Souls of Darkness Excerpt

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This is a Novel Publicity blog tour, which means there’s prizes and fun stuff for you at the end, but first, the excerpt!

Souls of Darkness by Eleanot T. Beaty

It took two extra turns before the car obeyed. They almost ran off the road. Alex couldn’t hold back any longer and burst out laughing. “Did you ever consider Googling this island… getting an update?” The bumpy road made it hard to talk.

“Gosh, no… since the phone number hadn’t changed.”

“That should’ve been a clue: same number for thirty years? And how did you rent this wicked piece of metal?”

“The guy from the hotel… I should have suspected, he only charged me a hundred dollars for three weeks.”

“And you thought you got a great deal!” Alex groaned. “The house is probably a shack with an outhouse where snakes make their nests. Spiders all around.”

Blog Tour Winners

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The two blogs with the most comments were Love of Books and Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.  Both were contacted via e-mail and their gift cards have been sent.  The random commenter gift card went to Kristin who commented on Kimba’s blog.

Thank you everyone for your participation!

For anyone who is just now finding our blog, Blind Sight is our debut novel told through two different perspectives.  Find out more here.

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Blind Sight Release Tour

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Blind Sight is an urban fantasy series written with the premise that there are two sides to every story. While Leocardo thinks his blind sister’s drawings are premonitions, Ana thinks she knows better. While Leo is an immigrant to the magical island of Edaion and oblivious to the laws of magic, Ana has grown up around it. She determines Odette is a medium channeling voiceless spirits.

Who is right? Whose eyes will you read through?

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Rather Barefoot Than Bookless
Just One More Paragraph
Mind Reading?

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Just One More Paragraph
Bellicose Blackcat’s Blog
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Fantasy Book Chick
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Urban Fantasy Reviews
Rather Barefoot Than Bookless
Just One More Paragraph
Reading Lark

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The Happiness Complex
Cecilia Robert’s Written Word

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Pavarti K. Tyler – My Life of Books and Beauty
Urban Fantasy Reviews
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Kyllan Brindle’s Blog
Write Panic Live
The Happiness Complex

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ABC Book Nerd
Urban Fantasy Reviews

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Write Panic Live

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Happy Tails and Tales Blog
Bellicose Blackcat Blog
Ritesh Kala’s Book Reviews

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What the Cat Read
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Write Panic Live

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Happy Tail and Tales Blog
Howling Turtle

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Tricia Kristufek

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Inquisitive Hippo
For the Love of Reading

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Urban Fantasy Scriptorium – review
Urban Fantasy Scriptorium – guest post
Bah Bam! My Musings
Anne Schilde

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Tricia Kristuffek

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Urban Fantasy Scriptorium – review
Urban Fantasy Scriptorium – guest post
Literary Lunes Publications

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The Joy of the Written Word
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Inquisitive Hippo

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The Joy of the Written Word

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Musings of a Bookworm

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Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Novel Publicity Review: Farsighted by Emlyn Chand

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Please note, this review was written before I became a Novel Publicity employee and has not been altered since.  I was not given anything other than an ARC copy of Farsighted for this review.

Farsighted
by Emlyn Chand

genre: paranormal young adult

Review:
Each chapter starts with a rune and a premonition about what the hero will face in that chapter.  Most were obvious given the premise of the story, but it was still a neat way to start each chapter.

I enjoy well read authors who can meld the classics with modern literature, so no one should be surprised that I love Farsighted main character Alex, a blind fortune teller based on Tiresias from Oedipus Rex and Antigone who narrates the story.  Farsighted follows him as he develops his abilities to see with other senses, both in the present and future.

Excerpt from Farsighted by Emlyn Chand

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Tomorrow is Eliabeth’s review of Farsighted  by Emlyn Chand.  Today, we’re posting a related excerpt.  It is a particularly interesting book for us because the narrator is blind.  In this paranormal young adult novel, Alex Kosmitoras can still “see” things others can’t. When his unwanted visions of the future begin to suggest that the girl he likes could be in danger, he has no choice but to take on destiny and demand it reconsider.

an excerpt from Farsighted, chapter 3

I sulk into school the next day, irritated about the way my brain’s been malfunctioning lately and embarrassed by how I’ve been around Simmi. The last thing I need is more problems. I head into first period attempting to disappear. No such luck.

“You better watch yourself, Kosmitoras,” Brady Evans growls. I wasn’t even aware he had entered the class, but now here he is, uncomfortably close to my desk.