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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Pumpkins and Party Themes By Roxanne Rhoads





Pumpkins and Party Themes
50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
By Roxanne Rhoads

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse 
Release Date: August 11, 2020
ISBN-10: 1510751165
ISBN-13: 978-1510751163

Book Description:





Bring your Halloween party theme to life with these quick tips and tricks!
Pumpkins and Party Themes features ten unique party themes with five do-it-yourself pumpkin designs for each theme. The pumpkin projects have a variety of decorating ideas that include carving, painting, and mixed media craftiness and easy-to-follow steps on each creation. Author Roxanne Rhoads also includes quick ideas on how to bring the theme to life through décor, costumes, and activities. These fun party themes range from gothic elegance to Edgar Allan Poe, under the sea, let's get literary, and more!
With beautiful full-color images to illustrate the tools needed, steps to follow, and final products, this book makes for the perfect gift for Halloween enthusiasts and party hosts alike!


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About the Author:

Roxanne Rhoads is an author, book publicist, mixed media crafter, and lover of all things spooky.

Her books include the Amazon Bestseller Haunted Flint and Pumpkins and Party Themes : 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life.

She is the owner of Bewitching Book Tours, a virtual book tour and social media marketing company. She operates a Halloween blog- A Bewitching Guide to Halloween and sells handcrafted jewelry, art, and home decor through her Etsy store- The Bewitching Cauldron.

When not reading or writing, Roxanne loves to craft, plan Halloween adventures, and search for unique vintage finds.

Amazon Author Page
https://www.amazon.com/Roxanne-Rhoads/e/B002FQ5566

A Bewitching Guide to Halloween
https://www.abewitchingguidetohalloween.com/

Etsy Store https://www.etsy.com/shop/BewitchingCauldron

Author Website http://www.roxannerhoads.com  

Book Blog www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com  

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Interview with Roxanne Rhoads

Convince us why you feel your book is a must read.
If you love Halloween this book is for you, especially if you are throwing a party or want ideas on decorating with a theme in mind.
Have you written any other books that are not published?
Not completed books. I have quite a few in progress, a couple fiction, and several non-fiction books that in various stages of research and development or are in the proposal stage.
Pen or type writer or computer?
Pen and paper for brainstorming, computer for actual typing of the book. Typewriters are a cute aesthetic but I absolutely despise typing on them.

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The Windhaven Witches by Carissa Andrews


Secret
Legacy
The
Windhaven Witches Book 1
by
Carissa Andrews


Genre:
Urban Fantasy Suspense, Paranormal Academy

Nestled
in the woods of Windhaven, Blackwood Manor waits to unleash a dark
and deadly legacy…

When
Autumn Blackwood shows up at Windhaven Academy for the Witching Stick
Orientation, she hopes to find out what dormant powers she could
possibly possess to have been accepted to the elite supernatural
school. Instead, the academy is in chaos as everyone frantically
hunts for two missing girls.

But
as school begins with Autumn no closer to figuring out her powers,
strange occurrences start to follow her everywhere. Even at home,
Blackwood Manor keeps many secrets, and Autumn can’t escape its
haunting past.

New
friends urge her to learn more about her family’s history in order
to unlock her powers and make sense of what’s happening at
Blackwood Manor, but Autumn’s not so sure. Once an accident brings
Autumn face-to-face with death, however, she realizes her gifts are
tied to a legacy that can either save or doom them all…

Fans
of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Joe Hill’s Locke
& Key, or MR Forbes’ Necromancer: The Complete Series will
love The Windhaven Witches.




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Soul
Legacy
The
Windhaven Witches Book 2 


Turns
out being the town’s only necromancer could pose some problems when
the dead won’t stay dead.

The
new semester of Windhaven Academy is about to start, and already
Autumn Blackwood’s life is in jeopardy. Rumors are swirling around
the school that Autumn and her boyfriend are raising the revenants,
and Autumn worries they might be right.


