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Think Like A Man, act like a boy
We’ve narrowed the title down for the sequel to RAZHER. So far, Razher Rise of the Gargoyles got the most votes.
Razher II Rise of the Gargoyles Chaos and Ram are twins. Karnage is the oldest brother, while Havoc is the youngest. Following up on the betrayal in the first novel RAZHER, the Gargoyles and their mythology play a major part in the sequel.
Karnage Xian, from the ebook RAZHER, Rise of the Gargoyles I hope to have an excerpt up this week. The Stone Boy will be released this week. A short excerpt can be read here, and there’s a longer sneak peek version on Amazon, which includes an excerpt of the paranormal romance FURIES
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New Excerpts
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Valkyrie Jones book trailer and more excerpts
Here’s the Valkyrie Jones Book trailer. The Cinematic Choir was created by Xelaplus, whose music is on Looperman.com:
I’ll be updating this post to show the links to new excerpts. A two chapter excerpt of Valkyrie Jones can be found here
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Character crossovers and more excerpts TBA
Nevaeh and Josh from HEAVEN, and Derek and Nicole from the soon to be released The Stone Boy have their stories continued in the adult novella MAKE ME YOURS.
The teens appear as college students who bond with the recently divorced lead female character who returns to school in order to earn her degree.
Make Me Yours Working on: Editing, and book trailers for The Stone Boy, Valkyrie Jones and QUEENSREALM.
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I Scifi. Do U?
Gotta share this tumblr post by way of Racebending.com:
Let me tell you a story about media representation and how it informs creativity
I love science fiction. Octavia Butler and Ray Bradbury are a few of my early writing influences, and so we’ve got a couple of scifi offerings coming up this fall: QUEENSREALM and OFFWORLD
How to categorize these ebooks on Amazon will be a challenge, so don’t be surprised to see them bouncing in several different categories once they’re released. For example, my daughter and I decided to put HEAVEN in both African American women’s fiction and also a sub category of teen fiction, because of the adult content. However, whenever Amazon changes its algorithms (like this week, when the site went down without explanation) after making a comeback up the charts, we’re now working hard to regain the traction we had before Amazon’s site snafu.
More sneak peek offerings to come, which include a five chapter excerpt of OFFWORLD:
OFFWORLD Promo Pictured: from left to right: Kadek No’am, Janhoy 1st Class. Upper right: The Child King, Tydaris Ridae, Cura Regis Divine. Lower right: Leonidas Sinclair, Man of Many Centuries
Credits for Steampunk model with braids: wardrobe and styling: Kit Stolen.
Photographer: http://nadyalevphoto.com/?/projects/anachronaut/
Steampunk model with leather mouth piece: Famke Backx, photographer
Goggled hat Steampunk model: inhauscreative photography
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Asian Men Deserve More . . .
This BUZZFEED article is a must read! Asian men need more representation, not just on film, but in books:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattortile/asian-leading-men-who-deserve-more-airtime
Boys ‘N Love and Magic BOYS ‘N LOVE AND MAGIC has Malia Toussaint paired with Corey Yune.
In VALKYRIE JONES, Valencia Perez is paired with Kai Ioki:
Kai, Son of Loki 
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Updates on sequels and business moves
Excerpts from the sequel to Jukebox are almost done and I hope to have them up shortly.
JUKEBOX Volume II What’s surprising is how readers have responded to RAZHER.
Razher, the teen She-Wolf of Maori and African American heritage A bit of background on this novel. It was submitted to Alloy Entertainment (Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl) a few years ago and Alloy passed on it, but I always thought having a vampire who rises to Marvin Gaye and loves to dance, and pairing him with a Maori/African American she-wolf was a bit different than the usual paranormal stories. Adding more characters of color, like Andre Santana (Hispanic werewolf) and Havoc Xian (Chinese Gargoyle) plus an assortment of others might work if it found an audience.
And somehow, it has.
The release date for THE STONE BOY had to be pushed to next week, so I do apologize for the delay.
We’re doing location scouting for HEAVEN and trying to find the right dog(s) to play Myst.
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Free download ends today for X-cerpts of COASS
The free chapter excerpts titled Sneak Peek: Confessions of a Shapeshifter ends today, August 12th on Amazon
The tentative release date for the book is August 21st, however, because its over 500 pages, I still need to delete some scenes. But I’m also thinking that putting some of the mythology of Djinns Vs. Vampires in the back of the book as an addendum might also be an option.
Sneak Peek of COASS on Amazon
