Free @ Smashwords - SONANT - Contemporary fantasy

[ASparrow]

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50312

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Something strange lurks in a bell jar in Aaron Levine's music room, feeding on the unearthly sounds his musical mercenaries create. Bassist Aerie Walker, lured back into performing after a failed odyssey in professional jazz, finds herself entangled with a band of musical alchemists under assault from a Deliverance Ministry attempting to exorcize the demons perceived to dwell in Aaron's abode.

Tags
music, demon, devil, satan worship, unrequited love, faerie, jazz, exorcism, bass, carbon, Deliverance, Harry Partch, dissonance, evangelists, crytozoology

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[caleb72]

Thanks - have downloaded it.
No relation to the other three books?

Regards
Caleb

[ASparrow]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Thanks - have downloaded it.
No relation to the other three books?

Regards
Caleb

No relation to any other book I've written. Sonant stands on its own. New characters. New story.

Although, I have sketched out a third book in the Xenolith series, it's on the back burner. I don't get the impression there's much appetite for a third, although I have fun with it in my daydreams.

My current work in progress is a thriller, no fantasy elements whatsoever, just a warped plot with an unlikely hero ("Vultures in the Playground")

[mentored1]

Nice!

I look forward to going through it and posting a scathing review. :P

[ASparrow]

Originally Posted by mentored1

Nice!

I look forward to going through it and posting a scathing review. :P

Cool! I love a good scathing.

I've been unscathed too long.

[mentored1]

Originally Posted by ASparrow

Cool! I love a good scathing.

I've been unscathed too long.

Excellent...

I read a little of Xenolith and so far, it's pretty damn impressive.

But rest assured, I will sniff something out.

[basschick]

added to my reading list - since i'm a bass player, the blurb got me. thanks

[ASparrow]

Originally Posted by basschick

added to my reading list - since i'm a bass player, the blurb got me. thanks

Cool. Electric? Upright or both?

I play both.

[amward]

I tired really hard to resist this, but I gave in just now. Looks very interesting, thank you.

[basschick]

electric and acoustic, but i don't have room for an upright - hopefully some day... i figured you to be a bass player after reading a ways into your novel.

i'm over a third of the way into the book, and even though nothing has really happened that would lead me to the conclusion, it feels like a horror novel more than fantasy. is it?

Originally Posted by ASparrow

Cool. Electric? Upright or both?

I play both.

[ASparrow]

Originally Posted by basschick

electric and acoustic, but i don't have room for an upright - hopefully some day... i figured you to be a bass player after reading a ways into your novel.

i'm over a third of the way into the book, and even though nothing has really happened that would lead me to the conclusion, it feels like a horror novel more than fantasy. is it?

It's a fantasy pretending to be a horror novel. (I hope that's not a spoiler).

I tried to go places that a reader of the more typical novels in these genres would not expect.

[mentored1]

Originally Posted by ASparrow

It's a fantasy pretending to be a horror novel. (I hope that's not a spoiler).

I tried to go places that a reader of the more typical novels in these genres would not expect.

I haven't read much yet, but I've taken a few bits. It's horrible... what a piece of crappy junk writing... some of these amateur authors...

Now excuse me while I go back to wasting more time with your digital pile of dung.

[basschick]

if it is a spoiler, it's one that will get me back to reading your book. i'm not a horror fan.

Originally Posted by ASparrow

It's a fantasy pretending to be a horror novel. (I hope that's not a spoiler).

I tried to go places that a reader of the more typical novels in these genres would not expect.

[ASparrow]

Originally Posted by mentored1

I haven't read much yet, but I've taken a few bits. It's horrible... what a piece of crappy junk writing... some of these amateur authors...

Now excuse me while I go back to wasting more time with your digital pile of dung.

I must be a sick, sick person to have enjoyed hearing that.

[ASparrow]

Originally Posted by basschick

if it is a spoiler, it's one that will get me back to reading your book. i'm not a horror fan.

Spoiler below

the

horror

aspect

is

a

red

herring