*Book Tour & Giveaway* Ruin M by Ryan Grey-GUEST POST

Ruin Me 

by Ryan Grey 

Genre: Second Chance Romance 

When the past comes back to haunt you, how will you handle it? 

Trey Donovan was my brothers’ best friend, my first love, first everything. 

At one time things were perfect, we were happy, and it seemed never ending. 

Then Trey went off to college. and a one-night stand destroyed it all. 

Five years later he is back home. What will happen when he finds out my secret? 

Will there ever be another chance for he and I when it all comes to light, as I have done

the one thing I swore to never do and that was betray the man I love in the worst way possible? 

Goodreads * Amazon

My name is Ryan Grey. I reside in the Carolinas with my daughter and our many fur babies. I am a proud Indie Author who writes Poetry, Dark Romance, Psychological Thrillers and Paranormal Romance. I currently have four books published and I'm working on my sixth one at the moment. I have loved books since before I was school age. By the time I was eleven, I was reading all the greats like Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, John Saul and many more. My life inspires my poetry as I am a quiet, well reserved man and I don't like talking about my life so, through my poetry I am able to express myself and share that with you. My child is also a huge part of my inspiration. Watching her grow and knowing that she looks up to me gave me enough gumption to try living my dream as a published author and it became a reality on June 10th, 2019. 

Facebook * Readers Group * Twitter * Instagram * Bookbub * Amazon * Goodreads

GUEST POST

Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?

I gave always loved writing. I actually started off with poetry at the age of nine then wrote my first official story when I was twelve which made front page of the local paper where I grew up. 

What is something unique/quirky about you?

I have green eyes which is rare in males.

Tell us something really interesting that's happened to you!

I am a huge fan of horror books and movies. So with that being said, back in the early 2000's I ran into Robert England in Texas and got his autograph.

What are some of your pet peeves?

I have plenty lol but then again who doesn't. To name a few there would be chewing loudly and putting your shoes on furniture. Those are two of the biggest ones that really get me.

Where were you born/grew up at?

I was born and raised in Miami Florida.

If you knew you'd die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?

I'd spend it with my child watching our favorite movies and reliving some of our best memories. If I am passing I want her to remember the best of me not the end.

Who is your hero and why?

Martin Luther King Jr. because of all he stood for. Human rights, equality, recognition. He was a great man. Saddens me he did not live to see his dream become reality.

What kind of world ruler would you be?

Hmm, let's see. An understanding one yet a complicated one. I am after all a Gemini and can switch at any moment lol. I am not that complicated and am lenient on most things. My main focus would be helping the lower class, the   homeless, children, the abused etc. Mainly those the world at times forgets exist. 

What are you passionate about these days?

I am no where near an activist though it may seem like it but human rights is at the top of my list. As well as animal rights. 

What do you do to unwind and relax?

I love listening to music or reading a good book to unwind. At times even drawing does it for me. 

How to find time to write as a parent?

My kiddo is a teenager and can pretty much do for themselves HOWEVER I am still that parent that will stop what I am doing and help them etc. I have always been active in their lives. As for writing I usually do it late in the afternoon when they are playing an online video game with their cousin. I only stop every so often to go check and make sure my kiddo is good and to say hey to my niece online. 

Describe yourself in 5 words or less!

complicated, caring, loyal, honest,giving

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

I want to say as a child but it did not become reality until June 2019. 

Do you have a favorite movie?

Yes, a few actually. The Jaws movies, Deep Blue Sea, Tombstone, Any Stephen King movie etc. 

Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?

Manhattan Nights, Matters Of The Heart and Retribution. That series is my favorite so far and would love to see it on film. 

As a writer, what would you choose as your mascot/avatar/spirit animal?

My spirit animal has always been the Wolf and turtles. They are both amazing resilient animals who never give up no matter the hardships they may face.  

What inspired you to write this book?

I wanted to try and write a book that was not about Mafia(my normal genre) and have a sweet second chance romance. 

What can we expect from you in the future?

