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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Off to visit - and more goodies!

So, I am off to visit another blog - if you want to see the interview, click HERE

AND -

Who wants another peek into A Desperate Gambit?

Darkness.
Pain.
Voices.
Ropes.
Ropes?
Kendra's awareness came back to her in a sudden rush, then ebbed almost as quickly.
“Owww...” she moaned. She tried to reach her hand to her aching head, but found she couldn't move.
She tugged harder. Definitely tied down.
Okay. Let's try looking around.
Kendra opened her eyes – or one of them. Her left eye seemed to be stuck shut.
The light was dim, hardly above blackness but there. Turning her head to the limits, she could see bars surrounding her, but with just the one eye she couldn't tell if they were a foot or ten feet away. They looked solid, though.
Not good.
She wriggled her shoulders. A few inches' movement. Her torso didn't move, though, and now she became aware of the feeling of coarse rope against her skin.
Skin?
As various parts of her body checked in it seemed that there was an awful lot of skin reporting being uncovered.
Way not good, she thought, remembering where she was. Oh shit.
In a few moments she had built up as coherent a picture as she could manage. She was tied to a hard wooden chair. Her wrists were tied to each other; another rope was around her midriff and arms; a third wrapped two or three times over her thighs to the seat of the chair; and each leg was tied to the chair leg in two places, at the knee and again at the ankle. Whoever had done this to her was skilled; she couldn't find any slightest movement in her bonds.
She felt her hair dangling down her back and over her chest. Now I wish I'd gotten these bangs cut!
And she was naked. Completely.
A dull murmur of voices was present in the background though she couldn't make out any individual voices.
Ideas. Think think think! Dammit!
Calm. Okay. You're tied down, naked, in a cage, with voices. What does that mean?
Nothing good.
What did Gary say about Williamson? No, not Williamson. Junior!
I am so frakked.

*grin* 
 That's all you get - until next time!

Adam  

Monday, January 21, 2013

Interview with Kevin J. Anderson

Okay, so - I had the privilege of interviewing the SF author Kevin J. Anderson for Amazing Stories - so why don't you go check out the link? (I'd reproduce it here but I can't do it justice!)

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Riding the Carousel

Hello faithful readers!

You may have noticed the carousel at the top of the blog. No? Really?

Go ahead and look. I'll wait.

Everyone back? Good.

So, those books and stories are either by me or by author friends of mine - and if you would click on one or two that appeal to you, we'd all appreciate it!

The selection changes weekly - Wednesdays - so come back and see what's new!

Thanks!

Adam

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

J K Accinni


About the Author
J. K. Accinni was born and raised in Sussex County before moving to Randolph, New Jersey, where she lived with her husband, five dogs and eight rabbits, all rescued and currently resides in Sarasota, Florida. Mrs. Accinni’s passion for wildlife conservation has led her all over the world, including three trips to Africa, where ten years ago she and her husband fell in love with a baby elephant named Wendi, that had been rescued by a wildlife group. That baby is the inspiration for the character Tobi, the elephant featured in her fourth book titled Hive.
The character of Caesar is inspired by a real life iconic tiger from Big Cat Habitat and Gulf Coast Sanctuary in Sarasota. A portion of the proceeds from her third book, Armageddon Cometh, will be donated to the sanctuary in support of the enormous expense required to house and feed the displaced wildlife in their care. Mrs. Accinni invites her readers to visit bigcathabitat.org to view the astounding facility and plan a visit with your family.




Baby by J.K. Accinni
FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON JAN 15TH & JAN 16TH
Have you ever wondered why God does not punish the evil and depraved of our planet? Why does He tolerate the destructive bloodthirsty nature of Homo sapiens allowing them to rule over all creatures, abusing and exploiting according to their whims? Why has science been unable to solve the vexing mystery of our ancestor, the Missing Link? How could one planet evolve such complex and divergent examples of biodiversity? Can you imagine God ever saying, “To Hell with this mess that is Earth?”
The series “Species Intervention #6609” spans two hundred years, encompassing tender love between divergent species, political downfalls and violence of unspeakable order. It is an unfortunate tale of Armageddon and the remote possibility of redemption.
In Baby, Netty is a naive teenage farm girl given in marriage to an older brutal opportunist disguised as a successful citizen during the years of Prohibition in Sussex County, New Jersey.  After years of enslavement, Netty flees into the night from her rapist husband, traveling back to the farm worked by her parents, where she rescues an unfamiliar damaged creature she finds in a cave in the woods of her childhood, falling in love with the enigmatic creature she names Baby. Together they find happiness and fulfillment despite the changes to Netty’s body wrought by the proximity of the unusual creature.
When a handsome Italian stranger comes into Netty’s life, complications ensue as she falls in love while trying to hide the bizarre and wondrous changes to her farm and her body.  Netty, Baby and Wil strive to conquer obstacles thrown in their path by life, succeeding wildly until the heart-rending and astonishingly brutal climax to their story.


Echo by J.K. Accinni
FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON JAN 22nd & JAN 23rd
Netty’s influence transcends a full century as the United States evolves to a point of politically driven economic collapse. The year is 2033 as a young mother, abused by her shiftless husband, heroically decides to remove her two sickly children, Scotty and Abby, from the mean streets of their government subsidized tenement town of Short Hills, New Jersey to the hills and old farmland of Sussex County. There they unite with a Latino family that adopted Jose, a young boy from Costa Rica, traumatized at the age of seven by the brutal murder of his parents and the kidnapping of his infant sister.
The two families unite to pool finances, creating the love and bonds that will enable them to survive the psychotic attention of Armoni, a soul damaged beyond redemption, discovery of Baby’s miraculous offspring, Echo; and their subsequent body changes. Through the efforts of Echo who develops an unexplained passion for the curly haired dog, Barney, they flee the clutches of Armoni after the murder of Armoni’s sidekicks by Echo, to Sarasota, Florida, one of the last remaining enclaves of wealth in the U.S.
Scotty learns to utilize Echo as a co-conspirator in his intrigue to thwart the efforts of heinous people that prey on the lives of creatures in their environmentally rich new home, where the insidious miscreant, Armoni, tracks them; dragging along Ginger Mae, a New York City prostitute looking for opportunity with her mute child, Daisy; bringing brutality and violence to all.
Having fallen in love, the young  Abby and Jose draw close, only to be separated by the transcendental Netty, who tries to use Abby as a conduit in her plan to rescue as much wildlife as they can before despicable political events bring on the specter of Armageddon.



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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Link to Amazing Stories

If you haven't figured it out by now - I am a blogger for Amazing Stories. These posts will appear every Sunday, usually with some connection to SF Literature (though I may occasionally stray).

This week's feature is BLACK SUN, a book published in 1991, by Robert Leininger.

Enjoy!

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