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Friday Reading Day - The First Step

9/27/2019

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Hello, hello! It's Friday again, the day I get to read to you. This week we have an excerpt from the lovely Shira Anthony's new contemporary novel, The First Step! Come have a listen. :)
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The First Step
A Coastal Carolina Novel
by Shira Anthony


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The first step is the hardest. After a scandal, New York political reporter Reed Barfield is lying low at the North Carolina coast, writing a story about the seafood industry. But it’s the harbor pilots on the Cape Fear River who capture his interest—men who jump across ten feet of open ocean to grab a rope ladder and guide huge container ships into port. Men like sexy but prickly Justin Vance. 

After surviving an abusive childhood and a tour in the Navy, Justin isn’t fazed by his dangerous job—it’s certainly easier to face than Reed’s annoying questions. Justin isn’t out at work, and he doesn’t need Reed digging into his personal life or his past. 

But Reed’s no stranger to using his considerable charm to get what he wants, and as he wears Justin down, they realize they have a lot in common—and that they like spending time together. Moving beyond that, though, will mean Justin confessing his sexuality and learning to trust Reed with his secrets—if Reed even decides to stay. Both men want a future together, but can they find the courage to take the first step?

About Shira:

Shira Anthony was a professional opera singer in her last incarnation, performing roles in such operas as Tosca, i Pagliacci, and La Traviata, among others. She’s given up TV for evenings spent with her laptop, and she never goes anywhere without a pile of unread M/M romance on her Kindle. You can hear Shira singing "Vissi d'arte" from Puccini's Tosca by clicking here: Shira's Singing

Shira loves a great happily-ever-after and never writes a story without one. She's happy to write what her muse tells her, whether it's fantasy, sci fi, paranormal, or contemporary romance. She particularly loves writing series, because she thinks of her characters as old friends and she wants to visit them even after their stories are told.

In real life, Shira sang professionally for 14 years, and she currently works as a public sector attorney advocating for children. She's happy to have made writing her second full-time job, even if it means she rarely has time to watch TV or go to the movies. Shira writes about the things she knows and loves, whether it's music and musicians, the ocean, or the places she's lived or traveled to. She spent her middle school years living in France, and tries to visit as often as she can.

Shira and her husband spend as many weekends as they can aboard their 38' catamaran sailboat, Prelude, at the Carolina Coast. Not only has sailing inspired her to write about pirates and mermen, her sailboat is her favorite place to write. And although the only mermen she's found to date are in her own imagination, she keeps a sharp lookout for them when she's on the water.

Shira Anthony: http://www.shiraanthony.com    
Twitter: @WriterShira

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Thursday News Bites - Fluffy is finished, Mage Auf Deutsch

4/11/2019

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Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! The Hunt for Red Fluffy is done. The End. She's now with the faithful beta readers and it shouldn't be too much longer before we see a release date.

This is the longest Brimstone yet, at about 39K before edits. Huh. My little novella series is trying to turn into novels.
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Leopold is ready for the next adventure
We're counting down now - less than a month before the release of The Mage on the Hill - eeeeee! I have blog posts to write and things to do, but I'm very excited to announce that Mage will also be launching in German. :D

Der Magier auf dem Berg should be available on or about the English language release date. 

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Friday Reading Day - The Mage on the Hill

3/29/2019

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Friday is here once more! This week I'm reading a bit for you from the start of The Mage on the Hill. I know some folks are curious - so here's an appetizer :)
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The Mage on the Hill
Web of Arcana 1
Coming May 7 - up for preorder:

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Toby’s wild magic is killing him. The mage guilds have given up on him, and it’s only a matter of time before he dies in a spectacular, catastrophic bang. His only hope is an exiled wizard who lives in seclusion—and is rumored to have lost his mind.
The years alone on his hilltop estate have not been good for Darius Valstad. After the magical accident that disfigured him and nearly drowned Pittsburgh, he drifts through his days, a wraith trapped in memories and depression. Until a stricken young man collapses on his driveway, one who claims Darius is his last chance. For the first time in fifteen years, Darius must make a choice—leave this wild mage to his fate or take him in and try to teach him, which may kill them both. The old Darius, brash and commanding, wouldn’t have hesitated. Darius the exile isn’t sure he can find the energy to try.

