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Illusional Reality – The Quest.

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Hello traveler, welcome to Tsinia.

Do not stray from the path as there are riches to be found.

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Hello I am Thya, guardians of the Changlings and rightful ruler of Tsinia.

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It’s not that I’m stubborn –  look, I was taken from my home, transported to a magical dangerous place and then told that my whole life was a lie and I’m supposed to be the saviour to a race I know nothing about and then I’m told I have to marry the son of a dark warlord, and that it had all been prearranged.  Let me ask you, if you were in my position what would you do? How would you feel?
And they say I’m stubborn!

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Greetings I am Alkazar tutor of the arts.

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Come walk with me to the Recas.  Grenko has laid a splendid meal for you. Forgive me, I forget you are a traveler. Grenko retains the ability to grow things if it originate from the ground, such as fruits, vegataion, flowers.

No, Grenko did not grow the trees in Tsinia. They are very old and have been around for as long as I can remember.  

The mountain that is shrouding Tsinia is the mountain of Senx. Darthorn is a wicked ruler, a witch, I believe you would name him. Yes, a warlock, of course. Darthorn has always desired the Changlins and their power. He employs dark magic.

Fear not, you are safe. We have arrived.

Before you can enter our queen’s domain, you must answer a riddle to show you are true of heart, answer wrong and you will feast on the ground where you stand.

A container without hinges lock or key. Yet a golden treasure lies inside me.
What am I? 

Write down your answer.

Now that your are nourished let us continue our walk. Omad is waiting for us at the Recas. 

Sadly, nay. Not all Tsinians are born with a gift. I myself have the pleasure of teaching the young how to control and employ their gifts.

Tis true, those that posses the gift of Sonica have increased hearing capabilities. We were warned of Darthorn’s attack with a mist of poison and we were prepared.

Arh, and here is Omad  You are highly skilled in knowledge. It was a delight to converse with you. May the grace of the Changlins look favorably on you.

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Welcome traveler, Salco and Athron are in attendance. Follow me we will converse. I am certain you have many questions? 

Write down a question about Tsinia or the book Illusional Reality

You are correct, yes the Recas, Plecky, Tora and Escos are the only land constructions. We dwell up high within the ancient trees. The Tora is the dwelling of our gifted healer, Valcan. That is the Plecky and is of no concern to you. The Recas you have seen, and here we come to the Escos.

Enter and when inside, you will stand on the star in front of you. Farewell traveler.

Welcome, I am Salco. I was dispatched on Earth to retain our princess, the rightful queen, home. You may recognise her as Becky

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You shall answer three questions, these were compiled by Alkazar, as he holds fondness to your planet. Answer correctly and succeed in your task you are one step away from the reward.

I am Athron reader of the oracles.

ATHRON

Answer but three.

The Sahara desert is smaller than Mexico. True or false?

Earth is bigger than Mars. True or false?

Goldfish only have a memory of three seconds. True or False?

Why do you snigger. Alkazar retains a document of knowledge on Goldfish. 

With haste you will depart, the orb is waiting. Good journey to you traveler.

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ARE YOU READY FOR THE B2BCYCON?

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What is that? I hear you ask.

The Brain to Books Cyber Convention & Book Expo has the feeling of a normal book/author convention but with so much more for the readers to see, hear and play.
The Cyber Convention is celebrating it’s 3rd year and it’s bigger than ever! Angela, B Chrysler is the brains, and working mechanics behind the CyCon and owner of Brain to Books, which is an open portal for independent authors. And thanks to the hard work of the genres managers, customer service, tech and the rest of the working wheels – who are ALL volunteers and have spent months making sure you and all the authors are happy and this years CyCon  and Book Expo is going to be the most successful and largest ever!

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Let me break it down. Imagine 200+ authors taking part in genre specific events such as Blog Hop, Genre Tours, Panels, Cover Wars, Character Tournaments just to name a few and then you, the readers can come into the convention and take part and it’s all FREE.

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And then you have Storytime, where two wonderful and extremely busy ladies (who are also authors) make time to read excerpts from authors books. So grab a coffee or tea and get curled up on the couch to listen and watch Storytime.

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The Blog-Hops are happening all over Facebook, websites and blogs. Follow the sign posts to all the blogs, take part, have fun, support all these amazing authors and enter to win books, swag, Amazon Gift Cards and lots more.

You can vote in the Cover Wars for your favourite book cover.

The panels are unscripted and start off with a theme and then the discussion gets passionate when the writers’ talk about the industry, their books, and life in general and you never know what will happen.
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The Book Expo are book features, again genre specific, so that you, the readers, can go your favourite genre, and take a look at books you’ve never seen before by authors you have never heard of.

