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Maer’s Holiday Playlist – Part Two

With Black Friday madness upon us, and thoughts of Christmas on many minds, I’ll start off Part 2 of my Holiday Songs with one of my all-time favorites by Trans-Siberian Orchestra – “Christmas Eve/ Sarajevo.” Creating an upbeat version of “Carol of the Bells” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” was a stroke of genius that has made this a holiday classic for me.

I love TSO’s music and many of my fave Christmas songs are on their albums. But there are so many holiday songs I love that narrowing down to twenty-seven is going to be tough. I hope you enjoy my list!

11/28/14 – Trans-Siberian Orchestra – “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A

11/29/14 – Jim Carrey – “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” from the film How the Grinch Stole Christmas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8m6M4RV8p0

11/30/14 – Pentatonix – “Carol of the Bells” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8

12/1/14 – John Denver and the Muppets – “The 12 Days of Christmas” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuNU3y1KAk

12/2/14 – Michael Bublé – “Silver Bells” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0pgC68X6W8

12/3/14 – Eartha Kitt – “Santa Baby” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMyF9fDKzE

12/4/14 – Christina Aguilera – “This Christmas” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVw-hRw5fQ#t=13

12/5/14 – Linda Eder – “Do You Hear What I Hear?” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aoFp0hfqko

12/6/14 – Trans-Siberian Orchestra – “Christmas Canon” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg

12/7/14 – Michael Bublé – “Let It Snow” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10fWHdpmks

12/8/14 – LInda Eder – “Little Drummer Boy” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M_6RVLj-xM

12/9/14 – Trans-Siberian Orchestra – “Wizards of Winter” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFLOh44P5z0

12/10/14 – Lindsey Stirling – “What Child is This?” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A3i0GATnRI

12/11/14 – Josh Groban – “Believe” from Polar Express – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDoRPbsfJE0

12/12/14 – Pentatonix – “Mary Did You Know” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE

12/13/14 – Cast of Glee – “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBH_IuSHgtc

12/14/14 – Idina Menzel – “Let it Go” from Frozen –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk

12/15/14 – Mariah Carey – “All I want for Christmas is You” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY

12/16/14 – The Piano Guys – “Angels We Have Heard on High” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n543eKIdbUI

12/17/14 – Elvis Presley – “Blue Christmas” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d2RfblImA4

12/18/14 – Lindsey Stirling – “Celtic Carol” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg4sZZaf3Gg

12/19/14 – Trans-Siberian Orchestra – “A Mad Russian’s Christmas” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ntWELAZQ8

12/20/14 – South Kitsap High School Chorus – “Hallelujah” from Handel’s Messiah – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhjWdr-LAA

12/21/14 – Linda Eder – “Bells of St. Paul” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ73_HcR1VA

12/22/14 – Bolshoi Ballet- “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_f9B4pPtg. (Bonus – “Dance of the Prince Orgeat and the Sugar Plum Fairy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehqI2u0vog)

12/23/14 – Celtic Women – We Wish You a Merry Christmas” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJ4EWeHyE4

 

 

 

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Maer’s Holiday Playlist – Part One

A week out from Thanksgiving and the holiday season. Where did the year go? I’m not quite sure, but it’s been one wild ride.

In honor of the holidays, once a day I’ll post a song link either here or on my Facebook Author Page. For the next week it will be Thanksgiving songs – a “Thank You” song on each day.

First up is a band my brother, Shawn, has loved for decades. He played their music so much as a child that I couldn’t listen to them for something like 20 years…seriously! The musical Mama Mia broke the Abba blockade, and their “Thank You for the Music” is an appropriate beginning to my holiday playlist.

