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I nominate my book, The White Stag, a YA fantasy novel.
Synopsis: Win and become the King. Lose your armor, lose your life. A kingdom in chaos, and countless men dead. When Cypress emerges from her village in the forest to seek her fate in the outside lands, she doesn't bargain on becoming part of the realm's politics with the Knight's Game. Twelve men were chosen for the Game, each with his own symbol, and the last one standing becomes the next King. One man wears the sigil of the white stag, an unearthly being from Cypress' own forest, that draws her into a world she never dreamed of. But when Cypress comes face to face with her spitting image, the father she never knew, she joins the Game to ensure his tyranny will not become law, all while hiding a secret that could get her killed - that she's a woman.
@Linden - your book looks very interesting. Even if not picked for BOTM, I have added it to my TBR list. Thanx for telling me about it.
You're quite welcome. Thank you for adding.
Please consider my young adult/new adult fantasy novel, The Immortal Game:
When struggling pre-med student Ruby West beats the unconquerable Ash at chess he becomes fixated on her. Which is great if you like smoldering blue eyes, sculpted features, and afternoons of unexpected adventure. But not so great when she discovers he is a Greek god and his father, Zeus, has forbidden the gods from interacting with humans.
Ruby soon realizes her love for Ash threatens the fragile stability that has kept the gods from meddling in the mortal world.
Before long the two find themselves on a quest to rescue a goddess, save the Earth from unending winter, and secure the right to be together forever.
So cool to let us nominate/suggest our own books here!I'd love if any of my books could be read for BOTM.
This is a thriller/suspense/drama book about a girl with multiple personalities who finds her past catching up with her in a terrifying way.
This is the first book in my Blackwater series. It's a paranormal romance about a woman who finds out she has powers and belongs to a group of witches called "The Coven." Definitely a commitment to the series, but a really crazy storyline that's been well-received!
I would like to recommend The Licen Sepulcher. It is the first book in the Palatnis series. Humanity is thrown unexpectedly into an intergalactic war that has been tearing the universe apart for eons. An intergalactic war for a mysterious object that many alien races have died to protect. 2nd Lieutenant James Masinger is a 22 year old marine officer who after college, has joined up with the newly formed United Galactic Peace Corps. James is sent to the first human colony planet, Topin. While on the planet, he investigates the disappearance of a few of the colonists. The disappearances only multiply as he discovers exactly what is going on in the forests of the large planet. The discovery sends him on a race to save humanity from a disastrous fate. He must fight through everything the Universe throws at him to stop an evil force from obtaining the ultimate power, Palatnis.The Licen Sepulcher
Please consider my new novel, Broken Dolls
Private investigator RB Kendrick makes her living nailing cheating spouses, digging up other dirt to help in a divorce, finding long-lost relatives, and occasionally sniffing out criminal activity and fraud.
When she takes a job to find a missing girl, she has no idea she is headed for the most dangerous case of her career. Usually, her ability to read minds gives her an edge. But when the people she’s hunting are also telepaths, that advantage is limited.
The search takes her into the dark underbelly of telepathic society, where anything, and anyone, is for sale. She discovers that telepathic women and girls are being trafficked as the ultimate sex slaves.
With people trying to kill her, she’s on the run, not knowing who she can trust. Will she find the missing girl, or become a victim herself?
(The book has language and adult subject matter that is not appropriate for younger readers, although there is no erotic content.)
Hi - thanks for the opportunity to nominate my book - 'Corpalism'
Arun
As an Indie Author, I'd like to suggest my book Bring Me Back, the first book of the Bring Me Back Trilogy. Here is the link and check out the Bring Me Back Book Trailer on my profile. Thanks for the opportunity!https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Confessions of a murder suspect by James Patterson
When does the poll actually start for this one?
Mod
The mods will pick a book suggested here or any indie book for our mods pick every other month. So every other month an indie book will be picked by two of the mods to read for that month. The books here will not go into a poll but is simply suggestions for the mods indie picks.
