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Newest Gypsy Shadow Release, December 3, 2021

December 7, 2021 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Black House by Elana Gomel

Leire always knew she was different. Her flaming red hair, her uncanny skill with the needle, and most or all, her curiosity, set her apart in the prison-city of Hiria, dominated by the mysterious Black House. But only when she is arrested does Leire learn just how different she is. A descendant of the cursed witchbrood that haunted the city’s nightmares for centuries, she is the only one capable of stopping the plague of monstrous Black Walkers destroying Hiria.

Embarking on a quest through the twisted corridors and uncounted gateways of the Black House, Leire must learn the shattering truth about the city and about her own origin if she is to save Hiria and to be reunited with the man she has reluctantly fallen in love with.

Word Count: 71414
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Price: 3.99

New GSP Releases, January-May, 2021

June 2, 2021 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Many New Releases!

The Perfect Man by Violetta Antcliff

What is the perfect man? Is there such a person? Faith would have said no, would have argued that even a saint has flaws, defects. She has given up hope of ever finding a man that can live up to her expectations. That is until James and his namesake come into her life. One is perfection personified, too good to be true. The other has all the weaknesses of the common man. Does she want a robotic yes man who agrees with everything she says, or one who is anything but perfect? Can a simple kiss be the answer to this confusing conundrum? That is the question, but what is the answer?

Word Count: 10300
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Philip and the Boy Who Said, “Huh?” by John Paulits

Philip’s new friend Eugene has some strange ways about him, especially the way he sometimes ignores people. Philip decides to investigate, and when he finally figures out Eugene’s secret, it upends not only Eugene’s life, but also Philip’s own.

Word Count: 13400
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Across the Faebridge by Shiloh Darke

Leanna is a widow who just wants to start over. She moves out into the country, where she feels an instant connection to the land with the little cobblestone cottage. She hopes the change of scenery and time by herself will help her take some much needed time to herself and find a way to heal.

One evening, deciding to explore a little, she crosses the cobblestone bridge that crosses the creek running across the property. One minute, she is crossing the bridge in the late evening. Next minute, she is nose to nose with a real, live dragon. In the middle of the day.

As if the dragon isn’t shocking enough, the Elf on his back has seriously got to be the sexiest man she’s ever seen. Vlameir is an Elf King who has all but given up on finding his soulmate. When Leanna stumbles through the Portal and into his life, he is shocked to feel an instant connection to the petite human female.

But there is always more to every story. Unfortunately, soulmates finally finding each other is only the beginning…

Word Count: 78231
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Piñata Belly by Joe Novara

Harry, a retired African American high school history teacher turned D.C. tour guide, decides to explore guiding opportunities in Guatemala. On an outing to Mayan ruins, the life-long bachelor with a rapport with teens, connects with Bryn and through her, with her ex-pat grandmother, Cobi. Surprised by love, so late in life, in a cultural setting that views him as a “darker wave in a sea of brown,” he links up with Cobi as she unravels her tangled, exiled, Southern past.

Word Count: 22164
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Vito’s Tale by Joe Novara

Vito’s Tale is a piece of creative non-fiction (or historical fiction) about my grandfather who came to this country from Sicily ahead of his wife and children, sent my father to college, worked heavy construction labor all the while longing to return to the ‘home’ he left behind. Finally, as a widower, he did go back, married again and welcomed the grandson who came full cycle to live with him for a summer.

Word Count: 19200
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Ruby Crab by Nathan Gemmell

Bored, dreaming of a different life with adventure, success and family… Well, that’s just around the corner, but the path to our dreams is never straightforward.

Nat lives a mundane and solitary life. Day after day, nothing changes; he wakes up, goes to work, eats, then sleeps—and it all starts again the following morning. Always he dreams of a better life and to find someone to care for and to love.

Then, one day, he finds Ruby Crab. She is a beautiful childlike creature made of pure ruby. She has been abandoned! A refugee, Ruby Crab exists in a society in which she does not belong.

After spending a lot of time together, they develop a loving father-daughter bond. Will the world continue to reject her existence? Will society accept their connection? Will their love for each other prevail in this world—or in another?

