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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 - All the Pre-order links! Launch is next week!

11/17/2022

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We're almost there! From the Noblest Motives releases this coming Tuesday! 

For your various pre-order needs:

Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Kobo
Apple

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If you prefer to purchase from the publisher, that link will go live on release day and the paperback will be available at Amazon as well.

​Huzzah!
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Thursday News Bites - Pre-order and Upcoming Kindle Deals

10/27/2022

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The long-awaited, exciting (I hope) second novel in the Variant Configurations story is up for pre-order! Amazon for now, and more pre-order sites to come.
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From the Noblest Motives
Variant Configurations 2

Release date November 22!

Features:
*explosions
*a shocking arrest
*swamp friends
*the sudden appearance of a relative
*lots and lots of suspicious people doing sus things

Also - coming in November, several books will be included in the Amazon monthly deals at 1.99 - yaaay! From November 1-30.

These include:
Finn
Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters
Jackalopes and Woofen-Poofs
All the World's an Undead Stage

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Friday Reading Day - From the Noblest Motives

10/14/2022

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We're so close to a release date, I can taste it (mmmm, delicious release date...) To celebrate, I'm reading to you from this second novel in the Variant Configurations series. I'll explain all the things in the audio clip :)
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From the Noblest Motives
Variant Configurations 2

by Angel Martinez

Several months have passed since Blaze and the infamous Variant activist Shudder McKenzie helped Damien rescue the captives of the sinister Fredamine Project.
Professionally, everything's great. He's back to working with Damien again and they have a new lead on the three kids who are still missing. Personally, not so much. Blaze has made his peace with Shudder, though nothing between them has even been easy, but his relationship with Damien has taken several steps back. Blaze no longer has any idea where he stands. Adding to the tense atmosphere are the anti-Variant members of legislature who have been slowly gaining popular approval, and the cryptic messages Damien receives from an unknown source.


Shudder's back to his old haunts and his old tricks, trying to raise public awareness of imperiled Variant rights—such as the draconic Horace Act that strips due process during Variant trials—and to rescue Variant kids in trouble. His almost mythical luck runs out though when he's arrested for murder only three days after the passage of the Horace Act and a whirlwind trial and sentencing lands him in the most notorious maximum security facility for Variants—San Judas Tadeo.
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With too many conspirators on both sides of the aisle, Damien, Blaze and Shudder no longer know whom to trust. Peeling through the layers of deceit and half-truths puts them on shakier ground with every discovery and in greater danger than ever before.

Variant Configurations takes place in a future Earth where humanity is reclaiming its spot in a gradually healing world. This book contains mentions of past abuse, action-adventure style mayhem, and the sparks of a slow burn, series-spanning relationship.
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Thursday News Bites - Aaaahhh! It's Done!

8/11/2022

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From the Noblest Motives: Variant Configurations 2 is finally complete.

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!

This is the book that's been nearly ten years in the making. I'm not kidding. The series was always meant to be a three book arc, and I originally started the second book back in early 2013. Almost. Ten. Years. Ago.

Due to various issues - time constraints, publisher issues, other projects - it never got past the first chapter. Then when I was read to go back to it, I hated the first chapter. I hated the whole concept for the second book.

I trashed the whole thing and started over about a year ago and have been working on it off and on ever since. Now. Now it is complete - mwahahaha! 

Currently at a little over 72K, the next step is developmental editor, which may add or subtract words. We'll see how I did. :D

Damien and Blaze and Shudder's story continues!
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Thursday News Bites - Where's The Next One?

7/21/2022

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Yep. Working on it. :) I have such a beautiful cover for it courtesy of Natasha Snow, so I have to finish now.

From the Noblest Motives is a little over 60K and closing in on the end. What was planned out as a twelve chapter novel has become fourteen, I still have to go back and fill in some things, and the final word count after content editor gets hold of it is anyone's guess at this point.

I'm just not a fast writer. All the writing advice in the world hasn't changed that over the years. I futz over words, over sentences, keep having different, sometimes better, sometimes additional ideas. So it's never a straightforward, damn the torpedoes, tally-ho! sort of enterprise.

I'll get there. And then I've seen a mock up of the cover for book 3. So I better get a wiggle on.
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Thursday News Bites - Cover time!

7/14/2022

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Yes, I sang the intro to Hammer Time for that title. Sorry. It's time for a cover reveal for Variant Configurations 2! 

From the Noblest Motives features our Shudder McKenzie in full earth surfing mode - huge thanks to Natasha Snow for this gorgeous image. :D
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Release date coming very soon! I'm closing in on the end of the story and should be getting it to the publisher in the next couple of weeks. (I hope.)
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Thursday News Bites - Release is next week! Blog Tour Highlights!

6/23/2022

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Extra exclamation points because I'm excited! Rarely Pure and Never Simple launches this coming Tuesday! 

Available for pre-order now and the paperback is up, too. :D

Some interesting things from the blog tour so far:
  • A lovely review from Merissa at Archaeolibrarian
  • A post where I categorize the types of superhero/enhanced human origin stories at Love Bytes Reviews
  • A fun interview at MM Fiction Café where I get to answer questions about genre and identity and writing both :D
  • And another wonderful interview at Never Hollowed by the Stare that's more about my writing process and struggles <3 
Remember, there's a lovely giveaway, too - the more tour sites you visit, the more times you can enter.

For pre-orders - all the linky links!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rarely-pure-and-never-simple-2

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6442877135

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B29FV5L4
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rarely-pure-and-never-simple-angel-martinez/1117315996
 
Paperback:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3SDX6JW

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Thursday News Bites - Paperback!

6/16/2022

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The paperback version of Rarely Pure and Never Simple is up at Amazon! :D

Rarely Pure and Never Simple - Print

Remember that you can pre-order from the usual sites until June 28, and if you prefer to purchase from the publisher (which, thank you!), the buy link goes live there on the 28th as well.

Currently #37 in LGBTQ+ Science Fiction - yaaaaay!
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Friday Reading Day - Rarely Pure and Never Simple

6/3/2022

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Hello, Friday People! It's time to read to you from one of mine. Yes - an actual upcoming release! :D Rarely Pure and Never Simple comes out the end of this month and I'm so pleased to be able to read an excerpt for you! I may have rambled a bit...but there's stuff! To say!
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Rarely Pure and Never Simple
Variant Configurations 1


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COMING JUNE 28, 2022- Up for Pre-order Now!
Variant children are vanishing at an alarming rate. It will take a uniquely mismatched pair of trackers to untangle a web of conspiracy and misdirection to find them.

In his isolated cabin, variant Damien Hazelwood avoids human contact as much as possible to prevent attacks of blind berserker panic. But his rare talent as a locator makes him the go-to contractor for tricky missing person's cases and when agents bring him a troubling contract involving missing variant children, he finds it impossible to refuse.

Licensed tracker Blaze Emerson can't help being irritated when he's expected to follow the strange, twitchy locator's lead on his latest case. He works alone, he's damn good, and as a variant sparker, he has both the fire and the firepower to take on anything out there. Though he has to admit there's something intriguing about a man who can find people with his brain.
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With vastly different temperaments and backgrounds, Damien and Blaze need to negotiate quickly how to work together if they're going to crack this case. Add in the sudden appearance of Blaze's outlaw ex, the perils of tracking in the wilds, and a maddening lack of discernible motive or method, and they soon find themselves in as much danger as the kids they're trying to rescue.

Variant Configurations takes place in a future Earth where humanity is reclaiming its spot in a gradually healing world. This book contains mentions of past abuse, action-adventure style mayhem, and the beginning sparks of a slow burn, series-spanning relationship.
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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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