Using Fantasy to Explore Mythology with Author Matt Larkin

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Jamie Davis

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 97 with Matt Larkin.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking off things this week, I’ll start with my author update. I’m still plugging away at the first draft of book 4 in the Huntress Clan Saga series. I plan to wrap up the first draft early next week. I can’t wait to share this one with my readers. There are so many great twists and characters I’ve added to this one for you. If you haven’t picked up the first three books in the series, now’s the time to do that. Check out the entire series over on Amazon starting with Huntress Initiate, the first book in the Huntress Clan Saga.

Huntress Cadet Marketing Quote "Tell him the Huntress who nearly killed him wants to finish the job."

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

On today’s show I interview my friend, author Matt Larkin. Matt’s fantasy books are intense, gritty, and dark. They’re based on his interpretation and retelling of various ancient mythologies, beginning with Norse myths. He strives to combine gut-wrenching action with thought-provoking ideas and culturally resonant stories. Check out his Gods of the Ragnarok Era series and my interview coming up with Matt right now.

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COVER REVEAL: Orcs of the Southern Front by James Jakins

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

Broken Redemption Series

The half-orc girl, Mikaia Goretusk has been torn from her world and thrown into one full of untold dangers. Her only protector is Arthur Shield, knight of the dead god Saban, once sword to kill everyone she has ever cared for.

The two will journey through Domhan, a world of magic and dark gods, through lands filled with heroes and villains. All to get the girl home.

And while they may never find an end to their journey, together they may find a form of redemption.

Orcs of the Southern Front

Arthur Shield and Mikaia Goretusk are no strangers to trouble and both may be out of their element when Arthur attempts to fill the shoes of an ambassador.

The two of them are caught in the middle of a centuries long war between the empire of Aanfang and the orcs of the Howling Desert.

From the jungles of the Southern Continent to the dunes of the Desert itself they will face enemies, old and new, as loyalties are tested and blood debts paid.

Arthur and Miki will be forced to pick sides in a war that both know should just end, but when they find a means to end the conflict for good, will they make the right choice?

Website: www.JamesJakins.com

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COVER REVEAL: Trials of Eschals by J.T. Williams

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

Every plan has fallen apart. The Blood grasps the Shadowlands. Can any defeat the Great Seer?

More importantly, can they stand against what she creates?

Kealin can no longer be in the sunlight. Weakned and broken, he embraces the guidance of a Vampire Lord and has gained a new furry companion with a penchant for a magic he’s never seen. If he is to help the others, he must learn to control his new powers but the goblins swarming his new master’s lands will complicate that and his Master has his own secrets…

Aeveam has been bitten. In the blackness if the land beneath Mandurlaku, her only hope is in an anxious half-elf that at least is good with a bow. But how long does she have until she becomes like Kealin?

Evurn and Elie are sailing for Eliadel. Evurn is done hiding. If any will openly face the Great Seer and her thralls, it is a few brave shadow elves and their blades. But even this old wizard wonders of what awaits them.

With so many working against them in the already precarious Shadowlands, how can they all possibly defy the odds and piece together the shambles that is the old Empire of the Shadow Elves?

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COVER REVEAL: The Weapon Takers Sage BOX SET 1-4 by Jamie Edmundson

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

COMING LATE 2020!

Dive in to the epic fantasy series where a motley group of heroes must recover a stolen relic.

Twins Belwynn and Soren can communicate telepathically. They must lead a team of mercenaries, priests and exiles on a mission that becomes far darker and more important than they had bargained for. Perfect for fans of multi-character epics like LOTR & A Game of Thrones.

Praise for this series from readers:

★★★★★ “If you’re a fan of great characters and plenty of action set in a well-developed fantasy world then this is your series.”

★★★★★ “With interesting, well-fleshed out characters and a genuinely enthralling plot, this one really stood out for me.”

★★★★★ “Usually the author’s writing links out a little for the next book or two, but not this guy, it stays right up there. You really need to get the rest of this series, you deserve it.”

Comprising all four books of The Weapon Takers Saga, this box set follows an epic quest for the seven weapons of Madria.

Soren, an ambitious wizard

Belwynn, his twin sister, who shares a telepathic link with him

Rabigar, an exile of the Krykker race

Elana, a mysterious priestess

Moneva, a killer with a dark past

And a host of mercenaries, sorcerers, knights, dukes, kings and strange new races.

