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Of Wings and Shadows
Of Wings and Shadows
Of Cinder and Bone #5.5
by Kyoko M.
Genre: Science Fiction, Contemporary Fantasy
In a modern-day world teeming with marauding dragons, there is only one solution: The Wild Hunt.
The United States government has decided to hold a tournament called The Wild Hunt to determine who will be responsible for the capture of wild dragons by the Knight Division. The four challengers Noah Wilson, Charlie Howard, Su Jin Han, and Beowulf have to catch five deadly dragons alive if they want to win the tournament and become the new Knight Division dragon hunters. Their journey will take them through the mountains of South Carolina, the seas of Key West, the caverns of Ruby Falls, the Redwood forest, and finally, the murky bayous of Louisiana. Will they succeed against their competition, or will the dragons of the Wild Hunt be too wild to tame?
Of Wings and Shadows is the sixth book in the Of Cinder and Bone series. It takes place in medias res of Book Five, Of Claws and Inferno. It follows Of Cinder and Bone, Of Blood and Ashes, Of Dawn and Embers, and Of Fury and Fangs.
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Kyoko M is a USA Today bestselling author, a fangirl, and an avid book reader. She has written the Amazon bestselling Black Parade urban fantasy series as well as the Of Cinder and Bone science-fiction dragon hunting series. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Lit degree from the University of Georgia, which gave her every valid excuse to devour book after book with a concentration in Greek mythology and Christian mythology. When not working feverishly on a manuscript (or two), she can be found buried under her Dashboard on Tumblr, or chatting with fellow nerds on Twitter, or curled up with a good Harry Dresden novel on a warm Georgia night. Like any author, she wants nothing more than to contribute something great to the best profession in the world, no matter how small.
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IMPROBABLE MD
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In Improbable MD, Dr. Derek J. Robinson traces his unlikely journey from fishing on the bayous of Louisiana, to an ER and helicopter flight physician in Chicago, to leadership in some of the US’ largest health care organizations.
The grandson of a sharecropper and son of a single mother, Derek grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Shreveport, LA. A graduate of the city’s public schools, he saw first-hand the difference that access to quality education and health care made within his own family. He shares how his dream of being a doctor became a reality, despite the odds, and why he believes mentoring and investing in young people is vital to the health of our nation.
Robinson takes the reader inside the ER, where he has treated victims of gun violence and shares how spilt-second clinical decisions and the trust of his patients, shaped his appreciation for being a doctor, But, even with many years of training, he exposes how it feels to reach the limits of what he can offer patients and even shares the pain and lessons he has learned from the illness and loss of family members. Beyond the walls of the ER, Dr. Robinson explains how we became a business leader in health care and influential voice in boardrooms.
Through sharing his inspirations and tribulations, Dr. Robinson inspires readers to push beyond both self-doubt and external obstacles to pursue their dreams. In telling his story, he shares the roles that faith, friendship, love, and fatherhood have played in his life, and he hopes to motivate readers to chart their own journeys to successful and fulfilling lives.
About the Author:
Derek J. Robinson is a board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine. He is vice president and chief medical officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, a division of Health Care Service Corporation – the nation’s largest non-investor owned health insurance company. In this role, he leads the care management operations division and serves as the company’s primary health care expert.
Dr. Robinson continues to provide clinical care to patients in the ER at the University of Illinois Chicago where he is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine. His unique perspective on the complexities of healthcare, including his past service as a health care federal regulator, have enabled him to influence the transformation of health care for Americans. He has been featured on WTTW, WMAQ, WLS-TV, BNC, and other news outlets discussing important health care issues and social topics.
A native of Shreveport, LA. Dr. Robinson resides in Chicago, IL with his wife and two sons. When he is not working, he enjoys swimming, cycling, fishing, and spending time outdoors. For more on Derek Robinson and his memoir Improbable MD visit: http://www.DrDerekRobinson.com
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Cover Reveal – PREYING ON THE CHURCH
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Preying On The Church, is an inspiring novel about an African American middle-age woman Margie, who is well-known in her community through her job as a Realtor, serving as a representative on the Rockford Town Council, and giving her portion of life at Rockford Baptist Church.
