Saturday, May 19, 2012

Meet Shaun Allan

Shaun Allan, author of psychological thriller SIN, spills it all on Blog Talk Radio.


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Shaun Allan and his novel SIN available at Waterhouse in the UK




About Shaun Allan

A writer of many prize winning short stories and poems, Shaun Allan has written for more years than he would perhaps care to remember. Having once run an online poetry and prose magazine, he has appeared on Sky television to debate, against a major literary agent, the pros and cons of internet publishing as opposed to the more traditional method. Many of his personal experiences and memories are woven into Sin’s point of view and sense of humour although he can’t, at this point, teleport. Shaun lives with his one partner, two daughters, three cats and four fish!

Shaun can be found on the internet at http://www.shaunallan.co.uk
Twitter at @singularityspnt 
Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/shaunallan


About SIN


Meet Sin. No, not that sort of sin, but Sin, crazy as a loon (you ask Sister Moon), and proud of it. Sin locks himself away in a mental home and, every so often, gets violent. That’s only so they’ll give him those nice drugs, though. The ones that help him forget.

It’s a pity they don’t work.

Sin, you see, has a serious problem. Well, it’s not so much his problem, as ours – yours, mine and everyone else’s. People die around him. He doesn't like it and he can't help it. But someone else knows, and he has to stop them... and himself...

Flip and catch...


All Shaun Allan's Books

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Call me Mingan



Congratulations to Leanna Gutierrez!

 

The polls have closed and all votes are in for the "Name My Character Contest". The new character's name a Native American name, Mingan, which means Grey Wolf. As winner, Leanna will receive an autographed copy of Burdens of a Saint when it comes out later this year.  

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest and congratulations again to Leanna!
posted by Joan Hazel

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Win a Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch 3G, and More!

Kindle-icious Spring Fever Give-away

From Fantasy Island Book Publishing


To celebrate the successes of FIBP's talented authors, we are giving away over $700 worth of prizes, and absolutely NO purchase necessary!


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MODERN TALES

Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square -  The novel follows a young woman, Baiyun, a junior in college, trying to reconcile her upbringing while in the midst of the rising political movement in Beijing, China.
 
After Ilium - Seduction, mayhem and coming-of-age in this updated take on the Iliad and the Odyssey

Sons of Roland - A group memoir about The Visitors, a 1960's rock and roll band from Brooklyn.

Sand - Romantic thriller and the lives of the Special Forces

Losing Beauty - With eyes that can see into peoples' souls, Percy attracts the attention of an ancient evil. 
Silent No More - a freak twist in time brings a modern woman to 1942-era Munich

Beloved - Nena has arrived in Paris and meets a beautiful guy with the face of an angel

Enchanted Hearts - Romance with a western flair

Ednor Scardens - Kate has two brothers battling for her affections and a predatory priest stalking her.

Terps - Deafness is perceived as a culture and not as a disability in the world of "Terps" where Deaf and hearing overlap.

The Last Guardian - Commando shape shifters risk everything to save a woman, their last hope for survival

Catch a Falling Star - Retribution & revenge combine to create a common destiny for Savannah & Travis.


What the Heart Sees - Southern Romance, a man must choose between his happiness or his brothers.

HORROR/MURDER/MYSTERY

BedBugs - In 1977 an alien spaceship crashed down in the town of Lemonsville. The next day five people were found dead....

Emeline and the Mutants - A post-apocalyptic thriller that includes zombies and vampires, after a cure for AIDS goes wrong...

Black Numbers A thriller / fantasy, where magic comes from numbers and strange sexuality

Sin - Could you kill a killer? Horror and fantasy collide in the story of Sin. Is he the mental patient or the only sane one?

The Lollipop Club - Thrills galore in this sexy mystery
 
Sax and the Suburb - Music and romance combine in a funny mystery set in Texas

Ring of Lost Souls - Part ghost story, part horror in the asylum. Forgive him, for he is Sin. Where he goes Death follows. 

Hired by a DemonWith a werewolf under the same room as her, she was inviting her own death.

