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Release date is in August. watch here for the preorder link. we should be able to get the link up before the end of June!
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Smorgasbord Book Promotions - New Book on the Shelves - #Fantasy - Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
Smorgasbord Book Promotions – New Book on the Shelves – #Fantasy – Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
Delighted to welcome Andrew McDowell to the blog with his fantasy novel Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1)
About the book
Dermot is a fifteen-year-old boy in the kingdom of Denú. He has always longed for more in life. Then everything changes after he sees a gryphon and crosses paths with a reclusive healer.
Soon, he and his brother Brian have no choice but to leave their home. They…
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Smorgasbord Free Book Promotions 2023- Share an Excerpt from one of your published books - #Fantasy - Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
In this series authors were invited to share an excerpt of 500 words from any of their published books .
Submissions are now closed for this series but there will be another in eary 2024.. My thanks to all who have participated.
The featured author today is Andrew McDowell with an excerpt from his fantasy novel Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1)
About the book
Dermot is a…
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EL TANGO DE ROXANNE
CHAPTER ONE
Summary: Luke believes that somehow fate will bring you two together, but will other problems collide prevent it from coming true?
Warnings: small angst, unrequited love, pining, lovesick!luke, toxic relationship (not with luke), manipulative oc, tension, jealousy.
author's note: i know this not accurate to the pjo show or moulin rouge but be patient, it will all connect soon my darlings! this is my first actual fic! please lmk if there's any mistakes and your honest opinions on it.
one-sided love is one of the emotionally painful things a teenager can experience, but for demigods, it's nothing compared to the battles and quests they have to go through within their lives. though for luke castellan, he isn't currently facing any chimera or minotaur. the real monster for him is the one sat on the athena table, felix greenwood.
luke knew that annabeth was a daughter of athena, you could definitely tell by her hardworking strength but whenever he saw felix walk into cabin 6, it just didnt seem right. instead he would just vision a giant pit opening from the ground, fire and smoke erupting from it, and felix happily jumping in. it seems more fitting. luke watched as an aggravating smile came upon felix's face as his male siblings gloat over what has no importance to luke. however he notice felix's eyes occasionally observe one certain table in the distance, the ares table.
the children of ares are known to have feelings of anger, hatred, and bloodlust up to the point where they'd start physical fights. but you had always seemed guarded and tactile, whenever making a move or strategy during capture the flag, nobody would never know what you had done until somehow your already nearby the opponents flag. they never knew about the fiery rage boiling inside of you, bursting to get out.
however, everyone knew of your fondness towards felix, members of the camp adored and wished for a connection like yours. wherever you went, he was always within proximity. which for everyone else seemed charming, but luke truly doubted it.
luke felt cursed, not just by the gods, but for the predicament he's in. you have bewitched him in a way that no mystical creature ever can. he could even be dead in a grave, 6 feet below earth but he would still find a way to crawl back to you. luke admits that he is a romantic, believing that if your not with your true loved one for the rest of your life then what other purpose do you have than to lay down and accept the fate of death? he would destroy himself for you if it meant being in your loving gaze. but what he didn't know is that you were already crumbling due to the standards of your current love.
eating a cluster of cherries for breakfast, you look across at your siblings. you occasionally give input to the conversation, but words spoken by another repeat in your head.
"babe we didn't ask for you opinion, i love you but please just stay quiet for me."
you would always ignore his responses, at first they were subtle and not very often, but now it seems as if a censor inside of felix has now just unexpectedly been switched off. but after every argument or disagreement he would always come back, but only with gifts or manipulation, never a apology. somehow you would always be the blame or the reason. once, when you and him were sat along the sparkling lake together late at night, you asked him what it is that makes him love you.
"your hot and someone i can always talk about my problems too, i trust you."
if this is what love is supposed to feel like, you don't want it. people think love is something extraordinary, something that can last forever and withstand anything. but the love that you have with felix, it cracked and shattered ages ago, you just don't know where to run to.
you feel yourself getting disinterested with the conversation your siblings are having, and unconsciously gaze around. but something catches your eye, or rather someone. you feel as if your eyes are locked into places with his. while luke feels as if his heart has stopped beating, you feel as if you recognize him, brain muddled trying to pinpoint his face from your memory. maybe he's the new camp member everyone is talking about? you overheard that he was placed in the hermes cabin since he hadn't been claimed yet.
eyes still gazing into his, luke feels as if his face is on fire. chris clears his throat as he realizes that the conversation has suddenly became one sided, he then notices where luke's diverted attention has gone. a bright grin grows on chris's face as he aggressively nudges him in the arm.
