Ginger Li

Ever wonder what Lia and Kieren from my Light and Fire Series look like?

It's confession time. This week I did a tiny bit of editing... and a LOT of map-making. Check out this map I drew of Solair. Fantasy Map of Solair Pretty neat, huh? I really enjoyed the process of creating this map. It helped to make the places in my Light and Fire novels  come to life. And can you believe this was my first time drawing a digital map? Yup! There's this super-nifty webpage called Inkarnate  that allows you to design and create maps for free. It's super intuitive and easy-to-use. You can also pay a small fee for fancier designs and more features. I'm debating about trying out the paid option to create beautiful parchment-style maps for the boxset. Well, alrighty then. I just wanted to pop in and share this lovely image. Now, back to writing!

My debut novel,  Half-Blood Mage  is finally out!  To celebrate, I thought I'd give you a sneak peek into some of the decisions I made along the way... especially the decisions regarding Lia's race and my cover design.  Should Lia be Asian? Honestly, I debated whether to make Lia Asian at all. Her "Asian-ess" (in this case, I imagined her to be half-Taiwanese, half-Caucasian) doesn't really have anything to do with her story. She doesn't speak another language. I don't really bring up her multiracial upbringing that often. And her mixed-background isn't super important to her story arc. Lia could honestly look like anyone. Or have any background. The only key feature she needed to have was heterochromia.  But here's the reason why I made Lia Asian: I'm Asian. My parents are originally from Taiwan. And I married an Asian man. So I've experienced life through a very Asian American perspective.  Su...

Enjoy reading?  Want to get your hands on a FREE, advanced copy of Half-Blood Mage ? Image from Chase Clark I'm looking for readers to join my ARC team. I'll send you a copy of Half-Blood Mage sometime next week and if you love the book, I ask that you leave an honest review on Amazon. That's it! You read it. You like it? You review it.  Your reviews are helpful in making the novel more visible and attractive to other potential readers. If you're interested, email me: ginger.li.writes at gmail.com! Thank you for all your support!

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It's here! It's here!   Here's the cover for Half-Blood Mage , the first book in my debut Light and Fire series!  It's coming out 1/15/20. Pre-order on Amazon now! *********** A cursed dragon hunter A half-blood mage An attraction that threatens to light the world on fire Seventeen-year-old Lia keeps having the same terrifying nightmare: A handsome, silver-eyed boy visits her, transforms into a dragon, and then begs for her to kill him. Lia chalks up the nightmare to an overactive imagination. Until the day Kieren, the silver-eyed boy from her dreams, arrives on her doorstep and shatters everything she’s ever believed.   Turns out that other parallel worlds do exist. And Lia’s not your typical high school student. Her parents hail from Solair and Earth—two very different worlds—making Lia a half-blood and one of the last remaining magic-wielding mages. As one of Solair’s dragon hunters, Kieren’s battled his fair share of monsters. But...