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Interview with Author Lada Ray

04 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Lada Ray in BOOK: THE EARTH SHIFTER, Consciousness/ Wisdom/ Spirituality, Guest Posts

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Interview with Author Lada Ray. A very cool and spunky conversation conducted by spiritual blogger, Maddy Walsh, in which we discuss my new metaphysical YA fantasy thriller THE EARTH SHIFTER, its many fascinating characters and the book’s Multiverse, the spiritual way of handling a conflict, the issue of bullying, whether Kristen Stuart would be right for the role of Sasha, would that Bond girl be a perfect “Red,” and what’s next in the series!

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THE EARTH SHIFTER Launch & ARCHOS TABLET Super-Giveaway!

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Lada Ray in BOOK: THE EARTH SHIFTER, Writing and Publishing

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ARCHOS Tablet, Author Lada Ray, Book mega giveaway, Earth Keepers Chronicles, ebook, ebook formatting for Kindle, Goodreads, historical fantasy, new release, sci-fi, Siberian shaman, The Earth Shifter, Tunguska Meteorite explosion, visionary & metaphysical, YA crossover fantasy

EARTH SHIFTER MASTER

Join the epic EARTH SHIFTER quest, and enter a new world!

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

Yes, it’s finally here!

Priced at an affordable $2.99, THE EARTH SHIFTER ebook is now live at:

Smashwords    

Amazon US   UK   CA   DE   ES   IT   FR   JP   BR  

THE EARTH SHIFTER Goodreads page

Barnes & Noble Nook

It is also coming shortly to Apple, Sony, Kobo, Diesel, and other ebook retailers. All buy links, as usual, will be posted at my official website LadaRay.com. For those who have asked me, paperback is planned for 2013, date TBD.

Synopsis:

Mankind would never know how close it came to annihilation on June 30, 1908. Somewhere in the murky depths of the Cosmos, the Comet of Karma is born. When all hope fades, it is sent to planet Earth, its sole mission to wipe out a failing civilization. It has happened before, and it can happen again. Except this time, the Earth Keepers would not interfere.

The Comet of Karma tasked with destroying a failing civilization… The Earth Keepers endowed with supreme powers over the planet and agonizing over the ultimate decision… The Protectors risking their lives to keep the world intact… A beautiful brunette with hidden agenda, who is infinitely more than anyone knows… Two ambitious and unscrupulous men, who’ll stop at nothing… Global secret society bent on usurping power on Earth… A woman, ready to betray in order to save her son… Old spy organization with a secret human weapon… The Shifters, with power over mind, matter, time and space… 

And three teenagers, two of whom are destined to become mankind’s salvation—the all-powerful KEY of DESTINY. They will open a new era for Humanity, if they succeed in keeping their souls uncorrupted… and if they manage to come together before it’s too late.

Book category: fantasy historical, fantasy contemporary, YA crossover, geopolitical/spy thriller, visionary/metaphysical, epic/quest

THE EARTH SHIFTER is a true YA crossover suitable for most readers, teen through adult.

Word Count: 104,100. Estimated page count: 330

Explore the world of THE EARTH SHIFTER:

The Epic Journey Begins: characters/setting/excerpts galore

THE EARTH SHIFTER Mystical Setting: Lake Baikal, Siberia

THE EARTH SHIFTER Release Countdown: Excerpt 2

THE EARTH SHIFTER: Excerpt 1

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ANNOUNCING!

ARCOS Tablet Giveaway

6/1/2013 RESULTS: 

THE EARTH SHIFTER/ ARCHOS TABLET MEGA-GIVEAWAY

CONGRATS, WINNERS!

2/20/13 Announcement!

ARCHOS Tablet giveaway is still active. I thank those few people who participated in Phase I – you’ve all been entered! There’s nothing I wouldn’t like more than for one of my supporters to win this prize, valued at $349. It is presently sitting in my home, waiting for its lucky winner. 

At this time, we need more participation, therefore, I’ve decided to announce Phase 2 with a different set of rules, and additional prizes. It pains me to say that due to the extremely high shipping costs, ARCHOS Tablet is only available in the USA. I have many wonderful fans and supporters outside the USA, and I apologize for the inconvenience. However, this shouldn’t dissuade you from participating as I intend to have other fabulous prizes to thank you all for your awesome support. Phase 2 announcement will be made shortly, and it will be much fun – please stay tuned!

