Bound Book Tour and Giveaway – 2/25 to 3/11

Blood binds them.

Danger surrounds them.

Love could destroy them.

Bound 

The Elite Series Book 1

by Charley Black

Genre: Dystopian Vampire Paranormal Romance

Bound by blood, Marked by rebellion, Destined for a love that could save or destroy them.

A forbidden bond. A crumbling city. A choice that could change everything.

Serenity

Becoming an Elite—a blood donor for the Vampyr—was never part of the plan. But with my family’s lives on the line, I had no choice but to step out of hiding and into a world I barely understand. My rare blood has made me a target, and now, I’m bound to Kane—the ruthless, untouchable head of the Vampyr Council.

The rebels want to use me. My family depends on me. And Kane… he’s the only one who can keep me alive—but trusting him? That might be the most dangerous gamble of all.

Kane

I never wanted an Elite. I certainly didn’t need one—especially not Serenity. She’s everything I’ve avoided: human, stubborn, and a complication I can’t afford. But from the moment I met her, she turned my world upside down.

Her blood sustains me, but it’s her spirit that leaves me hungry for more. As rebellion threatens to tear the city apart, my focus should be on holding everything together—not on the one woman who’s become my greatest weakness.

She’s more than just a distraction. She’s a risk. One I shouldn’t take.

But I can’t let her go. And if I’m not careful, she might destroy me—or save us all.

In a world where blood is currency and love is forbidden, Bound is a spellbinding tale of passion, betrayal, and a bond that could shatter a city—or bring it to its knees.

Fans of dstopyian fantasy, forbidden romance, and slow-burn tension will devour Bound, the first book in The Elite Series.

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Charley Black is an up-and-coming writer and author who has been creating stories since she was twelve years old. Her early short stories dabbled in different genres, but her passion for romance novels — paranormal romance in particular — always shone through. Charley currently resides in Rhode Island, with her family and works at a local university.

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#SaharasMusings – I Lost A Sister Yesterday

How Cults Made America | The New Yorker

I lost my sister yesterday.

Not to the Grim Reaper, which is a normal process of the Life and Death cycle.

No, I lost my sister yesterday to the crazy, crackpot leftist culture.  The Karen’s who wail and wring their hands on Instagram and TikTok about their victimhood. How anyone who doesn’t agree with them are racists and evil.

It surprised me a bit as I thought she was stronger willed.  But, deep inside, I knew she wasn’t.

Still, it’s hard for me to reconcile the person she’s become to the person that went on “sister” trips with my other sister and me.  The one who helped me pick out Cleo and Sammie from the Humane Society. The person that would take me shopping for flowers.  Sure, we had our discussions about politics, but we knew where each other stood.  The problem was, even back then, she was trying to ‘convert’ me, not just expressing her opinions and beliefs.

When did the symptoms appear?  To be honest, my sister has always been the bossy one, the one who talked the loudest, and the most, at every chance she could.  She was always the most informed, or so she thought.  Her life, and her friends, were more important than anyone else’s.  We forgave her that, as it only showed a person with no self-worth and no self-confidence.

A perfect playground for the evil worm of indoctrination to form, infiltrate, and spread. For, only the weak-willed can be turned into a cultist.

Back in the day, before the internet, families would do an intervention.  They’d hire someone to kidnap their child out of a cultist camp, and then spend days or weeks trying to undo the manipulation and indoctrination . Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.  As I said, people with no self-wroth and weak-willed will just fall for another gimmick. Another leader to fill that hallow void in their souls.

But now, we have TikTok.  A platform run and controlled by the Chinese government.  She’d forward video after video to me with Karen’s lamenting the end of the world.  The end of our democracy because Trump is ‘Hilter’ and will run amok as a dictator.  So laughable, but I couldn’t convince her everything she was watching was misinformation, propaganda.

And, of course, the Chines government loves it.  This is why TikTok is so harmful to our country.  China uses their algorithms to manipulate and subvert American’s minds.  They’ve sown the seeds of discontent, the anti-USA government agenda, that anything Pro America is bad and evil.

It’s not just TikTok though,  The same propaganda is being spewed by our mainstream media and social platforms.  They’ve been caught being paid by the Biden administration to do exactly that.

