Aiki Flinthart

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About Aiki Flinthart

Aiki lives in Australia and hasn't yet died from ANY wildlife encounter. Go figure.

She has numerous published sci-fantasy and fantasy novels, plus an action-y romance with a kickarse heroine. She has also edited a couple of short story anthologies and has a number of her own short stories in various e-magazines and anthologies.

Her works have been shortlisted in the Australian Aurealis awards and in the USA Writers of the Future competition.

When not writing, she runs a business and does heroine-approved hobbies such as martial arts, archery, knife-throwing, lute-playing, and belly-dancing.

You're more than welcome to check out more details at www.aikiflinthart.com

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Fight Like a Girl: Writing Fight Scenes for Female Characters Oct 5, 2019

by Aiki Flinthart

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Women are not men with mammaries. They don't approach, handle, or react to violence in the same way. Aiki Flinthart is a long-time martial artist, archer, knife-thrower, assault-survivor, and author of 11+ novels - all with kick-ass heroines and heroes.
In Fight Like a Girl, she brings her own experience, plus the results of extensive research and interviews, to the table for fellow authors.
You should come away with an excellent understanding of the differences between males and females, how they fight, react, and think. What weapons and techniques work well for smaller physiques. How it feels to be involved in a fight.

You'll also get a deep understanding of how to apply that knowledge to an actual fight scene. A step by step guide to how to write and pace your fight scene, word choices, foreshadowing, character arcs, and how to pack an emotional punch.

Make sure your readers devour your fight scenes. Pick up a copy of Fight Like a Girl.

Review: "Flinthart's 'Fight Like a Girl' is a considered, credible, and practical writer's guide to crafting believable fights for female protagonists, as well as creating fights that serve the best interests of the story."- Angela Slatter, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning "The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings".

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Relics, Wrecks and Ruins Jan 31, 2021

by Aiki Flinthart, Neil Gaiman, Ken Liu, Robert Silverberg, Garth Nix, Juliet Marillier, Mary Robinette Kowal, Alison Goodman, Jasper Fforde, David Farland

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Futures and Pasts, Fearless and Frightening.
This is a must-read collection for all fans of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. A celebration of legacy and endurance.
• Bizarre remains of a lost civilisation emerge from the ice.
• The ghosts of a drowned town wait to be awakened.
• A witch with a dragon problem.
• What Elvis will do to protect his fellow artists from annihilation.
• An ancient spaceship carries the last, fragmented memories of Earth.
• Broken souls of the dead are passed on to the new-born.
• …These and many more tales showcase the hopes, remnants, and fears of humanity.

Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Aiki Flinthart reached out for works from as many of her favourite authors as would answer the call. And many did.
Between these pages you’ll find stories by some of the world’s best science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers. Find new favourite authors and re-join old friends.
Their fabulous works are threads woven with a sure hand into a tapestry of the weird, the worrying, and the wonderful that make up mankind.

Grab a copy of Relics, Wrecks, and Ruins today. You’ll also help fund a mentorship for emerging authors.

Reviews:
"Relics, Wrecks, and Ruins is the articulation of the generous contributions of our contemporary masters, in support of the Flinthart Residency and the next wave of emerging writers. True to their mission, these stories push back against boundaries as they take us light years away, plunge toward the sea floor, and turn time and space elastic. Let yourself be drawn in by these celebrated voices. Listen closely for what resonates within."
L.E. Daniels, author of Serpent’s Wake: A Tale for the Bitten and Winning Short Story Competitions: Essential Tools for the Serious Writer

"Rich, varied, and bittersweet, this anthology is a fitting and triumphant salute to Aiki Flinthart’s dauntless spirit and irrepressible moxie" - Geneve Flynn, co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

Full Author list: Neil Gaiman, Ken Liu, Juliet Marillier, Angela Slatter, Jan-Andrew (JA) Henderson, Garth Nix, Pamela Jeffs, Marianne de Pierres, Jasper Fforde, Mary Robinette Kowal, James (SA) Corey, Lee Murray, Sebastien de Castell, Ian Irvine, Robert Silverberg, Mark Lawrence, Kate Forsyth, Kylie Chan, Cat Sparks, David Farland, Jack Dann, Dirk Flinthart, Aiki Flinthart

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80AD - The Tekhen of Anuket (Book 3) Jun 10, 2012

by Aiki Flinthart, Jason Seabaugh

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80AD Book 3 finds Phoenix, Jade, Marcus and Brynn trapped inside a pyramid in ancient Egypt. No pharoahs here, this is Egypt as you've never see it. Rome has taken over and the country is far from peaceful.

