Tour Stop: Sailing on the Tides of Burning Sands and Other Stories by Michael Darling

Sailing on the Tides of Burning Sand and Other Stories 

by Michael Darling 

Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories 

Ghosts. Monsters. Harry Houdini Meets Charles Dickens in Outer Space. 

These amazing stories and more await between the covers of Michael Darling’s first short story collection, featuring all the stories from his bestselling Tales from the Behindbeyond series, including an exclusive new story "The Morrigan's Sister," only available in this volume. From humorous to frightening to thought-provoking, these twelve brilliant stories are an enchanting gift from one of fiction’s most inventive new voices. 

“A unique, often creepy delight.” - Michaelbrent Collings Bram Stoker Award Finalist and Bestseller 

"Michael Darling is a talent, a master of perspective and playful storytelling.” - Johnny Worthen Award-Winning Author of What Immortal Hand 

Contents: 

"Sailing on the Tides of Burning Sand" - Science Fiction 

A man and woman, apparent strangers, sail over a surreal desert landscape on their way to a dangerous and uncertain destiny. 

"Temp" - Science Fiction 

A young woman, working beneath a futuristic city, learns that some risks are worth taking. 

"Two Mock, A Killingbird" - Science Fiction 

A defense attorney knows her client hid his girlfriend's body for weeks in a freezer, but his motive is even more bizarre than the crime. 

"Spera Angelorum" - Science Fiction 

Harry Houdini and Charles Dickens meet in outer space to entertain a planet of angels, until a demon appears and there is no escape. 

"Grandmother Who Breaks the Sky" - Fantasy/Horror 

Ray Bradbury meets H.P. Lovecraft as a little boy defies the curse of a mummified Indian princess, prepared to halt the emergence of an ancient god, even if it costs the lives of everyone close to him. 

"The Hollow" - Horror 

A 19th-century scientist proves his theory that he can scare his wife to death, but when he succeeds, the real nightmare begins. 

"Meredith in St. Louis" - Horror 

An NSA agent wants to get close to the cute guy on the train until a viral outbreak brings her closer than she could ever want. 

"Blank Check" - Horror/Comedy 

Hunting demons can be hell, especially when a vengeful ex delivers two demons for the price of one. 

"The Mark" - Fantasy 

A Behindbeyond Tale. The Irish mob finds out that they've not only summoned a Fae from a magical realm to help them with a robbery, they've also summoned a more dangerous criminal. Winner of the United Authors Association Grand Prize. 

"Lucky Day" - Fantasy 

A Behindbeyond Tale. Recounts the adventures of a young Fae halfling as he attempts to fulfill his mother's destiny. A story that parallels events from the bestselling novel Got Luck by Michael Darling. 

"The Morrigan's Sister" - Fantasy 

A Behindbeyond Tale. Erin works for the Miami-Dade medical examiner's office and gets way more than she bargained for as she uses her magical powers to solve the mystery of the Popsicle Killer. Available only in this short story collection. 

"Feasty-Feast" - Horror/Comedy 

Tiny predators who live in the wall and feed on memories prove without a doubt that you are what you read. Winner of the Silver Quill award. 

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#1 Amazon bestseller Michael Darling has worked as a butcher, a librarian, and a magician. Not all at the same time. He nests in the exquisitely beautiful Rocky Mountains with his equally breathtaking wife, their normal-if-you-don't-look-too-close children and a very large St. Bernese dog named Appa. Yes, the Darlings have a "Nana" dog. Michael's award-winning short fiction is frequently featured in anthologies. Got Luck, his first novel, was published in March 2016 and the sequel, Got Hope, in 2017. Book three in the series, Got Lost, premieres in September. He continues to work on this series as well as other projects.

Michael graduated from Weber State University with a degree in English Literature and loves to blend the classic with the contemporary in his writing. His early work included several plays that were professionally produced along with a number of radio programs that aired in 80 markets around the world. Besides writing, Michael also loves to travel, dabble in languages, and cook elaborate meals.

