Genre Readers looking to expand discussion

Are you an author(published or not)? Here is a place to discuss your work, get feedback, or just show off your general awesomeness(Not being an author(yet) myself, I can say that. :p

LOL General awesomeness, eh? I am not sure I can live up to that yet. :)

I am an author.

I currently have four works in print.

I have a new novel coming out in 2013. Wren Romany is a bounty hunter, tracker, knife-throwing expert, and one tough woman. She seeks shelter for the winter and finds a mismatched bunch of outcasts who need her. The leader is an heir to a disgraced title and an emotionally scarred veteran. He needs more than just someone to help with the chronic food shortage. Wren prods him to take action to fix the whole situation with explosive results.

My current WIP is titled Duty. The heroine is Brielle Solarius, the leader of an isolated village on the eastern border of Rhynan just trying to survive the end of a civil war. Her world is turned upside down when a battalion of soldiers ride into the village one bleak autumn morning. The leader, the newly titled Duke of Irvaine, makes some pretty astounding claims, not the least of which is that she is his wife by proxy marriage. Brielle is faced with the first of many difficult decisions regarding duty and loyalty.

Rachel wrote: "LOL General awesomeness, eh? I am not sure I can live up to that yet. :)"

Oh, I disagree, Rachel. You are pretty darn awesome. As a writer, cover designer, and a friend. I think that qualifies you for general awesomeness. ;O)

*blush* Thank you, Jaimey. :)

Hello everyone, I'm a longtime full-time author who's trying to figure out how to make my way around Goodreads. I need to add friends, find readers, and keep in touch with everything exciting.

I'm published by mainstream, educational, and independent houses (that last being our own imprints), and I usually write in collaboration with my husband, Wim Coleman. Our latest book is Mayan Interface, a visionary fiction/thriller to be out in September. We'll do a giveaway soon, but I'll send a paperback advance copy to the first 3 from this group who want to review it. Just let me know and give me a mailing address in the US or Canada.

Rachel wrote: "LOL General awesomeness, eh? I am not sure I can live up to that yet. :)

I am an author.

I currently have four works in print. [bookcover:The Mercenary's Marriage..."

i read your Queen of Avenrae book and I enjoyed it quite a bit. You have a nice writing style that makes it easy to get into the book and just enjoy reading it.

Pat wrote: "Hello everyone, I'm a longtime full-time author who's trying to figure out how to make my way around Goodreads. I need to add friends, find readers, and keep in touch with everything exciting.

I'm..."

Your book sounds interesting. I am adding it to my TBR list. I've not read anything like it and I love trying new book styles.

Thanks so much for adding it to your list. Pat

Thank you, Melissa. I am glad you enjoyed "The Crown of Anavrea." I am editing the next one in the series. Hopefully I will get into print the end of this year or the beginning of the next. :)

An excerpt from Mayan Interface is up now: http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

Giveaway begins 8/12. Pat

Well, I never mentioned that I'm an author too. These are the ones with my name on them:

Connected Regency romances:

Heartless is unavailable at the moment, however, as it is undergoing a bit of editing and a cover revamp. There are several more titles in this "series" that will eventually reach publication. More info can be found here: http://www.jaimeygrant.com/regency-se...

Short story anthologies in which some of my stories appear. Eliza's Epiphany in Whispered Beginnings is Regency romance; Assassin's Keeper in Unlocked is Regency fiction; Survival in Unlocked is fantasy.

Unlocked can be downloaded for free from www.unlockedproject.com.

This one is fantasy of a dragon-like nature:

And I don't know why the cover looks like total crap here. Huh.

I have two serial romances, both Regencies, that I'm writing too:
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The 11th Commandment is being written exclusively for InD'Tale Magazine, a romance periodical geared toward the indie crowd. www.indtale.com Subscriptions are free.
My Lady Coward started out as one short story and then developed into more. More info can be found here: http://www.jaimeygrant.com/my-lady-co...

I also design book covers. My gallery is at www.anauthorsart.com. I like that almost as much as writing.

Whew. If anyone wants info on any of the things I've mentioned here, please ask. I may have just worn out my welcome with this post. :OP

I have a question about the connected regency romances. I've only read Honor so far. Which one would you say comes next, or are they not really in any particular order? I'm really looking forward to reading about Bri. :)

I have the stories linked in chronological order above. Betrayal is next and that's Bri's story.

