Cover Reveal!

At long last I am going to share with you the cover for A Season of Subterfuge, Courtiers, and War Councils and can I just say how excited I am?

Because I'm pretty excited XD

So first of all the synopsis...

Thrust into a fight seven hundred years in the making, Chelsea and her friends find themselves against an immortal emperor. If they return the true heir of Ione to her rightful throne, then they will finally be free of the magical world of Amar. But that’s easier said than done. They will need the support of the other kingdoms of Amar if they hope to stand a chance at defeating Axius. But who would follow four kids into battle?

As assassins hound their every step, Chelsea and her friends struggle to find a way to call a War Council against Axius. Chelsea travels north to Renlain a land of dragons and secrets. With Easton as her only ally, she must learn to navigate a world where ballrooms are the battlegrounds and coy smiles hide deadly intents. And it seems that everyone with any amount of power wants them dead. As if having to constantly be on guard to avoid death via a poisoned drink or an assassin's blade is not enough, Chelsea also has to face her conflicting feelings for Easton.

Survival isn’t enough. They have to find a way to start this war. And they have to win it. Or else they will never get home. But victory will not come without a cost and to win they must sell their consciences. How far are they truly willing to go to complete this quest and get home?

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You can add it to your To-Read shelves here

Ahhh! What do you think of the new cover? Unfortunately I don't have a set date for release yet, but stay tuned for more updates and in the meantime... feel free to just stare at the cover. I certainly shall be doing the same.

Blogging Collab

Hiya folks! Faith from The Writer's Song here today to rank all the ships from the My Time in Amar series (and also the spinoff series, Return to Amar.)

(A note from Nicki: please remember that this is all Faith's opinion not my own and also all images are from Pinterest)

LAST PLACE: PHELSEA

Look, I don't mind Philip as a character. He's a sweetie with enough honor to fuel a spaceship, and he deserves waaaaaay more appreciation than the fanbase gives him. But letting him get anywhere near Chelsea is a mistake, and the two of them do NOT need to be together. Any ship moment they have is an abomination. Besides, they both have soul mates.

FIONSTON

I don't hate this one quite as much as I hate Phelsea, if only because Fiona is such a sad, lonely, broken girl. She deserves better than what she gets, but she doesn't deserve Easton, if only because NO ONE deserves Easton. So I want Fiona to be happy... but not by route of this ship. It's just sad, honestly, and it's very one-sided.

HAGARTH+DELMORA

Really? I don't know what to say about villain ships half the time. This one isn't as bad as the other two because it doesn't destroy my other ships? But the problem is that this is an extremely dysfunctional ship between a couple of ReALlY aTrOciOuS vIlLaInS and it's just problematic so. Can't rate this higher than this because NO THANKS

PHIONA

This one only ranks low by comparison. I love Philip and Fiona together--they're precious, adorable, and deserve each other entirely. I'd like to bash these two's faces together and force them to kiss, but since that's kind of rude, I just pine for them to get together from afar, which doesn't work. So...yeah. This one gets to be low on the list ONLY because everyone else is higher.

MORION

When the spinoff series featuring Maud and Orion happens, I'm thinking I'll probably ship this harder. For the moment, I just...have other favorites xD But these two are such a classic hate-to-love ship, that combines about every other ship trope under the sun in the most creative of ways, that I can't help loving it. (I mean, seriously. The sass master and the Tough Guy (TM). What could go wrong???)

CLOBBY

Clint and Bobby is one ship that, looking at it, I'm not even sure WHY it works. Clint is immature and Bobby deserves better, and they don't even have that much chemistry. But for some reason, IT WORKS and I ship it ridiculously hard. So... yeah. They're such babies but I adore them despite it.

OGENE

Olivia and Eugene. Ahh, me. What can you say about this ship that hasn't already been said? A sassy, bitter teenager from earth, meeting a handsome and just-a-bit-too-suave illusionist from a mysterious new world. It's another of those ships that SHOULDN'T work but just DOES. Also, Eugene rescued Olivia's shoe for her, and if that isn't ship material, I don't know what is.

