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Love the cover, very cute for little readers, my three year old just saw it and wanted to open it :) normally he ignores Mummy's laptop because it doesn't have fun stuff



Freya 800 AD
Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain.
Book now available. Giving away to copies on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.
Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain.
Book now available. Giving away to copies on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.

Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain.
Book now available. Giving away 2 copies on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.


Ahhh, thank you!

My books are all paranormal in nature.
The Shadows Series (#1 and #2 are out so far)


Heiress of Lies is the first book in the Bloodtruth series (YA vampire)

The Soul Garden is a dystopian non-traditional zombie tale and is the prequel to my upcoming Twisted Soul series.


Inside-Evil, a British paranormal mystery








How Strange It Is To Be Anything At All by Joe Riley (Word Palace Press)

Available on Amazon.
I'm interested in your reviews.




Halfway To Nowhere
a Literary Fiction story, set in contemporary San Francisco.
here's the synopsis:
"Alex Smith is an ordinary joe lost in an ordinary world, a cruel and dreary place where nothing turns out as planned. He works the night shift at a dead end job that barely pays the bills, his sleazy landlord swindles any money that's left over, his apartment only a tiny box with roaches for company. His absent father suddenly walks back into his life asking for redemption, his friends gone or unavailable. What makes matters worse is that Alex is taunted by recurring dreams where he wakes to an empty world, where there is no one left around but him, nothing but empty streets and an empty city. Put simply, his life is a boat without oars in a sea of shallow water, and all he wishes for is some inkling to life purpose, a direction to happiness and self worth.
When Lexi, a recently impregnated prostitute crosses his path, he invites her to stay with him for a time until she can get her own life together. This small act of kindness will send him down a bizarre spiral of events that will change his life in a way he never could have predicted, and into a shape that could only come from life itself."


The following is the back cover description on the soon-to-be-released-through-Amazon (late June/early July) print version of my novel, Awake in the Mad World, followed by a discussion of theme in parentheses. It is already available in the Apple ibookstore, on Kobo, and any minute now, Nook. Kindle will come a few weeks after print.
“I hadn’t thought of it, in real truth. I hadn’t thought about love because when I was at work, I didn’t think, I am at work. I hadn’t thought, when I was at the grocery store, I am at the store. We just are where we are. We’re in what we’re in.�
Pete Rattigan is a frustrated young newspaper journalist caught up in uncertainty of the post-graduate “real world�. One night, one seemingly minor encounter sparks a philosophical journey which leads him to discover that in the most beautiful or even cruel moments of life, the power of friendship explains the power of the universe. And that perhaps there is no such thing as chance. With force, humor and sensitivity Damon Ferrell Marbut presents his debut, Awake in the Mad World, which frees its audience to believe again in the wildness of the young American heart, how it beats just to prove that it will always survive and succeed on its own terms.
(((Elements of my novel Awake in the Mad World are, inarguably, “coming of age, identity and self-discovery�. But also, it’s about place, and asks, Where do the dreamers fit in? Where, in the modern American conversation that’s been changed by technology and is continuing to be changed by the political landscape? How we communicate and what we’re communicating about is managing some sort of odd relevance and mindlessness simultaneously. Is the importance of one’s search for Self in this country being put on the backburner as greed and survival take precedent? Though the novel’s characters representing this search are post-graduates in their mid-twenties, the disillusioned and disenfranchised in our culture are of all demographics, ages, income ranges, genders and ethnicities. My novel is about human relationships, also, and how the growth and purity of our ambitions are shaped and altered by the friends and family we include on our path to wholeness.
As this is a literary non-genre novel, after three years I decided to publish this book myself, recognizing fully the struggle I would continue to face while attempting to sell the risk of a debut novelist to an agent, editor or publisher already anxious about the changing publishing industry. I do hope my novel is a memorable read for you, and thank you in advance for reading it. I look forward to your ratings and reviews.)))

Delno Okonan is a young former soldier eager to put the swords and strife of war behind him, when a chance encounter leaves him inextricably entwined in a tangled web of dragons, magic, and intrigue, as he struggles to find his place among dragons and men, and stave off a plot by renegade dragon riders that threatens all he now holds dear.



