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December 26, 2016
Book Blitz for Light in my Dark by Jean Gilbert and William Dresden
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The heat under Harper’s sweater disappeared the longer she stared at the house. Goose bumps tickled her flesh. She wrapped her arms around her body, but the chill remained. Even so, her eyes refused to look away from the house.
“Well,” she said,” in the real world it is said that she fell through the floor in a part of the house that was still under construction at the time. No mystery there. Just an accident.”
Jack raised an eyebrow at her. “In the middle of the night? Who goes walking around a construction site in the middle of the night? That’s just stupid. What gets me is that’s what all the tourists come to see, not the lake or the mountains or anything else that Glen Eden has to offer. Give the house a ghost, and they come running.”
“Maybe it deserves a ghost. At least then it would be lived in.”
Neither one said anything for a moment as they stared at the mansion.
Finally, Jack spoke again. “There must be over a hundred rooms in there. It’d take days to explore them all.”
“It’d be an adventure.”
“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
About the Authors
William Dresden is an author and award-winning screenwriting. He spent several years as a script doctor and pursued the dream of writing hollywood blockbusters. Now he mostly writes fiction and enjoys spending time with his family and friends. William currently lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.
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Jean Gilbert is an award winning speculative fiction writer from New Zealand. She is a Core member of SpecFicNZ, and is also the coordinator for SpecFicNZ Central. Jean’s novels include the Vault Agency Series: Shifters, Ardus, and The Vault. You can find her short stories Blonde Obsession in Baby Teeth: Bite Size Tales of Terror, and Pride in the Contact Light Anthology.
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October 31, 2016
Chapter Reveal for Enigma (Schrodinger’s Consortium #2) by Tonya Kuper
Title & Author: Enigma (Schrodinger’s Consortium #2) by Tonya Kuper
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Tonya Kuper writes young adult science fiction and contemporary novels. She first fell in love with reading in elementary school, which eventually lead to earning a BA in Elementary Education and a MS in Reading Education, but she never thought she’d write a novel, let alone several. When Tonya isn’t writing, she teaches Young Adult Literature Writing Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, laughs as much as possible, loves music, and nerds-out over Star Wars, Marvel, Sherlock, and all things pop-culture. She lives in Omaha, NE with her husband and two rad boys.
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Book Description for Enigma:
Worst. Road Trip. Ever.
Escaping with Reid Wentworth should have been fun, but how can I enjoy it when I just (accidentally) killed someone, my mom and brother are in danger, and the Consortium is trying to enslave humanity? (Yeah, they aren’t fooling around.)So feeling something for Reid Wentworth was not part of the plan. Trying to help unite the Resistance against the Consortium means I can’t be distracted by hot boys.
The Resistance secret hideout isn’t exactly the rebel base of my dreams. Atraitor there wants me dead, but we have no idea who it is. And with both the Resistance and the Consortium trying to control me, the only one I can trust is Reid. If we’re going to have any chance of protecting my family, controlling my unstable powers, and surviving the clash between the Oculi factions, I’m going to have to catch this traitor. By using myself as bait.
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October 27, 2016
Book Trailer Release for The Last Winter Moon (The Cycle of the Six Moons #3) by Adelle Yeung
The Last Winter Moon (The Cycle of the Six Moons #3)
by Adelle Yeung
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: November 11th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
The Goddess of Starrs has vanished…
Arriscyal has fallen…
Gediyon is missing…
Dreana holds the answers to everyone’s pasts…
When Michelle returns to Starrs, the world is in chaos. No one knows who to trust, and even faith in their Goddess has dwindled. Michelle must reveal the truth of the Cycle; only then can she hope to unite everyone.
The Sixth Moon looms overhead. The end of the Cycle is nigh. Michelle and Jayse must stop it once and for all.
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About the Author
Adelle Yeung is the author of The Cycle of the Six Moons trilogy, a young adult fantasy adventure.
She is also a voice-over artist who can’t go a day without a cup of tea. When she’s not writing or recording, she enjoys sewing costumes, baking sweets, and escaping on video game adventures. She lives in California with a cat that dreams of eating the pet bird.
She has provided script supervision for the independent animation, Shattered Heaven, and is head script editor and one of the co-writers for the upcoming game Fiona Frightening and the Wicked Wardrobe.
