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4.5 stars for Union of Renegades at To Read or Not to Read

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to discover a good review for Union of Renegades: The Rys Chronicles Book I at the blog To Read or Not to Read.

Of the many glowing observations the reviewer shared here's one to tickle my ego:

"There are and have been many great fantasy writers and Tracy Falbe is well on her way to having her name mentioned with all of them."

Read the full Union of Renegades review and thank you to Steve for taking the time to read my fantasy novel. I'm glad you were able to appreciate it.

Getting a copy of Union of Renegades is easy. Download it for free right here at this blog or scroll down to find the links to it at various ebook retailers where it is also free.[image error]

Review: Two Moons of Sera engaging read full of mystery and emotion

Two Moons of Sera by Pavarti K. TylerWith the publication of the novella Two Moons of Sera author Pavarti K. Tyler has launched a creative new series. Two advanced species live in the world of Two Moons of Sera. The Sualwet are a water people who live and breathe underwater but are capable of coming onto land. The Erdlanders are the people that live on the land. They are at war with each other, and the story opens with the Sualwet female Nilafay fleeing from her Erdlander captors. She does not escape.

Then the story advances about 16 years and Nilafay is living in an isolated coastal cove with her daughter Serafay, or Sera. Nilafay has finally escaped the Erdlanders but she is rejected by her Sualwet people because Sera is an Erdlander-Sualwet hybrid. The pregnancy was forced upon Nilafay by cruel experiments. Unwilling to abandon her daughter, Nilafay lives in hiding and Sera grows up with only her mother for company.

The unrelenting isolation has begun to weigh on Sera, who longs for new experiences. While Nilafay is away on one of her frequent forays to scavenge supplies, a seemingly wild young male Erdlander enters Sera's refuge. Unbearably curious and needy for company, Sera seeks contact with this strange new arrival. He has apparently been hiding in the wilderness for a long time because he has forgotten how to talk, but he quickly learns again with Sera's help. His name is Torkek and he possesses unexpected powers that suggest he is the product of experiments as well.

The story in Two Moons of Sera has an overall good pace and guided me from scene to scene almost effortlessly. A new and startling event was always popping up to keep me reading. It only got a little slow during the initial scenes between Sera and Torkek because of the need to help him reacquire language.

Throughout the story Sera comes through as a sympathetic and believeable character. Her normal adolescent longings for friends and new experiences are easy to identify with. Sera embodies the recognizable teenage need for companionship along with the realization that she will need an existence beyond the protective zone her mother has created for her.

Tyler's writing is concise yet still filled with feeling and imagery. I felt Sera's webbed toes digging in the sand. I felt how her body slid into the gentle sea waters of her cove. I felt her alarm when she had to flee the coast and enter the foreign inland areas. Tyler has obviously poured a lot of love and imagination into her fantasy world. I anticipate that future installments of the story will further reveal the opposing societies of Sualwet and Erdlander from the point of view of two rejected outsiders. Even in the short space of a novella, these two characters came through strongly. The author has carefully created her characters and revealed gracefully the awkwardness of two young people getting to know each other under difficult circumstances.

Two Moons of Sera leaves me intrigued about how the story will develop. This initial novella that tells the story of Sera's origins and how she met Torkek was fascinating, disturbing, yet a little hopeful because it shows two outcasts finding each other.

Thank you to Pavarti K. Tyler for sending me an advanced reading copy. You can use the links below to purchase Two Moons of Sera. Also be sure to visit Tyler's website and enter her November giveaway.

Order Your Copy Now

As a thank you to all of my amazing readers and supporters, I am hosting a month long rafflecopter giveaway on my blog!  Enter for your chance to win:A Gift Bag full of fun-tastic swagA $15 itunes gift cardEbook basket including:Two Moons of Sera by Pavarti K TylerThe Dome by Nova SparksFarsighted by Emlyn ChandThe Mumbo Jumbo Circus by Jane George10,000 word critique of your manuscriptAn Advanced Readers Copy of my upcoming novel Shadow on the Wall


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Music from my fantasy audiobook podcast

A little bit of music to set the mood is essential at the opening of an audiobook. At the start and end of each podcast chapter of my fantasy novel Union of Renegades, there is music in the background. It's a piece called Morpheus Calls composed by Pierre Gerwig Langer that I licensed from Shockwave-Sound.com.

Unfortunately only a few seconds of this epic music are included in the podcasts, so I thought I would share the whole composition here. It's only a little over a minute long, but it driving aggressive beat and choral elements really bring to mind adventure and danger.



To listen to the audiobook that this sets the mood for, please go to the free fantasy podcast page.[image error]

Blog tour giveaways - iTunes gift card, ebook basket, and free criticism!

Coming up on Wednesday November 9th, I will be a stop on the blog tour of Pavarti K. Tyler, author of Two Moons of Sera. I was gifted with an advanced copy of this novella, and I will publish my review on Wednesday.
Pavarti has been a guest blogger here in which she Right now to promote her publication of Two Moons of Sera, she has organized a giveaway that is lasting through the whole month of November. The details of her many prizes are listed below along with the link to enter the giveaway at her blog. My personal favorite is a 10,000 word critique of a manuscript. I'm sure everyone is drooling over that one. I assure you I am too emotionally fragile to endure such a thing, but I guess other people like lengthy critiques of their precious creations.
Please enter the giveaway and come back on Wednesday to read my review of Two Moons of Sera.
Order Your Copy Now

As a thank you to all of my amazing readers and supporters, I am hosting a month long rafflecopter giveaway on my blog!  Enter for your chance to win:A Gift Bag full of fun-tastic swagA $15 itunes gift cardEbook basket including:Two Moons of Sera by Pavarti K TylerThe Dome by Nova SparksFarsighted by Emlyn ChandThe Mumbo Jumbo Circus by Jane George10,000 word critique of your manuscriptAn Advanced Readers Copy of my upcoming novel Shadow on the Wall


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Kindle edition Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II US UK Germany France

A few days after publishing Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II I added it to the Amazon Kindle store. Kindle users represent a big market and I'm glad to be a part of it. If you are looking for Savage Storm to put on your Kindle, please use the links below to access the store for your country.

