Life, Interrupted

I don't know how many of you clicked through when I posted the sampler link for Chaz Brenchley's first Ben Macallan book, Dead of Light, but the writing was phenomenal! I am going to jump into Dead of Light this summer, but this one is going on the list. The first is gritty, character and plot driven urban fantasy, the magic working well with the world created. I'm expecting more of the same!

Light Errant (Urban Fantasy)
Chaz Brenchley
May 24, 2011 $4.99 ebook (DRM-free)
ISBN: 978 1 61138 064 4

Ben's back—and this time he means business. Family business...

Benedict Macallan, wonder-worker malgré lui, has travelled the length and breadth of Europe since the events of Dead of Light, and still discovered no family like his own. Maybe Macallan blood really is a biological sport, a freak of evolution.

What Ben does discover is that he can't escape his birthright. He can run to the sun and hide among strangers, but he can't hide his powers from himself. When a friend asks for help, he has to use them. With blood on his hands once more, it's farewell la dolce vita; he gets on his bike and goes home.

Home is no sweeter than it was before, but it has changed. His gangster relatives have lost control somehow, of themselves and their city. More than one evil is at work here now, and even Ben's unique talents may not be enough to save the one he loves.

If he can only work out who that is...

Read a sample

Calling ebook readers who love contemporary fantasy, and like to dip into the teen book section. Lori Devoti's DEMON HIGH is now available, and it's only $3.99! Here's the cover:



And here's the details:

Lucinda Dent never planned to call demons. She wasn’t stupid, after all. She’d seen what the addiction had done to her mother. But her mother has been gone for ten years, sucked into hell by a demon, and all Lucinda has left is her grandmother and the house she grew up in. Who could blame her for using the only thing her mother gave her, a talent for demon calling, to save them?

Lucinda teams up with an old friend and together they set up business, calling demons. But soon things go terribly wrong.

Demons are loose in Caldera High, and not only is Lucinda responsible, she just might be in love with one of them. Can love conquer all or is Lucinda about to lose everything--her home, her new love, and her soul?

Author’s Note: This novel is dark urban fantasy with romantic elements. It contains both swear words and sexual situations. It is not squeaky clean.

You have been warned! Now -- get thee to a copy! (But maybe set up a ritual circle of protect first?)

Not actual reviews on what I've been reading this week (bad Alfreda, reading and not writing except notes and genealogies on PowerPoint) but mention of differences in Ilona Andrews' two series I've found, a bullet (as in the old music industry lists) for Carousel Tides. Reviews for all will eventually go up there, but for now, thumbs up on what I've been reading!

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/259969.Katharine_Eliska_Kimbriel/blog/767930-playing-in-urban-and-rural-fantasy

And it's Thursday, which means that Fires of Nuala has a new section up at Book View Cafe. Newbies can start below -- those still reading along, BVC does have RSS, so if you use Google Reader, you can add in the main site and blog with no trouble at all.

http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Katharine-Eliska-Kimbriel/Novels/Fires-of-Nuala-1

What else? Oh! The Galaxy Express has kindly mentioned the arrival of Fires of Nuala in the e-book ranks, with links and even a mention of the forthcoming Hidden Fires. Check out their site for advance PR and interviews about Science Fiction Romance.

http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2010/11/katherine-eliska-kimbrels-fires-of.html