Blog Tour - Storm in the Valley - Lee Passarella

Title: Storm in the Valley

Author: Lee Passarella

Genre: Historical Civil War Fiction

Length: 134 pages

Release Date: February 25, 2015

ISBN-13: 978-1508414209

SYNOPSIS: Townsend Philips, a.k.a. Monk Phillips, has soldiering in his blood: his Uncle Lucas, who raised him, was a colonel in the Mexican-American War, and Monk’s older brother John Tyler is a cadet at the famed Virginia Military Institute. With his uncle’s blessing, in the summer of 1861 12-year-old Monk enlists as drummer boy with the 51st Virginia Volunteer Regiment.

Throughout the war, the Phillips brothers despair of ever seeing each other again. Then, in spring of 1864, the 51st faces the task of driving superior Union forces out of the Shenandoah Valley.

On the eve of the Battle of New Market, Monk is overjoyed to find himself unexpectedly reunited with John. But the circumstances that join them are also unexpectedly perilous for both.

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Lee Passarella acts as senior literary editor for Atlanta Review magazine and served as editor-in-chief of Coreopsis Books, a poetry-book publisher. He also writes classical music reviews for Audiophile Audition.

Passarella’s poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Cream City Review, Louisville Review, The Formalist, Antietam Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Literary Review, Edge City Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Snake Nation Review, Umbrella, Slant, Cortland Review, and many other periodicals and ezines. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared in several anthologies as well.

Swallowed up in Victory, Passarella’s long narrative poem based on the American Civil War, was published by White Mane Books in 2002. It has been praised by poet Andrew Hudgins as a work that is “compelling and engrossing as a novel.” Passarella has published two poetry collections: The Geometry of Loneliness (David Robert Books, 2006) and Redemption (FutureCycle Press, 2014). His poetry chapbook Sight-Reading Schumann was published by Pudding House Publications in 2007.

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Tick Tock - A poem (of sorts)

Tick Tock

Beware my friends

The passing of time

Tick tock tick tock

You’ll soon be mine

Sweet as honey

Smooth as silk

I’ll drink your blood

Like a mother’s milk

Tick tock tick tock

The rhythmic sound

So soon will you be

Deep underground

A sharp edged knife

That catches the light

A beaded garrotte

Drawn up tight.

Murdered or maimed

Dead and buried

Pipped of your life like

A stone from a cherry

Tick tock tick tock

I’m coming for you

Tick tock tick tock

No ‘how do you do?’

I’ll cut out your heart

Your kidneys and lungs

I’ll dine on your liver

Your eyes and tongue

What fun we’ll have

Alone in your house

I’ll chase you

I’ll catch you

I’ll tear you down

In a river of blood

You’ll slowly drown

Tick tock tick tock

You can’t run away

Tick tock tick tock

The pendulum sways

Left right left right

then suddenly…

STOP

Like oranges and lemons

Chop… chop…

Chop.

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Title: Earthshine
Author: Chad T. Douglas
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Length: 306 pages
Release Date: January 30, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1507540152

SYNOPSIS: Benni Dublanc is exemplary, which, in the year 2622 CE, is entirely ordinary. She’s young, she’s pretty, she’s in love, and she attends Academy Aeraea, a center of fashion, thought and modern style built on the pulse of the greatest city ever imagined—Genesia, Mars. Like all Genesians, Benni has never seen a blue sky, she can summon any and all knowledge into view with nothing more than a thought, makes her daily two-hundred kilometer commute in two minutes, and was sculpted into a model citizen beginning from the day she was born. Benni will never know famine, she will never know war, and after a horrific accident on the night of her twenty-second birthday, she will never be human again.

 

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Chad T. Douglas was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina in 1989. In 2002, he moved to Florida with his family and in December 2009, as a sophomore attending the University of Florida, Douglas published A Pirate’s Charm, the first novel of the Lore trilogy. One year later, he released his second novel, East and Eight. Around that time, Douglas became a staff writer for the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History. When he wasn’t working on his novels, Douglas traveled with and wrote for the McGuire Center. Since 2010, he has visited Honduras,
Kenya, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands and Mexico as a travel writer.
Douglas’s first novel, A Pirate's Charm, came to mind when he was a junior in high school. He began writing the Lore series for fun, and originally did not plan on publishing it. When he started college in 2008, he entered as an Architectural Design major, leaving the program in less than two weeks and immediately becoming an English major. One year later, in love with English and writing, Douglas began work on self-publishing the first installment of his historical fiction and fantasy trilogy. His first book signing took place at Books Inc, Gainesville, in February 2010, two months after publication. That same year, he published the second novel in the Lore trilogy, titled East and Eight. The third installment in the Lore trilogy, The Old World, was released in fall 2011. The Lore series has received honors in the 2011 New York Book Festival Book Contest, the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Book Contest, and the 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.
Since 2009, Douglas has traveled to and appeared at book festivals in Florida, including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd annual UCF Book Festival in Orlando, the Ft. Myers Book Festival and the Miami International Book Festival. His first novel A Pirate’s Charm was a hit in two festivals in Georgia, including the AJC Decatur Book Festival and the Tybee Island Pirate Festival. In 2010, Douglas was the keynote speaker for the Marion County Library’s CREATE program. There, he signed books and shared personal stories of travel and self-publishing with 150 young writers who all received copies of A Pirate’s Charm courtesy of the library. In 2014, he made his first international appearance as an undiscovered American author at the Paris Book Fair at Salon du Livre. Douglas has since begun work on several new projects. His most recent novel, Earthshine (2012), is a work of science fiction.

