Ink ~ Blood ~ Fire by K. Baldwin and Lyra Ricci

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Ink~Blood~Fire

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When Piper decided that she needed a better life for her and her sister, she packed them up, took what money they had saved, and headed off the desperately depressing downward spiral of drugs, booze, and violence of the Reservation. They took off to see the world. Fate had plans for them after being helped on the road by the kindness of a stranger. Little did they know that the man named Flynn had more in store for them than they could ever imagine.

Once they got back on the road Piper met a charming young up-and-coming tattoo artist named Nigel. After they said their goodbyes in Vegas, Piper realized her true feelings for Nigel, and, making a massive leap of faith, took a one-eighty to followed Nigel to the tropical paradise of Hawaii.

Piper found out soon enough that even in beauty, there were dangers waiting for her, that maybe Prince Charming wasn’t always a clean-cut boy on a noble steed, but a man with long hair, tattoos, and a fierce protectiveness for those he loves.

by K. Baldwin and Lyra Ricci
Pages: 224 / Words: 70000
ISBN: 978-1-61040-467-9
Genre: Action/Adventure, Contemporary
Age Rating: New Adult

Author Extra: The Strings of the Violin by Alisse Lee Goldenberg

The Strings of the Violin by Alisse Lee Goldenberg

Non GLBT

Seventeen-year-old Carrie is lying in her backyard ignoring all the looming
responsibilities in her life, when a fox makes a mad dash across the grass
in front of her. After she manages to keep her dog from attacking the
frightened animal, the fox turns to Carrie and seems to bow in gratitude
before he disappears into the bushes. All Carrie knows in that moment is
that something has unexpectedly changed in her life.

Carrie has been best friends with Lindsay Smith and Rebecca Campbell for
years. During a summer when they should focus on choosing colleges, the
girls suddenly find themselves swept away on the adventure of their lives.
The fox reappears three days later and reveals to Carrie that he is Adom,
emissary to the king of Hadariah. With his land of music and magic in peril,
Adom has been sent to seek help from Carrie and her friends. In the blink of
an eye, the three teenage girls go from living an average suburban life to
being the champions of a world where they must contend with giants, witches,
and magical beings. Will they ever make it home once more?

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A Fox's Trouble

Adom sighed, exasperated. He rubbed a tawny paw over his eyes, his tail
twitching in agitation. He swore the young prince would one day be the death
of him. He remembered coming to the palace after learning etiquette, court
procedure, and all the laws of the land. He had been told that his position
would be as tutor to the prince. It would be his job to ensure that the
prince learn all he must know in order to one day rule the Kingdom of the
Light. Adom had anticipated an easy job. He had pictured the prince to be a
quiet, well-behaved young man. Or at least that was how he had appeared when
he had first met his charge. Now he understood that to have been an act. The
prince was truly a hooligan. It took all Adom's energy and patience to keep
the boy in line. There was nothing he could do to make him listen. At only
ten years of age, the raven-haired prince was nothing but trouble. He seemed
to contain endless reserves of energy and mischief. He was always going
missing and was never where he should be.

That day, Adom had been trying to teach the prince all about how to behave
at a ball. On their way to the palace's ballroom, the prince had escaped
Adom's sight and was now missing. He had searched everywhere. The boy was
nowhere to be found. He was not in the stables, the gardens, his bedroom,
the fencing room; he had simply vanished. Adom sighed once more. He knew the
prince had a good heart. He had seen examples of his kindness. He was always
asking after his tutor's well-being, bringing him little tokens from his
adventures, treating him as a member of his small family. Yet, this wild
streak had to be curbed if he were to become a king worthy of his subjects.
Adom did not know how this was to be achieved. He walked through the palace
corridors once more looking for his wayward charge. He crept down towards
the servants' quarters and the kitchen and heard the noise of two soft
child-like voices speaking.

"You must do as I say!" came the whine of a young boy. "I am to be king!"

"Yes," replied his companion. "However, you are not king yet."

Adom peered around the corner and saw the prince speaking to a young girl.
She looked to be around nine years of age. Her silver hair was pulled into
two braids, and her amethyst eyes flashed with amusement at the prince's
pout.

"What do you know?" the prince said angrily. "You are nothing but the cook's
daughter."

"I know a lot more than you," the girl replied. "I bet I could run the whole
land better than you ever could!"

"Could not!" the prince shouted, stamping his foot indignantly. "I am
studying to be king."

"Really? Than why am I always hearing of you running away from Adom? I bet
you have not paid a bit of attention to any of your lessons."

The prince crossed his arms across his chest and snorted in annoyance.
"Etiquette is stupid. What does using the right fork have to do with ruling
Hadariah anyway?" 

"It has to do with not offending the dinner guests who wish to trade with
you," Adom answered, choosing that moment to enter the room.

The prince jumped in fear. He flushed red at being caught and looked down at
his tutor. "Sorry for running off again," he murmured.

Adom nodded. "Try not to let it happen again," he chided his young charge.

The prince nodded. "Okay."

