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A Bewitching Friday

A Bewitching Friday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

Behind the Veil by E. J. Dawson #GothicSuspense #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/97iH50GAWaw

In the shadows, nothing is ever what it seems
Smoke and Mirrors: A Vampire Romance
Elise Nelson #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/AMBf50GAWx1

Shadow Slayer by Laura A.H. Elliott [Tour with Excerpt] #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Cyvt50GAWrw

Halloween Book Spotlight and Contest: That Magic Mischief by Susanna Allen #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/UUcr50GAWAt

Spooktacular Recipe & Giveaway - The Wantland Files by Lara Bernhardt #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/wOEI50GAWBE

Halloween Dance Party Playlist with Megan Speece #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/g5Fj50GAWEQ

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular: Witch of the Cards by Catherine Stine #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/K4V550GAWGs

Book Spotlight ~ Untamed Isles: The Path Awakens Untamed Isles, Book One by Aaron Hodges ~ Epic Fantasy #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/HjZC50GAWJy

A castle in the middle of a Highland loch, a boy with a treacherous gift, a friendship which proves to be the deepest magic of all, and a group of people who live in the shadow of something which happened a generation earlier. https://amzn.to/3nJbZnY
#HonoursRest #AmReading #YALit #YAFantasy #Scotland #Highlands

Untamed Isles: The Path Awakens by Aaron Hodges Virtual Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/3rFr50GAWHW

Sea Mage: The Nightshade Guild Book 10 Multi-Author Series by Louisa Bacio - Paranormal Romance - Take a SPLASH into a new paranormal romance. #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/iTxY50GAWq3

Eliza: The Awakening by Eileen Sheehan #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/y6wg50GAWhp

Dead Man Walking by Zach Adams #Horror #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/KFGx50GAWez

Celia Breslin’s 2021 Halloween Viewing Picks #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/2Z2N50GAWcc

Need by Madison Wentworth #ParanormalEroticRomance #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/FBpX50GAW9y

Do you have a fear of Halloween? Guest Blog by Tena Stetler #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/eFWC50GAW7w

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular ~ Celia’s 2021 Halloween Viewing Picks @CeliaBreslin ~ #Review & #Giveaway ~ A Demon's Embrace: Cupid Dating Agency, Book Four by Celia Breslin #PNR #bewitchcingbooktours http://ow.ly/hztJ50GAW0S

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular & Giveaway ~ The Ghosts We Carry and How to Banish Them by Maria DeBlassie, Author of Weep, Woman, Weep A Gothic Fairytale about Ancestral Hauntings @EnchantmentLL ~ Gothic Fairytale, Occult, Supernatural #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/rnu250GAVYP

Getting Crafty with Madison Wentworth - DIY Dreamcatchers #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/A8Fs50GA1lQ

Guest Blog- That Magic Mischief by Susanna Allen #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/vh6350GA1qm

"The fate of Flint, Michigan can often be hard to believe. Yet Connor Coyne skillfully captures the tarnished essence of a thinly veiled Vehicle City -- known as Akawe in Urbantasm -- with a compelling blend of noire and Rust Belt magical realism." -- Gordon Young, author of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City https://amzn.to/3nvOLA0
#urbantasm #thedyingcity #teennoir #magicalrealism #connorcoyne #akawe #theemptyroom #newadult #YA #youngadult #teenreads

OCT 30 – OCT 31
Trick Or Treat for Books with Bewitching Book Tours
https://www.facebook.com/events/84841...