11/20/14 –  Abba – “Thank You for the Music – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfM9gQkfwyg
11/21/14 – Bon Jovi – “Thank You for Loving Me” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ZFkmTHTQ0
11/22/14 – Ella Fitzgerald – “Thanks for the Memory” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkspDkGPSPg
11/23/14 – Alanis Morisette – “Thank U” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU
11/24/14 – Dido – “Thank You” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO48Cnl66w#t=23
11/25/14 – Earth, Wind & Fire – Gratitude – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ1e6lmVluw
11/26/14 – American Greetings – Funny Thanksgiving Song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkmpd3Xp2GM
11/27/14 – Sister Sledge – We Are Family – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpYgpF1bqQ

 

 

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Relics – Book Tour & Giveaway

I’ve re-released my series, Modern Magics, and to celebrate I’m doing a virtual Book Tour & Giveaway! Be sure to visit the hosts each day for additional chances to win!

 

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Most of Thulu and La Fi’s clients are dead. Which is perfect since their detective agency caters to the supernatural. But a simple job finding a lost locket leads to a big case tracking relics for an ancient daemon.

The daemon needs the relics to keep a dangerous portal closed. His enemy, Gabriel, wants the relics to open the portal and give his people access to a new feeding ground – Earth.

Caught on live TV, other portals begin to open and the creatures of magic return to Earth. The people of Earth are not alone, but will soon wish they were.

When Gabriel threatens their family, Thulu and La Fi’s search becomes personal. The couple will need powerful help in the race to find the relics before Gabriel does. But maybe that’s what ghostly friends, magical allies and daemonic clients are for.

When the creatures of myth and magic return to Earth, they’re nothing like your mother’s fairy tales.

 

Relics can be found at these retailers:

Amazon – Kindle     |    Amazon – Paperback

Barnes & Noble – Nook     |     iTunes

 

You can follow my exploits at these social media links:

Maer’s Website     |     Amazon     |     Facebook

Twitter     |     Goodreads     |     Pinterest

 

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This Giveaway is open internationally

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PRIZES

2 Winners – ecopy of RELICS

1 Winner – $5 Amazon Gift Card

1 Winner – $10 Amazon Gift Card

2 Winners – ecopies of the Modern Magics Novelettes – “Ghost Memory,” “Unwanted Ghost,” and “Ghost Dancer”

 

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“Ghost Memory” Free!

Just in time for Halloween, the novelette, “Ghost Memory” is now FREE at many retailers! The links are below, so be sure to get your free copy today!

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“Ghost Memory”

La Fi is not having a normal day. She broke someone’s nose, embarrassed her fiancé, Thulu, and now a dead guy is on her doorstep. Although seeing the dead is not unusual for the young medium, since she and Thulu regularly deal with the supernatural. Thulu can find anything that’s lost and the amnesiac ghost is missing money, along with his memory.

Peter Swanson used to stash money throughout his San Francisco home. Now he can’t remember his hiding places, and his aging partner needs the money. That’s not normally a problem for Thulu, but some of the money is missing from the house. Thulu and La Fi must broaden the search for cash long gone, and that could prove tricky in more ways than one.

“Ghost Memory” is a Modern Magics Story set in the Relics universe. Bonus Material includes Chapter 1 from the novel, Relics.

 

You can download “Ghost Memory” for FREE from these retailers:

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Relics 2nd Edition Release!

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Maer’s Modern Magics Makeover

It’s here! Relics, Book 1 of the Modern Magics series is now available at online retailers! And we’re having a party to celebrate!

To commemorate the occasion, we will have an online party on Facebook. Come join the fun with games and prizes on Friday, September 26, 2014, from 5 – 7 PM Pacific time. We will be leaving the different contests open throughout the weekend, until 2 PM Pacific time on Sunday, September 28, 2014. So if you are not available to make the actual party, please check out and enter the different contests.

This new edition has been edited by Jen Ryan, and features new cover art by M Joseph Murphy.

I hope you will come join us to celebrate!

DEETS:

What: Release party for Relics

Where: On Facebook, at our event page Maer’s Modern Magics Makeover

When: Friday, September 26, 5 PM – 7 PM, Pacific time

Contests & Prizes: Giveaways of Amazon Gift Cards amd Modern Magics novelettes. Contests will close at 2 PM on Sunday, September 28, 2014.