Word Count: 10200
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Psychopaths and UFOs by Violetta Antcliff

G. Baxter & Flint, Private Investigators, are two of the best who seldom turn away clients who come to them for help. But when Georgina Baxter takes on a psychopath as a client, she gets more than she bargained for and ends up fighting for her life.

Joseph Flint, her partner in the firm, is persuaded to take on a client who he thinks is delusional, a man seeing aliens and flying saucers every time there’s a full moon.

Flint doesn’t believe in UFOs but he investigates regardless, and what he finds out is mind boggling, unbelievable.

Word Count: 10850
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Remembering Sunny by Dawn Colclasure

Jeanie and Mara are two cousins who grow up together and share a dream of opening their own animal shelter one day. But that dream is put on hold when, at 18, Mara announces she is pregnant and that she’s going to marry her boyfriend, Drake Preston. Jeanie knows Drake is bad news, but supports her cousin all the same. After Sunny is born, Mara can’t imagine her life without her. Then tragedy strikes and the family pulls together in mourning. It is in her grief that Mara learns how to turn tragedy into triumph and bring hope to her life again.

Word Count: 10750
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Cagalupo Redux by Joe Novara

Nick Finazzo, a roving freelance writer, spots Carol walking a Lake Michigan beach a long way and a lifetime from their early years in Detroit’s Eastside—their adolescent attraction, friends in common and now disparate life styles—her Lake Michigan mansion, his live-in van. Can they start over?

Word Count: 5700
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Eltava: A Sword for All Ages by Nyki Blatchley

A swordswoman with a love of wandering, Eltava lives a nomadic life in a world of island kingdoms and mainland empires, sometimes on her own, sometimes with her immortal companion, known as the Traveller. These eleven stories chronicle her life and adventures from an adventure-obsessed 14-year-old to an 84-year-old who still has a move or two up her sleeve.

From acting as bodyguard for princesses to defending peaceful communities from aggression, Eltava battles bandits and tyrants, demons and unearthly creatures. But her greatest battle is with herself, as she becomes more aware that she’s growing old, while her companion doesn’t age. A search for eternal life ultimately teaches her that life itself is a victory, however long or short—and Eltava’s going to enjoy every minute of hers.

Word Count: 78585
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Newest Release, September 15, 2020

September 17, 2020 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Dweller in the Crack by Nyki Blatchley

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Kari and Fai, wandering teenage sorcerers and lovers whose spells occasionally work, just want to relax in the city of Jayen—only it’s vanished. Things just get weirder when they learn from a child goddess that the city’s been catapulted thousands of years into the future, and they need to follow it with her to avert disaster.

But the future is more terrifying than they expect—a dystopian technological nightmare, where a crack in reality is keeping two versions of the city trapped. To save Jayen (and maybe the world) Kari and Fai must venture into the Crack and confront the mysterious Dweller within.

Word Count: 26500

Also Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other vendors worldwide!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Nyki Blatchley is a British author, poet and copywriter who lives just outside London. Alongside a varied career that’s involved selling books to royalty, care for disabled people and posing for artists, he’s had about seventy stories published by, among others, Penumbra, Daily Science Fiction and The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories. His novel At An Uncertain Hour was published by StoneGarden, and he’s had novellas out from Musa Publishing and Fox & Raven.

Nyki is an administrator for the online fantasy writers’ group Fantasy-writers.org. He’s also had numerous poems published and has performed poetry and music at various venues around London. This included frequent appearances at the legendary coffee-house Bunjies, which in the 60s hosted artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and David Bowie.

WEBSITE: http://www.nykiblatchley.co.uk
BLOG: https://nyki-blatchley.blogspot.com
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NykiBlatchley
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/nyki.blatchley

EXCERPT:

I

“So,” demanded Karaghr, gazing around the unbroken jungle, “where exactly is this city?”

Failiu raised her eyebrows at him, jerking her head suggestively at their guide. Her face looked torn between anger and tears, and he reached out a comforting hand to her. She’d been looking forward to reaching the city of Jayen and its comforts even more than he had.

Da-Zheng, the guide who’d brought them all the way up the river, stood staring around. Had the man brought them to the middle of nowhere deliberately, for some nefarious purpose? It seemed unlikely, from what Kari had seen during the journey of the stolid, reliable man, but he put his hand on his knife-hilt, just in case.

“I don’t understand it.” Da-Zheng turned to them, his pale face even more blanched than usual. “This is the place. Jayen should be here.”

