Alison Naomi Holt

Creating adventure one character at a time

A few updates…

I’m still writing Credo’s Betrayal. I’m about 2/3rds of the way finished. I took a week off to go visit family in Texas, but even though that put me a little behind on my schedule (which I don’t regret for a minute since family is the number 1 priority in my life) I’m pretty much on schedule. I just finished writing an exciting chapter and am anxious to get the book out to you so you can catch up with Alex and friends.

I’m starting to think about the next book in the Ar’rothi series. I can hardly wait to see where Bree and Liris take their relationship. As many of you already know, I write by using a “technique” called Writing Into the Dark, which means I don’t outline and I don’t sketch out the plot details beforehand. That way, I’m just as interested as you are to see what happens with the plot twists and turns 🙂

A huge shout out to all of my readers who have taken the time to leave reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and all the other venues. Your reviews are what get the word out to other readers and I really appreciate them.

I’d love to hear from you and try to return your emails as quickly as possible.

Alison, being the ex-cop that she is, is writing about a subject that she knows intimately and it shows in this book and it’s sequel, “Credo’s Legacy”. I find it refreshing that this author, coming from a police background–a very serious and sometimes deadly occupation–has such a keen sense of humor…..it’s definitely an added plus to her story telling.

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Kayro's Korner

I am continually impressed with the Ar’rothi series. From the opening lines of Book 3, I was gripped with the tension of battle and the details of tactics. In fact, I blazed through the opening chapters needing to know what happens next.
More than just battles, this book continues the growth of Kaiti, the Spirit Child, her importance in the world, and her maturing into a fighter who will do anything to protect her friends and those she loves.

There are real dangers here, injuries take real tolls, and death is always at hand. But so is love, redemption, and passion.

In this book, we learn much more about previously side characters and their importance to the continuing saga. And, as all good books in a series, it leaves the reader wanting more, anticipating the next book. Book 4 cannot come too soon.

Lawrence Kriv

Reviewer

Duchess Rampant

Fighting for her kingdom is her duty. Fighting for those she loves is in her blood.

Aurelia “Bree” Makena, the Duchess of Danforth, waits on a beach near Port Emnal in front of her three thousand troops. As the waves lap against the hooves of her battle mare, Lioth, Bree watches the enemy ships deploying more warriors against her than she’d ever thought possible. Victory may prove an insurmountable task.

Soon enough, however, she discovers that wrestling victory from defeat in this battle is just the beginning. Because the landing force is only a diversion for the real attack—one that if successful, will defeat her Anacafrian king more surely than an arrow driven through his heart.

You are invited to enter Ar’rothi, a world as vividly realized as Narnia or Middle Earth, a world where animal spirits guide humans towards enlightenment, and in which a warrior duchess and a disgraced princess must join forces against an evil that threatens everything they have learned to love.

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I wrote 2,510 words today.

Credo’s Betrayal stands at 69,149 total words.

Blog Posts

Walking the Moors With Agatha

by Alison Holt | Aug 2, 2015 | Writing Tips

As I sit out on my deck watching the fog roll over the fields of my farm, I realize what a wonderful opportunity I’ve had to be able to write in such beauty. It seems wherever I am, I’m usually drawn outdoors to a porch or a patio, especially in the spring, summer and fall, when flowers are blooming, the bees are pollinating and the cicada’s are singing their songs. My writing seems to flow easily when I’m outside the confines of four walls.

Five Reasons a Writer Should Run From Social Media

by Alison Holt | Mar 19, 2015 | Writing Tips

Multi-tasking using Social Media seems to be all the rage these days. You say you’re a writer. Do you want to be a successful writer? Do you want to take your writing to the next level? Then I highly suggest you jump off the Social Media bandwagon and turn off your internet while you write. Why, you say? Here’s why…

To Live or Not to Live

by Alison Holt | Mar 4, 2015 | Writing Tips

We had several chicks arrive today. They’re barely three days old and already I can tell the timid from the bold, the strong from the weak and then, there’s this tiny little one that I have tucked up under my shirt because she needs just a little bit more warmth and...

Getting Kicked Out of the Story

by Alison Holt | Feb 11, 2015 | Writing Tips

I’ve been practicing a new technique that I learned from my friend, Harvey Stanbrough. If you are a writer, Harvey’s website is full of excellent material he’s written and collected on everything having to do with writing. He’s a great writer himself, but as a...

Different Strokes

by Alison Holt | Jan 12, 2015 | Writing Tips

Writing mysteries comes easily to me since most of my adult life has been spent unraveling true to life mysteries as an officer in a large metropolitan police force. Solving cases is really nothing more than methodical fact-finding and taking the time to follow-up on...

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