Book Two Exclusive Preview & Giveaway

When a mysterious curse threatens to transform everyone into shadowy demons, a magical eleven year-old girl must travel to a sunken city ruin—fighting pirates, monsters, and an undead sorcerer along the way—to find a weapon that can save her world.

The following excerpt is from the second book in the Ennara series, to be released in early 2014.

Exclusive Excerpt from Ennara and the Writ of Shadows

A soft rap sounded at the classroom door, interrupting Mr. Tyilasun’s lecture on the origin of the races of Lan. He sighed, lifting the chalk mid-line between a line of trolls and a mountainous tribe of humans on the largest continent, in the pre-comet world.

         Tyilasun opened the door and murmured something. A familiar voice responded. He turned back tot he class. “Ennara, someone is here for you.”

         Ennara gathered her books and looked at Cinna. Her best friend raised a thin brown eyebrow. Ennara shrugged.

         She stepped out of the classroom to find Kithe, out of breath, in the hallway. He wore his fencing jacket and trousers, his cheeks red from exercise. “What are you doing here?”

         “Gevin’s here.” He beamed.

         “Gevin?” She’d last seen him three months ago, during her and Kithe’s summer break in Hogin. He’d been stationed in Dordonne a short time for training.

         “He’s on shoreleave. He sent a message up to the house. Tork’s given us permission to leave class to get him.” Kithe started to walk down the hall. “I’m getting changed. Meet me out front?”

         “Okay.” Ennara grinned. Gevin had never seen Icelan before. She couldn’t wait to show him around. She ran to her locker to get her book bag and jacket.

Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara, the upcoming paranormal mystery A Hair of the Dog that Bit Her, and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

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Mythic Structure & Giveaway

When a mysterious curse threatens to transform everyone into shadowy demons, a magical eleven year-old girl must travel to a sunken city ruin—fighting pirates, monsters, and an undead sorcerer along the way—to find a weapon that can save her world.

Exploring the Hero's Journey

Ever wonder why it is that some stories just resonate with you, as though the hero, in undertaking his journey, has guided you through your own darkest moments? Many of us feel the same way, which is why the most popular books and films are just that: they have identified with a deeper language of symbolism that most of us can interpret and take meaning from.

       In the late 1940s, late author and mythologist Joseph Campbell studied world myths surrounding heroes. His work studying myth influenced the early work of many Hollywood storytellers, including George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Campbell’s defining work, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, was eventually retold in 1998 with  Christopher Vogler’s plotting structure referred to as Mythic Structure. Using the studies of myth and archetype by Carl Jung, Vogler sought to define what it is within the traditional myths that resonate within us and keep a story relevant despite being decades, centuries, or even millennia, old.

       Since then, mythic structure has been used for many novels and movies, one of which is my debut novel, Ennara and the Fallen Druid. The structure follows a basic three-part act with twelve steps interspersed throughout:

1. Heroes are introduced in the ORDINARY WORLD
2. they receive the CALL TO ADVENTURE
3. They are RELUCTANT at first or REFUSE THE CALL, but
4. are encouraged by a MENTOR to
5. CROSS THE THRESHOLD and enter the Special World, where
6. they encounter TESTS, ALLIES, AND ENEMIES.
7. They APPROACH THE IN-MOST CAVE, cross a second threshold
8. where they endure the ORDEAL
9. They take possession of their REWARD and
10. are pursued on THE ROAD BACK to the Ordinary World.
11. They cross the third threshold, experience a RESURRECTION, and are transformed by the experience.
12. They RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR, a boon or treasure to benefit the ORDINARY WORLD.

       Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces and Vogler’s Mythic Structure have influenced movies ranging from Star Wars to Titanic. Can you find stages of the hero’s journey in your favorite book or film?

Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara, the upcoming paranormal mystery A Hair of the Dog that Bit Her, and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

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A Real-World Magical Child & Giveaway

When a mysterious curse threatens to transform everyone into shadowy demons, a magical eleven year-old girl must travel to a sunken city ruin—fighting pirates, monsters, and an undead sorcerer along the way—to find a weapon that can save her world.

