What an amazing marriage...on the one hand you have award winning, multi-published author KAT HOLMES bringing to life Book TWO in her ARTICA LIGHTS SERIES and an artist who surely MUST be telepathic...so on the money are her covers.
Take a look...what do you see when you look at this cover Reflections of Ice by Suzannah Safi, one of the MuseItUp Publishing House's BEST Cover artists?
Now look at the cover for Book One in this series, Frozen.
Both show the cold, snow laden background of a land that lives in perpetual winter...but it's a living, breathing, thriving winter...
...thanks to Tichi the sole god of the whole of Artica. Pretty cool looking dude, don'tcha think? Now, I want you to look at the cover by Suzannah again for
Reflections of Ice and tell me what else you see...that you have to struggle to see in the first cover for
Frozen...Take your time..I'll wait...(Do you want me to hum the theme song for Final Jeopardy? I can...but I can't carry a tune to save my life.)
You're SOOOO right...The Lights...or to be more accurate...the
ARTICA LIGHTS. So what's so special about a bunch of dancing lights Kat Holmes named the whole series after them?
That's part of the magic of this series. She lets us know they have a role, but what is it?
In the cover for FROZEN, we see a man walking in a snow storm, and if you look really carefully, you can see the lights...the lights that may be responsible for whisking him from the Earth we all know and recognize to
ARTICA, a land of strange, stark,
ice formations
and unusual creations...such as these.
How about the palace
of the Queen of All Artica,
Awni...the poor child...her skin is so bitterly cold no one can touch her without dying. IMAGINE how lonely she must be...Here's a clue...remember the
Artica Lights you can ALMOST see in the cover FROZEN...they ARE responsible for bringng Brent to Artica, but for what purpose?
Deep in the cave of the God Tichi,
things are happening..and yes,
The Lights seem to spend a part of their time there...WHY?
Remember Awni cannot be touched...
so cold is her skin...Death is the sentence for even accidently touching her sub zero flesh...there are no exceptions...right?
Book One of The Artica Lights Series...FROZEN.
Book Two of The Artica Lights Series, Reflections of Ice, cover again by Suzannah Safi does not mask The Lights swirling around..does she?
Hmmm...what does that mean? Do the people in the land of Artica now know what The Lights are up to? (I doubt it!)
This is the story of Elric, Queen Awni's surrogate father...
(Tichi is her ACTUAL father but he lives in the
ice cave, remember?)
Elric raised Awni and loves her like his daughter...but when your daughter's the queen of the land, sometimes her mood swings can frustrate the most patient of men, including poor Elric.
Now imagine, you've had a really trying day with your tempermental daughter/queen...your body aches, your mind is fried...and all you want is to crawl
into your bed and get lost in eons of recuperative slumber....but somebody has it in for you...
WHO? How about those weird lights? You toss a glancing look towards the mirror in your room and nearly have a heart attack.
LIGHTS...UH OH...INSANITY TIME! And who's the girl ALSO reflecting back at you?
Elric is fairly certain The Lights brought Brent to Artica in Book One...so what the devil are they doing dancing in HIS mirror here in Book Two?
REFLECTIONS OF ICE...There's fire in the frigid land of Artica and Elric is about to tip over the edge, getting caught in the swirling passion of The Lights NO ONE understands.
Reflections of Ice, Book Two in Kat Holmes' ingenius Artica Lights Series is available from Muse It Up Publishing Hot Catalog as is
Frozen, Book One.
If you haven't found your way to
Artica yet, trust me you are missing out on a flaming ride that will grab you, enchant you, excite you, and have you begging for your own
Lights.
Check out Kat's other books by going to her Author's Page at MuseItUp Publishing especially if you're looking for the best in hot, steamy reads.
You can write to Kat Holmes at her E-mail address too, and visit her Web Page and BLOG.
Happy Reading All!
Back before a guy with the absolutely CHARMING name of Thomas Crapper invented the flusing toilet, mankind was forced to find other means of getting rid of...well...stinky stuff...
And this Halloween poem pays homage to such things...
The night was dark,
The sky was blue.
Around the corner,
The shit wagon flew.
It hit a curb,
A bang was heard,
A man was killed,
By a flying turd.
I stood there broken hearted,
Tried to shit, but only farted.
OKAY...my reputation of being a lady of decorum JUST floated out the window along with...well...the stinker...
My best friend throughout grade, middle, and high school and I sat in the back of the late bus one afternoon...bored to tears...challenging each other to be as bizarre as we could...Together we created this and became very popular very quickly with our classmates...Not so much with the adults back then...especially the lunch ladies since we compared the stuff on our lunch trays to what was flying on that wagon.