Lada Ray

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As mentioned above, THE EARTH SHIFTER is priced at only $2.99 (or Euro/UK equivalent) as an ebook so that as many people as possible could easily afford to read and enjoy it. My immediate goal is to sell 15,000 ebooks in a relatively short period of time.

This giveaway is a thank you to my readers and fans for their readership and support. No purchase is required; I am equally grateful to all those who would buy and enjoy my book, and to those who would help me promote it by spreading the word. This is because I strongly believe in THE EARTH SHIFTER message, and in its value to the readers! Therefore, all of you will be able to benefit from this giveaway.

I am giving away several very valuable prizes. All giveaways can be entered simultaneously. Enter one giveaway or all! There is no limit to the number of entries. The more entries, the more chances to win! Sky is the limit!

GRAND PRIZE

ARCHOS 8o G9 Turbo with WiFi, 8″ Touchscreen Tablet, value $349

It includes: Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich,’ HD, and amazing multimedia!

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 I love my ARCHOS Tablet! If you are an avid reader, this is your solution! With ARCHOS, you can download ebooks in any format, including Kindle, Nook/epub, PDF, and others. Unlike with e-readers, you are not limited to a specific retailer and can enjoy your books from various sources! I also love the fact that it doubles as a lightweight, super-compact wifi PC, and that I can watch my fave YouTube vids on the go! There are so many other awesome functions this tablet includes that I haven’t even scratched the surface!

Check out all the specs here!

In fact, I loved my Archos Tablet so much that I purchased the second one, in order to award it to one of my readers/fans after THE EARTH SHIFTER release! It is currently sitting in its original box, unopened, ready for you to claim your prize!

Here it is:

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How to enter ARCHOS TABLET Giveaway

*ARCHOS Tablet Giveaway has an open date, and the winner will be chosen after 15,000 copies of THE EARTH SHIFTER ebook have been sold. Preliminary drawing date is April 17, 2013 (finalized date will be announced). There are several easy ways to enter:

1. This is especially for the readers of THE EARTH SHIFTER! Please answer my 2 questions: 1) In the end of the book, where does Red meet with her mother? 2) Who does Sasha attempt to rescue during her LAST time travel? Correct answers will get 10 entries. Please email your answers to Lada at LadaRay dot com. DO NOT post your answers in the comment section!

2. Copy and post THE EARTH SHIFTER book banner below (together with its link) to your website homepage or blog sidebar, and get 20 entries. Please provide a link to your website/blog in the comment section of this post, or by emailing Lada at LadaRay dot com.

Earth Shifter Banner

An example of the book banner on a website: LadaRay.com/EarthShifterGiveaway

3. Copy and post THE EARTH SHIFTER book cover below, together with its link,  to your website homepage or blog sidebar, and get 15 entries. Please provide a link to your website/blog in the comment section of this post, or by emailing Lada at LadaRay dot com.

EARTH SHIFTER MASTER

An example of the book cover post on a website: http://www.bzhercules.com.

4.Wordpress bloggers! Reblog this post, and get 5 entries. Please provide a link to your reblog in the comment section of this post. 

5. All bloggers! You can go one step further and guest-post this post on your blog in its entirety and get 10 entries! NOTE: This post can be shortened to suit your format. Please make sure you link back to my original post on top and bottom of your post! This is the link: THE EARTH SHIFTER Launch & ARCHOS TABLET Super-Giveaway! Please provide a link to your blog guest post in the comment section of this post, or email it to Lada at LadaRay dot com.

6. Mention/tag this post on your Facebook page, and get 2 entries. Please provide the url of your Facebook page in the comment section of this post, or by emailing Lada at LadaRay dot com.

7. Mention this post on Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and/or Digg and get 1 entry per mention. Please provide the appropriate link(s) in the comment section of this post, or by emailing Lada at LadaRay dot com.

8. Add THE EARTH SHIFTER to your bookshelf on Goodreads, and get 1 entry: THE EARTH SHIFTER Goodreads page. Become Lada Ray fan on Goodreads – get 1 entry. Both – 2 entries! Please provide the url of your GR bookshelf  in the comment section of this post, or email it to Lada at LadaRay dot com.

Very flexible and convenient! Enter one or all! The more you enter, the more chances to win!

