tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820175983528692432024-03-08T01:54:37.545-08:00IDEA CITYCatherine Stine's IDEA CITYCatherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.comBlogger310125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-66367845762333745122018-09-07T06:36:00.000-07:002018-09-07T06:51:27.141-07:00Viviana MacKade's Fall Book Fair Hop, Sept 3-7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Viv's Fall Book Fair Hop starts September with a bang!</span></b><br />
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This amazing Fall Book Fair hop brings me back to my own blog, after a long hiatus to write (I finished two novels and a novella - phew!) and to raise and train my beagle pup to the one-year mark, where he is more mature and independent. <b>Say hi, Benny.</b><br />
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I hope you enjoy this hop, as it has a genre for just about everyone - contemporary, suspense, historical, paranormal fantasy, young adult and new adult. <b>The link to the entire listing is<a href="https://viviana-mackade.blog/coastal-book-fair/fall-fair/"> here</a>, at Viviana MacKade's blog.</b><br />
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<b>Friday is YA and NA day. <i>Heart in a Box</i>, my YA is on Friday's list, Below is the full Friday lineup of great reads!</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Victoria Adams</span></b></div>
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Contemporary romance. First book in Circles Trilogy</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Barb Caffrey</span></b></div>
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Allen and Elaine are graduate students in Nebraska, and love each other very much. Their life should be idyllic, but Elaine's past includes rape, neglect, and abuse from those who should've loved her—but didn't, because from childhood, Elaine identified as transgender.<br />
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When Elaine tells Allen right before Christmas, he doesn't know what to do. He loves Elaine, loves her soul, has heard about transgender people before, but didn't think Elaine was one of them—she looks and acts like anyone else. Now, she wants to become a man and is going to leave.<br />
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He prays for divine intervention, and says he'll do anything, just please don't separate him from Elaine...and gets it. Now, he's in Elaine's body. And she's in his. They'll get a second chance at love.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mara Gan</b></span></div>
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<i>Duty and prophecy get in the way of everything.</i></div>
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All I ever wanted to do was read my books, play my sports, and help people. Life and prophecy had other things in mind. Helping people is what I do; as an empath and semi-frequent telepath, I can easily sense and understand people's needs and emotions. Sometimes even before they do. Being able to read everyone’s thoughts and feelings all the time can drive me crazy with anxiety, but that moment when I can finally make someone’s life better makes everything worth it.</div>
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Too bad I just got another problem: a big, irritating, overbearing bodyguard with serious anger management issues. And I think I’m falling for him.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Julie Gardner</span></b></div>
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17-year-old Lily Anderson is ready to wrap herself in a big red bow and give Zach Hewitt the greatest gift in the history of Christmas: Her. But when she pulls a pair of booties from her stocking and learns her forty-year-old mother is pregnant, Lily finds herself adrift, unsure of Zach’s commitment.</div>
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Lily hopes Zach will anchor her with promises of love. Unfortunately, his chaotic home-life makes him afraid of those three little words; and Maddie Franklin-in her Amazing Technicolor Dream Thong–makes sure Zach can have her whenever he wants. With the help of her best friend Sarah, Lily plots to secure her place in Zach’s heart. But after a series of awkward rejections, Lily loses faith in her dream boyfriend, in herself, even in Sarah.</div>
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That’s when Lily turns to Adam Connolly, a transfer student whose lash-y eyes and comfortable silences make her question who it is she wants and what she needs. But Adam’s support can’t help her the day Lily discovers her parents’ game-changing secret. Faced with the truth, Lily must decide how to deal with her family’s past, take hold of her own future, and accept that there are many names for love. Don’t bother making wishes; what you get is more than enough. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Scarlett Kol</span></b></div>
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<i>A girl looking for a way out.</i></div>
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Being the daughter of New America’s leader, Mercury Masters has everything a girl could want. A glamorous life full of beautiful people, and the power to have anything she wants, except for one thing—to escape. Because Mercury’s perfect life comes with secrets to keep. Dangerous secrets that if made public would destroy her, her family, and her father’s reign. Then she meets Hawk. A boy looking to be a hero.</div>
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Hawk, a handsome prep school dropout turned vigilante, has his own family secrets. Deadly secrets that have haunted him since he was fifteen. But instead of fighting the ghosts of his past, Hawk has assembled a group of misfit hackers and thieves to save the future from the corrupt government of New America and the mysterious virus that is killing off its citizens. But trying to do the right thing is tough when the person you really want to save is your enemy’s daughter.</div>
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A love that could kill them both. </div>
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Powerful forces keep them apart, but coming together could be the key to saving New America from destruction—even though it may cost both their lives.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Adam Mann</span></b></div>
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Two very short stories about a boy meeting a girl, or girls.</div>
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The first is at college, where it is not the number of girls but one very special girl who is as inexperienced as the boy. Hopefully she will take the lessons she has learned into her married life.</div>
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The second is a young man meeting a series of young ladies, but not always at work, although sometimes work related.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Brooke Moss</span></b></div>
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Posey Briggs has a chip on her shoulder the size of Whidbey, the island off of the Washington Coast where she’s stuck with her annoying foster family, and their band of mismatched, screw up kids. The last thing she needs while she rides out these last few months until she’s eighteen and finally free from the system, is to be saddled with some bogus tutoring assignment given by an English teacher with a God complex.</div>
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Drew Baxter has the world in the palm of his hands. Best athlete in school, coolest guy on campus, nailing the hottest girl in school whenever he wants. What more could he ask for? Except for his dad to stop making his life a terrorizing game of whose face will get pounded tonight? He’d rather do just about anything other than sitting around listening to the school loser lecture him about Shakespeare every day.</div>
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Sometimes the universe has a way of thrusting two people together, even though they’d rather drink poison than sit across a library table from one another. And in this case, the universe knew something Drew and Posey never saw coming: they would become the single most important person in each other’s lives, and save each other from completely unraveling.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Connie Smith</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For Austin, that moment comes when Lila performs a rumba in the school's auditorium to qualify for the state dance competition, the young woman on stage so far-removed from the little girl in his memories.</span><br />
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Joss Olstad wins the fight to switch from her private school to a public high to “find her pieces” she lost when the artist father she never knew died. There, Joss struggles with a slutty friend, who flirts with her new love, Will; girls who press her on her embarrassing past, as well as her stoner mother’s lies back at home. Armed only with her handmade heart boxes that hold private messages, Joss’s search for identity leads her to a scary industrial section of Queens, and a shocking family secret that changes everything. This novel has been on Amazon’s top 100 in Teen and Alternative Family for over two years.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa Voisin</span></b></div>
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<i>A fallen angel seeking redemption. A demon seeking revenge. The teenage girl caught between them.</i></div>
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No nightmares about my dad’s car crashing or my sister’s tiny face vanishing in a window of red. No, not anymore. Now when I sleep I fall into an expanse of frozen wilderness, the other life I’ve lived…</div>
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<b><i>Spirits in the Water</i></b> is a new anthology of eleven magical tales by Untethered Realms, masters of fantasy & sci-fi. Take a haunted journey on a riverboat, meet water sprites borne of pennies, preternatural creatures, ancient serpents, and the Lady of the Lake who lurks in dark waters. Experience raging storms and magical rainbow fountains. Water is beautiful but treacherous. <b>To celebrate the launch, Spirits in the Water is only 99 cents & book 1, Twisted Earths goes FREE!</b></div>
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<b>Gwen Gardner </b>gives us Shake, Rattle and Row. Harlow Grayson has the chance to rid herself of a pesky ghost but she must first brave a haunted riverboat and recover a family heirloom. What she finds might be more than she can handle.<br />
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<b>Jeff Chapman </b>offers The Water Wight. When a drowned girl changes her mind about suicide, Merliss and associates face a fearsome, preternatural creature.<br />
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<b>M. Pax</b> presents The Wallows. Evernee Weems wants to escape this world in the worst way. Her daughter needs everything, the rent is being raised, Evernee’s job barely pays minimum wage, and she has little hope for better. Inside a puddle is a different reality. She jumps in, happy to trade her problems for a life in which worries don’t exist. Or do they?<br />
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<b>Angela Brown</b> gives us Extraordinary. Puberty hits Angelique like a gut punch and brings about a change, forcing an unexpected revelation about her past. All seems well until a vicious storm tears through her Texas community, and Angelique learns there are worse things than a little change.<br />
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<b>River Fairchild</b> presents You Can’t Go Home Again. A young woman, filled with regret about the past, goes on a journey and discovers more than she bargained for.<br />
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<b>Simon Kewin</b> offers The Waters, Dividing the Land. Hyrn the horned god of the woodlands is learning the meaning of fear. Death magic blights the land, threatening everyone and everything. To save what he can from spreading corruption, he turns to the ancient river serpents, but they’ve grown old and distant and may not hear his call.<br />
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<b>Christine Rains</b> gives us Frozen. A necromancer is on the frozen moon of Saturn where the dead do scream.<br />
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<b>Meradeth Houston</b> presents The Flood. Sometimes a flooded kitchen isn’t the unluckiest thing to happen to you.<br />
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<b>Catherine Stine </b>offers Maizy of Bellagio. April still searches for her mother who vanished nineteen years ago from the fountain at Hotel Bellagio in Vegas. Can Maizy, a water sprite who works the fountain’s pink colors, help the three generations of eccentric women tortured by this tragedy?<br />
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<b>M. Gerrick</b> gives us The One Who Would Wield the Sword. Nikka is supposed to be dragon bait so a real dragon hunter can do his job, but the Lady in the Lake has other plans for her.<br />
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<b>Cherie Reich</b> presents The Folding Point. Aimee’s fight against those who banned paper magics has begun.<br />
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-39776448946225937762017-08-11T08:41:00.000-07:002017-08-11T08:44:35.350-07:00Two great book events and WIN FREE TICKETS!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGwQQqCCj7t3PQxMgaxh5Ii_nNBoz9JPyZ7Bi5qHzK8IMq_0rwjT6lhX2A0v3GsD-pqW-hk_No7vpNETuFjfeJARMAjBvMvS-5qn40twzqiZIvJpltgkS_Ei26Qrc21XcydPwiV0DNsgk/s1600/chapterCon+reader+event+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGwQQqCCj7t3PQxMgaxh5Ii_nNBoz9JPyZ7Bi5qHzK8IMq_0rwjT6lhX2A0v3GsD-pqW-hk_No7vpNETuFjfeJARMAjBvMvS-5qn40twzqiZIvJpltgkS_Ei26Qrc21XcydPwiV0DNsgk/s320/chapterCon+reader+event+poster.jpg" width="240" /></a>Hi dear readers, bloggers and authors! Geez, it's been a while since I've posted. But the awesome bookish community is never far from my mind. Life just had me spinning in its tornado-like grip. Even so, I am cooking up new stories - another witch book, this one set in Philadelphia in 1854, and a romantic suspense set in contemporary LA. I am also participating in some really fun literary events that I want to invite you all to. Anyone live near or in NYC? How about the UK?<br />
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<b><u>WINE & SIGN, NYC, SEPT 9, 3 to 5 pm</u></b><br />
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wine-n-sign-nyc-tickets-34443709061">Wine & Sign</a> on the rooftop lounge of the Delancey Hotel is part happy hour, part meet-n-greet & part book signing. Come party with me and some very intriguing, bestselling novelists like Skye Warren, Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank, Katie M John and more.<br />
<b>Better yet, you could win a FREE ticket (or two)!!! </b><br />
Tickets are $15 but <b>I have FOUR FREE tickets to hand out! To win one or more, just preorder one of my books and <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI4mp8HuBrMwXEyVGiDjK_MrH6JVUYZOSGD5tbGOiC8qkaZA/viewform">fill out this form </a>to let me know which one you ordered. Easy Peasy, right? Winners will be notified by email, and their names will be added to the special guest list.</b><br />
For author bios and event details <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wine-n-sign-nyc-tickets-34443709061">click here</a>.<br />
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<b><u>CHAPTER CON, AUG 25 & 26, UK</u></b><br />
This conference is only 20 minutes on train or bus west of London in Twickenham, set in a university that looks like a castle! Join us in the beautiful surroundings of St. Mary’s University and Strawberry Hill house for an intimate two-day reader, author and blogger conference, including a public Saturday signing event.<br />
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Whether you are a best-selling established author, an aspiring author, a blogger, a reader, a publisher or a book seller, we would like to invite you to <a href="http://chaptercon.weebly.com/">ChapterCon</a>, one of the U.K’s very first conventions of its kind designed to connect, educate and inspire. Book fair tickets are only 5 British pounds. Check out <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chaptercon-london-2017-tickets-17975537316?aff=ehomesaved">all event options here.</a> Overall conference <a href="http://chaptercon.weebly.com/">deets here.</a><br />
To reserve one of my signed books <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWcBZYp4ejBCK3N5eMVEMJSlSr0RtATJQJR_mQD-uFhGKSsQ/viewform">preorder here.</a><br />
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I’m on a panel on Friday, Aug 25 and I have a book table on Saturday, Aug 26. My panel:<br />
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Patti Larsen. Catherine Stine. Carrie Elks. Justine Winter. Mia Hodell. </div>
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<i>Dealing with writers block. </i></div>
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Happy August! It would be wonderful to see you at one of these amazing events.<br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Catherine</span></i></div>
