Showing posts with label Interviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interviews. Show all posts

Friday, June 14, 2013

Children of Time Blog Tour – Book Blurb with Ebook Giveaway of Fay’s Wish and La Roe’s

Eric R Johnston at World Castle Publishing

Children of Time Blog Tour



La Roe's by Dee Owens

 La Roe’s

When Emerald La Roe ran away 300 years ago, she had not planned to return. However after repeated dreams from Goddess Morrigan, Emerald finally realizes she has no choice. Emerald not only finds a magical sword waiting for her, but her dead husband also.
It seems Stefan O’ Duff wants’ reconciliation and help to cure the curse they share. Emerald would rather see him dead than be with him again, she has someone else to consider though. Her new love, Maxwell Howard a werewolf, who through sharing blood with Emerald, now faces the same fate as Emerald and Stefan. For the cure to work, Emerald has to put her hatred of Stefan aside and consent to sharing his bed again.
Can Emerald put 300 years of anger aside to save them or will she sacrifice all their futures and kill him as she swore to do?


Fay's Wish by Dee Owens

Fay’s Wish

Read how one Fay Princess and a Mortal Man will change the fate of all those around.

TEASER

As I entered the garden, the smell of succulent roses and jasmine infused me. I continued upon an emerald and ruby path, glinting like a wine-filled goblet. Gliding over pearls and bright quartz, I headed for the waterfalls, the soft lining of moss caressing my feet.
My heart faltered. He was human.


 Cursed Seduction Series

Cursed Seductions by Dee OwensCursed Seduction is a series involving 5 women and their men….
Once, a long time ago, two men from different walks of life used many women for their own pleasures. Neither had a care for what would happen to the women when they were finished with them. That is, until a witch cursed them. Now these two men have to find their true love and learn to sacrifice all. It has been many centuries since and they still have not found the woman to set them free.
Another tragic twist to this fate is that of the generation to follow them, each descendant through out time will suffer until the first two are cured.

Chocolate Seduction

Chocolate Seductions by Dee Owens
Chocolate Seduction the first novel is hopefully the beginning of the end of their suffering…
Lost through out time,
Nathaniel and Sabastian
More about these men and their families coming soon….

Friday, May 31, 2013

Children of Time Blog Tour – Author Interview

Eric R Johnston at Children of Time Blog Tour 

World Castle Publishing


Can you tell us about Children of Time?
Children of Time is a dark fantasy, sci-fi novel that deals with timeline manipulation. It starts with a prologue that is to show life for one of the main characters before the events in the story. Whether there really is a before comes into question throughout the novel, but for Shawna, she had survived an abusive marriage after killing her husband in self-defense.
After a nightmare six years later, Shawna’s young daughter, Alexis, comes to sleep with her. She had dreamed of a time when she died. It was so real to her. Shawna thinks nothing of it, but allows Alexis to sleep with her.
What happens next sets the story exploding into an action-packed thrill ride. Shawna wakes to find Alexis gone and a strange man in her bed. The man is as confused as she is, knowing that he’s dead, or should be.

What could be happening?
Well that is for, reader, to find out.

What was your inspiration for the story and the writing process?
The story actually came from two different places.
After completing A Light in the Dark, I began a novel I called Temporal Winter. The title came from a play on the phrase “nuclear winter,” which describes a particularly bad outcome of a nuclear war. This story was about a war between time periods instead of nations. In the distant future, humans develop “temporal weapons” that have the ability to erase people or events from history. The novel opened up with a temporal attack on the present.
This was an idea that had been brought up in several science fiction outlets, but I hadn’t seen anyone do much with it. Sometime, as a writer, if there’s a story I want to read and I can’t find it, I’ll write it myself.
The novel just was not working. Maybe it was too difficult, or maybe I couldn’t stop thinking about the how the fate of the villain of A Light in the Dark was left pretty ambiguous. I kept thinking about the dark world he’d been exiled to…thinking about what he was doing there. So I decided to write another novel that I called City of Evil.
The problem I ran into with City of Evil was I didn’t have enough story for a full-length novel, and what I had served better a back story to something better anyway. So I put it that aside and began working on Temporal Winter again. Then it dawned on me that these were actually two parts of the same story, that it was really the demon in the dark world affecting time, not humans from the future.

Children of Time ties into An Inner Darkness and A Light in the Dark, but is intended to be read as a stand-alone novel.

When did you realize you wanted to write?
The first time I think I consciously thought about it was when I was 10 years old. That was when I wrote my first story.  I was really into the Goosebumps books, which were very popular at the time, and I wanted to write stories just like those. I continued to write through the years, earning the praise of teachers and University professors, before setting my mind to write a novel in 2009. That first novel was Harvester: Ascension, a book that turned out better than I could ever have imagined.

Do you have anything in the works now?
I have many things in the works, but I will only list two. I am working on the sequel to 9111 Sharp Road called In the Pale Moonlight. This series is about a town overrun by vampires and ghosts from another world.
I am also working on book that deals with suicide in an interesting way. I can’t comment much on it because it is still in its planning stages, but I will say anyone who reads it will never look at life the same way again. The title for that one is All I Want in Life…

What hobbies do you have outside of writing?
I like working out, walking running, reading, and watching TV shows online. I am currently watching Battlestar Gallactica, and I’m uber excited for the final episodes of Breaking Bad and the final season of Dexter.
Additionally, I am an English and Social Studies teacher and an editor.