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Queue Here

Being British I have this innate ability to wait or queue up which is required at the time. Or so we’d like to think. We only discover just how untrue this is when we actually have to wait. And we wait everywhere: for buses, for taxis, for trains, plane automobiles, something to happen, something end, for people to stop having meetings in shop doorways. We wait even when we have an appointment which without fail will be late. I have to wait for people to go to the lavatory then clean up afterwards! I wait for people to get ready then I wait for them to get in the car and wait for them to get out of it.

Waiting, waiting, waiting, it should be an Olympic sport, I’d be a champion. Right now, for once, I’m not waiting for anything not even for one of children to do anything – nor the wife. I’m actually sitting having a rant, something that I never knew could be so satisfying.

Rant, Rant, Rant.

I don’t know what this old world is coming to but I bet there’s a queue somewhere out there forming right now of people waiting to find out. Where ever that particular queue is I for one will not be joining it. I have no interest in where the world is heading as it spins around and around following its elliptical path around the sun that’s waiting to die, apparently. I know where it’s going. It’s round to have another go and see if anyone is queuing up ahead of it.

That’s enough of this nonsense, I’m of to form an orderly queue at the fridge.

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Exodus: a review (of sorts)

Over at www.Meangoblin.com I have been posting movie reviews as a character from my novel: Fire and Thorn. He's a bit of burly lad, something of a rogue, anyway, here's his view on latest cinema blockbuster.

Hey there,

Bastorn reportn’ in.

Just got in from a rainy night in Georgia, but the less said about that broad the better. So where have ya been? Me, I bin to the movies again. This time it was summin’ biblical about this guy who was brother to king whatever his name was. Exodus: Gods and Kings, staring Batman no less, only this time he goes by the name Mo.

It’s all set in sunny Egypt. We see a loada guys sweatin’ it out under the lash building them ancient monuments for the whiny kings. Like, they had nothin’ better to do than sit around eating figs all day. Anyway, old Mo ends up travelin’ the length and breadth of the country casing the joint for the head honcho and he don’t like what he sees. So he has a pow-wow with the chiefs of the Jewish quarter and he learns a few things. On his way back to his sweet ride a couple of lads accost him in a shady alley and bang, kapow the cape crusader gives ‘em what for.

We’ll time goes by and the story gets back to the new king, Mo’s uppity brother Ram. Well one thing leads to another and they nearly come to blows. The upshot of it all is poor old Mo gets exiled and here’s where the funky stuff begins.

Many years later, it’s long movie, and old Mo is out tending sheep when he’s caught in a mud slide. This kid appears, who knows just a bit too much. Well he starts sayin’ stuff that gets Mo a thinkin’. Just suffices to say that Mo sets out to settle the score with his brother Ram. On his way he stops by the slave quarry and see things have got worse. Now old Batman gets even more determined. When he reaches the city he starts a teachin’ them boys ninja skills. Pretty soon they’re out causin’ trouble all over the Hood.

Then the kid is back sayin’ ‘Sit back old man and watch a pro work.’ Boy can that kid do stuff. Rivers turn to blood, there’s frogs, flies and boils everywhere and the kid’s only just getting’ started. All this is to make King Ram let Mo’s people go, but he has a hard job letting anything go never mind a million or two slaves. Well, things just get worse, this takes another hour and I’m mall outa popcorn so I nips down to see the usherette. When I get back from the over friendly usherette I musta’ missed summat cos’ old Mo had only gone and set everyone free. He’s pretty slick for an old fella.

To wind things up it’s a pretty good movie. Plenty of stuff happening and all at good pace. Make sure you take plenty of stash as this is one epic tale.

Until the next time. This has been Bastorn, like a good dagger keep it sharp.