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Do you like witchy paranormal tales? You're in luck! This witchy storybundle features lots of spooky great novels. Plus part of every sale goes to cool writerly causes like <a href="https://www.girlswritenow.org/">Girls Write Now</a> and <a href="http://www.mightywriters.org/">Mighty Writers</a>, which help aspiring authors to reach their dreams. Here are the books, including my Witch of the Cards. Below I'll tell you how to order and start reading!<br />
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Spring has always been a time for witches, magic and the influence of the Other World in pagan folklore. The Celtic festival of Beltane is traditionally observed on May 1st, and April 30th is also known as Walpurgis Night – or in Germanic folklore Hexennacht, literally "Witches' Night." What better time, then, to partake in the Witchy Bundle, your chance to grab a collection of ten truly magical books that involve witches of one sort or another.<br />
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This collection takes us across our own world and into others. There are American witches and witches battling the Nazis in war-torn Europe. There are dark twists on fairy tales and witches in the wild west. There are witches who don't know they have the power or the sight until dire need comes upon them. Thrillers, fantasy, romance, horror, mystery –These ten books feature bestselling authors as well as rising stars. The list includes Simon Kewin's urban fantasy Hedge Witch, first in the Cloven Land Trilogy. We also have my Witch of the Cards, David Neth's The Full Moon, the first in his Under the Moon series. Christine Pope gives us Darknight, a Witches of Cleopatra Hill tale, and Alesha Escobar has her thrilling Gray Tower trilogy. Matthew S. Cox contributes his Nine Candles of Deepest Black and Sara O. Thompson her Muddy Waters, the first in the Otherwhere series. Milo James Fowler's Coyote Cal omnibus takes us to the gunslinging weird west and Steve Vernon gives us his spine-chilling Tatterdemon omnibus. NY Times bestselling author K. N. Lee's book in the bundle is Academia of the Beast, a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast.<br />
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At StoryBundle name your price — whatever you feel the books are worth — and a portion of the proceeds goes to Mighty Writers and Girls Write Now. For $5, get the basic bundle of five books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE. If you pay $15 (or more, if you feel generous), you'll get the five bonus books as well. The Witchy Bundle runs for three weeks only.<br />
<b>The five initial titles in the Witchy Bundle (minimum $5 to purchase) are:</b> The Tatterdemon Omnibus by Steve Vernon • Hedge Witch by Simon Kewin • Coyote Cal by Milo James Fowler • Academia of the Beast by K.N. Lee • Muddy Waters by Sara O. Thompson<br />
<b>If you pay more than the bonus price of just $15, you get the regular titles, plus these five more:</b> The Full Moon by David Neth • Nine Candles of Deepest Black by Matthew S. Cox • Darkknight - The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Book 2 by Christine Pope • Witch of the Cards by Catherine Stine • The Gray Tower Trilogy by Alesha Escobar.<br />
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<b>This bundle is ONLY available until May 18 <a href="https://storybundle.com/fantasy">via this link</a>. So if it sounds good nab it before the time flies away.</b><br />
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Storybundle allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as other ereaders via file transfer, email, and more. Also, give the gift of reading with StoryBundle, thanks to gift cards – which allow you to send someone a code to redeem any future StoryBundle bundle – and timed delivery. Get quality indie reads for only about 67 pennies per book while you donate to great writing programs! What a cool source of curated quality titles for thirsty readers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am an attending author May 3 to 7 at <a href="https://www.rtconvention.com/">RT Booklovers Convention</a> in Atlanta, Georgia! Come visit my Catherine Stine/Kitsy Clare booth at the RT Roundup on Sunday, May 7 from 10 am to 1 pm! <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atlanta-rt-readers-writers-roundup-tickets-33418687193">Reader Roundup tickets here</a>. To see all of the attending authors <a href="http://www.rtroundup.com/">click here</a>. Or head over to <a href="http://catherinestine.com/wp/events-classes/">my events page</a> for details. I will also participate in the Teen Day Match Game on Saturday, May 6, which you can <a href="http://catherinestine.com/wp/events-classes/">read about there too</a>. So, if you're in or near Atlanta, stop on by! Want to reserve copies of my signed books? <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5W9uY9UTEyhsL9dQw1js8ThFo11QSqbTYQgx6XyEbisbMgQ/viewform">Click here.</a></span></div>
Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-83091049964263867332017-03-19T10:18:00.000-07:002017-03-19T10:39:14.197-07:00NYC Teen Author Fest kicks off March 18-26 & info on my panel for March 24<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The NYC Teen Author Fest kicks off this week. All events are free, and there's a stellar lineup of signings, forums and themed symposiums with everyone from debut authors to veterans like Laurie Halse Anderson.<br />
<b>I will be on a panel on Friday, March 24th at 3:55 pm at the New York Public Library, at 42nd Street (and corner of Fifth Ave), South Court Auditorium</b><b>.</b> So, if you are in or near the city I would love to see you! Here are details of my panel:<br />
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<b>3:55-4:40:</b> <b>Difficult Characters</b><br />
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Explanation: Many of the best YA characters take readers outside their comfort zones – they may not be instantly likable or understandable, but over the course of a novel, they come to have an effect by coming to life (in all its messiness) on the page. This is a conversation about writing “difficult characters” – where they come from, what they’re like to deal with as an author, and what response do they get from readers (and does that response matter?).<br />
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<b>Kayla Cagan, Lisa Selin Davis, Pete Hoffmeister, AR Kahler</b><br />
<b>Amanda Panitch, Alyssa Sheinmel, Catherine Stine</b><br />
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To see the full March 24 NYPL free Symposium lineup <a href="http://nyctaf.com/event/2017-friday-symposium/">click here. </a><br />
To see the entire Teen Author Fest event lineup <a href="http://nyctaf.com/2017-schedule/">click here</a><br />
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Soon, on Idea City will be sneak peeks of the forthcoming Spirits in the Water anthology (Elements #4), out this fall with Untethered Realms, including an excerpt of my story. In the meantime, I leave you with all the pretty Element covers. <a href="http://untetheredrealms.blogspot.com/p/ur-publications.html">Start reading them now. </a><br />
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I'm wishing everyone a fun holiday season and inspiration for 2017!<br />
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-82715393092563533852016-09-30T13:52:00.000-07:002017-01-23T10:32:48.709-08:00Back from a Hiatus! The Lowdown & Plans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">Hi dear blogging, reading, author community!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I've missed you all.</span> I kind of fell off the face of the earth toward the end of June. Well, maybe a bit before that. <span style="color: blue;">The highs and lows:</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">A high</span> * I got super-busy trying to get ready for a bunch of amazing book conventions.<br />
<span style="color: blue;">A high</span> * I splurged for my first professional author photo (this one).<br />
<span style="color: blue;">A low</span> * I got bedbugs at one of the conventions!!! So did the unlucky photographer. Luckily, my exterminator had me well trained and I took care of business the second I hit home. NO bugs survived my war to the death. But my bites and resulting scars lingered for months. Yuck!<br />
<span style="color: blue;">A high</span> * I hit the USA Today bestseller list with a boxed set I'm in!!!<br />
<span style="color: blue;">A high</span> * I went to a writing retreat in Cape Cod and wrote every day, all day. Except for our sailboat ride and long dinners. Oh, and watching the Olympic Women's Volleyball teams kick some serious you-know-what!<br />
<span style="color: blue;">A high</span> * Attended a different book con in Saint Louis, sold lots, made new friends and had a blast! <a href="https://pennedcon.com/">Penned Con</a> to be exact, which gives all of their profits to Action for Autism. Mad respect to founders, Amy and Rick Miles.<br />
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I've had a long time to think about the blog. About how often I want to post, and more importantly, WHAT I want to post. I will post a bit less, but I will post. And yes, I will post about amazing books, and my own books... because I do love books and I do write. <i>Just not 24/7.</i><br />
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<b> </b><span style="text-align: left;"><b>So, happy fall, and wow, the Halloween season!</b> And, I <i>do</i> have book stuff. A re-release with new covers and sales/freebies for my </span><a href="http://catherinestine.com/wp/re-release-deal-on-the-fireseed-series-plus-new-sequel-novella/" style="text-align: left;">future shocker Fireseed series</a><span style="text-align: left;">, including a new sequel novella called Blue House Magic. Untethered Realms has new story anthology out, <a href="http://catherinestine.com/wp/untethered-realms/">Ghosts of Fire, book 3</a> of the Elements series. My story in this is Rollerskate Boys. Put the anthology on your <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32313516-ghosts-of-fire">Goodreads TBR list</a> if you like. And I'll be doing a bunch of Facebook parties like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1321889231185264/">Haunted Halloween Spooktacular</a> on OCT 20 from 4 to 5 (EST) and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/212026942547190/">A Magickal Samhain</a> on Sunday, OCT 30 from 12 to 1:30 pm (EST) - all to help spread word of Ghosts of Fire and other spooktastic boxed sets I'm in, like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mystical-Magic-Shades-Prey-Book-ebook/dp/B01K3CX4KC">Shades of Prey, Mystical Magic.</a> Join the parties to chat with lots of authors and play games for giveaways if you like!!!</span></div>
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Today Idea City has an interview with UK fantasy author Nicky Peacock. We also have a fun cover reveal for C. Lee's forthcoming middle grade novel so make sure to scroll through the whole post!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bad Timing is the second in the Battle of the Undead series and hot on its heels was the free read prequel, Traitors' Gate, which takes the reader back to where it all began. This spring saw the release of my new series with Evernight Teen, The Twisted and the Brave. The first book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Wonderland-Twisted-Brave-Book-ebook/dp/B01E9NX1W2">Lost in Wonderland</a> is a dark, supernatural thriller. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Tell us about your main characters</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Britannia is the heroine in the Battle of the Undead series, she's an old vampire with a dry sense of humor and the kind of violent tendencies that makes her the perfect weapon against a zombie apocalypse. She has an unspoken obsession with perfection, especially when it comes to how she looks and she's spent too much time on her own and needs to learn to rely on others. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Tell us about a main theme. What fired you up to write on this theme?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The main theme is co-operation throughout the books. That only by working with others can you get through impending disaster. I've always believed this in life. I also though it fit really well with vampires as a species. Zombies naturally run in groups, but vampires can be quite solitary in nature. So pitting them against one another with these very different social habits makes for an interesting fight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Britannia: "<span style="color: #323333;">He gave me a sly smile, as if he was trying to get away with something. Like he’d farted and was waiting for me to smell it."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicholas: "Britannia. I am acutely aware that you hate me. I am equally aware that our survival”—he motioned around us—“is </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">dependent on you not being such a bitch.”</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">An emblematic, teaser paragraph from Bad Blood:</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> “I thought we’d agreed I wasn’t a lady.” With that, I shoved him as hard as I could into the throbbing throng of zombies.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">What keeps you going when inspiration flags?</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Inspiration is my one thing that never flags. I have far too many ideas for stories to write. It's more my time and energy to actually do the writing that I can struggle with. When that happens, I try to change my surroundings. I go somewhere different to write, somewhere I can focus on what I'm doing and not be a slave to the demons of procrastination.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">What truly inspires you and fires up your vision?</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The vision of my future as a professional full time writer. That's the dream. Like most modern authors I need to maintain a full time job to ensure I have those luxuries in life such as food and shelter. I'd love to not have that worry. To just wake up every day and know that I can do the one thing I love and get enough money from it to live a comfortable life.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Best words of advice you ever received?</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">You can't please everyone (great advice, especially for writers) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">What's meant for you won't pass you by (can make you lazy and fool you into thinking that life owes you something)</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Some writing advice to aspiring and new authors?</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Join a writers' group. Writing can be a very lonely pursuit, having like-minded people around you can help to motivate you to keep going and inspire you. I run an adult and a YA group in my home town. </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Which do you enjoy writing most: action, romance, setting, dialog?</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">I love writing it all. I'd hate to think that I was weak on one aspect. I am guilty of including more action that most books in my genre, but I think that if the story warrants it, you shouldn't shy away from action scenes.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">A hint of what you’re working on next?</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm currently working on two books. The next book in the Battle of the Undead series, Bad Karma and also the 2nd book in my new series, The Twisted and the Brave, called The Assassin of Oz.</span></div>
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<b>Buy Lost in Wonderland (The Twisted & the Brave Book 1) from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Wonderland-Twisted-Brave-Book-ebook/dp/B01E9NX1W2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Wonderland-Twisted-Brave-Book-ebook/dp/B01E9NX1W2">Amazon UK</a></b></div>
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<b>Buy Bad Blood, Bad Timing & other great Nicky Peacock books at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nicky-Peacock/e/B007UH2ACW">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicky-Peacock/e/B007UH2ACW">Amazon UK</a></b></div>
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<b><u>Where to find Nicky on the web:</u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://nickypeacockauthor.wordpress.com/">Blog</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nickyp_author">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NickyPeacockYaBooks">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4958833.Nicky_Peacock">Goodreads</a>, <a href="http://nickypeacock.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>, <a href="https://www.authorgraph.com/authors/NickyP_author">Authorgraph</a></span></div>
