Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker
by Warwick Gleeson
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GENRE: Fantasy (Epic)
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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.
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Excerpt:
Suddenly outside on the street, she
stood facing in the direction of the Cambodian take-out, her entire nervous
system tingling and parts shaking as if with Parkinson’s due to the abrupt
teleportation against her will. The night fell black and splattered with garish
light. She looked up to see the Wall Street corpse directly above her, and she
swore he was staring down with an oafish mocking expression as if he knew
something she did not. Then the ground quaked, and like balloons filled with
molten glass, every window in her apartment building exploded. The shrieks of
burning people next. How many she did not know, but she knew she must save
them.
Before Piper could act, a whip of
turbulent energy uncoiled like a sun flare from her living room window eight
stories above. She observed the Wall Street corpse nearby disintegrate into a
memory of burning sparks. She immediately recognized the nature of the force—a
Tao magical wavelength strong as a thunderstorm yet contained, compressed to a
small vortex, and potent enough to kidnap half of Brooklyn.
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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.
https://www.amazon.com/Warwick-Gleeson/e/B07QJ8L9BF/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19036873.Warwick_Gleeson
The book is
on sale for $0.99 during the tour
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