Kristin D. Van Risseghem
  • Home
    • Privacy Policy
  • Appearances
  • Picture Books
  • Young Adult Books
    • Enlighten Series
    • Escape Chronicles
    • Deities Series
  • Reverse Harem Books
    • Slayers & Protectors Series

Debut Fantasy Author, Ross Smeltzer's "The Mark of the Shadow Grove" Gets Published by Fantasy Works Publishing

1/15/2016

 
Picture
The Mark of the Shadow Grove
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Synopsis:
Daughters of the gathering dusk and students of blackest spellcraft, the women of the Schermerhorn clan are enigmas made flesh. Seers for time immemorial, they are keepers of primeval knowledge.

They are wise in the ways of the Old Religion.

And they are destroyers of men.

Do the women of the Schermerhorn clan drive the men they encounter to their destruction? Or are their actions governed by specters on the periphery of human consciousness?
​

The Schermerhorn women will soon learn what dwells in the oldest books and what lurks in the flickering shadows beyond the candlelight.

​Come.

 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
Excerpt:
I saw her close to the fire. I approached her. Instinct—animal’s blood—controlled my fatigued limbs and I felt no fear, though the flames blazed high and the hilltop was forlorn; the night was black as deep water . . . She turned and approached me. “There are no masters here. Only you and me,” she said.
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PURCHASE LINKS:
 
Fantasy Works Publishing        |           Amazon           |           Smashwords
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Picture
Author Bio: Raised in Chatham, New York, a small town in the Berkshires that looks like the setting for a Washington Irving story, Ross grew up surrounded by overgrown woodlands and tumbled-down, derelict farmhouses. He grew up with an awareness that the past was omnipresent, a slyly pervasive power and a subtle influence on the present.
 
Ross now lives in Dallas, Texas with his patient and endlessly supportive wife, a hopelessly brainless terrier, and an alarmingly unhinged cat. Ross works as a social studies teacher but writes fiction whenever he gets a chance. Sadly, he seems capable only of crafting stories of the weirdest kind. His imagination—apparently corrupted in adolescence by Hawthorne, Bierce, Machen, Lovecraft, and assorted other misanthropes, weirdos, and purveyors of high strangeness—can only manufacture demented little yarns.
 
Ross's fiction has appeared repeatedly in Bewildering Stories magazine, Quantum Fairy Tales, and Enchanted Conversation, an online fairy tale magazine.
 
Find Ross here:
 
Website: http://fantasyworkspublishing.com/authors.html
Twitter: @RossTellsTales ​


Comments are closed.

    Archives

    February 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
    • Privacy Policy
  • Appearances
  • Picture Books
  • Young Adult Books
    • Enlighten Series
    • Escape Chronicles
    • Deities Series
  • Reverse Harem Books
    • Slayers & Protectors Series