What if the
resurrection she performed last semester wasn’t as successful as
she thought? What if she really is the cause of the dead returning to
life?
Soon, Autumn and her boyfriend find themselves in the center
of a supernatural federal investigation that could land them both in
prison—or something far worse. And if Autumn doesn’t find out
what’s really behind the soulless scourge quickly enough, everyone
she cares about could be next on the death toll.

Soul Legacy
is a harrowing and suspenseful supernatural mystery for fans of
heart-thumping paranormal tales! Fans of Joe Hill and Kelley
Armstrong will love The
Windhaven Witches by
Carissa Andrews!








Haunted
Legacy
The
Windhaven Witches Book 3 

Being
haunted by ghosts isn’t unusual for Autumn, but this time it’s
someone she didn’t think was dead.

Autumn’s
world is a life of ghosts, death, and destruction. The last thing she
wants is to be the cause of her boyfriend’s early demise.
Especially when she’s already been warned by the Angel of Death to
stay away from him. So, to keep Wade safe, there’s only one thing
to do: end it.  
But
of course, fate doesn’t let them off the hook that easy. Thrust
together for a school project, Wade is put right in the line of fire
when an unexplained, and surprisingly violent, haunting erupts at
Blackwood Manor.
To
figure out how to stop it, Autumn has to communicate with the spirit,
but it will do anything to protect its identity. The deeper Autumn
digs, the more sinister the truth becomes. Devastated and vulnerable,
Autumn has to face the facts and find a way to end the ghost’s
deadly attacks. Otherwise, both she and Wade will become the ghost’s
next victim.  
Haunted
Legacy is
the third installment of the Windhaven
Witches series
– a spine-tingling supernatural suspense series that will have you
questioning everything you think you know! Fans of Deborah Harkness,
Kelley Armstrong, and Anne Rice will love The
Windhaven Witches by
Carissa Andrews!








Cursed
Legacy
The
Windhaven Witches Book 4 

How
do you break a family curse set by the Fates themselves?

The
Blackwood family curse is closing in on Autumn. No matter where she
goes, the tattered red threads of the Moirai follow her. It’s only
a matter of time and she’ll join the early grave of so many
Blackwoods before her. What’s worse, the curse is expanding and
threatening to take more lives.
Expelled
from his birthright for loving a necromancer, Wade is now a
completely mortal—and vulnerable human. If he dies,
there’s no coming back because not even Autumn can save him when
fate and death conspire.
After
an eye-opening revelation, Autumn realizes everything about her
crazy, supernatural life has been built on a lie. And that lie is
about to wipe out her entire lineage forever. With time running out,
will Autumn find a way to appease the Fates and break the curse?










"An
author emerges from the depths of Minnesotan waters. Sci-fi/Fantasy
is my pen of choice."


Carissa
Andrews is an internationally bestselling author from central
Minnesota who writes a combination of science fiction, fantasy,
paranormal romance, supernatural thriller, and dystopia. Her plans
for 2020 include launching the paranormal\supernatural thriller
series: The Windhaven Witches.

She
keeps sane by chilling with her husband and five kids, playing with
art in its various forms, seeking out mysteries, and being an
occasional meditation and reiki badass.

You
can learn more about Carissa and her upcoming books by visiting her
website: www.carissaandrews.com










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Blended Families by Kyiris Ashley


Blended Families 
by Kyiris Ashley 
Genre: Urban Fiction 


Kim is a beautiful, successful, businesswoman, and co-owner of one of the top urban publishing companies in the country. She is also an author with a host of books on the New York Times best sellers list. She is a mother of three, and has a wonderful husband named Harold. Life is great for them on the outside looking in, but Kim had more than a few secrets.
Shawn is a handsome and successful businessman, and best-selling author. Being co-owner of one of the top urban publishing companies in the country gave him a six figure salary. He also has a beautiful daughter and a loyal wife. On the outside looking in, they were the perfect family of three, but Shawn had secrets.
Shawn and Kim not only shared a company together, they also shared a son, a house, and a life. When their son is kidnapped, Shawn and Kim worked together to find him. Little did they know, they were much closer to the kidnappers than they thought. With the fear of never seeing their son again, Shawn and Kim wake up sleeping beasts that no one was ready for. Letting all parties involved know, there's a very thin line between life and death. 






