Here is a sample of the audio version of Night Prey! If you like what you hear and want to buy, click the cover above.
Prologue:
Chapter 1:
Audio Book: Night Prey (Sample)
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NEWS FLASH! Night Prey, new audiobook!
Pre-order now at Amazon, iTunes, or Audible.
Two-years-running in Amazon’s top 100 in occult, this paranormal romantic suspense is now available for pre-order in audio format. Release date: August 13th (that lucky number 13).
Special offer: the first 5 readers to pre-order the Night Prey audiobook will each receive a $10 Amazon GiftCard.
(Just email a copy of your Order Details to caroldluce@gmail.com)
The gift cards will be emailed on the 14th of August.
Narrator: Jennette Selig.
Roberta Paxton had a pleasant, challenging job, a man who loved her, and a host of good friends, but anxiety gnawed at her, at the back of her mind, at the edge of her vision, something was threatening her… something or someone. She tried to talk about it, but nobody wanted to listen, not even her 13-year-old sister, Tobie. Roberta had had these premonitions before, Tobie reminded her. She was just being paranoid.
But there was someone watching. Deep in the Tahoe forest, emerging only to stalk his prey, to watch and listen, to plot his final move, a vicious killer waited. Each glimpse of Roberta fired his need, but still he waited.
Until he saw Tobie…
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IWU Summer Splash Blog Hop – JULY 26-29
Welcome to the 2013 Summer Splash Blog Hop, brought to you by the writers of Indie Writers Unite. There’s all kinds of swag to be won as well as some amazing grand prizes (see below for grand prize information)
Each writer will be hosting their own giveaway on their blogs and offering their own prizes in addition to the grand prizes. Click HERE to start hopping the author pages.
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My Prizes are:
15,000 words edited free (novel)
and
$25 Amazon Gift Card (separate rafflecopter)
To enter one or both of the Rafflecopters, click the links below, and the Rafflecopters will magically appear:
Main Prize (Free Editing)
and
$25 Amazon Gift Card
About the Manuscript Editing Prize:
Manuscript editing by a published author and professional writing instructor.
As a former instructor for Writer’s Digest Online Workshops for ten years in their advanced novel courses, I am offering my editing services to the winner of my contest. (See ‘EDITING’ Rafflecopter for instructions.)
Valued at $300 (@ $.02 per word). The first 15,000 words of your novel (approximately 60 double-spaced pages).
Content Editing Feedback for: Plot/Storyline/Character development/Description/Pacing.
Light Line Editing for: Sentence structure/punctuation/spelling/grammar/writing style, etc.
The second and third place runners-up will receive a Carol Davis Luce ebook of their choice.
As the for the grand prizes, there are 6. What are they?
#1 Kindle Fire 8.9 HD
#2 $100 Amazon Gift Card
#3 $50 Amazon Gift Card
#4 15 paperbacks personally signed by our authors
#5 38 Ebooks gifted to you from our authors
#6 38 eBooks (yep, we’re doing this not once, but twice)!
HOW TO ENTER GRAND PRIZES 1-3
TWEET USING THE HASHTAG #splashwithusIt’s that simple. We’ll keep track of all the tweets and then draw for the grand-prize winners at the end of the hop. Winners will be announced on or before July 31st on this site.RULES:Tweets MUST include:1. The hashtag #splashwithus (This is how we track them)
2. A link to the blog hop.
2. A link to the blog hop.
You may tweet as much as you like throughout the hop.
More Tweets = More Chances to WIN!!!
***As a side note, our authors will be tweeting about the hop as well, but they are not eligible for any of the grand prizes.***
Here are some sample tweets you can cut/paste:
WIN a $300 Kindle Fire, Amazon gift cards & more at the #bloghop http://ow.ly/nfebP #giveaway #win #freekindle #splashwithus #amreading
WIN FREE SWAG at the author #bloghop http://ow.ly/nfeCh prizes include a kindle fire! #freekindle #free #giveaway #win #splashwithus
ENTER TO WIN A KINDLE FIRE at the author blog hop http://ow.ly/nfeRZ #kindlefree #free #lovebooks #win #giveaway #splashwithus #win
WIN BIG at the author blog hop. More than 50 prizes including a kindle fire HD! http://ow.ly/nffyV #kindlefire #amwriting #splashwithus
HOW TO ENTER FOR GRAND PRIZES 4-6
To enter to win the free signed paperback books and the free books for your kindle, you MUST visit every single author blog hop page and enter whatever contest/giveaway they are running. Once you’ve visited them all, send an email HERE, with the subject line: FREE BOOKS.
***NOW GET HOPPING
AMAZING AUTHOR GIVEAWAYS AWAIT YOU!!!***
Want a teaser of some of the items up for grabs on the author pages? Click HERE
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COMING SOON!
IWU SUMMER SPLASH BLOG HOP – JULY 26-29
The blog hop does not begin until July 26th. Please check back at that time to start hopping
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Cruxim Tour — Gothic Fantasy by Karin Cox
My guest author this week is the talented Karin Cox. She wears many hats, but writing stellar vampire stories is one of the things she does best. Cruxim is the perfect example of that special talent. I can’t wait for the sequel.
What is Cruxim?
Amedeo is Cruxim, a mysterious, immortal fallen angel. Destined to seek redemption as a vampire hunter, he quenches his insatiable hunger on vampire blood. But when the object of his passion, the novice nun Joslyn, is turned into a vampire and enters a vampire coven, Amedeo’s worlds collide. Shattered by the loss of his beloved, he vows to rid the world of vampires once and for all, even if it means destroying Josyln in the process.