Character Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: A Vampire Romance by Elise Nelson - PNR, Gothic Romance, Vampire Romance - In the shadows, nothing is ever what it seems #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/c6zv50GA1p2

Music Playlist- Demon Shadow by Timothy Patrick Means #Horror

When I write, I enjoy listening to music that inspires me. 
Most of all, Led Zeppelin ignites emotions of farewells or lost loves. 
In most songs, the heart-pumping adrenaline. 
In a scene from this book, I imagine Led Zeppelin's Kashmir playing in the background when Barbara battles the demon in her daughter’s bedroom.
Later, when Barbara prepares for battle against the wizard Tobias I hear Led Zeppelin, The Battle of Evermore. 
When Rachel is picked up from school and breaks down in tears, missing her sister Melissa I hear Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears.  
Demon ShadowThe Bishops’ Sacrifice Book OneTimothy Patrick Means
Genre: HorrorPublisher: Mad Dog PressDate of Publication: 10/01/2021ISBN: 978-1-7376017-0-8ASIN: B09CVSKR4PNumber of pages: 179Word Count: 47831Cover Artist: Eric Labacz
Book Description: 
The 16-year-old girl disappeared after school on an October afternoon. The police have exhausted all leads. It’s been weeks, but her mother, Barbara, will not stop searching for Melissa.
Her husband, Mark, has given up…and started drinking. Her younger daughter Rachel feels neglected. The police think she is a nuisance. Her job is in jeopardy.But even more mysterious things begin happening around Barbara. The shadows that have no source…a dark form glimpsed beneath Melissa’s bed…the ravens that have congregated on the lawn.
Desperate, Barbara turns to the mysterious Sterling, a man the police scorn as a psychic, a fraud, and maybe worse.
Can Sterling help Barbara find her daughter before it is too late? And what is the mysterious Bishops’ Curse that has haunted Barbara’s family for centuries?
The Demon Shadow is the first in a series of haunting thrillers that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Amazon

Excerpt

She hurried down the hallway with the crystal in her hand. As she passed Melissa’s bedroom, the crystal began to glow brighter and brighter. Pausing just outside the door, she stopped and didn’t move. The crystal burned with such intensity that she could hardly look at it.

She held her palm flat, the object resting in the center. She was compelled to walk into Melissa’s bedroom. As she took a step inside, the crystal’s light became blindingly bright, reaching into the darkest corners of the room, filling every murky space with beams of shimmering light. She realized with a shock that she hadn’t turned on any lights; the object glowed more brightly with each step she took.

As she stood silently, watching the effects of the light against the blackest of the shadows. Something moved! Frightened, she wanted to run away but instead stood transfixed as a pair of long, bony arms reached out from under Melissa’s bed.

Somehow, she knew that the dark, shadowy figure was trying to crawl from some other place into this world. As she watched in silent horror, it slowly pulled its body upward from under the bed. A dark and menacing fog swirled and grew until it assumed the shape of a tiny human skull with two bulging eyes embedded in deep sockets, eagerly watching Barbara with keen interest.

Frozen in fear and unable to move or retreat, she stood perfectly still. The dark body changed, blending within the blackness in front of her—this thing was death itself.

Slowly, it rose from the floor and became erect— alive. The air in Melissa’s bedroom was becoming frigid, and Barbara shivered in the sudden cold. All she could do was to stand immobile and watch intently as the apparition came to life.

The body of the ghastly image was almost transparent, with dark, oily skin. Now that it was upright, Barbara could see that it stood close to six feet tall with a body as black as a moonless night.

The creature unfolded two broad, enormous wings; they stretched halfway across the room. To her horror, it opened its mouth wide and let out an ear-piercing scream as if it had just been wounded. Flinching, she clamped her hands over her ears.

Questions flooded her mind. Why is this creature here in Melissa’s bedroom? What can this all possibly mean? Only one thing mattered: How could she defeat this creature that threatening her life?

The answer to that question, she realized, was in the palm of her hand. As the dark demon fully materialized, the small object she held burned ever more brightly. As the entity grew in strength and magnification, the burning brightness in the room increased as well. Somehow, she understood that this object was inflicting the pain the creature felt. Was kind of weapon was it?

More importantly, if this small object caused this beast such enormous pain, how could she use it to defeat the monster?

The light restrained the creature, but it fought against it. In one final attempt to get at her, the creature stuck out its long, skeletal fingers; its razor-sharp nails tried to stop the incandescent light from penetrating its hazy body. Still, every time it drew closer to harm her, the shining brilliance from the crystal object became even brighter and held the creature back.

