The Ratta(blood) arc.

In Raven Manor the Del Mulanti Ruv and the Le Ratta Lexicul are introduced as are the MCs and the MV--Main Characters and Main Villain. For more on the Ruv see the entry under Pages.  The first book gives you the lay of the land, as it were, while the second book gets down to the nitty gritty. One gets thrust into the occult craziness that the Lexicon brings out in both humans and Ruv and takes you for a ride through the dark side of both. 

The third book is just bare bones right now, but the Ruv's companions feature prominently. 

I already have the cover for the second book and have started the book bible. Names, names, and more names. Gotta have just the right name.  "Hey, bad guy" just won't do it. :)  

Raven Manor is still pending. 

It should be published soon. 

Raven Manor

Raven Manor holds secrets humans weren't meant to know. What shadows hide within its walls and kill any who threatened to reveal its mysteries? 

The book is pending. To tide you over for a while here is the blurb.

Blurb reveal

 Raven Manor had many secrets--and more bodies--attached to it than the two unusual murders Detective Hanlan was there to solve. What ripped throats out yet left little blood?  

 And Hanlan's new partner has secrets of his own. He seems to know more than he should. Was he involved in the murders?

     Detective Hanlan knows that the dark side is very real. He sees the evil that humans do to one another every day. This case is darker than any he's ever witnessed. But good and evil are very much in the eye of the beholder. 

     Hanlan must see both sides if he is to survive in the new world revealed to him. What Hanlan uncovers is more than just pathological motive, however, it's something right out of a horror movie.

I can't wait til it's published. This is just the intro to this savory series.