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Blog Tour: Blade Singer by Martha Wells and Aaron de Orive (spotlight, giveaway)
Blade Singer
written by Martha Wells and Aaron de Orive
published by Cloak & Dagger Studios
find it here: (affiliate links) Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iBooks, Smashwords, Book Depository, Goodreads
About the book – from Goodreads: Manuel “Manny” Boreaux, a troubled adolescent from Texas, is magically transported into the body of a goblin pickpocket in an alternate world inhabited by faerie creatures. Manny must quickly adapt to the danger all around him and try to find a way to get back home, a feat complicated by the pickpocket’s association with a notorious gang of thieves. But when Manny uncovers a plot to assassinate a young king, he must enlist the aid of an elf cavalier and a cat burglar to thwart a Sidhe witch’s scheme to ignite a civil war between humans and the Fae.
About the author: A graduate of the University of Texas’ film program, Aaron de Orive began his professional writing career in the video game industry, serving as a lead or senior writer on Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, and Star Wars: The Old Republic. He is also the creator of the fantasy role-playing game SHARD: World of the False Dawn. Blade Singer is his first novel. Aaron lives in Austin with his wife, daughter, and two very spoiled terriers.
Find Mr. de Orive here: web, Twitter, Goodreads
About the author: Martha Wells is the author of a number of fantasy novels, including The Cloud Roads, The Siren Depths, The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer. Her YA fantasy, Emilie and the Hollow World, was published by Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry in April 2013, and the sequel, Emilie and the Sky World, was released in March 2014. Two collections of Books of the Raksura novellas will be published in September 2014 and Fall 2015. She has had short stories in Black Gate, Realms of Fantasy, Stargate Magazine, and Lightspeed Magazine, and in the anthologies Elemental, The Year’s Best Fantasy #7, Tales of the Emerald Serpent and The Other Half of the Sky. She has essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever, Mapping the World of Harry Potter, and Chicks Unravel Time. She has also written media-tie-in novels, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary and Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement, and a Star Wars novel, Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge.
Find Ms. Wells here: web, Twitter, live journal, Goodreads
21 Comments
by Lee Todd
sounds intriguing!
by Mai Tran
I love Martha’s The Death of the Necromancer. Can’t wait to read this collaborated piece.
by Lisa Brown
thank you for the chance to win
by Janet W.
Sounds like a very interesting read! Thanks for the giveaway!
by angel lawson
Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
by adeorive
I also love Death of the Necromancer. Martha creates fantasy worlds like no other. Her amazing talents are in full display in this novel. But you don’t have to take my word for it. 😉
Thank you for the mention!
by candacemom2two
Thanks for hosting a stop!
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
You’re welcome!! =)
by Mary Preston
What fun!! Not for Manny I guess.
by mmalavec
Thanks so much for the giveaway! Sounds like a great read!
by Karen Bainbridge
I really enjoyed Martha Wells amazing fantasy worlds full of depth and imaginations, especially Death of the Necromancer, if this an example of her solo effort I am intrigued by her collaboration with Aaron de Orive. I would be enthralled by Blade Singer.. keeping fingers crossed that I am lucky to win a copy! Thanks for the review and the Giveaway.
by Haley S.
This sounds like a great book! I love the concept of a human being transported into the body of a creature; it’s very original and interesting.
by Kimmy & Rinny
Great blog!
This book looks awesome, cover drew me in immediately!
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by sonja1971
I haven’t read too many fantasies, but this sounds like an interesting one.
by JanD
Sounds exciting specially with a goblin teaming up with an elf and a cat burglar.
by cassie polla
Sounds fantastic!
by Amber Terry
This one is definitely unique, kind of crazy in a good way 🙂 I don’t think I’ve ever read anything involving goblins…much less a goblin pickpocket.
by falicesidoma
Thank you for the intro to 2 new writers that I have not read before and looking forward to reading the writers. Thanks for the contest
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
You’re welcome! And good luck!!
by amy bowens
Sounds very interesting.