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Ichabod Brooks and the City of Beasts by Charles E. Yallowitz
Ichabod Brooks and the City of Beasts by Charles E. Yallowitz
Book Description: In a time of heroes, a man will take any job to provide for his family.
Ichabod Brooks has earned a reputation for taking the jobs most men and women fear to challenge. This reputation has brought him to the charred remains of a small village nestled within the hills and forest of Ralian. The ruins are a source of strange monsters that terrorize the countryside and repeatedly elude the local guards and hunters. The few brave souls who have entered the creatures’ lair have yet to come out alive or dead.
The chances of survival are slim, but that generous payment is too much for Ichabod to resist. After all, a man and his family have to eat.
My Review: I really enjoyed this story. It was a great adventure and I can’t decide if…
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An interview with Charles Yallowitz
Check out a fun interview about research and some of the strange things you can run into when wandering.
Today I have my very first author interview — I’m incredibly excited! Charles Yallowitz is my first guest, and we discuss his new short story, Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts, as well as the diet of peacocks! I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Hi Charles, thank you so much for being on the blog today! So first tell us a little about your new short story.
My newest release is entitled Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts, which is a fantasy adventure short story. The adventure focuses on Ichabod Brooks who is a man known for taking dangerous jobs to put food on the table for his family. As he says, he has to make a living and his wife doesn’t want him getting lazy in his old age. He takes a job to clear out an abandoned village that has become infested by bizarre monsters…
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Magic of Solstice Fantasy Writers’ Tour: Day 3 – Renee Scattergood
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Release announcement: Avalon by Vanessa Morgan
Publishing Date: 2015-06-04
“Avalon: a Heartwarming True Cat Story”
Available for (Amazon) pre-order
Upcoming
10 Statements – Vanessa Morgan
Review – Avalon by Vanessa Morgan
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Do You Have a Guilty Pleasure Read?
Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
With Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts out, I’ve been thinking a little about the books and characters I enjoy. Mostly, the ones that tend to be over the top and would probably be seen as guilty pleasures. Now, I’ve been told that everything from comic books to sci-fi/fantasy in general fall into this category. Maybe it’s because some people define guilty pleasure as something you take joy from that you should feel a little ashamed about. At least that’s a definition that I can gather from the word and how people react to certain things that others do. Have I lost you yet?
Video games used to be my big guilty pleasure, but it’s been more anime and TV these days. I outline while the things are on, so it isn’t a full indulgence. Still, there are a handful of books that I re-read at my snail’s pace. I own the one at the top of this post, which I read through a bit before giving Ichabod his first adventure. For me, a guilty pleasure is pure escapism to a different world and I pay little attention to how it translates to reality. I want to drift away and relax when I enjoy such things. So I head for simple stories with fun characters or at least a world that is beyond the norm. Sadly, I’ll admit to not indulging as often as I used to.
It is curious how this type of thing works. One would expect to not feel guilty about having fun with something. It makes you happy and relaxes you, so why should you feel bad about taking pleasure from it? As long as it isn’t hurting anybody, there shouldn’t be that guilty part. Yet that’s the phrase for some reason. Let’s be honest here. Nearly every form of entertainment can be put into this category by somebody. I tend to go more for the campy stuff when I really want to boost my mood. For example, I will stop on ‘Flash Gordon’ if I find it on TV.
So, I’m just going to open the floor here. What do you think of guilty pleasures and do you have any literary ones? Favorite characters or books that give you that twinge of ‘I really shouldn’t be reading this’?
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Available Now! Into The West by J.A. Campbell
A Young Adult Time Travel Novel
Into The West
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J.A. Campbell
Published by Untold Press
Tina Harker is a typical teenager. She loves hanging with her friends at the mall, buying shoes, and getting manicures. Most of all, she loves horses. Her life is everything she wants until her father drags their family to Arizona. Now she’s living in a virtual ghost town in the middle of the desert, millions of miles from the nearest shopping center.
The one small highlight in the dreadful situation is the local ranch. They have a horse Tina can ride anytime she wants. Trying to make the best of her situation, Tina goes on her first cattle drive and gets a lot more adventure than she expected.
Bandits, cattle thieves, and a really cute cowboy are only the beginning as she finds out the ranch she is coming to love is in grave…
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Check This Out: Surviving Santiago
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Please join me in welcoming back to the blog my good friend and classmate at VCFA, Lyn Miller-Lachmann. It’s my pleasure to help her celebrate today’s launch of her young adult historical fiction book, Surviving Santiago, published by Running Press Kids/Perseus Books. (Click on the publisher to read a synopsis of this book.)
Lyn is represented by Ellen Geiger at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Her publicist just happens to be another classmate of ours: Val Howlett.
El Space: Happy Launch Day, Lyn! When you wrote Gringolandia (Curbstone Press, 2009), did you envision a sequel to follow? Why or why not?
Lyn: I didn’t expect to write a companion or sequel. Technically, this is a companion rather than a sequel because it has a different protagonist, one who was a major secondary character in the previous book. When I started Gringolandia as a contemporary novel back in…
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