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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Spotlight and exclusive excerpt: BlindSight: Adams Thriller Complete by Susan Peterson Wisnewski + giveaway


BlindSight: Adams Thriller Complete
by Susan Peterson Wisnewski
Publisher: SPW Writes
Pages: 238
Genre: Thriller/Paranormal/Suspense
Format: Kindle
Life is already bad enough after Tisha Adams loses both her job and her beautiful Manhattan apartment. Living in a musty garage apartment and working for her uncle in Queens, her life is upended when she witnesses a murder on her train commute.

When the body disappears, she teams up with Detective Murphy, a man with mysterious abilities. But Tisha is keeping a secret of her own, a skill she’s always hated and feared. The dead speak to her. And if she touches a person, their past, present and future are revealed to her.

But as the body count rises, and those closest to Tisha are drawn into the nightmare, Tisha’s only choice is to reach out to her estranged grandmother to learn more about her intuitive talents. In a race against the clock to rescue those in danger and solve the murders, she’ll need all her abilities. Even the gift she’s been afraid to use. The dead will speak, but only if she’s willing to listen.

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Book Excerpt 4:

“I just saw a man get shot on the street before we got to the Queens border. Did you see anything?

He took a step back into the crowded booth as if he could distance himself from what I was telling him. He wanted the event to go away. He rubbed his hands over his protruding belly letting out a big sigh.

“Oh crap. Are you sure? I was reading the paper. Didn’t see anything. Let me call dispatch, this is a first.”

He picked up a black walkie-talkie and pressed a few buttons. It made some screeching noises. Talking into the mouthpiece he said, “A passenger just witnessed a shooting, over.”

“What? On the train?” a scratchy voice replied.

“No, on the street before we hit Queens,” he turned to me, “can you be more specific?”

“It all happened so fast. I was looking out the window and saw two men arguing. The next thing I knew, one of them pulled out a gun and shot the other. It was over in a flash and we were moving at a good clip. I think it was by that fence company. Armstrong or Armada is the name or something with an A. Do you know where I mean?”

“Did you get that? I think she is referring to Armstice Fencing,” the conductor said.

“I'll put a call into 911,” dispatch replied.

“Another passenger just called 911. He saw it too,” I said.

“Okay, conductor, please alert the operator to hold the train. Passenger go to the other witness and see if you can find out if the police will be meeting the train at the next station. I'll call 911 to see what else they might need from us while you get to the other passenger and find out what everyone knows,” the dispatcher barked.

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Susan Peterson Wisnewski is an indie author from the northeast. She writes thrillers and paranormal with a sprinkling of chick lit and horror.

From a cruncher of numbers to a stringer of words, she decided it was time to follow her dreams and put down on paper all of those stories that floated around in her head. Raised in New York City and Long Island, she is a consummate shopaholic having been given the gift of style from her mother and grandmother. When not writing, she can be found shopping, visiting museums, gardening, or being walked by her oversized puppy.

Her books are a genre mix all neatly packaged together. Surprise and twists keep her readers guessing and she has been accused of writing books that can’t be put down. Pushing characters to challenges themselves is her trademark as is a creating strong female characters – no damsels in distress here. Her inspiration comes from seeing a situation and then enhancing it to create an unusual story line. And yes, she does see ghosts, or spirits as they prefer to be called and has had her run ins with a fairy or two.

If you have a book club and live on Long Island or in the Southern Vermont area, she’d be happy to come for a visit.
 

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Comic Review: Prometheus: Fire & Stone Dark Horse Comics

PROMETHEUS: FIRE AND STONE TPB
Writer: Paul Tobin
Artist: Juan Ferreyra
Cover Artist: David Palumbo
Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror, Science-Fiction
April 08, 2015
Format: FC, 104 pages; TPB, 7” x 10'
Price: $14.99
Age range: 14
“10 out of 10!”—Bloody Disgusting
When the Prometheus never returned from its fateful journey to LV-223, the questions surrounding the origins of man went unanswered. Now a new team of explorers seeks to uncover the dark mystery that holds not only the fate of theoriginal mission, but possibly their own damnation. Collects the four-issue miniseries.

“A great start to this multi-series event.”—Unleash the Fanboy

“I'm really blown away by every aspect of this book.” —Bloody Disgusting

“Must reading for fans of the films, science fiction, or horror. Dark Horse is delivering the goods.” —SciFiPulse

Prometheus as a film was … frustrating. Visually stunning, sure, but it just came nowhere close to meeting expectations. It wasn't a write-off though, with enough residual interest to keep talks of a sequel alive, as well a comic book mini-series sequel-of-sorts that is part of a “Fire and Stone” crossover event, which includes the Predator and Aliens franchises. But I didn't read those, so let's stick with Prometheus and see where we end up.

More than a century after the confounding mission undertaken by the crew of the Prometheus, a salvage mission is called to recover the research vessel and anything else of value that was thought lost. Only that's actually just a cover for a covert operation to find the answers originally sought by Prometheus. And once they find the desert moon that plays home to the mystery is no longer a desert but a macabre jungle teeming with alien life, it doesn't take long for the crew members who've been left in the dark to realize they are up to their eyeballs in trouble.

Now, I wish I could tell you about which character was the most captivating, but I can't. The ensemble cast of Prometheus was not at all memorable outside of Michael Fassbender's android character, David. And that's pretty much how it shakes out with this graphic novel, with Elden the crew's android character stealing the show. Ulterior motives, rampant deception, unethical practices—oh, and xenomorphs. Yeah, there's a bunch of those making things difficult.

At least where the story begs me to give a damn about characters whose names I can barely recall by the time I've turned the page, the artwork is wonderful in capturing the desolation and the air of dread that comes from traversing this alien landscape with threats lurking quite literally just beyond every shadow. One scene showing a small horde of xenomorphs does one heckuva job at ramping up the tension when it's most needed.

While there are moments through the sporadic info dumping dialog that add a little clarity to certain aspects of the film, like the nature of the black goo, the peaks and valleys of the story feel like they run almost identical to the film. And by the end of the book I was left with an almost identical sense of frustration and exasperation, because things do not end on a satisfying note. Perhaps that's the nature of this being a crossover event, but I would have hoped this story would have had its own resolution, whether happy, sad, or soul-crushing. Instead, it feels like a lure to seek out the other books and hope for the best.

No thanks. A great story made good, by the looks of it.

3 Sheep





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46 New Book Releases in Speculative Fiction for June 2

Little bit late on this week's new releases...but here they are. Got a lot of SFF and no WTF-ery...maybe next week :) Let me know if I missed any and I will add them.