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<b><u>Nicky's Bio:</u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">I’ve always been a storyteller, not in a ‘liar liar pants on fire’ kind of way, although I do work in advertising! When I was little, kids would crowd around me in the playground and I’d tell them tales of blood soaked horror filled with vampires, werewolves, ghosts and more. Yes, most would consider me a disturbed child, but my playmates couldn’t help themselves, they’d huddle around me every break time like an ancient tribe feeding off the fear; and that’s how I learned that horror stories hold a certain power, no matter what some might say, everyone is addicted to a good scare, especially if it is somewhat rooted safely in unrealistic beings… or are they unrealistic?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Writing was really a natural progression for me. So far I’ve had 35 short stories included in anthologies produced by publishers all over the world; my latest was included in Little Brown Book Group’s Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories. I have two YA series with the publishers, Evernight Teen:Battle of the Undead and The Twisted and The Brave. I run a local adult writers’ group called Creative Minds Writing and have been asked by my local library (Corby, Northants, UK) to run a group for budding authors aged 13-25.</span></div>
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And now... drumroll... here's C. Lee's spectacular cover for her upcoming middle grade fantasy Sign of the Green Dragon! It launches on August 3rd, but put it on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29415474-sign-of-the-green-dragon">your Goodreads TBR list </a>right now!</div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">While the boys explore the hideout, an earthquake crumbles a wall, revealing a hidden room—and it’s not empty. A dragon-carved chest opens to reveal a human skeleton, its hand-bones clutching a note with a crudely drawn map. At the top of the map is scribbled, 1859.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">Sam, Joey and Roger learn about a treasure lying in wait, if only they can locate something called the Dragon Twin, reveal the truth about an old murder, and return a person named Mei Ling to her ancestors in China.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">The boys are up for the challenge. But how? They only have the map showing the way to an old mining town, and some strange symbols they can’t understand. None of them can make sense of the note. Who’s Mei Ling? And what the heck is a Dragon Twin?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">With time running out before he’s sent packing, Sam and his friends set out on an adventure that has much higher stakes than any baseball championship—one that gets them into trouble with a modern crime, pits them against ancient Chinese dragons, and reveals the true meaning of treasure for each of them.</span></div>
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<b>In case you haven't read C. Lee's other rollicking Pete Riley books, check them out here!</b></div>
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<b>Buy Alligators Overhead</b> at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alligators-Overhead-C-Lee-McKenzie-ebook/dp/B008K4N5D2">Amazon</a> & <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alligators-overhead-c-lee-mckenzie/1111949174?ean=2940044743311">Nook/B&N</a></div>
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<b>Buy The Great Timelock Disaster</b> at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Time-Lock-Disaster-Alligators-ebook/dp/B00TGBUDE2">Amazon</a> & <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-great-time-lock-disaster-sequel-to-alligators-overhead-c-lee-mckenzie/1121579780?ean=2940151832434">Nook/B&N</a></div>
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Check out everything C Lee McKenzie at her <a href="http://cleemckenziebooks.com/">website</a>, on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/signofgreendragon/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cleemckenzie">Twitter</a> & on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cleemckenzie/">Instagram</a></div>
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Today on Idea City we have a spectacular cover reveal for Liz Long's Heroes of Arcania trilogy! You can not only check out all of the covers here, but you can pre-order ALL three books!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">SuperNova (HoA #1), Fortune’s Favor (HoA #2), Unbreakable (HoA #3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The streets of Arcania are overrun with crime, deteriorating as a madman named Fortune makes himself at home. He shows no mercy, striking down anyone in his path – including Nova Benson’s little sister. Devastated, Nova vows to seek justice for her family, but aside from her freak strength and impenetrable skin, how is she supposed to stop a monster like Fortune? </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Cole Warner wants to help people. Entrusted to keep his family’s secret, he’s also frustrated at having to hide his gift. He knows he could do more to help in the fight against Fortune. If he could convince his sister Penelope to join him, they might even have a chance at beating him. When Cole meets Nova, he realizes his whole world is about to change. And he’s going to welcome it with open arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Liz Long is a proud graduate of Longwood University. Her inspiration comes from action and thriller genres and she spends entirely too much time watching superhero movies. Her day job includes writing for a magazine publisher in Roanoke, VA.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Donovan Circus series has best been described as "X-Men meets the circus." Adult horror story Witch Hearts tells the tale of a serial killer hunting witches for their powers. New Adult PNR A Reaper Made is about a teen Reaper who gets caught between falling in love or saving her sister's soul. All titles are available for paperback or ebook on Amazon. </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">To learn more about Liz, including info on her books, plus writing, marketing & social media tips, visit her <a href="http://lizclong.com/">website.</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-weight: 400;"><b>Have a great Memorial Day weekend, all.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-weight: 400;"><b>Happy <i>almost</i> June!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-weight: 400;"><i><b>Catherine</b></i></span><br />
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-79382412994504394962016-05-04T22:32:00.000-07:002016-05-04T22:32:40.728-07:00New May Reads!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Idea City has fresh new books to load onto your eReaders.</b><br />
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From Inkspell's Bridie Hall comes On the Slopes, a sweet sports romance.<br />
<b><span style="color: #741b47;">A summary:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">Snowboarding means everything to Charlise, but she hasn’t met Sam Miller yet.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">Charlise is a snowboarder with a promising career ahead of her. Despite the fact that her father hates her risking her life on the slopes that had taken the life of Charlise’s mother she is determined not to give up her career the way her mother did when she fell pregnant. Charlise wants to win medals, lots of them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">The last distraction Charlise needs is the American freestyle champion, Sam Miller, who utterly enthrals her with his wit and friendliness. Refusing to risk her career for a relationship, Charlise returns home for Christmas, determined to sort things out with her father. But the holidays culminate in an epic fight, and with a repeat of the painful breakup with Sam. However, new discoveries from her family’s past might change Charlise’s mind about Sam.</span><br />
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<b>About the author:</b><br />
Bridie Hall writes YA and NA contemporary stories. She sold her first story at fourteen. Since then, she's written dozens more, translated books, studied writing, and started writing novels. Her days revolve around stories and words, her sleepless nights involve plotting and inventing fascinating new characters. <b>Visit her: <a href="http://www.bridiehallauthor.com/">Website</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bridie.hall.12">Facebook</a></b><br />
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Next up is Christine Rain's steamy romance series Sasquatch Susies from Ellora's Cave. Zowie!<br />
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Next we'll switch gears to present a sci-fi anthology with a story from fellow Untethered Realms author, Cherie Reich and other talented speculative fiction folks. The collection is called Parallels and here's a summary:<br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><b><i>Enter the realm of parallel universes!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">What if the government tried to create the perfect utopia? Could a society linked to a supercomputer survive on its own? Do our reflections control secret lives on the other side of the mirror? Can one moment split a person’s world forever?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Exploring the fantastic, ten authors offer incredible visions and captivating tales of diverse reality. Featuring the talents of L. G. Keltner, Crystal Collier, Hart Johnson, Cherie Reich, Sandra Cox, Yolanda Renee, Melanie Schulz, Sylvia Ney, Michael Abayomi, and Tamara Narayan.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Hand-picked by a panel of agents and authors, these ten tales will expand your imagination and twist the tropes of science fiction. Step through the portal and enter another dimension!</span><br />
<b>Get your copy at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parallels-Felix-L-G-Keltner-ebook/dp/B01BI04FFQ">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/parallels-felix-was-here/id1082456685?mt=11">iBooks</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/parallels-felix-was-here">Kobo</a>. See it at <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29068502-parallels?from_new_nav=true&ac=1&from_search=true">Goodreads</a></b><br />
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And finally, a spectacular boxed set of space fiction called Galactic Empires, with a novel from an Untethered Realms author, M. Pax.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>The Backworlds by M. Pax </b>- A man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity’s outer settlements and prove his father wrong.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen</b> - To look an alien superior in the eye is a deadly offense. To accuse him of a political murder…</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson</b> - A scruffy alien pest controller faces an alien threat the likes of which the universe has never seen.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Hard Duty by Mark E. Cooper</b> - Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo</b> - A disgraced racer pilot gets mixed up with a mega-corporation. Now he has to stop them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Sky Hunter by Chris Reher </b>- Sent to a human outpost to investigate sabotage, a pilot finds more trouble than she bargained for.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>The Galapagos Incident by Felix Savage</b> - A genocidal AI attacks the solar system, and a Space Corps agent has one chance of saving a bunch of asteroid squatters she was sent to evict.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>First Conquest by David VanDyke </b>- To find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, Task Force Conquest must fight to seize a new star system.</span></div>
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<b><i>Wow! Lots of great reading for spring. Happy May.</i></b></div>
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-13131757322771426072016-04-25T06:18:00.000-07:002016-04-25T06:18:11.977-07:00Interview with Libby Doyle for her Debut Novel, The Passion Season<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today on Idea City I'm pleased to present Libby Doyle's debut novel The Passion Season, Book 1 of her Covalent series. In her interview, readers can learn details of her book and projected series. But first, a summary:<br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-small;">She is Alexandra “Zan” O'Gara. FBI Agent. Army veteran. Recovering drunk. Zan’s troubled past left her with little interest in men, but she had never encountered anyone like the stunning Rainer Barakiel. Zan believes Rainer is a wealthy businessman with expertise in edged weapons who can help her with a case. From the moment she meets him she wants him more than she’s ever wanted anything, but her intense attraction is as frightening as it is thrilling.</span></div>
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My male hero is Barakiel (ba-rack-ee-el), also known as Rainer (ry-ner). He is Covalent, a race of ancient beings who keep the elemental forces of Creation and Destruction in Balance. The Covalent bond the elemental forces to prevent them from transforming into each other in an endless cycle. Without these aliens, the elemental forces would crushing everything into oblivion. The Covalent sit at the still center of everything that exists. Barakiel is a warrior Covalent. He constantly gathers energy from his surroundings and turns it into unassailable strength and speed. He is a born weapon, and sees violence as the solution to most problems, but he has another side. The Covalent cultivate Balance, the equilibrium of attraction and repulsion, order and entropy, love and hate. Balance is the source of their power. This means Barakiel loves as mightily as he fights. He is ardent and sensitive and open with his feelings. He is a hopeless romantic.</div>
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When the story begins, Barakiel has been banished to Earth. He is mistrusted and feared because he is the son of Lucifer, who rebelled against the Covalent Council and was driven from the Covalent Realm. Far from being in league with his father, Barakiel is the focus of Lucifer’s murderous obsession. Lucifer sends his demon minions against his son at every change of seasons – the solstices and the equinoxes – when the Earth’s axis shifts position relative to the Sun and creates a rift between dimensions.</div>
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Fighting demons gives Barakiel a sense of purpose, but he isolated from his kind. He is saved from complete loneliness by Pellus, who was a close friend of his mother’s. Pellus is like a father to Barakiel. They clash, as fathers and sons often do, but Pellus is much more than a stand-in parent and mentor. He is a traveler adept, a type of Covalent who can manipulate the properties of matter and energy. Pellus can travel between dimensions using rifts in the fabric of existence that only a traveler can see. As an adept, he has achieved such mastery that he can bend light and create solid barriers out of the air. He can break through even the most sophisticated computer encryption as easily as walking through an unlocked door. He is calm, rational, and deadly. </div>
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Pellus is also cautious. He discourages Barakiel from pursuing serious relationships with humans because they are against Covalent Law. When Barakiel meets Zan O’Gara, it doesn’t take Pellus long to realize the warrior will not listen to him. Barakiel is drawn to her. He tells Pellus that she carries herself like a warrior, and he waxes poetic over her flawless skin. He “burns with Creation, all for her,” as Pellus puts it.</div>
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Barakiel needs and wants love, but he never found a woman who could match him until he met Zan. Despite his need, Pellus’ warnings do have some effect on him. He hides his true identity. He passes as human.</div>
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Zan, my female hero, is an FBI agent and a decorated army veteran. She is from the mountains of Idaho and has the toughness and self-sufficiency often found in people who hale from a rugged landscape. She is dedicated to her job. Too dedicated, according to Melissa Romani, Zan’s FBI partner. Mel is also Zan’s best friend and is always trying to set her up with men.</div>
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Although Zan tried dating, it was always tepid or horrible. She filled her life with other things. She is an excellent guitar player and fronts a rock-n-roll band. Between her job and her music, she doesn’t have time for men. She thinks it’s just as well because she is a recovering alcoholic, and like many women who abused a substance, she has an ugly history with sex. Zan thought her scars meant romance was not for her. When she meets Rainer, she lusts after him and she likes it, but he also makes her feel things she doesn’t understand. It terrifies her.</div>