I have  Mafia books planned, a horror book, physiological thriller, and more poetry books planned for the future.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book?

Breathing life into my characters is always a rush for me. I love seeing them come to life on the pages and not just be words in a book but it feel as though they are as real as you and I. 

Who designed your book covers?

My amazingly wonderful PA Tammy Pierce

If your book was made into a film, who would you like to play the lead?

Is myself an acceptable response? I always put apart of myself in each male character I write. So what you see in each of them is a small part of me that I only show to certain people. 

What is your favorite part of this book and why?

My favorite part is when they choose to stop bickering and be civil which gives them both a chance to access the situation and handle it like adults. 

If your book had a candle, what scent would it be?

Vanilla with a hint of lavender 

What are your top 10 favorite books/authors?

Stephen King, John Saul,  Edgar Allen Poe,  A.L. Jackson, Jax Hart, Mickey Miller, R.L. Weeks, Angel Rose, Emma Nichole & LJ. Shen. 

As for books: Clan Of The Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel is an all time favorite. 

How long have you been writing?

Since I was 10 however have been a published author since 2019

Do you read yourself and if so what is your favorite genre?

I have always loved to read. Horror and Thriller suspense are my favorite genres. 

Advice they would give new authors?

I'd have to say that coming in as a new Indie Author will be tough. You must remember that not everything written will be everyone's cup of tea. Take those reviews if bad as a learning experience and come back bigger and better in the next book written. Know you are not alone. 

Do you believe in writer’s block?

Writer's block is very real. The longest I have experienced it was for two months then one day the characters were screaming at me like 'come on man, we have a story to be told already' and it call came flooding in as if the flood gates have opened and I was able to write again. 

$10 Amazon gift card 

Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Book Blitz & Giveaway* The Occult Persuasion by Lisa de Nikolits

The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist's Solution 

by Lisa de Nikolits 

Genre: Humorous Thriller 

The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist’s Solution is about a couple experiencing a crisis. The husband, Lyndon, loses his job as editor of a financial magazine. Neither are happy with aging. Lyndon has gotten by with charm and frozen emotions. The wife, Margaux, has no idea how angry she is with him for his detachment. It is her idea to sell the house and just travel. But he is not coping well with retirement, so he simply walks off a ferry in Australia and leaves her. He steals a cat (well, he steals an expensive SUV that happens to have a cat onboard) and he flees Sydney, ending up in Apollo Bay, a few hours south-west of Melbourne, where he falls in with a group of anarchists and punk rockers in a tattoo parlour, planning revolution. 

Meanwhile, Margaux sits tight in Sydney with no idea of where her husband might be or what happened. She moves into the red-light Kings Cross area, befriending the owner of the hostel, a seventy-year-old ex-cop drag queen from Saint John, New Brunswick, and waits to hear from her husband. 

When she learns that her husband is fine, she is consumed by wrath and she invokes the angry spirit of an evil nurse, a key player in the terrible Chelmsworth sleep therapy in which many patients died (historical fact). While Lyndon gets in touch with his original career ambition to become an artist and wrestles with anarchism versus capitalism, Margaux learns to deal with her rage. 

A serio-comedic thriller about a couple who embark on an unintentionally life-changing around-the-world adventure, The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist’s Solution is about the meaning of life, healing from old wounds, romantic love at all ages, and how love and passion can make a difference, at any age. 

**Get the book for 50% off direct from the author HERE!**

Add to Goodreads

Amazon * Apple * B&N * Kobo

Lisa de Nikolits is the internationally award-winning author of nine novels (all Inanna Publications). No Fury Like That was published in Italian in 2019 by Edizione Le Assassine as Una furia dell’altro mondo. Her short fiction and poetry have also been published in various anthologies and journals internationally. She is a member of the Mesdames of Mayhem, the Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, The Australian Crime Writers, The Short Fiction Mystery Association and the International Thriller Writers. Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits came to Canada in 2000. She lives and writes in Toronto. 

