Cover Reveal - DEATH AND MR. RIGHT

Welcome to the cover reveal for DEATH AND MR. RIGHT, a quirky, fun urban fantasy by the lovely and talented Kendra L Saunders. Here's the jacket copy:

It is March 32nd, the day that doesn’t exist, and Death, the agent of nightmares, has been demoted and exiled to live among mortals for the rest of his unnaturally long life. Everyone knows They don’t look lightly on important items getting lost or an agent falling in love.

Can the diva-like Death navigate the modern world, recover what was stolen from him (the names of the damned… ooops!) and get his job back? Or will he fall in love with Lola, the pretty thief who got him into trouble in the first place?

 

978-1-939392-04-6

DEATH AND MR. RIGHT will be available October 2013.

Kendra's bio:

Kendra L. Saunders is the author of the magic realism novel Inanimate Objects and the dark comedy Death and Mr. Right. She has been published in Snakeskin Magazine, Premier Bride Magazine and has conducted interviews for Steampunk Magazine, The New England Horror Writers and ipmnation.com. She reports regularly for Pure Textuality and writes helpful writing articles for NerdCaliber’s Pages of Note.

In 2012, Kendra attended a number of sci-fi/anime/steampunk conventions, notably Arisia, Anime Boson, Watch City Festival, ConnectiCon and TeslaCon. She is the creator of the popular “Five Headed Muse” panel, which features fun and witty wisdom from the five aspects of a writer’s life: character building, inspiration, writing habits, publishing and marketing, as well as the “What We Can Learn from Fan Fiction” panel which takes a detailed look at the upsides to reading and writing fanfiction. Kendra was also featured as a guest on other panels throughout 2012 and has been noted for her energy and enthusiastic approach to writing education.

Originally from Texas, Kendra has lived in New Hampshire, Idaho and Wisconsin and has traveled through most of the 50 states. Somewhere along the way she developed a love for discovering the quiet magic in new places, and she seeks to expose it in her novels, short stories and poetry. She also has a lifelong passion for black and white photography and shares photographs from her travels and adventures through her website, facebook, tumblr and twitter.

Kendra is host of the quirky literary podcast, 13 1/2 Minutes and has been a featured guest and co-host on various radio and podcast shows.

In her spare time Kendra likes to daydream about (foreign) boys with dark hair, drink too much tea, read fashion magazines, listen to records on vinyl, plan her dream trip to England and attempt to travel back in time to the Jazz Age. Find her online at www.kendralsaunders.com on twitter at @kendrybird or on tumblr at http://www.inanimateobjects.tumblr.com

 

 

Cover Reveal - THE BINDING STONE

Hey all! You know how I blog over at Scene 13, right? Well, here's the cover reveal for my lovely blogmate Lisa Gail Green's latest novel, THE BINDING STONE!

Here's the GoodReads link:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17303477-djinn

And, jacket copy:

 

Tricked into slavery by the man she loved, the Djinni Leela has an eternity to regret her choices.

Awakened in the prison of her adolescent body, she finds a new master in possession of the opal that binds her. But seventeen-year-old Jered is unlike any she’s seen. His kindness makes Leela yearn to trust again, to allow herself a glimmer of hope.

Could Jered be strong enough to free her from the curse of the Binding Stone?

 

 

Beautiful, huh?

WIN A SIGNED ARC OF COPPER GIRL!

Want to win a signed ARC of COPPER GIRL before you can buy it?

 

Of course you do!

 

 

The signed ARC in question

A caffeine-addled author and her ARC, photographic evidence that they do exist

 

 

So, here's what you do: follow this link to the GoodReads giveaway, and enter, It's that easy!

 

But wait, would you like two entries? Follow this link Copper Girl's FaceBook page, like it, and there's your second entry!

 

And, since three was my grandmother's lucky number, here's how you can get a third entry: follow this blog! If you're already a follower, just leave a comment below, and you're in.

 

Thanks for playing!

 

Sara had always been careful.

She never spoke of magic, never associated with those suspected of handling magic, never thought of magic, and never, ever, let anyone see her mark.  After all, the last thing she wanted was to end up missing, like her father and brother.

Then, a silver elf pushed his way into Sara's dream, and her life became anything but ordinary.

COPPER GIRL, the first in the COPPER LEGACY

Available in print and e-book June, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-939392-02-2





 

 

The Sweetest Thing Blogfest

It's super ironic that I'm writing this post, because I don't really like sweet things.

Candy? Never eat it. I'd rather eat raw green beans.

Soda? Can't stand it. Give me plain water. Even better, plain seltzer water.

I do, however, have a special place in my heart for Mozartkugeln. You can read all about them here.

I first tried them while on vacation in Austria; one bite, and I was hooked. They are these perfect little round bits of happiness, made up of pistachio marzipan, hazlenut nougat, milk and dark chocolate. I know. Fricken heavenly.



