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Excerpt+Giveaway: Siba – The Eternal Quest by B. Singh

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An epic journey of adventure, heroism, and self-exploration through the eyes of a teenage boy named Siba.

Siba’s life takes an exciting turn when his pet parrot takes him to a magical forest. He explores the mysterious forest-dwellers and the precious ancient wisdoms of the fantasy world when a sudden tragedy jeopardizes life on earth. To save the world, he must embark on a legendary journey t...

Excerpt+Giveaway: The Warlock’s Curse by C. B. Oresky

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Clara and Angelica Grace have never met ghosts. They’ve never sailed on a tall ship, ridden wild unicorns, or fought with magical weapons. Instead, the teenage twins have a wretched existence, ignored by their troubled parents in a rundown home and tormented by the town’s snobs.

Everything turns topsy-turvy all of a sudden when discovery of an ancestor’s hidden journal with an odd key to an ...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Guinevere: Bright Shadow by Sarah Provost

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“You may think you know my story. My name has been bandied in ballads and jests, for good and (mostly) for ill. High Queen, priestess, adulterer… but first and always a woman. Courage and honor shaped me; ecstasy transported me; grief, betrayal and terror tempered me.

“My loyalty to the Goddess was supreme. But as the new religion took hold, the pagan way was threatened with ext...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Gods on Trial by Opeshum Patroz

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“Beyond the Father” sets the scene for the 8-book Sci-Fi Epic “gods on Trial: The Series,” delving into life’s determination to transcend all limitation.  Set on the planet Xżyber, citizens of the Sub-Median Region, imperfectly reborn into metal, oppress those who are organic.  Elsewhere, in the Central Kingdom, religion supports royalty’s brutal domination of the lowest class.  War over scarce resource...

November Author Discovery Project Book: Corpse Pose, Indeed by Jacqueline M. Green

You’re not supposed to actually die during Corpse Pose.

Seriously.

But a student does just that and suspicion falls on yoga teacher Mariah Stevens. So now, Mariah must find the killer while still running her new studio and practicing ahimsa. She’s definitely going to need another mocha (because life is all about balance, right?).

As evidence piles up, Mariah’s friends and students have her back, but will it be enough to keep her out of jail and save her fledgling studio?

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Interview: Triumph of Beauty by Robert Albo

Creativity was killed, replaced by ennui, and she’s to blame. Can humanity be saved?

Berkeley, CA, 2052. Alice Blair’s nightmare has only just begun. Waking up in the body of her middle-aged future self, the sixteen-year-old savior is aghast she unwittingly extinguished the spark of human creativiity and drove society into a drug-dependent dystopia. Determined to turn the world around, her only chance lies in an uneasy alliance with a dangerously hungry artificial intelligence.

Agreein...

Interview+Giveaway: The Chronicles of Deneb Series by Zanne Raby

Click the banner to follow the tourInterview with Zanne Raby, author of the space opera Chronicles of Deneb Series

The Chronicles of Deneb is a science-fiction/ space opera series set in the near future. The year is 2080 CE. The world is dying. Get ready to travel into the future to a time when nothing is certain.   Where the science behind climate change was ignored, leading to drought and famine plaguing an already overpopulated globe. Massive waves of refugees stream across the pla...

Review+Giveaway: Atticus Everheart, Fifth Grade Tutor and Monster Hunter? by C.L. Colyer

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Nothing frightens Atticus Everheart more than monsters, thanks to his older brothers, who often threaten to feed him to the beastly creatures.
Fearing that’s what they will do if he doesn’t replace the book he accidentally ruined, he takes a job tutoring a boy in his neighborhood.

Although nervous about the job, Atticus soon discovers there’s a lot mo...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Blood of the Hunted by Marc Micciola

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The Resistance Is Rising

Weylyn, Olwen, and other members of the marginalized and subjugated group known as the Tóráin are trying every day to gain equality and freedom. Their enemies, which consist of vile human monarchs, their soldiers, and a masked witch assassin known only as The Dove, continue to tighten their grip around the necks of the Tóráin.

Leading The Resistance, Weylyn...

Interview+Giveaway: Glossolalia by e rathke

Click the banner to follow the tourInterview with e rathke, author of fantasy Glossolalia

“My name is Ineluki. I come from past the mountains and ice. It took me many days to reach here. All I know are dead. Will you take me in?”
And so begins a calamitous year at the edge of the world.

Chief for the year, Aukul’s life has never been better. His people respect him, he spends his nights with the love of his life, and his skills as a butcher and chef improve every day. Then Ineluki, a you...