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PreOrder Your Copy of Other Dangers Now! Widely Available November 4th!

10/30/2017

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 NEW RELEASE
11/4/2017. | U.S.A.
Visit www.jellingtonashton.com for contact details, review copies, photos, and an author bio.

Other Dangers Part One: Slipped Through
Preorder Now Available on Amazon – Release Date: November 4th, 2017

Preorder Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076ZS82JX

Henry is a man with trouble on his hands. Setting out for this weekend getaway wasn’t even his idea and now he’s woken up from a terrible car crash to find himself in a strange place where nothing is as it seems. Now his whole life has changed and nothing he knew to be true seems to matter, not when the world is filled with horror and still other dangers waiting in the shadows. Worse, his wife is hurt and there’s only one woman who can help them get home, a woman who is more mystery than truth and holds the road map to a world without rules…a map which comes in the form of a book hidden in the depths of the backpack in her possession. A book that calls his name and the woman shows him she would do anything to keep out of anyone else’s hands.

A longtime fan of horror and fantasy, Ms. Lyons writes character driven novels that, while influenced by the dark and gothic, can also be heavily laced with fantasy, romance, history and magic. Amanda M. Lyons has lived her whole life in rural Ohio, where she lives with her fiance and two children. She is the author of Wendy Won't Go: Collector's Edition, Eyes Like Blue Fire, Water Like Crimson Sorrow, and Cool Green Waters all available from J. Ellington Ashton Press. She is also the co-author of Feral Hearts with authors Catt Dahman, Mark Woods, Jim Goforth, Edward P. Cardillo, and Michael Fisher and a contributing author to the extreme horror anthologies Rejected for Content: Splattergore, Rejected for Content 2: Aberrant Menagerie, Rejected for Content 3: Violent Vengeance and several others yet to come.

Backwoods Bonfire is Part of Project 26, P26, a series of 26 books, each one representing a different letter in the alphabet, with each letter in turn represented a horror-related concept that starts with that letter.

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Other Dangers Cover Reveal and Update!

10/28/2017

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the beautiful cover for Other Dangers: Slipped Through by cover artist Michael Fish Fisher! This book is the first of a series I expect to take an eight book arch to complete over the next few years. To think this all began in the tail end of 1996 only to finally begin release nearly twenty years later! Expect it on the market very soon, within the next week barring any unforeseen delays. I am very excited to bring you this book from J Ellington Ashton Press and happy to say that two other installments are nearly ready to be sent in so the wait should not be bad at all for the next installments! Please keep an eye out for this, its apocalyptic horror with fantasy elements and should appeal to both audiences as well as those seeking brutally dark and moody books featuring psychological elements! 
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New Release: Star-Fox: Adventures of Zorro Across Time and Dimension

10/18/2017

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Star-Fox: Adventures of Zorro Across Time and Dimension is a recent anthology release from the minds of authors Michael Kanuckel, Wes McCloud, Kevin Candela, Kent Hill, C L Fors, Nicholas Day, and yours truly ;) Planned and executed by Mr. Kanuckel himself, who invited a select group of authors to create an anthology to honor the great hero of old with a fresh look through different genres, this  anthology is a labor of love project by fans of the beloved hero who inspired so many stories in television, film, and the written word. 

Who is Zorro? If you're not familiar, he's a legendary righter of wrongs, much like Robin Hood, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Zorro, though, is a bit more clever and chooses to do his work with a blend of espionage and masked crusading for the people who live around him in the early days of Mexican California. Here, then, is a heroic man of property and esteem who uses his power to do good for those less fortunate and thumb his nose and raise his rapier against those who would attempt to crush them under their pretentious boots.

Starting out as a pulp series written by Johnston McCulley based on legends about such notable historical figures as Tiburcio Vásquez, Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, and Joaquin Murrieta, Zorro was made a more notable hero through the Disney TV series that aired  on ABC originally and later entered syndication on the company's own station for many years before featuring heavily in European and Mexican films internationally. He was also later featured in two successful films starring Antonio Banderas, who played a man being groomed to take over the mantel of the masked fox and brought Zorro back into the public consciousness in a broader way.

Zorro, clearly, is a hero for the ages, and readily captures the human need for hope in the midst of oppression. What better time, then, than our current chaotic age for there to be further tales about such a hero? As the blurb for
Star-Fox: Adventures of Zorro Across Time and Dimension  indicates, justice comes in many forms and adventure knows no bounds, and so each author took it upon themselves to take the Zorro legend and mold it to fit a new world and often a new persona for the masked man, offering us fresh angles on the familiar legend. For a look at the book and a sample of its stories please visit the link at Amazon here: 

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075SCZPWN



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Updates, Ladies and Gentlemen!

10/18/2017

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It's hilarious the simple joy you can find in running a spelling and grammar check on a doc you're planning on polishing for submission in the near future. With Other Dangers: Slipped Through headed toward publication (yes, I do indeed have a brand new book on the way very soon!) I thought it would be good to see how much of a polish Other Dangers: This is How the World Ends would take at a glance. Looks like the news is good :) You might just see book two of this series out in the next 6 months barring the typical delays of publishing, editing, and of course, submission and acceptance ;)

I have Other Dangers: Further Down the Spiral just as ready after that and then I have to write brand new material (gulp) for the rest of the series, this one likely being about eight books all told. Its such an elation to have one of the oldest and biggest projects (this one started in 1996!) rolling now! The trick is to get the rest of it done in the coming years- along with the other single story books and at least one more book for the Shades of Midnight series too (for fans of that one, I do think there are more than that in store, just what I know for now.)


If you're wondering exactly what Other Dangers is, especially if you haven't caught past mentions of it in previous blog posts, here is the blurb for the first book, Slipped Through: 


Henry is a man with trouble on his hands. Setting out for this weekend getaway wasn’t even his idea and now he’s woken up from a terrible car crash to find himself in a strange place where nothing is as it seems. Now his whole life has changed and nothing he knew to be true seems to matter, not when the world is filled with horror and still other dangers waiting in the shadows. Worse, his wife is hurt and there’s only one woman who can help them get home, a woman who is more mystery than truth and holds the road map to a world without rules…a map which comes in the form of a book hidden in the depths of the backpack in her possession. A book that calls his name and the woman shows him she would do anything to keep out of anyone else’s hands.


​Keep an eye out for a post about the cover and where things are headed with this new series in the coming months! 







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