A Month Into 2020 and I Have Yet to Post

Dear Followers,

I know I have been quiet as of late, it is because I have been busy. Life, writing, animals, it has been hectic. I thought it was far time for me to take a moment to touch base with you. Here is what I am working on now.

Dualities
Hazel goes to college full-time and works at the campus cafe. Lezah takes online business classes while working at the downtown bar. They live in different cities and have never met each other. One night, however, their worlds will change when Lezah is attacked and Hazel wakes with the same wounds.  
Currently at 68.5 thousand words and climbing.

Sunshine and Nightmares (A Midnight Town Tale)
Sunshine moves to a town known for its strange occurrences, but what she had not expected, were creatures trying to kill her. Then she meets Nick and Ripley, and things become even more interesting.
Currently at 37.5 thousand words.

I finished two big knitting projects, a cardigan, and a shawl, and I am frantically trying to finish off a sweater for my daughter before starting a baby blanket for my oldest. Yes, you read that correct, I am going to be a meemaw.

So that sums up my projects. I am hoping to have something out for my birthday month of March, but we will see.

Happy reading,
Pixie

Delay in publishing Samael's Wish

The past few weeks have been quite hectic. At the beginning of July I received a print, proof copy of Samael's Wish. The cover is perfect, but as I started leafing through it, I found so many imperfections I am running it through another rewrite, then it will need to be re-edited.

So, I spent two weeks working on it, then from Jul 26, 2018 to Aug 11, 2018 I was in PA for Pennsic War. I thought, oh, vacation, perfect time to edit. Right? Nope! I've found I need quiet to edit, and a kids camp is far from quiet. So, for two weeks, edits were put on hold.Since I've returned, it has been nothing but laundry, sorting and unpacking. Five loads washed, about six more to go. Maybe next week I can get back to the rewrite.

Because things couldn't get worse, on Monday Khione, my daughter's albino rat had a seizure.  Thankfully she and Polyhymnia had an appointment that evening. Khione had an abscess behind her left ear and signs of an ear infection in that ear. They drained the abscess and now she is on antibiotics and anti-inflamitories/pain meds.  Polyhymnia was in for a follow-up x-ray on her broken leg, which is healing fine. I have started weaning her off her pain meds and hopefully she will adjust without withdrawals. Small critters, big worries.

So, once I get done with the Pennsic explosion taking up my entire first floor, I can get back to working on Samael's wish. Until then, here's the first paragraph:

Available Now! Midnight Town by Pixie Brearley

Ripley is a witch of the Romani descent. After a spell went awry, she found herself bound to the land, neither alive nor dead. Walking between death and life, she is forever in torment. 

Nick is a lonely wanderer. Born with the ability to see the spirit world. He also suffers from a white knight complex. Running from his hometown after a terrible accident, he is forever in search of something to make his life whole. 

Now, in the small town of Braxville, when midnight strikes strange things happen. Nick experiences the odd phenomenon first hand when he steps into a bar that should not even exist. All the answers lie with Ripley, but when Nick tries to find her, a force beyond anything he has ever felt stands in the way.     

Will he save her or will he lose himself?

Find out in the latest book by Pixie Brearley...

Midnight Town.
 Buy it now on Amazon.com $2.99 for the Kindle version and $8.99 for the paperback which comes with a free Kindle version through Matchbook.

All proceeds from the sale of this novel will go toward paying for Sidney's surgery. Sidney is my ferret, today she is having a growth removed from her stomach and a hernia repaired.

Summer of Amery - Available now on Amazon

My latest short in the Bandages on the Soul Collection, Summer of Amery, is now available exclusively on Amazon Kindle.

After a brutal attack, Trinity retreated to her family's summer home on the beach where she encountered an interesting new friend, Amery.

Amery guides her through the healing process, but when she returns home, everything she believed to be true has been turned upside down and she is not sure what is real anymore.

Summer of Amery takes the harsh reality of an attack and brings it into the world where magic is real and healing comes with tea and cookies.

Buy it here:
Amazon US $0.99
Amazon CA $1.28
Amazon UK £0.99

Nightmare and Lies: A Bandages on the Soul Short

I have finally released another short in the Bandages on the Soul series!

