FREE ON AMAZON!!

Faetal Distraction and Faetal Illusion will both be FREE for kindle on Amazon March 14-18. Get your copies, tell your friends, and please review the books on Amazon! Reviews are SO important to independent authors!!!

NEW COVER!!! Book 1 gets a face-lift!

Book 1 has had a face-lift! After another round of edits, a new jacket blurb and a brand new cover, I am pleased to re-release this baby into the world! If you've already purchased the ebook, you'll be able to download the current copy for free.

Ladies and (a couple) gentlemen.... I give you the new and improved Faetal Distraction:

A Fae Warrior
For 2500 years, Tori has been a soldier in practically every battle ever fought. She's conquered kingdoms, destroyed armies, and even gone head to head with the gods. Now the stuff of legends, Tori is a highly sought after mercenary. 

A Broken Kingdom
Tori is also an illegitimate heir to a missing crown. As a halfling, she's unable to inherit a kingdom divided and eternally on the brink of war. But things are not always as they seem, and fate is keeping an eye on Tori and her triplet sisters...

A Karmic Storm
After a thousand years of dissent and unrest, the Fae have triggered a Reckoning. Wrongs must be righted, mistakes must be corrected, and the past must be confronted at every turn. When Tori is hired to transport a sleeping human across the mortal realm, the Reckoning brings her face to face with her past in the form of her new partner, Ryn.

A Deadly Distraction
Ryn is not only her soul mate, he's the man she drugged, duped and ditched over 200 years ago... and has been running from ever since. Unfortunately, he's just as irresistible as ever. When her easy mission becomes a nightmare, Tori has to rely on her instincts and experience to survive. The one thing she needs is focus, and Ryn is nothing but distraction...

They Always Said I Was a Tease

I  am Today's Tease! Check out my interview with Leanna Harrow.

 

 

Today's Tease...Bethany K Lovell

 

 

Take a look around the blog while you're there, get to know other authors, leave a comment or two if you feel so inclined. Then, check out Leanna's books. I can't wait to read A Beautiful Liar!

 





My First Real Review

My first real review is out, and it isn't negative! WOOHOO!!

From Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock:

"This book was a gift from the author and Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock for my honest review. This is the first in the series as we start off with meeting Tori, who is part Fae and part Pixie, a mercenary, and triplet. We get to know her though the story as she starts her adventure guarding a human girl in a coma. In comes Ryn. We find out that Tori and Ryn had a brief history that didn’t end so well, but now they have to work together to protect this girl. Through this story we follow Tori and Ryn as they work out their attraction, find out what is really going on with the human girl, and the many other dangers that follow. Tori’s two other sisters Lea and Mae are introduced as well, but we really get to know Mae in this book. The interaction between Tori and Mae is hilarious and crazy! They are very close but also can’t stand each other for very long. I really liked Tori, Ryn,and Mae and how believable and real they felt to me. Tori is a strong warrior, but has a softer side she tries to hide. Ryn is a super alpha male, but lets Tori be herself as much as he can.Mae is just crazy, but so likable! I read this book in one day as I couldn’t put it down,I had to see what would happen next ! The scenes were tense,funny, emotional, and steamy all rolled into one. I would give this book 5 stars instead of the 4, but I was not sold on the cover art. It just didn’t jump out at me and say hey look at me! Boy would I have missed out! I will definitely be buying the next in the series. I would definitely recommend this book to others, but there are some steamy love scenes so 18 and over!"

Review of Faetal Distraction

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Book 1 available everywhere! (not really though)

Book 1 is now available in all these handy-dandy places:

Amazon (Kindle & Paperback)

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

I am still working on formatting the manuscript for Smashwords... stay tuned!

Tentative release date for book 2 is still Sept. 30... so far, so good!

Faetal Distraction FREE For 3 Days!

Faetal Distraction will be FREE on kindle August 1-3.

 

Find it on Amazon here

Tell your friends, your coworkers... that chick sitting next to you at the laundromat reading Fifty Shades for the thousandth time.

Get it while you can. Pass it along. But PLEASE leave a review somewhere!!

And then get ready... because book 2 should be available in September!

Free Friday

The kindle edition of my book will be free to download all day Friday, June 28th. Pass it on, tell your peeps... get it while it's free!

Get It Here

Ch-ch-ch-changes....

Today is the last day that my book is available in Nook format until September. The book will be exclusive to Amazon for the next three months.

Also, the trade paperback goes up in price tomorrow.

Fair warnings have been issued.



Carry on....

