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August 31, 2021
A Bewitching Tuesday
Interview with Loren Rhoads Author of This Morbid Life #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror https://serenasynn.blogspot.com/2021/...
Spotlight & Excerpt: The Accidental Psychic, by Carol-Anne Mason
http://sadiesspotlight.com/the-accide...
Illusions: Ravens of Darkness by Elle Preston - Book Tour + Giveaway
https://www.jazzybookreviews.com/2021...
The Feminine Macabre Volume II: A Woman's Journal of All Things Strange & Unusual
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#femininemacabre #paranormaljournal #femaleparanormaljournal #spookywomen #womeninparanormal #tarot #ghosts #paranormal #ghosthunters #neurodiversity #energyperception
Author Interview - This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror #AuthorInterview #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/k2lK50G0GrV
Illusions: Ravens of Darkness by Elle Preston #YoungAdult #PNR #paranormalromance
http://www.roxannerhoads.com/2021/08/...
August 30, 2021
A Bewitching Monday
Author Interview - This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror #AuthorInterview #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/k2lK50G0GrV
Author Interview - The Accidental Psychic by Carol-Anne Mason #ParanormalMurderMystery #AuthorInterview #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/k2Uj50G0Gr0
INTERVIEW - YA PNR - RAVENS OF DARKNESS by Elle Preston
https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blog...
This Morbid Life (No Rest for the Morbid Book One) by Loren Rhoads + giveaway #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/X5Aq50G0GsB
Illusions: Ravens of Darkness Ravens of Darkness Book One by Elle Preston - Young Adult; Paranormal Romance - Nothing is what it seems. Not even love.
https://jbbookworms.blogspot.com/2021...
A horrific train crash turns Annie Prior’s life upside down, by triggering an extraordinary psychic ability that had lain dormant since her childhood.
The Accidental Psychic by Carol-Anne Mason https://amzn.to/2WzqGil
#PsychicDetective #Spiritualism #Reincarnation #SupernaturalThriller #Ghost
Illusions: Ravens of Darkness by Elle Preston #YoungAdult #PNR #paranormalromance
Illusions: Ravens of Darkness Ravens of Darkness Book OneElle Preston
Genre: Young Adult; Paranormal Romance Publisher: Lark Publishing Crew Date of Publication: November 14, 2020 ISBN: 978-0578661230 ASIN: B08NGC23MS Number of pages: 269 Word Count: 84,000 Cover Artist: Lark Publishing Crew
Tagline: Nothing is what it seems. Not even love.
Book Description:
An ancient cult. A supernatural addiction. A forbidden love. Sixteen year old Evie Willow is terrified of drowning but she's even more afraid of her own feelings.
When the charismatic and telepathic lifeguard, Talon Renwyck, suddenly turns his affections toward her, Evie’s ability to rein in her feelings is threatened. Talon knows a secret which plunges Evie into the deep waters of her hidden emotions. As she drifts away from the life she knows into Talon’s beckoning arms, Evie learns that Talon is much more than just the handsome guy she’s falling in love with. Caught in a dark and supernatural addiction and tied to a secret cult, Talon is crying out for help. Can Evie save him from himself?
Is their love the real deal or is it an illusion?
Nothing is what it seems.
Illusions is the first book in the Ravens of Darkness Series.
If you like character driven, paranormal romance sagas with supernatural elements, darkly dynamic love relationships, and a hint of magic and mystery, then you'll love the Ravens of Darkness Series.
Book Two, Reflections, to be released November 2021
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/EpJdxBUs4Ac
Excerpt
It's freezing here at the top of the sand dune in the dark with the wind off the lake. Alex pulls a hoodie out of his backpack and tosses it to me. I put it on and get a sudden shiver through my body. I tighten my arms around my knees to keep warm. He leans closer to me,
"What are you thinking?" Alex says for the second time tonight. I laugh at that.
“You’re a telepath. Don't you know what I’m thinking all the time?”
"You wonder why Talon chose you?” he says.
“Maybe.”
