Blurb:
An adult fantasy that takes one
of America's favorite tales and transforms it into a dark and epic landscape
few can escape much less understand. Imagine Potter meets Avengers in Emerald
city and you're getting close.
After a homicidal alien from
Orion arrives on Earth intent on annihilating human life, the 21st century's
greatest sorcerers create a network of seven Oz-like city worlds designed to
harbor the human race in a newly formed utopia while also protecting it from
the alien entity. But the alien is far more magically powerful than anyone
suspected. Piper Robbin, ancient daughter of the Earth's greatest sorcerer
inventor, Edison Godfellow, must sacrifice all to defeat the implacable force
that calls itself "The Witch Queen of Oz," and quickly, before Earth
becomes only a cold cinder floating among the stars.
Excerpt:
THE FORGOTTEN CHILD IN PIPER
ROBBIN, for the first time that day in the coffee shop, understood the meaning
of true panic. Crushing a stone to powder or throwing a javelin half a mile
wouldn’t fix anything (and neither would anyone in New York care) like in the
old days of Ulysses. Muttering spells that made deserts bloom or oceans boil
meant less than cooking a burger on the grill. Mortality for all, even the gods
and greatest sorcerers, might be just around the corner. People think just
because you’re a great magical being of some kind you have it made. Nothing
could be more wrong. Your hopes and dreams are often spit on, your happiness
ruined, your friends killed, and you lose sleep at night, worrying about shit
just like everyone else. And besides obligations you really don’t want, you
face mega-dangerous freaks way too often because you’re expected to, you know,
cause you’re the official bad ass superwoman. By the gods! Really? You crawl in
pain and heave up your insides for starters, die in lots of ways, and after all
that trouble, sometimes you don’t come back.
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Author Bio and Links:
Warwick Gleeson is a dedicated
writer of screenplays, short stories, novels, and poetry. He has lived in both
LA and NYC and worked many different jobs in his life, everything from roofer
to waiter to small business owner to government analyst. He was the major
writer, creator, and senior story editor for another project published by Del
Sol Press called "War of the World Makers" that debuted in 2017. The
novel has since won four national novel awards (two first place and two place)
for SFF. Warwick is a big fan of great SFF television writing, like the kind
you find in Emerald City, Gotham, The Expanse, and Umbrella Academy. He now
lives in Tuscon, AZ, with a fat lazy cat and his most wonderful wife who is
also a writer.
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ReplyDeleteIt gets far more interesting, I assure you.
DeleteLooks like an amazing read!!
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt!
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DeleteThank you so much for taking time to bring to our attention another great read. I enjoy these tours and finding out about many terrific books.
ReplyDeleteYes, of course, what a dream eh?
ReplyDeleteDid your story have an alternate ending you considered?
ReplyDeleteThe world-building looks very vivid!
ReplyDelete--Trix