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Tour Stop: The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight by Rebecca Rowland

The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight 

by Rebecca Rowland 

Genre: Psychological Horror, Transgressive Dark Fiction, Short Stories 

Three adolescent bullies discover that the vicious crime for which they were never charged will haunt them in unimaginably horrific ways; a dominatrix and a bondage fetishist befriend one another as one’s preoccupation grows to consume his life. A man persuades his wife to start a family, but her reluctant pregnancy comes with a dreadful side effect. A substitute teacher’s curiosity about a veteran teacher’s methodology provides her with a lesson she won’t soon forget. An affluent, xenophobic lawyer callously kills two immigrants with her car with seeming impunity; a childless couple plays a sadistic game with a neglected juvenile each Halloween. An abusive father, a dating site predator, a neglected concierge, and an obsessed co-worker: they are all among the residents of Rebecca Rowland’s universe, and they dwell in the everyday realm of crime and punishment tempered with fixation and madness. There are no vampires, zombies, or magical beings here; no, what lurk in this world are even more terrifying. Once you meet them, you will think twice before turning your back on that seemingly innocuous neighbor or coming to the aid of the helpless damsel in the dark parking lot. These monsters don’t lurk under your bed or in the shadows: they are the people you see every day at work, in the supermarket, and in broad daylight. They are the horrors that hide in plain sight, and they will unsettle you more than any supernatural being ever could. 

Trigger Warning: 

Contains graphic violence (though not continually) including accidental death, murder, and suicide; sexual content, and occasional graphic language. Sexual assault is implied but not described in a graphic nature. No animals are harmed. 

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Rebecca Rowland is the transgressive dark fiction author of the short story collection The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, co-author of the novel Pieces, and curator of the horror anthologies Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness; Shadowy Natures, and the upcoming The Half That You See and Unburied. Her writing has appeared in venues such as Coffin Bell, Waxing & Waning, and the 

WiHM online collections The Ones You Don’t Bring Home to Mama and Final Girls with 20/20 Vision and has been anthologized in collections by Red Room Press, Transmundane Press, Forty-Two Books, Emerald Bay Books, Twisted Wing Productions, Thurston Howl Publications, J. Ellington Ashton Press, and Dark Ink. To surreptitiously stalk her, visit RowlandBooks.com. 

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TOGETHER WE STAND is LIVE! (Finally!)

Great news everyone! The TOGETHER WE STAND collection is finally LIVE! 

Together We Stand Anthology

Genre: Multi-Genre Romance for Charity

Release Date: August 1st, 2020

Cover Design: Geri Glenn

Model: Cassia Brightmore

Photographer: LJ Photography

As the entire world is impacted by COVID-19, a group of talented Canadian authors and authors with Canadian roots have come together to bring you short stories in multiple genres, each one surrounding essential workers.

All proceeds from this anthology will be donated to a Canadian charity that provides relief during the pandemic.

Join 29 True North authors and allow yourself to be captivated from a social distance.

Participating Authors:

Geri Glenn 🍁  C.A. King 🍁  Cameron Allie 🍁  V.J. Allison 🍁  Cassia Brightmore 🍁  AW Clarke 🍁 M. Jane Colette 🍁  Allison M. Cosgrove 🍁  Tricia Daniels 🍁  Carey Decevito 🍁  Gillian Jones 🍁  Andrea Joy 🍁  Jean Kelso 🍁  Bethany-Kris 🍁  JA LaFrance 🍁  C.J. Lazar 🍁  Sue Langford  🍁  K Logan 🍁  Leah Negron 🍁  Lorne Oliver 🍁  DD Prince 🍁  Jennifer Rose  🍁  Crystal St. Clair 🍁  P. Stormcrow 🍁  Kadian Tracey 🍁  J.M. Walker 🍁  Scarlett Wells 🍁  Tracy Willoughby 🍁

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Geri Glenn - USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy bikers and the strong women that bring them to their knees.

C.A. King - USA Today Bestselling Author. Bringing fantasy worlds to life one word at a time

Cameron Allie - Author of warm and fuzzy romance

V.J. Allison - Small town romance with a twist

Cassia Brightmore - Dark romance author of twisted characters you love to hate

AW Clarke - Speak softly, ride loudly, write with passion

M. Jane Colette - Flirty-funny-filthy love stories for people who think too much

Allison Cosgrove - Author of murder, mayhem and love

Tricia Daniels - Award winning author of love stories beyond the limits of time

Carey Decevito

Gillian Jones - Author of romance that sometimes hits you in the feels

Andrea Joy - Makes naughty look so good

Jean Kelso - Living between the pages with lots of love. Live everyday, love hard, and laugh lots

Bethany-Kris - Unapologetic romance

JA LaFrance - Author of sassy, strong women

C.J. Lazar

Sue Langford - Empowerment/realistic romance - empowering real women in the real world

K Logan - Love on the water

Leah Negron - Author of chaos and  havoc, romantic suspense, and edge of your seat thrillers. Where chaos comes with a price and everything you can imagine is real

Lorne Oliver - Author of Faryn Steel thriller, Alcrest mysteries, Sgt. Reid series killing people with no apologies

DD Prince - Author of dark, dangerous and deliciously addictive romance

Jennifer Rose

Crystal St. Clair

P. Stormcrow - Sexy romance that twist the tropes and challenge the norm

Kadian Tracey - Interracial stories with a plus size twist

J.M. Walker - Stories worth losing sleep over

Scarlett Wells - Romances to get lost in 

Tracy Willoughby - Reader with a dream

Tour Stop: Leash by Brett Schumacher

Leash
and Other Short Horror Stories

by
Brett Schumacher

Genre:
Horror 

From
"Creepy Ghost Stories" YouTube channel, Narrator and Writer
Brett Schumacher.

