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Author/Writer/NaNo-er Twitter Follow Friday

2014-10-24T09:28:00.000-05:00

Good morning folks. As promised I said I'd have three posts for people to promote themselves through. First would be a blog post, second a Facebook page post and third a Twitter follow post. This is the Twitter post.

This post is for your author/writer/Nano Twitter Account. Please leave a link to your Twitter account in the comments for people to follow. Be sure to check back and follow other authors as they post their twitter links.

These same posts will be posted here as well, so be sure to post links to your blogs in both places as each has a different audience: http://www.gracesnoke.com

Good luck to everyone!

Author/Writer/NaNo-er Facebook Page Like Drive

2014-10-24T09:19:00.000-05:00

This post is for your author/writer/Nano Facebook Page. Please leave a link to your Facebook page in the comments and be sure to check back and like the other pages posted as replies as well.

These same posts will be posted here as well, so be sure to post links to your blogs in both places as each has a different audience: http://www.gracesnoke.com

Good luck to everyone!

Author/Writer/Nano-ers Blog Connect

2014-10-24T09:11:00.000-05:00

Good morning folks. As promised I said I'd have three posts for people to promote themselves through. First would be a blog post, second a Facebook page post and third a Twitter follow post.

This post is for your author/writer/Nano blog. Please leave a link to your blog in the comments and be sure to check back and subscribe to the blogs posted as replies as well. I, of course, would appreciate a follow/subscribe as well.

These same posts will be posted here as well, so be sure to post links to your blogs in both places as each has a different audience: http://www.gracesnoke.com

Do you want to win FREE books? Of course you do!

2014-10-16T09:00:00.000-05:00

I ask silly questions sometimes. Of course you want free books.

Tons of prizes, including several book packs, and 3 $25 Amazon gift cards (which you can buy books with, or not...).

Learn more about the contest, hosted by Fire and Ice Book Tours, here: http://fireandicebooktours.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/new-giveaway-now-11114-win-two-25-amazon-gift-cards-or-an-ebook-prize-package-author-donations-accepted/

To enter the contest without reading all about it, click here: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d202c3a170/

Note, you will be doing a lot of clicking and following and liking and stuff if you want to get the max amount of entries.

Good luck!

Support Six Authors - Thunderclap Promotion for "Day of Fire: Novel of Pompeii"

2014-10-15T11:31:00.000-05:00

One of the authors I follow and am friends with, Stephanie Draven, is looking for folks to help get the Thunderclap moved forward for an upcoming novel.

"Day of Fire: Novel of Pompeii" is an anthology by six authors telling the "overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each others' path during Pompeii's fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity?"

You can check out the preview and book description on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/A-Day-Fire-novel-Pompeii-ebook/dp/B00NI5CBXI

And if you are so inclined, you can pre-order it to be delivered to your e-reader Nov. 4

To support the Thunderclap, click the link and use Facebook or Twitter to back it and promote it: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/17440-day-of-fire-novel-of-pompeii

Time to revive this blog...

2014-10-15T11:25:00.001-05:00

I'm back!

For the most part. I plan to post to this blog a couple times a week, not sure on days yet, but I will try to participate in memes as well.

If you follow me and read these posts, please check out my new blog site, www.gracesnoke.com. You'll find excerpts of my WIP for books as well as various writing blogs and other blurbs from my brain there. I will be linking to all articles I write once a week there too, so if you're curious about what all I write, that's a great place to check.

See you soon!

February - Reading Lots

2014-02-05T12:19:00.002-06:00

I haven't posted since December! Sorry. I've been busy with the new blog and reading lots (and lots).

I found this test today and thought it was interesting.

How fast do you read?

According to this test:

You read 1,009 words per minute.
That makes you 304% faster than the national average.

Source: Staples eReader Department

Post your results in the comments below!

