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Sara recently read Blood Forge and gave it an incredible 4/5!
“This is a well-plotted story, and the way it portrays ordinary people having to deal with extraordinary events is reminiscent of early Stephen King. At times it’s frustrating when you know as a reader that the characters are blundering innocently into peril, but you get pulled into the story and you want to keep reading to find out what happens next. BLOOD FORGE is an accomplished horror story that will keep you gripped until the very end. 4/5″
Please click HERE to read the full review
Ella recently read A Hero Rising (A New Dawn #3) and gave it a full 5/5!
“I have to say ‘hats off’ to Aubrie Dionne for creating a masterpiece. I cannot find fault to this book. The characterization is deep, the descriptions perfect. Relationships are complex and even secondary plots get enough attention to make the reader stop and listen. I was excited about the fight for survival and moved by the portrayal of the world in ruin. It’s brought home the great truth that people do have choices to make and are indeed masters of their own destinies without being overbearingly philosophical about it. 5/5″
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Kaitlin recently read Ambasadora and gave it an impressive 3.5/5!
“I ended up getting really hooked in once the story picked up and the Ambasadora Sara and Sean got together. 3.5/5″
Please click HERE to read the full review
We are really honoured to be joined today by Liz Schulte for today’s BBTS (Bewitching Book Tour Sundays). Liz took time out of her busy schedule to share with us about what a guardian is. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Here is an extract from the guest post:
“Guardians are souls of people who died before their time who were offered the chance to come back to guide the living. In very rare instances a soul can be born with the destiny to become a guardian. We are what most people consider guardian angels or muses, but we are technically neither. Guardians never set out to harm or injure another soul, even when provoked. We are a peaceful race.”
Please click HERE to read the full guest post
** COMPETITION TIME **
Liz has donated an ebook copy of Choices – to be entered into the competition please leave a comment with an email address and let us know what your opinion on Guardians is…
Liz is also offering a tour wide giveaway of a $50 Amazon GC and 5 signed paperback copies of Secrets and Choices…
We are really honoured to be joined today by Chris Karlsen for today’s BBTS (Bewitching Book Tour Sundays). Chris took time out of her busy schedule to share with us about her playlists. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Here is an extract from the guest post:
“A question I see on author interviews fairly often is-do they listen to music while they write? The majority answer that they do. I have five playlists made and two more in my head waiting for me to put them together. I almost always have one of my lists playing in the background as I write. I may not be aware of a particular song or songs playing, if I’m really concentrating on a scene. On the flipside, there are times the music helps me through a scene. It can establish a sense of setting for me or many days, a mood for both the story and the characters.“
Please click HERE to read the full guest post
We are privilaged to be joined by the amazing S.M. Blooding today. She took time out of her busy schedule to share with us her character Nightmare Keme. I hope you enjoy it as much as we have.
Here is an excerpt:
“Hey, guys. Nightmare Keme is one of my favorite characters and I’m really excited for you to meet him. LOL! He’s quite the character. He’s also a difficult man to track down. When I said, “I want to write a story about Nightmare Keme,” I believe his exact words were, “Like Hell you are!”“
Please click HERE to read the full guest post
Scott M. Baker recently took the time out of his busy schedule to share with us his opinions on Zombies and their success in novels.
Here is an excerpt:
“One question repeatedly asked at fan conventions and across the Internet is whether the zombie phenomenon has run its course and its popularity has started to decline. At times the debate has been intense, and arguments supporting the demise of the living dead have ranged from there being no blockbuster zombie novels or movies since Jonathon Maberry’s Patient Zero (2009) to the inability of the genre to generate any sustainable subgenres other than the occasional zomcom (zombie comedy) or zomrom (zombie romance). I was recently at one convention where a panel discussion discussed whether or not the death knell of the genre would be the emergence of sparkling vampire zombies. From the serious to the satirical, critics across the blogosphere have written off zombies as a cultural icon and have them all but dead and buried.”
To read more of this fantastic guest post please click HERE!
Many thanks to Scott for sharing this with us!
Genre: Adult, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Dawn Treader Press
Publication Date: July 5, 2010
Pages: 448
Purchase: Amazon
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Synopsis:
THE DESCENT INTO HELL IS NOT ALWAYS VERTICAL…
Sam Hudson, a reputable San Diego attorney, learns this when the authorities wrongfully convict him of the brutal rape and murder of his wife and daughter, and sends him to death row. There he awaits execution by lethal injection.
If he survives that long.
In prison, Sam fights for his life while his attorney works frantically on his appeal. It is then that he embraces the faith of his departed wife and begins to manifest supernatural abilities. Abilities which help him save lives– his own, those of his unlikely allies–and uncover the true killer’s identity, unlocking the door to his exoneration.
Now a free man, Sam’s newfound faith confronts him with the most insurmountable challenge yet. A challenge beyond vengeance, beyond rage, beyond anything Sam believes himself capable of: to forgive the very man who murdered his family, according to his faith. But this endeavor reveals darker secrets than either Sam or the killer could ever have imagined.
Secrets that hurtle them into a fateful collision course.
BEYOND JUSTICE, a tale of loss, redemption, and the power of faith.
