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Breakshield Blog Tour: 5-12 September 2014

8/22/2014

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Sign-ups are open for the Breakshield Blog Tour which runs 5-12 September 2014.  Just go here and enter your information. Yes, it's really that easy!  And reviewer copies are available!
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Buy BREAKSHIELD on Amazon

BLOG TOUR SCHEDULE

9/5 
A Coffee Addict's Book Reviews: Review & Guest post w/ Giveaway
9/6 From the Writer's Nest: Review 

9/7 Mary's Cup of Tea: Spotlight and Giveaway

9/8 WS Momma Readers Nook
9/9 Pike Knight: Review & Giveaway
9/10 Jenn's Book Reviews & giveaways: Review, Interview, and giveaway
9/11: Sapphyria's Book Reviews: Spotlight & Giveaway

9/12 Dalene's Book Reviews: Review & Giveaway

What's that?  You want even more information.  Alright then, here's another linky for ya.  Just pop on over to Coffee and Characters and take a look.

Praise for Breakshield

"- Villain: Oh, he's mean, despicable and totally cruel...I wanna know more about him and I surely hope we'll get to know more about his background and plans of doom."
 -Amazon Reviewer - Magyca

"It has well developed characters that you cant help but love and a vile protagonist that makes the book very hard to put down." 
-Amazon Reviewer - _Dierdre Page

Many thanks to the multi-talented Danielle Romero of Coffee and Characters for organizing this event.
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Star Quake II Published!

8/13/2014

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Star Quake 2 - IFWG Publishing's Best of 2013 anthology - has been published.  And it includes my short story Fairest Fowl!  So hop on over to Amazon and grab a copy.  The awesome cover if below (another 'best of' chosen from SQ Mag's 2013 covers) and I've included the TOC in case you wanna know who else made the cut for the 'best of' anthology.

TOC:
  • A Man and His Parasite by Cat Rambo
  • Fairest Fowl by J.B. Rockwell
  • Born Again by Nu Yang
  • Chinaman’s Bluff by Cat Sparks
  • Flagman by Jim Lee
  • Shoe Shine by Robert Datson
  • Surface Stars by Hanson Hovell Holladay
  • Intangible by A.A. Garrison (novella)
  • The Visiphorical Art by Michelle Ann King
  • Digging in the Deep by Tonia Brown
  • Digital Reflections by Kevin Rainak
  • Cattails by A.P. Sessler
  • Strike Day by Marie DesJardin
  • Tea in the Secret Garden by Emma Newman
  • Faye’s Diner by J.T. Seate
  • The Poet and the Lily by Julia August
  • Endangered Species X by Guy Prevost

The anthology is also available through Kobo or you can buy it directly through the IFWG Publishing website. I promise you - you really want to get it.  The anthology is chock-a-block full of fantastic stories and it's got a kick-ass looking girl with a gun on the cover! 

 

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Star Quake II Anthology TOC Announced

8/6/2014

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IFWG Publishing Australia (publisher of SQ Mag) has announced the Table of Contents (TOC) for it's forthcoming Star Quake II anthology, which includes my short story Fairest Fowl.

Fairest Fowl
was one of the first short stories I wrote that was picked up for publication, and is a favorite of mine to this day.  It was a finalist in SQ Mag's 2012 Story Quest Short Story Contest, was included in SQ Mag's Women in Speculative Fiction edition (Edition 8) released in May 2013, and will now be included in this 'Best of 2013' anthology.  So proud of my little chicken story :)

Anyway.  The TOC:

  • A Man and His Parasite by Cat Rambo
  • Fairest Fowl by J.B. Rockwell
  • Born Again by Nu Yang
  • Chinaman’s Bluff by Cat Sparks
  • Flagman by Jim Lee
  • Shoe Shine by Robert Datson
  • Surface Stars by Hanson Hovell Holladay
  • Intangible by A.A. Garrison (novella)
  • The Visiphorical Art by Michelle Ann King
  • Digging in the Deep by Tonia Brown
  • Digital Reflections by Kevin Rainak
  • Cattails by A.P. Sessler
  • Strike Day by Marie DesJardin
  • Tea in the Secret Garden by Emma Newman
  • Faye’s Diner by J.T. Seate
  • The Poet and the Lily by Julia August
  • Endangered Species X by Guy Prevost

So what's my story about?  Well, here's the lead in SQ Mag included when they published Fairest Fowl:

When you offend the gods and snub tradition, things can go badly wrong, and they can occur in the most unlikely places and circumstances.

Alright, so that doesn't tell you a lot.  It's about a chicken of all things.  A pretty badass chicken really - one I borrowed from Japanese mythology because it was just too good to pass up.  Anyone who knows me knows I love animals, and anyone who's read my novels and short stories knows most of them incorporate animals in one form or another into the story.  Some are friend, some are foe, some are big, scary monsters, others brave companions doing their best to keep our hero out of trouble.  And the chicken in Fairest Fowl?  Which category does that fall in: friend, foe, nice guy or monster? 

The anthology will be out in just a few weeks so make sure to check back for an update. 


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    J.B. Rockwell
    J.B. Rockwell grew up reading fairy tales, folklore and mythology, as well as anything and everything about ancient cultures and their history, and never lost her taste for any of it.  She currently lives in West Virginia with her husband and four (yes, four) cats, all of whom provide inspiration for her stories, whether they know it or not.
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