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Guest Post: The Chronicles of Ordi: Brotherhood of the Lost Gems by Alex Zenk ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
When I began writing Chronicles of Ordi: Brotherhood of the Lost Gems, I plunged into the vivid world of Asheros with enthusiasm but little experience. Crafting its landscapes, the radiant Otthroite Gems, and the Brotherhood’s quest were thrilling yet brutal. Here are five lessons I wish I’d known from the start: 1. Let the World Guide the Story: I spent weeks…
Romancing the Author (The Cara) by Julieann Dove ~ #BookTour #Giveaway #Excerpt
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Axes and Alchemy (Willowmere) by Carmen Radtke ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway 
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Pirate loot and deadly feud …
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Romancing the Author (The Cara) by Julieann Dove ~ #BookTour #Giveaway #Excerpt
Romancing The Author Cara Shoemaker, divorced romance novelist, just received a text from her daughter that she was getting married…in two weeks. The wedding would be in California and her ex-husband and hottie girlfriend would be in attendance. As if that wasn’t enough reason to crawl underneath her bed and remain there, the text ended by saying she wanted her mom’s boyfriend there for the…
Axes and Alchemy (Willowmere) by Carmen Radtke ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
Axes and Alchemy (A Cozy Midlife Witch Mystery) Willowmere Mysteries Paranormal Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting - Oregon Independently Published Publication Date: August 15, 2025 Number of Pages: 230 Pirate loot and deadly feud … So much for a peaceful next chapter: Novice witch Bex Merriweather has her hands full running a leading library and secretly studying magic under the critical…
Nobody: What are you looking for?
Everybody: A thousand things I’m looking for:
of them I cannot find,
but I’m struggling
how good is to struggle.
Nobody: What is your name, knight?
Everybody: My name is Everybody
and my whole time
I'm looking for money
and always in this I go deep.
Nobody: My name is Nobody,
and I seek consciousness.
Beelzebub: This is a good experience:
Dinato, write it well.
Dinato: What shall I write, mate?
Beelzebub: That Nobody seeks consciousness.
and Everybody money.
Nobody: And now what do you you search there?
Everybody: I seek great honor.
Nobody: And I seek virtue, may God send
that and may I see it already.
Beelzebub: Another addition comes:
write right there, deep,
seeks honor Everybody
and Nobody seeks virtue.
Nobody: Do you seek more than this?
Everybody: I seek more who praise me
all that I did.
Nobody: And I who rebukes me
in every mistake.
Beelzebub: Write more.
Dinato: What have you known?
Beelzebub: Wants in extreme degree
Everybody to be praised,
and Nobody to be rebuked.
...
-- Gil Vicente, Everybody and Nobody, Stage play Lusitania, 1531
note: my (assisted) #translation from ancient Portuguese.
Also, you don't have to read about my depression to read the first three chapters of The Harmony of Falling Snow on my website.
I finally got around to posting them so potential readers don't have to tell a retailer they want a sample anymore.
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How's that for an #Excerpt? :)
Shaman by Tam DeRudder Jackson ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway 
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Two people are brought together by a force they never saw coming . . .
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Shaman by Tam DeRudder Jackson ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
Two people are brought together by a force they never saw coming . . . Shaman A Talisman Series Standalone by Tam DeRudder Jackson Genre: Paranormal Romance, Romantasy A druid straddles the line between light and darkness . . . Renleigh Rogan keeps to herself in her remote Montana cabin, tending her plants and honing her protection spells. Only occasionally does she indulge her shape-shifting abilities……
Fake-Off with Fate (Love in Maple Falls) by Whitney Dineen ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
𝐒𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧-𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦. 𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.
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Fake-Off with Fate (Love in Maple Falls) by Whitney Dineen ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
Fake-Off with Fate by Whitney Dineen (Love in Maple Falls) Publication date: August 13th 2025 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance, Sports Synopsis: She’s a closet designer for the rich and famous and he’s a broken-hearted captain of a pro-hockey team. Neither of them is looking for love. Ashlyn An unexpected trip home to Maple Falls gets even more surprising when I…
#PennedPossibilities 751 — Check-In: Share a snippet you’ve written recently that you’re proud of. (Doesn’t matter what it’s from, or if it’s edited or not.)
This #excerpt is from my third attempt to write the first chapter of Reluctant Courier (for the Mob). It is a glimpse into the tortured apathetic MC, Bolt, who focuses her desire for a normal life denied her into her street photography hobby; she captures glimpses of normalcy. Here she's encountered something else, with a newspaper reporter by her side.
