VBT + #Giveaway: The Dark Eve: A New Recruit by TK Thompson @darkeveseries @GoddessFish

The Dark Eve: A New Recruit

by TK Thompson

GENRE:   Fantasy

BLURB:

Young Audim Basile hates life dominated by his cold, controlling father. But his dreams of fortune and adventure are turned upside down when he runs off to weigh anchor with the toughest, most barbaric band of pirates the criminal underworld has ever known.

Together with their dark, mysterious female captain, Acantha – who’ll run her sword through anyone who looks at her the wrong way – Basile and his fellow swashbuckling bandits sail the globe, fighting hordes of terrifying supernatural creatures that would make even the hardiest buccaneer quake with fear.

Together with his newfound crew mates, Basile must help with finding Acantha’s sister – who’s been missing for over a year – while being consumed with trying to solve the mystery of Acantha’s illusive past – before the evil Wraith King sends all of them to a premature watery grave.

Will Basile survive the fiercest test of his young life? Will Acantha sacrifice her own ship and crew (including young Basile) just to save her sister? Will young Basile come to terms with the price of the high-seas way of life and fortune?

In her stunning debut novel, T.K. Thompson launches readers on the most exhilarating ocean journey since Pirates of the Caribbean. Only time will tell if Acantha, Basile, and their hardy shipmates will live to tell this heart-stopping tale and fight another day.

Excerpt:

Cornelius leaned over the bar, his voice wispy and deep. “They say she was born with the mark of darkness, killing her first man at two.”

The bartender’s voice grew louder. “A vixen and horror of the seas, she is. She’d be the rarest beauty ever to fall upon any man’s eyes, but dare you gaze upon her, and your eyeballs would be plucked from your skull with her twin blades at her side. Her only love is the darkest parts of the sea where sharks follow her like babies to a mother. The Dark Eve, her ship, be stained red with blood, and sirens sing at the helm, estranging men from their souls. And treasures,” Cornelius paused, his voice straining, “mountains of gold, cursed by her blood, hidden.”

Hurly lifted an eyebrow in response as Cornelius continued.

“I tell you, be careful!” he warned, his voice rising. “She’s not to be messed with. Her heart is black!” he stressed, spitting out the words. The air of the tavern had grown thick with the influence of the old man’s speech.

Guest Post:

Do you have any advice for anyone that would like to be an author?

Start writing. Do it every day. If I could go back I would have started so much earlier that 30! But I didn’t ever think that I could or would be an author. I just thought I had a very large imagination, which wasn’t very practical or useful. It didn’t even register in my brain to be a writer until the idea and story presented itself and I couldn’t help but to write it. Write down your ideas, all of them!  It took me four years to write, The Dark Eve: A New Recruit.  Four years!!!! After that though it only took me six months to do my next. I had figured out my method of writing and now that I had, it was all too easy to continue writing.

Have realistic expectations of yourself and of others around you. Not everyone is going to support you the way that you want them to. Even my own mother hasn’t read my first book. She is not a big reader and falls asleep with every book she reads. Accept what others are willing to do to support you or you could find yourself very frustrated and disappointed with large expectations.

Spend a whole lot of time just thinking about your characters. I talk to people all the time that are so excited about their plot and the idea of the book that they forget we have to follow someone’s journey. Sometimes I just run through conversations in my head with my characters. Some don’t ever see the page, but they become very real to me that I can talk about them as if they were a real live person. Remember everyone has a present, future, and a past, your characters should have them as well.

Join a writers group were you can get honest critiquing feedback and don’t ever get defensive of what feedback you get. You need to know how your story reads through another person’s mind. Whether or not they were confused or had an emotional experience. You need to see what a reader sees, because the book lives and breathes in your mind like a movie can. Does the reader experience the same thing? A good way to start is by asking those that read it for you these questions. What did you like? What didn’t you like? Were you ever confused or bored? What type of emotions did you feel? What do you think will happen next?

AUTHOR BIO:

I was born in Provo, UT and raised in copper mining towns in-between Arizona and New Mexico.  I can be compared to a lizard. The warm weather makes a great home, but I have always had a love for the rain and overcast skies, extremely contradictory from my given habitat. That’s how I see myself sometimes, a lover of opposites. I would consider my childhood to be groundless when it came to my imagination.  I was trapped inside my own mind and I believe I learned the world in small harsh but necessary truths, like a slow awakening.  My little stories had their encompassing place along with underdeveloped drawing skills.  But rationality whispered in my ears through my upbringing. I sought out what I felt to be important, the events of graduating high school, Silver City, NM 1999.  I went to a safe community college in Thatcher, AZ.  They say that college is a large defining time in a young person’s life. It’s where they start to wonder about who they are, what they know as truth, and far away from those that defined it for them.  I was of course set with innate knowledge and experience and given power with irrational brain resources.  My heart had plenty of stitches and I gave many to others. But I could not find peace in a single person. My ideas of life, love, and the world that I wanted to exist in felt unattainable. Having the whole picture felt like an impossible task. I went on a mission for my church in Washington, where I happily got my rain and clouds. Spending eighteen months dedicated to serving others and not yourself is a mind-opening task.  It set me up to find the true roots within and be ready to insult my future husband Dustin Thompson when he walked through the door. I am as plain as I want to be.  I have three crazy children to help fuel my life and since have received my Bachelors Degree in business management, UOP.  But most of all I have tapped back into my imagination, pushed aside all rationality, and finished one of my best thoughts so far. Every day I continue to face my vulnerabilities.

                                                                         

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The Dark Eve will be $0.99 during the tour. The sequel to this book series is also available. The second book is called "The Dark Eve: A Witch's Curse".

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