Nina Smith Author

Oct 20, 20234 min read

Rhymes With Bite Me | Part 2

<< 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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 17, 20234 min read

Rhymes With Bite Me | Part 1

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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 10, 20231 min read

Dress like a Freakin Fairy

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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 2, 20231 min read

Character Spotlight: Emerald

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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 9, 20223 min read

How to make a monster

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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 8, 20225 min read

Not A Soul: Part 3

<< 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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 5, 20223 min read

Not a Soul: Part 2

<<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...

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Nina Smith

Oct 3, 20223 min read

Not a Soul: Part 1

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...

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Nina Smith

Jun 1, 20226 min read

The Beginning (Part 2)

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

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Nina Smith

May 25, 20228 min read

The Beginning (Part 1)

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

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Nina Smith

Apr 24, 20226 min read

The End of Everything

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...

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Nina Smith

Jan 7, 20221 min read

Mapping Shadow (aka the mushroom curse)

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...

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Nina Smith

Aug 31, 20193 min read

Let's Talk About Shadow

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

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Nina Smith

Jun 8, 20182 min read

Ethical Vampirism: A Manifesto

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...

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Nina Smith

Jun 8, 20181 min read

Character Profile: Mort

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...

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Nina Smith

Jun 8, 20181 min read

Misery Reads

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

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