Rayne Hall's Blog: Rayne Hall, Fantasy and Horror Author - Posts Tagged "fantasy"

Storm Dancer got a new cover in January. It's the one with the dynamic pose, where the tunic is maroon and the turban is scarlet. This one: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

Alas, when people search Storm Dancer on Goodreads, the old cover shows, and each time someone clicks that, it reaffirms that the old cover is correct.

So I'm wondering if people could help me? If you've read Storm Dancer, if want to read it, if you rate it or review it or anything, could you please do it while the new cover is displayed? This will help a lot.

Thanks.

Rayne Hall

I'm trying to contact the fantasy writer Jacquelyn Bartel. Does anyone know her? Can you put me in touch with her?

I've already tried Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the other obvious avenues. Perhaps someone knows her (a neighbour? colleague? member of a writers' group?)

If yes, I'll be grateful if you can help.

I'm trying to remember the title of a fantasy/horror short story by Mort Castle. "Miss Hezeltine's Miracle" or something like that?

I had an audio recording of it, downloaded from a now defunct site where I can't look it up. Amazon and Google searches haven't yielded an answer.

Does anyone know the correct title and spelling? (Hesseltine? Haseltine?)

I was very happy with this book cover (a collaboration between two artists, Paul Davies and Erica Syverson). I had worked very closely with them to get it just right.

So the digital image was super... but it's nothing compared with the print!

The printed cover looks AWESOME.
The colours... the gloss... everything.

I want to dance around town, holding up the book, singing "Looking at this! Look at this!"

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I'm holding a giveaway for a copy of Storm Dancer. This is a dark epic fantasy, and it's a big fat paperback which will give you many reading hours.

Oh, and did I mention that it has a beautiful cover? :-)

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

Dark Epic Fantasy Novel.

Big fat paperback, hours of reading.

60 4/5 start reviews on Amazon.

One paperback copy up for grabs.

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/cre...

Right now, it's #9 in Historical Fantasy and #43 in Epic Fantasy for Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Dancer-Da...

It's on special offer - 99c for the ebook but only until 9 June.

I'm so excited! My dark epic fantasy novel Storm Dancer is suddenly shooting up in the bestseller lists.

At the moment, it's #422 at Barnes and Noble - out of the millions of books sold at B&N!

And on Amazon, it's near the top of two genre bestseller lists (#7 Historical Fantasy and #28 in Epic Fantasy).

I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, glued to the monitor, watching the bestseller lists change hourly. I wonder if Storm Dancer will climb any further, or whether it has gone as far is it will go.

The price for the ebook is reduced from $4.99 to $0.99 until 1 June; no doubt this special offer has much to do with the sudden boost.
The paperback is at the standard price.

If you want to buy the book (while it's on special offer), here are the links:
Amazon US for Kindle http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Dancer-Da...
Amazon UK for Kindle http://www.amazon.co.uk/Storm-Dancer-...
Kobo http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Storm-...
Barnes&Noble for Nook http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/storm...
Smashwords for all ebook formats: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

You can also read the first six chapters free here:
https://sites.google.com/site/stormda...

Has anyone been charged $4.99 for 'Storm Dancer' while it was on sale for $0.99? If yes, I'll personally refund you for Amazon's error.

(Please repost this if possible, to help me reach the people who were affected)

Rayne

APRIL GREY's urban fantasy novel, Chasing The Trickster, is published by Eternal Press.Her short stories have been published in such anthologies as Demonmind's Halloween 2010, The Best of Everyday Fiction 2, Northern Haunts, Ephemera, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies and Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry. Many of these stories can be found in her collection, The Fairy Cake Bake Shoppe available through Amazon.

