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Great tip! Sometimes, as in the first book of my series, the angel feels he is responsible for the virgin however it is she who went looking for him.

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What to do?

Even though it has good reviews I am batteling between removing The Sylph's Tale, the first book of On Wings Of Immortals - series, or just adding the revised-complete version.

Why? The Sylph's Tale was published incomplete. The publicist says they submitted the complete manuscript, but Amazon and D2D say they released the file received but are willing to give those who bought it a free revised-complete version upon publication.

I am extremely grateful to those who like it. Missing chapters are:

My Cross - Chapter III
HAYA - Chapter IV
My Brethren - Chapter VIII
Grant Me Death - Chapter IIX
Dragons of Eternity - X

What say you?

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Myth and the Environmental Crisis

Myth and the Environmental Crisis

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ON WINGS OF IMMORTALS - SERIES

                                                                      Book I

The Sylph’s Tale

A provocative tale about an Archangel seduced by a mystical Virgin

Fantasy/Mythology-approx. 30 thousand words
(revision in progress)

Warning: this story contains sexual elements that might offend the average reader. copyright @2017 by Marta C. Weeks

Beware: The current publication of The Sylph's Tale was published missing text and the largest chapters. Amazon and D2D are willing to give free copies of the complete version when published.

Available on Amazon and D2D 

My Cross - Chapter III

HAYA - Chapter IV

My Brethren - Chapter VIII

Grant Me Death - Chapter IIX

Dragons of Eternity - Chapter X 

Comments: 

"This has imagination and touches on the mythic and spiritual in ways that are not typical.""The Sylph's Tale made for a most unusual read. The choice to format the story more as a series of vignettes from a creation myth. Fallen angels appear in many stories, but it's far less common to see through the angels' own eyes.""The love between a girl from prehistoric days and Ayekah was beautifully told and although this book was too religious to my liking I believe that the next books will probably be more paranormal than biblical."

I am extremely grateful for those who liked it even though it's missing the largest chapters:

The screenplay version of The Sylph's Tale/Ayekah The Damned won third place on ISA, for more information and comments please go to From Paper To Screen: https://www.martacweeks.com/p/screenplays.html

Beware: The original version of The Sylph's Tale was published incomplete. However, Amazon and D2D say they will give free copies of the complete version when published.

Pitch: In prehistoric times, an Angel falls for a pubescent girl escaping a barbarian ritual and after great misery from them are born generations of angel/humans.

Synopsis: In prehistoric times, the Archangel of Light, becomes enthralled with humanity and to escape violating Holy Creeds, hides in a Blackhole for ages but is commanded to return to earth where it finds a primitive tribe. 

After observing them comes upon a marsh and calls it my paradise on earth. It's there that a virgin runs to escape a barbaric ritual. The angel seduced by the virgin is damned for eternity. 

His name becomes Ayekah; he names her Haya. He wants her with him, but she returns to her tribe. Ayekah flees but lost without Haya returns to find she has mysterious powers and a destiny that without him, she cannot fulfill.

Mythology and Historical References

The Sylph’s Tale is loosely based in the history and myth of ancient people Rites, Sacred Spaces, Underworld, and Stone Tablets found in north and Mesoamerica.

The name Ayekah is akin to Genesis 3:9. When after Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, God asked Adam, "where are you" or "ayeka" in Hebrew. 

Also, Samael's fallen angel was the "watchers, holy ones," and they "fell" after they became "enamored" with human women."

Haya the virgin is akin to Samael's counterpart Lilith, who seduces angels and can mean "to live or 'have life," or "to give" or "restore life"; (Genesis 25:6, Joshua 3:10), lively (2 Samuel 23:20), and reviving (Genesis 18:10, 2 Kings 4:16).

The seduction is akin to Nashiym, the Lilim, who seduced the watchers. Samael's counterpart and a mother of demons seen seducing the fallen angels as Naamah; after the fall, they had daughters: "Wholly new in the Kabbalistic concept of Lilith is her appearance as the permanent partner of Samael, queen of the realm of the forces of evil (the Sitra Ahra)."

Book II

AYEKAH THE DAMNED

A passionate and mystical tale about the love between a woman and an angel.

Fantasy/Mythology-approx. 50 thousand words  
(doing final revisions)

After seducing the fallen angels as Naamah; after the fall, they had daughters: "Wholly new in the Kabbalistic concept of Lilith is her appearance as the permanent partner of Samael, queen of the realm of the forces of evil (the Sitra Ahra)."

Synopsis: Ayekah discovers Haya's mysterious powers and a mission that in order to remain with her he must help fulfill. They birth generations of angel/humans and reform her culture. After her death, when not in her crypt, he roams the earth until modern times when she gives him an unusual command.