October 25, 2016
Book Blitz for Echo Campaign by Taylor Brooke
ECHO Campaign Excerpt: Limbic Simulation Phase One—Proceed with Caution—Number 178Music fluttered through the speakers of a room unlike any other
Brooklyn had seen at the facility. Tapestries hung from the ceiling, stitched
with patterns of the solar system. Grand images of suns and moons and stars
were placed upon the walls in the form of quilts, rugs, and blankets. Above
them was a line of thin candles cradled in iron sconces. Light from their
flames cast long shadows across the ceiling and darkened the bright threading
of the obscure cloths.She didn’t recognize the song, but the gentle cries from a cello
filled the room with a sense of calm that Brooklyn wasn’t comfortable with. The
Limbic Simulation was a fear exercise, a way for Juneau to gauge their control
over primal instincts. Whether flight would overcome the urge to fight or vice
versa. Sweet chocolate and brown sugar filled her nostrils, the smell of baking
cookies. Brooklyn inhaled as much of it as she could. As long as she kept her wits about her she could enjoy the small
moment of peace presented to her. The candlelight, the pleasant smell, even the
interesting tapestries made Brooklyn want to curl up on the floor and stay in
that room. Maybe she would. Maybe she would ignore whatever monsters Juneau and
his team had cooked up, and stay in this moment until it was taken from her by
force, like everything else. A solid wooden door, carved with intricate swirling patterns and a
gold doorknob was across from her. She listened carefully, and beyond the
popping of the candles wicks, she heard a faint tapping, like fingernails
against the other side of the door. She glanced over her shoulder to the docking
station, wondering briefly if it would be worth it to turn around and not
cooperate. To walk out of the room and back into the white hallway where
Michelle and Gabriel probably waited for her. The tapping turned into scratching, like cat claws in the center
of the wooden door. Brooklyn rolled her shoulders and stretched out all her fingers,
cracking them against the side of her legs. Whatever was behind that door, it
was going to die. That was what she told herself as she took long strides past
the pretty hanging quilts, swallowed a last gulp of cookie scented air, and
swung the door open. On the ground was Amber—a clone of her. It writhed with a hand
wrapped around the deep wound on its throat. Blood soaked its shirt and its
bulged eyes pleaded with Brooklyn for help. Its other hand, slick with syrupy
blood, scrambled over Brooklyn’s boot.“Not supposed to happen like this,” it croaked. “He’s out of
containment.”Brooklyn lifted her foot and crushed the clones hand beneath her
heel. “Who?”“Stop the sim…stop…” The clone’s voice faded and the life in its eyes dimmed. Brooklyn
listened to its heart simmer out one beat at a time. Its crimson blood was the brightest thing in the room, harsh
against the eggshell walls, and dark as it soaked the light mauve carpet. She
stepped away from the body, well aware of the pair of eyes glued to her from
across the room. Brooklyn kept her body poised for an attack. Cloaked by a
slanted shadow in the corner of the near empty room stood another clone, one
she’d prepared herself to see.Porter’s clone watched her, hunter and hunted,, but Brooklyn stood
her ground. She met his gaze, rationalizing the jarring bit of panic that flew
through her. The sight of one of their clones would always cause her nerves to
jump, wouldn’t it? This was no different. Her initial thought was to flee, which surprised her, and the
following urge was to wait. She saw his bare feet tap against the carpet. Her
nostrils flared for a hint of emotion. Nothing. No fear, sadness, excitement,
nothing but stagnant air. “Look at you,” the clone said. A peculiar grin moved across its
face, tongue darting out to wet its lips. “Now I can see it. You’re beautiful.”Brooklyn bristled but stayed quiet.“I’ve wondered for quite some time why he likes you. You’re
stubborn, irrational, explosive even, yet he chose to chase you. I see it now.
I see it clearer than ever before.”Unwarranted heat rushed into Brooklyn’s cheeks. She straightened
her back and curled her fingers into fists. A pain suddenly spiked in her lower
abdomen, searing, achy knots. This clone was unlike any she’d encountered, and
the thought made her violently uneasy. “Porter and I—we’re brothers. I feel connected to him more than to
my own father. Perhaps it was his visibility, his life, his accomplishments.