Inside herself, something suddenly changed; she would not surrender to her fears. She would show this creature no mercy or weakness. She stepped toward the being, holding the light before her. As she did, the creature’s menacing shape began to change. It was no longer the threatening being it once had been, and it began to draw inward. Its once proudly displayed wings collapsed into its body. Its form seemed to lower in submission; the strange creature looked as though it bowed before her.

The incandescent light from the small crystal penetrated deep into its dark body as it began to creep backward under Melissa’s bed, retreating into the world in which it lived. As it withdrew, it took on a much smaller form than before.

Her courage renewed; Barbara took another step closer. As she looked upon the inky body, it shrank to nothingness and disappeared from her sight.

She took a deep breath. It was gone. But she knew it had only been subdued for now. It had had no choice but to retreat to the abyss of its home, in that other world where darkness lived.

But it would be back?

About the Author: Timothy was raised on the sunny beaches of Southern California. As a young boy, he spent many summers swimming and playing in the ocean without care. Later as the man, he was fortunate enough to land a job in Aerospace, working for McDonnell Douglas. There he worked on military aircraft and, most exciting of all, rockets! All types of space hardware, including the space station, space shuttle, and the Delta rocket.
His life has always been interesting—a father to four children and two stepchildren, Grandfather to 14. He’s given away his heart to all. In his life, he’s always loved writing. His first experience at being creative was describing his feelings through poetry that seemed to get mixed emotions. But it wasn’t until he put pencil to the paper that his imagination soared, and he was set free to explore all the possibilities of creating an exciting story.
Here and now is the result of his work. A new world created from his imagination, where everything was possible, including the dangers and pitfalls.
https://sacrificetheinnocentsbooks.com/
https://twitter.com/TimothyMeans17
https://www.facebook.com/tmaddog38

Urbantasm Book Three The Darkest Road by Connor Coyne #YA #MagicalRealism #TeenNoir

Urbantasm Book ThreeThe Darkest RoadConnor Coyne
Genre: General Fiction / Young AdultSubgenres: Magical Realism, Teen Noir, Edgy YAPublisher: Gothic Funk PressDate of Publication: 9/22/2021ISBN: 978-0989920292 (Print)Page Count 639Word Count: About 230,000Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin
Urbantasm: The Empty Room is the third book in the magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan. It will be published in September, 2021.
Junior high was hard. John Bridge has made and lost friends, experienced and forsaken love, and discovered his true passions. But after his harrowing experience on the roof of St. Christopher’s hospital, John has decided to turn the page of his own life and plan for his future. Now he has new friends, a new girlfriend, and a powerful new goal: to get into Chicago and leave Akawe forever.
But Akawe might not want to let John go. The city is full of memories and ghosts — urbantasms, according his former friend Selby — and they leave traces of questions that John cannot easily escape: What happened to his abducted classmate Cora Braille? How does the Chalks street gang keep replenishing its stock of O-Sugar, a drug with seemingly magical properties? And why is Selby suddenly hanging out with a notorious drug dealer? Does it have anything to do with a man with a knife or some mysterious blue sunglasses?
John has a feeling that the dreadful answers to these questions might take him to a place that he does not want to go: a dark road in a forgotten corner of his dying city. Possibly the darkest road of all.

Amazon     Urbantasm

As a serial novel,  Urbantasm  has to be read in order. New readers will want to start with  Book One The Dying City .

