Author Don Allmon is joining us today to talk about new release “The Burning Magus”, book 3 in the Blue Unicorn series.

Welcome Don 🙂

Howdy all! And welcome to the blog tour for book three of the Blue Unicorn trilogy, THE BURNING MAGUS!

THE BURNING MAGUS is a cyberpunk/fantasy Ocean’s 11. Or it would be if Danny and Rusty had been an orc and an elf, they’d been lovers, and the Bellagio casino had been an evil wizard’s tower.

If you’ve been following the series, BURNING MAGUS brings the whole gang together: JT and Austin, Comet and Buzz, the Blue Unicorn and Roan.

It’s the final book in the series where the heroes get their HEA, the villains their come-uppance, and well… I won’t spoil everything.

For this book tour I’d like to introduce y’all to some of the minor characters in THE BURNING MAGUS and this time around I’d like to introduce you to SCORPIO:

In book one of the Blue Unicorn trilogy, THE GLAMOUR THIEVES, JT, Austin, and Buzz allied themselves with a wizard named Victor the Transmutor. In BURNING MAGUS their sorcerer is Scorpio, the water wizard.

[Scorpio] took a seat at the table. Everyone stared. Somehow her beach-bum clothes and knitter’s bag made her the most outlandish person in the room. Either that, or it was the watery footprints she left across the living room’s once pristine carpet.

Practicing the magical arts makes a person a bit weird and Scorpio is no exception. She’s a fisher and a beach comber. She has Christmas lights and troll dolls decorating her rickety boat. And she knits socks.

Scorpio is displaced just like everyone else in this story. Instead of being a respected elder she ought to have been, she’s a “down low wizard” who has hit rock bottom then discovered a private faith in the sea and the mysteries it hides.

Her patron is an ancient sea spirit called “The Phoenician.” Like Victor’s silver eyes in GLAMOUR THIEVES, Scorpio’s carries a source of power that represents her tie to her patron: a gold doubloon recovered from an old Spanish wreck.

Scorpio sees a greater justice in the world: something beyond JT and Austin’s sense of right and wrong.

“I relish this,” Scorpio said. “My drowned patron versus a dragon.”

Goddamn, why did wizards have to be so fucking creepy? “Yeah, well, it’s not gonna be us versus a dragon, okay? Abbadon ain’t here. Bad enough we got Firelight, and the whole point is to fly under his radar, not fight him.”

“We’re already fighting him. Perhaps we always have been.”

Scorpio offers a perspective on magic that’s fundamentally different from Austin, Victor, or the druids. I hope you all enjoy her!

 

About The Burning Magus

Love can make a good crime go bad.

JT was a perfectly happy orc building cars in the Arizona desert until his old friend and sometimes lover Austin showed up and talked him into one last crime. Now “one last crime” has snowballed. With a new team of thieves — a supersoldier, a hacker, a driver, a graffiti artist, and a seafaring wizard — JT and Austin are determined to free an artificial intelligence from the dungeon of the Burning Magus.

For JT, this job is more than a prison break; it’s a do-over of The Job That Went Bad two years ago, the catastrophe in which JT lost his closest friend and then chose to abandon everything, even Austin. Maybe this time no one will die. Maybe this time JT can return to Arizona and bury his old life for good.

Except Austin won’t be buried. After two years alone, Austin knows he wants JT — not just as a partner in crime, but as the lover he always should have been. Maybe this time they won’t make the same mistakes, especially when it comes to each other.

Now available from Riptide Publishing!

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About the Blue Unicorn Universe

JT is an orc on the way up. He’s got his own boutique robotics shop, high-end clientele, and deep-pocketed investors. He’s even mentoring an orc teen who reminds him a bit too much of himself back in the day.

Then Austin shows up, and the elf’s got the same hard body and silver tongue as he did two years ago when they used to be friends and might have been more. He’s also got a stolen car to bribe JT to saying yes to one last scheme: stealing the virtual intelligence called Blue Unicorn.

Soon JT’s up to his tusks in trouble, and it ain’t just zombies and Chinese triads threatening to tear his new life apart. Austin wants a second chance with JT — this time as more than just a friend — and even the Blue Unicorn is trying to play matchmaker.

The Blue Unicorn stories can be enjoyed in any order — jump in wherever you’d like!

 

About Don Allmon

In his night job, Don Allmon writes science fiction, fantasy, and romance. In his day job, he’s an IT drone. He holds a master of arts in English literature from the University of Kansas and wrote his thesis on the influence of royal hunting culture on medieval werewolf stories. He’s a fan of role-playing games, both video and tabletop. He has lived all over from New York to San Francisco, but currently lives on the prairies of Kansas with many animals.

Connect with Don:

• Website: www.donallmon.com
• Twitter: @dallmon
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To celebrate the release of The Burning Magus one lucky person will win a copy of the cookbook BIG GAY ICE CREAM by Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint! https://biggayicecream.com/new-page/ Leave a comment with your contact info to enter the contest. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on November 24, 2018. Thanks for following along, and don’t forget to leave your contact info!