NewEarth Series - Gordon and Grabon

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Trissy’s Rule

By Julia Schmeelk | January 22, 2018

When Trissy realizes that young dragons are expelled from their home territory at fifteen and that her children are likely to want to go awandering with the dragon youngsters, she plants her very human feet and demands Grabon set a territory rule. Heron is hugely amused by this and so is Grabon, but in the…

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Storms

By Julia Schmeelk | January 22, 2018

Weather comes in all shapes and sizes, but storms have a special place in my heart. I am not sure if it was growing up in Chicago, going to college in a Midwest corn field or living in Alaska for twenty years, but I do enjoy a good storm. In the NewEarth books, the storms…

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Bonds

By Julia Schmeelk | January 21, 2018

The bonds between mates is obviously different than the bonds of companions. Grabon and Heron both speak of the bond shared between Hanna and Grabon, Gordon and Grabon and then Brom and Grabon and Griss and Grabon and as each dragon gains acceptance it seems a bond is established, something other than just friendship. Those…

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Distractions

By Julia Schmeelk | January 21, 2018

There are very few things that I find utterly distracting because I have the uncanny ability to block out the physical world for the one in my head. However the list of things that can snap me back is growing. I am not sure if it is because I am older or because we live…

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Grabon’s Friends

By Julia Schmeelk | January 21, 2018

Over the cycles, Grabon of course made friends with many dragons but   One group in particular made a big impression on him and Heron both. First of all they were older, still unsettled and unmated, these five rascals were often in the middle of one kind of trouble or another. Not long before Grabon…

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The Heartsinger

By Julia Schmeelk | January 20, 2018

As I am working away on book 3 and getting it ready to meet the world, I thought I would let you know  that the reader gets a bit more information about both humans and dragons, about how they live and what they value. Not that I can say too much without giving anything away,…

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Trissy‘s Wood Skills

By Julia Schmeelk | January 20, 2018

There is her obvious skill with carving which is fantastic, impressive and artistic, but the skill I always think about is her ability to enter the wood and have her energy blend seemlessly with the trees. That strikes me as even more interesting and significant. Grabon could not sense her presence and as the story…

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Eldon

By Julia Schmeelk | January 19, 2018

Let us have a moment of honesty. You can even send me a message with your answer. If you were invited to fly with a dragon and a partner, even if you knew that they were still learning to coordinate energy, would you accept? Would you keep your eyes open? I thought Eldon handled himself…

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Griss

By Julia Schmeelk | January 19, 2018

Did you notice anything about Griss that set him apart from the others? Well of course he has the kid, stuck in some other territory nest and he seems very interested in getting him back, but did you notice anything else? He comes from a long line of dragon brew makers, and not only wine,…

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Fin

By Julia Schmeelk | January 19, 2018

Fin is an interesting kid. In Gordon’s Pride, he is firmly attached to his brother, very much a human child. During Heron’s Bonds you see him begin to show glimpses of the man he is going to become. It is impressive and startling. He is a Tailor, partnered to a dragon who is a brew…

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Change

By Julia Schmeelk | January 19, 2018

I am a big believer that one of life’s predictable constants is change. That comes into my writing because my characters change, grow, evolve as does my setting and hopefully the reader’s understanding of the world I created. I call that kind of writing a slow reveal because the reader only gains so much information…

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Response Quandry

By Julia Schmeelk | January 18, 2018

If and when people respond to my blog, if I write back, is it creepy? How much interaction do readers want with the writer. Being a newly published author is not easy it is a path filled with twists, turns and insecurities…. okay, now I’ll have some cheese to go with that whine.

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