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Author Introduction: Avery Shade
As part of the promo for the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar release, I figured I’d highlight all of the contributors to the anthology individually. And while we’re at it, run a contest as well! So here’s the deal, to enter the contest you have to either friend the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!
And now for the thirteenth contributor: Avery Shade! Avery’s contribution to the anthology is the short story Forbidden, which is the first story to bring in some science fictional elements to the Ur-bar. Here, a scientist has been sent back from the future to the 1980s. Lots of oblique references to that time period here, and lots of temptations as well. Here’s the official description:
"Forbidden" by Avery Shade: A traveler from a dying future is sent back to 1985 in search of the genetic samples that will save her people, but instead finds herself seduced by the uncivilized past.
Avery is actually a newer member of the writing group with Patricia Bray and I. At the time we accepted this story for the anthology, she hadn’t yet been published. However, over the course of the last year she’s sold two books! They’ll be published under a pseudonym (since they’re more romance oriented), but Patricia and I are still happy to declare that we discovered her first. *grin* Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Avery Shade is an author of paranormal and urban fantasy of both the adult and young adult variety. Though grounded in a small upstate NY town, she lives vicariously through her stories. When not busy writing, she is probably off searching for the real meaning of life, the universe, and. . . well. . . everything. If you can track her down (try her website: www.averyshade.com) you might offer to go for drinks somewhere. She’s all too eager for a bit of escapism. Maybe one of these times she’ll find the Ur-Bar and Gil will mix her a drink that can give her some more time.
Since Avery Shade doesn’t have a book out (yet) to offer as a prize in the contest, we’ll be offering a bag of special Ur-bar M&Ms! These are chocolate M&Ms in gold, blue, and purple colors with a few key Ur-bar phrases on them, such as "After Hours," "Ur-Bar Tales," and of course the release date "March 2011."
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!And now for the thirteenth contributor: Avery Shade! Avery’s contribution to the anthology is the short story Forbidden, which is the first story to bring in some science fictional elements to the Ur-bar. Here, a scientist has been sent back from the future to the 1980s. Lots of oblique references to that time period here, and lots of temptations as well. Here’s the official description:
"Forbidden" by Avery Shade: A traveler from a dying future is sent back to 1985 in search of the genetic samples that will save her people, but instead finds herself seduced by the uncivilized past.
Avery is actually a newer member of the writing group with Patricia Bray and I. At the time we accepted this story for the anthology, she hadn’t yet been published. However, over the course of the last year she’s sold two books! They’ll be published under a pseudonym (since they’re more romance oriented), but Patricia and I are still happy to declare that we discovered her first. *grin* Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Avery Shade is an author of paranormal and urban fantasy of both the adult and young adult variety. Though grounded in a small upstate NY town, she lives vicariously through her stories. When not busy writing, she is probably off searching for the real meaning of life, the universe, and. . . well. . . everything. If you can track her down (try her website: www.averyshade.com) you might offer to go for drinks somewhere. She’s all too eager for a bit of escapism. Maybe one of these times she’ll find the Ur-Bar and Gil will mix her a drink that can give her some more time.
Since Avery Shade doesn’t have a book out (yet) to offer as a prize in the contest, we’ll be offering a bag of special Ur-bar M&Ms! These are chocolate M&Ms in gold, blue, and purple colors with a few key Ur-bar phrases on them, such as "After Hours," "Ur-Bar Tales," and of course the release date "March 2011."