Book One in the Portal Series.

Sam’s escape is just the beginning of her journey. Sam must go back to confront and defeat her abductor, leaving Kate to care for her children. Sam returns to the old oak tree, and the Portal to the world where she was held prisoner. In a whirlwind world of magic and monsters, where people and things are not who or what they appear to be, there are hard choices ahead, and Sam must learn if she’s strong enough to make them.

This Osier Publishing Direct edition of The Portal Between features exclusive extra content in the form of an interview with Kate, the key character for this book in the series.

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The Portal Sundered is being arranged at the moment, and shouldn’t be too long.

A quick question for you, what type of extra material do YOU want to see in books?

I wonder what might have happened if Sage hadn’t skidded on that dark road. I wonder what might have happened if Sam had gone straight to her parents, or if she’d talked to Kate and Lily before she went to the woods that night. Those are just my own characters.

I know there is a huge array of fan driven fiction being written, some of it shared online, some discussed over tea, or wine, amid giggling between friends. We all do it.

What if a police box arrived in our garden, what would you do if he said, “Come with me?” What would you do if you, or your child, got a letter from Hogwarts? What if Ripley had just said, “No.” when Burke came to ask her to go back.

I know you play the game too. We all do it. We all pretend. Even if we pretend we don’t.

I bet you can all write a short scene featuring a What If from your favourite film, TV show or book. That’s the challenge here. Take a character from a film, TV show or book, find a key moment in the story and play what if.

A couple of rules:

• Keep it clean – this is a workplace friendly blog.
• Please name, and credit the original creator of the character and story – we’re only borrowing their creation for a short time and they did all the hard work.
• If you’re a writer – the character you choose should be someone else’s creation.
• If there’s a link for their work then please leave it – it helps provide a reference for anyone reading who may not have heard of your choice.
• Bear in mind that hugely long comments don’t get read – so try to limit yourself to around 500 words or so.
• Feel free to share on your own blog, site or page but please link back to here – this is my game and I’d appreciate the credit for it.

Go on, I dare you….

I have something in mind for my own contribution but I’ll put it up as a comment later.

Last bit of driving of the day and on trying to get back in the car to drive home, the handle on the driver’s door snapped off in my hand.

Sage threw up her hands in disgust and stormed off. “I thought you were getting this fixed!”

I fell about laughing.

So did Kate, and Lily chuckled softly in the background.

I clambered across the passenger seat and into the driver’s seat to get home, giggling for most of the 5 mins it took. The car is now safely in the garage with her beloved mechanics, after more hilarity when they shook their heads and commented that colour matching the new handle might be tricky. Then the looks of utter relief when I laughed; I really don’t care what colour he handle is, I just want it to work.

Sage is now sulking, and Kate is being interviewed. Jack’s not happy with me. He’s waxing his car outside and I can feel his concern. It’s Kate’s birthday today, she was born at Beltane, the coming of summer.

It’s raining. But the garden is becoming more green every day and if the soil would just dry out then the grass is in need of a cut.

But first, Kate. If anyone has any more questions then add them here in the comments and I’ll work them in as I write up the interview. This will be the Exclusive bonus content added to The Portal Between when it becomes available to buy directly through here or through Osier Publishing.

Sam’s next.

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Since moving house, and changing country too… Wales is a different country, with a different culture and different life. It may all be part of the UK, but England and Wales are different countries…. Anyway, since moving, I’ve not done as much driving, and the driving I do is slower. Purely because the speed limits are lower, the roads calmer, so I travel at a slower pace to get where I’m going.  And the car has had some issues. I’ve been focused on home, painting, hanging wallpaper, sorting out furniture.

Sage has been silent. She prefers me to be on the move, at speed, comfortable and at home in my car, and then she speaks. Until the other day, Sage has stayed away from my mind and Lily has been to the fore.

Then, last week, on my way out to go shopping, my car went bang. Literally, there was a loud Bang as I was pulling off my drive and then the most horrendous noise.

Sage stormed off in disgust.

It turned out to be easy to fix and while that was being done, I had a chat with the mechanic about a more technical issue. His face lit up, “Oh my mate had one of those [car like mine] and he had that problem. I know exactly what that is.”

Sage woke up. The car’s getting fixed? More driving? Can we go to the beach?

Kate shook her head at me, and at Sage, smiled indulgently and wandered off, refusing to even think about the interview I want to do with her.