Reyna Hawk
All Janie and Daniel wanted was a better life and growing up in small town Louisiana did not give them that opportunity. So the sister and brother, with the help of Daniel’s “new employer�, headed to Los Angeles, California in the hopes of improving their lives. However, their hopes begin to diminish when Daniel’s work in organized crime lead them down dangerous and deadly roads. After Daniel’s mysterious disappearance and death Janie plunges deep into not only grief over the loss of her brother but also in love to the “Big Boss’s Assistant�, Rico. The couple seems to have everything going for them except Rico’s job takes him away for days on end sometimes. Janie’s suspicions and worries over Rico’s possible infidelity reveals information she never imagined would come to light. Her undying conditional love for this man leads to secrets, lies, and murder. Soon Janie finds herself on the wrong side of the gun hanging off a cliff deep in the woods of North Carolina.

First in the Dead trilogy.

Second in the Dead trilogy.

Third in the Dead trilogy.



GRAVEYARD ASSASSINS :: Robert Reid
On the day Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK in Dallas, illusionist Keane Crowley was preparing for a performance destined to change the course of his burgeoning career. And then, suddenly, he was dead, too.
More than thirty years later, teenager Casper Cole learns the truth about Keane Crowley’s mysterious life and death when he is taught the secret art of shuffling: the ability to use a deck of playing cards to time-travel. During his time-traveling expeditions to the past—which include face-to-face encounters with both Abraham Lincoln and Lee Harvey Oswald, as well as a harrowing escape from the battle of Gettysburg—Casper comes to realize that it was Crowley’s death, and not Kennedy’s, that changed the course of human history on November 22, 1963.
Reporter Finn Avery, meanwhile, stumbles upon Crowley’s story while working for a ragtag community newspaper, and, in her quest to learn more about him, finds herself confronting bludgeoned bodies, unmarked mass graves, and an enigmatic man who claims to be Crowley himself—alive and seemingly immortal some thirty-four years after his alleged death.
Zigzagging through more than one hundred years of American history, GRAVEYARD ASSASSINS challenges the notion of what it means to be alive when humanity’s every recorded memory can be revisited in the space between two playing cards.
Available on Kindle today:

She finds herself caught between two worlds ~ remaining who she is, or the woman she secretly wishes to become. Captive Heart is a soulful tale of spiritual rebirth, and a passionate love story that blossoms during an extremely difficult journey of revelation. Book 2 of Iroquois Series. Find Book 1 - Wind Warrior on my website
EBook 15% summer discount ~ - promo code AM94Z
This Too Shall Pass ~ Rising from the ashes once you hit rock bottom is not easy for a woman alone. Neither is the journey along the road to self-discovery. The end result proves awe inspiring for Alana Waverly when fate steps in, however, and presents her with the wonderful possibility of not only finding love, but believing in it again.
Ebook ~ 15% summer discount ~ ~ promo code YX33P
Kindle - available in lending library as well
Paperback - ~ $5.00 off promo code 8D5DAYHE




Prologue:
Summers in Chattanooga tend to be taxing once the oppressive heat and humidity make their way over Lookout Mountain and settle into the valley, but nothing could quite prepare us for the monumental life-changing madness the summer of '44 would heap upon us. Until that time, as far as anyone was concerned, we were just an ordinary family, living an ordinary life, in an ordinary house. Now we've become famous, or more accurately infamous, and newspapers quote neighbors as saying things like, “They were a nice quiet family, always seemed perfectly normal.� I suppose we were normal, or at least seemed normal, until fate, the war, a missing boy, and a dime store canary conspired to expose us for what we really are � a bunch of raving loons.


