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In honor of my birthday, Draoithe: Tantalu Part 1 is FREE this weekend! Download your copy today and meet the incubus demon Prince of Tantalu and the satyr Tavas Elniai. Step into the dream with a fractured adult blended fairytale and escape the world for an hour or more!

What if the story of Jack and the Beanstalk got twisted together with that of Cinderella. The goose that laid the golden egg was actually an almond tree, the prince was an incubus demon, Cinderella was a magically gifted human slave, and Jack was a satyr sex slave trader? The incubus demons are a remnant  group of immortals that survived a terrible war. The satyr is an enemy exile who needs the incubus demon prince’s help to claim his nymph mate. The balance matters to these immortals, and the furry dragons known as the zmey claim their dwarf mates and back their prince’s bid to build his new kingdom in the Leaindeail after the tragedy of war. The prince fell hard for a slave that the satyr trained just for him and kept her to turn as his succubus princess. Her magic helps the new immortal kingdom finally reunify after the near total destruction of the Satyr/Incubus war. The prince and the former emissary satyr become friends, and the incubus begin to see the satyr as a valuable ally. When the dreaded Eternal Partners come calling trying to steal the prince’s claimed slave, the satyr chooses to protect his friend and wins his place in the House of Liderk gaining his mate as recompense. This is the story of Tavas Elniai (the satyr) and Sandor Liderk’s (incubus prince) separate quests for love and life in the aftermath of devastation. It is time to put the past in the past where it belongs and start building a brighter future. The balance must be found.

The Truth About Titles

I have updated the upcoming titles list to reflect a few changes I felt needed to be made. As always I reserve the right to alter titles as I see fit. I do love that about Indie Writing. I am the publisher, so I have the right to use working titles and alter them as necessary until the publish date.
Why change the title? Sometimes the one I begin with no longer fits the story once it is finished. Other times it feels too wordy. I want the title to reflect the main story arc. I also want it to be short so when people are searching for titles, they don't have to waste time typing it forever or get confused remembering it. One or two word titles really feel better to me although I will use up to four words if necessary. (Example: Tolkien's There and Back Again is not nearly as widely known as The Hobbit. They are the same story.)
The thing that writers need to know is that once a title is published by an author, in a paperback tangible form with an ISBN number, it stays that title. The only way that it can change is if it is published again with a new ISBN and then it is not technically the same book. Until the book is actually published, the title can be changed at the author or publisher's discretion even if advanced teaser quotes or excerpts are shared digitally. So long as the story has no ISBN, the title is easily changeable.
The truth is that although a good title matters, it is not that important in the grand scheme of things unless you are writing stand alone works. You do want it to grab attention, but you don't have to overthink it. It simply needs to fit the story.
The really important words on the cover of a book are the author's name. The author name is technically the brand name. It is the one thing that readers use to find your body of work. So if Ophelia Kee is typed into Google, different online links to social media, my website, my author page, and my books on multiple platforms will show up. Ophelia Kee takes up the first 8 pages of a search and have pages of images as well. The series name, the book titles? They are not nearly as powerful a search tool. 
I know a lot of authors suffer from imposter syndrome (they feel that their story is not that good and maybe they are not a real author), but the truth is that a well written story is always good. If you want to be recognized and read, you do have to note that simple detail. Be sure that your author name appears prominently on the book cover. Do things to enhance the reader's memory of you by always using the same font style or letter coloring for your name, choose where your name belongs on the cover so that when readers see it they immediately recognize your book and want to read it, and make it stand out from the other words on the book. (It goes without saying that the books contents need to be well written, proofread and edited or the branding will not matter.)
Don't get the big head and make it bigger than the book title. That's as bad as making it so small that you are not memorable. People don't believe that you are as big as Stephen King or JK Rowling just because your name takes up half of the book cover (LOL). The contents of the story are why the title should be bigger. You are not the story. If you write more than one book, you are many stories. You are the brand and it is your name that people will search for more often than they will search for one of your titles.
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The continuation of the dream...

Draoithe: Midnight Magic ​is currently publishing. The tale begins with the excerpt tale of Drake and Lorelai
and the first four parts of the miniseries are now available to read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited or each part is only $.99 from Amazon. I do write adult themed contemporary fantasy and paranormal romance so be warned in advance if you are new to the dream. It takes only a moment to be kind, and I would prefer to allow readers the grace of truth about my writing. No one likes to be misled and waste their money purchasing a story that they can't read or already know that they would not appreciate. For those of you who have been in the dream awhile, thank you sincerely for supporting my author walk. For those who have only recently stumbled into the dream, welcome to my chronicle of what I have discovered along the journey. 

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Happy Reading,
Ophelia Kee