fantasy

Fierce: Sixteen Fantasy Stories In One Anthology (plus a $100 Giveaway)

Today we’re featuring FIERCE, a new fantasy anthology featuring sixteen authors, including epic fantasy legend Mercedes Lackey and fifteen other NY Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling authors.

Over one million words and sixteen realms of fantasy brought together for your reading pleasure. Discover courageous characters fighting for justice and order. Journey between kingdoms of dragons and lands of anarchy as tales of magic and mayhem unfold.

The anthology is on sale for just 99 cents for a limited time only!

Check it out on AMAZON, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, and iBooks.

Read on to find out more about the authors and the titles in this fantasy anthology, and don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a $100 Amazon GC or Paypal cash!

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Review of Paths of Alir by Melissa McPhail

Melissa McPhail A Pattern of Shadow and Light

Paths of Alir is the third book in Melissa McPhail’s A Pattern of Shadow and Light Series. This series has really become one of my favorite fantasies so far. I read and reviewed book one, Cephrael’s Hand, last year and also posted about book two, The Dagger of Adendigaeth, just the other day as part of the massive blog tour that’s running through November 9th.

Read on for my thoughts on Paths of Alir and then check out the blog tour details to see what you can win during the tour!

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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Review of The Dagger of Adendigaeth by Melissa McPhail

Melissa McPhail A Pattern of Shadow and Light

The Dagger of Adendigaeth is the second book in Melissa McPhail’s A Pattern of Shadow and Light series. I read the first book, Cephrael’s Hand, last year (absolutely loved it, by the way) and even read the book again for this year’s blog tour.

Fresh from re-reading Cephrael’s Hand, I was more than ready to dive into book two. The timing was just perfect because the third book, Paths of Alir, came out this month and I’m also posting a review of that book for this tour! Yay!

Anyway, read on for my thoughts on The Dagger of Adendigaeth and enter the blog tour giveaway! You can win a $50 Amazon gift card or an autographed copy of The Dagger of Adendigaeth! It’s awesome, right? ;)

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Book Blast & Giveaway: Shadows of Ghosts by Stefan Haucke

Shadows of Ghosts Tour

Today we’re featuring Shadows of Ghosts by author Stefan Haucke. This blog tour runs through November 7. There are awesome prizes for the tour: one randomly chosen winner via Rafflecopter will win a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card and one randomly chosen host will receive a $25 Amazon/BN.com gift card.

Read more about the book and get to know more about the author through a short interview.  Then enjoy an excerpt from Shadows of Ghosts!

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Book Spotlight: Ennara and the Book of Shadows by Angela Myron

Ennara And The Book Of Shadows

Today we’re featuring the middle grade fantasy book Ennara and the Book of Shadows by author Angela Myron. I hate that I can’t do any review tours because I’m a big reading and blogging delinquent, but at least I can help out by putting the spotlight on these interesting books!

Read more about Ennarra and the Book of Shadows and check out the cool prizes — including dragon earcuffs!! — that the author is giving away as part of the tour! The giveaway is open to anyone in the world.

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Books to Movies: Stardust

Stardust movie

Stardust by Neil GaimanBasic info.  The novel Stardust was written by renowned author Neil Gaiman and was first published in 1999. The movie came out in 2007 with an all-star cast that includes Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert de Niro, Mark Strong, and more.

What’s the story? To prove his love, Tristan, a young man from a small English village, makes a promise to Victoria, the village beauty, to retrieve a falling star. He goes beyond the wall separating the village from the forest and finds himself in an entirely different world. Not only that, the fallen star turns out to be a young woman named Yvaine and she’s also being hunted by two other parties – three witches who want her heart to make them young again and the dead king’s sons who are after the throne.

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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail

I read Cephrael’s Hand last year and really loved it. It’s a pretty long novel and may not appeal to everyone but it was one of the best I read that year and one of my all-time favorite fantasies. Every time I receive an email about blog tours for Melissa’s books, I’m always up for it because <3! :)

Now I was going to post a review of book two, The Dagger of Adendigaeth, today, but, alas, I won’t be able to since I decided to re-read Cephrael’s Hand first to refresh my memory. Hopefully I’ll have my review of book two up before the end of the tour. I bought the Kindle version of the book when it became available, but I fell in a seriouzly serious reading and blogging rut sometime after that so it’s been sitting in my iPad for AGES. This blog tour is just the perfect time for me to get back to this series, especially with book three coming out in October (OMG can’t wait!).

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Blog Tour: Beyond The Pale (A Fantasy and Paranormal YA Anthology)

When I received the invite for this blog tour, I just couldn’t resist. A fantasy anthology of short stories by bestselling writers the likes of Jim Butcher and Kami Garcia? Hellsyeah.

Today we have a guest post, “Prose Lessons by the Pros,” by the editor Henry Herz. If you’re a writer or want to be one, you have got to read this post. It’s chockfull of helpful tips! Also, check out an excerpt from one of the stories, The Children of the Shark God by Peter S. Beagle.

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Interview with Fantasy Author, Melissa McPhail

Melissa McPhail is launching the new cover of her book Cephrael’s Hand, the first book in the A Pattern of Shadow and Light series. I read it last year and loved it! This week we’re celebrating the new cover reveal with guest posts and a giveaway.

Read on to know more about the new cover, as well as Melissa’s thoughts on cover art. Then enter the giveaway at the end of this post!

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