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Interview+Giveaway: Jus Breathe by B. Lynn Carter

Interview with B. Lynn Carter, author of speculative women’s fiction Jus Breathe

Their seesaw love affair started when she was five, even though they didn’t meet until she was eighteen. It started the day she heard Daddy slur, “She ain’t mine. You had the nerve to name her Dawn. Look at her! You shudda named her Midnight!” Then Daddy left . . . for good. And the loving music that had filled Dawn’s life went silent.

That was the day that a “Midnight” Duckling invaded the mirror, too...

Excerpt+Giveaway: My Dead True Love by Kim Pierce

Featuring women’s speculative fiction My Dead True Love by Kim Pierce

When a newspaper reporter’s fiancé dies abruptly, she questions how he could just cease to be.

Dogged by unbidden thoughts, odd coincidences and unexplained phenomena, Ann Stewart becomes obsessed with finding out what really happens after we die and whether her beloved Gregory is still out there. She finds her answer, which takes her and a close-knit coterie of women to the edge of the cosmos—and the core of the...

September 2022 Author Discovery Project Review: Atlas and the Multiverse by Chandon Siman

ATLAS AND THE MULTIVERSE IS AN AWARD-WINNING, FAST-PACED, SCIENCE-FICTION ADVENTURE SERIES THAT IMMERSES READERS IN AN EXPANSIVE MULTIVERSE OF INFINITE POSSIBILITIES: FOR YOUNG ADULT READERS AND BOOK LOVERS ALIKE.

On Atlas’s first day of middle school in Boise, Idaho, a mysterious voice lures him and then appears to him, leaving him with a single clue: Find Dr. Faraday! With the help of his foster siblings Lilou and Nico, Atlas goes on a quest into the Multiverse to discover the truth abo...

Review+Giveaway: The Trial Show – The Resistance Rises by Constantina P.

Review of speculative spy thriller The Trial Show – The Resistance Rises by Constantina P.

Forced into the shadows while waging war on an oppressive regime intent on controlling those born with unnatural powers, the Resistance feels like a family. And although all families harbour secrets, theirs are world-shattering.

When Ava Moore foresees the death of her sister Brooklyn and Resistance leader Parker Quinn is forced to appear in a televised trial accused of murder, the web of lies be...

Interview+Giveaway: Stairway to Heaven by Alex Stevens

An interview with Alex Stevens, author of fantasy novel Stairway to Heaven

Corporal Jack Graven should be dead. Murdered by a vengeful angel at his own father’s funeral, Jack is resurrected and returns to life carrying a terrible secret: he is the Archangel Gabriel reincarnated.

Jack’s not the only one with secrets. His older brother, Lieutenant Colonel Tyler Graven “Demon of Kyoto”, has just inherited his father’s fortune and legacy as Lord of War, with no intention of stopping th...

Excerpt+Giveaway: God of Summer by Kat Chant

Featuring dark fantasy God of Summer by Kat Chant

Back in the Bronze Age, Angus McCraggan sacrificed his life to break the Celtic curse laid on his kind. He failed. Millennia later, he returns to modern Ireland to find his people have become feral, vengeful shadows. With his hollow hill now packed with tourists, he uses his power to keep his past hidden.

Until an American calls him out.

Since a banshee attacked her as a teen, Erin De Santos has been tormented by dreams of a boy ...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Forever Askole by Gail Koger

Featuring scifi-romance comedy Forever Askole by Gail Koger

My name is Ella McAllister, I’m a psychic witch and a healer. My life is kinda nuts. Not only do I have the Coletti hunters chasing me, but now I also have a very determined Askole High Commander after me. Why? I shot his ship down and it crash landed, and it blew up. Yep, itty-bitty pieces everywhere. My bad, but his ship was a dead ringer for a Rodan Marauder, and it was my civic duty to blow the enemy spacecraft out of the...

Excerpt+Giveaway: The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven by Jennifer Ivy Walker

https://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2022/08/blurb-blitz-wild-rose-and-sea-raven-by.htmlFeaturing paranormal fantasy The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven by Jennifer Ivy Walker

In this dark fairy tale adaptation of a medieval French legend, Issylte must flee the wicked queen, finding shelter with a fairy witch who teaches her the verdant magic of the forest. Fate leads her to the otherworldly realm of the Lady of the Lake and the Elves of Avalon, where she must choose between her lif...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Juche by Adria Carmichael

Featuring Juche (books 1-4), a YA dystopian series by Adria Carmichael

Just when Areum – daughter of a privileged family in the totalitarian state of Choson (North Korea) – thought she was free from her personal prison, her world collapses around her as her family is taken away in the middle of the night to a hell-like camp in the mountains where people who have strayed from the righteous path are brutally re-educated through blood, sweat, tears, and starvation.

There she has to fi...

4 Movies I Unapologetically Like Just As Much (or More) Than the Book

In some circles, liking the movie more than the book is considered a crime. Under most circumstances, I prefer the book versions of a lot of stories, but there are a few movies that I just really liked just as much (or, gasp, better than the book). Read on, and please don’t shoot me.

Ella Enchanted

Status: More than the book

My best friend (who I’m never sending this post to) would hang me for this. But we got past the time I used all the Power Rangers stickers, so we’ll probably surviv...