A don't pass it up #deal on @LiviaQuinn's Destiny Paramortals series

Yes! the entire series is on a Kindle countdown May 30- June 5th. If you've only picked up the first book in the series, now is the time to get the ones you've missed. It will be the only time you see all the books on sale at one time.

Books 1-5 are $0.99 this week and the newest release, Blood Moon is $2.99.

Get the links here. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C7WDLD9

Here's the taste of the series in the blurb from the first book.

Destiny – is it Mayberry or Middle Earth?  Welcome to Destiny where vampires, dragons, shifters and a family of Djinn live along side humans.

Ages ago a pact was made between all the supernatural species to protect weaker creatures and the humans. Just don't tell the humans. 

My name is Tempest Pomeroy, and my human job is delivering the mail in Destiny, Louisiana. I’m also a Paramortal like my family, or I’m supposed to be. If I didn’t have a few little talents, I’d think I was adopted. It’s just two weeks until Mardi Gras, and I’m having a bad day. That’s like saying Katrina dropped a little rain on the Gulf Coast.

First, River’s amphora went missing—that’s genie bottle to you mere-mortals—and on my first delivery, a handsome scantily clad doctor triggered some sort of hallucination, with just a touch. Pheromones? Then, one of my customers had a stroke while reading me the riot act over a piece of mail, but I saved the old grouch with a zap of my Zeus juice! It was the first time I’d actually called my power on purpose, and Destiny’s hunky new sheriff almost saw me use my magic—big no-no—when he responded to the call. 

He showed up again when the local florist filed a complaint against me for dropping a seventy-five pound box on his foot. Yeah, I did it, but it was kind of an accident. He put his hand where it didn’t belong and my fingers… sorta... slipped. 

Then, if you can believe it, things got worse. I discovered a dead body in the clubhouse and rescued my brother’s amphora from a locker, bashing it in with a Greg Norman wedge. And who showed up again? You guessed it.

I’ve denied my heritage for too long. Now, my brother is missing, my mother’s out of pocket as usual, and the sheriff and my ex-lover are squaring off like yard dogs staking a claim over a poodle. I am no one’s poodle. Is it any wonder I’m calling this the worst M.A.L.E day of my life? My friend Aurora says all the chaos is a sign of my quickening Tempestaerie power, and more changes are on the wind. 

Oh, and the sheriff? He thought he’d settled in a normal small safe town to raise his teenage daughter—like Mayberry?! We’ll see how that turns out… Things better settle down soon, or our former Navy pilot sheriff is going to take the first F-18 out of Middle Earth. 

Enter Destiny. You won't want to leave.

Warning: If you’re looking for standalones, the Destiny Paramortals series is not for you. This is a series with recurring characters on their Paramortal journey. They get their HEAs, but not in book 1. You’ll find dragons, sexy shifters, vampires, tempestaeries and djinn and other Paramortals with surprises at every turn. Emotional, quirky and fun. 

Read them in order.

Storm Crazy

Cry Me a River

Eve of Chaos

Blame it on the Moon

Take these Broken Wings

Blood Moon

Coming this winter, book 7, Destiny's Child (tentative title)

Thanks for reading. I hope you'll return to see what I'm up to. I have exciting news for later this year!!!

Livia

The Story is the Thing

I haven’t had much time for reading lately, but I try to dip my toe into the proverbial TBR pile once a week even if it means listening to an audible book or library CD to refresh my stale creativity.

This week between customers, I was listening to Nice
Girls Don’t Live Forever by Molly Harper. I have all of her books on Audible which is a fun way to read her.

Ms. Harper is the queen of double entendre. With her first person narrative you get a real sense of the heroine’s character. The never-ending stream of witty dialogue intrigued me as I discovered I didn’t grow tired of the book and put it down unfinished.

I started looking at it in depth to determine her secret. She is a former reporter so she has the journalism skills but in fiction, so many books that start out strong, especially ones that rely on humor, begin to limp before the halfway point. That’s when I find myself putting them down.

This book was different. What I discovered was that this writer is an exceptional plotter. I’ll use the word effortless because I can imagine being in a brainstorming session with her where she just runs non-stop with plot ideas.

I thought of my own issues when I get stalled in dialogue – not so much a matter of how characters will react but what has happened to cause the reaction. In Dead Girls Don’t Live Forever plot threads are no problem. Molly Harper has a seemingly endless supply of quirky events and family drama that keep the characters interacting, page after page, with no let-up.

So again, I return to my theory that “It’s the story, stupid.” Ms. Harper’s writing is top notch, but how often have you read a book where you had to know the ending even though the writing wasn’t that good? It keeps you going. I highly recommend her books.

But I’m wondering, what keeps you reading? Is it humor? Plot? Emotion? Lyrical description? Witty dialogue?