The Author showcase, which is run from Goodreads, work as book booth, just like actual conventions have. Here you can learn more about the author and their books, you can take your time as you stroll through the convention, stopping at booths that catch your eye. Ask the author a question – you know you’ve always wanted to do that. And don’t forget to take some samples and a grab bag when they are offered.

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Don’t forget to enter the giveaways (there’s one for every genre)

And then there is JOE LIVE where you can click on anytime throughout the convention. Joe live is recording the convention, with live discussions, chat’s with authors and general chit chat and information about the convention 24/7. When Joe goes and shuts his eyes for a few hours, I will be taking over. So tune in you can watch and listen live anytime throughout the day and night and you can ask questions to myself, Joe and any of the authors that join us.

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And for the first time, MC (motorcycle club) authors are now represented. Here is a showcase just for this awesome genre. You can listen to short readings of the best fight scenes in their novels, become a biker and take part in B2BCyCon Biker Run and learn who won the title of the BADDEST MC NOVEL, in the Biker Wars contest.

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Umm what else have I missed? Seriously, there is so much for you to do, so much fun to be had on the cyber convention and book expo. 
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So you don’t forget about the convention, sign up to Save The Date where you will receive emails on the run up to the con. This wonderful gathering of amazing authors in all genres begins on 7th April 2017 and go on until 9th. The blogs will probably go on a little longer and of course, the showcase, panels, storytime, Joe live – in fact anything that is recorded will be around forever!
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Release date: March 20, 2017

With My Whole Heart is a complicated story about family.

 Jaime’s a young, single mother who is trying to make ends meet, feeling like she’s always waging an uphill battle to make sure she and her son are housed, fed, and healthy. Connor’s designed his life to stay too busy for relationships.

How complicated is it?

She’s his big brother’s surrogate, and he’s the sperm donor. How in the hell would this ever work? Connor didn’t know, but he was determined to convince the feisty little blonde to take a chance on him. What he didn’t realize was it meant taking a chance on himself, too.

COMING SOON 

 

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EPIC FANTASY SAGA CONTINUES….

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The Matter of Manred Continues…

With the day of her arranged wedding fast approaching, will the Lady Eithne agree to marry King Eowain? What sinister forces have gathered to oppose the happy day? And what interest do the mysterious drymyn-priests and their dark, forgetful Gods have in such a mundane matter as love?
Since the day she was born, the Lady Eithne of Dolgallu has lived under a magical prohibition: she may not marry before the omens are deemed favorable.
Now, after a harrowing journey to the most sacred place in the Five Kingdoms, the mysterious priests and priestesses of the powerful Drymyn Order have pronounced the omens favorable, and her wedding to King Eowain of Droma has been arranged.
But Eithne has the right to accept—or reject—her suitor.
She did not set this geas upon herself, didn’t ask for the special attention of the Gods to her love-life. Yet the time for her decision has come.
Eowain has proven himself loyal, brave, kind—all the things any woman might ask from a man.
But there’s the way of it: “This is the man, you must marry him.” Is she not a free woman? Was she not guaranteed the right of choice?
Eithne is frustrated by the expectation that she will simply acquiesce to her fate, that she must accept that the Gods wove some secret pattern for her life and she can do nothing to stop it.
So how can she prove she has the freedom to choose if she doesn’t choose, “No”? How can she know for herself that her will is truly her own if she consents?

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Here’s a closer look at The Wedding of Eithne

The plates of the cauldron had been hammered from within to push out the wyrd metal surface. From the facets of the boiling pot, mystic coelbreni runes and curvilinear pictographs stood out in the glow from the statue at the other end of the chamber.

The ancient image of Kârn, god of the forest, was on that cauldron. He wore roebuck antlers with the motif of a tree between them and sat with goat-legs crossed beneath him. In his right hand, he held a torc, and with his left gripped a horned serpent behind the head. To the left was a stag with antlers similar to those of the god. Dogs, cats, and cattle surrounded the scene. Some faced the god, others faced away. The antlers of the god reminded Eithne of the massive rack that hung over Eowain’s hearth in Dúnsciath. That seems so long ago and far away now. How strong and fierce and handsome he looked. And now… Tears welled into Eithne’s eyes, no matter the guards, the people. Helplessness and defeat overwhelmed her.

The brutes raised Eowain’s linen-wrapped body high in the air. The cauldron bubbled with herbs and mystic roots. On another of its plates was the bust of a torc-wearing woman, flanked by two six-spoked wheels and what seemed to be two elephants and two fierce, winged gryffins. Beneath the woman’s bust was the image of a terrible lion. The ancient chants of Corchen and the priestesses rose in a feverish spiral through the grotto.

Eithne shrieked a little as his linen-wrapped body sizzled into the scalding water. She had not thought it possible, for those short men to reduce his whole, bearish, war-like body, his whole life, into that cauldron. It seemed not nearly so vast as to contain the man she’d come to love.