NOTE: 1 (one) ARCHOS Tablet will be given away. ARCHOS Tablet Giveaway is open in the USA only (sorry for the inconvenience). All other giveaways are open worldwide.

Prize 2

Premium Ebook Formatting for Kindle or Smashwords (choose one) provided by my fabulous book formatters, Mike and Maddy of DWD. One lucky winner will receive Kindle or Smashwords formatting of any ebook of up to 100,000 words! It is very easy to enter. The winner will be randomly chosen by Rafflecopter. Drawing: 1/26/13. **Click here to enter.

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Prize 3

Professional editing of 25 pages of your manuscript by my editor, Beth Lynne, Ed.D., of BZ Hercules – 1 winner will be selected.  (Note: the winner, please submit your 25 pages double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12 point font only.) The winner will be randomly chosen by Rafflecopter. Drawing: 1/26/13. **Click here to enter.

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Prize 4

A complete set of Accidental Spy Adventure Series ebooks: Gold Train (Russia Adventure), Stepford USA (US Adventure), Green Desert (Prequel novelette). Up to 3 lucky winners will be selected depending on the number of entries; the more entries the more copies will be given away. It is very easy to enter. The winner will be randomly chosen by Rafflecopter. Drawing: 1/26/13. **Click here to enter.

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GREEN DESERT MASTER

**Note, due to the fact that WordPress platform does not support Rafflecopter, I am hosting the Ebook Formatting, Editing, and Accidental Spy Series Giveaways at my official author website, LadaRay.com. The giveaway is just one click away!

ENTER HERE!

But that’s not all!

As a heartfelt “thank you” to my biggest fans and supporters, those who have been most active in helping me promote THE EARTH SHIFTER, will become some of the first readers of the following upcoming ebooks: LEMURIAN CRYSTAL & ATLANTIS. Projected release: February – March 2013. These are books 2 and 3 of the enchanting new series of novelettes/novellas, EARTH KEEPERS CHRONICLES, which I am creating as companion and prequel to THE EARTH SHIFTER. You may have read the first in the series, the top-rated CATHARSIS (Legend of the Lemurians). Check it out:

Amazon   B&N Nook   Smashwords

All about CATHARSIS, Legend of the Lemurians

These people, who’ve been most active in helping me promote THE EARTH SHIFTER, will receive FREE early edition copies of the LEMURIAN CRYSTAL & ATLANTIS ebooks in the format of their choice, incl. kindle, epub, PDF for PC, etc. This part of the giveaway is open worldwide!

Thank you for your interest and participation

and I hope you enjoy

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P.S. I provide free ebooks to my reviewers. If you would like to become one of THE EARTH SHIFTER’s first reviewers, please email @ Lada at LadaRay.com, or leave a comment with your email!

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From my family to yours: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Princess Lily, contemplating the meaning of the holidays in her favorite red holiday shawl that I knit especially for her. In case you were wondering, these bottles are here for the holiday spirit and as New Year’s decorations. We decided that we couldn’t let good wine go to waste, having inherited an extensive cellar from the previous house owner. We, on the other hand, are a totally non-drinking and holistically-inclined family, and even Lily Cat has reformed lately. 😉
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THE EARTH SHIFTER Mystical Setting: Lake Baikal, Siberia

22 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Lada Ray in BOOK: THE EARTH SHIFTER, Consciousness/ Wisdom/ Spirituality, CULTURE: Russia, Writing and Publishing

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Author Lada Ray, Lake Baikal, Moscow, Russia, seals of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Siberian shaman, The Earth Shifter, visionary & metaphysical, YA crossover fantasy

If you had the chance to read my new release, a metaphysical thriller, THE EARTH SHIFTER, you may be curious to learn more about the book’s unusual, exotic & diverse settings, including Moscow, Sacred Lake Baikal in Siberia, New York Chinatown, Princeton, as well as mystical realms of Heaven and Earth. Today’s post is about one and only Lake Baikal, where every view is picture-perfect.

Enter the realm of SACRED LAKE BAIKAL, SIBERIA

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Baikal 2

(Image courtesy Slavorum: credit, Bankoboev.ru)

“Siberian Paradise at play in Sacred Sea Baikal.” Image courtesy The Atlantic 

 

Seals of Lake Baikal 2

THE EARTH SHIFTER: meet Sasha’s friend, the adorable Filya the Seal!

