You know who grabbed control of the newsletter today. 😉 Hey, Thank you for the prayers and well wishes. Melinda’s father is home from the hospital, and he’s recovering. In other news, Stars & Angels Sing published 4 days ago! You can still get the Kickstarter versions from our store. The 2023 expanded edition includes stories and poems featuring Sarn and his family in their humorous quest to survive the events of Thanksgiving Day, and the book is 30% longer than the original version, including holiday stories that were written later but are part of the overall holiday storyline.  The … Continue reading May Angels Lead You In – A Chatty Tribute Hijacked by Fictional Characters

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode, Celine Jeanjean is joining me to talk about her book, Once Upon Thyme. What’s it about? What’s in this episode: Where to get the book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/celinejeanjean/old-once-upon-thyme-a-quirky-twist-on-a-fairytale-retelling?ref=66xsx6 Where to find … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: Once Upon Thyme

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode of Fantasy, Lore, & More, Glen Dahlgren is joining me to talk about his newly completed series, The Chronicles of Chaos, including the The Game of War, The Child … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: The Chronicles of Chaos

Hey! I need your help again. Would you cast your vote and help us break the deadlock? Certain characters have raised some interesting points and now the cast is quarrelling again. What are we arguing about now? Do you want the Rogue Gods Trilogy as separate books or as one omnibus? We’ve never put out a trilogy all at once because we don’t usually get our act together far enough in advance to do that. But Melinda has become really good at motivating us to show up and see a story arc through to the end or else. What does … Continue reading Three books or one omnibus? How do you like your trilogies?

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode, Kimberly Grymes is joining me to talk about her book, Shade of Light. What’s it about? What’s in this episode: Where to get the book: https://amzn.to/3ILycvn Where to find our guest: About your host, Melinda Kucsera: I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author who wrote and published 20+ books since 2016 across 6 series. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it. My books are full of magic … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: Shade of Light

Hey This week, I need to start with a poll because the cast is arguing about something and we need your opinions! Then I’ll tell you a secret. But first our the poll. Some characters have strong opinions about what format to put the Rogue Gods Trilogy in. And we’ve reached the point where we have to make decisions about that because the different formats need different formatting. But we can’t format them if we don’t know what formats to format for. Okay, I’ll stop. I was having a little too much fun with words. Last week, at the end … Continue reading The battle of the books begins here

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode, Hannah Steenbock is joining me to talk about her book, Sky Falls. What’s it about? What’s in this episode: Where to get the book: https://books2read.com/SkyPillarsEmpire Where to find our guest: About your host, Melinda Kucsera: I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author who wrote and published 20+ books since 2016 across 6 series. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it. My books are full of magic and … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: Sky Falls

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode, Kristin Ward is joining me to talk about her book, Dark is the Wood. What’s it about? What’s in this episode: Where to get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C97KF2QJ Where to find our guest: About your host, Melinda Kucsera: I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author who wrote and published 20+ books since 2016 across 6 series. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it. My books are full of … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: Dark is the Wood

Hey, Last week was an emotional rollercoaster! Let me take you behind the scenes and tell you want happened. But first, this is Ran, Sarn’s son from the Curse Breaker series. We’re one month into the new year, and already my brilliant plan that I talked about in other newsletters backfired pretty spectacularly. What was that plan? As you probably know by now, I only exist when you read my stories. That’s the harsh reality of being a fictional character and why this newsletter is kind of fictional but not. I’ll get to that in a bit. You might also … Continue reading Well, that backfired pretty spectacularly

Hey, It’s your favorite character back again. At least I hope I’m your favorite character. This is Ran, Sarn’s son from the Curse Breaker series. I’m back with a writing update. Melinda is finishing Rogue Rescue. At least we hope that’s what’s happening. The characters keep telling her it’s the last chapter. But then they do things that are not last chapter things and instead, telling her at the end of the chapter that they need one more chapter to tie up the loose ends. Melinda keeps believing them and writing one more chapter for them. when I asked her … Continue reading We hit #100!

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode, Joshua Blum is joining me to talk about his book, Empty Hands. What’s it about? What’s in this episode: Where to get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Hands-Thirteenth-Interlude-Martial-ebook/dp/B07V1R4CDX Where to find our guest: About your host, Melinda Kucsera: I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author who wrote and published 20+ books since 2016 across 6 series. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it. My books are full of magic and … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: Empty Hands

Hi, I’m indie fantasy author, Melinda Kucsera, and in this episode, Christopher D. Schmitz is joining me to talk about his book, A Kiss of Daggers. What’s it about? What’s in this episode: Where to get the book: http://www.books2read.com/kissofdaggers Where to find our guest: About your host, Melinda Kucsera: I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author who wrote and published 20+ books since 2016 across 6 series. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it. My books are full … Continue reading Fantasy, Lore, & More: A Kiss of Daggers

Hey, First off, welcome to our new subscribers and our long-time friends. This week, I need to start our newsletter off a little differently due to a mishap caused by our dragon. So if you were waiting for her to cause more drama for us, pull up a chair and enjoy! What did that dragon do this time? Usually, we send a welcome email when you subscribe to this newsletter, but we have a digital dragon. She’s in charge of delivering ebooks and sending out welcome emails from her cave which is located somewhere in this country called cyberspace. Still … Continue reading What did the dragon burn?