MarvaDasef

MarvaDasef edited the summary of Bad Spelling (The Witches of Galdorheim Series) Thursday, October 20, 2011.

• Katrina (Kat) sucks at magic. Not that she's not got the power of the witches of Galdorheim Island, but she just can't put a spell togther without disastrous results. She's sick of being made fun of for her lack of skills and decides to find her dead father's family, a tribe of Siberian hunters.

  Kat and her half-brother, Rune, set off across the ice-bound Barents Sea to find Kat's Siberian family. Their trek takes them into Norway, where they visit the Troll King. There, a young troll confesses he is a bortbyting (changeling) and isn't really a troll, but a Sami tribesman. In fact, he's distantly related to Kat. He wants to find his blood family as does Kat, so he joins in the search.

  The three face perils, including attacks from a treacherous shaman, to reach the Siberian village. When expecting a welcome from their long-lost families, they instead find they're likely to be killed. An evil shaman wants no part of witches, and the villagers fear him too much to interfere.

  Kat has to find her magic fast, or she and her brother will be roasted like marshmallows.

MarvaDasef edited the ridiculously simplified synopses of Bad Spelling (The Witches of Galdorheim Series) Thursday, October 13, 2011.

• Added: A klutzy witch, a shaman's curse, a quest to save her family. Can Kat find her magic in time?

MarvaDasef edited the description of Bad Spelling (The Witches of Galdorheim Series) Thursday, October 13, 2011.

• If you’re a witch living on a remote arctic island, and the entire island runs on magic, lacking magical skills is not just an inconvenience, it can be a matter of life and death–or, at least, a darn good reason to run away from home.

  Katrina’s spells don’t just fizzle; they backfire with spectacular results, oftentimes involving green goo. A failure as a witch, Kat decides to run away and find her dead father’s non-magical family. But before she can, she stumbles onto why her magic is out of whack: a curse from a Siberian shaman.

  The young witch, accompanied by her half-vampire brother, must travel to the Hall of the Mountain King and the farthest reaches of Siberia to regain her magic, dodging attacks by the shaman along the way.

MarvaDasef edited the characters of Bad Spelling (The Witches of Galdorheim Series) Thursday, October 13, 2011.

• Added a character: Kat Galdorheim: A teen witch who can't spell worth a darn. Cast a spell, that is. Black hair and dark eyes from her Siberian father. Magic is supposed to be from her mother, but it's not working so well for Kat.
• marked the description of Kat Galdorheim as not a spoiler

MarvaDasef edited the awards of Missing, Assumed Dead Saturday, August 6, 2011.

• Added an award: You Gotta Read Covers July winner
• Added category of an award: You Gotta Read Covers July winner Cover art
• Added year of an award: You Gotta Read Covers July winner 2011
• Added month of an award: You Gotta Read Covers July winner July
• Added ranking of an award: You Gotta Read Covers July winner 1

MarvaDasef edited the organizations of Missing, Assumed Dead Saturday, August 6, 2011.

• Added a organization: White Power Groups: Eastern Oregon and Idaho is a favorite area to various Aryan Nation and White Power groups.
• marked the description of White Power Groups as not a spoiler

MarvaDasef edited the settings of Missing, Assumed Dead Saturday, August 6, 2011.

• changed the overview: Malheur County is the easternmost county in Oregon. Sparsely populated, the county is almost entirely high desert sprinkled with dead volcanos, alpine moutains forming its western border. It's a whole lot of nothing where a lot can be hidden.

MarvaDasef edited the characters of Missing, Assumed Dead Saturday, August 6, 2011.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Kameron (Kam) McBride: 30-something professional woman who's put her social life on hold while she works and cares for her crippled mother. When named executor of the estate of a man she's never heard of, her mother urges her to travel to a tiny town in the Oregon high desert country to discover what happened to her long-lost relative.
• marked the description of Kameron (Kam) McBride as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Deputy Mitch Caldwell: Surviving an IED explosion in Iraq, Mitch returns to Oregon to care for his dying half-sister, a full-blood Paiute medicine woman. He takes a job as a Deputy Sheriff in desolate and sparsely populated Malheur County. He finds a lost Kam in the desert and, being a good cop, helps her find her way. When he learns why she has come to Rosewood, he wants to help her solve the mystery and develops deep feelings along the way.
• marked the description of Deputy Mitch Caldwell as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Salvadore Vasco: A Basque shepherd, Salvadore goes missing soon after the woman he loves commits suicide. The big question is who killed Salvadore and why.
• marked the description of Salvadore Vasco as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Judge Leiper: A self-proclaimed "Judge," the small court Justice handling Salvador's estate is all too eager to take the property off Kam's hands. Kam wonders why he'd want a worthless piece of desert.
• marked the description of Judge Leiper as not a spoiler

MarvaDasef edited the summary of Missing, Assumed Dead Saturday, August 6, 2011.

• Synopses give everything away, so I won't do that.

  Prejudice, murder, insanity, suicide: Every small town has its secrets.

  When Kameron McBride receives notice she’s the only living relative of a missing man she’s never even heard of, the last thing she wants to do is head to some half-baked Oregon town to settle his affairs. Her suspicions rise when the probate Judge isn't really a judge and tries too hard to buy the dead man’s worthless property. Kam probes deeper into the town’s secrets and finds almost no one she can trust. Kam must find out what really happened to her dead relative before someone in this backward little town sends her to join him.

  And she thought Oregon was going to be boring.

MarvaDasef edited the ridiculously simplified synopses of Missing, Assumed Dead Saturday, August 6, 2011.

• Added: Executor to estate of a man she never heard of, Kam finds mysteries in a small desert town. Missing or dead?