“But it’s not, is it?” snapped Fai. “You’ve brought us the wrong way.”

“No.” The Thaal guide shook his head, his eyes stunned. “It’s all as it should be. The bend in the river. The ridge we crossed two hours back. Anyway, we followed the road.”

That was true. The paved road was clear enough that Kari had wondered occasionally why they needed a guide, although Da-Zheng had been valuable in steering them through the customs of remote villages.

“Could it be a different road?” he suggested. There must be a simple explanation.

“I know the road to Jayen. There isn’t a route in these parts I don’t know.” From anyone else, the retort might have been angry, but Da-Zheng seemed to have no temper to lose. He made a broad gesture to indicate trees, undergrowth, the riverbank a few hundred paces away, the three of them standing in the steamy heat still rising from the last downpour. From a distance came an animal cry that Kari didn’t recognise. “Here,” the guide insisted in his slow voice. “This should be the south gate.”

Kari pulled Fai closer to himself, taking comfort by giving it. “So what are you saying? That an entire city has vanished, and the ground taken back by the jungle since you were last here? Just how long ago was that?”

“Last summer.” Da-Zheng was wandering around the immediate vicinity now, as if the buildings might be hidden behind one of the trees. “It was a thriving city last summer, and I’ve heard no news of disaster. In any case, what about that merchant? He’d been in Jayen, hadn’t he?”

That was true, and Kari cursed himself silently for forgetting it. The merchant they’d passed on the road five days ago was effusive about the prices he’d got for his goods in the city’s many markets and the rare commodities from the north that would make him even more when he returned to the coast.

That was Jayen’s importance, as a meeting-point for the road and river trade that came from both north and south of the great forests dividing the Thaal kingdoms in half. In spite of its remoteness, trade made it a rich and luxurious city, everyone said.

Fai trembled, and she was as pale as her dusky Errishi complexion would allow, but she let Kari help her shuck her pack before collapsing to sit on it. He joined her, holding her hand. A speckled snake, longer than he was tall, slithered along a branch high above, but took no notice. It was of a type Da-Zheng said wouldn’t attack humans unless it felt threatened.

It had seemed such a good idea to go on a trek through the jungle to find the city of Jayen. The Lost City, Failiu insisted on calling it, though it was nothing of the kind, and the trek was a stroll along a good road. Still, finding lost cities was what you did when you were teenage outlaw sorcerers, and that’s what they’d been since they were kicked out of the temple in Errish for studying forbidden volumes. It was an adventure.

Da-Zheng still wandered about, looking stunned. “It doesn’t make sense,” he muttered.

“All right.” Kari felt he should be positive for Fai’s sake. “Could you be mistaken? I mean, the jungle’s confusing. I know you know it, and there’s the road, but is it possible… I don’t know, there’s another bend in the river and another ridge just like the ones you know? Or… something?”

The guide looked at them blankly. He was an emotionless, middle-aged man who hadn’t seemed flustered by anything that had happened on the journey—not even when his young charges had wandered away for an exuberant lovemaking session and got lost—which made his attitude now more frightening.

“No. No, there’s no chance I’m wrong. This is where Jayen should be.”

Gypsy Shadow Turns Ten

September 6, 2019 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Tenth Anniversary Celebration!

Gypsy Shadow Publishing celebrates TEN YEARS in publishing September 1, 2019! To celebrate our tenth birthday this month…all month long, buy ANY eBook at regular price from the GSP website (http://www.gypsyshadow.com), email me (cholley@gypsyshadow.com) with proof of your purchase from Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Smashwords and tell me which other eBook you want to receive for FREE (must be equal or lesser value than the one you buy), and I will send it to you. Happy birthday, GSP!

Meet Ed Ahern- Author

September 6, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Gypsy Shadow Publishing Author Ed Ahern

Fascinating individual describes Ed Ahern. His modern fairy tales overflow with the vividness of his imagination and his talent as a storyteller. Gypsy Shadow’s Fireflies, New Springs, Legends and Wee Folk Genres feature young adult and children’s stories, folk tales and fantasy. His The Witch Made Me Do It fits nicely in each of these categories. As a result, you will find something to enjoy and hopefully share with others in this collection of modern fairy tales!