"dude! oh my gods you have to go and speak to her! you've been waiting for this chance since like what- 3 years now!"
luke slowly nods while keeping eye contact with you, rising from his seat. he feels as if the gods have answered his prayer, everything moving in slow motion as his chance has finally landed in front of him. luke then hears the painful sound of a bell. he actually gets the temptation to grab you and pin you down, sat next to him so this opportunity doesn't dissappear. but we don't always get what we want. his mind can't actually tell if the crackling he hears is the sound of his heart aching even more as he notices felix striding over towards you or from the fire used for the offerings. surrendering, he makes his way over to the camps, chris giving a him sympathetic pat on the back.
you notice felix with egoistic look on his face making his way over to you, but with firmness, you walk straight past him. you can already tell he must have a dumbfounded look on his face based on the giggles and laughs you can hear from behind you, mostly coming from either his or your siblings, maybe even both. strolling by, you notice the same boy who seemed so fixated on you with his friend. looking behind you as you walk past, you check him out. he is quite attractive, somewhat of a muscular build, brown eyes and black hair.
little did you know that your glance back at him nearly gave him a heart attack. he had a plan to save you, whether it seemed wrong or right he wanted to help you realize that love can be beautiful if it's experienced with the right person.
you knew that from the way he was looking at you he definitely didn't want to be your friend, but he didn't want to be your enemy either.
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Feast
Fotfictober Prompts: 16 - Feast
Summery: Feast of starlight chaos
Pairing: Feren x Reader
Characters: (OC) Thalion, Thranduil, Legolas, Galion, Feren, Reader
Warnings: Mentioned! Drinking, Drunk Feren
Mereth Nuin Giliath also know as the Feast under the Stars or the Feast of Starlight, it was always a great event in the Greenwood, from its pre drinks to the feast itself and then the after party, it was always so extravagant and every year Thranduil managed to improve it some how, but each week before had was a festival crunch, the kitchens making sure they had enough food the winery making sure it had enough wine, the guards pulling double shifts and then there was you unlike the rest of the seamstress you had to work with Thranduil and Legolas making them the most extravagant and mystical clothes to wow the guest and to make sure they had something better than all the guests to wear.
"Y/n" you didn't look up at the king from the sewing of his long trail robe, he took a seat in front of you.
"I ran into some problems with fabics for your robes" you said Thranduil pushed your wrists down and held them, you looked at him, you had know the king since he was a young prince, you were always a few years younger than him, but you where a Silvan elf, your crush over the king soon left you once he married his wife and your attention turned to his commander, maybe you had just been in love with the idea of him and not him.
"You need sleep Mellon-nin you did not work well on little sleep, you can solve this in the morning" Thranduil said gently standing you up, you sighed and close your eyes.
"You are right as always on these matter mellon-nin" you said
"I cannot have my seamstress working herself to death, who would i find to trust enough to make my clothes to all my frustrating needs" Thranduil said you sighed
"But I will not be able to finish on time" you said
"I will just wear last times and then next time I will have this one" Thranduil said you agreed but little did the king know you snuck your work with you and finished it in your own rooms.
You delivered it to a guard and told him to give it to Thranduil before he made his grand entrance and made your way to the feast you had missed the pre drinks due to finishing Thranduil's outfit.
"Good to see you decided to show up Mellon, your doing that face again" Galion said
"What face" You said
"The face where you think their is a 50/50 percent chance the king will kill you" Galion said
"I finished the robes after he told me not to and got a guard to give them to him" You said
"Ah I see, good luck then" Galion said walking away
"Galion what do you mean of good luck, did he tell you what he would do to me" You asked going after your friend.
"I was not saying Good luck about Thranduil" Galion said you turned to were he was looking to see Feren approaching you, you sighed, you did everything to avoid him so why oh why did he have to find you now.
It was now Thranduil chose to save you, all eyes were on the doors he had just come out of, and the king walking down the stairs "Welcome to Mereth Nuin Giliath, Let the festivity begin" Thranduil said you used the gaze Thranduil held to escape Feren's you got to the king he caught your wrist.
"I though I told you to rest instead of finish it" Thranduil said
"My Mind would not leave me to rest without finishing it" you returned
"Join my table for tonight" Thranduil said you nodded and took the seat Thranduil wanted you to have, soon the food was on the tables and glasses were refilled.
