Killer of Giants, the brand new novel from award-winning author Steven L. Shrewsbury, is now available! For readers of sword and sorcery, dark fantasy, and fantasy, this new release from Seventh Star Press introduces a fantastic new hero, the Keltos warrior Rogan! See below for direct purchase links!
In an antediluvian world, Keltos warrior Rogan emerges as the lone survivor of a battle. Slaying a Nephilim giant from Shynar, Rogan takes back the mammoth his folk gifted the kings.
Soon, warriors are sent to recapture the mammoth and bring it to the Lord of the world, Zazaeil, a demon in human flesh, and the Nephilim giant Marduk, in the fabled city of Irem.
After learning that his sister is to be a sacrificial bride to Marduk, Rogan journeys to Irem in the company of Elisa, a warrior herself, whose mother is a wizardess. With a horde of warriors in pursuit, they encounter many evils, monsters, and challenges to their selves and souls.
Will the song of Rogan’s blood make him strong enough to be the Killer of Giants?
About the Author: Steven Shrewsbury has had over 20 novels published such as OVERKILL, PHILISTINE, LAST MAN SCREAMING and BEYOND NIGHT. He has collaborated with author Brian Keene on the king of the bastard series.
The new children’s book by Dr. Vic, Helpful Tips for Kids-Adjusting to the New Normal, is available today in print and eBook formats from Seventh StarChild! The new book helps kids adjust to the many changes during a time of pandemic in a positive, healthy, and encouraging way!
The second release in the Dr. Vic’s Books for Kids collection, following The Girl Who Grew a Sunflower Taller Than Herself, Helpful Tips for Kids-Adjusting to the New Normal was illustrated by Chad Compton.
The print edition features a larger 8X10 format with full color illustrations and easy to read text. Pick up a print or eBook copy today at the direct links just below the cover art!
Synopsis of Helpful Tips for Kids: Adjusting to the New Normal:
Helpful Tips for Kids: Adjusting to the New Normal is a book designed to help younger children adjust and cope with the many changes in life that come with a pandemic situation.
This book offers tips and insights on what a pandemic is, the importance of good hygiene, social distancing, good nutrition, using technology to learn and keep in touch with others, and the need to stay active and exercise. It also shows that it is very normal for kids to feel many emotions during times like this.
Kids will find this book from Dr. Vic very helpful in dealing with the New Normal.
About Dr. Vitesh “Victor” Enaker: Vitesh “Victor” Enaker is an author and stock options trader currently residing in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Enaker is a writer of adult fiction novellas and the first author to write children’s books for Seventh Star Press. He has previously lived in the cities of Danville and Mt. Sterling.
A proud member of the Big Blue Nation, Vitesh is a graduate of Transylvania University and he holds a masters and doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky.
He has also been published in the American Journal of Health Studies. He enjoys playing Texas hold’em poker and fishing in various locations around the Bluegrass.
Don’t forget to get your copy of The Girl Who Grew a Sunflower Taller Than Herself!
The Awakening, a new Ragnar Stormbringer Tale from award-winning author Stephen Zimmer, is available today in eBook formats! The Awakening is a stand-alone novella that readers of heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, and dark-edged, action-driven fantasy will love!
Following the end of a brutal war, Ragnar Stormbringer travels across the sea channel to the west with the warrior Thorsalla to visit her brother’s new settlement in the fertile lands of Ulstara.
Coming upon a scene of total devastation, they find no bodies, but there are a large number of strange tracks heading in one direction and signs of a few survivors in another.
Ragnar will soon discover that some mysteries are the gateways to even greater ones.
The Awakening is a stand-alone adventure that is part of the Ragnar Stormbringer Tales.
About the Author:
Stephen Zimmer is an award-winning author and filmmaker based out of Lexington Kentucky. His works include the Rayden Valkyrie Tales (Sword and Sorcery), the Rising Dawn Saga (Cross Genre), the Fires in Eden Series (Epic Fantasy), the Hellscapes short story collections (Horror), the Chronicles of Ave short story collections (Fantasy), the Harvey and Solomon Tales (Steampunk), and the forthcoming Faraway Saga (YA Dystopian/Cross-Genre).
Stephen’s visual work includes the feature film Shadows Light, shorts films such as The Sirens and Swordbearer, and the forthcoming Rayden Valkyrie: Saga of a Lionheart TV Pilot.
Stephen is a proud Kentucky Colonel who also enjoys the realms of music, martial arts, good bourbons, and spending time with family.
