Lies the Cards Tell

Like most beginnings, the Lies the Cards Tell project deserves a little backstory. I had a little spark of an idea. I wanted to base a short story on each tarot card. It's been done and I never could quite get a unique enough twist to make it worthwhile. Thus, that little ember smouldered in the back of my head for a while.
The fire ignited when a writing tip for using tarot card readings to break out of writer's block wedged itself in my brain and I needed a novel idea for NaNoWriMo 2014. Why not write a novel starting each day with a full tarot reading? Brilliant. Then life came along and had its way with that idea.
Lies the Cards Tell was more than a novel so continuing it without the community aspect of NaNoWriMo felt incomplete so I passed it over for other ideas and moved on. But like any good tarot reading it lingers and nags until you accept the lesson it holds.
Being a sci-fi and futurology nerd, I have a bit of a love affair with open source concepts and I believe even though we have to find a way to make a living on this earth, information wants to be free, evolve and grow. Lies the Cards Tell proved the perfect candidate to take directly to the reader in a weekly format. It allows me to open up the often rigid publication process and let you, the reader, have some fun. Every week I grab a deck out of my beloved tarot collection and do a reading.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy Lies the Cards Tell as much as I enjoy working on it. If you want to follow along with the bonus features and author's note check out https://liesthecardstell.wordpress.com/ for weekly updates.