From THE EARTH SHIFTER

Earlier today, after some hiking in taiga, they performed a shamanic ritual at Tengis’s sacred site, called the Shaman Rock. After that, as golden rays of the warm summer sun started giving way to the coolness of the silvery moon, they decided to camp out in the Bay of the Seals on Baikal’s majestic shore. The seals enjoyed sunning on the gleaming rocks that wrapped the hidden bay. Sasha had just finished having a chat with her favorite local inhabitant, Filya the Seal.

“Good catch today,” Filya informed her telepathically, languorously exposing his shiny wet body to the sun’s fading rays. “You’ve got to dive very deep into the sea to get the best fish. If you want, Sasha, I can bring you some next time,” he offered, looking at her adoringly with that cute, cat-like face of his. As the last ray of the waning sun pierced the water, Filya dove back into the lake, undoubtedly to find a nice, cozy spot in which to slumber.

The sea… Just like local humans, Filya regarded Lake Baikal as the sea. Perhaps it was part of his genetic memory. The endemic population of seals in the land-locked Baikal was an enigma, one of the many mysteries of this place. The scientists postulated that seals probably swam from the ocean during the Ice Age and stayed here. Kind of like American Indians, indigenous Siberians, who in the long by-gone era had walked across the narrow sleeve of frozen water between the two continents, the one we now call the Bering Strait and subsequently made their home in the vast lands now called the Americas.

Baikal seals

One of many local miracles: the endemic seals of Lake Baikal

The majestic Lake Baikal, frozen in winter

From THE EARTH SHIFTER

Both Maxim and Sasha couldn’t wait to get out of Moscow and submerge into Siberia’s untouched wilderness. While packing, Sasha had a persistent feeling that something very important was awaiting her there. Today was June 29, their sixth day on Lake Baikal.

“So quiet.” Maxim broke the silence. “Beats the city every time.”

“It’s another world,” Sasha echoed. “Peaceful.” Just as she finished her sentence, she noticed two gleaming yellow eyes staring straight at her from the darkness of the trees.

The untouched Siberian taiga

Shaman on lake baikal

Shaman on Lake Baikal

More about THE EARTH SHIFTER

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THE EARTH SHIFTER buy links:

Smashwords    Barnes & Noble    Nook UK     Kobo    Sony 

Amazon US   UK   CA   DE   ES   IT   FR   JP   BR (ebook/paperback)

THE EARTH SHIFTER Goodreads page

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Join the quest! 

THE EARTH SHIFTER Launch and ARCHOS TABLET Mega-Giveaway!

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Immerse yourself in THE EARTH SHIFTER: Excerpt 2 – where Lake Baikal, its shamans and awesome nature rule supreme!

THE EARTH SHIFTER Journey Begins: Read Excerpt 1

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THE EARTH SHIFTER Release Countdown: Excerpt 2 + Moscow Christmas

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Lada Ray in BOOK: THE EARTH SHIFTER, Writing and Publishing

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Author Lada Ray, Earth changes, fantasy ebook, Galactic Center, Lake Baikal, Moscow, Russia, Siberia, The Earth Shifter, visionary & metaphysical, wisdom and spirituality, YA crossover fiction

EARTH SHIFTER MASTER

THE EARTH SHIFTING News:

Dear readers and fans, due to the busy Holiday Season, both my distinguished editor and my fabulous book formatter have requested a bit more time to finesse all the details. Aww, well, since the end of the world on 12/21/12 will be postponed anyway ;), and since the most important thing in any book is quality, I have made a decision to release THE EARTH SHIFTER a little later than originally anticipated.

Therefore, the new ebook release date is December 31, 2012. “Just don’t panic, it’s not the end of the world, so to speak,” as my editor so aptly reminded me. 😉

I did like the original release date of 12/22/12 very much, due to the peak of the Galactic Center alignment on that day. Read more about this rare and fascinating event in my previous post. However, according to my editor, the last week of the year very few people read books; they are more likely to take active vacations. On the other hand, come New Year’s, the readers will be primed and ready to fill with awesome new reads all the Nooks, Kindles and Tablets they’ve received for the holidays. We shall see soon enough how right she is!

