And the winner is: Lee Todd! congratulations Lee. Hope you enjoy your book this holiday season!
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GIVEAWAY! WIN Lily Adile Lamb’s new book-The Nameless One
I’m super excited to welcome my friend Lily Adile Lamb who’s here to promote her newest masterpiece. You’ll find the rules for how to win her e-book, The Nameless One, at the end of this post. Happy reading!!
One day, I was on Facebook and saw a photo of a creature who with its wings, resembled a bat, albeit with a human face. I was drawn to its beauty with the figure looking utterly lonely in a cave far away from civilization. I literally felt hurt from what I saw. I imagined how many of us feel utterly alone in crowds and I felt very sad. I instantly visualized him as a male-being longing for his loved one. The next day, I was on Pinterest looking at photos of beautiful places in the world. There was this photo of an amazing mountain under the stars… voila! I suddenly envisioned the character in both my head and my heart, along with the mountain he would call his home. I then instantly knew who would be his other half.
As I wrote this story, I imagined the scenes in my head and tried to write them down. At some stage, I was crying at what my characters were going through. I was caught up in their tale, all I could hope for was to finish their part for all of us. It had a universal message about unconditional love, acceptance and our human frailties.
The day, I released my story; I was up until the early hours of the day, anxious and excited.
The Nameless One
Blurb:
He was the only nameless one among his kind, the result of his mother’s forbidden affair with a human. He was the only one the others teased and tormented, the only one who longed for his own sex – a crime among his kind. And when he repeated his mother’s mistake with a human male, the punishment was terrible – his wings were broken, his body was crushed, and he was imprisoned in a bottle, freed only to grant the wishes of whichever greedy human found him next. And there he stayed, alone.
Faine was born different, too, his legs withered at birth, his little body left at the edge of the woods for the other abandoned ones to take in. Sylvonna the wise woman raised him in kindness, and the sheep he tended were patient with his slow, painful gait. It was a good life…only he longed for a lover of his own sex, and while there was no shame in it among his people, there were none among them who shared that longing. And so he was alone.
The forest whispered to Faine, that he would find love…that his true love was coming soon.
And when the nameless one was at last freed from his prison, his release would come on a mountain, near a forest…a forest where the world’s other outcasts dwelt. A mountain where Faine would bring his sheep to graze…
“The Nameless One” is a fable, a fairy tale, a love story about two broken creatures who are made whole at last.
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Available at- http://smile.amazon.com/THE-NAMELESS-Lily-Adile-Lamb-ebook/dp/B018ZP5JN4/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
For a chance to win Lily’s new book, all you have to do is share on your social media pages the link from right above ⇑. Add to your post the tags from above ⇑, then come back and post the link to your share here along with your e-mail addy. The winner will be chosen through random.org . I will post the winner’s name next Friday, December 18th, at 8 PM my time zone (GMT+2). You have until then to comment. For any questions, feel free to leave a comment below. Good luck!
Guest Post and GIVEAWAY – Azalea Moone
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Research, Research, Research
Hiya everyone. Great to be here at Shayla Mist’s blog to promote my new release “For the Long Haul”, a coming out story about a middle aged truck driver who happens to meet his lover while on the road. It’s available February 22nd. That’s Saturday, by the way!
So one of the biggest mantras you’ll hear authors spouting constantly is “research, research, research.” If you haven’t been there, research. If you want to know what something is like, but haven’t done it yourself, research. Yeah, pretty much, research everything that you don’t know, even if you do know it but haven’t done/been there in a while, etc.
Hands up, I did a lot of research for this story. Everything from watching youtube videos on the life of truck drivers (there are some hilarious ones out there), to looking up blogs and websites for information, and talking to relatives and friends of drivers. I had even bookmarked a site of CB radio terminology and trucker slang. It was totally fun to read over those. And I’d already known what it’s like to travel from one side of the country to the other, but I needed to research more on routes, particularly from Denver to Tennessee.
So it came to no surprise when after the story was finished, I opened up a very interesting article on the dangers and growing trend of truck stop prostitution. And I face-palmed. That was something I hadn’t fully investigated. Sure, I knew that prostitution can occur anywhere and for different reasons, but this article in particular was different.
Ethan, 2nd MC in the story, is a prostitute aka “lot lizard” who meets my awesome truck driver. Guess where? But the article I read was about the increasing trend of young girls being kidnapped and forced out there by a pimp. And I thought to myself: Would this make Ethan’s story any different?
He wasn’t forced. That definitely could have changed the dynamics if he was. But he was working under a pimp, and gets himself into a little bit of trouble. You’ll find out why. And so, I hand-up admit, I didn’t research everything, but maybe I didn’t need to. Ethan’s story is just right for him.
Excerpt:
Stepping into the men’s room, Ethan peered in the mirror at his reflection walking by, grimaced at the mess of hair and stubble on his chin, and then hid in the stall. Should think of getting a hair cut someday, but there were reasons why he’d grown it out. Reasons why he’d gotten the tattoo, and why he’d put on a little more weight.
He’d tried to avoid that reflection of himself for little more than a year now with no luck. No matter his changes, he still appeared as the young guy who had royally fucked up. Who needed more than a loan to help him pay rent and got involved with a pimp back in the city—someone he shouldn’t have even dealt with.
When he was finished in the stall, he walked back out into the restroom, and planted his palms on the side of the sink, staring at his reflection. No one would recognize him out here, states away from his home. There was no reason to keep this messy hair. It wasn’t really him. The tattoo he liked though. And he’d have to make sure to shave as soon as he could. The form of a goatee coiled around his chin and upper lip.
But would Gunner still want him around if he knew exactly what Ethan was doing the night they met?
Enter my giveaway for a chance to win a free copy of “For the Long Haul.” Comment below, and remember to leave your email address. Winners will be drawn February 22nd on Azalea Moone’s blog!
Shayla Mist 