Hi!Sorry to intrude, but I would like to suggest you my novel Patch Up. It's a Contemporary novel, first in a two book series.
I don't know if you would enjoy it, but either way, I hope you'll check it out on goodreads. :)
Thank you!
I'd like to nominate my own
COMMENTS FROM EARLY READERS: “… the rare feat of a convincing description of hand to hand combat together with a very skillful development of plot and background.” A. G. Chaudri.
“This is fascinating, a true Smiley for current times and troubles, with the added, exotic allure to Western readers of the mystique that is China. It has all the hallmarks of a literary thriller.” Kay Christine Fenton.
“A complex story … so vivid, lifelike and realistic.” Charles Knightley, Author.
For Indie books I suggest Aquila: From the DarknessSecrets of the Realm and Monochrome. I am half way through the first two and the stories and characters are very interesting. I am the author of the last and am somewhat biased.
I'd like to suggest my own novel, the first in its series Gilded Feathers a paranormal romance novel filled with secrets and suspense, danger and desire! I've had fantastic feedback so far! Thanks so much for the opportunity!
J. Woods
I will be cheeky and nominate my first one.The Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles. This is adult dark fantasy romance with a bit of erotica:)Thanks for the opportunity.
I'd like to suggest my own novel, the first in my series of action-centric epic fantasy novels about a world-spanning war between gods and nations.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Thanks for the opportunity
Thanks so much for this! I'd like to nominate my own book, "Rumors of Wars". It releases in January. The synopsis is below, and you can find the first chapter here: https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...Bounty hunter Perish Blackburn has an unquenchable need to make money. The world is a dark, dangerous place in 2075, a place where only the strong and the wealthy survive. Perish is strong, but she wants to do more than just survive. And to do that, she needs money. Those without money are little better than slaves, a fate she is determined to avoid.
Fortunately for her, in a world where paranormal beings are literally falling at her feet, she has a unique arsenal of skills. Her talents are quite valuable, especially for someone who isn’t squeamish about putting those abilities to use, or particular about whom she uses them for. Things are going quite well and she’s on her way to accumulating another sizable sum of cash when she comes to the attention of the one organization that can totally derail her plans, end her life, and quite possibly, the world in the process.
They have need of a talent Perish has just discovered she has, and given that they’re not the kind of people you can just say no to, she has to figure out a way to say yes and live to tell about it. She’s pretty sure she can, even with the unwanted help of a werewolf with the disposition of an Old World gentleman, a housemate who can only be described as eccentric and a couple of relatives who have been dead for centuries.
I nominate my YA Historical Fiction
. This is a coming of age story about an orphaned girl named Annie Moore living in 18th century England. She runs away to London, where disguised as a boy, she becomes the cabin boy on a merchant ship named the Realm. Annie finds that she is not the only one on the ship that has secrets that must be kept.I am presently working on a sequel.
Bev wrote: "I nominate my YA Historical Fiction . This is a coming of age story about an orphaned girl named Annie Moore living in 18th century England. She runs away ..."I beat you, Bev. I nominated ya.
H.M. wrote: "Bev wrote: "I nominate my YA Historical Fiction . This is a coming of age story about an orphaned girl named Annie Moore living in 18th century England. Sh..."I see it now. The lack of punctuation between the first two book names caused me to miss it! LOL Thanks.
Bev wrote: "H.M. wrote: "Bev wrote: "I nominate my YA Historical Fiction . This is a coming of age story about an orphaned girl named Annie Moore living in 18th centur..."lol I know it! I was mad that happened.
I'd love to add for consideration the book I published posthumously for my grandfather, Hot Air Promotions, by Stanley McShane, considered a historical fiction. Reads like an autobiography--isn't--but he did a lot of mining and failing that investing in mining and oil stocks out of the San Francisco Mining Exchange. He dropped a lot of 1920's/30's names of some major early western characters.
