About
DeborahRiley-Magnus is an author and The Author Success Coach. She has a twenty-sevenyear professional background in marketing, advertising and public relations asa writer for print, television and radio. She owns a small Author SuccessCoaching business focused exclusively on publicity, marketing and promotionalsolutions for authors.
Deborahproduces several pieces weekly for various websites including her authorwebsite http://deborahriley-magnus.com/and a writing/author support website called Whispers of the Muse, http://whispersofthemuse.org/ She also writes an author industry blog, http://rileymagnus.wordpress.com/and teaches online and live workshops as an Author Success Coach. TheAuthor Success Coach website http://theauthorsuccesscoach.com,is currently under construction.
Herfirst fiction, an urban fantasy entitled Coldin California, was released by ireadiwrite Publishing on June 15, 2011.
Shecan be followed on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/deborah.rileymagnus, and Twitter, http://twitter.com/rileymagnus.She belongs to several writing and professional organizations and is a memberof the WriteSEX blog group, http://www.writesex.net/ as themarketing, promotions and publicity expert.
Thisyear she has two novels and one non-fiction coming out. The Author Success Coach: Strategies for Author Success in a TurbulentPublishing Landscape is scheduled for release in September, 2011.
She has lived on both the east and west coast ofthe United Statesand has traveled the country widely.
Description
<p>The Race for Flugal Farm is the first book in a trilogy that charters the lives and adventures of the inhabitants of the Riding Stables at Flugal Farm.</p><div>Times had been hard for George Flugal and his wife, and this inevitably resulted in him having to sell the majority of the school's horses until he was left its just four: Pogo, Biff, Troy and an ex-racehorse called Chance.</div><div>The horses who along with a young stable hand Rachelle Perkins, a dog named Nugget, a pig called Nigel and an old family friend Uncle Dave, make up the Flugal's extended family.</div><div>When they find themselves facing the possibility of having the farm repossessed by the bank, and bought out by the odious Mr Williams, have to pull together to enter a carriage drive in order to win the prize money and save their way of life.</div>
Story Behind The Book
To explore redemption for a vampire, one must recreate the mythology, and thus, "Cold in California" is the first of the "Twice-Baked Vampire" series. Of course, it had to have humor too, right?
Reviews
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:11px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">“Spend
some time with twice-baked vampire, Gabriel and you’ll not only discover a new mythology,
but a new world called COLD IN CALIFORNIA.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span> </span><span> </span><em>~ Joe Wilson</em></span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span> </span>Writer/Director
of “Vampire Mob”</span></em></p>
