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Interview: Jennifer Ford

Today I have Jennifer Ford, author of The Waking Dream, here with an interview as part of her blog tour. Here’s her blurb, and then see why she writes what she does.

Blurb:

Two cities. A forgotten past. Destiny comes to call.

Cut off from the outside world by a hostile desert full of savage secrets, the city of Illamar must fend for itself. Late one night, Dante Montero, Commander and Ruler of Illamar, is confronted on his own streets by a mysterious woman bearing an ominous message from a dangerous man known only as Rasheim. Dante and his close friend Kerran, Captain of the Guard, rush to discover the identity of Rasheim and the nature of the threat posed against their city. The closer they get to the truth, the more their worlds begin to fall apart. Both men will have to rely heavily on their friendship as they struggle to comprehend the events happening around them, their past, and even the truth about themselves. They must move quickly and choose wisely, for time is running out as Dante and Kerran discover a secret plot is already underway to destroy their city and kill every last person alive. It seems the answers they so desperately need can only be found in a sequence of dreams, but in a world where nothing is as it seems, even their dreams could turn out to be deadly.

Links:

http://www.outskirtpress.com/thewakingdream

Bio:

Jennifer Ford was born and raised in a small town in Massachusetts. She currently resides in sunny southern Florida. She lives with her cats, of which she says; “They are possessed little terrors at times, absolute darlings at others, and an endless source of entertainment. Only another cat person would understand.” Continue reading Interview: Jennifer Ford

FMB Blog Tour: The Progeny Series

Welcome to The Progeny Series Blog Tour stop! There’s a cool trailer at the bottom of this post, along with a giveaway, so be sure to make it to the end!


Title:
The Progeny

Series: The Progeny Series, #1

Author: Ashlynne Laynne

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Erotica, Vampire/Wiccan

Publisher: Novel Concept Publishing

Paperback/Ebook

Pages: 364

Purchase: Amazon Kindle | Amazon Paperback | Amazon Kindle UK | Barnes and Noble Nook | Smashwords | All Romance E-books | Sony e-book

Book Description:

“No fate other than the one I choose.”

The timeless creed, and tattoo, bore by the Rousseau’s— a vampire clan with the purest bloodline of any vampire family. Out of this clandestine group came one who was different, yet the same: Ascher-a half-bloodling— half- human, half vampire.

Ascher questions the purpose for his existence and which world he truly belongs to: the human world or the vampire world. Two months from sealing to Ursula— a prearranged union to a woman he abhors — he’s at his wit’s end. He knows if he calls off the sealing, the Romanian clan will strike with deadly force, but he cannot see eternity with a cold empty shell of a woman like Ursula.

Just when he thought life was complicated enough, he meets Shauna— a beautiful, bi-racial human Wiccan — and immediately develops an unshakable attraction to her. She makes him feel alive and vital despite his origins and Ascher makes a decision that turns his immortal world upside down. Continue reading FMB Blog Tour: The Progeny Series

Blog Tour: Fables of the Flag

Blurb:

Jack Preston, an ordinary kid on his 8th grade trip to Washington DC, finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1720 Massachusetts. Finding a world without cars, phones and other conveniences of modern life takes some getting used to, but he’s even more surprised to meet a young Founding Father, Ben Franklin.

Being a righteous fellow, Ben befriends the confused and tattered Jack and offers him a place to stay. When Jack overhears a seedy plan that will most certainly ruin Ben’s brother’s printing business, Jack vows to help find the culprit before it’s too late.

From the streets of Colonial Boston, to the cargo hold of a huge galleon, Jack realizes he’s on the most bizarre, but important, adventure of his life. As Jack is thrown into a whirlwind of conspiracy, he realizes that much more than a printing company is at stake. An adventure is one thing, but being stuck hundreds of years in the past is quite another. Continue reading Blog Tour: Fables of the Flag

Review: Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction by T. C. Archer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Before I filed the report, I had a call to make to Dunning Asylum for the mentally insane and tell them to reserve a room for me.

Detective Jordan Pierce, former Chicago PD, hasn’t felt the same since he was attacked in an alley months ago. No longer able to stay awake in the daylight, he has strange abilities that he can’t explain. While trying to balance finding his attacker and his job as a security officer at the University of Chicago, he gets caught up in a murder investigation and finds out he’s not the only one able to do strange things.

Set during the Manhattan Project time of WW2, the book is full of tidbits of history incorporated into the paranormal story. Pierce’s “powers” and nature are slowly learned, though fairly easy to guess, as if the reader is learning about this side of the world with Pierce. The suspense/detective angle was done well, keeping readers on the edge of their seat for what would happen next. The side characters help solidify the world, revealing themselves through Pierce’s interaction with them.

There were several pieces of the story, though minor, that were not resolved, such as Andy’s role in all of this. Also, as this was the introduction to the Phantom League, there was a lot of hinting about other people with other powers that didn’t necessarily show up in the book, leaving readers to wonder about the “others” alongside Pierce.