Maybe it was my own jealousy of him that built the bridge between us, I don’t
know. The only thing I do know for certain, Brooklyn Leona Harper, is that I
did not know envy until you. You…” It slithered from the shadows, and like Porter, it had pools of
whiskey for eyes. His intense gaze pushed into her like a dagger. Her voice
crawled away, hidden in the back of her throat. He moved slowly like an ancient
predator, a scaled, winding dragon taking inventory of its meal. “You are a star nursery, giving birth to clusters of energy and
fire and unrelenting anger. I can feel it burning the deepest parts of me, and
now, in your presence, I understand his love for you better than I understand
myself. The thought of taming a force like you, being sucked into your gravity,
it thrills me.” Brooklyn wanted to back up but her legs wouldn’t budge. She tried
to reign in her runaway heartbeat, to squash the irrational fear that was
hollowing out her courage. The clone took another step, its nostrils flaring as
it leaned toward her face and inhaled. Its lips tightened, and when it let the
breath go Brooklyn could see the delicate curve of its cupids bow quiver. “You,” it breached the space between them, cheek brushing against
Brooklyn’s face as it whispered against her ear, “You are a force, a goddess
among simple creatures.”The fear buried inside her launched into her throat and Brooklyn
lashed out, shoving the clone backward. She raised her fist, aiming it directly
at its jaw.Its long fingers gripped her hand, catching the punch before she
could land it. Her wrist crumbled. Her eyes watered. She felt all the strength
in her body push toward the surface, but it was no use. The clone, stronger
than anything she’d encountered before, slammed her smaller frame against the
wall. It held her arms above her head, fingers latched around her wrists, its
other hand snatching her jaw like a bear trap. “We could take it all,” the clone’s mouth moved against her
temple, lips scorching a trail down to her chin. “You and I, we could lead them
all. Start over. There are enough of us.”“What are you?” Brooklyn whimpered, kicking her feet against its shins.
Her strength was nothing against Porter’s clone. Her fear evolved
into dismay, and then into hysteria. She thrashed. Her breath was hard to catch
as the heated press of the clone’s body held her to the wall like she weighed
nothing.The hand wrapped around her jaw moved down to grip her waist, and
the clone laughed, eyes leaving burns on her wherever they settled. It closed
the space between them, taking her lips in a searing kiss. She recoiled and
slammed her teeth into its lip until she tasted blood. Shouts came from every direction. First she heard the clone, its
voice hot against her mouth, licking blood off her lips, “My brother is a lucky
man, Brooklyn. You are incredible.” Next Brooklyn was falling, her body a heap, shaking on the floor.
About the Author
Taylor Brooke is the author of the upcoming sci-fi adventure trilogy The Isolation Series. She started out as a freelance makeup artist, and quickly discovered her love of elves, zombies, mermaids, kaiju, and monsters of all kinds. After receiving eight professional certifications in special effects makeup, working on countless projects, and fleshing out a multitude of fantastical creatures, she turned her imagination back to her one true love- books. Taylor has had a knack for writing since she was a little girl, and received recognition for her skills throughout grade school and junior college. When she’s not nestled in a blanket typing away on her laptop, she can be found haunting the local bookstore with a cup of steaming hot tea in her hands, scanning the shelves for new reads, or hiking one of the many mountains that surround her home in Oregon.
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October 10, 2016
Cover Reveal of How to be Someone Else by Rachel Del
How to Be Someone Else
by Rachel Del
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 20th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
Sometimes it is the one who knows you best who can love you best.
Penny has lived her life letting others take the reins, leaving her to simply follow in line. After completing her senior year of College she’ll join her father’s marketing firm, get married and start a family.
When her parents drop a bomb on her — that they are getting divorced — Penny decides it’s time to start living by her own rules. And when she meets mysterious P.J. Hawthorne, a published writer who seems to know much more about Penny than she lets on, she knows this is her chance to finally get her life moving in the right direction.
But as questions about her new life overwhelm her, so do thoughts of sweet and gorgeous Alex — who just so happens to be her best friend.
What follows is a series of poor decisions, each one more worrisome than the last, forcing Penny further and further away from not only Alex, but from becoming the woman she’s sure she’s meant to be.
About the Author
Rachel Del is a head-in-the-clouds introvert, homebody and thirty-something writer currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and three-year-old son. Originally from Ontario, Canada she works in publishing, and spends her free time reading, writing and drinking far too much black coffee.
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September 27, 2016
Book Blitz for The Dark at the End by Susan Adrian
The Dark at the End (Tunnel Vision #2)
by Susan Adrian
Genre: YA Thriller
Release Date: September 27th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
Continuing the critically acclaimed story of TUNNEL VISION:
Jake thinks he has only one more step and he’ll be free: he has to get the serum to stop his ability to tunnel—to find and control people through objects. But Jake’s contact has been killed, and there’s no sign of the serum. Then Jake’s mom and little sister Myka are kidnapped, right under his nose. With the government, his power-mad father, and the terrifying Mr. Smith all after him while he still has his power, he doesn’t have anywhere to turn.
What will Jake do to get his mom and little sister back?
Anything.
