Happy Wednesday, fellow reading addicts!
As I write this email, there is a bunch of noise going on overhead. The roof was supposed to be replaced on Monday, but they pushed it back until today due to the potential of storms. While the storms didn’t happen until overnight, I appreciate the fact they pushed it back in case storms came during the day like it was supposed to.
What I don’t appreciate is the noise. Ahh well. Maybe my rock and roll can drown out the noise up there. We’ll see. Don’t want to upset the neighbors with it.
If you were looking for a bunch of books to check out this week, then this is the perfect week for you. We rarely have this many books in a week, so I’m super excited to share them with you!
Be sure to check the last part of the email for free books and information on one of the authors who is part of our parent company. She’ll be on a number of panels at Dragon Con this weekend. If you will be attending, be sure to check her panels out!
Enjoy and happy reading!
This Week’s Special Deals
The Adventures of Maggie Parker Complete Box Set
Grab the entire boxed set of The Adventures of Maggie Parker today!
If smart phones and GPS rule the world – why am I hunting a magic compass to save the planet?
Austin Detective Maggie Parker has seen some weird things in her day, but finding a surly gnome rooting through her garage beats all.
Her world is about to be turned upside down in a frantic search for 4 Elementals.
Not 3, not 5…but 4. Why is it always 4?
Each one has an artifact that can keep the Earth humming along, but they need her to unite them first.
Unless the forces against her get there first.
A compass, a telescope and untapped magic are her only tools.
Will she join forces with an army of gnomes? Can she get the hang of even a simple spell to defend herself?
Included in this boxed set is:
- The Magic Compass
- The Gnome’s Magic
- The Elemental’s Magic
- The Magic Quest
From the best selling author of The Leira Chronicles
Magic exists. Too bad it might kill us all. Click read for free or buy now and join in the adventure in The Magic Compass!
Rise Of The Grandmaster
“Free people don’t live in cubicles!”
—Big Richie minutes before he caught the wave that ended his life.
Some people just knew how to go out in style.
Tim had never been one of those guys.
Tim was always a planner.
The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.
That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to play The Etheric Coast.
At his graduation ceremony.
After watching the company’s employee recruitment video, Big Richie’s words had a whole new meaning.
He could spend his life going from a cubicle at work to a one-bedroom apartment and back again…
Or he could take a leap of faith by entering a virtual world of unlimited possibilities.
And get paid.
Now he just has to figure out how to get the job of his dreams, help his parents financially, and catch the attention of the girl of his dreams.
It was time for him to catch his wave.
Tim sure hoped it didn’t kill him first.
Gates of Eden: Starter Library
Six thrilling adventures begin in this one of a kind urban fantasy box set
Includes…
Druid’s Dance (The Druid Legacy, Book 1)
I always loved mythology. I never realized that the legends of old were all about me.
When Elijah Wadsworth manifests strange abilities that he neither understands nor can control he discovers that he’s at the center of a legend that has been unfolding for centuries.
Wyrmrider Ascending (The Fomorian Wyrmriders, Book 1)
Dragon riders? Please. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Joni Campbell returned to the merkingdom of her ancestors hoping to find peace. But when the bokors open a portal to the void, and the wyrms break through into the world, she must learn to harness the power of these beasts if she hopes to save her home, and the world, from an even greater threat.
Voodoo Academy (The Voodoo Legacy, Book 1)
Being possessed has its advantages…
Annabelle Mulledy and her soul-bound familiar didn’t always get along. But their connection gave her unique abilities. When an insidious Loa discovers her power he seeks to claim her for himself. Her only hope? Join the Voodoo Academy and learn to master her powers. But are the Loa who brought her to the Academy really allies, or are they also trying to use her for their own nefarious purposes?
Bloody Hell (The Legacy of a Vampire Witch, Book 1)
Because you can’t stake a heartless vampire.
Mercy Brown has avoided the Order of the Morning Dawn for centuries. But the quasi-religious organization, dedicated to the elimination of all vampires and witches, has found her. The only way to defeat them? She’ll have to go to “bloody hell.”
Scared Shiftless (The Legend of Nyx, Book 1)
A stiletto heel through a vampire’s heart. Whoever said you had to sacrifice fabulous for functional?
After being bitten by a vampire, Nicky–a shapeshifting water elemental–lost her powers. Now, she’s stuck in a male body. After hunting vampires for years, she finally has a lead on the one who attacked her. Will she be able to face her nemesis and regain her powers, or will she lose what’s left of herself in the process?
Rise of the Morrigan (pre-quel to the Gates of Eden universe)
Not even the god who made her could tame her.
When the Dagda takes three sisters and combines them into what he thinks will make his ideal wife the Morrigan rises up to defy him.
What is the Gates of Eden Universe?
A lot of religions and traditions had some kind of “other” world, a primeval world, unmarred and unstained by human corruption. In the Judeo-Christian tradition it was the Garden of Eden. For the Druids and Celts it is Annwn. For Louisiana vodouisants it is Guinee.
What if there really was such a place–a place that put us into touch with something “original” to our nature, something that was lost, something that made us more than we currently are? This is the “genesis” (pun intended) of the idea that under-girds these books! All of the Gates of Eden books are based on a particular mythological or spiritual tradition. While the magical systems are fictional, they are based on rites, lore, and mythologies unique to these traditions. There is a lot of overlap between traditions in these books–what the Druids call one thing, the Voodoo Mambos call something else. In the end, however, we see in these books a magical system that transcends the differences in religion and myth and unifies us all under a common force, a power, something uniquely human but nonetheless absent from our magic-less world. There may be many “Gates,” but ultimately there is one Eden, one Annwn, one Guinee. One humanity.
