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Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Author Teresa Geering: And then there was a cross, stitcher

Author Teresa Geering: And then there was a cross, stitcher: Hello my little chickadees. How are we all today? I've been poorly with a hacking cough but hopefully Ive seen the worst of it now. ...

Monday, 3 October 2016

How to Write Strong Female Characters

Read Lazlo Ferran's post on Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar's blog: 'How to Write Strong Female Characters' It's not exactly a tutorial, but it shows what difficulties are faced and some possible solutions when writing female characters from a male feminist point of view.

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Donna G. Driver

Blue Owl welcomes yet another great author. D. G. Driver has been a published author for 20 years. She has several critically-acclaimed nonfiction books under Donna Getzinger. Her YA books Cry of the Sea and Passing Notes are published by Fire and Ice Young Adult Books, and she has a sequel to Cry coming out in November. She also has a story in the pirate anthology A Tall Ship, A Star, and Plunder. She lives near Nashville, TN with her family.

Cry of the Sea
Juniper Sawfeather is choosing which college to attend after graduation from West Olympia High School next year. She wants to go to San Diego to be far away from her environmental activist parents. They expect her to think the way they do, but having to be constantly fighting causes makes it difficult to be an average 17 year old high school student. Why do her parents have to be so out there?

Everything changes when she and her father rush to the beach after a reported oil spill. As they document the damage, June discovers three humans washed up on the beach, struggling to breathe through the oil coating their skin. At first she thinks they must be surfers, but as she gets closer, she realizes these aren't human at all. They're mermaids!Now begins a complex story of intrigue, conspiracy and manipulation as June, her parents, a marine biologist and his handsome young intern, her best friend, the popular clique at school and the oil company fight over the fate of the mermaids.

Read more about Donna, her work and Cry of the Sea on her dedicated author page.

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Blue Owl Success Story

I wanted to share with you a nice little success story: Lorraine Carey just posted this comment on her dedicated author page:

"I want to give a huge shout out to Blue Owl Publishing for increasing my ranks from the millions to now in the four hundred thousand category. Their consistent, diligent and creative promo service is to be commended. Many have commented on my attractive free author page. I truly have been blessed to have found this amazing company!"

Monday, 8 December 2014

Khalid Muhammad

We welcome Khalid Muhammad to Blue Owl. By day, Khalid is a mild-mannered business executive keeping busy running a marketing and brand management company. By night, his alter ego emerges; one that has a penchant for sadistic retribution towards those who wrong others, and that spends its time devising intricate and detailed plans for a nefarious end.

Born in Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley, educated and raised in the United States, Khalid returned to Pakistan almost 17 years ago and fell in love with his country. His debut novel, Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office, is a journey behind the headlines about Pakistan, the world's most dangerous place, to deliver an intense story that will challenge the reader to question everything they have been told about the country.

He began writing to let the wickedness escape, as the other option means a great deal of blood, numerous torture implements and... well, infinite ways to dump a body. It's safer for everyone involved and less dangerous for the guilty... until he writes another book.

Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office

Celebrated as a ragtag force that defeated and broke the Soviet Union, no one predicted the Mujahideen would bring with them a plague that would spread like wildfire through Pakistan in the years to follow. When the battle-worn fighters returned with no enemy or war to fight, they turned their sights on the country that had been their creator and benefactor.

Read more about Khalid, his work and Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office on his dedicated author page.

Friday, 5 December 2014

Occult Thriller - Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate now Free around the world

Lazlo Ferran is delighted to announce that Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate is now FREE on US, UK and Indian Amazon sites, Google Play globally, most iTunes (Apple) sites around the world, Smashwords (including FlipKart) and all Bookbaby outlets (including Oyster, txtr and E-Sentral). See his Availability in your country page on my blog for more details. If you cannot find it free, email him: lazloferran@gmail.com

Friday, 28 November 2014

Newly published today - Suspense kindle: Lotus

Lazlo Ferran published his first new novel for over a year - and it's a good one - Lotus

Here's the blurb:

Six characters from history enter the Devil's labyrinth

Robert Lath dies in the trenches of World War One. But he wakes to find himself on a never-ending flight of stone steps. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot reach the top or bottom. Then a face appears and offers him a choice; a choice that might damn his soul.

