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Hollywood Holiday Cover Reveal and Book Giveaway

And now for another wonderful cover reveal!



This one is another goodie from Inkspell Publishing featuring the sequel to Sasha Summers' Red Carpet Series Book 1: Hollywood Ever After .







The Red Carpet Series Book 2:

Hollywood Holiday 




The blurb goes a little something like this:




All she wants for Christmas is for Hollywood to love her again. But once she meets him, her Christmas list changes.




Jen’s only Christmas wish: Hollywood falling back in love with her. Meeting ex-Marine Gunner was a bonus. She likes that he isn’t impressed by celebrities or the movie biz. She likes that he’s funny and sweet … and drop-dead gorgeous. And she loves that he has no idea who her alter-ego is: Jen Fleming, Hollywood bad-girl and paparazzi target number one. Why ruin an amazing affair when he’s leaving after the new year? 



But the closer they get, the harder she falls, and the more she wants to tell Gunner everything. Especially once he shares his secret with her.




Her new Christmas wish: Gunner accepts and loves her for who she really is.


 

To celebrate Hollywood Holiday's Release, we are giving away am autographed paperback copy of Hollywood Ever After!







The Red Carpet Series Book 1: Hollywood Ever After (Paperback Giveaway)

She wasn’t meant for movie stars, Hollywood, or happy endings.




And then she met him.




Happy Endings are for fairy tales. Or the movies. Not for real life. At least, not in Claire’s life. Even though she’s starting over, she knows better than to want too much this time. But when she falls, literally, into the strong arms of Hollywood’s ‘it’ boy Josh Wiley, Claire’s in for some surprises. Her plans for rest and relaxation are forgotten as one incredible night with Josh becomes two… And her heart begins to want him as much as her body. Will two kids, one bastard ex-husband, and Josh’s juggernaut career mean the end of their affair? Or can Claire find her happy ending after all?








About the author:




Sasha is part gypsy. Her passions have always been storytelling, Hollywood, history, and travel. It’s no surprise that her books include a little of each. Her first play, ‘Greek Gods and Goddesses’ was written for her Girl Scout troupe. She’s been writing ever since. She loves getting lost in the worlds and characters she creates; even if she frequently forgets to run the dishwasher or wash socks when she’s doing so. Luckily, her four brilliant children and hero-inspiring hubby are super understanding and supportive.






And what's a cover reveal party without the swag giveaways? :-D



In addition to a paperback copy of book one, there is also this awesometastic book ornament, just the thing for book lovers this season!










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The Star Child Blog Tour ~ Guest Post by Author Stephanie Keyes

AWD is delighted to have author Stephanie Keyes over on the blog today posting about her awesome new release The Star Child and inspiration in setting.




Setting: It’s Sometimes All the Inspiration That You Need





Hi everyone! A special thanks to my gracious host for having me as a guest today! One of the things that I was thinking about today is setting and how important that is when writing anything at all. I’m not just talking about where you do your writing, which certainly is just as important, but where you are setting your story.



Many people have asked me if I just make up places in my writing. The short answer is that I do and I don’t. The long answer is that I often combine real places with fictional elements.



In The Star Child, a majority of the story is set in Western Ireland, along the coast. Although the area and the vistas are real, some elements, like Gran’s house are a product of my imagination. Although its not difficult to see her home existing somewhere along the coastline. Now bare with me – many of these pictures were taken before my Digital SLR days!









Setting is so important to me, as a writer that I only write about locations that I’ve visited. Oftentimes, I’ll take trips just to scout out locations.





 


Admittedly, when I last visited Ireland, I had no idea that I would write a book in this setting. However, it has such a profound impact on me that I knew I had to write about it. I found dozens of ideas in all of the pictures that I took on the trip.







 


From setting, we can glean so much information. What do the homes look like? What sort of food do the locals eat? What are their traditions? How do they dress? What are their values? What sort of cars do they drive? What are their customs? You get the idea.



Setting can define, in many cases how a character interacts with other characters. It can set the mood for a mystery or help readers enjoy a comedy. It’s a building block.



I hope that you enjoyed learning a little bit about why setting is important to me. Check out The Star Child below for some information on my debut novel! Thanks very much for having me as a guest blogger today!



Thanks for stopping by, Steph! ~ AWD










About the Book 

The world is about to be cloaked in darkness.
Only one can stop the night.



