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Destruction by @SharonBayliss #decemberpeople #newrelease

Introducing a new dark wizard family drama, Destruction by Sharon Bayliss, Book One in The December People Series. BUY NOW
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David Vandergraff wants to be a good man. He goes to church every Sunday, keeps his lawn trim and green, and loves his wife and kids more than anything. Unfortunately, being a dark wizard isn't a choice.
Eleven y...

Lleu Llaw Gyffes #atozchallenge

Lleu Llaw Gyffes by Margaret JonesL - The rather sad story of Lleu Llaw Gyffes of Welsh mythology (counterpart to Lugh in Celtic mythology) begins well before his birth.

When Gilfaethwy meets his uncle's virgin foot-holder, Goewin, he decides he absolutely must have her. Gwydion convinces Gilfaethwy to start a war between North and South Wales so the two of them can rape Goewin in the ensuing chaos. Gilfaethwy agreed with this awful plan, and so they stole Pryderi's magical pigs. The Demetian...

Kalfu #atozchallenge

K - Haitian mythology is home to so many of the creatures, practices, and legends we fear. Voodoo, mind control, zombies, evil spirits, horrible curses and hexes... Haitian mythology has it all! But Haitian mythology isn't all doom and gloom. It is also home to some very beautiful beliefs. 

Vodou Ceremony - Andre NormilIn Haitian belief, Loa (spirits) belong to one of three nations. The Rada, the Petwo, and the Guede. Guede Loa are generally associated with fertility and sexuality. Rada L...

Jinn #atozchallenge

J - In Arabic and Islamic folklore, humans and angels are joined in intelligence by a race known as the Jinn (also Djinn or Jannu). According to the folklore, Allah created humans from clay, the angels from light, and the Jinn from fire that doesn't burn. As a result of their form they appear to look a lot like smoke. Depending on whom you ask, the Jinn live in dimensions outside of our universe (often called Kaf or Jinnistan), but are able to travel between dimensions, or they had domin...

Izanagi and Izanami #atozchallenge

I - The myth of Izanagi and Izanami, like so many others found throughout the world, does triple duty as a love story, a creation myth, and a cautionary tale. In Japanese and Shinto mythology, Izanagi and Izanami were born when heaven and earth separated from Chaos. Together, they stood on the floating bridge of heaven and stirred the primordial ocean with a jeweled spear. As they did so, the first land formed. 

Stirring the primordial seaBecause Izanami spoke during their first coupling,...

Cover Reveal: Charming by @KrystalWade

Popular YA author Krystal Wade has a thrilling new young adult novel coming out in October, 2014! The spine-tingling suspense in CHARMING will get your heart rate up. We promise you.
We have a fun jigsaw puzzle of the cover for you guys! Go on, give it a try!...but if you can’t wait, just scroll down and take a peek at the final cover of CHARMING!

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Cover Reveal: The Book of Bart by @J_ryan

Behold! The cover for Ryan Hill's debut YA Paranormal novel THE BOOK OF BART, coming May 22 from Curiosity Quills!
Summary: Only one thing is so powerful, so dangerous that Heaven and Hell must work together to find it: the Shard of Gabriel.
With a mysterious Black Cloud of Death hot on the shard’s trail, a desperate Heaven enlists the help of Bart, a demon who knows more about the shard than almost anyone. Six years ago, he had it in his hands. If only he’d used it before his coup to overthro...

Helen of Troy #atozchallenge

H- Helen is one of those legendary women I love to hate and hate to love.


Frederick Sandy's "Helen"According to the myths (or legends in this instance), Helen was the daughter of Zeus. As a child, Theseus kidnapped her before her brothers swooped in to rescue her. As she grew, so did her beauty. Men from all over Greece vied for her hand in marriage, but Helen chose Menelaus (brother to her sister's husband, Agamemnon), King of Sparta.

But Helen wasn't satisfied with Menelaus. She fell for the...

Gaia #atozchallenge

G - Gaia (or Gaea) is the Greek Earth Goddess, also known as Earth or Mother Earth. She is the primordial Mother Goddess, having birthed all that is upon the Earth, as well as the Greek pantheon. Hesiod's Theogony tells how Gaia sprang from Chaos. 

Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest am...

False Face Society and the Flying Head #atozchallenge

F  - Prior to the arrival of our European ancestors in the Americas, the Iroquois Confederacy (or the Six Nations) had spread far and wide across what is now the United States. Each of these tribes had their own unique traditions, beliefs, and folklore. Unfortunately, many of those traditions have been lost to us over the years.

Those that remain are absolutely fascinating, however.


The Flying Head.The Iroquois believed in a spirit called the Flying Head. This was a very bad spirit with lo...