WISHFUL THINKING

One of my heroines in Shahnoi, Adelia a.k.a Ade, is a different kinda heroine. She's completely sweet and harmless (unlike Ani...and very unlike any other kickass heroines I write) and also a little of a sad character. She's lost a lot in her life. So this is her entry scene in Shahnoi..... Our town was literally the end. Our town is on a flat topped mountain with only death on all sides. Valleys with jagged rocks and impenetrable forests and frozen rivers. Caves with stalactites and pockets of toxic air. Jungles full of strange and vicious traps. Our supplies are brought in by a massive system of pulleys and baskets-on-ropes that was filled by the other towns at the more habitable side of the valley. If you wanted to get out, you had to first learn how to survive in the jungles. My best friend Ely often remarked that prisoners should be sent to Shahnoi, because they would never escape. That’s Shahnoi- no way out and no way in. Unless you were a carnie. The carnival came to ...

So I couldn't help myself and wrote just a bit of Shahnoi even though I was supposed to be devoting myself to finishing Shaded Grey! It's all you guys and the support you give! Shaded Grey has now crossed 50 followers! To celebrate, I will be announcing my plans for a new kinda award soon... For now, this is the new book I'm planning on writing. I'm repeating the little blurb I gave that day- just so anyone who missed it can catch up-  Ru Rennan came to the Shahnoi Valley with the carnival that only comes once in every twenty years. He has no past, no present and no foreseeable future. He is a young man with only his name for comfort, and a way of arresting everyone who speaks to him. He is the carnival’s freak- predicting easily what’s in everyone’s pockets, reading minds, reading feelings. He is the only one who stayed behind as the town’s newest permanent resident in one hundred years. He is the only one who knows that the ghost who haunts Shahnoi, the Dark Nevvie...

The purpose of this artwork is double! One is participating in a competition for amateur art designers by a new and upcoming digital art magazine. The theme of it is Digital Haunting, and I thought I would do something like this! Truth be told, it’s a little inspired by the cover of Anna Dressed in Blood, but of course, it’s a different picture altogether, and I did spend a considerable amount of time cutting the house and the model from their backgrounds! Again, I may use this for my new story in progress (mind-progress, I’m writing Shaded by hand and also typing it) which I will call- for now- “ SHAHNOI” after the town in the story. It’s a paranormal fiction , but I’ve steered far from vampires, demons, angels and werewolves. SHAHNOI description: Ru Rennan came to the Shahnoi Valley with the carnival that only comes once in every twenty years. He has no past, no present and no foreseeable future. He is a young man with only his name for comfort, and a way of arresting everyo...