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July 14, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: The Wielder Diaries: My Crystal by Ashly Scheller
Featuring fantasy adventure The Wielder Diaries: My Crystal by Ashley Scheller
Please…Please come back… Those words ring in her ears as she awakens. A strange band of characters call her Kayla, a name she’s forgotten along her life filled with transforming animals, magic, and dragons. Anybody would want to remember such an exciting life, yet there seems to be a truth no one wants to share, WHY it’s important Kayla remembers. With a mystical book in hand, she races against time to reca...
July 12, 2022
June 2022 Author Discovery Project Review: The Unicorn Herd by Arizona Tape
Charlotte knew her first day at Griffin Sanctuary wasn’t going to boring, but when a unicorn without a horn arrives, she realises just how hard it is to look after endangered mythical creatures.
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The Unicorn Herd is book one in the modern fantasy Griffin Sanctuary series. It is packed full of adventure, mythical creatures, and an f/f romantic sub-plot.
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Mythical creatures? Check. Adorable romance? Check. Fantasti...
July 11, 2022
Guest Post+Giveaway: In Between – Stories of the Eververse by Darby Harn
An guest post from Darby Harn, author of speculative fiction In Between: Stories of the Eververse
Telepathic wolves. Zombie gangsters. Sentient houses. Just another day for Kit Baldwin.
Fifty years after an alien ship crashed in Break Pointe, the only protection in a strange new world is Great Power, a corporation of superhumans. If you can afford them. Most people can’t.
Enter Kit Baldwin, a young woman who helps people to help people. Except her power is the alien’s power, and...
June 29, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Harley James and the Peril of the Pirate’s Curse by Leah Cupps
Featuring middle grade novel Harley James and the Peril of the Pirate’s Curse by Leah Cupps
Will Harley find the magic pearl before Port Royal is destroyed?
Harley James, explorer and amateur cryptologist, has just arrived in Port Royal, Jamaica—home to the Caribbean’s famous sunken pirate city. Her latest mission? Prevent a mysterious, mythical blue pearl from being discovered and prevent city’s total destruction.
No sweat for an adventurer like Harley, right?
But just when ...
June 27, 2022
Review+Giveaway: Omniscience by Janine Frances
Review of dystopian thriller Omniscience by Janine Frances
A family seek refuge in the Australian outback as tyranny takes hold, but who can they trust?
The world is at war and an authoritarian government has taken control in Australia. A terrorist group known as Day One is attempting to destroy civilisation so humanity can start again.
Shareen Miller gets caught up in a bureaucratic nightmare when she’s detained by an Auto-Enforcer for not having the right travel permit on the way to a...
Audio Excerpt: The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies
Featuring an audio excerpt from gaslamp fantasy The Thirteenth Hour (The Cruel Gods, book 1) by Trudie Skies
WHEN THE SAINTS FAIL, THE SINNERS STEP UP.
Cruel gods rule the steam-powered city of Chime, demanding worship and tribute from their mortal subjects. Kayl lost her faith in them long ago, and now seeks to protect vulnerable and downtrodden mortals from their gods’ whims. But when Kayl discovers powers that she didn’t know she had—and destroys a mortal’s soul by accident—she ...
June 24, 2022
Audio Excerpt: Silence at the Lock by Andi Cumbo-Floyd
Audio excerpt from YA paranormal Silence at the Lock by Andi Cumbo-FloydI didn’t expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother.
But then, I didn’t expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well.
Their deaths aren’t ancient history, though, not when one man who was a witness still holds sway in our small town. My friends and I have truth on our side, but will that be eno...
June 21, 2022
Review+Giveaway: Freckles: The Dark Wizard by Jerry Harwood
My review of middle grade fantasy Freckles: The Dark Wizard by Jerry Harwood
At Flame Rock Middle School, you show off your big biceps, post your dimples on InstaWitch, grow a cheetah tail, or use your fairy wings to fly down the hall. For Simon, wearing his peers’ opinions can be a literal event. Especially since Simon has the visible mark of a weak wizard… freckles. What will happen when Simon learns he has dark magic and can conjure a dragon? Will he become one of the bullies he ha...
June 19, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Awakenings by L. C. Conn
Featuring fantasy novel Awakenings by L. C. Conn
Many generations have passed since Carling first faced Chaos’ rage. With each incarnation, his desire to find and claim her gifts grows.
Claire is just like any other 17-year-old, or so she thought. No stranger to tragedy and heartache, she finds comfort in her great-uncle and guardian, and her best friend, Adam. Her life is settling into a happy peace. Until one night everything she knew and trusted is turned on its head.
Spirited away i...
June 16, 2022
Audio Excerpt: Charlotte and the Twelve by Andi Cumbo-Floyd
Audio excerpt from YA paranormal Charlotte and the Twelve by Andi Cumbo-Floyd
It’s not every day a ghost curls up in your lap …
But when little Henrietta decides I’m trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders.
Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold.
Our best hope for ourselves and for He...
