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What is your favorite book today?
I really enjoyed Sabriel by Garth Nix. To be truthful, working fulltime, writing fulltime, and marketing, has left little time to read other writing. Add in pitch bibles (40 page docs summarizing the first season for a streamer, say like Netflix) for movie contracts and there is precious little time left!
Tell us about your current book in 10 words.
MAGICAL BEASTS: Harry Potter meets Lord of the Rings meets Percy Jackson
What are you reading right now?
The pitch bible for MAGICAL BEASTS, and then the last edit of the 4th Jack Steel thriller.
What books do you have on hold at the library?
I’m watching more movies than I’m reading books right now, especially series on streamers, to see how they are written.
Do you have any bad book habits?
None that I can think of! But Mom would say I tend to overwrite at times! lol
Favorite genre?
Fantasy, thrillers, and nonfiction. I love it all!
Do you loan your books?
Of course!
Re-reader or not?
When I finished the trilogy of Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by Garth Nix, the next day I began reading Sabriel again. I loved that series. I’ve never done that before or since.
What would make you not finish a book?
Boring. Boring. Boring. People tell me, ‘Yeah, the first 100pp were slow, and then it got interesting.’ I am not that patient reader. Hook me on the first page or goodbye!
Samantha and Jake fight to save their poisoned parents, and instead find themselves in a battle to save the parallel magical world of KiraKu. The two teens discover they must defeat the Evil One—a diabolical master of deception—or their own world will fall too. Samantha must master the mysterious supernatural staff, WhipEye, and find out if she has what it takes to fulfill the prophecy of the true guardian. In a final battle, reminiscent of Lord of the Rings, the two teens will have to risk everything, or lose it all. For Fans of Fantastic Beasts, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings. Winner Outstanding YA Fiction IAN BOTY ~ Magical Beasts is now in development for a major motion picture. ~
A black belt in kung fu, Jake kicks at the woman’s side. She blocks his foot with her forearm. He slides in and chops at her neck.
With little effort she absorbs the hand blow with her arm, grabs his forearm, and jerks him down on top of me. Kneeling on his back, she keeps us immobile.
Her arm is already healing from Biggie’s whip, so like the hyena she’s a Lesser or Great One too. Originals don’t heal like that. That also explains her speed and strength. She and the hyena have to be working for Gorgon.
My vision blurs. I’m suffocating. From ground level I glimpse Biggie shoving the hyena sideways into a tree.
From behind her, the woman pulls out a thick silver band and slaps it onto Jake’s left wrist. She leans over him to stare at me, her slender face hard. “If you don’t find and deliver Drasine to the smugglers by tomorrow night, the silver band will explode and kill your boyfriend. Go to the Smuggler’s Oasis. Kert will tell you what to do.”
Stunned, now I know she’s working with Gorgon. “Forget you.” I punch at her face, but she grabs my wrist. Her eyes harden, and then she looks up.
Somehow the hyena got past Uncle Biggie and it’s charging us. The animal must be working with the woman. Her ride out of here.
The woman releases my wrist.
I croak, “You can’t do this.” I grab at her but her head is rising and my fingers curl around her swinging gold necklace. It breaks off in my hand as she morphs into a huge cheetah.
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Buy Links:
Kindle/KU/Paperback Series page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZR6VDJ8
Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Guardian-The-Choice-Audiobook/B081PVPNLN
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/geoffrey-saign
Goodreads—Magical Beasts Book 1—Guardian The Choice: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50094484-guardian
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ReplyDeleteThe books already had me intrigued. But I love your answer to 10 words to describe your book.
ReplyDeleteI probably enjoyed writing the 4th book as much as any book I've published thus far. It was a fun non-stop thrill!
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