HERE BE NEWS for April 15, 2019

In Case You Missed It:

Monday, April 8 - 

"HERE BE NEWS" - All the latest from the gang at Here Be Magic.

Tuesday, April 9 -

“HELLHOUNDS, WITCHES AND A MISBEHAVING GODDESS” – 

Like books with suspense and danger? Shona Husk talks about her Coven of the Raven series.  

Saturday, April 13 - 

This week's Bring It Back(list) feature is “STORM WARRIOR”, Book 1 of the Grim Series by Dani Harper – and all ebooks in the series are currently on sale for 99¢. Scroll down for details.

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New Release:

EMBODIED
(Coven of the Raven 3)

by Shona Husk

A love potion gone wrong leads to a goddess hijacking Alexis’s body. Now Alexis will do anything to catch her boss's eye. It’s unfortunate that he starts to notice her for all the wrong reasons. Such as the army of cats following her around.

Peyton Kilpatrick has always kept his relationship with Alexis professional despite the simmering interest. But something has changed, she crackles with magic and she wants more from him than he’s able to give. As a witch and a lawyer his life is complicated enough, throw in a hell hound bite that causes all kinds of side effects around the full moon and he really isn’t boyfriend material.

When Alexis finally gets Peyton in bed, things get hairy. Peyton reveals what he is and convinces her to give up her new-found power. If she doesn’t get rid of the goddess inhabiting her body, she’ll die.

Buy links: books2read.com/

https://books2read.com/u/4AJp1J

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New Release:

THANN

by Linda Mooney

Paranormal Romance

#horseshifter

Word Count: 42.2K

$3.99 e / $9.99 p

It started with a winning lottery ticket, and could end with her death.

What would you do with $597 million? 

Despite her estranged fiancé raving that it’s a waste of money, Maren Padgett decides to try her luck and buys a lottery ticket with the last few bucks in her wallet. What could it hurt? What Burke Shavet wasn’t expecting was for Maren to actually win. With dollar signs in his eyes, he starts making big plans for the big winnings, contrary to Maren begging him to slow down. She’s uncomfortable with how fast he’s moving, with good reason. 

She should’ve trusted her instincts. Pushing a spur of the moment trip to the Grand Canyon, Burke had it all planned out… 

Maren owes her life to the people living at the bottom of the canyon. Especially to the mysterious black-haired man named Thann who rescued her. The problem is she doesn’t remember why her life was in danger to begin with. She can’t remember anything actually. But slowly, her memories are returning, and no one is happy with what she’s recalling.

Warning!  Contains lumpy soap, a shopping spree, a heavy load, an Oscar-worthy performance, five hundred million reasons, white water, petroglyphs, and a devastating act that brings two people together seeking justice...and love.

Excerpt and Buy Links

http://lindamooney.com/THANN.htm
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Bring It Back(list):

STORM WARRIOR

by Dani Harper

Book 1 of the Grim Series

Kindle versions in the series currently on sale for 99¢

Two thousand years ago, Rhys was the fierce Celtic warrior branded by the Romans as “the Bringer of Death.” Mortally wounded in battle, he was captured by the Fair Ones, cunning and powerful masters of the Welsh faery realm. They spared his life…but for a price. As a grim, he has roamed the earth as a messenger of death—until a single act of kindness breaks the ancient enchantment and delivers him into a strange new world…

As a child, Morgan Edwards marveled at the faery tales spun by her beloved grandmother, stories of the magical beings hidden in the heart of ancient Wales. But now Morgan is all grown up, a veterinarian who believes only in what science can prove—until the night a massive black dog saves her from a vicious attack, and life as she knows it changes forever. Suddenly a stranger stands before her, the man of her dreams made flesh and blood not by science, but by a magic that could bring them their hearts’ desires ... or cost them everything they have.

Excerpt and buy links

http://herebemagic.blogspot.com/2019/04/what-to-do-with-naked-man-in-your-front.html

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What to Do with a Naked Man in Your Front Yard - STORM WARRIOR by Dani Harper

Bring it Back(List) Feature for April 13, 2019

STORM WARRIOR
by Dani Harper

Book 1 of the Grim Series
Kindle versions in the series currently on sale for 99¢

Two thousand years ago, Rhys was the fierce Celtic warrior branded by the Romans as “the Bringer of Death.” Mortally wounded in battle, he was captured by the Fair Ones, cunning and powerful masters of the Welsh faery realm. They spared his life…but for a price. As a grim, he has roamed the earth as a messenger of death—until a single act of kindness breaks the ancient enchantment and delivers him into a strange new world…

As a child, Morgan Edwards marveled at the faery tales spun by her beloved grandmother, stories of the magical beings hidden in the heart of ancient Wales. But now Morgan is all grown up, a veterinarian who believes only in what science can prove—until the night a massive black dog saves her from a vicious attack, and life as she knows it changes forever. Suddenly a stranger stands before her, the man of her dreams made flesh and blood not by science, but by a magic that could bring them their hearts’ desires ... or cost them everything they have.

