#RRBC Spotlight Author Micki Peluso

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I am pleased to welcome Micki Peluso to Fiction Favorites. Micki has received Rave Reviews Book Club’s Spotlight Author honor and will be on tour this week .

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The Rewards of Writing . . .  And the Whippoorwill Sang

While writing this book was something I had sworn to do as a deathbed promise to the one I lost, it was both blessing and bane. There were times when I laughed and times when I cried—just like my readers.  Many supernatural events happened as I finished the book, just as they did throughout parts of the story. A whippoorwill, not indigenous to where I live now, sat in the bushes near my deck and sang his sad three syllable song as I wrote the hardest part of the book. Upon typing ‘The End,’ the elusive bird disappeared only to return in pure sight the day I had my first book…

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Purveyor of Escapism

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A salesman of dreams
That can be shared
By infinite minds
As long as they wish to open

A merchant of illusion
Stirring emotions
With carefully crafted words
That leap upon the page

A peddler of tales
From worlds beyond our touch
Yet thriving with vividness
Inside the mental realm

I am a Purveyor of Escapism
My goal to take you far
So leave all worries in a jar
And leave reality behind

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Saturday Round Up – Spiders, Greek Gods and Irish Dancing.

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Visions of Zarua Blog Tour – A New Fantasy Book among my favourites

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It is my great pleasure to participate in Visions of Zarua blog tour. I was generously given this book by the author in exchange for an honest review, and I simply adored the book. Below you can will be able to read my review, get to see ad hear about this awesome book from mine and perspective of other participants and get to know more about Suzanne Rogerson, the author of this book which is now taking place among my favourites in fantasy genre.

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Book Blurb:

Visions of Zarua

Two wizards, 350 years apart.

Together they must save the realm of Paltria from Zarua’s dark past.

An ancient darkness haunts the realm of Paltria.

Apprentice wizard Paddren is plagued by visions of a city on the brink of annihilation. When his master Kalesh dies in mysterious circumstances, the Royal Order of Wizards refuses to investigate.

Helped by his childhood friend…

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Smorgasbord Open House – Award Winning author Karen Ingalls.

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Pearseus, Rise of the Prince on Sale for #99cents #fantasy #scifi

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Title: Pearseus, Rise of the Prince

Author: Nicholas C. Rossis

Genre: fantasy/sci-fi

Publisher: Istomedia

Book Blurb:

“Pearseus does for ancient Greece what Game of Thrones did for Medieval England.”

Three hundred years after humans crash land on Pearseus, Styx, the Capital’s cruel ruler, learns of a dark prophecy: Cyrus, a young boy, will one day slay her. She imprisons him, but days before his execution he escapes with the help of the First, the planet’s native inhabitants. On their way to safety, nightmarish monsters attack. Cyrus flees, scared and alone, until a pair of First warriors rescue him and spirit him away to the mysterious Old Woman.

All Cyrus wants is to reunite with his family. But the Old Woman insists Cyrus is the foretold instrument in the First’s ancient war against a shadowy enemy who will stop at nothing to prevent him from fulfilling his destiny. Heart and mind war within Cyrus as he must choose between rejoining his family and preventing humanity’s extinction.

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Rise of the Prince is the first book of the Amazon genre best-selling series, Pearseus.

The book is currently on a 99c sale on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pearseus-Rise-Prince-Book-fantasy-ebook/dp/B00FYRKLPI

Nicholas Rossis

Nicholas Rossis lives to write and does so from his cottage on the edge of a magical forest in Athens, Greece. When not composing epic fantasies or short sci-fi stories, he chats with fans and colleagues, writes blog posts, walks his dog, and enjoys the antics of his baby daughter and two silly cats, all of whom claim his lap as home. His first children’s book, Runaway Smile, has won the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award, among other distinctions.

Many of his short stories have appeared in various collections and anthologies. He has published three collections: Honest Fibs, The Power of Six and Infinite Waters, which was voted as one of the best 50 Indie books of 2015.

He has also written the epic fantasy series, Pearseus. The final book in the series is currently penned.

Social Media Links:

Blog: http://bit.ly/1G79bQS

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Twitter: http://bit.ly/1dKgsPT

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This week has been busy with the kid going back to school.  It starts earlier than the regular school year, but I’m up at 5:30 AM anyway.  Gives me an hour to get email and social media done before I wake him, get him dressed, make his lunch, make his breakfast, write a note for his teacher, find socks, and schedule the day’s tweets.  Then I get him on the bus and either get to writing or hop on the bike.  He comes home earlier too, so I don’t have as much time as I normally would.  This is why I picked Chasing Bedlam as the summer project.

