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Cover Reveal - THEREAFTER by Terri Bruce

Thereafter Afterlife Book 2Terri Bruce
Genre: Contemporary fantasy/paranormal
Publisher: Mictlan Press
Date of Publication: May 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9913036-2-5 (print) / ISBN: 978-0-9913036-3-2 (ebook)
Number of pages: 318Word Count: 99,000
Cover Artist: Artwork by Shelby Robinson; cover layout by Jennifer Stolzer
Book Description:
When recently-deceased Irene Dunphy decided to “follow the light,” she thought she’d end up in Heaven or Hell and her journey would be over.
Boy, was she wrong.
She soon finds that “the other side” isn’t a final destination but a kind of purgatory where billions of spirits are stuck, with no way to move forward or back. Even worse, deranged phantoms known as “Hungry Ghosts” stalk the dead, intent on destroying them. The only way out is for Irene to forget her life on earth—including the boy who risked everything to help her cross over—which she’s not about to do.
As Irene desperately searches for an alternative, help unexpectedly comes in the unlikeliest of forms: a twelfth-century Spanish knight and a nineteenth-century American cowboy. Even more surprising, one offers a chance for redemption; the other, love. Unfortunately, she won’t be able to have either if she can’t find a way to escape the hellish limbo where they’re all trapped.
Author’s Note:
I am THRILLED beyond all measure to finally be able to bring you Thereafter, and I want to thank all the fans who have waited (more or less patiently) an extra year for this book to finally come out. Thereafter would not have been possible without your support—thank you all! I hope you love this beautiful new cover as much as I do, and I hope you find Thereafter to be worth the wait.




Excerpt:
Her hand touched a rock, one of the flat beach stones she’d seen on graves. She picked it up, laying it flat in her palm. She didn’t remember picking this up. In fact, she had been careful not to take any. It had seemed disrespectful and too much like stealing to remove them, and while she’d seen a few here—both loose and piled in cairns—she hadn’t picked any of them up. There had been no point. What would she do with a rock?No wonder her bag was so heavy.She tossed the rock over her shoulder and heard it hit the ground with a satisfying thud some distance away. It felt good to be rid of something, to make a decision and be sure it was the right one.She surveyed the pile again and then grabbed a small handful of paper animals. She picked one up between a finger and thumb. It was a horse. Irene had been in Chinatown during Chinese Ghost Festival, a holiday in which the living left offerings for the dead. These offerings included paper replicas of things people thought the dead would need in the afterlife—money, clothes, television sets, and even animals. Irene had admired the precise and delicate folds of the Origami figures and had picked some up to admire them more closely. Without thinking, she had dropped them into her bag and apparently been carrying them ever since.Well, even Jonah couldn’t argue with her on this—there was no way she was going to need a paper horse on her journey through the afterlife. Plus, these didn’t hold any sentimental value. She cast the horse onto a nearby fire and watched as the paper curled and blackened in the low-burning flames.The fire leapt and seemed to glow blue for a moment. Irene tensed—what was happening?Thick black smoke began to rise slowly from the flames, spiraling upward in a thickening column. The smoke grew denser and then elongated sideways. Irene leapt to her feet and backed away, her heart pounding. Something was forming in the fire.The smoke was taking shape now; there was purpose and design in its movements. She could see a long, horizontal back, four legs, a neck, and finally a head and a tail. The smoke swirled with a final flourish and then shuddered into the solidity of a smoke-colored horse. The animal blinked passively. Then it violently shook its head, blew out a breath, and delicately picked its way forward out of the fire. It immediately put its head down and began to lip the ground, looking for food.
Irene stared stupidly at it. “Are you shitting me?”