"Aran Nin I must ask were you get your robes made they seem to get grander every occasion, I must invest in hireing them for myself aswell" a Noble said
"That do not take other customers they have enough work to do with Aran Thranduil's and Prince Legolas' robes they would not have time" You said the noble looked at you
"Or so i heard" you said looking back at your food
"Y/n is correct" Thranduil said gathering the hint you did not want to work for this noble no one liked him but he kept Thranduil in power so thats why he stayed
"I see such a shame" The man responded Thalion sighed
"I assume that means my request may also not be met" The man said Thalion was very much the opposite the the noble you had just turned down, his family had served in Oropher's Guard as long as anyone could remember he was the pretty boy of the nobles and the youngest given he became head of his house the same time Thranduil became king.
"That could be arranged" you said Thranduil glared at you, you just turned one noble down and took Thalion as a client right in front of him.
"Who does this seamstress think she is turning down my requests for his, who is it, I would like to put her down a couple of steps just because she serves the king doesn't make her so entitled to refuse service" The noble said
"The exact person who just accepted Thalion as her client" Thranduil said
"Y/n, It is a pleasure" Thalion said the other however started insulting you, before Thranduil could shut him up or Thalion for that matter Feren stood abruptly a pink dusting was over his cheeks due to how the drink was affecting him Thranduil turned his head to him and raised a brow at his drunk commander as did Thalion
"You will not insult lady y/n" Feren said
"And what will you do about it Silvan" The noble said
"I can do quite a lot like have you removed from this feast or have you forgot I am the commander of the kings guard" Feren said
"Why do you even protect the mongrel" the noble was right, Silvan and Noldor blood both ran in you and given how Sindar Elves hate the Noldor it was only natural to be insulted
"My lord, I believe the drink may have your tongue it maybe better for you to return to your room" Thalion said joining the two stood up
"You are excused from my table and you will not return to it until I say so" Thranduil said to the lord you cursed Feren for standing up for you it had only made you fall harder for the elf you covered your head in your hands on the table.
"This wine should be illegal" You muttered
"To the race of men it is" Thranduil said you groaned most of the table had left to join in the dancing all apart from you, the king, Thalion and Feren.
"Care for a dance my lady" Thalion said
"No thanks your not my type" You grumbled the lord got caught off guard, that you would say no to him, everyone swooned over him, dancing was one way to confess, it is an intimate moment having a partner that close.
Feren had disappeared off and soon came back, you were still moping about the wine, and Thalion and Thranduil were talking ideally, Legolas had pushed Feren back.
"Y/n" you turned your head up at the commanding voice of Feren with a groan, it was very clear Feren was drunk
"I don't wanna here it, say it when your sober if you mean it" You said
"I maybe drunk but my feelings are perfectly clear for you" Feren said leaning on the table in front of you, you put your finger to his forehead and pushed him back.
"To close" you said
"Gi Melin meleth nin I do not care if I am drunk, people say you say the things are are to scared to when sober and this is definitely the time for that, whenever I am sober I can never bring myself to tell you i seize up and then I can't find you again" Feren said you grabbed his chin
"Stop moving so much and face me" You said
"Your really annoying drunk you know, i prefer sober Feren" you said leaning over the table to him and connecting your lips
Elvish Translations:
Aran nin - My king
Gi Melin Meleth nin - I love you my love
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YOU HAVE A ROBIN HOOD RETELLING WIP?!
Hehehe sorry Robin Hood's always been one of my favorites so I was super excited when I saw that😁
WIP Files Game - Found HERE
Previous Robin Hood Ask #1 - Found HERE
@acertainmoshke More Robin Hood Retelling below...
Robin Hood was always one of my favourites too! It's why I decided to give one a try!
I don't have too much for this one yet, but I can dig into the plot-notes I have ready to go...
So the first thing I did was dig into some of the original legends because I didn't want to fall into the trap of rewriting the disney version (No matter that it sparked my love of the legend.)
Earliest surviving copies date from the late 15th century, and do not include Friar Tuck, Maid Marion, or the King Richard & The Crusades storyline, which is the storyline I see most frequently rehashed in literature and media.
The earliest tales also refer to Robin as a Yeoman, and while that meaning changed over time it originally meant a commoner. In the late 15th century is meant a landowner, between a peasant and a lord.
So Robin won't be a little lordling in my retelling. I'll be taking the story "A Gest of Robyn Hode" and twisting it a little into Robin's backstory instead.
A Knight travelling to hand over his lands because he owes a debt he can't repay, and Robin's father giving the Knight the money in exchange for taking Robin on as a squire.
And the Knight's daughter being Marion.