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Most of Thulu and La Fi’s clients are dead. Which is perfect since their detective agency caters to the supernatural. But a simple job finding a lost locket leads to a big case tracking relics for an ancient daemon.

The daemon needs the relics to keep a dangerous portal closed. His enemy, Gabriel, wants the relics to open the portal and give his people access to a new feeding ground – Earth.

Caught on live TV, other portals begin to open and the creatures of magic return to Earth. The people of Earth are not alone, but will soon wish they were.

When Gabriel threatens their family, Thulu and La Fi’s search becomes personal. The couple will need powerful help in the race to find the relics before Gabriel does. But maybe that’s what ghostly friends, magical allies and daemonic clients are for.

When the creatures of myth and magic return to Earth, they’re nothing like your mother’s fairy tales.

You can buy Relics at Amazon

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 ***Additional retailers will be added as they go live.

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Cover Reveal – Relics 2nd Edition

I’m so excited to announce that Relics will soon be released by Ellysian Press. To celebrate, the series formerly known as The Thulukan Chronicles is getting a new name and a new look! Relics, Book 1 of Modern Magics will be released in the near future, with the rest of the series to soon follow.

But first here’s my new cover by the fabulous M Joseph Murphy. Be sure to check out his work at his website. He’s done a great job with this series! I can’t wait to share the rest with you…very soon!

 

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Relics

Most of Thulu and La Fi’s clients are dead. Which is perfect since their detective agency caters to the supernatural. But a simple job to find a lost locket turns into a big case finding relics for an ancient daemon.

The daemon needs the relics to keep a dangerous portal closed. His enemy, Gabriel, wants the relics to open the portal and give his people access to a new feeding ground – Earth.

Other portals begin to open and the creatures of magic return to Earth, proving many other worlds exist.

When Gabriel threatens their family, Thulu and La Fi’s search becomes personal. The couple will need powerful help in the race to find the relics before Gabriel does. But maybe that’s what ghostly friends, magical allies and daemonic clients are for.

When the creatures of myth and magic return to Earth, they’re nothing like your mother’s fairy tales.

 

You’ll be able to buy Relics at all the usual retailers.

 

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Cozy Dark – Modern Magics

relics - ebook cover high resolutionThroughout the last year, I have struggled somewhat to assign genres and writing styles to my series, Modern Magics. Yes, it’s definitely genre-bending, but that’s not much help, is it? It’s Urban Fantasy meets Paranormal Mystery meets Sci Fi, so any one of those will fit the three books, Relics, Portals and Magics. The four prequel novelettes are firmly Paranormal Mystery, so they are easy.

But there has also been much discussion with my friends as to my style of writing in this series. Some have said it can go Young Adult, even though the main characters are far too old to qualify for that once the books start. And yes, the writing style is mostly family friendly, although there are some dark scenes.

But I finally have a description that perfectly fits this series! I was chatting with my friend Danielle DeVor this morning, discussing the different levels of dark – whether it be Paranormal, Mystery, Horror, Thriller. I’d mentioned to her how I thought some of Anne Rice’s work was dark, but Danielle explained my idea of dark was rather – well, let’s say not very dark.

Here’s the snippet from our chat:

Danielle:  There was this movement in the 1980’s and early 1990’s called splatterpunk. It was very much extreme violence and gore. Ron Dee is one of the main writers of splatterpunk.

Maer:  Oh yeah…probably not my thing. lol

Danielle:  No, definitely not.

Maer:  I prefer cozy dark. :p

Danielle:  You totally have to start using that.

And she’s right! Because this is the description I’ve been looking to use. Modern Magics has many dark scenes, but they aren’t edgy dark. Nope, they are cozy dark. And there are elements of humor throughout most of the series. So, now I have an answer when people ask me what I write. Although I will still need to use the genre-bending descriptors, now I have something that fits my style.

Who else writes cozy dark novels? I’m sure there must be others.

 

Relics will be releasing with a new edition in the near future!

 

 

 

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