Great Books By Great Friends

Transcendent: Tales of the Paranormal

Originally slated to include the short story version of Sing, Sweet Nightingale, this anthology of young adult paranormal stories still highlights some fantastic authors including two very good friends of mine, Lani Woodland and Heather McCubbin, and the editor who pushed me toward turning Sing into a novel, Rita J. Webb. Transcendent is currently slated to be published by Robot Playground, Inc. in Spring 2012. Check back here periodically for news, cover photos, blurbs, and information on the authors. Below you will find links to some of their sites.

Evan Joseph - Fellow debut author whose short story will be included in Transcendent

Melanie Marks - Author of several short stories and books including The Dating Deal and Fall for Me

Heather McCubbin - Fellow debut author whose short story will be included in Transcendent

Wendy Swore - Editor, farmer, mother, teacher, and author of short stories, her work is included in Unlocked and Menage a 20: Tales With a Hook

Rita J. Webb - Editor and author of the novel Tears and several short stories, her work is included in Unlocked and Menage a 20: Tales With a Hook

Lani Woodland - Author of the Yara Silva Triolgy of which two have already been released: Intrinsical and Indelible. Buy them on Amazon or from Barnes & Noble

The Yara Silva Trilogy

Currently the series includes two books, Intrinsical and Indelible, and both are awesome. As is Lani Woodland author and photographer extraordinaire and all-around incredible human being. See below for brief summaries, covers and links to purchase on Amazon. 

Intrinsical

Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly.

Indelible

Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie. But Yara soon discovers that there are more dark secrets in her school s history than just the curse she broke. While an angry ghost makes Yara question everything she thought she knew about spirits, she and Brent learn that there are long reaching consequences to last year's adventures. As new enemies emerge and old ghosts resurface, Yara finds herself in the center of another deadly mystery, and this time she has to contend with the living as well as the dead.