Welcome to Donna Galanti w/ #Paranormal #Suspense ‘A Human Element’ @DonnaGalanti @GoddessFish

On March 21, 2017February 8, 2017 By Casey's CornerIn Authors & Books, Goddess Fish Promotions2 Comments

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Today we have author Donna Galanti visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* Donna Galanti is the author of the paranormal suspense Element Trilogy (Imajin Books -http://www.imajinbooks.com/ ) and the children’s fantasy adventure Joshua and The Lightning Road series (Month9Books -http://www.month9books.com/ ). Donna is a contributing editor for International Thriller Writers the Big Thrill (http://www.thebigthrill.org/) – magazine and blogs with other middle grade authors at Project Middle Grade Mayhem (http://project-middle-grade-mayhem.blogspot.com/search/label/Donna Galanti) . She’s lived from England as a child, to Hawaii as a U.S. Navy photographer. Donna enjoys teaching at conferences on the writing craft and marketing and also presenting as a guest author at elementary and middle schools.

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Evil comes in many forms…
* One by one, Laura Armstrong’s friends and adoptive family members are being murdered, and despite her unique healing powers, she can do nothing to stop it. The savage killer haunts her dreams, tormenting her with the promise that she is next. Determined to find the killer, she follows her visions to the site of a crashed meteorite in her hometown. There, she meets Ben Fieldstone, who seeks answers about his parents’ death the night the meteorite struck. In a race to stop a madman, they unravel a frightening secret that binds them together. But the killer’s desire to destroy Laura face-to-face leads to a showdown that puts Laura and Ben’s emotional relationship and Laura’s pure spirit to the test. With the killer closing in, Laura discovers her destiny is linked to his, and she has two choices—redeem him or kill him.

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* She planted her feet shoulder-width apart, and facing the woods, commanded its inanimate objects to obey her wishes. Her hands danced in fury as rocks and branches flew through the air toward one another.
* She stripped off her sweater and turtleneck, now damp with sweat. The sun hit the lake from the treetops burning off the fog, shooting millions of sparkles across the water toward her. But Laura closed her eyes to the beauty and fought her war with evil.
* The sounds of her battle echoed around the lake as wood and stone broke against each other. She was a creature of nature and hypnotized in the darkness of her mind as she fought. She shrieked with bitter triumph.
* Then exhaustion overcame her and her rage drained away. She sank to the ground, weeping. The pain of her many losses overcame her. How could she win against something she didn’t even know? But she did know one thing. She and this killer had to be connected. Just as she was connected somehow to the man she sensed deep in the earth here all those years ago. She rose up on her knees and threw back her arms wide open in protest, her chest reaching out toward the sky.
* “Just come and get me you bastard! I’m ready!” She opened her eyes and squinted from the sunlight now all around her.
* “Laura,” a voice called softly from behind her.
* She jumped up and turned around to see Ben standing by the shoreline. The adrenaline that had surged through her body disappeared. She felt weakness crash over her in waves. She couldn’t form words to say. Tears still streamed down her face.
* She reached out a hand to him and it shook. She stared at it as if it weren’t part of her body and she tottered on her feet. Ben lunged toward her and caught her before she fell.

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Thank you for joining us here today, Donna Galanti! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Donna Galanti will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use this RAFFLECOPTER LINK to enter the drawing. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

Welcome to Sam Cunningham w/ #erotic #fantasy ‘The Legend of Queen Agatha’ @GoddessFish

On March 20, 2017February 8, 2017 By Casey's CornerIn Authors & Books, Goddess Fish Promotions14 Comments

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Today we have author Sam Cunningham visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* Sam Cunningham is a small college physics teacher. He knows from personal experience with his pupils that through nurturing nearly all young people can become productive citizens. It is an overwhelming tragedy that so many poor children are not given this nurturing. Their personal loss, and the loss to their country of their productive ability, is a catastrophe. As a scientist he understands that critical thinking and the ability to follow where the evidence leads are the only reliable ways to understand the real world. Away from work he leaves the real world of hard evidence to read science fiction and fantasy. His favorite childhood movie was the Walt Disney 1950 cartoon of Cinderella, and he greatly admires strong women. Sam brings together all of these ingredients in this story of a princess who becomes a wise and inspired queen with a personal mission to achieve productivity, prosperity, and happiness for all of her people.

Today Sam Cunningham will be talking about the first book he read that had a big impact on him.
* Alice in Wonderland, the original version by Lewis Carroll including the original pictures. Although I was too young to do more than like the story and read it over and over again (and of course look at the pictures of a very pretty and mannerly girl), I can see with mature hindsight that Alice was such a sweet and polite girl who handled herself very well through all the unfamiliar situations in which she found herself. When dealing with any adversary, Queen Agatha must be tough, tougher than the adversary. But in her gentler scenes I wonder if readers of “The Legend of Queen Agatha” can recognize Alice in at least part of the character of Queen Agatha.

