Tuesday, April 23, 2024

You Like to SAVE, Right?


To celebrate the upcoming release of TALES FROM THE FOREST, Fairytales Anthology 4, Ye Olde Dragon Books is offering a pre-sale savings on the print book and ebook RIGHT NOW -- $2 on print, $1 on ebook.

PLUS: Save $1 on all the other Fairytale Anthology and Classic Monster Anthology books in stock -- in print and ebook, whatever is available.


When Your Beauty is the Beast -- Tales from the Tower -- Perchance to Dream -- Moonlight and Claws -- Who's the Monster? -- Don't Go In the Water.

Go to the Storefront NOW and take advantage of the sale. Now through May 10.  







Monday, April 22, 2024

The Ghost of Red Riding Hood?

 

THE NIGHT OF THE MINDBENDER
Stoney M. Setzer 
A Sardis County story!
The "wolfman" sees a vision in red.
Is she his wife, returned from the dead?

9 days -- 4 stories to go!

Red Riding Hood will never be the same when our authors are through.

Save $1 on pre-release order sales.
Celebrate this new book -- Save $1 on ALL the Fairytale & Classic Monster Anthologies at YeOldeDragonBooks.com NOW!


Sunday, April 21, 2024

 

It's been a while since I did a book report. Sorry.

Been crazy-busy with the Ye Olde Dragon's Library blog, and all sorts of editing assignments for Mt. Zion Ridge Press, as well as prepping several of my own books for publication, both new releases and re-releases.


Here's one of the recently read books:


BECOMING MRS. LEWIS

Patti Callahan

This is a book I've had sitting in my to-be-read bookshelf for a long time. Far too long! 


I knew about the romance of CS Lewis and Joy Davidman, from several different viewpoints in various books, as well as two movies, both titled SHADOWLANDS. 

This novel is told from Joy's viewpoint. It quotes from many of her writings, essays and poems and letters, and follows her spiritual awakening, her personal struggles, and her search for God.  Her long correspondence with CS Lewis grew into a deep friendship, a shared hunger for spiritual things, a mentorship on his part. She helped to edit several of his books, and was a major influence in his novel TIL WE HAVE FACES, the story of Psyche and Cupid, as told by Psyche's sister.

If you're a Lewis-phile or like me a Free Narnian, this is a book you need to read.


Saturday, April 20, 2024

Life Imitates Art?

 

DRESS REHEARSAL
Jim Doran

A high school drama production of fairytales becomes just a little too "real."

11 days -- 5 stories to go.
Ready for a new angle on Red Riding Hood?
13 authors offer 12 stories to make you laugh, shiver, and go, "Hmm..."

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Coming May 1 in paper and ebook.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Curses Foiled -- Again

 

Releasing May 1

6 stories and 13 days to go.


We return to a more traditional setting  for Red Riding Hood....


THE CURSE

Angela R. Watts 

A curse has brought a werewolf to the forest.

To save her grandmother and village, she must brave the woods at night to fetch a healer.

Can she save her cursed friend as well?


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Check out the other fairytale anthologies!

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Update: What Am I Reading? What are YOU reading? (No, really, I want to know -- let's talk!!)

 

So, I have a confession to make:

I READ MORE THAN ONE BOOK AT A TIME!

What I mean by that is, I have different books in different formats for different times of the day.

Sometimes it takes me weeks to read a book. It all depends on what mood I'm in, how busy I am, if I'm driving, if I'm relaxing, if I'm waiting somewhere, if I'm totally brain-dead at the end of the day and couldn't read the instructions to open a jar of aspirin if my life depended on it ....


Here's what I'm reading right now:




THE WONDERLAND TRIALS
Sara Ella
Audiobook
This is usually for when I'm driving, or I'm walking around a store, shopping.

Take elements from ALICE IN WONDERLAND and mix them with a touch of THE HUNGER GAMES, throw in some racial oppression, a totalitarian state, magic, stolen identities ... Whew! I'm only 2 hours into the story, and I wish I had more errands to run so I can keep listening!!!






THE CARPET PEOPLE
Terry Pratchett

This is on my tablet, to read during mental health breaks during the day, or when I'm relaxing between a full day of work at the computer and dinnertime.
Often, I get a chapter in at bedtime.
Which conflicts with the third book on this list.

Terry Pratchett is the inspired, creatively insane author of the Discworld books. That ought to tell you enough right there about his wry British sense of humor -- and if you don't know Discworld, get out there and start reading!!

The carpet people are ... teeny, tiny, microscopic tribes of people who live in ... wait for it ... a carpet! Wacky, deliciously fun, with political commentary however you interpret it.







MIRACLE ON 10TH STREET
Madelaine L'Engle

This is ... gasp! ... a PAPER book. It sits on the table next to my bed. I should be reading a couple chapters every night, but ... yeah, I yield to temptation and indulge in wacky humor some nights instead of exploring a spiritual plain.

From the title, can you guess this is a CHRISTMAS book?
Yeah, I'm a little behind on my seasonal reading.
But y'know what? We should celebrate Christmas all year long. (that's a blatant reference to A CHRISTMAS CAROLE.....)


Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Sometimes it's Good to be a Wolf ...

 

15 days - 7 stories until release day.


WOLVES AMONG THE LAMBS

Deborah Cullins Smith 

Her sister has been taken. 

A veteran goes hunting.

A wolf goes disguised as an innocent lamb to destroy the predators from within...


Red Riding Hood wasn't so helpless after all ...


Save $1 on ebook EARLY: 4/23-4/30

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