 

Excerpt Book 3:

The summer dusk gave way to interstitial twilight. There was no sense in riding an hour back home in the dark just to turn around and come back the next morning. Instead, my friends and I bummed our way back to Camp Jellystone, where we got to camp in tents on the gravel and weeds off of the RV lot for five dollars a night. We sat around a fire and drank pop while the older actors – our mentors – went through six-packs of beer and homilized on their atheist Bibles. They quoted SNL routines, Monty Python, GURPS, Cthulhu, and the Digital Underground until we were all too tired to see straight. We all said goodnight and made our way back to our tents. But my tent had flooded during the week, and inside I found dead earwigs floating in slow circles.            I didn’t mind.            I was glad that this had happened.            I gathered up my sleeping bag, which Eddie had dropped off in the morning before heading back to Akawe, and stumbled back through the purple dark to Omara’s tent.            “Knock knock,” I said.            I heard her sigh. “You got your own tent, John.”            “Not tonight,” I said. “It’s flooded. Will you let me stay here?”            “Fine,” she said. “If this ever gets back to my dad, he’ll murder you.”            “I don’t think he will. I don’t think he’d murder a fly.”            She didn’t argue. She knew that I was right. She unzipped the tent and beckoned me inside.            In more than a year of going out, Omara and I hadn’t had sex. We hadn’t even been naked together. The driving thirst and curiosity that I had felt in seventh grade had been quenched by my confusing tumbles with Crystal. By my guilty nescience with Lucy. Still, here I was, sleeping bag in hand, stooped under the slope of the tent roof, wearing soccer shorts and a too-small t-shirt, and Omara stood before me, more stooped because she was taller than I was, her white panties and tank top bright against her dark skin. We unzipped our sleeping bags, made a bed between them, and lay down. Omara turned away from me, and I pressed into her back. I put my arm around her waist with my palm against her bare stomach. I could feel her shapes against mine, though there was still cloth between us.            “It was a long day today,” she said.            “Uh-huh,” I said.            “We’d better get some sleep. It’s gonna be a long weekend. We got two more days to go. Then school. You know I got that job at the Olan Farm? It’s gonna be almost like this. I mean, I guess I’ll dress up like a milkmaid, like The Little House on the Prairie or something. But it’ll be acting, you know?”            I sighed.            “I’m not tired,” I said.            “Me neither,” she said. And then, in a burst: “I can’t stop thinking about that woman on your block. Who murdered her baby.”            I pushed myself against her. I held my breath. I said, “I can’t think about that. I mean. There’s nothing I can do about that. It makes me sick, but what does that even accomplish?”            “But doesn’t it just stick with you? The idea of it? How awful it –”            “I don’t want it to, okay? Anyway, it’s far away. We’re here now. Let’s stay here.”            “We can’t stay here.” I felt the tenseness in Omara’s back.

“Yeah. But someday, we’ll leave Akawe for good. And anyway. We aren’t there now.”            “Aren’t you afraid your dad’s gonna lose his job?”            “My father? Yeah. He’s already driving two hours each day ever since they transferred him to Canton. Ever since that strike ended last year, it seems like X is closing everything fast as they can. You know? I mean, they closed the Benedict Main. Most of the Old Benedict. Probably RAN, too. ‘Course, my aunt says they were going to close them all anyway.”            Omara laughed. A slight untensing. “Sounds like you have thought about it.”            “I think about lots of things a lot. Some things I don’t want to think about and some things I do. I mean, I think about you a lot.”            I was trying to move toward her. In, you know, ways. But she wasn’t taking the bait.            “Aren’t you afraid they won’t be able to pay for college?”            She’d finally succeeded. Omara’s fears had become my fears.            “No,” I said. “I mean, my mother is working at that new job at XAI. And even if my father gets laid off, he’s got options. Right? Transfer to other plants. Stuff like that. What about you? Why are you worried? Didn’t your grandparents get you a savings bond or something?”            “Yeah. But I keep thinking someone’s gonna open a trapdoor beneath me or something. I guess ... I guess I keep thinking I’ll believe in college when I get there. And not before. It just seems a bad idea to get my hopes up, you know?”            “You don’t have to worry about it for a while. It’s still years off. I mean, we just have to keep working, don’t we? It’ll happen. We just need to be patient or some shit, you know?”            The wind buffeted the tent over our heads. I could hear low talking outside. Low chuckles. Through the tent wall, I could see the embers of the fire flickering faintly. Some of the older actors would be slouching in their folding chairs until the sky started to gray with dawn. That was still several hours away. I listened to it for a long, slow minute.            “I do worry,” I confided. “I worry that something will happen that I don’t expect, and I’ll get stuck. That I’ll fail a class, fail a test I need to pass ... and I won’t get into college in Chicago, or I won’t get into college anywhere. I worry that my parents are lying about everything, and they can’t pay for shit. I worry that I’m just being set up to fail. I even worry ...” I caught my breath. Saying this all out loud was hard. Trusting a human being was hard. But at least I wasn’t looking into her eyes. At least the darkness of a September tent wrapped us and kept our secrets from everyone else.            “I worry,” I whispered, “that you’ll go away to college in Chicago, and I’ll be stuck in Akawe, and I’ll never get out.”            I heard a deep breath from Omara. I felt her belly raise beneath my cupped palm. She had fallen asleep, and I was grateful.