A tragic accident happens that no one could ever believe. After a church shooting, Margie loses faith as her life is shattered into pieces losing someone close to her that causes her to journey through the five stages of grief.
It takes her to the lowest possible point of survival: isolating herself from friends and family, losing faith, drinking alcohol, almost getting arrested, and losing her job to realize she is on a path of destruction.
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“Where would you like to have the funeral?” asked Mr. Stephens. “There is an option
to have it at the convention center.”
“That would be great,” said Barry. “Then we can have all his teachers and friends
from school attend.”
“Okay, this is a book for flower arrangements and this one is for caskets and grave
markers. Browse through to see which ones you would like,” Mr. Stephens said as he
spread the books on the table.
Margie and Barry went through the books and picked the things that would best fit
for Jason.
They came across the perfect casket. The casket had a storm blue exterior with a
spruce blue interior and a football symbol inside, quoting a Bible verse.
After they came up with a decision, Margie wanted to go back upstairs.
“Barry, can you help me back upstairs?”
“You sure you don’t want to hang out with your mom and Burnie?” Barry posed as
they walked up the stairs.
“No, I’m not up to it,” Margie said as they continued to the bedroom. “Let Mom and
Burnie figure out the program for the homegoing service.”
Barry laid Margie down on the bed and sat beside her.
“Are you sure you want your mom and Burnie to do the program?” asked Barry.
“Yes, just make sure they leave room for Coach Mackey, Principal Jenkins, and his
teammates to say a few words.”
About the Author:
Kimberley is a professional early childhood educator and entrepreneur. She was born in the small town of Saint George, South Carolina, on September 12, 1982. Graduated from Woodland High School in 2000, Benedict College in 2004 with B.S., Child & Family Development, and from Ashford University in 2013 with a Masters in Early Childhood Education.
After receiving her education and being a military spouse, she held several jobs as a preschool teacher and a preschool director, but she wanted to her education to use by writing children’s books. She wrote her first book in college for her children’s literature course. She has self-published several children books on Amazon.
Currently, she is branching off into writing fiction YA, NA, and A novels on issues in society. She loves writing and would not change it for nothing in this world She is now published by Rhetoric Askew. Kimberley is the author of Our Friendship Matters and Preying on the Church.
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Cover Reveal – BACULUM
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As King of the Thrax, Lincoln leads the most powerful demon fighting force in the after-realms … yet he cherishes nothing more than his Angelbound love, Myla. All of which is why Lincoln loses his freaking mind when a demon horde targets his pregnant wife.
So. Not. Happening.
Sometimes, a warrior just needs to ignite his baculum sword and kick a ton of evil ass.
ANGELBOUND LINCOLN
Stories from the perspective of Mister The Prince1. Duty Bound2. Lincoln3. Trickster4. Baculum5. Angelfire
About the Author:
Christina Bauer thinks that fantasy books are like bacon: they just make life better. All of which is why she writes romance novels that feature demons, dragons, wizards, witches, elves, elementals, and a bunch of random stuff that she brainstorms while riding the Boston T. Oh, and she includes lots of humor and kick-ass chicks, too.
Christina graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School with BA’s in English along with Television, Radio, and Film Production. She lives in Newton, MA with her husband, son, and semi-insane golden retriever, Ruby.
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Cover Reveal – To Know A Killer
About the Book
Title: To Know A Killer
Author: Natalia Hale
Genre: Thriller / Suspense
It takes one to know one still rings true.
For years Luna Lis has been at the forefront of every trend in fashion, deciding what’s in style and what’s out. Cold, calculating, and downright manipulative, Luna fought her way to the top of the tower at the international fashion magazine L&L and is now editor in chief. She’s been written up as one of the most influential women of the world, and nobody is about to knock her off her pedestal. That is until a phone call from a detective makes her realize that there’s more to journalism than what’s hot or not on the runway.