Finding a Real-World Magical Child

The premise for my main character's magical powers in Ennara and the Fallen Druid is based on the real-world folklore of the caul child. Caul children are born with a mask—a thin membrane covering their face. In birth, the membrane is simply lifted off the face and the child bears no differences from any other.

          European folklore held the birth of a caul child as an auspicious event. The child was said to be destined for greatness and could have psychic abilities. The birth was said to ward a village from witches and sorcerers, and protect the upcoming harvest. And the membrane itself was believed to protect against drowning—caul membranes were preserved and crafted into talismans, and sold for high sums to sailors.

          Caul Children have been immortalized by many famous authors: the Grimm Brothers, Charles Dickens, Stephen King (the famous 5 year-old son of the main character in The Shining was born with a caul and had precognitive abilities), Dean Koontz, and Orson Scott Card have all written characters who lived under the myths of cauldom.

          Take, as an example, this excerpt from Charles Dickens's David Copperfield:

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain. Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss ... and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings. I was present myself, and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself being disposed of in that way. The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket.... It is a fact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety-two.

          In Ennara and the Fallen Druid, I took the legend of the caul stretched the mythology for Ennara, giving her unprecedented magical ability, lending the membrane’s protection at sea to the girl herself,  and giving her limited psychic abilities and a great destiny. Placing her in a world covered by oceans and ordered with strict regulations of magical use brought conflict into her character that lent to a wonderful adventure. Stick around to read more exclusive excerpts from Ennara and the Fallen Druid!

Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara, the upcoming paranormal mystery A Hair of the Dog that Bit Her, and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

Learn about Angela Myron's stories at:

www.angelamyron.com | Facebook/AngelaMyron | Twitter @AngelaMyron | Goodreads/AngelaMyron

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Smoos the Aquatic Cat & Giveaway

On the Back Cover

Eleven year-old Ennara Gaern has a serious grudge against the dragon on her right hand.

Born with a mask that foretold her magical powers, she was marked at birth with the fiery tattoo that forced her to study the boring texts on magic, cover her arm for fear of being kidnapped, and worst of all, kept her from visiting the beautiful city of Dordonne. But her quiet life changes when one night she is attacked by a shadowy demon.

Tork, an old friend and wizard, is enlisted to help but he informs Frigg’s parents that she is her world’s only hope of finding the legendary Sword of Gisilifrid, which is needed to destroy the curse that is creating the demons.  

Frigg and Tork begin a perilous journey to the Sunken City, pitting them against dangerous oceans and pirates intent on claiming Frigg’s magic as their own. With only her friends at her side, including the intelligent, aquatic cat Smoos, Frigg must defeat monsters guarding the sword and servants of the Fallen Druid. When her world is covered in darkness, will she know how to dispel the curse?

Excerpt

“Is it true she is….” Gevin blushed. “I mean, you are… magic?”

Ennara fumbled the wand as she turned it in her fingers. She scooped it off the floor. Her stomach knotted and her cheeks burned. “Oh, um, I guess.”

She nervously twirled the wand again, this time accidentally tapping the case of trinkets. A lavender light shimmered across the panes, and behind them the objects began to twitch.

“Eeep!” Ennara jumped as the severed hand crawled toward her and tapped on the glass. A long finger uncurled and poked the case open. The appendage leapt from the shelf to the chest, then the floor, and scurried to the door.

Smoos crouched on the lower bunk, wiggled her haunches, and pounced on the hand. She shook it back and forth in the air. It grabbed the cat’s snout and flicked her hard on the nose. She dropped the hand and snorted, rubbing her muzzle with her paw. The hand scampered away and hid behind the girl’s legs.

“You seem to have a penchant for necromancy, young lady.” Tork flicked his curvy black wand at the case. “Merta perape.”

The hand and other charms returned to their lifeless state.

Early on while drafting Ennara and the Fallen Druid I started looking at online catalogs of monsters from Dungeons and Dragons that might fit with the environments where most of the story took place: namely, the ocean. I compiled a long list of strange creatures in my notes, and happened upon the marine cat.

