New Anthology: "Fae"

“FAE”

EDITED BY RHONDA PARRISH

Alpena, MI (May 8, 2014) – World Weaver Press (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) has announced Fae, a new anthology of fairy stories from classic tales to urban fantasy, edited by Rhonda Parrish, will be available in trade paperback and ebook Tuesday, July 22, 2014.

                                                                                                                                                           

Meet Robin Goodfellow as you’ve never seen him before, watch damsels in distress rescue themselves, get swept away with the selkies and enjoy tales of hobs, green men, pixies and phookas. One thing is for certain, these are not your grandmother’s fairy tales. Fairies have been both mischievous and malignant creatures throughout history. They’ve dwelt in forests, collected teeth or crafted shoes. Fae is full of stories that honor that rich history while exploring new and interesting takes on the fair folk from castles to computer technologies and modern midwifing, the Old World to Indianapolis. Fae covers a vast swath of the fairy story spectrum, making the old new and exploring lush settings with beautiful prose and complex characters. Enjoy the familiar feeling of a good old-fashioned fairy tale alongside urban fantasy and horror with a fae twist.

With an introduction by Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, and new stories from Sidney Blaylock Jr., Amanda Block, Kari Castor, Beth Cato, Liz Colter,Rhonda Eikamp, Lor Graham, Alexis A. Hunter, L.S. Johnson, Jon Arthur Kitson, Adria Laycraft, Lauren Liebowitz, Christine Morgan, Shannon Phillips, Sara Puls, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Kristina Wojtaszek.

Fae will be available in trade paperback and ebook via Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Kobo.com, and other online retailers, and for wholesale through Ingram. You can also find Fae on Goodreads.

Anthologist Rhonda Parrish is driven by a desire to do All The Things. She has been the publisher and editor-in-chief of Niteblade Magazine for over five years now (which is like 25 years in internet time) and is the editor of the benefit anthology, Metastasis. In addition, Rhonda is a writer whose work has been included or is forthcoming in dozens of publications including Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Her website, updated weekly, is at rhondaparrish.com.

World Weaver Press is a publisher of fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction, dedicated to producing quality works. We believe in great storytelling.

Publication Date: July 22, 2014 • Fantasy / Horror Anthology Trade paperback, 250 pages • ebook ISBN: 978-0692207918 Publicity/Reviews: publicity@worldweaverpress.com Information: www.worldweaverpress.com/books/fae

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Giveaway: Ashlyn's Dreams

For the next few weeks I am very lucky to be hosting a giveaway with Julie C Gilbert for her book Ashlynn's Dreams! I have goodies for US and international enterers.

Synopsis:

Before she was kidnapped, Jillian Marie Antel Blairington was just an average bright, brave, headstrong child. She was excited for life in a new house with her Momma and new Daddy. Afterward, she's all that ... and so much more. Held in a scientific facility, Jillian discovers her past-a family she never knew and a power she doesn't understand. With her ability now activated, she can enter and even shape a person's dreams. Jillian's been kidnapped, and her Gift has been triggered, so she can locate and save Benjamin Connelly, a brother she never even knew she had. She'd better master this strange ability quickly, though, because her life isn't the only one at stake. Her babysitter, Danielle Matheson, is being held as a hostage to ensure Jillian's full cooperation. Slowly, Jillian begins to learn more about her captor and the other genetically altered children held at the facility.

Join Jillian as she tries to survive the training being forced upon her, find her unknown brother, escape with Danielle, and work her way back to a normal life once more.

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Review: The Diviners (The Diviners #1)

Title: The Diviners (The Diviners #1)

Author: Libba Bray

Page Count:  578

My Rating: 4.5 TURTLES: A really great read, I highly recommend!

Description:

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.

Review:

It’s been taking me a while, but I am finally working my way through my stack of books that have been on the shelf for over a year. I had read the Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray before and had really enjoyed her style of writing even if I did have a really big issue with the ending. Ms. Bray came through Portland a while ago and I went with some blogger friends to see her. I know I’m digressing from the review, but if you ever have a chance to hear her speak, go! She had us laughing one minute and sniffling the next. She is one of the most memorable speakers I’ve ever seen, book tour or no.

Back to The Diviners. I loved this book more than any of the Gemma Doyle books! Her writing is exquisitely beautiful while staying within the YA feel. I suppose there must have been a reason it took me so long to read it, because I started The Diviners right after my history class finished a unit on the Roaring Twenties, so I can attest to the fact that she did a boatload of research on this book. It was impressive, even the little things about the culture that she was able to capture! Sometimes you read a historical fiction and there are the obligatory descriptions of what the streets would have looked like, generalized customs, etc., but there are a lot of details missing.  I suppose historical fiction is like reverse world building because instead of a new world the author recreates the old one, anyway, Ms. Bray does a fantastic job of it!

Libba Bray is just an all around amazing writer. The characters were diverse and complex, and I loved how their differences played off each other. How she unfolded the narrative was brilliant, giving us little clues here and there, but not enough to ever fully answer anything until the end, and as it was there are many mysteries left for the sequel to address.

I realize that I’ve been gushing a bit, but the bottom line is that if you are looking for a superb new YA series to sink your teeth into, look no further. It was close to 600 pages and I could have kept reading. Hands down the best YA Fantasy book I’ve read this year. One of the best books I’ve read so far this year at all, actually.

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Heather Hildenbrand's one liner contest!

