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September 16, 2019
I Won an Award!
Hello everyone,I'm so excited! Last weekend I received news that after writing a five star review for Vengeance of Hope (which can be accessed here), author J.B. Richards has given me the Indies Helping Indies Book Review Project (IHIBRP) Award Badge for Excellence in Writing!I'm so honoured to collect this award, and I want to thank everyone who has been involved in helping me create and develop the Silrith series. It has been a pleasure working with you all, and it continues to be so.Thank you everyone!All the best,Peter
September 10, 2019
It's Nearing Completion!
Hello all!Happy Tuesday! Just a quick update from me to say that in the past few days I have received the manuscript of King of the Republic back from my wonderful editor, Karen Kubin.Now it's full steam ahead to prep the novel for its upcoming release in December. I'm so excited to see what you all think of it!See you all soon!Peter
September 9, 2019
Author Spotlight - Thomas Kane
Hello all,Today's author spotlight focuses on fantasy author Thomas Kane.
Tom grew up in Maine, amidst hills and forests much like those of my favorite fantasy novels. After a few years publishing supplements for role-playing games such as Shadowrun, AD&D, Cyberpunk and Ars Magica, to name a few, he moved to the UK where he taught strategy and international relations at the University of Hull. Twenty years later, he has taken the opportunity to return to Maine and to fiction writing.The Witches of Crannock Dale - Due out in autumn 2019!When an enemy army threatens eleven-year old Mara’s home, she makes up her mind to save her family, one way or another. But when the knights protecting her village arrest her favorite aunt for witchcraft, she discovers that the difference between friend and foe may not be as obvious as she once thought.This is a story of war and espionage, set in a low fantasy world. It is also about a child getting to know her mother and father in a new way.You can find out more about Tom and his work here:Facebook: Thomas Kane Author PageTwitter: @thomaskane11Official Website: www.thomaskane.comGoodreads: Thomas Kane Goodreads PageKBoardsUntil the next time,All the best,Peter
Tom grew up in Maine, amidst hills and forests much like those of my favorite fantasy novels. After a few years publishing supplements for role-playing games such as Shadowrun, AD&D, Cyberpunk and Ars Magica, to name a few, he moved to the UK where he taught strategy and international relations at the University of Hull. Twenty years later, he has taken the opportunity to return to Maine and to fiction writing.The Witches of Crannock Dale - Due out in autumn 2019!When an enemy army threatens eleven-year old Mara’s home, she makes up her mind to save her family, one way or another. But when the knights protecting her village arrest her favorite aunt for witchcraft, she discovers that the difference between friend and foe may not be as obvious as she once thought.This is a story of war and espionage, set in a low fantasy world. It is also about a child getting to know her mother and father in a new way.You can find out more about Tom and his work here:Facebook: Thomas Kane Author PageTwitter: @thomaskane11Official Website: www.thomaskane.comGoodreads: Thomas Kane Goodreads PageKBoardsUntil the next time,All the best,Peter
September 7, 2019
Author Interview - S.L.Briden
Hello all!As promised last week, historic fantasy author S.L.Briden has very kindly agreed to talk to us here at pjbermanbooks.com.PB: Welcome! I'd like to start by finding out a little more about you. Tell us a bit about your background.SLB: I am a born and bred Sussex girl in the UK. I grew up in the Lancing area and then in the beautiful Steyning countryside where I would spend hours at the top of my garden which backed onto the South Downs.PB: What made you decide to become author?SLB: It wasn’t really a decision but more of a love to write. For me, writing places me in a world where the imagination has no limits and can be expressed however you want.PB: When did you first start writing?SLB: I can honestly say it was in my childhood. I loved writing stories at school and would often indulge in any story homework with a passion.PB: What was the first story that you can remember writing?SLB: I believe it was a love story. Man and woman meet. Conflict occurs and then they unite. A little cliché, but at a young age, I thought it was the best. I believe I even drew a little picture of the pair kissing. lolPB: Tell us about your upcoming release, 'From the Ashes'.SLB: From the Ashes is the first volume of my epic Arthurian fantasy series that offers readers an immersive journey into the era of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table yet tells a tale away from King himself. It is a story within a story and a fast-paced tale of two double-sword wielding warrior knights, a strong-willed