Nightmares and Lies 
ASIN: B01EK6DE7A
Available for Amazon Kindle for only $.99 US

When Kelly turned 21, she went on a drinking spree with a couple of her friends to celebrate. After a horrible accident, that left her dead for nearly two minutes, she acquired a strange gift. Although she sees it more as a curse. Victims of violent crimes visit her in her dreams begging for her help.

Something new in the works...

I have some exciting news to share with everyone, I have recently started working on the first book in a new series. The book is called Witch Way Now? Book one in The Dorothy Thompson Series.

This is going to be something quite different than my Dark Angel Trilogy in that it is nowhere near as dark and disturbing. Instead it focuses on a young lady who has her life thrown upside down after finding out her grandmother left her entire estate to her and that she is a direct descendant to Sarah and Dorothy Good, both victims of the Salem witch trials. As she travels to Salem to sign the papers, she learns there is a dark secret attached to her family, and she may have been the one to activate a long ago cast hex. I have been putting a lot of research into this one, and I am very excited about it.

 “The hex, it was created by our five descendants long ago but it was sealed by a mentally unstable four-year-old girl and thus it went into hibernation until you turned twenty-one.” He pauses and I ask, “what is the curse?” His eyebrows furrow and he sits back, rubbing his face with both hands, “that we do not know, all we know is that all five of our grandmothers will die on our twenty-first birthdays and then something is going to hit the town of Salem.” - Witch Way Now?

Stay tuned for more!

News!

First off, I have gotten Midnight Town off to the editors, how very exciting! Stay tuned for more on this coming soon. In other news...

Old Wounds: A Short Story (Bandages on the Soul 2)

Old Wounds is about a young woman with a very rare talent, the ability to communicate with the dead.

When she meets a nice young man at college who shows a sudden interest in her, she worries about his motives... And with good reason.

Buy it now on Amazon.com for Kindle, only $0.99US.

Exciting Update

It looks like I will be releasing my latest short in the Bandages on the Soul Collection in Kindle format on Amazon Monday. It is called Old Wounds and is about a young woman with a very rare talent, the ability to communicate with the dead. When she meets a young man at college she worries about his motives...and with good reason.

Also coming out, hopefully next month, will be my next full length stand-alone novel Midnight Town available in both print and Kindle formats. Midnight Town brings you to the small town of Braxville where not everything is as it seems. When Nick, a drifter with a white knight complex, wanders through he finds himself enthralled with a young gypsy girl with a dark secret. Will his need to save her be his end...or hers?

Coming Soon - Midnight Town

Nick was a drifter, always on the go, working odd jobs and just trying to get by. It has been a long time since he has called someplace home, and he prefers it that way. Settling down, being a permanent part of something, it’s just not his thing. Not any more anyway.

Ripley came from a long line of Gypsies. Untrained and untamed her curiosity about magic combined with the brashness of her youth has put her in a horrible situation.

When the two meet it becomes a battle of wills but will the white knight be able to save the young Gypsy before it is too late? Find out in Midnight Town. Coming soon to Amazon.

News

This has been a very busy time for me, what with working on three more shorts and revamping the website which is now mobile ready. Feel free to stop by and check it out at www.faerybug.com

Currently in the works for the Bandages on the Soul series are:

• Old Wounds, which brings us into the life of a young lady with a very special talent and a fear of commitment. When a new boyfriend brings on a ghost hunting expedition, she begins to question not only his plans for her, but her own sanity.
• Losing Innocence reminds us that sometimes those we lose to death are not always gone. After a tragic accidents takes away her best friend, she is not alone.
• Drawing Insanity is the story of one woman's life after a terrible accident tears it apart. When given the opportunity to move on, Claire asks for guidance from the spirit world.

The Attic: A Short Story of Revenge and Healing

My latest work is now available on both Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble for only $.99 US.

Amazon US

Amazon UK

Amazon CA

Barnes and Noble

THE ATTIC is a story about a woman who faces the nightmares of her past to exact revenge on the one man that destroyed her childhood and turned her adulthood into a lonely and desolate place. This is the first in a series of shorts from my Bandages on the Soul series.

THE ATTIC

So I know that I have been quiet for a while, and I do apologize for that but between summer break and vacations it has been hectic.

Now that things are starting to settle back down, I have some news for you, if all goes to plan I will be releasing a new short on October 1st!