This adventure is the most insane yet. It has everything you'd expect and more: mummies, secret passages, treasure, an evil high priest, human sacrifice, walking undead and more.

Together they must escape the clutches of the high priest of the Egyptian god, Set and release the imprisoned goddess of the Nile, Anuket.

Without Anuket, Egypt suffers endless drought and the country will die. An ancient prophecy predicts 'the Phoenix' to be the savior of Egypt, but our Phoenix doesn't think he's up for it.

To make matters worse, Phoenix and Jade's old enemy, Feng Zhudai, is manipulating the Roman leader of Egypt, weaselling his way into things, trying again to upset the balance of this world by causing chaos.

If they fail to release Anuket and the Nile, Feng Zhudai will win this round and trap them in Level 3 of the game forever.

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80AD - The Sudarshana (Book 4) Jul 3, 2012

by Aiki Flinthart, Jason Seabaugh

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Ever wondered what India was like in 80AD? Well neither had Jade and Phoenix - until they end up there for Level 4 of the game, 80AD.

Transported from the deserts of Egypt into the tropical heat of India, they have to face a whole new range of enemies. Snake-gods, invading armies, assassins and war-elephants are all on the list.

To complicate matters, the Game is now open to internet gamers in their world - adding a whole new level of difficulty. When they meet a fellow-gamer, they are in for the ride of their lives.

All they want to do is complete their next quest, yet somehow, they end up involved in a full-scale war between Indian rival kings. Each army is over 100 000 strong and prepared to fight to the bloody death to hold the town of Pune.

Unfortunately, it's also the town Phoenix and Jade must get to, to complete Level 4. They must return The Sudarshana to the statue of Vishnu in Pune, before the death of the moon. With two armies in the way and assassins sent by Feng Zhudai hot on their tail, the task seems impossible.

Zhudai's minions will do everything they can can to stop Phoenix and Jade. They have to outwit the enemy and stop a war to get the Quest finished in time. If they fail, all hope of ever getting home is gone.

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80AD - The Yu Dragon (Book 5) Jul 20, 2012

by Aiki Flinthart, Jason Seabaugh

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This is it. The final Level of the Game.
China in 80AD is the stage for the final showdown between Phoenix and Jade and their arch-enemy, Feng Zhudai.

Things don't start off so well, though. Jade is a prisoner, separated by vast distances from her companions; in the hands of Feng Zhudai himself. Phoenix and the others have to find her before they can even think of freeing her. What have they got to work with? How can they fight Feng Zhudai's incredible magical powers on his own home ground? How can they fulfill their quest to master the Yu Dragon, when they don't even know where to find it or what it looks like - or how to go about mastering a dragon?

To top it all off, they must stop Feng Zhudai from taking control of the Han Empire and the world. If he wins this round, it's all over. Everything and everyone they know and love will be destroyed - in both worlds.

With the fate of this world and their own in the balance, Phoenix and Jade have insurmountable odds stacked against them - and they keep getting worse. Feng Zhudai unleashes everything he has at them. Phoenix and Jade must make some tough decisions just to survive. Can they make the sacrifices required to win the game?
There's a twist at the end no-one will expect.....

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80AD - The Jewel of Asgard (Book 1) Feb 15, 2013

by Aiki Flinthart, Jason Seabaugh

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Seven lives will not be enough.
Take a very ordinary, very unhappy 14 year old boy, Phoenix. He's bored by school, hates his step-father, feels like he has no control over his life. In fact, the only things he does like are computer games and martial arts.
Add a smart, miserable 14 year old girl, Jade. She's the youngest of seven girls; teased and picked on; a misfit; her own mother doesn't get her. All she likes is books and botany.
Throw both these kids into a computer game - 80AD - AND into their avatar's bodies. Phoenix and Jade aren't 14 year old kids any longer. They're 17 year old warriors, confused and trapped in an ancient world of warfare, magic and death. They're stuck in 80AD Britain To Phoenix, it's fun - a gamer's dream come true. To Jade, it's a nightmare.

In order to get home, they have to play out Level One of 80AD. They have to find the Jewel of Asgard.

To do that, they must face murderous thieves, creatures of the Dywyllwch Brennau, uncanny powers of the Druids and the might of the invading Roman army.

Can they master their new bodies and survive in Iron Age Britain?