Urbantasm Book Two

The Empty Room

Connor Coyne

Publisher: Gothic Funk Press

Date of Publication: September 2019      

Number of pages:Word Count: 175,000      

Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin, Forge22 Design
Book Description:  
Urbantasm: The Empty Room is the second book in the magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.

John Bridge is only two months into junior high and his previously boring life has already been turned upside-down. His best friend has gone missing, his father has been laid-off from the factory, and John keeps looking over his shoulder for a mysterious adversary: a man with a knife and some perfect blue sunglasses.

As if all this wasn’t bad enough, John must now confront his complicated feelings for a classmate who has helped him out of one scrape after another, although he knows little about who she is and what she wants. What does it mean to want somebody? How can you want them if you don’t understand them? Does anybody understand anyone, ever? These are hard questions made harder in the struggling city of Akawe, where the factories are closing, the schools are closing, the schools are crumbling, and even the streetlights can’t be kept on all night.

John and his friends are only thirteen, but they are fighting for their lives and futures. Will they save Akawe, will they escape, or are they doomed? They might find their answers in an empty room… in a city with ten thousand abandoned houses, there will be plenty to choose from.

Amazon

Urbantasm Book One

The Dying CityConnor Coyne

            

Genre: YA, Magical Realism, New Adult, Teen Noir, Lit Fic

Publisher: Gothic Funk PressDate of Publication: September 6, 2018

ISBN: 978-0989920230ASIN: 0989920232

Number of pages: 450 pagesWord Count: 85,000
Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin,Forge22 Design

Book Description:

Urbantasm is a magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.

Thirteen-year-old John Bridge’s plans include hooking up with an eighth-grade girl and becoming one of the most popular kids at Radcliffe Junior High, but when he steals a pair of strange blue sunglasses from a homeless person, it drops him into the middle of a gang war overwhelming the once-great Rust Belt town of Akawe.

John doesn’t understand why the sunglasses are such a big deal, but everything, it seems, is on the table. Perhaps he accidentally offended the Chalks, a white supremacist gang trying to expand across the city. Maybe the feud involves his friend Selby, whose father died under mysterious circumstances. It could even have something to do with O-Sugar, a homegrown drug with the seeming ability to distort space. On the night before school began, a group of teenagers took O-Sugar and leapt to their deaths from an abandoned hospital.

John struggles to untangle these mysteries while adjusting to his new school, even as his parents confront looming unemployment and as his city fractures and burns.

 “A novel of wonder and horror.”— William Shunn, author of The Accidental Terrorist

Amazon     Barnes and Noble

About the Author:

Connor Coyne is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan.

His serial novel Urbantasm is winner of numerous awards. Hugo- and Nebula-nominee William Shunn has praised Urbantasm as “a novel of wonder and horror.”
Connor has also authored two other celebrated novels, Hungry Rats and Shattering Glass, as well as Atlas, a collection of short stories.

Connor’s essay “Bathtime” was included in the Picador anthology Voices from the Rust Belt. His work has been published by Vox.com, Belt Magazine, Santa Clara Review, and elsewhere. 