Six characters from different spans of history battle against illness, seemingly the result of a game with Satan, and human frailty to find salvation but are they all the same man?

A soul is trapped and gradually dissected in this intriguing and labyrinthine story of trust, betrayal, disease, death and immortality.

You can buy it for an introductory offer of just 99 cents on:
Amazon: http://bit.ly/amlotus
Smashwords: http://bit.ly/lotusswds

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

The Last Vestal Virgin

Lorraine Carey has just published: The Last Vestal Virgin

Christina Ciccone didn't feel ready to leave this lifetime. Raised in a strict Italian-American home, she felt surrounded by love and pampered like a princess. So why had she experienced nightmares and panic attacks for so many years? She didn't know that she had another family, from another lifetime, waiting for her.

Christina recently graduated from high school and had big plans for college. While enjoying a trip to Rome with her history club, the strange nightmares return and she is faced with bizarre encounters while touring many of the ancient ruins, causing her to become quite ill. She is faced with powerful supernatural forces when one Roman goddess and her priestesses decide this would be Christina’s last trip.

The story, with many fascinating facts on the Rome’s Vestal Virgin, climaxes with a shocking Paranormal twist.

Get it now on Amazon for $3.08 (£1.97) - amzn.to/1ro6v9W

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Krysten Hager

Blue Owl Publishing welcomes Krysten Hager. Krysten Lindsay Hager is an author and book addict who has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and also writes middle grade, YA, humor essays, and adult fiction. TRUE COLORS is her bestselling debut novel from Astraea Press. She is originally from Michigan and has lived in South Dakota, Portugal, and currently resides in Southern Ohio where you can find her reading and writing. She received her master’s in American Culture from the University of Michigan-Flint.

True Colors
True Colors is about Landry Albright, an 8th grader, who tries out for a modeling competition with her two best friends and gets "unfriended" when she moves on in the competition and they don't. Throw in a new boy, jealousy issues, and hair stylist insults—how’s a girl to deal?

Landry Albright just wants to be one of the interesting girls at school who always have exciting things going on in their lives. She wants to stand out, but also wants to fit in, so she gives in when her two best friends, Ericka and Tori, push her into trying out for a teen reality show modeling competition with them. Landry goes in nervous, but impresses the judges enough to make it to the next round. However, Ericka and Tori get cut and basically "unfriend" her on Monday at school. Landry tries to make new friends, but gets caught up between wanting to be herself and conforming to who her new friends want her to be. Along the way she learns that modeling is nowhere as glamorous as it seems, how to deal with frenemies, a new crush, and that true friends see you for who you really are and like you because of it.

Read more about her, her work and True Colors on her dedicated author page.

Friday, 12 September 2014

Lorraine Carey

We welcome Lorraine Carey to our ranks! Lorraine Carey is a veteran Children’s Reading Specialist, Teacher and Author. She has written a short memoir and three novels for tweens to young adults which feature a male hero. All of them are part historical fiction with fantasy peppered with the Paranormal.

Jonathan’s Locket, is a heartwarming tale with a mix of Historical Fiction,Fantasy,Time Slips and the Paranormal. The story revolves around the famous Wreck of the Ten Sails which occurred off of Grand Cayman in 1794. Jonathan Palmer, a young stowaway was on one of the ships that went down. Some two hundred years later a troubled teen on Grand Cayman is mysteriously drawn to the waters in the area of the wreck site.

Read more about her, her work and Jonathan's Locket on her dedicated author page.

Monday, 8 September 2014

Lazlo Ferran's books - Availability Around the World

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

From Lazlo Ferran

As part of a big change in the way I distribute my books, I have 4 eBooks available FREE this weekend (29 August - 2 September) on Amazon: Ordo Lupus II: The Devil's Own Dice, Too Bright the Sun, Eighteen, Blue and Attack Hitler's Bunker! Grab one or all four!

http://ow.ly/AJVyB

Ordo Lupus II: The Devil's Own Dice is going up in price to $2.99 straight after the sale.