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About the Author
Susan Adrian is a 4th-generation Californian who somehow stumbled into living in Montana. In the past she danced in a ballet company and worked in the fields of exotic pet-sitting, clothes-schlepping, and bookstore management. She’s settled in, mostly, as a scientific editor. When she’s not with her family, she keeps busy researching spy stuff, learning Russian, traveling, and writing more books.
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September 22, 2016
Cover Reveal for Forgetting Yesterday by Ava Wood
Forgetting Yesterday
by Ava Wood
Genre: YA Romance
Release Date: October 28th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
Missy Shaw thought she had her life planned out perfectly; do well in school, take her basketball team to state, and get a free ride to college. Her life wasn’t perfect, but it was constant. With her best friend Karley at her side, she could handle anything.
After the death of her mother, however, her dad had other plans. Moving Missy from everything she knew in Kansas to the great unknown created a new set of problems. Attending a new school, all she really wanted was to be invisible, but that simple feat proved difficult when she had a run-in with the school’s basketball star, Adam Miller, on her very first day.
Adam is every girl’s dream; charming, sweet, and gorgeous. And for some reason, he’s very interested in Missy. His attentiveness is unnerving as Missy does everything in her power to evade his interest. Living with secrets she’s not willing to share, Missy works to push Adam away in order to keep her family safe. But will keeping secrets really keep her safe?
About the Author
Ava Wood is an insomniac who writes to calm the voices. When the voices get too loud, stories are formed.
Ava was born and raised in Texas but got to Florida as quick as she could, enjoying the fresh sea air and summer storms. She believes there is nothing more beautiful than an evening summer light show.
She’s married to the love of her life whom she shares two beautiful daughters and four sweet fur babies. Their marriage is the perfect “North-meets-South” pairing.
When she’s not writing, Ava can be found chasing her children all over the county, snapping photos of any and everything, visiting one of her local theme parks, or just spending quality time with her family.
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September 15, 2016
Book Blitz for Nickel by Robert Wilder
Nickel
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: September 13th 2016
Summary:
A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND LOYALTY. Being a teenager is hard enough without your mother in rehab and your slightly inept stepfather doing his best not to screw things up. But at least, Coy has Monroe. Coy is a quirky teenage boy and his best friend Monroe is a girl who is just as odd and funny and obsessed with 80’s culture as he is. So when Monroe comes down with a mysterious illness, his inner turmoil only grows. As Monroe gets sicker and Coy gets a girlfriend from another social crowd, the balance tips and Coy has to figure out how not to give up on his friend, his family, or himself. Nickel is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest portrayal of the complicated world of being a teenager today.
“No one has ever written about the pains of being a teenager–physically and psychologically, inside and out–quite like Robert Wilder in his startling debut novel. He has created indelible characters in Monroe and Coy–funny and sad and strong and broken–and NICKEL is about as real as it gets.
–AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, New York Times best-selling author of Running With Scissors
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“A
humorous, poignant, and formidable debut.”
-BOOKLIST (starred review)
“A witty, angst-filled drama.”
–KIRKUS
“I loved this novel for its humor and pathos, for its honesty and
accuracy about what it means to live in our world. Nickel features a heartbreaking set of
circumstances, yet its narrator never loses his essential charm as a young man
ready to find hilarity even in the direst of dark times. The first thing I
wanted to do was recommend the book to everybody.”
–ANTONYA NELSON, award-winning author of Funny Once, Talking in Bed, and
Bound
“I have never read anything that captures the teenage mind quite
like Robert Wilder’s funny and brilliantly honest book, or encountered a
narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies of Nickel; one to read over and over again and one to give
away.”
–NATALIE GOLDBERG, author of Writing Down the Bones, and The Great Spring
“Funny, suspenseful, and alive with the most vivid adolescent
characters you’ll ever read, Nickel is a
wonderful novel and Rob Wilder is a masterful writer.”
–ROBERT BOSWELL, award-winning author of Tumbledown, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, Crooked
Hearts, and Mystery Ride
“Compassionate, frightening and funny, this is a terrific book.
With seeming ease Wilder gets precisely the ironic detachment and surface
sophistication of today’s youth culture while delving straight into the heart
of adolescence, its fragile emotions, its awkwardness, uncertainty and ancient
fears. Despite my initial hesitations about diving back into the
isolating terrors of high school and of serious illness, I was immediately won
over by this author’s keen insight, his rare ability with
language, his leavening humor and–using all of these in
tandem–his power to convince.”
