Twisted Love - Badass Anthology #1 - Released!

Here at Badass Authors, we are overjoyed to tell you our first Anthology, Twisted Love, an Anti-Valentine's Day celebration in writing, is now published!
Live on Smashwords.com, and soon to be print paperback through Createspace.com/Amazon, it has been an instant success

We are very pleased to let you know, with 58 downloads on day one, Twisted Love has already received its first 5* review! (see below)

So, without further adieu, we give you, Twisted Love!

A collection of romantic tales woven from the frayed threads of the madness of love...
Presented by the deliciously contorted minds of the Badass Authors Collective.

Faerie Curses, Witchcraft gone wrong, Demonic Lovers, Lovelorn Zombies, and much more await you within these pages...if you dare to turn them.

This marks the group's first anthology of short stories and poetry since its inception, released for Valentine's Day 2014.
However, as with their group's spirit, the anthology is... well... twisted.
It's an Anti-Valentine's Day celebration for the darker hearted and minded!

Available !!FREE!! at Smashwords!

Contributing Badass Authors include- 
Bex Pavia 
Michael Loring 
C.A. Sanders 
Rich B. Knight 
Pauline Ramsey 
J.L. Hickey
Justin Osborne 
and 
M.P. Ness

Edited by the wonderful EditorCat, Maryanne Torgerson 
(editor of E.L.F. - White Leaves by M.P. Ness)

Other contributions include-
Formatting and Cover Art by our own Badass, M.P. Ness
BA Logo Design by our own Badass, Natasha Wetzel
Cover Blurb, Font, and General Team Organization throughout the publication process by our own Badass, Justin Osborne

with Photography by Barbara Tillison

With any luck, we will bring even more of the team together to be ready for BA Anthology #2!
And soon, look for Twisted Love, BA #1, in paperback!
We will keep you posted, as always, on any of these sorts of developments...
So stay tuned for any news of that!

And now, the Review for Twisted Love, from All Things Book! 5*'s!

Cover Reveal! - "Twisted Love" - Badass Author's Anthology #1

"Twisted Love"

Badass Anthology #1

-Cover Art by M.P. Ness 

-BA logo by Natasha Wentzel

-Edited by Maryanne "Editor Cat" Torgerson

The Anti-Valentine's Day anthology from the BA's will release on Valentine's Day, and the eBook/Kindle edition will be free...permanently. It is our V-Day gift to you!

Paperbacks, however, will be available if you feel like supporting our efforts.

It might be a bit twisted, but we're betting that's exactly what you expected from us.

BA's of participance this first time around are:

M.P. Ness 

C.A. Sanders

J.L. Hickey 

Bex Pavia

Pauline Ramsey

Michael Loring

Justin Osborne

*There is a photo-credit due, but in this late hour, I'm tired, and I spaced our photographer's name!

I'm sorry!

Don't kill me. 

I'll fix asap! 

A Badass Reviews - "Epic: Legacy"

Badass Author and admin, M.P. Ness shares his thoughts on "Epic: Legacy" by Badass Author, Justin Osborne.

"It's a very straight forward story of a young stranger in a strange land.

Our protagonist is a teenager, a musician, a good guy who will stand up for the less fortunate. He is the kid in school who was kind of a Badass; a loner in ways, by choice, but capable of having lots of friends if he cared enough to choose to collect them. But, he is realistically flawed in that and other ways.

In fact, a Badass in our world, Deacon is so flawed that when he falls through a fairy mound into another world, he isn't much of a Badass anymore. He must adjust to and overcome many new challenges and troubles as a smaller, less capable outsider.

One of the many things I found great about this story was something you don't see a lot of in epic fantasy -and especially not expected in a book entitled "Epic"- is Justin's ability to keep the story small. Many times, epics simply grow and grow in scale as the tale moves along. But in Epic: Legacy, he manages to keep the events less monstrous in themselves, and focuses on the characters in their smaller challenges and lives in a larger scenario involving the total sundering of an entire world.

Overall, I feel like the author's strength is in his vividly painted characters.

But I must say this also includes his antagonists/villains.

I especially liked his ultimate villain's unique concept. Read it, and you'll understand just what I'm talking about (I won't spoil the ingenuity Justin Osborne has come up with in his baddy, Uru, as I came to call him).

Now, the one major con.

The book is like many indies, and could use a thorough editor, and that would make it a five star work, really.

But, if you're the type who can read through spelling typos, word misuse, and grammar errors, and just focus on the tale and enjoy it in your mind's eye for what it is, then you'll enjoy the ride!

It was a fun swift read, and I look forward to my read of the sequel and forthcoming third book in the series, where I imagine it will grow to focus on the aforementioned Epic events that were set up but also evaded in this first book.

One thing I must remark, part of the reason it moved so softly was a penchant of the Author's, which I think he should avoid and overcome; the use of often times extremely short chapters, created out of brief little scenes which would be better off as simply scene breaks instead.

However, he might also be on to something in these short scenes, because it flows like film does, filling us in on little details and important little moments. In doing so, each has a savvy title, and he could develop a little niche for himself by maintaining short scenes as breaks but WITH their titles still intact...rather than as individual titled chapters -as I haven't seen that before. Titled scene breaks? might be worth giving a shot.

Overall, despite the form and function problems I mentioned, I still give it a four out of five stars, because the characters were colorful and believable, and the story, while focusing small to contradict the title, was a sound foundation to the forthcoming books."

**** out of *****

4/5!