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EYE CANDY is Now Available in Paperback

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My latest novel Eye Candy is now available in paperback! Yay! Hot new release! Premiere science fiction from the mind of Top 20 Amazon seller Ryan Schneider, award-winning author of The Go-Kids series. Imagine a world in which air pollution is a thing of the past, cheap renewable energy is commonplace, and robotics is a daily reality as ubiquitous as mobile phones are to us today. In the future people still go to work and to the gym and to the sports bar to watch Monday Night Football. They still take the kids to school and pick them up in the afternoon and have to figure out what's for dinner. And they still fall in love and dream of living happily ever after. Eye Candy is a story about all this and more. It is a story about what it means to be a human being, with characters so real you feel like you know them. In this near-future Los Angeles, roboticist Danny Olivaw finds himself on a blind date with a beautiful robopsychologi

10 Questions with Dark Fantasy Author Kate Jonez (@K8Jonez)

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This Author Spotlight features Dark Fantasy Author Kate Jonez author of Candy House Kate Jonez writes dark fantasy fiction. Her debut novel Candy House published by  Evil Jester Press  is available at Amazon in  print  and  ebook . She is also chief editor at  Omnium Gatherum , a small press dedicated to providing unique dark fantasy fiction in print, ebook and audio formats. Three Omnium Gatherum books have been nominated for  Shirley Jackson Awards . Kate is a student of all things scary and when she isn’t writing she loves to collect objects for her cabinet of curiosities, research obscure and strange historical figures and photograph weirdness in Southern California where she lives with a very nice man and a little dog who is also very nice but could behave a little bit better. 1. How did you get into writing and why do you write? I originally wanted to be a painter, but for one reason or another that didn’t work out very well. A cr

The Next Big Thing Blog Meme - Shadow & Steel by James A. West (@JWestBooks)

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The Next Big Thing (Blog Meme) James A. West author of brand new epic fantasy novel SHADOW AND STEEL James states that he "will write for chips & salsa", but his fiction is worth a great deal more. James is a talented writer of fantasy novels. His latest work is  Shadow and Steel (Heirs of the Fallen Book 3) . I've read James' work and enjoyed it a great deal. I read  Reaper of Sorrows (Songs of the Scorpion - Volume I) . It was quite good. Great fantasy, with a strong hero reminiscent of Maximus from the film "Gladiator", great action, and some pretty effed-up dark magic. Take it away, James! 1. Title of your book: Shadow and Steel 2. Where did the idea come from for the book: My brain. Sorry, couldn’t resist! Actually I got the idea for this series 10 years ago. I love epic fantasy, but one day I thought to myself wouldn’t it be cool if the hero failed at saving the day? Or, even better, what

10 Questions with EVERVILLE Author Roy Huff (@EvervilleFans)

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This Author Spotlight features Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Young Adult writer Roy Huff ,  MS, MAEd author of Everville: The First Pillar Roy Huff is the author of Amazon's #1 international bestselling epic fantasy novel, Everville: The First Pillar . This is the first installment in the remarkable Everville series which combines elements of epic fantasy and young adult fiction in a form that nearly anyone will enjoy reading, young or old. He is a man of many interests including but not limited to science, traveling, movies, the outdoors, and of course writing teen and young adult fantasy fiction. He holds five degrees in four separate disciplines including liberal arts, history, secondary science education, and geoscience. Roy Huff's background includes work in art, history, education, business, real-estate, economics, geoscience, and satellite meteorology. He was born on the East Coast but has spent more than half his life in Hawaii, w

10 Follow-Up Questions with RomCom Novelist Elle Lothlorien (@ElleLothlorien)

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This Author Spotlight features a return visit with Amazon bestselling author Elle Lothlorien. This is a follow-up interview, but for people who are not already familiar with your work, tell us what kind of books you write. Currently, I write what has been described as “smart contemporary romantic comedy.” As you can probably tell by the titles, all of my novels are modern retellings loosely based on fairy tales and children’s stories: The Frog Prince , Sleeping Beauty , the “alternate-ending version” Sleeping Beauty WAKES UP! and Alice in Wonderland . Yes, it’s difficult to drop them into one specific sub-genre of romance—at one point I thought “mysterious, contemporary romantic-hoot” would work swell but was told that the category didn’t exist—but it keeps things interesting for both writer and reader since the stories are very different from each other. What these stories have in common is that they’re definitely stories for