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My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives Progress Update

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – I just made progress on Magic Arrives! Read how I’m writing it and get a free book below. I give a complete status update for you below.

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My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – The Snowflake Method

My First Fantasy Book

I rediscovered the Book Progress app in Word Press and I decided to use it to report on the progress of my first fantasy book, with the working title, Magic Arrives. The app asked me about my writing method and I decided the Snowflake method is the closest to my process. I work on multiple parts at a time. Here’s the overall structure:

  • Story StructureDone!
  • CharactersDone!
  • Scene ListDone!
  • First DraftDone!
  • EditingIn progress
  • Proofing – To do

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – Story Structure

My First Fantasy Book

So far I’m 100% complete on the Story Structure phase. I’ve captured my plot for this book, and the next two books in the triology.

Have a preview of the spines of the trilogy here.

My First Fantasy Book Magic Arrives – Characters

I just made progress on Magic Arrives! So far I’m 100% complete on the Characters phase. I’ve got about 71 characters so far, including magical dragons, talking dogs, gorillas, and intelligent dolls.

Magic Arrives Progress – Scene List

I just made progress on Magic Arrives! So far I’m 6% complete on the Scene List phase. That’s 6 out of 100 scenes.

Progress – First Draft Words

I’m done with the first draft of Magic Arrives! I’m 100% complete. That’s roughly 112,00 words out of my goal of 100,000. Oops. Overshot.

What remains to be done

I’m done with the self-edit. I sent it to my editor, Dori Harrell. She did the line editing. I’m going through that NOW. Then Dori will do the final proofing.

I’ll created the front cover, back cover and spine with my illustrator, Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan.

Here are the covers:

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My First Fantasy Book
Front and back Cover of Magic Arrives

Then there’s the small matter of uploading it to Amazon and publishing it there. Finally, I order paperback copies so you can get your copy here, directly from me, as less than Amazon.

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Free Secret Supers for You Today!

Secret Supers audiobook cover

Free Secret Supers for you on the eleventh day of Christmas! Check out the free excerpts and click to get your copy. Offer ends on January 8th.

Secret Supers audiobook cover
Secret Supers audiobook

So let’s quickly get you your gift: click here to get your free Kindle ebook copy of Secret Supers.

Note: Your book is only free from January 4th-8th. Don’t let it slip by! It reverts to .99 outside of that time period.

What is my book all about? It’s a classic about how four teens get different superpowers. But they’re all in a special ed class with different disabilities. Eventually, they decide they must use their powers to fight crime.

Wouldn’t you fight crime if you got superpowers?

You Can Get Secret Supers – As An Audiobook

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If you’re in the UK, you can get my Secret Supers audiobook for free from me by clicking here. I give free audiobooks to all my newsletter subscribers. UK members get my other seven audiobooks too.

If you’re elsewhere in the world go to Audible and join up and you get my audiobooks free as part of Audible.

You see, I’ve given away so many free Audible books, I have no more left–in the US Audible server.

You Can Get Secret Supers – What Readers Think

Another winner by Andy Zach!

Overall    5 out of 5 stars

Performance    5 out of 5 stars

Story    5 out of 5 stars

Unique and wonderful book for young people. Kids see a whole new side of kids with special needs. Not weird. Just kids who are facing a different sort of challenge than they are. The story is fun and believable. It kept me interested, and I’m an old lady!

You Can Get Secret Supers – And the next book for $2.99

2021 Reviews Villain's Vacation Book
Villain’s Vacation Audio book

Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals.

Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town. Little do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy the villain.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains? You can only find out by reading the adventure ‘Villain’s Vacation’.

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What Do Readers say?

Secret Supers are back for another adventure!

Hamster on computer

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022

In this sequel to Secret Supers, Jeremy has been experimenting on his hamster. As a result, Dancer has learned how to read, and is reading everything he can to learn about the human world. When Jeremy discovers this, he gets Dancer one of his old cell phones so Dancer can text the group.