The apparition shuddered. I captured the pop of the miracle imploding from waist level: Click!—caught the multistory darkness folding into itself, revealing snarled traffic abandoned on the opposite side of the formerly blocked uptown thoroughfare. Cracked pulverized cement fell, no longer pressed into place against the two buildings. People far from danger dodged back. Click! Gasps, panic, arms over heads, blurred, running. Click! Click!
A hand gently touched my arm when I relaxed, stalling me as I brought the camera to eye level. Men knew better than to touch without being asked, even here in the cosmopolitan capital city. I lowered the camera, facing him. His contrite desperate look, hands together still holding his [broken camera]—
Click!
Reflex portraiture. Of him.
He might have been somewhat adorable, were he a day angel not a saint. When I taped his image to my wall, I knew I would stare and stare at that expression. Still, raised in a day angel forest town, I couldn't help but see a saint as a wing-amputee. Feathers like me were a minority in this daemon-majority city, and though I rarely interacted, the people Boss Mead forced me to interact with never hid their disdain for the featherbrained tree tweeter in their midst.
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#WordWeavers 2025.08.08 — Describe the sensations of one of your characters in the last scene you wrote.
Bolt, being a day angel, can fly, but she finds herself unaccountably in an air taxi. That's essentially a rickshaw being pulled by another day angel. It gives me a chance to hint (without getting technical) how a human with human-scale wings, inadequate by physics but not so with reluctant physics, can propel a person through the sky, and also allow that person pull a carriage behind them. Since describing description seems decidedly dreary, here's an #excerpt from Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) instead. It's a once revised first draft, so be kind in any criticism.
A day angel harnessed in a leather flying rig with taut traces, flapped, then soared, primary and secondaries splayed, vibrating, audibly buzzing, as he felt and adjusted to the air currents and thermals, the carriage tilting and lifting behind him, joinery clattering, as he banked and curved around the convective hills and along the valleys of turbulent air, above a city painted absolute white, flying on a bright furiously hot day. Each dome and tower reflected skin-tautening heat that rose beside it, ejecting columns of air from roof vents that none could avoid absorbing. I instinctively felt what the man felt, that sense of extending one's wings and reaching with my longest feather many times beyond my wingspan to draw that primary along the textured cement of the building as I soared past, calf and thigh rudder feathers bending but holding, palpable air trying to twist my legs—legs that in my mind had elongated enough to let me stand three stories tall—with buoyant forces tossing me like wind waves on Lake Emeraline, but letting me glide on a true course, very much as a ship cut a path though watery troughs and spume toward the next shore. His rust red feathers glowed as if iron from a forge, sparkling with preening sebum. His faintly ruddy skin glistened with perspiration. He smelled like ironed linen and nicely male. It was so hot—
I tensed, sitting straight. Why was I riding in an air taxi?
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An #Excerpt from The Harmony of Falling Snow for #InternationalCatDay
“Ninka!” Yuri called, rushing to intercept an all-white, tuft-eared cat the size of a German Shepherd.
Frozen on the porch, Maggie stared as Yuri fell to his knees to hug the massive predator. “Cat. Big. No glass. Want glass. Between us.”
At least she was too terrified to react to the grin Yuri shot her.
Tales From Planet Sanos: A Multi-Author Science Fiction Romance Omnibus ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
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Tales From Planet Sanos: A Multi-Author Science Fiction Romance Omnibus ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway
The future is grim. Seven human women, trained in survival and negotiation are being permitted to land on Planet Sanos with one goal: secure a future for the humans of Earth… at any cost. Tales From Planet Sanos A Multi-Author Science Fiction Romance Omnibus with stories by Celia Kyle, Chloe Graves, Elin Wyn, Holly Hanzo, Lara Roth, Mary Ashe, Robin O’Connor…
Social Movements Are Physically Reclaiming Spaces to Replace the State
More than a way of protest, social movements are occupying spaces to challenge authority and fight against oppression.
The #BookTour for Death at Rock Bottom (Reluctantly Psychic Murder Mystery) is at Angel’s Book Nook with an #Excerpt & #Giveaway - “If you love supernatural sleuths, small-town intrigue, and mysteries with a geological twist, Death at Rock Bottom is your next must-read! Grab your copy today!”
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Death at Rock Bottom (Reluctantly Psychic Murder Mystery) by Kris Bock ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway 
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