Hi, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Warwick
Gleeson and his new book, “Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker”! For other stops on his Goddess Fish
Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in
this post.
Be sure to make it to the
end of this post to enter to win a $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!! Also, come back daily to interact with Warwick
and to increase your chances of winning!
This book is on SALE
during the book tour for ONLY $0.99!!!
See below for more details.
Thanks for stopping
by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
Piper Robbin and the
American Oz Maker
by Warwick Gleeson
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GENRE: Fantasy
(Epic)
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BLURB:
WORLD WAR OZ from
coast to coast.
An
adult fantasy that takes one of America's favorite tales and transforms it into
a dark and epic landscape few can escape much less understand. Imagine Potter
meets Avengers in Emerald city and you're getting close.
After
a homicidal alien from Orion arrives on Earth intent on annihilating human
life, the 21st century's greatest sorcerers create a network of seven Oz-like
city worlds designed to harbor the human race in a newly formed utopia while
also protecting it from the alien entity. But the alien is far more magically
powerful than anyone suspected. Piper Robbin, ancient daughter of the Earth's
greatest sorcerer inventor, Edison Godfellow, must sacrifice all to defeat the
implacable force that calls itself "The Witch Queen of Oz," and
quickly, before Earth becomes only a cold cinder floating among the stars.
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EXCERPT TWO:
Suddenly
outside on the street, she stood facing in the direction of the Cambodian
take-out, her entire nervous system tingling and parts shaking as if with
Parkinson’s due to the abrupt teleportation against her will. The night fell
black and splattered with garish light. She looked up to see the Wall Street
corpse directly above her, and she swore he was staring down with an oafish
mocking expression as if he knew something she did not. Then the ground quaked,
and like balloons filled with molten glass, every window in her apartment
building exploded. The shrieks of burning people next. How many she did not
know, but she knew she must save them.
Before
Piper could act, a whip of turbulent energy uncoiled like a sun flare from her
living room window eight stories above. She observed the Wall Street corpse
nearby disintegrate into a memory of burning sparks. She immediately recognized
the nature of the force—a Tao magical wavelength strong as a thunderstorm yet
contained, compressed to a small vortex, and potent enough to kidnap half of
Brooklyn.
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GUEST POST:
Elements of the
Reaction-to-Decision Scene in Commercial Dramatic Plotting
1.) Reaction
2.) Dilemma
3.) Decision
If a
Goal-to-Failure (GTF) scene occurs, your character's forward movement has been
reversed or at least hampered or complicated. A scene that reacts to that
condition or fact is almost always necessary.
Reaction: What
is the emotional and consequential reaction to the failure that took place in
the previous scene? The conflict is lost and the protagonist sits on the bank
of a metaphorical river, pondering fate and life. She or he is angry, hurt,
confused, dyspeptic, all of the above. Keep in mind that emotional states
progress, for example, from anger to despair to resolve.
Dilemma: As a
result of the GTF have you created a new circumstance with zero or few good
options? Options with potentially negative outcomes? Options that might not be
workable? Your protagonist or major character (POV character/narrator or no)
must be facing a significant dilemma. The reader wonders what can possibly
happen next. What seems to be the lesser-of-the-evil options?
Decision: How
does the protagonist return to the dinner table or the skirmish line as a
proactive character? Does the decision carry risk? Does it create new suspense?
If so, how? There must always be potential downside, and perhaps in more than
one way, or in a way the protagonist doesn't expect but the reader does. And
what is the nature of the new goal to achieve the primary goal? If the author in
MISERY has his kneecaps pounded to pulp by Kathy Bates (major reversal), he
makes a decision to escape his captor in a new way, by pretending to cooperate
long enough to lure her into a trap.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Warwick Gleeson is a
dedicated writer of screenplays, short stories, novels, and poetry. He has
lived in both LA and NYC and worked many different jobs in his life, everything
from roofer to waiter to small business owner to government analyst. He was the
major writer, creator, and senior story editor for another project published by
Del Sol Press called "War of the World Makers" that debuted in 2017.
The novel has since won four national novel awards (two first place and two
place) for SFF. Warwick is a big fan of great SFF television writing, like the
kind you find in Emerald City, Gotham, The Expanse, and Umbrella Academy. He
now lives in Tuscon, AZ, with a fat lazy cat and his most wonderful wife who is
also a writer.
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CONNECT WITH WARWICK:
Blog:
Email:
editor@delsolpress.org
Facebook:
BookBub Book Page:
Goodreads Author
Page:
Goodreads Book Page:
Amazon Author Page:
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BOOK BUY LINKS
& BOOK SALE INFO:
**Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker is on SALE during
the book tour for ONLY $0.99!!!**
Amazon Kindle eBook:
Amazon Paperback:
Barnes and Noble
Paperback:
The Book Depository
Paperback:
BAM! Books-A-Million
Paperback:
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Warwick will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC
to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Warwick ~ Good morning! Welcome to FAB! It is so great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
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ReplyDeleteThanks so much. Sorry I'm late, on PST these days. The layout here is funky. I really like it!
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Thanks for the giveaway; I like the excerpt. :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading the excerpt and the cover looks amazing! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to checking this one out, thanks for sharing :)
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ReplyDeleteVery cool cover! Interesting excerpts, looks like an exciting story.
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