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The Proud Princess and the Bargain

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

Continuing the fairy tale I wrote in Czech and am translating into English for fun. If you want to start from the beginning, all the previous parts are here: The Proud Princess and the Masked Mage. Otherwise maybe you can…

Tagged with: fantasy, mental illness, real world, The Proud Princess, writing
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While I’m in a Good Mood…

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

I’m actually not in a good mood, just FAKING IT TILL I MAKE IT, y’all! So! Allow me to share stuff that makes me smile (or at least not barf): When I’m in a good mood, I love to mock…

Tagged with: author, books, characters, fantasy, Heiress of Magic, Heiress of Secrets, love, real world, romance, writing
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Mercy, That Filthy Orc Caged Me!

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

So! My foray into writing poetic filth is free for another few days (till Friday, March 8th), and NO, that alliteration was not intentional. Which means if you’re into things like my attempts to write pretty prose about a sexy,…

Tagged with: characters, fantasy, love, The Wicked Orc, writing
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Let’s Try a Happy Post This Week

Posted on February 22, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

Here’s something so freaking stupid I did yesterday instead of working and now I’m like WHAT WAS I THINKING (maybe you can guess): Here is an article that spoke to me and is something I’ve been trying to express to…

Tagged with: author, fantasy, real world, writing
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Am I in a Freaking Book?

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

I feel like I stepped into the bad plot of a book. Here is what 2023 did to me before it ended: Less than a week before Christmas, my job told me they were firing me, intending to end my…

Tagged with: fantasy, Heiress of Magic, Heiress of Secrets, real world, writing
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“Kneel.”

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

They never come to kill me, no matter how potently they yearn to. The assassin kneeling behind me reeks of it: the craving to end me. He clamps the fury inside his fists; the animosity burns beneath his shadowed hood,…

Tagged with: characters, fantasy, fiction, Heiress of Secrets, writing
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Then Keep Me (reposted)

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

He arrived in the middle of the night, banging on their door in the midst of a raging storm. Windy gusts lashed the windows, tree branches scraping the panes. It brought her and her parents barefoot down the creaking stairs,…

Tagged with: books, fantasy, life, Prague, real world, Then Keep Me, writing
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In the Lush Decay of Her Bedchamber

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

WHY AM I LIKE THIS? I sent a newsletter about a Thing, and let’s now play SPOT THE TYPO! PROOF that I ‘beed’ a break for sure. And I sent like fifty million test emails to myself and STILL didn’t…

Tagged with: fantasy, love, Wishes and Whispers and Sibilant Hisses, writing
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Trapped in the Goblin Realm…

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

NOTE: AI images were used in this blog post, but I no longer support the use of AI, nor do I use it, because I don’t like the extractive direction big corporations are taking it and how they are trying…

Tagged with: cats, characters, fantasy, love, writing
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He lounges in the shadows…

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

He lounges in the shadows that embrace him, his long legs clad in leather and stretched out across the rock floor. Crossed at the ankles, his boots flicker faintly from moonlight leaking in and reflecting off the crystals in the…

Tagged with: fantasy, love, writing
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