FANTASY/SCIFI/STEAMPUNK

Sakuri - Anime action with a sci fi twist

Darkness Rising - Incredible epic fantasy. When tragedy strikes, strange powers emerge within Emelia ...

Brother Betrayed - A tragic fantasy with knights, dragons, warfare, and magic.

The Land of Nod - Jeff Browning enters a strange, new world in search of his father in this science fiction, fantasy adventure.

Children of the Elementi - Jake, a teenager, discovers that he has amazing powers tied to the elements.

The Night Watchman Express - Miriam, her friends, and her magical governess encounter evil villains in an exciting steampunk adventure.

Devil's Kitchen - Strange prisons and underground experiments in this steampunk adventure for kids and adults alike.

The Last Good Knight - From slaying dragons, to rescuing the King's Whore, to secret missions for good King Henri, no job is too big or too small for the Great Knight, Sir Julian Lackland. 

The Tower of Bones - Magic and Destiny lie hidden in the Tower of Bones in this amazing fantasy
  
A Way About - Ari discovered a body at the archaeology lab where she worked.
Throw in some stolen artifacts and you have a recipe for an exciting science fiction thriller.



An Alien Collective - What will these teenagers do when they find themselves on an alien planet?
 

FOR CHARITY

The Storytellers Anthology - A Collection of shorts in all genres, and proceeds go to Water for the World

Christmas O'Clock - Two short books and two short stories, and profits go to help world families and children.


City of Silver - A novella with the proceeds going to The Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide - sptsusa.org/


NONFICTION

A Simpler Guide to Gmail - Learn the secrets of Gmail and harness the possibilities in your inbox

Double Up Profits - Outsold both Jim Cramer and Suze Orman for over a year!




Saturday, March 3, 2012

NEW RELEASES


Fantasy Island Book Publishing is proud to announce four new additions to our catalog.


From Rachel Tsoumbakos, author of: Emeline and the Mutants.


Larundel - A place plagued by lost souls.
A Ring that has claimed a few of them.
And a woman about to collide with a world she had forgotten.
  
When an abandoned mental asylum is set to be redeveloped, sinister events unfold in the community surrounding it.

Isobel moves into the neighborhood looking for a new future only to find a past that she never knew belonged to her. Is she is a sane person living in an insane world or a crazy person floating in reality?

Set in an actual abandoned mental asylum on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, THE RING OF LOST SOULS is a fast-paced ghost story that weaves together a blend of fantasy, Celtic mythology, urban legend and pure insanity.

  
The Prisms of Power - ancient artifacts made by a long dead race containing terrifying magic.
The Ghasts - dark wizards who have surrendered their souls for the might of un-death.
Emelia is trapped in servitude to uncaring and haughty masters. When tragedy strikes, strange powers emerge within her - powers of the Wild-magic, sorcery reviled by the elemental orders. Escaping from her masters, Emelia embarks upon an epic adventure to find the Prisms and defeat the lord of the ghasts. Only she holds the key to their location but the Wild-magic comes at a dire cost...that of her mind.
Darkness Rising is the first volume of the Prism Trilogy, an exciting new epic fantasy series.

‘NIGHT, NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT AND DON’T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE’

In 1977 an alien spaceship crashed down in the town of Lemonsville. The next day five people were found dead. They were brutally slaughtered by someone or something.

Now, seventy-three years later, the same type of murders are happening again.

The local police chief must try to solve the mystery of why people are being killed or have vanished from this small town. Struggling to find any clues, he visits the library and to look through the town archives.

Now he has to find the link of what happened back then to what’s happening now.

He is running out of time as more people are slaughtered, so a race is on to uncover the mystery of what’s hidden below Lemonsville, but even if he finds out, can he really stop the – ‘BEDBUGS’


Colonel Esseline Robinson, the Planetary Police Chief of Ascendant, was on administrative leave helping her niece, Ariana, adjust to living with Essie after the deaths of Ari's mother and father...Essie's sister and brother-in-law.

The adjustment period was interrupted when Ari discovered a body at the archaeology lab where she worked.

