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March 29, 2021
A Bewitching Monday
Author Advice with Aidan Lucid - Dealing With Negative Reviews #bewitchingbooktours https://creativelygreen.blogspot.com/...
Character Confessions: DjinnShay Court from JR White's PNR Reckless Dreams + excerpt #bewitchingbooktours http://www.ismellsheep.com/2021/03/ch...
Karma Series by Laura Simmons #bewitchingbooktours
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Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III
https://midnightmusingswithbertena.bl...
Secrets of the Mermaid The Keepers of Knowledge Book Six by Catherine Stine - Urban Fantasy Romance #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/4zX050Eb22t
The Scavenger by Aidan Lucid - Book Tour + Giveaway #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/QsL050Eb29I
Reckless Dreams by J.R. White #PNR #FantasyRomance
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Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance
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Author Advice with Aidan Lucid - Dealing With Negative Reviews
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Reckless Dreams by J.R. White #PNR #FantasyRomance
Reckless DreamsStories from the Dream Realm Book OneJ.R. White
Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy RomanceDate of Publication: March 15th, 2021ASIN: B08X2XMNJ7Number of pages: 265Word Count: 54,000Cover Artist: J.R. White
Tagline: Embrace Your Destiny in the Dream Realm
Book Description:
The only thing Karlee Bolt has on her mind is her upcoming beach vacation, but her plans are derailed by dark shadows and a knight with a brilliant, bright light. Karlee is suddenly thrown into another realm and into a battle she has no way of fighting.
A Watcher by right, DjinnShay Court is a warrior that protects the balance between the realms. When the Dreamweaver is suddenly dropped into his lap, Court must change tactics. No longer a warrior that stands between the realms, he must now lead Karlee through the Dream Realm and show her there’s more to dreams than fantasy.
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Excerpt:
Before Karlee could get the next book on the shelf, a loud thunk made her jump. Spinning around to face the disturbance, she took a slow step forward. “Hello?” At first only silence answered her and then a distant click followed by another and then the sound echoed through the disorganized mess. She took another step, but it wasn’t until the lights illuminated the hallway clicked off that she realized what the sound was.
Backing away from the approaching darkness, Karlee turned to run. The clicking of the lights going out behind her grew louder. On the other side of the basement was the door that led outside and onto the street. She ran faster as her heart started to race. As the clicking grew louder and closer, she heard heavy feet hurrying along with it.
The lights directly above Karlee started to shatter. Sparks cascaded down on her and bounced across the floor. Making a quick turn, she could see the door just a few yards away, but just as she was closing the distance, she felt something tug at her hair. Letting out a shriek, she dashed towards the steps that led away from her tormentor. As one foot touched down on the stair, the other was yanked out from under her. She crashed into the wooden steps and felt a cold solid mass wrap itself around her ankle. It began to slither up her leg and she kicked out, desperately trying to clamber away.
There was nothing but darkness behind Karlee. Even the thing that held onto her and was scratching at her skin seemed to be made of shadows. She screamed as she felt the first hard tug. Reaching up, she grabbed the edge of the top step and held on. Another hard tug jerked her, nearly ripping her away from the relative safety of the stairs. Just when she thought her leg would be torn off, the door above her burst open and she was blinded by a brilliant flash of light shooting through the darkness.
“Be gone, shadow spawn!” a deep voice boomed, and Karlee felt the thick shadows jerk franticly away. Scrambling up the steps, she saw the shining man who had saved her and ran straight into his arms. A strong arm wrapped around her and she found herself tucked against the man’s side.
From beside the stranger, Karlee could see the source of the brilliant light. It radiated from a small stone he held in the palm of his hand. Beyond him, she could also see the illuminated darkness left in the library basement. The light allowed her to see the collection of books and the wreathing shadows that had chased her. Misshapen human shadows were wriggling in the light as if it was burning them. Staring at it, she felt fear rake over her, violently sending her heart into her throat and blocking the scream she couldn’t seem to conjure.
The man slammed the door, hiding the horrid sight from Karlee and in one smooth motion, took her hand and turned towards the road. “I have to get you out of here,” he said as he started to pull her away from the library and down the sidewalk.
About the Author: J. R. White has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. After her marriage in 2008 she found the freedom to dive headfirst into her personal world of fiction. Currently she lives in the Upstate of South Carolina with her family, where she fills her daughter’s head with fairy tales.
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March 26, 2021
New Release
Mystic Invisible
Ryder Hunte Clancy
Publisher: Winter Goose Publishing
Paperback: 267 pages
ISBN-10: 1952909058
ISBN-13: 978-1952909054
Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy.
Whisperings of abnormal enchantments and vicious cat siths grip the small town he now calls home. Fear is at the helm. The instigator is unknown.