sorceress and a prophesy burdened upon them to align the balance between Light and Dark, yet the complete story over 4 to 5 future books in the series tells of the true weight and effect such a prophecy would have of someone and the terrible mistakes they make in the process. That a Prophecy is nothing to be rejoiced about when you are one prophesied to save Light. Recusing maidens and questing knights aren’t fairytales when your clothes are constantly soaked in blood.PB: What inspires you?SLB: I have always been fascinated with the Arthurian legend and the dark ages of the UK but I believe my inspiration comes from humanity. There is good and evil in the world we live in, and sometimes it is struggle to stay on the right path, but there are hands we can hold around us to keep us on the right track without straying onto the grass.PB: What is your favourite fiction genre and why?SLB: Historic fantasy with a twist of magic. My reason? Impossible is just a word. The imagination is eternal.PB: What are your long-term ambitions career-wise?SLB: To carry on writing. I love writing and can’t seem to stop. I actually don’t want to stop. From the moment me and my late husband drafted Shadows of a Phoenix, writing it alone after he’d passed made me realise that dreams can still be achieved, mine being creating epic stories with realism to them that I can share with the world.PB: If you weren’t an author, what career would you be in?SLB: I actually own a shop at present called The Twisted Willow, selling dragons, fairies, incense, gemstones, etc… I love interacting with people.PB: What’s the next target for you?SLB: My next book, Wings of the Sword, continues the compelling story of the Shadows of a Phoenix, where the dangers for our heroes increase tenfold when a new threat arises from a serious mistake the Grandmasters made in my previous book, From the Ashes.PB: Finally, tell us a random fact about yourself.SLB: Spending all night in a haunted house has never phased me due to my prior years of being a paranormal investigator.Well, S.L.Briden, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for talking to us.Don't forget, 'From the Ashes' is available to pre-order here.Social Media:Website: www.slbriden.comTwitter: @S.LBridenFacebook: S.L.BridenGoodreads: S.L.BridenUntil next time!Peter
September 2, 2019
Author Interview - Amy Beatty
Hello all,Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend. As promised, today we meeting fantasy author Amy Beatty, creator of the incredible Vanir Dragon series.PB: So, Amy, welcome to pjbermanbooks.com. Tell us a bit about your background.
AB: I grew up in Yellowstone National Park in the western United States. As a child, I walked to school through the herds of elk and bison that wintered in our little valley. During the summer breaks, my friends and I caught snakes down by the creek and built forts out in the sagebrush. Moving to Georgia in the Southern U.S. to pursue my degree in illustration felt a lot like moving to an alien planet, but I grew to love the ocean and the old oak trees with their curtains of Spanish moss. My art had to take a back seat when it became apparent that our oldest child needed a high level of care, and I learned a lot about life and people through my unexpected career in special-needs parenting. I’m excited to be venturing out again into the world of creatives, this time as a novelist. I now live in the mountains of Utah with my husband and our two “unconventional” children, under the benevolent dictatorship of a toy fox terrier who likes to hide my favorite sweater under the couch. PB: What made you decide to become an author? AB: The week after Christmas of 2012 I unexpectedly suffered a stroke in which a blood clot blocked off all circulation in the right side of my brain, and the resulting pressure buildup blew a hole in my brain right between visual processing and spatial reasoning. I’m extremely fortunate to have been left with only minor lingering effects, but I started the new year of 2013 with some new challenges. While the doctors worked to figure out what would cause an otherwise healthy 41-year-old woman to have a stroke, I worked to figure out what shape my life would take as a result. There had been several other difficult events in our family that year, and I found myself spending far too much time in a rather dark place. I needed something new in my life that wasn’t tragic, and that I could look forward to. So, I decided it was time to choose one thing from my long list of Things I’ve Always Wanted to Do and actually give it a go—but it needed to be something inexpensive that I could do on my own schedule and that didn’t require very much in the way of visual-spatial processing (which is still a little iffy at times). Writing fit the bill. I’ve always loved stories and had been toying with the idea of writing a novel “someday” for quite a while. It was something I could do sitting down, and my fingers