Dark Maiden Book Tour & Giveaway (11/21 to 12/21)

Dark Maiden has taken a Native American legend and created the most intense story of ghosts and horror and things that go bump in the night.

Dark Maiden

by Ian Conner

Genre: Historical Dark Fantasy

Haunting and horrifying, the tale keeps readers engaged all the way to the shocking end. Intertwined with Native American lore Dark Maiden weaves a seducing chilling tale. Dark Maiden grabs you at the first page the story sets us up in 16th century Maine, Onata Village. Conner gave readers a tale of a beautiful bewitching Maiden seen by the lake by four sisters under the moonlight. Dark Maiden takes you from past to present to past to tell this horrifying curse tale. Readers need to pay attention during the time transitions, but readers will be engrossed with fantastic writing you cannot put down.
Dark Maiden has taken a Native American legend and created the most intense story of ghosts and horror and things that go bump in the night.
Although a somber tone permeates the book, there is a recurring theme of loyalty and resilience. Each character exhibits self-determination, fortitude, and resourcefulness until the conclusion. You grow to love each person as if you belong to the fight against evil forces. Full of surprises and character growth readers will love the tale.

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Ian Conner is retired and spent most of his adult life as a Marine and Army Infantry Sergeant. A hundred percent disabled veteran after multiple head and other injuries, he is part of a growing number of vets classified as “neuro-diverse”, an MST survivor and have several issues such regarding comprehension, concentration, and vision issues that he has OVERCOME to write several novels. After witnessing a lifetime of destruction, the thought of creating something tangible and lasting holds great appeal.

He finds writing a cathartic way to redefine himself both in his eyes and in the eyes of others. Writing for fun, Ian has completed seven novels with an eighth near done with two more ideas in the scribble/chapter phase. He has written across four genres Fantasy, Thriller, Science Fiction and Horror.

He uses ProWritingAid, Beta Readers and professional editors keep the product readable, he has recently began querying in search of a professional agent and publisher.

Now living near San Diego California with his wife Bonnie, a cellist, and their two dogs, Cookie and Isabella. Conner spends his days fostering kittens, gardening, crafting beautiful stained glass and creating worlds on the page.

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#SaharasMusings – Wokism in Video Games

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I’ve been a gamer for years, with my own Let’s Play YouTube channel.  It doesn’t get much traffic but it’s slowly growing.  My favorite type of games are fantasy RPG (role playing) games.  Though, I’ve also found that I really enjoy the sci-fi shooter games like Mass Effect. 

Two years ago, I discovered and played Dragon Age Origins.  I fell in love with the Dragon Age world and went on to play Dragon Age II and Dragon Age Inquisition.  These are all games made by Bioware and I came into them way after they were initially released.  So, when I heard there was going to be a new Dragon Age game called Dragon Age Dreadwofl, later renamed Dragon Age The Veilguard, I couldn’t wait for it to release.  Since I was a late comer to the series, I didn’t have long to wait.  But it seemed to take forever.  

Then, it dropped on Halloween of 2024.  And, boy did it get some really bad press.  Let me explain. 

The original developers of the Dragon Age series, from years ago, had mostly left Bioware and they were replaced with woke DEI hires.  So, the whole theme of the story, the look of the game, and shoving the woke agenda down the players throat went into overdrive. 

Of course, wokism has been slowly creeping into computer games for years.  Even Balder’s Gate 3 has it.  But if it’s done tastefully, players don’t really care.  I mean, a gamer can have a M/M or F/F romance with whomever they want.  And most players have supported that for decades.  I see a lot of male gamers play as a female and, personally, I think they like the whole fantasy of female on female sex.  😂🤣

However, we’re talking FANTASY games, here.  That means, just like in a book, it’s a made-up world where players want to escape.  Not be reminded of the world or political problems.  We want to relax and have a good time. 

But, nope, that’s not what the woke culture wants.  No, they want to indoctrinate us. Keep telling us that our point of view is wrong. 

Case in point, while customizing your character in The Veilguard, you have a choice of gender, as usual, but also pronouns or even binary.  And when it comes to body type, even as a female, you can add a ‘bulge’ to your character.  WTH?  Women don’t have bulges.  Oh, but if you’re a man who’s transitioning to a female, you can.  Nope, not having it.  

And, also over the years, they’ve slowly turned women into looking like Plain Janes who look very mannish.  Most men, after all, don’t have the cheek bones and chin like a woman.  They also don’t have the same type of hips, butt, or breasts like a female.  So, while you can add a ‘bulge’ to your character, you can’t give yourself big boobs or wide hips.  Talk about discrimination against women. 😠😠

And the character they picked as the binary in The Veilguard, is a Quarian female.  Now, you have to understand the whole world behind the Quarian’s.  They took a badass race and turned them into pansies.  No way would a Quarian ever, ever be binary.  UGH. 

But, it’s not just the whole male/female issue.  No, then there’s the writing itself.  Talk about weak. 

