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The latest in Hannah Howell’s Murray series HIGHLAND BARBARIAN (ISBN 0821779982) hits the store shelves today.  

For more information about Highland Barbarian and Hannah visit her site www.hannahhowell.com

Huntress Reviews give 4.5 stars for CALM BEFORE THE STORM

“Fans of Fantasy will be very pleased if they get their hands on this gem. This is the first book in a new fantasy series. It is hard to believe that this is author Joe Lawson’s debut novel! Time is taken to develop the characters and backgrounds in such a way that readers can easily learn about them. Therefore, this book is slower in action than I believe the future novels in this series will be. (But we all know that most first books in a series are slow for this same reason.) Do not get me wrong! This story a lot of action, danger, adventure, magic, and a twist or two as well. An excellent beginning to what may very
well place Joe Lawson’s name on a Best Selling list!” ~ Detra Fitch, Huntress Reviews

For the full review http://www.huntressreviews.com/fant.htm

Lessard Public Relations would like to welcome New York Times Bestselling author Hannah Howell, author of HIGHLAND BARBARIAN a Zebra December 2006 release.

For an author, putting your book promotion campaign into the hands of readers may feel like a scary idea, but it just may work. Tina Adams, owner of Excerptalicious.com is betting that it definitely will work, and she’s making it easier than ever for readers to spread the word about books.

On October 5th, Tina Adams launched a site (Excerptalicious.com) that is set up as both a unique promotional vehicle for authors (she calls it “book promotion with a twist!”) and a place where readers may retrieve free samples of books they are interested in, and pass those samples along to their friends. Yes, at Excerptalicious.com, book promotion is put firmly into the hands of an author’s surest bet for unsolicited sales…the hands of readers.

When asked about her goals for Excerptalicious.com, Mrs. Adams said, “There are so many goals behind the creation of Excerptalicious.com, I could not begin to name them all.”

One of those goals, Mrs. Adams confessed, is to encourage readers to freely share information about great books with other readers. One way she does this is by allowing readers who download material from the site to remain anonymous. How does this help? Mrs. Adams says, “People are more apt to check something out on the Internet if they are not required to reveal their personal information in order to gain access to it, and I wanted Excerptalicious.com to remain open, thus keeping our book information easily accessible to all.”

Is it working? Excerptalicious.com boasted a mere five titles at launch, including the upcoming Sleeping With The Fishes by NYT Bestselling Author MaryJanice Davidson, yet the site has received almost 300 visitors in a very short amount of time…with no advertising whatsoever.

For more information about Excerptalicious.com or to promote your book from the site, contact: Tina Adams via email at tina@fictionpromotions.com, LeeAnn Lessard at 613-797-7578, or visit the Excerptalicious.com website at http://www.excerptalicious.com .