“My guess is he’s hung up on you because you’re wound so tight."
"Are you insulting me?"
"No. Just making an observation. Your repressed feelings; not crying for ten years. That’s a lot of tension. You’re a whole bunch of canned heat. You’re probably an amazing rush."
That sounds vaguely obscene like something scratched into the wall of the men’s room at the Cosmic Bowl. For a good rush call, Evie. I shudder to think. “Rush. Why do you call it that?"
"It’s the feeling you get as the energy sweeps through you. There’s nothing like it." Alex looks me in the eyes. I was addicted. I was a morphi, He thinks to me.
Was. Alex said he was an addict, but doesn't that mean he’ll always be one? I ask him how it works. How does a person take another person’s energy? What are the mechanics of it?
What’s the procedure? He says that the human body has energy vortices just like the Earth does. There are seven of them, basically starting in the pelvis and going up the spine to the crown. Morphi (energy addicts) access energy through the vortex at the neck. The throat is the easiest portal to access.
That sounds a lot like vampires to me.
"You girls and your vampire fetish,” he rolls his eyes. “I think it’s where vampire mythology started,” Alex says. “Morphi are the real vampires. Psi vamps. Cultures evolved the myth over time into bloodsuckers, but it all started with energy.”
“Describe it. What happens?"
He tells me to imagine what it’s like to be gasping for air and just when you think you can’t hang on anymore someone gives you oxygen. "It’s insanely satisfying, but hard to explain." He rubs his hands together.
"C’mon, I want to know," I pester him.
He takes my hand and rolls back the sleeve of his sweatshirt I’m wearing. He gently turns my palm face up. “Here.” He rubs his thumb in a circular motion on my inner wrist. "You put your pulse point on the base of the throat near the thyroid gland. It’s one of seven energy pools on your body." He touches his own throat, guides my wrist toward it, holds it against his skin for a moment. His skin is soft against the inside of my wrist.
"After a few seconds your wrist gets warm, your pulse quickens, your nerve endings start to tingle, your blood feels hot." He stretches my arm across his lap and squeezes my wrist. His grasp is strong. "The tingling feeling starts to move, slowly at first, all the way up, getting stronger and faster as it travels."
He slides his finger up my arm, holding me with his eyes and rests his hand on my shoulder. "It overwhelms you as it shoots through your heart and lungs. You gasp for breath and for a moment it feels like drowning. Scary, blurry, helpless. Then you stop gasping and you breathe deep."
Alex closes his eyes and I notice the corners of his mouth turn up as he remembers. "Electric energy floods your body from the top of your head to the bottom of your spine. It rushes through your mind, stimulates the pleasure center of your brain and suddenly you have unbounded energy to do whatever it is you will: manipulate water, control fire, levitate." His hand is still palm to palm with mine and he looks at me with those strange grey eyes. "When it’s over, you can’t think of anything else except how much you want it. Do you know what it’s like to want something so bad?” “Oh...um...I don't know," I lie.
I slide my hand away and wrap my arms back around my knees, but I’m no longer cold.
About the Author: Elle Preston is the author of the Ravens of Darkness series, a young adult, paranormal romance saga. Illusions, Book One, is her debut novel. Book Two, Reflections, is set to be released November 2021. She is currently working on the third book in the series. Elle lives with her husband, five kids and several fur babies near the shores of Lake Michigan and the Indiana Dunes where she sets her novels.
http://ellebooks.comhttps://bit.ly/Ellesnewsletterhttps://twitter.com/preston_ellehttps://www.facebook.com/EllePrestonAuthor/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14124966.Elle_Preston
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August 28, 2021
Saturday, September 4 A Festival of Oddities 2021
A Festival of Oddities 2021
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2021 AT 11 AM EDT – 6 PM EDT
Eaton County's Museum at Courthouse Square
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Drop by and see me I'll have copies of Haunted Flint , Pumpkins and Party Themes and The Ghostly Tales of Flint available for purchase.