Kyiris Ashley is an international selling author from the east side of Detroit Michigan. She won her first award for writing in the fifth grade, and she knew then that she had a passion for writing. She began writing short stories in notebooks, that she would pass on to her classmates for reviews. On leave from her job in the hospitality field, due to the pandemic of 2020; Kyiris Ashley released her debut novel entitled Blended Families. 

Even though Kyiris Ashley’s first novel is in the urban fiction genre; she has written other works in different genres under pennames. She prefers not to place herself in a box, and stunt her creative growth by limiting herself to one genre. Kyiris Ashley is currently working on turning her book into a scripted series and movie. While also preparing for the release of the second installment of the Blended Families trilogy entitled; Blended Families 2: Retribution. 






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The Future Mrs. Brightside by Fiona J.R. Titchenell


The Future Mrs. Brightside 
by Fiona J.R. Titchenell 
Genre: Women's Fiction 


After a year of making beautiful music together, Chloe Hatherly thinks she’s more than ready to make the age-old promise to her bandmate, Jon. In sickness and in health, for better or worse. When the sudden death of Jon’s father forces the couple to postpone their wedding in favor of a funeral, however, their relationship veers rapidly off course from the ever after they’d both envisioned. Now living in her intended father-in-law’s memory-steeped house and acting as round-the-clock caregiver for her fiancé’s worsening depression, Chloe finds herself afflicted with a songwriter’s block for which she’s only ever known one cure: leaving and writing a killer breakup song. Unlike the subjects of her past lyrical rants, Chloe can’t picture her life without Jon in it, and she begins to wonder if there’s a way to save the music she loves while keeping the vows she never had the chance to make — or if she and Jon have already been irrevocably parted by death, albeit not their own.

The Future Mrs. Brightside is an uncomfortably honest, sometimes hilarious, fiercely romantic prose ballad to the hideous beauty of love in good times and bad. 






FIONA J.R. TITCHENELL is an author of young adult, sci-fi, and horror fiction, including Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir, The Prospero Chronicles, and the Summer 2018 Feminist Book of the Month, Out of the Pocket. The Future Mrs. Brightside is her first foray into contemporary women’s fiction. She graduated with a B.A. in English from Cal State University Los Angeles in 2009 at the age of twenty. She currently lives in San Gabriel, California, with her husband and fellow author, Matt Carter, and has also published under the initials F.J.R. Titchenell. Find out more about her and her books at http://www.fjrtitchenell.weebly.com. 





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The Unburned Island by Auden Johnson


The Unburned Island

Other Investigator Series

Book One

Auden Johnson


 Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror
Publisher: Aubey LLC

Date of Publication: April 2017

ISBN: 9780996423427

ASIN: B06XX2RSBY

Number of pages: 148 pages

Word Count: 30,000

Cover Artist: Auden Johnson


 Tagline: A haunted island. An unusual demon. Can this team of magical investigators solve the mystery of the Unburned Island? 


 Book Description:





The entire island was on fire yet only one schoolhouse burned. Everyone disappeared. Several tried taking it over but were never successful. People no longer talk about Unburned Island. It was left to rot.

Years later, Kiran, En, and a team of magical investigators travel to the island to banish whatever haunts an old building. With En acting strange, they knew this wouldn't be a simple job. Kiran develops a second ability, making their investigation both easier and harder.

 It takes them no time to realize the building isn't the problem. The island is. They never anticipated the terrible secrets hidden within the school’s campus. Maybe some of the residents deserved their fate.