And an indefinite moratorium on magic is enforced. In a race against darkness, Monte and his friends must choose who to trust before time runs out, even if it means breaking some rules and facing danger head on.
https://www.ryderhunteclancy.com/
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#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
A Bewitching Friday
Guest Blog- Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance #GuestBlog
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Author Interview- The Scavenger: Book One of The Hopps Town Series by Aidan Lucid #Horror #AuthorInterview
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Interview with Author Paul DeBlassie III
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III - Genre: Paranormal Thriller - Goddess of Everything is a blood-curdling tale of the affection of one mother for her son and her son's struggle for truth, freedom, and love. #bewitchingbooktours
https://jbbookworms.blogspot.com/2021...
The Scavenger: Book One of The Hopps Town Series by Aidan Lucid #Horror
https://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com...
Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance
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March 25, 2021
A Bewitching Thursday
INTERVIEW WITH AIDEN LUCID (The SCAVENGER) #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/ecrg50E896B
New Release
Mystic Invisible by Ryder Hunte Clancy
Magic is forbidden. Legend will not be ignored.
https://amzn.to/3eYoEzo
#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III is a "Dramatic novel packed with religious fervour, obsession, magic realism and horror.” https://amzn.to/2XB8Rwg
#iartg #bookboost #metaphysical #thriller #paranormal
Spring-O-Ween Party Idea - Down the Rabbit Hole #MakeHalloween365https://www.abewitchingguidetohallowe... #pumpkinsandpartythemes
Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance
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Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance
Secrets of the MermaidThe Keepers of KnowledgeBook SixCatherine StineGenre: Urban Fantasy RomancePublisher: Konjur Road PressDate of Publication: March 15, 2021ASIN: B08QJSB14GNumber of pages: 221Word Count: 50kCover Artist: Dark Unicorn Designs
Book Description:
Meet Indigo Rain, a beautiful but lonely mermaid. Regretful of a dark past, she has vowed to remain alone and research ancient merfolk tribes. When she unearths a seabed burial site that even she cannot identify, she shares this with a High Council merfolk historian. But she keeps one shocking secret to herself.
Bay Finley is the flirty, dashing Royal merfolk Keeper assigned to teach Indigo on Pyreshore, a glamoured city of supernaturals tasked with keeping invaluable knowledge alive. Indigo thinks Bay is a know-it-all. She also thinks he’s dangerously handsome. He’s engaged to Abigail Torrent, a Royal, unlike Indigo, but he’s spending time with Indigo in the lab…
Indigo has three quests: Uncover the mystery of the burial tablet, resist falling in love, and never, ever reveal her biggest secret, even to the Keepers.
Some secrets heal, some kill. Other secrets change life as we know it.
10 books, 10 authors, 10 keepers, 1 shared world. Read in any order!
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/T_BTtdxuLSk
AmazonExcerpt:
They plunged downward. Indigo felt the transformative rush as her legs changed to a single tailfin, and her hips and below became a sheen of golden scales. She breathed in water and wriggled her way downward. As she did, she stole peeks at Bay. His merman patterns, like ruddy tribal tattoos, emerged along his jawline, down his muscled arms and on both sides of his lean torso. His scales, a rusty gold, matched the patterns on his skin, and glittered brightly against the darker waters like the sea-glass she so loved. His chest and abs seemed to swell and flex at the same time with the strength of a Poseidon, the grace of a marathon swimmer, the glory of a merman Royal in his prime. She forced herself to look away, and to concentrate on seeking out the tablets, whether they were the nano-synth ones, more of the type in that hidden burial chamber, or another type of artifact altogether. They swam a good way around the outer perimeter, and found nothing of note except for a shattered belt-pack, most likely from the mining accident. She left it there. A little farther on Bay found a cracked human skull. Indigo was sure this was also from a miner, fatally injured in the blast. She and Bay dug a plot and buried the thing, after she argued that it would be a dishonor to the human dead to ferry it to Pyreshore. “I witnessed that accident,” she explained to him. “There’s nothing more to learn from a human miner’s cracked skull. We’re here for the merfolk.” He agreed. Halfway around the next perimeter, Bay found another synth plaque, half buried in a whorl of sand and shattered shells. He gingerly slid it in his pack. They gave each other the thumbs up and carried on. For another hour, they worked their way around the crest until they reached the chasm itself. The sight made Indigo shudder. It wasn’t that there was anything visually horrific about the opening, with its piles of sand mixed with shell and coral shards. It was its energy—pulling them toward it as if subterranean demons were sucking them in, famished