Connor is Director of Gothic Funk Press.  He has served on the planning committee for the Flint Festival of Writers and represented Flint’s 7th Ward as its artist-in-residence for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Our Town grant. In 2007, he earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the New School.

Connor lives in Flint, Michigan less than a mile from the house where he grew up.

Urbantasm: http://urbantasm.com

Author Website: http://connorcoyne.com

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Blog: http://connorcoyne.com/blog

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A Bewitching Thursday

A Bewitching Thursday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

Getting Crafty with Madison Wentworth - DIY Dreamcatchers #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/A8Fs50GA1lQ

Guest Blog- That Magic Mischief by Susanna Allen #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/vh6350GA1qm

Character Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: A Vampire Romance by Elise Nelson - PNR, Gothic Romance, Vampire Romance - In the shadows, nothing is ever what it seems #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/c6zv50GA1p2

Untamed Isles by Aaron Hodges - Book Tour
https://www.jazzybookreviews.com/2021...

"The fate of Flint, Michigan can often be hard to believe. Yet Connor Coyne skillfully captures the tarnished essence of a thinly veiled Vehicle City -- known as Akawe in Urbantasm -- with a compelling blend of noire and Rust Belt magical realism." -- Gordon Young, author of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City https://amzn.to/3nvOLA0
#urbantasm #thedyingcity #teennoir #magicalrealism #connorcoyne #akawe #theemptyroom #newadult #YA #youngadult #teenreads

Dead Man Walking The Ivyverse Book One by Zach Adams - Contemporary fantasy, mystery, horror - “Unlocking the door to the dead” #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/FYp950GA127

Spooktacular Guest Blog by Catherine Stine #BewitchingBookTours #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/kUNU50GA1xA

Tranquil Heights
Book One
Megan Speece #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/wMlh50GA1sU

Shadow Slayer by Laura A.H. Elliott #YAPNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Rq0C50GA1mX

Halloween Spooktacular: The Wantland Files Book One by Lara Bernhardt + giveaway #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/W3Me50GA1rF

So Dead Podcast Episode 78- GHOSTED 3.0
Hear about the ghosts Roxanne Rhoads lives with.
https://www.abewitchingguidetohallowe...

Jasper: The Beginning by Eileen Sheehan #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/B3Go50GA1kB

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular & #Giveaway ~ Keeping your Pets Safe on Halloween by Tena Stetler, Author of Hidden Gypsy Magic: A Witch’s Journey Series, Book Three @TenaStetler #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Cjlq50GA1jb

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular & #Giveaway ~ 5 Scary Movies for the Not-So-Scary Watcher by Louisa Bacio, @Louisabacio ~ Author of Sea Mage: The Nightshade Guild, Book 10, Multi-Author Series ~ Paranormal Romance #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/WjXc50GA1hN

Vanessa Morgan's Halloween Cocktail Recipe and Evil Seeds: The Ultimate Movie Guide to Villainous Children
#bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Pg1K50GA1g2

Eliza: The Awakening by Eileen Sheehan [Tour with Excerpt] #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/MTrw50GA1bA

Weep, Woman, Weep A Gothic Fairytale about Ancestral Hauntings by Maria DeBlassie - Gothic Fairytale, Occult, Supernatural - Nothing makes a woman brave except getting on with the business of daily life. #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/CtQm50GA130

Behind the Veil by E. J. Dawson #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/g05K50GA10i

Halloween Flash Fiction by Celia Breslin #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/w24p50GA0YK

OCT 30 – OCT 31
Trick Or Treat for Books with Bewitching Book Tours
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Urbantasm The Darkest Road

Urbantasm: The Darkest Road is the third book in the magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.

Urbantasm Book Three
The Darkest Road
Connor Coyne

Genre: General Fiction / Young Adult
Subgenres: Magical Realism, Teen Noir, Edgy YA
Publisher: Gothic Funk Press
Date of Publication: 9/22/2021
ISBN: 978-0989920292 (Print)
Page Count 639
Word Count: About 230,000
Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin

Junior high was hard. John Bridge has made and lost friends, experienced and forsaken love, and discovered his true passions. But after his harrowing experience on the roof of St. Christopher’s hospital, John has decided to turn the page of his own life and plan for his future. Now he has new friends, a new girlfriend, and a powerful new goal: to get into Chicago and leave Akawe forever.