August 27, 2021
A Bewitching Friday
INTERVIEW - YA PNR - RAVENS OF DARKNESS by Elle Preston
https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blog...
Ghost Hunting Tips from Loren Rhoads #GhostHunting
https://paranormalists.blogspot.com/2...
Obsession with death or desperate romance with life? Loren Rhoads's new death-positive memoir spends days in a cadaver lab, eats bugs, chases ghosts, etc. #ThisMorbidLife #MorbidMemoir https://amzn.to/3xywfKy #morbid #deathpositive
A horrific train crash turns Annie Prior’s life upside down, by triggering an extraordinary psychic ability that had lain dormant since her childhood.
The Accidental Psychic by Carol-Anne Mason https://amzn.to/2WzqGil
#PsychicDetective #Spiritualism #Reincarnation #SupernaturalThriller #Ghost
Sixteen-year-old Evie Willow realizes she is more than she believes herself to be when she falls for handsome telepath, Talon Renwyck, discovers she has supernatural powers, and is tempted by a secret ancient cult. https://amzn.to/3ffL5iL
#teenreads, #paranormalromance
The Accidental Psychic by Carol-Anne Mason #ParanormalMurderMystery
http://www.roxannerhoads.com/2021/08/...
Review- This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror
http://www.roxannerhoads.com/2021/08/...
August 26, 2021
A Bewitching Thursday
Ghost Hunting Tips from Loren Rhoads #GhostHunting
https://paranormalists.blogspot.com/2...
INTERVIEW - YA PNR - RAVENS OF DARKNESS by Elle Preston
https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blog...
Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
There are 10 party themes and 5 matching projects for each theme. In addition to the pumpkin DIY projects there are coordinating ideas for each party theme including color palettes, décor, activities, and costumes. https://amzn.to/3dki1Dp #pumpkins #pumpkinsandpartythemes #HalloweenParty #HalloweenPartyThemes #HalloweenDIY #pumpkinsdesigns #diypumpkindecor #50DIYPumpkinDesigns #Halloween
Book Spotlight & #Giveaway ~ Illusions: Ravens of Darkness (Ravens of Darkness, Book One) by Elle Preston @preston_elle #YA #PNR
https://saphsbooks.blogspot.com/2021/...
The Accidental Psychic by Carol-Anne Mason
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Ravens of Darkness by Elle Preston Virtual Book Tour
https://www.mommasaystoread.com/2021/...
August 25, 2021
A Bewitching Wednesday
The Accidental Psychic by Carol-Anne Mason #ParanormalMurderMystery #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/KDBB50FXLlU
What others have called an obsession with death is really a desperate romance with life.
This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads
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Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
There are 10 party themes and 5 matching projects for each theme. In addition to the pumpkin DIY projects there are coordinating ideas for each party theme including color palettes, décor, activities, and costumes. https://amzn.to/3dki1Dp #pumpkins #pumpkinsandpartythemes #HalloweenParty #HalloweenPartyThemes #HalloweenDIY #pumpkinsdesigns #diypumpkindecor #50DIYPumpkinDesigns #Halloween
Guest Vlog & Giveaway This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Irhu50FW7Bx
INTERVIEW - PARANORMAL MYSTERY - THE ACCIDENTAL PSYCHIC by Carol-Anne Mason #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/kirv50FU3zc
This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror
https://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com...
August 24, 2021
This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror
This Morbid LifeNo Rest for the Morbid Book OneLoren Rhoads
Genre: Non-Fiction/Memoir/HorrorPublisher: Automatism PressDate of Publication: August 22, 2021ISBN: 978-1-7351876-2-4 (paperback)ISBN: 978-1-7351876-3-1 (ebook) ASIN: B09C11J43WNumber of pages: 200Word Count: 58 KCover Artist: Lynne Hansen
Tagline: What others have called an obsession with death is really a desperate romance with life.
