Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker by Warwick Gleeson - Book Tour - Book Sale - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

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:

https://americanozmaker.blogspot.com

Email:

editor@delsolpress.org

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/PiperRobbinandtheAmericanOzMaker

BookBub Book Page:

https://www.bookbub.com/books/piper-robbin-and-the-american-oz-maker-by-warwick-gleeson

Goodreads Author Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19036873.Warwick_Gleeson

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44886519-piper-robbin-and-the-american-oz-maker

Amazon Author Page:

https://amzn.to/2EKbWRL

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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:

https://amzn.to/2QAMpzh

Amazon Paperback:

https://amzn.to/2QAMPFR

Barnes and Noble Paperback:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/piper-robbin-and-the-american-oz-maker-warwick-gleeson/1131213309

The Book Depository Paperback:

https://www.bookdepository.com/Piper-Robbin-and-the-American-Oz-Maker-Warwick-Gleeson/9780999842546

BAM! Books-A-Million Paperback:

https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Piper-Robbin-American-Oz-Maker/Warwick-Gleeson/9780999842546

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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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