Book III

VIRGINS

After the fall, they have daughters who set out to change humanity.  

Paranormal - Approx. 50,000 words
(doing final revisions)

Synopsis: The saga of mystery and otherworldly powers continues after generation of female twins are born from Haya’s fetus. One is fertile and gives birth to twins; the other is the watcher and guide.

Like moss on a stone of destiny, they overcome terrifying ordeals. Beautiful and haunting, endowed with a sixth sense, they rebel but cannot deny that their otherworldly encounters are beyond their control. 
Ayekah forms The Retais to safeguard and influence them, but they are fearless, even when confounded by terrifying events and apparitions.

Book IV

ROLO
(doing final revisions)

"And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth." Revelations 12:16."

Paranormal/Science-fiction - Approx. 45,000 words

Synopsis: Powerful forces influence the last born, Rayena and Aryana, each born to one of the last twins. 

To protect them, Ayekah forms The Retais, a powerful organization, as Ray becomes a Geneticist and Ary, a Parapsychologist. 

Ayekah tries to protect them from Sigrud Liera (Sig), a scientist of unknown origin, who uses Tardell, his powerful organization, to control Ray and Ary as he infiltrates The Retais.

Ray builds a research site near Rio San Juan to head a cloning project. There she battles with good and evil and is besieged by the unknown when she captures a unique species of Salamander; she names ROLO. She aims to heal illnesses, but Sig wants ROLO to birth human mutants.

Ary, compelled to stop Ray, enlists the help of Alex, a movie producer, and Ray’s lover. However, days before the 1992 hurricane Mitch, Sig makes Ray, Ary, and himself a living part of the first human/android, ROLO. Not even Ayekah can save Ray and ROLO as they disappear in waters of destruction.

Book V

Maculatum

Synopsis:  In a battle for eternal life between greed and magical powers, humankind almost becomes extinct. Ray and Ary join forces to infiltrate Tardell and destroy ancestral shackles that keep them bound to a destiny they come to refute.

BIO

Marta C. Weeks' love for tales started in childhood when limited by polio she read and dreamt of becoming a dancer and author. Her favorite reading place was the attic of grandparents' store by a small barred window, under a light bulb strung from the ceiling. After high school, she became a model and dancer. 

While a stay-at-home mom, she took college classes, hosted a TV show, taught dancing, and volunteered as a counselor. Her 30-year career started as a clerk and for the last twenty years was a Research Analyst.  

The Sylph's Tale won a third-place ISA award. A few of her poems were finalists at the San Francisco 2012 writers' conference. Her articles are published on Examiner.com and CBS Sacramento.

Marta and her husband live in the foothills of Northern California. They have many interests and a large family. He helps her edit, likes filming and photography. When not writing or developing her skills, she likes to read, dance, and social media. They also spend time with family and traveling. 

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Hi and welcome! : Poem: Buckle: Buckle Let us not buckle  Under greed, vulgarity and pomposity Oh God help us not believe  You are on the side of rioters Abus...

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Poem: Buckle

Buckle

Let us not buckle 

Under greed, vulgarity and pomposity

Oh God help us not believe 

You are on the side of rioters

Abusers, greed and self-servers

Help us stand strong 

And return our country

To the respect and glory 

That led our forefathers 

To leave homeland and ancestry

Cross the oceans

To build a nation 

Not for pomp and powdered classes

But for freedom and equality

Jesus, Moses, Mohamed and Buddha

Rise amongst our people

Give us strength and purpose

For the time has come

To end immorality, greed and vanity

Ruling and toppling our nation

From the top of Lady Liberty’s flame

Into mire and stench.

By @MartaCWeeks2/5/2020

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Hi and welcome! : New poem: Greener

Hi and welcome! : New poem: Greener: Greener If your heart quivers For someone other Than whom your with Tell it that the other side Is only greener Until the f...

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New poem: Greener

Greener

If your heart quivers

For someone other

Than whom your with

Tell it that the other side

Is only greener

Until the fence is climbed

Or the gate is broken

And then

The true colors

Of disappointed longing

Or new flavors embraced

Turn into longings

One being greener than the other

In its commitment

For life is more than colors

And the heart beats

Not just in red

But in the passing of time

When what you want now

Becomes what you

Want no more

The self loses it’s soul

Hunger becomes a vice

And in looking

You lose who you are

And become the prey

Or predator

Of whims and dreams

Of what could have been 

Unfulfilled with longings 

That become the new

Lost and not found.

@MartaCWeeks

2/4/2020

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We are back!