Who will lay claim to the weapons? Who can be trusted? And as war comes to Dalriya, who will take a stand against the dark forces that have been unleashed on the land?

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COVER REVEAL: The Flowers of Belhame by Justin Fike

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

The Farshore Chronicles Series

The Farshore Chronicles is an epic fantasy adventure inspired by the colorful, swashbuckling action of Dungeons and Dragons, and the 90’s fantasy greats like R.A Salvatore, Raymond Feist, and Mercedes Lackey. Magic, monsters, epic duels, cursed cities, bonds forged, friends lost, romance, demon armies, and (quite possibly) the end of the world await.

The Flowers Of Belhame

I’m dying. But in Danaan, the cure can be far more dangerous than the disease…

Saving the world from a horde of ravenous Undergloom horrors ought to entitle a girl to one decent day of rest. But that’s not much of an option when an ancient curse is dragging you closer to death with every passing day.

My only chance at a cure is a dangerous and untested ritual, and the only wizards powerful enough to make it work are a council of elves so arrogant they make Emperor Quintus himself look like a humble Vestan novice in comparison.

Convincing them to help means playing nice, and playing nice means dressing up, bowing low, and staying on their good side until all this is over. That would be hard enough in the best of times, but I’m quickly learning that court intrigue and hidden motives can be more dangerous than any blade, especially in a city under siege.

Because Tyrial is back, and this time he has an army of bloodthirsty monsters prowling outside the elven capital, watching and waiting for their chance to feast.

I rode to Shirael Caredis to save myself, but now it looks like my friends and I are the only ones who can recover the secret of the city’s ancient wards in time to save everyone in side. The elves will pay a horrible price if we fail, but they’ll only be the first to fall as Tyrial’s war of vengeance consumes the world in blood, fire, and death.

Series Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZL1R54Z

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Dragons, Fantasy Books, and More with Author Lindsay Buroker

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Jamie Davis

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 96 with Lindsay Buroker.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking off things this week, I’ll start with my author update. I’m still plugging away at the first draft of book 4 in the Huntress Clan Saga series. I plan to wrap up the first draft early next week. I can’t wait to share this one with my readers. There are so many great twists and characters I’ve added to this one for you. If you haven’t picked up the first three books in the series, now’s the time to do that. Check out the entire series over on Amazon starting with Huntress Initiate, the first book in the Huntress Clan Saga.

Huntress Cadet Marketing Quote "Tell him the Huntress who nearly killed him wants to finish the job."

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Moving on to the main attraction, I’m excited to bring best-selling fantasy author, Lindsay Buroker. Lindsay has written over fifty science fiction and fantasy novels. In addition to that, she enjoys hiking and exploring the outdoors with her dogs, and moved last year to Bend, Oregon. She’s been a full-time author since 2012, and says it’s the best job out there!

Check out my interview with Lindsay where we talk about her brand new Urban Fantasy series, and book 1 Sinister Magic.

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Author Mike Shelton Chats About His Fantasy Stories

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Jamie Davis

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 95 with Mike Shelton.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking off things this week, I’ll start with my author update. I’m still plugging away at the first draft of book 4 in the Huntress Clan Saga series. I plan to wrap up the first draft early next week. I can’t wait to share this one with my readers. There are so many great twists and characters I’ve added to this one for you. If you haven’t picked up the first three books in the series, now’s the time to do that. Check out the entire series over on Amazon starting with Huntress Initiate, the first book in the Huntress Clan Saga.

Huntress Cadet Marketing Quote "Tell him the Huntress who nearly killed him wants to finish the job."

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Moving on to our author this week, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Mike Shelton. Mike was born in California and has lived in multiple states from the west coast to the east coast and currently live in Oregon. Moving around a lot when he was younger made him gravitate to books. He told me he cannot remember a time when he wasn’t reading. Starting with mysteries, he soon moved primarily into fantasy.

Other than reading, Mike enjoys the outdoors and especially hiking around the waterfalls that are close to him in the pacific northwest. He also enjoys spending time with his family and wonderful wife of almost 30 years.

Check out my interview with Mike. We chat about his book, Mark of the Medallion, book 1 in the Wizard Academies series.

