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I have a list my assistant is compiling of authors to promote who answered the call of responding if they were not afraid of being associated with this blog. I will be post them in the evening, ten at a time. Hopefully you find some new reads. If nothing else, you know these people are fearless. – SAH*

MEET AMY GIBBONS

Amie was born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley. She started making up stories before she could read and would act them out with her dolls and stuffed animals. She started actually writing them down in college, just decided to do it one day and couldn’t stop.

She took an unplanned hiatus from writing when she went to Vanderbilt Law School and all of her brain power got consumed by cases, statutes, exams, and partying like only grad students in Nashville can. She graduated and picked her writing back up as soon as her brain limped back in after the bar exam.

She loves urban fantasy and is obsessed with the theory of alternate realities. Whether or not she travels to them in the flesh or just in her mind is up for debate.

She spends her days living the law life and her nights writing when she’s not hitting downtown Nashville to check out live music or inflict her singing on the crowds at karaoke bars.

To hear about new releases and receive a free short story you can not find anywhere else, sign up for Amie’s mailing list here: https://mailchi.mp/afc38083307c/amie-gibbons.

Amy Gibbons would like you to consider her book: Psychic Undercover (With The Undead): A Southern Psychic Mystery Romance (The SDF Paranormal Mysteries Book 1)

If you love paranormal murder mysteries, vampire romances, and spunky heroines, get ready for a sizzling, spellbinding ride into the world of psychic detective Ariana Ryder.

Ariana Ryder’s the rookie on the FBI’s paranormal investigative team in Nashville. She’s too young, too perky, and too immature. (At least according to some people.) She’s only got the job for one reason. She’s a psychic.

Her mama’s sure she can do more with her gifts. But what’s more important than solving crimes? Especially this one? The brutal murder of a young woman outside a club.

This murderer is just getting warmed up, and Ariana’s sight alone isn’t going to stop him, but the FBI aren’t the only one’s investigating…

The jurisdictional battle between the human and supernatural worlds isn’t the only thing boiling over as Ariana’s team and a new ally she shouldn’t trust, but is overwhelmingly attracted to, race to catch the killer before he strikes again, and gets what he really came for.

MEET JAGI LAMPLIGHTER

L. Jagi Lamplighter is the author of The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin, as well as the Prospero’s Daughter Trilogy (Prospero Lost, Prospero In Hell, and Prospero Regained).She has also written a number of short stories, articles on anime, and is an author/assistant editor in the BaddAss Faeries series.

She is a graduate of the St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. When not writing, she switches to her secret identity as a stay-home mom in Centreville, VA, where she lives in fairytale happiness with her husband, author John C. Wright, and their four darling children, Orville, Ping-Ping, Roland Wilbur, and Justinian Oberon.

For more information see: http://www.ljagilamplighter.com/

Jagi Lamplighter would like you to consider: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin (Books of Unexpected Enlightenment)

Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts – A magic school like no other!On her first day of school, Rachel Griffin discovers her perfect memory allows her to see through the spell sorcerers use to hide their secrets. Very soon, she discovers that there is a far-vaster secret world hiding from the Wise in precisely the same manner that the magical folk hide from the mundane folk.When someone tries to kill a fellow student, she investigates. Rushing forward where others fear to tread, Rachel bravely faces wraiths, embarrassing magical pranks, mysterious older boys, a Raven that brings the doom of worlds, and at least one fire-breathing teacher.Described by fans as: “Lovecraft meets Narnia at Hogwarts”, The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin is a tale of wonder and danger, romance and heartbreak, and, most of all, of magic and of a girl who refuses to be daunted.Curiosity may kill a cat, but nothing stops Rachel Griffin! “Lamplighter introduces many imaginative elements in her world that will delight…” VOYARecommended for 15+

This comes with a personal recommendation from my assistant’s second son, though he’s much too old for it, but he still loves it. :)

MEET JOHN C. WRIGHT

John C. Wright is a retired attorney, newspaperman and newspaper editor, who was only once on the lam and forced to hide from the police who did not admire his newspaper.

In 1984, Graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, home of the “Great Books” program. In 1987, he graduated from the College and William and Mary’s Law School (going from the third oldest to the second oldest school in continuous use in the United States), and was admitted to the practice of law in three jurisdictions (New York, May 1989; Maryland December 1990; DC January 1994). His law practice was unsuccessful enough to drive him into bankruptcy soon thereafter. His stint as a newspaperman for the St. Mary’s Today was more rewarding spiritually, but, alas, also a failure financially. He presently works (successfully) as a writer in Virginia, where he lives in fairy-tale-like happiness with his wife, the authoress L. Jagi Lamplighter, and their four children: Pingping, Orville, Wilbur, and Just Wright.