EXCERPT from STORM WARRIOR by Dani Harper

Morgan pressed the sharp tip of the garden hoe against the throat of the man lying in the grass. “Okay Reese, what the hell are you doing here on my front lawn? You’ve got no car, no keys and no clothes. How’d you get here?”

“My name is Rhys.” He corrected, pronouncing it with a single roll of the r, just as Nainie had said her r’s all her life. As did every Welsh person Morgan had met on her trip, from the hotel clerks to the shopkeepers to the tour directors. “And it was you brought me here.”

“I’m pretty sure I’d remember that. Now, where did you come from?”

“I was a warrior of my clan until I was captured by the Roman invaders. They forced me to fight in the arena at Isca Silurum and named me The Bringer of Death for my skills. I thought I knew hell then, but I had not truly found it until I escaped from them.”

Good grief, was he high on something? The Bringer of Death… Somebody had been playing way too many video games. “Good for you. Ten points for originality. Let me guess, you were drinking last night, and your friends decided to play a prank on you. They stole your clothes and dumped you at the wrong place. Am I close?”

“A prank.” He seemed to consider that. “Yes, you could say that a bit of a prank was played on me. I found a cave, but it turned out to be an entrance to the world below. The Tylwyth Teg found me there, and there aren’t greater pranksters to be had.”

She nearly dropped the hoe. “How do you know about the Tylwyth Teg?” Except for her grandmother, she’d never heard anyone on this side of the ocean speak of them, never mind pronounce their name correctly. The tourist shops in Wales did a booming business in faery merchandise, yet she hadn’t heard the real name of the fantasy creatures used very much even in that country. She narrowed her eyes at the man, daring him to answer.

He shrugged a little. Although she wasn’t pressing on his neck anymore, he remained prone. “The Fair Ones are cousin to men but very much older. Ancient as the mountains. It was the custom of our clan to leave offerings for them, outside the village. The Fair Ones are often bored, and they think nothing of toying with mortals for sport.”

Nainie Jones had often spoken of her childhood, told of her mother leaving milk and bread on the back step for the Tylwyth Teg. It was an offering, a gift of hospitality, she said, so they wouldn’t play tricks on the family. Morgan gripped the hoe harder to keep her hands from trembling, yet she couldn’t help but be fascinated.

“You cannot enter their territory without permission or payment,” he continued. “I had nothing to offer when they discovered me. Not even my life, as I was dying. I thought they would finish me, but instead they healed me. And that was their prank. Because then they changed me, so they could take their payment in servitude.”

Rhys—if that was even his real name—either believed what he was saying or he was a prime candidate for an Oscar. Because try as Morgan might, she couldn’t see any evidence that he was lying. He had to be crazy then, but everything about the whole situation was insane. After all, she was standing in her front yard in her pajamas, holding a naked man at the point of a garden hoe. She’d taken assertive action when she’d seen him lying in the grass, assuming he was drunk or something. Well, she’d gotten the upper hand all right.

Now what was she supposed to do with the guy?

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LEGEND ∙ LORE ∙ LOVE ∙ MAGIC

The fae are cunning, powerful and often cruel. The most beautiful among them are often the most deadly. Hidden far beneath the mortal world, the timeless faery realm plays by its own rules—and those rules can change on a whim.

Now and again, the unpredictable residents of that mystical land cross the supernatural threshold…

In this enchanting romance series from Dani Harper, the ancient fae come face-to-face with modern-day humans and discover something far more potent than their strongest magic: love.

THE GRIM SERIES BY DANI HARPER

Available in paperback, Kindle ebook and Audiobook

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074BRZ9NK/?ie=UTF8&ref_=st_kb_B00XM2L6XS

Kindle versions currently on sale for 99¢

Hell hounds, witches and a misbehaving goddess

Coven of the Raven series

I'm a plotter, but quite often my brain will throw in some random one liners which at the time don't mean much but end up becoming very important. One of those throw away lines in Cursed (book 1) was that Petyon had been bitten by a hell hound. 