Full of action, thrills, and potential, Chain Reaction drags readers into a world and time they only thought they knew.

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FMB Blog Tour: Chain Reaction

 

Title: Chain Reaction

Series: Phenom League, Book 1

Author: T. C. Archer

Genre: Romance

Publisher: Silver Publishing

Ebook

Words: 65,000

Book Description:

Former Chicago Detective Jordan Pierce put his life on hold in order to protect America’s secret weapon against the Nazis, The Manhattan Project. But he can’t protect himself as his humanity is eaten away by a mysterious disease that destroys him, while at the same time makes him more powerful than any man he’s ever known. Jordan finds out how much the disease has devoured his soul when he falls in love with the woman who might destroy America and tear apart his last shred of humanity.

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Review: No Good Deed

No Good Deed
No Good Deed by Bill Blais
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I’m the lady who saved you and I’m coming with you, whether you like it or not.

Kelly was just your average wife and mother of twins, recently downsized from her job and questioning how her family is going to make ends meet – her loving husband has MS and the cost of their medical bills is staggering. When she witnesses what she thinks is a man getting brutalized by a police officer, her luck and instincts lead her to discover a whole different side of the world where demons walk the street and magic is alive.

Kelly is thrust into working for a group of demon hunters out of desperation, all the while questioning her sanity and her ability to do this job, which got a tad repetitive. The emphasized difference between her home life and her new job tended to slow down the story, since the narration was done with minute details that sometimes weren’t needed.

That said, the story moved along fairly quickly in other parts, with the demon hunting fast-paced and action-packed. As Kelly gets to know “the team,” she finds it’s pretty much like other places she’s worked – some folks like you, some folks don’t, and all you can do is your best. Armed with the latest in demon-hunting weaponry – pepper spray – Kelly and the team take a job that causes a run-in with the incubus Umber very late in the story. While this is the first in the series, Umber’s inclusion near the end of the book seemed almost too late to be introducing a character that is supposed to be a mainstay in the series and leaves the reader with a lot of questions about where this is leading.

Full of doubt yet still willing to meet a challenge, No Good Deed’s Kelly shows that you don’t have to be a kick-butt model to make a difference, but you should always think things through for yourself.

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Blog Tour: No Good Deed

No Good Deed (Kelly & Umber Series, #1)
Author: Bill Blais
E-Book Published: March 9, 2012
Synopsis: Kelly McGinnis has spent her adult life trying to do the right thing, but as a newly down-sized mother of twins and the wife of a man living with Muscular Sclerosis, she also knows that trying isn’t always enough.
While interrupting a scene of police brutality, Kelly unwittingly releases a real, live demon. After she manages to kill the creature through gut instinct and blind luck, she is approached to join a secret group of demon hunters who reveal an underworld of monsters and magic. Kelly’s mill town upbringing proves an unexpected asset and the pay more than covers her husband’s treatments, but the work begins to undermine her sense of right and wrong as she struggles to maintain her ‘normal’ life.
When she encounters Umber, a compelling incubus with an unexpectedly human story, Kelly learns that the truth is far stranger and more terrifying than she imagined.
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AuthorBio: Bill Blais is a writer, web developer and perennial part-time college instructor. His novels include Witness (winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Fantasy) and the Kelly & Umber urban fantasy series. Bill graduated from Skidmore College before earning an MA in Medieval Studies from University College London. He lives in Maine with his wife and daughter.

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New Release: A Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols

Today’s new release is a book called “Am So As: A Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols” by Oscar Velikovsky. If you’re a gamer, you might want to check this one out (I know I will be). It is what’s called a Transmedia Novel (a story told across three medias). The author is an award-winning Game Designer and Writer of million-seller games. Be sure to check out the website and game that go along with the book!

Blurb:

A teenager is mentored in The Art of Game Design – by God Himself… (of, a time-travelling version of his older self, it is never quite clear, even to him)

But – can he solve the mystery of the Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols?

A Satirical Magic-Realist Bangsian Fantasy Coming-of-Age Novel about Videogames, and – Everything Else, as Well…

More Info:

OSCAR, a mis-under-estimated, uber-dis-enfranchised 18-year-old, video-game-addicted American youth, meets – and is Mentored in Game Design, by – his hero, GODFREY (82) – a world-famous Game Designer…

But Oscar soon discovers that his `hero’ is: a cult leader; Reality-TV Producer; and – as the inventor of a Time Machine, believes that He is God.

Oscar realizes – to his shock and awe – that maybe Godfrey – actually is God…(?) And – hidden in amongst all this, is a secret code. Sort of nothing like, The Da Vinci Code… Begging the question:
…Will Oscar decode the `Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols’ in time..? Continue reading New Release: A Meaningless Sequence of Arbitrary Symbols