I have learned our poem really HAS made the rounds. Someone even plagiarized it...badly and without the important last two lines. (Yes, I reported it and it has been removed from the poetry site it was on.)
So to all...my angel's halo isn't really all that pristine you know!
My name is
Lilith. 30 years. The aching aloneness wears heavily upon me. 30 years of being guarded, controlled, and manipulated by a
water demon who loathes my very existence, and all because I did not see
the web before I crossed into that bathroom...It seems so long ago.
I'm a child in their eyes...the only two aware of my existence now, and I hate it! There must be more, and tonight I mean to finally break free of them and find out.
My name is Benjamin. I have been around for thousands of years, and my accumulated wisdom and power cannot be questioned. It is my job and the duty of my made generals to secure the safety of the few female vampires left. I am smart, I am cunning, and I am thorough. I know where each and every living female vampire is, because they are all cossetted here, under the banner of my determined protection.
My name is Montague...Look at me...Do I look evil to you? Of course not, and yet, I am determined to destroy all Benjamin and his generals hold dear.
HIDDEN,
Book One in Kat Holmes' brand new vampire epoch sweeping the paranormal world. Meet the above entities...all appearing as part of The Hekate's Web Series, since its debut from
...and keep your eyes peeled to the Muse It Up Publishing Bookstore and author Kat Holmes' WEBSITE and BLOG for more information about this introduction to the dangerously passionate and strangely intense world of Hekate's Web.
Lilith...Hekate's surprise child, is going to
rock the vampire world!
P.S. Check out Kat Holmes' MuseItUp AUTHOR'S PAGE and her Amazon.com Author's Page to learn what other great stories she has waiting for you.
Her name is
LILITH and despite the rigid disdain of her all too, Nose-to-the Biblical Grindstone older brother, she's here to help him celebrate his Ren Faire wedding.
Odd place for a Bible directed person to hold his wedding...but that had given her hope...false hope...he might have relaxed his extreme criticism of her non-traditional beliefs.
Regardless, you'd think he'd be in a nice enough place, heart-wise, to leave her be, but NOOOO!...religion is his stick and he loves beating her with it.
Stepping away from the gloating couple...Nature's call being the reason...she heads for the public restrooms, dancing the jig of one who's held it in too long.
Pushing through the door, antsy as all get out, she does not see, there in the upper right corner, a web unlike any web she'd ever seen before. Once across the threshold, though, the web, Hekate's Web, is going to change her EVERYTHING!
HIDDEN...Book ONE in The Hekate's Web Series by Best Selling Author
Kat Holmes released in June 2012 from the
Muse It Up Publishing, Inc. world rocking publishing house.
What does the Web have in store for the poor, unsuspecting Lilith?
You are not going to want to miss this book...trust me.
For
keep checking Muse It Up Publishing's Bookstore, Kat Holmes' WEBSITE and BLOG and feel free to EMAIL Kat Holmes as well.
Stay Tuned here for the first installment while preparing for more of The Hekate's Web Series, but for now Book One...
HIDDEN is HERE!
Back in the
old days you heard little of her, and maybe that's why she's been able to do all she's done.
See...I can't deny it...not any more. I just saw it with my own two eyes.
It's a WEB...one HELLUVA web actually...and not an ordinary web like the ones you'll find in the corners of your rooms.
What makes it different? Perhaps it would be better if I asked, why does a Greek goddess maintain a web? What possible motive could the goddess Hekate have?
And who is her web designed to ensnare?
I'm afraid...very afraid...and you should be too.
HIDDEN, Book One in the Hekate's Web Series by award winning author
Kat Holmes is coming...(can you hear the music...sounds like a dirge doesn't it? Probably IS a dirge.)...coming from
Muse It Up Publishing knows how to do erotica, and this is erotica, dark, paranormal erotic and is cming in less than a heartbeat of time...we're talking June 2012...right around the eerie corner.
Will we be ready for what Hekate and Kat Holmes are going to release?
I don't know about you, but I think RUNNING..AWAY...is the right direction here....maybe...
Except if I run will I ever learn the answer to my question? I WANT, no NEED to find out why Hekate's created one
gigantic web and who, or, <gulp> what does she mean to capture within it?
Stay tuned. I'm on the job, my nose to the proverbial "web-stone", or as close as I dare get to it.
HIDDEN...
KAT HOLMES...BOOK ONE in HEKATE'S WEB SERIES...Coming from
MUSE IT UP PUBLISHING, INC.
JUNE 2012. DON'T MISS IT!
