Dean Sault, Author of Ghost of Lost Eagle – Sweet Water Canyon Series: Guest Post & coupon

Publisher: American Writers Publishing Company (July 8, 2013)
Category/Genre: Western Romance
Sub Category: Paranormal elements
ASIN: B00DUEQJYY
Tour Date: October/November, 2013
Available in: Kindle/Mobi and PDF, 336

Mason “Tuck” Tucker meets Sass Thornton when she lassos him and drags him from certain death in a flashflood. She dubs him “dumbass” for entering a box canyon during a rainstorm. This label he will hear many times as she struggles against her unwanted attraction to him.

Sass’s father, Phil, owns the cattle ranch that she runs with an iron fist. Her father has been keeping two important secrets from her; one about her mother’s murderer, the other about a killer in his bunkhouse who has romantic interests in the attractive young woman.

Phil hires Tuck, over his daughter’s strong objections, to run the bunkhouse and control growing racial tension between white cowhands and Mexican vaqueros. The young man surprises Phil with his easy, yet tough and effective, management style. The ranch owner takes Tuck into his confidence, revealing the truth about a deadly gunman terrorizing the bunkhouse. He insists that Tuck deal with the threat without letting Sass know of the danger.

Throughout the book, Tuck is haunted by howls of a lone wolf, but only one other person can hear it. The wolf often accompanies life-like dreams of an old Indian ghost named Lost Eagle. The spirit medicine-man repeatedly warns him about a strange destiny he must soon face. When Tuck reveals the dreams to Sass, she cautions him to avoid the cave where the ghost of Lost Eagle is thought to haunt. Despite her distrust of the Native American phantom, the apparition saves Tuck by waking him when an assassin approaches. Lost Eagle prepares Tuck for his fate, foretelling that the young man will soon have to choose life or death between friends. His choice will result in the death of one.

Read what happens when Lost Eagle’s ghost, the lone-wolf spirit-guide and Tuck’s new found love, Sass, come together in a life and death struggle. How does the murderer in the bunkhouse seek revenge against Sass and her father? What happens when Phil’s secrets are revealed to his daughter? Will Tuck leave the woman he comes to love to save his aunt who raised him as the only mother he’s ever known? Find the answers by reading the Ghost of Lost Eagle.

Guest Post

Vicky Deal Sharing Aunt: how to write about a ghost? or who he would like to meet as a ghost?

Writing about a ghost.

Before writing about ghosts, writers need to explore their own feelings about the paranormal world. Is it “real,” or is it simply a plot device with which to craft suspense, anxiety, compassion or other emotion?

The answer—a ghost is whatever the author wants it to be. Portrayal of the ghost must meet certain literary tests to be believable. For example, most times the ghost’s history reveals the apparition’s basic character and role. An evil man might be expected to be an evil ghost with a hostile agenda. Premature death of an innocent child will likely produce a gentle ghost. In fact, that expectation by readers can be tapped for surprises like when the childlike presence suddenly turns violent and readers learn that the seemingly placid child was actually torturing small animals before his/her death, a characteristic that transcends death.

In Ghost of Lost Eagle, my Indian medicine man was the last of his tribe. With nobody to chant his soul into the world of the Great Spirit, he becomes trapped on Earth as a ghost. But, he is a ghost with a mandate from the afterworld that demands he guide my main character through a difficult life journey. He is more of a mentor and guardian, despite the locals fearing him. In the context of this western-romance, his role is both colorful and vital.

Who would I like to meet as a ghost?

What makes you think I haven’t already met a ghost? Besides, my two favorite movies are the original Ghost Busters and GHOST with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

Given a choice to meet a ghost, I would love nothing more than to meet my dad, again. Even though I was an adult when he passed, I still have many questions he could answer. Maybe that is why Lost Eagle in my book is such a nurturing and wise old ghost who gently guides without giving directions.

Are ghosts real?  I don’t know about movie-style apparitions, but I do believe there are spirits among us, some docile and some insidious. The problem is the interface. We live in parallel, unconnected realms and only rarely do cracks allow passage in or out. Those openings provide substance for stories . . . and maybe, just maybe, for the real thing.

About Dean Sault:

Author Dean Sault lives in Northern California with his wife and her menagerie of pets. Every day for the past thirty-five years, he could not wait to shut down his insurance office, so he could spend time with his family, go fishing, or retreat into his private world of writing fictional places and people.

In 2007, severe vertigo took away Sault’s beloved avocation of bass fishing and writing for Inside Line magazine. Sault refused to let vertigo stand in the way of his love of writing. He decided to dust off his stories and share his literary creations with the world.  He began by publishing his science fiction space opera, The Last Human War.

After twenty years of writing in the dark, Sault was ready to step out and share his work with the world! He says, “2013 will be the year my readers experience a diversity of genres I’ve kept hidden from the world. From sci-fi to western romance, some with paranormal elements, this will be an exciting year.”

Sault brings his unique writing style to every story he creates. With crisp, fast-paced prose, he employs Hemingway-like simplicity as he weaves complex characters into fascinating worlds. Readers often comment that once begun, they cannot put his books down. “I learned this skill, believe it or not, from writing bass fishing articles and columns for Inside Line magazine during the time when I chased professional fishing and guiding,” Sault says. “In fact, many of the stories we are making available to readers today, found their beginnings in dusty motel rooms, late at night, while at distant bass tournaments.”

This breakout author shows promise to be one of the great writers of our time. From action-adventure to terror in his thrillers, his masterful handling of fast-paced prose compares with great writers like Tom Clancy and HG Wells. His western-romances share the strong pacing, but they slow at just the right moments to build touching love connections that tug at the readers’ heartstrings.

Dean Sault’s Website: http://www.authordeansault.com/
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