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It's time for the PRG awards and there are tons of fun authors nominated this year! Voting begins January 29 on the Paranormal Romance Guild site. :) I had a nice surprise and received notification that I have some things in the nominations - yay!  LGBT/SCI-FI/FANTASY/PARANORMAL Rarely Pure and Never Simple  LGBT/ROMANCE/FANTASY/FUTURISTIC/SCI-FI/ACTION ADVENTURE From the Noblest Motives – Angel Martinez  LGBT/ROMANCE/FANTASY/FUTURISTIC/SCI-FI/ACTION ADVENTURE
Ryld’s Shadows – Angel Martinez & Bellora Quinn
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Just got word this week that Quinn's Gambit has been translated into Italian! I don't know about you, but thinking about Val speaking in Italian makes me feel certain things, lol  Linkies below - I don't see the Kobo version yet, but I'm sure that will be soon:
https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/quinns-gambit-italian https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gambetto-di-quinn-bellora-quinn/1141117253 https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Gambetto_di_Quinn?id=Z55hEAAAQBAJ&hl=en_US&gl=US https://www.amazon.com/Gambetto-Quinn-AURA-Italian-Bellora-ebook/dp/B09WKSQHGQ  Lots of stuff happening for Ryld prior to launch date (March 8):
Go forth and sign up for stuff! :D Time to begin the ramp up to release for Ryld's Shadows. We've done a small cover release and now you know what time it is? It's ARC time! I have the book files from the publisher and will be sending them out to the ARC team. More instructions on that in the group. But this gives us plenty of time to do all the things. I also want to apologize again for the missed Shadow Run episode last Monday. Yes, I'm doing much better, thank you everyone.
We'll just have two episodes this coming Monday and I'm sure everyone's terribly upset about that. :D It's the last Friday of 2021! Huzzah and good riddance! But you do get one more Reading Day. :D Here's me blabbing about AURA the series and about Ryld's Shadows: AURA 4 before I read you a wee bit of an excerpt:  Ryld's Shadows
AURA 4 by Bellora Quinn & Angel Martinez Up for pre-order January 25! AURA's offices have been quiet since the mage tower incident—as quiet as they can be for an agency dedicated to policing holes in reality—and the department heads have been free to turn their attention back to mundane matters. The return to quiet bureaucracy gives AURA's Director of Research, Kai Hiltas, the time to turn his energy to a new issue: a young drow with unusual and dangerous powers named Ryld. Though his shadows always lurk at the edges of his vision, Ryld does his best to live quietly and not let them hurt anyone. He has his work, his apartment, and a succession of minders assigned by AURA who are, ostensibly, there to keep him safe in his new world and to prevent him from causing any scenes with his shadows. Most of the time, the arrangement works. But one disastrous incident causes Ryld's minder to leave him unattended and lost—the precise thing he was hired to prevent. To replace the faithless minder, Kai proposes Hank, a half-goblin accountant recently in the middle of a string of terrible luck, while Kai works out how best to get Ryld the magical training he so desperately needs. For his part, Hank truly likes Ryld and insists he would be happier working as Ryld's companion rather than as a controlling minder. As Hank and Ryld slowly come to terms with sharing space—and eventually more—Kai's search for a teacher for Ryld takes them out west on the invitation of the Elvenhome's aelfe queen and right into the lap of inter-elven feuds, ancient prejudice, conspiracies and trafficking rings. What should have been a pleasant visit soon turns into more than even forever-scheming Kai can handle. And here it is! The brand new cover for Ryld's Shadows: AURA 4 Bellora and I are so pleased to be back in the AURA world :D Pre-order for Ryld's Shadows goes up January 25 and goes live in March. Not familiar with AURA? It's M/M (and M/M/M) urban fantasy. A little series blurb for you: "AURA, the Agency of Unnatural Resettlement and Assimilation: it’s a weird job, but somebody’s got to do it. A magical catastrophe tears the fabric of reality, causing unpredictable holes between worlds through which anything might fall—elves, centaurs, trolls, yeti. The brave officers and employees of AURA struggle daily to help the lost and injured, and contain the irretrievably violent while their research staff scramble to find a way to reverse the effect. Anything can and does pop through into the human world, sometimes with disastrous and deadly results. It’s a race against time to see if the AURA mages can repair reality and stop the inter-dimensional flood before something crosses over that proves strong enough to destroy the world." The first three books are available through Pride Publishing and all of your favorite online vendors!  Ryld's Shadows
AURA 4 AURA's offices have been quiet since the mage tower incident—as quiet as they can be for an agency dedicated to policing holes in reality—and the department heads have been free to turn their attention back to mundane matters. The return to quiet bureaucracy gives AURA's Director of Research, Kai Hiltas, the time to turn his energy to a new issue: a young drow with unusual and dangerous powers named Ryld. Though his shadows always lurk at the edges of his vision, Ryld does his best to live quietly and not let them hurt anyone. He has his work, his apartment, and a succession of minders assigned by AURA who are, ostensibly, there to keep him safe in his new world and to prevent him from causing any scenes with his shadows. Most of the time, the arrangement works. But one disastrous incident causes Ryld's minder to leave him unattended and lost—the precise thing he was hired to prevent. To replace the faithless minder, Kai proposes Hank, a half-goblin accountant recently in the middle of a string of terrible luck, while Kai works out how best to get Ryld the magical training he so desperately needs. For his part, Hank truly likes Ryld and insists he would be happier working as Ryld's companion rather than as a controlling minder. As Hank and Ryld slowly come to terms with sharing space—and eventually more—Kai's search for a teacher for Ryld takes them out west on the invitation of the Elvenhome's aelfe queen and right into the lap of inter-elven feuds, ancient prejudice, conspiracies and trafficking rings. What should have been a pleasant visit soon turns into more than even forever-scheming Kai can handle. It's been very quiet writing-wise on my end, except for the serial. I know folks aren't used to that from me. Sorry about that. I do know a few things, though, so a brief update:
Oh hey! Hi! I know things have been slow around here, but there are things in the pipeline. One of those items is Ryld's Shadows, book #4 in the AURA series with Bellora Quinn. Pre-order starts on January 25, which isn't that long from now :o How did that happen? We'll do a cover reveal soon, as well. Fun stuff...  Status updates this week:
 We have dates! Hooray! Ryld's Shadows: AURA 4 will:
For anyone unfamiliar with the series, AURA is urban fantasy that takes place mainly in New York, available from Pride Publishing and all the usual vendors.  |
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Angel writes (mostly) Science Fiction and Fantasy centered around queer heroes. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware and full time inside her head, she has one husband, one son, two cats, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate. |
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