I knew the heroine of Embodied was going to be hijacked by a goddess, but it wasn't until I was plotting the story in more detail that I realised what a problem the hell hound bite was going to be. It causes him to have a crisis of faith in his goddess and he has to decide if he even wants to be a witch. I may have written a witchy inspirational...

In Embodied I also got to have the fun of turning Peyton, a very respectable lawyer, into a hell hound following his baser instincts and then follow it up with waking up naked in an unexpected place :)

If you like witches and interfering goddesses, suspense and danger you might like the Coven of the Raven series. 

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A love potion gone wrong leads to a goddess hijacking Alexis’s body. Now Alexis will do anything to catch her boss's eye. It’s unfortunate that he starts to notice her for all the wrong reasons. Such as the army of cats following her around.

Peyton Kilpatrick has always kept his relationship with Alexis professional despite the simmering interest. But something has changed, she crackles with magic and she wants more from him than he’s able to give. As a witch and a lawyer his life is complicated enough, throw in a hell hound bite that causes all kinds of side effects around the full moon and he really isn’t boyfriend material.

When Alexis finally gets Peyton in bed, things get hairy. Peyton reveals what he is and convinces her to give up her new-found power. If she doesn’t get rid of the goddess inhabiting her body, she’ll die.

Buy Links

HERE BE NEWS for April 8, 2019

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In Case You Missed It:

Monday, April 1 - 
"HERE BE NEWS" - All the latest from the gang at Here Be Magic.

Tuesday, April 2 -
“TAKING HOSTAGES TO CREATE NEW HABITS” – Changing habits is hard. Author Nicole Luiken came up with a great creative idea to get past the initial struggle.

Saturday, April 6 -
This week's Bring It Back(list) feature is “KNIGHT OF DARKNESS”, a Sci-Fi/Urban Fantasy Romance by Linda Mooney. Plus, the ebook is on sale! Scroll below for all the details.

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Bring It Back(list):

KNIGHT OF 
DARKNESS 
Sci-Fi/Urban Fantasy Romance
by Linda Mooney

#alieninvasion
#apocalyptic

Word Count:  45.4K
$0.99 e / $9.99 p / $19.95 a

SALE - From April 1st to 30th, you can get the ebook for just 99 cents! (Available at this price only on Amazon and Linda's website. See link below for complete details.)

Sorrow Knight knew that at any time the U'Nar would attack Earth, but he needed a few more days to come out of chrystasis before he could fight the deadly enemy. With his soul sword, Rall, he and the handful of other Surge Knights would gather wherever the enemy landed, and drive them off this world. A world with so many wonderful sights and surprises. A world that contained a woman named Rachel, who had captured his heart and his imagination, but who was forbidden to him by his laws.

Rachel Grohl often wondered about the skinny, dishwater-blond young man living in the apartment across the breezeway from her. His shyness, as well as his clean but well-worn clothes, tugged at her heart. They'd barely spoken a dozen words to each other since he moved in a few weeks ago, but she had to thank him for helping her the other day. Maybe asking him over to dinner would work.

They shared one dinner, one touch, and one kiss that led to one night of love. A love which could ultimately avert the total eradication of the human race.

Warning: Contains tiny men skirts, lasagna, human metamorphosis, glass table tops, IOUs, comrades-in-arms, bomb shelters, an invading alien force that will haunt everyone's nightmares, and two people's determination to find love despite the increasing danger.

CLICK FOR EXCERPT AND BUY LINKS

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Bring it Back(list) - KNIGHT OF DARKNESS, a Sci-Fi/Urban Fantasy Romance by Linda Mooney

From April 1st to 30th, you can get the ebook for just 99 cents! (Available at this price only on Amazon and my website. Note: Click BUY EBOOK to get the Nook or PDF version.)

KNIGHT OF DARKNESS
Sci-Fi/Urban Fantasy Romance
by Linda Mooney
Word Count:  45.4K
$0.99 e / $9.99 p / $19.95 a

#alieninvasion
#apocalyptic

Sorrow Knight knew that at any time the U'Nar would attack Earth, but he needed a few more days to come out of chrystasis before he could fight the deadly enemy. With his soul sword, Rall, he and the handful of other Surge Knights would gather wherever the enemy landed, and drive them off this world. A world with so many wonderful sights and surprises. A world that contained a woman named Rachel, who had captured his heart and his imagination, but who was forbidden to him by his laws.

