KC Blake has a great new book out today - Bait (Order of the Spirit Realm). Good going KC!

The YA Indie Author Club is having another great week of releases. This week, we are going to ask you to join us in supporting K.C. Blake. She's as dedicated to writing great stories as any author I've ever met in person or virtually.  

Bait (Order of the Spirit Realm #1) by K.C. Blake

Summary for Bait:

Ghosts, a reaper, and a rock star.

At sixteen Bay-Lee is not your typical girl. She doesn't even try to fit in at school. What's the point when she'll be moving to a new place within a few months?

She's lived her whole life on the run, hiding from monsters.

Then a reaper uses her closet to cross over from the Spirit Realm. It has a message for her. Just when she's about to join her father at his school for hunters she finds out they are dying on their birthdays. Something is killing them, slipping past locked doors, never leaving a trace of evidence, and her birthday is only two months away.

Becoming a hunter isn't exactly her dream come true. She's doing it for her mother, for revenge, for justice. Nothing is going to get in her way, least of all love. Then she looks up into a pair of jungle green eyes and everything changes.

Author Bio:

 

Born and raised in sunny California, K.C. Blake fell in love with books at a young age and decided to pursue writing as a career.  Her favorite authors include Stephen King, John Saul, Cassandra Clare, J.K. Rowling, and Carrie Jones.  In her spare time she enjoys shopping (and when I say shopping I mean go to the mall early in the day, eat lunch, and then keep going until you don't have any strength left), reading great books, taking care of animals (she lives on a farm), and searching for creative ideas to improve her home.  A former writer for Harlequin, she now publishes her books her way and loves every second of it.  Okay, she's a bit of a control freak.

Bait links:

Amazon link:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CJ182E4

Amazon UK:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CJ182E4

B&N link:  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bait-kc-blake/1115218705?ean=2940044497689

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/252449

(also available in print)

K.C. Blake's Social Links:

Blog:  http://kasi-kcblake.blogspot.com

Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4809417.K_C_Blake

Goodreads Book Club Discussion on Bait:  http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/102756-order-of-the-spirit-realm

Facebook Fan Page:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/K-C-Blakes-Author-Page/246146215412824

Twitter:  @kasiblake

Meet, Heather Sutherlin a member of the YA Author Club.

Today, the YA Author Club is exited to Spotlight our very own Heather Sutherlin. She's an amazing person and a phenomenal YA Author Club contributor who writes young adult fantasy adventures when she's not spending time with her family.

Author Bio

1999 – B.A. in Elementary Education from Harding University
2011 - 1st Place White County Creative Writers’ Conference First Chapter Contest
2012 – Debut novel, A Light in the Darkness, is released along with its sequel, To Light the Path.
2013 – Seen and Wandering, two books in a new YA fantasy series, will be released in the spring.
President - Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas
Featured Author – Arkansas Literary Festival

About the Author

Heather Sutherlin lives in Arkansas with her husband and three children. She is the author of A Light In The Darkness and Seen  both fantasy adventures for young adults. She loves all things creative and enjoys the worlds she dreams up, longing to live the adventure alongside her characters. When she’s not at her writing desk, she is busy exploring and learning with her children or cooking big, elaborate meals in the kitchen with her husband.

You can see more of Heather at her website, HeatherSutherlin.com

Or, email her at HSutherlin@gmail.com

See behind the scenes of her indie life by following her on Facebook.

You can also follow Heather on Twitter and see what inspires her on Pinterest.

Books by Heather Sutherlin:

A Light In The Darkness

Merrilyn’s life is quiet and predictable. An apprentice to the royal healer, she spends her days helping in the village or up to mischief with her best friend who happens to be the handsome younger son of the king. But when a mysterious archer shows up in the forest and shoots their escort, Merrilyn’s life is forever changed. Caught in a battle between two forgotten gods, she must embrace her destiny and fight the very powers of darkness before it’s too late.

To Light The Path

Prince Jarrod and his men have been missing for months and still Merrilyn has no idea where they are hidden. Now the king of Zinder is missing, too, and his children seem to think Merrilyn’s the key to finding him. Along with Aiden and Prince Justan, she travels to Zinder looking for clues in the king’s journals. When a mysterious man begins whispering in her dreams, tempting her to reconsider all that she believes, she must face both her fears and her desires. Merrilyn may be a light in the darkness, but she’ll have to trust Loian to light their path as they travel through foreign lands and face new enemies in their search for the missing men.

