Thursday, April 3, 2014

Linda Nightingale's Sinner's Opera is up for a RONE Award!!!!




InD’tale magazine presents the RONE awards, one of the most credible and prestigious award in the industry today.  The three round system of elimination covers every facet - highly reviewed, loved by fans, and critiqued by qualified judges. 

Sinners’ Opera, the book of my heart, is nominated in the Paranormal Novel Category.  First round is judged by popular vote.  My genre is open for voting from March 31 - April 6, 2014! It will only be open for votes for exactly one week, so it is extremely important I let all my friends and fans know!

http://indtale.com/2014-rone-awards-week-four  You must sign up for an account at no cost and you don’t have to sign up for the newsletter, etc. though these are worth having.  After you sign up, you can vote.  I would be most grateful for your vote.

The finalists in this round will then be read and judged by a group of professionals in the industry to determine the very best in indie and small published books of 2013.  They will then be awarded the prestigious RONE award, itself, at the formal ceremonies, July 11th, at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Please help me and my book win a RONE!






Blurb:
Morgan D’Arcy is a classical pianist, an English lord and a vampire.  He has everything except what he desires most—Isabeau.  When she was a child, he appeared to her as the Angel Gabriel, influencing her life and career choice, preparing her to become Lady D’Arcy.  Many forces oppose Morgan’s daring plan—not the least of which is Vampyre law.  A vampire must not sire a child on a mortal.

Isabeau Gervase is a brilliant geneticist engaged to a prominent attorney. Though she no longer believes in angels, she sees a ticket to a Nobel Prize in the genetic puzzle presented by her long-absent childhood friend. She intends to unravel Gabriel’s secrets, using the DNA contained in a lock of his hair and identify the non-human species she named the Angel Genome.

Morgan is ready to come back into Isabeau’s life, but this time as a man—and a vampire—not an angel.  Will he outsmart his enemies, protect his beloved and escape death himself?  For the first time in eternity, the clock is ticking.


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Sinners’ Opera



Excerpt:
For almost four hundred years, I’ve witnessed miracles of technology and the political wars that reshaped the world's destiny.  I’ve seen much to hate and a great deal worthy of forgiveness.  I was born May 29, 1632, the only son of the Earl of St. Averil and his Lady Ilsabeth de Gueraint D’Arcy.  He died at the Battle of Naseby fighting with Charles I.  My mother died alone in 1685.  By that time, an unnaturally long youth had forced me to fake my own death for the first time.  I watched from afar, unable to attend her funeral.
Yesterday, I was a celebrated pianist.  I learned my art on the harpsichord from an Austrian genius named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Later, I studied with Liszt, Ravel and Debussy.  From the Duke of Newcastle then the Frenchman de la Gueriniere, I learned classical horsemanship.
Tonight, I am a wanted man.  Mortal justice would hang me for a crime I did not commit.  My brethren wish to destroy me for a crime I committed with willful intent.
It all began in December, a brief six months ago.  Actually, my saga began in 1659 before the restoration of Charles II, but that’s another story...
This is our story—Isabeau’s and mine—our Folie à deux.


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