As for the superhero business, the group needs some downtime and goes on vacation to Coaster World. What they don’t realize is that the villain they defeated also loves roller coasters and wants revenge against the Secret Supers.

Will the Secret Supers be able to defeat the villain and enjoy their vacation, or are their crime-fighting days numbered?

This was a fun sequel to Secret Supers. Not only did we have Andy Zach as a character in the book, as though the events were true and actually happened, but I loved the inclusion of a Super-Hamster helping out Jeremy and his friends. In this battle against the villain, the Secret Supers struggle, as the villain seems to have figured out how to neutralize their powers, and they not only have to call in support but also reveal themselves to some non-Supers.

The action was well-paced throughout, and the mystery of the identity of the villain was well-done. While I had suspicions, I wasn’t sure before the reveal, which was nice. If you enjoyed Secret Supers, I feel confident that you will also enjoy Villain’s Vacation.

For this book, I listened to the audiobook, which was narrated by Michael Stafford. This was a different narrator from The Secret Supers, which was a little odd to my ears at first, but I think that was only because I had listened to Secret Supers so 

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Tell Me What you Think!

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Let me know what you think by clicking here or emailing me at [email protected]. As always, everyone who responds with a comment or email will get a free book from me.

You can get an autographed copy of Villain’s Vacation directly from me by clicking here. Free shipping and I pay the sales tax. Or click here and get your Secret Supers autographed copy.

Or you can get Villain’s Vacation on Amazon for $2.99 or 12.95. ($2.99 if you don’t get it right away.)

Don’t forget you can pick up your free copy of Secret Supers here from July 6th to 8th.

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2026 Future Predictions & Free Books – 10th Day of Christmas

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2026 Future Predictions
Front and back Cover of Magic Arrives

2026 Future Predictions & Free Books – All for the 10th day of Christmas.

What’s ahead in 2026? First, I plan to publish my much-delayed first fantasy book, Magic Arrives. Grab your free copy of the ARC right here! (Clickety-click).

But that’s not all!

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The Last Half of Your Gifts!Best of 2025

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2026 Future Predictions – Secret Supers Afloat

2026 Future Predictions
The Secret Supers Series So Far

My second best-selling book is Secret Supers. It’s all about the adventures of four disabled teens who get superpowers.

I followed that with Villain’s Vacation, an adventure at a coaster park with their worst enemy.

The third installment was Secret Supers in Space. In it, the four teens go to space camp. Then they’re hijacked into outer space.

Now in Secret Supers Afloat, the teens fix up an old houseboat and go on an adventure up the Ohio River. Too bad they run into a murderous international drug ring.

2026 Future Predictions – Where I’m Going

I plan to go to comic cons and author events in 2026. Here’s my schedule so far. Green means I expect to go. Orange means maybe I’ll go.

1/10/2026WashingtonILUSASteam Into StorylandThis year, the event will run from 9:30am to 2:30pm that Saturday.  
2/21/2025ChillicotheILUSAThank you for applying for a table at Chillicothe Public Library’s Local Author Fair! We will notify you by (or before) February 6, 2026, whether or not we have a spot for you this year.
2/21/2026PeoriaIL  USAQuadconNorthwoods Mall
3/7/2026PeoriaILUSAPeoriaConPeoriaCon
6/6/2026BurlingtonIAUSAQuadconJune 6  Burlington IA  Westland Mall
6/12/2026TremontILILTremont Turkey FestivalTremont IL 6/12-14/2026
7/17/2026PeoriaILUSAQuadconJuly 17-18 Peoria Northwoods Mall

2026 Future Predictions – More Books After Magic Arrives

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Magic Arrives, Magic Wars, and Magic Rules spine art

I’ve got two more books coming in the series: Magic Wars and Magic Rules. I plan to start on Magic Wars this summer!

Here’s some cool spine art, courtesy of my illustrator, Sean Flanagan.

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