Seen

Rory has no idea what’s going on in the woods behind her house, but it’s driving her crazy. On the last day of her senior year she finds herself caught up once again in the curious happenings of the forest and walks away without any of the answers she was hoping to find. To make matters worse, she is sent to visit a sick neighbor and instead finds the hottest guy she’s ever seen. When she discovers his brother’s incredible secret she falls further into her own chaos and into a fate she never could have imagined.

Jaron is just counting the days until the summer is over and he can get back to his real life. Stuck with his little brother on a tiny farm in rural Oklahoma is not exactly his idea of fun. But when Rory shows up on his doorstep with an armload of pie, he knows his summer has just taken a sharp turn into new territory. He never expected the adventure they would discover next or the quest that would change their lives forever.

A great new book by Suzy Turner for Young Adults and everyone young at heart

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The Temporal Stone (The Morgan Sisters) by Suzy Turner

Release Date: May 16th

Synopsis

It's been a couple of months since Emma and Lana entered the Praxos Academy and life has been hectic ever since. What with regular A level classes combined with learning all about the supernatural world, control classes, self defence and fight night, the girls are constantly busy.

But when their world seems to stop right in front of them, they and their fellow Watchers, have a huge mystery to solve. A mystery which leads them on a long road trip across south west England where they meet all kinds of strange creatures, some intent on causing harm and others desperate to put a stop to the problem.

The Temporal Stone is the second full length novel in The Morgan Sisters series. The first book is entitled The Ghost of Josiah Grimshaw. There is also a free novella, Daisy Madigan's Paradise.

Links:

AMAZON US: http://www.amazon.com/Temporal-Stone-Morgan-Sisters-ebook/dp/B00CUGH5KK

AMAZON UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Temporal-Stone-Morgan-Sisters-ebook/dp/B00CUGH5KK

SMASHWORDS: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/317159

(other sites and paperback coming soon)

Author Bio

THE MISSING LINK IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.

IT'S HERE!

Book two of the Dragon World series

 is now live on amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B009M3JH4G

So many of you have been in touch to ask when the second book -THE MISSING LINK- would be available and I am delighted to say - NOW.

In this volume Robby hopes that he and Abigail will have a chance to get to know Moilana and its people better during their visit to Dragon World. But his hopes are shattered much sooner than he could have imagined when Dimble goes missing and Abigail is seriously injured. Robby suspects the secret Abigail and Dimble refused to share is at the heart of the problem but Abigail remains stubbornly silent on the subject. He finds himself part of a rescue mission that goes fatally wrong leaving him, Frenzel and Abigail stranded in the wild-lands beyond the northern mountains and searching for Dimble without backup. When, finally, he discovers what Dimble and Abigail have been hiding he has to re-evaluate everything he thought he knew about Dimble. And the role the Four must play in the future.

Read it and enjoy.

Dragon World goes to Amazon Kindle

It’s been a while but I’m back. And all that time away has not been wasted because I have great news - both book one and book two of the Dragon World series will shortly be going live on Amazon for Kindle. While The Lost Sorcerer will remain on Smashwords for the foreseeable future The Bonding Crystal (book one) and The Missing Link (book two) of Dragon World will be available exclusively on Kindle. And today I am able to present the great new cover for

the Dragon World series, thanks to MaRoC68 and to Julie for the super image and the invaluable suggestions. Watch this space and I will let you know the moment they go live.

SUMMER READS

Though we are still waiting for summer to start, as far as the weather is concerned, I have being enjoying some time off from my day job and catching up with some reading. There are so many great books out there and I get so little time to read them it was rather like being a kid in a sweet shop. One of the most useful books I read this summer was:-

A Taste Test - YA Paranormal and Contemporary Romance Sampler 2012.

Useful is not a phrase I normally use to describe a good read but this is gives a sample of eight books by eight different authors plus a complete short story. Even better it is free. It is published on Smashwords by Melissa Pearl. What a great idea! You can be sure I will be working my way through a number of them.

