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Reader’s Choice – Genres

August 5, 2016 By Charlotte Holley 2 Comments

What do you like to read? Have you ever thought about the genres that books come in?

Recently, the library in Buda, Texas, which I frequent most often, has begun to rearrange their books by genre. I was startled to find this, because, as an editor of many books, I find that a lot of modern books are not written to a ‘formula’ and do not fit in a single genre.

Genres:

When we started out, Gypsy Shadow Publishing created a unique set of genres with definitions for each one. As we enter our 7th year of life as a company, I am again struck with the need to find out what the readers want!

Gypsy Shadow’s 12 Genres

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I love to read and I love to work with writers on their books. However, without readers, writers don’t get the feedback they desire and the books, ideas, thoughts, information and emotions remain ‘on the shelf’ undiscovered and undiscussed.

The Challenge

My mother is also a voracious reader and pointed out a flaw in the genre sorting at our library. One of the authors she reads creates a lot of romance books. The book that Mother selected and brought home turned out to be a dramatic and traumatic story based in Europe in World War II, it was not a romance novel by any stretch of the imagination. It was placed in romances because of the author’s name.

Yep, that would be a flaw. And at Gypsy Shadow Publishing, our authors are not restricted to any particular genre at all! Therefore, when you click through the genres on our sites, you will find the books in a number of different genres.

What do you think? Are the ten standard genres sufficient? Most distributors allow us to select up to 3 for each book. Are the Gypsy Shadow genres helpful?

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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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Zvonek 08 Book 5 by Anne H. Petzer

July 29, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Feline Intelligence – Czech Republic on the case again in Zvonek 08, Book Five of the Zvonek 08 series. Cat lovers and fans of covert undercover assignments will love these two stories – Cats in High Water & The Eighth Key Committee. The first is a nod to the floodwaters rising in Prague in 2013. The offices of FI are being flooded and evacuated and the cats are busy when a request comes in to save a colony of stray cats who live at the zoo. Zvonek 08 and his fellow intelligence officers to the rescue! The Eight Key Committee is another FI drama concerning a valuable gem and a missing cat.

Zvonek 08 Book 5-Cats in High Water/The Eighth Key Committee, The Eighth Key Committee by Anne H. Petzer

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Cats in High Water: Prague is experiencing heavy summer rains. The rain continues for days. Tension mounts along with the level of the Vltava as Feline Intelligence reaches out to the save stranded cats. Just as recourses reach its limit a cry of help comes in from the colony of strays in the zoo. The zoo animals are being taken to safety but who will help the stranded felines? Can FI make it in time? Or will the cats be left to help themselves?

The Eight Key Committee: In the midst of preparations for the viewing of The Garnet, an ancient artifact, important to heritage of the feline community of the Czech Republic, a cat goes missing. In their quest to find her, Feline Intel uncovers sinister goings on around the trusted committee of this precious jewel.

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Broken Things and Angel Feathers by M. G. Davis

July 29, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Depression is a major challenge in today’s world, and at times teens like Sylvester McMahon are dragged into what seems a spiral of no return. Enter a chain-smoking guardian angel, whose mission it is to help Sly pull out of his tailspin. Read it and smile, folks!

Check out Broken Things and Angel Feathers by M. G. Davis

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Sylvester “Sly” McMahon is a depressed sixteen-year-old teen who wants nothing more than to die. He’s saved from a suicide attempt by a mysterious stranger, who later turns out to be his not-so-angelic guardian angel Cliff. A chain-smoker with a penchant for sarcastic wit, he’s determined to save Sly from himself. Sly is less than thrilled with the idea of staying alive. The two have to learn how to tolerate each other, even while Cliff keeps stressing the idea that the purpose God has set out for the teen isn’t yet fulfilled.

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Ocean’s Portal by Shiloh Darke

July 29, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

If your journeys as a reader take you to steamier climes, you will love Shiloh Darke’s paranormal books. Ocean’s Portal is a stand-alone book and is a fine example of Shiloh’s work. Whether you are a new reader or a long-term fan, you’ll want to add this one to your {Adult Only} summer reading list!

Ocean’s Portal by Shiloh Darke

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Danielle is a successful author. She has been writing about a man from myth and legend for so long, she has very nearly let herself believe he is real. But she knows better. Dream lovers are just that—dreams.

When one day, she’s brought face to face with Sorna and is forced to rethink that theory, he is everything she has dreamed him to be, complete with tail. But his discovery as well as his link to her threatens both of them. Can they escape the clutches of those who would destroy them? Even if they do, will Danielle ever find her way back to her normal life? Will she even want to?

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The Witch Made Me Do It by Edward Ahern

July 29, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

A collection of modern fairy tales to enjoy alone, or with your favorite child, from a grandfather with an exceedingly vivid imagination. Edward Ahern opens the door on his inner world and invites you inside to a great bit of fantasy to add to your summer reading material!

Check out The Witch Made Me Do It by Edward Ahern

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An improbable genii, a color-shifting cloak, a helpful skunk-some of the things in this shimmering collection of wonder tales for children. These fairy tales are set in today’s world, in places where the young readers and listeners already live. Literally a labor of love, this collection was first written for the author’s grandchildren who star in most of them. The tales are waiting for you to read them aloud to your children and grandchildren.

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Rescue from Zoron by John Paulits

July 29, 2016 By Charlotte Holley Leave a Comment

Boys are the heroes in John Paulit’s books! Rescue From Zoron is the second adventure story in the Zoron series, which features travels to the planet of Zoron (the first is Planet Zoron). It is a gripping tale of space travel, adventure and bravery starring children who are so realistic, you think you know these kids! Add this series to your summer reading list for fun and adventure!

Check out Rescue from Zoron by John Paulits

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Mark Foy has returned home from his surprising trip to Planet Zoron. Prince Zincor’s throne is safe. But is it? Who shows up but Zincor’s Uncle Blaylock, still determined to take over Zincor’s throne, and his partner, the evil scientific genius Fentar? They’ve been mistakenly transported to Mark’s very neighborhood by the Tappa Ray and now have Mark in their sights, certain he knows something they don’t—the way back to Zoron. Blaylock’s quest for Prince Zincor’s throne is not over!

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