DANLICIA

Moving into my top three...we have Dante+Alicia in third place overall amongst the Amar ships. These two are the star-crossed, opposites attract lovers and they're just too precious for this world. Dante is a grumpy huntsman and Alicia is the flightiest and most adorable piece of fluff in existence (except for that time she threatened to murder him. Oops.) They work so perfectly, even if Dante would dispute that fact, and I ship it so hard it hurts.

MARGARETA + ALEXIS

My second place ship for Amar is one that is just undeniable in its perfection. Margareta starts off the series as a total airhead and useless character, but by book 2 and even into book 3 of My Time in Amar she's this steely-eyed, fierce girl who knows what she wants and needs and will fight tooth and nail to get it. And then Alexis is Teen Wolf, basically--broody, grumpy, angst embodied, and a disaster. Oh, and he's a werewolf, too. There's no way this could go wrong, right? Well, actually, not there isn't. It's JUST PERFECTION *flails*

and my number one ship...

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CHELSTONNNNNNNNN

How could it be anything else? Chelsea and Easton, my dudes. There is no. Other. Option. They're the actual bestest and I adore them. They're the childhood friends to lovers ship. Easton's love for Chelsea is so pure, and even if she's dragging her feet to catch up *rolls eyes loudly* I can't imagine either of them with anyone else. So presh. My babiiiiiieeeeeesssssss and the ultimate Amar OTP.

Welcome to 2020

I'm sure some of you are wondering what the deal with the starry background is, and that may or may not be that my mind has moved from fantasy worlds to space for the time being, but I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations. And this all certainly has nothing to do with the Mandalorian or X-Files being in my life.

But anyway happy 2020 everyone! I remember 2019 like it was just yesterday y'all.

Life:

Honestly, survival would be nice. Somehow everything piled up and now I am having oral surgery, leaving one job and going to another, and trying to tackle maneuverability so I can get my license all within weeks of each other and just *cue endless screaming*

So yeah my goal is basically just survival

A few other things of point is I would like to also work on:

Build stronger relationships with certain people in my life who I want to get to know better

Not stress as much (I'm off to a really great start with that *eye twitches like a maniac*

Art. keep sketching, try different styles and just practice lots. And also start on watercolors.

Actually read books again, including a few books that I made a commitment to read (sorry gals I promise I will get to them as soon as I can <3 thanks for being patient though)

Blog more. I took a lot of hiatuses. my blogging schedule got a little spotty there for a while, and honestly I don't have a set thing that I blog about so yeah. I am going to work on a very serious blogging schedule yadda yadda yadda... what that will entail will probably be lots of posts about writing, movies, and art. I may or may not also include book reviews, what do you all think of that idea?

Writing

Last year I had some crazy writing goals and not all of them were realistic so let's see if I can tone it down some this year.

• Finish editing SoS and publish it in the earlier half of the year (sometime March-May hopefully)
• Write and publish A Matter of Curiosity by my hopeful due date of October 13th
• Write Darkness From the Stars and hopefully in time to pitch it at Realm Makers
• Work on another project that I haven't revealed yet (mwahahaha)
• Work on my SciFi series and possibly maybe publish it on Wattpad (more on that in a few weeks)
• Actually edit A Winter Dark and Deadly
• Figure out what exactly I am going to do with Of Gold and Iron

My word for 2020 is... THRIVE

So yeah, here we go. Let's do this thing.

Anyway, tune in later this week we have a blogging collab and then the long awaited cover reveal for SoS (you don't want to miss this). And next week I will be posting about doing something for my blogging anniversary so that a certain someone (I won't name any fingers or point any names but yeah she knows who she is) can finally get her revenge *rolls eyes*

Anyway HAPPY NEW YEAR you guys! What are some of your goals for this year?