WWW Wednesdays - Dec. 18 Edition

2013-12-18T09:11:00.000-06:00

Here's the answers to this week meme's from Should Be Reading's blog. Feel free to leave your comments with the answers to these questions and be sure to check out their blog as well for other's answers.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions in the comment section or in your own blog then link it from the comments.

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

I know I haven't done one of these in quite some time. I'll try to do better next year. I look forward to seeing your answers below!

What are you currently reading?

This is a two-fer. I'm reading two different books at the same time. One is a re-read, which is the book I reviewed yesterday - Stormlord Rising. I was halfway through it the second or third time now when I wrote the review.

Then the new book I purchased - Laura Chapman's Hard Hats and Doormats. I have to say I'm enjoying this book and definitely lives up to what I expected her work to be like. If you haven't had a chance to pick this book up yet, it's available in the Nook store for $2.99 and will be available for print purchase soon. If you like romances, definitely check this out.

What did you recently finish reading?

This will be a short answer. I recently finished The Last Stormlord just before I wrote the review. It was my second read through and I was reading it a second time because I wanted to catch some of the things I knew i missed in the first read through.

What do you think you'll read next?

That's a hard question to answer this time. I have seven new books to pick from. I guess we'll find out next week.

Review: Stormlord Rising by Glenda Larke

2013-12-17T09:00:00.000-06:00

This review is for the second book in the Watergiver series, titled Stormlord Rising, and is the book that contains more action and meat and potatoes of the story than the first book.

By the end of the first book, the Quartern is at war, the surviving Breccia rainlords are either enslaved or on the run, Terelle is headed with her grandfather to Khromantis and the dune tribes are planning raids and attacks in their attempt to rid the world of water sensitives and return to a time of "random rain".

137 pages into the book and I hit a segment that really stood out to me - that really defines the character Laisa and how underhanded and manipulative she is.

...he asked, "Laisa, if you wanted to gain ascendancy over an enemy too strong to be defeated in battle, how would you do it?"

She turned her head to look at him. So cat-like, he thought. Bruised but sated.

"That's easy," she said. "Take hostage what he loves most in the world: his lover, his child, his land his wealth, his power, whatever. The trick is to find out what he values most. Then you will have your enemy in the palm of your hand."

A slow smile lifted his lips as her words seeded the beginnings of an idea. "of course. Why didn't I think of that."

That segment means a lot to the rest of the book and the series and tells a lot about not only Laisa, but Taquar as well. They will stoop as low as they have to to get exactly what they want from a person. It should have also told Taquar that Laisa wasn't to be trusted, and I think he knew that on some level, but didn't take it to heart.

Jasper (Shale Flint) is full grown and back in the hands of Taquar in this book. Terelle has escaped and not been able to be tracked by Taquar. Jasper pines after her, but does his duty as the existing stormlord and with the help of Taquar, continues to bring water to the Quartern.

Similar to the first book, the story jumps back and forth between those in Scarcleft, to Terelle and Russet making their way to Khromantis, to Vera Redmane in the dunes tribes, and to Garnet/Ryka, Kaneth, Elmar and Ravard - who is actually Shale's brother Mica who he thinks is deceased.

The story flows smoother and there are more definitive cut off points - logical places where the story shifts to another part of the story and it makes the transitions smoother than the transitions in the first book.

As I try not to spoil too much of the story (which I may have spoiled a bit above), the war within the Quartern is brought to a partial end by the end of the book, Shale and Mica know each other are alive but are going down very different paths, Ryka has her baby and many other things are discovered and the book has an ending that closes that part of the story and segues into the next book smoothly.

Even though there are plenty of unfinished stories left, the book ends in a good way to make you want to find out how things end in the third book.

This book receives 4 out of 5 stars. I feel the writing is much improved in this book and the story flows smoother - perhaps due to the fact that all the world building and character defining happened in the first book and didn't have to happen in this book.

If you struggled through reading the first book, I strongly encourage you to read this one as it will give you a better understanding into the first book and why it is the way it is.