In D&D lore, marine cats are slightly larger than a housecat and behave in every way similar to your average feline. They protect a ship by sounding the alarm when intruders come aboard. They breathe water and can magically pass through locked cabins. I kept the cat in my notes and as I wrote, I wondered how she might fit in to the story.

Ennara and her friends secured a voyage to the Sunken City with Captain Anaru, a merchant shipper who was an avid collector of magical trinkets for safe voyages. In the world of Lan, the seas were especially dangerous. The world was made up of islands and oceans with huge tidal waves and storms.  A rare species of marine cat seemed like an ideal pet for Anaru. She could protect the ship and his merchandise.

As I wrote more scenes with Smoos, it became apparent how active and important she was to the story. Smoos transformed from the lucky cat described by Dungeons and Dragons. She became an equal member of the team, yet kept her cat-like individuality. Highly intelligent, she understood every situation Ennara found herself in, and in some cases had her own ideas about how they should be remedied. Extremely loyal, she saved the group more than once.

Smoos became larger, too. From being slightly larger than a housecat, she grew to the size of a full-grown lion. She looked less like a kitty and more like a panther. She gained powerful muscles and sharp claws with which she could fight and pull large objects.

As a marine cat, she also gained a couple traits that distinguished her further from regular cats. She became able to speak with marine mammals, using that ability to convince porpoises to help the stranded group on the shores of Creagh Island. Her long tail grew thick and her paws webbed, helping her to swim powerfully and quickly. With her ability to breathe under water, she was no longer a simple cat with a luck charm.

Soon after being introduced to the story, Smoos quickly became a critical ally. She brought strength, wit, comfort, and comedy to many scenes. Smoos started out as one of Anaru’s many luck charms and ended up a major character of the novel. And isn’t that just like a cat?

Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara, the upcoming paranormal mystery A Hair of the Dog that Bit Her, and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

Learn about Angela Myron's stories at:

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Want more? Buy the e-book or paperback of Ennara and the Fallen Druid now!

              

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Ennara and the Fallen Druid Exclusive Excerpt #3

For Goddess Fish Readers only, here’s another never-before seen excerpt of Ennara and the Fallen Druid.  In this scene, we get a glimpse of Ennara’s caul abilities to protect the ship on dangerous seas.

Ennara had never sat for mind training with Tork. She fidgeted on the pillow. She didn’t expect to feel nervous when it came to practicing with the wizard. She tried to calm herself by concentrating on her surroundings.

“This is the Druidic way of Nature Talking. It can be used to speak to wind, water, earth, vegetation, even celestial bodies. First, focus on your breath to clear away distractions.”

He closed his eyes first. The girl did the same and felt her breath rising and falling like the waves. She relaxed into the sensation of inhaling as the ship rose on a crest, exhaling as the ship fell in a trough. The wizard’s voice continued in the background. He told her to imagine the ocean and feel the swell, currents, even the individual droplets of water surrounding the boat. His voice faded as she continued feeling her surroundings through her breathing. Rising, falling. Rising, falling. Her mind was filled with the ocean; the ocean was her mind.

Somewhere in the depths below, an octopus released a plume of ink. The stain spread, darkening her vision. She remembered their flight to Dordonne and the shadowy realm they had entered for safety through the night. The terrifying inky darkness surrounded her. The shadespawn approached, its ember eyes searching, searching, until it would find a human heart.

Ennara struggled against the memory, her chest tightened. The carrack heaved and swayed. She heard distant shouts above deck. The crew ran to and fro.

“What’s happening?” Kithe said.

“Rogue wave,” Tork said, “Ennara, concentrate on the water and steady your breath.”

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Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

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A Word About Cauls

The Stand in the Darkness by Danil Shunkov.
Copyright 2013 Stardance Publishing. All rights reserved.

The premise for Ennara’s magical powers—what makes her special in her world—is based on real-world folklore. Ennara is a caul child. Caul children are born with a mask—a thin membrane covering their face. In birth, the membrane is simply lifted off the face and the child bears no differences from any other.