Book Description:
What others have called an obsession with death is really a desperate romance with life. Guided by curiosity, compassion, and a truly strange sense of humor, this particular morbid life is detailed through a death-positive collection of 45 confessional essays. Along the way, author Loren Rhoads takes prom pictures in a cemetery, spends a couple of days in a cadaver lab, eats bugs, survives the AIDS epidemic, chases ghosts, and publishes a little magazine called Morbid Curiosity.
Originally written for zines from Cyber-Psychos AOD to Zine World and online magazines from Gothic.Net to Scoutie Girl, these emotionally charged essays showcase the morbid curiosity and dark humor that transformed Rhoads into a leading voice of the curious and creepy.
Amazon
Excerpt from "Anatomy Lesson":
I had a lot of preconceptions when it came to handling corpses. I’d imagined myself standing before a wall of stainless-steel freezer drawers like at the Mortuary College in San Francisco. In my imagination, the cadavers were draped with crisp white sheets. The bodies would be antiseptic. I expected them to be frozen. I thought everything would be as clean and neat as a television morgue.
The cadavers would be male, of course. I thought I could depersonalize a dead man more easily; I might empathize too much with a woman as the scalpel in my hand sliced her flesh.
Tom quickly rearranged my expectations. “Three of the four cadavers here are female,” he said. “I usually start people out with the women, since they’re the most taken apart. That’s a little easier for people to deal with.”
The bodies weren’t kept in refrigeration units. Instead, they were already waiting in the front of the classroom, lying in long stainless-steel bins with wheeled legs and a hinged two-piece top. When Tom folded the top open, clear fluid spilled onto the floor.
“Condensation?” I hoped.
“And some preservative,” he answered. When the worst of the runoff had stopped, he let the top hang down and opened the other side.
I was amazed we’d been in the room with the bodies all along. One of my memories still clear from ninth grade dissection was the horrible, headache-inducing smell of formaldehyde. I was glad preservative technology had improved.
A length of muslin floated atop the brownish red liquid. Blood, I thought immediately, and recoiled. Too thin for blood, it looked more like beef broth. Pools of oil slicked the surface.
“See that handle there? You can help me by turning it.” Tom moved to the far end of the tank.
There should have been scary music playing as we cranked the cadavers out of the fluid. As the bodies slowly rose, the muslin took on their outlines. Through the shroud, I saw bared teeth and the flensed musculature of jaw. Two corpses lay head to feet. The skin had clearly been flayed from their muscles.
If Tom had made them twitch, I would have leapt out of my own skin.
He pulled on some heavy turquoise rubber gloves and folded the muslin so it shrouded both faces and one entire body. The other lay revealed. Her skin had been stripped away. She had no breasts. The muscle fibers of her chest were very directional and clear, the raw color of a New York strip steak. Some of the muscles on her arms had been removed to show the bones and tendons beneath. Her fingertips still had nails and skin. The skin was the color of dried blood.
About the Author:Loren Rhoads is the author of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, a space opera trilogy, and a duet about a succubus and her angel. She is also the editor of Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: Tales of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual and Tales for the Camp Fire: An Anthology Benefiting Wildfire Relief. This Morbid Life, her 15th book, is the first in the No Rest for the Morbid Series. Book 2, Jet Lag and Other Blessings, will be out in 2022.
Home: https://lorenrhoads.com/
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August 23, 2021
A Bewitching Monday
This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads #NonFiction #Memoir #Horror #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Irhu50FW7Bx
The Accidental Psychic: The Annie Prior Series by Carol-Anne Mason #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/kfEC50FW7Ar
Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
There are 10 party themes and 5 matching projects for each theme. In addition to the pumpkin DIY projects there are coordinating ideas for each party theme including color palettes, décor, activities, and costumes. https://amzn.to/3dki1Dp #pumpkins #pumpkinsandpartythemes #HalloweenParty #HalloweenPartyThemes #HalloweenDIY #pumpkinsdesigns #diypumpkindecor #50DIYPumpkinDesigns #Halloween
INTERVIEW - PARANORMAL MYSTERY - THE ACCIDENTAL PSYCHIC by Carol-Anne Mason #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/kirv50FU3zc
