‘The Night River’ Blog Tour Day 3 Part 1

The Night River: The Foxfires Trilogy, Book Three

GENRE: YA fantasy adventure

RELEASE DAY: SATURDAY DECEMBER 19^TH 2020

Enter a frozen world of brutal beauty, where Spirits roam, nights last for months, and magic is wrought by the beat of a drum…

BLURB:

As the light returns, darkness will fall…

Spring is coming to the Northlands, but even as winter fades, an icy terror spreads. The three Worlds are on the brink of collapse, and ancient monsters rise from the earth, their wicked eyes set firmly on the mages.

Tuomas, still reeling from his defiance of the Great Bear Spirit, must finally face the reality of who he is. Mihka is furious with him, Elin refuses to speak to him, and the people do not trust him. As the villagers drive the reindeer back into the south to safety, he must set out with Lumi one final time to right his wrongs and keep the Worlds from falling apart.

​But this quest shall bring the greatest test of all, for it will take him into the Deathlands: a place where no living person has ever stood…

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Beginning December 19^th (and including pre-orders of The Night River) 10% of royalties from the sale of each book in the Foxfires Trilogy will be donated to Adopt a Reindeer Foundation, to support the indigenous Arctic Sami people and help their traditional way of life to thrive.

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Excerpt

“Do not fear for my safety or comfort,” said Lumi. “I will be in no immediate danger unless the Sunlight touches me.”

Tuomas sighed. “That’s another thing which is my fault, isn’t it? I put you in this body in the first place.”

“Yes, you did,” Lumi admitted, a touch of ice at the edge of her voice. “But not this time, and you know that. And I can hardly remain stoic where you are concerned. I thought that would be evident by now.”

“But you won’t fade?”

“No. Though I will ask you to allow me to keep my distance. The people must not know me as you do.”

“Why? Don’t you think it will be good for them, to see they don’t have to be terrified of you?”

“They should respect me.”

“Fear is different to respect,” Tuomas insisted. “Please don’t let pride get the better of you again.”

“Get the better of me?” she repeated pointedly. “We are both guilty of that. It is what we are: to be proud, and powerful. In all my thousands of years of existence, Tuomas, I could count on these fingers you gave me, how often I have terrorised them. The same can even be said for my mother, and for all the Spirits. Nature will be nature. Stories will do what they will with our natures. Do you not remember, when you came to me in the World Above, how the souls held no fear of me?”

Tuomas hesitated. She was right. The way they had danced around her, revelled in her Lights as she swept the aurora through the sky… it was as though they had come home.

“Until recently, when the abilities were cut off, only mages possessed the power to commune with Spirits,” Lumi said. “And out of all the mages who have ever lived, only you know the absolute truth of what we are. The people have spun their own fear and stories by themselves, and I respond in kind. Let it continue, if that is where they may draw their own power. They shall need strength, as much as you will.”

Tuomas swallowed. “I’d never thought of it like that before.”

“Well, you have had other matters to think on since this all began,” said Lumi. “And I dare say there is a limit to what a human mind is able to take, even if it is given life by a Spirit.”

He shrugged. “Fair point.”

Lumi put her hands on his shoulders. It was so light, he barely felt it through the thick fur of his coat.

“Now, go and eat. I will remain out here.”

Tuomas shot her a hopeful glance. “Won’t you come over with me? Please?”

“No.”

With that, she turned around and walked away.

 

Thank you for visiting. Later we will have a guest post from this talented Author E.C. Hibbs

Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully #KindleCountdown

Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully

To celebrate Halloween Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully by Rose English will be on a special Kindle Countdown Promo. Commencing Monday 26th October 2020 until Sunday 1st November 2020. Only 99c/99p

 

Blurb

A Halloween treat, much better than sweets.

A time for candy and costumes,
pumpkins and ‘Trick or Treat’.
But beware of the bully
lurking just down the street.

Ebenezer is really excited! It’s his first Halloween to go out ‘Trick or Treating’. Jacob Marley is excited too, but this school bully plans to steal all the kids’ sweets.Can Eb and his friends, along with the magical clock Grandfather Time teach Jacob the error of his ways? Or is the boy doomed to a life of crime, just like his wicked father?

