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Blood Sky Book Blog Tour

Posted on:August 11, 2015

This post lists tour stops for the Blood Sky Book Blog Tour.

Bewitching Book Tours Set up a really nice book tour for my forthcoming novel BLOOD SKY.

Schedule Blood Sky by Traci L. Slatton

August 24- September 21

August 24 Spotlight
Booklover Sue
http://bookloversue.blogspot.com

August 25 Spotlight
Zenny’s Awesome Book Reviews
https://zennysawesomebookreviews.wordpress.com/

August 26 Spotlight
3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, and Sissy, Too!
http://3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com/

August 27 Spotlight
T’s Stuff
http://teresanoel.blogspot.com/

August 28 Interview
Deal Sharing Aunt
www.dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com

August 31 Guest blog
Roxanne’s Realm
www.roxannerhoads.com

September 1 Spotlight
Books That Hook
http://booksthathook.com/

September 2 Review
Fantatical Paranormal Romantical
http://fanaticalparanormalromantical.com/

September 3 Spotlight
Lisa’s World of Books
www.lisasworldofbooks.net

September 4 Character Interview
Eclipse Reviews
www.totaleclipsereviews.blogspot.com

September 7 Spotlight
Books and Tales
http://booksandtales.blogspot.co.uk/

September 8 Interview
Literary Musings
www.literarymusing.weebly.com

September 8 Spotlight
Books N Pearls
http://booksnpearls.com/blog

September 9 Interview
Author Karen Swart
www.authorkarenswart.blogspot.com

September 10 Interview
The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom
www.creativelygreen.blogspot.com

September 11

September 14 Interview
Urban Fantasy Investigations
http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/

September 15 Spotlight
Marianne Willis Author
https://mariannewillisauthor.wordpress.com/

September 16 Spotlight
Live Laugh and Love Books
https://livelaughandlovebooks.wordpress.com

September 16 Spotlight
Around the World in Books
http://www.aroundtheworldinbooks.ca/

September 17 Spotlight
Houston Havens
https://houstonhavens.wordpress.com

September 18 Spotlight
CBY Book Club
http://cbybookclub.blogspot.co.uk

September 18 Spotlight
Geeks In High School
http://www.geeksinhighschool.com

September 18 Spotlight (review)
Books and Authors
http://bookreviewsandauthors.blogspot.com/

September 21 Guest blog
Fang-tastic Books
www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com

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BLOOD SKY by Traci L. Slatton: Coming Soon

Posted on:July 29, 2015

BLOOD SKY is available for Amazon pre-order.

In a time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test… Deep in the badlands of Outpost City, in the Dark Horse saloon, a poker game is being played. The stakes are life and death—for the world. What can Emma afford to lose? Will she gamble on herself, or on Arthur? Will love find a way when the apocalypse closes in? A mystical odyssey, a haunting love…

The eagerly awaited fourth book in the award-winning paranormal romantic dystopian After Series will soon be published.

A few select bloggers have been offered the ARC. If you’re a reviewer and you’re interested in an Advance Review Copy, please contact me directly.

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Maturing Whole: The beautiful books of David Richo (from the HuffPo)

Posted on:February 18, 2015March 31, 2015

Maturing Whole: The Beautiful Books of David Richo was first run on the Huffington Post.

Years ago, while running an errand, I encountered a woman on the sidewalk whom I know. She and I each have reason to feel disgruntled with the other. When I glanced at her, I saw that she was, literally, shaking with rage. Her features were twisted and reddened with hate. Rage radiated out from her in palpable, caustic waves.

For whatever reason—not because I’m enlightened—her radioactivity didn’t scorch me. She was spitting mad and didn’t bother to hide it because she wanted me to feel it, but I witnessed it without taking it on. It’s something I’m usually not good at. But on that extraordinary day, I simply observed. I thought, “So that’s why all the spiritual teachers say to forgive. She’s suffering more from her hate than I am.”

It was an epiphany for me, who lives, imperfectly, a life seeking awakening. Looking at that woman, and feeling sorry for her, filled my mind with the keen understanding that there must be a better way. I even longed for it.

And what is the elusive better way? It must have something to do with maturity. That is, with mature compassion for self and for others, and with the realization that vengefulness is a blade that cuts two ways….

…

Healing is possible, growth is possible and wholeness and maturity are possible for those of us who want to be our best selves. We don’t have to live steeped in the poison of our early programming and the way it plays out currently in our lives.

David Richo’s books are field guides for the journey. Richo, whom I have never met, is a psychotherapist, teacher, and workshop leader in California. His website says he “combines Jungian, poetic, and mythic perspectives in his work with the intention of integrating the psychological and the spiritual. His books and workshops include attention to Buddhist practices.”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.

