Happy release day, Jennifer Gadd!

Today marks the release of Cat Moon (Were Children book one), a new YA paranormal series from Distinguished Press. Get it this weekend for $.99 here, Join us Saturday on Facebook as we celebrate with fun games and prizes all day. Win free books. Find a new author to love. Great times! RSVP Here.

Emma has big problems. She has no family and no home. She wanders the streets of The Warren, scavenging for her next meal and trying to keep warm. Haunted by the memory of a mother she barely recalls, Emma dreams of being a part of a real family. She is helped in her search for belonging by an assortment of eccentric characters: a friendly shopkeeper and his cranky uncle, the nice woman who runs the local mission, a ditzy cat lady, and a good-natured prostitute with a drinking problem.

 

Her biggest obstacle, however, is that every full moon, she turns into a feral cat! Emma is one of the Were. She and those like her are ruthlessly hunted by the captain of the Were-Guard, whose religious zealotry makes him especially dangerous. When the sinister Bram Fitzwilliam enters the picture to assist the Guard, Emma is in more danger than ever. Before she finds what she’s looking for, Emma must find a strength and courage she never knew she had. Her journey will teach her that dreams don’t always come true the way you want them to, that people aren’t always what they seem, and that real families can be chosen.

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Five Facts about this Book:

1. I got the idea for the book when all the vampire books exploded onto YA fiction, and I wanted to do something different.
2. I finished the rough draft at a Borders in Overland Park, Kansas. I hope that’s not the reason they went bankrupt.
3. The story was initially vetted by my younger daughter and her best friend, and after they read it, they created a role play game based on it.
4. All of the herbal medicine lore in the first book is researched and accurate (but not intended to take the place of advice from your medical practitioner.)
5. My own daughters’ names are Rachel and Margaret.

 

Five Things About Emma

1. She isn’t sure, but she thinks she’s about twelve years old.
2. She learned to read a very early age. She can’t really remember not ever knowing how to read.
3. The shift back and forth from human to animal mind causes sporadic memory losses, so she doesn’t know if her memories are real or imagined.
4. She has a deep moral conscience, but homelessness has made her do things of which she is ashamed.
5. For all her street smarts, she is essentially naïve and innocent.

 

Author Bio:

Jennifer L. Gadd is a life-long reader and writer who holds a deep interest in writing quality literature for children and young adults. She writes mostly science fiction and fantasy, as well as hi-lo books for struggling readers. Her favorite authors are Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Candace M. Robb, Ellis Peters, and Anne Perry. She has lived in Texas, Illinois, and Alaska, and currently resides in Kansas City, Kansas, where she is a reading interventionist at an urban middle school.

 

 

First podcast with Jennifer Gadd

Two weeks away from her debut novel, Jennifer L. Gadd speaks with me about all things Cat Moon, children's novels, and why elementary teachers seem to have perfect handwriting. Listen here.

Synopsis:

Emma has big problems. She has no family and no home. She wanders the streets of The Warren, scavenging for her next meal and trying to keep warm. Haunted by the memory of a mother she barely recalls, Emma dreams of being a part of a real family. She is helped in her search for belonging by an assortment of eccentric characters: a friendly shopkeeper and his cranky uncle, the nice woman who runs the local mission, a ditzy cat lady, and a good-natured prostitute with a drinking problem.

Her biggest obstacle, however, is that every full moon, she turns into a feral cat! Emma is one of the Were. She and those like her are ruthlessly hunted by the captain of the Were-Guard, whose religious zealotry makes him especially dangerous. When the sinister Bram Fitzwilliam enters the picture to assist the Guard, Emma is in more danger than ever. Before she finds what she’s looking for, Emma must find a strength and courage she never knew she had. Her journey will teach her that dreams don’t always come true the way you want them to, that people aren’t always what they seem, and that real families can be chosen.

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Gods of Probabilities

 

Meet Zousan

Meet Zousan, aka, Zeus:

 

Gods age much, much slower than us. Zousan looks to be in his thirties, but he’s over thirty billion earth years old. Oh course, he doesn’t judge his age by earth rotations. That would be silly. Truth is, he categorizes his life in three segments slots: his years growing up in the space academy,  the years of misery under his tyrannical and unreasonable father’s thumb, and his years of freedom when he burst forth into a newly created multiverse, finally in charge of not just his life, but his entire crew.

In short order, he discovered leading a bunch of Gods was a pain in the ass. But one of his staff, he adores. His daughter, Athena. She was just a child when they burst through and honestly, she was his sole captivation over the next few billion years. (I’m using earth measurements since we never adopted the Universal time measurements of space.)

 

Athena has grown into a beautiful talented young woman, an artist of the highest caliber.

However, this piece of art disturbed him.

 

Here’s an excerpt from The Gods’ of Probabilities where he discusses this particular art:

Excerpt

From early on, his creative daughter spent most of her time making artwork from space particles. At first they were clumsy splatters, but as she matured so did her designs. Recently she had created three plumes that looked far too much like a man’s privates to suit his liking.

Since he’d threatened all his male crew with a one-way trip through a black hole sans ship if they messed with his daughter, she shouldn’t have a clue what lay beneath their uniforms, especially not ones standing so firm and tall.

He intended to discover which of his worthless crew he needed to return to his father with a note saying, “Great job! This loser you insisted I take onto my ship defiled your beloved granddaughter and you are thus fired from all grand-parenting duties.”

For the next million years, he spied on his daughter. Upon finding no worthless men sneaking into her room, he tried another technique: honesty.

He called her in and asked her what she thought her pretty columns represented.

Athena blushed and suddenly found great interest in her hot cocoa.

“Sweetheart, I’m not trying to embarrass you, but I do need to know who showed you something that inspired you to make three of these.”

She breathed in deeply. “The computer.”

“Then none of the crew has touched you?”

“No, but that has to change. I am a young woman now, and I have needs.”

He so regretted opening up this can of worms.  “Wow! Look at the time. I have a meeting with my crew...”

 

The Gods of Probabilities

By

Liza O’Connor

 Blurb

The Gods require a time shifter to ensure the Path of Light reigns during the final collapse of possibilities. To speed the process of finding an Oceanic with the specific talents needed, God DNA is induced in several batches of Oceanic eggs, resulting in a generation of brilliant tiny blue Oceanic children.

One charming boy named Drogan has the ability to manipulate quantum reality in ways that will strengthen the Path of Light. Only trouble is that his gift runs a high probability of killing him and wiping out the Path of Light for good.

While the bureaucratic Gods will try to assist, in Quantum all possibilities not only can, but do happen, so the future is never certain.

 

 

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About Author

Liza is a multiple genre author of 15 novels. A Late Victorian Series, The Adventures of Xavier & Vic, plus a spinoff, A Right to Love, is an ongoing series.    A Long Road to Love is a humorous Contemporary Disaster Romance series (5 books). She has two single books. One is a humorous, bad boys contemporary novel with ghosts, called Ghost Lover, the other is Untamed & Unabashed, a spinoff from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Now, she’s rolling out her Science fiction series (with romance & humor) called The Multiverses. The first four books are slotted for last half of 2015.  In addition she hopes, if she hasn’t dropped from exhaustion by then, to re-release a sometimes humorous/suspense thriller called Saving Casey. It’s the story of a middle-class old woman who dies and wakes up in a trust-fund teen’s body with no choice but to turn around Casey’s life, despite the many bridges the teen has burnt.

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