By Darlene N.Böcek
Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of faith & Fire
historical adventure in Ancient byzantium
Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire, the EXPANDED second edition is now available for purchase in paperback, audiobook, and ebook.
Available NOW from author Darlene N. Böcek!
Author
Darlene N. Böcek
Darlene N. Böcek is the author of six books. She writes cross-genre.
🌇 YA Sci-fi suspense line
Her Sci-fi Fantasy Dystopia line includes
- The Immortals Series (currently in final stages before publication)
Speculative Mystery
- Tim Reynolds, Detective: The Death of Noah Black,
- The Special (A Short Origin Novel)
- and the podcast: They All Marveled Podcast.
🏺 historical & Mystery
Her YA historical fiction
- Trunk of Scrolls: Paths of Faith and Fire (Illustrated and revised second edition of Trunk of Scrolls: A Family Adventure)
Mystery
Speculative line
Her Speculative line includes
Return to Me Trilogy:
(BEYOND THE VEIL Supernatural Drama)
- The Last Noel: Reuben’s Story A Christmas Novella)
- Vera’s Story
- Monica’s Story
Classic Monsters (short stories)
- Silver and Sawdust (Werewolf-2021)
- Return from the Black Lagoon (Creature from the Black Lagoon-2023)
- The House of Hidden Faces, or The Invisible Landlord (Invisible Man-2024)
- Fit To Kill (Dracula-2025)
About the Author
Darlene N. Böcek and her family live in Izmir, Turkey. They are all Marvel MCU, early Star Wars, and Twilight Zone fans but her favorite sci-fi character is Rocket Raccoon, because he looks like ChicaLola (see below for details!). Besides being a pastor’s wife, she is mom to four wonderful young adults, each one her most favorite.
The family lives on an olive farm overlooking the Aegean Sea. To date, they have nine sixteen twenty-four cats, three two giant dogs, two four cute Havanese puppies and one African Grey parrot. (Click below for pictures!) Most pets are named for movie characters.
Latest News & Posts: Scrollkeepers
🌫️ It’s Hidden Behind the Veil 😳🧐
From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Fantasy, Sci-fi & Speculative Stories Hi, Reader As promised last week, I have some exciting news for you… The Return to Me series Kickstarter is about to go LIVE. Click the button or image to read the TEASER, or read on for WHAT a Kickstarter is… See the Kickstarter What is the Kickstarter Marketplace? For indie authors, like myself, the Kickstarter Marketplace is an alternative to Amazon marketplace. Kickstarter enables me to sell my book…
📜 I Tricked Myself & Got Ciphered 😭
From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Fantasy, Sci-fi & Speculative Stories Hi, Reader In my upcoming Sci-fi Fantasy Dystopia series, JulieAnn Bishop has a CIPHER she has to decode. In order to find the “safe place” where she’s supposed to go, she’s got to DECRYPT…a POEM. I wrote the poem. And inside the poem I hid the clues she is supposed to follow to find that location. (It took A LOT of research to identify and create these clues; they’re real things!) 🤦♀️ However, I forgot…
📜 Whoa! 🏆 Medieval Futuristic Dystopia? 📚
From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Other Worlds Hi, Reader Recently, an author friend of mine, JA Webb, asked for advice about his updated book cover design. This began a dialogue where, in order to help him fine-tune his idea, I pointed out some things that might be necessary to find the perfect book cover. Here are some of those things… HOW TO DECIDE ON A BOOK COVER (insider secrets!) First, you have to IDENTIFY CORRECTLY what the Amazon (&BISAC) categories and subcategories…