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Kindle UK

Kindle Germany

Kindle France 

If you don't mind using the USB cord to connect your Kindle to your computer you can buy the ebook from me directly. International users won't have to pay VAT this way.

The .prc format will work fine on your Kindle. When you buy from me directly, I don't have to pay 30% to the middleman or wait months to get paid.
 
You can find directions for adding content from your computer to your Kindle here.
 
To buy from me, the ebook is $4.95 US. Click the link below and you will be taken to Paypal checkout and then directed to your ebook download at Payloadz. Multiple currencies accepted.
 
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For those readers who do buy my novels through the Amazon Kindle site, please remember to give my novel a rating and a review. These actions help others readers notice my work.

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Flash excerpts from Savage Storm around the web

As part of my recent release of Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II, select bloggers were contacted by me and offered a flash excerpt to publish at their blogs. So far two bloggers have taken me up on the offer.



To Read or Not to Read is an active book blog that features reviews and giveaways. Thank you to Marcie for helping me promote my new release.

The scene published at Marcie's blog shows when the rebelling rys enter a tower that they have taken from their tabre masters. Go to flash excerpt.

You can read another flash excerpt at the blog of Paranormal Romance author J.R. Pearse Nelson. Doesn't she have the best profile picture ever? I contacted her because she has a soft spot for epic fantasy, and she graciously shared one my flash excerpts from Savage Storm.

Read the scene at her blog where Cruce and Rayden prepare for a seige.

If you want to read my newest novel, go to this page to purchase Savage Storm.

Thank you to everyone who entered the Rys Rising Goodreads giveaway

Over the past week I ran a giveaway at Goodreads.com for a hardcover copy of Rys Rising: Book I. A winner was selected yesterday and I ordered the book for her. To the 530 other entrants who were not selected, thank you for your participation. You can still read Rys Rising: Book I for free if you like ebooks. Just click the link for it on the left sidebar and select your ebook format.

Overall I was very pleased with the attention I got by participating in a Goodreads giveaway. During the week-long entry period over 500 people looked at my fantasy novel, and 72 of them marked it as to-read, which would have triggered extra attention throughout the Goodreads site.

Union of Renegades podcast receives good review

Experienced podcaster and fantasy author W. Brondt Kamffer recently decided to try audiobooks during his commute to work. I was flattered to learn that he chose to listen to the available chapters of the Union of Renegades fantasy podcast that recently started at Podiobooks.

So far he is intrigued with my story and he had some very nice things to say about the voice performance of the reader Chris Snelgrove.

Please visit Kamffer's site, read his reviews, download his podcasts, and of course look at his novels.

W. Brondt Kamffer's website.

Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II is PUBLISHED

The attack has begun! Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II by Tracy Falbe is now available.With much pleasure I announce the publication of Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II the sequel to my recent release Rys Rising: Book I.

The ebook is $4.95. Click on the link for the format you desire.

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Your payment will be processed by Paypal and then your ebook will be immediately available through my download service Payloadz.

About the novel:

Filled with righteous rage, Dacian and Onja spread violent chaos across two realms. In the tribal kingdoms of the west Onja sees a whole civilization that she must harness if the rys are ever to destroy the hated tabre of Nufal. No longer hobbled by dreams of rys and tabre unity, Dacian crafts enchanted weapons and trains the rys to fight. Onja commands Amar to raise an army. She ambitiously decides to abolish the religions of the western tribes and to install herself as their new Goddess. Aided by her magic, Amar daringly overthrows monarchies and celebrates with his outlaws in the palaces of the vanquished. The servants of the rys revel in Onja's grandiose vision, but the Nufalese humans and their tabre masters have barely begun to realize their danger. When Onja enthralls the savage Chatapaka people of the remote north and unleashes their brutal hordes upon vulnerable Nufalese settlements, the militia is overwhelmed. Cruce Chenomet and his comrades struggle to save the fleeing settlers. Cruce quickly loses hope but keeps his courage as he confronts the savage storm.

The ebook is $4.95. Click on the link for the format you desire.

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In the coming days and weeks my newest fantasy novel will be distributed to major online retailers like Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iBooks, and Smashwords.

Until then it is for sale through this blog and at its dedicated page at Brave Luck Books. Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book II

Thank you to everyone who has already bought this novel after receiving my email last night or today. I am grateful that you enjoy my fiction enough to choose me. I am very proud to release this novel today, and to be honest I absolutely love it. I hope others do too.

Please let your friends know about my fiction.

Savage Storm update - Cover art

Savage Storm: Rys Rising Book IIWe have cover art! Thank you to the team at Avatarart.com for developing this image of Cruce Chenomet of Nufal defending a frontier fortress.

I can now safely say that the ebook version of Savage Storm will be available for sale this week. I'm only days away. I'm putting the finishing touches on formatting the novel. I'm admittedly behind in this process because my dog died over the weekend and I have been severely distracted and grief stricken over the past week, which makes it difficult for me to concentrate.

I will apply myself diligently to completing these final tasks. I'm terribly anxious to publish this novel. I personally love this novel and am thoroughly proud to bring it to readers.

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