Saturday, 2 August 2014

Blue Owl Publishing needs talented, web-savvy indie writers

If you can tweet twice/wk and post on Facebook once per week we will host your author page with one book for FREE here. We will tweet ten times per week and post on Facebook three times per week about your book. Email us: blueowlpublishing@gmail.com

Lazlo Ferran on: Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate

My previous novels had been largely reflections on aspects of my own life and commentary on social structures today. Even Infinite Blue Heaven - A King and A Queen was thus, because I had actually already married into the social structure of Kyrgysztan, the real-life geographical location for the novel.
My own family's roots, uncovered gradually over ten years of concerted research had led me to one Guillaume, a Chevalier (Knight) in 13th Century Languedoc, France. He was my earliest ancestor. Simultaneously, I was pursuing a theological interest in the Cathars; first though reading a number of books my Henry Lincoln, and later an interest in Monségur and the Rennes-le-Château, near where the lost treasure of the Cathars is said to be hidden. The Cathars were an ancient sect who came to prominence and were ruthlessly persecuted by the Catholics in the 1300s, mainly in and around the Languedoc Region of France. Their beliefs were gradually imported from the Mediterranean via the Balkans and possibly originated in Paulian beliefs in post-Roman Istanbul (ancient Constantinople). They believed that the Christian god was really Rex Mundi, or 'God of Earth' and that he was an illusion created by dark forces, while the real God remains hidden somewhere outside Earth. I quite possibly sympathise with the Cathars because my later ancestors probably escaped the Catholic persecution of Huguenots when they came to England in the 1500s.
These two areas of interest came together for me when I discovered that one of my ancestors was cast out by the Catholic Church and prosecuted for some unknown violation. It resulted in him having to pay the church an annual tithe of a man's weight in wheat. What his misdemeanour was, I cannot say, but he was certainly very wealthy and his daughter married well, so it must have been a personal crime against the Church. Was he a heretic, or even a Cathar, even though officially they had all been killed in Monségur 200 years before? I may never know but it started a train of thought which led to me deciding to write a book about heresy in France, and the political implications for a country that was being slowly formed from part of the Frankish Empire.
A year before I started this work, I read both Dan Brown and Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. These books were certainly an influence on me, and Dan Brown's masterful handling of the subject matter was an inspiration. Like him I have been fascinated for many years by the rumour or myth that Mary went to France and that Jesus had a descendant. Like him and many others, I speculate that the Cathars did in fact smuggle a great treasure out of Monségur castle, under the noses of the Royalist besiegers. I also speculate on what that treasure might be and how it might affect our lives if it were discovered in the modern age.
Another feature I wanted to have was deeper characterisation. I don't denigrate what J. K. Rowling has done for fiction's popularity with Harry Potter but I wanted to write something more than a mere fantasy. Some of my characters are world-weary but all have the tell-tale footprints of life all over them.
The final theme I wanted to get into my novel, was the gothic. The themes of blood, death, eroticism, sex and transcendence are all things that I desire in a good novel. My influences were Kate Bush, The Mission, Lord Byron, John Keats (The Eve of St. Agnes is a particularly favourite poem of mine) and to some extent Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Sex and death are the themes that everyone seems attracted to. As a consequence, I couldn't resist a climax to my novel that took place in one of the world's greatest Gothic masterpieces. But you will have to read the novel to find out where ...
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Friday, 11 July 2014

Lami Kamikaze's Angela Ate My Dodo! for $1.49

Lami Kamikaze's ideal summer read: Angela Ate my Dodo! $1.49

What happens when an English porn star turned detective is sent to Mauritius to track down and escaped genetically-engineered Dodo? Find out in this surreal and erotic adventure from the pen of bright new talent Lami Kamikaze.

Angela Ate my Dodo! is a raucously funny and erotic adventure. Lovers of A Fish Called Wanda or the Austin Powers films will love this.

Buy it it on payhip now for $1.49 https://payhip.com/b/iGtE

Friday, 4 July 2014

Bargain price $0.99 for Lazlo Ferran's occult thriller Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate

Lazlo Ferran's Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate will be reduced to 99 cents from 4-8 July on Amazon. Please note, this is a Countdown deal so the price will gradually rise back up to $3.08 over a couple of days. Grab your copy while it is cheap!

Lazlo Ferran is one of our featured authors. Read more about him on his page here or on his blog.

Saturday, 21 June 2014

Blue Owl Publishing needs 20 talented indie writers
If you can tweet twice/wk and post on Facebook once per week we will host your author page with one book for FREE here. We will tweet ten times per week and post on Facebook three times per week about your book. All you have to do is email us:
blueowlpublishing@gmail.com