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April 4, 2016
Lift 4 Autism – Promotion 2
Hopefully you recall I mentioned this recently. Lift 4 Autism are running an event to raise money to help autistic kids and their families. Autism is a complex condition, and many people are impacted by it – not just the sufferers themselves but their relatives and friends, teachers, support workers and even the community as a whole. Autistic kids can be very loving but in their own way, often struggling to deal or express their emotions and many suffer from lifelong learning and social disabilities. Every case is different – needs are different and their is still a lack of understanding about this condition.
Lift 4 Autism are running an auction – bidding runs between Monday April 25th and Friday April 29th.
lift4autism.com
teespring.com/2016Lift (all funds raised go to a national medical/therapy scholarship fund).
There are a lot of authors and bloggers involved and great prizes. So do come along and support this event.
April is Autism Awareness month, shining a global light on the condition an estimated 3 million people in the United States and 70 million people in the world live with every day. 1 in every 68 American children. 1 in every 42 boys. Though Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability, affecting this many, for those outside looking in, it often remains a mystery. This month we hope to shine light and spread compassion for families living with Autism.
In addition to raising awareness, we also want to take action. This is the second LIFT 4 Autism campaign, rallying the romance reading community around this cause. More than 200 authors and bloggers are partnering with this effort, many donating books and other items to an auction the last week of April. Proceeds from this auction will go directly to our charitable partner, Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating, empowering and supporting families affected by autism. Specifically, our efforts will benefit families served through TACA’s scholarship program to offset medical and therapy costs.
To stay abreast of LIFT news and developments this month, join our Facebook Group.
How can you be involved?
1. Authors – Donate books or other items for auction
2. Bid in the auction, and your money goes straight to TACA’s scholarship fund. (You’ll be asked to register before the auction date to bid.)
3. Purchase a LIFT 2016 t-shirt
4. Make a tax-deductible donation to TACA
LIFT Giveaway! $5 Amazon Gift Card, LIFT T-Shirt and E-Book from any LIFT Author
April 2, 2016
The IX – Exordium of Tears by @WestonAndrew is a #ScienceFiction Gem #bookreview #mustread #SFF
Title: The IX – Exordium of Tears Author: Andrew P. Weston Genre: Science Fiction Book Blurb: Fight or die. That simple yet brutal reality is the tenet by which the refugees fr…
Source: The IX – Exordium of Tears by @WestonAndrew is a #ScienceFiction Gem #bookreview #mustread #SFF
The IX – Exordium of Tears by @WestonAndrew is a #ScienceFiction Gem #bookreview #mustread #SFF
I haven’t read the sequel to IX yet but it’s next on my list. Check out this review – sounds great.
POTL: All Things Books, Reading and Publishing
Title: The IX – Exordium of Tears
Author: Andrew P. Weston
Genre: Science Fiction
Book Blurb:
Fight or die.
That simple yet brutal reality is the tenet by which the refugees from Earth – including the fabled lost 9th Legion of Rome; the 5th Company, 2nd Mounted Cavalry Unit; and the Special Forces Anti-Terrorist Team – were forced to live by while the Horde menace existed. Believing that the threat is over, the survivors now yearn to settle down, start families, and reclaim the lives stolen from them.
But such aspirations might remain beyond their reach, for a shadow looms on the rose-tinted horizon of new beginnings.
The release of the re-genesis matrix has done much to foster a restoration of exuberance across Arden. Along with a resurgence in floral and faunal diversity comes the results of splicing the Ardenese and human genomes: transmutation. A metamorphosis of stunning magnitude that…
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The Kitchen Imps and Other Dark Tales – New Release
The Kitchen Imps and Other Dark Tales – six short tales of mayhem and mischief.
Naughty imps, missing socks, cunning thieves and baffled gods feature in this collection of short fantasy fiction.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DPJ5TQC
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Other-Tales-Fire-Side-Collection-ebook/dp/B01DPJ5TQC/
I’m delighted to announce the release of my latest short story collection. The Kitchen Imps and Other Dark Tales is the first in the Fire-Side Tales Collection of short fantasy for all the family. These fairytale-esque short fiction pieces bring us the Kitchen Imps – a naughty race of beings who inhabit the house, causing mischief where ever they go. Ever wondered where socks go when you wash them? Well the Joy of Socks will answer that age-old mystery.
Some of these tales have appeared in anthologies with the Indie Collaboration or Wyrd Worlds but have been revised and expanded for this collection.
