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Thursday News Bites - Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers' Choice Awards

1/19/2023

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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!

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LGBT/SCI-FI/FANTASY/PARANORMAL

Rarely Pure and Never Simple
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​LGBT/ROMANCE/FANTASY/FUTURISTIC/SCI-FI/ACTION ADVENTURE
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From the Noblest Motives – Angel Martinez

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LGBT/ROMANCE/FANTASY/FUTURISTIC/SCI-FI/ACTION ADVENTURE

Ryld’s Shadows – Angel Martinez & Bellora Quinn

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Thursday News Bites - More ARC and Blog Sign Ups!

2/10/2022

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Lots of stuff happening for Ryld prior to launch date (March 8):
  • The publisher is offering ARC's through Booksprout. If you would like an early review copy, go and snag one before they're all claimed!
  • The publisher is also running a new release blitz, which means various blogs will have the release info and a Rafflecopter drawing ($50.00 gift certificate for First For Romance, which sells tons of romance, all sorts.) If you have a blog and would like to participate, please see the Blitz Sign-up.
  • Bellora and I will also have a blog tour running in early March with some fun interviews and other Ryld related posts. More prizes! The Rafflecopter for that tour will be $25.00 Pride Publishing gift cards (2).

​Go forth and sign up for stuff! :D
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Friday Reading Day - Ryld's Shadows

12/31/2021

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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:
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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.
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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.
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Thursday News Bites - Cover Reveal Time!

12/23/2021

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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!



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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.
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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.
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Thursday News Bites - Ryld's Shadows Update

11/4/2021

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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...
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Thursday News Bites -Dates for Ryld's Shadows

8/5/2021

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We have dates! Hooray!

Ryld's Shadows: AURA 4 will:
  • Go up for pre-order January 25, 2022
  • Release March 8, 2022
Bellora and I have a bit of a start on AURA 5, no title yet. Stay tuned for more info as we have it. :)
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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Thursday News Bites - Edits, Edits, Edits

7/1/2021

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Things are going slowly here in the cave, but that's sometimes a good thing. Making sure the stories work is more important than speed.
Rarely Pure and Never Simple is with the line editor now. Final word count to come, but it will be at least 10K longer than the original version.

There are new scenes, scenes that have been moved about, adjustments to character arcs and romance arcs, and an eye kept out for problematic language.

It's still the same story? But I hope it's a better story, too.
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Ryld's Shadows: AURA 4, with Bellora Quinn, should be back from all the betas soon. We're getting blurbage and things ready for submission in the meanwhile and hope to have news for you next month. Fingers crossed for us.
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Thursday News Bites - A Slow News Cycle

6/17/2021

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All right, so it's been a bad week for writing work. Some weeks are like that.

The new AURA novel I'm working on with Bellora is with the betas - there's even a title. Yay! Ryld's Shadows  will be offered to Pride first when it's ready. We'll see if they want it. :D

​Blurb will be coming soon. If you want to catch up before the release, meet some of the characters, you can pick up the first 3 volumes individually or as a box set.
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Friday Reading Day - a bit of AURA

12/28/2018

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I've run out of books to read to you - yes, I've read all the books in the world. (No, not really - I had an opening this week.) So, this week we delve into the backlist for a scene from the AURA series. Because I felt like it. :D
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The AURA books are available singly, at all the usual places and also in a handy Box Set.

AURA Series
Angel Martinez, Bellora Quinn 

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.


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Friday Reading Day - Digging Deeper by Quinn/Bermingham

9/7/2018

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Time for some reading! Today's excerpt guests are the amazing team of Bellora Quinn and Sadie Rose Bermingham who've allowed me to read a bit from the newest installment in their Elemental Evidence series, Digging Deeper. I've been enjoying this series myself - paranormal mystery/suspense is a favorite of mine - and I hope you will too!
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Digging Deeper
Elemental Evidence 4
Bellora Quinn & Sadie Rose Bermingham

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Unearthing the past brings them closer together…and to danger.

A maniac is on the loose in London, drugging young women and assaulting them before burying them in shallow graves.

When Inspector John Cordiline asks Jake Chivis for his unique assistance as a Fire Elemental with the Cemetery Rapist case, he feels he can hardly refuse. What begins as a simple job—trying to get memories from a suspect to aid conviction—soon takes a darker turn when one of the victims dies and an offer of help comes from an unexpected and unwelcome source.

Dr. Mari Gale is disturbed to find that his former lover Tomas Arregui is London and wants to meet with him. Despite his best efforts to avoid the man, fate seems to be pushing him onto a collision course with Tomas. And the impact will cast him into more trouble than he could ever have imagined.

Digging deeper for the truth could be the death of them.
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Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of non-consensual sex, murder, graphic violence, desecration and description of confined spaces. 

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