And, since we've got a bunch of sweet romance writers on this blog hop, I'll share an absolutely, 100% true sweet romance story. One day, I came home from work to find that my husband had bought me a navy blue beaded chiffon dress, the sort of dress you'd wear to a formal wedding. He bought it because he thought it would look nice with my hair.

Then, he presented me with an opal and sapphire ring, because it matched the dress!



Really. With sweetness like that in my life, who needs candy?

Now, remember to hop on back to Kelly and Beth and visit the rest of the sweeties!

Want to win a copy of my upcoming urban fantasy, COPPER GIRL, before you can buy it? Follow this link to enter the giveaway!

Cover Reveal - HOLIDAY MAGICK

Lately, I've been talking about my upcoming release, COPPER GIRL, the first installment in my new urban fantasy series. You know, you can preorder it here

But, today is all about the cover reveal for the latest anthology from Spencer Hill Press, HOLIDAY MAGICK. It just happens to feature my short story, Paper Hearts.

Here's the GoodReads link 
And, you can preorder it here

Here's the jacket copy:

People don't usually question holiday traditions or their origins, but
maybe they should. Over centuries, explanations of how and why
holidays exist may have been lost or changed.
Some holiday histories might only be known by a few individuals.
Ancient magic spells could have influenced how we celebrate today.
Fairies, zombies, or demons may have shaped our holidays.
Consider the following...
Why do people give red roses and cards on Valentine's Day?
Is there more to the story of Purim than is traditionally told?
Why do people wear green on St. Patrick's Day?
What happens to spirits that are captured during the Japanese Doll Festival?
Where does Santa get his helpers?
You may think you know the truth, but you can't be too sure.

ISBN: 9781937053499
Available May 2013 from Spencer Hill Press

Without further ado, here is the cover

 

 

The Coworker Files, Episode 1: I've Been Challenged To A Mouse Off

As my regular readers are no doubt aware, this blog centers on books and book-related things. It's a logical choice of topics, being that I am a writer, and the Marketing Coordinator for Spence City.

However, I also have a day job. (cue ominous music) While I'm not going to tell you what company I work for, or even what I do for this day-work, suffice it to say that it's a desk job. Instead of being surrounded by customers, I'm surrounded by coworkers.

You'd think that would be a good thing.

For the most part, it is. I have no real complaints, and my employer is nice enough to pay me on a regular basis. Still, the interections I have with my fellow desk jockeys makes me wonder if there's anyone this place won't hire.

I mean, they did hire me.

To celebrate the special lunacy that only comes from working in an artificially lit, climate-controlled environment, I am starting a new feature on this blog: The Coworker Files. Some stories will be new, some years old, and some will be stories that others shared with me. I will always change names to protect the innocent - and keep myself from getting in trouble. Or fired.

Our first tale happened to me just a few days ago. A coworker was showing me how to access a certain system. While doing so, she revealed that, should I not want to use my mouse to paste information into the desired field, I could hit CTRL-V instead. She went on to explain that "they added CTRL-V to all the computers, so people who can't mouse can still get their work done". Then she smiled sweetly and added, "I'll understand if you only use CTRL-V."

Okay…what? What does that even mean? Who are they? Why did they put all this stuff in the computers? When did they do it? Furthermore, do I present as an individual who lacks the cognitive ability to point and click a fricken 'mouse?

I totally need to work on my image.

In the end, I understood what had really happened: she was challenging me to a mouse off. Well, sister, I can point and click like a champ. I've been burning up my ergonomically designed desk with my super mouse skills ever since.

There you have it - our first coworker file! Say, do you have any funny stories about that lunatic that sits a few cubes over from you? Would you like it featured here? Email it to me at jenniferaprovost@gmail.com.
Because really, you can't make this stuff up.

Cover Reveal: The Other Tree by DK Mok

Well here it is, folks, Spence City's latest cover reveal!

This time around it's for The Other Tree, the debut novel of Australian author DK Mok. here's the jacket copy:

It’s been four years since Chris Arlin graduated with a degree that most people think she made up, and she’s still no closer to scraping up funding for her research into rare plants. Instead, she’s stacking shelves at the campus library, until a suspiciously well-dressed man offers her a lucrative position on a scientific expedition.

For Chris, the problem isn’t the fact that they’re searching for the Biblical Tree of Life. Nor is it the fact that most of the individuals on the expedition seem to be fashionably lethal mercenaries. The problem is that the mission is being backed by SinaCorp, the corporation responsible for a similar, failed expedition on which her mother died eleven years ago.

However, when Chris’s father is unexpectedly diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Chris sees only one solution. Vowing to find the Tree of Life before SinaCorp’s mercenaries, Chris recruits Luke, an antisocial campus priest undergoing a crisis of faith. Together, they embark on a desperate race to find Eden. However, as the hunt intensifies, Chris discovers growing evidence of her mother’s strange behaviour before her death, and she begins to realise that SinaCorp isn’t the only one with secrets they want to stay buried.

 

Available in print and ebook

 December 2013 from Spence City