LEASH And Other Short Horror Stories is a
horror anthology of thirteen short creepy, scary and sometimes
gruesome monster stories. These hair-raising stories will make your
mind tingle and your paranoia kick into over-drive.

This
chilling set of frighteningly strange and weird stories are tales of
the unexpected, of deceit and of unspeakable beings that hide in the
recesses of the mind and the shadows of dark forests.

Including:
A tale of a gas station attendant and the creature that stalks him in
a storm like he had never witnessed before. The newly found journal
entry of Robert Tolliver's nightmarish dreams that ravage his life
after a horrific accident in the swamps of Louisiana. A butcher's
child was created of steel and blades used to cut meat. A story about
a new embalming fluid with a terrible side effect. The tale of a man
and his friends on a camping trip, A leather collar and a vile beast
that reigns over a pile of corpses. Plus many more.

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S79
The Horror in the Swamp

by
Brett Schumacher

Genre:
Horror 

★★★★★ "S79
has a super fun plot. You’ve got swamps, abandoned military base,
science experiment gone wrong, conspiracy theories, urban legends,
pitch dark atmosphere, snakes, gators, rednecks, revenge, and a
pretty epic creature." - Aimee M. - Goodreads

From
"Creepy Ghost Stories" YouTube channel, Narrator and Writer
Brett Schumacher.

Salesman and father Robert Tolliver’s life
is about to change. He was traveling through Louisiana and a few
missed turns, a few hours later, he finds himself facing a horrible
fate. All Robert knows is that he is stuck in an abandoned military
bunker in the wild swamps of Louisiana. There is something stalking
his every move, a scary horror unlike anything he has ever seen.

S79
The creature in the Bunker, The Horror Novel of the Swamps.

Will
Robert survive the living nightmares and make it back home to his
wife Julie and his daughter Lillie? Will he uncover a bigger horror
mystery that the small town of Montegut had been hiding for years?

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Horror
Writer and Narrator for the "Creepy Ghost Stories" YouTube
Channel. Brett has a deep love for horror with a particular interest
in Isolation and Cryptid based stories.

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COVER REVEAL: Together We Stand Short Story Collection (various authors)

Together We Stand Anthology

Genre: Multi-Genre Romance for Charity

Release Date: August 1st, 2020

Cover Design: Geri Glenn

Model: Cassia Brightmore

Photographer: LJ Photography

As the entire world is impacted by COVID-19, a group of talented Canadian authors and authors with Canadian roots have come together to bring you short stories in multiple genres, each one surrounding essential workers.

All proceeds from this anthology will be donated to a Canadian charity that provides relief during the pandemic.

Join 30 True North authors and allow yourself to be captivated from a social distance.

Participating Authors:

Geri Glenn 🍁  C.A. King 🍁  Cameron Allie 🍁  V.J. Allison 🍁  Cassia Brightmore 🍁  AW Clarke 🍁 M. Jane Colette 🍁  Michelle Corchis 🍁  Allison M. Cosgrove 🍁  Tricia Daniels 🍁  Carey Decevito 🍁 Brianna Galway 🍁  Gillian Jones 🍁  Andrea Joy 🍁  Jean Kelso 🍁  Bethany-Kris 🍁  JA LaFrance 🍁  C.J. Lazar 🍁  Sue Langford  🍁  K Logan 🍁  Leah Negron 🍁  Lorne Oliver 🍁  DD Prince 🍁  Jennifer Rose  🍁  Crystal St. Clair 🍁  P. Stormcrow 🍁  Kadian Tracey 🍁  J.M. Walker 🍁  Scarlett Wells 🍁  Tracy Willoughby 🍁

ENTER GIVEAWAY HERE

Geri Glenn - USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy bikers and the strong women that bring them to their knees.