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* In the mythical, medieval land of Xana, Queen Julia ruled as a typical aristocratic monarch in a country whose great wealth was concentrated among the privileged few. Her daughter, Princess Agatha, was the champion of the commoners. The evil sorcerer Magi comes to Xana to kill Queen Julia and ravage aristocrats and commoners alike. Princess Agatha alone is spared, for she is protected by her fairy godmother. Now the beautiful heiress has two challenges, first to rid Xana of Magi and then to lift all the commoners from poverty into prosperity. To achieve her first goal she must identify her handsome prince incognito in the crowd on her first try. She won’t have a second chance. To achieve her second she must invent and use radical political schemes even if not all her people approve.

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* With Magi at last gone, a small group of Queen Julia’s inner circle, haggard, emaciated, and the only ones still alive, found the heiress. Hoping still to stave off her radical ideals, the eldest pleaded, “You know the story of Cinderella. Now your prince has found you. Let him be king and rule with moderation, for he will treat you with all the kindness that befits his queen. We can advise him in the ways of Xana.”
* Agatha palpitated. So immense was her rage that it is to her credit she did not explode. She took twenty slow, deep breaths and then replied with resolve, “Cinderella and Snow White became pampered palace ornaments in lands already prosperous and wisely governed. They also had wonderfully happy marriages and beautiful children.” With a dignified air of absolute authority, and with all hesitation gone, Queen Agatha declared, “I have a destiny to fulfill. I must inspire my people to rebuild our ruined land into a prosperity such as the world has never seen. I must make sure that prosperity is shared with all my people. Not one shall be left out. Be off with you, naysayers, and never return to my palace. Among the humble and honest people I will find women and men with great talent to lead in this noble endeavor, people who never say, ‘It can’t be done,’ but who will do it.”

Buy The Legend of Queen Agatha here. The eBook is on sale for $0.99.
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Thank you for joining us here today, Sam Cunningham! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Sam Cunningham will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use this RAFFLECOPTER LINK to enter the drawing. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

Welcome to John Geers w/ #Fantasy ‘Emerge Beyond Circles’ @JohnGeers @GoddessFish

On March 15, 2017February 27, 2017 By Casey's CornerIn Authors & Books, Goddess Fish Promotions5 Comments

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Today we have author John Geers visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* John Geers drew inspiration to begin his debut novel from a dream he experienced.
* Hours spent in the caffeinated air of his favorite coffeehouse proved to be the perfect place to complete Emerge Beyond Circles.
* John is a middle school literacy educator, where he inspires and is inspired by the writers of tomorrow. He is the founder and facilitator of his school’s Creative Writing Club. He is also a columnist for the online magazine Elephant Journal.
* He loves a good story, being on the water, and witty puns. He can be found hiking the wilderness, biking big hills, sipping dark coffee, and looking for a chair in the mall.

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* Two couples from Madison, with entwined destinies, both seeking love, are connected by a single element: the ancient Siberian witch, Thuban-Pol. Her magic will either be their savior or their ruin.
* Thuban-Pol is the latest in a lineage of Siberian witches. Their eternal aim is to guide humanity to true love. Their guiding tenet, “For love to bloom, these three endure: sacrifice, perseverance and suffering. But the greatest of these is suffering.”
* Since the dawn of humanity, they have summoned countless couples, inflicting suffering with the intention to grow true love. They have never succeeded…but now they have their best opportunity in two couples from Wisconsin.
* If they succeed, love will finally bloom for all of humanity, if the suffering inflicted on these couples doesn’t kill them first.

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* The relief of a spilled secret washed through him, nourished by the fresh sting of bourbon on his throat, and a cruel tickle of his soul. A tickle not felt since before his sight was ripped from him in a Siberian gust.
* The bottle on the bar, keeper of amber bourbon and his secret, stood silent, solid. To be sure, he chose a reliable friend in which to confide. Old Crow bourbon had been the drink of choice for Ulysses S. Grant, victorious general of the Grand Army of the Republic, for the Yanks of the North, during the Civil War. The secrets the General poured into the golden bottle were severe enough to flip the result of the war. Yet, they remained safe, locked behind the sealed beak of the black crow perched on the label.
* Unseen by him, light from neon beer signs bounced off the bottle at peculiar angles, a queer spotlight on the label.
* The cigarette smoldered and sagged in the ashtray.

Buy Emerge Beyond Circles here…
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Thank you for joining us here today, John Geers! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

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ANNOUNCEMENT! John Geers will be awarding a $25 Amazon GC, a signed copy of the book, and a stuffed tiger (US only) to a randomly drawn winner via the sweepstakes link during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use this Emerge Beyond Circles Goddessfish Giveaway Link to enter the drawing. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!