Currently only available on Amazon the Kitchen Imps will appear on the Smashwords associated stores shortly and hopefully as an audio book.
There will be more tales from my favourite little rascals so please watch this space.
Cover image Fluenta@Fotolia.com
March 31, 2016
Back Catalogue 1 – Interview with A.L Butcher
As it’s generally easier to look at posts directly and not have to click on link after link I’ve decided to post some of my ‘back catalogue’ interviews – basically interviews I’ve done elsewhere. Where possible I have sought permission of the original blogger and posted the original link.
Here’s the first – with Michael from Solafide Publishing – a site that promotes indie authors.
Michael Pang: It has been a while since I’ve been able to find a fantasy book series that built a world with it’s own religions and myths rich enough to seem almost real. I crave a new book series that creates a world like that of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. I was lucky enough to come across Alex L. Butcher, Author of The Light Beyond The Storm Chronicles series. I was able to learn so much about her book series during our interview and I think I’ve found the next Tolkien!
Michael Pang: Can you tell us a bit about your background? How did your background influence the genre you write in?
Alexandra Butcher: I’m a Brit, I grew up in a town not far from London and currently live in the South West. My family are, or were, all great book readers – although with broad tastes from Westerns to fantasy to historical to nonfiction. My grandmother was keen on genealogy, and local history, my sister teaches English and drama, and we are all tellers of stories in one way or another. There were always books in the house, many on history and I was often happier reading than playing with toys when I was a youngster.
I have a background in history – mostly classical and medieval- politics, sociology, mythology, English Literature and to an extent philosophy. Certainly the history, mythology and sociology have helped in my writing. Research is an important aspect of any novel – and all my courses have involved some research, critical thinking and planning. That said I was always a bit of a dreamer, forever writing stories or creating worlds and characters in my head. This is especially true when I’m bored.
Why fantasy? Fantasy is such a versatile genre –the creation of worlds, or at least their manipulation gives so much scope. I love heroic fiction – the heroes of old, magic and mayhem, myth and the otherness of it. I suppose I first began to love fantasy when I read Chronicles of Narnia and saw the play of Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I was enchanted – and that set off a love of both theatre and the fantasy genre.
I used to play and run Roleplay games; mainly Warhammer, World of Darkness, Star Wars and Dragon Age so writing characters and adventures and being immersed in those worlds really helped.
MP: I can definitely see how your background in classical and medieval history can be an asset to your fantasy novels. I had also fallen in love with the Chronicles of Narnia at a young age. That’s probably where my passion for reading really started. And then I got really hooked on those old Choose Your Own Adventure books. I think that my interest to write might have started because it made me thing of different paths that the protagonists could have taken and creating new storylines. Where and when did your writing journey begin?
AB: At school. I’m a poet too and often ended up writing either a short story or a poem for the school display. After that it was usually fanfic for Phantom of the Opera, Dracula or later, as mentioned adventures for games.
Recently – I’d say the novels came from the RPG ideas. I’d had an idea for a fantasy world and written some adventures for a separate game and the two came together. I write what I like to read and play.
MP: People always make fun of role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons and talk about how geeky it was. I find such games fascinating because it really allows your imagination to run wild and forces you to create a storyline and fantasy world in a very short timeframe. I think it really takes authors who have great imagination to create worlds that can draw us in and keep us engaged. Who are your favorite authors and how have they influenced your writing?
AB: Alexander Dumas, I LOVE Count of Monte Christo – which is perhaps one of the great books of revenge. Edmund Dantes is a real anti-hero; Tolkien with his master world building; Homer and the classical authors for their heroes and mythic tales, Janet Morris for her complex characters and her lyrical prose and her attention to detail; Ellis Peters for her weaving mysteries; Gaston Leroux and Bram Stoker for their suspense and terror; and Mary Shelley for going where, perhaps, no female writer had dared go before.
MP: Definitely a great list of authors! As a writer myself, I find it harder and harder to allot time for writing due to working full time and having young children. What does a typical day in your life look like? And how does your writing routine fit into your day?
AB: I work full time, so writing has to be done in the evenings and weekends. For some reason my boss gets cross if I sit at my desk writing stories. I’d like to say I write every day but that isn’t true. I try but if I am tired or stressed often I find I can’t, especially as I have a few health issues which exacerbate this. I do try and do something though – be it editing, reading, planning, promotion or actual writing.
MP: It is definitely a struggle to juggle and of theses things. How did you come up with the idea for your book series, “The Light Beyond The Storm?”