So, how do we stop it?  We can’t.

I tried explaining to my sister that blood is stronger then politics.  That the rest of our family doesn’t care what she believes.  Because, WE believe in freedom of speech and thoughts.

But, no, that wasn’t enough for her.  She got enraged that we held BLOOD over the suffering of all the illegal immigrants, all the women who lost their rights under Trump, yada, yada.  That proved to her how vile and evil the rest of our 95% family is.  That we are all racists, bigots, you know, every name in the book that leftist use against people who don’t believe the way they want them too.

This saddens me greatly, as she just spat in the face of our mom and dad who held family bonds very tightly.  It’s like she totally forgot who are family was.  Everything we did together as a family.

How do I know that she’s in a cult and not me?  As she has claimed over and over.

Because she said she was tried of trying to ‘change’ us to her way of thinking.  So, it was time for her to become ‘dead’ to the rest of her family who held different views.  See, this is exactly what a cult does.  It divides and causes descension.

I lost a sister yesterday, but life does go on.  I saw my first robin of the year and heard a turtle dove cooing.  I just won’t be sharing it with her anymore.

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Same Place Same Stars Cover Reveal & Giveaway

When twenty-one-year-old Natalia lands herself in a mental institution for her escalating sleep disorder and unconscious erratic behavior, her grasp on reality begins to unravel as she discovers the chilling truth: sometimes, the ones meant to help are the ones who hurt the most.

Same Place Same Stars

by Katey Taylor

Genre: Psychological Drama

Twenty-one-year-old Natalia battles a rare parasomnia sleep disorder that propels her to act violently, experience night terrors, and put herself in dangerous situations—all while she’s unconscious.

After waking up covered in unexplained bruises, she lands herself back in a mental facility. Making friends has never been easy, but at Awana, she quickly bonds with her fun-loving roommate Lindsay and falls for Gabriel, a handsome yet severely depressed resident she secretly meets at night.

As Natalia wrestles with the harsh side effects of her medication, her reality unravels, exposing disturbing truths about those she trusts most. Though romantic relationships are strictly forbidden at Awana, Gabriel becomes her lifeline amidst the chaos. To be with him, Natalia must risk everything—including her sanity, and she learns some choices carry devastating consequences.

Filled with shocking twists, Same Place, Same Stars, is a psychological drama that unpacks the many layers of what happens when dark secrets refuse to be ignored.

**Releases May 13 2025!**

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Katey Taylor is a writer and a published poet whose poems have appeared in DarkWinter LitBrave Voices, and Fauxmoir magazine. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and has attended writing conferences such as West Coast Writers Conference and Philadelphia’s Writers Workshop. Katey has been interviewed by the Just Us Girls Blog, and has served as a SWAAY magazine contributor where her personal essay “When First Loves Becomes First Abuse” was selected as an editor’s weekly pick. She has published two novels: Inebriated and Neon Nights, which have both hit Amazon bestsellers lists. Both of Katey’s books received 5-star staff editor reviews from YA Book Central, and one was chosen as their “featured’ indie novel. Katey was selected as a featured YA author for Young Entertainment Magazine’s Twitter takeover. Katey is a master of eloquently writing about big issue topics like depression, trauma, and mental illness.

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Faeries Don’t Forgive Book Tour & Giveaway – 2/18 to 3/4

 When truths uncovered cannot be forgotten. Or forgiven.

Faeries Don’t Forgive

Heart of the Worlds Book 2

by TF Burke

Genre: YA Epic Fantasy

Returning to Nonderu, the underworld court, to rescue her dad should have been simple after the malevolent soul-sucking Boggleman fell to his presumable demise. They just need to find a way in. And get past the Mockmen trolls.

Instead, Aunia is attacked by a fanatical soldier cult that seeks to kill or capture her. Plus, her unmanageable magic notifies deadly wererats of her location. It also hurls her into an evil sorceress’ study. If all this wasn’t enough, she’s fighting a different battle with Mathias, her pegasus-riding love. His insistence to keep her hidden is more infuriating than any of their enemies. It leaves her determined to kick anyone who says first love is easy.

