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Review of Kojiki

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  BOOK TITLE: Kojiki AUTHOR: Keith Yatsuhashi DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: Back of a girl going up stairs towards a gate with a serpentine dragon coiling above and around it. GENRE (optional): Fantasy PAGES (optional):   448 BLURB: Every civilization has its myths. Only one is true. When eighteen year old Keiko Yamada’s father dies unexpectedly, he leaves behind a one way ticket to Japan, an unintelligible death poem about powerful Japanese spirits and their gigantic, beast-like Guardians, and the cryptic words: “Go to Japan in my place. Find the Gate. My camera will show you the way.” Alone and afraid, Keiko travels to Tokyo, determined to fulfil her father’s dying wish. There, beneath glittering neon signs, her father’s death poem comes to life. Ancient spirits spring from the shadows. Chaos envelops the city, and as Keiko flees its burning streets, her guide, the beautiful Yui Akiko, makes a stunning confession – that she, Yui, is one of a handful of spirits...

Preorders Launched for The Glass Slipper Conspiracy!

 Preorders are now live for The Glass Slipper Conspiracy, Book 2 of The Fairy Tale Case Files Saving a Princess, rescuing a kingdom from an ambitious and wicked mage and helping a pair of lovers to stay together should have been the hardest thing William Tenys ever did….   And now the kingdom of Altria’s premier detective is ready to rest on his laurels and start investigating things like missing jewelry and cheating spouses. But the wicked never sleep, so William discovers when he is hired by a desperate young lady to investigate, of all things, a cobbler creating high class shoes.   Everyone knows that a young noble lady needs just the right things to make her happily ever after come true, but this particular lady seems to be attracting all the wrong luck. Now she has a dress that should have been made from silk-but instead proved to be linen-jewelry made from fool’s gold and painted glass and worse of all, shoes made from a material that looks like glass, but...

Preorders for The Glass Slipper Conspiracy LIVE!

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  Hurray! The Glass Slipper Conspiracy preorders for Kindle go live any minute now! I'm super excited! *** BOOK TITLE: The Glass Slipper Conspiracy AUTHOR: ME! *Charlene Mattson DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: Man collapsed on the ground staring up at a shining apparition GENRE: Fantasy/mystery PAGES: 140ish   BLURB:   Saving a Princess, rescuing a kingdom from an ambitious and wicked mage and helping a pair of lovers to stay together should have been the hardest thing William Tenys ever did…. And now the kingdom of Altria’s premier detective is ready to rest on his laurels and start investigating things like missing jewelry and cheating spouses. But the wicked never sleep, so William discovers when he is hired by a desperate young lady to investigate, of all things, a cobbler creating high class shoes. Everyone knows that a young noble lady needs just the right things to make her happily ever after come true, but this particular lady seems to be attracting all...