AB: Book I came from the idea I’d had for a game, and a world. It just grew really. The seed was there, and the characters evolved from other characters, and from other ideas. Much of the story created itself as I wrote. The later books came from the world and plot of the first – Book II follows the same characters, plus a couple of new ones, tying up loose ends from Book I. Book III follows a slightly different group, although Talfor, who is featured in book II is there, and it comes from the aftermath of book II, although the characters aren’t aware of that at the time. As the books progress the overarching series plot begins to be revealed, and the world begins to change.
The world of Erana is a world where the use and possession of magic is illegal, but magic is everywhere. It’s a world of martial law but resistance is there, and a world where half the population is enslaved, but hope is there. It’s a world which is changing – whether its inhabitants like it or not. I suppose you could say the character can try and control the storms to come or be destroyed by them.
MP: Fascinating! What do you think sets your book series apart from all the others fantasy series current on the shelves?
AB: One of my reviewers described the series as ‘sex and sorcery’. Both feature strongly. The characters, particularly the mages, are passionate and there are…shall we say some very adult scenes. Hopefully these help to build the characters – Dii was a slave – she was treated very harshly and yet she finds a man who adores her, is kind to her and she blossoms into the person she should have been. Ozena is a shy, rather innocent elf raised in a small village in the forest – she knows nothing about the world. When she meets the worldly Olek she discovers more than just another way of life. Their relationship grows slowly, as opposed to Dii and Archos who are far more full -on and adventurous. The characters are important, as they should be and the world is reflected in them – Archos and Dii are magical – dangerous, passionate and misunderstood, Olek and Ozena – well one is the result of poverty and needing to do unsavoury things to survive and the other is from a town destroyed – they are all from a broken world but a world fighting back.
The elves in my world are the slaves – their civilisation is gone and their culture fragmented. The humans are the masters of the land – at least they like to think so. Elves are longer lived and many are magical but this doesn’t much help as magic is illegal. Dii is an elf and a sorceress, which is a dangerous combination. She’s a Forbidden.
The books are dark, heroic and sensual. A heady combination.
MP: That is very intriguing. Definitely sounds different from a lot of other fantasy series out there. I know that this will be a hard question, but I have to ask. Which character in your book series is your favorite and how much of yourself is reflected in that character?
AB: I’m not sure I have a favourite. Archos is complex, dangerous, and a bit of an anti-hero; Olek is stealthy, deadly yet amusing; Ozena is shy, curious and emotional, Dii is misunderstood, clever and kind. There are aspects of me in all of them, although I am not saying which aspects.;)
MP: You are such a tease! All right, I’ll settle for a different question. Which scenes in your book series did you have the most fun writing?
AB: Oh gosh, most of them were fun to write. The sex scenes are always amusing – it’s the trick of keeping them fresh but not crude and not overloading the book. The revenge scenes are fun – there is something deeply satisfying about the bad guy getting his just desserts. In Book II the scenes with Dii coming into her own are gratifying.
MP: Nicely played Alex! Just enough to get our interest peaked, but no spoilers! What do you hope for your readers to take away after reading your book series?
AB: I’d hope the books are enjoyable, and make the readers want more. Also I’d like the readers to think – perhaps about notions of freedom, prejudice and hatred – although of course many don’t. Most of all I’d hope readers to have fun on the adventure.
MP: Based upon what you’ve revealed so far, I’m sure it will be fun and adventurous! I’m very excited about it! What are your hopes for this book series?
AB: I hope people enjoy them and tell their friends;). I’m planning several more novels, plus short stories in my companion series – Tales of Erana. There will, hopefully, a game-world for the series at some later date, and the audio book for The Light Beyond the Storm will be out by the Spring. I’m planning audio editions for all the novels and short stories.
MP: Excellent! Please let me know what the game and the audiobooks are out! I will be there! What do you have in store next for your readers?
AB: Book IV is in planning, I’m writing a short story for the Tales of Erana series and there will be several more. Book IV will follow some characters from book II and ramp up the threat – after all who can they really trust in a world of lies?
As the series progresses the truth will be out. It won’t always be pleasant.
Besides my own series, I’m hoping to write some historical fantasy for anthologies, and am currently working on a children’s fantasy collection.
I’ve also just had a short fantasy story published in Heroika: Dragon Eaters, published by Perseid Press. The anthology is awesome – monsters, myth and mayhem in seventeen stories of heroes stalking their legendary foe. Winners eat the losers, although who is whom you’ll have to read to find out.