Min Eurozan, by Cathy Jackson, is now available in print and eBook formats from new romance imprint Seventh Starlight! Min Eurozan begins The Elorcuian Chronicles, a visionary new romance series with science fiction elements!
Pick up a copy now at any of the direct links here!
I am no longer on Earth, nor any other place I know. I have scant memory of how or why I came to be here.
Time continues to ebb and flow with my memories and the strange, seductive men who inhabit them.
The only constant is Love.
One owns my Body, he equally possesses and protects me. One holds my Heart, wanting me as his friend and lover. One challenges my Mind, he’s captured me with his patient intellect. One completes my Soul, our love is the deepest and most pure. One heats my Blood, bringing with him fire and need.
I love them all, and I love them as One.
About Cathy Jackson: Cathy Jackson is a Midwestern Christian mother of two twenty-somethings and two teenagers. Reading is a passion of hers, but she adores writing. Some of the best people have been placed in her life to help her publish her books. They are a blessing and mean more to her than they will ever know. She loves writing scenes that uplift and encourage along with making one feel the experience. She wants readers to finish the books feeling hope, love, and happiness. To date, the books she has published are Inspirational (Christian) Romances but they have a Contemporary Romance feel.
Darkness Enthroned, a brand new Rayden Valkyrie Tale by award-winning author Stephen Zimmer, is now available in eBook formats! The stand-alone novella is part of a growing collection of stories featuring the sword and axe-wielding heroine Rayden Valkyrie!
Pick up a copy of Darkness Enthroned at any of the following direct links!
In the heart of a frigid northern winter, Rayden Valkyrie takes refuge in the lands of the Sarvan people when a mounted column of Attun warriors is seen passing along the outskirts of their territory heading west.
Far from their steppe domain in the east, the Attun warriors are journeying into a remote, unpopulated wilderness, drawing great alarm from the Sarvans about their purpose. Learning of the situation, Rayden joins with a band of warriors from the area’s villages to investigate.
Following the tracks of the Attun warriors, they are led to the base of an enormous, ancient burial mound, where the trail vanishes abruptly. A mystery looms, and Rayden seeks to discover the nature of the burial mound and the reason why the Attuns have traveled so far from their homelands to enter it.
Darkness Enthroned is a stand-alone adventure that is part of the Rayden Valkyrie Tales.
Be sure to pick up other Rayden Valkyrie Tales available in eBook formats such as
About the Author: Stephen Zimmer is an award-winning author and filmmaker based out of Lexington Kentucky. His works include the Rayden Valkyrie Tales (Sword and Sorcery), the Rising Dawn Saga (Cross Genre), the Fires in Eden Series (Epic Fantasy), the Hellscapes short story collections (Horror), the Chronicles of Ave short story collections (Fantasy), the Harvey and Solomon Tales (Steampunk), and the forthcoming Faraway Saga (YA Dystopian/Cross-Genre).
Stephen’s visual work includes the feature film Shadows Light, shorts films such as The Sirens and Swordbearer, and the forthcoming Rayden Valkyrie: Saga of a Lionheart TV Pilot.
Stephen is a proud Kentucky Colonel who also enjoys the realms of music, martial arts, good bourbons, and spending time with family.
Chains in the Sky, the new urban/dark fantasy novel from Carl R. Moore, is now available in print and eBook formats from Seventh Star Press! From the author of Slash of Crimson and Other Tales, Chains in the Sky takes the reader on a supernatural, Lovecraftian thrill ride infused with the mythical and mysterious that will have them wanting more “Moore” after this holiday season!
Pick up a copy of Chains in the Sky at any of the direct links provided below!
Synopsis of Chains in the Sky: Haunted by his granddaughter’s ghost, retired detective Ray Barrs attempts to rescue her soul from a terrifying afterlife. He retrieves her body from the stormy seas off the Florida coast only to discover Ada’s death was not an accident.
Converged upon by entities who are both splendorous and fiendish, Ray must strike a deal that risks eternal torment. He returns to his old precinct in Brooklyn to hunt down a hideous killer, make right with his family, and forever release Ada from her CHAINS IN THE SKY.
Carl R. Moore lives in upstate New York with his wife Sarah and two daughters, Maddy and Izzy. He is the author of Slash of Crimson and Other Tales (Seventh Star Press, 2017) and Mommy and the Satanists (Seventh Star Press, 2018). His fiction has also appeard in Rymfire’s Heavy Metal Horror and Rymfire Erotica anthologies, as well as magazines Thuglit and Macabre Cadaver.
