Book promo
If you wish to send us books for next week's promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you're me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. A COMMISSION IS EARNED FROM EACH PURCHASE.*Note that I haven't read most of these books (my reading is eclectic and "craving led",) and apply the usual cautions to buying. I reserve the right not to run any submission, if cover, blurb or anything else made me decide not to, at my sole discretion.– SAH
FROM CAEL AMARI: Oathbound: An Age of Shadows Story
Life is short in Signe's village. Monsters and undead infest the unforgiving mountains, and a brutal winter is prowling at the door. But when her closest friend is murdered in secret, Signe must undergo a dangerous journey in order to find the truth — and exact justice for the dead.
Sword's justice, if need be.
Yet sometimes justice is not what one finds at the end of an oath of vengeance, and sometimes, it takes more than a blade to ensure the dead are truly at rest.
Rooted in a Dark Age inspired world, with nods to Old https://amzn.to/3EZFyJuNorse, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian legend, OATHBOUND is a standalone dark fantasy novel.
FROM RACOUNTER PRESS, FEATURING STORIES BY ALMA BOYKIN DANIEL G. ZEIDLER AND MORE: Space Cowboys 3: Return of the Bookaroo
When there are no frontiers left on Earth, humanity will head to the stars.
And the cowboys will be there, riding herd on rockets, asteroids and whatever animals make it to space with us.
Join these 10 authors as they tell the stories of life, death, justice and the struggle to survive on humanities next frontier.
BY Z. M. REMNICK: The Wedding of Light and Shadow (The Seelie Court Book 5)
Emma Greer is a Champion of the Mortal Realm against the forces of the Fae—and her life is now a mess. She sees things that no one else sees, hears voices coming from the shadows, and senses danger in things everyone else considers ordinary. She feels like she's going insane as she tries to go about her every day life with the forces of the Fae swirling around her.
In the midst of all this, Emma receives an offer to run security for a wedding in Estes Park. The pay is good, and it includes a free week at the Stanley Hotel. It seems like a no-brainer to Emma. Then she finds out that the wedding is between two fairies of different courts—and if it doesn't go off without a hitch, it could start a cascade of destruction that will shatter the Fae Realm and send ripples into the mortal world that will bring everything into chaos.
Keeping a couple dozen fairies out of trouble in a Colorado tourist town is difficult enough, especially when aided by a security team of questionable loyalty. But then a critical member of the wedding party disappears, and foul play is suspected. Can Emma find the missing Fae, keep the wedding from turning into a battle, and make sure that the bride and groom get to "I do"? To do so, she must master her own powers and take the next steps to understanding her destiny.
FROM DALE COZORT: Through the Wild Gate
Robinette Thornburg, the half-human daughter of ultra-rich Robert Thornburg, thought she was fully human, just weird, for the first twenty-one years of her life. She went to expensive private schools, then Harvard. On her twenty-first birthday, she learned that she was half Mangi, the result of an encounter between her father and a primitive near-human woman from the Wild, an alternate reality North America where primitive humans arrived half a million years ago, but no modern humans ever did.
FROM KAREN MYERS: The Chained Adept: A Lost Wizard's Tale
MEET A POWERFUL WIZARD WITH UNANSWERED QUESTIONS--AND AN UNBREAKABLE CHAIN AROUND HER NECK.
Have you ever wondered how you might rise to a dangerous situation and become the hero that was needed?
The wizard Penrys has barely gained her footing in the country where she was found three years ago, chained around the neck and wiped of all knowledge. And now, an ill-planned experiment has sent her a quarter of the way around her world.
One magic working has called to another and landed Penrys in the middle of an ugly war between neighboring countries, half a world away.
No one has any reason to trust her amid rumors of wizards where they don't belong. And she fears to let them know just what she can do -- especially since she can't explain herself to them and she doesn't know everything about herself either.
Penrys has her own problems, and she doesn't have any place in this conflict. But they need her, whether they realize it or not. And so she's determined to try and lend a hand, if she can. Whatever it takes.
And once she discovers there's another chained adept, even stronger than she is, she's hooked. Friend or foe, she has questions for him -- oh, yes, she does.
All she wants is a firm foundation for the rest of her life, with a side helping of retribution, and if she has to fix things along the way, well, so be it.
FROM SARAH A. HOYT: Deep Pinkhttps://amzn.to/45iCJOq
Like all Private Detectives, Seamus Lebanon [Leb] Magis has often been told to go to Hell. He just never thought he'd actually have to go. But when an old client asks him to investigate why Death Metal bands are dressing in pink – with butterfly mustache clips – and singing about puppies and kittens in a bad imitation of K-pop bands, Leb knows there's something foul in the realm of music. When the something grows to include the woman he fell in love with in kindergarten and a missing six-year-old girl, Leb climbs into his battered Suburban and like a knight of old goes forth to do battles with the legions of Hell. This is when things become insane…. Or perhaps in the interest of truth we should say more insane.
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and 'Nother Mike.
So what's a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then post it! For an additional challenge, you can aim to make it exactly 50 words, if you like.
We recommend that if you have an original vignette, you post that as a new reply. If you are commenting on someone's vignette, then post that as a reply to the vignette. Comments — this is writing practice, so comments should be aimed at helping someone be a better writer, not at crushing them. And since these are likely to be drafts, don't jump up and down too hard on typos and grammar.
If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Your writing prompt this week is: sticks
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