Fantasy Author Showcase: Michael Alexander Beas

Today I’m pleased to showcase the work of fantasy author, Michael Alexander Beas. 

Upon the death of King Aerostat II, two brothers, Princes Gorgan and Alexander, fight for the keys to the throne of their father’s beloved Blue Kingdom. Through a labyrinth of lies and deceit the Shadow Lord uses Gorgan, the oldest of the two brothers, to unite the pieces of a magical game board called Strump. If successful, a shadow uprising would bring death and destruction upon all the inhabitants of the Blue Kingdom.

The search for truth becomes an enchanted adventure where humans and Mermen, pirates and mice, sorcerers and pixies make alliances to defend their kingdom before it falls into… A World of Shadows.

“Original fantasy on an epic scale, Strump, A World of Shadows introduces a unique and compelling voice to the genre in author Michael Alexander Beas. Sure to win him a host of ardent followers, it is highly recommended.” – www.bookviral.com

Purchase links:

Amazon USA

Amazon UK

Connect with Michael Alexander Beas online:

Blog

Facebook

Twitter

About the author:

Michael Alexander Beas holds an Associate’s Degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, none of which has anything to do with writing novels. He spent over a dozen years working in banking, telecommunications and commercial insurance. In those industries, he dedicated the bulk of his time selling products and services to customers. He has always enjoyed writing, but busy schedules never gave him the time needed to follow the dream of completing a novel. Then, one day, life gave him the opportunity to fulfill that dream. Beas lives in Waxhaw, N.C. with his family.

Showcase Your Books

If you’re an author of fantasy, science fiction or romance (and all sub-genres), I would like to offer you the opportunity to showcase your books on my blog.

To take advantage of this, all you need to do is send an email to fantasyauthor21@gmail.com with the following:

- An article of no more than 500 words, telling readers about you and your book, your new release, any giveaways or specials you’re offering, your virtual book tour, or anything else regarding your book or journey as an author. (Note that I will proofread it for typos and grammatical errors.)

- It isn’t compulsory, but I recommend that you include a JPG attachment of your book cover, and/or an extract.

- Your back cover blurb.

- Between one to three purchase links.

- Links to your author website and blog.

Once I receive the above information, I will send you an email with the date I’ve scheduled you in for. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to check that all the information is received, so, if some information isn’t included in your request, I will assume you made the conscious choice to omit it and the post will go live without it.

*** If you have more than one book you would like showcased on my blog, please send a separate email for each book, unless it’s a series.

I look forward to receiving your submissions, and hope the extra exposure will make you more sales.

Demon Lord – new book cover showcase

I wanted to re-do all my book covers to improve them, since I didn’t have much time to do the original covers because I published 30 books in two months. I haven’t had time until recently, and admit that some of the negative comments on Amazon about the Demon Lord covers lighted a fire under me to do it sooner rather than later.

I’ve recently uploaded the new covers to Smashwords, and hope these are more appealing than the original covers.

I’d love to hear what everyone thinks of the new covers.

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I still like the original cover for Dark Domain, so haven’t created a new cover for this one.

Don’t forget that the latest book in the series, When Angels Fall, is now available from Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble and Kobo, and you can read a free sample on Smashwords. Enjoy!

TC Southwell Character Showcase

A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s trite, but true. No matter how well an author describes a character with words, there’s always room for misinterpretation, but a picture leaves nothing to the imagination. Even if an author describes his or her character to an artist, there’s still a chance it won’t be exactly what the author had in mind. However, when an author is also an artist, the character he or she depicts should be pretty much a perfect rendition, except where the author lacks sufficient skill. Some of my characters were more of a challenge to draw than others, but for the most part, I managed a fairly good resemblance. Some I enjoyed drawing more than others, too – Bane being my favourite and Chanter the one I struggled with the most. Tarke was also a challenge.

I always like to see pictures of a book’s characters, so I have a clear idea of what the characters look like while I’m reading. Good character descriptions are a must, but a picture is even better.

So I decided to share some of the character sketches I’ve created for my characters. I’d love to know how you pictured the ones you haven’t already seen on the covers.

Bane, the demon lord from my Demon Lord series

(Download Book 1 for free)

 

Mirra, the healer from my Demon Lord series

Sabre, the cyber from my The Cyber Chronicles series

(Download Book 1 for free)

 

Tassin, the Queen of Arlin, from my The Cyber Chronicles series

Blade, the master assassin, from my The Queen’s Blade series

(Download Book 1 for free)

Chanter, a Mujar, from my The Broken World series

(Download Book 1 for free)

Tarke, aka The Shrike, from the Slave Empire series

(Download Book 1 for free)

 

Writing Updates

As many of you already know, I’m a channeller and therefore I can only write when I have a channel to follow. This also means that I can’t choose which series I’m going to write next. However, I know my fans are all waiting for the next book in their favourite series, so here’s a brief update on what’s potting writing-wise in my life right now…

I’ve written Demon Lord, Book 9, but I’m not happy with some of it, so have decided to leave it for a while and then, when it’s no longer so fresh in my mind, I’ll go back and cut out the boring bits and expand on the good parts.

I’ve written about 40, 000 words of Slave Empire, Book 4, but I started to struggle with it, which means I strayed from the channel, trying to make it fit the title, so I’ll go back to that in a while too, and try to find the channel for it again.

I started to write The Cyber Chronicles, Book 10, and got bored after a page, which means there’s no channel for that right now, although I’m still trying to find one.

At the moment, I’ve been side tracked from writing in order to re-edit previous books in preparation for publishing them as paperbacks, and creating images for use in my book trailers, which I hope you will enjoy. I intend to return to writing as soon as that’s all out of the way, at which time I’ll probably continue with Slave Empire. Nothing is a certainty, however, as I also have a strong channel for the Demon Lord series at the moment.