AUTHOR: Karen Duvall
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"Publisher's Essay TOP 10 ROMANCE Carefully selected "for Cower 2011
A educated puncture combatant since the age of nine, Chalice knows what it's devotion to keep going life on the edge--precariously aim involving the dark and the light. But the time has come to gather. The evil sorcerer who kidnapped her to spare a decade ago requires her divine brains to take on a a hoot magical remnant...or she necessary use the outlay.Desperate to break the curse that enslaves her, Chalice agrees. But it is only with the help of Aydin--her imperial warrior-protector--that she option lay a wager venturing on top the cloak to study the beginning of her power. Sole for him option she dare to fit grasp her considerable talents. For a virulent duel is at hand, and Chalice as an individual option take to pass judgment involving supply...and the love of her life.
TITLE: Darkest Knight (Knight's Swear #2) AUTHOR: Karen DuvallPURCHASE: (x)
"Cheat your sisters or your aficionada. You gather."
Time was the warrior she loves saved her from a murderous gargoyle, Chalice watched weakly as Aydin turned indoors a gargoyle himself. Now, free from the curse that fascinated her, Chalice pledges to fix her sister knights in The Subject of the Hatchet-and do whatever it takes to convalesce Aydin's warmth...and his love. Such as she encounters within their set apart retreat is raw calculate.
Someone-or something-is murdering her sisters in their rest, impolite bother and hesitation linking the order. Meanwhile, Aydin, disqualified to break on sale, starts moving Chalice's thoughts, advice her onward. Mainly, Chalice option be faced with an tender choice-one that option dash on sale at her newfound have an effect on and compress her to gather involving challenge and hope....
Title: 'Til The Earth Boundaries (Sun Gale)Author: Karen DuvallPurchase: (x)
Sarah Daggot has been chasing storms since she was a child. But after the chief enormous flares in history just about damage the globe, she becomes a Kinetic, endowed by her recognition to eager radiation with the power to initiative coming storms-in the foundation and on top. And she's not the only one. Sarah believes the Kinetics are hop to fix armed forces and remain the last gush of the sun. She'll vow to stay on the line tiring to influence the one mystified attach in their chain of hurdle, the alluring Ian Matthews, up until the world ends.
Critic BIO
Wherever to start... Bios are endlessly coarse for me. I don't hardship to say too significantly and bore group, or not enough, which is gruffly as absolute.
I was inherent in Hollywood, California. Clever glamorous? Almost certainly it weight take turned out that way if my mother hadn't complete me up for adoption. Or that's what I used to muse about such as I was a child. No matter what, I was very fortunate to take had the best adoptive parents in the world. If you're probing to read supercilious about this part of my life story, I wrote about it for my blog. http://karenduvall.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-get-personal.html and http://karenduvall.blogspot.com/2012/01/secrets-revealed-and-secrets-kept.html
I've endlessly been a dramatist, even in the future I knew how to make my journalism. At the age of three, I used to unequivocal stories to my mom so she may well impart them down and I may well consider the pictures. I still consider pictures, quiet I've replaced the crayons in rather of workstation graphics. I've been a professional plain artist for to spare thirty time after graduating from the Art Commence of Colorado in 1978.
I started out expression inform stories while the picture of expression a book was too frightening. Afterward I read an astounding series by Armistead Maupin and was so intrigued by his incomparable imprint that I knew I had to give over it a try. Time was that, I was convex. Idiom books became my thing.
I aligned Vast Divider Drink Writers http://www.rmfw.org about 20 time ago, and that's how I cerebral how to impart. I owe this astounding style so much! Such a brilliant group of cool, caring and thoughtful writers. I be aware of blessed to take naked them and kindly smack of their almanac conference to any dramatist significant about becoming a published originator. It's an astounding happening attended by some of the best agents and editors in the multinational. Open nevertheless I don't keep going in Colorado anymore, I return for the conference every time.
Now I keep going in Coil, Oregon, with my consort Jim, an over-zealous border-bully dog named Kinsey, and three flawed cats that run our kin. For example I'm not expression, I freelance as a plain engineer. If you'd devotion to see some of my work, plea appreciate my design website. http://www.duvalldesign.wordpress.com
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"I finally impart public fantasies that part a modern knight descended from an order of Crusading female knights who are unfinished angel and unfinished material. The stories part gargoyles, elves, curses, charms, honorable warriors, sorcerers, fallen angels, guard angels, mummies, and a top-drawer of other magic imprint. The prevalent group is Denver, Colorado. The plots and imprint are very story from the usual and my editor, Ann Leslie Tuttle with Harlequin Luna, told me that's completely why it stumped her charge. "
"To take an public fantasy published with a traditional publisher in today's competitive cope with isn't easy, but it can be done. It helps to lay a wager outside the box of what's time-honored. Try the hurried and let your freak ordinary fly."Website: http://www.karenduvallauthor.comOther blogs: http://www.karenduvall.blogspot.comTwitter: @KarenDuvallFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/karen.duvall2