You can learn more about Glenda Larke here:
On twitter @glendalarke
On facebook as Glenda Larke
and blogging at http://glendalarke.blogspot.com

Musing Mondays - Dec. 16, 2013 Edition

2013-12-16T09:00:00.000-06:00

Here's today's Musing Monday's as posted by Should Be Reading's blog.

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying with it.

This week, I think I'll go with what book(s) I recently bought for myself and why I chose that/those book(s).

I actually recently purchased a bunch of books, including some from a Facebook group (where I got 5 hardcover books for $5), others from A Novel Idea bookstore, and then Laura Chapman's book, Hard Hats and Doormats, for my Nook.

So let's start with the easiest one for me to define why I bought it. That would be Hard Hats and Doormats. I bought it simply because I know Laura, I worked with her for several years and would like to see her earn something for her efforts. I'm sure I will enjoy the book and look forward to getting to read it.

Next was the collection of 5 books I picked up for $5 from the LinConsign sale group on Facebook. Those books were:

Best Kept Secrets by Sandra Brown
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Hey, Good Looking by Fern Michaels
Origin in Death by Nora Roberts
The Sexy Years by Suzanne Somers

Now, to be honest, these were purchased because I knew all but one of the authors and read books by each of the authors, so I figured these new books would be something good to read. I haven't touched them yet, but I intend to.

And finally the books I picked up from A Novel Idea, which were:

Dark War by Glen Cook
A Cruel Wind by Glen Cook

And these were because they were parts of series by Glen Cook I haven't read yet and want to.

If you haven't read the Black Company series by Glen Cook, I strongly encourage you to.

Thanks for joining me today on Musing Mondays. Feel free to leave your answers to the meme here.

Review: The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke

2013-12-13T09:00:00.000-06:00

I want to start this book review off with a little bit of an intro into it. I picked up the last book in the series first and read it and immediately wished I had realized it was a series and picked up the first two at the same time. Unfortunately, I think when I grabbed it, I didn't pay close enough attention that it was the third in the series.

That being said, book three can, sort of, stand by itself. You miss the back stories of the characters, but things flow smoothly if you read it first like I did. I ended up getting the first and second book on the Nook and am now reading through them a second time, which is why I've decided to go ahead and review them - in order - since I have all three.

The Last Stormlord is book #1 in the Watergivers series and is perhaps the hardest of the three books to read. You are thrown into a fantasy, desert world where life-giving/saving water is distributed to the land by an old and dying "Stormlord."

The world is populated, sparsely, with individuals who can detect or move water. The lesser of these are reeves and they monitor the water in cisterns and distribution within a city. Then there are rainlords who can sense water around them to varying degrees and move it. Then stormlords.

Unfortunately, the last stormlord is dying and the plot of the story focuses on a search for water sensitive youths.

The story jumps between three different areas - the city of Breccia where the dying Stormlord and a number of rainlords live, the city of Scarcleft (sp?) and the Gibber Quarter where the future stormlord and main character of the three books is found.

The book jumps not only between stories of sets of characters and locations, but also in chunks of time. Several times in the stories months and years jump past, which you may not catch right away if you aren't paying attention to the headers of the story and the locations.

Ultimately, the first book in this series is a lot of world building, introducing us to multiple protagonists and antagonists, telling the back story and launching into the start of the ultimate stories. It can be a bit hard to get into and to understand if you aren't expecting a thought provoking read. And this would be why I give this book out of the series a 3 out of 5 star rating. While world building is important, the way things jump around, the length of time it takes to build the world and the way it's built are not ideal.

That being said, if you are looking for a book that has both strong female and male protagonists and interesting antagonists along with a harsh world, I strongly suggest reading it because the books get better after you get through the first book and things will make more sense.

You can learn more about Glenda Larke here:
On twitter @glendalarke
On facebook as Glenda Larke
and blogging at http://glendalarke.blogspot.com

New Blog Project - Facebook Marketing Hints and Tips

2013-12-12T12:29:00.000-06:00

I've been working on (and off) on another blog project which has unofficially launched as of yesterday.