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COVER REVEAL: The One Who Could Not Fly, by E.G. Stone

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

For generations, sylphs have lived isolated on the island of Shinalea, forgotten by the world. But they, too, have forgotten their past. Until it rears its head and changes the very foundations of their world…

Ravenna has grown up isolated and ostracised amongst the sylphs for her small wing size and her unusual colouring. She lives with the Intellecti, a collection of sylphs dedicated to learning, to facts, to history, to thought. But she feels most free when she runs through the trees of her beloved home. Until, that is, she comes across beings that should have been myth.

Humans.

Captured, Ravenna is taken from her home and into the vastness of the desert mainland. She is sold into slavery and thrown into a world that proves everything she knew about the humans right: they are nothing more than the cruel, bloodthirsty beings that filled sylph myths with horror.

Until, that is, Ravenna makes a single mistake. She falls. Suddenly, the world is not quite what she knew. Ravenna is thrust into this world of humans and their schemings for power, their political machinations, their hopes, their dreams.

Ravenna must decide whether humans are the nightmares of her people’s legends or just beings like her, finding their place in an unexpected world. And she must decide whether to save her world, or to destroy it. The One Who Could Not Fly is an exciting fantasy adventure that asks questions of family, of independence, and of what it really means to fly.

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COVER REVEAL: Sea Dragon by Eileen Mueller

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

When Ithsar helps Ezaara and Roberto escape from the Robandi silent assassins, she’s charged with treason. And sentenced to death by her own mother, the Chief Prophetess. Ithsar will be thrown into of the Naobian Sea, to be devoured by the fanged monsters that prowl its depths.But Ithsar, born with deformed fingers, has been scorned and maltreated all her life. She’s secretly learned to fight back. And Ithsar’s seen visions of her future. Visions that mean she must fight to survive—or hundreds of dragons and riders will die. What fans are saying, “Each book gets better and better.”

Riders of Fire – Eileen Mueller

Series Blurb

When Ezaara imprints with the dragon queen, she’s swept into a world she’d never dreamed of. A world of dragons, treachery, intrigue and danger. As the new Queen’s Rider, Ezaara must lead her people as Commander Zens and his army of monsters rampage across Dragons’ Realm, killing and enslaving innocents. She must stop them. But who can she trust when political intrigue puts her own life in danger? And when Zens is growing terrible new creatures faster than she and her dragon riders can defeat them?

Winner – Storylines Notable Book Awards (Ezaara & Dragon Hero, 2019)

From reviewers:

“Eileen has managed to wow the socks off me once again in this powerful, action-filled page turner!”

“Dragon lovers this book is for you!”

“This series is fantastic! It has kept me riveted!”

“If you like dragons with lots of adventure, this series is for you.”

“Skillful, incisive writing.”

“It almost brought me to tears more than once, yet had me laughing out loud at others.”

“A whirlwind of emotions. This series is easily one of my favorites. I can’t wait to figure out what will happen next.”

“The ending came together brilliantly.”

“The suspense is killing me!”

Praise for Ezaara, Riders of Fire, book 1.
★★★★★ A great fantasy read. Dean OGorman, actor, Fili the dwarf in The Hobbit

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JNGWMXQ

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COVER REVEAL: Cerberus: Assassination Protocol by Andy Peloquin

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Fantasy Focus

Nolan Garrett is Cerberus, government assassin, tasked with fixing the darkest, ugliest problems with a bullet to the brain.  

Armed with cutting-edge weapons and an AI-run cybernetic suit that controls his paralyzed legs, he is the fist in the shadows, the dagger to the heart of the Nyzarian Empire’s enemies.

Then he found Bex on his doorstep…

A junkie, high on the drug he’d fought for years to avoid, and a former elite soldier like him. So he takes her in to help her get clean—Silverguards never leave their own behind.
If only he’d known his actions would put him in the crosshairs of the most powerful cartel in New Avalon.

Facing an army of gangbangers, drug pushers, and thugs, Nolan must fight to not only carry out his mission, but to prevent the escalating violence from destroying everything he loves.

Cerberus: Assassination Protocol is the riveting, heart-pounding first book in the epic military sci-fi Cerberus series. If you like fearless heroes, non-stop futuristic action, and neck-breaking plot twists, you’ll love Andy Peloquin’s thrilling space opera series.

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