Blog Tour: Summoned by Anne M. Pillsworth @AnneMPillsworth @BookNerdTours

Welcome to The Cover Contessa's stop on the Summoned blog tour!

When the Elder Gods extend an invitation, be wary of the strings attached

While browsing in a rare book store in Arkham, Sean finds an occult book with an ad seeking an apprentice sorcerer, from a newspaper dated March 21, 1895. Even more intriguing, the ad specifically requests applicants reply by email.

Sean’s always been interested in magic, particularly the Lovecraftian dark mythology. Against his best friend Edna’s (“call-me-Eddy-or-else”) advice, he decides to answer the ad, figuring it’s a clever hoax, but hoping that it won’t be. The advertiser, Reverend Redemption Orne, claims to be a master of the occult born more than 300 years ago. To prove his legitimacy, Orne gives Sean instructions to summon a harmless but useful familiar—but Sean’s ceremony takes a dark turn, and he instead accidentally beckons a bloodthirsty servant to the Cthulhu Mythos god Nyarlathotep. The ritual is preemptively broken, and now Sean must find and bind the servitor, before it grows too strong to contain. But strange things are already happening in the town of Arkham….

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Summoned Music Play List:

My own playlist for Summoned, that is, the music blaring through my headphones while I wrote it, included:

A Decade of Steely Dan
Backatown, Trombone Shorty
Pendragon (a local Celtic group)
Shadowfax
Amadeus, the soundtrack (because Mozart really does make you smarter, or at least sounds divine)
The Lord of the Rings soundtracks, Howard Shore (even though "Into the West" does reduce me to bawling every single time.)

Sean's playlists would be a lot different, but would probably for the 2008 season of Summoned include:

Vampire Weekend
Death Cab for Cutie
Beach House
Crystal Castles
Lil Wayne
Deerhunter
David Byrne/Brian Eno
Kanye West
Usher
Ladytron
Fleet Foxes

and, to keep his boss and his dad quiet on road trips, the Dead and the Led.

About the Author:

I was born in Troy, New York, but I currently live just outside Providence, Rhode Island, at the head of beautiful Narragansett Bay. New England has long been my spiritual home, and the region informs much of my fiction. One day I hope to find Lovecraft’s portals to his mythical towns of witch-haunted Arkham and Kingsport, shadowed Innsmouth and accursed Dunwich. Until then, I’ll just have to write about them..

I am a member of SFWA and HWA and a rabid Austenite. Don’t those three always go together?

Apart from writing, I like gardening, swimming, king cobras, jumping spiders, and cats. No cobras or cats at the moment, but the jumping spiders are always with us. In spite of maintaining a mental age of between twelve and sixteen, I have just married my partner of more than thirty years.  Thanks to the RI Legislature for finally living up to Roger Williams’ philosophy of crabbing at people he disagreed with but never denying the primacy of the personal conscience.

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