Notorious serial killer Hannah Best has been in jail for over a year, but that hasn’t stopped her from influencing the world. Half a dozen reports have come out with perpetrators claiming they have killed for her. She wasn’t willing to speak out about it, but now she wants a tell-all book written about her life and the real story told. And she knows exactly who she wants to write it.
Luna Lis.
Author Bio
Natalia Hale is a journalism graduate with very little interest in writing news articles of any kind. A reader of the mysterious and morbid, she decided that it was time to start her publishing journey in 2015 with her novella It Takes a Killer. Focusing on short fiction, her stories delve into the disturbing tales that toe the line between acceptable to read in public and “if this is what you think about maybe you should talk to someone” (semi-joking advice from a friend). She is not as dark a person as her writing, but tends to get lost in existential thoughts.
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It Takes A Killer, the first book in the series, will be free on Amazon from May 23 to May 25.
Website: www.nataliahale.wordpress.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/halebooks
Twitter: www.twitter.com/natalia_writes
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Cover Reveal – My Freshman Year of Fabulous
Series: School Dayz
Genre: YA
Format: eBook
When Avery Thornton needs to escape a first day of school disaster, she ducks into an equipment room to hide and meets someone else who’s also having a really bad day. Eli Fields just got demoted to third string on the football team, a sport he doesn’t even really want to play. On the hunt for a dance partner before her competition season begins, Avery discovers Eli’s secret, non-football life outside of school. She thinks he could be the dance partner she’s dreamed about. But Eli wants no part of dancing with Avery. When someone else steps in as Avery’s partner for competitions, she and Eli begin practicing steps “just for fun.”
But, is that really all that Eli wants? And although Avery has found a perfect partner, she’s learning that perfection doesn’t necessarily equal happiness.
Author Bio
Jennifer DiGiovanni is a freelance writer and YA author of the School Dayz series. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading, working on home design projects, or trying to meet the daily goals on her Fitbit. She also likes to try new sports and activities, from archery to ballroom dancing, with varying degrees of success.
Twitter: @JenniferDiGiov2
Website: http://www.jenniferdigiovanni.com/
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VBT – Stone Circle
Kate Murdoch is an accomplished painter turned author who has remarkable life story which started in one Australia’s darkest periods. Kate was born 10 weeks premature in the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne in the early 1970s. She remained there for 3 months after being left by her young unwed mother before being adopted out through the hospital program. The social values of Australia during the 1950s-1970s looked unfavourably on children born outside of marriage. With 85-90% of Australians identifying as Christian at this time and sex outside wedlock viewed as sinful by the church – unmarried mothers often found themselves at the mercy of social criticism and ridicule. It became common in Australia for the babies of unwed mothers to be adopted and at its peak in 1971-72, there were almost 10,000 adoptions. Since then, rates of adoption have dropped massively, and over the last two decades have stabilised at around 400-600 children per year. While it is difficult to know the exact number of adoptions over this period – its legacy is thought to affect 1 in 15 Australians.
Having always been aware of her adoptive background, Kate, like most of us, began questioning her identity in her teens. She finally met her mother at 18 but it wasn’t until she was 31 and pregnant with her first child that she finally met her biological father who was unaware of her existence. In 2012, her personal journey inspired her to begin to write. Her new historical fiction novel, Stone Circle came to life at this time after she had a vivid dream about an old man and two boys on a stretch of water in a canoe.
The book is a beautifully imagined work of historical fiction. The characters and themes are very reflective of Kate’s own life, exploring class, rivalry, spiritual growth and identity. Stone Circle is the story of a boy endowed with psychic powers who is apprenticed to a seer in 16th century Italy.
