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Long Hours

The Hidden Scepter: Time Series (book 3)

The last four years have been quite an adventure writing the 3rd book in my Time Series. It’s gone through revisions, complete deletions, and now the editing process is in full swing. Even though it is 3rd in a series, the story itself circles back around in parts to the first two books. Because of this, when The Hidden Scepter comes out this coming November 2026, books 1, 2, and 3 will be a trilogy within a series. The name of the trilogy will be The Sapphire Trilogy. Then I will begin writing the next trilogy in the Time Series.

Future Projects

My co-author and I have also been working on another short story collection. We’re about six stories deep and going strong. Updates on that will follow later this year. Also stirring in our minds is a cozy mystery. I started that one, was deep in chapter 1, then deleted it and set it aside. Why? Because I felt it could be better than what was there. After re-reading it, it sounded too blah to me. It needed a better setting. It needed more of a hook. So that book is brewing on the back burner of my mind and will be for while.

I hope the rest of your week goes well, and all the best to all of you.

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Lights of Fantasy Presents

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Books Are Beautiful

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Lights of Fantasy: A Collection of Short Stories by L. M. Montes

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Out Now

For those of you who have seen and read my short stories I posted on this blog in the past, as you know, I deleted them off of here so I could put them all together into a collection and publish them. Well…..I published my collection of short stories. They came available on Amazon today February 9, 2024. The link is below.

However, I slightly changed some of the stories that had been on this blog. Plus, I added new short stories never published on this sight. I hope you check them out. Have fun reading.

This collection of short stories holds a mixture of fantasy, mystery, and intrigue, so dive into some mind-gripping strangeness that will leave you scratching your head and wondering. Find out what happens when you are never happy with what you have in The Moving Room. Be careful, you just might find out you’re someone else in Time’s Illusion. Have you ever seen eyes in a pool, and they’re following you? You will in Lights of Fantasy. Sometimes treasures are meant to stay hidden in Time’s Wind. Jump into these and other fantastical stories. Your fate awaits you.

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Long Life

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

The idea of living a very long life would make for a great fictional story. You’re giving me ideas. Hmmmm. I feel a short story itching at my brain.

My New Short Stories Page

I have created a new page for my short stories. There you will find all of my short stories listed with all of their parts. As I was going through all of my posts, I realized how difficult it might be for my readers to find all parts to my short stories due to the fact that I write them in parts. Add to that the fact that I wait a few days before posting another part, making it hard to find for readers new to my blog. SO…..what I did was create a page for just my short stories. I will still post them in parts every few days as usual on my blog. BUT at the same time I will also post a part on the short stories page so all parts can be read without the thrill of the hunt through over 500 other blog posts. You can find my short stories page by clicking the button below.