Shout Out to Indies with giveaway.

 

 

We here at The Paperback Princesses often receive emails from Indie authors requesting reviews and are blessed with free book copies. Often we are unable to get to so many titles before our mass market published books take over our TBR shelves. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of great reads though! We want to give back to those Indie authors and are declaring EVERY SECOND SUNDAY our SHOUT OUT TO INDIES MEME. For those of fellow bloggers, please feel free to add our meme to your regular schedule. We only ask that you quote and link back to us as a courtesy. For all of you Indie authors, we invite you to contact us at the contact link to your top left. We will select 1 - 3 titles (each time we post) that sound interesting. Lastly, for you readers, this is a bit of a test so please do comment and let us know what you think. We will also be offering up giveaway copies whenever we can! So without further ado, here is this week's pick -

 

 

 

Published: 2012

Summary: Goodreads



 

After the brutal murder of her parents in a robbery, Katelyn Corbin, a thoroughly modern 21 year old college senior, finds herself attempting to re-start her life in Charleston, SC, where she finds love, healing and a brand new life in a most unexpected avenue.

This story follows Katelyn from her hometown just outside Atlanta to her new school in Charleston. There she meets James and is deeply intrigued by him from their first meeting; feeling as if he has touched her very soul. The more she considers him, the more intense her interest becomes. He is a wealthy patron of the arts, especially at her school. He is tall and handsome with a strong persona; a young widower, living alone in a huge, but beautifully restored old plantation house called 'Whitehall'. Their friendship soon becomes serious, becoming a full on relationship as Katelyn falls madly in love with him. James soon makes his love for her just as obvious. Their lives begin to blend, twisting and turning, as they continue to grow closer.

After several strange incidents, Katelyn begins to develop a series of unsettling questions about her new love. However, she knows that after facing the catastrophe of her parent’s deaths, she can face anything life throws at her. She begins looking at the questions, searching her own soul. Finally deciding that she must know the answers, she confronts him. She soon discovers James' true nature; confirming her fears that he was indeed not the man she thought, but the man she feared him to be. The confirmation of her suspicions are shocking to her, turning her world view on its side. She is forced to acknowledge things about herself and her world that she never thought possible. With her new found knowledge, Katelyn realizes she must make a choice to live with or without James. She quickly decides to adapt her life and adjust her beliefs in order to continue to be with James.

Their love for each other develops and continues to grow as he assists her to close the gaping wounds left by the tragedy of her parent’s murders. Katelyn continues to uncover other secrets, discovering another existence, as she begins her new life with James. The story reaches a highly emotional and completely unexpected ending that fully illustrates Katelyn's personality of love and care for those around her.

The Master of Whitehall, a paranormal romance novel is complete at 104,000 words. The story unfolds over the course of nearly a year, and features flashbacks that more fully develop each of the characters, offering insights into their personal histories. The story is narrated in first person perspective by Katelyn as she offers a window into the world of possibilities of love between mortal and immortal.

The Master of Whitehall will be very appealing to readers of Rachel Caine's 'Morganville Vampires', Charlaine Harris’ ‘True Blood’ series, and Anne Rice's 'Vampire Chronicles'.

 

I asked Rick if he could tell us why he chose to write for the 'new adult' crowd and this is what he said:

I chose to write “The Master of Whitehall” for the new adult/college age group because most of the books I have read in the vampire romance genre are either in the young adult/high school or adult age range. There just didn’t seem to be anything for the transition age range. I wanted something that would fill in the gap between L.J. Smith and Anne Rice. Then too, I think a lot my inspiration actually came from running out of books! I have read for many years and enjoyed most of what I’ve read. I am a big Anne Rice fan … Go Lestat! … So when I finished all the vampire books I could … Rice, Smith, Harris, Craine … I decided that if they could write a vampire story, then so could I; so I wrote my own. I chose vampires because I have always enjoyed reading and watching movies about vampires. I was actually hooked by Barnabas Collins in “Dark Shadows” way back in 1966.

I wanted a setting in the Low Country of South Carolina with a lot of history surrounding it. Whitehall was a long ago plantation outside of Charleston and is now nothing but ruins. The tour I was on when I found it said that nobody really knows what happened to it … it just went away. That opened all kinds of ideas for some ‘what-if’s’ and so Whitehall was reborn in my mind.

I chose Katelyn as the lead character because I wanted her to tell the story. It just seemed that it would be more interesting from her point of view to modern readers. It became an interesting experience. I think the most challenging part of writing through a woman’s eyes is having to stop and think about what, how, and where she would say something. Sometimes just getting Katelyn’s perspective correct, not only as a woman, but as a young woman with limited life experiences, was extremely thought provoking. There are the special times when I had to stop and think and ask myself would/should she really do this or say that? Fortunately, I have a lot of female friends of all ages that I was able to call on for advice and answers.

If any of your readers would like to keep up with James, Katelyn and the rest of the family of Whitehall, I’d like to invite them to drop any of my pages listed below. “The Master of Whitehall” is available in a signed/inscribed print edition for only $19.99 or a special illustrated e-book in .pdf format for $5.00 directly from me. I can be contacted at author@prtcnet.com for further information. It is also available in Kindle format at Amazon. If any of your reader’s mention that they saw this on your blog, they will receive a 10% discount and free shipping on the print edition, approximately a $5.00 value.

Rick has also very kindly offered some swag for our readers.  We have a signed print copy, 2 ecopies and some bookmarks to give away.  WOW.  So if you're interested, leave us a comment with your email and we'll see what we can do.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Master-of-Whitehall/309003255855431 (fan page)

http://www.facebook.com/master.whitehall (public page)

http://rickveal.deviantart.com/ (see the “Character Series” prints and read all reviews here)

http:// www.amazon.com/dp/B0086YRR80  (purchase Kindle version here)