The Familiar on Kindle: A Winner in the Halloween Book Festival held in Hollywood

2011 Halloween Book Festival Winners List

The Familiar wins a place in the Halloween Book Festival for an Honorable Mention for Fiction. Out of over 2,000 entries the judges had some difficult decisions to make over which books merit closer promotion and recognition as the Holiday buying season draws near.

The festival was judged by Robert Engleman producer of the Blade series, who have done  the series “Falling Skies” and “True Blood”  the most popular series.  The award ceremonies are being held in Hollywood, California at the Roosevelt Hotel where the first Academy Awards were held. The festival is part of the 2011 Aliens to Zombies Convention (The A to Z Convention) in Hollywood, CA.

The Familiar is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds as it is now available as a new Kindle format in the United Kingdom and France through Amazon.co.uk and amazon.co.fr.

 

The Familiar-Summary:  

   A larger coven of witches comes to Salem for the first full lunar eclipse of the winter solstice in over three hundred seventy four years.  They drug the man to make him their slave.  When he is found drunk in possession stolen jewelry from a grave, he is sentenced to be hung.  The witches give him a strange potion that mimics death.   The authorities bury him thinking he is already dead.  The rare lunar eclipse during the winter solstice passes.  He emerges from the grave a changed: now he is in the form of a large cat that changes into the form of a man during the full moon.  His powers allow him to be charming and gamble to control others with a “second-sight” ability he lacked before.  He can change to many forms of beast when his life is threatened.  He can see what scares someone the most to use that against them.  He takes the name Winston Rupert Wallace.  Winston uses his new powers to build great wealth to become an entrepreneur who controls a big part of New Amsterdam.   Willia and her brother Stephen join Winston to buy some ships to move goods up and down the eastern seaboard.   They use their powers and influence to build New Amsterdam into a thriving city to live.

Willia conjures up a member of the Roanoke expedition named Sir Christopher Warren.  He is a warlock who comes to take control of all their lives. He seeks the ancient Book of Spells that Willia has hidden during the Salem witch trials when many innocents were persecuted and some real witches hid from the community and some paranoid officials. Follow the adventures of Winston, Willia and Stephen as they use their magical powers to make themselves filthy rich and popular. They fight the evil influence of Warren to make a decent life in New Amsterdam, the future New York City.

Contents:

Life in Salem

A Time in Prison

The Coming Lunar Eclipse

Moving Along the East Coast

Aboard the Wallace

Willia and Stephen return

Evil Finds its Way Around

The Tempest and the Tempters

The Crystal Ball

The Séance

Pride Comes Before the Fall

Losing Control

The Book of Spells

Blackbirds Fall from the Sky like Rain

Gone to Boston

The Evil Eye

The Lord Mayor of New Amsterdam

All Hollow’s Eve

Captain Anderson and the Winston return

The Trade with the Algonquian Nations

The Chupacabra

Breaking Our Ties with Warren

Willia and Stephen go back to New Orleans

The Missionary

Epilogue -the Present Day

Glossary of Seventeenth Century Words