About The Book
Title: The Portal & The Panther
Author: R.A. Marshall
Genre: YA Fantasy / Science-Fiction
The only thing seventeen year-old Jon
Parker wants is to escape his sleepy hometown of Mecksville, Arkansas.
But everything changes when Jon stumbles into the boys’ bathroom and
transforms into a black panther.
Without choice, Jon is thrust into a
world where parallel universes are real, shapeshifters exist, and
dangerous “intruders” can control the elements with a mere thought. Jon
learns he’s inherited his shapeshifting ability from his long-dead
mother, and now, like it or not, his mission is to protect our world
from invaders from other worlds.
But is it a mission Jon will accept? His decision will determine the fate of the people he loves — and our whole world.
Author Bio
My
first attempt at novel writing was when I was ten years old. At the
time, I was writing fan fiction, without realizing what fan fiction
actually was (I don’t think the term existed yet). I had just finished
reading Tunnel in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein for the second time and, for the second time,
couldn’t stand that the book was ending. I needed some sort of sequel. I
think I got about 12 handwritten pages into my Tunnel in the Sky sequel before my father pointed out that I’d never be able to publish it.
I tried writing novels again some time
in college, but that was the period in my life when I took myself
faaaaaar too seriously. If you’re over the age of 23, you’ll know what I
mean by that. I was only interested in writing something Important,
something that Mattered, and consequently wrote no more than about
10,000 words before giving up. In my heart, I didn’t want to write Les Mis or War and Peace, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
When Kindle came along and I stopped
buying actual paper books, I realized that there was a revolution going
on in the publishing world. As I heard tales of self-published authors
meeting with unprecedented success, I decided it was time to dust off my
fiction writing skills and join their ranks. I could finally just
write for the hell of it and never have to worry about what a publisher
would think or what anyone else would think.
I finished the first draft of The Portal and the Panther
in April 2014; I plan to publish it in January 2015. Meanwhile, I’m
hard at work on the second book in the Guardians of the Portal series, The Girl Between Worlds. I hope to also have it ready at the same time as The P and the P.
Links
Website: http://ninja-writer.com
You can read the prologue here: http://ninja-writer.com/the-portal-and-the-panther/
Email sign-up: http://eepurl.com/SMrjX. If you sign up before March 15, you will get the third book for free.
Twitter: RAMarshall78
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