Essie was now back on the job as Planetary Police Chief, and dealing with the emotions of her teenaged niece, her gallivanting parents, her partner, and sundry office politics.

Throw in some stolen artifacts that belonged to the previous inhabitants, ex-husbands, murders, and aliens, and you have a recipe for an exciting science fiction thriller.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Free Kindle Books -6 More Free Books For 3-2-12

These books are free for download today!


A Way About

Colonel Esseline Robinson, the Planetary Police Chief of Ascendant, was on administrative leave helping her niece, Ariana, adjust to living with Essie after the deaths of Ari's mother and father...Essie's sister and brother-in-law.

The adjustment period was interrupted when Ari discovered a body at the archaeology lab where she worked.

Essie was now back on the job as Planetary Police Chief, and dealing with the emotions of her teenaged niece, her gallivanting parents, her partner, and sundry office politics.

Throw in some stolen artifacts that belonged to the previous inhabitants, ex-husbands, murders, and aliens, and you have a recipe for an exciting science fiction thriller.





Bedbugs 

In 1977 an alien spaceship crashed down in the town of Lemonsville. The next day five people were found dead. They were brutally slaughtered by someone or something.

Now, seventy-three years later, the same type of murders is happening again.

The local police chief has to try to solve the mystery of why people are being killed or have vanished from this small town. He is struggling to find any clues, but a visit to the library and a look through the archives of the town helps.

Now he has to find the link of what happened back then to what’s happening now.

He is running out of time as more people are slaughtered, so a race is on to uncover the mystery of what’s hidden below Lemonsville, but even if he finds out, can he really stop the – 

‘BEDBUGS’





Dreams of Darkness Rising


Emelia is trapped in servitude to uncaring and haughty masters. When tragedy strikes, strange powers emerge within her - powers of the Wild-magic, sorcery reviled by the elemental orders. Escaping from her masters, Emelia embarks upon an epic adventure to find the Prisms and defeat the lord of the ghasts. Only she holds the key to their location but the Wild-magic comes at a dire cost...that of her mind. 




Terps

Deafness is perceived as a culture and not as a disability in the world of "Terps" and interpreters comprise the subculture that can only exist where Deaf and hearing overlap.

That's the backdrop, but the story is about a marriage. An interpreter marries the only hearing member of a famous Deaf family. The interpreter has chosen to build her life around the Deaf world, but her husband was born into it and would rather do just about anything else.





The Lollipop Club

AJ seeks a new challenge, a new business venture. 

His vivacious wife of twenty-five years is also bored even though they have a raucous sex life ...

In Washington an old lover of AJ's from the late 70's, is now married to a powerful senator with three daughter. Victoria Markland's life will change forever, when one of her daughters die's while in the dark world of stripping. 

The FBI is called in to put a lid on the senator’s problem, at the expense of finding the daughter's killer if in fact she did not overdose by her own hand.

Now the lives of all these characters will converge in a small Midwest town in this explosive erotic thriller. 



The Ring of Lost Souls


Larundel - A place plagued by lost souls.
A Ring that has claimed a few of them.
And a women about to collide with a world she had forgotten about.

When an abandoned mental asylum is set to be redeveloped, sinister events unfold in the community surrounding it.

Isobel moves into the neighborhood looking for a new future only to find a past that she never knew belonged to her. Is she is a sane person living in an insane world or a crazy person floating in reality?


Saturday, February 11, 2012

It's Not Too Late To Get The Perfect Valentine's Gift: Ebooks for your Ereader!

Check out these ebooks from Fantasy Island Book Publishing, some will be available FREE from Amazon, just check the schedule!



Free books for February 12th:

All of these books are free for download today on Kindle. Just click on the links to go to the download page.


Brother Betrayed Free Book Feb 12, 2012 Feb 12, 2012 1 day(s) Scheduled

Devil's Kitchen Free Book Feb 12, 2012 Feb 12, 2012 1 day(s) Scheduled

Sakuri Free Book Feb 12, 2012 Feb 12, 2012 1 day(s) Scheduled

Terps Free Book Feb 12, 2012 Feb 12, 2012 1 day(s) Scheduled

The Last Guardian Free Book Feb 12, 2012 Feb 12, 2012 1 day(s) Scheduled

Free books for February 11th:

Tower of Bones  - Epic Fantasy from the author of The Last Good Knight. 