Author Heather Hildenbrand is having a 1-liner contest for a chance to win a line printed in Dirty Blood #5!

Do you have a funny pick up line you want one of the characters from Dirty Blood to say?  What about a great love quote?  Well now is your chance to get your line published!  Author Heather Hildenbrand is holding a contest for 1-liners for a chance at getting into the 5th book in her Dirty Blood series!  Sounds like something you want to be apart of?  Then enter below!

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Heather Hildenbrand was born and raised in a small town in northern Virginia where she was homeschooled through high school. Since 2011, she’s published more than eight YA & NA novels including the bestselling Dirty Blood series. She splits her time between coastal Virginia and the island of Guam and loves having a mobile career and outrageous lifestyle of living in two places.

Heather is also a publishing and success coach bent on equipping and educating artists who call themselves authors. She loves teaching fellow writers how to create the same freedom-based lifestyle she enjoys. For more information visitwww.phoenixauthorink.com and find out how to create your own OutRAGEous Life.

She is represented by Rebecca Friedman.

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Release announcement: Legally Undead

“LEGALLY UNDEAD” / MARGO BOND COLLINS

Alpena, MI (May 1, 2014) – World Weaver Press (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) has announced Legally Undead, the first novel in Vampirarchy, an urban fantasy series by Margo Bond Collins, will be available in trade paperback and ebook Tuesday, May 27, 2014.

A reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can. Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer. But those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire sucking the blood from her fiancé, Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs—not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener. As she slams the improvised stake into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment. Turning to face them, Elle realizes Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.

Legally Undead will be available in trade paperback and ebook via  Amazon, Barnes and noble  , Kobo.com , and other online retailers, and for wholesale through Ingram. You can also find Legally Undead on Goodreads.

Margo Bond Collins lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a ridiculous turtle. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
World Weaver Press is a publisher of fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction, dedicated to producing quality works. As a small press, World Weaver seeks to publish books that engage the mind and ensnare the story-loving soul.


Publication Date: May 27, 2014 • Urban Fantasy

ISBN: 978-0692211496

Release Announcement: Far Orbit

“FAR ORBIT”
SPECULATIVE SPACE ADVENTURES

Alpena, MI (April 29, 2014) – World Weaver Press (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) has announced Far Orbit: Speculative Space Adventures, a new anthology of modern space adventures edited by Bascomb James, is available in trade paperback and ebook today, Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

Praise for Far Orbit:

“Successfully captures the kinds of stories that were the gateway drugs for many of us who have been reading science fiction for a long time. Well done!”
— Tangent

“Daring adventure, protagonists who think on their feet, and out of this world excitement! Welcome to Far Orbit, a fine collection of stories in the best SF tradition. Strap in and enjoy!”
— Julie E. Czerneda, author of Species Imperative


Wiedbrauk commented, “I'm proud to present this anthology, filled with jewels of space adventure, that reinforces how science fiction can shine when it doesn't take itself too seriously.”

Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant—when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and left us wondrously satisfied. Showcasing the breadth of Grand Tradition stories, from 1940s-style pulp to realistic hard SF, from noir and horror SF to spaceships, alien uplift, and action-adventure motifs, Far Orbit’s diversity of Grand Tradition stories makes it easy for every SF fan to find a favorite.

Featuring an open letter to SF by Elizabeth Bear and stories from Gregory Benford, Tracy Canfield, Eric Choi, Barbara Davies, Jakob Drud, Julie Frost, David Wesley Hill, K. G. Jewell, Sam Kepfield, Kat Otis, Jonathan Shipley, Wendy Sparrow, and Peter Wood.
Far Orbit: Speculative Space Adventures will be available in trade paperback and ebook via Amazon.com  Barnesandnoble.com  Kobo.com and other online retailers, and for wholesale through Ingram. You can also find Far Orbit on Goodreads.

Join us on Friday, May 2, for our open Twitter chat #SFFlunch from 12:00-2:00 PM EST @WorldWeaver_wwp where we discuss speculative fiction in general and the Grand Tradition of science adventure fiction specifically. Follow along, join in, or Tweet questions with #SFFlunch.

World Weaver Press is a publisher of fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction, dedicated to producing quality works. As a small press, World Weaver seeks to publish books that engage the mind and ensnare the story-loving soul.


Publication Date: April 29, 2014 • Science Fiction / Space Opera Anthology

$14.95 trade paperback, 280 pages  • $7.99 ebook

ISBN: 978-0615959245

Publicity/Reviews: publicity@worldweaverpress.com 

Information:
www.worldweaverpress.com/books/far-orbit

Spotlight: Belinda Boring

~*~ABOUT THE AUTHOR~*~

A homesick Aussie living amongst the cactus and mountains of Arizona, Belinda Boring is a self proclaimed addict of romance and all things swoon worthy. When she's not devouring her latest read, you can find her celebrating her passion for books on her blog The Bookish Snob.

With all that excitement, it wasn’t long before she began writing, pouring her imagination and creativity into the stories she dreams. Whether urban fantasy, paranormal romance or romance in general, Belinda strives to share great plots with heart and characters that you can’t help but connect with. Of course, she wouldn’t be Belinda without adding heroes she hopes will curl your toes.

Surrounded by a supportive cast of family, friends and the man she gives her heart and soul to, Belinda is living the good life. Happy reading



~*~BOOK LIST~*~

The Mystic Wolves (series)
Loving Liberty
Cherished
Blood Oath
Broken Promises
Enchanted Hearts
Jagged Edges