                European folklore held the birth of a caul child as an auspicious event. The child was said to be destined for greatness and could have psychic abilities. The birth was said to ward a village from witches and sorcerers, and protect the upcoming harvest. And the membrane itself was believed to protect against drowning—caul membranes were preserved and crafted into talismans, and sold for high sums to sailors.

                I took the legend of the caul one step further for Ennara’s story, giving her unprecedented magical ability, lending the membrane’s protection at sea to the girl herself, in addition to giving her limited psychic abilities and a great destiny. Placing her in a world covered by oceans and ordered with strict regulations of magical use brought conflict into her character that lent to a wonderful journey. Stick around to read more exclusive excerpts from Ennara and the Fallen Druid!

Love the cover art? Get your own print, t-shirt, or coffee mug featuring Danil Shunkov's painting The Stand in the Darkness at Ennara Swag.

Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

Learn about Angela Myron's stories at:

www.angelamyron.com

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Ennara and the Fallen Druid Exclusive Excerpt #2

For Goddess Fish Readers only, here’s another never-before seen excerpt of Ennara and the Fallen Druid. In this short scene, I mention the race known as goblins and how they’ve affected the personal history of one of my main characters, Gevin Zoric.

“How old are you, Gevin?”

“Thirteen, sir.”

“A little young to be working on a trade vessel?”

“Too young to enlist in the Royal Navy, too old for the orphanage, sir. An apprenticeship is all I can do at the moment.” The boy looked down. “While I am at it, I may as well see a bit of the world.”

“I see. Where are you from?”

Gevin straightened, pushing his chest out slightly. “The Ataraxian Archipelago, sir. But I’ve been on the Cissonius three years, sir.”

Tork studied his face. “The Ataraxian Archipelago. Beautiful islands.”

“Yes, sir.” Gevin arranged the tea, food, and plates on the table.

“It is a shame what happened to the island nation of Dagny. Invasion by goblins….” The wizard shook his head and gazed quietly at the boy.

The boy’s face fell.

“Well, there’s no need dwelling on the past.” Tork stood and brushed off a sleeve.

“I’ll go back.” A look of steely determination settled in Gevin’s eyes.

“What?”

“Someday, I’ll go back and claim what is rightfully mine. And then my people can return.”

The wizard smirked. “You’re the son of Sava Zoric, aren’t you? I’d recognize that red hair anywhere.”

The boy blushed and nodded.

“Doubtless you will do precisely that. Your land, and your chieftainship, will be there when you are ready to fight for it.”

***

Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

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What If Sea Levels Rose 1600 Feet? Building Ennara's World

Good morning, fellow Goddess Fish partyers! I’m here to introduce my debut novel, Ennara and the Fallen Druid, and to talk about what inspired me to write about Ennara and her world. I am enjoying spending the day with you and reading about all of the touring authors’ books!

What would our world look like if all of the ice in the polar caps melted?

This is the question I pondered as I started building the world of Lan. I turned to that great resource that so many authors use, the internet, to see what map projections looked like. To be sure, predictions of sixty-meter rises of sea levels looked devastating. But then I found a site that went far beyond what Earth would look like if its polar caps melted—it showed what the world would look like with a 500 meter (1640-foot) rise in sea level. Now that changed the world completely.

Take a look at my map of Estlan, then hop over to the flood map site. The page will read “Status:  This is what the world would look like if sea level rose _500_  meters”. Scroll out. Look familiar?

The world of Lan is set far in humanity’s future, so far, in fact, that our current cultures and histories are lost to the sands of time. In a scientifically and water-parched near future, the people of Earth harness a comet to extract freshwater and minerals. Then the worst that could happen does: the comet breaks apart and slams into the planet, flooding all but Earth’s mountain ranges and high plateaus and leaving the few humans left struggling to survive, protect what little land remains, and rebuild.

In the time of Ennara, this is all long ago. (But yet to be written, after the Ennara series is complete!) The world of Lan is named after its most precious commodity: land. Here, some humans have rebuilt to a pseudo-medieval society. They’ve managed to keep some knowledge of technologies beyond the historical medieval world, but have lost much of it due to a simple lack of resources for practicing science and advanced technology. During this rebuilding, others have gone deeper into the wild, changing themselves in the process. Please check back later for more about the races of Lan.

