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About DaVaun Sanders
DaVaun Sanders has resided in Phoenix, Arizona since 2002, where the local spoken word community fostered his passion to pursue writing novels and screenplays. The World Breach series began as a dream vivid enough to play like a movie trailer. Deciding to write the debut novel took some time, as it wasn't part of "The Plan," but when the housing market collapse forced DaVaun's small design firm under in 2008, he decided to step away from architecture and plunge into writing full-time. He's currently loving every minute as an indie publisher. Sanders is a proud husband and father of twins.
The Seedbearing Prince: Part I has reached as high as #1 on Amazon's genre lists for Science Fiction and Epic Fantasy, and remains a perennial favorite in the top 100 downloads. His short screenplay Vault of Souls won the Grand Prize in Phoenix Comicon's 2014 Short Script Competition, with a scene shot in Phoenix which debuted at a 2015 Phoenix Comicon panel.
DaVaun's most recent release is The Course of Blades, the third of six books in World Breach, and he is hard at work on completing Dayn Ro'Halan's epic adventure. Follow him on Twitter @davaunwrites or like his Facebook page for updates and giveaways!
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Blog postWhile I couldn't have asked for a better year as a creator, one thing was missing in 2015...
...the next book in the World Breach series! Sometimes life intervenes. But in a good way, with insight into my story and where it's going that would never have appeared if I'd rushed it out last year.
While I have plenty of writing projects and new ideas I'm concurrently working on, the series that started it all simply won't let me go. There are three more intended books left to fini6 years ago Read more -
Blog postYou wanted it, you got it! All three novels in one discounted ebook bundle for Black Friday!
That's right...The Seedbearing Prince: Parts I & II, and the most recently released Course of Blades! Preload your Kindle, iPad or other ereader with some great stories through the weekend and get your winter reading started with some quality books!
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Blog postGiving away books is almost as fun as selling books! (almost) So let's have some fun!
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Seedbearing Prince by DaVaun Sanders Giveaway ends December 13, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win So consider this a way to participate in a Black Friday deal without dealing with the insanity of our fellow consumers. If you need to catch up on the first book of the World Breach series,7 years ago Read more -
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Blog postOne of my stories is on a crazy path from inception to...wherever it goes next. You never know what will take off, so don't give up on your ideas. Ever.
Every dusty manuscript, decade-old screenplay...anything left in your vault possesses value. One day people will mine your brilliance simply because a project has "by [insert your name here]" stamped on it. If you hold the attitude that every idea you own can spawn a franchise, and anything you create is akin to printing y8 years ago Read more -
Blog postPeople ask me a lot about writing, so I decided to share what I've learned on the blog. There are thousands of tips out there, and I encourage you to do exactly what I do: find out what works for you and throw the rest out. Everything here is accrued from years of mentor and peer advice, as well as my own experience in the trenches, (staring at the laptop, just like you.) So let's get to it!
Disclaimer: I don't believe in writer's block, and neither should you.
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Blog postI'm excited to partner with three amazing authors to bring you The Fantasy Portal, an awesome book bundle highlighting diverse stories in the realm of science fiction and fantasy! October is Black Speculative Fiction Month, and I'm proud to feature some fellow indy authors who are adding their unique stories to the literary landscape. Check out our book club on Goodreads and say hi after you've picked up this amazing deal on four novels!
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Blog postI'm excited to partner with three amazing authors to bring you The Fantasy Portal, an awesome book bundle highlighting diverse stories in the realm of science fiction and fantasy! October is Black Speculative Fiction Month, and I'm proud to feature some fellow indy authors who are adding their unique stories to the literary landscape. Check out our book club on Goodreads and say hi after you've picked up this amazing deal on four novels!
This week is all about Colby R. Rice and the8 years ago Read more -
Blog postI'm proud to announce that "The Fantasy Portal" is released and available as of TODAY on Amazon.com. This book bundle features stories by Brandon Hill, Colby R. Rice, Rasheedah Prioleau, and yours truly!
My fellow authors definitely need to be a part of your summer reading line up! Check out this quick blurb on their stories:
From Slate to Crimson, by Brandon Hill (Paranormal Romance)
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Blog postHey family, just wanted to shoot an exciting heads up your way! My friend and fellow author Colby R. Rice clued me in on Digital Book Day, and I had to pass it along. The event is going down on Monday July 14th, so be sure to click the flyer below and browse for your next favorite author!
