Happy October, Fire Enthusiasts! Wow! Is this month crazy or what?
This month – and it all seems to be converging at the same
moment - we’re gearing up for Halloween with three events. We’ve got Coffin Hop
2013; Author Milo James Fowler’s brainchild, CreepyFreebies; and Author Ash
Krafton’s Fall into Fantasy Giveaway. Not only are there opportunities to snag
free copies of my books during this time, but altogether there are easily over
a hundred other authors giving away their books and author swag.
As I mentioned, Author Milo James Fowler is hosting Creepy Freebies. Every Friday
during the month we’re giving stuff away and mine is next. I’m giving away
multiple Kindle copies of my latest, Seeing
Ghosts on Friday,
October 25th. You can enter by placing the book on your Goodreads
shelf or liking my Facebook
Author page. Just let me know who you are with a comment and tell me
what you did. I’m easy that way.
Next we have the Fall into
Fantasy extravaganza,
hosted by author Ash Krafton. She’s awesome-sauce and she’s got a fabulous
giveaway on her site. There are over 50 authors participating, and with so many
books and swag opportunities it is not to be missed. The contest started October
17th and runs through until Halloween. I’m giving away Kindle copies
of Seeing Ghosts there as well.
Last, but certainly not least, we finish the month in grand
fashion with Coffin Hop 2013. Every year the group of authors participating
seems to grow exponentially, and so does the stuff that is given away. It is so
big that it will take you the entire week to get through the hop! And it will be
so worth it. Head on over to the Coffin Hop site and take a look down that list
of sites participating. Perhaps the highlight of the event is the Coffin Hop:
Death by Drive-In Anthology. It is a collection of stories from some of the
best of the Coffin Hop members with all of the proceeds going to LitWorld.Org (a
non-profit organization that supports child literacy.
I will be giving away Kindle-copies of all three of my
books, including a grand prize winner who will receive them all. Adding the
book you want (Dance on
Fire, Flash Point (book
2) or Seeing
Ghosts to your
Goodreads shelf or liking my Facebook
Author Page gets
you in. Just leave a comment as to which book you want or if you want them all.
At the end of the contest I will choose multiple winners out of a hat.
Before I go, these are the books I’m giving away:
Seeing Ghosts:
Paul Herrera hasn’t
worked, left town or done much of anything since the untimely death of his wife
two years before. He suddenly finds himself bequeathed a mysterious old house
near the California central coast by a deceased aunt that he never knew. The
woman who showed it to him and handed him the keys is the spitting image of his
dead wife, taken from him two years before in a senseless car accident which
also took from him his unborn son. While he deals with the ghosts of a past
that he cannot let go, there are new ghosts as dead Aunt Flora is not content
with eternal sleep, but continues her unholy quest to be rejoined with her dead
husband on this side of the grave.
Flora isn’t the only
ghost that Paul must deal with, alone for the week in the expansive two-storey
house that he will soon discover holds many secrets. Eventually, he will see
that he is surrounded by ghosts, both the ethereal and those that only haunt
his memories, as he struggles to hold onto the only thing that he has left in this
world: his sanity.
Dance on Fire:
Each
May, the Central California town of Kingsburg celebrates its Swedish heritage
with the annual Swedish Festival: a weekend event where the town puts on its
traditional dress, culminating with a dance around a Maypole on Friday, and a
Swedish pancake breakfast and parade on Saturday. The town with a population of
over 11,000 residents draws thousands more to the event. This year, two
uninvited guests also converged upon the unsuspecting town.
Nathaniel
is a vampire. He wandered into town, bothering no one; feeding upon stray cats
and other vermin, wanting nothing more than to have a place to rest his head.
Vincent is a second vampire, and the one responsible for making Nathaniel. He
has been searching for his long lost “son” for well over two centuries.
Vincent’s goal is to take Nathaniel home or kill him. Nathaniel has often
wished for death, wondering why God ever allowed this punishment: to walk the
earth undead and unable to be redeemed. Does God remember the little boy from
Romania who watched his parents die, was raised by the murdering vampire, only
to become one himself? What does God think of Nathaniel and could there yet be
redemption for one outside of heaven?
Ten days before the
start of the Swedish Festival the most tumultuous week in the history of
Kingsburg has begun with two vampires leaving death and destruction in their
wake. Kingsburg Police Detectives Mark Jackson and Michael Lopez, Barbara and
the entire Lopez family find themselves drawn into something that threatens to
destroy them all or leave them scarred forever.
Dance on Fire, Flash
Point:
Five years after the death of their only child Tiffany, Steve
and Angie Rosen receive an unexpected guest to their Morro Bay, California
home: their daughter. She comes with a tale of having suffered a terrible head
wound in the fire that took their Kingsburg home, causing her loss of memory
and migraine headaches that force her to hide from daylight in order to
prevent. Tiffany's reemergence is treated like Manna from Heaven; however, her
story is only half true. Tiffany is a vampire and their daughter in name only.
She sleeps during the day and hunts for human blood during the night, and has
come back to enact a twisted revenge upon those who ruined the plans of her
master, the notorious vampire, Vincent. And she is not alone.
Five years after the terrible events that reshaped the Swedish
Village, Kingsburg lies unsuspecting as five vampires descend upon her with a
great evil in their black hearts.
Five years after old wounds have finally healed and the old
fires were thought extinguished, Police Chief Michael Lopez and Officer Mark
Jackson and their families find themselves surrounded when fires blaze anew.
The good vampire, Nathaniel, has pledged his service to these people, but he is
no longer among them. He lives high in the Oregon Mountains near the California
border, seeking whether God might have a place in His kingdom yet for him.
When Nathaniel discovers that Tiffany has returned, will he be
too late to stop her? And will his desire to protect his friends destroy what
God has begun in him?
It will all begin with a Flash Point.
Thanks for stopping by. For old friends, it’s always great
to see you. For new friends, it’s great to meet you. We’ll talk soon.