This blog is a new endeavor meant to help educate people on how to market themselves or their product or service via Facebook pages in an effective manner. The blog will have at least one post a week, but likely more, and is intended to not only provide hints, but to teach things about Facebook - such as terminology used, etc. - that most people don't understand.

I invite you to check it out here.

Congratulations Ms. Chapman!

2013-12-11T09:32:00.002-06:00

Today marks an important date for a former co-worker and colleague - Ms. Laura Chapman. Today marks the release of her first published novel Hard Hats and Doormats. Later this month, she will be published in a Christmas anthology as well.

Lexi Burke has always been a stickler for following rules and procedures. As a human resources manager for a leading Gulf Coast chemical company, it’s her job to make sure everyone else falls in line, too.

But after losing out on a big promotion–-because her boss sees her as too much of a yes-woman––Lexi adopts a new policy of following her heart instead of the fine print. And her heart knows what it wants: Jason Beaumont, a workplace crush who is off limits based on her previous protocol.

While navigating a new romance and interoffice politics, Lexi must find the confidence to stand on her own or face a lifetime of following someone else’s orders.

Who says nice girls have to finish last?

Hard Hat and Doormats is available for your eReaders on:
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00H7OME88
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hard-hats-and-doormats-laura-chapman/1117661135?ean=2940148851479
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/hard-hats-and-doormats

It will be available in print on Amazon soon, but you can order it now – and for a discount – at Marching Ink http://marchingink.com/buy/hard-hats-and-doormats/

Laura has number of things going on for the launch of her book including an online launch party, found here, and other things you can read about on her blog Change the Word.

Congratulations, Laura. I look forward to reading your book!

November Escaped Me

2013-12-03T12:20:00.004-06:00

No posts this past month - and it definitely wasn't my intention - but a lot of things were going on - and still are going on.

I was part of a huge security update/upgrade of computer systems in our office and a lot of time was spent on that project, both during and outside of work and culminated in a weekend of work - 10 days working straight - to finish the project. There are still some lingering issues, but all will be resolved soon enough.

But let me tell you, that was quite an undertaking.

It does look like there will be more downtime for me - more downtime as in reading a lot due to some medical issues. But that may give me time to do some reviews too.

I've got another blog that will be opening up soon as well as a couple other projects which i will be posting about later this day/week/month respectively.

Musing Mondays - Lots and lots of reading

2013-10-28T22:24:00.001-06:00

Here's today's Musing Monday's as posted by Should Be Reading's blog.

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying with it.

Today I'll discuss one of my reading habits.

Being sick this month left me with a lot of reading time as I would read before taking a nap or before going to bed early each night. Though the reading challenge log won't show it because I re-read books multiple times while being sick, I read a lot. A lot a lot.

I find reading helps relax me and get my mind set for bed - unless I'm taking cold medicines, then reading will just contribute to crazy ass dreams loosely linked to the book I was reading before I fell asleep. And it's the easy to read books which help more - because then I don't actually have to think about what I'm reading to actively understand what I'm reading which in turn activates my brain more which prevents sleep.

Of course, it's also the family tradition that reading makes us fall asleep. True for my mom. True for my dad. And true for my son who's only 14 and often falls asleep face down in his books.

What's one of your regular reading habits?

Spohn Challenge: Week Two Entries

2013-10-16T10:00:00.001-05:00

Unfortunately, I didn't get an entry done for week two. I had been quite sick (running a fever makes for crazy ass dreams, but not lucid writing) then I had to get ready for a trip to Fort Worth, Texas, for work.

Steven posted a blog entry with it, titled 5 Tips for How to Write a Short Story. Check that entry out as well as the entries for the challenge here: http://stevespohn.com/spohn-challenge-week-two-or-5-tips-for-how-to-write-a-short-story/

Spohn Challenge, Week One Entries

2013-10-01T18:19:00.005-05:00

Steven posted the entries for week one on the Spohn Challenge. I've got to find time to read some of them - unfortunately I caught something and have been sick since Monday night, so not sure when I'll have time to read through it.