What would you like the readers to ask of you?
My mind drifts to L. Frank Baum, whose fans were so into The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, that they demanded he write more and more and more books detailing that world. I would love to have a similar reaction and request concerning the world I created in An Inner Darkness and A Light in the Dark. I would love one day to revisit, see how things are going, and report back to my readers.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

First Kiss with a Bang! Blog Hop


First Kiss with a Bang! Blog HopI get the distinct pleasure of not only being the Host of First Kiss with a Bang! Blog Hop as the Owner/CEO of Personalized Marketing… but I also get to join in the fun and participate as an Author for the Event!

To ensure that my two persona’s are distinctively separated… I will keep my post today in the fashion of Author Dee Owens. I will also be doing a give-away for the event, an ebook copy of La Roe’s and Fay’s Wish… from which my First Kiss Post will be about… :)

In Fay’s Wish Shayla Princess of the Fay has a daunting task in before her, to bring back Magic to Fae. If she fails, not only could she lose her life, but also be forced into a marriage against her will. Her once thought enemy is now her strongest ally, and her heart, mind, body and soul are up for grabs…

Fay’s Wish


Fay's Wish by Dee OwensMy heart faltered. He was human. Nothing was to come from these feelings building deep inside of me.

Fay have been forbidden to mate with humans, and the few half bloods left were either from before my Grandfather’s rule, or descendants of those who had ventured into the mortal’s world.

The water grew intense. Had I said or done something to upset the magic? The image of the man clarified again. He was in the very water with me. From within, I could not stop the heat from rising, as I watched our bodies begin to entwine with each other. Each kiss he placed upon my skin burst like sunlight through the mists.

My breasts lifted to his lips as the climax began to grow in my abdomen and move lower. My entire body became heavy with a need I had not felt before. With each powerful stroke inside me, my skin grew hotter. It echoed the inferno surrounding us. I had only heard of such impulsive things happening between the Gods and Goddesses. When our bodies peaked, his grip told me he felt each sensation I did.

I only hoped he thought he was dreaming, or I would begin to fear for his mind. According to tales from the Elders, humans no longer believed in Fairies, and only a few believed that magic existed at all. Most of those thought magic evil.

He reached out. Not toward my image, but to me, seeing through the mist as I had. The steel in his eyes concerned and frightened me…

*******

I could only nod. Who was he that he would refer to the ‘Gods’ as I had? Was I wrong, was he Fay?
“Are you all right? You seem upset or scared.”

The tenderness in his voice struck like a harp string and brought tears to my eyes. “I am fine, but you must understand we can never go any farther. We must never meet.” I suspected, unless we accidentally ran into each other on my journey, all this worry meant very little. But, his beliefs still filled me with concern.

“Well, if this is all we can ever have, I guess we should make the best of it. My name is Kyle.”

“Hello, Kyle.” Now why did I say that? “I am sorry. It is a bit trivial to say hello now.”

“No. Never. I love hearing you say it. From now on, I want you to say it each time we meet.”

He was no longer facing away from me, but relaxed, in a small pool of water. “I am in a hidden pool near my home. Care to join me?”

“If you’d like.” I could not believe how his request caused my chest to swell. I hesitated. “I can see some of what is around you, but not exactly where you are.”

“What do you see now?”

He was still in the pool of water. I was struck with a horrible idea. “I need to ask you a couple things first.”

“Anything, sweetheart.”

“Can you see where I am now?”

“You are lying on a huge bed made of silver and wood.”

It was as I feared. He could see what was around me. “You mention relaxing, right? Are you asleep, dreaming your bath, or awake?”

“Awake. Aren’t you?”

“No. I am asleep. We must be very careful. If my people knew you could see where I am, they would punish me and hunt you down.”

“You keep speaking of your people. Just who and what are they?”

“I cannot reveal that, but I am a true Princess. I would like to join you, but it is best I do not. The first time we met, what happened to you? Can you explain how you got there, and what happened after?”

“Sure. I was walking through the woods when I saw you under a canopy of trees. You opened your arms to me, and I wanted nothing more than to touch you. The next thing I knew, we were in dark blue water that glowed. After, when I was back in the forest, my clothes were wet and lying on the ground beside me.” He paused. “What are you thinking?”

“We are in serious trouble. I will join you in the water, but only for a moment, then I must go. I promise to try and return though. I need to know something, and the only way is when I am awake.”
“You make a promise of seeing me again?”

“I do not think either of us could stop, even if we wanted.” I did not want to stop. If not for his life being forfeit, I would stay with him as long as the Gods allowed.

“Come and tell me goodbye, then.”

I crossed over to him, letting the water soak through my gown, and did what I desired to since we’d first met. Whispering Leannan, I caressed the sides of his face, and brushed my lips against his mouth. His lips were warmer, fuller, and more real than I ever imagined. He was made for me. Everything I ever wanted in a mate, kept inside my dreams where we could not be hurt.

I jerked away and turned, wishing to end the dream. Awake in my room, I guessed right. My gown was soaked. What we had done affected both physical worlds. This was a gift and a curse, and there would be repercussions. I had everything I could want, but was in the gravest danger of my life.

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