They'll be more magical elements with elves residing within the Greenwood, and after Robin's parents are killed he's raised by the elves, which is how he's able to hide to effectively from the Sheriff's men. There will be Druids and mystical symbolism within nature that Robin can read, and a King who owes the peasant boy his life.
And I have a lot of outlining to do, but those are some highlights from my notes so far :D
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OC Chart: Anna (Anushka)
Name: Anna (Anushka); Little Witch of the Greenwoods
Age: Late 20s
Universe: Arcana: The Mystic Romance
Love interests: Asra Alnazar
Personal details: magician's apprentice; The Empress (patron arcana); Pisces
Appearance: warm brown hair; brown eyes with specks of green; freckles; ~170cm tall
Personality: Anna is a bit of human sunshine. Always caring and compassionate, she tends to get mixed into things which don't necessarily involve her. Fast to forgive, unless she is the culprit in question. Slightly hot-headed at times. Easy to embarrass, generally shy in front of strangers.
Short backstory summary: [Contains spoilers]
Due to her unusual constitution, Anna was cast away from her community at a rather young age. Unable to control her own (overflowing) magic, she hid away in one of the caves in Vesuvia's forests. That is also where she met Asra, who later introduced her to Muriel. Given his natural affinity towards magic, and the knowledge passed onto him, he was able to set her onto the track of gaining control of her ability. Soon, the three of them became friends and started living together.
Later on in life, still as friends, Anna and Asra started their own shop with magical trinkets. She stayed in denial about her feelings for quite a while, similarly to Asra. The two of them got together sometime before the plague struck.
The events of the crisis unfolded similarly to the canon story - after an argument, Asra departs from Vesuvia, leaving Anna behind. She becomes infected, which leads to her untimely demise. However, Anna doesn't die per se. Aware of her condition, she decided to sign a contract with her patron arcana, asking for them to slow down the progress of the plague. The price is her body, and any memories involving her present in minds of those who resided in Vesuvia at the time. Consequently, she became locked between the worlds, not alive, but also not dead and thus, unable to pass.
Upon returning, Asra realised that not only she is nowhere to be found, but also that nobody but him seems to recall her. As in the game, he ends up recovering her. Unlike MC, however, Anna does have some recollection of her life -- it is only that her memories are rather disorganised and blurred, clarifying only with the progression of time.
Wild card(s):
>> Anna's condition allows her to channel great amounts of magical energy - the closer she is to the centre of earth and the longer she stays in one place, the more of it she accumulates. It led to multiple incidents, both destructive and not, eventually ending up with her being cast away. She's a great witch, but not a skilled one, the majority of her training focusing on managing her state alone. That being said, there are multiple more complicated feats she can accomplish with... Raw power output. (Which is why she was able to sign the contract).
>> At times, her magic reacts to her feelings, realising her fears or desires. However, when overflowing completely, it generally takes form of rampant winds, strong enough to break trees and destroy buildings. Whichever it is, she can always count on Asra to help her regain the control. She sees him as a sort of anchor.
>> People of Vesuvia still remember the Little Witch of Greenwoods. However, she's more of a legend than anything else, a popular story to scare children with. It's always a major annoyance to Asra.... Anna, on the other hand, sees it as just a natural turn of events. She never stopped feeling guilty about the damage she has caused.
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Smorgasbord Book Promotions – New Book on the Shelves – #Fantasy – Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
Smorgasbord Book Promotions – New Book on the Shelves – #Fantasy – Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
Delighted to welcome Andrew McDowell to the blog with his fantasy novel Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) About the book Dermot is a …Smorgasbord Book Promotions – New Book on the Shelves – #Fantasy – Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
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Coming Later this Week!
Coming Later this Week!
I you are looking for something to do on August 26th, check out Andrew’s book launch for Mystical Greenwood. It’s a great book.
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ASK GAME fanks @peribirb :3
1. 3 ships:
- Fitz x Simmons
- Brienne of Tarth x Tormund Giantsbane
- Norrin Radd x Dawn Greenwood (They deserved a happy ending, they deserved 1,000 issues together)
2. first ever ship: Don't remember, probably related to Deep Space Nine
3. last song: Sons of Neverland "Her Captive Soul"
4. last movie: Hugo (2011)
5. currently reading: Agents of Dreamland by Kaitlin R. Kiernan
6. currently watching: Quantum Leap season 2 (the new one)
7. currently consuming: Just ate tacos!
8. currently craving: human affection
9. tagging!!