The story of ‘Ebenezer and the Bully’ is a magical rhyming tale of behaviour matters, and the importance of being kind. It’s a treat for families to share or for reading alone, aimed at children aged 8-12 years old. With characters loosely based around the Charles Dickens classic ‘A Christmas Carol’, you’ll meet the Ghost of Christmas Past – a golden red puppy named Miss Ruby Heart – along with the Grim Reaper who will surprise Jacob by revealing his future self.

YouTube Teaser for Young Ebenezer 2

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& Happy Trick or Treating

Cover Reveal ‘The Winter Spirits’

TITLE: The Winter Spirits (The Foxfires Trilogy, book one)

AUTHOR: E. C. Hibbs

GENRE: YA fantasy

PREORDER LINK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083W1KM29

Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083W1KM29

BLURB:

If you sing to the Spirits, be prepared for their answer…

The Long Dark has come and the Northlands will not see daylight for two months. Silence falls with the snow, and the Spirits roam the three Worlds. It is a time of beauty, magic and danger.

When the Spirit of the Northern Lights steals his best friend’s soul, apprentice mage Tuomas is determined to find help. However, his own fledgling power gets the better of him, and he accidentally rips the Spirit out of the sky, trapping her in human form. Alongside his feared icy companion and the mysterious wandering mage Lilja, Tuomas begins a quest across frozen tundra and into ethereal Spirit realms.

But a terrible shadow lingers just out of sight, its gaze fixed on him. And behind her composed facade, the Spirit holds secrets of her own…

The Winter Spirits Book Cover

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Pre-order your copy before midnight CST on 30th Jan and get your choice of a FREE e-book copy of any of E. C. Hibbs’s novels! And you’ll also be entered into the prize draw to win some swag on release day!

To enter, simply email a screenshot of your pre-order receipt to

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Release Party

Join the release party Friday 31st January 2020, where there will be more opportunities to win some cool stuff (Click the party logo below for more details)

E. C. Hibbs

Author and Artist

BOW STREET SOCIETY CHRISTMAS BONANZA

Christmas Giveaway from Bow Street Society

To celebrate the release of The Case of The Russian Rose & Other Stories (Bow Street Society Casebook Volume 3) award-winning crime fiction author, T.G. Campbell, is giving lovers of Victorian mysteries everywhere the chance to win an exclusive Bow Street Society Bonanza. ONE lucky winner will receive ALL of the following: 

• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Curious Client (Bow Street Society Mystery 1) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Lonesome Lushington (Bow Street Society Mystery 2) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Spectral Shot (Bow Street Society Mystery 3) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Toxic Tonic (Bow Street Society Mystery 4) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Shrinking Shopkeeper & Other Stories (Bow Street Society Casebook Volume 1) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Peculiar Portrait & Other Stories (Bow Street Society Casebook Volume 2) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• 1 x paperback copy of The Case of The Russian Rose & Other Stories (Bow Street Society Casebook Volume 3) (signed by T.G. Campbell)
• A certificate of authenticity
• 1 x postcard of Daniel Toal as Mr Oswald Baldwin of the Gaslight Gazette from The Case of The Curious Client book trailer (signed by Mr. Toal)
• 1 x postcard of Sabrina Poole as Miss Rebecca Trent, clerk of the Bow Street Society from The Case of The Curious Client book trailer (signed by Miss Poole)
• 1 x official Bow Street Society pen
• 1 x EXCLUSIVE Bow Street Society porcelain latte mug.

How to Enter the Giveaway

Those wishing to enter to win this incredible prize must subscribe to the official Bow Street Society newsletter, the Gaslight Gazette, between 0100 (GMT) on Tuesday 10^th December 2019) and 2300 (GMT) on Friday 10^th January 2020.

Existing subscribers to the newsletter will be automatically entered into the draw unless they choose to ‘Opt-Out’ by following the instructions given in the Gaslight Gazette edition dedicated to the giveaway.

