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I have to do this now before I wimp out completely. You have no idea how absolutely terrified and thrilled I am about this.

'Children of the Dragon', my very first novel, is now available for sale on-line in both hard copy and e-book format.

This story follows Kinrou as he goes from being a ShadowHawk Bandit to a Dragon Warrior, earning the friendship and trust of the other Dragon Warriors. It also contains the material I used for the webcomic 'Children of the Tiger', so if you want to know how that story ends but don't want to wait for me to finish the comic, this is something you will want to check out!

Currently, it is available in the following places:

Smashwords.com (ebook) - www.smashwords.com/books/view/…
     Cost: $2
     Word count (story): 105,150

Lulu.com (paperback) - www.lulu.com/shop/melissa-ston…
     Cost: $13
     Length: 238 pages

Amazon.com (ebook) - www.amazon.com/Children-Dragon…
     Cost: $2

So go have look. I really hope you find it interesting. I'm working on other books in this series (Children of the Wolf and Children of the Fox [next book in the series and picks up where this one leaves off]) as well as getting 'Path of the Warrior' up as well.

I'm really, really excited about this! I'm going to order myself a copy of this book to put on my shelf even if no one else does because this is just so exciting!

Incidentally, if anyone (for some reason) wants to buy a hard copy with an author signature in it, let me know. I can order one to my house, sign it, and mail it to you for only a little more than it costs already. I'd have to ship it twice after all (once to me and then again to you). I'm only bringing this up because a couple of my friends have already been asking about this. I thought I'd open it up to everyone if you want it.

Tell me you bought a copy of this book in any format and I will make a drawing for you in appreciation for your awesomeness. (note: this sin't a bribe, its a thank you)


I'm starting to ramble now, so I'm going to go and delete the old version of this novel from the internet. Thank you for reading and for all the wishes of luck. I really appreciate it.

I hit a point last night in writing with 'Stars of Destiny' where I suddenly need background characters. For the most part, it's just been my main characters running around with minimal interactions with other people, usually their family members. I need filler characters. Great. I had two solutions to this problem. I could either make up a whole bunch of new characters with minimal information (which would take days to do right) or I could take all of these unused fan characters that I have just gathering dust and repurpose them for this story. Since its pretty much set on Earth, that's not a problem. This would take significantly less time, though some of them need to be renamed and have their colours tweaked slightly.

So starting in Chapter 09 you'll start seeing these characters. I've taken the following people and put them in (in no particular order):

Sailorma'at/Saiaino Kougi (renamed to Lapis Minyawi)
Most of my characters from Sailormoon Elysium RPG (Achlys Corby, Keagan O'Donnell/KnightTannus, Starbuck Birchwood/KnightGeb, Amagumo Hayate/BushiSusano-o)
Nimue Mochrie/Sailorblodeuwedd, Badb Munroe/Sailormorrigan, and Niamh Eairrdsidh/Sailorarianrhod
Levina Procella/Sailorbaraquiel
Galia Ivanova (the first Sailoreris I ever designed but scrapped in favor of the current one)

There are others as well, but these are the major ones. You may run into one or two of the Olympiads from time to time (and one has shown up I just haven't posted that chapter yet) and other senshi characters will feature prominently in the story, but to tell you who and when will kind of give away the roles they'll play.

I'm really excited by this. I felt really sad when I stopped writing fanfic as I had all these great characters that would just go to waste now, but they have a new home and that makes me super happy.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to make an account just for my writing. So, as such, anything I'm posting that's written will be up here first, before my other accounts (purenightshade and cot-comic).

So what will I be posting here? Pretty much everything I write is fantasy, so if that's not your thing, this probably isn't the place for you.

Soul of the Sword
This story follows the adventures of a girl named Nalai. Through a random incident, she comes to learn more about who she is and what the world of her ancestors was like.

An'katerr/Children of the Tiger
I run a webcomic that has a mirror account here at cot-comic. Works posted in this folder are based around the characters seen in that comic. These will include drabbles, Children of the Dragon, Children of the Wolf (a NaNoWriMo project), and The Sages of An'katerr (a NaNoWriMo project).

Keverynn
It's not likely I'll post much set in this world as the majority of what I've written in it is in the process of being prepped for publishing, but I do have some things I can share from it such as:
Fallen From Grace (unfinished NaNoWriMo novel)
Aielianna's Tale
Exile's Song

Angels of the Night</b>
The first book of this story has been finished, so I'll be posting it. It's not in a 100% polished, publishable state yet so its safe to do that still.

Stars of Destiny</b>
This is a magical girl/team series I've been working on for a while now.

Fanfiction</b>
I used to write a lot of fanfic, but none of it has really been posted outside of my website. I might try posting some here to see what people think.

Chaos Cycle Trilogy</b>
This was another NaNoWriMo project that I abandoned because I got a few chapters in and realized it needed to be reworked. Badly. I've gotten a lot of that reworking done now and am finally making some progress with this. This project is unique in that it's completely plotted out. i know what's going to happen I just have to write it.