 About the Author:
About the Author:
Terri Bruce has been making up adventure stories for as long as she can remember. Like Anne Shirley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, but is happy if she can do either. She produces fantasy and adventure stories from a haunted house in New England where she lives with her husband and three cats.
Website/Blog: http://www.terribruce.net
Goodreads Profile: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6450132.Terri_Bruce
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Terri-Bruce-Fan-Page/325830544139030
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@_TerriBruce

Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/author/terribruce



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Book Trailer for THE KELPIE by T.J. Wooldridge

T. J. Wooldridge is a professional writing geek who adores research into myth, folklore, legend, and the English language. Before delving full-time into wordsmithing, she has been a tutor, a teacher, an educational course designer, a video game proofreader, a financial customer service representative, a wine salesperson, a food reviewer, an editing consultant, a retail sales manager, and a nanny. While infrequent, there are times she does occasionally not research, write, or help others write. During those rare moments, she enjoys the following activities: spending time with her Husband-of-Awesome, a silly tabby cat, and two Giant Baby Bunnies in their Massachusetts home hidden in a pocket of woods in the middle of suburbia; reading; riding her horse (not very well); reading Tarot (very well); drawing (also not very well); making jewelry (pretty well), making wordy lists, and adding parenthetical commentary during random conversations. She also enjoys dressing up as fey creatures, zombies, or other such nonsense at science fiction, fantasy, and horror conventions. http://spencerhillpress.com/authors_books/wooldridge.html

Cover reveal: Milayna by Michelle Pickett

I'm excited to reveal the updated cover of "Milayna," Michelle Pickett's (author of PODs) paranormal romance. Thanks to the talented Robin Ludwig, Milayna has gotten a huge make-over and looks Fan-friggin-tastic! She, along with her group of other demi-angels, are going to take the world by storm June 3! cover by Robin Ludwig Designs, INCFrom the bestselling author of PODs comes an unforgettable tale of action, intrigue, and following your heart in the midst of betrayal.It's hard being good all the time. Everyone needs to be bad once in a while. But for seventeen-year-old Milayna, being good isn't a choice. It's a job requirement. And it's a job she can't quit. Born a demi-angel, Milayna steps in when danger and demons threaten the people around her, but being half angel isn't all halos and happiness. Azazel, Hell's demon, wants Milayna's power, and he'll do anything to get it. But he only has until her eighteenth birthday, after which she becomes untouchable. With the help of other demi-angels, Milayna thwarts the trouble Azazel sends her way. Fighting with her is Chay. He's a demi-angel who's sinfully gorgeous, and Milayna falls hard. But is Chay her true love...or her nemesis in disguise? Because when she learns of a traitor in her group, there's no one she can trust...not even the one she loves. [image error] About the Author…Michelle is a wife, mother, author, reader, although not always in that order. She is the bestselling author of PODs, which totally blows her mind. Some days she still has her husband pinch her to make sure it’s not a dream. She loves Reese’s peanut butter cups and peanut butter M&Ms and eats way too many when she writes, can’t write without a hoodie, hates to cook but loves to watch cooking shows, and loves happy endings that give her butterflies for days. She writes across genres in the young adult and new adult age groups, and loves to hear from readers and other authors. So drop her a note and say, "Hey!"Website • Email • Blog • Facebook • Twitter • Goodreads Pre-Order Links for Milayna:Amazon ׀ Barnes&Noble ׀ The Book Depository Title: Milayna (book one)Author: Michelle PickettPublisher: Spencer Hill Press  (Feel free to use any images, text, links, etc. from our site.)Release Date: June 3, 2014Formats: Paperback, e-book ARCs: If you’d like to request an ARC, please use the Reviewer Form on our website. ARCs will ship several months before the release date.

Cover Reveal: LOSING LOGAN by Sherry Ficklin

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What if the one thing you never meant to hold on to, is the one thing you can’t let go of?
Losing Logan by Sherry D. FicklinPublication Date: May 6th 2014Genres: YA, Romance, Suspense, Paranormal
Synopsis:Normally finding a hot guy in her bedroom wouldn’t irritate Zoe so badly, but finding her childhood friend Logan there is a big problem. Mostly because he’s dead.
As the only person he can make contact with, he convinces Zoe to help him put together the pieces surrounding his mysterious death so he can move on. Thrust into his world of ultra popular rich kids, Zoe is out of her element and caught in the cross-hairs of Logan’s suspicious ex-girlfriend and the friends he left behind, each of whom had a reason to want him dead. The deeper they dig to find the truth, the closer Zoe gets to a killer who would do anything to protect his secrets. And that’s just the start of her problems because Zoe is falling for a dead guy.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20493019-losing-loganFind Losing Logan on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/LosingLoganSherry D Ficklin’s Official Websitehttp://www.sherryficklin.com


