Today’s first Featured New Release is The Watercolor Course You’ve Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists ($11.84 Kindle), by Leslie Frontz [Watson-Guptill / Random House].
Book Description
A comprehensive and practical guide to watercolor painting from sought-after instructor and acclaimed artist Leslie Frontz that answers the two most common questions students at all levels want to know: What am I doing wrong? and How do I decide what to do instead?
In the tradition of the eminently practical, top-selling guides such as How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself, The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted, and Problem Solving for Oil Painters, this straightforward handbook offers a fresh approach to watercolor mastery that bridges the gap between theory and practice. Through thoughtful discussion, expert instruction, and in-depth step-by-step demonstrations, Leslie Frontz shows readers how to eliminate common barriers to achieve beautiful, captivating watercolor paintings. Beginning with teaching readers how to see with an artist’s eye, Frontz then establishes how watercolor painters build on this skill by making timely decisions throughout the creation process.
About the Author
LESLIE FRONTZ is a studio artist with forty years of experience in the medium of watercolor. She serves on the faculty of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in North Carolina and teaches watercolor workshops across the country. Frontz earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was awarded the first Holderness Fellowship. She is an elected member of the American Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, and the Society of Women Artists. Her work has been featured in U.S. Art, The Artist’s Magazine, Artists & Illustrators, Watercolor Artist, and Watercolor.
Today’s second Featured New Release is Nation of Enemies: A Thriller ($2.99 Kindle), by H.A. Raynes [Witness Impulse / HarperCollins].
Book Description
A chilling, suspenseful new thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and James Rollins
It’s all about the genetics. DNA. Black & white.
A decade ago the US government mandated that all citizens be issued biochips containing all of their medical information and an id number indicating a person’s health. Then they made the information public—the implications of which were wide-spread and devastating.
Now on the eve of the 2032 presidential election, the country is deeply divided and on the brink of civil war. But as the two major political parties face off, innocent Americans are dying at the hands of masked terrorists. When the Liberty Party’s presidential nominee is assassinated in a highly-coordinated, masterful attack, it sets off a chain of events that will change the course of history and leave America’s inalienable rights—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—dangling on the precipice of extinction.
About the Author
H.A. Raynes was inspired to write Nation of Enemies by a family member who was a Titanic survivor and another who escaped Poland in World War II. Combining lessons from the past with a healthy fear of the modern landscape, this novel was born. A longtime member of Boston’s writing community, H.A. Raynes has a history of trying anything once (acting, diving out of a plane, white water rafting, and parenting). Writing and raising children seem to have stuck.
Today’s third Featured New Release is The Glass Gauntlet ($3.99 Kindle), the second novel in The Blood Guard series by Carter Roy [Two Lions].
Book Description
Ronan Truelove barely survived his first encounter with his father and the Bend Sinister. Now, he’s determined to become one of the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect thirty-six pure souls crucial to the world’s survival.
Eager to prove he’s got what it takes, Ronan is sent on his first mission with his friends Greta and Sammy to visit a weird-sounding school and take a series of tests called the Glass Gauntlet. Paper and pencils and nerdy scholarship—where’s the life-or-death challenge in that?
But the Glass Gauntlet is actually something much more dangerous: head-to-head competitions against ruthless opponents. Nothing and no one are what they seem. Who can he trust, and who will kill him? Ronan has to figure it out fast because his enemies are multiplying, and soon he will have to pass the ultimate test: facing his father again and standing up to those who threaten not only him and his friends but also the world.
About the Author
Carter Roy has painted houses and worked on construction sites; waited tables and driven delivery trucks; been a stagehand for rock bands and a videographer on a cruise ship; and worked as a line cook in a kitchen, a projectionist in a movie theater, and a rhetoric teacher at a university. He has been a reference librarian and a bookseller, edited hundreds of books for major publishers, and written award-winning short stories that have appeared in a half-dozen journals and anthologies for adult readers. The Blood Guard was his first book, and this is his second. He lives in New York City and invites any and all questions about him or the Blood Guard itself at http://ift.tt/1fzDmKt.
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