Check out the entries here: http://stevespohn.com/spohn-challenge-week-one-or-how-i-learned-to-run-a-marathon/

Aresia Darksong Tales - Ambush

2013-09-27T13:27:00.000-05:00

Three weeks of travel had passed, with another two to go. Fall seemed to be winding down quicker this year and already twice on this annual trip, there had been a dusting of snow overnight. Aresia couldn’t wait to get home. She didn’t want to be stuck in a snow storm any more than her servants did. It could create for a dangerous situation, for humanoids and animals alike.

Supplies had been gotten to each location that had needed them, adding a delay to her trip, but in her mind it was necessary. If your employees respected you, there was less of a chance of them turning on you. And as far as she could tell thus far, all of her employees at the mines and vineyards found her to be a good employer, generous when it came to their salaries and good to them when it was time for winter, instead of letting them suffer as other owners did. In some cases, even the housing where the vineyard maintainers lived were repaired while she travelled. It was a necessity, as far as she was concerned. She wanted to build an empire eventually and empires needed money.

Aresia had been half-asleep when the carriage lurched and came to an abrupt stop. Shouts from her servants outside woke her up and against her lady-in-waiting’s words she opened the curtain to see what was going on.

“Don’t worry m’lady, we have it under control, just some brigands. Please stay inside where it’s safe,” said one of the guards.

She waited for several minutes, her ears twitching as she listened to the fighting and her frown grew as it seemed to get closer, and worse, not better. With a frustrated sigh she pushed the door to the carriage open, momentarily blinded by the bright light before she assessed the situation. They were effectively surrounded and slightly outnumbered. She reached out with her mind, and faltered for a moment. Her shout was loud and clear to her fighters. “They have a wizard with them,” followed by a location before she focused her own arcane energies. She could feel the energy building in her as she worked the spell, pulling what she could consider her max limit before channeling the spell.

Lightning came from the sky, five, six, seven strikes before her chanting was abruptly cut off, the wind knocked out of her, six to seven inches of an arrow protruding from just below her ribs. She stumbled backwards, falling back against the wall of the carriage before falling to her knees, the magic backfiring around her and within her. For once in her life, she knew no control, couldn’t control what was happening around her and to her. She had to focus, had to expell the energy before it consumed her. The power of the arcane energies she had summoned into her were released in a small focused explosion near a grove of trees just as a second arrow slammed into her right shoulder.

She crumpled to the ground, unable to move, unable to talk, the last thing she saw was a group of fighters moving to defend her prone form before darkness consumed her vision.

Seeing Aresia go down had driven them to fight harder to protect her. They weren’t certain if she was dead or alive. If she was alive and they lost, they could only imagine what would be done to her till she died. The battle lasted an hour before the brigands were slain, as well as six of their own were dead, numerous fighters injured. The only fighter that could do healing was among the dead.

Aresia was one of the more serious injured, unconscious, unresponsive. Her clothes, volumous pale blue dress and petticoats were soaked red with her blood. The arrow that had hit her shoulder was easily removed and she was haphazardly bandaged to stop the bleeding. The one below her ribs was the difficult one. No one wanted to remove it, so instead it was cut off a couple inches above her clothing, left inside till they got to a location where she could be cared for. She was carefully put into a wagon, supplies moved from there to the carriage and they attempted to make her comfortable before taking off. They would look for a house or a farm, something where it would be cleaner where she could be taken care of.

It was slow going. She came to consciousness several times over the next two days. She couldn’t remember ever hurting this bad before in her life. Everytime she woke up, they shifted her, made her drink tea, water, anything they could get her to consume, sweetened with honey. The third day she started throwing up anything they forced her to drink, her body wracked in pain from a fever.

“Send riders out to see if there are homes off the beaten path. She’s running a fever,” she heard someone say, “If we don’t get her care soon, she will die.”

Aresia shivered, tossing her head slowly. She wasn’t going to die, she wasn’t ready to die. But she was too weak to do more than shake her head before darkness claimed her. The caravan stopped that day to set up a temporary camp while the riders sought assistance. They just hoped they found it soon enough.

Two Free Books this Weekend

2013-09-26T12:00:00.000-05:00

Yesterday Oliver teased this image to his friends and tagged me. Of course it made me LOL then I said "Okay this can work for another blog post."

I mentioned in the WWW Wednesday article that two of his books, Rabbit in the Road and The Dusk Harbringer will be free this weekend.

But if that doesnt' convince you to click on their links and click on them, perhaps the comic linked here will help.

Check it out. Download the books. Enjoy reading the books. And when you're done, leave them reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

WWW Wednesdays: Sept. 25, 2013 Edition

2013-09-25T17:15:00.000-05:00

What are you currently reading?

The Dresden Files: Ghost Stories (#13) by Jim Butcher. I'm about 100 pages from completing this book and like every other book, things aren't quite as they seem and Dresden realizes it just before its too late. In this book though, Dresden considers things - including how things would have been different if he hadn't taken the course of actions he had taken in the previous books and if he had to do it all over again would he? And in most cases he decided he would.

I'm really interested in seeing where this book is going to go. There have been drastic changes to the characters you've grown to love in the books, especially with Murphy and Molly, and you get to know some characters, such as Daniel Carpenter and Waldo Butters - that were in some of the previous books but not all of them - better.

Only 100 pages to go. I expect I will be finished later tonight or tomorrow depending on my work load.

What did you recently finish reading?

The Dresden Files: Changes (#13) by Jim Butcher.

The past month and a half, I have been voraciously reading through the Jim Butcher novels and found, like everyone told me I would, that I thoroughly enjoyed them. Like most of the paranormal fiction I've been reading, the world of magic, vampires and werewolves are still new and relatively unknown to most of the mortals in the world today. Harry Dresden, the protagonist and the person who's point of view the books are written from, is a wizard - and a declared wizard at that. Harry has his name in the yellow pages as a "Wizard".

In this book, though, a lot of unexpected things happen to Dresden which startle you, the reader, almost as much as it startles the protagonist. And the ending of the book ends in a cliff hanger. I can't express how much that upset me when I, for some reason, thought this was the last book published so far - thankfully it's not and there are two more so far.

If you like paranormal books with a very tiny touch of romance and no sex scenes in the books with a touch of mystery and a lot of action, you might check these books out.

What do you think you'll read next?

The Dusk Harbringer by Oliver Campbell and Danika Potts. I'll be honest, I'm a really bad friend. I was given a review copy of the book and I haven't had a chance to read it because I had just gotten into the Dresden File series when their book came out and was too hooked on reading those books (And now I find out they're not done yet and I'm on book 13, moving on to book 14). So I decided after I finish Ghost Stories I'd switch to The Dusk Harbringer and read that and review it.

If you haven't picked up The Dusk Harbringer or Rabbit in the Road yet, both will be free on Amazon this upcoming weekend, Sept. 28 and 29, 2013. I strongly suggest you click on the links to the books and grab them.

The Spohn Challenge

2013-09-24T16:41:00.001-05:00

A week or so ago, Steven Spohn, whom I know through the AbleGamers Foundation, wrote up a challenge he called the Spohn Challenge. Then he had the audacity to tag me on Facebook for it (I kid I kid). Of course after reading it I went "I can do that," then I look at this blog and realize just how bad I am at doing things I'm supposed to be doing because I have so many other things going on in my life.

The Spohn challenge is relatively simple. Write one new short story per week for a whole year. It can be serialized or it can be anything you want it to be. Check out the details of the challenge here.

That being said, I'm not sure if I will make it a post a week - I'd like to, but hard to say, but I will definitely give this a try. When I get the first one done, I'll add a writing challenge tab to my navigation.

If you plan on joining the challenge, be sure to leave a reply here or on Steven's page.

One is Free This Weekend

2013-08-24T00:20:00.001-05:00

J.A. Laraque has his novel, One, for free this weekend for the Kindle. This is an updated version, including edits from myself and his friend Bryn.

Check it out if you have a chance and leave a review for it after you read it.

The novel can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/One-ebook/dp/B005CX92X6

Musing Mondays: Aug. 19, 2013 Edition

2013-08-19T13:31:00.000-05:00

Here's today's Musing Monday's as posted by Should Be Reading's blog

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying with it.

As I haven't done one of these since the last week in June, I figure it's okay to go with point 3 again.

I am currently reading through the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.

This series was recommended to be by a number of my friends - all of whom also suggested I read the Anita Blake books which I haven't had a chance to read yet.

The series are written as a first-person narrative by Harry Blackstone Coppersfield Dresden, a wizard who is also a private investigator in Chicago. His main contract is with the local police department Special Investigations unit. Like most paranormal fiction I've read recently, people have just learned that magic and mystical creatures exist in their world and are coping with that revelation. Dresden is one of the few wizards who openly practices his craft and is available for hire.

So far I've read the first two books in the series:

Storm Front
Fool Moon

I'm now reading Grave Peril. I like the books so far, but I already feel that the author is too repetitive both within the individual books and within the series. There's only so many times I need the same description of how he decorates his apartment or the style of clothes he wears or how and why the apartment has no electricity etc.

Beyond that little pet peeve, I'm enjoying the books thus far.

The Twisted World Verse One: The Dusk Harbringer is free for download through Monday

2013-08-18T21:59:00.002-05:00

The husband and wife team of Oliver Campbell and Danika Potts are at it again, this time releasing the first book in a dark fantasy trilogy this weekend.

Available at the moment only through Amazon (though you can convert it for other devices), The Twisted World Verse One: The Dusk Harbringer is available free of charge till 11:59 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18.

While I have been given a review copy to read, I have not had a chance to read it yet. With that being said, if you enjoyed Rabbit in the Road, I strongly believe you will enjoy this book just as much, if not more so. I say this because I have been reading the excerpts they have been posting to Facebook this past week.

Speaking of which, after you download their book here, you should follow their pages on Facebook too:

And after you read the book, be sure to leave feedback on Amazon and Goodreads. Help support indie authors.

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Here's the answers to this week meme's from Should Be Reading's blog. Feel free to leave your comments with the answers to these questions and be sure to check out their blog as well for other's answers.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions in the comment section or in your own blog then link it from the comments.

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

I look forward to seeing your answers below!

What are you currently reading?

World War Z by Max Brooks. My husband was lent this book from a friend, read it, now I'm reading it before I see the movie. Chances are I won't see the movie in the theater - but I am curious as to how they're going to convert it.

Without spoiling it, World War Z is a collection of "personal accounts" of how the Zombie Apocalypse occurred, how it was initially reacted to, how they fought, how they survived and conveys grittier information - the gruesome nature of humans when faced with the worst thing possible.

I find the accounts, as transcribed by the journalist writing the book, to be interesting - more so since it's fictional. The author doesn't take on just the personality of one person, but many as they write the book and it makes for an interesting read.

What did you recently finish reading?

Master of the Dance by T.C. Southwell, book five in The Queen's Blade Series. I've mentioned this book in a couple of my posts. While I was disappointed at how the book was going, it was still a good series and I still want to read the last book.

What do you think you'll read next?

Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon. This book is a part of her League series, of which I have read all the books. I loved The League as much as I've enjoyed her Dark Hunter Series. It releases today as a $2.99 ebook and will be out in print later this year - hopefully.

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The Twisted World Verse One: The Dusk Harbringer is free for download through Monday

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You read 1,009 words per minute.
That makes you 304% faster than the national average.