I'm suggesting my indie humorous novel, "Somewhere Upriver."
Thanks,
Patrick Loafman
I'd like to nominate Zoe Cannon's Internal Defense books, the first two of which are already out:
She also has a companion short story to the series:
They're thought-provoking YA dystopian novels with a focus on the main character's internal struggle.
hey, will you guys consider nominating any of my books? :)
The Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles is mine - adult dark fantasy/fantasy romance with eroticaCan I also nominate these:
The Great Succession Crisis Extended Edition
Oblivion's Forge
Kainan
These have all been on my TBR for a while:)
I would like to nominate my own book, Fanged, a young adult vampire novel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1....Fanged is the story of four teen vampires who try to pass as human, until the death of a popular classmate in their high school tears their world apart. Suddenly, they risk exposure, and as each person in the group comes forward with a secret, they realize just how dangerous their town can be for vampires.
I would like to nominate my book Sex in the Title
for BOTM. http://tinyurl.com/GRSITTSYNOPSIS:
New York City, May 2000. The Internet bubble has burst, and Evan's boss fires him with an email. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse. Fortunately, Evan meets someone whose legendary disasters with females eclipse even his own.
To reverse their fortunes, they recruit their friends into a group of five guys who take on Manhattan in pursuit of dates, sex, and adventure. With musings about life, relationships, and human psychology, this quintessential New York story about the search for happiness follows five men on their comical paths to trouble, self-discovery, and love.
Hi, I'd like to nominate book 1 in my series :)
A young adult paranormal romance series.
An epic journey.
If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?
Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23. But she is grateful for a few things, especially her no-filter-between-brain-and-mouth best friend Lucy and her escape each night into a dream world far different from her own.
In fact, sometimes she lives for the fleeting moments she spends at night with the man who fuels every romantic fantasy she’s ever had. But each morning reality returns. She could just cry. But she won’t of course; tears don’t change a damn thing.
Then without any warning, a month before her eighteenth birthday, everything does change. A guardian finds her. He explains, in a strangely familiar accent, that she was stashed on Earth for safekeeping and has been lost to her family ever since. And it is time to return home. To the First World; a land of unimagined beauty.
Abigail and Lucy find themselves escaping New York, ending up on another planet and traversing through an unforgiving wilderness. Yeah, because that sort of thing just happens every day. Luckily, an unexpected saviour arrives; the man from her dream-world. Brace is six-and-a-half feet of gorgeous perfectness, wrapped in an arrogance like no other. Unable to trust his assistance, and unsure which of her instincts to follow - kiss him or punch him in the mouth - Abigail eventually accepts his help to find her family.
And what a family. Enter Josian, her father; larger than life and apparently not even human. He is Walker, a planet-less race revered as gods, causing mischief and mayhem through-out this star-system. Unfortunately, there is no time for a cosy reunion, since no one explained that by returning to First World her half-Walker genetics would act as a catalyst setting forth a chain of events which could spell disaster for not only her existence but that of all worlds.
First World is book one in the Walker Saga, a seven-book paranormal fantasy.
I feel a little odd about suggesting my own book but the moderators sent me here to do so....Please consider my work, Restoration, Immortality Begins. It is the first in a trilogy and is based in the near future and is somewhat post apocalyptic. I say that because only portions of the world were destroyed. Here is the back cover synopsis.
The year is 2056. The world is still recovering from the pandemic of 2027 when a meteor borne virus wiped out half the population. Cloning has been legalized in a desperate attempt to save humanity. Dodge Kerrington, a renowned Electronics Engineer leads his team at Embedded Systems Specialist in a race against their competitors. They must design and perfect memory transfer for the Human Cloning Process. ESS prevails by creating the first successful system that records IHE (individual human experience) as a LifeFile that uploads into the brain of a newly grown clone. ESS launches the system and human immortality is born. Disease Treatment Centers are bankrupt. Hospitals and Clinics convert to LifeCenters, all in the business of providing Restoration services. Funerals are nearly unheard of, only hardcore religious hold outs choose natural death over Restoration. Enter the world of High Tech Industrial Espionage with Dodge Kerrington and his best friend and security expert John Calhoun as they fight for their very lives against criminal master mind Cyrus Slade and his partner, a world renowned hacker known only as "Glitch" who desperately desire to obtain the new technology and the incredible power that comes with it. It's an all out battle for control of Restoration and the minds of those that created it. In a high tech game of murder, hacking, and unbridled greed, the future of humanity hangs in the balance.
