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Remember last December when the Magic University digital box set became available? The new piece in that set–a 15,000 word sequel to the series entitled CHRISTMAS MAGIC–is now available to purchase on its own!

I originally wrote the novella as a holiday gift for MU fans to thank them for helping to spread the word about the box set and supporting the series. Christmas Magic is from Frost’s point of view. There is a lot about Frost we don’t see in the MU books because they’re from Kyle’s point of view, although if you’ve read the short stories in Spellbinding you’ve seen a few in Frost’s voice, now.

Get it at:

Some of you have been asking me what the bonus novella in the Magic University digital box set is like. I figure the best way to answer that question is give you all a little taste! But note! SPOILER ALERT! The novella takes place AFTER the series, so you really need to read the series first before you understand what’s going on here and why it matters.

Info on how to get the novella for free here: http://blog.ceciliatan.com/archives/2613Info on ordering the digital box set that includes it here: http://blog.ceciliatan.com/archives/2609

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As previously announced, later this week (December 16th) a limited-time digital box set that includes all the Magic University books plus a special bonus Christmas novella “Christmas Magic” will be going live for $9.99 and will only be available until February 1st.

The set can be purchased from the usual suspects (Amazon | Smashwords |B&N | Kobo and other favorite retailers) but I know a lot of fans already HAVE the whole set except for the bonus novella!

So here’s how to get just the bonus novella. It won’t be sold separately, but I will send it to you as a thank you gift for doing ANY of the following:

1. Review any of the Magic University books on Amazon
2. Review any of the Magic University books on Goodreads
3. Link to the announcement (http://blog.ceciliatan.com/archives/2609) from Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr.
4. Make a donation to The Network/La Red, a domestic violence advocacy group who support trans, bi, and kinky individuals
5. Make a donation to the Bisexual Resource Center
6. Make a donation to any other bisexual or trans advocacy, support, or activism group of your choice.
7. Send me some Kyle or Frost fanart. :-) (of your own creation — no snarfing other people’s art plz)

Trade me a screen cap of proof you did any of the above (or a link to the proof) by emailing me at ctan.writer @ gmail.com with “Magic U bonus” in the subject line and I’ll email you back the novella as an ePub or mobi/Kindle file! Sound good?

CHRISTMAS MAGIC
It’s Christmas at Gladius House but Frost isn’t feeling very festive. Kyle will do anything he can, though, to set Frost’s world alight. The novella runs 15,000 words and contains erotic scenes.

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Whew! And here we are at long last, with the release of the final book in the Magic University book series, The Poet and the Prophecy! Kyle’s quest for true love will finally come to an end! But will the universe end, too?

On Sale Now!

The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four
by Cecilia Tan
Riverdale Avenue Books Pub date: September 15, 2015
ISBN 978-1-62601-123-6 (paperback) $16.99
ISBN 978-1-62601-124-3 (digital) $6.99
Page count: 318
Word count: 106,041

Links to buy (will update as various sites go live): Amazon ebook – Amazon paperback – Audio | Smashwords ebook | Kobo | iTunes | AllRomance ebooks | B&N.com | Indiebound independent bookstores: paperback

Read an excerpt!

RT Magazine featured a hot excerpt from the book in their Hump Day Wednesday feature: http://www.rtbookreviews.com/blog/85272/hump-day-excerpt-poet-and-prophecy-cecilia-tan

Facebook party today! (Sept. 15th)

Today I’ll be hosting a party on Facebook to celebrate! I’ll be hosting from 4-5pm and 11-midnight, with other new adult college-setting authors in the hours in between. I’ll be giving away full sets of the ebooks to some party-goers who comment on the event page. Drop by here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1647147665517621/

In related news! The Nobilis Erotica podcast did an audio version of one of the short stories from Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University! They did Frances Selkirk’s “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” which fills in a bit of what Kyle and Alex got up to between Kyle’s freshman and sophomore years. Listen here: http://nobilis.libsyn.com/episode-332-what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation-by-frances-selkirk

I’ll be doing a plethora of guest posts and interviews this week of course. Some of them are starting to appear already:

SF Signal: On Writing Multi-Genre Fiction

Thank you everyone who has stuck with me through the ups and downs of this series, the change of publisher, and everything in between!

