Portals ~ Book 2 of The Thulukan Chronicles ~ RAFFLECOPTER!! #YA #Fantasy #ASMSG @MaerWilson

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PORTALS 

(Book 2 of The Thulukan Chronicles)

by Maer Wilson

An Urban Fantasy Novel

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Blurb:

For supernatural detectives Thulu and La Fi, “normal” is a relative term. La Fi is a medium, Thulu is a finder, and their usual clients are already dead.

But when their friend Reo is shot, and a group of stranded angels show up at their house for help to find a missing child, things are striking too close to home.

And now the portals that let the magical races return to Earth have started opening on their own.

With trips off-world, a kidnapped psychic and changes to their own abilities, Thulu and La Fi are hit with a lot more than they usually handle. Of course, their magical friends are there to help, but even they may not be enough to save an increasingly unstable Earth. 

Portals is the sequel to Relics and is Book 2 in The Thulukan Chronicles.

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Excerpt:

That night Parker had popped in to wake us at two in the morning to tell us our best friend, Reo, had been shot. The young ghost was distraught and panicked.

“They're on the back porch! You have to go help.”

“Where is he?” I asked groggily, as I jumped out of bed. 

Thulu was instantly awake beside me, although he didn’t seem any more alert than I did.

“Back porch.” Parker enunciated each word in slight exasperation. “Go, please!”

Thulu looked at me, and I told him what Parker had said. Thulu can read lips, but even with a night light the room was too dark. 

Thulu threw off the sheet and we both ran from the room. I was briefly glad we’d been wearing PJs.

Heart pounding, I took a few precious seconds to check on our three year old son, Carter. His night light showed him blissfully unaware of anything. Whatever happy dreams he was having made him smile slightly in his sleep. I sighed in relief that he wasn’t having another of his nightmares.

Downstairs, Thulu had turned on the kitchen and porch lights. In spite of the panic moments before, none of the three people on the porch seemed frantic when I joined them. 

Thulu looked relieved, Reo was on the floor, but seemed stoic, and Sloane knelt beside him, brow furrowed only slightly in concentration as he dealt with the wound. 

My heart rate slowed down and my own fear started to slowly dissipate. My heart gradually dropped from my throat back to its accustomed place in my chest. Still my hands were shaking, and I felt the slight chill from outside. The porch was screened in, and the late August day had been hot, but the night brought a cool breeze that made its way along my arms. 

The scent of flowers from the backyard didn’t quite mask the smell of the blood that pooled on the porch floor around Reo. Sloane, his partner and an elf, had already removed Reo’s jacket and shirt. A bullet lay on the floor, and I could see the shoulder wound was already healing and closing up. In a few moments, only the blood would remain as evidence that he’d been shot. 

Reo's face was white. The strain showed around his brown eyes and his handsome face had the sheen of sweat on it.  His short brown hair that was usually spiked, lay damp and flat against his head, but he gave me a shaky smile.

“Bastard ruined my favorite jacket.”

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Maer’s Bio:

After a successful career being other people, and later teaching others the many tricks of that trade, Maer Wilson has decided to be herself for a while. Turns out she's a writer. She's always loved stories, especially fantasy, mystery and sci fi. Maer was born in the Year of the Dragon and has a dragon-themed room in her home, but sadly no dragons in the back yard. When she's not writing, Maer plays online video games, teaches college and reads. She also co-hosts the literary podcast, MythBehaving and writes for two gaming fansites. Maer lives in the high desert of Southern Nevada with her two dogs, a chihuahua and a poodle. Portals is Book 2 in The Thulukan Chronicles. You can find all books and novelettes in The Thulukan Chronicles at Amazon. You can visit Maer’s website at http://maerwilson.com/.