News and contact information can be found on his website, www.carlrmoore.com
If you have not yet read Slash of Crimson and Other Tales, be sure to pick up a copy of it too!
Synopsis of Slash of Crimson and Other Tales:SLASH OF CRIMSON AND OTHER TALES offers two novellas and six short stories that combine an intoxicating mix of horror, crime noir, and alt-mythology. Its title story spins a dark maritime yarn about Drew Aldrin, a young guitarist and street rough, who takes a harrowing journey with a red-eyed beauty who claims she’s from Atlantis. The half-dozen brutal and sardonic short stories that follow tell of lost souls tortured by demons and far worse. The final novella, Torn from the Devil’s Chest, serves unsuspecting Sociology student Lyla Banes a deliciously disturbing feast of deception and trust-destroying lust. Indulge yourself in a collection that guarantees to thrill the senses while it shocks the nerves.
The Coin Collector, the New Nathan Perry Mystery from Carol Preflatish, is Available Today in Print and eBook Editions! A stand-alone novel, The Coin Collector brings readers another adventure with Detective Nathan Perry filled with suspense, twists and turns, and many suspects! Readers who enjoyed last year’s highly acclaimed Homecoming to Murder will LOVE The Coin Collector!
See the full synopsis and direct buy links to print and eBook editions below!
When a coin convention comes to Mystic, Massachusetts, the town has another murder on its hands.
Returning from a month-long paternity leave, Detective Nathan Perry plunges into an investigation of the mysterious death of coin collector Chuck Blanton after determining he was killed over a rare coin.
His task becomes more complicated when a nationally known journalist, Robin Fisher, wants the same answers as him. As the leads and suspects mount, and finding no one that has actually seen the coin, Nathan is not sure whether she will be a help or a hindrance.
Time begins running short, but Nathan is determined to entangle the mystery surrounding the rare coin in order to bring justice to the coin collector’s killer.
Carol Preflatish knew at an early age that she loved to write. In high school and college, her favorite classes were composition and creative writing. But it wasn’t until later in life that she decided to pursue it seriously. She published her first romantic suspense in 2009, and followed that up with six more. In 2019, Carol decided to switch to writing mysteries, with the first book in her new series, “Homecoming to Murder,” releasing in March, 2020. She’s a member of the national Sisters in Crime writers’ organization and active in the Louisville, Kentucky Sisters in Crime chapter. Carol resides in southern Indiana.
Military veteran Nathan Perry moves back to his hometown of Mystic, Massachusetts when he is hired as their new police detective. Reacquainting himself with a few old friends, he finds that his high school sweetheart, Dana Tyler, is now the lead reporter for the local newspaper.
Before his new job is made permanent, he must find who is breaking into homes on Mano Island, an affluent community in Mystic, including the murderer of one of the homeowners.
With a killer loose on the streets, the Mayor Robert Newcomb and Police Chief Paul Cabot expect Nathan to solve the murder fast. He doesn’t like politics, but soon discovers he may have to play the game to earn his job permanently.
Homecoming to Murder is the first Nathan Perry Mystery!
Raymond Harris has looked into the eyes of the dead before, but none ever touched him like the eyes of a sixteen-year-old girl found murdered in an abandoned house on the outskirts of Franklin, Kentucky. Her death struck a nerve because Ray knew her. Ray knew her likes and dislikes. He knew everything about her because she was his Godchild. She was the granddaughter of Ray’s best friend, and Ray knew her grandpa would seek revenge. Finding her killer would become the driving force in Ray’s life. The deceased was beautiful, kind, and caring. Everyone loved her, and she didn’t desire to die. Her name was Innocence.
About Michael Houtchen:
Kentucky has always been my home. I was born in Owensboro and raised in Daviess County. Life was simple back then. I grew up with outhouses, hand-pumps, and coal stoves. If you wanted hot water, you heated it on the stove. Both of my parents have passed on. I have a half-brother, Danny, but most of our younger lives he lived with his father, so we didn’t get to see each other often. Looking back, sadly, it was like being an only child. My closest friends were the cows, chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, turkeys, geese, ducks, and horses my dad kept on our small farm. I hope I didn’t leave anyone out. Farm animals can be so jealous. Our grocery store – mason jars of mom’s canned vegetables and the occasional trip into town to the IGA.