Don't ever let a free book discourage you as to the quality. Sure, there's bound to be some stinkers in the pile...but that can happen with a mega-author with a national ad campaign, or a an indy a8 years ago Read more -
Blog postIf you have yet to see Stephen Hawking's interview on Last Week Tonight, take a pause and treat yourself:
This guy is hilarious, plain and simple. One thing that made me sit forward in my seat was his description of imaginary time--and how science fiction writers have not tackled it because we do not understand it.
So of course, now I must pen a short story dedicated to this fascinating new (to me) subject, very very soon! As soon as I've wrapped my head around it, of c8 years ago Read more -
Blog postGreetings, all! I had so much fun participating in my recent blog tour, I decided to make excerpts from other authors a more featured part of the blog. Just in time for summer, right? To start this new practice up, I'm excited to offer you an excerpt from fantasy author Tara May--check out an excerpt from the first book in her series, The Unfinished Song below!
The Unfinished Song (Book 1): Initiate by Tara Maya
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Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Our final day concludes with another post from Balogun Ojetade, the man who inspired it all, and an excerpt from his work "Fight Card: Fist of Africa!"
For those who know me, I am a writer.
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I write speculative fiction -- mainly Steamfunk, Dieselfunk, Rococoa and Sword &8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! This Tuesday features Crystal Connor, sharing an interview with her co-creator Lori Titus!
An entire year ago, I swore an oath of secrecy when I agreed to co-write a book with paranormal-romance author Lori Titus under the pen name of Connor Titus. The reason, in the beginning, for the vow of silence was simply for the sake of peace.
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I love fiction. Period. Worlds imagined, worlds altered, whether simply reshaped or irrevocably twisted. Anything that fires the imagination is a gift from the gods. I grew up on Star Trek, the Twilight Zone, Sir Graves Ghastly’s Saturday Matinee Movies (for us Motown folks), and the8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! We close out our Friday with some thoughts from legendary sword and soul author, Charles R. Saunders. Read more of his work in Milton Davis' anthology, Griots: Sisters of the Spear!
Griots: Sisters of the Spear Griots: Sisters of the Spear picks up where the ground breaking Griots Anthology leaves off. Charles R. Saunders and Milton J8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Today showcases science fiction author K. Ceres Wright and an excerpt of her novel, Cog!
Ms. Wright has been watching science fiction (SF) since she was three years old. As she grew, she became less and less satisfied with the limited role minorities played in many SF books, shows, and movies, and decided to write SF that bett8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Milton Davis returns again, this time with an excerpt from his sword and soul novel, Woman of the Woods! I've read this book and enjoyed it, I hope you do, too.
Woman of the Woods Synopsis The latest Sword and Soul novel by Milton Davis returns to the land of Meji, the amazing world of Uhuru. It tells the story of Sadatina, a&nbs8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Our Day 8 feature, fantasy author Carole McDonnell, changes things up with an audio excerpt of her novel, "The Constant Tower," and a science fiction short story. Enjoy!
Meet Kai Leakes! From Iowa, but later relocating to Alton, IL and St. Louis, MO, Kai Leakes was a multifaceted Midwestern child, who gained an addiction to b8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Our Day 8 feature, fantasy author Carole McDonnell, changes things up with an audio excerpt of her novel, "The Constant Tower," and a science fiction short story. Enjoy!
About Carole McDonnell: I am a novelist, a writer of fiction, devotionals, poetry, reviews, and essays and my works have appeared in many publishing venues,8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Easter Sunday and Day 7 features D K Gaston and an excerpt from his novel Taurus Moon: Magic & Mayhem!
About DK Gaston:
Darin is the author of more than a dozen books ranging from Speculative Fiction to Crime novels. His first book was published in 2007. After serving five years in the military, he began college, earning a8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Today is all about Valjeanne Jeffers!
Valjeanne is the author of the SF/fantasy novels: Immortal, Immortal II: The Time of Legend, Immortal III: Stealer of Souls, and the steampunk novels: Immortal IV: Collision of Worldsand The Switch II: Clockwork (includes books 1 and 2).