Website * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * Bookbub * Goodreads

Follow the blitz HERE for special content and a giveaway!  

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Jessie O'Bourne Art Mysteries by Mary Ann Cherry-GUEST POST

Death on Canvas 

The Jessie O'Bourne Art Mysteries Book 1 

by Mary Ann Cherry 

Genre: Mystery 

While painting on location in one of her family's hayfields, Jessie absentmindedly brushes a note of turquoise onto the canvas. Curious about what added the lovely spot of color, the artist walks over to discover a tennis shoe. The mate is still on the foot of a dying Native American girl crammed between the hay bales.

The story becomes more personal when old flame, Sheriff Russell Bonham, reveals that Amber Reynolds, a grad student writing a thesis for her art history major, was attacked while on her way to speak to Jessie's family about two missing Thomas Moran masterpieces worth millions. The paintings disappeared nearly a hundred years ago from St. Benedict's Mission School. Right after the unsolved murder of Jessie's great aunt Kate. 

Goodreads * Amazon

Death at Crooked Creek 

The Jessie O'Bourne Art Mysteries Book 2 

The massive tractor draped with the advertising banner struck prominent artist, Jessie O’Bourne, as a fun way to promote Montana’s annual Crooked Creek Art Expo—until she noticed the bullet holes in the back window. Then she heard of the tragic shooting death of a local teen. After her irascible tomcat, Jack, discovers a dead man in Jessie’s motorhome, she not only becomes a murder suspect, but begins receiving threatening notes accompanied by a toy replica of the big John Deere.

Surrounded by talented painters and sculptors, Jessie suspects one is a creative killer. 

Goodreads * Amazon

Cherry is a professional artist who writes the Jessie O'Bourne art mystery series in her elusive free time. Like her main character, she paints primarily western and wildlife subject matter, travels to art shows, and teaches workshops.

Raised in rural Montana, she now lives in Idaho with her husband and several spoiled cats. 

Website * Facebook * Twitter * Bookbub * Amazon * Goodreads

GUEST POST

Coloring Your Book

The world is awash with color, so why not use a few creative splashes in your descriptive writing? As children, we excitedly open that new box of 64 brilliant crayons and ask friends, “What’s your favorite color?” As adults we exclaim over rainbows and fluffy white clouds and anthropomorphize color into common phrases such as “true blue” or “green with envy”. Our homes are decorated with just the right shade of harmonizing carpet and furnishings, and our wardrobes filled with clothes that match our eyes. However, many authors omit even a nuance of color when describing a character or scene. The result is a bland passage that could have sung with juicy color, but instead strikes an empty note.

Artists utilize strokes of color to lead a viewer’s eyes through a work of art or to lend importance to specific segments of the painting or to convey mood. Writers can learn these techniques as well, and they will prove themselves indispensable. In the following paragraphs are color usage tricks I teach to painting students, rewritten for use in writing. It would be a helpful self-assigned experiment to write several scenes, each one utilizing a different color tip.

The ten percent solution leads to a strong focal area. Describe your scene with approximately 90% neutral or dull colors and save the remaining ten percent “snap” of more vivid primary colors to reel the reader in. A strong color will draw the eye, and spark the memory, so be sure the snap color leads to your primary focal point. It is what the reader will carry away from the paragraph.

“…I sloshed unhappily through pelting rain and mud into the drizzly, grey nightmare. Over the girl’s body a brown makeshift tent had been erected to preserve evidence. A sea of black umbrellas sheltered those unfortunate detectives methodically working the crime scene. Beyond the perimeter a slim figure stood alone under a vivid red parasol.”

The dull colors lead to eye and begin setting the scene, the hot red draws the viewer more strongly into the story. Who is carrying the only red umbrella?

Color is weakened and cooled by white. When white is added the hue not only becomes lighter – it becomes cool in both appearance and emotional connotation. Hot colors can be red or orange but they can just as easily be simply a primary color undiluted by white. A rich blue is hotter than a pale pink, for instance. A deep cobalt blue appears stronger than a light green. What should your character wear? Use the lighter, diluted colors when you want a character or scene to feel less passionate, crisp, less dramatic or more professional.