 

1.	Laura A. H. Elliott author of Winnemucca & 13 on Halloween, Book 1 in the Teen Halloween Series	2.	Bryna Butler, author Midnight Guardian series
3.	Heather Self	4.	T. R. Graves, Author of The Warrior Series
5.	Suzy Turner, author of The Raven Saga	6.	Cheri Schmidt, author of the Fateful Trilogy
7.	Rachel Coles, author of Into The Ruins, geek mom blog	8.	K. C. Blake, author of Vampires Rule and Crushed
9.	Patti Larsen, The Hunted series and The Hayle Coven series	10.	Amy Maurer Jones, Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy
11.	Fisher Amelie, author of The Understorey	12.	M. Leighton, Blood Like Poison Series, Madly, The Reaping
13.	Cidney Swanson, author of Rippler	14.	Gwenn Wright, author of Filter
15.	Melissa Pearl, Author of The Time Spirit Trilogy	16.	Heather M. White, author of The Destiny Saga
17.	Courtney Cole Writes	18.	Liz Long | Just another writer on the loose.
19.	Ella James	20.	Maureen Murrish
21.	Valerie Sloan

Indie carnival Listopia demystified [what lists mean the most to you?] fri 01/06/12

Lists.
I live my life through lists.
To Do lists.
Shopping lists.
People waiting for kittens from our beautiful BSHs, lists.
And an intriguing new list which I have just been introduced to is a sort of, You Write What You Are, list. The goal of this list is to target your reading audience and so expand your market. Nick Thacker.com » How to Find the Perfect Audience for Your Book, And Sell It to Them has the full details.
But my favourite lists have to be those concerning books; lists of books I am planning to write, books I have lost myself in and books I can’t wait to read.
Like most writers I have numerous books in my head that are just waiting, some more patiently than others, for me to sit down and allow them to take form on paper. As I put the finishing touches to The Missing Link, the second book in the Dragon World series I feel the unwritten books shuffle and jostle for position inside my head like billiard-balls. I cling to the words of Jules Renard in the hope I can do them justice.
‘The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.’ Jules Renard, 1895.
So simple, what could go wrong? Ah, dream on, Maureen!

My favourite books could be narrowed down by a few of my favourite authors.
Kim Harrison; the Rachel Morgan series.
Jonathan Stroud; The Bartimaeus Sequence.
Patricia Briggs; the Mercy Thompson books.
Kelly Armstrong; Women of the Other World.
And published on Smashwords, Dana Donovan; the Detective Marcella Mysteries.

Then there are the books I must read. Don’t misunderstand, I never read anything out of duty. If someone says, ‘Maureen, you must read this book, it is the epitome of new thinking, constructed in original prose’ or ‘mind improving’, I usually run a mile in the other direction. I have found to my cost and many a wasted hour that ‘duty’ books leave me cold, worse; semi-comatose. I only read those books that capture my imagination, inspire me and transport me to wonderful locations.
A couple of the books that promise to do just that and which I do intend to read are published on Smashwords,
Dana Donovan; Bones of a Witch.
Elizabeth Mock; Shatter, which is the first book from The Children of Man. I intend to read them all!

If you love fantasy and adventure and being transported to another world when you read then try some of the books on my favourite lists. I promise there is not one ‘Duty’ book amongst them.

1.	Laura A. H. Elliott author of Winnemucca & 13 on Halloween, Book 1 in the Teen Halloween Series	2.	Bryna Butler, author Midnight Guardian series
3.	Heather Self	4.	T. R. Graves, Author of The Warrior Series
5.	Suzy Turner, author of The Raven Saga	6.	Cheri Schmidt, author of the Fateful Trilogy
7.	Rachel Coles, author of Into The Ruins, geek mom blog	8.	K. C. Blake, author of Vampires Rule and Crushed
9.	Patti Larsen, The Hunted series and The Hayle Coven series	10.	Amy Maurer Jones, Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy
11.	Fisher Amelie, author of The Understorey	12.	M. Leighton, Blood Like Poison Series, Madly, The Reaping
13.	Cidney Swanson, author of Rippler	14.	Gwenn Wright, author of Filter
15.	Melissa Pearl, Author of The Time Spirit Trilogy	16.	Heather M. White, author of The Destiny Saga
17.	Courtney Cole Writes	18.	Liz Long | Just another writer on the loose.
19.	Ella James	20.	Maureen Murrish
21.	Valerie Sloan