C.A. King - USA Today Bestselling Author. Bringing fantasy worlds to life one word at a time

Cameron Allie - Author of warm and fuzzy romance

V.J. Allison - Small town romance with a twist

Cassia Brightmore - Dark romance author of twisted characters you love to hate

AW Clarke - Speak softly, ride loudly, write with passion

M. Jane Colette - Flirty-funny-filthy love stories for people who think too much

Michelle Corchis

Allison Cosgrove - Author of murder, mayhem and love

Tricia Daniels - Award winning author of love stories beyond the limits of time

Carey Decevito

Brianna Galway - Romance reader turned author

Gillian Jones - Author of romance that sometimes hits you in the feels

Andrea Joy - Makes naughty look so good

Jean Kelso - Living between the pages with lots of love. Live everyday, love hard, and laugh lots

Bethany-Kris - Unapologetic romance

JA LaFrance - Author of sassy, strong women

C.J. Lazar

Sue Langford - Empowerment/realistic romance - empowering real women in the real world

K Logan - Love on the water

Leah Negron - Author of chaos and  havoc, romantic suspense, and edge of your seat thrillers. Where chaos comes with a price and everything you can imagine is real

Lorne Oliver - Author of Faryn Steel thriller, Alcrest mysteries, Sgt. Reid series killing people with no apologies

DD Prince - Author of dark, dangerous and deliciously addictive romance

Jennifer Rose

Crystal St. Clair

P. Stormcrow - Sexy romance that twist the tropes and challenge the norm

Kadian Tracey - Interracial stories with a plus size twist

J.M. Walker - Stories worth losing sleep over

Scarlett Wells - Romances to get lost in 

Tracy Willoughby - Reader with a dream

PREORDER: Together We Stand (A Collection of Short Stories by Canadian Authors)

It is with great honor and pleasure that I announce that I will have a short story published in an upcoming charity anthology called TOGETHER WE STAND. It’s an anthology featuring Canadian authors and authors with Canadian roots. The theme for it is about essential workers, like grocery store workers, health care professionals, police, and others on the front lines. It covers a lot of genres, from romances (sweet and spicy) to general fiction and more, and the authors live across our vast nation. Nova Scotia is represented by two of us, myself and first time author K. Logan.

Participating authors include:

C.A. King, USA Today Best Selling Author

Tracy Willoughby

K. Logan,

Kaden Tracey,

JA Lafranced

VJ Allison

Cassia Brightmore

Geri Glenn, USA Today Bestselling author

JM Walker

Leah Negron

Scarlett Wells

and Allison Cosgrove.

The cover reveal is on JUNE 24^th, and we have a tentative release date of AUGUST 1^st. It’s currently up for digital preorders on Amazon (Kindle), and it’s also up on Goodreads.

***ALL PROCEEDS ARE GOING TO CANADIAN CHARITY***

Together We Stand

A Collection of Short Stories by Canadian Authors

AMAZON CANADA LINK: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B089QVH82F/

GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53844429-together-we-stand

My contribution is called COVID’s Arrow, and it’s about two grocery store cashiers near the end of the pandemic.

COVID’s Arrow

By V.J. Allison

Tagline: When two people are in love, social distancing cannot prevent them from being together.

Vicki has been half in love with her friend and co-worker, Mason, since she started working at a grocery store eight months ago. When a pandemic reaches the province, social distancing protocols are installed, and their friendship is put on hold. A break at work brings them back together, but will they have the time Vicki hopes to pursue her hidden desires?

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It’s a sweet romance short story I wrote on Monday afternoon – June 1^st. I am NOT joking! It took me about three hours to write, and thanks to some help from one of my oldest friends, Sarah, and three of my fellow eXtasy Books authors, it’s up to snuff.

Seriously, preorder this book. It’s going to be a one of a kind collection. The talent in it just oozes off the page. Get a copy and you'll help us raise much needed funds for a Canadian non-profit organization.

I’d like to thank Julie Lafranced for organizing this amazing anthology, and my dear friend K. Logan for recruiting me to write a story for it. I’m so thrilled to be included in this talented group of Canadian authors! I hope we raise a ton of money for charity.

Don’t forget, the cover reveal is on JUNE 24^th, 2020! BE THERE!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Tour Stop: Bright Yellow Souls (Short Story Anthology) by Luca Favaro

Bright Yellow Souls 

by Luca Favaro 

Genre: Fiction Short Stories 

Kevin was only a teenager when he decided to escape from his past, studying as a nurse. He didn't expect to discover that he would become a person able to give and receive so much love. These are stories of pain, sufferance, but also hope, optimism, joy for life and above all love. And between the lines, the silent presence of God, who through Kevin, takes care of the sick bodies of those wonderful people; and through them, He takes care of Kevin's suffering soul. 

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Luca Favaro lives in Thousand Oaks, California. He's an Italian writer and a Registered Nurse. In Italy he published four books; three short story anthologies, and the novel "Il tempo senza ore". He won several literary prizes, and from his novel was made a theater show: "Il tempo senza ore show". He moved from Venice to Thousand Oaks on 2019. 

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