HoC Magic

In the HoC (House of Cards) series, magic has flare! 

The illustrations below is what magic generally

looks like coming out of your hands or M.U.F. as a magick citizen (up to rank 9).

You will have the misty hue of your suit and star sparkles (to symbolize you are a magick).

If you are a Heart:

Double Heart

Heart/Diamond

Heart/Club

Heart/Spade

If you are a Diamond:

    Double Diamond

 Diamond/Heart

Diamond/Club

  Diamond/Spade

If you are a Club:

Double Club

Club/Heart

Club/Diamond

Club/Spade

If you are a Spade:

Double Spade

Spade/Heart

Spade/Diamond

Spade/Club

However, if you bump up in rank (passed a 9) sometimes your magic will gather more flare.

Realm Keepers (Rank 10)

Will have blue & purplish hue to their mist. Along with white glowing regular stars, they will have white crescent moons.

Jokers (Rank JK)

Remain the same as their peers to blend in. They are spies after all!

Wild Cards (Rank WC)

 

Can use ANY of the main suits magic! (Hence 'wild card')

Jacks & Jacquelins (Rank J)

Actually stay the same as Rank 9 and lower. Why? Protection purposes. The sun symbol won't come out until they are crowned as the reining king/queen.

Kings & Queens (Rank K & Q)

Will have their normal suit color and symbols BUT they will have stars, crescent moons, and suns to their mix of symbols. The example here is of the royal Heart magic.

If someone's magic is different than this, it could mean many things. Perhaps they studied abroad, not every country has the same type of magic. There's also the possibility someone's been cursed/hexed.

But there you have it, the American card magic for all of you who were curious.

-T. Erickson

HoC 4 is OUT!!!

Yes! It's finally out and ready for reading!

Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NABUW69/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1480291627&sr=1-6&keywords=Michelle+Erickson


Enjoy! :D


-T.Erickson

HoC 4 Udate

Hello All,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I update facebook, but I don't update here as often. Gotta fix that!

In any case 44/52 chapters are complete for the final go through for book 4! I have 5 more illustrations to do and the art will be complete.

So, hopefully, the book will come out Thanksgiving weekend! :D


-T. Erickson

Book 4 Update - 7th draft

Hello All,

We were handed back the copy from our first pre-reader. Yay! Mom's finished fixing all the small mistakes. Now we need to discuss cutting chapters and rearranging a few events to make it flow better.

More good news, I've completed all 52 RDs! Now I'm doing the Line Art (or LA). I'm on 18/52. Some of them are really detailed, others are simple. Some have more than 1 subject in them so it gives the readers more to look at.

Mom is also having her books uploaded to other places now: Kobo, Nook, iTunes, 24 Symbols, Page Foundry, Scribd, Toline. (HoC series will be added later.)


Keep happy,

-T. Erickson

HoC Bk 4 Update!

Hello Everyone,

There's a lot going on. We're still working on the 3rd RD of book 4. We're working on setting everything up just right. 
Soooo...we're probably not going to get the book out in June. (Sorry! :( But you understand, you wouldn't want to give someone a half baked pie.) Hopefully we'll have it out by the end of July.

I've got a long list of illustrations to do, 41 so far. Could develop into more. (YIKES!)

Meanwhile, have a funny sketch I did with Sarah and Taps discussing Tippi (tight pants): 

Hope it tickled your funny bone. It made me smile. :D

-T.Erickson

Siren Call - Cover, Sneak Peek!

Well Ladies and Gents,

Here's HoC bk 4's cover!

That's Sarah on the front. She's looking back at Ransom, her date. She's wearing a special pair of gloves to make her dress more formal. You might recognize the roses in her hair from book two, they were a gift.
Does she look a little different? Her hair has gone from brown to blonde. Why? You'll find out inside the story.

The car behind her is a Rolls Royce limo. And yes, the driver knows exactly what they're doing! It's a SUITE car, and if you've read the series, then you know what this baby can do. BUT, it's not the limo that first chased her. This particular limo is grey.

Behind her is an ice cream parlor: Good E's Ice Cream Shoppe. It's special today is: Rocky Road. (I thought it was a fun gag.)


Hope that tickles your speculation until we can get the book out. We're hoping for June. But we'll see how fast I can get the inside illustrations done.

-T. Erickson