Showing posts with label Pat McDermott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pat McDermott. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Winners at the Book Launch Party.

Announcing the Winners of the MuseItUp
Author's Book Launch Party on Feb 3rd.



Edith Parzefall won Shellie Neumeier's tween fantasy novella The Wishing Ring


Cover Designer Kaytalin Platt



Carole Sutton won Debi Wilder's short story  Gabby's  Second Chance, Book 2



Cover Designer Suzannah Safi



Pat McDermott won Kristin Battestella's short story Resurrection!  Book Seven



Cover Designer Suzannah Safi


Gail Branan won Wendy Laharnar's short story for Middle Graders Billy the Bonsai Bull
  

Cover Designer Kaytalin Platt



Wendy Laharnar won Elle Druskins novel Gone to the Dogs


Cover Designer Delilah Stephans
Thank you to everyone who participated in the party. You made our day so special.
Thank you Elle, Shellie, Debi and Kristin for your generous gifts.

I must add here, I thought it was understood  I was not eligible for a prize, being one of the hosts at our  party. However, since I lectured someone else a few months ago about how it  hurts a genuine giver when one 'humbly declines' their lovely gesture, I'm standing by my own advice. Like the other winners I'm very touched and delighted. My prize looks like a great read, so, 'Thank You' Elle.

Friday, 11 November 2011

MuseItUp Authors Book Launch Party

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MUSEITUP AUTHORS WHO HAVE BOOKS RELEASED TODAY, 11-11-11

 ROSALIE SKINNER



has her  3RD BOOK in THE CHRONICLES OF CALEATH SERIES released today

EXILED: THE LEGACY OF LATHRAINE’S PLEDGE

Cover Artist: Delilah K. Stephans


BLURB

The threat facing the Southern Regions of Allorn spreads north as warm weather awakens the Tarack. An alliance of Vergöttern and human forces now face overwhelming odds as they battle to keep the rich grain belts free from the giant ants. Without Caleath, hope of keeping the Tarack confined fades.
On Dragonslair Island, Caleath’s return heralds a new threat. Releasing the dead Archimage Tallowbrand and surviving as the Deathbringer brings the sorceress Azriel’s plans closer to fruition.
To save Nasith he must face the Tarack queen and her horde. Each survived challenge only brings him closer to confronting the ever powerful Azriel.


AVAILABLE from Amazon and Muse Bookstore 'Exiled: The Legacy of Lathraine’s Pledge' 



 PAT MCDERMOTT





Pat's Novel is GLANCING THROUGH THE GLIMMER


Cover Artist: Kaytalin Platt

In the modern Kingdom of Ireland, few mortals believe in the fairy folk.
Without that belief, the fairies are dying. Finvarra, the King of the
Fairies, would rather dance than worry-but he must have a mortal dancing
partner.

When Janet Gleason's grandfather becomes the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland,
the sixteen-year-old orphan must leave Boston and her friends behind. Janet
is lonely in Dublin and unused to her grandparents' stuffy social life. An
invitation to a royal ball terrifies her. She can't even waltz and dreads
embarrassment. Finvarra's fairy witch overhears her fervent wish to learn to
dance.

Seventeen-year-old Prince Liam Boru loathes the idea of escorting another
spoiled American girl to a ball. In fact, he detests most of his royal
duties. He dresses down to move through Dublin unnoticed and finds himself
on his royal backside when Janet crashes into him. Intrigued, he asks to see
her again, and she willingly agrees. Unaware of each other's identities,
they arrange to meet. When they do, the fairies steal Janet away.

Liam's attempts to find her trigger a series of frustrating misadventures.
Can he and Janet outwit a treacherous fairy king who's been hoodwinking
mortals for centuries?


Available from Amazon and Muse Bookstore 'Glancing Through The Glimmer'


CHRISTINE LONDON




 WHEN WE WERE AMAZING 


Cover Artist: Delilah K Stephans

Blurb
Fourteen freaking hours in the hell that was the interior of a jet plane. He tried to read, listen to music, watch a film. Nothing. He could see nothing but her lying in a hospital bed, tubes and technology running from her, surrounding her with their manufactured sterility. She needed to be touched. He needed to touch her. Make sure she was warm, well, alive.

A nagging weight lodged in the pit of his stomach. No food, no drink, just her. She was the cure.

He slid the sunshade up. The first rays of light sliced across the horizon as they chased the day at thirty six thousand feet. He could scarcely make out the scallop of cumulus below as they drifted by. The world went on, not caring a thing for the concerns of man. His world was suspended like an insect in amber. The rest of humanity could look in at him, but he was paralyzed to act, to move, to breathe.


Available from Amazon and Muse Bookstore 'When We Were Amazing'



PAT DALE





BLUE STREAKS 

Cover Artist: Delilah K Stephans

Blurb

This science fantasy romp is not what it seems. Ostensibly a foray into the inner reaches of space, the characters take you for a spin into a digital existence that literally lights your fire. Then douses it, permanently. One jolly good romp in the hay and it is sayonara, baby. Police Detective Jim Smith chases the horny, high-charged devil down as it fries victim after victim. When he goes digital as a part of the chase, the conclusion looms, but with a twist that could not have been anticipated. Sweet dreams! Read and enjoy, but whatever else you do, do not hit the escape key…

Contains graphic sex, and is not for the young or the faint of heart.

Available from Amazon and Muse Bookstore 'Blue Streaks'



P.J. LAWTON         OBSTRUCTED VENGEANCE

Cover Artist: Tiger Matthews

                      
A sadistic cold-blooded killer is loose inside the domes on Terra. Galactic P.I. Majestic Kane soon learns the deaths are acts of vengeance against him, his friends, and acquaintances. To end the slaughter, Kane must put everything on the line to stop a madman, before it’s too late…

Available from Amazon and Muse Bookstore 'Obstructed Vengeance'


 LIN HOLMES'




CHAMPAGNE AFTERNOON is released today.

Cover Artist: Delilah K Stephans
Available from Amazon and Muse Bookstore - Champagne Afternoon

Lin wishes her fellow Muse Authors who have books released today her very best wishes for their success. She is sorry she can't be with us today but is definitely with us in spirit. So we should raise our champagne glasses to Lin and  Rosalie, Pat McD, PJ, Christine and Pat Dale.
Come and join the boistrous party via the comments- if you are game - and you might be the first to win a copy of one of these new books.
The garden gate stands ajar-- WELCOME IN said the spier to the fly hehehehe

Thursday, 18 August 2011

August issue of Calamity's Corner.

Happy August, Everyone.
I hope all is well with you and your loved ones.

Since my novel, 'The Unhewn Stone' will be available
in ebook from 12th August, I'll give you one guess
who the featured author is, this month. :)

In the travel feature, American Romance author
Pat McDermott shares her romantic cruise to Alaska.
Our regular columnists LJ Roberts and Jacquie Rogers
present their book review and Blast from the Past,
respectively.

We have an Aussie pet that works with a team-mate
and my young Swiss friend, Janine Wipfli, sings on TV
in Altdorf (which just happens to be the setting for
my novel). This is a magical video, one you simply must
see. 7 minutes long, so it might take a little while to load.

And there is plenty more.
If you'd like to receive this fun ezine, just  Subscribe to Calamity's Corner.
We'll be delighted to welcome you.
Until next month
Fond wishes
Calamity.