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Barakiel’s quest is to discover if there is a connection between his presence in the Earthly Realm and a grisly murder. Zan’s quest is to solve the same murder. A man was gutted at the winter solstice, his internal organs removed. His body was left on display near Barakiel’s home. Three months later, at the vernal equinox, a similar ritual takes place in the national historical park in Philadelphia. The park rangers find a human spleen in the bushes. They call the FBI.</div>
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Zan begins an investigation, where she meets Barakiel. They begin to explore each other with a fiery passion. At the same time, Barakiel struggles to meet the demands of his homeworld and deal with his father’s efforts to kill him. His time with Zan gives him strength, but as her investigation brings her closer to the truth about the murder, Barakiel is afraid he will lose her. </div>
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“Zan, it’s a beautiful, sunny day. Let us go to the ocean. We can consign our pain to the waves, and listen to them whisper their comfort.” – Barakiel to Zan, after they’ve had an intense, emotional discussion.</div>
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Here's an excerpt from the day Zan and Rainer first meet. She expresses an interest in blades, so he invites her to see his collection. He gives her a sword to examine. Unbeknownst to her, it is his Covalent sword, an alien weapon. To see her handle it gives him a thrill.</div>
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Zan took the gargantuan blade with both hands and did a simple block stance, then a thrust. Rainer raised both his eyebrows.</div>
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“I’m surprised you can lift that to shoulder level.”</div>
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“I’m a strong woman.”</div>
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“I can see that,” he replied in a low voice. The way he looked at her made Zan almost drop the sword. She adjusted her grip.</div>
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“This sword is unbelievably well-balanced.”</div>
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“Exactly.”</div>
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Did I just impress him? God, I hope so.</div>
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“Ah, see now,” Zan said. “My arms are getting tired, so you weren’t far from right. I could never actually use this sword.” She pivoted and held it out to him with a slight bow. “Your sword, sir.”</div>
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Rainer smiled as he took it. Zan realized he hadn’t been smiling before, not a real smile. This time it was like strong sunlight falling on a person who’d been trapped in the bitter cold.</div>
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“You’re trained?” he asked.</div>
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“A little. I used to study kendo in college, Japanese sword fighting, but I don’t have the time now. For the job, we’re mostly trained in firearms, but we get a decent amount of training in hand-to-hand, some other weapons. How about you? Is your interest more than aesthetic?”</div>
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“Yes. I’ve studied the fighting arts since I was a child.”</div>
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“Somehow that doesn’t surprise me.”</div>
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Rainer tilted his head and regarded her, his lips pressed together.</div>
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<i>He doesn’t know what to make of me. I don’t know what to make of him either, but oh, those lips. I better get away from this man. I’m on duty.</i></div>
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<b>What keeps you going when your inspiration flags?</b></div>
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Discipline. I’m a former journalist, trained to write on demand. Writer’s block is not acceptable when there’s newspaper to get out. I’ve also found that the act of writing itself creates inspiration. It touches some mysterious part of my brain.</div>
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<b>What truly inspires you and fires up your vision?</b></div>
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Natural beauty. I love mountains. They make me feel insignificant, which is good if you need perspective. Their beauty soothes and renews me. Also, music. A great song gives me a tremendous feeling of wellbeing. In addition, when I’m frustrated or angry, punk rock has a great cathartic effect. </div>
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<b>Best words of advice you ever received?</b></div>
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Once, on a trolley, an old woman said to me, “You’re going to have a wonderful life some day because you’re not afraid to be your own person.” She was a stranger, but her words have stayed with me. They’re not really advice, but I’ve tried to live by them. </div>
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<b>Worst?</b></div>
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To take a job as a corporate attorney because it was a “good opportunity.” I knew I would hate it, I didn’t last long. I’ve never been a climb-the-ladder kind of gal.</div>
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<b>Where’s your favorite place to write?</b></div>
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My office. I have big bay windows that let in a lot of light, and my cats come to visit me. </div>
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<b>Which do you enjoy writing most: action, romance, setting, dialogue?</b></div>
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I love to write dialogue. I love imaging conversations and people’s reactions to each other. I have to take care that my writing doesn’t have too much. I often get carried away. Of course, I enjoy all the others as well. Depends on the day and the circumstance of the story.</div>
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<b>More on the series:</b></div>
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The Passion Season is Book I of the Covalent Series. Writing a series is great because I get to tell an epic love story, set in two different worlds, with subplots featuring crime, political intrigue, war, betrayal, stealthy rescues and inter-dimensional travel. Plus, sweet words, tenderness and lots of hot sex. I’ve rarely had so much fun, and I’m a woman who’s had a lot of fun.</div>
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I have five books in my head, one finished, one halfway there, and one outlined. The drawbacks? You get impatient. You want to get it all out. Also, I’ve heard that readers hold off buying books in series until the whole series is available because they like to binge. That’s a long time to wait for people to read your stuff. That’s a lot of money to lay out for no return until some distant date.<b> </b></div>
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The Pain Season: Book II of the Covalent Series! Zan and Barakiel’s epic love story continues. I’ll give you an impressionistic synopsis of the beginning from Zan’s point of view: Terror, determination, anger, grief. The Pain Season will be released on the autumnal equinox, September 22, 2016. The writing is going swimmingly thus far. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Get The book:</span></b> <a href="http://goo.gl/Ix0v3V">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://goo.gl/jSQjlE">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://goo.gl/nQRRo9">B&N</a>, <a href="https://goo.gl/0Iof8o">CS paperback,</a> <a href="https://goo.gl/nHJLFQ">Kobo</a>, <a href="https://goo.gl/gR3dEH">24Symbols</a>, <a href="https://goo.gl/OtPzMa">Scribd</a>, <a href="http://goo.gl/TdKqXK">Inktera</a></div>
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Libby Doyle is an attorney and former journalist who took a walk around the corporate world and didn’t like it. She escapes the mundane by writing extravagant yarns, filled with sex and violence. She loves absurd humor, travel, punk rock, and her husband.</div>
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I've attended two very different book conventions this spring: Roanoke Author Invasion (RAI) and RT Booklovers (RT) convention in Las Vegas. Rather than write a text post, I thought I'd give you a photo journal. Hope you enjoy it... First some from RAI, then RT. If you want to also read a written report, <a href="http://untetheredrealms.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-report-fromtwo-book-conventions.html">click here</a> for my post on Untethered Realms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Cherie Reich at RAI</td></tr>
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Jocqueline at the after-party<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rockabilly girl at the Palms buffet at RT</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RT tablemates, left to right: Colleen Houck, me, Sarah Schmitt, Ginger Scott</td></tr>
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Witch of the Cards is on tour, hosted by <a href="http://bewitchingbooktours.blogspot.com/2016/03/now-on-tour-witch-of-cards-by-catherine.html">Bewitching Books</a> (How perfect for a witchy book). Also, a bunch of my fellow authors and bloggers are joining in the fun. <i><span style="color: purple;">A giant thanks to all! </span></i>As always, tour stops go live on the day of, so make sure to pop back in to read new posts. There are guest posts about the Tarot, about why I love to set my novels in dilapidated, eerie locations, about my inspirations behind the story, and a really fun playlist, mashing up contemporary music (about witches and magic) with songs of the 1930s. A tour would not be complete without a great giveaway. So, make sure to enter the Rafflecopter below. Want to know what the prizes are? Here you go:<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"> One $40 gift card, two hand-painted heart-boxes (by me) with secret treasure inside, one signed paperback of Dorianna, one signed paperback of Witch of the Cards, one brand new collector Tarot deck along with an envelope full of special greeting cards (with envelopes) designed by me!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">TOUR March 28 - April 11</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">March 28</span> - Guest Post - The Allure of Creepy Beach Towns as Settings</b><br />
<a href="http://www.addicted2heroines.com/2016/03/guest-post-excerpt-giveaway-with.html">Addicted 2 Heroines</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">March 28 - </span>Feature & Guest Post</b><br />
<a href="http://publishness.blogspot.com/2016/03/witch-of-cards-on-tour.html">In Pursuit of Publishness</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">March 30 - </span>Playlist!</b><br />
<a href="http://dawnbrazil.blogspot.com/2016/03/witch-of-cards-playlist-guest-post-by.html">Dawn Brazil’s Brilliant Babbles About Books</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">March 29 </span><span style="color: purple;">- Feature & Excerpt</span></b><br />
<a href="http://leighandersonromance.com/2016/03/witch-of-the-cards-by-catherine-stine/">Leigh Anderson Romance</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">March 30 - </span>Spotlight & Excerpt</b><br />
<a href="http://booksbycenteno.com/2016/03/28/excerpt-and-giveaway-for-witch-of-the-cards-by-catherine-stine/">Kristy Centeno</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">March 31 - </span>Spotlight, Teasers</b><br />
<a href="http://booknerdramblings.com/2016/03/31/witch-of-the-cards-by-catherine-stine/">Ramblings of a Book Nerd</a><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>March 31 - </b></span><b>Spotlight, Teasers</b><br />
<a href="http://fuonlyknew.com/2016/03/30/witch-of-the-cards-teaser-and-giveaway/">fuonlyknew</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 1 - </span><span style="color: purple;">What's in a Penname?</span></b><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://mythicalbooks.blogspot.com/2016/04/someone-is-out-to-stop-her-witch-of.html?spref=tw">Mythical Books</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 1 - </span>Spotlight</b><br />
<a href="http://www.extremebookaholicsblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-tour-witch-of-cards-by-catherine.html">Extreme Bookaholic's Blog</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 1 - </span><span style="color: purple;">Inspirations Behind the Story!</span></b><br />
<a href="http://alisondeluca.blogspot.com/2016/04/WOC-guest-giveaway.html">Fresh Pot of Tea</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 4 - </span>Guest Post - Magical Taffy & Other Weirdness</b><br />
<a href="http://www.hartsromancepulse.com/guest-posts/inspiration-for-witch-of-the-cards-shipwrecks-seemingly-magical-taffy-shops">Hart’s Romance</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 4</span></b> - <b>Feature & Why I Love Creepy Beach Towns</b><br />
<a href="http://christinerains-writer.blogspot.com/2016/04/witch-of-cards-blog-tour-guest-post-by.html">Christine Rains, Writer</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 4 - </span><span style="color: purple;">Feature</span></b><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.elliegarratt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/witch-of-cards-by-catherine-stine.html">Ellie Garratt</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 5</span></b> - <b>Interview - My Publishing Journey</b><br />
<a href="http://www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/2016/04/interview-and-giveaway-with-catherine.html">Fang-tastic Books</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 5 - </span><span style="color: purple;">Guest Post on Settings</span></b><br />
<a href="http://julieflanders.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-visit-from-witch-of-cards-author.html">Julie Flanders</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 6</span> - Guest Post & all kinds of creepy!</b><br />
<a href="http://mpaxauthor.com/2016/04/06/the-allure-of-creepy-ramshackle-beach-towns-as-settings-for-dark-fantasy/">Mary Pax Dimensions in Fiction</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 7 - </span>Guest Blog - TAROT!</b><br />
<a href="http://julidrevezzo.com/2016/04/06/catherine-stine-bewitching-blog-tour-witch-of-the-cards/">Juli D Revezzo</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 7</span> - Guest Post</b><br />
<a href="http://meradethhouston.blogspot.com/2016/04/blog-tour-guest-post-witch-of-cards-by.html#.VwZnTzYrKCQ">Write Stuff</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 7</span> - Mini-excerpts!</b><br />
<a href="http://cheriereich.blogspot.com/2016/04/two-excerpts-from-catherine-stines.html">Cherie Reich</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 7</span> - Spotlight</b><br />
<a href="http://www.roxannerhoads.com/2016/04/spotlight-and-giveaway-witch-of-cards.html">Roxanne’s Realm</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 7</span> - Feature</b><br />
<a href="http://lizclong.com/2016/04/07/blog-tour-witch-of-the-cards-by-catherine-stine/">Liz Long - Your Doorway to Escape</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 8</span> - PLAYLIST!</b><br />
<a href="http://saphsbookblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/giveaway-playlist-for-witch-of-cards-by.html">Sapphyria's Book Reviews</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 8</span> - Review</b><br />
Queen of All She Reads <br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 11</span> - Guest Blog & Review</b><br />
<a href="https://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/witch-of-the-cards-by-catherine-stine.html?platform=hootsuite">Books Direct</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 11</span> - Feature (review TK!)</b><br />
<a href="http://www.ismellsheep.com/2016/04/book-review-witch-of-cards-by-catherine.html">I Smell Sheep</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;">April 11</span> - Feature</b><br />
<a href="https://bibliogalblog.com/2016/03/16/witch-of-the-cards/">Bibliogal</a><br />
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<b>Get it at:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon US</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon UK</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1091149257">iBooks</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/witch-of-the-cards">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-of-the-cards-catherine-stine/1123499606?ean=2940152837797">B&N/Nook</a>, <a href="http://www.inktera.com/store/title/f9bcdfce-e947-4cc0-a5e7-d19d681acb49">Inktera</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon CA</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon AU</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.in/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon IN</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Witch-Cards-English-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon DE</a><br />
