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For those of you who are Darby Karchut fans, Kelly Hashway fans, or Aurelio Voltaire fans (and if you’re a reader of this blog, you probably are), have I got some news for you!!
Aurelio Voltaire’s debut novel, Call of the Jersey Devil will be an Amazon Big Deal from today, April 25 until Sunday, May 11.
The Pine Barrens of New Jersey are a wasteland – well, even more so than the rest of the state. Few people can live there, businesses certainly don’t thrive, and other than the trees that cast an impenetrable darkness over the sugar sand, not a lot of things flourish in the unusual landscape.
Except for the Jersey Devil. Hellspawn of folklore and legend.
Which makes it the perfect place for a Goth festival!
Or, at least that’s what brings five disenfranchised mall rats and a washed up Goth musician to a particular, lonely cabin in this wasteland. Where they’re about to find out that it really is true: New Jersey is an entrance to Hell.
With the help of a lone witch, this small group must face off against their deepest fears and the most unholy monsters in a battle where their very souls, the world they live in, and any chance of returning to Hot Topic is at stake!
Buy Call of the Jersey Devil now!
And Darby Karchut has TWO specials. Right now Gideon’s Spear, the sequel to Finn Finnegan is also an Amazon Big Deal from today, April 25, until Sunday, May 8!
For Finn, it’s time to Irish up.
When a power-crazed sorceress and the neighborhood pack of beast-like goblins team up and threaten both his master and his friends, thirteen-year-old Finn (not Finnegan) MacCullen does the only thing an apprentice monster hunter can do: he takes the fight to the enemy. And woe to the foe he meets along the way.
On top of the Amazon Big Deal, Darby also is doing a Goodreads Giveaway of an autographed Finn Finnegan! You can enter it here. 🙂
And finally, there’s a great Goodreads Giveaway for Kelly Hashway’s Monster Within going on until June 30. 🙂 Go enter it now!
I’m very excited to share another one of my author’s beautiful covers! Have I mentioned how much I <3 Kelly Hashway???
If you’ve become a fan of the awesome Kelly Hashway–a totally logical thing for those who have read TOUCH OF DEATH or anything else by her–Spencer Hill Press is happy to announce the first peek at her newest addition to the SHP Family: THE MONSTER WITHIN Cover Reveal! Sporting a fabulous Lisa Amowitz cover, check out another wonderfully dark tale by Kelly Hashway!
THE MONSTER WITHIN
By Kelly Hashway
The moment seventeen-year-old Samantha Thompson crawls out of her grave, her second chance at life begins. She died of cancer with her long-time boyfriend, Ethan, by her side–a completely unfair shot at life.
But Ethan found a way to bring her back, like he promised he would. Only Sam came back wrong.
She’s now a monster that drains others’ lives to survive. And after she kills, she’s tortured by visions—glimpses into her victims would-have-been futures had she not killed them. Barely able to live with herself and trying to make things right, Sam ends up a pawn in a vicious game of payback within the local coven of witches.
But when the game reveals what Ethan had to do to save Sam, she must make a choice that will change all their lives forever.
Title: The Monster Within
Author: Kelly Hashway
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
ISBN:Â 978-1-937053-85-7
Release Date: 4/7/2014
Formats: Paper, e-book
Goodreads TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839932-the-monster-within
If you’d like to request an ARC, please use the reviewer form on our website. ARCs will ship in January 2014.
I’m super excited to finally reveal the cover of the final installment of the Touch of Death series by the amazing, sweet, and wonderful Kelly Hashway! (What is it about people who write wonderfully twisted horror being some of the sweetest people I know?!) Anyway, check out this gorgeous cover (complete with Sexy Hades) and keep an eye out for this book in January!
FACE OF DEATH
The third and final book in the TOUCH OF DEATH series.
By Kelly Hashway
Having fallen at the hands of Hades, Jodi’s enduring torture like she never imagined. Worse, she has to watch her Ophi friends suffer along with her–the punishment doled out by the very people she’d sentenced to life in Tartarus. Hell. This is one reunion Jodi hoped would never happen, but now she must find a way to free them all.
Except the underworld is nearly impossible to escape.
Jodi’s one chance may rest in raising the human soul she killed when she drank Medusa’s blood.
