411 on Books, Authors & Publishing

One Day in Budapest – now available on Amazon, Kobo, Nook, and coming soon on iBookstore

Posted: August 22, 2013 in Announcements
Tags: book sale, recommended reading

A relic, stolen from the heart of an ancient city.
An echo of nationalist violence not seen since the dark days of the
Second World War.

Budapest, Hungary. When a priest is murdered at the Basilica of St. Stephen and the Holy Right relic is stolen, the ultra-nationalist Eröszak party calls for retribution and anti-Semitic violence erupts in the city.

Dr Morgan Sierra, psychologist and ARKANE agent, finds herself trapped inside the synagogue with Zoltan Fischer, a Hungarian Jewish security advisor. As the terrorism escalates, Morgan and Zoltan must race against time to find the Holy Right and expose the conspiracy, before blood is spilled again on the streets of Budapest.

One Day In Budapest is a chilling view of a possible future as Eastern Europe embraces right-wing nationalism. A conspiracy thriller for fans of Daniel Silva, where religion and politics intersect.

Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/172uqUd (and all other Amazon stores)
Amazon.co.uk: http://amzn.to/1d5BYeX
Kobo: http://bit.ly/13R2LDt
Nook: http://bit.ly/1d1z2Rs

I’ve also done a short video all about my research trip for the book, and how much of the story is based on reality. You can watch it on this page:
http://jfpenn.com/budapest-research/

Right now, the novella is less than the price of a coffee 🙂

PLUS, to encourage the readers of Budapest to try my main series, Exodus, ARKANE #3 is on sale this week for $2.99

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ALJ09HO/
Kobo: http://bit.ly/14j0YuL

Join the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant!

Thanks, Joanna

Coming Soon…

Posted: August 20, 2013 in Announcements, Blog Tour Hosting

theunderlighters The Underlighters

Nightmares are bleeding into her waking world. Children are going missing. To save them, she must overcome her wreck of a personal life and a closet full of skeletons. She doesn’t know if the horrors in the shadows are real…or if she is going mad.

18-year-old Janelle Cohen is an electrician in an underground city. The world above has been swal-lowed by mind-destroying Dust. Her small life changes forever when a dragon attacks her on the way home from work.

Her friends worry that she has the Fever, Dust-induced insanity. As more monsters strike down citizens, they change their minds. A terrifying trip to the surface of the world, the ancient and abandoned Up, deepens the nightmare. With no world left above, she and the other Crows cannot afford to fail…

5 stars: “…You will be rewarded with a dive into the depths of imagination that may leave you questioning, breathless and inspired.” –www.TracingTheStars.com

5 stars: “… Engaging, ground breaking prose that is not afraid to test the reader’s boundaries. “—Sara Celi

5 stars: “…A wonderful read that is full of life, nightmares, fear, and dreams.” –Casey Peeler

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Janelle’s world is about to get very, very dark. Are you ready? On August 30^th, nightmares are going to become a little too real for comfort.

*****

Thanks for dropping by the nest once again. Don’t miss any of the phuquerie. Find Michelle on Twitter, Facebook, and on Tumblr. More interviews and witty commentaries are coming. Keep checking back to see those surprise posts, too. This is your darling SciFiMagpie, over and out!

Coming Soon – The Underlighters (stevenramirez.com)
The Underlighters by Michelle Browne (raodum.wordpress.com)
The Underlighters Promo and Giveaway (ccclubbs.com)

Ninety-Five Percent Human by Suzanna Williams

Posted: August 13, 2013 in book reviews

Welcome to the latest cover reveal with Young-Adult Author Suzanna Williams. Released today is her latest book, the first in the series, Ninety-Five Percent Human.

Ninety-Five Percent Human  

Teenager, Joe Kendrick, thinks he’s got problems. The farm he’s looked after since his father’s suicide is falling and his brother wants to sell it, his girlfriend has dumped him and his normally down-to-earth Nan starts muttering about seeing UFO’s. And all Joe wants is a ‘normal’ life.Then he saves suicidal stranger, Sarah, from drowning.

What Joe doesn’t know is that Sarah is a human/alien hybrid, sent to test the viability of life on Earth, and, as she’s survived hostile aliens are already planning their attack.

Ninety-five percent Human is the first in a two-book sci-fi adventure.

Suzanna’s known for her first release, ShockWaves which is Free today in honor of the cover release.

At the end of the month, the book will be on Tour, check in with The Finishing Fairies for the full tour schedule coming soon.

IMG_2219-001 Suzanna Williams is a perpetually eighteen year old YA author who lives in the wild, wet, Welsh borderlands surrounded by ruined medieval castles and Celtic mythology where she looks for UFO’s amongst the stars and imagines all the people she meets have dark secrets.

When she is not inventing radical problems for her unsuspecting heroes and plotting their escape, Suzanna is a serial collector of random badly paying jobs and has never found a use for her BSc in Psychology whatsoever.

As a child, Suzanna filled notebook after notebook with stories and her first taste of writing success was a poem published in the local newspaper aged just nine years old. She has written and directed several plays and pantomimes before publishing her debut novel, ShockWaves, in 2012.

Suzanna loves sci-fi action adventures, playing the piano, believes Romeo and Juliet should have talked more and considers sarcasm to be the highest form of wit.