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-44573221679829354672016-03-16T07:01:00.000-07:002016-03-21T09:22:22.431-07:00Witch of the Cards is OUT! Plus blitz week prizes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>I am thrilled to say that my historical fantasy Witch of the Cards is live!</b> To celebrate its launch I am running a blitz week Rafflecopter with lots of fun prizes. <i>A special thanks to all of you who are helping to spread word. </i>I am more than happy to return the favor on your next launch!<br />
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<b>The idea for this book</b> came years ago when I had a strange dream the night before we went to Asbury Park, then a dilapidated, spooky beach town. Of course, being a writer who loves odd settings, this place attracted my curiosity! In the dream (nightmare?) I was wandering down an abandoned boardwalk when I came to the only open shop - a saltwater taffy store.<br />
In it, was an ancient witch, selling magical taffy. <i>Boom!</i><br />
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<b>Get it at:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon US</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon UK</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1091149257">iBooks</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/witch-of-the-cards">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-of-the-cards-catherine-stine/1123499606?ean=2940152837797">B&N/Nook</a>, <a href="http://www.inktera.com/store/title/f9bcdfce-e947-4cc0-a5e7-d19d681acb49">Inktera</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon CA</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon AU</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.in/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon IN</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Witch-Cards-English-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon DE</a><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Witch of the Cards<i> </i>is historical, supernatural romantic suspense set in 1932 on the Jersey shore. Twenty-two year-old Fiera has recently left the Brooklyn orphanage where she was raised, and works in Manhattan as a nanny. She gets a lucky break when her boss pays for her short vacation in Asbury Park. One evening, Fiera and her new friend Dulcie wander down the boardwalk and into Peter Dune’s Tarot & Séance, where they attend a card reading. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">Fiera has always had an unsettling ability to know things before they happen and sense people’s hidden agendas. She longs to either find out the origin of her powers or else banish them because as is, they make her feel crazy. When, during the reading, her energies somehow bond with Peter Dune’s and form an undeniable ethereal force, a chain of revelations and dangerous events begin to unspool. For one, Fiera finds out she is a witch from a powerful sea clan, but that someone is out to stop her blossoming power forever. And though she is falling in love with Peter, he also has a secret side. He’s no card reader, but a private detective working to expose mediums. Despite this terrible betrayal, Fiera must make the choice to save Peter from a tragic Morro Cruise boat fire, or let him perish with his fellow investigators. Told in alternating viewpoints, we hear Fiera and Peter each struggle against their deep attraction. Secrets, lies, even murder, lace this dark fantasy.</span></div>
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Writers and most book-lovers know that the best present an author can get on her book's birthday are people buying the book! For us indies, it helps get the book higher on the lists so more people know about it. If you like witch tales, suspense, historical fiction, Tarot, epic supernatural battles, and ocean settings, please consider reading Witch of the Cards.<br />
<b>Available at:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon US</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon UK</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1091149257">iBooks</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/witch-of-the-cards">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-of-the-cards-catherine-stine/1123499606?ean=2940152837797">B&N/Nook</a>, <a href="http://www.inktera.com/store/title/f9bcdfce-e947-4cc0-a5e7-d19d681acb49">Inktera</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon CA</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon AU</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.in/Witch-Cards-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon IN</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Witch-Cards-English-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B01COACFVU">Amazon DE</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">And here's my gift to you! </span>A mega-fun bunch of prizes. Enter the Rafflecopter to be eligible. </div>
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One $30 gift card, one signed paperback of Dorianna (or eBook for international), one signed paperback of Witch of the Cards (or eBook for international.), one super-swag pack of Catherine’s personally designed greeting cards.</div>
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-16112528930886785372016-03-04T06:11:00.002-08:002016-03-04T06:11:38.781-08:00More intriguing reads & cover reveals!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today on Idea City we have another bunch of newly launched books & cover reveals!<br />
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The first is an edgy YA fantasy<br />
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<b>Finding Me by Dawn Brazil</b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">It’s not because she has a vision of her boyfriend murdered and then he’s found dead exactly as foreseen. It’s not because she suddenly has the ability to move objects when she’s upset. It’s kinda cool to close a door without touching it. And it’s most definitely not her overbearing mother who only cares about appearances. Chloe has already grown quite accustomed to her family’s distance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">It’s having to become another person for a new group of people. She knows she’s not perfect, but apparently she was in another life. In that other life, she was known as Amanda. Amanda was perfect. Chloe, not so much. Her new friends won’t allow her to forget.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">It’s the stench of impending death that hovers over her every move.<br />
It’s that final threat as she tries to acclimate to a life of super human proportions.<br />
It’s the enemy she can’t see and doesn’t remember. And most importantly, it’s never discovering who she really is that truly frightens her.</span></div>
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<b>Buy Finding Me at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Me-1-Dawn-Brazil/dp/1513705822/">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/finding-me-dawn-brazil/1119119978?ean=2940157657406">B&N</a></b></div>
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<b>Eight full-length novels of adventure, war, intrigue and survival in the far reaches of space.</b><br />
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<b>The Backworlds by M. Pax</b><br />
A man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity's outer settlements and prove his father wrong.<br />
<b>Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen</b><br />
To look an alien superior in the eye is a deadly offense. To accuse him of a political murder…<br />
<b>Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson</b><br />
A scruffy alien pest controller faces an alien threat the likes of which the universe has never seen.<br />
<b>Hard Duty by Mark E. Cooper</b><br />
Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?<br />
<b>Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo</b><br />
A disgraced racer pilot gets mixed up with a mega-corporation. Now he has to stop them.<br />
<b>Sky Hunter by Chris Reher</b><br />
Sent to a human outpost to investigate sabotage, a pilot finds more trouble than she bargained for.<br />
<b>The Galapagos Incident by Felix Savage</b><br />
A genocidal AI attacks the solar system, and a Space Corps agent has one chance of saving a bunch of asteroid squatters she was sent to evict.<br />
<b>First Conquest by David VanDyke</b><br />
To find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, Task Force Conquest must fight to seize a new star system.</div>
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Here's a YA great, new sci-fi from Jennifer Macaire</div>
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<b>Get it at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Riders-Lightning-Storm-Horse-Passages-ebook/dp/B01CJ7HNI8/">Amazon</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Pioneers from Earth, the first Settlers, arrived on Home Planet in giant spaceships after getting lost in a huge lightning storm. On the planet, they discovered herds of horses that seemed to vanish every time the storm season came. But they didn’t vanish; the horses had the ability to open passages through space to other planets. A few Settlers started following the herds, finding new planets. Soon, a mighty Federation of planets was born, cities and spaceports grew – but there were some who still followed the herds, seeking out new planets for the growing population of Settlers. These were the Herders – a small group of explorers who accompanied their horses across the galaxy, through passages they called the Lightning Storms. But mysterious alien Raiders preyed on the horses and their Herders – and those taken were never seen again.</span></div>
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<b>Aaaand finally, a cover reveal for Lisa Voisin's The Warrior Prophet. Nice cover!</b></div>
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<b>The Warrior Prophet by Lisa Voisin</b></div>
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Book 3 of the Watcher saga. <b>Available on April 13</b> with Inkspell Publishing.<br />
<b>Pre-order it now!</b> <b>Amazon <a href="http://amzn.to/1Rkq5RK">kindle</a> or <a href="http://amzn.to/1QJEsi4">print</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-warrior-prophet-2">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-warrior-prophet-lisa-voisin/1123449947">B&N</a></b><br />
<b>Add it on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29332802-the-warrior-prophet">Goodreads</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">She can see angels. She also sees demons. Everywhere.</span></div>
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-15063776933665153282016-02-23T05:03:00.000-08:002016-02-23T05:03:38.034-08:00New releases & reveals by the bunch!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">With the first stirrings of the season change, come bunches of fresh new books! These are truly a mix - from books for young readers to 18+ </span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">so read the fine print. LOL.</span></i></div>
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<b>Big Yearning by Christine Rains</b><br />
Adult romance from Ellora's Cave<br />
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guide Rayce Webb, but her best friend already called dibs on him. He hasn’t
shown interest in anyone other than Suzetta, though. Clearly that means the
claim is canceled, right? But after Suzetta shares more than a kiss with him by
the river, everything goes wrong. Suzetta flees into the woods alone, leaving
behind both her pissed friend and a hot guy who’s actually attracted to her.
And exploring a potential Sasquatch hideout only makes things worse—and more dangerous. ***</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.8pt;">Reader Advisory: This story has graphic sexual language and scenes—no closed
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<b>Get it at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Yearning-Christine-Rains-ebook/dp/B01BPY02L6">Amazon</a> & <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/big-yearning">Kobo</a>, See ALL of <a href="http://christinerains.net/">Christine Rain's </a>sizzling romance from Ellora's Cave <a href="https://www.ellorascave.com/author/christine-rains/">right here!</a></b><br />
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<b>Now, a cover reveal for a sexy new crime series from Bailey Quinn, </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">the pen-name of award winning </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">YA sci-fi writer Carlyle Labuschange.</span><br />
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<b>Infallible by Bailey Quinn</b></div>
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THE MOMENT DETECTIVE SCARLET ANNE MARTINS stepped into that prison, her resolve began to wane, a struggle she had long forgotten between heart and head. Unable to deny it any longer, the feelings she had for Alaric were strong—and her desperation to save him, would ultimately be what would killed them both.</div>
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For a super cop, her judgment in men truly failed her. But while her life, and anyone’s who tried to stop her was in mortal danger, she had to forget every single detail about Special Agent Blade. Her primary focus was getting through the next twenty-four hours without killing anyone.</div>
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This time, her drop-dead gorgeous looks and South African accent would work against her in every way—she would be recognized in a heartbeat on the streets. With nowhere to run, she made the decision to face the peril head on and ensnare the evil that was coming for her, and the only way to do that was by giving them what they wanted.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Follow the author for details on the exact date of Infallible's release!</span></b></div>
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Here's a new YA romance by Wende Dikec. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Starr-Valentine-Wende-Dikec-ebook/dp/B01AO8XJRI/ref=pd_sim_sbs_351_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51POlgJDGYL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=0G14J4PD6QAQB256564Q">Pre-orders open!</a><br />
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<b>Starr Valentine by Wende Dikec</b><br />
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What happens when the beautiful swan becomes the ugly duckling? </div>
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Starr Valentine has a perfect life in Middleton, Ohio. She was named captain of the cheer squad, her mother finally allowed her to get highlights, and the cutest boy in school asked her to homecoming. But everything comes crashing down when she finds out her parents are actually monarchs in exile from a mysterious planet called Vega. Starr doesn’t want to leave, but loves the idea of being a princess, and decides moving to an alien world might not be so bad. When she gets there, however, she discovers that something is terribly wrong. </div>
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Starr has always been the winner of the family, but now everyone is fawning over her chubby older sister, Astra. And everyone, even a handsome and annoying young duke named Julian, seems to hate her. That is when she realizes the awful truth. Astra is now the pretty one. Astra has all the friends. Astra gets all of the attention. And Starr Valentine, voted Miss Perfect, is now the ugly duckling. Her biggest fear is…will she be able to turn back into a swan, or is she doomed to be a loser forever?</div>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Pre-order it from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Starr-Valentine-Wende-Dikec-ebook/dp/B01AO8XJRI/ref=pd_sim_sbs_351_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51POlgJDGYL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=0G14J4PD6QAQB256564Q">Amazon</a></span></b><br />
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And here's a fun adventure for your nine to twelve year-old. Hey, they need books too!<br />
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<b>Fable Rangers: Summons by A.L. Brown</b><br />
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<i>Take care of what you wish for. You just might get it.</i></div>
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Twelve-year-old Casey doesn’t think life could get anymore unfair. Plans for her special basketball tournament are tossed aside by her sister’s change in wedding plans. She even has to be a bridesmaid now, with all the lace and silk and - oh the horror! All she wants is an escape, but she never imagined she’d be swept away to a world of Mother Goose rhymes, fairy tales, stories of Arabian Nights, and oh, by the way, all but one fairy godmother is kidnapped.</div>
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Casey learns she’s been summoned as the Fable Ranger to lead the search and rescue of the missing wish-makers. She also discovers she isn’t the hero they would accept. In the world of fairy tales, damsels aren't meant to swoop in to save the day.</div>
