Series- Vengelys Series #1
By- Aedan Byrnes
Genre- Historical Paranormal Romance
Published By- Drake Valley Press
USA
Blurb-
In the blackest night,
with the moon and stars to guide him, she would always be there waiting…
Cyrenna thought she died the day she watched Tynan and his
brothers jump through the banishment portal in an act of solidarity with Rigor.
Little did she know, it would be the first of many deaths she would experience
in her quest to claim his heart. She would surrender not only her immortal
soul, but a mortal one repeatedly. Through a deal with the great Oracle, she
has multiple mortal lifetimes to change the direction of her future and have a
chance with Tynan.
Her journey spans the ages from the GenPei War in Japan and
the Silk Road west, to Cromwell, the Three Kingdoms and modern times, bringing
her one step closer to forever until she makes a misstep. Then, the burden
falls to Tynan. The only thing that is absolute is her fervent hope that he
will come, but there’s one big problem.
Through it all, he doesn’t so much as know her name.
Links-
Amazon paperback- http://www.amazon.com/Through-Oracles-Mist-Vengelys-Series/dp/1935970186/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1389294390&sr=8-1
About the Author-
There is no simple description for Aedan Byrnes. Obsessive,
dreamer, reclusive, compulsive, outdoorsman and wordsmith would be among the
list if one were started. The displaced Gael lives in the upper Midwest with
family between jaunts wherever the road takes him. A frequent traveler, he is
as likely to be found rock climbing or spelunking as sitting fireside dreaming
or aimlessly floating away.
A lifelong lover of words and writing, he claims a diverse
reading appetite and his writing reflects the myriad influences. A
self-proclaimed 'reader's writer', he looks for the emotional and the sensory
in word combinations, not just the visceral comprehension of phrases in the
stories he crafts and his love of all things literary shines through.
Links-
Twitter- https://twitter.com/AedanByrnes
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/AedanByrnes
Facebook Event- https://www.facebook.com/events/234246923366314/
Guest Post Topic--Should you Judge a Book by its
cover-why or why not?
Absolutely…not. To me the cover is like the previews before a movie. It
is there to grab your attention for a moment and lure you in to ask for more
information. To this end, you should be assessing if you have an interest that
is piqued by the cover, nothing more. Does it call to you? Does it offend? Does
it speak to you of things that you are curious about or passionate about? A
book’s cover is the bait, not the catch. To judge a book, you need to read the
book.
A
good cover will entice you emotionally to look further, but the story itself is
the only measure one should use to judge a book. Great reviews or recommendations
will appear on the cover sometimes as will a synopsis of the tale, do you then
judge the story based on them? No, you may however make a buying decision based
on them and that is why they are there. The job of the cover is to strike an
emotional chord, be it joy, rage, curiosity, passion….so that you will open the
cover and look further.
Some covers are meant to trigger what makes us happy, some to make us
sad or outraged. Some covers will pull at the emotional triggers to be overcome
by that which we do not have, or to encourage us to dream of better. Others
still will reach to a place of confusion so that you feel that you must read on
to find out the message behind the cover. These would all be successful covers
if they get you to retrieve it from the shelf and open the book.
At
the end the cover is to trigger a buying decision. While the story itself is
what is to be conveyed, in this time of less than no time, a good cover will
entice you to grab the book and put it in your carriage for purchase to check
out more thoroughly later. While as authors we would love to believe that you
grabbed our book after careful consideration and a longing to read the tale, we
are realistic in our beliefs too to know that sometimes, it is what grabs you
as you walk down the aisle at market and don’t have the time to consider
further. This is okay with us…we only hope that when you do get time to escape,
it is our cover that compels you to open our tale first and then that you love
it and tell your friends.
I agree to a point on the "don't judge a book by its cover" advice but there have been times that I have simply passed over a book without looking further into it because the cover lacked that something to draw me in. Whether it was poor graphics or just another in the long line of same old-same old cover lining the shelves. I am a very visual person and the cover is what first draws me in, then the title and how it relates to the cover before I reach for that back cover synopsis.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there are many times when I am lured by a cover, more often than not it is the title that will eintice me to pick up a book. Even then, I don't just stop w/the blurb but sample several random paragraphs to see if I am able to connect with the writing style of the author.
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