Water & Storm Country Release!

Hola! Water & Storm Country, the third book in The Country Saga is OUT on Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords in ebook, and in print on Amazon! If you've been waiting for the third book to come out, now's your chance to get the whole series. See below for links to get your copy of each book in the series now!!

WATER & STORM COUNTRY
Links to Buy Water & Storm Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Water & Storm Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

ICE COUNTRY
Links to Buy Ice Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Ice Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

FIRE COUNTRY
Links to Buy Fire Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Fire Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

Praise for Water & Storm Country

"Estes delivers action, adventure, heartbreak and love all rolled into one"- The Cover Contessa

 

"Estes delivers and tells his tale like no one else can."- Karen Benson- Goodreads

"A FABULOUS END TO A FANTASTIC SERIES!"- Kerri Hughes- Kerri For Life

Praise for Ice Country

"5 stars! David Estes creates captivating and original worlds that you love to get lost in!"- Alexandria Theodosopoulos- Goodreads

 

"Richly filled with new characters and story without leaving the old behind...a seamless transition into another side of a fantastic world."- Kerri Hughes- Goodreads

Praise for Fire Country
"Fire Country is an epic start to the Country Saga and left me with my heart pounding and totally breathless. Phenomenal!" -K-Booksxo.blogspot.com

"Fire Country has so many twists and turns that by the end you have no idea what to expect." -LolaBookReviews.blogspot.com

"There's a spark in Fire Country that tingles your fingers and toes until a flame is kindled and there's no way to stop reading, hoping, praying about how it will all end."- MyBookBoyfriend.blogspot.com

"You have done it again, David Estes! Fire Country was amazing....the best of your books yet!" -Karen, Goodreads

Praise for the Dwellers Saga

"A fabulous work of art for all ages...a fantastical world from the amazingly creative David Estes."- Nicole Passante- Founder of ShareARead

"Overall, the best dystopian I've read this year."- Zuleeza- Goodreads

Water & Storm Country Synopsis

Huck Jones, the son of the admiral of the Soaker fleet, has a legacy to live up to. Haunted by the distorted memories of his mother's untimely death, he must face his demons and the man who raised him as he strives to take the courageous step forward into manhood. When he's transferred to the worst-performing ship in the fleet, everything he believes is called into question when he meets a lowly brown-skinned bilge rat girl. Huck walks a deadly rope...

Meanwhile, Sadie, destined to be a Rider in the Stormer army, seeks to avenge her brother's death at the hands of the Soakers. Trained hard by her mother, an experienced Rider, Sadie knows strength and determination more than most. Her father, a Man of Wisdom, has shown his cowardice more times than she can count. As her world and family fall apart, she must cast aside her anger and focus on the wisdom she's always brushed off as foolishness.

Amidst everything, a Plague ravages all, discriminating against no one.

When four worlds collide, lines will be drawn, sides will be chosen, victory will be sought. Death will be wrought. The mysteries of the Cure for the deadly Plague will be uncovered. Who will survive? And what will those who do learn about themselves and the ones they love?

Ice Country Synopsis
Dazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler.

When his sister is abducted in the dark of night, Dazz pledges to do whatever it takes to get her back, embarking on a quest that threatens to rip apart the very fabric that's barely holding his shattered family together.

Along the way he meets a group of unlikely allies in the form of a travelling group of fire country natives. Can Dazz, when joined with his best friend, Buff, and new tan-skinned friends, defeat the King and his guards before it's too late for his sister?

Fire Country Synopsis
In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely.

Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter. It is their duty as Bearers.

Fifteen-year-old Siena is a Youngling, soon to be a Bearer, when she starts hearing rumors of another tribe of all women, called the Wild Ones. They are known to kidnap Youngling girls before the Call, the ceremony in which Bearers are given a husband with whom to bear children with.

As the desert sands run out on her life's hourglass, Siena must uncover the truth about the Wild Ones while untangling the web of lies and deceit her father has masterfully spun.

THANK YOU!!!
I want to thank my friends and readers who have made the last few months the BEST YET. My dreams are truly coming true and it's all thanks to the kindness and support of all of you, particularly the 1,300+ members of my Goodreads Fan Group , you all are the definition of AWESOMESAUCE.

A massive thanks to my wife, Adele, who's been my rock for the last 6 months as I've written this series, I couldn't have done it without you!

To my beta reading team, umm, you are ridiculously awesome and make my books a million zillion times better. And to my Street Team, you rock! Finally, a big thank you to Regina Wamba at MaeIDesign for a final cover that suits the series so well! The three covers together are BEAUTIFUL!

And a huge rapid fire thankyouthankyouthankyou to the amazing bloggers who are a part of the Water & Storm Country Release Blog Blast! You people just make me smile.

That's it, I hope you all enjoy Water & Storm Country. And don't forget, the 7th and FINAL FINAL FINAL book in the combined Dwellers and Country Saga, The Earth Dwellers, is set to release on September 5th, so be sure to read all six books across the two series by then :)

HAPPY READING!!

David Estes

Water & Storm Country Cover Reveal!

What? Another cover, David Estes? Another book? I haven't even read the last one yet! If you're thinking any of these things, that's OK! I want to reassure that although I have yet another book coming out on June 6th--the third book in The Country Saga, called Water & Storm Country--you have plenty of time to read it and the other two in the series before my next book comes out, which won't be until September. For those who are keeping up with the series, thank you, and I hope you enjoy the third book :)

I want to thank Regina Wamba at http://www.maeidesign.com/ for once more taking Adele's and my vision and bringing it to life in a perfect representation of Water & Storm Country, featuring Sadie, a Stormer from storm country. 

