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My Interview with Diabolic Shrimp is Now Online!

Check out my first video interview now as Josh and I discuss the Solstice series leading up to the final book, Celestial, and how is was thought up. Along the way there are some pop culture moments thrown in.

Check out the series on Amazon HERE---->https://amzn.to/3aTA7wa

https://youtu.be/F-frxUU4TiE

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Pill Hill is Available Again in Paperback & Digital!

Pill Hill is back again.

After thumbing through it after several years, I decided that I didn't like what I was looking at from an editing perspective. As I've gotten older and written more, I've found that my old habits were not good for my books. So, along with Pill Hill, I have spent the last several weeks going over my novels and giving them a fresh edit.

I hope people discover this book again and get something out of it. It's a personal story and my longest book to date.

An interviewer asked me if I would ever write something other than paranormal stories, and I replied, "When I have something personal to say." Well...this is it.

Here is the link: https://amzn.to/2O54acA (see description below)

A Chemically Imbalanced Romance:

Confined to the third floor of an old psychiatric ward located in a hospital on the verge of shutting down, Mason Phillips walks the same hall alongside others that have afflictions that range from obsessive compulsive disorder to schizophrenia. Based on the belief that he does not need help for what ails him mentally, he finds solace in a young woman that sleeps in the room across the hall. Enamored with a woman that he knows nothing about, Mason is faced to converse with other patients about their addictions and phobias as he tries to come to terms with his past and understand others. Sometimes the people that seem different can be the ones that understand the most.

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin Book Review

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin is a fantasy that uses the city of New York fantastically. In many ways, the city is a character along with the five main characters. Each city in this reality has a human avatar; when the avatar dies, the city they are associated with begins to chaos. New York’s city essence is split between five people residing in each borough of New York; the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

Buy The City We Became in Hardcover, Paperback, or Kindle HERE---->https://amzn.to/2Mu1K77

Each avatar comes from different backgrounds and walks of life that bring a broad culture rare in fantasy books, at least from what I have read. If anything, Jemisin writes these characters very distinctly from one another, bringing many ideas and knowledge to the forefront. There is a love for New York that Jemisin clearly carries with her, along with some loathing of traits New York has. (I’ve never been, so I am assuming the author knows way more than I do)

With the different personalities of the characters come much dialogue, which I usually love in books. However, the dialogue, as great and witty as is it much of the time, tended to bog down the story. There is nothing wrong with it per se, but in a fantasy novel such as this, I just expected more of the fantasy to flow through.

If the Neil Gaiman praise on the top of the hardcover makes you want to read this book, then you are in luck because this story is something that he could have come up with. If I read this book without know who the author was, Gaiman would have been my first guess. There is a very American Gods-like approach to this novel that fans will enjoy or dislike because of how similar it comes across.

When the book arrives to climax, the end comes around a bit abruptly. All the tense build-up around the final showdown, sort to speak, just seems to happen and how it is resolved came across as extremely convenient.

I do recommend The City We Became. Even with the extensive amount of dialogue that brings the progression at a snail’s pace at times and the sudden ending, I can’t deny the imagination and talent that went behind writing it. I read that this was the first part of an overarching story, but I’m not sure I will personally be invested in continuing.

3 and a half out of 5…or 4 on Goodreads.

Vampires Never Get Old U.K. Cover Reveal!

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UK PAPERBACK REVEAL

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER !!

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Release date May 25,2021!

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All the Flowers in Paris Book Review by Brandy Michelle

#BookReview #AllTheFlowersinParisSarah Jio, Author

Purchase All the Flowers in Paris Today!--->https://amzn.to/2KX084PAll the Flowers in Paris was unexpected because I thought it would be like other stories from that time that just jump into the occupation and see more about what the soldiers do and how they treated people. This story shows that in some ways, but it goes much deeper.

We take a look inside two different worlds; one is modern times with a woman (Caroline) who lives in an apartment who has been in accident and has lost her memory. She is trying to piece her life together and figure out who she is, but along the way she not only finds herself, she also finds the other world that Celine lives in Nazi occupied Paris with her young daughter Cosi.

We learn about Caroline as her memory gradually comes back and she realizes who the people around her really are, all the while we are watching in horror and amazement as Celine persevere in an a world that many people would have given up and lost all hope. Both women in parallel worlds that are so different yet so alike so that even in the face of unimaginable pain and evil we can overcome. There is a tomorrow and there is good in the world. Sometimes you just have to look ahead and find the good in the next day.

All the Flowers in Paris is a soul piercing tale set in WWII that is both beautiful and devastating.

5/5 Stars

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Dark Stars Cover Reveal!

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#DarkStars New Tales of Darkest Horror !

Coming Nov 2, 2021

From Nightfire

The Peculiar Royal Chronicles COVER REVEAL!

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#ThePeculiarRoyalChroniclesby Alonna Williams

Buy the Original The Peculiar Royal--->https://amzn.to/3qPFPWq

A collection of short stories, set between “A Peculiar Royal” and its sequel, “The Imperiled Heir, continuing the adventures of Prince Tristan Lockridge as he adjusts to royal living! Stories include:

‘Once Upon an Arranged Marriage’, where you learn the story of the arranged marriage of Tristan’s beloved grandparents‘Once Upon an August Affair’, where Tristan is not so happy to learn about the crush Aliona once had on August‘Once Upon a Wild Stallion’, in which Tristan’s obsession with a beautiful rogue horse causes him to disobey his grandparents’ orders and leads to serious consequencesand more…

Blue Gingham Publishing

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Celestial's Release Date is February 19th, 2021!

Preorder today at Amazon.com--->https://amzn.to/2YkjC6u

Catch up with the rest of the series by visiting the links below"

Solstice: https://amzn.to/30IWaBO

Equinox: https://amzn.to/2PBRzen

Ecliptic: https://amzn.to/367tHIg

Celestial (pre-order): https://amzn.to/2NlsjLB

COVER REVEAL! The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

#CoverReveal #Announcement from Subterranean Press :

We're happy to announce THE RETURN OF THE SORCERESS, our first project, but certainly not our last, with Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This novel is tentatively set for release on June 30, 2021. You can preorder today!--->https://amzn.to/3a1TVgG

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT! The Book of Uriel by Elyse Hoffman

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Expected Publication Date: January 26, 2021

Preorder The Book of Uriel Today on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3sVJow3

In the fires of World War II, a child must save his people from darkness…

Ten-year-old Uriel has always been an outcast. Born mute in a Jewish village known for its choir, he escapes into old stories of his people, stories of angels and monsters. But when the fires of the Holocaust consume his village, he learns that the stories he writes in his golden notebook are terrifyingly real.

In the aftermath of the attack, Uriel is taken in by Uwe, a kind-hearted linguist forced to work for the commander of the local Nazi Police, the affably brutal Major Brandt. Uwe wants to keep Uriel safe, but Uriel can’t stay hidden. The angels of his tales have come to him with a dire message: Michael, guardian angel of the Jewish people, is missing. Without their angel, the Jewish people are doomed, and Michael’s angelic brethren cannot search for him in the lands corrupted by Nazi evil.

With the lives of millions at stake, Uriel must find Michael and free him from the clutches of the Angel of Death…even if that means putting Uwe in mortal danger.

The Book of Uriel is a heartbreaking blend of historical fiction and Jewish folklore that will enthrall fans of The Book Thief and The World That We Knew.

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