Here’s the official description of THE POET AND THE PROPHECY:

Kyle Wadsworth has mastered sex magic, dreamwalking, and even poetry in his years at Veritas. But in this conclusion to the Magic University series of new adult paranormal fantasy romance, Kyle begins his senior year full of doubt. Will the dire ancient prophecy he has been studying come true if Kyle cannot find true love? The signs of the Burning Days seem to be everywhere—odd storms, earthquakes, and people losing their magic—and though Kyle has many loving friends and eager acquaintances, he has no true love in sight. The only person in Kyle’s heart is Frost, and the last time they laid eyes on each other, it didn’t end well.

Frost has a troubled past and deep secrets. Kyle begins to hope, though, when it appears he and Frost will be in a class together. A poetry class. Maybe Frost will start to thaw after all, though Kyle has a long way to go from nemesis to lover. If the prophecy speaks true, our hero will need love to keep the world, his friends, and himself from losing magic forever.

“The Magic University books really need to be read all together to be understood. You should definitely grab all four books and get comfortable – you’re in for an exciting ride! The Poet and the Prophecy is a satisfying conclusion to the series, and one that adult Harry Potter fans will no doubt enjoy.” —Lucy Felthouse, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“I love that in The Poet and The Prophecy Kyle needs to draw on everything about himself to succeed, from his talent as a poet to his bisexuality. How often do bisexuals get to save the world in books? Kyle accomplishes things that a ‘typical’ straight hero would fail at, including the ‘enemies to lovers’ relationship we’ve all been waiting for since book one.” –BookPost

“Tan has long been one of the foremost voices in writing and publishing erotic sci-fi and fantasy. With her New Adult paranormal romance Magic University series, Tan combines her favorite elements from the Harry Potter books with LGBT characters and eroticism. Her protagonist Kyle Wadsworth, studying at the secret magical university Veritas, learns to harness sex magic to combat sirens and prophecies alike. With Kyle starting out knowing less than Jon Snow, he experiences the kind of in-depth sexual apprenticeship that Anastasia Steele should have learned at the hands of Christian Grey.” —Tor.com

“Very nice series of books that I look forward to rereading some day. The frequent description of ‘Harry Potter for Adults’ made me fear it would be totally derivative, but it really wasn’t.” —BookLikes

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Today I guestblogged over at the site of Jana Richards as part of my blog tour for The Incubus and the Angel.

My topic is “Consent it Sexy.”

“I think consent is sexy. One of the things that turns me on the most, both in a lover in my real life and in the books I like to read and write, is communication between partners. Consent is about negotiating likes, wants, needs, and boundaries between lovers. Finding out how the key fits into the lock, the magic fit between the two main characters, is the key to any romance novel and I love to see how people get there,” I wrote.

Of course the lack of consent in some romance novels is one of the reasons some criticize the genre and fear it is harmful to women. I point out in the blog post that fantasies about being ravished or “overwhelmed by unstoppable male desire” are valid fantasies to have. Readers do understand the difference between fantasy and reality.

In The Incubus and the Angel I make that force of “unstoppable male desire” an actual magical force that has real consequences in the world, though! And therein lies the central idea of “the incubus” that brings erotic dreams in the night.

Read the whole essay here: http://janarichards.blogspot.com/2015/04/consent-is-sexy-by-cecilia-tan.html

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Today is launch day for The Incubus and the Angel, book 3 in the Magic University series, and as part of the celebration, Riverdale Avenue Books is giving away copies of all three Magic U books available to this point! The giveaways are on Goodreads:
The Siren and the Sword: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/133178
The Tower and the Tears: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/133179
The Incubus and the Angel: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/133212

Widgets below the cut!

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Okay, folks, with the release of The Incubus and the Angel (Book 3) forthcoming on April 8, it’s time to figure out who should go on the cover of book 4 in the Magic University Series: The Poet and the Prophecy.

A couple of things to consider:

This far the covers have shown:
Kyle: the main character of the whole series
Frost: Kyle’s main antagonist
Alex: Kyle’s best friend

Should we consider repeating Kyle, who is the main character of the whole series of course, to finish the set?