But Akawe might not want to let John go. The city is full of memories and ghosts — urbantasms, according his former friend Selby — and they leave traces of questions that John cannot easily escape: What happened to his abducted classmate Cora Braille? How does the Chalks street gang keep replenishing its stock of O-Sugar, a drug with seemingly magical properties? And why is Selby suddenly hanging out with a notorious drug dealer? Does it have anything to do with a man with a knife or some mysterious blue sunglasses?


John has a feeling that the dreadful answers to these questions might take him to a place that he does not want to go: a dark road in a forgotten corner of his dying city. Possibly the darkest road of all.

https://amzn.to/3nvOLA0


#urbantasm #thedyingcity #teennoir #magicalrealism #connorcoyne #akawe #theemptyroom #newadult #YA #youngadult #teenreads

Halloween Flash Fiction with Celia Breslin #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #PNR

Happy Halloween Month, Everyone! For Halloween every year, I like to share my favorite spooky story from my family’s arsenal of tales about the Fae. In this one, my Irish grandmother recounts her personal encounter with a Banshee when she was a teenager. 
Enjoy!
Bumped by the Bansheeby Celia Breslin
… I lived in a large two-story house with my parents, younger sister, and grandmother. It was a cold, winter evening, nothing special or out of the ordinary.
My family dined together, then my sister and I cleaned up while our parents and grandmother drank tea. We joined them at the dining table to do our homework, but my grandmother said she was tired and went upstairs to bed. My parents followed shortly after that, but my father paused on the landing.
“Maeve, it’s going to be a cold night. Fetch us some coal, please.”
I abandoned my homework, grabbed the empty coal bucket from the kitchen, and went down into the cellar. I filled my bucket and returned to the stairs. I had one foot on the first step when the temperature in the cellar, already cold, dropped dramatically. Chills ran down my back. Behind me, someone moaned.
But how could that be? I was alone...
Terror rooted me to the spot. The keening grew louder. I dropped my bucket and covered my ears. A cold wind bumped against my back. I stumbled forward as the shrieking wind rushed over me and up the stairs.
But how could that be? The cellar had no windows...
Above me, the cellar door slammed shut. The sound broke me from my stupor. I screamed and ran up the stairs and out of the cellar, through the kitchen and dining room, and up the stairs to my room. My parents and sister found me under my bed, shaking like a puppy lost in a snowstorm.
“Maeve! Maeve! What is it? What’s wrong?” They asked me, while pulling me from my hiding place.
“I heard the Banshee wail.”
We stared at each other in silence, all of us reaching the same conclusion moments later. We hurried to my grandmother’s room.
She was dead.
(Copyright 2021, Celia Breslin. All rights reserved.)

Eva’s HomecomingHeartland Fae Book OneCelia Breslin
Genre: Paranormal RomancePublisher: Celia Breslin Date of Publication: February 2022 ISBN: 9798201153793Number of pages: 79 Word Count: 21K Cover Artist: VWZDesigns 
Tagline: A curse stole her away. Can true love lead her home?
Book Description:
After several years away for school and work, Eva O’Reilly is finally home. The West coast was fine, but her heart belongs to the Heartland and the town she grew up in. Sadly, with her mother’s sudden passing and no other living relatives, Eva is alone. And hurting.
Angus of the Tuatha Dé Danaan is elated his one true love has finally returned, and he’s determined to win her heart all over again. There are just two problems: she can’t see him or remember the Fae folk even exist.
As Eva mourns, Angus fights to dispel the veil keeping them apart. With the aid of a gang of flower fairies and the kindly elderly Wiccan next door, these cursed lovers may well receive a second chance at their happily forever after…
Currently appears in the anthology Flip The Trope: Romance Gone Wild
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Excerpt

Angus stood in the center of the garden, throat tight and burning, a huge gulp of air trapped in his lungs.