Edwin Farmer toils away on his father’s sleepy farm, unaware of his family’s bargain with the Goddess Aeos, or the manner in which he will be called upon to honor that bargain.

From the first moment that he is in the strange land of Neveyah, Edwin finds himself fighting for his life ...


In the Rose Tower of the haunted keep of Mal Evol, the Bull God holds the key to winning the war between the Gods. Imprisoned and alone in a strange country, Marya awaits the rescue promised by her only friends: the shadowy ghosts that haunt the Shadow Castle.

Obsessed with rescuing the girl that he dreams of nightly, Edwin struggles to develop the unique abilities that will allow him to steal Marya back from the Rose Tower and save her from the madman who holds her prisoner.



After Ilium Four years of college has not taught Alex as much as he will learn in a couple of weeks on the Turkish coast!

Three thousand years ago Greeks fought Trojans below the fortress of Ilium. Now it is 1993 and new college graduate Alex Parris cruises to Istanbul, seeking his own adventure at Ilium. On the way, however, he meets Elena, a mysterious older woman who draws him into an affair---then forces him to fight for her!

But Alex finds that escaping from the local jail is only the first of many obstacles to returning to his lover, as he embarks on his own odyssey across the wild Turkish coast! It is a journey that will test his will to survive and make him question everything he has been taught about life, love, and the way the world really works!


Black Numbers In a land where magic is based on advanced mathematics, Sid is something special, for his awakening sexuality and genius-level understanding of mathematics combines to create a power beyond anything ever seen in the world. Sid’s journey propels him into the center of a 1000-year-struggle with an outcome obscured by a darkness known as Black Numbers.


Ednor Scardens  When the boob fairy makes an early visit in sixth grade, eleven-year-old Kate Fitzgerald is unprepared for the repercussions. Her puppy-love relationship with classmate Gabe Kelsey quickly blossoms. But her carefree days in Catholic school darken with the arrival of Father John O'Conner, a predatory priest with a hidden past. Life becomes even more tangled when Kate falls hard for Gabe's darkly handsome older brother, Michael. The Kelsey boys couldn't be more different: one is shy and self-effacing; the other is tall, athletic, and confident.
As the brothers battle for Kate’s affections, how will she choose without tearing their family apart? When she silently witnesses a frightening scene between Gabe and Fr. O'Conner, Kate is unaware that she is O'Conner's intended next victim.



Sax and the Suburb  Why is someone killing the community band geeks of Richland, Texas? Miranda Beeling would like to know, since she is one of them. 

Miranda is trying to recover from the recent death of her mother and the betrayal of her fiancé (a bigamist wannabe). She's retreated back to her childhood home, trying to sort through her clutterholic father’s horde of junk, despite his determined opposition. Miranda's only enjoyable social activity is playing saxophone in the local community band. Her enjoyment ends when trombonist David Hu is killed, and her bassoonist friend Louise is the prime suspect in his murder.

Motivated by concern for her friends and an inescapable feeling that she might be the next victim, Miranda investigates. Armed with only her legal research skills, a keen sense of humor, and a gift for getting into trouble, Miranda may eventually figure it all out, but not before uncovering several secrets she would rather not have known.



Sons of Roland Sons of Roland is a group memoir about the birth, life, death and resurrection of The Visitors, a 1960's rock & roll band hailing from Brooklyn. It follows bass player turned music mogul Edward Houlihan as he recounts The Visitors' meteoric rise to greatness, their wild escapades and their tragic demise. It's a story that must be told, and there is no one better to tell it than the Sons of Roland themselves...

Forty years of sex, drugs and rock & roll explode to reveal the secrets and mysteries surrounding the most bizarre chapter in the history of rock & roll music, proving that Elvis is Dead, Paul is Alive and so are the Sons of Roland.  




 All of these books are free for Kindle download today, Sunday, February 12 2012. Just click on the titles to go to the Amazon page.


