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Guest - Sapphire Phelan
Good morning all! Today we have author Sapphire Phelan visiting us as part of her week long blog tour. She's written a really interesting post about urban fantasies. Plus she has a blog tour giveaway so read on to find out how to enter the drawing.
Enjoy!
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What is it about urban fantasies having romance in them as a distinction
that makes them this genre? Urban fantasy means a fantasy set in an urban
setting like cities and towns. Usually with fairies and other creatures of a
fantastical bent. Last few years publishers have added ghosts, vampires,
werewolves, zombies and beings considered in the horror genre, which now urban
fantasy is part of. Now there's romance added to the mix.
My first urban fantasy read was Emma Bull's War for the Oaks,
back in 1987. I've read others since
then, though they were termed fantasies then. But by the twenty-first century,
the name, urban fantasy, was coined. It's one of my favorites to read. One of
my favorite authors who write in this genre is Jim Butcher. Who are the authors
of this genre you read?
Speaking of urban fantasies, the hero, Charun, and the
heroine, Tina Epson, and their adventures come to print in The Witch and The Familiar, where the
erotic e-novellas, Being Familiar
With a Witch and its sequel, A
Familiar Tangle With Hell are combined.
I am doing a giveaway for the
whole blog tour April 23rd through April 28th. Leave a comment
here or at any of the blogs I make at. You can leave a comment (plus your
email, so I can contact you) at each blog, to get more chances, but no more
than one per blog, please. The giveaway is a signed copy of The Witch And The Familiar. Only for USA
commenters though (due to price of mailing outside of US). For those outside of
US, I will give instead a gift cert for price of the book at Phaze Books, that
I can email you.
Sapphire Phelan
Dark heroes and heroines with bite...sink your teeth
into a romance by Sapphire Phelan today.
2010 Prism Winner
Mortal woman Tina discovers she is part of a prophesy that
says she and Charun, her demon Familiar, must make love so she can become the
witch she is fated to be. If she doesn’t do it and stop the demon army bringing
Armageddon to the Mortal Realm on Halloween, she won’t stand a chance in Hell.
A year later, just when Tina and Charun thought it was all
over and that their life would be normal—another prophesy pops up. If Lucifer
snatches Tina and mates with her before the last chime before midnight of the new
year and gets her pregnant with his son, that the real Armageddon would begin,
spelling the end of life as they knew it. This time they get help from an
archangel, Jacokb, but with demons, Lucifer, and a cute demon bunny with fangs
out of a Monty Python nightmare, out to stop them and Heaven not lending a
hand, will Tina this time lose the battle and become the mother of the
Antichrist and the start of a new Hell on Earth?
Excerpt:
A strange feeling slammed into him and he cried out as he
dropped to his knees on the pavement. Thrusting out a hand against the ground
so he wouldn’t topple over, he began to metamorphose, growing smaller and
smaller as he did. Black fur sprouted all over his body and head. His ears
sharpened into points and shot up over his head, while his hands and feet
became paws edged with sharp claws. Whiskers pinged out of his cheeks and from
his buttocks snaked a long tail. He hunched over and then fell over onto his
ass. Within seconds, his metamorphose completed, he was a black cat. Resisting
the peculiar urge to wash his face, Charun stretched and then rose onto all
four paws. He padded over to a puddle of rain water to inspect the change.
He sat down and viewed his reflection. Not bad looking as
far as cats went. Lifting a paw, he splashed his image. Then back on all four
paws, he trotted to the street and paused to sniff the air. He sneezed as the
full force of odors hit him. A multitude of different things, from the smell of
blasted sunshine to the grime of city life. The sunshine revealed to him that
it would not rain for days. He had arrived a day too late. The air revealed
that it had thunder stormed yesterday.
He needed heavy rain to make his first appearance to his
witch. Needed it as a reason for her to feel sorry for him and take him in.
From what he remembered she would not leave any animal drowning in a torrential
downpour. But from all the viewing he did of her growing up he knew she wasn’t
an impulsive person either. He knew that she loved animals, but felt that she
couldn’t afford one right now in her life. He might end up in an animal shelter
or a place like that. This kind of operation needed the right things in place.
Timing, too. Timing always mattered. He had learned that long ago as an
Incubus. The wrong time could always mean the lover would wake up too soon.
Find that their fantasy lover was real, and that the husband, wife, lover,
concubine, whoever, wasn’t what really was taking them beyond the heights of
lust. One Succubus found that out the hard way when her nobleman lover woke up
not to find his wife mounted on his staff but a green-skinned fiend. He knocked
her out before she could call her magic up and had a priest exorcised her.
Exorcism was death for a demon. Instead of sending them back to Hell, it ended
their existence.
So timing was important, even now. His witch’s survival
was the true equation here. If she died before he made her a witch, he knew the
fate for Earth if the demons took over. There was the matter of his lust for
her too. Relieving it wouldn’t be bad, either.
He cocked his head and twitched his ears. He was a demon,
with strong magic. Closing his eyes, he let his magic surround him with a
shimmering golden light.
Lano’ste. Na la por lestano.
His fur stood on end, the ends crackling, and he widened
his eyes as the magic burned within and outside with a violent heat close to
atomic. He fell onto his side, dazed, and barely noted when it shot away from
him, heading toward the blue skies. It dusted the few white clouds drifting
along the blue sky and they became black ones, pregnant with rain.
Still unsteady, he rolled over onto his stomach and waited
until the power quieted. Charun breathed in the rain odor and gave a Cheshire
cat grin. He rose to his paws and padded off, as the sound of thunder vibrated
in the air.
Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With
magic, he’d just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
About Sapphire Phelan:
Sapphire Phelan is
an author of erotic and sweet paranormal, fantasy, and science fiction romance,
along with a couple of erotic horror stories. She also writes as Pamela K.
Kinney, for horror, fantasy, science fiction, and nonfiction ghost books.
She lives in Virginia
with her husband and two cats, Ripley and Bast.
She admits she can
always be found at her desk and on her computer, writing. And yes, the house
and husband sometimes suffers for it!
For more information, check out her website: http://www.SapphirePhelan.com
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-- Lynda Again
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Thanks for letting me blog here today for my blog tour!
The book sounds like a really good read. Congrats on the new publication.
Jacqueline Seewald
Tea Leaves and Tarot Cards
Thanks, Jacqueline. :)
Thanks for the invite to join in the fun and congrats on the fun tour :) I was looking this title up to add to my wishlist and did not find it on amazon, do you anticipate releasing it there? Best to you this installment looks like loads of fun and I am looking forward to the read :)
dz59001[at]gmail[dot]com
Denise, I assume that Phaze Boos will have it up there, along with Barnes and Noble website too. Not sure when though. It is in print--not sure if in eBook form, since both Being Familiar With a Witch and A Familiar Tangle With Hell were out as eBooks first (what The Witch And The Familiar are) and up on Amazon as Kindles.
I enjoyed the post and excerpt. The book sounds good.
bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com
Thanks, bn100candg.
Very cute cover! Love the bunny.
The story sounds great. Congratulations!
Thank you, Stacey. The bunny is in the next story in the book--he's a demon in the shape of a bunny with fangs named Fluffy.
I gathered all the commenters on the blogs of my blog tour and drew. The winner is Sharon Stogner! She actually posted on my own blog that had the interview with Fluffy. Congratulations to her! I will be contacting her for her snail mail address.
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