Can they beat the Romans to the Jewel and win Level One?

Will they make it home or will they be defeated by their arch-enemy, Feng Zhudai?
If he wins, they are stuck in 80AD forever - but is that so bad?

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80AD - The Hammer of Thor (Book 2) Jun 4, 2012

by Aiki Flinthart, Jason Seabaugh

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Book 2 of the 80AD series sees Jade, Phoenix and their companions flung into the frozen wastes of northern Europe.
Here they must somehow reach Asgard, home of the Norse Gods, in order to steal the Hammer of Thor.
They are far from civilisation, snowbound, hunted, lost and on a deadline. If they don't reach Asgard in time, bad things will happen: Ragnarok - the end of the world. Unending winter, followed by hellfire and an almighty battle between the gods and giants.
If this world is destroyed, Phoenix and Jade die with it and their bodies, back in their own world, die as well.

Standing in their way are trolls, wolves, their old enemy Feng Zhudai and a new one - Loki, god of mischief and chaos.

To save this world and themselves, they must get to Asgard in time. Of course, it would help if they knew where it was. Then, somehow, when they do find it, they have to steal Thor's Hammer - and everyone knows that stealing things from Gods is a bad idea.

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BEYOND: A Paranormal Microfiction Anthology (Dark Drabbles Book 4) Sep 17, 2019

by Black Hare Press, A.L. King, A.L. Paradiso, A.R. Dean, A.S. Charly, Adam S. Furman , Aditya Deshmukh, Andreas Hort, Angela Zimmerman, Archit Joshi, Austin P. Sheehan, Becky Benishek, Caitlin Mazur , D.J. Elton, D.M. Burdett, David Shakes, Donna Cuttress, Eric Lewis, Glenn R. Wilson, Hari Navarro , Henry Herz, Hunter LaCross, J.U. Menon, J.W. Garrett, Jack Wolfe Frost, Joachim Heijndermans, John Saxton, K.S. Nikakis, Karen Heslop, Kaustubh Nadkarni, Kevin Hopson, Liam Hogan, Mark Mackey, Matt Booth, Matt Lucas, Matthew Wilson , Nancy Brewka-Clark, Nicole Little, Olivia Arieti, Paul Warmerdam , R.A. Goli, Rich Rurshell, Rickey Rivers Jr., Sam M. Phillips , Sara L. Uckelman, Stevie Adler, Sue Marie St. Lee, Tim Boiteau, Tracy Davidson, Wendy Roberts, Will Shadbolt, Amber M. Simpson, Belinda Brady , Brandy Bonifas, Brian Rosenberger, C.L. Steele, Cameron Marcoux, Cecilia Dockins, Derek Dunn, Jacek Wilkos, James Turnbow, Jasmine Jarvis, Jason Holden, Joshua D. Taylor, Matthew M. Montelione, Melissa Neubert, Neen Cohen, Nerisha Kemraj , Peter J. Foote, Phil Dyer, R.J. Meldrum, Rennie St. James, Carole de Monclin, Rhiannon Bird, Stephanie Scissom, Steven Holding, Ximena Escobar, Andrew Anderson, Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Gabriella Balcom, Isabella Fox, J.M. Meyer, Jacob Baugher, Jodi Jensen, Jonathan Ficke, Lynne Lumsden Green, Monica Schultz, Nicola Currie, Patrick Winters, Annie Percik, Beth W. Patterson, Blake Jessop, Chris Bannor, Gregg Cunningham, J. Farrington, Jo Seysener, K.T. Tate, R.J. Hunt, Rowanne S. Carberry, S. John Davis, A.R. Johnston, Aiki Flinthart, Alanna Robertson-Webb, Alexander Pyles, C.L. Williams, Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, Cindar Harrell, Crystal L. Kirkham, David Bowmore, Dawn DeBraal, E.L. Giles, Eddie D. Moore, Elizabeth Montague, G. Allen Wilbanks, Jefferson Retallack, Jem McCusker, Joel R. Hunt, John H. Dromey, Jonathan Inbody, Pamela Jeffs, Raven Corinn Carluk, Shawn M. Klimek, Shelly Jarvis, Sinister Sweetheart, Stephen Herczeg, Stuart Conover, Terry Miller, Umair Mirxa, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Zoey Xolton, D Kershaw

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Micro myths of the paranormal; poltergeists, spirit boards, ghosts and ghouls, avenging apparitions and horrifying hauntings.