Interview with children’s fairy tale and fantasy author Ed Ahern:

How old were you when you first started to write?

Ahern: At sixteen, I started out writing obituaries for a weekly newspaper; my first paying job writing. About the same time, I completed my first fiction story, a shoot-em-up bodice ripper that never got published, and which I fortunately lost many years ago. Additionally, my junior year in high school, I wrote my first poem, a stinker about ants that got published in the school newspaper.

What motivates you to write?

Ahern: My motivation varies with the type of writing, and where I am as a writer. My non-fiction is limited to articles about fly fishing for Atlantic salmon, written to help other anglers and show off what a hot shit angler I am. An initial goal when I resumed writing fiction and poetry was publication. But now, some three hundred published pieces and reprints later, I write what I hope is decent and not what I think an editor will like.

I write really because I like telling prose stories and conveying poetic thoughts and emotions. Like probably most performers I live for the enjoyment and appreciation of an audience.

What’s your favorite non-writing activity?

Ahern: In order of personal importance: family first, then reading, fly fishing, shooting, online diversions like Facebook and Twitter, and exercising.

Are you an activist, or is there a particular area of conservation or compassion you are passionate about?

Ahern: Activist is probably too strong a term for me. Nonetheless, I’m a conservationist and support organizations like Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited and the Atlantic Salmon Federation. I no longer support the NRA, their views on gun control are not mine (nor the majority of NRA members)

Do you have pets?

Ahern: No pets at present, but a past with, serially, one cat and three dogs. I’ve spent over forty years living with household animals, and I’m not counting the gerbils and goldfish.

Are you an only child or do you have siblings?

Ahern: I’m the first of three, with a sister and brother lined up behind me.

Are you married—and do you have children? What do you love about your relationship?

Ahern: Married forty-nine years in November, 2016. My stock line in the bio is that I have my original wife, but that after so many years together we’re both out of warranty. Two children, five grandchildren. We’re very close emotionally but not geographically.

What is the most significant thing that has happened during your lifetime?

“I survived.”

Ahern: I survived. I was a sport diver as a teenager and a Navy diver and bomb disarmer while in service. Then almost ten years living overseas as an intelligence operative, then another quarter century avoiding the conflicts and disease in second and third world countries. Almost swept away twice while wading where I shouldn’t have in turbulent rivers.

What do you read and what is your preferred medium?

Ahern: Two part answer. Pro Bono I handle a stable of review readers and sit on the review board for Bewildering Stories, which entails reading and evaluating around 25,000 words/week. My leisure reading alternates between literary fiction, genre fiction and nonfiction. The leisure reading is almost always from a physical book.

What are your favorite books?

Ahern: There are too many to list. I tend to keep or buy a book I really like, and there are well over a thousand books squirreled away in the house. And my tastes have changed over the decades. The Tarzan and Tom Swift books I read as a child seem pretty awful now, although I loved them then. I continue to make dedicated efforts to plow through Ulysses and Infinite Jest. I love the writing but get so frustrated that I put them back down for awhile. I do reread Tolkien fairly frequently.

Who are your favorite authors?

Ahern: Another “it depends” answer. Some authors are comfort food- George R. R. Martin for example. Some authors are annoyingly good—the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Andre Dubus. Some authors recompose English into brittle brilliancy—David Foster Wallace.

If you had a gift certificate for $100 worth of books, where would you begin browsing and what would you buy first?

Ahern: No hesitation. Collectable books on Atlantic salmon fishing. I’d need more than a hundred dollars though.

WEBSITE: www.swampgasworks.com

TWITTER: @bottomstripper. I write almost daily about writing.

FACEBOOK: edward.ahern.39

KEYWORDS FOR YOUR BOOK(S) AND YOUR INTERVIEW.

fairy and folk tales, children’s books, Christmas books, reading to children

Thanks, Ed. We are honored to have you as one of our authors!

Have a great day and READ!

Gypsy Shadow Publishing celebrates its seventh year in business in September of 2016. Primarily an eBook publisher based online, we have almost 50 books in print! Drop by, check out our more than 250 eBooks by almost 100 authors and pick out something to read!

Denise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/

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Shadow Dance Genre – Dark Fantasy, Paranormal and Supernatural

August 23, 2016 By Charlotte Holley 4 Comments

The works in this genre are a portal into the shadows of Gypsy Shadow Publishing.

