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Cover Reveal, H. David Blalock, Limited Edition Hardcovers, press release

Cover Art Reveal, Limited Hardcover Offer, and Blog Tour Announcement for H. David Blalock’s Traitor Angel!

For Immediate Release
October 18, 2012

Cover Art Reveal, Limited Hardcover Offer, and Blog Tour Announcement for H. David Blalock’s Traitor Angel!

Seventh Star Press is proud to unveil the cover art and illustrations created by Matthew Perry for Traitor Angel by H. David Blalock, the second book in the urban fantasy Angelkiller Triad.  Also being announced are the sites and dates for the book’s upcoming blog tour.  A pre-order window for a limited edition hardcover is now open in advance of Traitor Angel’s official release.

The latest title in the Angelkiller Triad follows 2011’s Angelkiller.  The war between The Army of Light and The Enemy continues behind the scenes. Unknown to the general population, the battle for control of humanity is heating up.

Jonah Mason, called Angelkiller, faces more than one decision. His Army resistance cell is wounded physically and emotionally, on the brink of falling apart. The mysterious allies calling themselves Knights are pressuring him to abandon his people. Meanwhile, the world outside draws closer to Armageddon.

As Mason and his friends pursue their campaign against Dorian Azrael’s global megacorporation, Andlat Enterprises, the stakes get higher with each desperate foray into the enemy’s computers. They are fated to lose one of their number and gain an unlikely ally, but any advantage they gain could be fleeting at best.

If they fail, it could mean the end of The Army and all resistance to the forces of Darkness.

The softcover and eBook versions will be released the week of Halloween!

Traitor Angel is now available for pre-order in a beautiful hardcover edition that is strictly limited to 75 copies.  The limited hardcover edition will be signed and numbered by H. David Blalock and includes a bonus illustration from Matthew Perry not included in other editions. It will be accompanied by an assortment of collectibles, including a set of glossy art cards and bookmarks. Those interested in securing one of the 75 copies can place a pre-order now at: https://seventhstarpress.com/pre-orders/

The Traitor Angel Blog Tour will feature 27 events, beginning October 29th and running through November 24th. The tour will feature a number of activities, including reviews, interviews, podcasts, guest blog posts, and contests/giveaways.

The dates and sites for the Traitor Angel Blog Tour are as follows:

Tour Dates October 29 – November 24th

10/29  Great Minds Think Aloud  – Review
10/30  Splash of Our Worlds – Character Post
10/31  A Book Vacation – Guest Post
11/1  The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia – Excerpt
11/2  JeanzBookReadNReview  – Interview
11/3 Vilutherial Reviews  – Interview
11/4  Crossroads Reviews  – Review
11/5  The Bunny’s Review  – Character Interview
11/6  Ali’s Bookshelf – Review
11/7  Red Headed Bookworm  – Guest Post
11/8 Azure Dwarf Horde of SciFi & Fantasy – Review
11/9  From the Bootheel Cotton Patch  – Character Post
11/10 A Few Words – Review
11/11 The Independent Review – Review
11/12  The Oaken Bookcase – Review
11/13  Beauty in Ruins – Interview
11/14  Ginger Nuts of Horror – Interview
11/15 Bookishly Me – Review
11/16  Full Moon Bites – Interview
11/17  A Daydreamer’s Thoughts – Guest Post
11/18  Stuck in Books – Guest Post
11/19 Sheila Deeth – Review
11/20 Bee’s Knees Reviews – Review
11/21  The Cabin Goddess – Review
11/22  Darlene’s Book Nook  – Guest Post
11/23  Book and Movie Dimension – Review
11/24  Jess Resides Here – Interview

 

For further information on Traitor Angel, Seventh Star Press, and its titles, please visit www.seventhstarpress.com, or the author’s site at www.thrankeep.com

Contact: C.C. James
Public Relations, Seventh Star Press
ccjames@seventhstarpress.com

Seventh Star Press is a small press publisher of speculative fiction located in Lexington Kentucky

 

Anthologies, James R. Tuck, press release, Sword and Sorcery

Seventh Star Press Announces New Anthology Project With James R. Tuck!

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For Immediate Release
August 2, 2012

Seventh Star Press Announces New Anthology Project With James R. Tuck

Seventh Star Press proudly announces a new anthology project with James R. Tuck, author of the highly acclaimed Deacon Chalk stories released by Kensington Publishing.  An open call for submissions has been issued regarding the new anthology, Thunder on the Battlefield, which will take the reader on many adventures within the realms of Sword and Sorcery.

Writers are encouraged by James to explore the possibilities of the genre.   The time of the story could be placed in an ancient world, or even perhaps a futuristic one where a cataclysm has set a modernistic society back into a barbaric age.  The setting could be the heart of Africa, the steppes of Russia, the snowbound wastes of Iceland, or  the hills of China.  Warriors were found throughout the ages, the Celts, the Vikings, the Samurai, the Israelites, the Zulu, the Romans, and many more.  The challenge to the writer is to bring their best and make it heroic.

James brought the project to Seventh Star Press for a number of reasons. “I have been extremely impressed with the professionalism I have seen from Seventh Star Press. Their books are quality, they always make a big presentation at conventions, and their authors are happy. Happy authors mean a LOT in this business. Plus, with the stable of incredibly talented authors working with Seventh Star I knew that this anthology would be taken seriously and done right.”

James, whose latest Deacon Chalk adventure, Blood and Silver, is to be released in mass market paperback by Kensington on August 7th, is a former bouncer and a professional tattoo artist who lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, two children, and four dogs.  His first Deacon Chalk novel, Blood and Bullets, was released in February of 2012 and received high praise in urban fantasy circles.

What inspired James to do a project like Thunder on the Battlefield?  As James explains in his own words:

“Because sword and sorcery rocks my face off!

“On a serious note, I was a young kid when I discovered sword and sorcery for the first time. I have always been an artist, drawing when I should have been studying, and I found this artist, you may have heard of him, named Frank Frazetta. His artwork blew my preteen mind, just took the top of my skull right off and spilled in all this masculine power and feminine beauty and horrible monstrosity right inside my brainpan. I studied that book I had found, furrowed away in the back corner of my junior high library. Reading, I discovered these were the covers to books.

“I loved to read. The next trip to the used bookstore I found a book with a Frazetta cover, it was Robert E.Howard’s Conan The Adventurer. Those words, those damn near poetic, dark, strings of prose ate into my brain like acid. I was hooked from the first paragraph. I became voracious in finding more, more Robert E. Howard, more Conan, more sword and sorcery. I ran through Michael Moorcock, Fritz Leiber, Karl Wagner, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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“All those stories imprinted on my DNA and helped form the kind of stories I write today. I wanted to bring more of them to the forefront and put together a collection of today’s heirs to Robert E. Howard and his colleagues. To put new faces in the hands of the fans of the genre.”
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Thunder on the Battlefield is slated for release in the 2nd quarter of 2013 in both print and eBook editions.
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The guidelines include a 10,000 word maximum, 2,000 word minimum.  The full call for submissions is now posted at the Seventh Star Press site at:

https://seventhstarpress.com/submissions/

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2013.

 

Seventh Star Press is a small press publisher of speculative fiction located in Lexington Kentucky

Contact: C.C. James
Public Relations, Seventh Star Press
ccjames@seventhstarpress.com