The characters are all one-dimensional and you get talked to like you’re a child.  When you get to a new area in the game, one of your characters will, right away, tell you exactly what you need to do there.  I’m not a four-year old that needs to hold your hand while crossing the street.  We do know how to think for ourselves.  But, see?  They don’t perceive us that way.  Nope, we’re all too stupid to figure their game out. 

I bought this game at full price, as a birthday present to myself, and now I can’t get a refund as I spent more then 2 hours playing it.  I told Steam, like they really care, that it takes most players several hours just to customize their characters.  

Now, this DEI team has moved on to Mass Effect 5, and everyone is thinking it will be just as woke.  Since Bioware/EA hasn’t made any money on The Veilguard, as they shouldn’t, EA might outsource the IP to another developer.  We can only hope. 

Still, this is a major issue with players, and they don’t want to support these type of games.  So, there are several websites that list the titles you might want to avoid.  Here’s a list from The Woke Ranking.

If I’ve offended anyone with this post, too bad.  I’m offended by your stupid woke culture. 🤣😂🤣😂

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Act of God: In the Beginning Book Tour & Giveaway (11/22 to 12/6)

What could happen if climate change forced humanity to find a new home?

To make the journey we must leave behind our most cherished beliefs and hatreds and have faith that God will find us again in the stars.

Act of God

Book 1: In the Beginning

By Jan Byron Strogh

Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera

Earth is facing a coming ice age. Humanity has marshalled its technology and resources in an attempt to delay the great cold; a diversion necessary to maintain hope for the people. But some few know the truth. There is little hope left on Earth. But there may still be hope in the stars.

Michael, ward of the church since childhood is summoned for humanity’s most ambitious and secret undertaking. Shepard the human race to a new home.

Finished construction, 240 million kilometres from the sun is the Ark. The ship designed to carry one half million souls in suspended animation to a new world.

But the mission of the Ark is more than simply saving the human species. Its creator, the New Unified Church must save the human spirit and accomplish what humanity never attempted; bring together the religions of the world and expunge the ancient hatreds that dominate doctrine.

But the cost to the church will be its very existence. In order to unify, all agree that the Ark must not carry the symbols, books or even the knowledge of any of the old religions. To survive, humanity must lose God and have faith that God will find them in the stars.

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A graduate in computer science and electronics, Jan Byron “J.B.” Strogh has had a successful career in the tech sector. Strogh is interested in writing about the pattern of evolution manifest in both humanity and machine. The series Act of God is based in science and contemplates the long history of human spirituality and how the two must some day converge.

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Dark Sun Book Tour & Giveaway (11/20 to 12/4)

The unit was sent to Durham to fight what is essentially a zombie infestation

Dark Sun 

C Troop, 1-5 Kommando Book 1

by Eric Johnson

Genre: Military Science Fiction

After the events in 2-4 Cavalry Story 15: In the Pit of Vipers and under a new Troop commander, Captain Karl Bradi, the unit is redesignated C Troop 1-5 Kommando. After their deployment to Earth the unit is resting and refitting, and also cleaning up holdouts on Friesland. Despite this, they are sent to Durham, a planet in the Independent Planets that suffers what is loosely described as a zombie infestation. The unit fights monsters, both real and human, in order to survive on the planet.

Eric Johnson is a military veteran, and a self-published author who served in the US Army and US Army National Guard for twelve years and three years respectively. He currently lives in Baltimore and spends his time writing stories based on his past experiences as well as using current events to focus on counter-insurgency as well as other related topics. His primary genre is military science fiction (5th KommandoC Troop 1-5 Kommando2-4 Cavalry series, and the Eagle Hammer Universe series), and he has written a few books in other genres as well, including fantasy (Tales of Baromir series).

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Featured Free eBook – All I Wanted Was a Cup of Tea by Gwendolyn Quill

One just wants a cup of tea. The other just wants to find the fugitive secretly living in her house. What could go wrong?

Agent Jeanne Townford is in trouble.

Firstly, she’s supposed to be tracking down an interdimensional fugitive, but has instead been hiding Cal in her basement. He is her only friend.

Secondly, Lead Agent Percival Stanton is trying his hardest to help her complete this case and get back into the good graces of CENCA, her employer, and she can’t exactly complain that she’s against arresting a wanted criminal.

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Having gone home to relax after a long day, she instead finds herself forced to frantically juggle her problems all at once—and she might have just fumbled everything.

 
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Split Book Tour & Giveaway (11/12 to 12/12)

The Source is hunting Talents… but Kara Jester is no distressed damsel…

Split 

The Price of Talent Book 1

by AK Nevermore

Genre: Spicy Dystopian SciFi Romance

On an alternate earth, a cataclysm has altered a subset of the population. Talents are persecuted for their psychic and physical mutations, giving rise to two conflicting societies based upon maintaining genetic purity. And the Source, a shadowy corporate entity dependent upon the exploitation of captive Talents, is hunting them…

The city of Glynfyls is burning.

And Flynn Scot is powerless to stop it. Now that his status is in question, the Assembly is calling for his head. The only thing keeping it on his shoulders is the commons rioting with the demand he be made Overlord.