still remember where the letters live on a keyboard, even if my paintbrush gets a little confused. So, I decided to jump in and give it a try—after all, if it turned out to be a disaster, there was no reason I had to ever show it to anybody else. That first novel helped me find an agent, and was published last November (after much learning, restructuring, and revision) as Dancing with the Viper, the first book in my Viper Series. While that book was looking for a home with a publisher, I wrote another book, Dragon Ascending, which was published last October. Becoming an author has been quite an interesting journey, and I find myself oddly grateful that my stroke forced me to take a step back from my life and choose a new adventure. PB: When did you first start writing? What was the first story that you can remember writing? AB: I grew up surrounded by stories. My mother read to us and sometimes made up stories of her own. My friends and I built little houses in our sandbox for the snakes or bugs we caught to live in and made up dramatic stories about life in our little villages. Lying in bed at night, waiting to go to sleep, I made up stories. My father used to bring home used photocopy paper from his office so my siblings and I could use the blank backs of the paper for drawing or writing. Some of my earliest memories involve lying on my belly in the middle of the living room with a stack of paper and a box of crayons, surrounded by a sea of drawings that told the stories in my head. When I started school and learned to write, I began adding captions to the pictures, and those grew into stories. I don’t think I could pin down any particular story I remember as my first. I dabbled a little over the years, mostly for my own amusement, though I took a short story class in college and one on poetry later. My first serious attempt at a novel was Dancing with the Viper. PB: Tell us about your upcoming work.AB: I have a short story called Out of the Fire coming out in October as part of a fairy tale anthology, Of Fae and Fate through Immortal Works press. The story is set in the same universe as Dragon Ascending but takes place in the distant past before the Breaking, in the times when the fae still walked the lands. In November, The Viper’s Kiss, second book in the Viper Series, is scheduled for release. I’m also hard at work on the second book of the Vanir Dragon Series, which has been giving me more trouble than I expected. (Dragons are wily creatures.) No publication date has been set yet. PB: What inspires you? AB: Inspiration comes in so many forms, from so many places. Books I’ve read, people I’ve met, current events, the currents of history, oddities of wordplay, my son’s intense interest in small crawly things and random trivia, my daughter’s questions that bubble up from her unconventional outlook on life. Inspiration isn’t hard to find. I think the real trick is learning to be quiet in your own head and listen to the world around you. PB: Of all your achievements, which are you most proud of? AB: My children. They’re on the brink of venturing out on their own life’s journeys, and they’re both good people with caring hearts and a healthy dose of good sense. So far, I don’t think I’ve messed them up too badly, and I think any parent will agree that’s quite an achievement. PB: What is your favourite book series to read and why? AB: Oh, please don’t make me choose! I like so many series in different ways and for different reasons. I’m especially drawn in by compelling characters and a plot that makes me think. But sometimes I really enjoy a frivolous romp that makes me laugh. PB: What are your long term ambitions career-wise? AB: I still feel so new at this, I’m not sure I’ve had time to develop anything so grand as ambitions. I intend to have fun making up more stories and writing down as many of them as I can. Practice should improve my skills, and I anticipate that as my children become more independent, I’ll have more time to play. Hopefully my stories will find their way into the hands of many readers who’ll want to play along—adventures are more fun with friends. But at the moment, I’m taking it as it comes and trying to climb the learning curves fast enough to keep up. PB: If you weren’t an author, what career would you be in? AB: Probably something creative. My post-secondary training is in illustration, and I’ve played with textile arts enough to have had several quilt projects accepted to juried shows at a local art museum. But I’ve always thought it would be interesting to delve into anthropology or psychology. PB: Mudge is a wonderful character, with some great lines. Where did the idea for Mudge come from? AB: Mudge is a delight to write and a difficult character to talk about. I think in modern culture we tend to be a little too fast to categorize people and then view them as faceless representatives of the category we assign to them rather than seeing them as