Book blurb:
Obsessive-compulsive  school  mum,  Skye,  is  a  lonely   elite   spy,   who  is running from her past whilst trying to protect the future of her child. She tries hard to fit in with the other parents at her son’s new school, but the only person who accepts her unconventional way of life is new mother, Thea.

Thea is feeling harassed by her sister and bored with her life, but she suspects that there is something strange about the new school mum, Skye. Thea has secrets of her own and, although the two become unlikely friends, she hesitates to tell Skye about the father of her own child.

Zack’s new business is growing faster than he could have dreamed but, suddenly, he finds himself the owner of a crumbling estate on the edge of a pretty village, and a single parent to a very demanding child. Could he make a go of things and give his daughter the life she deserved?
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When three lives collide, it appears that only one of them is who they seem to be, and you never know who the person next to you in the school playground really is.

​Launch date 30th Jan 2018.
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Tails.
Heart-stopping, tail-dropping adventure from award-winning children’s author WJ Scott.

Sometimes loss is the only thing that saves you.
 
Last summer during the dreaded hunting season, Kywah lost his tail, his magic, and his value as a silvertail. Now the hunters have returned and he's terrified. Especially when he recognizes Samsa, the very hunter that cut off his tail and ruined his life.
 
But when the pack becomes trapped in the foothills with no escape, Kywah realises he’s their only hope. Without a tail, he’s worthless to the hunters and their wizard masters. If he can escape, he can find help for his pack. All he has to do is locate the Wise One and retrieve the Deep Magic.
 
Which would be hard enough even if he still had the magical tail sense his kind are born with. But what choice does he have? If he doesn’t take the risk, his pack will lose everything. And because Kywah knows exactly how that feels, he can’t let it happen.
 
I woke. Heart beating too fast. Darkness smothering me. The same nightmare.
I shifted and felt the familiar throb of pain along my stub, which always ached when I first awakened. For an instant I tried to fool myself that it had only been a dream, but when I was brave enough to peek, I saw the empty space where my tail should be. Almost four seasons had passed, and I was still unaccustomed to its loss.
 
 
‘This is an original, well-written story and deserves its gold status, congratulations.’ BooksGoSocial

 


‘Will keep young readers glued to the story till the very end.’
Readers’ Favorite 5* Review

Tails Review by Fantasy Author, Belinda Mellor.
‘Tails’ is a classic ‘hero’s journey’ story, a coming of age adventure for Kywah, a young silvertail on the cusp of maturity, whose hopes for taking his place among his pack’s adult community have seemingly been dashed by the loss of his kind’s most prized asset: his tail. A silvertail’s tail is its connection to its environment and its fellow pack members. Sadly, the magic it contains is not only prized by the creatures but by human magicians, whose power is waning but whose ambition is not.
When fate intervenes and Kywah sets out on a mission to find the deep magic that will protect his pack from hunters eager to earn the wizard’s bounty he finds help and friendship in the most unlikely places, and danger around every corner.
 
This is a rich and multi-layered story that will appeal to a wide age-range.  Wendy Scott is an exciting author who has a real gift for storytelling and world building and Kywah is a delightful protagonist who will have readers rooting for his success and redemption every step of his arduous journey. The pastel hued world the silvertails inhabit is one that readers will look forward to revisiting in (hopefully) many books to follow.

​Title: The Neon Houses
Author: Linda C. Mims
Publication Date: December 9, 2016
Available at: Amazon .com
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About The Neon Houses
 
The Neon Houses takes place in New Chicago, Incorporated, circa 2087. The times find New Chicago and its nearby neighbor, Gang Territory, to be vastly different worlds. The heroine, Noel Kennedy, is an expert at navigating both worlds. When her young protégé is found murdered on a back street in what’s left of a dwindling gang society, Noel is compelled to bring attention to a crime nobody wants to solve.
Noel, her mother, and people like them, are products of a 67 year old, unexplained phenomenon that has left them with sinister gifts. Noel will risk revealing her gift to get justice for Zarah Fisher.
The Neon Houses is a dystopian novel that fascinates with the opulence of everything futuristic 2087 has become. Autoplanes, body planes, and flying buses are the norm. Robots, and androids that look human, cook, clean, and serve. On the other hand, the reader gets a glimpse into the world of the city’s most poor, destitute, and ignored.

Upon retiring, Linda began a new career as an indie author. The tale of The Neon Houses rolled around in her head until it turned into a whole society of “the haves and the have-nots”. Once the idea got rolling, she worked nonstop until she’d finished the first draft. Now, writing is her real job!
Linda Mims is a proud member of Rave Reviews Book Club and credits the club, and its members, with providing the impetus that recharged her writing.
Linda goes by the names Boom_lyn, AuthorLyn, and Boomacious Lyn on her various social media pages, but however you find her, she’s always glad you came.
A resident of a small suburban town, thirty miles outside of Chicago, Linda can be found cooking, gardening, and blogging—sometimes simultaneously. She is married and has two grown daughters and one bossy bichon-pom, Ms. Alexis.

Writing is Like Dancing
 
Lately, Linda has been exploring poetry and short stories over at “The Long and Short Stories of Life” where she blogs (https://lindamims.com). The poem featured below is a sample of what you’ll find there.
 
 
 
Writing is Like Dancing
 
Writing is a little like dancing
Words prancing across the stage
Doing a quick step into alliteration
Placing our skills on the page.
 
Early chapters, our seductive waltzes,
By mid-story bring pent-up emotions,
That climax unto our scenes in a tango
Of wild need and hungry devotion.
 
Writing is a little like dancing
Each blow matching counter blow,
And as we choreograph the fight scene
Words reveal truths we didn’t know.
 
Dancing, writing, writing, dancing
Each with its own special skill,
Metaphor, simile, sidestep, sweep
Both with the power to thrill!