BLOODED: Lisen of Solsta Book 3

5.0 out of 5 stars An Exciting Finale, January 23, 2015 By  Amazon Customer - See all my reviews Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Blooded (Lisen of Solsta Book 3) (Kindle Edition) The first thing I must say is that this book is a huge emotional roller-coaster. Sometimes I wanted to throw my phone, other times I had to stay up all night to read as much as I could. In the previous books Lisen is stolen from Earth and has to struggle through a plethora of challenges until she is finally able take on her brother, who is the evil king of this new world, Garla. During her adventures she gives birth to a baby without her knowledge. Korin, the romantic interest from book one steals away the baby, keeping it secret because he doesn't agree with how Lisen won her throne from her brother. This is where Blooded begins. Lisen is queen, Korin is hiding her baby and not everyone is happy with the change in power. Lisen has to master the political landscape of Garla, and she's doing a great job of it until an old enemy and a new one combine forces to take her out! Lisen is forced to embrace her psychic gift, which is not looked on fondly, in order to save her own life, but in saving herself she dooms her world to civil war. She's on one side, and Korin and her secret baby is on the other side. And both sides have only months to raise their armies, turning farmers into soldiers. It's an exciting book to be sure!

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FATAL IN PROGRESS

Writing a screenplay isn't hard...Just time consuming.  After a year I'm still in the process of turning my first book into a movie because I'm so swamped. Between working full time, being a mom, wife and writing the final Paranormal Washington Book, Toxic Bliss AND fixing up our house for a summer sale, I just don't have time to finish Fatal Retribution's screenplay, titled simply FATAL. But it will happen. Will some lucky producer make Fatal a reality? That's the dream...and here's my dream cast:

Raina

Nick (Nil)

Damon

Alistair

Alistair is actually the hardest character to cast. There are so many great British actors...I'm never completely settled on one...

Katie

Michael

Seth

Tristan

Anna

Mato

 Well...a girl can dream, can't she?

And here are some places in the Paranormal Washington series:

IT'S 2015....yay -_-

It's 2015, and that means it's promise time. Time for us all to make new years resolutions. Last year mine was to work out more...I still do, but I haven't lost much weight. Then again, I haven't gained weight either, so that's a plus. This year my goal is to sell my small house in favor for something a tad bigger.

At the moment we're dwelling in a humble 2 bed, 1 bathroom cottage on a fair size of land in a quiet neighborhood in Everett. The cottage was a nice starter home, but we're getting to that point in life where we need more room for our family.

We have a lot of work ahead of us to get our house worthy of a sale; new paint, new carpet, extensive landscaping, re-graveling the driveway and walk ways, fix the heating and the electrical, clean out all the clutter and perhaps lay some new flooring in the kitchen, replace the dish washer, kitchen facet and some of the cabinets...It certainly is a long road ahead, but I've promised myself we'd be out of this house before 2016, and by golly, I'm going to keep that promise...

That being said, my writing is suffering because my mind is distracted. A house divided and all that mess...I'm on chapter 8 in Toxic Bliss, the last Paranormal Washington book in the series...have been for the past month. I can't think about writing when my brain is weighed down by the seemingly endless projects ahead of me... 

BACK IN BLACK....AND RED

Okay, so just before I published Deadly Encounters, I changed all of the book covers because I didn't think my drawings were good enough...Books sales dropped dramatically after this. 

I wrote it off as seasonal budget stress, but recently changed Fatal Retribution's cover back to the drawing, just out of curiosity and the sales climbed back up again...so the drawings are back! Including a new Deadly Encounters cover, all in Red and Black.

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AN OLD QUERY LETTER

Digging through some old files on my USB, I found this old Query letter I sent out near 5 years ago. Back then Fatal Retribution was Into Darkness and Mortal Sentry was, The Hunted...I kind of still like the old titles and the old description...

Date: 1.21.2010
PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc
kelly@pmalitfirm.com
Dear Kelly Skillen,

In a world of gods and monsters a young witch will give up everything to bring a man once blessed by the god Apollo to justice…her brand of justice.
Raina’s life has never been easy, being a bastard and a mixed breed always makes things harder. But when a man starts selling a deadly disease on the street as a cure-all her life takes a turn in a dark direction. The disease this man is selling is highly contagious. It will cure you. Yes . But it will also kill you.

Raina finds herself and her brothers at the mercy of the disease, but strangely it only kills them. Her beloved brothers’ lives lay in ruin amongst those of countless others, and she can no longer trust Seattle PD to bring the man responsible to justice.

In the end it’s up to Raina and those who would fight at her side to slay an immortal of ancient legend gone mad. She can not save those he’s wronged, but she can avenge them, she can stop him. Even if doing so changes her forever. Her family will forsake her, strangers will praise her, and ruthless men will take her in as a kindred spirit.

If you are seeking dark paranormal fantasy look no further. Considering all that I’ve read of you and your agency, I believe you are exactly the agent I want to have representing me in selling my first novel, INTO DARKNESS. The novel is complete at 130,000 words and I am interested in your evaluation of its commercial potential and any constructive criticisms you might offer.

Into Darkness is the first book in a series, I’m half way through the second novel, working title, THE HUNTED, and I have story ideas for at least three more books. I can email the completed manuscript or a portion of it at your request.

Thank you for your precious time and your consideration. I eagerly await your response.

Kind Regards,
Diana Graves

  

Fatal Retribution's first cover.