people, as unique, individual selves. Dragon Ascending dances on the border between epic fantasy and fairy tale, both of which are genres that tend to include heavily stereotyped archetypical characters—the warrior, the rogue, the king, the damsel in distress. And the background characters are perhaps even more stereotyped—the innkeeper, the guard, the buxom tavern wench. All of them can be easily rolled up on a stat sheet or ordered in from central casting. With Mudge, I wanted to pull a heavily stereotyped secondary character out of the background and help readers challenge their own category-based assumptions. I wanted to encourage readers to wonder what lies behind the stereotyped categories they’ve assigned to people in their own real lives as well—especially those they might regard in some way as undesirable. And I feel like I succeeded. Whatever one expects from a dungeon keeper, it’s not likely to be Mudge. PB: Did you know the ending of the book when you started writing it? AB: Yes. I’m still working out my process as an author, but knowing the ending seems to help keep me on a cohesive track with the story. I can explain how on earth we got to where we are from where we started, rather than groping about in the dark hoping I might catch a story by the tail. With that said, though, I definitely stumbled across some surprises along the way. PB: If you could meet a character from your work, who would you choose to meet, and what would you say to them? AB: I feel as if I’ve already met them. It’s hard to write people until you’ve sat with them a while inside your head and learned what it’s like to be them. I find it best to mostly listen, as I rarely learn much by talking. The same is true of non-imaginary people, I find. PB: What’s the next target for you? AB: Finishing the sequel to Dragon Ascending. I can’t even believe how many people want to know what happens next! It’s exciting and at the same time just a little bit intimidating. PB: Tell us a random fact about yourself. AB: I once went canoeing in the Okefenokee Swamp with alligators in the water, just out of reach of the paddles. Not what I expected from a class called “Landscape Painting.”Definitely unexpected! Thank you Amy for taking the time to talk to us here at pjbermanbooks.com. Don't forget, you can find out more about Amy and her work via the below links:WebsiteFacebookTwitterAmazon Author PageGoodreadsThank you all for reading!Until next week, all the best!Peter
AB: I grew up in Yellowstone National Park in the western United States. As a child, I walked to school through the herds of elk and bison that wintered in our little valley. During the summer breaks, my friends and I caught snakes down by the creek and built forts out in the sagebrush. Moving to Georgia in the Southern U.S. to pursue my degree in illustration felt a lot like moving to an alien planet, but I grew to love the ocean and the old oak trees with their curtains of Spanish moss. My art had to take a back seat when it became apparent that our oldest child needed a high level of care, and I learned a lot about life and people through my unexpected career in special-needs parenting. I’m excited to be venturing out again into the world of creatives, this time as a novelist. I now live in the mountains of Utah with my husband and our two “unconventional” children, under the benevolent dictatorship of a toy fox terrier who likes to hide my favorite sweater under the couch. PB: What made you decide to become an author? AB: The week after Christmas of 2012 I unexpectedly suffered a stroke in which a blood clot blocked off all circulation in the right side of my brain, and the resulting pressure buildup blew a hole in my brain right between visual processing and spatial reasoning. I’m extremely fortunate to have been left with only minor lingering effects, but I started the new year of 2013 with some new challenges. While the doctors worked to figure out what would cause an otherwise healthy 41-year-old woman to have a stroke, I worked to figure out what shape my life would take as a result. There had been several other difficult events in our family that year, and I found myself spending far too much time in a rather dark place. I needed something new in my life that wasn’t tragic, and that I could look forward to. So, I decided it was time to choose one thing from my long list of Things I’ve Always Wanted to Do and actually give it a go—but it needed to be something inexpensive that I could do on my own schedule and that didn’t require very much in the way of visual-spatial processing (which is still a little iffy at times). Writing fit the bill. I’ve always loved stories and had been toying with the idea of writing a novel “someday” for quite a while. It was something I could do sitting down, and my fingers still remember where the letters live on a keyboard, even if my paintbrush gets a little confused. So, I decided to jump in and give it a try—after