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Maer on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Maer-Wilson/e/B00CDX29YW/

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Relics at Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17767013-relics

Relics Paperback at Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Relics-Maer-Wilson/dp/1939173310/

Relics Kindle at Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Relics-ebook/dp/B00CLB6HUI/

Portals - http://www.amazon.com/Portals-Book-Thulukan-Chronicles-Volume/dp/1494209039/

“Ghost Memory” (A Thulukan Chronicles Story, #1) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E5W1W2Y/

“Unwanted Ghost” (A Thulukan Chronicles Story, #2) - http://www.amazon.com/Unwanted-Ghost-Thulukan-Chronicles-Story-ebook/dp/B00FYACAZO/

Haven of Dante: A tour of the Nine Circles of Hell #YA #Fantasy #Paranormal #Nov #ASMSG

It’s a fall evening and the sun whispers goodbye as it gently descends over the horizon. But the day has been too short for you so you decide to go for a walk with nature. But then you realize that you’ve wandered far from home. . . . very far. So far that you’ve come across a dark forest and you ask yourself if you really want to go in there. Despite the fading of sunlight your curiosity gets the best of you. After all, you’re not far from the gravel road, right? You go in and hear the crunch of leaves beneath your feet. The chill in the air caresses the back of your neck and begs to turn back. Suddenly, you notice an old wooden sign that is nailed to a tree.

ABANDON ALL HOPE,

YOU WHO ENTER HERE 

You’ve heard stories of this place before. It’s not where you want to be. You try to move your feet but you can’t. You start to shake and break into a cold sweat when all of a sudden...

...you wake up.

It was all a dream. It’s not real.

But what if it was? How would you escape the nine circles of hell?

This is the premise (at least, in part) for the new novel by author, Leonardo Ramirez titled, Haven of Dante: The Staff of Moshe. In the work, the nine circles have become incensed at the audacity of Alighieri’s emergence from their realm and after a lengthy war they’ve come together to inflict pain on mankind. Calling themselves “The Aristocracy” they are responsible for every evil that has plagued man.

Here’s the synopsis: 

Haven Irena Dante, seventeen, struggles with a dysfunctional family.  Her workaholic father is never there, but his absence is filled by a loving mother harboring the secret and mysterious past of their family.  The Dantes are inheritors of a centuries old legacy stretching back to Dante Alighieri himself.  They fight to contain the nine circles of hell described in the classic literature "Dante's Inferno."

Today, the nine circles have infiltrated the world at every level, operating as a secret society known as "The Aristocracy."  The only thing stopping The Aristocracy from world domination is the Dante family line.

Now its Haven's turn to carry that torch.

Combining literary fiction with fantasy, this action-packed young adult adventure races through dimensions of paranormal, science fiction and the supernatural. 

Why did you write this book? 

I wondered what someone would do if they were at the point of death and they were given the choice to remain in a suffering world where all they had experienced was heartache and pain or go into paradise. The catch would be to return to this world knowing that there was a chance they could fix their relationship with a loved one. This is where the idea stemmed from and led into the inclusion of Dante Alighieri’s cantos which represent the ills of mankind and our struggle to overcome them. Our protagonist needed to have more than enough reason not to return so we also included a violation. This was not done gratuitously. My wife had suffered the same experience and today she is alive and well. I wanted others to have gone through this horror to have the same chance and be an encouragement to them. Aside from this I wanted to delve into some of the things that we fear the most fully knowing that there is always a reason (more specifically, a hurt) behind them. I think that sometimes we allow a hurt to become a fear and then the fear becomes a part of us. Some could argue that it makes us human and I would not disagree. But at the same time we reach a point of decision when we are exposed to the meaning behind the fear or the hurt. And that can manifest itself in any of the areas explored in the nine circles.

To keep it interesting, I’ve given the leader of each circle a character who in turn, become hybrids.

In the interest of keeping the spoilers to an absolute minimum, I’ve deleted some of the biographies of the hybrids.

Circle One – Those in limbo led by Lord Limbus. This demon transports humans into the nine circles. According to the code of the Aristocracy, no human can be transported out of the realm of the nine circles except of their own volition.

Circle Two – The lustful led by Lord Hedonis.

Circle Three – The gluttonous led by Lord Voratum. This is a gluttonous demon that possesses Chuck Flegman, an outcast in Haven’s high school.