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Now all Casey wants is to go home, a wish easy to grant if the veil between worlds weren’t on lockdown. Taking fate into her own hands, she embarks on an airship flight to find the phoenix tears that can help open her way home. Her journey would’ve gone as smooth as the perfect layup if it weren’t for that pesky bounty the evil Dovetail placed on her head. Casey refuses to fail knowing it would allow the legends of Arabian Nights to disappear forever and leave her trapped in a world unraveling one fairy tale at a time.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Get it at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Summons-Fable-Ranger-Book-1-ebook/dp/B01BFAUO18/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455989980&sr=8-1&keywords=fable+ranger+summons">Amazon</a></span></b></div>
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-31049783459923034642016-01-18T06:59:00.001-08:002016-01-29T09:12:32.993-08:00Heart in a Box on Tour, plus the story behind the story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Heart in a Box is on Tour with <a href="http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com/blog-tour-schedule-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine/">Chapter by Chapter!</a> Below are all of the stops. </b>There are guest posts, playlists, interviews and other fun things, including a giant Rafflecopter full of prizes! <b>As always, the links will go live as the blogs post.</b> I'm proud and grateful to say that Heart in a Box has been on the Amazon top 100 in Teen and Alternative Family for four + weeks and is also an Amazon "Hot New Release." FYI, buy links are on the right side of this blog.<br />
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<b>A bit about Heart in a Box's journey...</b><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One main theme is that the girl, Joss has a pot-addled mom who owns a bong shop. I first took this to an editor in 2005. She swiftly rejected it, saying, "Who would want to read about a mom who smokes weed all of the time?" Well, apparently MANY teens want to read about alcoholic parents, and families in crisis, right? This is simply a new permutation. Perhaps its time has come, what with the legalization of pot in so many states. Of course, many folks do need medical marijuana and I'm not morally against it at all. I'm a believer in freedom to live how you see fit. But I worry about what this will unleash for certain vulnerable people. So, this aspect of the story is really about how one negotiates with a tormented family member and still tries to stay close.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Heart in a Box is also about identity, art, and all of the inherent beauty in New York City and Brooklyn's diverse cultural scene. It's hopeful and peppery and also has a sweet romance. If you decide to take a chance on it, I hope you love it as much as I did when I created it--and Joss Olstad.</span></div>
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<b>Enter the Rafflecopter below. The prizes include: </b><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><b>A $40 gift card, 2 hand-painted heart-boxes with secret treasure inside, a signed paperback of Dorianna by Catherine Stine, a signed paperback of Heart in a Box by Catherine Stine, a great YA ebook pack of novels: Tiger Lily by Wende Dikec, When Sorrows Come by Katie M John, and Time Runs Away with Her by Christine Potter.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;"><u>Week One</u></span></b><br />
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January 18 <span style="color: purple;"><b> Cover2Cover</b></span> – <a href="https://chocomeiske.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/blog-tour-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine/">Interview</a><br />
January 18 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Njkinny's Review of Books & Stuff</span></b> – <a href="http://www.njkinnysblog.com/2016/01/arc-book-review-and-giveaway-heart-in.html">Review</a><br />
January 18 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Illuminite Caliginosus</span></b> – <a href="https://darkwriter67.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine/">Dream cast</a><br />
January 18 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Susan Heim on Writing</span></b> – <a href="http://www.susanheimonwriting.com/2016/01/heart-in-box-by-catherine-stine.html">Spotlight/Promo</a><br />
January 19 <b><span style="color: purple;"> The Avid Book Collector</span></b> – <a href="http://avidbookcollector.blogspot.com/2016/01/blog-tour-guest-post-heart-in-box-by.html">Ten writing lessons learned!</a><br />
January 19 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Painted Words Reviews</span></b> – <a href="http://www.tipsyink.blogspot.com/2016/01/heart-in-box-review-giveaway.html">Review</a> <b><span style="color: purple;"> </span></b><br />
January 20 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Hidden Worlds Books</span></b> – <a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/hidden-worlds-books-14599001/spotlight-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine-4716589398">mini-excerpts & feature</a><br />
January 20 <b><span style="color: purple;"> M Pax Dimensions in Fiction</span></b>- <a href="http://mpaxauthor.com/2016/01/20/5-earthly-creatures-to-inspire-aliens-and-monsters-plus-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine/">Heart Excerpt plus M Pax's critter love</a><br />
January 20 <b style="color: purple;"> Driftless</b> – <a href="http://ayokongaeh.com/blog-tour-giveaway-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine/">Spotlight/Promo</a><br />
January 21 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Diana’s Book Reviews</span></b> – <a href="http://dianasbookreviews.com/blog-tour-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine-giveaway-chapterxchapter-crossoverwriter/">Guest post on Why Readers Rule!</a><br />
January 21 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Cassandra M’s Place</span></b> – <a href="http://www.cassandramsplace.com/2016/01/heart-in-box-by-catherine-stine-blog.html">Spotlight/Promo</a><br />
January 21 <b><span style="color: purple;"> 5 Girls Book Reviews</span></b> – <a href="http://5girlsbookreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/01/blog-tour-review-giveaway-heart-in-box.html">Review</a><br />
January 21 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Reader Girls</span></b> – <a href="http://www.readergirlsblog.com/2016/01/blogtour-stop-heart-in-box-by.html">Spotlight/Excerpt</a> <br />
January 21 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Ogitchida Kwe’s Book Blog</span></b> – <a href="http://ogitchidabookblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/heart-in-box-blog-tourgiveaway.html?zx=a81fdb0903d3198f">Spotlight/Promo/Excerpts</a><br />
January 22 <b><span style="color: purple;"> WS Momma Readers Nook</span></b> – <a href="http://www.wsmommareadersnook.blogspot.ca/2016/01/heart-in-box-by-catherine-stine-blog.html">Joss Olstad character spotlight</a><br />
January 22 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Go Read A Book</span></b> – <a href="http://goreadabook.org/2016/01/blog-tour-heart-in-a-box-review/">Review</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;"><u>Week Two</u></span></b><br />
January 25 <b><span style="color: purple;"> A Dream Within A Dream</span></b> – <a href="http://adreamwithindream.blogspot.ca/2016/01/heart-in-box-blog-tour-excerpt-giveaway.html">Spotlight/Excerpt</a><br />
January 25 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Books and Ladders</span></b> – <a href="http://booksandladders.blogspot.ca/2016/01/blog-tour-heart-in-box-by-catherine.html">Guest Post - Why I Write</a><br />
January 25 <b><span style="color: purple;"> The Page Unbound</span></b> – <a href="http://www.thepageunbound.com/2016/01/heart-in-a-box-promo/">Spotlight</a><br />
January 26 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Book-Keeping</span></b> – <a href="http://hollymbryan.tumblr.com/post/138083165619/blog-tour-review-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine">Review</a><br />
January 26 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Chapter by Chapter</span></b> - <a href="http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com/blog-tour-heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine-interview-and-giveaway/">Interview</a><br />
January 27 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Wishful Endings</span></b> – <a href="http://www.wishfulendings.com/2016/01/heart-in-box-by-catherine-stine-blog.html">Spotlight/Excerpt</a><br />
January 27 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Ellie Garratt</span></b> – <a href="http://elliegarratt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/catherine-stines-heart-in-box-blog-tour.html">Guest Post</a><br />
January 27 <b><span style="color: purple;"> BooksChatter</span></b> – <a href="http://bookschatter.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/Q-A-heart.html">Interview</a><br />
January 28 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Booklovercircumspect4</span></b> – <a href="http://booklovercircumspect4.com/2016/01/28/heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine-blog-tour-with-giveaway-and-guest-post/">Guest Post - 5 Influential Books</a><br />
January 29 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Star Crossed Reviews</span></b> – <a href="http://starcrossedreviews.co.uk/heart-in-a-box-blog-tour/">New Excerpts!</a><br />
January 29 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Lisa T. Cresswell </span></b>– <a href="http://lisatcresswell.blogspot.ca/2016/01/heart-in-box-book-tour.html">Guest Post on personal themes & inspirations</a><br />
January 29 <b><span style="color: purple;">Becca’s Book Affair </span></b>– <a href="http://beccasbookaffair.blogspot.ca/2016/01/heart-in-box-by-catherine-stine-blog.html">Review</a><br />
January 29 <b><span style="color: purple;"> Books Direct</span></b> – <a href="http://booksdirectonline.blogspot.ca/2016/01/heart-in-a-box-by-catherine-stine.html">Review</a><br />
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-73019929104548762742015-12-21T07:42:00.000-08:002016-01-05T13:45:56.572-08:00New Winter Reads!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today Idea City is featuring a bunch of great new reads to upload and read under your warm, winter quilt. We have a fun variety of sci-fi, paranormal romance, and thrillers.<br />
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<b>The Mystery House by Eva Pohler</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ellen and her two best friends share a mid-life crisis by hatching a plan to renovate an 1860's Greek revival in the nearby historic district of San Antonio. Although Ellen isn’t one to believe in ghosts, she comes face to face with something inexplicable in the attic. Her ghost-enthusiast friends convince her that they must help the spirit find closure, and as they dig deeper into the past, they uncover a shocking history that someone in the neighborhood doesn’t want exposed. But Ellen and her friends don't give up easily. They realize they've been called to give voice to the invisible women who suffered behind the walls of the house for decades.</span><br />
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Check out The Mystery House at <a href="http://amzn.to/1Z6HLGR">Amazon</a> & <a href="http://bit.ly/1lGEPTd">Smashwords</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Eva Pohler teaches writing and literature at a university in San Antonio, where she lives with her husband and three kids. She’s the author of several novels for teens based on Greek mythology, including her bestselling six-book Gatekeeper’s Saga and three-book Vampires of Athens Series. Learn more at <a href="http://www.evapohler.com/">Eva's website</a>, her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/evapohlerthrillers/?fref=ts">thriller Facebook page</a> and her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EvaPohler/?fref=ts">Teen Fantasy Facebook page</a>.</span><br />
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<b>The Reader by M. Pax</b><br />
science fiction <i>(Book Three of the Rifter series)</i><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-small;">With the rift closed for the season and no more monsters to fight, Daelin Long gets bored as librarian in the podunk town of Settler, Oregon. A job interview and her brother’s arrival present a tempting opportunity to escape, until her brother and her best friend, a ghost, disappear.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-small;">While Daelin searches for them, more mysteries pile up: dead people coming back to life, portraits of the town founders replaced with strange white trees, and people on the other side of the rift returning. It’s impossible. The portal that allows monsters from other universes to come to Earth is sealed until next summer.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-small;">The Rifters, a secret group protecting our world, believe the troubles are nothing more than the tantrums of an offended ghost. Daelin disagrees. If she’s right, the evil hell-bent on destroying Earth has new technology making the rift more deadly.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-small;">Before the monster summons the next apocalypse, Daelin must find it and destroy it.</span><br />
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Get the Reader at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018BHIFI2">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B018BHIFI2?*Version*=1&*entries*=0">UK</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1061450900">iBook</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-reader-9?utm_source=linkshare_us&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=linkshare_us&siteID=je6NUbpObpQ-WyBFkTv.0bRHgvBSOdBTww">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-reader-m-pax/1123015142?ean=2940152703528&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-je6NUbpObpQ-_-10:1">Nook</a>, <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/594805">Smashie</a><br />
Check out the <a href="http://mpaxauthor.com/mpaxworks-books-and-stories/rifters-series/">entire Rifter series!</a><br />
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adventure series <i>The Backworlds</i>, plus
other novels and short stories. Fantasy, science fiction, and the weird
beckons to her, and she blames Oregon, a
source of endless inspiration. She docents at Pine Mountain Observatory in the
summers as a star guide and has a cat with a crush on Mr. Spock. Learn more at <a href="http://mpaxauthor.com/">mpaxauthor.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Angela Brown has a fabulous new release, Degrees of Being Boss out with her pen name <a href="http://publishness.blogspot.com/p/abby-and-basil-a-to-z-blog-opera.html">Rayven Godchild</a>. I can't show the cover here because this blog doesn't feature erotica. BUT... since she's a fellow Untethered Realms author and a very talented writer, I am posting the link to all of Rayven's books! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rayven-Godchild/e/B00IH52KCQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1450711011&sr=8-1">Click here</a> if you are adventurous, over 18 and seeking new reads.</div>
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Annnnnnd, Beyond Secret Worlds, an amazing short story collection is still FREE! My story in it, Blue House Magic, is the sequel set-up to Ruby's Fire.<br />
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Get it at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018TE5WBU/">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1063836974">iBooks</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beyond-secret-worlds-aimee-easterling/1123056641?ean=2940152679700">Nook</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/beyond-secret-worlds-ten-stories-of-paranormal-fantasy-and-romance">Kobo</a><br />
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<b>Reading is a great way to relax during the holidays! I've got my own kindle loaded up with a colorful array. You?</b></div>
Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-61687637084657375072015-12-07T09:13:00.000-08:002015-12-08T17:55:19.046-08:00Heart in a Box blitz, Giveaway prize pack & FREE story collection download!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This week is the book blitz for Heart in a Box and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1837282653165109/">big Facebook party is tomorrow</a>. There's still time to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1837282653165109/">join</a> the party. I will be giving away my handmade heart boxes with messages in them like my character Joss writes, and there's a lineup of great guest authors. <span style="color: magenta;">Thanks SOOO much to everyone who is posting about Heart this week!!! I am very humbled by the response.</span> I want to invite you all to enter the blitz Rafflecopter below. Prizes include a $40 gift card, signed paperback of Heart in a Box, signed paperback of Dorianna, ebooks of my Amazon bestselling YA futuristic thrillers Fireseed One and Ruby’s Fire, and a super-pack of very cool YA eBooks: The Danaan Trilogy by Howard, Changeling by Herbert and Drawn by Ledbetter.<br />
