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The Bull Riding Witch
By Jamie Marchant
Publisher: Bewitching Fables
Press
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: 209 Pages
ISBN: 978-0997862454
ASIN: B072PD19DT
Buy Link: Amazon
On Sale for $.99 on July 17th Only!
About the book:
Daulphina’s father, the King
of Asteria, has always wanted a male heir. Unfortunately for him, Daulphina’s
magic means that will never happen unless her bastard half-brother displaces
her on the throne. But she’ll take on all the gods herself before she lets that
happen. He isn’t nice enough to be a good king.
But apparently, the gods
don’t like being challenged because she’s flung across the void and into the
dumpy old trailer and chiselled body of Joshua Killenyen, a rodeo bull rider
from Alabama. With nothing to eat but Frosted Flakes and no knowledge how she
got there, she better find a way home before she gets her head stomped in by
the bulls she must ride. Or her brother will take the throne and reduce her
people to slavery. Remember, he isn’t nice.
ExcerptAnd then, I woke up as a man.I stared at the warm water falling over me. It had to be magic. Somebody magicked me into a man’s body. Dear gods, did that mean this hairy man was in my body? Was body-switching possible? Granny had never mentioned any such thing when she taught me everything she knew about magic, not that I’d ever been anything but a disappointment to her. I never had the raw power she expected of her successor. Or was my body empty? Or dead?I was still staring at the falling water when Jocelyn yanked the stall door open. “Joshua, I told you you had ten minutes. Damn it, what’s wrong with you? You still have your boxer shorts on. Have you even washed yourself?” She turned the knob, and the water went away.I stared up at her. “Miss, you have to believe me. I’m not Joshua.”She put her hands on her hips. “Who are you, then? The queen of England?”“No, I’m not a queen. I’m the crown princess of Asteria. I’ve never heard of England.”She put her hand to her forehead. “Joshua, just how drunk are you?”“I’m not drunk. This isn’t my body. Somebody magicked me into it.”Jocelyn stared at me for a second. “I don’t know what you’re playing at, but it isn’t going to get you out of going to Meemaw’s.”I rose abruptly. “I’m not going anywhere until someone explains what’s going on! Just how did I become a man?”
Jamie began writing stories
about the man from Mars when she was six, and she never remembers wanting to be
anything other than a writer. Everyone told her she needed a back up plan, so
she pursued a Ph.D. in American literature, which she received in 1998.
She started
teaching writing and literature at Auburn University. One day in the midst of
writing a piece of literary criticism, she realized she’d put her true passion
on the backburner and neglected her muse. The literary article went into the
trash, and she began the book that was to become her first novel. She writes
about the fantastic . . . and the tortured soul. Her poor characters have hard
lives.
She still teaches writing and literature at Auburn University. She is
the mother of a grown son.
Links:
Website:
http://jamie-marchant.com/
Twitter: @JamieMarchantSF
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ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting me. I'd love to answer any questions your readers have and will be stopping by throughout the day. What the most unusual setting for an urban fantasy you've read before?
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