I’ve also just released Outside the Walls, which was written with my friend Diana Wicker – author of the Tales of Feyron fantasy series. That is currently being produced in audio by Melanie Fraser and The Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles will be produced by Shakespearean actor Rob Goll in the next few months.
MP: Great! I am really looking forward to this book series! Thank you so much for sharing with us your story.
If you are as intrigued by the book series as I am, please click on the link below to check it out on amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/Light-Beyond-Storm-Chronicles–ebook/dp/B0088DQO9C
Review of Tales of Erana: Myths and Legends
http://www.examiner.com/review/review-of-tales-of-erana-myths-and-legends-by-alexandra-l-butcher
Reader/Reviewer Interview Number Twenty – Joselyn Moreno
*Welcome to Joselyn Moreno.
Where are you from? Panamá
Please tell us a little about yourself.
I’m just an average girl who loves to read and craves lots of books. I’m bilingual and I like blogs a lot too. I’m 30 years old, and have been reading since I could, a trait from my mom since she is a elementary teacher.
On average how many books do you read in a month?
Usually depends on the length of the books if they’re short I can read 3 to 5 of them if they’re more full-length maybe 2 a month.
Where is your favorite place to read?
Anywhere I can find to read, being my bed, my car, the mall.
*What genres do you prefer and why? Do you have any genres you avoid?
My favorites would be romance because which girl doesn’t sigh with a good one, terror/horror love to scare myself ajajaaj, dystopia since it seems so real but at the same time sci fi and interesting.
Why are books important to you, and what does reading bring to your life?
Because they can lift my spirits whenever I need, for me they’re like my drug and well they bring a lot of good things to my life, like friends and lots of reads.
Do you have a favorite book or author? Why do you think you like this book/author so much?
Jovee winters, I love her sexy retells of classic children tales.
What medium do you prefer – e-books, audiobooks or paper books? Would you care to expand on this?
Ebooks mostly, audiobooks are good too so I can go in the traffic hearing something cool, paperback are nice only when you have space at your home for them.
How do you usually find the books you read? For example: recommendations from friends, promotion on social networks, your local library, following authors you already know?
Following authors more than anything and with my blog I receive a lot of request to read.
When choosing a book what makes you stop and give it a second look? What makes you turn away?
For me the covers and the blurbs are it, that can convince me to give a book a try. For me to turn away a book it mean the blurb didn’t catch my attention or it was too heavy for my liking.
*Do you read reviews by others and if so do they influence your choice?
Yes sometimes I do, and not really but they could always make a book seem more interesting.
Do you “judge a book by its cover?”
Jaja well sometimes, I do love cute covers it’s a great catch to my eyes, however I do try to buy them for their story.
What do you think is the most important aspect of a book for you? Plot, world-building, strong characters etc.? What turns you off?
Plot and characters for me is what makes a book good or bad.
Too much roundabout can make me turn off since I get bored.
Does the behaviour of an author affect your choice to read one of their books?
Only if they do something bad to me personally if not well people are people and we can’t control them, but it doesn’t mean the books are bad.
What are your views on authors commenting on reviews on sites such as Goodreads?
I think it’s awesome, they get to know their fans and interact with them, that is always a good thing.
If you had to pick three favourite books to take to a desert island what would they be?
Fields of Elysium, The Veil: Awakening, Red and her Wolf
Do you think bricks and mortar bookshops are in decline?
Yes and no, Yes because they’re so few you can get to really like bookshops, and no because lots of business sells books so they are like miniature bookshops inside stores, I’m hopeful they never disappear.
If you are a reviewer why do you review?
Because I like to help people discover new books and authors to know people out there likes their books.
What factors are important in a review?
That the plot is good more than anything in my case.
What are your views on paid for reviews?
It will depend if you’re paying for a good review then it’s bad it should be honest, if you’re paying for the time someone took for reading your book it maybe be more like a donation to that person to keep reading and doing what they love.
Are you influenced by other reviews when choosing a book? What other factors influence your choice?
Not really, I do see what other people think and it’s a matter of points of view.
What influences my choice in a book will be the cover design if it is appealing to me and if the story is enticing.
When reviewing what are the important criteria? Editing? Plot? Which factors do you overlook? (if any)
My criteria, plot and character making, I do overlook editing sometimes since we are humans and can make mistakes.
What are your opinions on authors commenting on a review – negative and positive?
Positive because that shows they care and are willing to learn from those reviews and grow as authors.
Do you feel it is appropriate to discuss author behaviour in a review, is this a factor which influences your choice?