Her writing has appeared in:&n8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Day 4 features Milton Davis, one of the first authors I connected with on State of Black Science Fiction and really supported my work. I'm proud to work with him as an author on the upcoming Dark Universe anthology!
Milton Davis is owner of MVmedia, LLC , a micro publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword and Soul. MVme8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Today check out the prolific, cross genre author Balogun Ojetade:
Balogun is the author of the bestselling Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within and screenwriter / producer / director of the films, A Single Linkand Rite of Passage: Initiation.
He is one of the leading authorities on Steamfunk – a philosophy or style of writi8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Today's post is all about science fiction author Alan Jones:
Former columnist for the Atlanta Tribune, Alan Jones has worked most of his adult life as a Business/IT consultant, working all across America from Los Angeles to Wall Street. Born in Atlanta, Alan attended GA-Tech and GA State, obtaining his MBA from Georgia State University's Ro8 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe Butler/Banks Book Tour will feature guest posts from various authors contributing exciting perspectives to the realm of Speculative Fiction! Check back daily for new posts--this first offering from Colby R. Rice sets the bar right at the top!
Ghosts of Koa: The First Book of Ezekiel
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Titles By DaVaun Sanders
Give your graduate the gift of joy! Celebrate Black boyhood at every stage with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors—including Jason Reynolds, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Mbalia.
★ "Pick up Black Boy Joy for a heavy dose of happiness." —Booklist, starred review
Black boy joy is…
Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit.
Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race.
Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times.
Flying on your skateboard like nobody’s watching.
And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
Contributors include: B. B. Alston, Dean Atta, P. Djèlí Clark, Jay Coles, Jerry Craft, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, DaVaun Sanders, and Julian Winters
Explore the fringes of the known. Fly away with us to the deeps of space for action and adventure, alien intrigue and bloody surprises. Join us out here where all things alien and weird flow freely. Dive headlong into spaceships and monsters, tentacles and insanity, determined struggle and starborne terror. Whether sprawling across civilizations or tightly focused and personal, these tales paint a psychedelic vision of strange proportions and wondrous possibility.
Where space opera meets the weird. An anthology of 29 illustrated short stories that blend the weird cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos with the star-spanning vistas of space opera by a diverse array of all-star authors...
Remy Nakamura • Lucy A. Snyder • J.E. Bates • Gord Sellar • Brian Evenson • Heather Hatch • Desirina Boskovich • DaVaun Sanders • D.W. Baldwin • J. Edward Tremlett • D.A. Xiaolin Spires • Tom Dullemond • Premee Mohamed • Wendy N. Wagner • Kara Dennison • Brandon O'Brien • Heather Terry • Wendy Nikel • Robert White • Ingrid Garcia • Richard Lee Byers • Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. • Tim Curran • Angus McIntyre • Ada Hoffmann • Bogi Takács • Wendi Dunlap • Cody Goodfellow • Nadia Bulkin
You'll meet soldiers and scientists, starship captains and intrepid explorers, each with secrets to hide and a story to tell. And then there's the aliens. So many aliens. Some friendly, some monstrous, but all of them exciting.
Engines full. Course set. We're going in.
Suraldisha is a woman who has lost everything but a tiny pouch of bones and an all-consuming need for revenge. She is one of hundreds streaming into the city, hoping to offer their bodies as vessels for phage in service of the Matriarch. But she is hiding more than seething hatred and a fish knife in her sun robes.
Will she get close enough to the Matriarch to carry out her plan? And what does justice look like in a world where power is drawn from the suffering of so many?
Doubt over Dayn's unpredictable power festers upon the Ring. The captured Thar'Kuri Crusos vows that the Seed will bring death and ruin to all Dayn touches, and the Ringmen Nassir and Lurec secretly fear the voidwalker's warnings will prove true.
Wracked by guilt over the people left behind on Nemoc, weary of the Lord Ascendant's endless plotting and fearful of the darkness spreading through the Seed, Dayn abandons the Ring to unite the worlds in his own way and prove his powers are whole. New friends and old twist Dayn's path as he confronts an inevitable question: can he use the Seed's power to heal the Breach?