 THE ATTIC
As the attic walls close in around her,
She frantically searches for a chain.
When finally found she pulls,
But no light rescues her from darkness.
The young child finds the corner,
And cries herself to sleep.
During the night,
To a sound she awakes.
Bolting upright she screams,
Finding herself still in her chamber.
Unable to see the walls of her cell,
She wishes for someone to save her.
All alone she was locked away,
For what crime he did not say.
The truth be told,
There was no crime.
Only an old man's insanity,
And a young mothers fears.
So alone in darkness she sits crying,
And alone she shall cry through the years.

The Attic is a story about a woman who faces the nightmares of her past to exact revenge on the one man that destroyed her childhood and turned her adulthood into a lonely and desolate place.

Available for pre-order now on Amazon.

EVIL MAN

So the time is coming. Pretty soon the EVIL MAN a Dark Angel Short (The Dark Angel Trilogy, Prequil) will be ready and available for you to read.

Benjamin Anderson was your average Joe working a nine to five job and going to the local pub after work for a drink to wind down. But Mr. Anderson has a darker side as well.

One night while visiting a small pub he spots a young woman. Her broad smile and friendly nature grips him, and at that moment he realizes Aingeal must be his. Crawl into the mind of a psychopath as he lives the days leading up to their meeting and find out how the Evil Man was born.

Be safe, you never know what might be lurking in the dark.

Evil Man - A Dark Angel Trilogy Short

So I was on my way back from Florida, in an airplane. {Note, flying totally freaks me out and even with the lovely medication I was not so thrilled about being in the tin can of death.} Everyone around me drifting off, when suddenly an idea strikes and a story is born.

Benjamin Anderson was your average Joe working a nine to five job and going to the local pub after work for a drink to wind down. But Mr. Anderson has a darker side as well.

One night while visiting a small pub he spots a young woman. Her broad smile and friendly nature grips him, and at that moment he realizes Aingeal must be his. Crawl into the mind of a psychopath as he lives the days leading up to their meeting and find out how the Evil Man was born.

Evil Man - A Dark Angel Trilogy Short will be available in Kindle format only, hopefully by the beginning of April.

Wonderful News!

Check out this month's issue of Suspense Magazine, especially p39 (41 of the document) where my second book in the Dark Angel trilogy DARK WINGS SPREAD is featured as one of the Best of 2013 in Dark Urban Fantasy!  

I knew that I made the list, but to be listed on the same page as one of my absolute favorite authors Kim Harrison... Astounding!  I am beyond excited and humbled over this news.

I would like to say a great big thank you to those that nominated my book for this as well as to Suspense Magazine for this absolutely humbling honor.  I cannot even begin to express how happy this makes me feel, receiving affirmation that my time writing has truly been appreciated.  

Thank you!

Teaser

I think I had an epiphany in the shower because the plot for Midnight Town finally came together!  Here is the description for the novel I am currently working on:

Ripley is a witch that has bound herself to the land to save the man she loves from a horrible death.  Little did she know, his betrayal would cost her more than a broken heart.  Now when midnight hits the small town of Braxville strange things happen. 

Nick, a lonely wanderer, experiences the phenomenon first hand when he steps into a bar that should not even exist.  All the answers lie with one woman, Ripley, but when Nick tries to find her he is stopped by a force beyond anything he has ever felt before.  Having ignored Ripley’s warnings, Nick sticks around, but will he find the answers he seeks or will he be sucked into whatever it is that has its hold on the town.

Are you as excited as I am?

~Pix

It's Finally Here!

Your wait is over, FALL OF THE DARKNESS book three in the Dark Angel trilogy is now available!  As a special added bonus; at the end of the book I have included the playlists for all three books, including a few extra tracks that I listened to while writing. Remember you can borrow this book for free on your Kindle if you are a Prime member.
 

You have watched Aingeal transform from a victim to the cold and calculating instrument of revenge she is now, but will it be enough to help her survive this final battle when she comes face to face with her worst demons.  Alone she must fight for her life and her sanity, will she survive?

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Kidle version available at Amazon / Amazon UK / Amazon Canada / As well as all other countries

ASIN: B00F3AVDYO

Paperbacks available at Amazon / Amazon UK / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble / CreateSpace

ISBN-10: 1490962816
ISBN-13: 978-1490962818

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