About The Author:
Daniel A. Cohen was just your average business student. Microeconomics, finance, marketing… you name it, he had to do a PowerPoint presentation on it. One dark and stormy night, he was bitten by the radioactive realization that memorizing business jargon could possibly be the most boring activity known to man.
After gaining eagle-eye vision, abs that could grate cheese, and a talent for imagining things (including his cheese-grating abs), he wrote his first novel and began his epic battle against the formidable business jargon. He continues to fight the good fight by playing saxophone and writing YA fantasy, forever hoping his Veil trilogy will help inspire others to join his cause.
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Guest Post:
My writing career started with extreme boredom.
I was spending my breaks in between semesters selling cars at a local dealership. Of the fifty hours I worked each week, only about 20 were actually spent with customers.
Instead of discretely watching cat videos on my laptop or dozing off I decided to try and do something productive with my time.
A year and a half later, a terrible novel was born.
I was so young and naive and proud of myself that I thought I was finished.
I showed the novel to my brother (who is a great writer and attempting to break into the screenplay world) and he said it wasn't bad.
WAHOOO! I was ready to be a New York Times bestselling author. Easy as pie.
But my brother basically laughed at me and told me the book had a long way to go.
So I holstered my pride and went back to work.
After about six months and three revisions I took it back to him.
Nope.
More edits, a couple additional scenes, and a few fistfuls of my hair later, a pretty good novel emerged, called, "The Ancillary's Mark." I was lucky enough to get it picked up by a small indie press. It received some decent reviews, including one from Kirkus discoveries, which gave me enough confidence to tackle (pun intended, you'll get it later) the project I REALLY wanted to work on. A fantasy trilogy.
I noticed a lot of fantasy novels were focusing on a social outcast who thrives in another world, and I wanted to switch it up a bit. I thought to myself, "What if a popular football player was sucked into a magical world and struggled there and hated it?" I thought it would be a lot of fun to read and even more fun to write.
Yet again, I found myself young and naive and wrong.
Creating this world with its characters and customs was painstaking and incredibly time consuming and drove me up the wall. I didn't want to borrow any magical creatures or theories from my literary heroes (J.K. Rowling, Patrick Rothfuss) so I had to make my own. Don't get me wrong, it was fun to write, but fun was just one of the many things that went into this journey.
The idea was simple, but after three years, it has become something that I never thought was possible.
The first book is called "Masters of the Veil," and it will be released through Spencer Hill Press on March 1st of next year. I am so proud of it and I hope all who read it will love it as much as I do.
Masters of the Veil:
Title: Masters of the Veil
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Publication Date: March 1, 2012
Life can't get much better for Sam Lock. Popular, good-looking, and with a future as a professional football player. every guy at Stanton High School wishes he were Sam. That is, until his championship football game, when Sam accidentally links with an ancient source of energy known as the Veil and reveals his potential to become a powerful sorcerer. Sam is whisked off to Atlas Crown, a community of sorcerers who utilize the Veil as a part of everyday life. Once there, he trains beside a mute boy who speaks through music, an eternal sage who's the eyes and ears of the Veil, and a beautiful girl who's pretty sure Sam's an idiot. As it becomes clear Sam's meant for power magic-the most feared and misunderstood form of sorcery-people beyond Atlas Crown learn of his dangerous potential. An exiled group of power sorcerers are eager to recruit Sam, believing that he is destined to help them achieve their long-held goal. If they succeed, they could bring about the downfall of not only Atlas Crown but all humankind.
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Blurb:
Spencer Hill Press – “This is a great start to the Veil Trilogy! A funny, imaginative, and delightful read! I'm delighted that we were able to get this manuscript for Spencer Hill Press. The main character, Sam, is like an American Harry Potter. Check it out--you won't be disappointed!”
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Giveaway (CLOSED):
The wonderful Daniel Cohen has some awesome swag of this novel to giveaway here on my blog!
***Open to those with US mailing addresses only!***(Daniel will be sending out the prize!)
Giveaway policies:
To Enter: Please leave a comment related to the guest post and leave your e-mail address.
This giveaway ends on February 28th, 2012- This giveaway is open to those 13 years of age or older.
- All giveaway winners will be announced on the blog.
- I can disqualify any entry as I see fit.
- I will use Random.org to select the winners.
- Once the winners have been notified, they will have 24 hours to confirm their interest otherwise new winners will be selected.
WINNER: TORE
Happy reading until next time!
I would love to read about a sorcerer. Please enter me in contest. The book sounds very good. Tore923@aol.com
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