But splitting her human soul from her Ophi soul means living a double life: One as an Ophi experiencing unspeakable torture and the other as the human she could have been if she never came into her powers. With her two worlds colliding, Jodi will have to make the toughest decision she’s faced yet.
Title: Face of Death (Touch of Death #3)
Author: Kelly Hashway
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
ISBN:Â 978-1-937053-92-5
Release Date: 1/7/2014
Formats: Paper, e-book
Goodreads TBR:
If you’d like to request an ARC, please use the reviewer form on our website.
Touch of Death, by Kelly Hashway, is released this week! With an awesome A-Prom-Calypse Zombie Prom at Arisia this Sunday!
Jodi Marshall isn’t sure how she went from normal teenager to walking disaster. One minute she’s in her junior year of high school, spending time with her amazing boyfriend and her best friend. The next she’s being stalked by some guy no one seems to know.
After the stranger, Alex, reveals himself, Jodi learns he’s not a normal teenager and neither is she. With a kiss that kills and a touch that brings the dead back to life, Jodi discovers she’s part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. A branch of necromancers that are descendents of Medusa. A branch of necromancers with poisoned blood writhing in their veins.
Jodi’s deadly to the living and even more deadly to the deceased. She has to leave her old, normal life behind before she hurts the people she loves. As if that isn’t difficult enough, Jodi discovers she’s the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she can’t figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct.
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November 2011, Kate Kaynak, head of Spencer Hill Press, sent me an email with a manuscript she thought would be something I’d love. It was my first manuscript since working with Kate on UnCONventional. I’d done about six other novels/non-fiction books on a freelance basis with the authors; this was the first novel for SHP, the first novel a publishing house was contracting me to work on.
So, I was a little nervous, I have to admit.
But I loved the manuscript. Kate had – and still has – a good eye for my taste in books. I grew up reading all the Goosebumps and Fear Street books; I loved YA horror in a contemporary setting. High school sucks, so I enjoy reading about how much worse it could be.
And I know going into a manuscript that I’m going to have to read and re-read it dozens and dozens of times. For freelance work, I’ve done books I just like, because, well, it was income. With the way Kate was organizing her editing team for SHP, we had our choice from the submissions and slush pile. We had the choice to choose something we could thoroughly enjoy reading dozens and dozens (and dozens) of times over. Touch of Death definitely fit that bill for me.
In any case, Kelly served me a zombie deer in the first five pages, an icon I adored right from the start. I still have the plush one she sent me “guarding” my desk! He’s going to travel with me to Arisia this week, too, because he totally deserves to be at the A-Prom-Calypse Release Party. There was also a zombie squirrel. Yay undead critters! (Yes, I’m weird like that.) Even moreso, I connected with her main character, Jodi, and I absolutely appreciated where she was taking Greek mythology, particularly the Medusa story… because, as far as I’m concerned, the original myth of Medusa seriously screwed the poor woman… and plenty of modern myths are still just dealing with the “monster” aspect as opposed to the “person” aspect of her.
Besides how much I loved the novel, itself, here’s what I loved the editing process. First of all, there wasn’t a lot of changes that needed to be made. (Well, in my editing experience, it wasn’t a lot for me, anyway. Kelly is free to disagree. 😉 ) We went over a few of my usual suspects – things that surprise me if I don’t play with – like some car physics (Thank you Hollywood vs. Mythbusters), battle/fistfight physics and psychology, hospital/medical protocol (Thank you TV hospital dramas vs. actual medical persons), and then the two of us had a good time keeping an eye on Jodi’s fluids and their resulting body/resurrection count (Kelly actually caught one biggie that I missed in regard to this!) All of which were easy-peasy and a lot of fun.
Now, Kelly has the superpower of speedy turnaround – definitely the fastest author turnaround that I’ve ever worked with for a novel length, while addressing everything I noted. When I say “address,” I mean it with a liberal definition – but an entirely positive one. Nothing got ignored or forgotten. She may have not have followed all of my suggestions, but she answered all of my questions… and then did her own thing which, in all cases, was way better than what I suggested anyway.
Even now after having seen it from submission to publication, I still have opened up my editor’s ARC it to look up something for marketing or such… and still gotten lost in the pages.
And as of this week – it’s available for anyone to purchase and love! I can’t wait to see this turn into something very awesome for Kelly.
(Especially since I know what happens in the sequel, Stalked by Death! Mwahahaha!)