NO its not, a review should solemnly be what you think about a book, no hard feelings in it.
If you need to say something about behavior you can always talk with the author directly.
A lot of readers comment about a book with all 4 or 5 star reviews and nothing below as being suspicious? What do you think about this?
That they really liked these books, it’s not unheard of, I guess.
Do you give negative reviews?
I do try not to be negative about my reviews but if I don’t like a book I try to be professional and polite about it and I never blame a book for not liking it, it’s just not my taste that’s all.
Do you mainly stick to your preferred genres, or would you consider reviewing outside your comfort zone?
I usually stick with my genres but from time to time I like to try and explore a different thing, it can surprise me.
Do you deal with reviewing Indie books differently to how you review a mainstream book? NO I review them the same way, they’re books and shouldn’t be treated differently just like people.
Have you ever been a victim of an ‘author behaving badly’? How did you deal with it?
Just one time and I think it was kind of my fault too, but I think that she was too harsh and judgmental the way she looks at things, well I did apologize to her and all but after that I didn’t want to read her anymore.
March 30, 2016
Author Interview 106 Segilola Salami – Children’s Author/Fairy Tales
I don’t often promote books for kids at the library, but this author’s work intrigued me. The books are bilingual – English and Yoruba, that’s a West African Language spoken by nearly 65 million people. Anyway if you’d like to learn a little more here is some information about the language and people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people
Over to you Segilola…
Welcome to Segilola Salami
Where are you from and where do you live now? I’m a Londoner living in London
Please tell us a little about your writing – for example genre, title, etc.
I write bilingual children’s books. My titles so far are:
Yetunde: The Life and Times of a Yoruba Girl in London
Learn to Count in Yoruba and English
Yetunde: An Ode to My Mother
Where do you find inspiration? My daughter
Research can be important in world-building, how much do you need to do for your books? Do you enjoy this aspect of creating a novel and what are your favourite resources? I tend to have an idea of the folktales I want to include in my book, so I do a bit of online and offline research, speaking to friends to see what versions they remember. This way I try to get the version I tell as close to accurate as I can. I also add my own twists to it. I do enjoy this because it allows me to relive my childhood.
Is there a message conveyed within your writing? Do you feel this is important in a book? I think with my stories, there are some moral guides. This is important, as I hope it teaches children that every action we take has a reaction
In what formats are your books available? (E-books, print, large print audio) Are you intending to expand these and if not, what is the reason? All my books are available as ebooks. Only Yetunde: An Ode to My Mother is available as a paperbook. I definitely would consider expanding the formats the books are available in in the future
Do you self-edit? If so why is that the case? Do you believe a book suffers without being professionally edited? I do both. When I write my first draft, I take a good few days away from it. I give the manuscript to beta readers to provide feedback. When I go back to the draft manuscript, I sometimes find that with the way I wrote a paragraph, my intentions were not clearly put across, so I have to re-write it. I also apply any appropriate feedback I get from my beta readers. Then I pass the manuscript to the professional editor. When I get the manuscript back, I re-read the editors versions. I find that because I translate some Yoruba words, if the editor changes some key words, the meaning would be lost. So it is important that I then re-edit the editors version.
Do you think indie/self-published authors are viewed differently to traditionally published authors? Why do you think this might be? As a reader, I don’t think so.
Do you read work by self-published authors? Yes I do
What are your opinions about authors commenting on reviews? How important are reviews? As a reader, I never bothered reading reviews. The only time I give a review is when Amazon sends me an email asking for a review. As a reader reviews are not that important to me (as I may not have the same views as the previous reviewer) for works of fiction. I like to judge for myself. If I find a book is badly written, I won’t give the author a second go. If I enjoyed the first book, I would seek out other books by the same author. For non-fiction, I definitely check out reviews to see what people think of the content.
As an author, reviews are super important to help me improve and be better at my writing and that’s why I have a network of beta readers and other authors who I call on to get their feedback. In marketing my books, I have been told that it is important to have reviews as there are some people who only check out books that have reviews.
I think authors should not comment on any published reviews s/he gets. If the author knows the person, then they can talk about the review privately.
