Love Bytes is proud and extremely excited to reveal to you the brand new cover of Tam MacNeil ‘s upcoming release
“Salt & Iron”
Tam tells us something about the cover , shows the blurb , has a little excerpt for us and brought a giveaway along also 🙂
How’s that!
Welcome Tam 🙂
ARE WE READY!
HERE WE GO 🙂
About this cover:
Sometimes, at the bar sitting among authors you’ll hear people say things like, “I really loved your last book – too bad about the cover.”
This is not that kind of cover.
This is the kind of cover that people call you up to tell you they love. This is the kind of cover that makes people ask, “How did you get that?” I love this cover. I’ve worked with this (enormously talented) cover artist before, and they’re fantastic to work with. In fact, they had a pretty good idea of what they wanted to achieve before I even stepped in, which is great. It meant all I had to do was answer a few questions about a pivotal scene in the book, and then make whale noises when the draft appeared in my email inbox. I did. Make whale noises, I mean.
BLURB:
James van Helsing is the youngest son of the famous monster hunting family — and the family’s big disappointment. He’s falling in love with Gabe Marquez, James’s oldest friend and the son of the family the van Helsings have worked alongside for years. Things get even harder for James when he becomes what he and everyone else despises most — a magic user.
He didn’t mean to evolve into such a despicable person, and he knows using magic is illegal, but there’s nothing he can do about it, no more than he can stop himself from loving Gabe. Just when things can’t seem to get worse, he and Gabe are called to help nab a network of magicians who are changing destiny. Not just any destiny, but the destinies of the van Helsing and the Marquez families. James foresees a terrible fate, one in which monsters emerge from the cracks, along with his dark secret. And that’s when people start to die.
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He’s leaving when his phone buzzes against his backside, and he shes it out of his pocket. It’s a text from Gabe.
Request for meeting from Lennox.
Lennox? he texts back.
Old man witch from last night. Coming?
It turns his stomach, but he is free, and if he says he’s not it’d be easy for Gabe to nd out he’s lying and then to wonder why, and Gabe’s persistent, like his old man. It’s part of why they’ve done so well in the Firm. The Marquezes are probably the most well-thought- of family in the monster-hunting business, second after the van Helsings. If Gabe starts asking questions, he’s going to either hear that James had a bad headache that sent him to bed and want to know if he’s okay now, and James’ll have to fake a migraine for a few days, or he’ll turn up at James’s doorway, asking him to explain why he ducked out of work. The truth isn’t an option.
When?
Two hours.
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James sighs and doesn’t think, There but for the grace of God go I.
Okay, so maybe he does think that. The thing is, it could be him. If he had been born into another family, or if he’d been unluckier or stupider and said something when he was young, it could be him there, waiting for interrogation, shackled in iron, the skin aching where it touches metal.
It’s not a pleasant thought.
Tam MacNeil grew up in the Rocky Mountains, moved out west to go to university, and there she stayed. In the rainy season, she writes, reads, drinks far too much coffee, bakes, and cooks, and works hard to maintain an addiction to pop culture, social media, and cartoons. She also writes contemporary m/m romance under the name T Neilson.
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Could you survive in James and Gabe’s world? Well, how’s your skill at myth and religion? The first person who can can identify the gent on the left, or the lady in the middle, or tell me what you should never, ever do in the Realm of Fairy (assuming, of course, that you don’t want to stay there forever), will win a copy of Salt and Iron. If anybody answers all three of these questions they’re officially qualified to work at The Firm. And I’ll send you a copy of my forthcoming short story Putting Down Roots too.
In the realm of the Fairy, you should never eat or drink or you shall never escape.
You never accept food or drink in the realm of faery. Is that Puck on the left? Maybe Morrigan in the middle.
You never accept food or drink in the realm of fairy. Mary Magdalene, maybe? Maybe Baron Samedi?
I’m better in the myth department (although not by much) than religion. Is the guy on the left Robert Houdin? and possibly Virgin Mary? I would never insult a fairy or steal from the fairy realm.