My dad was a woodsman. You could give him a shotgun, a box of shells and a book of matches, and he could disappear into the forest for weeks. I used to hunt with him, but I was never the woodsman. I can’t tell you how many deer, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons and ground hogs I’ve eaten. My wife, Stephanie, and I have five kids (three boys and two girls) and eight grandchildren (five boys and three girls). All but one son live here in town. You should see Christmas day at our house.
I’ve had several jobs during my lifetime. When I was thirteen, I had a summer job. I was a soda-jerk at the Utica Junior High School playground. The school is now defunct. It is not my fault the school went defunct. As an adult, I started out as a janitor. Loved the work, but not the pay. Mapping came next. In other words, I was a draftsman who created maps from surveys. I did that for over twenty years. Mapping fulltime and going to Brescia College (It’s now a University) at night, I got a BS in Computer Science. Career change. I was a Computer Analyst for over twenty years. There came a day when I realized I was the dinosaur of Computer Science. Technology had passed me by. So, I up and retired. That was in 2014, and I haven’t missed working a day. Truth be known, I do miss the people I worked with. Notice, I’ve said nothing about writing. I could tell you a pretty good story, but putting it on paper was another thing. Stephanie, my wife, asked, “And why not?” I had no answer.
I should keep this short, so, I will tease you with two important events that happened in my life; two events that I haven’t already discussed. When we meet each other, don’t hesitate to ask me about them. Monday, September 6, 1965, was a Labor Day, and I was out of school. On that day, I came in contact with a high voltage powerline. Seven thousand two hundred volts entered my hand and exited my head and my feet. That’s not a typo. It was seven thousand two hundred volts. I was given up for dead for three days. There is a “rest of the story” as Paul Harvey used to say. Ask me about it when we meet.
The second event: September 17, 2017, I was ordained a Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church. It keeps me busy these days. If you’re not sure what a Permanent Deacon does, Goggle “Permanent Deacon of the Catholic Church.”
There you have it. My life story summed up in 1000 words or less. It sounds like a writing contest doesn’t it. There’s so much I left out. I could tell you about riding the rails, or the time I hung myself. But, those will have to wait until we meet.
Military veteran Nathan Perry moves back to his hometown of Mystic, Massachusetts when he is hired as their new police detective. Reacquainting himself with a few old friends, he finds that his high school sweetheart, Dana Tyler, is now the lead reporter for the local newspaper.
Before his new job is made permanent, he must find who is breaking into homes on Mano Island, an affluent community in Mystic, including the murderer of one of the homeowners.
With a killer loose on the streets, the Mayor Robert Newcomb and Police Chief Paul Cabot expect Nathan to solve the murder fast. He doesn’t like politics, but soon discovers he may have to play the game to earn his job permanently.
Homecoming to Murder is the first Nathan Perry Mystery!
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About Carol Preflatish: Carol Preflatish’s interest in writing began in high school when she worked as a reporter, photographer, and sport’s editor for the school newspaper. Publishing credits include several romantic suspense novels, two non-fiction books, and her new police procedural murder mystery series. An avid photographer, she has had many photos published in her local newspaper, as well as in Golf Journal, the official publication of the United States Golf Association. Carol is a member of the Sisters in Crime organization and Kentuckiana Authors.
Seventh StarShadow is proud to reveal the cover art for Homecoming to Murder, the first Nathan Perry Mystery from Carol Preflatish that begins an exciting new series! A Kindle pre-order window has been opened for Homecoming to Murder, which will be released on Friday, March 6th in print and all eBook formats!
Military veteran Nathan Perry moves back to his hometown of Mystic, Massachusetts when he is hired as their new police detective. Reacquainting himself with a few old friends, he finds that his high school sweetheart, Dana Tyler, is now the lead reporter for the local newspaper.
Before his new job is made permanent, he must find who is breaking into homes on Mano Island, an affluent community in Mystic, including the murderer of one of the homeowners.
With a killer loose on the streets, the Mayor Robert Newcomb and Police Chief Paul Cabot expect Nathan to solve the murder fast. He doesn’t like politics, but soon discovers he may have to play the game to earn his job permanently.
Homecoming to Murder is the first Nathan Perry Mystery!
About Carol Preflatish: Carol Preflatish’s interest in writing began in high school when she worked as a reporter, photographer, and sport’s editor for the school newspaper. Publishing credits include several romantic suspense novels, two non-fiction books, and her new police procedural murder mystery series. An avid photographer, she has had many photos published in her local newspaper, as well as in Golf Journal, the official publication of the United States Golf Association. Carol is a member of the Sisters in Crime organization and Kentuckiana Authors.
