Good Dragon books!

If you can find them Irene Radford has three related dragon series. You can read them chronologically or in the order they were written. The original series was The Dragon Nimbus. The books in that series are The Glass Dragon, The Perfect Princess, The Loneliest Magician and The Wizard’s Treasure.

The next series written was The Dragon Nimbus History and it takes place before The Dragon Nimbus. The books in that series are The Dragon’s Touchstone, The Last Battlemage and The Renegade Dragon.

The last series written was The Stargods and is set before the other two series. The books in that series are The Hidden Dragon, The Dragon Circle and The Dragon’s Revenge.

Dawn Cook also has a dragon series: First Truth, Hidden Truth, Forgotten Truth and Lost Truth.

I have those! They’re great.

Aside from the obvious dragons of Pern and the Elvenbane series, I also have an omnibus of Daniel Hood call A Familiar Dragon. The guy inherits the local wizard’s familiar, a tiny dragon who communicated telepathically, and both of them end up solving crimes.

There’s Jane Yolen the Pit Dragon Trilogy, and of course, Lackey’s Joust series.

I’ve completed the first novel (getting it published is almost harder than writing it!) of my series, A Dragon Medley. It’s called Green Dragon

So Medley, is your novel published??? 😕

Yeah, I’m starting to look into ebooks. There are several reputable e-publishers.

If you want, here’s a little excerpt of Green Dragon. (The next story will be about white dragons, the next about purple dragons… everyone here can probably guess which ones will follow )

They were racing back to the village – a stupid challenge on Meeryle’s part, given her lack of shape and sense of direction. Meeryle had to stop quickly, already out of breath, feeling her weight acutely.

Leena ran passed her. When she realized her friend was no longer moving, the tall girl stopped and backtracked.

“C’mon! Pick up your feet!”

Meeryle shook her head, panting. “I… can’t… run… any… farther.” She leaned forward, her hands on her knees and tried to catch her breath. She closed her eyes, taking in deep breaths, willing her heart not to burst out of her chest.

“By the way, you were going the wrong way. The village is over there.”

Meeryle shook her head. When would she get a sense of direction?

She still couldn’t catch her breath. She leaned against a tree, thinking she needed to do more tromping around. And to stop eating sweetcakes. At least the ones in the morning.

Then she felt the trunk move. It didn’t sway like a normal tree would, a slow movement back and forth. It expanded and deflated, as if it had taken in a deep breath. Startled, she stood and took a step back. She looked at Leena, wanting to tell her about the strange feeling. But Leena wasn’t looking at her. She was a few steps away, staring at the tree, gaping. Meeryle turned to look at the tree. For some reason, her eyes couldn’t focus properly. The tree seemed fuzzy. Meeryle blinked twice. The tree moved again, but not like before. It rippled, from the bottom up, and suddenly became bigger and taller. The top started to swing towards her, the branches shifting and changing shape. They fused together to become a bird-like head. The trunk and the bottom branches melded and transformed into a lithe body.

Meeryle was frozen in place. Time had stopped. She felt strangely detached. She found herself looking at the creature with interest. It was green, with scales, and reminded her of a lizard and a cat at the same time. It was graceful and beautiful. The neck was long, but the head was not as long and narrow as she would have expected. For some strange reason, a jewel seemed to adorn its forehead. But when Meeryle looked into its eyes, she unfroze. The eyes were a deep ruby red.

She was looking in the eyes of a dragon.

Meeryle surrendered to terror. She turned and ran for her life.

The fact that you want to read more raises my spirits! Thanks 😀

The target is young adults.

Exhaust all your options first.

If you self publish, you take a severe hit to your chances of ever getting a big publishing house to take your book. 🙁

I know – I found that out pretty quickly. Since I hadn’t heard of ebooks before either, I’m looking into them (like, how much for the royalties, etc.), but they’re not top of my list for sure.

Thanks!