“…she walked into the board room wearing a tailored, pale blue linen suit.”

Push color to give flavor to various scenes. Painters will often make one area of the painting richer and less important areas dull, or make an area warm and another cool. A writer can deliberately use color to help the reader visualize a new space when there is an important change of scene. In one chapter, the reader may find the heroine sitting in a dilapidated diner with orange vinyl booths. In another, the hero is diving into a pool of brilliant blue in a natural cove. These two scenes show the use of radically different locations, but also make use of color complements, or exact color opposites, adding a bit of pop without the reader being aware of why they feel the added interest. Pushing color to extremes can add some pop as well, contrasting the personalities of two characters.

“…her full silk skirt danced and swirled with all the colors of a Mexican fiesta, topped by a poppy red tank top and that outrageous head of blond hair. She looked at me over Dave’s shoulder and grinned. I stood there in my plain white dress and wanted to die. God, I hated her.”

High contrast sets a dramatic scene. In a painting, the focal area is strengthened by allowing the highest contrast of light and dark to be adjacent to each other. The stark contrast draws the eye and keeps the viewer focused on that specific area. A setting of black and white can be effective in writing as well.

“…the deepening light, and the cedars meeting over their heads, cast them into midnight blackness…Straining her eyes she saw ahead the bright white bricks of Tara.” (Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

Unfortunately, a painter would know that the white brick in that type of light would appear a dull blue, but still, the stark contrast does paint a strong picture in the mind’s eye.

Lighting will change your colors. Light will change colors, washing out some, enhancing others, depending upon the sky and other extraneous circumstances. As in the example above, I see odd comments and errors in books because the writer forgets what type of light he used at the beginning of the scene. For instance, on a dull day a field of wheat will appear dull and dirty ochre but the writer depicts it as a mass of brilliant and burnished yellow. On a sunny day it would appear exactly so, but not in overcast. Don’t confuse your reader. Pay attention to the light.

Things that are different stand out. Advertising agencies have the use of effective color down to a science, and show outrageous images that we remember because the color is effective. That which is different will always stand out — the red umbrella in a sea of black parasols, a blue monkey, the green gecko. A reader is jolted with a splash of color, and the quirky imaginative streak in most of us appreciates the jolt.

Did you catch “the blue monkey”? There are more than sixteen million colors. Let’s use a few.

-Mary Ann Cherry

$25 Amazon Card 

Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Book Tour & Giveaway* What Death Taught Terrence by Derek McFadden-GUEST POST

What Death Taught Terrence 

by Derek McFadden 

Genre: Inspirational Fantasy 

LIFE IS A JOURNEY. SO IS THE AFTERLIFE.

At the end of his life, Terrence McDonald must discover its meaning,

or he’ll be banned from the afterlife forever, and his soul will cease to

exist.

Join Terrence–

and those who love him–on a poignant and

unforgettable journey through a life at once wonderful and harrowing.

Learn what Terrence learns. See what Terrence sees. By this provocative

story’s end, readers may even learn a thing or two about themselves. 

*** 

The TV is on, and I’m on the couch, leaning as far back as I can. My heavy, indecisive brown eyes—their lenses blurred ever since my tumultuous, too-soon entrance into the world—flutter between open and shut. I am half-watching half-listening to a football game on a Sunday afternoon. Was that the doorbell?

“Who is it?” I call out, expecting to hear my daughter, Megan’s, voice. These days, she is the one person who visits me. The only person who knows I’m making my home in this little oasis fashioned from wood felled by my own hand.

“Terry, it’s Mom. I’m here to help you move.”

My mom? That’s not possible. She’s...

Wait. To help me move? Oh, God.

I rise from the couch and glance back at my lifeless body.

PRAISE FOR What Death Taught Terrence

“What Death Taught Terrence offers a powerful, painful, and poignant look at the life of a man rarely encountered in fiction. Derek McFadden’s writes with an insight few can match.”

