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Be gentle… it’s my first time…

03 Monday Dec 2012

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I was recently informed of a positive review of Transitions. Actually, I was informed of Transitions-AuthorCopythis review a few weeks ago, but am only just getting round to posting about it now. With an event to help organise (or at least provide moral support for), real world work to plan and my insane idea to do Nano this year (that’s a whole different post…) I was actually finding it hard to do much serious blogging last month. There was also the fact that the link I was sent to the review does not actually seem to go to a page that includes my review. I was not sure if this meant my review was yet to be published, was lost deep in an archive or was only visible during the third quarter of the full moon when the month has an F in it and is more than 28 days… So, I didn’t want to post anything about it until I got some form of confirmation.

But now November is over, the event was this weekend gone and Nano is also a thing of the past. I do still have real world work to do but my time is a little freer than it was. Ok, I still cannot find the actual review (if anyone can help, I’d appreciate it) but what the hell…

So, the lovely people over at Penumbra Press sometimes review books by other publishers and they decided to pick up mine (the full review is allegedly in their reviews section but I cannot find it). The fragment of the full review that was sent to me is fairly promising, however. It included:

“Throughout this story D. A. Lascelles artfully uses his skills with words to magically paint images in the reader’s head. Not only do places come into clear focus, but the seasons and atmosphere of the locations are also imbued with a descriptive clarity and realistic essence.

Written for paranormal romance fans of all ages, Transitions successfully marries modern day and roman Britain by interspersing the memories and history of roman officer Lucius Gaius with the ordinarily mundane lives of two university students…Transitions is a fair read that will keep you occupied, even if only for a day trip away.”

And the score was apparently ‘3 books’. I am assuming and hoping that this is out of 5 and not, for example, 500 🙂

This is, in fact, the first review I have ever had. For anything. By anyone who was not a friend or family member, anyway. So far both Transitions and Pirates and Swashbucklers have avoided reviews in places like Goodreads and Amazon though Pirates seems to have been marked as ‘to read’ by a lot of people. So, as a first go at the review wheel I am happy with this result. There will likely be bad ones out there too, not that I have found any yet, so it is good to start on a positive note. Plus, my ego is telling me that I should get that first paragraph printed on a T-shirt because I really like it. A lot.

Luckily, I rarely listen to my ego.

Fantasy Writing contest: The results

11 Thursday Oct 2012

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Well, the results are in for the contest I entered:

http://fantasywritingcontest.com/category/judges/

As you can see, I am not on the short list. Not an unexpected result as there were a lot of high quality writers entering this. So, not too disappointed about the result and, in actual fact, there is a beneficial side effect from failing to get a place in the contest. I have another use for the story I submitted – a story about an old woman with a magical dagger called The Final Sacrifice.

A few months ago, I was asked to follow up Gods of the Sea*. I agreed to do a novella and a series of shorts to make up a short novel length anthology. I’ve been working on that ever since, whenever I get the time to write. When I was considering what stories I had already written which had yet to be published could be included in this anthology, The Final Sacrifice stood out as one which could definitely fit the brief. I am therefore actually quite pleased that there are now 4000 words I do not have to fill with another story as yet unwritten…

So, my writing plans over the next few months involve plugging away at this new anthology. Currently about half way through…

In the meantime, while you are waiting for me to actually get round to finishing this anthology, you can still enjoy my paranormal romance Transitions… It has Romans in it. And Goths. But not the Barbarian tribe… You can also still get a free copy of The Curse. It has Witches in it. Well, mad prophetic dreams…

* And it seems it has reappeared in paperback on Amazon again….

Amwriting is back!

06 Saturday Oct 2012

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Earlier, I mentioned that Amwriting, the writer’s blog site that I sometimes contribute to, had been on hiatus. Well, on the 1st of October it came back with a vengence!

So, you may now go direct to http://amwriting.org/ to view the home page of the site and see what lovely content the other contributors have been putting up there since the relaunch.

You may also go direct to this link:

http://amwritingblog.com/wordpress/?s=Lascelles&posttype=post&widget=advanced-search-widget-2

Which will take you to a rather nicely laid out page showcasing all my content on that site. That includes the infamous Mighty Red Pen of Justice article which scored so many hits recently…. Of course, while I am all in favour of you going to see what other writers are up to, I much prefer if you stay faithful to me and go direct to this page… 🙂

Free book!

16 Sunday Sep 2012

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This coming week sees a very special occasion in literature, an occasion that occurs once in every 10 blue moons (often referred to as a decabluemoon) and an event that is celebrated the world over by people in all walks of life*…

Yes, that is right, it is the first anniversary of the start of this blog on the 18th of September.

Almost one year ago (on the 18th September, 2011), I finally bowed to overwhelming pressure from my own ego to make my innermost thoughts public. It is also almost a year ago that my first publication hit the virtual shelves. With my second publication now out there in the world, it seems a good time to do a freebie giveaway.

So, now you can claim your absolutely free copy of The Curse. Just click this link!

What is The Curse, I hear you ask? Well, that is a very good question. When the BBW Romance Writers were getting together to write the Paranormal Romance Anthology that became known as Shades of Love and which Transitions is a part, we also decided to do what is known as a Round Robin story. This is a story where a group of writers collaborate on it. We decided on a broad story idea (a woman cursed with the gift of prophesy) then each of us took turns to write a section each, leaving the next person with a situation to resolve. This was done until we reached the natural climax. Then Judy Bagshaw and myself did a final polish on the story to make it publishable and were forced to learn more than we really wanted to learn about Creative Commons licenses.

