Valerie’s Bibliography
"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. " - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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Setting Boundaries - a novella (The Coming Storm Book 3)1
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Not Magic Enough (The Coming Storm Book 4)1
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Lucky Charm1
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Director's Cut (The Millersburg Quartet Book 3)1
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A Convocation of Kings (The Coming Storm Book 2)1
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Not Magic Enough and Setting Boundaries Boxed Set (The Coming Storm Book 4)1
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Heart of the Gods (Servant of the Gods Book 2)1
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Nike's Wings1
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The Girl in the Window1
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Irish Fling (The Millersburg Quartet Book 1)1
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The Last Resort1
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Song of the Fairy Queen1
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Two Up (The Millersburg Quartet Book 4)1
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Click - A Novella1
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Dirty Politics (The Millersburg Quartet Book 2)1
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Shades1
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The Coming Storm1
A Home for the Holidays
NEW! A Home for the Holidays – Part of the Millersburg Quartet A free short story.
read moreNew books available on all platforms
I’ve recently released a set of books to multiple platforms, and I can’t wait to share them with you. So, from today, available on Smashwords, Nook, iBooks and Kobo – The Millersburg Quartet, Shades and The Offering Museum. You can also get all of them on Amazon, as usual. Millersburg Quartet Book 1 Amazon – Kobo – B&N – Smashwords – Itunes Millersburg Quartet Book 2 Amazon – Kobo – B&N – Smashwords – Itunes Millersburg Quartet Book 3 Amazon – Kobo...
read more#MeToo – Abuse, Domestic Violence, Rape ‘fantasies’ & Trigger Warnings
Synchronicity is a strange animal. The Michael Weinstein exploded about a month after this was posted. Prior to that a question had come up on Facebook – in books where a primary part of the plotline is abuse, domestic or sexual violence is it necessary to start with the gory details? On another thread a rather harsh discussion took place regarding rape in an ‘erotic’ novel. The quotation marks around erotic are deliberate – and pertinent to a recent change on Smashwords as recounted on their blog. Because of the...
read moreSong of the Fairy Queen – New Cover
When last I posted, I didn’t know what the new cover would look like. I loved the old cover and wasn’t sure what to expect from the new cover. I didn’t know if that cover I loved so much could be matched.It was not only matched, it was exceeded, and I’m not the only one who thinks so! What do you think? Isn’t it incredible? I said then that I would name the cover artist when I saw the new cover. Major Kudos to the folks at Damonza.com! You can find the new edition at...
read moreSong of the Fairy Queen – New cover?
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison So, like most writers, that’s what I did. I love fantasy but I’d run out of books I wanted to read, stories of action, adventure, magic and – yes – passion. Something between Stardust and Game of Thrones. I love Gaiman’s mix of adventure and romance, and I loved G. R. R. Martin’s political intrigue and action. What surprises and puzzles me is the criticism...
read moreHistory and how it should influence fantasy writers
When I began the prequel to The Coming Storm/A Convocation of Kings some of the research I’d done on Egyptian society for the Servant of the Gods series – particularly how influential the Nubians were – came into play withsome major characters. I knew there had to be other African cultures I hadn’t learned about – especially knowing how much native history tended to be overlooked by European nations. (Forgive me for taking some liberties with those societies, not with the essentials, but combining them to further...
read moreIn keeping with Valentine’s Day – who is my favorite fictional couple?
I’ve probably had dozens over the years, as a teenager I read a pretty diverse mix of books from the classics to science fiction (which, if they featured women at all, they made them male sex fantasies) to fantasy (Tolkien’s mentioned Arwen only briefly, but Eowyn was stellar) and a few standard romances (which were pretty unrealistic prince/millionaire types). The old classical writers knew a relationship was essential to a story – Anne, Constance, and Milady De Winter were essential to The Musketeers....
read moreThere are those who say writers shouldn’t insert politics into their writing…
To those folks I say, “Oh please! I blow raspberries in your general direction”. Have you read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol? He was using his writer’s bully pulpit to bring attention to the poor, and how they were kept that way through ignorance (lack of public education). Or on the opposite side, Tom Clancy – a known conservative whose political views informed all his writing. To find myself the subject of a political ‘intervention’, though, was more than a little shocking. After all, in this...
read moreAn Optimist on 2016 – A Year in Review…It Sucked. Bring on 2017.
As an optimistic realist (yes, you can be both), I’ve always preferred the view out of the windshield to the one in the rearview mirror. To be honest, though, on a personal and political level 2016 set new depths of suckage. ⇐⇐⇐Yeah, it was like that. I’m so glad it’s behind us now. 2016 started out okay. I had and have a great marriage and was working my way through a new story after a dry spell. Yay me! I’d been typing a lot – often with a cat in my lap – so the lower back pain when I took my husband to...
read moreI write fantasy for grownups
Writers are frequently told to write what they want to read. I want to read fantasy for grown-ups – in other words for people over age twenty-one. I want to read fantasy where people have complex, healthy relationships and *gasp* sex. Not G.R.R.Martin sex where incest and rape are the primary forms – nothing against George R. R., and I get what he was saying about the culture. On the other hand, in the medieval period, people did have good relationships. There were arranged marriages but they actually and frequently turned out to...
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Valerie Douglas is a prolific writer and genre-crosser, much to the delight of her fans. She reads and writes classic fantasy, romance, suspense, and as 
