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Ruth Silver has a new book releasing soon ~ Dead Girl Walking

Posted: February 8, 2014 in Book Promos, New Release, Paranormal or fantasy, YA
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Check it out!

Ruth Silver has a new book coming this summer.

Wait until you see the spectacular cover art.

And the blurb says we have a new reaper coming.

She used to be…..?

Not gonna tell. I’ll shut up and show ya!

Dead Girl Walking

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Title: Dead Girl Walking (Royal Reaper)
Author: Ruth Silver
Expected Publication: Summer 2014
Publisher: Patchwork Press
Genre: YA, Paranormal Fantasy
Cover Design: Erica Crouch
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Blurb
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In 1346, Princess Ophelia Dacre sneaks out of the castle to visit her  boyfriend in secret. A perfect night cut short when she’s brutally  murdered.
Ophelia is given the rare chance to become a grim reaper. She must become  Leila Bele, cut ties with her old life, and follow the rules of the reapers. Her  greatest adventure begins with death.
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Excerpt
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                 “The scroll chose you. For whatever reason, she’s your reap.”

                “Well, that sucks.” Leila chewed her  bottom lip. “If I don’t do it?”

                Edon hesitated before he said, “Her  soul will rot inside her body. Do you have any idea what that’s like? She’ll be  a living corpse, a shell of a person. She won’t feel anything including love. We  as reapers, the undead, feel more than she ever will alive.”

                Leila swallowed the lump in her  throat. “How do you know that?”

                “Because I’ve seen what it does to a  person,” Edon said. “That little girl deserves better.”

About Author Ruth Silver

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Ruth Silver attended Northern Illinois University and  graduated with a Bachelor’s in Communication in the spring of 2005.  While in college, she spent much of her  free time writing with friends she met online and penning her first novel, Deuces are Wild, which she  self-published in 2004.  Her  favorite class was Creative Writing senior year where she often handed in  assignments longer than the professor required because she loved to write and  always wanted to finish her stories. Her love of writing led her on an  adventure in 2007 to Melbourne, Australia.  Silver enjoys reading, photography, traveling and most of all  writing.  She loves dystopian and  fantasy young adult stories.  Her  debut novel published by Lazy Day Publishing and Patchwork Press, ABERRANT, was  released April 2013.  The second  novel in the series, MOIRAI, continues the saga. ISAURA, is the final  installment in the ABERRANT trilogy. Ruth has been actively writing since she  was a teenager.  Her current writing  projects include a YA science-fiction fantasy series, ORENDA, and a YA  paranormal series, DEAD GIRL WALKING. Both novels are due for release in 2014.  She currently resides in Plainfield, Illinois.

You can visit her online at http://writeawaybliss.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/writeawaybliss

Facebook: http://facebook.com/writeawaybliss

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Ruth-Silver/e/B008NGH038

New Release Blitz ~ The Making of Nebraska Brown by Louise Caiola

Posted: February 8, 2014 in Blitz, Mystery, New Adult, New Release
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I love telling ya’ll about new releases and I’ve got a good one to show you today!

Check out The Making of Nebraska Brown.

The title got me curious. The cover art even more so.

Then I read the blurb.

Now it’s your turn. Enjoy:)

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Title: The Making of Nebraska Brown

Author: Louise Caiola

Genre: New Adult Mystery, Literary Fiction, Contemporary

Audience:  YA to Adult

Formats: eBook and Paperback

Publisher: Immortal Ink Publishing

Cover By: Rebecca Hamilton

Editor: Rebecca Hamilton & Rudy Kraul

Pages: 318

ISBN-10: 1938750772 ~ISBN-13: 9781938750779 ~ ASIN:

Date Published: Feb. 6, 2014

 

Blurb

The last thing eighteen-year-old Ann Leigh remembers is running from her boyfriend in a thick Nebraska cornfield. This morning she’s staring down a cool Italian sunrise, an entire continent from the life she once knew. The events of the eighteen months in between have inexplicably gone missing from her memory.

