by Marie Judson
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GENRE: Fantasy
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Kay, a professor of ancient languages, finds herself drawn into a hidden realm of magic and danger. Transported to a medieval world on Halloween night, she meets Baird, an enchanting stranger who claims to know her spirit, and Duff, a burly silversmith who welcomes her as Kyna, long-lost kin. Kay joins them in a festive celebration where she discovers she can understand their arcane tongue, as ghostly figures haunt the night.
When dawn comes, she is in her own time, still holding a silver pendant that connects her to Baird and his world. She struggles to return to that time even as Baird is endeavouring to find her and unravel the secret of their connection. Follow Kay and Baird on their journey across dimensions in this novel of intrigue, adventure, and magic.
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EXCERPTS
Franklin Street Café had a lively crowd bathed in the lurid orange glow of gauze-covered lights. A projector flashed images of old Celtic stones onto the wall. A fabric forest hung across the entrance to the next room, the air permeated by yeasty aromas of pizza crust and ale. Shouts of conversations battled to be heard over haunting music and the clatter of dishes.
Where were the nyads and faeries? In place of the figures of enchantment in the email invitation, Kay saw a faux belly dancer who never should have revealed her midriff, and men dressed in bathrobes and tennis shoes attempting, she supposed, to convey Druidic high priests. With absurd disappointment at seeing no apparent magic, she thought she wouldn’t stay long. Then her attention was drawn by a hand-printed sign offering homemade organic mead and pressed through to the bar. A young waitress, her peachy complexion disturbingly pierced with lead posts, asked for her order.
“Could I taste the Moonlight Mead?” she requested.
“Certainly.” The young woman behind the bar handed over a sample.
Pushing aside glued-on moustache hairs, Kay sipped the tasty brew, then ordered a twelve-ounce, and again surveyed the crowd. She considered making the glass of mead a solo act when she noticed a birdlike creature, tall and hunched like a heron, with tattered feathers splaying from head and neck. It stalked, with wild-bird grace, across the projection of ancient stones, through the cloth trees, into the next room. Kay’s drink arrived, and she followed the strange apparition.
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Topic: Author's choice
Your choice: Medieval Avatar
Once you’ve read my novel, Braided Dimensions, I hope you’ll write to me and tell me which character you’d choose to be. Would you want to be one of the 21st century characters, or live in the 900s? Myself, I think I’d be Kyna. She has magical powers such as mindreading and much more. She also has practical skills beyond healing; she can weave and dye cloth, identify herbs and prepare remedies. She has confidence and knows how to handle most circumstances. She has access to books in a well-accoutered apothecary, and is often out in nature, picking herbs. Her lover (at the start) is a bard of great charm and appeal. Her world is not limited to her village. Her partner, Baird, travels widely as does her brother, the silversmith. Her son is studying at a Bardic school and her daughter has unique skills in magical stitchery. She has two loyal hounds who accompany her everywhere. I haven’t even gotten to the Wanderers she spent much of her early life with who visit in the warm seasons every year, parking their caravan in the fields near her home, bringing music and celebration. She has best friends among these Cymru travellers, like sisters and brothers. She travelled to a great many places with the Romani but cherishes the homestead she’s made for herself. The grand finale is the Tower of the Thirteen, built into the corner of her house. From high in the tower, one looks over the sea to the west, and to the east, toward a dolmen. In this tower, the Circle of the Thirteen raises power that can shift the fabric of the world.
So, will you be Kyna, the healer, or Baird, the free bard? Maybe some other character?
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marie.judson.writer
Website: https://mariejudson.com/
Book Video: https://youtu.be/50AdR_Ib4KQ?si=QQHZCHobmTm-okML
https://www.amazon.com/Braided-Dimensions-Book-Marie-Judson/dp/1726614913
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Marie Judson will award an epub copy of one of her books to a randomly drawn winner.
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