“…A riveting legal thriller…. breaking new ground with a vengeance… demonically entertaining and surprisingly inspiring.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“…hits the ground running…handled by a deft hand.” Adrian Phoenix, BENEATH THE SKIN (Pocket Books)
“This tense, fast-paced story of outrageous injustice, insidious evil, and looming disaster has everything the savvy reader should expect, and more. [Graham] belongs to a new, emerging wave of writers who dare to color outside conventional lines. And he does so with style!” Glen Scorgie, THE JOURNEY BACK TO EDEN (Zondervan)
About Joshua:
Winner of the 2011 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, and Amazon.com #1 bestselling author Joshua Graham’s Barnes & Noble #1 bestselling novel BEYOND JUSTICE is taking the world by storm, one reader at a time. Many of his readers blame him for sleepless nights, arriving to work late, neglected dishes and family members, and not allowing them to put the book down.
BEYOND JUSTICE, THE ACCIDENTAL EXORCIST, THE ACCIDENTAL HERO, THE ACCIDENTAL HEALER, and DEATH AND TAXES, have reached the top of multiple bestseller list on Barnes & Noble topping titles by John Grisham, Linda Fairstein, Scott Turrow and James Lee Burke, Ted Dekker and Steven James.
Soaring to the top of the Barnes & Noble lists, BEYOND JUSTICE recently hit #1 in the Legal Thriller and Christian Thriller categories, topping by John Grisham, Joel C. Rosenberg, and Michael Connelly. It has also remained on the Amazon.com top 100 bestselling Kindle bestseller list months after its release.
Suspense Magazine listed BEYOND JUSTICE in its BEST OF 2010, alongside titles by Scott Turrow, Ted Dekker, Steven James and Brad Thor.
His short story THE DOOR’S OPEN won the HarperCollins Authonomy Competition (Christmas 2010.)
Publishers Weekly described BEYOND JUSTICE as “…A riveting legal thriller…. breaking new ground with a vengeance… demonically entertaining and surprisingly inspiring.“
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Concluding on our Titanic Voyage. We are proud to bring to you today a fictional short story by Ron Rutler,
100 years is a long time to be on a ship
Here is an excerpt:
“I stood on the dock at Southampton and watched as the Titanic pulled away. Oh, I waved at my Grandpa and shouted “wish me wells” up towards his lofty perch where he and his beloved Fedora stood posed, one foot up on the ship’s port side railing, but I was full of disappointment that I didn’t get to walk up that plank with him. He’s a wealthy man, I thought, and I am his only grandson. He could have afforded to buy me a ticket.”
Please click HERE to read the rest of the story. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have.
Also we would like to thank you at this time for traveling with us on our voyage. We hope you have enjoyed all the posts as much as we have! You can check out all the stops HERE!
Rotter World
Scott M. Baker
March 2012
Mass Market Paperback $14.99
302 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-61868-028-0
ISBN-10: 1-61868-028-5
With Rotter World, Scott M. Baker pulls out all the stops in a zombie thriller that is brutal, violent and terrifying. Definitely not for the faint-hearted. — New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero and Dead of Night.
Eight months have passed since vampires released the Revenant Virus on mankind, nearly wiping out both species. For Mike Robson, the situation could be far worse. He has joined up with a small band of humans and the last coven of vampires who are riding out the zombie apocalypse in an old fort along the coast of southern Maine. But the uneasy alliance between humans and vampires is strained with the arrival of the creator of the Revenant Virus. He claims to have a vaccine that will make them immune and allow mankind to take civilization back from the living dead. However, the vaccine is located in a secure underground facility five hundred miles away.
To retrieve it, Robson leads a raiding party of humans and vampires down the East Coast, which has been devastated by the outbreak and overrun by zombies and rape gangs. Yet none of the horrors he deals with on the road can prepare him for what he will find in the underground facility. Robson will encounter the greatest threat his group has faced to date, not only from zombies but from betrayal within his own ranks.
Think there are no new or original zombie authors? Think again. Scott M. Baker provides an exciting voice and fresh outlook on the undead. Fun, compulsive reading. — Brian Keene, author of The Rising and City of the Dead.
Scott M. Baker writes in the tradition of J.L. Bourne and Joe McKinney. Fans of thriller writers like Brad Thor will also find powerful, welcome similarities in Rotter World. — Scott Kenemore, author of Zen of Zombie.
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Scott M. Baker scottmbakerauthor.blogspot.com is a novelist from northern Virginia whose previous works include The Vampire Hunters trilogy, which have received excellent reviews by both Famous Monsters of Filmland and Fangoria, and numerous short stories, including “Cruise of the Living Dead” and the Christmas zombie epic “Deck the Malls with Bowels of Holly.” Scott is available for interviews.
Permuted Press was established in 2004 with a modest goal: to produce a single, high-quality zombie anthology titled The Undead. From this simple goal grew a publishing company that has published over 60 titles targeting the apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, and survival horror fiction markets. Permuted Press has relied heavily on the power of the internet and advances in publishing technology to establish itself as one of the best known publishers in the apocalyptic niche. Permuted has utilized print on demand (POD) technology and grassroots internet marketing to catch and cater to its ever growing fan base.
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