The names of all entrants will be placed into a draw* on Saturday 11^th January 2020. T.G. Campbell will then pick a winner at random and notify them of the result via email. Once the winner has given their written acceptance of the prize, T.G. Campbell will announce the winner’s name ONLY in the Gaslight Gazette, on the official Bow Street Society website, and on her social media platforms. T.G. Campbell will also contact the winner for their preferred postal address. This will be used to send the prize to the winner free of charge ONLY. Once the prize has been mailed all record of the winner’s postal address will be destroyed.

*T.G. Campbell’s close friends and family are automatically disqualified from the draw.

If you’d like to have the chance to win this amazing prize please subscribe to the Gaslight Gazette here: https://www.bowstreetsociety.com/news.html

Thank you for visiting

Good Luck

 

#CelebrateReading with Roses & Dreams 2019 #AdventCalendar

Hello December

Wow how time flies, it is that time of year again for opening doors on your advent calendars and we have decided to do one again featuring the thing we love the most ‘BOOKS’.

Roses & Dreams Advent Calendar

This calendar is aimed at older readers and you may find some of the books are for 18+ readers. (We like to include a wide range of genre however we try to ensure that are no covers are used that could offend) Where the author has informed us we will highlight that the book is 18+ Click the image below to visit the calendar each day, check out a different book throughout December and the link on the page will also allow you to join in the fun and games on Facebook.

Miss Ruby Heart’s Children’s Books Advent Calendar

We also adore Children’s Books so our little friend Miss Ruby Heart also has an Advent Calendar on which she shares Children’s Books. So many stocking fillers to choose from. Click the image to visit the calendar (no trying to peek because the calendar knows) and see a different Children’s Book throughout December. The link with the picture behind the door will take you to Ruby’s Facebook Party Page for that day. Lots of fun and games and perhaps a giveaway or two.

More books to be added daily so don’t forget to drop. Thank you for visiting and Happy Reading one and all.

 

Halloween Teaser (Currently on Kindle Countdown)

‘Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully’ by Rose English

So quite recently some of my lovely Indie Author friends and I went to Silsden in Yorkshire to a Children’s Halloween Spooktacular hosted by Many Hands and David Driver from Drystone Radio. There were writers workshops, crafts to create Hallowen spooky paintings, creatures and stories. Several of the stories were shared on the local radio and a fun day was had by all.

#RubyTubeDay Halloween Spooktacular video on YouTube

Here is my interview sharing a teaser from Young Ebenezer Book 2.

Click the link to visit Amazon for a ‘Look Inside’

Thank you for visiting

Halloween treat much better than sweets!

Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully by Rose English

Happy Halloween to you all. As a special celebration Book 2 in the Young Ebenezer series is currently on a special Halloween Promo starting at just 99p or 99c for our dotcom friends. A children’s book, a story in verse.

‘A Halloween treat, much better than sweets.’

A time for candy and costumes,
pumpkins and ‘Trick or Treat’.
But beware of the bully
lurking just down the street.

Ebenezer is really excited! It’s his first Halloween to go out ‘Trick or Treating’. Jacob Marley is excited too, but this school bully plans to steal all the kids’ sweets. Can Eb and his friends, along with the magical clock Grandfather Time teach Jacob the error of his ways? Or is the boy doomed to a life of crime, just like his wicked father?

The story of ‘Ebenezer and the Bully’ is a magical rhyming tale of behaviour matters, and the importance of being kind. It’s a treat for families to share or for reading alone, aimed at children aged 8-12 years old. With characters loosely based around the Charles Dickens classic ‘A Christmas Carol’, you’ll meet the Ghost of Christmas Past – a golden red puppy named Miss Ruby Heart – along with the Grim Reaper who will surprise Jacob by revealing his future self.

#RubyTubeDay YouTube teaser from Miss Ruby Heart

Happy Halloween

Thank you for visiting

New Release Promo ‘Young Ebenezer 2’

New Release ‘Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully’

We are so excited, and we hope you will be too when you hear our news? ‘Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully’ by Rose English is to be released on Tuesday 1st October 2019. This is plenty of time for a #Halloween treat much better than sweets! Plus in plenty of time for #NationalPoetryDay on Thursday 3rd October 2019.