KATRINA JOYNER who painted the clairvoyant on the bookcover is a freelance artist and formatter. She lives in the USA. You can see more of her art here http://spearcarrier.deviantart.com/


RAYNE HALL lives in a dilapidated English seaside town of former Victorian grandeur where she writes horror and fantasy fiction. Her short stories have been published in many magazines, e-zines and anthologies. She has had more than 40 books published in several genres under several pen names, including the dark epic fantasy novel Storm Dancer. Her editing experience in the publishing industry spans three decades. She is also the editor of other books in the Ten Tales series. You can follow her on Twitter @raynehall and her website is http://sites.google.com/site/raynehal....

JEFF HARGETT is a grandfather from North Carolina with an imagination full of magic and dragons. He stays young and fit by dining on epic fantasy whenever possible. He’s had a couple of short stories placed in competitions, but prefers his fiction in novel-length doses. He is currently writing an epic fantasy series that he hopes will be published while he can still wield a pen. He’s a firm believer that when this world doesn’t suit you, you should write a world that does. He enjoys interacting with readers and other writers and spends far too much time loitering around his blog http://StrandsOfPattern.blogspot.com/.


FREDERICK LANGRIDGE enjoyed a varied career as an engineer, scientist, manager and teacher. Now in semi-retirement he has turned his writing skills to projects much more exciting than worksheets and textbooks. His short stories have appeared in compilations produced by the Panocticon Writing Group, of which he is a founder member, and in his own collection: Short Stories to Read on the Bus.
He has previously contributed to a published science teaching course and several textbooks, and currently works part time as Associate Tutor in Science Education at Edge Hill University.

DOUGLAS KOLACKI began writing while stationed with the Navy in Naples, Italy, published numerous stories in San Diego, and recently completed a cross-country trek to his new home in Providence, Rhode Island. His short story credits include Weird Tales, Dragons Knights & Angels, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Spells: Ten Tales of Magic and Big Pulp. His published novels are Elijah's Chariot and On the Eighth Day, God Created Trilby Richardson.

TRACIE MCBRIDE is a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 80 print and electronic publications, including Horror Library Vols 4 and 5, Dead Red Heart, Phobophobia, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies and Horror for Good. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2008. She helps to wrangle slush for Dark Moon Digest and is the vice president of Dark Continents Publishing. She welcomes visitors to her blog at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.....

CAROLE ANN MOLETI lives and works as a nurse-midwife in New York City, thus explaining her fascination with all things paranormal, urban fantasy, and space opera. Her work has appeared in a variety of speculative fiction venues including Lightspeed, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Tangent Online, The Portal, and The Fix. Other stories set in the world of her novels are featured in Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft and Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires. Follow her on Twitter @Cmoleti, Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carole-...) or her blog (http://caroleannmoleti.blogspot.com).

JACK NICHOLLS lives in Melbourne, Australia, where on most nights he cannot see the stars at all. He is a graduate of Clarion West 2011, where this story was written. It was first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies 101.His other fantasy fiction has appeared in Aurealis 54 (link: http://www.aurealis.com.au/issues.php...) and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 (link:http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/asi...).

MOHANALAKSHMI RAJAKUMAR is a South Asian American who has lived in Qatar since 2005. Moving to the Arabian Desert was fortuitous in many ways since this is where she met her husband, had a baby, and made the transition from writing as a hobby to a full time passion. She has since published five e-books including a mom-ior for first time mothers, Mommy But Still Me, a guide for aspiring writers, So You Want to Sell a Million Copies, a short story collection, Coloured and Other Stories, and a novel about women’s friendships, Saving Peace. Most recently, From Dunes to Dior, is a collection of essays related to her experiences as a female South Asian American living in the Arabian Gulf. After she joined the e-book revolution, she dreams in plotlines. Learn more about her work on her website at www.mohanalakshmi.com or follow her latest on Twitter: @moha_doha.

DEBORAH WALKER grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration or on her blog: http://deborahwalkersbibliography.blo... Her stories have appeared in Nature's Futures, Cosmos, Enchanted Conversation and in The Year's Best SF 18.