The mixture shows just how much variety the talents of our authors span. Vivid imaginations provide a peek into the worlds of vampires, pirates, aliens and even hell. Take a look at the offerings and read one today!

NOTE: Several series and individual books are 18+ readers only for either gore, excessive violence, or explicit sexuality and the titles are marked with a double asterisk **.

Shadow Dance – Dark Fantasy, Paranormal and Supernatural

Title	Series Title	Author
A Cross to Bare		Stephen M. DeBock
A Man Named Klaus		Violetta Antcliff
Allison’s Deception **	Beauty Stone Beast Series #4	Shiloh Darke
Awareness	Book One: Awakening Awareness	Rowan Shannigan
Black Venom **	Waves of Darkness Book #4	Tamara A. Lowery
Blood Curse **	Waves of Darkness Book #1	Tamara A. Lowery
Brambles and Thorns		Lisa Farrell
Christmas Dance		Rowan Shannigan
Demon Bayou **	Waves of Darkness Book #2	Tamara A. Lowery
Edith’s Journey		Peter Simon
Entity’s Promise **		Shiloh Darke
Eternal Moon **	The Order of the Eternals Series #2	Shiloh Darke
Hell’s Dodo **	Waves of Darkness Book #5	Tamara A. Lowery
Hemophage **		Stephen M. DeBock
Holly and Ivy		Lisa Farrell
In the Dead of Winter		Tamara A. Lowery
Kameeta’s Pleasure **	Celestial Abductions #4	Shiloh Darke
Lady of the Veils	Knight of Avalon Series: Book One	M. L. John
Last Refuge	Tibetan Books #2	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Liminal Key **		Ruth J. Burroughs
Marissa’s Surprise **	Celestial Abductions #3	Shiloh Darke
McCann’s Manor: Portal	The Actors Guild Paranormal Mystery Series #1	Charlotte Holley
Metamorph **		Stephen M. DeBock
Morgen		Stephen M. DeBock
Nothing Sacred	Tibetan Books #1	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Ocean’s Portal **		Shiloh Darke
Patricia’s Desire **	Beauty Stone Beast Series #3	Shiloh Darke
Phantom Banjo	The Songkiller Saga #1	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Picking the Ballad’s Bones	The Songkiller Saga #2	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Rachel’s Inheritance **	Beauty Stone Beast Series #1	Shiloh Darke
Sapphire		Violetta Antcliff
Sensations	Book Two: Awakening Awareness	Rowan Shannigan
Shadow of Samhain **		Dawn Colclasure
Shifty		Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Silent Fathoms **	Waves of Darkness Book #3	Tamara A. Lowery
Spam Vs. the Vampire	A Purranormal Mystery	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Sparrow’s Release	Celestial Abductions #1	Shiloh Darke
Strum Again?	The Songkiller Saga #3	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Tarrah’s Dream **	Beauty Stone Beast Series #2	Shiloh Darke
Tesla’s Completion	Celestial Abductions #2	Shiloh Darke
The Anvil Ghosts	The Haunting of Collection #3	Violetta Antcliff
The Bakery Murders: Challenge	The Actors Guild Paranormal Mystery Series #2	Charlotte Holley
The Carol Singers		Violetta Antcliff
The Chosen Mate **		Shiloh Darke
The Cursed		Lisa Farrell
The Depraved Dances of Taram Zhod		Stanley Bruce Carter
The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas	V. Lovelace’s Guide to the Wild West #1	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Eternal **	The Order of the Eternals Series #1	Shiloh Darke
The Eyes of Death		Roland Hopkins II
The Form of Eternity **	The Order of the Eternals Series #3	Shiloh Darke
The Godmother’s Apprentice	The Godmother Series Book #2	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Godmother’s Web	The Godmother Series Book #3	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Goldcamp Vampire	V. Lovelace’s Guide to the Wild West #2	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Green Man’s Curse	Witan Vid #1	R. M. Brandon
The Harem of Aman Akbar		Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Haunted Spring		Anthony Diesso
The Hollows **	The Hollows #1	Ben Larken
The Lady in the Loch		Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Man in the Wall **	The Hollows #2	Ben Larken
The Mother		Lisa Farrell
The Sainthood Ghost		Lady Deidre
The Storm Prince	Knight of Avalon Series: Book Two	M. L. John
The Testament of Charlie Fairweather **		Stephen M. DeBock
The Tour Bus of Doom	A Purranormal Mystery	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Witch and the Squirrels		G. E. Stills
Ti	Seron Ti #1	S. R. Jaborsky
Time Warped		Tracey L. Pacelli
Umbral Visions		Garrett Calcaterra
Whispers from the Past: Vendetta	The Actors Guild Paranormal Mystery Series #3	Charlotte Holley

Have a great day and READ!