What miracles can one hundred debut to bestselling authors do with 100 words?

More than three hundred 100-word drabbles from around the world.

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UNRAVEL: A Crime Microfiction Anthology (Dark Drabbles Book 5) Oct 22, 2019

by Black Hare Press, A.L. King, A.S. Charly, Angela Zimmerman, Archit Joshi, Bob Adder, Brandi Hicks, Copper Rose, D.M. Burdett, Destiny Eve Pifer, Diana Grove, Erik Goldsmith, Galina Trefil, Greg Thomas, Hari Navarro, J.B. Wocoski, J.W. Garrett, Jacek Wilkos, James Pyles, Jasmine Jarvis, Kent Swarts, Laura Hughes, Liam Hogan, Lyndsey Ellis-Holloway, Lynne Lumsden Green, Mark Kodama, Mason Harold Hilden, Maxine Churchman, Neen Cohen, Paul Warmerdam, Paula R.C. Readman, Radar DeBoard, Rennie St. James, Richard G. Taylor, Roxanne Dent, Scott Wheelock, Sean Martin, Serena Jayne, Simon Clarke, Terri A. Arnold, Tracy Davidson, Wendy Roberts, Brandy Bonifas, C.L. Steele, Claire Count, Glenn R. Wilson, Isabella Fox, J.A. Hammer, Jodi Jensen, Kelli Pizarro, Kelly A. Harmon, Olivia Arieti, Peter J. Foote, Rich Rurshell, Sue Marie St. Lee, Wondra Vanian, A.R. Dean, Amber M. Simpson, Annie Percik, Brian Rosenberger, Cameron Marcoux, Chris Bannor, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, J.M. Meyer, Marcus Cook, Mark Mackey, Nerisha Kemraj, Rhiannon Bird, Rowanne S. Carberry, Sam M. Phillips, Steven Lord, Virginia Carraway Stark, Alanna Robertson-Webb, Ann Christine Tabaka, D.J. Elton, Gregg Cunningham, Jonathan Inbody, Michael D. Davis, A.R. Johnston, Abi Linhardt, Aditya Deshmukh, Aiki Flinthart, Alexander Pyles, Andrew Anderson, Beth W. Patterson, C.L. Williams, Carole de Monclin, Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, Charlotte O'Farrell, Cindar Harrell, Crystal L. Kirkham, David Bowmore, Dawn DeBraal, E.L. Giles, Eddie D. Moore, G. Allen Wilbanks, Gabriella Balcom, J. Farrington, Jacob Baugher, Jason Holden, Jefferson Retallack, Jo Seysener, Joel R. Hunt, John H. Dromey, Martin Eastland, Nicola Currie, Pamela Jeffs, Raven Corinn Carluk, Shawn M. Klimek, Shelly Jarvis, Sinister Sweetheart, Stephen Herczeg, Stuart Conover, Susanne Thomas, Terry Miller, Umair Mirxa, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Ximena Escobar, Zoey Xolton, D Kershaw

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Murder mysteries, criminal chronicles, whodunnits, revenge, suspicion, mayhem, intrigue, and lots more.

What miracles can one hundred debut to bestselling authors do with 100 words?

More than three hundred 100-word drabbles from around the world.

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Blackbirds Sing: A Ruadhan Sidhe Origin Story (A Ruadhan Sidhe Novel) Dec 1, 2019

by Aiki Flinthart

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Four-and-twenty extraordinary women; one chance to save a kingdom.

What would you sacrifice to save your family, your loved ones, yourself?

In September 1486, the reign of King Henry VII of England is again threatened by York loyalists. The only thing standing in the way is a four-hundred-year-old sidhe who just wants to be left alone, and a group of London women with a lot to lose if England is plunged back into war.

But, in 1486, women have no power. Only the ability to make difficult choices and sometimes-heartbreaking sacrifices.

Become immersed in the fascinating, perilous lives of these women, as told through the medium of 25 interwoven short stories. A prostitute selling her daughter’s virginity to pay her debts; a nun returning to the world after 30 years; laundress whose son is murdered; a lady’s maid hiding her Jewish culture; a blind musician running from a forced marriage; and more.

Each story is a piece in the puzzle. Each woman faces her own trials as she plays her small part in the desperate attempt to protect King Henry and his wife, Elizabeth of York.

Because if they fail, England will once again be thrust into civil war between the Yorks and Lancasters. And these four-and-twenty women have already sacrificed too much.

