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Written by Graeme S. Houston
Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:12
Mythica’s next release is in pre-print production, with several novels and two anthologies to follow. Sean Hayden’s AmericanIdol will soon launch after Kristina Dalton’s Taken. American Idol is a fast-paced candid safari through modern society and its religious and cultural carryovers from the past. The anthologies are the collected short works of many talented authors, including two previously published by Mythica. Updates on the launch timetable will be intermittently posted here. We look forward to bringing these, and many very wonderful literary works to discerning and appreciative readers in the future.
Kiss of Life
Written by Admin
Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:18
Kiss of Life: Out Now!
Mythical proudly announces the launch of Brian L. Porter’s Kiss of Life.
The novel continues the story of Alan Dexter, his return to Romania and the fascinating woman he fell in love with the previous year. After experiencing a series of troubling dreams, dexter resolves to visit Romania, in order to put to rest his fears for his lover. Upon arrival he discovers that she has indeed gone missing, raising many questions about the nature of his strange dreams. How could his dreams, vivid as they are, be so true to life? Placing these questions from his mind, he resolves to find his lover and help her from whatever terrible danger has befallen her. His journey across the Romanian countryside marks the beginning of what will prove and incredible adventure.
The author of this intriguing novel recently won the Preditors & Editors best author category, Best Thriller Novel of 2008, as well as numerous other awards. Kiss of Life is now available in print from amazon.com with the ebook release to follow shortly.
Here at Mythica we're proud to announce that Brian L Porter's forthcoming vampire thriller 'Kiss of Life' has won the award for 'Most Eye Catching Cover' in The New Covey Cover Awards for July.
This follows on from Juan Pablo Jalisco's success in the previous month's awards and is a testament to the superb design skills of Graeme S Houston who of course produced the beautifully haunting design for Brian's book. We congratulat ethem both for adding to the growing list of successes for those associated with Mythica Publishing, and also thank everyonefor their votes that helped 'Kiss of Life to achieve it's well-deserved sucess.
(While you're there, Please vote for 'The Memoirs of Bear: Nueces Means Nuts' by Thomas D. Cooke which is in the latest lineup.)
Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 September 2009 19:13 )
Mythica Publishing's First Award!
Written by Admin
Saturday, 18 July 2009 17:00
We are delighted to receive news that Mythica Publishing's "Of Aztecs and Conquistadors" by Juan Pablo Jalisco is the winner of The New Covey Cover Awards' "Most Artistic Cover Award" for June 2009, making it Mythica's first award-winning book.
We would like to congratulate Juan Pablo and also Graeme S. Houston for his wonderfully innovative cover design. Juan Pablo's superb poetry collection is currently available in e-book format (see our a-book store for the kindle edition), or at Mobipocket.com and will be available in a paperback edition very soon. Details of the award can be found at the New Covey Cover Awards Website.
All of us at Mythica are very proud to be conected with this, our first award winner, and we hope this will be just the first of many more accolades for our great family of authors!
Further details on the work of Juan Pablo Jalisco, winner of The Preditors and Editors 'Best Poet of 2008 Award' can be found by visiting his website.
Nightmares & Daydreams is out now in ebook format! Heralded to the sound of fireworks around the world, Barbara Watkins' exciting short story collection is a great holiday read. Pick it up now!
Ranging from the psychological to the paranormal, each takes us to a dark, fascinating place. With 5 short stories and 4 poems, there’s plenty to choose from. Enjoy, as they take you beyond the boundaries of your imagination.
Beware the kindness of others. When an old windup jester is passed from a dying woman, perhaps her warning words should have been heeded. Dark events await those who treat such spirits lightly in ‘Spirits of a Jester’.
Hell hath no fury like a scorned wife, as she seeks revenge upon her cheating husband, find out his fate in ‘Deadly Addictions’.
From these, to the young man haunted by a letter from his long lost mother. She tells him about the dark place she ended up in, and the deal she made to spare his life. By giving him up, she may only have delayed the inevitable...