all, if it turned out to be a disaster, there was no reason I had to ever show it to anybody else. That first novel helped me find an agent, and was published last November (after much learning, restructuring, and revision) as Dancing with the Viper, the first book in my Viper Series. While that book was looking for a home with a publisher, I wrote another book, Dragon Ascending, which was published last October. Becoming an author has been quite an interesting journey, and I find myself oddly grateful that my stroke forced me to take a step back from my life and choose a new adventure. PB: When did you first start writing? What was the first story that you can remember writing? AB: I grew up surrounded by stories. My mother read to us and sometimes made up stories of her own. My friends and I built little houses in our sandbox for the snakes or bugs we caught to live in and made up dramatic stories about life in our little villages. Lying in bed at night, waiting to go to sleep, I made up stories. My father used to bring home used photocopy paper from his office so my siblings and I could use the blank backs of the paper for drawing or writing. Some of my earliest memories involve lying on my belly in the middle of the living room with a stack of paper and a box of crayons, surrounded by a sea of drawings that told the stories in my head. When I started school and learned to write, I began adding captions to the pictures, and those grew into stories. I don’t think I could pin down any particular story I remember as my first. I dabbled a little over the years, mostly for my own amusement, though I took a short story class in college and one on poetry later. My first serious attempt at a novel was Dancing with the Viper. PB: Tell us about your upcoming work.AB: I have a short story called Out of the Fire coming out in October as part of a fairy tale anthology, Of Fae and Fate through Immortal Works press. The story is set in the same universe as Dragon Ascending but takes place in the distant past before the Breaking, in the times when the fae still walked the lands. In November, The Viper’s Kiss, second book in the Viper Series, is scheduled for release. I’m also hard at work on the second book of the Vanir Dragon Series, which has been giving me more trouble than I expected. (Dragons are wily creatures.) No publication date has been set yet. PB: What inspires you? AB: Inspiration comes in so many forms, from so many places. Books I’ve read, people I’ve met, current events, the currents of history, oddities of wordplay, my son’s intense interest in small crawly things and random trivia, my daughter’s questions that bubble up from her unconventional outlook on life. Inspiration isn’t hard to find. I think the real trick is learning to be quiet in your own head and listen to the world around you. PB: Of all your achievements, which are you most proud of? AB: My children. They’re on the brink of venturing out on their own life’s journeys, and they’re both good people with caring hearts and a healthy dose of good sense. So far, I don’t think I’ve messed them up too badly, and I think any parent will agree that’s quite an achievement. PB: What is your favourite book series to read and why? AB: Oh, please don’t make me choose! I like so many series in different ways and for different reasons. I’m especially drawn in by compelling characters and a plot that makes me think. But sometimes I really enjoy a frivolous romp that makes me laugh. PB: What are your long term ambitions career-wise? AB: I still feel so new at this, I’m not sure I’ve had time to develop anything so grand as ambitions. I intend to have fun making up more stories and writing down as many of them as I can. Practice should improve my skills, and I anticipate that as my children become more independent, I’ll have more time to play. Hopefully my stories will find their way into the hands of many readers who’ll want to play along—adventures are more fun with friends. But at the moment, I’m taking it as it comes and trying to climb the learning curves fast enough to keep up. PB: If you weren’t an author, what career would you be in? AB: Probably something creative. My post-secondary training is in illustration, and I’ve played with textile arts enough to have had several quilt projects accepted to juried shows at a local art museum. But I’ve always thought it would be interesting to delve into anthropology or psychology. PB: Mudge is a wonderful character, with some great lines. Where did the idea for Mudge come from? AB: Mudge is a delight to write and a difficult character to talk about. I think in modern culture we tend to be a little too fast to categorize people and then view them as faceless representatives of the category we assign to them rather than seeing them as people, as unique, individual selves. Dragon Ascending dances on the border between epic fantasy and fairy tale, both of which are genres that tend