All the characters shown so far are male. I realize that masculinity and male sexual power are central themes of this series so I’m not against having all male characters appear, but the question of diversity is worth asking. Is it time for a female character?

Another thought is that we will also be doing the a new cover for the anthology of MU short stories, Spellbinding, so whoever doesn’t end up on this book could end up on that one. :-)

I’ve restricted the choices to people who have reasonably significant roles to play in the book. (Caitlyn Speyer, for example, already graduated so she can’t be on this book. And some of the new characters here are fun, like Persy and Vish and Indra, but they don’t get much screen time…)

Comments welcome and please vote in the poll! (Click to go to poll if embedded on doesn’t show up: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5RF9FFY)

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My publisher, Riverdale Avenue Books, says The Siren and the Sword (book one of the Magic University series) is on sale today for only 99 cents! It’s at the sale price on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble!

So if you’ve been meaning to start this series, here’s your chance to get started for under a buck. The sale is supposed to run for 24 hours and then it’ll go back to regular price of $6.99.

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**Deadline is passed! Thank you all for playing! I’ll plan to make this offer again in a few months!**

The fanfic roots of my Magic University series are pretty clear, I think: who in Harry Potter fandom didn’t wonder what college would be like for wizards and witches? Although I have all original characters and an original magical system, the MU books are by a fan (me), for fans (*waves to LJ flist*), and happen to be liked by lots of other readers, too.

One of the most exciting and important developments during my time in HP fandom has been the creation and growth of the OTW: Organization for Transformative Works. If you’re not familiar with the OTW, you should be. The OTW, plain and simple, fights for the rights of fans to create fanworks. They are a bastion against the mishandling and misconduct that corporations and literary estates are prone to as they overreach on what copyright entitles them to. (Did you see that the Doyle estate finally was forced to accept that Holmes and Watson are in the public domain?)

And fanworks are in the news a lot these days (you might have noticed that 50 SHADES OF GREY, which began life as a fanfic, turned the publishing industry completely inside out last year, while AFTER, a One Direction fic from Wattpad, sold to a NYC publisher for six figures…). I believe that as corporations realize there is money to be made and material to be exploited, the right of fans to create transformative works is one that will need to be defended even more zealously than it was when they were just calling us “pirates” and “molesters” for doing it.

The OTW also operates The Archive of Our Own, a fanworks and fanfic archive. Anyone who has ever had a fanwork TOS’d or DMCA’d off a site like YouTube or Livejournal knows the value in having an online repository that is owned by us, not by some tech company.

I’ve been a paying member of the OTW for years. This year I decided to go a step further, and with the blessing of the OTW’s membership and development folks, I cooked up the following plan.

**Deadline is passed! Thank you all for playing! I’ll plan to make this offer again in a few months!**

Join the OTW or renew your membership for $10 or more before 12 noon eastern time tomorrow and I will give you a free ebook copy of THE SIREN AND THE SWORD, the first of the books in the Magic University series. AND, the first five people who respond with a donation of $25 or more will get either a signed copy of the book in paperback OR a free audiobook download from Audible.com! Your choice!

To participate, go to the OTW website (http://transformativeworks.org/support-otw), go through the Paypal button there to process your donation via credit card or from a Paypal account. Then forward your Paypal receipt, which you should get in email, to me at ctan.writer @ gmail dot com. That’s it! I’ll reply with your reward!

Please feel free to spread this offer around to anyone you know who might enjoy a magical new adult erotic romance, or who might enjoy supporting the rights of fans to create fanworks, or ideally both. :-)

Remember! Deadline is tomorrow, Friday November 21st at 12 noon! (Eastern US time!)

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It’s Halloween time, and Day of the Dead, and the time when magic is strongest, at least that’s what I wrote in the Magic University books! In honor of the brand new edition of The Siren and the Sword (book one) coming out, I thought I would treat you all to a sweet excerpt!

Kyle has arrived at Harvard to discover he’s magical and belongs in the hidden magical university on the campus. Thrust suddenly into a curriculum he’s never studied before, Kyle finds some subjects more challenging than others. But here’s his girlfriend Jess to help him study…

(Scene after the cut! I did say NSFW, right?)

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