2024 COVERS

2024 covers

Welcome to the Dark Side!

We are writers mainly from Australia and New Zealand who write speculative fiction with romantic elements. Be it fantasy, paranormal, dark urban fantasy, futuristic and everything in between.

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Good News Day!

Welcome to this week's good news...






NEW MEMBERS

The Dark Side DownUnder has two new members...
  • J.M. Bray
  • Nicole Taylor
Welcome!




CONTESTS

Bec McMaster's Kiss of Steel has won the GRWA paranormal/fantasy section of 2013 The Maggie Award. Congratulations!


 BOOK COVERS & RELEASE DATES

Cheryse Durrant's urban fantasy, The Blood She Betrayed (Bk#1 Heart Hunters series), is out October 10th, 2013 from Clan Destine Press.

To save her kingdom, she must betray her blood…
Thrust into the technology-driven Earthlands via magical mists, Shahkara is forced to rely on Max McCalden to help find the ancient Elnara death lantern, her homeworld’s last chance of survival against the heart-devouring Taloners.
Max has his own problems – a manipulative billionaire father, a murdered brother – but nothing prepares him for this fugitive warrior’s razor-sharp talons and magical abilities.
Shahkara’s half-Taloner blood demands what she knows she can’t have – a human heart. She longs for love, but as deadly enemies attack at every turn, will her lust for Max destroy them both? Or will she find the strength to free both worlds from a threat more horrific than the demons that share her blood?

The e-book will be available soon from Clan Destine Press, Amazon, iTunes and Kobo. To sample the first 12 chapters for free, click here.


Imogene Nix's contemporary romance, A Bar In Paris, releases from Beachwalk Press on 18th November, 2013.

Turning 30? All alone? A commitment-free weekend in Paris should help, shouldn't it?
What does a single woman do when she's turning thirty? She takes a weekend trip to Paris looking for commitment-free sex. Or that's what Davina Chandler does, anyway.
Enter Johnathon, a tall, charming Englishman. How can she possibly resist his magnetism and that sexy dimple?
What starts out as a lark quickly becomes so much more, but can one weekend turn into a lifetime? And will a lie of omission bring everything into jeopardy?
You can read an excerpt here.
The trailer for A Bar In Paris is now live here.




REVIEWS
 
Dakota Harrison received an awesome Top Pick (early review) from Harlequin Junkie for her upcoming release of Breathless (out with Samhain Oct.29th, 2013).
"Every now and then a writer is able to compose a book that you fall in love with, which impacts you in such a way that even when you have finished reading, the story seems to live on in your soul. Breathless by Dakota Harrison  is one of those kind of books. It held my heart in a vise from beginning to end."

Full review here.






Cheryse Durrant received a 4 star review for The Blood She Betrayed from O Mundo Encantadodos Livros.
“I'm overwhelmed by the feelings this book aroused. It is like no other, an incredible and inspiring originality that is a breath of fresh air in urban fantasy. Even though the beginning was a little difficult to understand and it took a while to create empathy with the characters, I found myself completely sucked into the plot and could only settle once I finished reading.”
Full review here.








 OTHER

Anyone who buys a copy of The Blood She Betrayed by Cheryse Durrant before October 16 goes in the draw to have a character named after them in her next Heart Hunters book, The Ghost She Killed. This also gives readers automatic entry into the two remaining Hearts & Talons giveaways, a $50 Amazon book voucher and a $130 9ct gold heart-shaped crystal pendant.
The winner of the $50 Clan Destine Press book pack, also part of the Hearts & Talons giveaway, was Catherine Prowse of Townsville.

Cheryse Durrant is chatting about romance and the paranormal at Fade into Fantasy, about characters inside the mind on the Australian Romance Readers Association website and the inspiration behind her Heart Hunter series at the Bibliophilic Book Blog.



No comments:

Post a Comment

check out all our books on our dsdu-books shelf:
DarkSide DownUnder's book lists (dsdu-books shelf)