The whole was topped off with a rather wonderful cover*** (pictured) created by the excellent M.S Fowle who deserves a lot of kudos for her efforts at making our writing look like a ‘proper book’. If you ever have a book you need a cover for, I would definitely suggest you consider talking to her about it.

So, that was how it came to pass that we happened to have a free ebook available to give to you all. Go on, click that link and download the Zip file that contains versions of this book for many different ebook formats. Then try to guess which of the authors wrote which of the bits….

* Well, Ok, it occurs once a year and is probably celebrated by very few people and not the world over** but don’t tell my ego that, please, it does enjoy its little illusions and gets stroppy when it is thwarted.

** Though I do have a special shout out to those of you in Panama, Peurto Rico and the Ukraine who seem very interested in what I am saying here *waves*

*** Actually, she made us three covers, that is how dedicated she is. If I can get permission from her, I will post the other two covers for you to look at ‘what could have been’.

Transitions on Amazon…

27 Monday Aug 2012

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Now there is another way in which you can purchase Transitions – it is now listed on Amazon and can also be linked  from my Author page there.

The direct Amazon link is here…

The Amazon link means that those of you in the UK can now buy the ebook without needing to do any of that complicated maths in your head to work out the exchange rates. Alternatively, those of you who can do the maths or who want it in an alternative format to Kindle, can still get it from the publisher’s link.

Next post I promise will be about a different topic to my recent release… though I cannot promise it won’t be about politics or something equally controversial…. I may even talk about the recent photoshoot I went on. Yes, I went and did that again and had a great time so look out for that post soon.

Transitions release

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

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As per my post earlier in the week, I am here to announce that Transitions, my paranormal romance novella, is now officially released in a number of ebook formats!

The link to purchase the novella from the publisher is here:

Buy Transitions now

So, anyone who wants to read this story may now do so for the very reasonable price of $2.99 (what is that in real money? I always get confused by exchange rates…) in kindle, nook and other formats.

 

Transitions – Release information

20 Monday Aug 2012

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Well, it is finally here…. all the hard work has come together and my novella, Transitions, is finally about to be released.

Tomorrow, in fact… but you wonderful readers of this blog get the heads up a day early and a quick sneak preview of the cover and blurb.

Click here to go to the webpage for the upcoming release

Some time soon (hopefully over the next 24 hours) this page will change to a current release and links will be added to allow you to purchase this novella as an ebook. When that happens I will do another post and give you all the links I know about for places where you may purchase it.

Note, this is an ebook release. If you want to read this novella in a more old fashioned, olde timey format such as paper you will have to wait until all the novellas in the series have been released and we put together the paperback collection of all of them. Until then, I hope you enjoy the pixelatted version…

 

Cover designer wanted…

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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I am looking for a cover designer to do a cover for a freebie give away story linked to an upcoming anthology release I am involved in. There are details about what is being looked for on here:

http://areteus.livejournal.com/238703.html

Before you click this, however, a few caveats:

 – Yes, this is unpaid. It is an ebook we are giving away for free. This is the authors of the anthology not the publisher doing this (we are basically self pubbing this). Though I am personally offering a very, very small fee of ‘the price of a drink’, either in person or sent via paypal.

 – There is, however, a chance that you will get your work noticed which may potentially lead to more, better paid work. Full credit is given and there are a few people at least (the authors for a start) who will sing your praises to the high heavens.

 

Vampire Month

01 Thursday Mar 2012

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The big grand-daddy of all Vampires. Christopher Lee as Dracula.

This month is Vampire month on this blog.

What? You say March is a stupid time for Vampire month? You think that maybe it should be another month, like October? Well, on this blog we don’t follow trends we make them and I reckon that this time next year EVERY blog will call March ‘Vampire Month’ and I will take the credit for starting a whole new social trend.

Well, that or, you know, the rest of the internet will just carry on doing what it always does and not be affected at all by what I say or do.

So, why is it Vampire month here? Well, over the next month I will be featuring articles and interviews with three writers of Vampire fiction starting next week with Rebekah Harrington, author of Vampires Revealed. This will be followed by Ninfa Hayes, author of the upcoming novella Bites. Finally, Skyla Dawn Cameron, author of Bloodlines* and the newly released Lineage, will weigh in with her opinions. In these articles we seek to understand the underlying appeal of Vampires, their psychology and motivation and, most importantly of all, who would win in a fight: Lestat or Edward…

So, that is three writers, in three different continents, writing about Vampires in three different ways… Should be something to look forward too…

*If you remember, I reviewed Bloodlines here: http://www.epublishabook.com/2011/10/28/book-review-bloodlines-by-skyla-dawn-cameron/#axzz1nuXKfHgn feel free to go back there to be reminded about how awesome I thought it was…

Special Offer on Pirates and Swashbucklers!

27 Tuesday Dec 2011

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A January sale special from Pulp Empires sees reductions in some of their books, including Pirates and Swashbucklers.

Of course, I know that everyone who reads this blog went out and bought copies of this for all their friends and family for Christmas. However, in case you didn’t (or you really need another copy, say to hold up a wobbly table or for toilet paper or kindling) then you can get one from Createspace at a 25% discount. Simply use product code:62QUSQGC to get your discount…

More news here: https://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Pulp-Empire/115516358460093

Direct link here: https://www.createspace.com/3681893

Unfortunately, this code only applies to createspace so it is really only convenient to those of you who live in the US. If you order from out of the US, I think the postage costs eat up any discount. However, it may still be worthwhile.