Release Day: “Barbarossa’s Bitch” by Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks

Dylan Taggert was one of the few people lucky enough to wake up the morning after the world ended. But as humanity picks up the pieces, he quickly learns that there is no place for a gay computer programmer in a subsistence farming community. Hounded out of one settlement and harried out of another, Dylan keeps his wagon packed and his walking boots ready.

All that changes when he is captured on the road by a wildpack. The ferociously masked leader, Lord Barbarossa, sees something in Dylan that he wants and he keeps the programmer as the pack makes its round of the settlements. The wildpack serves as defenders, trade caravan, circuit riding judge and priest, and mail carrier for the settlements. And Dylan, now called Kane, serves Lord Barbarossa.

But Kane wants to be more than just a warlord’s toy and sets about making himself a useful part of the pack. Over the years, he earns himself a place, clothing and his membership marks. But the wheel keeps turning and once again things are changing for the wildpack. The settlements are stronger. The trade routes are secure again. And they are growing older with every winter. They have lived through the end of the old world. Now, they face living through the end of their new world as well.

Barbarossa’s Bitch is now available as an ebook for $5.99!

GIVEAWAY!

This post is part of the blog tour for Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks’ new book Barbarossa’s Bitch. To celebrate this new release, they’re holding a huge giveaway! You can enter by commenting on this post or any other on their blog tour throughout this week. Commenting on multiple blogs means multiple entries, so follow along and keep commenting! Entries are open until Midnight EST on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013. There will be three winners. The Grand Prize is Angelia Sparrow’s entire backlist (that’s 12 novels and over 70 short stories). First runner up will get an ebook copy of Barbarossa’s Bitch along with a $10 gift certificate to Angelia’s Etsy shop, and the second runner up will get the ebook alone. Amazing prizes are a great way to sweeten the dark themes of this post-apocalyptic gay novel! Thanks for joining us on the blog tour and remember to comment to enter the giveaway!

The blog tour begins 2/22/13 at Reviews By Jessewave – One Day Giveaway: Comment To Enter

2/25/13 – Pants Off Reviews — “Prolific”

2/26/13 – Pants Off Reviews — “Writing To The Beat”

2/27/13 – Well Read — “Basic Psychology and the Apocalypse”

2/28/13 – Babes In Boyland — “Facing The Blank Page”

2/28/13 – Bending The Bookshelf — “Allusion, Homage and Filing Off the Numbers”

3/1/13 – The Armchair Reader — “Collaboration”

3/2/13 – Storm Moon Press — “Who Am I Off The Page?”