Book Tours: Starter Day Party for At The Sharp End of Lightning

I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for epic fantasy / magical realism novel “At The Sharp End of Lightning”. The tour runs from August 10 to October 10. I’ll review te book on September 4. Stay tuned for the review, and in the mean time, visit the other tour stops.

Tour Schedule

August 10^th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

August 10^th: Book Excerpt @ Undercover Book Reviews

August 12^th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

August 12^th: Book Excerpt @ Nat’s Book Nook

August 17^th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

August 19^th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog

August 21^st: Book Excerpt @ The Single Librarian

August 23^rd: Book Review @ Bookish Madness

August 26^th: Author Interview @ Books are Forever

August 27^th: Book Review @ Books are Forever

August 28^th: Book Excerpt and Author Interview @ BooksChatter

August 31^st: Book Excerpt @ The Book Daily

September 2^nd: Book Excerpt @ The Book Gazette

September 4^th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

September 6^th: Book Excerpt @ 365 Days of Reading

September 8^th: Author Interview @ Literary Musing

September 10^th: Book Review @ Pixies Can Read

September 12^th: Book Review @ Hollow Readers

September 14^th: Book Excerpt @ The Reading Guru

September 15^th: Book Review @ Books, Books and More Books

September 17^th: Book Excerpt and Author Interview @ Rising Indies United

September 30^th: Book Review @ Beyond The Book Reviews

October 2^nd: Book Excerpt @ Bookaholic Ramblings

October 4^th: Book Review @ Bedazzled Reading

October 6^th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

October 9^th: Author Interview @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

October 10^th: Book Review @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

About The Book

Title: At The Sharp End of Lightning

Author: Nicholas Bates

Genre: Epic Fantasy / Magical Realism

AT THE SHARP END OF LIGHTNING. The interwoven fantastical tale of family, of loss and sacrifice, of unexpected gifts and coping with disability and new abilities set against the backdrop of climate change occurring across parallel worlds. In Oceanlight, Yalara Narika, a winged Sea Sprite, searches for her lover over immense seas only to find catastrophe and realization that her world is in turmoil. Meanwhile in the safe suburban normality of North Wales, Einion Morgan Alban, a restless youth afflicted by a disease of the blood, is nearly murdered by a man in a white suit. Yalara and Einion must discover the causes of their near-deaths and their as yet unrevealed connections as they both face upheaval to their lives and their worlds. Book One of the OCEANLIGHT series.

Author Bio

NR Bates was born in London, grew up in Wales, and lived in Canada and Bermuda. He shares his life with his wife and his house with seven cats, one dog and the subtropical wildlife of lizards, wolf spiders and ant colonies that seek out a better life indoors. He is an oceanographer and scientist, and has published more than one hundred and thirty scientific papers on ocean chemistry, climate change and ocean acidification. He is a Senior Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and Professor of Ocean Biogeochemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. His novels focus on epic fantasy and magic realism, and inspired by his deep love of the ocean and environmental sciences. He has also recently published a small book of short-stories set in Paris, entitled “The Fall of Icarus (The Elevator, The Fall of Icarus, and The Girl)”.