Rachel Grohl often wondered about the skinny, dishwater-blond young man living in the apartment across the breezeway from her. His shyness, as well as his clean but well-worn clothes, tugged at her heart. They'd barely spoken a dozen words to each other since he moved in a few weeks ago, but she had to thank him for helping her the other day. Maybe asking him over to dinner would work.

They shared one dinner, one touch, and one kiss that led to one night of love. A love which could ultimately avert the total eradication of the human race.

Warning: Contains tiny men skirts, lasagna, human metamorphosis, glass table tops, IOUs, comrades-in-arms, bomb shelters, an invading alien force that will haunt everyone's nightmares, and two people's determination to find love despite the increasing danger.

Excerpt and Buy Links

Taking Hostages to Create New Habits

I’ve had a lifelong problem with overeating. I like food, I hate exercise, it’s a bad combination. I have started many, many, many diets. Only twice have I succeeded in losing significant weight. Once was when I had a specific goal to walk towards. The second time was when I joined Weight Watchers.

All the other times I’ve crashed and burned, ninety percent of the time in the first week of effort. Changing your habits is hard. Once those first few weeks are past, then not only do new habits have a chance to form, but there is the built-in reward of seeing those scale numbers go down.

Weight Watchers is great, but it takes time and money I don’t want to spend. So I decided to give going it alone one last try. To get myself past those first days of struggle, I needed to think creatively. How did I do it? I took some hostages.

Reading is my passion. It’s something I do for at least two hours every day. I knew I couldn’t give up reading entirely, but I could hold off reading a few books that I REALLY wanted to read. So I wrapped them up and wrote up their release conditions. 

I'm happy to report that the hostages/rewards worked.  A thin layer of paper and some tape kept me from cheating. I’ve now followed my diet for five weeks, and it’s getting a bit easier now that I have a little momentum.

Obviously, everyone is motivated by different things. I encourage you to set customized rewards--perhaps renting a movie, or visiting a favourite person/spot/store, etc. (Just don’t use a food reward!) But if you’re trying to start a diet or just a new habit, consider taking a hostage and rewarding yourself, not just at the end goal, but for tiny increments along the way.

My next goal is to add some daily exercise to my routine. I hate exercise (except swimming which costs $$ and travel time) in part because I find it boring. However, I’ve discovered that I can read while walking (NOT recommended if you become motion sick). So this week, I’m letting myself read a book that I really want to read ONLY while exercising, one or two chapters at a go. By week’s end, I’ll let myself finish it and pick a new book for week two.

Or at least that’s the plan. Wish me luck!

HERE BE NEWS for April 1, 2019

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In Case You Missed It:

Monday, March 25 - 
"HERE BE NEWS" - All the latest from the gang at Here Be Magic.

Tuesday, March 26 -
“THE MAGIC OF POOH” – A. A. Milne’s charming books may appear simple but they’ve proved to be both timeless and incredibly wise. Author Cindy Spencer Pape shares some of her memories, plus the influence Pooh stories continue to have in her life. 

Wednesday, March 27 -
“THE ZEN OF RENEWAL” – Author PG Forte’s been digging through old files—and unearthing forgotten treasures like the  hysterical trailer for “The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies”.

Thursday, March 28 -

"OUT TODAY! NEW RELEASE: BOUND MAGIC" - 
The second book in the Faerene Apocalypse series by Jenny Schwartz is now available on Amazon.

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New Release:
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BOUND MAGIC
Book 2 of the 
Faerene Apocalypse
by Jenny Schwartz

Available on Amazon exclusively here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N5WY96H/


Six billion people are dead. More are dying. The Faerene Apocalypse isn’t over, but the seeds for a new beginning have to be planted, now.

The future of Earth is that of a planet of many sentients: of the invading, magical Faerene and mundane, traumatized humanity.

But a few, exceedingly rare humans do have magic. Amy Carlton is one of them. Forced to bond with the black griffin, Magistrate Istvan, and act as his familiar, she doesn’t understand the magic she possesses. Nor does she understand the Faerene society she is thrown into.

She’ll have to learn fast because the cost of Amy’s ignorance couldn’t be higher. Death stalks an apocalypse, and the lives lost could be those of people she loves.

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Book 1 in the Faerene Apocalypse is STRAY MAGIC, available at:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N5ZVNLY   

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Events and News:

Dani Harper's latest novel, STORM CROSSED (Book 4 of the Grim Series) has been selected as a finalist for a 2019 Write Touch Readers’ Award by the Wisconsin Chapter of the RWA. 

You can read more about the book and the series on Dani's website: http://daniharper.com/grim-series/storm-crossed/

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