Changes coming June 1st

A few things will happening on June 1st regarding the book.

First and foremost, Faetal Distraction will be available exclusively on Amazon for 3 months. So if you want a Nook edition, get it before the end of May. When the 3 months is up, the book will be available on Amazon, B&N and All Romance. But for 90 days, it's going to only be available as a Kindle book or a trade paperback.

And that brings me to the second big change. Amazon will be making the book available to bookstores and libraries and foreign markets, which is going to raise the price of the book from $14.50 to $19.99. This also takes place on June 1st, so get it while it's (fairly) cheap!

That's it, I think. God knows, it's enough to deal with for now.

Who Wants a Free Copy??

I'd like to give away a few books (epub files) in exchange for an honest review on Goodreads. If you're interested, please send a message to bethanyklovell@gmail.com with what type of ebook you need (epub, mobi, or just say kindle fire or nook hd, etc.) and the subject line of "Free Book."

Thanks!

Kindle Edition Now Live

The kindle edition is now live on Amazon!

You can find it here... though there's no picture and I can't figure out how to fix it!

Helloooooo Goodreads!

I'm on Goodreads now!

Okay, that's kind of a lie... the now part, at least... because I've been on there for a while. Seems I never get off of there! But oh, the books I've found!

But now, I'm an author on there, which is something else entirely.

Okay, so that's kind of an untruth as well... it's really just the same thing, except now my book is attached to my profile.

Hmmm... so basically I'm still on Goodreads. Wow... not as nearly exciting in type as the whole thing was in my head, but a huge happiness for me nonetheless!

Visit me at Goodreads (where I'm not new, but my book is)!!!

Book Cover is Finished

And now... the book cover...

Prologue

PROLOGUE

 

 

 

There was blood everywhere. It pooled between the gravel in the driveway and stained the ominous stone steps. Ruddy footsteps seemed to lead in all directions and a crimson hand print smeared its way down the white front door. Bits and pieces of who-knows-what were scattered among the body parts littering the ground.

A severed head lay six inches from his feet. Cohn took an instinctive step back and sighed heavily, keeping his breaths shallow to ward off the acrid smell of death that surrounded him. This had been a hell of a fight.

As he registered the sound of labored breathing beside him, he turned to face his head of security. At least that's who he thought it was- hard to tell who exactly was underneath all the gore. “Our men?"

"All alive. These guys weren't so lucky." Ryn swept his bloody sword over the carnage.

"Their luck ran out the minute they stepped foot on my property. Apparently we've just run out of time. It's moving day... again."

"This wasn't a planned attack. I'm pretty sure it was a scouting mission gone awry. If it had been Daniel patrolling instead of Jaroz, we may never have known they were here. Jaroz smelled them, attacked them first."

"Doesn't matter. We can't risk keeping her here any longer- when these bastards don't return, he'll know he’s hit the mark. She has to be gone before he comes for her. And he will come for her, I assure you of that."

Ryn raised his brows. "You have someplace in mind?"

Cohn shook his head gravely. "Not yet, but I’ll work that out. How long do you need to recover and prepare?"

"Three days, tops."

Cohn squatted to sit on one of the steps then, remembering the blood, jolted to his feet. "I won't be attending this move. I've become too easy to track."

The first few raids had been hundreds of years apart, but the gaps had closed in over time. The last assault had been only eleven years ago. "I'm calling in someone to go with you. I need the rest of the men here for round two."

Ryn exhaled and said tentatively, "Do you think it's wise to only send two, especially now that he's upping his game? No offense, but have you thought this through?"

Cohn squinted his eyes shut and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Ryn, for a thousand years, I've done nothing but think this through. Every soldier you take with you increases your chance for discovery, as well as slows you down. And we need defense here. You're an assassin, the best I'd dare say, and this woman is the most ruthless mercenary I've ever known."

Shocked, Ryn spat out, "Woman?"

"Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an army of mortals by herself. Do not underestimate her simply because she wears a bra."

Ryn looked incredulous, but only nodded. "Three days, then. I'll be ready."

"Marchand!" Cohn bellowed into the house from over his shoulder. "Bring me a phone!"

 

~*~*~*~*~

 

Faetal Distraction

Released May, 2013



And a Universe was Born...

Though not technically in the story itself, I thought the creation myth for the universe Tori lives in might be something I could share.

 

Creation Myth

from the Book of Knowing

 

 

An unfathomably long time ago, before time was but an idea being casually mulled over, Knowing moved restlessly across the Great Nothing. Restlessness grew and soon swelled into a dull ache of boredom. Knowing sighed, spilling particles over the void.

