My Inner Fairy

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tuesday Teaser

I felt the need to participate this Tuesday in the teaser.

So I'm taking it from a debut novel The Mist on Bronte Moor by Aviva Orr.

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Teaser:

"Lightning struck the ground behind us. My whole body jumped. Charlotte and Anne fell to their knees. Heat and electricity pierced the air. We had nowhere to go." pg 96

Are you reading a book you can share a teaser from- feel free to post it in the comments.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Ellie Garret "Pasing Time" Cover reveal.

I'm posting on Monday because I wanted to help Ellie with her cover reveal. It looks fabulous!

Passing Time

Nine Short Tales of the Strange and Macabre

Book Blurb

Nine dark fiction stories that may just give you nightmares.

A man lives to regret Passing Time. A father will do anything to save his son in Expiration Date. An author finds out her worst nightmare is back in The Devil’s Song. A woman gets more than the claim fee when she takes out vampire insurance in Luna Black.

In Dining in Hell, the Death Valley Diner becomes the wrong place to stop.

A serial killer wants to add another file to his collection in The Vegas Screamer. In Eating Mr. Bone, an undertaker could meet an unfortunate end. A con man meets his first ghost in Land of the Free. And will truth finally be set free in The Letter?

Publication date: 11^th February 2013

About The Author

A life-long addiction to reading science fiction and horror, meant writing was the logical outlet for Ellie Garratt’s passions. She is a reader, writer, blogger, Trekkie, and would happily die to be an extra in The Walking Dead. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and online. Passing Time is her first eBook collection and contains nine previously published stories. Her science fiction collection Taking Time will be published later in the year.

Author Links

Please visit Ellie’s blog on Friday 11^th January, when she will be interviewing Passing Time’s cover designer, Ida Jansson.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Keeping it simple

On Monday I'll be posting a cover reveal so I'll keep this post short and sweet.

I have been revising my heart out for my novel Bloodstone. Chapter one is really coming together which is helping me in the middle sections of the book. I'm hoping to have it all revised for the umpteenth time by the end of January.

The ABNA is coming up- anyone participating? I thought about it and then decided against it, mostly because I don't feel my novel is ready.

Every Friday I post places to submit your work on my Author Facebook page from 8am-11am. Have a look here:

Author Summer Ross Facebook

Have a great Friday everyone and I'll see you on Monday for the reveal. :)

Friday, December 28, 2012

Seduction of the Scepter

Free until Monday 12- 31 12: Seduction of the Scepter by E. Rose Sabin

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I gave it four stars.

Review:
Sabin takes the reader back in time to a place where everything could rest on one single decision. She encourages the reader to take the journey into the depth of her leading female character, Lara, as a romantic girl with dreams, as a leader, a friend, a sister, and finally a mother.

Sabin touches on a deep routed fear of mother hood, the choice of child or lover. While it may be obvious to some what the answer is, when it actually happens that choice could make or break the family. Lara must make this choice, and Sabin executes Lara's character driven story through journal entries, which take them to a more personal level with the reader.

This reader found that Lara grew as she matured from a romanticized idea of marriage into a woman who led her country not only into battle, but to a peace despite the king being less than able to perform his duties.

The end caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting such a dramatic choice to be made in her heart as well as publicly and found the end drew back in a tightly nit circle toward the beginning.

If you are hoping for a love story with a happily ever after ending, this book will not suit you. The ending is more a relief felt with the character than a happily ever after, although in retrospect I feel Lara got the one thing she did truly want in the last pages of the book.

If you like intrigue, a plethora of drama, and a realistic idea of a woman's choices, then pick this book up and you will find yourself cheering on a well written, deeply moving character and falling with her as her judgments change and she is forced into a decision she had never hoped would happen.