The Pearlsong Letter September 2011 -- Conversation with Lauri J Owen

September 2011

A Pearlsong Conversation with author Lauri J Owen

Join us this coming Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 5 p.m. Eastern/4 p.m. Central for a teleconference call chat with Lauri J Owen, author of the paranormal romance novels Fallen Embers & Blowing Embers, Books 1 & 2 of The Embers Series. Other Pearlsong authors may be on the call as well. All participants will be able to ask questions and comment as time and technology permit.

There's no cost to participate in the Conversation, other than any long distance toll charges that might apply. The Conversation will be recorded and available for listening/downloading afterward, but we'd love for you to join us live if possible. To receive the teleconference call details (phone number & access code), send an email to pearlsongconversations @ pearlsong.com. The call details will be automatically emailed to you.

Fallen Embers & Blowing Embers transport readers to an alternate version of Alaska ruled by a class of decadent mages who have enslaved the shapeshifting indigenous peoples. Kiera, an attorney in "our" Alaska, is transported to the alternate feudal realm one snowy afternoon along with her nephew. She soon finds herself fighting to save three children from an army, and does so by summoning fire.

As Fallen Embers progresses Kiera learns more about the local systems of magic and her own powers. She also must decide whom she can trust—Marco, the young mage she saves, or fierce and handsome Laszlo, the slave captain of ruling Lord Vayu's army? The saga continues in Blowing Embers. Kiera must master the art of war as well as magic as the nobility strikes a blow that steals all hope from the rebelling slaves and crushes Kiera's heart.

Lauri J Owen is a civil rights lawyer who grew up in Idaho's Treasure Valley. She started reading fantasy novels in the third grade and never really stopped. She worked for more than a decade in law enforcement, then went to law school at U.C. Berkeley and moved to the Alaska Bush, where she fell in love with the magic and majesty of her new home state. She now lives in metro Alaska with her elementary school-aged son and her many rescued cat companions. She donates the royalties from her books to no-kill animal shelters. She is current working on Rising Embers, Book 3 in The Embers Series.

Fallen Embers & Blowing Embers are available in original trade paperback and ebook format. Click on the book covers for more information, or visit Lauri's website at www.lauriowen.com.

You can find links to previous Pearlsong Conversation recordings on the Pearlsong Conversations webpage. See http://www.pearlsong.com/pearlsongconversations.htm for more info and the archived recordings.

In Joy,

Peggy Elam, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Editor & Publisher
Pearlsong Press

P.S. Next month's Pearlsong Conversation will feature Lynne Murray & her new book The Falstaff Vampire Files, now available in original trade paperback & ebook format. This summer Pearlsong Press also republished the first volume in Lynne's award-winning Josephine Fuller mystery series, Larger Than Death, in trade paperback and ebook. Republication of the other books in the series is also in the works!

"We are famine survivors, we fat women,
and ought to be valued for it.
We must have been very useful
when everyone else collapsed with starvation.
We would have been able to sow the crop,
feed the babies and keep the tribe alive until spring came.
If you breed us out, what will you do
when the bad times come again?"

Heroine Corinna Chapman in
Kerry Greenwood's mystery novel
Earthly Delights

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