Saturday, October 29, 2011

Celebrating The Legend Of Victor Standish by Roland Yeomans

Roland Yeomans, master of the written word has done it again. If you haven't read one of Roland's books then you really are missing out on something phenomenal. His penmanship alone leaves a reader having learned something intrinsic about the craft. But enough of my babbling, let me tell you about his latest book.
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Think TRUE BLOOD meets THE DRESDEN FILES meets THE ARTFUL DODGER.

Beware French Quarter nights.

Every city has its secrets. New Orleans more than most.

To walk its streets is to move through history : Lasalle. Orleans. Galvez. Lafitte. A street map is part time capsule, part history lesson. And all Death. She is waiting in every shadow.

New Orleans is the most haunted city in America where Voodoo was big business, slavery even more so, and no government official or newspaper dares to tell the truth.

No one talks openly of the misty figures seen walking along iron-laced terraces, casting no shadow. Of the shapes seen rising from sewer grates. And no one willingly visits the crypt of Marie Laveau at midnight.

Into this strange world arrives the street orphan, Victor Standish, from Charon's Greyhound. Charon has to keep up with the times ...the End Times.

And the teen destined to be called the "Ulysses of the French Quarter" has come just in time for Hurricane Katrina, the End of All Things, and …the deadly love of the Victorian ghoul, Alice Wentworth.
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You can get your copy of The Legend Of Victor Standish on Amazon
Roland also has a fantastic contest going at his blog where if you post a review of it on Amazon, you get 5 entries to win an Amazon Kindle Fire, or a Stephen King autograph, or a JK Rowling autograph or dozens of other prizes. Now those are baggable prizes, for that check out: Roland Yeoman's Promotional Prizes
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6 comments:

  1. TirzahLaughsOctober 30, 2011 at 9:02 AM

    Oh I've been to that writer's blog!!!! The art work is so distinctive.

    Which is rare these days.

    Tirz!

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  2. Roland D. YeomansOctober 30, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    Thanks, Tirz! My internet access blinked out for a long while. I'm just back. Thanks, Wendy for such a nice post on Victor. Alice blows a kiss. Roland

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  3. Peaches LedwidgeOctober 31, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    The book seems fascinating.

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  4. TirzahLaughsOctober 31, 2011 at 8:31 AM

    Well the first step is to get people to take your book off the shelf and that artwork will grab people by the naughty bits.

    It's very eye catching.

    T

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  5. Susan KaneNovember 1, 2011 at 2:34 PM

    The artwork is intriguing, all right!

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  6. Francine Howarth: UKNovember 17, 2011 at 2:01 AM

    Hi Wendy and R: X

    I am so looking forward to reading this one, though do know a lot of it by heart from reading snippets. ;) My problem being a TBR pile the height of a mini tower block, mostly romance novels sent to me for review. I do hear Victor & Alice shouting "get us out of here" from time to time (from level 10) and the bell boy keeps shouting "level 10, anyone for level 10". :o

    Fortunately, I'm a fast reader and as I'm now only in the review of romantic suspense, post-three historical novellas gone to Kindle, I am coming down that tower block day by day.

    best
    F

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