And the amazon link... there is also a sample of it (about a third) right on goodreads on my page.
Thanks for considering! Todd D. Utley
http://www.amazon.com/Restoration-Imm...
Please consider my book, THE GIRL. It's the first book in the paranormal trilogy I'm developing called The Sanctum. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here is a synopsis:
The Sanctum, an all-powerful governing body founded by ten families, entrusted to maintain the peace amongst Magicals and ensure the ignorance of humans, has been corrupted by greed and savagery for generations, but is all Wyatt Clayworth has ever known.
Dev, the hybrid demon prophesied to bring an end to The Sanctum and destroy the world for Magicals and humans alike, is not what Wyatt expected to find when sent out on his latest mission. Believed to be hunting a killing machine, Wyatt finds little more than a broken girl with haunted eyes and a bit of a death wish. Drawn to one another for reasons they cannot begin to explain to themselves, much less anyone else, Wyatt is determined to protect Dev and help her realize her mission to avenge the deaths of her family at the hands of The Sanctum.
Set against the backdrop of New York City, THE GIRL is described as "outstanding, original, complex, deep and intoxicating", a "well written, unique...fast-paced read" that begins as one girl's simple quest for revenge and evolves into a complicated tale of trust, friendship, honor and love.
I'd be honored if you'd consider the book Erased
Here's the back cover synopsis:
There’s that moment – you know the moment – when you emerge from sub-consciousness and enter full awareness. Now imagine reaching that moment with a pounding head, throbbing body, hospital ID band around your wrist, and no memory. No idea why you hurt the way you do, or how you got where you are. No clue what your own name is, or who the people next to you are.
I’m seventeen-year-old Ryan Farnsworth, and that’s what happened to me. Now I have to walk a mile in my own, unfamiliar shoes; view myself through the eyes of a perfect stranger; live the life a former me chose. I also need to figure out why that former me tried to kill me.
Please consider my dystopian dieselpunk/decopunk novel, The City Darkens
for indie BOTM.It will appeal to those who like political intrigues and stories about vigilantes. :)
I would like to add my book to the list. Apocalipstick. Jenna lives in a post-apocalyptic world filled with stalkers and a new race called the “others.” Jenna must not only survive this bleak landscape full of death and chaos, but she must also help a small group of survivors reach the safe haven of the High Point Inn. At the inn, Jenna can finally relax and develops feelings for two men: Quentin, who reminds her of the past and Caleb, who, while exotic and intoxicating, is not quite human.
My name is Jeffrey Vollmer and I recently authored the Am-Nord Noir Novel: Faded Gray. Would love to share thoughts and talk Eurasian crime stories. Great reviews by peacecorpsworld.com Faded Gray
I would like to nominate my book,
for BOTM. It is a mature YA contemporary romance. Liv, the MC, turns 18 in the book, and has built a barrier the size of the Great Wall of China around her heart. Every man/father figure she has ever loved…has left her in one way or another, leaving her completely jaded. That, mixed with Logan’s dangerous career choice (street racing), is why it’s so hard for her to let Logan in. Will she take a risk and open up to him? And if she does, will she end up losing him to racing regardless?
Read the official synopsis here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The book will be available for FREE on Amazon on Sunday, March 16, 2014! Get it!
Please may I put my book forward for indie BOTM?
Humorous UF in a British setting.
Cheers!
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