"One brother will betray the others with such treachery that it will change the destiny of Miscia forever."

The three princes hear this prophecy, and they will discover how far it will drive them to explore love, loyalty, and their own souls.


The princes are bound by loyalty to each other and their kingdom. When conflict comes to their land, their ascension into power is darkened by betrayal.


Oman, eldest and Anteria's promised king, leads his brothers on their journey through Arnith.


Fasime, driven by passion, seeks a life of romance and adventure.


Syah, born the ailing youngest brother of these two outgoing princes, endeavours to overcome his bleak destiny through pursuit of knowledge and magic... a quest that may reveal unknown power within his own soul.


A tale woven with deception, war, sacrifice, and magic, BROTHER, BETRAYED takes readers to a troubled kingdom surrounded by barbarians, magical races, and forbidden boundaries.
In The Night Watchman Express, Miriam and Simon were kidnapped and thrown on the strange train... Now in Book Two of The Crown Phoenix series, they arrive at the terrifying destination known as Devil's Kitchen.

There they will face human experiments in a laboratory known as The Infirmary.


There Miriam will be forced to work in an underground factory.


There Simon is held in a luxurious prison by jailers who are as beautiful as they are deadly...


And their courage will be tested to the breaking point.
Life as a package courier might not be the most glamorous of lifestyles; but for Sakuri it certainly comes at no shortage of thrills and dealings with the city's underbelly. So when an ex-mob boss requests a delivery through Sakuri's work it appears just to be an average job; right down to the attempt on her life to assure that package isn't delivered.

A stray bullet cracks up the case during the battle, revealing an innocuous gemmed gauntlet within. In order to protect the delivery Sakuri slips it on, only to discover that once attached the device is not so willing to be removed. As she would come to know it by; the Metamorpher becomes the source of Sakuri's future troubles.


Thrusting her into a world that constantly challenges the reality she once knew; Sakuri now contends with both earthly foes and a malefic force heralding from beyond the stars seeking the device for itself. Intentions that have no kind regard for the Metamorpher's host; or those around her.
Deafness is perceived as a culture and not as a disability in the world of "Terps" and interpreters comprise the subculture that can only exist where Deaf and hearing overlap.

That's the backdrop, but the story is about a marriage. An interpreter marries the only hearing member of a famous Deaf family. The interpreter has chosen to build her life around the Deaf world, but her husband was born into it and would rather do just about anything else.
CJ Carson believes herself to be slightly crazy. For as long as she can remember, she has been plagued with strange dreams, migraines and an imaginary friend that never seems to go away: a voice of love and reason she has heard in her head since childhood.

Born in a time of turmoil and bloodshed, Mika Elkhart is half-coyote, half Lakota warrior. Orphaned at birth, he was taken to Haven, a place of refuge and respite for shape-shifters. There he was raised by the Guardians of Haven, becoming a member of Delta Pack, the Theriontrope Foundation's elite defense force. His was a world of death and darkness aside from his one ray of hope, CJ Carson.


The time has come for Mika to reveal his true identity and convince CJ to willingly take her father’s place as the Guardian of Haven. But for CJ, the road to Haven is laid with danger brought about by the Loki, the Lord of Chaos. Without a Guardian, Haven will destroy itself and without his Little Star, so may Mika.



Monday, January 23, 2012

New contest from the author of The Last Guardian


Help me name the character and win!

The shifters and I need your help in naming my new character. He will make his appearance in the second Guardian book Burdens of a Saint.

The rules are simple. Just pick a name and e-mail it to me at joan@joanhazel.com by March 20th. All submitted names will be listed after that and voted upon by the public. The winner will receive a signed copy of Burdens of a Saint after publication.

Does anyone know me?

I was found bloodied and beaten outside the gates of Haven, with no memory of who I am or how I got here. I also don't know where the brand on the back of my left shoulder came from or what it means. I only know it hurts like hell.

I think I'm 19 years old and have this strange feeling I don't belong in my own skin.


I do remember being shuffled from one foster home to another until I got too old. If I have a family, I don't know who they are. Can you help me?