:O)

Someday I will read them all, Jaimey. :)

Just got our blog started today — about creativity, stories, lots of loosely-connected ideas. Would love to see responses from this group. Pat

Here's the first entry link http://playsonideas.wordpress.com/201...

Jaimey wrote: "I have the stories linked in chronological order above. Betrayal is next and that's Bri's story.

:O)"

Thanks :)

Some early readers of Mayan Interface are having fun making comparisons:

"… a Dan Brown novel, only with better writing and better research … thrilling and a page turner."—John J. Walters, co-author of Econversatons

"The Toynbees meet Arthur C. Clark but much more entertaining … Utterly readable and compelling."—Eric Ludwig, PhD

For more blurbs, see: http://www.madeirapress.com/Mayan_Int...

Our giveaway starts 8/12. I'll still send advance reader copies to 3 people from this group who request it and send me a mailing address in the U.S. or Canada.

The giveaway is up for Mayan Interface!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

Gotta enter that one!

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Mayan Interface — Kindle — $0.99 until 10/15. Award-winning visionary fiction, a thriller by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009JW4R6S

You can order the paperback from Amazon, other internet sites, or your favorite bookstore.

How about a book that covers a few genres at once? Historical, fantasy, YA, Adult... winner of a national Independent book award. Giveaway until Dec 20th. Enjoy!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

I'll check that out! I love books that mash up genres.

Karen wrote: "How about a book that covers a few genres at once? Historical, fantasy, YA, Adult... winner of a national Independent book award. Giveaway until Dec 20th. Enjoy!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show..."

I'm Mary Castillo and I just produced a trailer for my paranormal, historical mystery:

I like to call it Contemporary Gothic!

If you'd like to check out the trailer, it is posted at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhBi0...

My "Historical Fantasy" novel, SISTER RAVEN, is available as a FREE Kindle edition starting today, for three days. It's a quick read with a Native New England setting. Hope you love reading it as much as I loved writing it!

http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Raven-eb...

Hi I made a group on here called Cover 2 Cover please join we are looking to do a monthly book read maybe some challenges and other fun things throughout the rest of the year!

I've just published DragonFly, the first novel in my Dieselpunk series, Missions of the DragonFly Squadron, and I'm looking for reviewers. DragonFly is a collision of science fiction with fantasy that fast forwards steampunk into an alternative World War Two. It may be unlike anything you have read in the conventional science fiction or fantasy genres.

‘DragonFly – the Illustrated Edition’ is the ultimate DragonFly reading experience, packed with sixty illustrations that make the action jump off the page, including character dossiers, historical ‘retrographs’ and fantastic designs of retro-futuristic aircraft. DragonFly is currently published only in Kindle ebook format.

Link to Amazon: DragonFly (Illustrated)... http://amzn.to/1i2SUqp

My website, www.DragonFly-Novels.com also features many of the CG illustrations developed for the novel and has profiles of the main characters.

If you are interested in reviewing DragonFly, I can gift you a fully illustrated Kindle ebook of DragonFly from Amazon.

Regards... Charles

DragonFly


Synopsis of DragonFly:

A young woman with the fate of a nation in her hands.
An aircraft designed by science, fueled by magic and flown with passion.
A World War re-imagined like never before.

In 1942, an unlikely heroine changes the course of history.

On the eve of invasion by the Nazis, twenty-two year old RAF pilot Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Somerset is determined to overcome every obstacle to become Britain’s first female combat pilot.

When Ronnie is re-assigned to Enysfarne, a mysterious Royal Navy base off the coast of Cornwall, fate places her inside the cockpit of the most revolutionary aircraft ever invented... the DragonFly, a remarkable fighter-bomber that carries the hopes of Britain on its blue and silver wings.

Reichsführer Bernhardt Morax, leader of the Third Reich’s Zauber Korps, prepares his Blutskriegers for the invasion of Britain... bio-mechanical warriors created by a depraved occult science whose dark secrets cross the boundaries of evil.

Will the Druid wizard, Affodill - whose ancestral home of Enysfarne has been expropriated by the Royal Navy - join forces with the British, or will he make a pact with the evil Morax? Can Princess Victoria and Ronnie Somerset convince Affodill to place his magic in the service of a nation that has betrayed his Druid ancestors for centuries?

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