Worst of all are the truths she’s uncovering. Truths that can’t be forgotten. Or forgiven.

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Faeries Don’t Lie

Heart of the Worlds Book 1

Can Two Worlds Survive an Augury?

Releasing a Chandarion’s god-like magic into the world isn’t what sixteen-year-old Aunia, the village’s outcast, intends. She only wants to impress Mathias, a visiting seventeen-year-old pegasus flyer, who fiercely believes the choice—either Faery or Mortal world surviving—has come.

Her action calls forth the Boggleman, a soul-sucking ghoul, who abducts her dad, eats her faery friends, and sets Dagel demons on her isolated village. And worse.

The worlds of Ahnu-Endynia are full of faeries, pegasi flyers, myths, secrets, and themes of belonging, despite being misunderstood. And if you don’t watch carefully . . . You might be pulled into the Betwixt. . . the space between the worlds.

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TF Burke currently works with NYT David Farland’s Apex-Writers as an admin and marketing specialist, where she schedules industry leaders for weekly multi-Zoom calls, provides content for social posts, and hosts several writer-focused Zooms.

Her published works includes hundreds of newspaper articles, blog posts across various platforms, anthologies, including MURDERBUGS, the second volume of the Unhelpful Encyclopediam a collection of short stories in WHIRL OF THE FAE, and the first book of the Heart of the Worlds Series, FAERIES DON’T LIE.

When not writing or wearing other hats, she can be found with a sword and a dagger in her hands for medieval-style fencing tournaments and melees, something she’s been doing since 2010.

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#LetsPlayWithSahara – Mass Effect Andromeda (Episodes 1 to 5)

Mass Effect Andromeda is another game by Bioware.  It’s kinda in the same playground as the Mass Effect games.  it takes place during, I think Mass Effect 2 and 3, and the Imitative has sent Arcs to Andromeda for exploration and colonization.  What they find, and how they handle it, means life or death for their people.   

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#Let’sPlayWithSahara – Tomb Raider 2013 (Episodes 1 to 5)

When I first started playing video games, I got into the RPG Fantasy games.  Which I love.  Then, for some reason, I played a Mass Effect game.  I think it was from watching other YouTubers and their game play and they kept talking about that series.  It’s from the same company as the Dragon Age games which I was a huge fan of.  So, I had to give it a try.  

First off, it’s a shooter type game.  Which means guns and such.  With my fantasy games, I usually played a Rouge who attacked up close with blades.  Now, I had actual weapons.  Wow.  Just Wow.  I fell in love with the shooter ty pe games.  However, they aren’t all equal.  

There are first person shooters, which I am not a fan of.  I don’t like seeing my hands in front of me.  I think because I got used to playing the fantasy games, I was used to being able to see my character and party members.  Mass Effect also has party members, but most shooter games are just you against the world. 

But I do really enjoy the third person style of shooter games.  And, usually, they also end up being platform games.  Again, a style of game play I wasn’t used to.  Needless to say, I’ve had a huge learning curve. 

Though, I’ve figured out that most gamers on YouTube delete all their  missteps and deaths.  Which I hadn’t really thought about.  I kept thinking it was me being horrible at these games.  Which, because of my old brain, I probably am.  Especially, the puzzles.  😂🤣 

Anyway, here are my first 5 episodes of Tomb Raider 2013.  Enjoy.

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#LetsPlayWithSahara – Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Episodes 1 to 5)

Mass Effect was made by Bioware, the same company that also produced the Dragon Age series.  I just loved Dragon Age and I’d heard so much good about Mass Effect I had to give it a try.  I got hooked from the beginning. 

The Legendary Edition is a remake of all the prior Mass Effect games.  So, in this bundle, you have Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3.  And each game is better then the prior one.  I heard there is a Mass Effect 4, or 5 in the works, but everyone is worried that it will end up as woke as Dragon Age: The Veilguard did.  I tried playing that game, but it was too sucky.  

Anyway, Mass Effect is a totally different type of game play for me.  I was used to being a Rouge with dual blades.  Now, I have actual weapons.  You know.  Guns.  So darn cool.  I didn’t realize how much I’d love these type of shooter games.  