Till then, enjoy Excerpt 2:

THE EARTH SHIFTER

EXCERPT 2

Chapter 2

2011, Lake Baikal, Russia

Sasha Elfimova could hardly be called a normal teenager. She always preferred the serene majesty of Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia to the hustle and bustle of Moscow. What’s more, she had powers—incomprehensible and scary powers. She was a Time and Mind Shifter, yet even her mentor, the famous Siberian shaman Tengis, didn’t know how far her powers would develop when the time came…

Sasha dipped her hand in the crystal-clear waters of Lake Baikal, now gleaming seductively in the light of the full moon, and smiled at her companions: the old shaman Tengis and her father, the Moscow University professor of linguistics, Maxim Elfimov. They were camping out near the lake’s shore, in their secret spot, just an eight-kilometer hike from Polyanka, Tengis’s native village.

Earlier today, after some hiking in taiga, they performed a shamanic ritual at Tengis’s sacred site, called the Shaman Rock. After that, as golden rays of the warm summer sun started giving way to the coolness of the silvery moon, they decided to camp out in the Bay of the Seals on Baikal’s majestic shore. The seals enjoyed sunning on the gleaming rocks that wrapped the hidden bay. Sasha had just finished having a chat with her favorite local inhabitant, Filya the Seal.

“Good catch today,” Filya informed her telepathically, languorously exposing his shiny wet body to the sun’s fading rays. “You’ve got to dive very deep into the sea to get the best fish. If you want, Sasha, I can bring you some next time,” he offered, looking at her adoringly with that cute, cat-like face of his. As the last ray of the waning sun pierced the water, Filya dove back into the lake, undoubtedly to find a nice, cozy spot in which to slumber.

The sea… Just like local humans, Filya regarded Lake Baikal as the sea. Perhaps it was part of his genetic memory. The endemic population of seals in the land-locked Baikal was an enigma, one of the many mysteries of this place. The scientists postulated that seals probably swam from the ocean during the Ice Age and stayed here. Kind of like American Indians, indigenous Siberians, who in the long by-gone era had walked across the narrow sleeve of frozen water between the two continents, the one we now call the Bering Strait and subsequently made their home in the vast lands now called the Americas.

It was getting chilly. This was Siberia; you could get a terrific summer tan in these parts during the day, but the chill of the night reminded you forcefully where you really were. Shivering, Sasha pulled a warm sweater out of her favorite backpack and put it on. The supple black leather backpack was a sixteenth birthday gift from her father, which he brought from his Italian trip, and the sweater was of her very own design and execution, artfully knitted with chunky yarns of the sunniest shades of sky blue—to match her eyes.

Finally, wrapped in cozy softness, she leaned her head on her father’s well-worn, Soviet-era rucksack, which still preserved the warmth of his body, and stretched her long, pleasantly tired legs. She squinted into the slithering flames of the campfire, her eyes following the escaping sparks straight into the sky, all the while inhaling deeply. The aroma was intoxicating—a mixture of pine, fresh water, and an elusive ingredient this place alone possessed in abundance, a scent the Mother Nature herself must have brewed in her secret labs for the few lucky souls to enjoy.

Sasha half-listened as her father and the old Shaman Tengis talked. Maxim wore his usual Soviet-made hiking gear and boots, insisting they didn’t make them like that anymore. He pensively stroked his short, dense beard (he always let it grow out in Siberia—warmer, and a break from shaving, according to him). Tengis, sitting in his usual lotus pose, gazed into the fire with those penetrating Asian eyes that seemed to be able to see into other dimensions. His beard was rare, as Asian beards tend to be, and all white. As Tengis talked, small clouds of puffy smoke issued from his mouth. It was one of his funny habits—he was a virtuoso when it came to talking without taking his pipe out of his mouth.

Sasha let the smell of taiga and the breeze from Baikal wash over her. The sacred lake of Siberia, Baikal, contained more than one fifth of the planet’s fresh water reserves. An average lake on Earth had rarely survived past the age of ten thousand years. There was nothing average about Baikal. Over a million years old, rather then contracting with age, it kept expanding. Scientists believed that Baikal was an ocean in the making, while the locals swore that its pristine blue depths possessed incredible healing and spiritual powers. At the moment, the sacred lake was a gleaming, rippled sheet of silver in the light of the full moon.