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Smorgasbord Book Promotions - New Book on the Shelves - #Fantasy - Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
Smorgasbord Book Promotions – New Book on the Shelves – #Fantasy – Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1) by Andrew McDowell
Delighted to welcome Andrew McDowell to the blog with his fantasy novel Mystical Greenwood (One with Nature Book 1)
About the book
Dermot is a fifteen-year-old boy in the kingdom of Denú. He has always longed for more in life. Then everything changes after he sees a gryphon and crosses paths with a reclusive healer.
Soon, he and his brother Brian have no choice but to leave their home. They…
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Gerald's Game
It takes a very special director to get me to dislike a film in which Bruce Greenwood, in prime physical condition, spends most of the running time in boxer shorts. But then Mike Flannagan is a very special director, and his GERALD’S GAME (2017, Netflix) irritated me to no end. Up front, I’ll admit I did not perform due diligence. I didn’t check to see who had directed the picture before committing to it, or I likely would have passed. Of course, that also means I started disliking it before I began to suspect who was behind the camera. I got an inkling during the flashbacks when Henry Thomas turned up as the leading lady’s abusive father. Thomas and the film’s star, Carla Gugino, are Flannagan regulars. That’s not necessarily bad for them. He at least has the good sense to get out of the way and let them do their jobs well. But his directorial glitches still get in the way. Like the Stephen King novel on which it’s based, GERALD’S GAME details the predicament of Jessie (Gugino) when she’s left handcuffed to a bed in a remote vacation house after her husband (Greenwood) succumbs to a heart attack during some kinky sex. It’s an intriguing premise, and Gugino hits all the right emotional notes while Greenwood and Thomas present two very different portraits of abusive males. Yet, the whole thing gets rather tiresome. Some of that problem is in the source material, which explains away the story’s most horrific elements, rendering the mystical mundane, but where King had Jessie confront her personal demons through imagined encounters with women from her past, Flanagan has her caught in an imaginary debate between her husband and a more self-possessed version of herself. In place of King’s facile psychological mystery, Flanagan gives us A DOLL’S HOUSE with handcuffs. Instead of grappling with the very real issues of abuse, as Taylor Hackford did with his much better adaptation of DOLORES CLAIRBORNE (1995), the film seems to be using it as a facile plot device. I understand the need to honor the strength of abuse survivors, but this is so transparently plotted it all starts feeling convenient. Jessie was abused as a child so she could come out a stronger person — that sort of thing. There are hints of how powerful it all could have been, particularly in the scene in which Thomas convinces the younger Jessie (the very good Chiara Aurelia) it’s her idea to keep his sexual abuse a secret. But it all gets overwhelmed by Flanagan’s reliance on forced irony and simplistic solutions. Jessie deserved better from father and husband, and she also deserves better from this film.
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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737)
Samuel Allsopp (1780)
August J. Lang (1865)
Steve Shapiro (1950s)
Ed Chainey (1957)
Jennie Hatton (1971)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Cecil B. de Mille; film director (1881)
William Goldman; writer (1931)
Peter Krause; actor (1965)
Erwin Schrödinger; physicist (1887)
Abbot Thayer; artist (1849)
Famous Birthdays
Casey Affleck; actor (1975)
George Bellows; artist (1882)
Thomas Bewick; artist, illustrator (1753)
Michael Ian Black; comedian, actor (1971)
Helene Petrovna Blavatsky; Russian mystic, theosophist (1831)
"Diamond" Jim Brady; businessman (1856)
Cantinflas; actor, comedian (1911)
John Derek; actor (1926)
Rebecca Gayheart; actor (1972)
Bruce Greenwood; actor (1956)
Edith Hamilton; classicist, writer (1867)
George Hamilton; actor (1939)
Parnelli Jones; race car driver (1933)
Michael Kidd; dancer, choreographer (1915)
Mark Knopfler; English rock guitarist (1949)
Ann M. Martin; writer (1955)
Christy Mathewson; New York Giants P (1880)
Norris & Ross McWhirter; founders of Guinness Book of Records (1925)
Pat Metheny; jazz guitarist (1954)
Sir Mix-a-Lot; rapper (1963)
Buck Owens; guitarist (1929)
Marjorie Reynolds; actor (1917)
Mary Roberts Rinehart; writer (1876)
Pete Sampras; tennis player (1971)
George Soros; businessman (1930)
Robert Southey; English writer (1774)
Dominique Swain; actor (1980)
Suzanne Vega; pop singer (1959)
Porter Wagoner; country singer (1927)
Jennifer Warren; actor (1941)
Jane Wyatt; actor (1910)
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