— T.F. ALLEN, author of The Night Janitor and The Keeper

“A good story allows the reader to experience life as another person, and McFadden made me do so on a deeply personal level. If you like the works of Mitch Albom, I think you’ll find What Death Taught Terrence a worthy addition to your library and the reading of it a lifeaffirming journey.”

— BRADLEY HARPER, Edgar-Award Finalist, author of A Knife In The Fog and Queen’s Gambit

“In What Death Taught Terrence, Derek McFadden builds a world that satisfies both our desire for imagination and our need for personal introspection. I found this (story) immediately immersive, and it stuck

with me long after I finished. McFadden is doing something rare in today’s fiction—exploring the limits of what we will believe to form a better understanding of who we are.”

— ALEX DOLAN, author of The Euthanist and The Empress of Tempera 

Add to Goodreads

Amazon * B&N

Derek McFadden is the author of the novel What Death Taught Terrence, available in February of 2020 wherever fine books are shelved. Other works of note include the well-regarded Prose From A Grandson To A Senior Fellow. 

Born with a mild case of cerebral palsy, his is "a voice for those whose voices have yet to be heard," according to the online publication Audacity Magazine. 

Website * Facebook * Twitter * Bookbub * Amazon * Goodreads

GUEST POST

How did you become an author?

The writing bug bit me early. Growing up in a house where my father also wrote stories, it was not a long jump to my own tales. Though I did not become a writer because he was a writer, Dad’s support was invaluable.

What is something unique about you?

I was born with a mild case of cerebral palsy, a brain injury which occurs at–or just after–birth. For years, I learned as much as I could about palsy, while I also fought against the idea that this was my unique trait. I’m a writer, I told myself. That’s unique enough, right? People don’t need to know about my palsy. This, I discovered, kept me clear of confrontation or tough questions, but it hurt my soul not to be talking about my palsy and my unique life experience. Beyond that, it has been my experience that the handicapped are misrepresented in literature. They’re either too saintly–telling the able-bodied how to live while suffering–or too broken to matter. In writing What Death Taught Terrence, I hoped to share something both unique to me and universal. All of us have issues, even if they aren’t quite as visible as a halting walk, a foot perpetually turned too far right.

What are some of your pet peeves?

I read books all day with/for a literary agent, and I love it! But some of my pet peeves do involve this work.

-When an author is so convinced their book is beyond wonderful that they won’t listen to constructive criticism. There’s no faster way to turn an agent or their readers/assistants off.

-Writing that is too exposition-y. Tell us as much as you can in dialogue. This was the way Hemingway wrote. He let the characters and their circumstances tell the story. BUT if your dialogues reads as false, so will your story. For example:

“There’s Joe,” Jane said. “It’s so good to see him. It’s been over a year since he had his heart attack last 4^th of July. I hear he’s lost some weight, too.” No one talks like this, literally ever. Do not make readers suffer through this. It is much easier to put down a book than it ever was to write it. If you’ve convinced a reader to crack open your book-baby, don’t give them any reason to shun it.

-Not using the “personal address” comma

Commas are important. In fact, they could save lives.

One basic writing-rule that some authors need help remembering or putting into practice at all is that of the “personal address” comma.

Example:

Correctly written.

In a conversation with your friend Tom, the correct way to greet him would be:

“Hello, Tom.”

Notice the comma.

The incorrect way to greet good ole Tom would be:

“Hi Tom.”

Notice the decided lack of a comma.

I can hear you out there, yelling at your computer, asking, “What does it matter if I put in the comma or if I leave it out? It’s a grounded apostrophe, that’s all!”

Didn’t I tell you earlier it could save lives, that comma? Here’s how.

You’re inviting your grandmother to dinner.

“Let’s eat, Grandma,” you say. How nice of you to extend such a well-meaning invitation.

And now, without the comma:

“Let’s eat Grandma.”