When buying a book do you read the reviews? Only for non-fiction
Book links, website/blog and author links:
Yetunde: An Ode to My Mother
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/603700
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1R7OVF3
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1S7GM66
Book page: http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/yetunde-an-ode-to-my-mother/
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/yetunde-an-ode-to-my-mother
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/en/book/yetunde-an-ode-to-my-mother/id1072179529?mt=11
GRs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28388212-yetunde
Yetunde: The Life and Times of a Yoruba Girl in London
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1S0AkQ6
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1KJuXDk
Book trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMv4wU5sHI
Author website: http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Yetunde3DAnimation/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iyayetunde1
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/segilolasalami
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7OL37UtAJ-ULNnDGB0SiTg/videos
Google + https://plus.google.com/u/0/+IyaYetunde
Subscribe to Podcast http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/subscribe-to-podcast/
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-segilola-salami-show/id1091366789?mt=2&ls=1
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=85447&refid=stpr
March 29, 2016
Review – The Forty Minute War – Sci-fi/Thriller
The Forty Minute War
Janet and Chris Morris.
http://www.amazon.com/FORTY-MINUTE-WAR-Janet-Morris-ebook/dp/B016QNZV26/
Although first written in the mid 1980s, and set during the height of the Cold War the Forty Minute War could be set anytime from the advent of the atomic bomb to the present day. The enemies may have changed but warfare, and its terrible consequences has not. Right from the get-go the action is intense, enthralling, but at the same time heart breaking. This is a story of human folly, human stubbornness, and human desperation. It’s also a story of human courage. Expect a high death count, expect tears and disbelief, expect emotion. The reader quickly gets attached to the characters – especially Marc and Chris, but also Marc’s ops team. They are all skilled in the field but also flawed – they are above all people desperately trying to right a wrong and save what remains of the world even though they know it will likely mean their death. I admit I shed more than one tear during the read and ended up really wanting to know what happened next. Without wanting to give any spoilers the ending is a surprise but leave questions unanswered. Questions such as if not then, when is it going to happen?
As usual Janet and Chris Morris create a world that is so real, and characters which become friends (or enemies). Well researched and superbly written the novel takes the reader to the darkest place of the human soul, and then back again with a frighteningly believable plot. There are elements of dark humour, of love against impossible odds, of daring to hope when hope is gone. Aside from being a breath taking adventure it’s a story about the unquenchable human spirit to survive.
Most definitely 5 stars – I couldn’t put this down.
March 25, 2016
New Release – Rhubarb the Red Nosed Rabbit – Victoria Zigler
I’m delighted to announce the release of author Victoria Zigler’s new kids book – Rhubarb the Red Nosed Rabbit.
Victoria has featured here a few times and I’m sure you remember she’s a prolific author of kids books about animals.
Title: Rhubarb The Red-Nosed Rabbit
Author: Victoria Zigler
Genres: Children’s books – Animals – Rabbits & Children’s books – Holidays
Published: March 26, 2016
Synopsis:
“I’m sure you’ve heard all about the red-nosed reindeer that saved Christmas. But, have you ever heard the story of the red-nosed rabbit that saved Easter?
Every bunny has always teased Rhubarb because of his bright red nose, even though it’s not his fault he was born different. But when a misty night threatens to stop the Easter Bunny from making his yearly delivery of Easter eggs to the children of the world, Rhubarb’s red nose may be the only thing that can save Easter.”
Buy it from Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/611255
Buy it on iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/book/rhubarb-the-red-nosed-rabbit/id1079964807?l=en&mt=11
Buy it from Barnes & Noble: http://origin-mnr.barnesandnoble.com/w/rhubarb-the-red-nosed-rabbit-victoria-zigler/1123345633?ean=2940152600841
Buy it on Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/rhubarb-the-red-nosed-rabbit
Paperback version coming soon!
Professor Baker reviews High Couch of Silistra
A great review for a great book.
Read Professor Baker’s original reviews of High Couch and other fine books at: https://profesorbaker.wordpress.com/2...
#BookReview #ASMSG High Couch of Silistra (The Silistra Quartet Book 1)
Posted onMarch 23, 2016byprofesorbaker
One woman’s mythic quest for self-realization in a distant tomorrow…
Her sensuality was at the core of her world, her quest beyond the civilized stars.
Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler.
“Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure.” – Charles N. Brown, Locus Magazine
“The amazing and erotic adventures of the most beautiful courtesan in tomorrow’s universe” – Frederik Pohl
“The best single example of prostitution used in fantasy is Janet Morris’ Silistra series… Estri’s character is most like that of Ishtar who describes herself as “‘a prostitute compassionate am I’” because she “symbolizes the creative submission to the demands of instinct, to the chaos of nature …the free woman, as opposed to the domesticated woman”. Linking Estri with these lunar…
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