The dark taiga—Siberia’s giant untouched forest—loomed silent just behind them. The kettle bubbled merrily on top of the makeshift fire, as Tengis took out three travel mugs and got busy brewing his famous green tea.

“Sasha, tea?” He offered her a steamy cup, which she accepted gratefully. There was nothing better than Dedushka Tengis’s green tea after a day of hiking in taiga. She stretched her legs in front of the fire and savored it slowly.

She called him Dedushka, meaning “Grandpa,” ever since she could remember, because it seemed he was always there, and she had the feeling that he always silently and unobtrusively watched over her. Tengis wasn’t related to Sasha, of course not. He was a small, bowlegged Asian man with squinty dark eyes that pierced directly into your soul, as if it stood wide-open for everyone to see. And Sasha, who took after her father, was tall, with huge blue eyes and flowing hair that was the sunny color of ripe Russian wheat. The color of her hair she actually inherited from her mother, Olga.

Too bad Mama couldn’t make it, thought Sasha. Olga Elfimova had a very important job in Moscow and couldn’t join them for the summer vacation. She worked for Russia’s richest man, multibillionaire Boris Konukovsky, who was a CEO of NORUS, the country’s largest oil company. He was a very demanding man and Olga often kept long hours, because no one argued with Mr. Konukovsky if they wanted to keep their job and a head on their shoulders.

Maxim, being a professor, had summers off. School ended on June 22 and they just gave themselves enough time to pack. Both Maxim and Sasha couldn’t wait to get out of Moscow and submerge into Siberia’s untouched wilderness. While packing, Sasha had a persistent feeling that something very important was awaiting her there. Today was June 29, their sixth day on Lake Baikal.

“So quiet.” Maxim broke the silence. “Beats the city every time.”

“It’s another world,” Sasha echoed. “Peaceful.”

Just as she finished her sentence, she noticed two gleaming yellow eyes staring straight at her from the darkness of the trees.

“Dedushka Tengis,” she whispered. “Look!”

Tengis slowly turned his head in the direction of the gleaming eyes, as Sasha gave a slight gasp. More and more eyes were appearing in the surrounding darkness, and now at least ten pairs stared at them from various corners.

“Wolves,” mouthed Maxim. “Sasha, get behind me.” Maxim started getting slowly to his feet, while at the same time reaching for his hiking stick. “Sasha, behind me—now!”

“No, Papa!” Sasha shook her head. “You won’t achieve anything with your stick against ten wolves. Let me talk to them.” She started getting to her feet, too.

“No, Sasha, no! These are wolves, not seals!” Maxim made a quick move in her direction, as if trying to shield her, and that caused the wolves to growl.

“Papa, don’t,” Sasha whispered. “You are provoking them!”

“Oh, sit down and be quiet, you two!” said Tengis finally in an uncharacteristically sharp voice, carefully setting down his smoking pipe on the nearby rock. “I will handle this.”

Tengis rarely, if ever, got this way, which meant that he was serious. Sasha obediently sat back on the ground, and as she did, her nostrils were suddenly overpowered by the foul stench of a large, sweaty animal that appeared out of nowhere next to her. She turned her head to the right and saw a huge brown bear right where Tengis sat just a moment ago. The bear’s fur was shaggy, and as he got up to his hind feet, his towering form blocked the moon.

“Oh, my God!” yelled Maxim, jumping back to his feet. He threw himself on top of Sasha, attempting to protect her with his own body.

Sasha struggled to free herself. “Papa, it’s okay! It’s not what you think. Let me go, please!”

“Sasha, be quiet,” whispered Maxim frantically. “I will protect you!”

“You don’t need to, Papa. Just watch!”

Meanwhile, the bear didn’t even look at the two struggling humans next to him and made a deliberate beeline for the wolf pack. After taking several steps in the direction of the taiga, he again got up on his hind paws, his menacing claws shining in the light of the moon. Then, the bear opened his mouth, his growl rocking the forest. One of the wolves issued a squeal and started backing up. The others reluctantly followed.

The bear took a few more steps in the wolves’ direction and opened his mouth again. A growl, even louder than the first one, broke the stillness of the taiga. Two of the wolves deserted the field in a hurry; the rest backed up some more. Then, the bear stood all the way up on his hind paws, his giant front paws outstretched, and the third growl rocked the land. It sounded like the final warning. The wolves decided not to argue. The rest of the pack turned around and ran for their lives from this strange and dangerous beast that appeared out of nowhere and for some reason wanted to protect he humans.