You’re a cannibal, plain and simple.

Use the comma. It. Saves. Lives.

Who is your hero and why?

This question has a simple answer, but every time I get into it, I’m struck by “the feels” all over again. My grandfather, Richard Dale Kenbok, was a fine, upstanding man. A soldier in the Korean war. A railroad switchman for forty years, he worked two jobs–the other as a short-order cook–to support our family. The thing is, while my dad and my uncle quite accurately called him Dad, theirs was not a biological bond. Their bond with him–and mine and my brother’s connections with him, too–came from the love he showed for us all, and his extraordinary effort to treat us all as his own.

We were his kids and grand-kids, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

For all he did for us, Papa Dick, as we call him, is my hero, even a decade and a half after his passing.

Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Book Tour & Giveaway* The Simulation Theory of Sonsciousness by Donald Firesmith

The Simulation Theory of Consciousness 

(or Your Autonomous Car is Sentient) 

by Donald Firesmith 

Genre: Speculative Non-Fiction 

Have you ever wondered what our robots might be thinking? What do our cars experience as they use their sensors to observe the world around them and increasingly take over our driving duties? When we play computer games, are we the only ones who experience the simulated virtual worlds they create? More generally, are our computer-driven creations sentient with their own internal, subjective streams of conscious?

Named a distinguished engineer by the Association of Computing Machinery, Donald Firesmith uses his 40 years of experience developing complex, software-intensive systems to argue that the answer is yes. The many functional analogies between humans and cyber-physical systems produce a strong argument that every software-reliant physical system that creates a real-time simulation of itself and its environment is consciously aware of that simulation. Just as neuroscientists study consciousness in terms of the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), software and system engineers will study artificial consciousness in terms of the corresponding cyber correlates of consciousness (CCC).

The consciousness of our creations is not just an issue for engineers and academics. As our cyber- physical systems become more intelligent and pervasive, it is time for all of us to consider the social, ethical, and legal ramifications of their intelligence. To do less could have dire consequences. 

Add to Goodreads

Amazon * B&N * Kobo

A geek by day, Donald Firesmith works as a system and software engineer helping the US Government acquire large, complex software-intensive systems. In this guise, he has authored seven technical books, written numerous software- and system-related articles and papers, and spoken at more conferences than he can possibly remember. He's also proud to have been named a Distinguished Engineer by the Association of Computing Machinery, although his pride is tempered somewhat by his fear that the term "distinguished" makes him sound like a graybeard academic rather than an active engineer whose beard is still slightly more red than gray.

By night and on weekends, his alter ego writes modern paranormal fantasy, apocalyptic science fiction, action and adventure novels and relaxes by handcrafting magic wands from various magical woods and mystical gemstones. His first foray into fiction is the book Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore written under the pen name Wolfrick Ignatius Feuerschmied. He lives in Crafton, Pennsylvania with his wife Becky, and his son Dane, and varying numbers of dogs, cats, and birds. 

Website * Facebook * Twitter * Bookbub * Amazon * Goodreads

Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Of Knights and Wizards by A.J. Gallant

Knights of the Dragon 

Of Knights and Wizards Book 1 

by A.J. Gallant 

Genre: Epic Fantasy 

In a fantasy land full of knights, dragons, kingdoms and wars, a boy is transformed into a sorcerer before his time.

To save his kingdom he must learn fast, but not a single spell has worked for him. As he sleepwalks, he conjures, driving people away from him and even transforming his father - the king - into a chicken. It might be too dangerous for King Darrius to allow his son to remain in Leeander.

He’s a Tarcranian Wizard of the highest power, and distracted enough without a female to grab his attention. But Raina's beautiful face captures him, and after Marcus befriends one of the dragons, she discovers his quandary.

And so the adventure begins. 

Goodreads * Amazon

Knights of the Wizard 

Of Knights and Wizards Book 2 

Young Marcus is trying hard to become a respectable sorcerer, but he's failing miserably... and casting spells while he sleepwalks doesn't help either. But will he really be banished from his own kingdom?