Kellen St. James has spent his entire life being overlooked as an unwanted, ordinary, slightly geeky kid. That is until a beautiful girl, one who has haunted his dreams for the past eleven years of his life, shows up spinning
tales of a prophecy. Not just any old prophecy either, but one in which Kellen plays a key role.


Suddenly, Kellen finds himself on the run through a Celtic underworld of faeries and demons, angels and gods, not to mention a really ticked off pack of hellhounds, all in order to save the world from darkness. But will they make it in time?



Paperback 

E-Book 



About the Author 

Stephanie Keyes holds an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems as well as a Master's in Education. A seasoned, facilitator, Mrs. Keyes worked in Training and Development for an international telecommunications corporation for twelve years; spending the first eight years of her career as a Software Trainer and Technical Writer and the last four working in Human Resources and Employee Development.



In May of 2012, Mrs.Keyes left the corporate world to focus on her family and her writing full-time. She also operates a freelance graphic and instructional design business, Sycamore Road Design.


Inkspell Publishing will release her first novel, The Star Child, on September 21, 2012. She is now currently at work on the second book in The Star Child Trilogy, The Fallen Stars.



Keyes lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two children, and Riley the dog.



Contact Stephanie


Website: www.stephaniekeyes.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephanie-Keyes/150860604966160

Twitter: www.twitter.com/StephanieKeyes

And Now We Turn You Over To...More Books!

Here are the new additions to my shelf! I haven't updated my stash in a while so this looks to be a doozy! Plus I grabbed a bunch more and I haven't update my freebie book goodie list in a while so there will be some more updates coming real soon! Some of these may still be free but double check at Amazon to make sure. (Thanks again to Pixel of Ink!)

Reaper's Novice by Cecilia Robert Cover Reveal

Ooh I love cover reveals! As an artist myself, this gives me a chance to admire the pretty and see what talents are floating around out there.



This cover reveal comes from the awesome YA author Cecilia Robert whose book Truly, Madly, Deeply Yours I very much enjoyed (and reviewed with a rec here). This December, she is re-releasing her YA Urban Fantasy novel, Reaper's Novice. Check out the amazing artwork by Renu Sharma.







The blurb goes a little something like this:



17- year- old Ana Maria Tei’s life has always been perfect: loving parents, good grades, and a future so bright it outshone the sun. But now words like “separation” and “divorce” are sending her world plummeting to hell. Determined to keep her family intact, Ana plans a family-bonding trip from Vienna to Tuscany. Except fate has other plans. Ana’s parents and siblings are killed in a car accident on their way to pick Ana up from school.



Enter Grim, aka Ernest. He promises to relinquish the four souls if Ana agrees to trade her soul for theirs and serve a lifetime as his novice. In order for Ana to graduate from her Reaper’s Novice station to a Soul Collector graduate, Grim puts her to test. To her horror, she finds out becoming a Reaper’s Novice didn’t happen by chance. It was preordained, and she is forced to make a choice: save her family’s souls or come to terms with who she really is and complete the task set for her.



Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

Re-release Date: December 5th, 2012

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12834722-reaper-s-novice

Author’s Website: http://cecereadandwrite.blogspot.com

Cover art design: Renu Sharma http://www.thedarkrayne.com

AWD's September Author Spotlight - Nathan Squiers

A Writer's Dream is ecstatic to return with some new voices and books to bring to you via our author spotlights!



This month we're spotlighting a very inspiring author Nathan Squiers who popped by to chat about his works including his newest release 'Curtain Call' and his writing inspirations.



 From his bio:




The bacon-loving force of paranormal
calamity, Nathan Squiers (The Literary Dark Prince), is a resident of upstate
New York where he lives with his loving fiancé and fellow author/unholy force
of literary madness, Megan J. Parker, and two creatures that have
chosen to disguise themselves as cats. Living day-by-day on a steady diet of
body modification, excessively loud music, and high, potentially-lethal doses
of caffeine, he often escapes reality by submerging himself in movie marathons,
through stacks of novels and comics/manga, and (of course) losing himself in
his own writing.




Learn more about The Literary Dark Prince
and his writing adventures in the realms of novels/novellas, short stories, and
comic books as well as formally joining The Legion and chatting with fellow
readers at www.nathansquiers.com


On with the q's!