The giant bear issued one more growl, evidently to reaffirm his victory. After that, he turned to face Sasha and Maxim…and smiled. His huge body started shrinking, until it was the same height as the tiny Tengis. A moment later, the bear was gone and the shaman was standing next to them, brushing the dust and animal hairs off his clothes.

“Still smell a little like the bear,” Tengis noted, chuckling. “Can’t be helped—residual effect. But no matter, it’ll air out by the time we reach the village.”

End of Excerpt 2

Much more great stuff coming your way! Stay tuned!

 

Large-size cover, book blurb, and other details: LadaRay.com

Also read:

Excerpt 1 & Galactic Center Alignment on 12/21/22

THE EARTH SHIFTING News

Click here for awesome images of the SACRED LAKE BAIKAL, SIBERIA

Baikal

CHRISTMAS in MOSCOW and AROUND the WORLD

(Russian Christmas, based on the ancient calendar, starts 1 week after New Year’s, on January 7):

Check out World’s 12 most beautiful Christmas trees!

Merry Christmas to all!

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Book Launch: CATHARSIS, Legend of the Lemurians (Earth Keepers Chronicles: Book 1)

13 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Lada Ray in BOOK: Catharsis, My Updates, Writing and Publishing

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Dear readers and friends,

CATHARSIS IS FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Read on!

I am very excited to announce a simultaneous launch of my new series, Earth Keepers Chronicles, and of my new book CATHARSIS, Legend of the Lemurians!

 

CATHARSIS is Book 1 of the Earth Keepers Chronicles. This series of YA visionary/dystopian fantasy shorts 
has been created as companion for the upcoming

THE EARTH SHIFTER Trilogy 

 Catharsis category: YA, dystopian, fantasy/sci-fi, visionary/metaphysical 

Total word count: 15.5k words. Page count: 31 pages with bonus

Bonus: First 2 chapters from the upcoming YA fantasy, THE EARTH SHIFTER!

Download CATHARSIS ebook!

Amazon US (incl. India) only $.99!

Amazon UK   DE  ES  FR  IT 

Smaswords FREE!

CATHARSIS ebook will also be available very soon @:

 B&N Nook, Kobo, Sony & Apple

(I will post the links here & @ LadaRay.com as they become available)

Or it can be purchased in PDF format directly from 

Lada Ray Book Store

Check it out!

Read synopsis:

CATHARSIS

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Earth Keepers Chronicles: Book 1

Before recorded history, before Humanity, since times immemorial, the Earth Keepers have been watching over our planet. Marked at birth and endowed with supreme powers, the nine chosen ones are the Earth’s record keepers and moderators, and when the time comes, ultimate decision makers. This is the first of their chronicles.

Legend of the Lemurians

The population of the red planet Catharsis, on the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy, is exceedingly beautiful. Women wear exquisite gowns and gorgeous hairdos, men look stately and dignified, and children are adorable angels. Even the old people are beautiful: nice grannies knitting scarves or baking delicious cakes and cheerful grandpas taking morning strolls to discuss the latest news at a nearby café.

But Catharsians harbor a terrible secret, which they are ashamed to admit even to themselves. The thing is, they have to share the planet with another race, which they call the Uglies, although the Uglies themselves prefer to be called Lemurians. Alas, no one on Catharsis cares what the Uglies prefer. Being ugly is considered a contagious disease, and because of that the Uglies are herded into a special reservation, called Camp Ugly, where they live out their drudgery behind an electric fence.

Yet the Uglies don’t seem to fret as they work in the fields, raise children and sing their beautiful songs about Mother of All, the Goddess Mu. And so, both races co-exist without much interaction—one in their large and beautiful homes, the other in their tiny huts behind the electric fence, until the ultimate disaster strikes.

Morf is a seventeen-year-old Ugly who finds himself in the middle of it all. He is thrust fatefully into the leadership position when no one else can fill its shoes.

Will the catastrophe bring to light everyone’s true beauty and true ugliness? Will planet Catharsis survive? What destiny lies in store for the Uglies?

We are about to find out…

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Read more about CATHARSIS, including excerpt, here!

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