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Excerpt
1:
She pulled the
band off her wrist and tied back her bushy hair. Of course, it didn’t all fit
in the tie.
At least it
wasn’t in her way now. Rather than use magic or chemicals to straighten her
hair, Kiran usually kept it short. It was time to cut it again. She rarely let
it run wild like this but work got in the way. Kiran liked her hair wild and
long but it wasn’t practical. She needed to dye it again. The dark blue wasn’t
as vibrant.
Why was she the
only one drawn to this area? She usually saw more spirits than most but tests
showed Kiran wasn’t sensitive. Maybe the other people wandering the grounds
were human and she hadn’t paid much attention to that.
A terrible smell
rolled in. Like old garbage and rotting corpses. Then the odor was gone.
The smell
returned. Then it was gone.
It pulsed like a
heartbeat. Kiran followed it.
From the small
glances she got through windows, the interior appeared sturdy despite being
abandoned. The school was clearly old but not nearly as worn as she had
expected. Pieces of the stone exterior were chipped, probably due to age or
weather. Thick green vines climbed up the building and through windows. She
couldn’t see much of the roof from this angle.
She understood
why someone wanted to use this place. The island was a short ferry ride away
from the mainland. From Kiran’s first look, it seemed the land was large enough
to fit a small village, the perfect location for an experimental campus.
This close, the
old school no longer felt like a monster despite the oppressive air. Maybe the
building wasn’t the problem.
Maybe it sat
between worlds. Most believed Others’ ancestors came from different worlds and
settled here. No one knew why they ran away from home.
Grass rustled.
Kiran stopped. A figure jerked as though it wasn’t used to its body. The head
turned at impossible angles. It twitched like the broken hands of a clock. It
clicked as though each step towards her snapped a bone.
Kiran spread her
feet shoulder length apart. She made sure all the lines of her body were
straight so power could flow freely. She lifted two fingers and drew a level one
ward symbol—a circle with a simple X in the middle.
Nothing
happened.
She tried level
two— an X with a line down the middle, from the sky to the ground.
Nothing.
She hit level
five with no results. Symbols at higher levels took longer to create. Knots twisted
in her wrist and side. The thing was close now. The smell was so bile she could
taste it. She didn’t want to inhale and get more of that stuff in her. Kiran
needed to breathe. If she wasn’t calm, the spell wouldn’t do what she wanted.
She stepped back,
making sure to keep her body straight. This was taking too long. Hopefully,
level ten would work. She made the ward sign. The creature shattered.
Kiran hit the
ground. She couldn’t hear the clicking of bones anymore.
Some magic had a
strong recoil. Wards were dangerous. You felt the effects only after the enemy
was gone. Kiran’s limbs trembled. That was about all the moving she would do
for a while.


About the Author:



An artist at heart, Auden Johnson loves photography, graphic design, and writing beautifully dark stories. She has published 13 dark fantasy stories featuring diverse characters with powers and questionable morals. She enjoys taking her camera on a long hike and photographing the scenic views. Most of her landscape photos are on sale online. Auden has a Masters in Publishing: Digital and Print and a Masters in Information and Library Science. She lives in Brooklyn with her writing buddy Oreo.

Website: https://www.audenjohnson.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/audendj

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audenjohnson/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audendjohnson/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7183504.Auden_Johnson


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Love's Bitter Harvest by Jas T. Ward


Author: Jas T. Ward
Title: Love's Bitter Harvest
Genre: Second-Chance Romance
Release Date: August 8, 2020
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design
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Welcome to McCall Farm, where two hearts harvested love and then life made its fruits bitter.

High school sweethearts Matt and Katy McCall fell in love behind the bleachers with a kiss. Life is easy and happy until Katy is offered a job across the country and Matt refuses to give up his family’s generational farm. They painfully part—one due to stubbornness and the other ambition. Years go by and the rift widens until tragedy brings Katy back home to the farm—and the man who still held her heart. 

But home is not the same and neither is the man she left behind. Matt is on the brink of losing the precious farm. He’s angry at life, and the tragedy has left him feeling like half a man. The last person Matt wants to see is the woman who left him for a career he believed mattered to her more than he did—and gutted his heart on the way out. 

