Friday, May 15, 2015

Meet the co-hosts!

So the release party for 13 is Monday! The event is 5 days long (because I'm insane), and each day we'll have a different co-host. Let's meet them now in order of when they'll be at the party.





Bio:


I’ve been writing stories since my earliest memories: my first masterpiece was two pages of foolscap – with illustrations – about a television programme of the time, and contained more uses of the word “then” than any other. I’d like to think I’ve improved just a little since then; after all, I was only about five.

My English teacher in secondary school didn’t care for the dark, gritty science-fiction I regularly turned in for class assignments either, yet I persisted. I was teaching myself more than she ever did! As an aside, she also ruined both Shakespeare and Dickens for me, but that’s for another time.

So, where to really begin? I’m already in my fifties, although I’ve no idea when that happened! I’m British, English by birth and currently Scottish by residence: I’ve been here for over ten years now, on a remote island that requires me to commute by ferry for the day job – one of the best journeys to and from work in the world, surely! In the summer at least... this provides my core writing time, and with a favourable wind I can turn out a fair amount in that time. My output over the last twenty years or so has included almost a dozen novels and a handful of non-fiction texts, the latter being well-known in their academic field – something of a boasting point, I’m afraid! There have also been short stories scattered here and there.

However... if you look for all these other books under my name, you won’t find them, and here we come to the part of this biography that, for all my years of dealing with it, I still don’t seem to have any proper sort of handle on.

I am transgendered. There, I said it! I am biologically male, psychologically feeling more and more female (whatever that means, but it feels that way to me) as the years go by. My writing allows me a useful window to explore this side of me, and undoubtedly helps keep me close to some semblance of sanity. My family (I’m married with children)are aware of this side of me, and have accepted it without question since the Great Secret coming out – for which I am incredibly, totally, grateful.

I love sharing what I do: I have taken to FaceBook like a duck to water, and I regularly post updates, snippets and recent news about whatever it is I’m doing. I also have a blog, after many years of Luddite resistance, and similarly I am finding this to be a fantastic way of getting this gender-related business out there into places where it will hopefully do a bit of good and promote some understanding – not least in me!
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 Meet Rachel Tsoumbakos

Bio:
Rachel Tsoumbakos is a stay home mother of two.
Her main passions are writing, reading and organic gardening. Rachel lives with her husband, two kids, three cats and eight chickens in the hills surrounding Melbourne, Australia. When she is not tending to her organic veggie garden, she is working on her cardio as she trains for the zombie apocalypse.
While she has had several articles published through mainstream magazines, she has also written extensively for True Blood Net and The Inquisitr.
Author of:

UNREMEMBERED THINGS
(Wood Nymph Chronicles Book #1)

Available here:

Blurb

One woman, two worlds and nothing but UNREMEMBERED THINGS separating them.
Indiana Shamira has a dark secret that could shatter her version of reality and get her killed in the process. Now if only she could remember what it is…
When Indiana wakes with no memory of her past life and a vampire called Sam hanging from the rafters in her cellar, she knows things are about to get nasty. Not only does Sam know all about her previous life, but he seems intent on seducing her as well. Of course her boyfriend, Kurt, has different ideas – like making her open the portal to hell!
And then there is the nagging suspicion that Indiana is not entirely human, now she can see ghostly images from the Otherworld. Or could it be from the life she can no longer remember? They include the flickering effigy of Kurt and a redwood forest that conjures up deeply repressed magic.
Not only will Indiana have to risk everything to keep the door to another dimension closed, she will have to decide whether she is ready to lose her heart to someone who has more secrets than herself.
Set in the lush Australian bush, UNREMEMBERED THINGS is a fusion of fantasy, paranormal and forbidden romance.

Genre/s
Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, New Adult
Sub-Categories/Tags
Trilogy, Nymphs, Wood Nymphs, Vampires, Satyrs, Australia, Australian Author
 Links:


Bio:
Sabrina is a cancer survivor who recently published works with Survivor’s Review and Titan InKorp Online eMag. She has published two novels within a New Adult Urban Fantasy series called A Novel of four Realms and a new Contemporary Romance Suspense Novel series called An Eagle Operatives Novel. She enjoys life happily married to a supportive husband. You can always find her reading a book or cooking a meal for her multitude of children.
Links:
Briksanna's Sacrifice
Amazon US         http://tinyurl.com/pkybgs9
Amazon UK        http://tinyurl.com/opmjjmb
Amazon CAN     http://tinyurl.com/oj6lruf
Amazon AU        http://tinyurl.com/oukaomc
Barnes&Noble  http://tinyurl.com/pwj68mu


Katerina's Hope

Amazon US     http://tinyurl.com/lp2h3xa
Amazon UK    http://tinyurl.com/nlur2qd
Amazon US     http://tinyurl.com/omt2rcq
Amazon AU    http://tinyurl.com/oompbpb
Barnes & Noble  http://tinyurl.com/p84lotv
iTunes    http://tinyurl.com/pfzj3jb

Blood Oath

UK Amazon   http://tinyurl.com/p2xqlnl
Good Reads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24990406-blood-oath?ac=1



 Bio:

Kira Johns was born and raised in the south, where she works as a paralegal. When she's not working or writing, Kira spends her free with her husband, children and pets. She enjoys spending time outdoors, whether on a boat or on the back of a bike. Kira, her husband and children are all avid competition shooters.

Her first book, Destroyed, was released in August 2014. The second book in the series, Destined, was released September 12, 2014. Deserved, book 3 in the series, will be released October 10, 2014.

Kira looks forward to any feedback you may have.

Email: AuthorKiraJohns@gmail.com



Links:

Become friends on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKiraJohns

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/SatansRebelsMC

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8431509.Kira_Johns

Website: www.authorkirajohns.com

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Kira-Johns/e/B00MG508F4

To join in on all of the fun, click the image below. There is still a pre-party contest going on until Monday for a free copy of 13!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1388791204776955/

 

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  1. roz whiteMay 15, 2015 at 6:02 PM

    So happy to be a part of this, Raina! See you Monday... :) xxx

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