Gypsy Shadow Publishing will be celebrating its seventh year in business in September. We are primarily an eBook publisher based online, although we have almost 50 books in print! Please drop by and check out our more than 250 eBooks by almost 100 authors. (Including the owners of the company!

Denise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and in working with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/

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The GHOSTS of The Irish Setter and The Missing Hiker by Dawn Colclasure

August 1, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

The GHOSTS of The Irish Setter and The Missing Hiker , Book 2 of Dawn Colclasure’s GHOST Group series draws the reader into the paranormal world of ghosts and the team of 5 preteens who help them! You’ll enjoy getting to know these adventurous children. Add it to your reading list today!

The GHOST Group Book 2: The GHOSTS of The Irish Setter and The Missing Hiker by Dawn Colclasure

http://gypsyshadow.com/DawnColclasure.html#GHOSTGroup2

Cover Art by Manon Daniels Massari http://www.manondanielsmassari.yolasite.com/

There’s something different about Sarah Town. It’s brimming with ghosts – and some of those ghosts need help! That’s where the GHOST Group comes in – the Ghost Helpers of Sarah Town. The GHOST Group is made up of five 11-year-old team members: Jesse, Jenny, Ryan, Trent, and Cassie.

The Ghost of the Irish Setter is a “ghost dog” story where team member Jesse must come to terms with losing his dog, Lolly, after she ran away. A ghost dog that is an Irish setter seeks Jesse’s help, but when the rest of the GHOST Group join the case, it becomes a matter of life or death after Cassie and Ryan are kidnapped! Can the GHOST Group help the ghost dog? And can Jesse find out what really happened to Lolly?

In The Ghost of the Missing Hiker, a day of April Fool’s hijinks turn into another mystery for the GHOST Group. Meanwhile, the group’s helper ghost, Adam, has some bad news for the team, and Jenny realizes she must accept her special gift and learn how to use it so she can help other ghosts in Sarah Town.

Denise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and in working with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/

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Do Over by G. E. Stills

August 1, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

G. E. Stills writes romances with big doses of reality and the confusion that comes from facing life head on. Do Over is the story of a man who gets what many of us wish for, but never get. A chance to reestablish a link and create romance and happiness. Add this one to your romance reading list, it’s a tale of time travel and second chances.

Do Over by G. E. Stills

http://gypsyshadow.com/GEStills.html#DoOver

Have you ever wished you could go back in your life and change things? Would the changes made turn out for the better? If you remembered your future, you could correct your mistakes, but would you make others? Gene took a wrong turn in life. He lives on the wrong side of the law, but he gets a chance that we never get. He gets a Do Over in his life.

Denise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and in working with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/

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The Dragon, the Witch and the Railroad by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

July 30, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Fantasy fans will be happy to discover the 5th book of the Seashell Archives collection by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Elizabeth Ann has not lost her touch for bringing her readers a huge dose of tongue-in-cheek humour, the kind where you stop and reread the lines to be sure the author really did say that! Even though it’s part of a series, this book is a perfectly legitimate beginning for a new reader, soon to be a fan, of this wonderful author.

Check out The Dragon, the Witch and the Railroad by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

http://gypsyshadow.com/ElizabethScarborough.html#DWR

Progress has transformed Queenston, capital city of Argonia. Once the land of witches, wizards, fairies, and other magical people and animals, since the Great War, the country has changed. Queenston, particularly, is now the city of contraptions and conveyances, including a modern international railroad.

In the Great War Argonia’s dragons allied with the armies to push back an invasion. For their assistance, the beasts shared what food remained as the country rebuilt itself. But with the war won, the allies came to “recover” the war-torn country, bringing with them new ideas and inventions, most of which only needed a supply of iron and a reliable source of heat for their boilers. The dragons were again recruited, tamed, altered and virtually enslaved to power Progress.