The girl smiled at the prince. "Here," she said, handing him a cinnamon
biscuit. "If you listen to your tutor, I'll give you more."

The prince broke out into a large grin. "Okay!" he said. "I'll come back and
visit again. Maybe, if your mom lets you, I can take you to see my horse!"

"I'd like that," the girl answered with a smile. She turned and ran off,
eager to tell her mother.

The prince and Adom walk back to the library together, the prince in
thoughtful silence.

"What is on your mind?" Adom asked him. 

"Am I really going to be a bad king?" the prince asked.

"Not if you pay attention to your lessons," Adom answered with a smile.

"Then I will," the prince answered. He paused again. "Must I marry a
princess?"

"There is no official law about it," Adom answered.

The prince nodded. "Good," he said.

"You are only ten years old. You still have much time before you need to
worry about such things. Why do you ask?" Adom asked him.

"Because I have decided. I will marry the cook's daughter!" the prince
proclaimed. "She seems smart, and I like her."

Adom shook his head in consternation. "You like her because she gave you a
treat," he said. He rolled his eyes. He knew he should not worry too much
about this. The prince would probably change his mind several times before
he even went to bed.

For the first time, Adom was wrong about the prince. He studied hard, doing
everyone proud, and ten years later, he was present and filled with pride
for his charge as he made the cook's daughter his queen.

Happy Birthday, Klutzface by Foxglove Lee

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Happy Birthday, Klutzface

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It’s a comedy of errors when Laura prepares a romantic dinner for Mila’s birthday.  Laura isn't the world's best cook to begin with, but when everything goes wrong in the immaculate home Mila's supposed to be house sitting, the trouble's only just begun.  Laura and Mila wanted an evening of domestic bliss.  Will their glimpse at adult life drive them into each other's arms or drive them apart completely?

by Foxglove Lee
Pages: 19 / Words: 4800
Genre: Prizm Pinch, GLBT, Contemporary
Age Rating: Young Adult

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New Release Day!

New This Week from Prizm Books...

The Strings of the Violin
By: Alisse Lee Goldenberg
192 pages / 55000 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-491-4
$6.99
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Blurb:
Seventeen-year-old Carrie is lying in her backyard ignoring all the looming responsibilities in her life, when a fox makes a mad dash across the grass in front of her. After she manages to keep her dog from attacking the frightened animal, the fox turns to Carrie and seems to bow in gratitude before he disappears into the bushes. All Carrie knows in that moment is that something has unexpectedly changed in her life.
Carrie has been best friends with Lindsay Smith and Rebecca Campbell for years. During a summer when they should focus on choosing colleges, the girls suddenly find themselves swept away on the adventure of their lives. The fox reappears three days later and reveals to Carrie that he is Adom, emissary to the king of Hadariah. With his land of music and magic in peril, Adom has been sent to seek help from Carrie and her friends. In the blink of an eye, the three teenage girls go from living an average suburban life to being the champions of a world where they must contend with giants, witches, and magical beings. Will they ever make it home once more?
Coming Next Week...

Necromancy and You by Missouri Dalton

Don't Ask by Laura Hughes

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Don't Ask

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Cat and Mike have been best friends forever, but freshman year of high school finds them growing apart. Cat proudly flies her freak flag; Mike tries to fade into the background. Cat checks out the gay pride group; Mike joins the military club. It’s fall 2010, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is still in effect. Mike likes that -- he doesn’t want to ask or tell.

While Mike falls in love with the military club’s values of strength, honor, and courage, Cat falls in love with Calliope, an impossibly sophisticated sophomore girl. Her world is a roller coaster of grand gestures, romantic declarations, and messy, public drama. Mike is quieter with his feelings, but he’s finding it harder and harder to deny them -- especially his crush on the guitar-playing new boy. The safety of DADT is beginning to feel more like a burden. Mike believes in courage, but who is the brave one? Can these two best friends, more alike than they know, find their way back together?

by Laura Hughes
Pages: 200 / Words: 55500
ISBN: 978-1-61040-461-7
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT
Age Rating: Edgy Young Adult

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The Easter Bunny by Charlie Purcell

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The Easter Bunny

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Jeff has always found comfort in the sense of community he gets from his church. He grew up with these people, and they know everything about him… except that he’s gay. When a cute, new boy shows up as a volunteer Easter Bunny, Jeff decides to finally make a move, but the choices he makes on this Easter Sunday could completely change the life he’s always known.

by Charlie Purcell
Pages: 13 / Words: 3400
Genre: Prizm Pinch, Contemporary
Age Rating: Young Adult

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The Shroud Eaters by Alyx J. Shaw

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The Shroud Eaters

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In this day of modern health and sanitation, few consider vampires more than a charming myth, a sexy little fantasy for when we are home and safe, and the street lamps and house lights keep away the night.  But what happens when the lights fail, and old horrors rise from the grave to show they are no myth?