Meanwhile, a grey dragon awakens from a four-hundred-year nap and discovers that there is a new and powerful wizard in existence - and that he just might be a danger to him. Ash must be killed.

With the Dwagord residing on the other side of the mountain range, never before able to venture into Leeander's part of the world, their wizards have finally blown their way through the mountain, and are planning to conquer everyone and everything. But to the Dwagord, this new land is as puzzling as it is fascinating, with much more magic than exists in their homeland. 

Goodreads * Amazon

Knight of the Sword 

Of Knights and Wizards Book 3 

Marcus still hasn’t mastered his powers, he’s not the suave and in control wizard he would like to be. Now poor Marcus is now contending with courting and try as he may, is fumbling around in the dark, trying to win his lady’s favor. How long will Raina wait for his full attention? Is she being too demanding? Marcus has been warned that he must find and keep the Staff of Herding, a powerful magical tool for its owner out of the hands of three dark sorcerers. But is it too late? Who is the guardian that protects this staff? How can anyone get past such a powerful protector who has hidden it away deep where no one would dare to look.

Meanwhile, in a dragon cave, a young and powerful dragon wizard is growing into his powers, but what does he have to do with Marcus? In a world filled with magic, will their paths cross again? A powerful sword, that can only be handled by the pure of soul has become a quest for Princess Alexa as she sets off on a deadly quest to retrieve this sword and bring it home as a gift. Can the sword help win back the stolen staff? Will Marcus finally come into his own and get a handle on his magic or will evil overtake the world?

Goodreads * Amazon

Knights of the Full Moon 

Of Knights and Wizards Book 4 

"A.J. Gallant is back and Knights of the Full Moon has got to be right up there as one of his best medieval fantasies to date."

Dii

Who will be transformed into a new sorcerer? Who will perish?

The source of magic is releasing an excessive amount of magical ingredients into the world with dire consequences. Never before seen monsters, dragons with no wings and whales floating up and out of the sea. Marcus and his dragon friend who's also a sorcerer tried but failed to contain the source.

What will happen to this magical world now?

An epic fantasy of sword and sorcery, medieval adventure, romance, and magic. Sprinkled with humor. Arthurian with lots of twists and turns. Ever changing enchantment makes life a complicated affair. 

Goodreads * Amazon

Knights of Ash 

Of Knights and Wizards Book 5 

Dragon fantasy and romance collide in this series of a coming of age wizard and his many trials and tribulations of suddenly being thrown into the wizarding world. A medieval world of dragons, wizards and wizards and of course knights. Did I mention talking dragons? And one dragon in particular that bonds with Marcus which is unheard of in this land. A wonderful series of great and unpredictable adventure.

Marcus always thought that dragons were at the top of the food chain, but crunchers are moving into the area and they kill dragons. The Tar-Cranian Wizard cannot imagine his land without dragons, but even the sorcerers, including Raina and Ash may have enough experience to stop them.

And Marcus must journey to the Upside-Down forest to replenish his magical ingredients, but at more than five hundred leagues away the chances of returning are not good.

Meanwhile, a hunter named Shaun has eyes for the woman that lives across from him, but his father is ready to sell her. 

Goodreads * Amazon

A. J. Gallant is the best selling author of several books, including Knights of the Dragon (of Knights and Wizards series) and Dracula Hearts series, the first book in the series is Dracula: Hearts of Stone.

Detective Olivia Brown Mysteries is also gaining in popularity. (Anita's vacation in New York City ends tragically when she's killed in Central Park, but instead of the end, it's only the beginning. Her soul remains at the scene trying hard to process what happened. There are other ghosts that don't seem to be much help. And,of course, the new reality of being a ghost does not sit well with Anita.

What is she supposed to do now?)

The author has two cats that make him rise at 5 each morning to keep him on his toes. 

Website * Twitter * Amazon * Goodreads

$10 Amazon gift card 

Follow the tour HERE for exclusive content and a giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway