My first guest on today’s show is the wonderfully talented KJHowe author of the NYT bestseller, The Freedom Broker. We will be chatting about her latest novel Skyjack and June’s Thriller Fest.
Praise for The Freedom Broker.
“Unparalleled storytelling by K.J.Howe. Filled with excitement that never stops. I wish I could write as well.”
~ Clive Cussler #1 NYT Bestseller.
“The Freedom Broker combines terrific thriller writing and fascinating re=search about hostage rescues. This is fact and fiction at its best!”
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To quote that wonderful philosopher, Whinny the Pooh, “The beginning is a very good place to start”.
For me, it all started was when I was looking for a great book to read.
I finished reading the last book by my favourite author. It would be another year, maybe two before his next book became available.
This meant I needed to search for another book to read. I was even willing to stray from my usual genre to find an excellent read.
Something easier said than done.
You would think, with over 45 million books on Amazon alone, finding a story to enjoy, a book you can immerse yourself in totally, would be a pretty easy thing.
But no, it is not.
Finding and selecting a book which looks like it will meet your criteria is not a simple affair, not if you want to make a certain as possible you will enjoy reading it.
You could, of course, look through the thousands of free books on offer. But…. much of the time there are reasons books are offered for free, or heavily discounted by their authors… and not all those reasons are good.
There is the uncertain quality and content of many of the full priced eBooks. Anyway, do you really want to commit spending your hard-earned cash to buy something you do not enjoy reading or find they writers style is not to your taste?
It all makes choosing a ‘new to me’ author or selecting a book from a different genre a bit of a lottery.
That is when I thought there must be a better way
I asked myself, “HOW CAN YOU MAKE CERTAIN A BOOK YOU BUY WILL BE ONE YOU ENJOY?”
That is when I had my eureka moment.
The result is Electric Eclectic Novelettes.
‘Electric’ because they are ebooks, digital… electric. ‘Eclectic’ for the various styles, genres and authors who write them.
And ‘Novelettes’ as not to mislead readers they are anything other than short, sample books; introductory books to new authors and new genres.
Electric Eclectic books are written by some of the best indie authors in the world, each Electric Eclectic Novelette delivers wonderful and entertaining storytelling to a high standard.
People searching for their ‘next favourite read’ can rest assured in the knowledge that Electric Eclectic Novelettes have undergone a rigorous selection process, ensuring the stories meet our exacting standards.
This means you do not need to read through a bunch of ‘hookey’ or substandard books or spend out on a random book hoping you will enjoy its content.
With each Electric Eclectic book costing just 1.00 (dollar/euro/pound), it is a small price to pay to ensure a thoroughly entertaining read and an introduction to your next ‘new’ author.
Once you have found the right style of stories, the ones you love, you will have found your next favourite author and can start to work your way through their full-length books and novels knowing you thoroughly enjoy their writing.
Say goodbye to dealing with ‘dodgy’, inferior writes.
Download a handful of Electric Eclectic Novelettes and give yourself a literary treat?
What is more, Electric Eclectic Novelettes are easy to find.
The first way is to visit the Electric Eclectic website where all the Novelettes are shown, along with author insights and links to their personal books and pages.
The second is to go to Amazon books and type ‘Electric Eclectic books’ into the search bar. (In the USA you will need the Amazon.com Kindle search page.)
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In an empire where political power is everything, Captain Timothy Val wants one thing: to serve his empire with honor and distinction. But after a mission to quell a revolt goes terribly wrong, Timothy is branded a traitor and barely escapes with his life. His only hope of regaining his lost honor and clearing his family name rests in the hands of a senator planning to use him as the face of a revolution.
With an intergalactic war looming and civil unrest spreading through the empire, Timothy must tread carefully. Assassins wait around every corner, and his new allies have made him powerful enemies, enemies that may not be entirely Human.
To save the empire, Timothy will have to betray every oath he’s ever taken.
E.A. Copen is a prolific speculative fiction author living in beautiful Southeast Ohio with her three kids, three cats, a dog, and a husband. She writes everything from space opera to weird west and all the strange genre mashups in between. When she’s not chained to her keyboard working on her next novel, she enjoys exploring old graveyards and other creepy places. On weekends, you can find her time traveling with her SCA friends, at least until she saves up enough money to leave the Shire and become a Jedi.
E.A. Copen is a prolific speculative fiction author living in beautiful Southeast Ohio with her three kids, three cats, a dog, and a husband. She writes everything from space opera to weird west and all the strange genre mashups in between. When she’s not chained to her keyboard working on her next novel, she enjoys exploring old graveyards and other creepy places. On weekends, you can find her time traveling with her SCA friends, at least until she saves up enough money to leave the Shire and become a Jedi.
Loving Two Dragons (The Dragon Curse 2) By Ariel Marie
Dragons must bond with their fated mates or risk the Dragon Curse…
The Dragon Curse claims dragons who have not completed the ancient mating ceremony. Three dragons have spent their lives searching for their two mates who are destined for them. Only in a triad will a dragon shifter feel complete.
Ady, Lini, and Jaggar have scoured the Earth looking for their destined mates. Their dragons grew weaker with each passing day they remain unmated. Fate leads them to each other, only to discover that the curse has its talons on one of the dragons.
After centuries of searching for each other, the promise of a happy-ever-after is threatened. Will the triad be able to complete the ancient mating ceremony before the curse claims one of them?
WARNING: This book contains material for mature readers (18+ and older) only. This book contains steamy MFF, bisexual ménage paranormal romance.
Ariel Marie is an author who loves the paranormal, action and hot steamy romance. She combines all three in each and every one of her stories. For as long as she can remember, she has loved vampires, shifters and every creature you can think of. This even rolls over into her favorite movies! She loves a good action packed thriller! Throw a touch of the supernatural world in it and she’s hooked!
She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where she currently resides with her husband and three beautiful children. Want to know more about her and her books?
These pages contain thrilling short stories for the dark fantasy lover. Fight grotesque, body and soul consuming creatures, hacking off their limbs with sharp pointy weapons, as Dark Angel, Ilese, defends humanity, in A Darker Fall. Find your true power as the head witch in your ancient coven, while hiding a terrible secret costing you everyone you love in White Matron. Mind meld with killer, lover, and immortal, Joe Smith, in Lord of Blood. Travel to Sin City for a Post-Apocalyptic Vampire of Vegas story stocked with vampires and zombies in Brevity.
Dark Angel, Ilese, is part of an elite government team, Operation Quietus. Their mission, to destroy monsters unleashed by The Fallen, grotesque abominations created from the evil in the world when human lackeys in the drug, sex, and arms trade turn into beasts. Ilese is the only one who can annihilate them forever.
Though her heritage makes for a formidable soldier, Ilese lacks certain aspects of humanity that allows her to care profoundly for others. Yet, her second in command, Josh, may find a way to prove otherwise.
An on-going war, a crucial mistake, and a decision that could change everything; one where losing something real isn’t an option.
White Matron: Deadly Secrets
By Jessica Ozment
Fey Westfall is a White Witch on the cusp of gaining her true power. Not only has she lost everything she knows and loves, she’s also on the verge of unraveling a complicated past that has an unbreakable bond with her destiny. For years, deceptive lies and altered memories shrouded the answers as to why her beloved mother disappeared when she was a child. Now, with her reign inevitable and her power surging; Fey is uncovering the agonizing truth.
Though the Westfall family has protected an entire village of magical beings cut off from the outside world for hundreds of years, the tradition required a tremendous sacrifice to hide the immeasurable arcane magic within Fey’s ancient coven. Now, the darkness they’ve created will fight to the ends of the Earth to escape, all under the guise of wanting nothing more than to dictate where the next Matron’s loyalties lie.
Can Fey overpower an unspeakable evil hiding within the depths of her soul? Or, will those closest to her reek of betrayal? One thing’s certain; she mustn’t find safety in the secrets that have already cost her everything.
LORD OF BLOOD
By Robert Stock
Killer, lover, immortal; Joe Smith is a vampire that saves as many lives as he takes. He’s a surgeon, and a literal Lord of Blood, bending flesh and plasma to his will. In the ER, he performs miracles. In the darkness, he performs atrocities. But don’t worry, he only kills the bad ones…mostly.
The Trophy Room (Story one): The Lord of Blood heads to confession in “The Trophy Room”. Methinks it may be a bit bloody!
For Bathed in Blood (Story two): The Lord of Blood comes face-to-face with the Countess of Blood, Elizabeth Bathory. Will there be a bloodbath? Or will the sparks fly and burn down the barn?
House Blackwood Book Two
by Sharon Lipman
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Would you doom yourself to darkness if it meant saving the one you love?
Ryver is the only telepath in living memory. Whether he wants to or not, he can hear the thoughts of everyone around him–their desires, their fears, and their darkest secrets. As a Vampire and Guardian of the Order, his skill is an asset. As a man, it’s a burden he wishes he didn’t have to carry. That is until he meets Ria. She’s beautiful, shy…and human. More than that, she hears him.
A chance meeting brings them together, but the truth could rip them apart. Ria isn’t what she seems. As her heritage is revealed, can they find the light? If they do, it will enrage an old enemy and threaten everything they hold dear. If they don’t, one of them will be lost forever.
Would you surrender your soul for the love of the King?
Lena, a vampire and a Guardian of the Order, has been honour-bound to protect human souls all her life. Acting first and thinking second is what’s saved her skin time and again in the war against the Fallen, but her disregard for orders soon catches up with her when her boss is seriously injured. Forced to take responsibility for her actions, Lena is thrust into the path of her very own kryptonite; Thorn. The raw power of his soul calls to her and his mere presence lights a fire within her that she cannot contain. With Vampire magic waning and the race in crisis, can either of them afford to ignore Nature’s call? If they do, the future of the race is in jeopardy. If they don’t, they will both lose the most precious part of themselves. Their souls.
A huge fan of the paranormal romance genre, Sharon Lipman started writing in her teens. It wasn’t until she was in her thirties that she found a story she was desperate to share and House Blackwood was born. Her debut novel, Bound to Blackwood was published in 2015.
She was born in west London and grew up in leafy Surrey in south-east England. A lover of all things British, except the weather, she now lives in a tiny mountain village in Almeria, southern Spain with her husband and an ever-growing collection of dogs.
S.E. Anderson can’t ever tell you where she’s from. Not because she doesn’t want to, but because it inevitably leads to a confusing conversation where she goes over where she was born (England) where she grew up (France) and where her family is from (USA) and it tends to make things very complicated.
She’s lived pretty much her entire life in the South of France, except for a brief stint where she moved to Washington DC, or the eighty years she spent as a queen of Narnia before coming back home five minutes after she had left. Currently, she goes to university in Marseille, where she’s studying Physics and aiming for a career in Astrophysics.
When she’s not writing, or trying to science, she’s either reading, designing, crafting, or attempting to speak with various woodland creatures in an attempt to get them to do household chores for her. She could also be gaming, or pretending she’s not watching anything on Netflix.
S.E.Anderson is the author of the funny Sci-fi novel, Alienation. We managed to get hold of her and ask her a couple of questions.
What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
I love to read, but also create book covers. And knit, and cross stitch. And study the universe! I’m currently studying for a Masters of Space sciences.
What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?
How many friends would support me! I couldn’t believe how cool and excited everyone was about Starstruck and my little career as an author.
3. How many books have you written? Which is your favourite?
I’ve written 23 novels, though only Starstruck has ever been published – and Alienation soon! The other ones might be worth publishing one day, but they need a lot of work. Some are fantasy, some are scifi, and I even have a YA romance I’m dying to get back to!
4. Do you hear from your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?
I love my readers. I was amazed that they reached out to me, and I could not be happier! Many have become great friends of mine. They seem to really love the humor, and also… the growing relationship between Sally and Zander! They’ve even come up with a ship name – Zally!
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Follow this exciting blog tour starting at your first stop UrbanHype101 and if you get lost in cyber space, come back to UrbanHype101 for the tour map.
There’s something new to read see or hear on each of these stops.
Don’t forget to hunt for that special word and if you find ALL of them, send them to scavengerhunt@bolidepublishing.com and you could win a signed copy of Alienation and a gift pack of unique swag. This contest is open internationally.
Now hop onto your spacecraft and visit the next blog.
Please take your seat and strap yourself in, as we take you on an intergalactic tour. You will be amazed, entertained, and educated. Manoeuvre through the cosmos and be astounded at all you see. Hunt down the hidden words that will get you to your final destination where a one-of-a-kind award awaits one lucky traveller.
You are here to celebrate the release of Alienation, book two of the Starstruck series.
Sally Webber’s dream is coming true: Zander is back and taking her out for a night on the town–on a planet hundreds of light years away from Earth.
But when an accident separates her from her alien tour guide, she’s thrown into the seedy underbelly of an insane city where nothing is as it seems. Suddenly lost and desperate to get back home, Sally is willing to do anything to get out, even if it means accepting spontaneous marriage proposals, crashing some fancy parties, or joining what appears to be the space mob.
All she wanted was some decent interstellar pizza, but now it might be the end of the world as evil nanobots and an out of control AI try to take the universe by force, and the only one who can stop them is missing in action. Sally has no choice but to try to stop them herself–if she can stay alive that long.
Alienation is the fantastic sequel to the hit sci-fi comedy, Starstruck by S.E.Anderson.
Follow this exciting blog tour starting at your first stop UrbanHype101 and if you get lost in cyberspace, come back here for the tour map. Every stop has something new and exciting for you to read see or hear.
Don’t forget to hunt for that special word and if you find ALL of them, send them to scavengerhunt@bolidepublishing.com and you could win a signed copy of Alienation and a gift pack of unique swag.
This contest is open internationally.
Now, let’s learn more about this amazing world S.E.Anderson has built.
Welcome to the Alliance
The United Planetary Alliance plays a major role in all the Starstruck books. As our closest galactic neighbor, Sally and Zander will run into them more often than not: it’s hard to stay out of their affairs when they control this arm of the Milky Way.
The Alliance has existed for a little over 10,000 years – converting their time to ours is a little complicated, as their time is based on a very complicated decimal system, based on the days of Pyrina, their capital planet. Assuming their definition of a second is the same as ours, a day on Pyrina is 55h long – over two earth days. Across the Alliance, Standard Time is defined by the local time on Pyrina’s dolmen, a rock where the Alliance accords were signed.
History tells that ten races signed the accords, unifying against a shared threat known only as “the darkness,” which threatened to destroy the two neighboring systems. Some notable planets who signed were Pyrina, Hydra, and Da-Duhui: what we call the core planets of the Alliance. While Pyrina holds the seat of government, the real cultural hub is Da-Duhui (think DC and NYC).
Both Hydra and Pyrina, despite being in neighboring solar systems with no contact for millennia, both are home to humans. A link or reason for this parallel evolution has not yet been found.
The Alliance is a democratic system, run by an elected President. However, like with Da-Duhui, the elections are too far and few between, and too limited in candidates, to really be called elections. The President resembles more an emperor. Currently, the government has lost the President’s son and heir, making it turbulent times.
There are now well over 100 planets included in the Alliance – and those are just the ones currently inhabited. Many planets and asteroids are riddled with mines; and many others, including earth, are simply under the Alliance’s control, as they have strict rules governing when contact can be made. While earth is too primitive to join their coalition, it is an ideal place for alien tourism. They quite enjoy seeing a world so underdeveloped, with our ‘petty’ squabbles. The tourism is organized by a group known as “The Agency”.
Zander and Blayde have a complicated history with the Alliance. Their obsessive need to mess with other people’s affairs for the greater good have seen them on either side of the Alliance, sometimes helping, and sometimes diverting their plans. For this reason, the Alliance has a massive bounty on their heads, though not fully comprehending who the siblings are.
As with any large group, there are bound to be tensions. And the Alliance is so massive, there are many: a few planets claiming independence, certain races demanding change, rebels trying to bring the entire system down. The rim planets are always hard to control, joining the alliance, for the most part, to avoid getting on their bad side.
But while the system isn’t perfect, it’s quite effective. It ensures cohesion in this arm of the milky way, and for the most part, peace.
S.E. Anderson can’t ever tell you where she’s from. Not because she doesn’t want to, but because it inevitably leads to a confusing conversation where she goes over where she was born (England) where she grew up (France) and where her family is from (USA) and it tends to make things very complicated.
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