Deirdre has been a vampire since the 1600s, has seen a lot of history and knows quite a bit about her own species as well. She knows that there are many more types of vampires than the ones seen in movies and on TV. The modern version of the vampire is not an accurate one, and she also knows that being a vampire herself doesn't keep her safe from her own kind. A whisper in a graveyard, a shuffling footstep outside the door, the low, steady droning moan of the mindless undead are all warnings. For centuries she has managed to stay safe, but when she chances to meet a vampire of her own century, she is unaware that a monster is on his trail.

And now that monster is seeking her as well…

by Alyx J Shaw
Pages: 240 / Words: 71000
ISBN: 978-1-61040-440-2
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal/Horror
Age Rating: Young Adult
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Author Extra: Human Aspect by Elizabeth L. Brooks

Human Aspect by Elizabeth L. Brooks

Non GLBT

Dauch has never doubted his clan's wisdom: Humans are fit only as prey and
slaves to the shapechanging lochmari. Nor has he ever doubted his place in
his clan: As the Warleader's son and heir, his only true rival is his
despised cousin, Afel. But when, on the very cusp of manhood, he spies human
lovers in the lochmari forest, he is suddenly faced with questions he had
never thought to ask -- and a dangerous new infatuation. Dauch hopes to find
a way to embarrass his rival and gain the woman he wants, but his anger and
obsession will only pave the path to his doom unless he can learn something
no lochmar has ever known before: how to love.

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Author Extra:

I love the idea of watching the world through the eyes of a "bad guy". I
love diving into their heads and figuring out what makes them tick.

Are they seeking revenge? Wounded and simply lashing out indiscriminately?
Do they have a mental disorder such as sociopathy or psychopathy that makes
them incapable of empathy for their victims?

Or maybe it's a matter of culture.

In "Human Aspect", the lochmari are indisputably the bad guys of the world.
These warrior shapeshifters raid human villages, stealing supplies and
taking prisoners for slaves, and they have absolutely no remorse about it.
To the lochmari, humans are merely another species of animal. Not only that,
but the very survival of the lochmari depends on those slaves they take.

My main character, Dauch, is a product of this culture. He's a warrior's
warrior, highly competent, indifferent to pain, (mostly) obedient to the
chain of command, contemptuous of those who don't share his values. By all
rights, he should be thoroughly unlikeable as a character...

And here's another question I love to explore, when I'm writing: how do you
reform a bad guy? How do you make an unlikeable character sympathetic to the
reader so that they forgive him for his failures? How do you make him
overcome those failures and strive to become a better person?

Sometimes, all it takes is love -- and sometimes, it takes the crushing
weight of a curse. 

Human Aspect by Elizabeth L. Brooks

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Human Aspect

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Dauch has never doubted his clan's wisdom: Humans are fit only as prey and slaves to the shapechanging lochmari. Nor has he ever doubted his place in his clan: As the Warleader's son and heir, his only true rival is his despised cousin, Afel. But when, on the very cusp of manhood, he spies human lovers in the lochmari forest, he is suddenly faced with questions he had never thought to ask -- and a dangerous new infatuation. Dauch hopes to find a way to embarrass his rival and gain the woman he wants, but his anger and obsession will only pave the path to his doom unless he can learn something no lochmar has ever known before: how to love.

by Elizabeth L. Brooks
Pages: 44 / Words: 11800
ISBN: 978-1-61040-497-7
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Age Rating: New Adult

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Echo by Amanda Clay

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Echo

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On the surface Emily Porter, aka Echo, has it all: plenty of money, a close-knit group of friends, permissive parents, a job in fashion. But what she really wants is less. Much less. Less food, less flesh, less fat, less of the body she sees as her captor and her cage. A chance to model in an upcoming Gothic fashion show is the perfect deadline, and Echo takes this opportunity as a challenge to achieve less -- a chance to reduce herself to nothing.

At first the transformation is effortless. Echo loses weight, meets a new boy, hosts the social event of the holiday season. But soon there are problems: weakness, temptation, blackouts, freak-outs, trouble with family and friends. What begins as diet and exercise soon turns into blood, pain, obsession, and as Echo’s mind and body begin to change so does her view of herself. She cannot see the woman in the mirror, nor the danger she is facing. Can she stop herself, see herself, before it’s too late?

by Amanda Clay
Pages: 204 / Words: 55000
ISBN: 978-1-61040-437-2
Genre: Contemporary
Age Rating: Edgy Young Adult
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New Release & Coming Soon!

New This Week from Prizm Books...

Human Aspect
By: Elizabeth L. Brooks
44 pages / 11800 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-497-7
$2.49
Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_27&products_id=66
Blurb:
Dauch has never doubted his clan's wisdom: Humans are fit only as prey and slaves to the shapechanging lochmari. Nor has he ever doubted his place in his clan: As the Warleader's son and heir, his only true rival is his despised cousin, Afel. But when, on the very cusp of manhood, he spies human lovers in the lochmari forest, he is suddenly faced with questions he had never thought to ask -- and a dangerous new infatuation. Dauch hopes to find a way to embarrass his rival and gain the woman he wants, but his anger and obsession will only pave the path to his doom unless he can learn something no lochmar has ever known before: how to love.
Coming Next Week...

The Strings of the Violin by Alisse Lee Goldenberg