Here's the synopsis for Water & Storm Country, which comes out on June 6th everywhere ebooks are sold and in print on Amazon.com, add it to your Goodreads To-Read list today!

Add Water & Storm Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List!

Huck Jones, the son of the admiral of the Soaker fleet, has a legacy to live up to. Haunted by the distorted memories of his mother's untimely death, he must face his demons and the man who raised him as he strives to take the courageous step forward into manhood. When he's transferred to the worst-performing ship in the fleet, everything he believes is called into question when he meets a lowly brown-skinned bilge rat girl. Huck walks a deadly rope...

Meanwhile, Sadie, destined to be a Rider in the Stormer army, seeks to avenge her brother's death at the hands of the Soakers. Trained hard by her mother, an experienced Rider, Sadie knows strength and determination more than most. Her father, a Man of Wisdom, has shown his cowardice more times than she can count. As her world and family fall apart, she must cast aside her anger and focus on the wisdom she's always brushed off as foolishness.

Amidst everything, a Plague ravages all, discriminating against no one.

When four worlds collide, lines will be drawn, sides will be chosen, victory will be sought. Death will be wrought. The mysteries of the Cure for the deadly Plague will be uncovered. Who will survive? And what will those who do learn about themselves and the ones they love?

I really hope you all enjoy the third installment in The Country Saga!! And for those of you who haven't picked up Fire Country or Ice Country yet, you still have three weeks to read them before the third book comes out, so here's how you can grab your copies today!

Links to Buy Fire Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Links to Buy Ice Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Now without further complete and utter shameless self promotion, I'm happy to reveal the cover for Water & Storm Country!

Isn't it beautiful? I love love love it!! And I particularly like seeing it next to the other two covers in the series, like this:

YAY!

 

Grab a Brilliant Book Idea off the Idea Tree!

Originally posted on April 6, 2013 at Bookworm Lisa.

OK, there's no such thing as an "Idea Tree". If only. But ideas have to come from somewhere right?

We’ve all heard stories of authors who wake up frantic, in the middle of the night, the crisp edges of a dream fading, getting fuzzy quicker than they can grab a pencil and paper, or their iPhone, or wherever they like to take notes about potential books they’d like to write. Or perhaps they see someone or something, and suddenly the idea hits them so hard they feel dizzy, as plots and characters charge through their thoughts unbridled, their stories begging to be told. Those are definitely awesome ways to come up with ideas and inspiration for your next book.

Well, unfortunately, none of that has ever happened to me, although sometimes I wish it would! For years and years I wanted to write a book, but the ideas just never came. I never had the next Harry Potter or The Hunger Games. Nothing worthy of being printed and bound and read by millions of readers. So I didn’t write. I couldn’t write. Not until I had my big idea.

As it turns out, that big life-changing idea never came for me. It wasn’t until I was between jobs in 2010 that my wife, Adele, said enough was enough, that I needed to stop talking about writing a book and just do it. Forget about big ideas and divine inspiration, she said, just write a book about the first idea that pops into your head. I stewed for a while, telling myself I couldn’t do that—and that writing wasn’t that easy.

But then I did just that. I started writing a book using the first idea that popped into my head. I’d read a few angel/demon books at the time, and I noticed that people seemed to like them, myself included, except most of them had religious undertones and focused on heaven and hell and fallen angels. So I chose angels and demons, but with a different spin: the angels were bad, the demons were good, and both groups were evolved from humans rather than fallen from heaven or raised from hell. Angel Evolution was born!

Really, however, that was just the spark, the tip of the literary iceberg so to speak. Because what I found was that my ideas and inspiration come from the very act of writing itself. Rarely am I walking down the street, or sitting somewhere, or dreaming, and then come up with an awesome book idea. Instead, it’s when I’m writing one book that I come up with a decent idea for another one. In other words, it seems that creativity breeds more creativity. At least for me it does.

One example of this was when I was writing The Dwellers Saga. I’d already written and published The Moon Dwellers, which was doing quite well and had finally put me on the Indie map, allowing me to start writing fulltime, which I was ecstatic about. I was hard at work on the sequel, The Star Dwellers, when it hit me. An idea for a completely different book, with different characters, plots, and even setting, that would eventually tie into The Dwellers Saga. Six months later, I’ve published the two Dwellers sequels, as well as the first two books in the series that was spawned by that “Aha!” moment while writing The Star Dwellers. The two books are called Fire Country and Ice Country, the second of which is the subject of the blog tour that this guest post is a part of. I’ve also written the third book in The Country Saga, which will be released on June 6^th of this year. All because I allowed my mind to roam a little while doing the thing I love: writing!

That’s just one example though. There are numerous others, more than 20 new book ideas, many of which have series potential, all typed into my iPhone or laptop, many of which may never be written. But at least I have a list so whenever I finish my current project or series, I can consult the list and pick the idea that happens to speak to me the loudest at that point in time. Because of that there will be no shortage of books coming from me in the future.

We may not all be writers, but we all have creativity. Whether you like to draw, write book reviews or poetry, or tell jokes, you have imagination and inventiveness inside of you. Where do you get your ideas and inspiration? Are you like the people in the first paragraph of this post, who dream or have muses, or are you like me, generating creativity from artistic pursuits? Or do you get your inspiration from something else entirely? I’d love to know! Please leave a comment and tell the world!

A special thanks to Lisa for allowing me on her blog, for giving me an awesome guest post subject, and for all her work to make this blog so fun! I love getting comments and messages from my readers, so feel free to contact me using any one of my social networking handles provided in this post. I promise to respond to each and every person who contacts me! And as always, HAPPY READING!

David Estes