Kathryn McConaughy's Feast of Adventures

This month I've been working madly on Overpowered-related stories, including a sequel ("Revealer of Hidden Things," a Snow Queen/East of the Moon West of the Sun fairy tale) and several short pieces giving backstory for my favorite characters. This snippet is from the backstory of Fig, one of my favorite "dwarves."  Additional parts will appear as I write them. Pruner-of-Vines sat under the bramble and looked at the creature.   It was not very big for one of the dmutot-el , though it was bigger than the cubs he sometimes found crying alone in the bushes.   Its skin was pale and bare, not like the skin of a Proper Person, and the fur on its head was black and straight.   It wore a cloth around its waist.   Pruner didn’t know why.   Most of the dmutot-el seemed to wear them; perhaps they were ashamed because they hadn’t any tails.             Pruner thought that the dmutot-el were...

As part of the book-listing and -advertising process, I've been working on my long (150-300 word) blurbs for Overpowered, and I have to say... hardest  writing experience  ever. It took me much longer to write each of my blurbs than to write a similar amount of the actual story, and none of them were even close to the 300-word goal.  (Do you guys know of any good blurb-writing guides or tips?  Post them below.  Seriously.  I would be VERY grateful.) Ultimately, the Magic Mirrors crew and I picked the best of the blurbs for my paperback, and I ended up using yet another in the book descriptions on Amazon and Smashwords.  But that left several blurbs now relegated to blurb limbo.  I agree that they're not as blurb-like as the others, since they're constructed of story quotes.  Still, I thought y'all might enjoy them... and through them, enjoy meeting my villain and my heroine. Enter the Avenger The Avenger of Blood reached Refug...