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WORLDS: A Science Fiction Microfiction Anthology (Dark Drabbles Book 1) Jun 25, 2019

by Black Hare Press, D Kershaw, Aiki Flinthart, Alanah Andrews, Alexander Pyles, Austin P. Sheehan, C.L. Williams, Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer, Crystal L. Kirkham, D.K. Spencer, David Bowmore, Dawn DeBraal, Eddie D. Moore, Eric Labrie Giles, G. Allen Wilbanks, Gabriella Balcom, J.D. Bell, Jefferson Retallack, Joel R. Hunt, John H. Dromey, Pamela Jeffs, Peter Larsen, R.J. Hunt, Raven Corinn Carluk, Rich Rurshell, Shawn M. Klimek, Shelly Jarvis, Sinister Sweetheart, Stephen Coghlan, Stephen Herczeg, Stuart Conover, Terry Miller, Umair Mirxa, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Zoey Xolton, Brian Koukol, Emily Fluckiger, J.J. Steinfeld, Jacob Baugher , Joshua D. Taylor, Adam Bennett, Alanna Robertson-Webb, Diane Arrelle, Freddy Iryss, Joe Buckley, Peter J. Foote, Stuart West, Susanne Thomas, Virginia Carraway Stark, Alison McBain, Andrew Anderson, Beth W. Patterson, Brandy Bonifas, Brian Rosenberger, Carole de Monclin, Cheryl Lawson, Chitra Gopalakrishnan, D.M. Burdett, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt , Isabella Fox, Joachim Heijndermans, Jodi Jensen, Jonathan Inbody, Matthew M. Montelione, Michael Crow, Minette Fisher, Rickey Rivers Jr., Rowanne S. Carberry, S. Gepp, T.L. Barrett, A.S. Charly, Adam S. Furman, Aditya Deshmukh, Alicia Flood, Allen Ashley, Allen Stroud, Archit Joshi, Becky Benishek, Blair Daniels, Bob Adder, Bryan Calligan, C.H. Williams, Cameron Marcoux, Cindy O'Quinn, Copper Rose, Danny Bagley, Elizabeth Montague, Eric S. Fomley, Gerard Pepin, Graham Robert Scott, Grant Hinton, Gregg Cunningham, Hari Navarro, J. Farrington, J. Lee Strickland, J.U. Menon, J.W. Garrett, Jack Wolfe Frost, Julie Durbin, K. R. Monin, K.W. Taylor, Karen Dent, Kelly A. Harmon, Kent Swarts, Liam Hogan, Lynne Lumsden Green, M.K. Cadigan, Marcus Cook, Matt Lucas, Melanie Harding-Shaw, Michael D. Lackey, Morgan Chalfant, Nancie Neal, Nancy Brewka-Clark, Nerisha Kemraj, Okala Elesia, Owen Morgan, R.A. Goli, Rachel Miller, Rennie St. James, Richard G. Taylor, Russell Hemmell , S. John Davis, Sam M. Phillips, Sarah Peffer, Thomas Sturgeon Jr., Tim Hawken, Ximena Escobar

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Stories of new worlds, new creatures, alien colonisation, humanity's new home, space accidents, alien snackcidents, evil planets, military mashups, alien autopsies, and much, much more.

What miracles can more than one hundred debut to bestselling authors do with 100 words?

More than three hundred 100-word drabbles from around the world.

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Shadows Fate (A Ruadhan Sidhe Novel Book 3) Aug 5, 2018

by Aiki Flinthart

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Rowan Gilmore and her sidhe companions are in a desperate race to stop the truth of the sidhe’s powers being revealed to the world. For once humans are aware of the sidhe, fear and greed will do what the Mors Ferrum has been unable to achieve
– wholesale slaughter of the Ruadhán Sidhe.
The chase takes Rowan to Italy, where Maeve enlists the help of her son, Dante, to intercept the parcel of vital information sent to the Mors. But they’re too late. The package containing everything the world doesn’t know about sidhe ends up in the hands of Alexander Dyson – the leader of the Mors Ferrum.
Now Rowan must decide who to trust – and how deeply – in order to save her people. Every one of her companions has an agenda. Every one of them wants to use her for their own cause. As does Dyson. But who is telling the truth and who is lying?
In this epic clash between the Ruadhán sidhe, the Dark sidhe, and the Mors Ferrum, whoever controls Rowan’s powers will determine the future of mankind and sidhe alike.
But what if she’s been on the wrong side of this battle, right from the start?

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