Verity Brown is a modern girl. The magic of her witchy foremothers has become, if not actually illegal, highly unfashionable. The only magic that matters to Verity is her own curse, forcing her to know and tell the truth regardless of convenience.

On Verity’s 16th birthday, a hot-air balloon crash kills her father. The balloon’s dragon and wrangler rescue Verity, but are blamed and sentenced to be put to death. Her honorable quest to save them and find her father’s murderer takes her straight into the den of the wild and ferocious Dragon Vitia.

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Adonis by Violetta Antcliff

July 29, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Visitors from other planets are not usually a part of renting a cottage and Susan is a woman who feels she can take on anything, as long as she can identify the problem, she can discover an answer to it. Enter the image of an Adonis, a naked man on a rainy night – seared into her memory, and the awareness that an escaped prisoner is on the loose. Violetta Antcliff has woven a tale of mystery, brewed with a wee touch of fun.

Check out Adonis by Violetta Antcliff

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Susan is a strong woman; not even the break up of her marriage fazed her. She just picked herself up, brushed herself off and got on with life. She has a firm belief that for every problem there is an answer. However, when she rents a cottage on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, she finds her motto put to the test. UFOs, a naked man who claims to be an interplanetary agent, and a dangerous escaped prisoner are not typical everyday occurrences in her life. And as she is to find out to her dismay, a cup of tea is not the answer to the strange state of affairs she finds herself caught up in.

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Gypsy Shadow Publishing Author Ed Ahern

Interview with children’s fairy tale and fantasy author Ed Ahern:

I write really because I like telling prose stories and conveying poetic thoughts and emotions. Like probably most performers I live for the enjoyment and appreciation of an audience.

Ahern: In order of personal importance: family first, then reading, fly fishing, shooting, online diversions like Facebook and Twitter, and exercising.

Ahern: Activist is probably too strong a term for me. Nonetheless, I’m a conservationist and support organizations like Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited and the Atlantic Salmon Federation. I no longer support the NRA, their views on gun control are not mine (nor the majority of NRA members)

Ahern: No pets at present, but a past with, serially, one cat and three dogs. I’ve spent over forty years living with household animals, and I’m not counting the gerbils and goldfish.

Ahern: I’m the first of three, with a sister and brother lined up behind me.

Ahern: Married forty-nine years in November, 2016. My stock line in the bio is that I have my original wife, but that after so many years together we’re both out of warranty. Two children, five grandchildren. We’re very close emotionally but not geographically.

“I survived.”

Ahern: Another “it depends” answer. Some authors are comfort food- George R. R. Martin for example. Some authors are annoyingly good—the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Andre Dubus. Some authors recompose English into brittle brilliancy—David Foster Wallace.

Ahern: No hesitation. Collectable books on Atlantic salmon fishing. I’d need more than a hundred dollars though.

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Shadow Dance – Dark Fantasy, Paranormal and Supernatural

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Series Title

Author

Stephen M. DeBock

Violetta Antcliff

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Beauty Stone Beast Series #4

Shiloh Darke

Book One:

Awakening Awareness

Rowan Shannigan

**

Waves of Darkness

Book #4

Tamara A. Lowery

**

Waves of Darkness

Book #1

Tamara A. Lowery

Lisa Farrell

Rowan Shannigan

**

Waves of Darkness

Book #2

Tamara A. Lowery

Peter Simon

**

Shiloh Darke

**

The Order of the Eternals Series #2

Shiloh Darke

**

Waves of Darkness

Book #5

Tamara A. Lowery

**

Stephen M. DeBock

Lisa Farrell

Tamara A. Lowery

**

Celestial Abductions #4

Shiloh Darke

Knight of Avalon Series:

Book One

M. L. John

Tibetan Books #2

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Liminal Key **

Ruth J. Burroughs

**

Celestial Abductions #3

Shiloh Darke

The Actors Guild Paranormal Mystery Series #1

Charlotte Holley

**

Stephen M. DeBock

Stephen M. DeBock

Tibetan Books #1

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

**

Shiloh Darke

**

Beauty Stone Beast Series #3

Shiloh Darke