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Author’s own search for identity inspires book about love and family
Melbourne: 17th November 2017 – In the early 1970’s author, Kate Murdoch was born 10 weeks premature in the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne. She remained there for 3 months after being left by her young unwed mother before being adopted out through the hospital program. Kate was extremely fortunate to have been assigned two exemplary people to raise her, both of which would have a huge impact on the person she was destined to become. The social values of Australia during the 1950s-1970s looked unfavourably on children born outside of marriage. With 85-90% of Australians identifying as Christian at this time and sex outside wedlock viewed as sinful by the church – unmarried mothers often found themselves at the mercy of social criticism and ridicule. It became common in Australia for the babies of unwed mothers to be adopted and at its peak in 1971-72, there were almost 10,000 adoptions. Since then, rates of adoption have dropped massively, and over the last two decades have stabilised at around 400-600 children per year. While it is difficult to know the exact number of adoptions over this period – its legacy is thought to affect 1 in 15 Australians.
Having always been aware of her adoptive background, Kate, like most of us, began questioning her identity in her teens. Although she was in a family where she was greatly loved, she was markedly different. Her creative talents surfaced in high school and were recognised with an art award in her final year. After school she went on to study a Bachelor of Fine Art at Monash University. She met her mother at 18 but it wasn’t until she was 31 and pregnant with her first child that she finally met her biological father. It was then that all the questions about her creativity were answered. He was creative and a successful musician. Kate’s struggle with identity and the beginning of her spiritual journey through the study of reiki, in 2012 inspired her to begin to write. Her new historical fiction novel, Stone Circle came to life at this time after she had a vivid dream about an old man and two boys on a stretch of water in a canoe.
Kate says, “I’m so looking forward to sharing this book with readers. This has been a long deeply personal journey and it is wonderful to finally be at this point. As the book reflects, I’ve always identified strongly with European sentiments and I think this is why I have become so preoccupied with European settings in my novels. I decided to set this book in the Renaissance period because at that time there was a lot of exploration into alchemy and I knew that the old man in my dream was imparting a knowledge of some kind to the two boys. I hope this book reminds readers that the only constraints are those that exist in our own minds.”
The book is a beautifully imagined work of historical fiction. The characters and themes are very reflective of Kate’s own life, exploring class, rivalry, spiritual growth and identity. The book follows the journey of a young Antonius who is sent off to work to support his family after his father dies. He finds employment as a servant in the Palazzo Ducal, home of Conte Valperga. Sixteenth-century Pesaro is a society governed by status, and Antonius has limited opportunities. When a competition is announced, Antonius seizes his chance. The winner will be apprenticed to the town seer. Antonius shares first place with his employer’s son. The two men compete for their mentor’s approval. As their knowledge of magic and alchemy grows, so does the rivalry and animosity between them. When the love of a beautiful woman is at stake, Antonius must find a way to follow his heart and navigate his future.
The book encapsulates so many aspects of Kate’s own life and her choice of the Renaissance period is one clearly made by a painter turned writer. Her years exhibiting and modelling in Australia, Asia and Europe have given her a broad understanding of the global village that is the world today. Her protagonist breaks out of his own societal expectations and class limitations, due to his talent and good character – which is highly reflective of her own personal journey.
This book will appeal to lovers of historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. Kate will be launching the book on Wednesday 6th December at Page 8 in Hampton.
About the Author:
Kate Murdoch is a Melbourne-based writer and artist. She exhibited widely as a painter both in Australia and internationally and was a finalist in many prize shows before turning her hand to writing. In between writing historical fiction, she enjoys writing short stories and flash fiction. Her short-form fiction is regularly published in Australia, UK, US and Canada. She also writes for her blog at https://kabiba.wordpress.com/.
Kate’s second novel is Stone Circle, a beautifully imagined work of historical fiction. An earlier version of Stone Circle was widely-acclaimed on the HarperCollins UK website, Authonomy, where it was chosen by the editors as the “one to watch” and ultimately ended up ranked 16th out of more than 10,000 manuscripts.
Kate Murdoch is available for interview. For media enquiries or to request a review copy of the book please contact, Aisling Gilhooly – Publicist on M: 0424 520 345 or E: aisling@aislingenterprises.com.au
The book is available for purchase for $AUD22.95 from December 1st through Amazon, Book Depository, Booktopia and Kobo.