Of Dragon Bones and Ashen Tears
Humans think he’s a freak, he just wants answers about his past… but answers are hard to find in a world that’s slowly drifting into chaos.
As a child, Veric saw his parents burned alive by dragonfire. All they left him is a mysterious box with a broken symbol.
Over twenty years later, he still doesn’t know what’s inside the box.
To understand his heritage, he must retrieve a magic orb that is buried deep under the mountain. There are many obstacles on the way: a storm, hungry orcs, visions, a lunatic centaur… but, most of all, he is forced to face his greatest fear, at the peril of his own life.
“Of Dragon Bones and Ashen Tears” is the first episode in a 12-part high fantasy series that veers progressively into epic. Though it starts gentle, it grows in complexity and becomes darker with each new installment.
“These short novellas are well written, heart pounding, vividly imaginative and a no-brainer must read. I’m totally hooked.” — Amazon reviewer.
Integration
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Human slavers attack. Despite trying to fight back, there is nothing the young Leefe can do to save his family and friends. But he doesn’t have to. The Imperial Marines arrive in the nick of time, and they hate slavers. Three tri-years later, when the new emperor issues a proclamation to integrate the imperial military with non-human citizens, Leefe is among the first to volunteer.
Integration to resurrect the empire as a force for good is challenged by centuries of prejudice against the “dung races.” Leefe and the other Wyntonans only want to prove their worth and fight for the empire, but their greatest battles are closer to home.
With threats to the empire from both within and without, this grand experiment has the potential to save it . . . or tear it apart.
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The Midwest Witch
Welcome to the Midwest, America’s Heartland, home to a hidden community of witches and wizards.
When Maria Apple receives a strange music box for her nineteenth birthday, everything changes.
She begins to showcase odd magical abilities, glowing blue, seeing ghosts, and talking to creatures that shouldn’t be able to talk, all while trying to juggle the task of being a typical teenaged girl.
Now, not only does Maria learn she is a witch, but her grandfather Ignatius reveals he was once a famous warrior from a planet named Oriceran.
Throw in a world in between the two worlds, a ghost bringing Maria an ominous warning, a race of giant spiders determined to claim the music box for their own, and Maria Apple realizes she’ll never be a typical teenaged girl again.
After all, it’s just another day in the Midwest, where magic is real and the stakes never stop rising.
Welcome to The Revelations of Oriceran.
A magical world tied to Earth, and nothing like it.
Plumage From Pegasus
In the manner of Robert Sheckley, William Tenn, Harry Harrison, Douglas Adams, Tom Holt, and other great science fiction satirists, Paul Di Filippo takes on the foibles and follies, tropes and tics of the genre he loves in a wealth of short, sharp flash fictions.
Using his four decades of experience in writing and publishing, he skewers authors, editors, artists, readers, retailers, librarians, and book companies alike with fantastical and visionary humor.
You’ll encounter miniature android authors as playthings and a future where guns are de rigueur and books are banned. You’ll learn of the secret collaboration between Wells and Verne, and how civilization was toppled by a DVD sale gone wrong.
You’ll attend the only school for writers that matters, and witness how an invented language escapes Hollywood to revolutionize the world.
On each overstuffed mini-odyssey into Carrollian contrarianism, you’ll enjoy sparkling and savage prose and meet folks you’ll recognize from a thousand conventions—or from looking in the mirror.
The reader’s love of good science fiction will be enhanced, and their radar for pretentiousness and fakery will be upgraded to cosmic levels!
Brotherhood of the Badge
A teenage girl is shot to death by LAPD officer Brian Culpepper – young, idealistic, a veteran of combat in Afghanistan. The All-News Networks, as well as social media, need little to create doubt, incite anger, and encourage protests, but there’s an unseen victim, a victim in the shadows, one seldom mentioned – the cop that pulled the trigger.
The Brotherhood of the Badge is not a defense of cop wrongdoing. It is the untold story of those who keep the peace. All too often the police have to defend themselves or others using deadly force. When you carry a badge and gun, and your life is in danger you quickly learn the meaning of the Brotherhood of the Badge.
Life is never the same after shots are fired.
Western Fiction 10 Pack: 10 Full Length Classic Westerns
A teenage girl is shot to death by LAPD officer Brian Culpepper – young, idealistic, a veteran of combat in Afghanistan. The All-News Networks, as well as social media, need little to create doubt, incite anger, and encourage protests, but there’s an unseen victim, a victim in the shadows, one seldom mentioned – the cop that pulled the trigger.
The Brotherhood of the Badge is not a defense of cop wrongdoing. It is the untold story of those who keep the peace. All too often the police have to defend themselves or others using deadly force. When you carry a badge and gun, and your life is in danger you quickly learn the meaning of the Brotherhood of the Badge.
Life is never the same after shots are fired.
Summer Solstice Shenanigans
A full-moon solstice. Let the magic flow. Feel the power.
Fae come out to play, vampires rove from dusk til dawn, and werewolves howl. Do they howl…
On this one fateful night, out come the witches, demons, vampires, shifters, and fantastic creatures in a celebration of magic and mayhem. Some spells can only be cast or curses broken on this rare, enchanted night.
If you dare, follow the fae down a magical path but beware of getting forever lost. There’s trouble around every corner amidst the glow of the supernatural.
This summer solstice anthology includes twenty-five brand new, never before published, urban fantasy short stories from international bestselling authors as well as exciting new talent.
Read it today.
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