enough to gulp them down whole. As if this gaping wound was the dark force of what humans called Hell—an eternal, cursed tunnel lined with sticky, deadly evil. Bay tread water near its edge. Trepidation was etched on his face. “What if… we dove down and explored this damn hellhole together?” So he connected it with hell too. He must feel the force, luring them both in. “You sure, Bay? Only a week ago I hauled you up, half dead, from this site. You were hooked up to all kinds of wires in the hospital, remember?” “I’ll never forget.” Their eyes met in a question, followed by a resolve. Something else was on Indigo’s mind. She realized, as she undulated closer to the chasm, that she had harbored her own plans to head back as soon as she gathered the courage, to explore the hidden alcove inside the wall of the burial chamber where she’d found the orb. The orb… what was it exactly? Why did it have its own tiny room? Why was the wall there like a mollusk that grew and shrank? How was it connected to the supposed merfolk coffins? Or was it pure coincidence they existed side by side? She didn’t want to lie to Bay anymore. But she wasn’t ready to spill her guts about the orb’s existence with him either. There were still too many questions. “So, are we doing this?” He nodded toward the abyss. “Yeah, we’re doing this. But of one of us gets badly mauled, or worse, the other will haul both of our tailfins up and out of there. And if you see the phantom fish or hear screams in languages you don’t understand you’ll tell me. You won’t just chalk it up to volcanic pressure. Agree?” “Okay, sure. I’ll keep an open mind. Let’s head down together. As allies.” With this, he held out his hand. She took it. His palm gripping hers was electric, and they thundered down in a flurry of bubbles.
About the Author:
Catherine Stine is a USA Today bestselling author of paranormal, urban and historical fantasy with romance. Witch of the Wild Beasts won a second prize in the Romance Writers of America’s Sheila Contest. Other novels have earned Indie Notable awards and New York Public Library Best Books for Teens. She lives in New York State and grew up in Philadelphia. Before writing novels, she was a painter and fabric designer. She’s a visual author when it comes to scenes, and sees writing as painting with words. She loves edgy thrills, perhaps because her dad read Edgar Allen Poe tales to her as a child. Catherine loves spending time with her beagle Benny, writing about supernatural creatures, gardening and meeting readers at book fests.
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The Scavenger: Book One of The Hopps Town Series by Aidan Lucid #Horror
The ScavengerThe Hopps Town SeriesBook One Aidan Lucid
Genre: HorrorPublisher: Jongleur BooksDate of Publication: January 10th, 2021.ISBN: 979-8593579034ASIN: B08SPZFVLXNumber of pages: 146Word Count: Approx. 37000Cover Artist: SmStudioinc
Tagline: Three Separate Wishes. One Twisted Nightmare!
Book Description:
Just like Hopps Town, their humble home, Jessica Barlow, Jared Duval, and Adrian Cole are fostering dark secrets. Plagued by loss, cruelty, and physical abuse, these friends are kindred spirits, bound by anguish and elusive dreams. They’re soon to find the key to change, but any happy future will demand they face a haunting past and brave a lethal present.
Deep in the forest on the outskirts of town, aging and nearly forgotten, there stands a well from another time. Happening upon this relic, Adrian goads his companions to join him in making a wish. Soon, difficult though it is to admit, their luckless lives do seem to shift. The only problem is, the changes aren’t at all as they’d imagined. Seemingly, they’ve only left the pan to face the fire.
Should they hope to both survive and thrive, they’ll need to pool their wits and draw on mystic inner-power. Solving Hopps Town’s greatest mystery now means life or death.
Excerpt
After drying herself off, Jessica watched some TV in her room. As she flicked through the channels, she heard footsteps in the hallway.
“Is that you, mom?” There was no response. “Mom?” she called out again, but there was no answer.
Sighing, she got up and opened her bedroom door. Looking left and right, there was nobody around. “Mom?” Bertha didn’t respond. “Guess I must be hearing things.”
Laying back down on the bed, she picked up the remote.
Jessica rubbed her arms, now feeling cold. She felt a sudden chill in the room. She glanced at the window. It was closed and locked.
“Why is it so cold?”
As she stood up to get a warmer sweater, Jessica stopped. The girl swallowed hard and her heart thundered as her chair beside the door moved two inches...by itself.
“O...kay. That’s weird.” Approaching the chair cautiously, she pushed it back.
Opening the wardrobe door, she rummaged through all her sweaters. Jessica paused, hearing the wooden chair creak. Again her heart beat faster. Slowly, she half-closed the wardrobe door to take a look, even though every fiber in her being said not to. Shutting her eyes, the girl rattled off a quick prayer.
Turning around to face the chair, Jessica opened her eyes. She screamed as it now leaned forward, its two back legs high in the air. Tears threatened to drown her eyes as she jumped on the bed. Something dragged the chair across the room, stopping at the foot of her bed. It now fell back, resting on its four legs again.