Though, there has been a large learning curve.  I wasn’t used to diving for cover and kept dying because I’d stand their shooting straight on.  But, I finally got it.  Enjoy my first 5 episodes.  

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Lovers in Hell Book Tour & Giveaway – 2/14 to 2/28

Only fools fall in love, and hell is filled with fools.

Lovers in Hell

A Heroes in Hell Anthology

created by Janet Morris

Genre: Dark Fantasy Anthology

Only fools fall in love, and hell is filled with fools. Our damned lovers include: Christopher Marlowe and Will Shakespeare, Napoleon and Wellington, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hatshepsut and Senenmut, Abelard and Heloise, Helen and Penelope, Saint Teresa and Satan’s Reaper, Madge Kendall and the Elephant Man, and more . . . — all of whom pay a hellish price for indulging their affections.

Shakespeare said “To be wise and love exceeds man’s might,” and in Lovers in Hell, the damned in hell exceed all bounds as they search for their true loves, punish the perfidious, and avoid getting caught up in Satan’s snares. In ten stories of misery and madness, hell’s most loveless seek to slake the thirst that can never be quenched, and find true love amid the lies of ages.

Includes:

Never Doubt I Love – Janet Morris and Chris Morris

Love Interrupted –  Nancy Asire

Lovers Sans Phalli – S. E. Lindberg

Fume of Sighs – Janet Morris and Chris Morris

Calamity – Michael E. Dellert

Love Triangle – Michael H. Hanson

A Hand of Four Queens – A. L. Butcher

Devil’s Trull – Andrew P. Weston

Withering Blights – Joe Bonadonna

Wrath of Love – Janet Morris and Chris Morris

Excerpt from Hell Gate – Andrew P. Weston

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Best selling author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.

 Christopher Crosby Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies, Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris, but occasionally uses pseudonyms.

 

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The Baritone’s Rival Book Tour & Giveaway – 2/12 to 3/12

Two rival opera singers.

One vampire, one human.

Both running from the past.

The Baritone’s Rival

The Vampire Impresario Book 2

by J.B. Warrick

Genre: M/M LGBTQ Paranormal Romance

Two rival opera singers. One vampire, one human. Both running from the past.

Oscar Acosta’s abusive ex-boyfriend is dead, and his old vampire coven is gone. Now all he cares about is winning a coveted spot with the prestigious local opera company. His stiffest competition is Trent, an adorable fellow grad student with a linebacker’s build who he is definitely not crushing on.

When Oscar’s ex turns out to be not-so-deceased, sending several vampires to kidnap him, Oscar is forced to reveal his own vampire identity to his classmate. Can he trust Trent or should he keep him at a safe distance?

Trent Erickson is on his own with no safety net. He doesn’t have time for partying, especially not with a privileged trust fund nepo baby like Oscar. Trent’s not going to let some rich flake steal his star spot onstage, even if the guy stirs up feelings in him that he doesn’t understand.

But when he witnesses three savage vamps attacking Oscar, Trent’s own hidden history rears its ugly head. After all, he knows more about fighting vampires than any human should.

The Baritone’s Rival is a 60,000-word rivals to lovers, bi-awakening, fated mates vampire romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains an ambitious opera singer and the closed-off vampire who falls for him in spite of himself. It also has steamy scenes and the violence you might expect from a vampire story. It is a standalone novel in an interconnected series. Not suitable for readers under 18.

 

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The Tenor’s Shadow

The Vampire Impresario Book 1

One temperamental opera singer. One vampire bodyguard. Let the sparks and secrets fly.

Anthony wouldn’t let anything stand in his way.

His career as an operatic tenor was finally taking off, and he would be damned if he let some stalker keep him from his globe-hopping musical dreams. But he had made the mistake of telling his uncle about the threatening letters the creep had been leaving in his hotel room.

Now he was saddled with a muscle-bound bodyguard who was seriously cramping his love life, even if the guy did have a swoony accent and the perfect number of freckles. No matter what Anthony did, he couldn’t get rid of the stubborn redheaded Brit. Freddie just didn’t fit in with his glamorous life of encores and galas and schmoozing. And how did the man never sleep?