The writing has been going slow because I have to check maps and the characters have had a year to grow.  Lloyd isn’t as wild as before and he’s having trouble coming up with pop culture references, which frustrates him.  Cassidy is a lot more cunning and unhinged than last time.  So, it’s almost like I’m rediscovering them now that they’ve established themselves in my mind and the world.  This story is getting a little raunchier for some reason.  At least the third chapter, but that might be because of what’s going on.  Sex is a focal point of the issue here, so this will probably pass.

The heat and humidity have been rough, which has made working even tougher.  Morning isn’t too bad, but working upstairs gets difficult by the afternoon.  This is the hottest area of the house and I’m trying to focus while not sweating onto the laptop.  People might be saying ‘use the air conditioner’, but I try to hold off until the kid comes home.  That and I’m not the one who pays the electric bill.  Others might be saying ‘you complained about the cold and now the heat?’ and I respond with ‘YUP!’.  I’m a moderate temperature creature.  I don’t like sweating just by standing still and I don’t like shivering when I have several layers.  Give me spring or autumn without these extremes that power companies use to yank more money out of you.

Next week will be the same and I realized I still have to make a menu for dinners.  Being the cook takes a lot out of me sometimes because of the planning.  Before I get to the list, a little reminder:

SUNDAY GUEST POSTS START TOMORROW!

So, what’s the goal?

  1. Continue writing Chasing Bedlam.
  2. Continue with social media presence.
  3. Reading time with son for library program.  75 minutes a week minimum.
  4. Biking and showering.
  5. Cooking.
  6. Possibly seeing Tarzan next week.
  7. Pondering stuff.
  8. Throwing imaginary darts at the superhero stories because they’re driving me nuts again.
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Welcome to the Party – Meet and Greet New Bloggers Saturday 9th July

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NEW RELEASE – ONE HOT MESS: A Children’s Environmental Fable…

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Ye Olde Boat Shoppe: If It Floats Then We Did Our Job

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Welcome to Ye Olde Boat Shoppe, which has been in our family for so many generations that we never bothered to give it a flashy name.  Just to be clear, we make new boats that are tailored to your specifications.  There’s some confusion since it does sound like we only sell old boats.  Look, we’d change the name, but that risks the fury of our ancestors in the form of ghosts that yodel sea shanties.  It’s a very strange family curse placed on us by a mildly annoyed Pirate Queen after she stubbed her toe on that step by the front door that nobody ever sees.  Can’t change it either because of the H.O.A.  Are you going to order a boat or pay me for my biography?

A small vessel that can be manned by a single person and carry a lot of gear.  So you want a magic ship.  Let’s get the enchantments out of the way.  This would include a mast that controls the wind, a fortified hull, a self-adjusting rudder, and three holding boxes.  One will be for ship supplies, another for food and drink, and the last one would be for miscellaneous.  These are standard for such a ship and the price depends on how you want the enchantments to be forged.  Cheap means a powerful caster did the job with regular supplies, which can be undone in various situations.  A more durable set can be purchased if you want the blessing of a deity, which can come with either a deadly quest or the curse of never staying more than a day on land.  Our most expensive one is . . . don’t you want to hear it?  Fine, one Sacrifice of the Family ritual coming up.  Well, I guess it doesn’t have to be your family specifically.  Let’s move on.

Are you thinking of weapons too?  We do have the Mast Denter 6000 on sale along with a bag of cannonball regeneration.  It is still rather pricey, but you seem like a person where money is no object.  That small one with the sparkles is our Baby Mermaid model, which has unlimited ammunition.  Don’t get too excited because it fires cupcakes instead of cannonballs.  I don’t think there’s a big market for hunting down diabetic pirates.  I know I said weapons, but cannons are really it for this day and age.  Given the size of your ship, you won’t need more than that and should focus on maneuverability.  No, the gnomes have not invented torpedoes, missiles, or . . . are you sure you’re in the right genre?

Do you want this ship to look like anything specific?  A boat . . . I walked right into that one.  Just tell me colors, flags, designs on the side, the figurehead, or anything beyond the pieces.  Dark red is good and putting foam designs along the bottom isn’t too bad.  Squid flags are out of stock right now, but we do have a few octopus left.  Sea Urchin would be a special order since there aren’t many calls for that.  That leaves us with the figurehead and we have many choices.  One that talks?  Going back to enchantments, huh?  You want a busty woman with black hair and a bikini, but she speaks like a foul-mouthed pirate.  Oh, not like a foul-mouthed pirate, but her voice is male and she curses when giving you directions.  Free of charge on that one only because I really want to hear the stories that come from it.

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