Magic Systems in Fantasy Fiction
I love the Fantasy Fiction genre. The greats like C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Mercedes Lackey, and Anne McCaffrey (just to name a few) introduced me to the wonder of this fabulous genre as a child and other greats like Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Anne Bishop, and Patrick Rothfuss (again, there are SO many more) continued to feed this love as I grew older. And it's thanks to amazing paranormal/fantasy romance authors like Nalini Singh, G.A. Aiken, Ilona Andrews, Christine Feehan, Gena Showalter, and Kresley Cole that I've learned a good, happily-ever-after romance makes fantasy even more enjoyable for me. One of the reasons that the Fantasy genre is my favorite is due to the various types of magic systems. My fantasy romance series, The Gate Keeper Chronicles, has a combination elemental and life force based magic system, but I'd eventually like to have a series for each magic system that exists in fantasy fiction. Each time I read a new fantasy ser