AWF: When did you decide you wanted to be a writer?


NS: It's hard to say exactly WHEN the decision was made. My entire life I've enjoyed depicting stories (before I could write I would enact detailed scenes with my action figures). In Elementary school, when everyone was asked to write about their summer vacation, I begged my teacher to write a piece of fiction instead, and the resulting short story was a classroom favorite. For a while I wanted to be a filmmaker--writing and directing movies--but a lot of the process was more mechanics and less magic than I felt a connection to. At that point I'd been dabbling in writing in some form or another for 8 years (I was about 15 at that time) and I'd decided that writing was the best outlet for my desire to tell stories. After the momentum picked up about 3 years later, I realized that the magic in writing (the ability to use ONLY words to depict an intimate sequence of events in a reader's mind) was exactly what I'd craved (so I suppose you'd say I was 18, but by that point it was more of an acceptance of a fact than a decision).




AWD: How would you describe the genre in which you do most of your writing?


NS: At face-value, I'd say my work is a supernatural/paranormal occult-thriller (but I've also been pegged with urban fantasy, horror, paranormal psycho-drama, and supernatural action/adventure). Truthfully, a lot of what I write takes in elements of a lot of genres--horror, mystery, paranormal thriller, fantasy, and a slew of others (even philosophy and psychology to work an element of "self-help" into the mix that allows for character growth & development)--to create something that I feel will entertain and enlighten readers. Other's take the metaphorical route and say that I write social parodies (albeit morbid and saturated in vampires). The best way to describe my style is "cinematic" and similar to movies like "Blade" and "Underworld" and "The Matrix".




AWD: What motivated you to start writing in this genre?


NS: To be honest, I've always been obsessed with vampires and other such monsters and using them in stories just made sense for me. I grew up reading comics and watching anime and horror movies and playing video games like Devil May Cry, so the supernatural and over-the-top, superhuman fight sequences (the types of fights that level city blocks) and elements of horror and gore just sort of added fuel to the literary fire.




AWD: Who would you say has influenced you the most?


NS: A lot of my style is fueled more by films and anime and comics, so I've been influenced by directors like Guillermo del Torro and his stunning use of visuals and creating mood through setting and Christopher Nolan for his technique in taking fantastic and otherwise unrealistic scenarios and making them into something so easily associated with reality. Key players in the comic book industry have also helped to inspire me; people like Alan Moore (writer of the Watchmen graphic novel) for his ability to stream random sequences that magically tie together in the end and Frank Miller (writer and illustrator of the Sin City series) for his use of dialogue and ability to tell MORE of a story with LESS details, as well as Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith (writer and illustrator of 30 Days of Night) for their brilliant approach to the raw potential chaos behind the vampire lore and how deep a community like that can go.



AWD: That's pretty cool. Those directors and writers have definitely made waves in their respective genres and have inspired many imaginations who've enjoyed their work (yours truly as well)! Do you have a particular favorite work from each director/artist?



NS: While I'm sure everyone and their grandmothers saw this one coming, I'd have to say that Blade II is a personal favorite from del Torro (if nothing else his approach towards lighting a scene was an inspiration for using similar techniques to put a chapter/scene in a certain tone/mood by using certain types of language). A lot of what makes him so inspiring is how he takes something inherently simple to look at, but has so many complex elements that build that visual into EXACTLY what he wanted the audience to see (using sparks and electric discharge as a means of conveying violence without any other violent elements). Movies like Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth are good examples of del Torro's affinity for visuals and effects so that they highlight rather than make the films what they are, and from this I've honed my style to use vivid descriptions and details to scenes, while not defining the writing, help the reader to delve that much deeper into the piece.

What draws me to Nolan--aside from the movies in general--is the intimacy he shows towards mechanics and science behind what is ultimately make-believe. Because of this, movies like Inception, where he's applied concepts of mathematics and algorithms to define dreams-within-dreams and how time would play out when shifting about therein. Also, because of my love of comics, how he approached his Batman trilogy and brought Gotham and The Dark Knight into the real world rather than trying to convince the audience to follow into a city that, before that, had always been depicted in very unbelievable ways. Things like this allow an audience to say "Wow! I can actually SEE how Batman could exist in our world!" and, in doing so, gets them to invest THAT much more in the story. For me, I don't like having to convince an audience that the world I'm escorting them through is something they can relate to, because I've brought the vampires and therions and other creatures to THEIR city. By doing this, Xander Stryker standing on the side of a city skyscraper can become Xander Stryker standing on THE city skyscraper that the reader's uncle works at (or something of that nature).