Circle Four – The hoarders led by Lord Hordran.

Circle Five – The wrathful led by Lord Vengus.

Circle Six – The heretics led by Lord Retic.

Circle Seven – The violent led by Lord Ravage. This demon is a mindless savage beast bent on the destruction of the Dante family line and all human life. The more he kills the stronger he gets.

Circle Eight – The sorcerers led by Lord Lock.

Circle Nine – The traitors led by Lord Traiton.

What are you working on at the minute?

Right now I’m writing the 2^nd book in a Children’s Steampunk series titled, The Jupiter Chronicles: The Ice Orphan of Ganymede. It’s geared towards struggling readers in the 2^nd grade and on up. 

What’s it about? 

The series focuses on two kids (Ian and Callie Castillo) who have just discovered their missing father had been the ruler of the steam-powered world of Jupiter. It also explains how steam technology arrived on Earth and forever changed our world. 

What is the one message that you want readers to hear coming from this book? 

The one resounding message that I want folks to (hopefully) get is that no matter how bad the cards that have been dealt to you are, you can still make good choices. You might stumble along the way. You might fall. You might be angry and hate for a little while. But after you’ve allowed yourself to experience those feelings you can still make constructive choices for your life. The road to heaven sometimes goes right through hell.

There is a violation on the main character that occurs in the story but this is not done gratuitously.  My hope is that the book will be an entertaining source of encouragement in its message that you can make some good choices despite the cards that have been dealt to you. 

So with all of that said, how would you escape the nine circles?

Author Bio

Leonardo Ramirez is a husband, a father, a Karate instructor with a 3rd degree black belt, and a writer. His first graphic novel, Haven, is a supernatural Young Adult story centered on an ancient war between the Dante family and the nine circles of hell. His follow up is a self-published children’s Steampunk book called The Jupiter Chronicles: The Secret of the Great Red Spot. It follows the adventure of two children as they are transported to the steam-powered cities of Jupiter, find their long-lost father, stop an attack from Mars, and witness the birth of Steampunk.

“My heart and motive have always been for people who are hurting. These can be kids who have had to suffer through child abuse or neglect or an absent parent which can be equally torturous as was the case in The Jupiter Chronicles. It can also be young girls who have suffered an assault like Haven did in Haven of Dante. Young or old it doesn’t matter. Those are the kids and adults I want to speak to because I’ve been there.”

It’s not just Science Fiction.

It’s Science Fiction for the Human Condition.

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Where we can find your books

Jupiter Chronicles: HERE

Haven of Dante: HERE

CRASHING DOWN TO EARTH ~ #Fantasy by TERRY REID #ASMSG

 

I am suffering from a serious case of cover art envy.  This cover makes me want to write a book about angels at war.  It invokes the imagination of lightning-soaked, epic battles between winged medieval creatures. 

Swords clashing and Armageddon. 

Fallen angels perhaps?

Its not yet released ... but don't you wish it was?

Add it to your "want to read" list here ═► http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18136407-crashing-down-to-earth

DESCRIPTION:

Hayley Foster is a woman with a secret. Her flatmate is her guardian angel. But with the terrifying events of two years ago firmly put behind them, Hayley finally dares hope for a quieter life for her and Alex to enjoy.

But it is not long before the old angel’s past comes back to haunt him in the form of an ex-lover. As Alex tries to protect Hayley though, it quickly becomes apparent that far greater powers are at play, far bigger than either of them could ever have possibly imagined.

Join Hayley and Alex in the first part of their epic journey as they try to save Glasgow, as well as each other, from doom.

TERRY REID AUTHOR BIO:

I am a new writer who is based in Dumfries, south west Scotland. 

I primarily write science fiction/fantasy novels and have published two books to date. 

When I am not writing I enjoy running (I have completed two half marathons for charity and will likely do more in the future) and I enjoy playing video games. 

I also review books my other indie authors on my blog in my spare time and usually post a review once a week.

 

Books by Terry Reid available on Amazon Kindle

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