John C Wright’s blog: https://scifiwright.com/

John C. Wright would like you to consider his book: Starquest: Space Pirates Of Andromeda

Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose!
This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost!
Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun?
Now new hope is here!
If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended!
Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old — here you will hear wonders told!

Of course there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.

Of course there is a super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness!
Here meet Athos Lone, Ace of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance!
The Ancient Mariner, like an iron ghost, when slain, seems to rise again!
The mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow walks in dark worlds but serves the light!
An Imperial Deathtrooper must reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers!

Fate has set these unlikely heroes against the Four Dark Overlords
An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead!
Can Darkness fail and Light prevail?
Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!

MEET STEPHEN J. SIMMONS

Stephen J. Simmons left his home in a teeming metropolis of 900 people in the northern Catskills of upstate New York to pursue a career as a submarine nuclear-plant operator. After he retired from the Navy in 2004, he discovered that twenty-plus years of naval service had trained him in the fine art of spinning fanciful yarns (shipmates would call these “sea stories” of course) in addition to his training in nuclear physics and the fundamentals of steam propulsion. https://www.facebook.com/stephen.simmons.395

Stephen J. Simmons would like you to consider his book: Just Grimm And Bear It (Fractured Fairy Tales Book 1)

So, you think you know your Fairy Tales?

Join the unsung younger Grimm Brother on a rollicking romp through the Enchanted Forest on his quest to help Rapunzel to reclaim her tower.

MEET KELLY GRAYSON

Kelly Grayson is a bestselling Amazon author and popular public speaker who spends his hard-earned royalty checks on brown liquor and guns. He lives in upstate New York with a woman who tolerates his shenanigans with a minimum of eye-rolling. https://www.facebook.com/StevenKellyGrayson

Kelly Grayson would like you to consider his book: Kindred (The SumDood Chronicles Book 1)

In the Dakota Territory, a U.S. Marshal haunted by his past works desperately to discover who is behind a weaponized smallpox plague and stop an incipient Sioux uprising.

A Serbian policeman, at war with terrorists as well as his conflicting loyalties, races against the clock in Sarajevo to stop the terrorists intent on setting off World War I.

A gifted New Orleans paramedic finds himself embroiled in the bloody drug cartel wars on the U.S./Mexico border, battling a new kind of plague he does not understand.

All three men have two things in common: the archangel that resides in their heads, and the fallen angel they’re pursuing.

It’s a battle as old as time, with the fate of mankind hanging in the balance.

MEET HAWKINGS AUSTIN

In his quest to take over the world, Hawk has landed a series of jobs with NASA, DoD, and Missile Defense. Currently, he’s testing aircraft and spacecraft for the rigors of the natural (and unnatural) environments that only he can conquer. The recent loss of his sidekick, Vlad (to a paying job) has been painful, but he’s managed to work through the loss to conquer large swaths of Colorado. Hawk has a number of professional publications in engineering, science, history, and fantasy. He has been performing as a Mad Scientist for many years and is very close, at this point, to taking over (or destroying) the Earth. He can be found tweeting as @Sablehawk. He loves to speak at Science Fiction Conventions, such as Dragon Con, and will be happy – over a beer – to talk about any of these things for hours. Hawk currently lives in Denver CO and is enjoying the heck out of spoiling his wife and current baby girl with all of his ill-gotten gains.

Hawkings Austin would like you to consider his book: Court Human

A cup of murder with your coffee?

Severn doesn’t need the Summer Court’s money and frankly, there’s more intellectual stimulation to be found in an old history book and a good cup of coffee than in the tawdry

backstabbing affairs of the Elves, but now the local folk of Karagut are coming to him for help. Could these marketplace murders be somehow connected to the rarified halls of the Fairy Palace? Severn knows digging deeper could kill him, but he can’t resist a good murder mystery.

MEET KEITH HEDGER

Keith Hedger escaped Iowa at the age of 19 to serve in the United States Army as a road construction engineer and then a radio electronics technician which lead to his (current) career in information technology. When not saving other people’s data, he enjoys runs on roads and trails that extend for ridiculous distances and exercising in his garage gym. He lives in Pella, Iowa with his wife and dog. Fortunately, they tolerate his workouts and his habit of hiding in the office, listening to loud music and coming up with stories. You can also follow Keith at https://www.keithhedger.com/

Keith Hedger would like you to consider his book: Moving Target: Book 1 of the Burn & Karma Series (The Burn and Karma Series)

She took a last gig for big cash. They had to bury her to hide their deeds. Can she move fast enough to survive?

