Friday, June 7, 2019
Virtual Book Tour + #Giveaway: Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker by Warwick Gleeson @GoddessFish
Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker
by Warwick
Gleeson
GENRE: Fantasy
(Epic)
BLURB:
WORLD WAR OZ from
coast to coast.
An adult fantasy that
takes one of America's favorite tales and transforms it into a dark and epic
landscape few can escape much less understand. Imagine Potter meets Avengers in
Emerald city and you're getting close.
After a homicidal
alien from Orion arrives on Earth intent on annihilating human life, the 21st
century's greatest sorcerers create a network of seven Oz-like city worlds
designed to harbor the human race in a newly formed utopia while also
protecting it from the alien entity. But the alien is far more magically
powerful than anyone suspected. Piper Robbin, ancient daughter of the Earth's
greatest sorcerer inventor, Edison Godfellow, must sacrifice all to defeat the
implacable force that calls itself "The Witch Queen of Oz," and
quickly, before Earth becomes only a cold cinder floating among the stars.
Excerpt:
THE FORGOTTEN CHILD IN PIPER ROBBIN,
for the first time that day in the coffee shop, understood the meaning of true
panic. Crushing a stone to powder or throwing a javelin half a mile wouldn’t
fix anything (and neither would anyone in New York care) like in the old days
of Ulysses. Muttering spells that made deserts bloom or oceans boil meant less
than cooking a burger on the grill. Mortality for all, even the gods and
greatest sorcerers, might be just around the corner. People think just because
you’re a great magical being of some kind you have it made. Nothing could be
more wrong. Your hopes and dreams are often spit on, your happiness ruined,
your friends killed, and you lose sleep at night, worrying about shit just like
everyone else. And besides obligations you really don’t want, you face
mega-dangerous freaks way too often because you’re expected to, you know, cause
you’re the official bad ass superwoman. By the gods! Really? You crawl in pain
and heave up your insides for starters, die in lots of ways, and after all that
trouble, sometimes you don’t come back.
Interview
with Warwick Gleeson
Any
weird things you do when you’re alone?
I dim the lights, put on a Halloween glow-dark skull
mask, and boogey to “Year of the Cat” by Al Stewart while looking at myself in
a mirror.
What
is your favorite quote and why?
Cease
debate on what it means to be a good person, and be one.
Covers a lot of bases.
Who
is your favorite author and why?
Nathanael West who wrote Miss Lonelyhearts. He threw a harpoon in the side of positivity
culture by revealing a world of true human suffering we choose to ignore, and by
portraying efforts to cure said suffering as ultimately self-deluding.
What,
in your opinion, are the most important elements of good writing?
It depends on whether one is writing fiction for
commercial or non-commercial markets. If genre commercial, important basic
elements include:
1. Prose
mastery (to a level applicable).
2. An
inventive imagination that doesn’t just reflect the genre, but adds to it.
3. Proper
scene creation.
4. Suspenseful,
vigorous, and appropriately cinematic narrative.
5. Utilization
of dramatic story technique (back to Aristotle).
6. The step-by-step
points and nuances of commercial plot.
7. Dynamic
and multi-dimensional characters, especially strong antagonists who ignite the
plot and embolden the protagonist.
8. Theme(s)
that interweave the story and provoke the reader in an artful manner.
How did
you get the idea for this book?
I wished to write a novel that created a very different
take on Oz, and in a manner that embraced the often misunderstood genre of
science-fantasy.
AUTHOR Bio
and Links:
Warwick
Gleeson is a dedicated writer of screenplays, short stories, novels, and
poetry. He has lived in both LA and NYC and worked many different jobs in his
life, everything from roofer to waiter to small business owner to government
analyst. He was the major writer, creator, and senior story editor for another
project published by Del Sol Press called "War of the World Makers"
that debuted in 2017. The novel has since won four national novel awards (two
first place and two place) for SFF. Warwick is a big fan of great SFF
television writing, like the kind you find in Emerald City, Gotham, The
Expanse, and Umbrella Academy. He now lives in Tuscon, AZ, with a fat lazy cat
and his most wonderful wife who is also a writer.
The book is on sale for $0.99 during the tour
Giveaway:
$50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC
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12 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
Thank you for having Piper.
Happy Friday, thanks for sharing :)
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Thank you for the excerpt and the interview. I enjoyed reading them both. Good Luck on your tour :)
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