The Shop, as well as on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and in a number of bookstores in the US and around the world.Human and Nightlings are never to meet, but when Genna and her brother Dan venture into the old forest at night, they encounter a Nightling slave who reveals a terrifying secret: Genna and Dan's village chieftain has made a dangerous deal with Letrin, ruler of the Nightlings, offering the lives of his people in exchange for his own immortality. You can find Holly's books, courses, writing workshops, and so on here: You can find Cadence Drake, Holly's currently in-progress series, on her site: If what I’m putting on paper isn’t at least as memorable as having a grizzly stalking my father and me across the tundra while I was carrying a bag of delicious-smelling ducks, it doesn’t make my cut.” “We were not eaten by a bear that night…but neither is that walk back from our hunt for supper a part of my life I’ll ever forget. I was doing my damnedest to make sure that I remembered where the boat was, how to get to it, how to start the pull-cord engine, and how to drive it back home, because I did not want to let him down. He was, I’m sure, listening for the bear. I want you to run to the river, follow it to the boat, get the boat back home, and tell everyone what happened.’ So if we see the bear, I’m going to shoot him so he’ll attack me.

‘I just have the one that will make him angry. ” ‘I don’t have the gun with me that will kill a bear,’ he told me. “Which got my attention, but not as much as what he said next. The fact that the track is filling with water right now means the bear’s still around.” “It was getting dark, we could hear the thud, thud, thud of the generator across the tundra, and suddenly he stopped, pointed down to a pie-pan sized indentation in the tundra that was rapidly filling with water, and said, in a calm and steady voice, “That’s a bear footprint. “My father was carrying the big bag of decoys and the shotgun I was carrying the small bag of ducks. We had a couple miles to go by boat to get back to the Moravian Children’s Home, where we lived. Back when I was ten years old, my father and I had finished hunting ducks for our dinner and were walking across the tundra in Alaska toward the spot on the river where we’d tied our boat. Holly had an ideal childhood for a writer…which is to say, it was filled with foreign countries and exotic terrains, alien cultures, new languages, the occasional earthquake, flood, or civil war, and one story about a bear, which follows: She has just published WARPAINT, the second stand-alone novel in her Cadence Drake series. She has to date published more than thirty novels and several comprehensive writing courses. Holly Lisle has been writing fiction professionally since 1991, when she sold FIRE IN THE MIST, the novel that won her the Compton Crook Award for best first novel.

Mind of the Magic by Holly Lisle