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Sunflowers! Bright, Beautiful, and featured in today’s Novel Magic post by author Jeny Heckman. Read all about Sunflowers and how they connect to Jeny’s new book, Dee’s Cornucopia– Released August 4 . Grab your copy today! And find the link to the newest Giveaway from N.N. Light’s Book Heaven. Sunflowers in the design of Dee’s Cornucopia by Jeny Heckman Greek Mythology is such a giving source of inspiration for many aspects of our modern life. The never-ending soap opera-like saga of Greek gods and Greek Goddesses was the inspiration of my fantasy paranormal Heaven & Earth Series. Dee’s Cornucopia is a novella telling the story of Dee Taylor, the beloved grandmother who started the Quest in our modern lives when she communed with Demeter the Greek Goddess of Harvest and Agriculture.  Dee is a grower! She can grow anything! She has a nursery in Hawaii called Dee’s Cornucopia and also happens to be a descendant of Demeter! The sunflowers are the sto...

Novel Magic features a YA fantasy this week– The Lost Chord by Lyndi Alexander. I’m excited for you to learn about this book and the inspiration behind the main character. Also, note the link to Arms Around ASD , a resource center providing therapies for people on the autism spectrum. Meet the Inspiration for Bee Warrick by Lyndi Alexander I have a daughter on the autism spectrum. She is not Rain Man. What she is, though, is uncannily intuitive. She often seems to be listening (and even conversing) with someone I clearly can’t see. I can make a mental wish that she would do something like turn off her light—and she will without my even saying it. She has a whole separate world where she lives part-time and is incredibly happy. She bursts into peals of laughter without any explanation. It’s kind of amazing. It’s also the inspiration for The Lost Chord , a YA fantasy novel I wrote about an autistic girl who travels through multiple dimensions to help a professor of music save...