Seizing her chance, Jessica bolted for the door. Just as she was about to make her exit, an invisible force slammed it shut. Jessica pulled at the handle, trying hard to open it.
“Come on, come on,” she said with a shaky breath, tears continuing to stream down her face. “Open, damn it!” When that didn’t work, Jessica banged on the door in desperation. “Mom, mom. Help!”
Her banging came to an abrupt halt when someone grabbed her ponytail, yanking it hard, pulling her to the ground. She cried out in pain as her back hit the ground hard. Ice cold fingers pulled up her sweater and t-shirt. Now they stroked and caressed her stomach.
“No, please, no!” The malevolent force ignored her pleas, continuing to crawl down towards her underwear.
Jessica wriggled and flailed her arms about to break free. Once more, she felt the acrid stench of a hot breath against her left ear.
“Get away from me, you sick bastard!”
She almost leaped off the floor when she heard his menacing Southern drawl, “You want me to leave you alone? Then forget about the well.” His ice-cold fingers no longer tugged at the waistband of her pajama bottoms.
The tight grip on her ponytail was gone. She waited a few seconds to see if Caleb had gone too. When the eerie icy atmosphere had lifted, she scrambled to her feet and ran to the bathroom.
About the Author:Since 2004, Aidan Lucid’s work has been published in national and international magazines, as well as various poetry anthologies. For a period of nine months in 2007, he was a film reviewer for the award-winning Irish newspaper, The Kerryman. From 2009 to 2017, Aidan was an assistant editor for Bewildering Stories e-zine. Lucid began critiquing novels and short stories in 2018 and continues to do so. In October 2019, his debut YA fantasy novel, The Lost Son, was released.
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March 24, 2021
New Release
Mystic Invisible
Ryder Hunte Clancy
Publisher: Winter Goose Publishing
Paperback: 267 pages
ISBN-10: 1952909058
ISBN-13: 978-1952909054
Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy.
Whisperings of abnormal enchantments and vicious cat siths grip the small town he now calls home. Fear is at the helm. The instigator is unknown.
And an indefinite moratorium on magic is enforced. In a race against darkness, Monte and his friends must choose who to trust before time runs out, even if it means breaking some rules and facing danger head on.
https://www.ryderhunteclancy.com/
https://amzn.to/3eYoEzo
#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
A Bewitching Wednesday
The Scavenger The Hopps Town Series Book One by Aidan Lucid #bewitchingbooktours
https://midnightmusingswithbertena.bl...
Please Welcome Catherine Stine as She Tells Us About Her Urban Fantasy Romance, Secrets of the Mermaid, The Keepers of Knowledge, Book Six https://lindamooney.blogspot.com/2021...
SPOTLIGHT - HORROR - THE SCAVENGER (Hopps Town, #1)by Aidan Lucid #bewitchingbooktours https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blog...
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III is a "Dramatic novel packed with religious fervour, obsession, magic realism and horror.” https://amzn.to/2XB8Rwg
#iartg #bookboost #metaphysical #thriller #paranormal
New Release
Mystic Invisible by Ryder Hunte Clancy
Magic is forbidden. Legend will not be ignored.
https://amzn.to/3eYoEzo
#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
The Scavenger [Book Tour with Excerpt] #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/YVlk50E77oc
Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine
https://www.lisasworldofbooks.net/202...
March 23, 2021
A Bewitching Tuesday
Please Welcome Catherine Stine as She Tells Us About Her Urban Fantasy Romance, Secrets of the Mermaid, The Keepers of Knowledge, Book Six
https://lindamooney.blogspot.com/2021...
The Scavenger The Hopps Town Series Book One by Aidan Lucid - Genre: Horror - Three Separate Wishes. One Twisted Nightmare! #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/lhBR50E63sS
SPOTLIGHT: SECRETS OF THE MERMAID by CATHERINE STINE #bewitchingbooktours https://supernaturalcentral.blogspot....
Book Spotlight ~ Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III @pdeblassieiii ~ Paranormal Thriller #BewitchingBookTours http://ow.ly/LP2150E63mR
New Release
Mystic Invisible by Ryder Hunte Clancy
Magic is forbidden. Legend will not be ignored.
https://amzn.to/3eYoEzo
#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
New Horror Book To Check Out The Scavenger The Hopps Town Series Book One by Aidan Lucid #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/k2DE50E63rn
INTERVIEW - URBAN FANTASY - SECRETS OF THE MERMAID (Keepers of Knowledge, #6) by Catherine Stine #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/yc5950E4UkZ
Horror Author Aidan Lucid: Writing the Dreaded Sequel + giveaway #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/G1LT50E4UmZ