Around him, a dozen diminutive flower fairies cavorted among the flora, chortling with glee. “She’s here, she’s here, our Eva is here!”

His gaze targeted the back door, body taut as he awaited his first glimpse of the female he loved. The only one he would ever love. Mo chroí, my heart. My heart walks the world, outside my body. “Come back to me.”

His voice was barely audible above the incessant chatter of the flower fairies. “We sang to her. She heard us! She liked it.”

“Hush,” he commanded, and they fell silent, vibrating with gleeful anticipation.

Seven years without her. The longest, loneliest bloody years of his basically eternal existence…

[…]

Eva stared out at the yard with haunted, brown eyes. Dark circles like the ones she’d sported months ago at the wake and funeral marred the perfection of her milky skin. He wanted to lay gentle kisses on her eyelids, nip the tip of her nose with its light dusting of freckles, lave her lips with his tongue then push it between those perfect lips…

“See me, Eva,” he whispered.

“See us,” Rosina echoed.

Eva cocked her head and touched her ear as if in response to their words. The incessant giggling of the flower fairies ceased, an expectant hush falling over the garden.

Though consumed with sorrow, Eva surveyed the yard with appreciation. Angus and the flower fairies had been tending to the yard and garden since she’d left. There was little to be done in the winter months but in the Fall, they’d trimmed and raked, then planted, pruned, and watered in Spring and Summer. Jasmine, lavender, and other blooming plants scented the air, and he watched his female take a deep breath.

Her shoulders seemed to lose some tension as she took in the neatly trimmed yard and carefully curated garden. “It’s perfect,” she said.

Angus’s heart swelled with pride at a job well done only to stutter in agony when her lovely brown eyes lingered on the central spot where he stood yet looked right through him.

“No. No, no, no,” he whispered. See me this time, Eva. Let the curse be gone.

Mrs. Murphy joined Eva near the door. “He tended it for you. From the moment you went off to school.”

“What?” Eva scanned the yard, then returned her attention to the spot where he stood surrounded by the flower fairies, all of them quivering with excitement.

“The garden, girl. He looked after it for you.”

Lines formed in Eva’s forehead, and her attention shifted to Mrs. Murphy. “I don’t understand, who did?”

He bowed his head and rubbed his brow. Each time she returns she still cannot See. My fault. All of this. Mine.

About the Author:
Celia lives in California with her husband, daughter, and two feisty cats. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance, and has a particular fondness for werewolves, vampires, and the Fae. When not writing, you’ll find Celia exercising, reading a good book, hanging with her family, or indulging her addiction to fantasy TV shows and movies.
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Tranquil HeightsBook OneMegan Speece
Genre: Paranormal SuspensePublisher: Megan SpeeceDate of Publication: 10/15/2021ISBN: 978-1-7374715-0-9ASIN: B09B8WZDW1Number of pages: 228Word Count: 42,767Cover Artist: Megan Speece
Book Description: 
Katie Edgecomb is questioning everything she thought she knew. 
She thought the family curse was fake, just a scary story her mom told her to keep her from misbehaving. The first-born daughters in each of the last three generations lost their lives on their twenty-fifth birthdays, a series of tragic accidents sending shock waves of grief through multiple generations. 
It isn't until Katie is faced with the real-time impacts of the curse that she starts to believe it may be more than a story and she sets out to discover the origins of the family's fabled curse. Her only clue lies in an exclusive girls' preparatory academy in Washington that was once an asylum. There, she must face heart-break, ugly truths, and events so terrifying that they threaten to sever her very ties to reality. 
She has no choice.
Katie is pregnant, and she won't let her child become another life claimed by the curse.
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Megan is a thriller author, horror buff, and dog person. She is currently writing books and helping authors navigate self publishing. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband and two dogs, and can be found spending her weekends at the beach, exploring everything Washington has to offer, or settling in with a good horror movie.
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