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Title: Crystal Dreams
Date: Aug. 6th-8th
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
FMB Blog Tour: The Last Degree
Welcome to The Last Degree Blog Tour stop! I have with me today Ms. Dina Rae, bringing you a guest post and a special excerpt!
Title: The Last Degree
Series: Book #1
Author: Dina Rae
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Paranormal, Political, Suspense, Thriller, Christian
Publisher: Dina Rae
Ebook
Words: 93000
Purchase for only $1.99: Amazon
The Last Degree will be FREE July 14th & July 15th!
Book Description
The Last Degree is a fictionalized account of how Freemasons and other secret societies set up the world for takeover. Ancient writings foretell a ‘Shining One’ who emerges as the world’s prophet. A murder of a Most Worshipful mason resembles a secret oath. A cop gets too close to solving the crime. Paranoid preppers go underground, preparing for war.
Headlines such as the Norway massacre, meltdown of the European Union, unscrupulous media, animal die-offs, Middle Eastern unrest, and U.S. shrinking power make the plot relevant to present day. This book is an ode to Christians, Birthers, 2012ers, Truthers, preppers, and/or other conspiracy junkies who enjoy Dan Brown, Jesse Ventura, Brad Meltzer, Alex Jones, Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. Continue reading FMB Blog Tour: The Last Degree
New Release: The Orphan Factory
Today I bring to you the prequel to The Ninth Orphan, which was the first book in The Orphan Trilogy by father and son author duo Lance and James Morcan.
I have this one added to my TBR list – sounds like a great spy novel!
The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2)
An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago’s Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle.
The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan. Go on another frenetic journey with the ninth-born orphan as he busts out of the clandestine orphanage he knew as home and goes on the run across America.
In the late 1970’s, in Chicago, Illinois, the secretive Omega Agency initiates the Pedemont Project – a radical experiment utilizing genetic engineering technologies – to create twenty three orphan babies with the plan to turn them into the world’s most effective assassins.
One of the prodigies will rebel: meet Number Nine, an orphan with a mind of his own.
In 1998, when Nine reaches adulthood and graduates with honors from the Pedemont Orphanage, he is already an adept of the deadly espionage arts. Ordered by his Omega masters to assassinate a survivor of the Jonestown tragedy in Guyana’s Amazon rainforest, Nine is forced to draw upon all of his advanced training just to stay alive.
About the Authors:
Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of The Ninth Orphan and Fiji: A Novel), The Orphan Factory is the second book in The Orphan Trilogy. The third and final book in the series, a sequel titled The Orphan Uprising, will be published by Sterling Gate Books in 2013. A feature film adaptation of The Ninth Orphan is also currently being developed.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15757228-the-orphan-factory
FMB Blog Tour: The Legion of Nothing: Rebirth
Welcome to The Legion of Nothing: Rebirth Blog Tour stop! Keep reading for some excerpts of the book and a Podcast by the author!
Title: The Legion of Nothing: Rebirth
Series: The Legion of Nothing, #1
Author: Jim Zoetewey
Genre: Young-Adult, Superhero,
Publisher: 1889 Labs
Ebook
Pages: 374
Purchase: Amazon |
Book Description:
“You may kill somebody today. We won’t think anything less of you for it.”
Nick Klein’s grandfather was the Rocket.
For three decades, the Rocket and his team were the Heroes League–a team of superheroes who fought criminals in the years after World War II.
But Nick and his friends have inherited more than their grandparents’ costumes and underground headquarters… they’ve inherited the League’s enemies and unfinished business.
In the 1960’s, Red Lightning betrayed everyone, creating an army of supervillains and years of chaos. The League never found out why.
Now, Nick and the New Heroes League will have no choice but to confront their past. Continue reading FMB Blog Tour: The Legion of Nothing: Rebirth
Guest Post: Jeffrey Zweig II
I have a wonderful post about developing a character by Jeffrey Zweig II, author of The End Begins: The Nine. Be sure to see my other post for his blog tour as there’s a great excerpt in it. I’ve added this one to my TBR list – how about you?
Developing the Character – Cassarah Doneye Telmar
Thank you for having me Trish!
Developing a character can happen many different ways. It depends upon the author’s writing style. Do you start with the character and build the world around them? Or build the world and put a character in there? Do you start with a simple base for each and develop them simultaneously?
I normally start with the character – there is a characteristic or a trait that I like and I start there. I develop them separately at first, then I construct a world that fits that version. Then comes the simultaneous development. I’ll try to show my progressing for Cass in my post today. I’ll try to remain as specific as possible without being spoiler-riffic.
Cass was one of the few “original” characters that remained from the adoption of my story. Her backstory always made her the heart of the story, so I stuck with her as the main character because she has attachments to every important piece of the story. So I started with exiled sorceress in the “modern world”.
Her personality came second. How did she act at The Nine? How would she react to a new world? The character’s personality and train of thought has to come pretty early for her to be believable and somewhat predictable even if she is completely not so! I settled for a brainiac who would be a fish out of water, so she would be kind of cold and straightforward with some sass mixed in. I inevitably based Cass’s personality off of Emily Deschanel’s performance from the TV series Bones. I love that character and thought she was a perfect example of what I was looking for. Continue reading Guest Post: Jeffrey Zweig II
Blog Tour: The End Begins: The Nine
Welcome to the Making Connections Blog Tour stop for The End Begins: The Nine! I have an excerpt for you as well as a guest post from author Jeffery Zweig II! Also, don’t miss the guest post Jeffery did for me!
The End Begins: The Nine
Book One of the Trinity Trilogy
Genre: Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Alternate History
Published by: Self Published: Date: September 28, 2011
Can be found on: Amazon Smashwords Createspace
Blurb:
A young alchemist, Cassarah Telmar, thought training at the magic academy was what life was about, until she discovered it’s students powers were being stolen by the Coalition, an ambiguous corporation turned warmongering militia. Cass escapes their program and vows to bring them down.
The key lies on the young James Kesumare’s mind, who is responsible for destroying the gate technology that’s stranded the Coalition and forced them to survive in a backward parallel world. Cass wants nothing more than to destroy them and free her clan, but she’s too blind to see that the end begins for both the Coalition, and herself. She will have to chose between living under their thumb, or dying with freedom. Continue reading Blog Tour: The End Begins: The Nine
Tricia Kristufek 