Thank You Olga Núñez Miret for helping with the His Revenge Launch

November 5, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 4 Comments

Olga Núñez Miret has published a post helping to announce the availability of His Revenge. You can visit the post HERE. I am appreciative of Olga’s support and want you to know a little about her. To see all her twenty books (some are published in two versions, Spanish and English) go to her author site on Amazon

In Olga’s words. “My name is Olga Núñez Miret and I’m a writer. I also do translations of other author’s work. What else? I was born in Barcelona, Spain, but have lived in the UK for a long time. Over the years, I’ve done many things and had other lives but however far I wander I keep coming back to books and stories, my two earliest loves. When reading was no longer enough, I started writing. My first book was published in 2012 and my publications span different genres, from literary fiction to romance, Young Adult and psychological thrillers. I plan on writing more novels in the same genres and if my imagination so dictates, I will explore others. I love to connect with readers, so don’t hesitate to get in touch.
If you want to keep informed of all my news, offers, and promos, you can sign up for my e-mail list here:
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You can also find me in the usual places and I always include links in the books. Don’t forget to check my website and my blog. There are always surprises.”

Big Thanks to Helen Valentina for the Help with the His Revenge Launch

November 5, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 2 Comments

Helen Valentina is helping launch His Revenge with a post that you can find HERE. I want to thank her by giving you a little information. She is the author of several intriguing dark stories called Darker Realms which she publishes right HERE. You have to go and read just one. You will be hooked. Trust me. She is also an accomplished poet and has given is a number of poems worthy of deep thought,

Helen Valentina was born, grew up in and still lives in Australia. She writes as a way to understand why we feel what we feel, think what we think and ultimately do what we do. She writes poetry and novels in broad themes that reflect the elements – love stories and emotion reflecting water, satire and comedy reflecting air and so forth. Future works will also include novels that reflect different elements and genres but will always return to the one central question: what is it that makes us who we are? Check out the Darker Realms.

Thank you, Helen.

A Huge Thanks to Jan Hawke for the His Revenge Launch Help #RRBC

November 4, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 4 Comments

Jan Hawke is helping launch His Revenge. You can visit her post HERE. I want to thank her for helping and to give you a little information about her.

Jan Hawke is the author of Milele Safari: An Eternal Journey. (click the cover to visit Amazon)

She is also a very supportive member of Rave Reviews Book Club and I have appreciated all her tweets and wonderful sense of humor.

Here is what Jan says about herself.

“Pretty basic for now – I’m Jan, English, retired but hoping to be writing full-time from now on.
I live near Launceston in Cornwall UK with Toby and Benji the Springer Spaniels – it’s a tie between the boys as to who’s maddest, but as I outrank both of them in being weird anyway it’s not open to debate really.

I’m physically lazy with things that don’t hold much interest for me (so that’s mostly housework and, increasingly, cooking…), but I love where we live, mainly because I chose it for being so quiet and off the beaten track, very close to the moors and quite near to the sea.

I also love books, both to write and to read, the latter of which can be very eclectic (I enjoy Julian Barnes, Kate Atkinson, Jeanette Winterson and will happily admit to Jilly Cooper too) but in the main I’m heavily into SF&F, particularly Tolkien, Terry Pratchett and Julian May, although I can pass on Zombie Apocalypses fairly easily…

…how I’ve chosen to write about Africa for my first novel may be something of a surprise to my friends, but if you read it you may find that all of the above information manifests in there somehow!”

Thank you Professor V.J. Duke for the Assist on the His Revenge Launch

November 4, 2015November 4, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 6 Comments

The above header is the entrance to a fabled place called The Punchy Lands. It is here that Professor V.J.Duke resides and holds forth with his minions. I have to admit I have come under the spell of the place since it is a wonderful spot to go to escape. The professor has helped with the launch of His Revenge by granting an interview which he seldom does. As with all things professorish, the interview is wonderful indeed. Check it out HERE.

I have the latest picture of the professor which was taken in a Tea Shop (don’t ask)

Here is more about the Professor in his words

This professor would tell you a lot about himself, but inexplicably, I would end up telling you only uninteresting and dull particulars which would leave you crying in supreme boredom. In fact, you’d probably be left wondering why you had wanted to hear anything in the first place. So, I’ll just give you some dull facts:

(1) My favorite author is Mark Twain. (Even though he wasn’t professorish.)

(2) I don’t like coffee or chocolate–much.

(3) Butterflies hate me, I think.

(4) I’m never quite myself.

(5) Transposing Nocturnes–notably, Chopin’s–is dreadfully vexing.

(6) I change often. Sometimes unexpectedly.

(7) I think I collect rocks and old coins. (Preferably, nice-looking rocks with red streaks, and nice-looking old coins without red streaks.)

(8) I have a blue desk with ugly crayon drawings in the drawers that I’m not at all responsible for. The culprit has yet to be found, I fear.

(9) Sometimes I feel like myself.

(10) The professor can be mathematically explained. This is a wonder since his equation has yet to be discovered.

(11) Pride and Prejudice scares me, but I haven’t had a nightmare yet.

(12) I’m heartless. (I lost my heart on the plains of Troy.)

(13) The professor is a warrior.

(14) I have analysts; they keep me straight, since I tend to curve a bit.