Freddie was there to do a job.

Or maybe a few. He had been content as head of security for the Hughes vampire coven in London. But now he’d been sent to America to keep his coven master’s nephew safe from the threat of a rival coven. He knew the rules. Anthony couldn’t find out about the existence of vampires, and he certainly couldn’t find out that Freddie was one. Plus, he had to manage Anthony’s demanding personality, and Freddie was painfully bad with people. And he absolutely one-hundred-percent had to keep himself from hooking up with the overbearing American.

When friction erupts into steamy passion, can Freddie and Anthony forge a relationship together? Or will Freddie’s secrets and the deadly vampires of the Azarian coven tear them apart?

The Tenor’s Shadow is a 50,000-word MM vampire romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains a strong-but-silent vampire bodyguard and the high strung opera singer that falls fast for him. It also contains steamy scenes and the violence you might expect from a vampire story. Not suitable for readers under 18.

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J.B. is a writer of MM paranormal and fantasy romance. They live in New York City, and when they’re not writing they spend their time eating delicious snacks and listening to opera. If you’re looking for fast-moving open door romance, fun and magic, and just a touch of darkness, J.B.’s books are for you!

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The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror Book Tour & Giveaway – 2/6 to 3/6

Step into a world where the Pumpkin King reigns supreme, and other tales haunt your every thought.

Or step out of this world into the sheer terror of the unknowable and incomprehensible deep space.

The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror

by R. David Fulcher

Genre: Horror Short Stories

Gravelight is pleased to present the first volume in a two-book series collecting the horror fiction of R. David Fulcher!
THE PUMPKIN KING AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR offers up 20 works by Fulcher, each updated and revised by the author. Each tale has been fully revised by the author, making these the definitive versions of the stories.
The collection Includes

*Eulogy to E.A. Poe

*Marienburg Castle

*The Pumpkin King

*Heavenly Strains

*A Matter of Taste

*My Days With Mahalia

*A Night Out With Mr. Bones

*Merry Are We of the Lake

*The Night Flyer

*Pumpkin Seed Spit

*A Night for Animals

*The Man Next Door

*Extra! Extra!

*The Flight Dummy

*For the Children

*The Watcher’s Web

*Dreaming, The Copper City

*The Huntress

*The Faerie Lights

*The October Man

Features a wrap-around cover and contemporary design. Perfect for Halloween or dark, rainy nights.

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Asteroid 6 and Other Tales of Cosmic Horror

by R. David Fulcher

Genre: Science Fiction Horror Short Stories

Introducing ASTEROID 6 AND OTHER TALES OF COSMIC HORROR! The companion book to R. David Fulcher’s 2023 indie horror hit, THE PUMPKIN KING AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR!
In this newest collection, Fulcher explores concepts of the insignificance of human existence, terror of the unknowable and incomprehensible, and more motifs found in edlritch horror. Fulcher draws his influence from a wide assortment of authors ranging from Poe and Fritz Leiber to Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
The title story features an astronaut named Jones who, while on asteroid-clearing duty, crash lands onto a massive asteroid where he is drawn to an alien monolith and discovering an ancient race trapped in stasis. Does he dare set it free?
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R. DAVID FULCHER is an author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. Major literary influences include H.P. Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, Fritz Lieber, and Stephen King. Fulcher’s first novel, a historical drama set in World War II, Trains to Nowhere, and his second novel, a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, Blood Spiders and Dark Moon, are both available from authorhouse.com and Amazon.

FULCHER’S work has appeared in numerous small press publications including Lovecraft’s Mystery Magazine, Black Satellite, The Martian Wave, Burning Sky, Shadowlands, Twilight Showcase, Heliocentric Net, Gateways, Weird Times, Freaky Frights and the anthologies Dimensions and Silken Ropes. Fulcher’s work can also be found in the DPP collection Halloween Party 2019, available at Amazon and at the DPP online store. A passion for the written word has also inspired Fulcher to edit and publish the literary magazine, Samsara (samsaramagazine.net), which has showcased writers and poets for over a decade. Fulcher resides in Ashburn, Virginia, with his wife Lisa, and their rambunctious cats.

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