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Thursday News Bites - ARC Early Warning System

3/21/2019

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For The Mage on the Hill, that is. I'll be doing the rounds at some of the blogs, but I also want to offer a limited number of reader ARC's in a couple of weeks. A couple of things:
  • I'll only be offering them to peeps in my FB group, 
  • There really will be a limited number, so we may have to have an ARC lottery.
  • If you do get an ARC, please accept it in good faith. Authors give these away to generate reviews. You don't have to praise the story. Heck. Maybe you'll hate it. But please, please leave a review if you receive an ARC.

We're about six weeks out and I'm starting to get super nervous. *bites nails*

If you want to wait for your official copy on release day (or if you don't get an ARC) the pre-order links are everywhere :)

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Also, the first Brimstone Journals collection has launched in French :D

Les Registres de La Soufrière 1

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La Soufrière : vaisseau de transport, centre de commandes de contrebande et de mercantilisme. Mené par un prince démoniaque à la tête d’un équipage pouvant faire honte à n’importe quelle bande de marginaux. Après une cargaison de vaches anti-gravitation et une autre de pommes de terre couleurs joyaux. Après les horreurs des grenouilles et des cauchemars. Il est temps de découvrir d’autres moments, plus calmes, au sein de La Soufrière, de petits bouts d’histoires récupérées parmi les différentes vies de l’équipage, que ce soit l’enfance de Shax et Verin en Enfer, ou la suite de leurs aventures après « Le Lac noir ».
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Le tome 1 des Registres de La Soufrière contient également une nouvelle festive que Shax aurait préféré ne jamais voir publiée... tant pis pour lui.


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Thursday News Bites - Mage on Amazon, OC sets, Progress!

3/14/2019

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It's finally springy here while I type this, which puts me in a hopeful, green frame of mind. There are more daffodils this year, so my separation campaign has worked, though the squirrels seem to have stolen the tulip bulbs again despite the blood meal. Oh well. 

In writing news, because you didn't come for a gardening blog:
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The Amazon links are here for The Mage on the Hill! Up for pre-order now in all countries that I've checked (UK, Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands, Australia, Canada) and releasing May 7. 

Pre-order links are available everywhere else as well including, of course, at the publisher. :)

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The first box set of Offbeat Crimes stories releases this coming Tuesday at Pride Publishing. That's the first three books in the series for only $4.99. A steal if there ever was one.
  • Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters
  • The Pill Bugs of Time
  • Skim Blood and Savage Verse

The second set is due out April 16.

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Chipping away at the current WIP's.

Progress is ongoing for Detonations and Devotions: Lijun 3, in which Tally and Haru just have a lovely life and nothing at all goes wrong. (If you are screaming liar, liar, pants on fire! at this point, you would be correct.)

Also making good progress on the next Brimstone, The Hunt for Red Fluffy. Looks to be about halfway there? I gave up predicting word count for Shax some time ago, though, so let's just say we're at least a third, possibly more.
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Thursday News Bites - Offbeat Crimes Box Set

2/28/2019

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This is a fun thing releasing next month. The Offbeat Crimes series will be released in two box sets. This first one contains:

Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters
The Pill Bugs of Time
Skim Blood and Savage Verse


For a steal of a price, too. :D
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Also wanted to mention that the first industry review of The Mage on the Hill is scheduled in Foreword Magazine next month.

I'm both excited and quite terrified. :o 

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Friday Reading Day - Ithani by J. Scott Coatsworth

2/15/2019

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Hello again and Happy Friday! This week I'm reading an excerpt from the exciting conclusion of Scott's science fiction trilogy, The Oberon Cycle. Ithani launches February 19!
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Ithani
Oberon Cycle 3
by J. Scott Coatsworth


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Time is running out. 

After saving the world twice, Xander, Jameson, and friends plunge headlong into a new crisis. The ithani—the aliens who broke the world—have reawakened from their hundred millennia-long slumber. When Xander and Jameson disappear in a flash, an already fractured world is thrown into chaos. 

The ithani plans, laid a hundred thousand years before, are finally coming to pass, and they threaten all life on Erro. Venin and Alix go on a desperate search for their missing friend and find more than they bargained for. And Quince, Robin, and Jessa discover a secret as old as the skythane themselves. 

Will alien technology, unexpected help from the distant past, destiny, and some good old-fashioned firepower be enough to defeat an enemy with the ability to split a world? The final battle of the epic science fiction adventure that began in Skythane will decide the fate of lander and skythane alike. And in the north, the ithani rise….