All at once she’s living with Tommy, an attractive, young foreigner asking for her continued love. Though he’s vaguely familiar, she recalls a boy named Shane in America who she reluctantly agreed to marry. Juggling a new world while her old one is still M.I.A is difficult enough without the terrifying movie scenes spinning a dizzy loop in her mind: glimpses of a devastating house fire, a romance gone wrong, an unplanned pregnancy, and a fractured family – each claiming to be part of who she once was – a girl and a past somehow discarded.

Ann Leigh must collect the pieces of herself to become whole again, but she doesn’t know who to trust especially when Tommy’s lies become too obvious to ignore. And above all, her heart aches to discover what became of the child she may or may not have given birth to.

The Making of Nebraska Brown tells the story of one girl’s coming apart from the inside and the great lengths she’ll go to reclaim herself and find her way home.

Book Links

Barnes and Noble  / Kobo  /Amazon

Excerpt

 “Where am I, exactly? I mean . . . what is this place?”

He smiled. “The Palace of Portici.”

“A palace?” I squinted, then flipped the hair off of my face.  I was Ann Leigh, wasn’t I? Ann Leigh, strawberry blonde, five-foot-four, dreadfully allergic to cats. I grabbed the ends of my hair again and looked down at it. It wasn’t yellow-red at all but more like brown butter pecan. My head hummed. Martino was still grinning, as if he was more amused by me now that he was sure I wasn’t dead.

 He spoke again. “Orto Botanico.” “Botanical garden?”

“Si, yes. Ana, ora andiamo? La Pasticceria Tartoni?”

“Yes. We’ll go to the pastry shop now.” And I went with him. Even though, for all I knew, he could have been one of those freaks who got his jollies from attacking innocent young girls. But then, for all I knew, I wasn’t an innocent young girl.

The sky in Campania, Italy, looked familiar; the clouds were funny cotton ball shapes that could be giant sheep— pecore? If I were Ann Leigh from Nebraska, then how did I know those clouds, those words?

About The Author:

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                        As a young girl who spent her allowance on Nancy Drew mysteries, Louise realized that one day, she might have a story of her own to tell. Maybe even more than one story. After years focused on raising her children she eventually reconnected with her passion for creative writing. She soon began to craft a large collection of short stories which were published in the inspirational online magazine, Faithhopeandfiction.com. Shortly thereafter, she authored her first novel, Wishless, a contemporary YA, released in 2011.

Louise devotes a portion of each day to honing her skills. She has several other novels currently in various stages of development. A confirmed bibliophile, Louise enjoys reading outdoors on a warm spring day and watching her pup chase leaves on a breeze. She looks forward to meeting others who share her love of the written word and invites you to visit her blog, her website and follow her on Twitter and Facebook

 

Media Links –

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The Friday 56 #15 ~ The Devil You Know

Posted: February 8, 2014 in Meme, Series, The Friday 56, urban fantasy
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The Friday 56 hosted by Freda’s Voice.

The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader and find any sentence, or a few (no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

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#1

She’d either been possessed a very long time, or she was faking it.

#2

I could feel it wriggling inside of Rebecca Berger’s body like a fish out of water. It was a piece of her, but also a piece apart from her.

#3

When I was almost upon her, she smiled. It was an ugly smile. “Beast,” she told me. “I know you.”

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The Devil You Know

Nick Englebrecht #1

By K.H. Koehler 

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Not only does the devil have an only begotten son, but he’s currently residing in the rural town of Blackwater in northeast Pennsylvania.

Semi-retired from law enforcement, the handsome, if cynical, Nick Englebrecht becomes quickly caught up in a local missing child case that seems mundane on the outside, but when the sheriff requests his help as a psychic detective to help find the missing girl, his off-the-books investigation quickly leads him to some terrible truths about life, love and the universe as we know it.

And if that isn’t bad enough, the angels have begun an ethnic cleansing of all beings with demonic blood. Of course, Nick is at the top of their to-do list.

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