That’s about it. *bows and his hat stays on*

Big Thanks to Charles Yallowitz for Helping launch His Revenge

November 4, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 2 Comments

Charles Yallowitz is the amazing creator of the Legends of Windemere Fantasy series. He is helping with the launch of His Revenge by hosting a post on his blog, Visit it here.

Charles has completed eight of the Legends of Windemere books and three other stories. All are available on Amazon.

Thank You, Devorah Fox for Helping Launch His Revenge

November 4, 2015 ~ John W. Howell

Devorah Fox is helping spread the word about the launch of His Revenge. Her blog post on His Revenge is here. She is the author of four books and a contributor to an anthology. All can be reviewed on Amazon.

She is also participating in FantasyCon’s Epic Wednesday on November 4th. Here is the Facebook link for the FB Epic Wednesday event //www.facebook.com/events/893446364072813/permalink/911235298960586/ Devorah will be manning a booth. Please go visit and tell her I said Hello.

Thank You Teagan Geneviene for Helping Launch His Revenge

November 3, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 2 Comments

Teagan has run a post in support of the His Revenge launch. You can visit it here. Teagan is the author of the wonderful book Atonement Tennessee which I read and loved.

Here is a little information about her.

Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene, a southerner by birth, was “enchanted” by the desert southwest of the USA when she moved there. She had always devoured fantasy novels of every type. Then one day there was no new book readily at hand for reading — so she decided to write one. And she hasn’t stopped writing since.
Her work is colored by her experiences in both the southern states and the southwest. Teagan writes many types of fantasy, from what she likes to call “quest type” fantasy, to urban fantasy, to fantasies with a dash of mystery. Her blog “Teagan’s Books” contains serial stories written according to contributions from viewers.

Major influences include Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Robert Jordan, and Charlaine Harris.

Thanks A. G. Moye for Helping Launch His Revenge

November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 2 Comments

I want to thank A.G. Moye for helping with the launch of His Revenge. He is has posted a launch announcement at http://lightningbooksbyagmoye.wordpress.com Visit his other blog at http://booksbyagmoye.blogspot.com/ as well. As a thank you i would like you to know more about A.G. Moye.

A.G.Moye is the author of Fifteen Books all available on Amazon. Visit his author page to see them.

Here is a little more information about his books from A.G.

#marauder #SpaceCowboy #books with a Twist! are my hashtags. Born in the cotton fields of Arkansas.
Lived in Clarksville, AR and delivered newspapers from five to fourteen. After the death of my Father when I was eleven, my Mother remarried few years later and moved me to California. “Los Angeles” to be exact.
Boy, was that a shock for a fifteen a boy to come from a small town of 3,000 people to the huge city of LA. I recalled the first morning after we arrived, I was used to walking all around our small town and set out to walk around my new home. I didn’t get very far when a car full of teenage girls pulled up next to me walking on the sidewalk. The one in the passenger seat yelled to me, “Hi Jolly Green Giant!” I guess because I had on a green shirt, and my eyes are green. Being from a small southern town, girls just didn’t speak to guys without being properly introduced at that time! I was so embarrassed, I couldn’t speak. Laughing at my red face, they drove away! That was my introduction to California lifestyle

I started writing on the computer my Lightning in the Tunnel series in 1987 after thinking back about the riots in LA and wondered what would really happen in that city should a big event take place like a nuclear bomb, that was how my Lightning in the Tunnel series came about.
I have found my true love, my wife pushed me to publish my books after reading one of them, and she has been my greatest saleslady! Can you guess, I loved to write.
Brandi’s Nightmare followed my new science fiction/space opera called the “Chronicles of the Marauder-Marauder Rising is out. Complete with Alien creatures and personality conflicts.
Chronicles of the Marauder Book Two is now out. Book Three the conclusion is written but awaiting editing along with my next book of the Lightning in the Tunnel series called “Lightning Rages.” Two off-shoots of this series are being written, due out in 2015.
My Novella, called, “Sasha: A beam of Light” This is another unique book that has vampires, giant spiders, medieval knights, and witches! Check out my books, you might find something you like. Just a thought, LOL!

Shout Out to Teri Polen for Helping Launch His Revenge

November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 4 Comments

Teri Polen is a reader and reviewer and has a killer blog named Books and Such. She is helping with the launch of His Revenge and as a thanks I want you to know a bit about her.

Here are some of her badges

Here is what Teri says about herself.

“Some of my favorite things in life are books (no romance), music (preferably alt/rock and absolutely no country), movies (rarely chick flicks), red wine (no Merlot) and dark chocolate (please don’t add any fruit to what is already perfection). On the flip side of that, I strongly dislike the color pink and loathe shopping – unless it’s in a bookstore or someplace I can buy movies, music, wine, or chocolate. That being said, it’s pretty evident why my female friends think I’m a little strange.”

Thank you again, Teri

Thank you Phillip McCollom for the help with the His Revenge Launch

November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 1 Comment

Phillip McCollom helped with the launch of His Revenge. You can go to his site and view the post HERE.

As a way of a thank you I would like to give you a little information about Phillip.

Haunted by the specter of Homer, Phillip found that his only means of appeasement was to write stories. First horrible, terrible stories; then soon not-so-horrible, not-so-terrible stories. Homer shows up less and less these days, and Phillip’s hoping that by the time he writes good stories, Homer will have chosen to move on to the next cartoon-spiritual plane.

Phillip also does killer reviews of books that maybe you wanted to read but knew you would not live long enough to get around to them. Here is just a sample of the list.