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FOREWORD REVIEWS book review of BROKEN

Posted on:January 25, 2015February 12, 2015

I am so excited about this forthcoming book review by FOREWORD REVIEWS.

FOREWORD REVIEWS is the Library Journal of Independent Publishing. It’s an excellent periodical that’s available in both print and digital format; it was founded by three women writers and magazine professionals who got together to found a trade review journal for the burgeoning independent publishing industry. They have a great story about it here.

FOREWORD REVIEWS chose to review BROKEN in the forthcoming Sci Fi/Fantasy issue, which will ship at the end of February to B&N newsstands. The review is absolutely beautiful and I’ve been given permission to quote from it. They’ve also chosen to feature Robert Ferri’s gorgeous LIBERACI DAL MALE, the painting from which the cover of BROKEN is taken. I’ve seen the spread and it’s gorgeous.

Here is the review:

Broken

Traci L. Slatton

Parvati Press

Softcover $16.99 (225pp)

978-0-9860611-5-8

Slatton has created a beautiful, heart wrenching tale of humanity during the Second World War. When her beloved Ariel is lost, the angel Alia chooses to fall, taking on a human body in Paris on the eve of war. She befriends the city’s artists, from Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí to Edith Piaf and Sacha Guitry, and experiences all of Paris’s human pleasures: drinking, partying, and having sex with wild abandon. Two men, in particular, catch her affection: bullfighter Pedro and openly Jewish musician Josef. As the war takes over, Alia also finds herself drawn protectively to Josef’s widowed sister, Suzanne, and her young daughter, Cécile. But as the Nazi’s march in, Alia begins to fear she cannot save them all.

Slatton writes poignantly, with lyrical prose: “I have been shattered, the shattering is still with me. I am only shards now. There is no core.” This is a gorgeous philosophical treaty on right and wrong, the “why” behind impossible decisions, and what remains when everything is gone. Slatton guides the reader gently through to the end, all the more heartbreaking for its inevitability, imparting powerful, resonant themes as she goes. Among them, “neutrality is an excuse to give free rein to a bully.”

I love this review! MANY THANKS to Foreword Reviews!

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Amazing Review of Broken by Seacoast Online’s Rebecca Skane

Posted on:November 2, 2014February 13, 2015

I’ve been blessed with some lovely, thoughtful reviews of BROKEN. Writer Rebecca Skane of SEACOAST ONLINE has written a truly wondrous review.

I have written in other posts about how dazzling, and ultimately humbling, it is when a reader GETS IT about what I am trying to do with a novel. Skane GOT IT, in the fullest way possible. It’s more than simply gratifying when a book is well and thoughtfully reviewed; it is a core affirmation of an author’s existence. Sorry to put it in such dramatic terms, but a writer works in solitude at a desk, pouring her soul, her heart, her brain, her blood, sweat and tears, and everything else she’s got, into her writing. To have her book received with appreciation is an existential validation.

Here are some of my favorite lines from Skane’s review:

Traci L. Slatton is back with another novel of fantasy, romance, and danger. In Broken, angel Alia falls from grace, giving up her wings to live the life of a Parisian woman at the start of World War II. Beautifully written and devilishly portrayed, Alia is a not your typical fallen angel archetype. She is more human than anything else….

Alia is consumed with pain but enjoys life as a human by taking advantage of pleasures of the flesh…

Lush and poignant prose and a beautifully rendered time period and locale, elevate Broken from the traditional novels of fantasy into something of its own element. With the first section of the book doubling as mild erotica, it’s refreshing to find well-written verse to accompany such wickedly scandalous boudoir moments. This isn’t 50 Shades – this is thought-provoking literature that explores female sexual equality and the nefarious act of unwanted dominance in every form.

I am more than grateful for such a deeply thoughtful review.

Read the review here, and enjoy. I did!!

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Recent BROKEN Spotlights; Recent Pix

Posted on:October 29, 2014February 12, 2015

Kindly Jackie Burris, who brims over with a love of animals, recently hosted me on her fabulous blog, HOUSEWIFE BLUES AND CHIHUAHUA STORIES. I’m grateful for the exposure and she posted my guest article about “Writing, Yoga, and Dogs.”

Busy, multi-talented Drey of DREY’S LIBRARY hosted a guest post and shared her thoughts of BROKEN in a review, concluding with this very sweet comment, “Pick up Broken for a look at the artsy scene in Paris in the early days of WWII and the story of a conflicted young woman whose truth is so much more than she thought it could ever be.”

Meantime, I had some author photos done recently. See below.