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Heart took a long while to brew and polish and it contains elements very close to my own heart: addicted family members, identity issues, a close, yet complicated mom - daughter relationship, creativity, healing through art, and of course, a sweet romance. Here is a mini-excerpt to get a taste of what I'm talking about.<br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Thoughts on school veer off when I spot the box on my mother’s night table. The box. I know its black, lacquered form by heart. It’s the size of a large jewelry box. My father painted it with Bengali pink roses and a tangle of red cardinal vines. He must’ve used the tiniest brush, as if the objects inside were treasures—emeralds from Mumbai or silk doll clothes from Kancheepuram.</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> The box sits next to Mom’s organic remedies: tea-tree oil, Saint John’s Wort, aromatherapy ampules, zinc, monster-dose wheat grass capsules. She thinks these keep her functional. But I see how one accelerates her and the next slows her down, adding up to zero. The box is close enough she doesn’t even have to get out of bed in the morning. She can reach, with trembling fingers, light up and space out even before her first cup of black tea.</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> I crack open the box. Pre-rolled blunts sit like tainted royalty on a plush, purple pillow. Their sharp floral resin makes me sneeze.</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> Once when I was twelve, Mom offered me a doob after closing the store for the night. She claimed to be worried about how uptight I was getting. It was around the time when I was sprouting zits, boobs, hips and my period. Who wouldn’t be down in the dumps? Mom claimed that if I got stoned I might relax. “Cave women probably used it for cramps, before all these greedy pharmacists crawled on the earth, trying to sell Midol and Tylenol and—”</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> “Gee, thanks,” I snapped. “Are you serious? You want me to be a stoner too?”</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> “Darling, I want you to be less anxious, that’s all. I want you to be whoever you want to be,” Mom answered cryptically. “Look, weed is superior to all those anti-depressants shrinks prescribe to kids these days. It won’t poison your liver like Prozac. It’s organic.”</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> “Arsenic’s organic too,” I argued. Plus, some kids at my school would bounce off the walls without their so-called evil-shrink pills. But maybe I was too stiff.</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> Soon after, I opened the box, took one and lit up. After only two inhales, I felt trapped inside a thick glass room. Then, when I ventured down to the street for a soda, people seemed in a galaxy eons away. It scared me. I vowed not to try it again. How could my mother stand to feel so cut off? Or was it different for her?</span><br />
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-19787293204441612122015-11-18T10:24:00.000-08:002015-11-18T10:24:39.093-08:00Heart in a Box cover, launch party & preorder link<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi peeps,<br />
I am super-excited to show everyone the cover of my new YA contemporary romance Heart in a Box. I have an animated version, too. Also, the official blurb, a party invite to my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1837282653165109/">Facebook launch event, </a>plus, most exciting: the 1-click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Box-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B017VM7250/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1447695804&sr=1-2&keywords=heart+in+a+box">PREORDER is LIVE.</a><br />
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Here's the cover and the blurb...<br />
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Joss from her stifling private school and into the labyrinth of a prestigious Brooklyn
public high. Searching for “a way out, a way in, and something I can’t even put
into words, yet” Joss longs to find missing pieces of herself she lost when the
father she never met died on a faraway road in India. All she has of him is a
painted box he made. Joss is also itching to escape the hippie hell of her
mother’s bong shop, and the hypocrisy that is her life. With her honey skin,
and long brown hair, she passes for white, even though she’s half Indian. This
culturally diverse school will be her chance to find out who she really is. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe caslon pro";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Day one, and Joss is terrified by how different things are. Has she made
a horrible mistake? Before long, she gets into the pace. Her sights are set on
her own “Bobcat in black denim”, the tall, handsome Will Torres. She’s met
Katya too, a popular glam queen, who’s a blast to hang out with. She’s even
joined an Indian Culture Club, who invites her to live music clubs. Life is
perfect! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe caslon pro";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Or is it? Her friend, Katya starts acting like a royal slut, her mom’s
flinging insults and lies at her, and the Club girls are pressuring Joss to
reveal her sketchy pedigree. Joss finds herself spinning stories about her past
to fill in the holes. Even Will becomes leery of her. And the Personal
Iconography class that Joss signed on for because kids claimed the teacher was
“nuts in a good way” is the toughest class she’s ever taken. In it, Joss starts
to make her own, heart-shaped boxes, with private messages in them. They help
guide her forward. Not only is she forced to figure out who she is beyond the
“nice girl” she always hid behind, her search leads her to the fringes of the
outer boroughs, to a scary industrial section of Queens, and a shocking family
secret that changes everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Preorder Heart in a Box <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Box-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B017VM7250/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1447695804&sr=1-2&keywords=heart+in+a+box">here</a>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "adobe caslon pro";">Put Heart in a Box on your </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27830593-heart-in-a-box" style="font-family: 'adobe caslon pro';">Goodreads TBR list</a>.</span></b></div>
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-51762680759588092382015-11-06T07:11:00.000-08:002015-11-06T07:11:00.781-08:00You've gotta see this cover! Plus great books for November<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I met Katie John at Utopia in Nashville last summer and I've since become a fan of her novels after reading the second book in her Meadowsweet Chronicles about a witch clan. She's launching book three in March 2016. Want to see the cover right now? Sure you do!<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Something wicked has arrived in the sleepy village of Heargton, and the effects of its arrival have unleashed terrible paranormal entities long believed myth.<br />
Forces of darkness are gathering, and the Meadowsweet sisters, (who are still scattered across the globe) are p</span><span style="color: #990000;">reparing for a terrible and fearsome battle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The Ravenhearts, having made an enemy of The Southern Territories, have fled Mexico to Haiti in order to unlock the ancient secret of returning the dead. With a war about begin, the restoration of their trinity is crucial to their play for power and their bid to control the portal of The Ancient Ones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">For the broken hearted Jeremiah Chase, life at Coldstone House is a seemingly endless stream of dark family revelations. His discovery of a diary recording the activities of 'The Devil Dance Club' leads him into a corridor of evil that leads directly to his own ancestors.</span></div>
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Intrigued? Get book one and start catching up for the release of book three in March! Book One is available on Amazon worldwide in eBook and paperback </div>
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Book One is currently <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id950645919">FREE on iBOOKS</a></span></div>
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<b>There's a giveaway, too!</b> <a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/4290c5dc20/">Enter the Rafflecopter</a> to win this fabulous Mexican Day of The Dead key ring and Meadowsweet Chronicles goodie bag. </div>
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<b>ABOUT KATIE</b><br />
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Katie lives in London UK, with two cheeky Mud-puddle fairies, and a handsome giant. She is author of the best-selling YA Contemporary Arthurian series, ‘The Knight Trilogy’ and the Upper YA series, ‘The Meadowsweet Chronicles.’ She writes dark fairy tales, horror and contemporary YA Romance.<br />
Katie is now a full time author after having taught English in a London Comprehensive for over fifteen years. She is founder of Chapter.Con. London, a YA and NA conference for Readers, Bloggers and Authors. She is also founder of Little Bird Publishing, an ethical, indie press house. </span></div>
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<b>More about Katie: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Katie-M-John/e/B004AVHF4E">Amazon author page</a>, <a href="http://www.katiemjohn.com/">website</a> and<a href="http://www.katiemjohn.blogspot.co.uk/"> blog.</a></b><br />
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<b>And now another cool read!</b></div>
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Would you enjoy following the journey of a feisty, utterly charming young couple - Bean the musician and Zak the whimsical sketch artist? How about time traveling back to the 1970s with an infusion of the music, fashion and general carny vibes, including a vicarious trip to the Fillmore to see a Grateful Dead concert? If so, Check out Christine Potter's beauty of a book Time Runs Away with Her. </div>
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<b>Get it at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Runs-Away-Christine-Potter-ebook/dp/B0161Y8BX6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1446701248&sr=8-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/time-runs-away-with-her-christine-potter/1122743620?ean=9781772335217&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-GwEz7vxblVU-_-10:1">B&N</a></b></div>
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<b>Here's my review of this book on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1434097674">Goodreads.</a></b></div>
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<b>Mayhem in the Air is available everywhere! </b></div>
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<b>Get it at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01721SVV4/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_qsUkwb017JV66">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cherie_Reich_Mayhem_in_the_Air?id=uILJCgAAQBAJ">Google Play</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mayhem-in-the-air/id1054201611?mt=11">iTunes</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/mayhem-in-the-air">Kobo</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mayhem-in-the-air-cherie-reich/1122874599?ean=2940152435665">Nook</a>, <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/586911">Smashie</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">From Amazon bestselling and popular science fiction and fantasy authors comes Mayhem in the Air, a supernatural anthology of ten thrilling tales. Meet hot robots, hungry winds and the goddess of chaos. Explore alien planets, purgatorial realms, and a shocking place where people bury the living with their dead. Mayhem in the Air is the second, long-awaited story collection from the dynamic and inventive Untethered Realms group. </span></div>
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My YA contemporary novel, Heart in a Box launches on December 5th!!! Keep an eye out for the upcoming cover reveal in November and giant Facebook launch party on Tuesday, December 8th. </div>
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What do you have brewing this November?</div>
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<b><span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">I love October! </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">The chilly weather gives me energy, the creepy Halloween decorations thrill me, the Village Halloween parade is just around the corner, and I love to cook apple pie, yams, kale, and all root veggies, especially parsnips. Here are some fall photos I took, including the dramatic transformation from the morning to afternoon photos of October 18 up in the Catskills where I spend some weekends.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning, OCT 18</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My creepy frog lamp</td></tr>
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<b>I finally found a moment to write a review of Christine Rain's Of Blood and Sorrow. Her fabulous novel fits right into the ghoulish October spirit, so if you've not yet loaded this baby onto your eReader by all means, go for it now! At <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sorrow-Christine-Rains-ebook/dp/B00U89TEGY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445373728&sr=8-1&keywords=of+blood+and+sorrow">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/of-blood-and-sorrow-christine-rains/1121327176?ean=2940151255875">B&N</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/of-blood-and-sorrow-2">Kobo</a>, <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/524192">Smashie</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">I’m enjoying paranormal novels more and more. Christine Rain’s Of Blood and Sorrow put me through breakneck twists turns that made the ride quite worth it. With her creative concepts and gallows humor I can tell she has wicked fun as she writes. Oh, and it’s sexy, too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Erin, the leading lady and a demoness, gains energy from sucking up the sorrow of others—a totally weird but great concept. Rains explores Erin’s character and motivation in depth. Erin is ashamed of how her on mother fed so completely on one of her “victims” she killed them. This is partly why Erin takes sanctuary in the Putzkammer Mortuary. There, she can “safely” feed on the natural sorrow of the grieving, while sparing random outsiders a fatal feeding fate. Erin hates her spots, which engorge as she feeds. They remind her of her mother’s appetite and of her own, which at any moment could rage out of control. There are so many fascinating analogies with these elements: the consequences of any type of appetite gone amok, the dread of potential inherited tendencies, the effects of shame on one’s life and even love. Constrained by the people around Erin and by the demands of her job, she hopes her dark past will never come to light.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>Have a fabulous October. And stay tuned for the Untethered Realms launch of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26679489-mayhem-in-the-air?from_search=true&search_version=service">Mayhem in the Air,</a> our Enchanted Drink post on OCT 30 and my regular Village Halloween Parade photo cornucopia! Oh, and the cover reveal for my newest YA novel, Heart in a Box, which launches from Inkspell Teen in early December!</b></span></div>
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October brings cool weather, Halloween fun and great books to cozy up with. Today Idea City showcases the work of Christine Rains, S. D. Wasley, Stephanie Keyes, Christy Centeno and River Fairchild! Want to see some wonderful covers and read alluring blurbs? Sure you do.<br />
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<b>Here is Christine Rain's Ghost Dancer. It's the first sexy book in her The Paramours romance series with Ellora's Cave. </b><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">When Nina Azure’s talent as a ghost dancer doesn’t persuade a handsome phantom to talk, she entices him with sizzling sexual energy. Ben Moore’s spirit is tied to this world with guilt, but he breaks his self-imposed silence for the beautiful Nina. Lust makes him fully physical and she loses herself to desire. She must help him carry on to the afterlife, but her attraction to him is immensely powerful. She must push aside her own feelings and let him go—and perhaps find romance among the living.</span><br />
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<b>Buy it on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Dancer-Christine-Rains-ebook/dp/B015Y39HT2/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444001354&sr=1-3&keywords=ghost+dancer">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/ghost-dancer-9">Kobo</a>, <a href="https://www.ellorascave.com/product/ghost-dancer/">Ellora's Cave</a></b><br />
<b>Put it on your Goodreads <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26795946-ghost-dancer">TBR List</a></b><br />
<b>Visit Christine's <a href="http://christinerains.net/">website</a></b><br />