to include heavily stereotyped archetypical characters—the warrior, the rogue, the king, the damsel in distress. And the background characters are perhaps even more stereotyped—the innkeeper, the guard, the buxom tavern wench. All of them can be easily rolled up on a stat sheet or ordered in from central casting. With Mudge, I wanted to pull a heavily stereotyped secondary character out of the background and help readers challenge their own category-based assumptions. I wanted to encourage readers to wonder what lies behind the stereotyped categories they’ve assigned to people in their own real lives as well—especially those they might regard in some way as undesirable. And I feel like I succeeded. Whatever one expects from a dungeon keeper, it’s not likely to be Mudge. PB: Did you know the ending of the book when you started writing it? AB: Yes. I’m still working out my process as an author, but knowing the ending seems to help keep me on a cohesive track with the story. I can explain how on earth we got to where we are from where we started, rather than groping about in the dark hoping I might catch a story by the tail. With that said, though, I definitely stumbled across some surprises along the way. PB: If you could meet a character from your work, who would you choose to meet, and what would you say to them? AB: I feel as if I’ve already met them. It’s hard to write people until you’ve sat with them a while inside your head and learned what it’s like to be them. I find it best to mostly listen, as I rarely learn much by talking. The same is true of non-imaginary people, I find. PB: What’s the next target for you? AB: Finishing the sequel to Dragon Ascending. I can’t even believe how many people want to know what happens next! It’s exciting and at the same time just a little bit intimidating. PB: Tell us a random fact about yourself. AB: I once went canoeing in the Okefenokee Swamp with alligators in the water, just out of reach of the paddles. Not what I expected from a class called “Landscape Painting.”Definitely unexpected! Thank you Amy for taking the time to talk to us here at pjbermanbooks.com. Don't forget, you can find out more about Amy and her work via the below links:WebsiteFacebookTwitterAmazon Author PageGoodreadsThank you all for reading!Until next week, all the best!Peter
August 31, 2019
Author Spotlight - S.L.Briden
Hello all,Today's author spotlight focuses on S.L.Briden, whose latest fantasy fiction novel, 'From the Ashes', first in the 'Shadows of a Phoenix' series, is due out on 16th September 2019 on Kindle and in paperback.Born and raised in Sussex on the south coast of England, S.L Briden is a freelance writer and business owner with deep interests in the Dark Ages history of the UK. Inspired by the age-old myths and legends of King Arthur, she loves creating historic fantasy tales full of adventure and edge-of-your-seat suspense.For fun, S.L Briden loves travelling and can often be found up and down the UK, delving into the legends of the places she visits. She loves the forest trails of her country and the dramatic coastlines of Cornwall.When she was widowed in her 30s, S.L Briden focused on writing ‘Shadows of a Phoenix’–an epic, historic fantasy series that she drafted with her late husband. She hopes to inspire other young widows not to give up on their dreams, whatever they may be.From the Ashes - Shadows of a Phoenix Book 1
Click Here to PurchaseBrennas called it a task.David and Andrew called it a punishmentWhen David and his brother-at-arms, Andrew, were commanded by their Grandmaster to protect the fiery and stubborn Sorceress, Arread, they believed the task was beneath them. Little did they know that an ancient prophecy tied the three of them together - one hinged on the survival of Light in its centuries-long, bloody, battles against the Dark.Soon, David finds himself wanting to protect Arread for reasons that go beyond his duty as a Phoenix Knight. To put anyone above his job is strictly forbidden, but he can’t help being drawn to her strength and the wildness of her spirit.With the power Arread possesses, the Dark Lord will stop at nothing to taint her magick and bring down the Light once and for all.But he has to catch her first.Will David and Andrew be able to stop Sicarus from turning Arread? Will David lose the woman he loves to an Order where sharing a heart is forbidden? Is Arread really as powerful as everyone presumes? Find out in this memorable fantasy series that features appearances by Arthur and Merlin in a medieval story of survival, sorcery, mystery and the heavy burden of a Prophecy.Rescuing maidens and questing knights aren’t fairy tales when your clothes are constantly soaked in blood.Look out for my interview with S.L.Briden, coming next week!Social Media:Website: www.slbriden.comTwitter: @S.LBridenFacebook: S.L.BridenGoodreads: S.L.BridenSee you all next week,Peter
August 27, 2019
Just One More Month to the Cover Reveal!
