REVIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS were announced last night. I’m so proud to say that all three nominations won.
2013 WINNER – Best Paranormal Romance Series – BLACK SWAN
2013 WINNER – Best Paranormal
Romance Novel (General) – A
SUMMONER’S TALE
2013 WINNER – Best Paranormal Romance Novel (Vampires & Shifters) – MOONLIGHT
To everyone who voted, and especially those who campaigned by sharing, thank you more than I can say.
WHAT A THRILL !!!
The Order of the Black Swan is a serial saga including My Familiar Stranger, The Witch’s Dream, A Summoner’s Tale, Moonlight, Gathering Storm, and NEVER BEFORE RELEASED Book 6, A Tale of Two Kingdoms.
Once upon a time a girl lost everything familiar. She escaped death by being forced into an experiment that left her in another world where modern day knights, elves, vampires, werewolves, witches, demons and fae became her allies, friends and family. She discovered a place where adventure intersects fairytales, where honor is more than an ideal, and she learned that love can find you in the strangest places, when you’re least expecting it, even when you’re far, far from home. This is the story of Elora Laiken’s strange and wonderful journey. It is also the story of those whose lives she touches along the way.
If you love romance, paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, contemporary, this series is right for you. 17+
ISBN: 978-1-933320-94-6
533,000 word
Great questions, Billy. Click here to read the interview…
NOTE: THIS WAS RELEASE NEWS ON THE ARE CAFE FOR A SUMMONER’S TALE.
Please welcome romance author Victoria Danann to the Cafe!
I fell in love with paranormal romance after reading Kresley Cole’s A Hunger Like No Other. I’d been a fan of paranormal for most of my life and had read everything by Anne Rice and Stephen King, among others, but found that adding the element of romance is like putting the ice cream in the cone. I began to see that I could write romance using paranormal elements to mold male characters into the stuff of fantasy – what men should be.
I spent two years reading every PNR that had enjoyed any success at all so that I would know what had already been done. Armed with that information, I set out to write a series unlike anything that had been done before. All went well. The first book flowed almost like it was being channeled. I took care with the world building and the finished result was lengthy (475 pages), but I was satisfied that it fulfilled my vision and perhaps exceeded it.
The book, My Familiar Stranger, was so well-received that I’m still humming with the vibration. It was nominated for Best Paranormal Romance of 2012 by the Reviewers’ Choice Awards and has broken all kinds of records for the first work of an unknown author.
This note, however, is about what happened when it was time to begin Book Two. Put simply, I had fallen in love with the characters from the first book and wasn’t ready to let them go. There was more story to tell. I knew from feedback that readers felt the same way. So Book Two, The Witch’s Dream, picked up where Book One ended.
I knew that creating a series that is also a serial saga was going to be a lot more trouble than a collection of books that are loosely related, but I decided it was going to be worth the risk. The third installment, A Summoner’s Tale, was just released. If you have not read any of the books, it will be a real treat for you to read the story as it was meant to be told, from Book One through Three without interruption.
http://www.arecafe.com/cafe-news/victoria-danann-when-a-series-becomes-a-saga/
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
It’s so special here because it’s also the official release of A Summoner’s Tale: The Vampire’s Confessor, BLACK SWAN 3.
click here to enter to win one of the GRAND PRIZES:
1.) Two Kindle Paperwhites (U.S. only)
2.) Twenty sets of the Black Swan COLLECTION: Books 1-3 e-books. The saga as it was meant to be told. Includes My Familiar Stranger, The Witch’s Dream, and NEW RELEASE A Summoner’s Tale. All 313,000 words.
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February 12- 18.
GIVEAWAY – 7 E-COPIES of The Order of the Black Swan COLLECTED TALES, Books 1-3. (All 113,000 words.)
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Michelle in Scotland has started a Black Swan Group on Goodreads for fans of the series. If you don’t have a Goodreads account, it’s easy to sign up, friend me and join the group.- Victoria
You’re invited to join the group and join in for discussion, questions, and chat. CLICK ON THIS LINK.
Every person who joins can request a free advance e-copy of A Summoner’s Tale: the vampire’s confessor. After you join the group, return here and leave a reply on this post with (1.) your Goodreads name (2.) whether you would like to receive a Kindle file or an epub file (3.) whether you have read the first two books in the series.
Review: The Summoner’s Tale, The Order of the Black Swan, Book 3 by /BOOKED AND LOADED
Plus interview and spotlight feature.