That’s the way it goes some days.

Hi Sage, the car is booked in for Tuesday and next weekend is a bank holiday. I think the beach is definitely on the agenda. As long as it’s not raining.

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Would you like to do it again? This time I’ll get Kate in the chair.

Do you wonder how she coped while Sam was missing? Why she took Jack back? How she manages to feed that brood of kids? What her favourite flower might be?

Ask anything you like in the comments here, or on my facebook page, and I’ll collect questions for a few days before I put together a chat with Kate.

I’m adding downloads of my ebooks to the website, and if bought here the files will have something extra in – a little bonus, if you like. To test the system thoroughly I’ve added the files for Earthlink: Impact in three formats: Kindle, ePub and PDF and I’ve set them all at an introductory price for today and tomorrow (Thurs 19th April and Friday 20th April). I need to test the payment part and for that some money has to change hands, but it really doesn’t have to be much. 50p for UK readers and 75 cents for US readers – small change and straight from your paypal account. You won’t miss it and you’ll get the first of the Exclusive ebooks direct from here.

If you wouldn’t mind, give it a try, buy yourself an ebook and then let me know what you thought. I’m interested in how the software works, how easy it is to download the files and how the files look on your ereader, or ereader app. The links are all here for you, as well as on their own page.

Exclusive Content

Each copy bought directly from this site will have something extra for you. Earthlink: Impact has a short message and autograph included in the file.

Scroll down to find the file format you need, click Buy Now and follow the instructions.

UK Readers

All files set at 0.50pence for a limited time only. This price expires at midnight UK time on Friday 20th April. This special offer price is only for the purposes of testing the new download system. All feedback gratefully received.

Kindle edition (.mobi file)

Epub file – for Sony, Nook and others

PDF file

US Readers

All files set at 0.75cents for a limited time only. This price expires at midnight UK time on Friday 20th April. This special offer price is only for the purposes of testing the new download system. All feedback gratefully received.

Kindle edition (.mobi file)

Epub file – for Sony, Nook and others

PDF file

Thank should lead you to a download thing that should give you a free printable book mark.

Help yourselves.

Any feedback on the ease of use, anything that went wrong and so on would be gratefully received, as would any comments on anything else you’d like to see available for download.

If it works out then I’ll add more in a set of 4 Portal bookmarks, make some more freebies and maybe set up selling my ebooks directly to you as well.

Set roughly 30 years before The Portal Between, Heavily pregnant, and with her own life and that of her unborn child threatened by her consort, Lilith flees her home to seek the aid of her sister, who was thought to be lost. Heather has been in hiding and only Lilith knows where she is or how to reach her.

Heather holds the healing magic that Lilith needs and Heather lives in the one place where Lilith’s unborn child might be safe.

The Heir is a short story and your kindle purchase will include the beginning of The Portal Between as a bonus.

The Portal Series.

Amazon Kindle – UK

The whole Portal Series is also available on Kindle in the US, and in other Amazon regions.

The Heir, the story of the birth of Lilith’s heir is set three decades before the events of The Portal Between.

The Heir is a short story and includes the first few pages of The Portal Between.

The Portal Series.

Amazon Kindle – UK

Earthlink:Impact is a short novella, at only approx 20,000 words, a quick read.

Sci fi, with a troubled teenager, aliens and spaceships.

What if they are up there, monitoring us, and the planet? What if the planet has grown, developed, become conscious in some way? What if just one person could hear that consciousness in pain? What if that one person had just crashed a stolen car after a night of drink and drugs?

Sage is eighteen years old and, ever since she can remember, there’s been a voice in her head. She’ll tell you that she doesn’t hear voices, they don’t tell her to do anything. It’s just a single voice, and it doesn’t speak, it screams. She hears an unending scream as if the voice is someone in constant, agonising pain.

She’s been told she’s hallucinating. She’s spent time in psychiatric care and on strong drugs that cut her off from her feelings, and she hates all of it.

But she’s not hallucinating, the voice is all too real and Sage has been watched for years in the hope that she’s not the only one who can hear. When Sage puts her life in danger, and it’s clear that she is unique, intervention is necessary.

Links for Amazon UK and US as follows:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Earthlink-Impact-ebook/dp/B006YR4BIK/
http://www.amazon.com/Earthlink-Impact-ebook/dp/B006YR4BIK/

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