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A Journey with Dragons

I have always loved fantasy, paranormal and romance. I love reading it. I love writing it. When I started writing my I knew this would be more than just vampire stories. In my world vampires were truly evil. Carpathian warriors, immortals of a sort, fought evil, including vampires, but if they didn’t find their lifemate the males could turn vampire. What else was different? All of my Carpathians could shapeshift. They could use the earth and elements to heal themselves or create things, like clothing.
It didn’t take long to introduce psychics, mages, monsters and dragons.

And just wait until you see what's in store in !
Because Carpathians could shapeshift, many of them chose the form of dragons. But, like other animals they can shift into, dragons existed on their own. They were rare, but they existed.
In we meet a real dragon that gives over his magic, and form, to a Carpathian warrior named Danutdaxton (Dax).
The series has some Carpathians known as “Dragonseekers�. Razvan in , Dominic in , Tatjiana in and the list goes on. Dragons will always be part of this series in some way.
In my real life I’ve always loved dragons and I have some that are crystals and some that are drawings. Most people who know me, know I love them as well as I love wolves and leopards. So, when I learned about 3D printing and got a printer it was a natural thing for me to learn to print dragons.

First, let me say that I am not the most technologically knowledgeable person. If you’ve watched any of my Facebook Live events, you know that. Lol
I took the time to teach myself how to use the printers. Although in learning, and even now, I come out with some beautiful but slightly imperfect dragons. Still I love it…most of the time. So, I got another printer and talked to my daughter, Manda, about it and she got one. This was going to be something we could together and talk about. It would be fun.
As time went by, I made more and more dragons, most of which went to charity events. But, when it was suggested that I make some for San Diego Comic Con I realized that I wanted to make unique and exclusive dragons that would be solely mine and that I wanted to create a dragon for each of my characters in the Dark series.
You can imagine my surprise when the 70 dragons I sent to ComicCon sold out in three days!
Since was already selling merchandise for my series and that of my son , I thought it might be fun to sell the dragons there.

Each dragon represents a character in one of my Dark series novels. I started with the first four books in the series � Dark Prince, Dark Desire, Dark Gold and Dark Magic. Most recently, I created the dragons for all of the tarot-themed books. You can see all of the dragons here on .
I hired two 3D print artists to create print files using my concept ideas for dragons. We started with “Stone Dragons� of which there are 3 types � Large standing dragons, long dragons and baby dragons. But once I got to Gregori’s book I knew he had to be a “Wolf Dragon� so I sent concept ideas to the artists and had those created.

and are both from Brazil and are the two artists I worked with to help bring my dragons to 3D printer life. They are amazing and so willing to work with me and answer all my questions.
We are working on Leopard Dragons now and I’m so excited to see them.
I created a lily dragon and peony dragon as well. And of course, Dax would be special since he is merged with a real dragon. And finally, for Dark Hope, we have a very special .

Tatijana and Branislava were already ice and fire dragons so I had those created specifically for them. If you look at the Feehan and Co landing page you’ll see some of the special dragons including Tatijana and Branislava.
It was exciting to see the dragons go up on the site. And equally as exciting to see them sell out so fast! I can honestly say that I wasn’t prepared for that, though I was hoping they would be popular.
Now I’m making more and starting to add additional characters. Since will be out in January, I now have included all of the characters from the tarot books- .
I’ll continue to add new dragons/characters every couple of months or so. After the tarot book characters I’ll go back to doing them in chronological order. So the next four books would be � Dark Challenge, Dark Fire, Dark Dream (out now) and Dark Legend.
There are 38 stories in that series and by the end of January there will be 12 books that have dragons assigned to the characters.
The great thing about having this hobby is that I can start the print and then go and write for hours at a time. Once they get going it doesn’t consume my time but it still ties in with my imagination and stories. It feels like an extension of the stories and I’m so happy to share that with readers.
I hope people enjoy the dragons. They come with a collector card and a certificate of authenticity. Each one is imprinted with my logo. I make them myself and their design comes from my imagination.

Let me know if you have any questions. I’m always happy to know what interests you!
Published on December 10, 2024 14:03
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Dark Hope Word Search

I hope you have fun playing!
You can play online

You can download a PDF or print the puzzle
Published on January 09, 2025 10:15
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Spreading Some Love

First I want to thank all of my readers who went out and got the first week of release! Dark Hope was #12 on the New York Times and #6 on the Apple Books list.
Dark Hope was also my 100th published full-length novel! Can you believe it? I started in 1999 with .
I am excited to share that several of my Dark Series books are on $1.99 on Kindle right now! It's like Valentine's Day came early! lol

I'm curios to know what your first Dark series book was, or your favorite.
Published on February 04, 2025 14:51
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