Reviews for Stone Circle
“Murdoch presents a delightful romance, feathered with light touches of fantasy. The development of her love triangle is gratifying, and even secondary characters offer stark dramatic moments…” – Kirkus Reviews
“Kate Murdoch’s characters are so greatly human, that it’s easy to sympathise with them: to cheer them on during hard times and to admonish them for being foolish. Her characters’ interactions with each other and their individualities helped shape the book into something wonderful; at the same time she excels at pacing the story with her characters, all within a framework designed to help readers understand the world of seers and alchemy she has created.” – Readers’ Favorite (5 Stars)
“Kate Murdoch’s STONE CIRCLE is a stunning historical fantasy debut set in Renaissance Italy, packed with rich imagery, well-developed characters, and an enthralling plot. The execution of the love triangle is both captivating and refreshing, weaving love, jealousy, and rivalry into a complicated but realistic story of one young seer’s journey into alchemy and adulthood. I can’t wait to read more by Kate Murdoch.” – Madeline Dyer, author of the Untamed series
‘Stone Circle is a tale of 16th century Italy, but not as you have ever read about it before. This history is enlivened by a famous seer, his beautiful psychic daughter, two smitten apprentices, magic rituals, shape-shifting birds, evil brewing and true love, a thrilling combination that hooked me from the beginning. Kate Murdoch’s fabulous writing is full of vivid sounds, sights and scents that pull us into the scene, expressed in inspired word combinations that are a joy to read. A wonderful, entertaining book.’ – Gail Cleare, USA Today bestselling author
Book Blast – Li Bai’s Shadow
Title: Li Bai’s Shadow
Author: Lee J. Mavin
Pages: 216
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: ASJ Publishing
It appears I have undoubtedly been mysteriously transported to a young child’s bedroom, her name is Caitlin and she is of course very fond of my poetry. However despite this unusual occurrence I miss my homelands, dreadfully. This dry and scorching hot city, that she calls Sydney is beyond any distance I can comprehend, but I have always been a traveler, so I am contempt with the path I have stumbled upon. Her mother has faded into the shadow, so I must guide her, keep her safe and share a glass or two of good wine. It is rather odd that her father behaves like I don’t exist, it is at the very least disrespectful, doesn’t he know who I am? Why I am none other than the world’s greatest poet to have ever lived, Li Bai and my words have been etched in history and sang throughout the ages with the guzzling of wine. Yes indeed, I have informed and educated the girl on the most important pleasures of the world, to drink wine whenever one desires to, though she is still a youngling, it is rather amusing to watch her chant my poems in a drunken stupor. Together we will drink and recite my old rhymes and perhaps not long after I will figure out how to get home.
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Author Bio
Lee J Mavin is the author of The Students Sold Us Secrets volumes One and Two (He’s working on volume three now) and The Intergalactic Custody Battle. He holds the annual Students Told Us Secrets short story competition for ages 12-18 and he has also taught Japanese, Chinese fiction, ESL and creative writing from primary to territory levels. He lives in Sydney with his wife Grace, who has been married to for ten years and his two children Declan and Charlotte. He previously lived in Shizuoka, Japan and Shanghai where he discovered the poet Li Bai and also taught English. Since then he has completed his Masters in Creative Writing and continues to teach ESL in Sydney to adults from all corners of the globe. Lee J Mavin enjoys reading horror, fantasy, science fiction and poetry. He normally selects books by new authors he hasn’t heard of, regularly in these genres as he believes in supporting indie authors all over the world. When he is not busy discovering the next Stephen King he often dwells over lines of ancient Chinese poetry and debates post-game NBA statistical analysis. He tries not to spend too much time online and reads and writes between ESL lessons whenever he can. Strangely enough, he is also a pretty inexperienced driver, having just got his license to drive a few years ago. Though he doesn’t let the monotonous Sydney traffic frustrate him too much and is always thinking about a new plotline and a new character.
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