M.T. DeSantis's Blog, page 17
March 8, 2022
Interview+Giveaway: Red Dragon by Brian H. Roberts
Interview with Brian H. Roberts, author of scifi Red Dragon
How do you fight a hidden adversary on Mars?
Dallas Gordon’s miners keep disappearing. Back on Earth, general Zhang Aiguo has seized control of the Chinese military and declared himself emperor. His forces have secretly dispatched to the Red Planet to plunder EPSILON’s hard-won treasure.
Time is running out. Can Dallas Gordon and the Prospector team find Zhang’s hidden bases before they are all killed?
Excerpt from ...
March 7, 2022
Interview & Review+Giveaway: The Gingerbread Curse by April Marcom
Review of fairy-tale fantasy The Gingerbread Curse, plus an interview with April Marcom
All her life, Falon’s grandfather told her the age-old tale of ‘The Gingerbread Man’. Even as a teenager, she’d fallen asleep to his favorite bedtime story, a special tradition she knew she’d never outgrow. However, when he makes a dying wish, asking her to visit a secret underground world of magic to rescue the best friend he left behind fifty years ago, the tale begins to come to life.
Setting ou...
Interview+Giveaway: The Raven and the Pig by Lou Kemp
Interview with Lou Kemp, author of magical realism The Raven and the Pig
As the music dies, the magician Celwyn is mortally wounded. His darker, immortal brother Pelaez brings him back, barely, with his magic. The party of protagonists travel on the Nautilus to the Cape Verde Islands and the healer of immortals. During the journey, Professor Kang and Bartholomew can not tell if Pelaez will keep his brother alive. Captain Nemo is ready to evict Pelaez forcibly, and keeping Celwyn al...
March 3, 2022
Writing Can Be Dark and Scary, But It Doesn’t Have to Be
What are you afraid of? There’s no right or wrong answer to this, and you don’t have to tell me. I just want to get thinking about fear for a moment.
Public speaking is often touted as one of humanity’s greatest fears. I can understand this. Getting up in front of a room and talking while a bunch of people stare at me isn’t high on my list of things to do. But there’s another fear that feels even more scary, that grips me where I live.
That’s the fear of being alone.
I’m an only child, ...
March 2, 2022
Review+Giveaway: She’s the One Who Can’t Keep Quiet by S. R. Cronin
Review of historical fantasy She’s the One Who Can’t Keep Quiet by S. R. Cronin
Do you know what your problem is?
Celestine, the fifth of seven sisters, is tired of hearing about hers. Father thinks she’s frivolous because she likes pretty clothes and caters to the crowds in the taverns who adore her music. Mother thinks that because she’s the most social daughter in the family, she can’t keep quiet about anything.
They’re both wrong. Celestine hides a secret she has kept for most of he...
March 1, 2022
Audio Excerpt: The Union by T.H. Hernandez
Narated by Alexa Elmy
9hrs, 10 mins
After global warming and a second civil war devastated the former United States, two different societies rose from the ashes – the Union, a towering high-tech utopia, hugging the perimeter of the continent, and the devastated, untamed midsection known as the Ruins.
Seventeen-year-old Evan Taylor has an easy, privileged life in the Union. What she doesn’t have is any idea what to do with the rest of her life. She only knows she wants to do some...
February 28, 2022
Audio Excerpt: Lazy Creativity by Kyle Bernier
Featuring an excerpt from non-fiction book Lazy Creativity by Kyle Bernier
Narated by Joel Simler
5 hrs, 50 mins
Lazy Creativity is the complete guide to owning your creativity in a way that works with you because it’s your creativity. Art Therapist, Author, Artist, and self-proclaimed lazy person Kyle Bernier provides a detailed handbook of the creative process, starting with building a creative mindset, to making the first (literal or figurative) mark, all the way to the creat...
February 24, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Honor by January Bain
Featuring Honor by January Bain, a billionair werewolf paranormal romance
Never run from a wolf!
Isadora Champagne is a witch on a dangerous mission to take down Lucius Luceres. That bad boy Alpha billionaire doesn’t deserve to have it all his way. Thinks he can dump her baby sister after a one-night stand and get away with it! But now that she’s met the shifter, keeping her heart safe from him is going to cost more than a curse to stop him, it just might cost her a pack with the devil...
February 23, 2022
Review+Giveaway: People of the Sun by Ben Gartner
My review of middle grade fantasy People of the Sun by Ben Gartner
The explosive reveal about who John and Sarah really are and why they’re traveling through time, with their most gut-wrenching challenge yet.
In the time of the Aztec, a scoundrel named Cortés arrives and the kids are forced to make an extremely difficult decision: If you could change history, should you? For more twists, more danger, and more fun, read the third book in The Eye of Ra series, People of the Sun!
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February 22, 2022
Interview+Giveaway: The Winged Child by Henry Mitchell
Interview with Henry Mitchell, author of fantasy The Winged Child
An adult fairytale about a girl who might know how to fly, a neurobotanist who might be a dragon, an innkeeper who might be a machine and a politician who might be the antichrist.
Millicent McTeer grows to adulthood in Ashton, an Appalachian tourist town, convinced she knows how to fly. With a new president in power, the life Millicent knew changes. The government has spies on every corner, coercing citizens to follo...
