Rebecca Ryals Russell
Author of MG/YA Dark Fantasy among other things, Rebecca Ryals Russell has two series coming out next year: The Seraphym Wars Series for YA and Stardust Warriors for MG.
She lives in a Victorian house on five acres in North Central Florida with her family. She also runs a Vacation Rental Log House on the property (Florida Black Bear Cabin http://flablackbearcabin.com) It was in this cabin she wrote Odessa within 6 months, after thinking about it for 30 years, but never having the time to commit it to paper.
A fourth generation Floridian, she has lived all over the state except the Panhandle.
The daughter of an Elementary school principal dad and school secretary mom, for fourteen years she taught Middle Grades, preferring English and Creative Writing. She had several students’ works published in anthologies. In college she had several stories, poems and photographs published in the college literary magazine and newspaper.
Main interests include her four children, ages 22, 19, 16, 11 and Irish hubby of 35 years. She enjoys spending time writing, drawing, going to movies and reading. Her favorite pastimes are sitting on the wicker porch swing on a chilly Autumn evening with her husband and usually a kid or two, drinking a beer and eating mixed nuts while chatting about anything and everything, or discussing philosophy and religion with her 16-year-old son over pizza.
author of Odessa Book One in The Seraphym Wars (YA Fantasy)
Harpies - Book Two in The Seraphym Wars
Guardian of the Prophecy (prequel to the Seraphym Wars)
Jeremiah Holyfield - Stardust Warriors MuseItYoung series
Laman - Stardust Warriors MuseItYoung series
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Guardian of the Prophecy (prequel to the Seraphym Wars)
Myrna Ashlin Watts graduated from High School in Jacksonville, Fl just in time to find herself transported to a bizarre and primal planet corrupted by demon-dragons. And they want her DEAD. Her problem is, she has been recruited to kill them, too.
18-year-old Myrna is drawn into the middle of an epic battle between Seraphym and Demons. An average High School student from Florida, struggling with inner demons resulting from a rape two years earlier, she wakes one morning on the Steampunk planet of Dracwald, home of the demon-dragons responsible for her rape, her brother’s recent murder as well as many other atrocities in the news. She meets Michael, her guide, who explains that according to prophecy, Myrna must gather the remaining six Vigorios (teen warriors with special talents) then train with the Majikals on an enchanted island.
Reluctantly, and knowing it is her only way to get back home, she agrees to lead - battling dragons and monsters while crossing swamps and mountains, forests and seas. She wrangles with the old inner demons when three very different men join her quest—a seasoned demon/dragon-slayer who irritates but beguiles her, a tender and sweet mentor in whom she trusts completely and a roguishly handsome Scientist who sets her senses aflame. How is she expected to lead the others and keep everyone safe with so much inner turmoil? Whom can she trust, if anyone, even herself? How can anyone expect her to be a leader? Much less one who leads an army of kids in a Holy battle?
Will love and lust, jealousy, greed, deceit and distrust break the delicate tie that binds these teen warriors called The Vigorios? Can a troupe of teens help the Seraphym finally defeat the massive empire of evil dominated for eons by the demon-dragons of Dracwald?
Odessa is due out April 1, 2011 at MuseItUpPublishing.com as an eBook then in print a few months later. Conscientia, a Prequel, is due out September 1, 2011 and Harpies, the next installment in the series is due out January 1, 2012. The remaining two books in the series remain to be written.
A MG series, Stardust Warriors, is based on a similar storyline. Zarena is due out July 1, 2011. Jeremiah - November 1,2011. Laman - February 1,2012. I await word on release dates for Mercy and Magaelbash. The others in the series remain to be written
Harpies Book Two in The Seraphym Wars
15-year-old Laman must locate two others with special abilities like himself and get them safely to a distant island while fighting dragons, Harpies and more.
Laman wakes on a strange planet with abilities to control lightning. It becomes his responsibility to find two others like himself and get them safely to a distant island. Dragons, trolls, elves and Harpies join the excitement.
Zarena Book One in the Stardust Warriors series (MuseItYoung fantasy)
Zarena Nuara has led a typical life for a 14-year-old girl living on Dracwald. She got what she wanted when she wanted it and never thought twice about the ‘other guy’. But all that changed when she woke one morning on a strange planet with a yellow ocean and teal grass where she learned about the evil in her and her world from The Conscientia, a Holy Order of men and women. Ashamed of her prior attitude, she trains hard to fulfill her destiny as leader of The Vigorios, a band of seven kids who will try to make the difference in the war between the Seraphym and Demons in the final battle over evil.
Jeremiah Holyfield - Stardust Warriors MuseItYoung series
Reverend Jeremiah struggles against demon attacks to protect the Prophecy of Solsyl but finds love and companionship in the process.
Reverend Jeremiah Holyfield left The Conscientia in order to help Laud protect the residents of Solsyl from Narciss and his evil demon Legio. His first priority? Protect the Prophecy so Narciss never sees it to change the destiny of The Vigorios. Their futures mirror the future of the planet because they ARE the Child Warriors of Laud – The Vigorios.
Laman - Stardust Warriors MuseItYoung series
Laman, 13, led only by intuition and visions and hunted by dragons must complete a dangerous quest.
Laman has never known a father or grandfather. At thirteen he’s lazy and insolent, taking his single, hard-working mother for granted. Then one morning he wakes on a foreign beach light-years away from his mom and suddenly he realizes what he’s lost. But a little birdy tells him that according to Prophecy he must accomplish an important task on this new planet before he is allowed to go back home. Hunted by dragons, following new-found intuition and visions, he is confused and scared. And so his quest begins.
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