Allowing the Night Audiobook Is Out

Allowing the Night, A Dark Fantasy Romance, by T. S. Winterway is now available as an audiobook! I am both proud and saddened to say it's available exclusively on Aspenn Fantasy Payhip store for $4.99 plus tax according to the regional regulations. 

We are also offering a package deal to people visiting this blog: $5.99 for both the E-Book ($3.49 bought alone) and audiobook ($4.99 bought alone), so CLICK-CLICK .

Allowing the Night has been reviewed by several LibraryThing users if you'd like to find out how others deem the story before purchasing. If you want my opinion, it's a lovely little book, an enchanting bedtime story for adults.

When it comes to the audio version of my book, I've buried the project. The Heirs of Duty is such a long book that converting it to audio, even with AI software, would be too expensive and time-consuming. If I could expect sales, I would take the gamble, but I've long since ceased to hope that I'd get back even a fraction of the resources I've invested in Braenduir Chronicles. 

Even though Smashwords' Read an E-Book Week was a success -a year ago, I would've been over the moon, imagining so many downloads must lead to a handful of reviews at least- I no longer nurture a silly hope that anything more would come out of it. I am still working on the series -a part of me just can't ditch the project, though I know it's nothing if not a waste of time- but whether Rues of the Heroes will ever be published remains to be seen. 

So much for whining, however. It's as useless in marketing a book as the feigned positivity. I hope from the heart that my friend's book gets more attention than mine.

 

Short Book Reviews: Among the Pines by Matt Anderson

If the last book I reviewed wasn't my pint of mead, this one definitely is. I read Among the Pines as an E-book and loved it from the first word to the last. Among the Pines is a collection of horror fantasy short stories by Matt Anderson, a US indie author, and it's hands down one of the best books I've read. 

This might well become the shortest of my Short Book Reviews because I really don't have anything but praise to say about this work. The language is in its own league, bringing the stories to life with haunting precision and captivating richness. One rarely finds a match for it even among traditionally published books, let alone popular ones.

The author finds his inspiration in folklore, mythology, nature, and science and weaves them into a tapestry that captures you from the first thread and haunts you long after you turn your gaze away. The stories are like pictures painted with the brightest, yet darkest colours, paintings that morph from seemingly innocent scenes to nightmarish visions of chilling peculiarity. Among the Pines is one of those books that make picking up your next read insanely difficult because nothing seems good enough in comparison. 

If this isn't enough to convince you that you should give this one a chance, feel free to check the review I left on Goodreads just after I finished it.

If one must name a weakness in this work, it's the cover. Even if I didn't choose a book by its cover, many others do, and those people are likely to skip Among the Pines -to their own loss. Don't be one of them and get the book to see for yourself whether my verdict is fair or not.