These great stories and more lie within this great volume, from the talented Barbara Watkins.
U.S. author Diana Rubino is the latest in a long line of successful authors to sign her next book to Mythica Publishing. 'A Necessary End' will be released in both paperback and e-book editions.
About 'A Necessary End'
Shakespearian actor John Wilkes Booth is famous, charming, and so sexy, brokenhearted women have attempted suicide over him. But the image he shows his adoring public is nothing like the real Booth. A tragic, troubled man, he leads a secret life, far from the theater’s applause and lights. By day, he’s a Confederate spy and courier, taking dangerous missions so that his beloved South can fight the North in the war that has torn the nation in two. An even darker secret plagues him–he believes he’s the reincarnation of Brutus, the man who slew the tyrant Caesar, and Booth’s destiny in this life is to murder the tyrant who’s ravaged the South—Abraham Lincoln. In obeying the spirit of Brutus, Booth devises a plot to assassinate the tyrant.
But, as many tragic heroes have surrendered their hearts to a beautiful woman, Booth falls in love with Alice Grey, an actress from the North who’s been hired to spy on Booth and thwart his murderous plans. Both he and Alice become torn between their loyalties to their countries and their growing love for each other. As Booth struggles to ward off Brutus’s controlling spirit, he realizes he can’t escape his fate. He’s destined to live and die the life that’s given him.
Will Alice’s love for Booth win out over her duty to protect the President from assassination? A surprise twist at the end seals Booth’s fate, which we know from the history books, but did it really end that way? The open question remains: Did Booth perish in the burning barn that night, or did he escape and return to his beloved?
THE MEMOIRS OF BEAR: Nueces Means Nuts is the story of Bear Williams; half breed Apache Private Eye whose grandfather was a tribal holy man. Despite years of training by his grandfather, Bear's mystic abilities are nominal and he solves most of his cases the old fashioned way, by hard work and, in Bear’s case, good friends and dumb luck. The case's genesis, a deadly boring missing persons case, quickly turns into a cruel and grisly murder and a scandal of gigantic proportions. As the scandal is revealed it unwaveringly involves the cream of Texas society, a crazed preacher, an oil theft, homicide and rudeness, the last of which is regarded by some as a Capital Offense in Texas. Despite two attempts on his life, Bear and his team of allies plod steadily forward and start to stack fact on top of fact until a preponderance of evidence starts to point to a surprising suspect. Even more surprising is how abruptly justice is meted out and by whom. The well defined and likeable characters in this tale will draw the reader into the complex web of crime and scandal that surrounds the likeable Bear and his friends as they strike fear into the hearts of the perpetrators of the crime…eventually!
Print always warrants a new cover. The new cover will be used for both ebook and print. I left the old cover in this post so you can compare them.The ebook version will be released on the 15th of this month (June), get ready for the launch party! Above is the front / spine / back cover, there is a word for it but in my excitement I've forgotten it. Do check out Tom's video on the Ning site! Below is an advert for our titles done Tom Cooke style in homage to the original vid, but it cannot compare to the original.
Check out Tom Cooke's original (and still the best) trailer:
We have a few more big announcements to come, but here is a video in the meantime of our lineup as it currently stands. Anything not mentioned doesn't yet have a cover, but will get a cover and a mention soon.
Book Store
Written by Graeme S. Houston
Monday, 01 June 2009 22:12
We have now launched our own book store in conjunction with Amazon.com so that all our titles can be accessed from the one central location in print and kindle formats. Other formats are still available through links on this site. The link is in the top right menu bar.
We are delighted to receive news that Mythica Publishing's "Of Aztecs and Conquistadors" by Juan Pablo Jalisco is the winner of The New Covey Cover Awards' "Most Artistic Cover Award" for June 2009, making it Mythica's first award-winning book.
We are delighted to announce that "The Memoirs of Bear" by Thomas D. Cooke is out now!
