Release Announcement: Forged By Fate

WORLD WEAVER PRESS 

ANNOUNCES NEW NOVEL 

“FORGED BY FATE” 

FIRST IN “FATE OF THE GODS TRILOGY”

BY AMALIA DILLIN

DIGITAL AND TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION AVAILABLE

 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013

New York, NY (December 5, 2012) – World Weaver Press (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) has announced Forged by Fate, the first novel in the “Fate of the Gods Trilogy” by Amalia Dillin, will be released in ebook and trade paperback on Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

Adam has pursued Eve since the dawn of creation, intent on using her power to create a new world and make himself its God. Throughout history, Eve has thwarted him, determined to protect the world and all of creation. Unknown to her, the Norse god Thor has been sent by the Council of Gods to keep her from Adam’s influence, and more, to protect the interests of the gods themselves. But this time, Adam is after something more than just Eve’s power — he desires her too, body and soul, even if it means the destruction of the world. Eve cannot allow it, but as one generation melds into the next, she begins to wonder if Adam might be a man she could love.

Forged by Fate will be available in paperback and ebook via amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, kobo.com, and other online retailers. You can also find Forged by Fate on Goodreads.

Amalia Dillin began as a Biology major at the University of North Dakota before taking Latin and falling in love with old heroes and older gods. After that, she couldn’t stop writing about them, with the occasional break for more contemporary subjects. She lives in upstate New York with her husband, and dreams of the day when she will own goats — to pull her chariot through the sky, of course. You can find her online at her blog Good To Begin Well, Better To End Well or

follow her on Twitter @AmaliaTd.

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Book Auction for a Good Cause

Author Nichole Chase, among others are organizing an auction to help the family of Matthew Corn who just passed away.

On the night of February 10^th, 2013, Matthew Corn passed away in a tragic accident. It’s impossible to sum up the life and vibrant personality of one person in a few short sentences. To say Matt will be missed is an understatement of gross proportions. He was a loving husband and devoted father, quick to give his family everything they needed and more. Matt moved from Pittsburgh to Savannah with his wife, Daniele, to work at Gulfstream. Here they had three children: Ben, 5, Andrew, 2, and Lily, 1. He was a hard worker; always giving one hundred and ten percent to his job, but never missed the chance to joke. He was known for being obsessively organized and neat. If you wanted to see him panic, all you had to do was move his tools out of order or get his jeep dirty. Matt was an avid Pittsburg Steelers fan and Pittsburg Penguins fan, more than willing to go nose to nose for his favorite teams. He loved the outdoors and off-road ramp competitions. He spent time fishing and hunting with his children, eager to instill his love of nature. His friends knew him as a person that would drop everything if you needed help.

Now, it’s our turn to help. With the generous donations of these wonderful authors, we hope to raise money for the Corn Family to help with medical and living expenses. His loss has left a hole in the hearts of his family and friends that will never be filled, but it is our sincere wish that this auction will ease some of the burdens they face. 

The Auction begins February 22nd and will continue until March 15.

Here is the link to the auction's website

If you would like to donate to the Corn family but not participate in the auction you can go HERE

Blog Tour Stop: Concealed in the Shadows Excerpt

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Sydney Harter has long awaited September 12th, 2033, her eighteenth birthday. She can finally apply for guardianship of her sister Evvie, her only family and entire world. Sydney holds a sliver of hope that they will be lawfully reunited, and that light will return to her desolate life, but she is prepared to defy authority and risk everything to escape Miles County so that she and Evvie can live full lives together.

Escaping will be difficult and dangerous. Citizens are bound to their county by sophisticated chip implants that deliver shocks to anyone who crosses the county's electric barrier. Sydney is very clever, but her trickery is limited against the all-seeing eyes of county technology. It seems impossible to escape into the forgotten forests and cities of the past, but Sydney is determined to find a way if she is denied guardianship of her sister. For years she has longed to break free from the government's experimental Petri Dish and the hallowed drones that inhabit it.

What Sydney doesn't know is that the county has particular interest in her. Her place in this complex dystopia is about to change. Deceit, fear, and warfare, will come to characterize her life, yet her love for Evvie will always prevail. She must protect her sister, but at what cost?

GABRIELLE ARROWSMTIH enjoyed writing her debut novel, Concealed in the Shadows, during a lovely Minnesota summer that she had off from her primary profession, teaching. She looks forward to continuing the story. Acting, playing and coaching soccer, reading, playing piano, and spending time with family and friends are among her other interests. Visit her on Book Blogs

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Excerpt:

Chapter 3 (pgs. 19-21). Significance: Sydney dreams of the day that her grandmother, her caregiver, explains to her that her time has come and that she will inherit the responsibility of raising her sister and hiding her mother’s mental illness.

“But now, our nation has decided it would be better if people didn’t live so long.”

“So that they wouldn’t have to hurt?”

“Something like that, sweetie.”

“Well what did they do, grandma?” asks the concerned child, already predicting a worrisome answer.

“Well sweetie, the people who make the laws worked together with doctors to find a way for the old people to leave the world very peacefully, before most of them are old enough to get very sick or have much hurt.”

Suddenly the little girl isn’t so brave. Tears overtake her small face as she buries herself in her grandmother’s lap. “You’re not going to let them take you away, are you grandma? You can’t leave us!” The desperate pleas of the helpless child prove to be too much for her grandmother. The tears escape her too, but she fights to hold in the anger and the revulsion in order to be strong for the sake of the child.

