THE VAETRA FILES

The Musings of Daniel R. Maryello Author of Magical Fantasy Adventure

The 5 Characteristics of Magical Fantasy

What does magic mean to you? I’d be surprised if you didn’t have to sit back for a moment and […]

Spectacular Spring Equinox Fantasy Sale

A group of 21 authors from the Magic Appreciation Tour(including me!) are getting together for our first group sales event. […]

Has the Digital Slush Pile Changed the Way We Buy Books?

Tracy Falbe, one of my writer friends at the Magic Appreciation Tour, wrote an interesting article on the Digital Book […]

The Last Priestess Tour with Elizabeth Baxter

I originally met Elizabeth Baxter at the Writer’s Café on KindleBoards.com where she goes by the whimsical moniker “SmallBlondHippy.” Her […]

Excerpt from Sorcerer’s Blood by Christopher Kellen

I’ve known Chris Kellen since he joined the Magic Appreciation Tour on February 11, 2012. I think of him as […]

Vanna Smythe’s Anniversary of the Veil Tour

I’m happy to be hosting Vanna Smythe today on her Anniversary of the Veil blog tour. Vanna recently released Decision […]

Kindle X-Ray and the Vaetra Unveiled Cast of Characters

One of my beta readers for Vaetra Unveiled suggested that I include a glossary of character names in the book. […]

The Final Paragraph

Today, I typed out the final paragraph of my work-in-progress, Vaetra Untrained. My wife knew it too, because heard me […]

Guest Post by Tracy Falbe: Dacian, the future King of the rys

I’m pleased that The Vaetra Files is a stop on Tracy Falbe’s Feel Real Fantasy Blog Tour, which celebrates the […]

Guest Post: The Magic System of Marsha A. Moore’s Enchanted Bookstore Legends

One of my favorite things about reading magical fantasy is seeing how the author puts together a magic system. A […]

Book Character Trading Cards

First, I’d like to say congratulations to the two winners of my first Goodreads giveaway for Vaetra Unveiled! The books […]

Vaetra Unveiled Book Giveaway

I’m doing my first book giveaway over on Goodreads. The Kindle edition of Vaetra Unveiled has been doing so well […]

Sharing my writing makes it real

This morning at breakfast, I was unreasonably pleased to see a thin stack of stapled paper across the table from […]

Defending the Integrity of the Book Review System

My little corner of the Internet has been awash lately with news and opinions related to a few famous authors […]

It might be time to try something new

The Magic Appreciation Tour has a new feature called Magic Appreciation Blog Tours (MABT), and I’m pleased to be the […]

Surprise Discovery about My Audience

I recently got a nice message from a fellow author on Kindleboards.com who told me a cute story. Her 12-year-old […]

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