On Monday, we returned from our 15 days Panama Canal cruise and ten days of travel from Florida to Cincinnati, visiting my husband's siblings and their families. It was a grand vacation, but I long to return to Europe in particular to Lalin, Spain; that has a story I will tell soon.

During the cruise, while at sea, John edited and made significant contributions and suggestions on VIRGINS, book three of the series. He is not into holding back critiques to make me feel good and why I trust him. Also, an avid and very picky reader, so when he said, "you need to write a series about the men,"  I was surprised and more when he added, "I enjoyed reading it" and "look forward to book four."  That's ROLO, which I will give him in two weeks after he has knee surgery, and work gets done in our home that was scheduled for after we got back from our travels.

Also, reviews from other authors, the information I am reading, and online classes, have ushered in ideas on plot and story that I am excited to implement and write. Soooo, busy, busy busy!

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Starting Ayekah The Damned with inciting incident in The Sylph’s Tale

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SM and trying to write and publish

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How plot twists affect a story

I found this article on Creating Plot Twists reassuring because, in a pivotal chapter of Ayekah the Damned, secrets are revealed, and all changes when a young virgin runs into the Archangel of Light's paradise. He falls for her,  she is empowered while he is damned.

Fiction University: Expect the Unexpected: Creating Plot Twists: By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy I'm up against a deadline this month to get a manuscript finished, so I'm dipping into the archi...

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How was your Turkey day?

Last and this year I insisted on us hosting Thanksgiving. Craved the feel of family and love on my spaces! The patter of little feet and voices of those I love resonate inside our walks. The fussing in a kitchen that now only John and I use. But, like the song goes “that’s over now.” I informed family that I give it back to them. Not that it wasn’t fun!

Its so much nicer and easier for family and both of us to go to our kids or grandkids homes. We live far from everyone and those who like to host do such a bang up job! I used to be like that and now I am puttered out and that’s ok. Lesson learned although last year it was great fun, most of my girls even belly danced!

Today I am finally wooing into the nitty greedy of what I, other than our family, love the most: my writing!

 While doing edits and revisions on book 2, Ayekah the Damned, third draft I am also creating, for each chapter, a synopsis, character list and main events notes. Yes it’s taking time but I am a perfectionist and because it’s a four book series - so far - the information serves as great reference. John (my nit picky and fearless husband) is editing the complete third draft of book 3, VIRGINS. Last will be the third draft of ROLO, book 4.

So very excited! However if I we both weren’t research nuts writing, revising and editing, these books would be a real drag but we both love to lookup and get facts of what cones as the book flows out of me or we edit and revise. The entire series is based on mythology and from ancient to current times and in so many different times and places that research in anthropology and history are essential; but I love it! Get lost in it!

Look at the view of rain falling on trees behind a beautiful bouquet one of my girls brought.

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Fiction University: 14 Days of Writing Prizes, Starting...NOW!

Fiction University: 14 Days of Writing Prizes, Starting...NOW!: By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy It’s the season of giving, so I

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About Magical Realism

Thank you Oprah Magazine, the authors listed on the Magical Realism article are some of my favorite and could list several more. I, so far have thought and called my series Fantasy based on Mythology but that category has not felt entirely correct and because of this article I realize that Wings of Immortals- my series is Magical Realism. Information on my series can be found at: https://www.martacweeks.com/

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In the thick of it (beware: contains adult content)

Beware: contains adult content. Fantasy series based on Mythology.

To those waiting for Ayekah the Damned, please bear with me. We are deep into edits and revisions for the next three books of the entire Wings Of Immortals - series.  

I decided to complete the series first - it has a life of its own and keeps growing. Meantime The Sylph's Tale is still selling on Amazon and getting great reviews. To those who purchase it, because it was published missing chapters, the publishers and I will offer a free Ayekah the Damned book when released. 




Both start with the Archangel's seduction by a virgin destined to changed humankind. For information on the entire series, please go to WINGS OF IMMORTALS - SERIES

To take a break, now and then, from this very SEDUCTIVE and TWISTY, TURNY series I am preparing to publish a Poetry Chapbook, have over 80 poems for it, some are on Hello Poetry I love HP. Also doing edits on Ayekah the Damned screenplay, as I've shared, it won a third-place award.

Not nuts yet but very excited. I hope you stick with me and love the Wings Of Immortals - series!

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How to Write a Novel: My Proven 12-Step Process

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Fiction University: Online Resources

A site full of great information!



Fiction University: Online Resources: *Updated April 2019 These are just a sampling of the many great (and some of my favorite) sites out there for writers.  Must-Visit Writ... Your comments and suggestions are very welcomed!