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Last Chance to Win 6 books plus a Martini Glass Becker Circle is the final installment of Novel Magic for 2019. Win a copy in the December Giveaway–but act fast. The contest ends at MIDNIGHT, December 31, 2019. Read through Addison’s post and enter below. Remember You by Addison Brae A few years ago a friendtreated himself to a drink after a long day working the sushi restaurant in myneighborhood. He bought me a cocktail and said something very wise that made alasting impression. “People have to love themselves first.” Many people don’t appear tohave that love. It affects their ability to be a friend, a lover, a responsibleadult. I think I love myself—until something happens or someone hits a weakspot. Like me, many people have been in relationships where their partner beatsthem down emotionally. It’s a struggle to love myself again after so much. Solong. Those doubting momentsbecame so common that I bought myself a ring. Inside the inscription says“Remember me 2011”. No one...

Get a copy of The Eidola Project plus 5 more books and a martini glass in Novel Magic’s December Giveaway. Enter at the end of this post. The Eidola Project by Robert Herold The Eidola Project is recruiting. Dare to join them? It’s 1885 and a drunk and rage-filled Nigel Pickford breaks up a phonymedium’s séance. A strange twist of fate soon finds him part of a teaminvestigating the afterlife. The Eidola Project is an intrepid group of explorers dedicated tobringing the light of science to that which has been feared, misunderstood, andoften manipulated by charlatans. They are a psychology professor, hisassistant, an African-American physicist, a sideshow medium, and now aderelict, each possessing unique strengths and weaknesses. Called to the brooding Hutchinson Estate to investigate rumoredhauntings, they encounter deadly supernatural forces and a young woman drivento the brink of madness. Will any of them survive? Try a bit of The Eidola Project Sarah retrieved the ...

Win a copy of Keri’s Christmas Wish along with 5 more books in Novel Magic’s December Giveaway. Enter at the end of the post. Categorizing a Novel by Pamela Thibodeaux In my last visit to Sorchia’s Universe, I discussed the difference in Paranormal and Supernatural. Today I’d like to share the importance of categorizing your novel. Reviewers have termed a couple of my books romance, paranormal, fantasy, sci-fi and Christian — all of which are OK but not exactly 100% accurate. This led me to thinking How DOES one categorize a novel? One of the major parts of a proposal is category and the advice of many is to go into a book store and find out where your book would fit on the shelves. Among the thousands of titles out there, this can be quite a challenge. Since publishers feel it’s a bit arrogant to say “My book belongs on the shelf with the other Best Sellers,” let’s look at the different categories and see how I came about determining Keri’s Christmas Wish as Women’...

We’ve got a shifter tale for you this week. Wolf of the Prophecy is the second book in Victoria Jayne’s The Prophecy Trilogy. And you know how we love trilogies here in the Universe. Read along for a howling good time (sorry, I couldn’t resist.) Don’t forget the December Giveaway at the end. Enter to win Wolf of the Prophecy and 5 more great books. Wolf of the Prophecy by Victoria Jayne Every mistake has its ramifications. Divina’s rejection leaves Aric’s wolf battling insanity. With their bond new and incomplete, Aric seeks the help of his pack to find her and convince her to give their mating a chance.  If he can’t the pain will become too much for both of them. Rori, pursuing his love, has to figure out how he can give up the throne and convince her that this time he won’t leave her. When Divina calls him and asks him for help, this is his opportunity to mend the fences and fix all that he’s broken between them. All the while, Divina is tired o...

Enter Novel Magic’s December Giveaway to win Hunted along with 5 more paranormal books. Entry form magically appears at the end of this post. Do You Love Fairy Tales for Adults? by Jessica Aspen I’ve been a big fan of twisted fairy tales for years, ever since I was a little girl. I loved ONCE UPON A TIME, THE HUNTSMAN, and all the clever Disney twists. When I started to write my own stories naturally I wanted to do the same thing, only in my own dark and twisty way. And so, HUNTED and the FAE MAGIC series was born. Because of course, I didn’t jus want the fairy tales, I also wanted the sexy elves and heros from the LORD OF THE RINGS movies. Don’t you want Aragon and Legolas for your heroes? Mmm-hm. Of course you do. While my stories are based on the fairy tales you love: Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty,  they are uniquely my own, with deep plots running through the books, and twists you’ll never expect. Open the pages and you’ll discover poisoned apples, and stepmothe...