“I wish I could stay forever, sweetheart. I wish I could see you and your sister grow into the strong, beautiful women that I know you will become. I wish I could see your mother get healthy again.” The tears try to choke off her words, but she forces them out. “But, you see, last night was my last Friday night sleepover with you and your sister, and sweetheart,” she places her hand on the shoulder of the little girl and smiles, “it was one of the best days of my life. I get to leave this world with warm memories of baking cookies and painting flowers with my two favorite people in the world.”

“I don’t want you to go!” the child protests as her heart boils and her face floods. She pulls her grandma’s arms around her and buries her head into her chest as she begs, “Just tell them you don’t feel sick. Tell them you want to stay a little longer.” She closes her eyes tightly and wishes that it were a nightmare. But already the little girl knows better than hoping for happiness in her life. She knows there are no exceptions to the unchallengeable laws.

“I know, sweetheart, I know.” The woman strokes and kisses the distraught and fragile girl’s hair as the child clings to her tightly. A few more tears slide from her weary eyes before she finds the strength to make a final request of her beloved grandchild.

“Sydney?” She looks down to where I’m still clinging to her, not ready to come away and meet the eyes I love so much as she tells me that this is the last time I will see her. “Sydney,” she tries again, this time gently pulling my chin from her chest. “I need you to do me one last favor, okay?” My grandma can see that I can’t handle this. How can she ask me, a mere child, to let go of the one I love most, the unyielding presence in my life? Her next words seem sharper than the rest in the memory, and I never let them go.

“Sydney Harter, I know it will be hard, but you have no choice other than to be the bravest girl there ever was. You have to be brave so that you and Evvie can grow up strong. Grandpa and I, your dad, and grandma and grandpa Harter, want to look down on you and smile because of how proud you’ve made us.” She waits. My wails have subsided to sobs, but the pain hasn’t lessened any. “You want to make all of us proud, right honey?”

“Yes,” I reply shakily. It took so much to utter that single word because with it came the acknowledgement that I had only begun learning hardship.

“Good, sweetheart. Good girl,” she soothes. “What I need you to do is try your very hardest to take care of your sister. Be good all of the time and try to help your mom when she seems sick.” Grandma’s eyes enlarge and she squeezes my hand more tightly. “Never ever tell anyone about your mom’s sickness, even if it seems like they are trying to help. Can you be a big girl and do those things for me, sweetheart?” I nod that I can, although I don’t believe it, and empty my heart in her lap for the last time.

Cover Reveal! Revelations

Revelations Elysium Chronicles (Book 2)

J.A Souders

Release Date: November 5, 2013

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Tor Teen

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About Renegade

Elysium Chronicles (Book 1)

Since the age of

three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the

People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of

children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was

perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.

But when Gavin Hunter,

a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world,

she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie.

Her memories have been

altered.

Her mind and body

aren’t under her own control.

And the person she

knows as Mother is a monster.

Together with Gavin

she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb...

and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.

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About A Dark Grave:

Elysium Chronicles (Book 0.5)

An Elysium Chronicles

short story: the beginning.

There is only one place forbidden to the people of Gavin's village; the island just off the shore, rumored to be haunted. Cursed.

All who venture to the island disappear.

But Gavin doesn't believe in such things. He is a hunter; since his father's death, he is the only one who can provide for the family. Silly rumors of ghosts aren't going to stop him from crossing the dark waters to the island in search of fresh game...

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About J.A. Souders:

J.A. Souders was born in the heartland with an overactive

imagination and an overabundance of curiosity that was always getting her into

trouble. She first began writing at the age of 13, when she moved to Florida

and not only befriended the monsters under the bed, but created worlds for them

to play together.

Because she never grew up, she decided she’d put her

imaginary friends to work and started writing. She still lives in the land of

sunshine and palm trees with her husband and their two children.

Where you can find

J.A.

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Review: Grayson

Title: Grayson

Author: Lynne Cox

Page Count: 148

My Rating: 3.5 TURTLES: A very enjoyable read, I recommend you check it out.

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Description:

It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55-degree water as smooth as black ice, two hundred yards offshore, outside the wave break. She was swimming her last half-mile back to the pier before heading home for breakfast when she became aware that something was swimming with her. The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; thousands of baby anchovy darted through the water like lit sparklers, trying to evade something larger. Whatever it was, it felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body.

It wasn’t a shark. It became clear that it was a baby gray whale—following alongside Lynne for a mile or so. Lynne had been swimming for more than an hour; she needed to get out of the water to rest, but she realized that if she did, the young calf would follow her onto shore and die from collapsed lungs.

The baby whale was migrating on a three-month trek to its feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, an eight-thousand-mile journey. It would have to be carried on its mother’s back for much of that distance, and was dependent on its mother’s milk for food. If Lynne didn’t find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death.

Something so enormous—the mother whale was fifty feet long—suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean. How could Lynne possibly find her? (242)

Review:

Grayson is different from the type of books I normally read. It is non-fiction, - and even though it’s labeled under science, and marine life, it reads very much like a long personal essay - which is not usually the genre I read, but I thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless.

Lynne Cox tells the story of her discovery of a baby gray whale when she is about seventeen. She switches between the narratives of that particular morning, along with spinning off on other stories of her life. She has a very descriptive writing style, and I loved the visuals she created of the ocean and the marine life in it.

Most of the time, Grayson read like a creative piece, but there were times when the writing became very technical. For instance, instead of just saying the whale is a baby gray whale, she goes on to say he is about eighteen feet long, and then describes the average lengths of adult male and female gray whales as well. I felt like I had learned a thing or two when I was done with the book, but it was a little choppy when I was reading it.

Grayson is a very quick, cute, enjoyable read. Even though it is not labeled as a book for children, an elementary school aged child would not have a problem with the subject matter if they read it or it was read to them. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a short, sweet story, especially if they have an interest in marine life. 

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