AWD: What are your main concerns as a writer?


NS: The basic two: (1) have I properly and effectively utilized the English language and the organic flow of words to convey both the visual and emotional elements that I'm trying to deliver to the reader and (2) will this entertain and/or provide insight/perspective to one's own life?




AWD: How have your personal experiences influenced the direction of your writing?




NS: Like many, I didn't have a happy or healthy upbringing and a great deal of the pain I dealt with instilled me with a great deal of insight and perspective (both biased and educated) to the human condition. As a teenager, I was self-destructive and suicidal and the project that would later become "Crimson Shadow: Noir" (book #1 of the series) started off as a short story that would have served as a creative suicide letter. I'd never enjoyed writing about myself, so I decided to depict my pain through Xander and his nightly ritual (after a great deal of rewriting & editing this short story became the first chapter of the book). Despite the initial purposes, I was entranced with the character I'd created and wanted to write more of his story, and, in doing so, gave him a reason to NOT want to die (and, ironically enough, gave me a reason to stop my own self-destructive tendencies). I've since then mellowed out a great deal, and people who know me would say I'm a (for the most part) happy, friendly, and (*le-gasp*) funny guy. However, when I settle in to write, my mind always shifts back to the grit and chaos and pain because being able to express those thoughts and emotions and share them with the world (to show others who feel the same that they're not alone) helps to relieve me of those feelings for when I'm not writing. One of my biggest pet peeves about society has always been how the masses will do ANYTHING to avoid the ugly truth of a situation (people will deny or ignore warning signs of abuse or neglect or harassment) simply because they don't want to be brought down by the ugly truth that you don't need vampires and werewolves and other mythological killers for there to be monsters in the world. What they try to hide in a dark corner I shine the spotlight on and force them to acknowledge that murder, abuse, rape, and acts of hatred and bigotry are EVERYWHERE, and that, even standing beside blood-suckers and flesh-eaters, there will never be a monster as brutal as mankind.



AWD: Do you think you've achieved this with your current work?

NS: More-or-less. My #1 goal has always and will always be to entertain the reader (any life-lessons or morals that come from it are certainly nice, but that's just icing on the cake). For "Crimson Shadow: Noir", I think that so many people can read Xander's story and see themselves or their friends who have had similar situations (sadly, abuse is not as rare as it should be) and, though set in a world of monsters, the truth is that it's all very real and horrible and it DOES impact people in much the same way Xander was impacted by his own history.


With "Curtain Call: A Death Metal Novel", I wanted to convey a literal and metaphorical approach to music. In a band, each musician contributes an element that adds-up to the song that's heard by the audience, so I wanted to translate that sense of contribution to a greater degree. While this doesn't reflect in quite the same way as Crimson Shadow,  I think the message still works as a social metaphor that everybody has a crucial role to play.






AWD: What will your next book be about?




NS: With "Noir" and "Curtain Call" now released, the next book scheduled to debut is the second installment in the Crimson Shadow series, "Sins of the Father". The first book of the series was very much about the series' protagonist, Xander Stryker, coming to grips with who he was and what it meant for him as well as getting him "up to speed" and dealing with his and his late mother's history (what a comic reader would call the origin story). In book #2, I really wanted to shift from a story of development to what that development MEANS. In the beginning of SotF, Xander has fallen comfortably into his role and has fully developed all of his skills/abilities as a vampiric warrior. At this point, the depression and self-loathing from book #1 has disappeared, and, with this new perspective, Xander finds more than just company with his magically-inclined lifelong friend, Estella. I'd always intended for Xander and Estella to be together romantically, but it seemed unfair and unrealistic to have a person who hates themself to have the capacity to love another person (plus, wanting to blow your brains out is sort of a turn off for most ladies). A few of my Kindle shorts that are currently debuting biweekly begin to set the stage for this romance (as well as giving foresight of other things to come), and this shift in their relationship will bring new elements into how their roles play out.
Just as book #1 focused a great deal on Xander's mother and his human heritage, book #2 will focus on Xander's father and his vampiric heritage. This history will begin to reveal some truths that will shift how people perceive the first book and put Xander against an antagonizing force with a personal vendetta and a shocking plan.