To celebrate Rose is doing a special promotion of Book 1 in the series ‘Young Ebenezer ~ A New Christmas Carol’ think modern children’s classic reminiscent of Charles Dickens and T’was the Night Before Christmas.

For the days leading up to the release Book 1 will be on an amazon Kindle Countdown and the book will be reduced from £2.99 to just 99p or 99c for our dot com friends. The book is also available as an audio book narrated in the style of a Charles Dickens classic by Bill Schafer check it out on YouTube.

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Young Ebenezer Teaser from YouTube

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Grandfather Time,
chimes out loud and clear,
he’s telling us all,
Christmas soon will be here.
The fire is burning;
the room’s all aglow,
outside the snow’s falling,
so gentle and slow.

Many young boys and girls
are on their Playstations,
X-boxes, Nintendos,
throughout all the nation.
Yet one little fellow
is still not content,
to get even more presents,
is his main intent.

Now young Ebenezer,
is a naughty young lad,
not sharing with others,
he really is bad.
So Grandfather Time has
been watching him grow,
with a feeling of sadness
that is making him low.

It is time for the boy,
a lesson to learn,
that he has to be good,
for the presents to earn.
He must learn to share,
with the girls and the boys
and learn how to give
and not take others’ toys.

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Introducing Rose English

Living on ‘England’s Green & Pleasant Land’, among the gentle rolling hills of the Herefordshire Countryside, Rose’s house is wall to wall books. She even has a ‘Leaning Tower of Paperbacks‘.

Rose is a dreamer, preferring a simple & quiet life. Often spending time alone, although never lonely, being ever surrounded by great characters when lost in a good book. She loves theatre and the arts, adoring live performances on stage. Rose has very eclectic tastes.

Working as a school librarian, and sharing her love of books with children, was the best job she ever had. However, life moves on and another chapter was only a page turn away.

Now working in an entirely different library, in Hereford’s Wye Valley NHS Trust Hospital, Rose spends her day issuing ‘Medical Equipment’.

Rose also has a little friend called Miss Ruby Heart a ruby King Charles Spaniel who reviews Children’s Books.

Rose English & Miss Ruby Heart on Social Media

Website               https://roseenglishukauthor.wordpress.com/

Miss Ruby Heart               https://missrubyheart.com/

Amazon UK        https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rose-English/e/B00SP9WVNC

Amazon.com    https://www.amazon.com/Rose-English/e/B00SP9WVNC

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Thank you for visiting

Happy Reading

 

Morley Indie Book Fair 2019

Rose English UK Author & Maria Gibbs Author next FREE Book Event is

Morley Indie Book Fair

There is just under one month to go to our next FREE Book Event and we are returning to Morely near Leeds (UK). This year funds are being raised for SWAN ~ Syndrome without a name.

This event is family friendly with writers from across many different genres, and the day will include workshops and reading by some of the attending Indie Authors.

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Venue

📖 📚 🌹Saturday 5th October 2019 🌹 📚 📖

Church of the Nazarene

Morley LS27 9BX

10:00 ~ 16:00 hrs

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Attending Writers

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Thank you for visiting

 

 

Author Interview featuring T.G. Campbell by Fiona Mcvie

Congratulations to Bow Street Society and T.G. Campbell on the #NewRelease of Book 4 of the wonderful Victorian Murder Mystery Books

As a special celebration Book 3 is currently FREE to download

‘The Case of the Spectral Shot’

Click to read the full interview below

authorsinterviews

Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. My name is Fiona Mcvie.

Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name. What is your age?

My full name is Tahnee Anne Georgina Campbell but I write under the pen amne of T.G. Campbell. Most people have difficulty pronouncing/spelling my first name. I therefore thought it would make my readers’ lives easier if I wrote under my initials. I’m thirty-four years old.

Fiona: Where are you from?

Milton Keynes, a large town located a half hour’s train ride from London. Aside from the three years I was at university in Winchester I’ve lived in Milton Keynes all my life. I was also born in Milton Keynes Hospital during its first year after opening.

 Fiona: A little about your self (ie,  your education, family life, etc.).

I write a series of crime fiction books set in Victorian…

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