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<b>Next, a cover reveal for The Rift by SD Wasley. Pretty, huh? It's the sequel to The Seventh and it launches in November! Put Rift on your <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26197596-the-rift">Goodreads TBR list here.</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>“I longed for normality. Even our own, off-the-wall brand of normality.”</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">She’s finally got things together. Mimi’s dating a hot guy and has a place in the school’s Gifted Program with her awesome friends. Yes, she still attracts the dead. But there’s only one ghost these days, and he doesn’t seem to have an awful lot to say.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Just when Mimi’s life is looking pretty good for the first time in years, the unthinkable happens ... one of the seven gifted teens is torn from their close-knit group. The unity of their circle shattered, things begin to go terribly wrong. It’s ruining their focus—and with the threat of the Astarion cult growing stronger each day, the gifted seven need all the focus they can muster.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">In The Seventh, Mimi found her place in a circle of seven extraordinary teenagers. In The Rift, she must face what happens when the circle of seven is broken.</span><br />
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<b>Read book one while you wait for book two! Find it at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-S-D-Wasley-ebook/dp/B00RSSZNZO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420594878&sr=8-1&">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-seventh-sd-wasley/1121114958?ean=2940046535921">B&N</a></b><br />
<b>Visit SD Wasley: <a href="http://sdwasley.com/">website</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/sdwasleyauthor">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sdwasley">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12020546.S_D_Wasley">Goodreads</a></b><br />
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<b>Next we have a cover reveal for Blood in the Shadows written by acclaimed authors, Stephanie Keyes and Kristy Centeno. It launches in early November!</b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Stephanie and Kristy bring you two stories that prove love and light can overcome the pain and shadows.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">With secrets hidden in the night, and dangerous creatures prowling the woods, trusting the enemy can mean either life or death. </span><span style="color: #990000;">Two dark worlds...One night that will change their lives forever...Where evil lurks, only goodness can prevail.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Featuring Shadows by Kristy Centeno and The Boy In The Trees by Stephanie Keyes.</span><br />
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<b>Preorder Blood in the Shadows from<a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/blood-in-the-shadows"> Kobo</a></b><br />
<b>Put Blood in the Shadows on your <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26630072-blood-in-the-shadows?from_search=true&search_version=service">Goodreads TBR list</a></b><br />
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<b>Visit Stephanie: <a href="http://www.stephaniekeyes.com/">website</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/StephanieKeyes">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/stephkeyes38/">Instagram</a>.</b><br />
<b>Visit Kristy: <a href="http://booksbycenteno.com/">website</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KristyCenteno">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/KrissyGirl122">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://therightbook4u.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.</b><br />
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<b>And if you like your books dark, here's River Fairchild's Demon in the Basement, a story collection that may have you shivering under your covers. It's available now!</b><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Thirty-two stories, including a novelette by the same title, to keep you awake at night. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">A time-traveling Chevy, an ancient church of evil, a house possessed by black magic. Stories to fill you with dread, draw you into places you'd rather not go, smack you in the face with ironic possibilities. Meet the monsters of myth, the creatures that lurk under your bed, the phantoms you thought didn't exist. Travel to the real Atlantis, strap in for the Bermuda Triangle. Terror lurks in the ocean, while an asteroid hides a secret.</span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;">Leave a nightlight on before you go to sleep. Something's coming for you. </span><br />
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<b>Get it now at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Basement-River-Fairchild-ebook/dp/B01540DT4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444009237&sr=8-1&keywords=river+fairchild">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/575730">Smashwords, </a></b><br />
<b>Visit River: her <a href="http://www.amazon.com/River-Fairchild/e/B00GOY2Z9K/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1">Amazon author page</a>, <a href="http://riverfairchild.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, <a href="http://facebook./">Facebook</a>.</b><br />
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<b>Enjoy <i>chillingly</i> great reads this October.</b></div>
Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-9808213684543918062015-09-24T06:36:00.000-07:002015-09-24T06:39:53.860-07:00New novels by fantasy authors Labuschagne & Centeno<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>I'm thrilled to present two fantastic dark fantasy authors with fall launches. Carlyle Labuschagne and Kristy Centeno. Want to see the books? Sure you do!</strong></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikbITN4Yl55jU-jqVOkcqIz3LI0Udix3QBskz63xfgOaGk71iLtftoaTJVjmfG3GsHgB4sXmX0ArkZOFM2-MaSXWH1xlh0D-bc968Dr4qbafo-uaT3Z59AN4QvS91eLfkM5jx5jNyG3Y8/s1600/DEADofNightFQP.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikbITN4Yl55jU-jqVOkcqIz3LI0Udix3QBskz63xfgOaGk71iLtftoaTJVjmfG3GsHgB4sXmX0ArkZOFM2-MaSXWH1xlh0D-bc968Dr4qbafo-uaT3Z59AN4QvS91eLfkM5jx5jNyG3Y8/s400/DEADofNightFQP.png" width="285" /></a><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="text-align: center;">Carlyle Labushagne's Dead of Night was first published in 2014 in the USA. It'</strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>s just been re-edited with new content by </strong></span><strong style="text-align: center;">Fire Quill Publishers! It was n</strong><b style="text-align: center;">ominated by Kindle Hub for Best Dystopian and by</b><b style="text-align: center;"> UtopYAcon Best Dystopian.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #783f04;">The blurb:</span></b> In a dark and desolated After Earth, love still does exist, but the cost of bearing such a flaw is death.<br />
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World War III has left Earth in utter turmoil. People’s beliefs are said to be the cause of the worldwide destruction. After The Clearing new laws are set about - to show certitude in anything besides the law is weak and chargeable as mutiny. To be illogical and have faith in religion is illegal, to be limitless is dangerous. And Illness is seen as a defect – all flaws that are inexcusable.<br />
But to love is the greatest betrayal of all man kind. It is a fault the world has long forgotten and punishable by death, a fatal risk Aecker and Opel are fully prepared to take - because in love there is freedom. But how far can they push back before it claims their lives and of those they care about?<br />
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<b>Buy it from <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/574074" target="_blank">Smashwords</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carlyle-Labuschagne/e/B00CHZ2IWE" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Carlyle%20Labuschagne%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble </a>. Add it to your <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22400091-dead-of-night" target="_blank">Goodreads list</a>. Check out its <a href="http://www.carlylelabuschagne.com/dead-of-night.html" target="_blank">creative page</a> including the playlist & <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/carlylel/dead-of-night-book-inspirational-board/" target="_blank">image board</a>!</b><br />
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<b>Connect with Carlyle: </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carlyle-Labuschagne/189835811074342" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlyleL" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.carlylelabuschagne.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/carlylelab/" target="_blank">instagram</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carlyle-Labuschagne/e/B00CHZ2IWE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1433322582&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wrspradio/2015/05/12/the-authors-talk-show-with-carlyle-labuschagne-the-broken-trilogy" target="_blank">RADIO INTERVIEW</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Carlyle is an South African award-winning author, with a flair for mixing genres and adding drama to every story she creates. For now she's happy to take over the world and convert non sci-fi believers. </b><b>Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within every outrageous world she writes about.<em>"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, its in the dark times that the light comes to life."</em></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br />She has used writing as a healing tool, and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival. <em>"To be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers, readers and cover artists - its a crazy world out there you don't have to go it alone!</em>" Follow @CarlyleL for all updates. Founder of <a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/" title="">SAIR Book Festival</a> </b><b>Co Founder of <a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/" title="">Fire Quill Publishing.</a> </b><b>Founder of Help build a <a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/help-build-a-library-in-sa-2014-has-kicked-off-with-a-bang.html" title="">library in South Africa. </a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Another great fall launch is Kristy Centeno's Dark Side of the Moon from Inkspell Press.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Blurb:</span></b><br />
During her darkest hour, will she find the courage to seek the light?<br />
Marjorie has eluded both capture and death yet again, but her days are numbered. The old threat has resurfaced to endanger everyone she cares for and only a forged alliance with a member of royal blood will guarantee their safety and hers.<br />
However, in the midst of accepting who she is, Marjorie has to come to terms with the fact that those she considered friends may be anything but, and the mother she thought dead may have been missing against her will.<br />
A relationship in turmoil, a storm brewing in the distance, a shattered tranquility...will she find the courage to save her loved ones even if that means losing her humanity?<br />
<b>Buy the ebook at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Moon-Secrets-Novel-ebook/dp/B014MPMH18/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440978611&sr=8-1&keywords=The+dark+side+of+the+moon+centeno&pebp=1440978628098&perid=06H9B5PC15CFY38WCS9F">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-kristy-centeno/1122593357?ean=2940150804197">B&N</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-8%20All%20Romance%20Ebooks:%20https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thedarksideofthemoon-1852392-140.html">Kobo</a>. The paperback at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/5618673">CreateSpace</a>.</b><br />
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<b>About the Author:</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Kristy Centeno is an author of paranormal romance, young adult, new adult, horror and contemporary romance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">She has always had a passion for books and after years of being an avid reader, she decided to transform her desire to write into a reality and thus, her first novel was born. In her journey to create memorable reads, she has delved into several genres, creating fictional characters meant to entice readers and captivate the mind. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">She is currently working on finishing the Secrets of the Moon saga among other projects, which include sequels to her published work. When she’s not busy taking care of her five children or holding down the fort, she finds time to sit and do what she loves the most: writing.</span></div>
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<b>Follow Kristy: <a href="http://booksbycenteno.com/">website</a>,</b> <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/KristyCenteno">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/KrissyGirl122">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/KristyCenteno">Goodreads</a>, <a href="http://therightbook4u.blogspot.com/">Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristycenteno/">Linked In</a>, <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/krissygirl122/">Pinterest</a>, <a href="http://www.skillpages.com/kristy.centeno">Skillpages</a></b></div>
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Catherine Stinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131569196977321229noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1082017598352869243.post-71700103500877308022015-09-21T07:32:00.002-07:002015-09-21T07:32:35.143-07:00What's Doing for OCT Spooky Season? Mayhem in the Air - Cover reveal!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://untetheredrealms.blogspot.com/">Untethered Realms</a>, the speculative fiction author group I'm in has been cooking up a spooky new story anthology set to release around Halloween! My story is called <i>A Strange Penitence.</i> Here's a peek at the gorgeous cover! Even better, you can now put it on your <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26679489-mayhem-in-the-air?from_search=true&search_version=service">Goodreads To-Be-Read list.</a><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">From Amazon bestselling and popular science fiction and fantasy authors comes </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26679489-mayhem-in-the-air?from_search=true&search_version=service">Mayhem in the Air,</a><span style="color: purple;"> a supernatural anthology of ten thrilling tales. Meet hot robots, hungry winds and the goddess of chaos. Explore alien planets, purgatorial realms, and a shocking place where people bury the living with their dead. Mayhem in the Air is the second, long-awaited story collection from the dynamic and inventive Untethered Realms group.</span><span style="color: purple;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>A Strange Penitence</b> by Catherine Stine - A young artist pays a supernatural price when a drawing trip to North Carolina turns deadly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>A Tangled Weave</b> by River Fairchild - A TimePulse rips through the Great Tapestry of Life, leaving Earth’s history in a jumble, and Death and Chronos in a race to save the world yet again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>Corrosive</b> by M. Pax - In a world ruined by pollutants, Bex sets off to establish a new homestead with her dreamy robotic man. Already farming her plot of land is another dreamy man with radical ideas, presenting new challenges as corrosive as the air.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>Saving Scrooge: A Short Story Prequel to the Saving Marley Series</b> by Gwen Gardner - Marley is sent from purgatory to save the soul of his old friend. Can he save his own in the bargain?</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Silent Wind</b> by Christine Rains - A team of specialists must dispel a mysterious storm on an alien planet to prepare it for colonization. One by one the crew disappears until only a seasoned soldier remains. How can he battle a hungry wind that makes no noise?</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>Chaos. Hope. Love.</b> by Misha Gerrick - Although Eris is the goddess of chaos, her life has fallen into a nice and comfortable routine. Until someone from her past shows up in her bookstore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>Cardinal Sin</b> by Julie Flanders: Beleaguered hospital workers bury the living with the dead in the midst of a tuberculosis epidemic and a seething spirit vows vengeance from the skies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Ark</b> by Cathrina Constantine -Plagued with memory flashes of fiery explosions and running for her life, Fallon emerges from a drugged stupor to find herself in an airborne Ark, and the earth below is a drowning wasteland.</span></div>
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