AWD: What would you say has been your most significant achievement as a
writer?


A: When "Noir" was in the early stages of editing (beta testing and revising and whatnot) a buddy of mine pointed out that, aside from the action/adventure element, the story of a suicidal teen finding strength and reason to persevere could serve to help others. At first I took it as a simple compliment--after all, it wasn't even an actual book, so harboring dreams of how it would be received by an audience seemed a tad farfetched when so much had to be done first--but, sure enough, a short time after the book's release through Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing, I was contacted by a reader who thanked me. Apparently, for this person, the character of Xander struck a very powerful cord in their heart, and the story ultimately motivated them to stop their own self-destructive/suicidal activities and seek the help they needed to get better. For me, there's no greater honor than knowing my efforts to entertain and enlighten worked, but this message truly blew me away. While I'd hoped that the story and the charity work through To Write Love On Her Arms (an anti-suicide & self-harm movement) would be helpful, I'd never imagined that it would have THAT great of an impact on somebody. I do look forward to a long and fruitful writing career and hope that I can continue to entertain and inspire, but, knowing that somebody out there is alive and striving to achieve their own happiness because of something I wrote, there isn't really much more I can hope to achieve other than continuing to make readers happy.




AWD: Any last words for your readers and visitors?



NS: I feel that it's an incredible honor that people are willing to take a chance with me and my work to entertain them. For me, the readers have always been more than "fans" (to be honest, I HATE that word), and so I and a group of friends and some of my earlier readers decided to call any who considered themselves an enthusiast of my work as a part of "The Legion".


Having said this, I'd love any and all to join me, The Literary Dark Prince, and the others of The Legion in a brutal literary movement of gnarly proportions! Feel free to "Like" The Legion on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Legion-of-Nathan-Squiers/329543403767153 and formally join The Legion on the forum page on my website at http://www.nathansquiers.com.









Check out Nathan's books and more information about him on the web!


http://www.nathansquiers.com - Personal Author Website

http://www.goodreads.com/Literary_Dark_Prince - Goodreads

https://www.facebook.com/Nathan.Squiers?ref=hl - FB author page

https://www.facebook.com/CrimsonShadow.Legacy?ref=hl - FB Crimson Shadow page

https://www.facebook.com/DeathMetal.NovelSeries?ref=hl - FB Death Metal page

https://twitter.com/Lit_Dark_Prince - Twitter

http://www.myspace.com/visceral_vices - MySpace

And more books! (Freebies and deals)

Pixel of Ink has been a boon for me and my bookshelf. I've discovered tons of great reads and more authors through there along with my Amazon recs. I need to refresh my speed reading course so I can zip through books like I used to back in the day (my personal best is Jurassic Park read in 3 days when I was 13, woo!) and get through my TBR pile!



In the mean time, I'll share some of the new additions to my shelf in hopes I can give you guys a some new titles to check out!



New books on the reading shelf! Most of these are kindle freebies and a few are some current deals under about $3.



 
 
     

 

It's raining books!

I bet Amazon loves seeing me land on its site. They know I won't leave empty handed. I can't stop buying books, especially from my favorite publishers who have weekly releases. In addition to my subscription to Pixel of Ink (thank you, TPG!) I also receive ARCs for review and for my author spotlights. That's a lot of books. I'm surprised my Nook hasn't retaliated from bloating as of yet. But thankfully I still have a few gigs of storage left (yay, more books!).



I gotta say, I love me some Pixel of Ink. It kind of reminds me of the days long ago where my family and I would take weekly (monthly?) trips to the bookstore and we'd disperse at the gates to go to our respective sections. There wasn't any Amazon, nor were there reviews for us genre folk. We just relied on the blurb, the cover and the writing. Sometimes we'd find gems, other times we'd find books we didn't care for but it was always like an adventure trying to find out what new selections were available.



Ever since I became a publisher and then strictly an author, things changed as you had to keep up with your peers in your genre group (and whatever you wanted to write for) and what other books were available, from what publishers, what they were about and so on. Thus the reader in me was bummed for lack of a surprise.