Feeling, that's what would quell the never ending boredom. Experience. Duality. Physical. Another shiver.

Possibility rose up, flickered, expanded and contracted quicker than the blink of an eye. All that would come- cause, reaction, counter action- sent shivers over the void, setting particles dancing and colliding into one another. Fusing and forming... waiting.

This would be messy. Would it be worth the effort? Oh, yes.

Decision made, Knowing drew in a deep breath, closed in on itself and bared down.

Existence exploded.

Ahh.. Physical. Knowing almost flinched at the voice, full and rich, rolling sensually across the vast expanse. Thought. It was a pleasing sound.

Wait.

And with that single command, creation held it's breath. Knowing savored this moment, savored the experience of savoring, relishing the eternities that were about to play out before itself. Unbound joy swirled in a fiery spiral, reaching ever outward, alive with twinkling particles quivering with eagerness to expand and be.

Yes, this would be worth it... this was already worth it, and it had yet to begin.

Universes hovered at the brink of subsistence, anxious for their awakening. Knowing drew in upon itself once again and whispered, Now.

 

Source looked out upon itself, the once empty void now alive with light and motion, and it was pleased. Stars blinked into form, galaxies swirled and collided, universes expanded and succumbed. Source felt the friction and the fusion, the creation and the destruction, and it was good.

Knowing had never been enough, and so it had birthed itself into form, into Source. How strange and utterly delectable to create thought, shape it, name it.. make it be. So much activity, so much feeling, so much physical.

And yet...

Restlessness hovered at the fringes, threatening to spoil this triumphant coherency. Yes, it would all play out.. no stopping it now. Source thought to be content with this cyclic birthing and destroying and re-birthing of itself, but physical always demands the next step.. always demands more.

Source felt... alone? That was new. Knowing was always content with the All, but now it was more, now it was Source, and Source needed more than a unified All- Source needed the details. I filled with a great need to be We. A new thought was formed.

I will create in my own image, free of thought and free of will. I will pour myself into physical and will immerse in being. Source overflowed into the expanse.

Each time Source poured itself into physical, each time it's pure creative essence met the edges of duality, it split itself- two parts of a same whole, each whole part of the same Source. Farther and farther down it condensed, pushing through the hazy veil of separation into physical. More and more acutely it concentrated into matter- halves of wholes and wholes of All... And the Seed was born.

Pure Source, begotten from Knowing, the Seed scattered across all of creation, full of wonder and willfulness and so eager to experience. Forged in creative fire, gifted with the power of the All, splintered by the double-edged nature of duality- the Seed were the first Adams and Eves of the cosmos. The heavens were theirs to command, to create and to destroy.

Within themselves they held the powers of life and death, good and evil, love and fear. Their sole mission, to experience infinite possibilities, allowing Source to experience through them thus sharing the wonders of physical with Knowing.

They spawned worlds upon worlds, populating them with wonders and creatures of all kinds, but soon they were restless for more.. physical always wants more. So the Seed also created in their own image.

Now, gods of their own making, the Seed gifted their children with the free will they themselves so cherished, as well as boundless blessings of powerful potential, and gave them reign over all the Seed had conceived.

And thus the Tribes were forged.



Hello and welcome! Not much to see here yet, but stick around... there will be plenty of book updates, excerpts and more to come soon. In the meantime, here's a small blurb about the book. A more detailed synopsis will be posted in the next few days!


After 2000 years of fighting countless wars, escaping numerous prisons, drowning repeatedly, and even being crucified, Tori would have never thought that babysitting would be the most dangerous thing she's ever done. But when the sleeping beauty she's been hired to transport across the mortal realm wakes up, her fairytale turns into a nightmare.

To make matters worse, her tribe of Fae has triggered a Reckoning- fate's way of bringing balance to the karmic scales- that is systematically bringing Tori face to face with her past, including the man she's just been partnered with. But Ryn is no ordinary blast from the past. He's the gorgeous hunk of flesh she duped, doped and ditched over 200 years ago, and has been running from ever since.

Oh, and he's her soul mate. Unfortunately for Tori, that's not a good thing, because being with Ryn will cost her a piece of her soul- literally.

So, between paying karmic dues, the nanny gig, and battling for her soul, Tori has been pretty distracted lately. And distractions will get you killed.

Faetal Distraction

Book 1 in Blood Crown Series

by Bethany Lovell

 

available late April, 2013