The Wedding of Eithne releases in Kindle and Paperback on 28 March. Reserve your copy today

About The Author

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Michael E. Dellert is an author of adult epic and urban fantasy based in the Greater New York City Area.

He is an award-winning writer, editor, publishing consultant, and writing coach with a publishing career spanning 20 years. His blog, Adventures in Indie Publishing, is a resource for creative writers of all kinds.

As a blogger, he offers tips, tricks, and advice to aspiring writers seeking to improve their craft, and provides insights into the current state of the publishing industry.

His poetry and short fiction have appeared in literary journals such as The Backporch Review, The Harbinger, Idiom, and Venture. His poetry has also appeared in the anthologies The Golden Treasury of Great Poems and Dance on the Horizon, and he is a two-time winner of the Golden Poet Award from World of Poetry Press.

Michael is also the author of the fantasy novellas, Hedge King in Winter and A Merchant’s Tale, the full-length novel The Romance of Eowain, and now, The Wedding of Eithne, heroic action-adventures for the discriminating reader of new digital and print fantasy literature. With his graduate education in literature and writing, his experience in the publishing industry as a digital editorial production and design professional, and his love of fantasy literature, he practices what he preaches in his online courses on creative writing: discipline, integrity, commitment, and imagination. Take a journey with him into the Medieval Celtic Fantasy of the Matter of Manred Saga, a deeply imagined fantasy milieu like few others, and find yourself embedded in a medieval dystopia of feuding savage tribes, their petty hedge-kings, and the merchants and brigands that fight to make a living among them, while dark forces awaken in world rich with eldritch sword-and-sorcery adventure.

Learn more about Michael E. Dellert and his work at mdellert.com where you can read reviews, excerpts and sneak peeks, and subscribe to his newsletter. An active part of the indie author online community, you can also connect with Michael on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads, where he is often found chatting about books, fantasy lit, coffee, and the daily ups-and-downs of writing.

Website: http://www.mdellert.com/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mdellert.editor

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This is NOT an Illusion

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ILLUSIONAL REALITY

Illusional reality is a magical fantasy. Yet there are no wizards, elves, faeries, hobbits or dragons. What this wondrous novel has, is a story. A love story that battles with the human condition.
Within these magical pages there are memorable (some lovable some not) interesting characters and a fresh and emotional plot that you did NOT see coming.

But enough of my own glowing review. go and check out what the public think of Illusional Reality.

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And yes it is only $0.99 (for a limited time)

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It’s just an illusion

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Illusional Reality is a New-adult romantic fantasy.

Now my fans are wondering why I’ve written a romantic fantasy. It’s no secret that I write in most genres, but I’m known for my hard-hitting Outlaw MC thrillers.

 

The film Lord of the Rings inspired me to write Illusional Reality. In fact, I came out of the cinema and by the time I arrived home (40 minutes) later, book one was completed in my head, the synopsis on paper, and explain with OTT excitement to my husband.
It didn’t take long to write the novel but many things changed before I was happy with the final draft. You see, once you start writing a book, and you’re in the “Zone” the characters take over and tell you were they want to go. And if you need to sleep, you have to do what they say. Many authors will agree with me on that.
At the time I wrote Illusional Reality there were no ebooks, so I submitted the manuscript to agents and publishers hoping for the big break and I knew it was the right time to get my book out. Fantasy films were hitting the big screen and people were either Potter mad or buying their own copies of L.O.T.R trilogy. But it was rejected. Then life got in the way and I put the book/s in a folder and then in the office cabinet and it stayed there for TEN years.
I promised my readers a new book (maybe my last) and I had three projects on the go, but no interest to continue writing them at that. time. So Illusional Reality was dusted off and here we are

 

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Have a read of the blurb

Nobody expects to stare death in the face only to find out your entire life is a lie.
Rescued by Salco, marketing executive Becky finds herself in an unknown magical world filled with happy people that try to forget their land is on the brink of destruction.
Becky will soon learn none of this was an accident, and the council of Tsinia are certain her union with Darthorn’s son, Kovon, will create peace. And although her future has been planned out, she gives her heart to another.

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You will not find any elves, dwarfs, witches or fairies in this tale. There are no goblins, unicorns and pots of gold at the end of a sparkly rainbow.
The underlying theme is love, sacrifice and forgiveness. You may meet a Portie or a telent. And if you’re lucky maybe a Zenith will transcribe an oracle. There are no Fantasy stereotypes in my book. The names, places, spells, they are all original and the plot fresh. Whether you like fantasy or not, you will love these characters. You will cry and laugh and then want to hunt me down when you get to the end of the book.

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You cn buy this 5* read right here.

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