Fluctuating between extremes, Kara’s talent deficiency is becoming critical.

With her body failing and Flynn at the Assembly’s mercy, Kara Scot has no choice but to take his seat and fight for her House. But clearing Flynn’s name and battering herself against the tide of public censure threatens to drag her under.

So does the wave of Humanity Purists marching toward Glynfyls.

No Talent is safe outside the city. Refugees flock to the north fleeing extermination only to find a metropolis torn by prejudice and fear. Unless Flynn and Kara can find a way to survive the machinations of the Assembly, there will be nothing standing between them and annihilation. Because even if they survive the extremists, Titus’s army is following in their wake ready to harvest whatever is left.

 

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Breaker

The Price of Talent Book 1

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Binder

The Price of Talent Book 2

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AK Nevermore enjoys operating heavy machinery, freebases coffee, and gives up sarcasm for Lent every year. A Jane-of-all-trades, she’s a certified chef, restores antiques, and dabbles in beekeeping when she’s not reading voraciously or running down the dream in her beat-up camo Chucks.

Unable to ignore the voices in her head, and unwilling to become medicated, she writes Science Fiction and Fantasy full time.

She pays the bills editing, wielding a wicked hot pink pen and writing a column on SFF. She also belongs to the Authors Guild, is a chapter treasurer for the RWA, teaches creative writing, and on the rare occasion, sleeps.

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Featured Free eBook – Sensual Tentacles by Riley Rose

A sexy Egyptian has consentacle fun in the Caribbean!

Kione Ali is an adventurous treasure hunter, always looking to find the next big score. When she gets a clue to Blackbeard’s treasure in Barbados, she can’t pass up the opportunity to score the notorious pirate’s booty.

But she never expected to find a tentacle creature with the treasure, one that wants to pleasure Kione in every possible way and tie her up like the submissive sex object she is.

Will Kione give in to her kinky curiosity to have tentacle sex? Will she let it explore every inch of her caverns? And will she find the best lover she’s ever had? Find out in this sexy, sensual, tentacle adventure!

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Featured Free eBook – Curse of the Obsidian Mirror by Malfera Sinclair

“Only my enemy can save me from this curse . . . !”

I told a boy, “No.” He cut me with a relic. Now, a curse is attacking my body—turning it into obsidian!

Things like this don’t happen in the real world–but I’m shocked because they’re happening to me.

Without the help of Puma, a shifter who becomes a mountain lion, I will suffer a horrible death. Except that, during my meeting with the Arcane Alliance, Puma lost his temper and grabbed me. When he did, I stole his powers. Now, I don’t know how to give them back.

I’m angry and frightened. Puma hates me. He’s only helping me stay alive to level up his magic and regain his powers. But to do that, we need an obsidian mirror.

As we journey to find a mirror and a thief, I discover there’s one more serious danger. One I didn’t expect in this realm.

The danger of losing myself to love.

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Specimen Book Tour & Giveaway (11/15 to 12/15)

 

While investigating a viral internet game, 17 year old Thea Riggs stumbles upon a series of unsolved murders and the global crime syndicate that orchestrated them. Can she alone bring down a secret crime syndicate, or is the cost of justice too high?

 

Specimen

by Lisa Towles

 

Genre: YA Psychological Thriller, Suspense 

 

 

Thea Riggs is shocked by a dead body in the empty house she was summoned to. It feels like a setup, like she’s being framed for murder. By the time she discovers a connection between the body and the internet game everyone’s playing, it’s too late. They know she’s onto them. Now she’s their next target.

 

Lured to an underground San Francisco lab, she pieces together the hidden agenda behind what she’s seen – scientific experiments, a secret society of operatives, a labyrinth of lies hiding a decades-old cold case. She’s in deep and knows too much, but now they’ve threatened her mother. Can she alone bring down a secret crime syndicate, or is the cost of justice too high?
 
Specimen is an action-packed, Young Adult contemporary thriller. Fans of Blake Crouch and James Rollins will love Lisa Towles’ technical thrill ride. Join Thea’s quest for the truth and Buy Specimen today.

 

 

 

A razor sharp, edge of your seat thriller” – The Prairies Book Review
 
“A sharp, thought-provoking examination of technology’s dark side and the elusive nature of truth” 
– BookView Reviews
 
“A rollercoaster ride of a story that readers will find exhilarating and heart stopping” 
– San Francisco Book Review
 
“A gripping thriller for readers who love mystery, suspense, ambition, betrayal, and intrigue” 
– Literary Titan

 

 

 

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Lisa Towles is an award-winning, Amazon bestselling crime novelist and a passionate speaker on the topics of fiction writing, creativity, and Strategic Self Care. Lisa has 11 crime novels in print with her newest title Specimen freshly released in November 2024. The first two books of her E&A Investigations Series (Hot House and Salt Island) were both #1 Amazon Kindle Bestsellers. Lisa also writes standalone thrillers, such as her 2022 political thriller, The Ridders, which won an American Fiction Award. Lisa is an active member and frequent panelist/speaker of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. She has an MBA in IT Management and works full-time in the tech industry.

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