Author: cherylmahoney
I'm a book review blogger and writer. I have published four novels, The Wanderers; The Storyteller and Her Sisters; and The People the Fairies Forget; and The Lioness and the Spellspinners. All can be found on Amazon as an ebook and paperback. In my day job, I'm a Marketing Specialist. Find me on Twitter (@MarvelousTales) and GoodReads (MarvelousTales).
The Phantom of the Opera Reading and Viewing Challenge
Are you intrigued by a masked man in the shadows? Love being swept away by stirring musical tragedies? Want to visit 1880s Paris? Then this challenge is for you!
Join us to venture below the Opera Garnier and across the underground lake for a Phantom of the Opera Reading and Viewing Challenge. Since Gaston Leroux’s first publication of The Phantom of the Opera in 1909, the story has been told, retold and continued dozens of times, on the screen, on the stage, and on the page. Get a little more Phantom into your life in 2020 by participating in this challenge to go exploring through the many versions of the Phantom. Maybe you’ll meet a new phan friend, or find a new version of the story to love.
I want this above all to be fun, so the rules (which are really more guidelines) are simple and, I hope, welcoming to all.
What Qualifies: Any book, movie or play based on Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera, or an obvious sequel or prequel to the story. If there’s a masked man with a deformity in love with a singer, while hiding in an opera house, it probably qualifies. I’ve provided a (non-comprehensive) list of ideas at the end of this post. Rereads/rewatches are just as valid as new ones, although if you’re someone who watches the Claude Rains Phantom every Saturday, it still only counts as one. The exception to that rule is if you see a play version more than once in the year, with different lead actors.
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Coming Soon: The Servants Audiobook + A Christmas Epilogue
I have a little something special coming out at Christmas… 🙂
We’re excited to announce two very special releases this month! In June, five of our authors released The Servants and the Beast, a Beauty and the Beast novella written collaboratively.
On December 23rd, we’re releasing Stonehenge Circle Press’ first audiobook, the audio version of The Servants and the Beast, read for you by four of the authors. It will be available for purchase through Audible.
On the same day, we’re also releasing a very special Christmas bonus, a short story epilogue to the novella, as the characters celebrate Christmas after the curse ended. Our writers have collaborated again to write this holiday story, to give you a glimpse of what’s become of your favorite characters.
Stay tuned next week for the cover release of After the Sparkles Settled: In Which the Ones Who Survived the Curse Celebrate Christmas by Karen Blakely, R. A. Gates, Kelly Haworth, Jenniffer Lee and Cheryl…
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Writing Wednesday: After the Thorns
As per my last NaNo update, when November ended I had just a bit of my Princess Beyond the Thorns story still to tell. So I continued at a pretty close to NaNo pace for the next few days, and finished out the story yesterday, on Tuesday. I’m happy to have the draft complete and concluded! Now I can put it away for a few months to let everything simmer before tackling the inevitable revisions…
Counting the three days of December writing, I wrote almost 67,000 words since November 1st. That brings the total draft to about 121,000…which is long, but fantasy novels are often longer than other genres. I’ll see what happens in revision. This may turn out to be two books after all, but for now I’m still looking at it as one.
Over the course of 121,000 words, there were three walls of thorns, two adorable kittens plus a lioness, a handful of sword fights, three villains, two deaths, one wedding, one major fight between the lead couple, and a lot of kissing.
I’d offer an excerpt, but I can’t find anything from the last three days of writing that isn’t rife with spoilers…
Now that the big fantasy draft is done, I have other, slightly lower-key projects in mind to tackle for December. Plus I have some fun Servants and the Beast-related news that should be going live very soon. 🙂 So stay tuned for that!
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