About the Author:Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.She is the author of The Gods of Fate Trilogy now available from Dragonfly Publishing. Her previously self-published novel After Burn: Military Brats has been acquired by Harlequin and will be released in 2015 with a second book in that series to follow. Her newest YA steampunk novel, EXTRACTED: The Lost Imperials book 1, co-written with Tyler H. Jolley is now available everywhere books are sold and her newest YA novel, Losing Logan, is due for release in 2014 from Clean Teen Publishing.

Cover Reveal: Silent Starsong by TJ Wooldridge

Eleven-year-old Kyra is meant to continue the Starbard's proud family legacy of interpreting the future from the stars' songs. Her deafness, incurable by the best medics, breaks her mother's heart and pushes her father to explore anything to help his little girl--including the expensive purchase of a telepathic alien servant to help Kyra communicate on a planet inhospitable to unfixable genetic defects.

Marne's telepathy is too weak for his Naratsset culture, so he is sold into slavery and expects to die at the hands of human owners--until he meets a human child who begs her father to "save" him. Her kindness introduces Marne to a new world--one where he would risk his life to save a human from her own people's abuse and the stars' songs can touch even a deaf girl and a defective telepath.

 When an intergalactic terrorist organization kills Kyra's father, driving her mother to madness, Kyra and Marne only have each others' friendship--until even that is threatened by the danger surrounding the Starbard heritage. But can the two friends, not good enough for either of their cultures or families, manage to keep each other safe when several different worlds threaten their lives?


Title: Silent Starsong Author: T.J. Woolridge
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (www.spencerhillpress.com)
ISBN: 9781939392930
Release Date: July 15, 2014
 Formats: Paperback, e-book

The Second Annual Spencer Hill Press Holiday Cheer Giveaway - Happening Now!

It's back -  THE SPENCER HILL PRESS HOLIDAY CHEER AWAY HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!!!!!

The giveaway runs from Dec. 8th to Dec. 21st. 
We have books and books and even more books this year, along with gift cards, jewelry, and just awesome stuff.
Here is a list of the awesomeness up for grabs. Please note the pics don't show all of the prizes.



Grand Prize:
Keshia Swaim: BLOOD BOUNDJK Rock:  CAMP BOYFRIEND and SwagJL Spelbring: PERFECTION and SwagKelly Hashway: STALKED BY DEATH and SwagDK Mok: THE OTHER TREE SwagTrisha Woolridge: THE KELPIEDarby Karchut: FINN FINNEGANJennifer Allis Provost: COPPER GIRLSarah Guillory: RECLAIMEDRhys A Jones: THE OBSIDIAN PEBBLEMichelle Pickett: PODSMegan Whitmer: Writer Care PackageSHP Family: $25.00 Gift CardRich “Platinum” Storrs-SHP Editor: Query and 1st ten pages critiqueStocking full of candy













2nd Place:Aubrie Dionne:  Paper Machete BoxJK Rock:  CAMP BOYFRIEND and SwagJL Spelbring: PERFECTION and SwagDK Mok: THE OTHER TREE SwagTrisha Woolridge: DOORWAYS TO EXTRA TIMEDarby Karchut: FINN FINNEGANMichelle Pickett: MILAYNA notebook and penBrenda St John Brown: 2 Chapter CritiqueRhys A Jones: $5.00 Amazon Gift CardSHP Family: $10.00 Gift CardStocking full of candy













3rd Place:JK Rock:  CAMP BOYFRIEND and SwagJL Spelbring: PERFECTION and SwagDK Mok: THE OTHER TREE SwagDarby Karchut: FINN FINNEGANMichelle Pickett: PODs necklaceBrenda St John Brown: $10.00 Amazon Gift CardKimberly Miller: Query CritiqueStocking full of candy













So, what do we need from you....
Absolutely nothing. You can do nothing and still enter. 
Well, you have to click. But other than that, there is nothing you have to do.
That being said, we would love if you would checkout our websites and follow us on twitter and facebook. Not much to do there, just more clicks. 
So click your brains out and enter to win.  
If you like, leave me a comment. I would love to hear from you!!
Have an awesome and safe HOLIDAY SEASON!!!!