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Katy stood  in the doorway of the living room for what seemed like an eternity waiting for Matt to just acknowledge her. No such luck. Finally, she stepped into the room and sat down on the couch. “Matt, we need to talk.”

Matt kept his eyes nailed on the wall. He clenched his teeth causing that slow tick to show in his jaw. “Why? I want you gone. And I'm not exactly in shape to push you out of my house, now am I?”

Matt could always easily get under her skin. Katy had to draw on every bit of steel resolve she had developed in their time apart to not let him do it once more. He’s hurting and pissed. It’s not you. 

“Our house." Katy spoke the words and knew a second later she did so without remembering the very thing she had just told herself. The words didn’t come from any thought process. They just poured forth uninhibited in their battle of wills.

Matt let out a snarl of frustration. He turned his head to face her as he sat against the head of the bed. “My house! You walked away from it, and when you did, it was no longer yours. You gave it up just like you gave up our marriage. Our life.” Matt swallowed down the lump of pain he had to force words around. It threatened to rip through him as he forced himself to focus on Katy’s beautiful eyes. His anger and resentment so thick, the words were choked out. “Gave me up! You can’t claim anything. Nothing! Do you hear me, Katy? Or is it Katherine? Tell me, sweetheart, who are you tricking yourself into being nowadays? Because I sure as hell don’t recognize you. Not at all.”

Katy looked away as she crossed her legs and focused on the dusty dappled sunspots in the dining room Where dust mites swam in the light. Did she envy their freedom? She shouldn’t. They were just as trapped as Matt was.

Nodding, she spoke to him with a tone as if talking to a child, “You’re right, Matt. I did. But”—she turned back to him— “I’m here now. And like you said, you can’t very well show me the door.”

It was a cruel button to push, but Katy could see it also burned away the impact of the pain narcotics. His rage singed the chemical hold on Matt to emotional ash. He reached out to grab her arm and pull her close. He focused on her eyes. He wanted to make it clear to her and leave zero doubt how very far she pushed him. 

“When the fuck did you get so cruel? My Katy would never be so damn mean. Is that why you’re here? To be mean? To see the mess you left behind so you can have some kind of twisted pride in how it all fell apart after you left? Well, get a good look, baby.” He let her go with a shove. He rolled to his side to fully place his back to her. “Then get the fuck out.”


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Welcome to my worlds, take a seat, get to know me and the characters and I assure you… You’ll be glad you did.”  ~Jas T Ward

Born and raised in Texas, Ward is a mixed bag of creativity spinning tales of paranormal, urban fantasy and even dark romance and horror; wrapped within a love story. She’s been dared to write a few contemporary romances but even those reads have characters that are real and twisted by their creator. 

Mother of three diverse and independent bold children, Ward prides herself for being the “Queen Niche’ Bitch” which is a handy way of saying she sucks writing to market. 
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Swan Songs of Cygnus The Weight of Black Holes


Swan Songs of Cygnus

The Weight of Black Holes

Vincent Hollow



Genre: Poetry

Publisher: Writers Republic

Date of Publication: January 8, 2020


ISBN: 9781646201167

ISBN: 9781646202294

Number of pages: 154

Word Count:  8275 words

Cover Artist: Tom Nicosia


Tagline: "How far would you go?"

Book Description:

Side A: horizon

Mourning the death of his love. A bereaved astronaut signs up for a deep – space mission to reunite with her ghost.

Even if it means becoming a ghost himself. Traveling at the speed of light. The astronaut jettisons through the solar system. Pausing only to gaze at its celestial splendor.

Cast under the grandeur of the planetarium. Seeing her apparition in every sphere…

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About the Author:

VINCENT HOLLOW is an astro-poet and interstellar storyteller living aboard the space vessel, Aquarius. Shooting from the star system to star system. Vincent spends his time gazing out into the universal abyss and the depths of himself where he hopes to find his place in the cosmos through the words he weaves in the fabric of spacetime.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincenthollow/

Website: http://www.swansongsofcygnus.com/



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