"Mahalia," by Moira Katson
Mahalia spends her days in the gilded cage of a noblewoman’s life, hiding her interest in magic and dreading the day that she is married off for a political alliance. But when a fire demon is released into her oasis, destroying her home and decimating her tribe, Mahalia’s sheltered world is turned upside-down. Her people have always been different, worshiping other gods and practicing arcane magics � now, they are blamed for the disaster, and mysterious robed prophets appear from the deep desert, naming the tribe as demon-born, cursed by Heaven itself. As a strange illness begins to claim members of the tribe, Mahalia steps up to become ailahafeeza, protector of her family � and perhaps the only person who can save them from an enemy who has lain in wait for centuries�


12 Precious Anecdotes from Life
The book is also available in Amazon US, UK stores
The book is enrolled in KDP Select in Amazon for monthly borrows. The book is scheduled to run a free promotion next week.
Download this Kindle book for free on 23rd June and 24th June- saturday, sunday Weekend Bonanza!

Eiddoril is dying, and it’s only hope rests on the shoulders of an orphan girl. The mystery of her strange dreams lead her to discover that she is not even a human but part of a long forgotten race. Karah embarks on a life-changing quest to discover the truth about herself and the way to defeat her most deadly enemy. But as she gets closer to the truth, she begins to realize that her part in the future of Eiddoril may not be to save it but to help destroy it.

After much tinkering, The Wizard of Crescent Moon Mountain is being published on the 20th June (it was due out Nov 2011).
I've had a couple of good reviews, and the back cover will feature the following review quotes:
What a story this is! It’s no exaggeration to say that whilst you’re reading it you see it up on the big screen� splendid stuff
**** (4 stars) � TheBookbag.co.uk
Funny and emotional, with thrills, plenty of spills, tears and laughter
â€� Leanne, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ reader
I enjoyed the book� I’d like to see where this goes
� sfandfantasyreviews.blogspot.com
Here's the blurb:
Elven boys, Finn and Beezle, enter a time portal just before their race is wiped out by an otherworldly warrior and his goblin army. Travelling 3,000 years into the future and arriving in snow-filled lands, the boys are saved from the cold by two shape-shifters sent by Greybeard, the wizard of Crescent Moon Mountain. Out of their time and depth, Finn and Beezle are enlisted to join Greybeard and his friends on a quest to save the world of Everlast from the very same otherworldly warrior.
Seeing Beezle has a talent for magic after an incident with his magical bear-headed staff, Greybeard begins to teach the little elf a few tricks. But a problem arises when Finn comes into possession of a magical weapon capable of defeating the warrior. Little does anyone know the weapon has a mind of its own and wants Beezle as its master...
The book will be available on amazon / web / in store on the July 1st. You can get a copy half price at ....
The Wizard of Crescent Moon Mountain: Elven Resurrection
Freya 800 AD. Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain.
Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming the vast glacial wilderness.
Freya's husband, Olaf, hungered for wealth. He sailed the longship, Odin's Thunder, across the Norse Sea to wreak havoc on the Picts of northern Britain. Freya, haunted by images of her husband's rapine and cruel infidelity, prays to pagan gods for his return.
With the settlement almost deserted, Knut, a man of the mountains with a warped and cruel mind, crossed the threshold of Freya's longhouse with devastating consequences.
In a dreadful twist of fate, Freya is forced to live in isolation. It takes all her willpower to survive a dark and frozen winter with only Brock, her favourite hound for company.
When Olaf had been missing for two winter seasons, Freya sailed to the shores of Britain to find him. Betrayal and tragedy lie ahead.
The paperback Freya 800 AD is a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Give-Away ending 11th July. www.goodreads.com/book/show/13613471
Freya 800 AD is also a Kindle book.
Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming the vast glacial wilderness.
Freya's husband, Olaf, hungered for wealth. He sailed the longship, Odin's Thunder, across the Norse Sea to wreak havoc on the Picts of northern Britain. Freya, haunted by images of her husband's rapine and cruel infidelity, prays to pagan gods for his return.
With the settlement almost deserted, Knut, a man of the mountains with a warped and cruel mind, crossed the threshold of Freya's longhouse with devastating consequences.
In a dreadful twist of fate, Freya is forced to live in isolation. It takes all her willpower to survive a dark and frozen winter with only Brock, her favourite hound for company.
When Olaf had been missing for two winter seasons, Freya sailed to the shores of Britain to find him. Betrayal and tragedy lie ahead.
The paperback Freya 800 AD is a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Give-Away ending 11th July. www.goodreads.com/book/show/13613471
Freya 800 AD is also a Kindle book.

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