M.T. DeSantis's Blog, page 19
February 1, 2022
Review+Giveaway: Oy Vey, Maria! by Mark Reutlinger
My review of cozy mystery Oy Vey, Maria! by Mark Reutlinger
Rose Kaplan and her sidekick Ida are at it again. It’s the holiday of Purim, and almost everyone at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors is in costume for the Purim play. All except one, who will instead have to be fitted for a shroud. Once again, “Mrs. K” and Ida are called upon to solve the puzzle of a mysterious death at the Home. Described by Chanticleer Book Reviews as “at times more Lucy and Ethel than H...
January 31, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Mars Wars Series by John Andrew Karr
Featuring Detonation Event, book 1 in the science fiction Mars Wars Series by John Andrew Karr
For decades the Space Consortium of America has searched for new ways to harvest resources beyond an increasingly depleted Earth. The ultimate plan is about to be ignited. So is the ultimate threat to humankind . . .
DETONATION EVENT
Battle-hardened Captain Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiter Station One (MOS-1) are part of a bold plan: resurrect the active molten cores of the Red Planet ...
January 30, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Undoing Time by Rachel Dacus
Featuring Undoing Time (from the scifi time-travel romance Timegathering series) by Rachel Dacus
Liv Pomeroy’s high hopes and lavish lifestyle come horribly undone when her fiancé runs off with her maid of honor. Swearing off love forever, she goes on a summer escape to Florence, Italy. Agreeing to help her cousin May raise funds for an art restoration project, Liv is astonished to find they share a genetic gift for undoing time. Soon she’s joining a team of time travelers who rescue ...
January 26, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Chandelier by Michael Leon
Featuring scifi/fantasy romance Chandelier by Michael Leon
CHANDELIER is the genre-bending sci-fi/fantasy-romance novel follow up of Michael Leon’s 2019 fantasy-romance book, PHANTOMS. A century has passed since the fabled Phantom ruled the Garnier Opera House. Technology has advanced, and AI has evolved beyond human knowledge. They reside in a virtual Earth, free from the ravages of an environmentally damaged Earth where humans and post-humans live under AI’s qualified governance. CH...
January 25, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: Kiki Coto by Edward Avanessy
Featuring supernatural thriller Kiki Coto by Edward Avanessy
Richard, (Kiki Coto) is destined to fight corruption, and criminal organizations, whose members include politicians, judges, district attorneys, police, and others, to exonerate an innocent young lady wrongfully accused of murder. He is fighting an impossible battle. The criminals are very organized, interconnected, and conspire with each other methodically. Struggling to defeat the evil, Richard seeks help from all sources,...
January 23, 2022
Excerpt+Giveaway: The Descendants by Destiny D Hawkins
Featuring The Descendants by Destiny D. Hawkins, a dark dystopian fantasy
Fail the tests and become a slave. Display defectiveness and be put to death.
Monroe Academy was built to separate the weak from the strong. Pass the biyearly leveling and be released into society upon graduation. Fail to be promoted and be stripped of rank and forced into servitude. That was a rule that applied to all but Rayah Bardeau. A student of Monroe Academy, branded as a Null because of her absence of Lig...
January 20, 2022
Interview+Giveaway: Pelagia by Steve Holloway
Interview with Steve Holloway, author of scifi novel Pelagia
Former special forces agent turned particle physicist Ben Holden is on the run.
The New Caliphate will stop at nothing to get their hands on his wife’s scientific research, which is believed to hold the key to unleashing chaos in the West and advancing their cause.
But in reality it’s Ben’s biometrics that have the potential to unlock the information they so desperately need. Within the oceanic world of Pelagia, in the...
January 18, 2022
Interview+Giveaway: Princes and Kings by Sydney Williams
Interview with Sydney Williams, author of historical fantasy Princes and Kings: A Rose in a Thorn Bush
In the year 1240 AD, the land of Gwynedd Wales found themselves without a leader when their king, Llywelyn the Great, died at a ripe old age. The natural successor to the king was his son Dafydd, who took on the job of ruler after his death. Soon after taking on the job he was forced to sign a treaty with the king of England and send his brother Gruffudd and his nephew Owain to Engla...
January 17, 2022
Review+Giveaway: Lured by the Ghost Rake by Marianna Green
My review of paranormal romance Lured by the Ghost Rake by Marianna Green
When Elda Elwood goes on a visit to her actor lover Jake Reynolds’ ancestral home, she is drawn by a portrait of his ancestor, eighteenth century rake Lord Lucas Lovegrove.
She learns the tragic story behind the viscount’s marriage to the innocent young heiress Rose Ashworth.
Elda senses that the portrait has strange powers, and that the house is haunted by Lovegrove’s predatory and sexual ghost…
And wh...
What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Almost Gave Up Writing
A physical and spiritual journey to putting my work out there.
Image credit to Matt Howard on UnsplashIn 2018, I moved in with my boyfriend, and we jointly moved across several states for him to take a new job. While he was off at work, I was home at work, writing Grimmfay (the new novel that had taken my creative brain by storm), editing, and sending out query letters. A new place meant a new life and new chances, and I was bound and determined to make my writing dreams a reality. For tw...