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Angela Myron is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Ennara and a stack of technical manuals on everything from nonlinear editing to data encryption. She lives in Whittier, California, with her husband and their twins.

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Ennara and the Fallen Druid Exclusive Excerpt

Good morning, and welcome to the Goddess Fish June author's party!  It is a pleasure to be here with you all today. For Goddess Fish Readers only, here’s a never-before seen excerpt of Ennara and the Fallen Druid by Angela Myron.

Ennara and the Fallen Druid is a middle-grade fantasy story soon to be published this June by Stardance Publishing. The first in the Ennara series, this story follows eleven-year old Ennara Gaern as she is thrust into a world of magic, monsters, and curses, and must find a way to save her world.

On the Back Cover:

Eleven year-old Ennara Gaern has a serious grudge against the dragon on her right hand.

Born with a caul—a mask that foretold magical powers—she was marked at birth with the fiery tattoo that forced her to study the boring texts on magic, cover her arm for fear of being kidnapped, and worst of all, kept her from visiting the beautiful city of Dordonne. But her quiet life changes when one night she is attacked by a shadowy demon.

Tork, an old friend and wizard, is enlisted to help but he informs Frigg’s parents that she is her world’s only hope of finding the legendary Sword of Gisilifrid, which is needed to destroy the curse that is creating the demons. Frigg doesn’t want to leave on a dangerous quest, but when she learns the curse threatens her world, she reluctantly agrees to go. 

Frigg and Tork begin a perilous journey to the Sunken City, pitting them against dangerous oceans and pirates intent on claiming Frigg’s magic as their own. With only her friends at her side, including the intelligent, aquatic cat Smoos, Frigg must defeat monsters guarding the sword and servants of the Fallen Druid. When her world is covered in darkness, will she know how to dispel the curse?

Chapter One
The Mask and the Dragon

“Misty?”

A twig snapped. A damp chill surrounded Ennara, picking up goose bumps on her arms. The girl hugged herself and stomped her feet to fend off the cold. Why couldn’t the cow make things easy for her tonight?

She took a tentative step between two wild rosebushes. The sun slowly sank toward the distant hills across Lake Coeur. If she hadn’t stayed so late fishing at the docks with Kithe, she’d be home by now, cow tucked safely in the well-lit barn.

Ennara glanced around the gloomy forest. Long shadows stretched across the pasture between her and the farmhouse. She shivered. Her father, Lir, had warned her to bring Misty back before sunset. She wasn’t afraid of the dark, but she didn’t want to meet one of the monsters stalking around at night that Kithe told her about.

She heard the familiar clang of the cow’s bell and called again, stepping near the sound. Trees blocked her view. She peered between them, trying to catch a glimpse of the exasperating bovine.

The life-filled woods departed as the last rays of light slipped behind the hills, leaving a hollow version of its higher self. The girl shivered a second time and rubbed her arms.

The bell sounded once more. Ennara jumped and spun around. She ran a few steps in the direction of the sound, further into the trees.

Through the approaching dusk, she caught a glimpse of metal. There it was—the cow’s bell and collar hung on the limb of a young cottonwood. How had Misty managed to get it off? Confused, the girl stepped toward the bell.

Behind her, a twig snapped. She froze. She turned to see a tall shadow flitting among the trees. Her heart fluttered as she backed away.

“M … misty?” she whispered.

A hiss and knocking replied. Was that a raven? No, the sound wasn’t quite right.

She tripped on a branch and landed on something soft and wet. Ugh! It was just her luck to land in mud. She lifted her hand in the lingering daylight to see it dripping with a murky liquid. Her stomach knotted. What was it? Too runny to be mud. She grabbed for the offending stick and felt … fur.

She stifled a scream and scrambled to her feet. A whimper escaped her lips.

Ennara squinted at the lumps on the ground. Was that a branch or a leg? Was that a boulder or the body of … a cow?

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