C. Gockel's Blog, page 32

cgockel:

Hey everyone … want to read a story where Loki isn’t the bad guy, but isn’t really a good guy either? The first four books in I Bring the Fire are 99¢ until Sunday midnight EST. You can get it at Amazon, Nook, iBooks, & Kobo. Myth!mashups FTW!

This sale is only lasting a few more hours … so grab it!

queenofswords:

Digital Altar Series III: Þórr.
➤ He Who Boasts Thunder.
[more in the series // board insp]

lestatthewolfkiller:

❧ Loki

cgockel:

cgockel:

Hey everyone … want to read a story where Loki isn’t the bad guy, but isn’t really a good guy either? The first four books in I Bring the Fire are 99¢ until Sunday midnight EST. You can get it at Amazon, Nook, iBooks, & Kobo. Myth!mashups FTW!

Thank you for the reblog @elementarydata !

candyandcraig:

i couldn’t decide which palette i wanted to draw him in so i did both

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”

- Angrboða to Hel, probably.
(via incorrectedda)

heaven-ly-mind:

Blue Bomb

D.A. Casey: Great Deal on I Bring The Fire Series Box Set

Letting your female characters grow up …

I Bring the Fire box set, my urban fantasy take on Norse Mythology, is currently #3 at Nook, #1 in Amazon Norse & Viking Myths and Legends category. It’s doing well on iBooks, and Kobo, too. I’ve been running several Facebook campaigns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and It’s been wonderful getting feedback in the comments from my fans, particularly on my character Amy Lewis. It was just so wonderful to see how many people “got” her.

Amy was always supposed to be very human, even her name I picked out as being completely ordinary. It was very important that an “ordinary” human be Loki’s accomplice (she isn’t ordinary–she has a scholarship to vet school, and is curious about hadrosaur dung, and DNA testing–she is a biology geek! She is really the human equivalent of an apprentice “magician” at the start. Our magic is our science.) When I first started writing the series I got a lot of negative comments for Amy being too weak and too ordinary … I never thought she was either, of course. I always thought she was young (only 24 to start–easily overshadowed by her older than dirt co-star), very smart, and focused. That focus made her naive in some ways. She’d let her love life slide because she was busy focusing on school … I knew so many women like this in grad school, and also in the early part of my career, I thought it was practically a “stage.” Also, she doesn’t have any secret martial artist skills … skills like those take time, and practice, and all her energy has been devoted to becoming a veterinarian.

In the story Amy never gets magical fighting skills (although she does hit Thor twice–with a car–on purpose!) She does get to be a veterinarian, and she holds on to her essential sweetness. She meets Loki, has her life upended by his Chaos, but she hangs on to her dreams and passions, and in the end it saves her and transforms her, and well, lots more people. She becomes a better version of herself … which is probably what we’re all supposed to do here on this earth as we march towards our own personal Ragnarok.