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Thursday News Bites - Angel Answers Questions

2/7/2019

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People ask me a lot of questions, but most of them are along the lines of Have you seen my keys? or Where's the cat? so I'll try to stick to questions relevant to current writing work and related items:
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  • How's the next Lijun coming?
We're humming along. Should be making serious progress this week.
  • Where's our Brimstone Journals?
Honestly, I had to take a break. I've been writing the Journals for three years now and I don't want them to get tired and stale for you all.
  • Are you going to GRL 2019?
I'll know more after registration. Always a little tricky.
  • Where else might you be this year?
Right now, it's looking like Anime North in May (Toronto), Flamecon in August (Manhattan), and possibly Philcon in November (Cherry Hill, NJ) if I keep an eye on the vendor signup.
  • Where's the Goodreads link for The Mage on the Hill?
I'm so glad you asked. :) The Mage on the Hill 
  • Is that your real hair?
Yes. Yes, it is. Such hair that's left these days is all mine. :)
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Cover -Reveal! The Mage on the Hill

1/30/2019

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The Mage on the Hill: The Web of Arcana 1 comes out May 7! Pre-order is up at Dreamspinner and here's the gorgeous cover by Tiferet Design!

I'm very excited about this series and hope you'll come along for the ride. :)
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The Mage on the Hill
The Web of Arcana 1

A young magic user who wants desperately to live. A jaded recluse who has forgotten what living means. They’re each other’s only chance.

Toby’s wild magic is killing him. The mage guilds have given up on him, and it’s only a matter of time before he dies in a spectacular, catastrophic bang. His only hope is an exiled wizard who lives in seclusion—and is rumored to have lost his mind.
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The years alone on his hilltop estate have not been good for Darius Valstad. After the magical accident that disfigured him and nearly drowned Pittsburgh, he drifts through his days, a wraith trapped in memories and depression. Until a stricken young man collapses on his driveway, one who claims Darius is his last chance. For the first time in fifteen years, Darius must make a choice—leave this wild mage to his fate or take him in and try to teach him, which may kill them both. The old Darius, brash and commanding, wouldn’t have hesitated. Darius the exile isn’t sure he can find the energy to try.
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Friday Reading Day - Devouring Flame by EJ Russell

1/11/2019

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Happy Friday everyone! Today we have a new paranormal from EJ Russell - the second in her Enchanted Occasion series.  Nothing like planning special events for the non-human community! :D
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Devouring Flame
An Enchanted Occasions story
by E.J. Russell

 
Reunited and reignited.

While cutting through the Interstices—the post-creation gap between realms—Smith, half-demon tech specialist for Enchanted Occasions Event Planning, spies the person he yearns for daily but dreads seeing again: the ifrit, Hashim of the Windrider clan.

On their one literally smoldering night together, Smith, stupidly besotted, revealed his true name—a demon’s greatest vulnerability. When Hashim didn’t return the favor, then split the next morning with no word? Message received, loud and clear: Thanks but no, thanks.

Although Hashim had burned to return Smith’s trust, it was impossible. The wizard who conjured him holds his true name in secret, and unless Hashim discovers it, he’ll never be free.

When their attraction sparks once more, the two unite to search for Hashim’s hidden name—which would be a hell of a lot easier if they didn’t have to contend with a convention full of food-crazed vampires on the one day out of the century they can consume something other than blood.
But if they fail, Hashim will be doomed to eternal slavery, and their reignited love will collapse in the ashes.

Luckily Smith is the guy who gets shit done. And Hashim is never afraid to heat things up.
 
 
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Author bio:

E.J. Russell–grace, mother of three, recovering actor–writes romance in a rainbow of flavors. Count on high snark, low angst and happy endings. 
 
Reality? Eh, not so much.
 
E.J.’s paranormal romantic comedy, The Druid Next Door, was a 2018 RITA® finalist. She’s married to Curmudgeonly Husband, a man who cares even less about sports than she does. Luckily, C.H. also loves to cook, or all three of their children (Lovely Daughter and Darling Sons A and B) would have survived on nothing but Cheerios, beef jerky, and Satsuma mandarins (the extent of E.J.’s culinary skill set).
 
E.J. lives in rural Oregon, enjoys visits from her wonderful adult children, and indulges in good books, red wine, and the occasional hyperbole.
 
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Email: ejr@ejrussell.com
Website: http://ejrussell.com
Newsletter: http://ejrussell.com/newsletter
Facebook reader group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/reality.optional
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/ej_russell
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