A Paranormal Game of Cat and Mouse
Joining Amedeo on his quest to rid the world of the undead is Sabine. Half-woman, half-lioness, she is a Sphinx, a Guardian who has protected humans from vampires since the dawn of time. Yet Sabine comes to this fight pursued by her own enemies. An evil scientist, Dr. Claus Gandler, knows the secret of Sabine’s mythological past, vowing to torment her for eternity or destroy her forever.
Immortal Ever After
Captured by the evil doctor, Amedeo and Sabine are paraded as sideshow freaks in the Circus of Curiosities. Only vampire Joslyn has the power to intercede. Will she prove Amedeo’s redemption, or his destruction?
(My review of Cruxim)
Introducing a new phenomenon to vampire lore… Just when you thought there was nothing fresh and innovative in the ancient vampire world, along comes Cruxim. Not a man, not an angel or a devil. A guardian. A breed so rare, few humans know of his existence. Yet the most hellish of vampires fear him, for his purpose in his immortal life is to destroy the undead. All of them.
From the opening page, Cruxim took me on a journey into a dark world of bloodsuckers, a legendary Sphinx, and a menagerie of human circus oddities (among them the wolfman and two-headed man), owned and controlled by the wicked butcher, Dr. Claus Gandler (a scientist more savage than any during the holocaust).
I fell in love with the Cruxim. Amedeo is like no other paranormal hero. He’s not infallible. He bleeds, he grieves, he suffers in affairs of the heart and personal conscience. He must make choices that no man, or angel, should ever have to make.
The author takes us on a hair-raising ride from beginning to end. Her characters are bigger than life, yet true to form. I cheered on Amedeo and the she-cat Sabine as they faced insurmountable odds to rid the world of vermin and to save each other.
Creche. Coming soon is the sequel to Cruxim.
This beautiful Cruxim lady on the cover is Skylar, who will play a large role in the series.
Author Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KarinCox.Author
Author Twitter: https://twitter.com/Authorandeditor
Author Website/blog: www.karincox.wordpress.com
http://www.karincox.com
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Night Trilogy is featured at Kindle Books and Tips
Night Trilogy is being featured over at Kindle Books & Tips this morning! The trilogy is now on sale for a VERY limited time, at $1.99!
Check out Kindle Books and Tips‘ post and purchase your very own copy today!
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Tahoe Trekker: Gangster Paddling
Travel article by my good friend, Alonna Shaw
Her latest travel article for MyDestination.com is live! What do the mob and water sports have in common? Clue: Lake Tahoe is on the California/Nevada border.
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BOOK REVIEW & GIVEAWAY
Featured today on Must Read Faster, a review of Night Game & Giveaway. Enter to win an ebook copy of my new boxed set: NIGHT TRILOGY–Three Night Novels.
http://mustreadfaster.blogspot.com/2013/06/review-and-giveaway-night-game-by-carol.html
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Two-week June Giveaway by Author and friend Karin Cox at her Author Page.
https://www.facebook.com/KarinCox.Author
Check it out!
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Interview: Mystery Scene Magazine Interview. . . a long time ago:
Q: What made you choose to write in the mystery/suspense genre?
A: The three Dees. Every plot that came to mind had to do with something Diabolical, something Dark, something Dead.
Q: Where do you get your ideas?
A: From real life. Of course, I must tone it down to suspend the reader’s disbelief. Who would swallow a story about a famous football player icon who dons a wetsuit, commits a grisly double murder, flees to his home nearby where he takes a quick dip in the swimming pool (still wearing the wetsuit) before changing clothes and catching a plane? Ridiculous and far too melodramatic, don’t you think?
Q: Are you affected by what you write?
A: I visualize menace in every corner. I’m not the person someone would want for company if they were alone and frightened. I scare myself.
Q: Can you give an example:
A: True story. A few years back someone gave me a bunch of helium balloons. The balloons roamed the house, upstairs and down, seeming to follow me–to seek me out. If I passed too close, they drifted out and gave me a static shock. I got rid of them the night I awoke at 2 a.m. to find them in my bedroom, over my bed, eerily bobbing above my head, the metallic skin of their sinister faces rubbing together…whispering…plotting…
These balloons became the villains in my short story Carnival Balloons, in the anthology BROKEN JUSTICE
Q: How much research do you do for your novels?
A: Whatever is needed. About five years ago I had to know what effect acid had on living tissue. First I dropped acid on the skin of a piece of raw chicken. When nothing happened, I warmed the chicken to body temperature. When that failed to produce the desired results, I put the acid on the back of my own hand. What? Oh that…well, yes, but it’s hardly noticeable anymore.
Q: Have any of your novels been made into movies?
A: Optioned, yes, but not produced. Not yet, anyway. The closest a novel of mine came to being embraced by greatness was when my nephew Greg, a cameraman on a shoot for Steven Spielberg, thrust his own personally autographed copy of my novel, NIGHT STALKER, at Mr. Spielberg as he was leaving the studio and asked him to please consider it for production. Greg, fearing the worst, discreetly followed Spielberg and his entourage down to the lobby to the awaiting limo, checking each and every trash receptacle as he went.
Q: Is there a conclusion to that story?
A: I’m happy to say the novel was read, then returned. I had the distinct honor of being rejected by one of the best.
Nonfiction publications include two articles for Writer’s Digest. One article, “Writing Suspense That’ll Kill Your Readers,” was recently reprinted (second edition): The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing 2010 (Writer’s Digest Books).
All novels can be purchased in e-book/electronic format at: Amazon.com – See Novel Descriptions
You can also find several of my books at Barnes & Noble
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NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author--- Carol Davis Luce 