Give me pretty words, evocative imagery, and complex relationships. The deep, dark, desperate, poetic emotions. Love in places where morals warp, and all the phantasmagoria of magic as a stage.
I believe beauty can be found even kneeling in ashes. All we have to do is survive the scorch after the lies we tell ourselves ignite.
Also (the dark hero whispers in all our fictional dreams)even the unwanted can be loved.
So come closer. Step in.
Don’t be afraid. (The dark hero won’t let anything hurt you.)
I promise love always triumphs in the end, even… or especially… after the lies burn.
As a person, I am vehemently empathic and neurodivergent, riddled with high-functioning anxiety and OCD (and now depression, yay), and I read every night before bed. When I was twenty-two, I ran away to Prague, where I now sing to my black cat (who collects dustballs in her whiskers), eat chocolate for breakfast, and have lemon tarts every Thursday.
If you wish to enter my world, choose your poison prudently… as all poisons are meant to be chosen.
The Types of Books in My Mental Nooks (for graphics, click here):
For adult epic fantasies featuring heroines of all ages, from 13 to 46 years, with multiple POVs and love story subplots in every story line, try my Heiress of the Seven Cities series. The one in progress, about a spurned queen and her peace-loving daughter is Heiress of Secrets.
For gothic/cozy fantasy & darkish fairy tales, try my free short story Roses and Bruises and Love about a cursed girl finding a boy under her roses every day, or my whimsical and only slightly darkish novella Wishes and Whispers and Sibilant Hisses about a lonely princess whose castle is breached by a sinister stranger who offers her companionship, the gothic novella The Assassin: A Love Story about a girl who sings a dying assassin back to life in a kingdom ruled by an undying king, or try the gothic romance anthology Slightly Sweetly, Slightly Creepy. Or, for an ongoing alternately facetious, gothic, and fun fairy tale, check out the Proud Princess tale I add onto in my blog every few weeks or so).
For an alternately beautiful, alternatetly dirty, smutty orc-princess-elf romance, try The Wicked Orc.
For dark fantasy where no love interest is safe, try my Ever Spirits series.
For something utterly lighthearted, try Never Trust a Prince, where two ex-princesses get into shenanigans with dragons and trolls and love.
I once wrote some NA Dystopians that are currently unpublished but might fly to life again (my Wingscape series).
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Sonya Lano 