–DAVID SMALL, author/illustrator and Caldecott
Award winner for So You Want To Be President?, and The Gardener, plus two-time National Book Award
Finalist for Stitches, and The Underneath
“Robert Wilder’s Nickel is a
feisty, fantastically gripping story. The novel is a funny, frank,
heartbreaking portrait of adolescence, which the author knows all too well as
the most emotionally intense period of anyone’s life. This is doubly true for
Wilder’s Coy, a smartass but deeply bruised nonconformist grappling with
illness and threat all around him. I haven’t read a teenage narrator this
well-drawn, this vexingly captivating since Salinger!”
–CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS, award-winning author of Gold Fame Citrus, and Battleborn
“This funny, sad, and tender novel sweeps us effortlessly into the
land of sectarian cliques and conspiracies—high school. We learn, as if for the
first time, that some of us get acquainted with incalculably dark knowledge too
soon. Like Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital,
Rob Wilder’s novel reminds us that adolescent best friendships are the purest
form of love. And the site of purest heartbreak too.”
–DEBRA MONROE, award-winning author of My Unsentimental Education, On the Outskirts of Normal, and The Source of Trouble
About the Author
Robert Wilder is the author of two critically acclaimed essay collections, Tales From The Teachers’ Lounge and Daddy Needs A Drink, both published by Delacorte Press. His YA novel, Nickel, will be published September 2016 by Leaf Storm Press.
A teacher for more than twenty-five years, he has earned numerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation. He has published essays in Newsweek, Details, Salon, Parenting, Creative Nonfiction, plus numerous anthologies and has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition. Wilder lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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September 13, 2016
Book Blitz for Captivate by Vanessa Garden
Captivate (Submerged Sun #1)
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: August 10th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
In a glittering underwater world, where danger lurks behind beauty and power…
For the past twelve months since her parents’ death, seventeen-year-old Miranda Sun has harboured a dark secret — a secret that has strained the close relationship she once shared with her older sister, Lauren. In an effort to repair this broken bond, Miranda’s grandparents whisk the siblings away on a secluded beach holiday. Except before Miranda gets a chance to confess her life-changing secret, she’s dragged underwater by a mysterious stranger while taking a midnight swim.
Awakening days later, Miranda discovers that she’s being held captive in a glittering underwater city by an arrogant young man named Marko…the King of this underwater civilisation.
Nineteen-year-old Marko intends to marry Miranda in order to keep his crown from falling into the sinister clutches of his half-brother, Damir. There’s only one problem. Miranda is desperate to return home to right things with her sister and she wants nothing to do with Marko. Trying to secure her freedom, Miranda quickly forms an alliance with Robbie — Marko’s personal guard. However, she soon discovers that even underwater, people are hiding dangerous secrets…
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A bookseller and Young Adult author, Vanessa loves nothing more than immersing herself in the exciting world of books. When she is not raving about her favourite reads with customers, or mentally casting actors to play the characters in her next novel, she enjoys hanging out with those she loves most.
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September 12, 2016
Book Blitz for A Night Without Stars by Jillian Eaton
A Night Without Stars
Genre: YA Paranormal
Summary from Goodreads:
You might know vampires…but you don’t know Lola.
Sixteen-year-old Lola Sanchez is no hero. Snarky, rebellious, and completely fed up with her life, she has one goal: graduate high school and get the hell out of her small hometown. Until a night of terror and bloodshed changes everything…forever.
Now the only thing Lola wants to do is survive. But how can she survive when everything she knows has been destroyed and the one person she thought she could trust ends up being the most dangerous person of all?
Please Note: ‘A Night Without Stars’ was previously published as a novella entitled ‘Pitch’ in 2012. It is now a full length novel. All reviews prior to 01/21/14 are for ‘Pitch’.
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I guess this is where I get to tell you all about myself! So here goes. My name is Jillian Eaton, I’m 29, a Leo, huge animal lover, Supernatural fan (Go Team Dean!), and coffee addict. I grew up in Maine and now live in Pennsylvania in a one hundred year old house I bought with my boyfriend a little over a year ago. Together we have three dogs, two horses, and a very fun, crazy, chaotic life.
For as long as I can remember I have loved to read, and as soon as I figured out how to hold a pencil that love of reading turned into a love of writing. I self-published my first historical romance in 2012. Since then I have published thirteen novellas and six novels. While I primarily write historical romance, I’ve enjoyed dabbling in paranormal young-adult and contemporary women’s fiction.
In addition to writing, I teach two riding classes at Delaware Valley University (my alma mater) and train horses at a small private farm that I used to manage before I left to become a full-time writer!
When I’m not working, you’ll most likely find me taking my dogs for a walk, fussing over my goofy thoroughbred, looking up house projects on pinterest, binging on Netflix, gardening, or attempting to cook (attempting being the key word).
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