Happy Hump Day, readers and writers! I hope the new year is treating all of you well, political strife aside. To my Australian readers, please stay safe with these bushfires still rampaging, and here’s hoping that those will die down soon. To those outside of Australia, if you would like to help out even on a small scale, here is an article from USA Today detailing how you can provide aid to victims of these fires. Now, onto the matter at hand. Today marks the first time I’m partaking in a very special part of the publishing process called a cover reveal. In particular, I am here to bring you the cover for The Hollow Gods by A.J. Vrana, the first book in the Chaos Cycle Duology.
A.J. Vrana is a debut novelist specializing in explorations of the surreal, the fantastical, and the forgotten. A Serbian-Canadian academic and lifelong resident of Toronto, Vrana holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in Humanities from York University. She is also working on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto exploring the relationship between the supernatural in modern Japanese and Balkan fiction and violence.
Her first published novel, The Hollow Gods, will be available on Amazon through The Parliament House Press July 28, 2020. Pre-orders will be announced soon on Vrana’s website.
Now, for the big reveal!
About the Book
Black Hollow is a town with a dark secret.
For centuries, residents have foretold the return of the Dreamwalker—an ominous figure from local folklore said to lure young women into the woods and possess them. Yet the boundary between fact and fable is blurred by a troubling statistic: occasionally, women do go missing. And after they return, they almost always end up dead.
When Kai wakes up next to the lifeless body of a recently missing girl, his memory blank, he struggles to clear his already threadbare conscience.
Miya, a floundering university student, experiences signs that she may be the Dreamwalker’s next victim. Can she trust Kai as their paths collide, or does he herald her demise?
And after losing a young patient, crestfallen oncologist, Mason, embarks on a quest to debunk the town’s superstitions, only to find his sanity tested.
A maelstrom of ancient grudges, forgotten traumas, and deadly secrets loom in the foggy forests of Black Hollow. Can three unlikely heroes put aside their fears and unite to confront a centuries-old evil? Will they uncover the truth behind the fable, or will the cycle repeat?
http://thechaoscycle.com/the-hollow-gods/
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