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Juliet E McKenna

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'fire'. #BookQW

A movie action hero would stride into this situation with all guns blazing. Well, Dan's in England and wouldn't know how to get hold of a gun. He also knows better.

The Kindle and Kobo 99p ebook offer for The Green Man's War runs until March 31st

Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws. Book extract reads: Sledgehammer guy glanced over his shoulder to see how the heist was going. I snatched a quick look down the barn, past the tall doors that reached to the rafters on both sides. In days gone by, they would stand open to let the breeze winnow the chaff from the grain on the threshing floor. The farmyard doors were the only ones open today. I saw a guy selling pottery looking at the closed outer doors. I hoped the ‘Fire Exit Only, This Door Is Alarmed’ signs convinced him he had no chance of getting out that way. Not before the closest robber floored him with that pickaxe. Sledgehammer guy turned back to scowl at me. I stared past him, not reacting. My arms were getting tired with my hands held up. My right forearm was also stinging. It’s a few years since I was slashed by a hostile hamadryad, and those scars are fading. The narrow white lines are only really noticeable when I get an outdoor worker’s summer tan. They still warn me when something uncanny and dangerous is around. Unfortunately, I still had no idea who or what these thieving bastards might be.
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Juliet E McKenna

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'middle'. #BookQW

Dan Mackmain's spent his life with the mundane world on one hand and the supernatural on the other. Now he has enemies and allies on both sides.

The Green Man's War ebook is on special offer with Amazon UK
amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-War-Ju

and Kobo until the end of March.
kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-green

Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws. Book extract reads: ‘You can make yourself useful with that other paddle, as long as you do exactly what I say, as soon as I say it.’ She was completely serious now. ‘One hand on the top, and the other one halfway down the shaft. Don’t try anything you think you’ve seen on TV. Just use the paddle on your right-hand side and stick to a steady rhythm. I’ll follow your pace. But wait until I’ve turned us around.’ ‘No problem.’ I would do whatever she said. I can swim because I had to learn at school. I didn’t want to have to prove that today, especially when I couldn’t see what might be in the water. Witta is more at home on the water, salt or fresh, than I – or any other human – was ever going to be. She’s a nereid, the daughter of a river spirit and a merman. A lot of families who’ve lived in the Fens for generations have had regular dealings with the uncanny. Witta’s had plenty of experience adjusting her outward appearance to pass as human. If anyone gets close enough to see the webbing between her middle and ring fingers, most visitors are too polite to mention it. She tells curious kids it’s because her grandmother was a mermaid. They think that’s a brilliant joke.
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