Hi all,Who wants to see the cover of my upcoming novel, King of the Republic, the second book in the Silrith series? Check back here on September 27th to see it!All the best!Peter
Coming December 2019! King of the Republic - Silrith Book 2
Hello all,I am excited to bring you the news that I have the edited manuscript of King of the Republic, the next novel in the Silrith series, back from my editor, Karen Kubin.While I get back to work on refining the book, I can confirm that the book will be released this December!I can't wait to share it with you all.All the best,Peter
August 26, 2019
Author Talk - Llanelli Library
Hello all!I hope you're having a great day. It is my very great pleasure to tell you that I have another author talk for your diary. As always I will be telling you about Vengeance of Hope, recently released on audiobook, as well as it's upcoming sequel, King of the Republic, which is out in December.The venue this time around will be Llanelli Library in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and the event will take place on Saturday 14th September, starting at 11am, finishing at around 12pm.The address is listed below:Llanelli LibraryVaughan StreetLlanelliCarmarthenshireSA15 3ASUKSee you all there!All the best,Peter
Author Spotlight - Amy Beatty
Hello all,Today's author spotlight is on fantasy author Amy Beatty, the creator of one of the best books I've read in a very long time, Dragon Ascending, the first book in the Vanir Dragon SeriesBiographyAmy Beatty is the author of The Vanir Dragon Series and the Viper Series. Her work has been compared to Robert Jordan’s, and her debut novel, Dragon Ascending (2018) was reviewed by Orson Scott Card (Author of Ender’s Game), who recommended it highly, calling it “an extraordinarily entertaining and innovative treatment of dragons.”Amy was raised in the wilds of Yellowstone Park as part of an experiment in combining the genes of a respected biologist with those of a grammar aficionado. She now lives in the mountains of Utah with her husband and two delightfully unconventional children under the benevolent dictatorship of a toy fox terrier who is determined to take over the world one delivery truck at a time.Dragon Ascending
Edrik, son of the murdered Drake regent, never gained his dragon magic and cannot shapeshift into his dragon form. Unfit to marry his love, the Princess Lissara, Edrik embarks on a dangerous mission to prove himself worthy. He seeks Lissara's missing father, the dragon king, before an enemy usurps the throne.Unfortunately, the search for the king brings Edrik to a dungeon located in human territory. Inside the prison, Edrik discovers the missing king, whose captors are unaware of his true identity. Edrik must rely on a grubby young dungeon keeper to help them escape without disclosing that his companion is the dragon king. But the dungeon keeper has a secret identity as well, one that will change Edrik's destiny forever. Click the image to purchase your copy now!LinksWebsiteFacebookTwitterAuthor Amazon Author PageGoodreadsDon't forget to check out my interview with Amy next week, right here at pjbermanbooks.com!Until then, all the best!Peter
Today's author spotlight is on fantasy author Amy Beatty, the creator of one of the best books I've read in a very long time, Dragon Ascending, the first book in the Vanir Dragon SeriesBiographyAmy Beatty is the author of The Vanir Dragon Series and the Viper Series. Her work has been compared to Robert Jordan’s, and her debut novel, Dragon Ascending (2018) was reviewed by Orson Scott Card (Author of Ender’s Game), who recommended it highly, calling it “an extraordinarily entertaining and innovative treatment of dragons.”Amy was raised in the wilds of Yellowstone Park as part of an experiment in combining the genes of a respected biologist with those of a grammar aficionado. She now lives in the mountains of Utah with her husband and two delightfully unconventional children under the benevolent dictatorship of a toy fox terrier who is determined to take over the world one delivery truck at a time.Dragon AscendingEdrik, son of the murdered Drake regent, never gained his dragon magic and cannot shapeshift into his dragon form. Unfit to marry his love, the Princess Lissara, Edrik embarks on a dangerous mission to prove himself worthy. He seeks Lissara's missing father, the dragon king, before an enemy usurps the throne.Unfortunately, the search for the king brings Edrik to a dungeon located in human territory. Inside the prison, Edrik discovers the missing king, whose captors are unaware of his true identity. Edrik must rely on a grubby young dungeon keeper to help them escape without disclosing that his companion is the dragon king. But the dungeon keeper has a secret identity as well, one that will change Edrik's destiny forever. Click the image to purchase your copy now!LinksWebsiteFacebookTwitterAuthor Amazon Author PageGoodreadsDon't forget to check out my interview with Amy next week, right here at pjbermanbooks.com!Until then, all the best!Peter
