Nina Smith | Author

<< Rhymes with Bite Me Part 1 “You shouldn’t let her bully you like that, you know.” Vlad shrugged and kicked a rock down the street. It...

Vlad the Moon Trooper dropped the fairy he’d been drinking from and gave a deep sigh. The fairy, unperturbed, got to his feet and...

Need a costume idea this Halloween? Why not dress like a Freakin Fairy? If you've read the Shadow series, you may have noted that Freakin...

Emerald of the Green Dragon Dancer Tribe. Yeah, you've seen her. She's that girl lurking in the forest, all blonde curls and curves and...

Let's talk about monsters. Because like, Halloween is the perfect time to talk about those, right? There are a few monsters in the Shadow...

<< Not A Soul Part 2 Flower screwed up her nose. “Approved for transport to – what? Oh.” She lurched to her feet and tore the paper in...

<<Not a Soul Part 1 The shadows were so deep now she had to weave a path through them, out of the tenements, and then quickly down the...

Flower delayed a moment before she put down her quill. A year ago, she’d never have dared write such a letter, but now desperation drove...

The Beginning (Part 1) They crept down the stairs, tense and wary. Rainbow leaned on the brothers heavily after wrenching her ankle...

The war seemed very far away. The chapel of Mnemosyne, warmed by a crackling fire in the black stone hearth, glowed with the flickering...

They swept in from The Darkness by the hundreds. Maybe thousands. She couldn’t tell, couldn’t count, could barely see. She could not set...

Here's a map of Shadow. You might notice, if you look closely, that the coastal regions appear to have been named by a somewhat fearful...

So I've been pretty absent around here lately. Between working, producing dance shows and plunging head first into a desert adventure...

Hi, my name is Vlad! Hey, man. How are you? No, I mean really? Everything okay? If not, you want to talk about it? Seriously, I'm here to...

Let me introduce you to Mort. He's going to loom large in Shadow for a little while, the way men in ragged robes that hang out in dodgy...

I am thrilled to announce that Shadow Book 4: The Last Blasted Fairy is officially live and available to download on your kindle here....