Now with the new wild wild west of publishing, I get that feeling back with all the wonderful different stories that are unleashed into the world without the constraints of agents or corporate publishers pushing one kind of story. It's exhilarating and in the past week alone, I've come across so many wonderful reads that I wish I can dive into them all at once. Who knows, depending on how ambitious I feel, I just may hehehe.



Here are some books I added to my shelf recently! :-D



Click to learn more about each book:

"Waiting On" Wednesday: Rafael

It's been a while since I had a goodie to look forward to so when I saw K. Victoria had a new book coming out (and real soon) I couldn't wait to jump on it. My WoW celebration is her upcoming book in her new series Rafael.







Rafael (The Santiago Brothers Series: Book One)

K. Victoria Chase

Pub Date: August 7, 2012









Blurb:






The last time Detective Genie Green let a man humiliate her was her college sweetheart—never again. Yet, when former high school lothario Rafael Santiago returns to town as the consulting detective on her case, Genie’s rule of never allowing another man to best her is challenged. Can she trust him long enough to solve this case and get the glory?




Rafa can’t seem to outrun his delinquent past. When The Snakes, a criminal organization he used to belong too, begin murdering people from his hometown, he has a chance to right some of his past wrongs. Will arresting the murderers be enough to redeem him, or will a certain beautiful detective pay the ultimate price instead?

New Inkspell Cover Reveal! Colonization

Inkspell has another wonderful cover reveal for us and this one is a special SFR YA book! Woot!




I remember Aubrie's books from Entangled, another one of my fave publishers, so I'm jazzed to see she has a new one coming out with Inkspell as well!


















The blurb goes a little something like this:




Finding
a new home has never been so dangerous.

Andromeda has spent all seventeen years of her life aboard a
deep space transport vessel destined for a paradise planet. Her safe cocoon is
about to break open as Paradise 21 looms only one month away, and she must take
the aptitude tests to determine her role on the new world and her computer
assigned lifemate. As a great-granddaughter of the Commander of the ship, she
wants to live up to her family name. But, her forbidden love for her childhood
friend, Sirius, distracts her and she fails the tests. The results place her in
a menial role in the new colony and pair her with Corvus, “the oaf”.




But when Andromeda steps foot on Paradise 21, her
predestined future is the least of her worries. Alien ghosts from a failed
colonization warn her of a deadly threat to her colony. And when Sirius's ship
crashes on the far ridge in an attempt to investigate, she journeys to rescue
him with Corvus.




Andromeda now must convince the authorities of the imminent
danger to protect her new home. What she didn't expect was a battle of her own
feelings for Sirius and Corvus.




Can she save the colony and discover her true love?




Release Date: November 7th, 2012







About the Author




Aubrie Dionne writes science fiction fantasy with romantic
elements. Her writings have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade,
Emerald Tales, Hazard Cat, Moon Drenched Fables, A Fly in Amber, and Aurora
Wolf. Her books are published by Inkspell Publishing, Entangled Publishing,
Lyrical Press, and Gypsy Shadow Publishing. She’s also a professional flutist
in New England.




Website: www.authoraubrie.com

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2964057.Aubrie_Dionne

Twitter: @authoraubrie

Blog: http://authoraubrie.blogspot.com













Giveaway!
– Open for US and UK only.

 Inkspell and the author are giving away this gorgeous keyring tie-in for the book. Enter below!

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Saga: Action/Adventure SFR Coming up This October in GN Format

How jazzed was I to see an awesome futuristic fantasy space action with a love story featuring interracial characters from a reknown groundbreaking comic writer? So jazzed I yelled at my computer after finding out it wasn't even out yet! Then I saw that some issues were available in comic book format and then I commenced to being jazzed once again. ;-)



Y: The Last Man & Runaways writer Brian K. Vaughan has a new series out called Saga which already sounds and looks epic with it's story and artwork. Here are the two awesome covers one for the comic (left) and the upcoming one for the graphic novel collection (right):





The blurb goes a little something like this: When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults.




This specially priced volume collects the first six issues of the smash-hit series The Onion A.V. Club calls "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make."



I'm going to try to get my hands on the comic because October is just too far away for me to wait. If I dig it, I'll post a review here with a recommend.



The newest issue #6 comes out August 15th. Here is the cover:








Saga #6



Story by:
Brian K. Vaughan
Art By:
Fiona Staples


On Sale: August 15, 2012