Auralia's Colors

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Journal

Hard times are good times for Auralia's Colors

The people of House Abascar have been betrayed by false promises and robbed of colors, robbed of hope. But there are rumors of a girl in the woods who gathers colors that no one else has ever seen. And now, you can hear those colors. During these stay-at-home days, you're invited to a reading of Aur

Journal

Good with crayons? Enter Auralia's Coloring Contest.

As the four volumes of The Auralia Thread reach their decennial anniversaries, here's a challenge for imaginations of kids young and old: the first-ever Auralia's Coloring Contest.

On Books & Writing

The strength of a thread

I've sometimes wondered if I made a mistake by calling my four-book fantasy series The Auralia Thread. Even people who have read the series, and who can remember the names of the individual novels, forget the series name. (Let's not even talk about trying to teach

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Ten years ago this month...

An anniversary slipped past me on October 5. Ten years ago this month, I signed the contract for my first two novels. I remember that I could hardly believe it. I'm grateful that I was provided all that I needed to rise to the occasion. I'm

The Auralia Thread

She's Growing Up So Fast! Auralia's Colors is 7 Years Old

My first novel Auralia's Colors — currently on sale at Amazon for a bargain price — is 7 years old today! She's growing up so fast. Why do I bother celebrating the 7th anniversary of my own book? That's easy. Thanks to WaterBrook Press (now WaterBrook

The Auralia Thread

Summer Reading Bargain: Auralia's Colors is Less Than $5 at Amazon

This summer, Amazon is offering you Auralia's Colors — both the paperback edition and the Kindle edition — for less than $5.

"Christian" is a Bad Adjective

Why I Want to Be George R. R. Martin's Neighbor

There is a place... a magical place... where J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Patricia McKillip, and J.R.R. Tolkien stand side-by-side...

Lindsay Marshall

Will These Books "Grab You By the Throat"?

I'm almost always surprised when I come across new reviews of my four-novel fantasy series, The Auralia Thread. It's never going to be a best-selling series. It isn't about a girl and the boys who are competing for her. It isn't about

Auralia's Anniversary

Winners of Auralia's Fifth Anniversary Contest (Correction)

[UPDATE: I've just been informed that, due to a strange corruption of the file in which the submissions were compiled, some of the names and toasts were mixed up. Thus, the vote-tally turned up a bad result, with the wrong name attached to one of the winning toasts.

Auralia's Anniversary

Raise a Toast Before the Deadline! (Deadline Extended to 9 p.m.)

I forgot to post a reminder over the weekend, so now you have until 9 p.m. (Seattle time) to enter the Auralia's Colors 5th Anniversary contest and turn in your toast to Auralia.

Auralia's Anniversary

Happy Fifth Birthday, Auralia! (Enter to Win One of Two Prize Packages)

Today, Auralia turns five years old! So, in the spirit of Bilbo Baggins, I'm giving stuff away to some of the party guests...

Auralia's Anniversary

Have You Ever Attended a Birthday Party... for a Book?

I'm inviting friends and readers old and new to join my Auralia's Colors Birthday Party. It's simple: Write a toast. Not to me, but to the title character... Auralia. (She's the one who deserves it.) Prizes await two of those who "raise their glasses"...

Overstreet's Books

Auralia's Colors... Revealed!

Once in a while, somebody responds to my fantasy series The Auralia Thread in a way that makes the whole five years of work worth it.

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Touchstone on Auralia's Colors

Despite my best efforts to remain unnoticed, it seems another reader has somehow found his way to a copy of Auralia's Colors. My thanks to my friend Mary McCleary, who alerted me to a new review... ... by Lars Walker, a novelist himself has just written up a piece

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Got 89 cents?

89 cents. I'm not kidding. The first novel in The Auralia Thread, my four-volume fantasy series, is on sale at Amazon through August for only 89 cents. Why? Because I love you. Oh, and if you don’t use a Kindle, you can still get the eBook for

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Winners of the Raven's Ladder Dream-Cast Contest!

Here are the winners of the Raven's Ladder Dream-Cast Contest, based on a vote by a jury of the series' editors. The winners were selected for their creative, inspired ideas in casting movies of Auralia's Colors or Cyndere's Midnight. FIRST PLACE: Krista Bussewitz

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Easiest Contest Ever?

Just type your name and email address into the Comments at Fanstasy/SciFi Book Review, and you might win all three of my novels: Auralia's Colors, Cyndere's Midnight, and Raven's Ladder! And hey, even if you already have them... I'm told they

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Last Chance: Win all three Auralia Thread books. Cast an Auralia movie.

Just a reminder... Today's the last day for you to enter the Raven's Ladder dream-cast contest. It's easy: Just cast three actors for a movie of either Auralia's Colors or Cyndere's Midnight. I've seen some great entries, but

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The Contest Continues

Thanks to all of you who have emailed me, or contacted me on Facebook, with your entries in The Auralia Thread contest! I've read some intriguing "dream-casts" of the stories, but there's still time for you to enter and win prizes. Who would you

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Who would you cast? (Answer, and You Might Win a Prize.)

One of my favorite kinds of "wishful thinking" is to cast movies of my favorite novels. I've been "dream-casting" since I was a kid. I remember deciding that I wanted to see Ian Holm play Bilbo Baggins when I was in high school, and

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Five Auralia's Colors Confessions: "Night on the Lake"

Yikes! It's... The Top 5 Confessions about Auralia's Colors, Chapter 7 - Night on the Lake 5. Night on the lake. Those four words put me right back on the edge of Flathead Lake in Montana, where I first began sketching this story. I remember a

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Five Auralia's Colors Confessions: "Summoner and Stranger"

The adventure continues... Once in a while, chapters require several rewrites. But once in a while, they happen so easily that it's like I'm watching a movie and describing what I'm shown. This chapter was like a movie in my head. Maybe a filmmaker

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Five Auralia's Colors Confessions: "The Ale Boy"

He's small, he's quiet, and he lives with a painful mystery. Here are my Top 5 Confessions About Auralia's Colors, Chapter 5 - The Ale Boy 5. In fantasy storytelling, certain details just keep showing up. I wrote scenes for the ale boy before

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Five Auralia's Colors Confessions: "The Merchant's Daughter"

Run for your lives! It's... The Top 5 Confessions about Auralia's Colors, Chapter 4 - The Merchant's Daughter 5. I still have my collection of 1977 Star Wars action figures. But what I really wanted when I was a kid did not actually exist

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Five "Auralia's Colors" Confessions: A Basket of Blue Stones

Ready or not, it's... The Top 5 Confessions about Auralia's Colors, Chapter 3 - A Basket of Blue Stones 5. Readers meet Captain Ark-robin in this chapter. I think I'd probably cast Ray Winstone as Ark-robin. You? Ark-robin is one frustrated soldier. He really