Breeze didn’t see the double cross coming. After doing jobs for their source before, she’s shocked to find a kill team waiting over her dead getaway driver. When she gets clear and finds out what the job was, she has to save her team.

Desperate, Breeze chooses to cut a deal with her hunters. But deals with devils are always complex, and she fears they have something crushing planned for her.

Can Breeze dodge the devils’ plans or will she be sacrificed to their goals?

Moving Target is the exciting first book in the Burn and Bad Karma series cyberpunk series. If you love thrilling action and cyberpunk, then you’ll love Keith Hedger’s engrossing thrill-ride.

Buy Moving Target today!

MEET BETH ELLIOT

Beth Elliot is a writer and musician who lives in California.

https://bethelliott.substack.com/

Beth Elliot would like you to consider her book: Redemption Through Love!: An Irreverent Guide to Wagnerian Opera Thrills Without Being a Nut (1)

There is a world of music, beautiful, thrilling, powerful and romantic music, that one composer wrote to express the theme of Redemption Through Love! He wrote this music for “sacred music dramas” he believed could transform the world through art. His stories come from legends and mythology and folk tales, and he meant them to resonate deep within the subconscious mind, long before modern psychology knew this could be done. And they do. His music has inspired observations like “Some people are made to feel by his music that they are in touch with the depths of their own personality for the first time: a feeling of wholeness, yet unboundedness; compared to a mystical or religious experience.”Is this what you think of when you think of Wagnerian opera? Or do you think of heavy Germanic arias sung by heavy Germanic divas in horned helmets? Do you imagine yourself surrounded by pedantic Wagner cultists ready to look down their noses at you and test your worthiness to enter the temple, with stuffy conversations about the most arcane and obscure performances about which hoi polloi like you surely must be woefully ignorant?Dear music lover, this author believes you should associate with Wagner a world of beautiful, thrilling, powerful and romantic music that will thrill you, uplift you, caress you, transform you, and leave you in a state of sheer delight!Contrary to popular impression, access to the glory and wonder of Richard Wagner’s art can be easy and inexpensive. If you do nothing more than pick up a couple of albums of overtures, preludes, and Ring Cycle highlights (with vocal lines transcribed for orchestra), you’re in for a real treat. Wagner proposed art as a transfiguring rite of passage to a higher world. Approaching his art with an irreverent attitude can propel you confidently past any snooty operatic gatekeepers. And this book will summon that irreverent attitude from the depths of your music-loving soul.There is everything one could want in this book in terms of Wagner knowledge and deep insights into the deep themes underlying his music dramas. Presented irreverently.

MEET LAURA WARE

I write in a variety of genres when it comes to fiction. My short fiction ranges from mainstream to fantasy/science fiction and several things in between! My novels are mostly inspirational fiction, except for a fantasy series I’m working on with the talented Azure Avians.

In addition to my fiction writing, my column “Laura’s Look” appears weekly in the News Sun (Highlands County). In it I talk about all kinds of things, from news of the day to my family.

Look around, check things out. Hopefully you’ll find something you like!

https://www.facebook.com/laura.ware

Laura Ware would like you to consider her book: Seek and Ye Shall Find

Two years ago, Gary Benson’s world as he knew it ended. His daughter Sarah died in a car accident while she was arguing with Gary about religion. The tragedy left Gary filled with guilt and estranged not only from God, but also his Chinese wife and their remaining daughter, Sarah’s twin sister Melanie.When Melanie, arrested and accused of being a Chinese National Christian while visiting family in China, disappears, Gary must marshall all of his contacts as an ex-Special Forces member and senior CIA analyst to try to save her.He blamed God for one daughter’s death. Can he find a way to forgive God – and himself – to save the other in time?

MEET KEVIN CREIGHTON

Kevin Creighton is a full-time gunwriter and firearms instructor who has written articles for just about every firearms-related publication you can think of. Raised in Canada at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, he has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America.

https://www.facebook.com/kcreight

Kevin Creighton would like you to consider his book: Salvation

Vengeance belongs to someone.

John Rogers is a retired Army Ranger and bodyguard living in Southwest Florida. After years in personal security, John seeks a quiet life but is drawn back into the darker side of life when his best friend asks him to protect a volunteer on a mission of mercy. The novel explores themes of redemption, justice and faith, as John grapples with his past, begins a new romantic relationship and rekindles his spiritual beliefs.