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Cover Reveal - THE BOOK OF KINDLY DEATHS by Eldritch Black

THE BOOK OF KINDLY DEATHSBy Eldritch Black WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE MONSTERS IN A BOOK BECAME REAL?  When twelve-year old Eliza Winter finds a secret room in her missing grandfather’s sprawling, Gothic house, her safe, sheltered life is blown apart. Inside, below a stained glass window where moonlight shines no matter the time of day, sits The Book of Kindly Deaths.  In defiance of her controlling mother, who has always forbidden her to read anything strange or imaginary, Eliza takes the book. As night sets in, Eliza reads one haunting story after another. And the further she journeys inside the book, the more the boundaries between our world and a shadowy land of monsters and forbidden places begin to blur. When the strange, crooked man from the book arrives on the doorstep claiming to be a rare book collector and demanding entry into the house, Eliza’s world is turned upside down. To escape him she must dive all the way into the spine-tingling world of The Book of Kindly Deaths to save her grandfather—and write an end to the nightmare she's caught inside.   Title: The Book of Kindly DeathsAuthor: Eldritch BlackPublisher: Spencer Hill Press Middle GradeISBN:  978-1939392954ISBN Ebook: 978-1-939392-96-1Release Date: 6/10/2014Formats: Paper, e-bookGoodreads TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19025657-the-book-of-kindly-deaths

Cover Reveal - COPPER RAVENS

I think I've teased ya'll enough. Without further ado, here's the cover for the sequel to Copper Girl, Copper Ravens.





Sara should be happy.She has what every girl wants: a man who loves her, a beautiful home, and wealth beyond imagining. She rescued her brother from the Peacekeepers, destroyed the Iron Queen, and doesn’t have to go to her boring job any more.And yet… Sara still doesn’t know if her father is alive or dead. Her mother hides in the garden, brooding about her missing husband. Her sister, the Inheritor of Metal, is scared of her own shadow, and her brother spends his days fighting and gambling. To add to Sara’s misery, the new queen (gold, of course) is more than a bit crazy, she misses her life in the Mundane world, and, worst of all, Micah wants to have children. A lot of them.As Sara wavers between happiness and homesickness, a conspiracy emerges against the Raven clan, implicating them in a plot to dethrone the Gold Queen. How can Sara prove her family’s innocence, and become the consort Micah needs her to be, without losing herself in the process? 

Remember, the Kindle edition of Copper Girl is only $2.99 for the month of November. Check it out here.

Where In The World Can You Find Me - And A Teaser!

Hi all!


Last weekend, I attended what is rapidly becoming the best convention in the Northeast: Anthocon, in Portsmouth, NH. I read from Copper Girl, spoke copiously about Copper ravens and my WIP, Gallowglass, and had more fun than such mere mortals should be allowed.

Saturday, 11/16 will find me at Books and Boos in Colchester, CT, talking about dark faeries. You didn't think they were all like Tinkerbell, did you? Learn more here: http://www.booksandboos.com/events-calendar.html

Remember that Copper Ravens cover teaser? Well, here's another, just to whet your appetites:

Could those be Sara's hands? Or maybe Juliana's, aghast at what she's done?


Yes, I'm evil. Keep your eyes peeled for the full reveal on November 20!

Cover Teaser - COPPER RAVENS

Here's the news - COPPER RAVENS, the sequel to COPPER GIRL and second in THE COPPER LEGACY, is scheduled to release in May 2014. The full cover reveal (yes, it's another awesome Lisa Amowitz cover) will happen soon. If you'd like to participate, fill out this form.

In the meantime, how about a teaser? Here ya go:


Hey, I said it would be a teaser! However, that just might be a raven's wing in the corner...

Don't forget, for the month of November COPPER GIRL is on sale at Amazon for $2.99!