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Novice Necromancer - Book Tour and Giveaway

10/22/2021

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Novice Necromancer
Northern Necromancers: The Island Book 1
by Amy B. Nixon
Genre: Romantic Dark Fantasy
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Novice Necromancer is a revised edition of my discontinued book Nordstrøm Necromancer. It includes new content, sprinkled throughout the story.

Intrigue, monsters and a forbidden affair. What could go wrong?

Learyn Dustrikke didn’t believe in black magic, until her aunt’s secrets forced her to flee San Francisco and seek shelter on the ominous Nordstrøm Island - an obscure Norwegian holm uprooted from the realm Vanaheim.

Ensnared by the island’s magic, Learyn finds herself in deadlier peril than ever before.

Between juggling the principles of necromancy, waltzing with intrigue and monsters, and falling for a man whose love is forbidden by the gods, can Learyn untangle the web of family secrets before it’s too late? Or will the threat she fled from catch up with her?

Hop on a ride to cinematic lands of atavistic Norse mythology in this NA Dark Fantasy series, as Learyn learns why black magic should not be taken lightly.

(Disclaimer: Every book in the series contains swearing, deaths and occasional gore. The main characters are also featured in my other series Northern Necromancers: The Dragons.)



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"Miss Dustrikke, I'd like a word with you."
Confused by his request, I waited for everyone to leave before I stepped onto the raised podium.
He studied me from head to toe with that pair of unnaturally light blue irises. Cold and intrusive, like an avalanche sliding across every inch of me. Hoar-frost scalded my guts. My heart dropped in my stomach with the weight of a glacier. Why did he always look so freakishly intimidating?
When his icy blues finally trailed back up, I barely prevented myself from squirming. And then the world unraveled around me.


I was standing in what was supposed to be a spacious hall, or at least it had been once before.
Erosion had struck the stony walls, demolishing them to nothing more than crumbled ruins. They laid bleak and barren in hues of fading grays. Jagged outlines of damaged columns spanned up to an open sky, devoid of stars. A pale crescent moon barely illuminated its onyx darkness, shedding light on a thinning haze.
My eyes darted down as I stepped onto something hard and uneven — a serrated piece, chipped off the marbled tiles. Disarrayed, aegean patterns covered the icy floor, like protrusive veins running under pale skin. Shudders slithered up my spine at the sight of hollow trunks and tarred roots, mere footsteps from where I stood. Those trees were dead. They shouldn't have been able to break through the stone.
I navigated my way across the ruins carefully, diving deeper into the remains of a dead world.
Until it wasn't dead anymore.
Eerie tones flew past my ears. A haunting rock ballad, coming from somewhere ahead. I braved the freezing temperatures and kept walking. A man and a woman, locked in a tight embrace, appeared out of the blue and spun around me. I barely caught a glimpse of their formal clothes before they disappeared. Just as I wondered if they had been some crazy mirage, another couple broke through the haze.
More and more people manifested before my shocked stare, all of whom were waltzing. Trying to tell mirages from reality, my eyes lingered on the formal suits and puffy dresses. Torn and battered, they revealed naked flesh. Rotten, flaky, decomposing flesh.
A horrified gasp ruptured my throat. The cloud of somber mist lured out my breath, robbing me of my fleeting warmth. A sinister thought rushed through my mind — the haze was sucking away my life, like it had sucked away theirs.


I panted, writhing like an aspen twig.
The haze had disappeared, as had the ruins and the waltzing corpses. I was standing back on that podium, facing Dann's creepily intense stare.
"What the fuck was that?" I whispered, still trembling from the lingering aftertaste of what I had just experienced.
"What was what, exactly?"
"That! The ruins, corpses, music and... everything!"
His face hardened in an obscure grimace.
"You were there!" I pressed when he didn't say anything. "You were there with me all the time!"
"I never stood from my chair, Miss Dustrikke, and you never left this room."
My mouth fell open. I peeked over my shoulder to see nothing more than rows of tables and empty chairs, stacked neatly in their ascending formation. I could swear on the creator of the Python programming language, moments ago we had both been in that dreadful, gothic, post-apocalyptic excuse of a ruined hall.
Tearing my gaze off the empty room, I faced his stone-cold features.
Incorporeal blades raked through my spine while the waltzing corpses still glided through my head, possessing my thoughts with images of their rotten, festering flesh. Between the livid skin and the soul-sucking haze, his familiar presence had felt like the only factor that had prevented me from losing myself to the cold, ghastly darkness. Which was a paradox on its own, considering I didn't even know him well, least of all trust him.
Still, why was he pretending nothing had happened?
"We both walked through those ruins." Treacherous notes of desperation bled from my shaky voice. "You were right behind me."
"As I said, neither of us left the room."
So, I'd had... a hallucination, or something? A vision? Was it even possible? Did necromancers have visions? Omens? Predictions about the future? Past lives? What the hell was going on?

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Rampant Necromancer
Northern Necromancers: The Island Book 2 

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My life got freakier than a black metal music video. Ironic, since my blood runs with black magic.

Newbie necromancer Learyn Dustrikke quickly learned why leaving San Francisco and moving to a chunk of Vanaheim land nestled in Norway was a bad idea.

Nordstrøm Island is anything but the fairytale land she thought it would be. Murderers run rampant in broad daylight. Freshly deceased human flesh rots before her eyes. Wrongfully cast spells serve as a one-way ticket to a soulless eternity. And sneaking out means getting exposed to lethal forces, which are impervious even to necromancy.

The last things on Learyn’s mind are worrying about Dann’s eerie secrets or the furtive warnings of a mysterious dark elf. But in a world where reality is more terrifying than any nightmare, seeking love and friendship will cost her more than she’s prepared to lose.

And that’s just the calm before the storm…

Hop on a ride to mythical lands of ancient Norse mythology in this NA Dark Fantasy series, as Learyn learns why black magic should not be taken lightly.

(Disclaimer: Every book in the series contains swearing, deaths and occasional gore. You’ll also see some characters and events from my series Northern Necromancers: The Dragons.)



Goodreads * Amazon

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Amy B. Nixon is a designer and columnist by day, an aspiring fiction author by night and a 24/7 caffeine addict.
When she's not working or writing, Amy enjoys cooking, playing board games, taking roadtrips, shocking the people around her with dark humor, playing the piano and ruining group photos due to not being able to pose seriously for a proper picture.


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63 Comments
Rita Wray
10/22/2021 10:33:50 am

Sounds like a good book.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/22/2021 02:18:50 pm

Thank you :)

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Amy B. Nixon
10/22/2021 12:24:18 pm

Thank you for hosting me, Maia! :)

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Marcy Meyer
10/22/2021 12:29:58 pm

I like the cover. Sounds like a good story.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/22/2021 02:20:05 pm

Thanks :)

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Wendy Jensen
10/22/2021 01:12:55 pm

The book details sound very interesting.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/22/2021 02:20:48 pm

Thanks! :)

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Eva Millien
10/22/2021 01:44:06 pm

Nice to meet you, Amy! Your books sounds like great reads for me! Thanks for sharing them with me and good luck with the tour!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/22/2021 01:48:13 pm

Thanks, Eva :) I'm ecstatic about the tour. Hope you enjoy the books.

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Kelly D
10/22/2021 02:03:42 pm

The book sounds great with a unique plot.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/22/2021 02:21:42 pm

Glad to hear that :)

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wendy hutton
10/22/2021 02:26:58 pm

very nice cover, this book sounds interesting

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:27:31 am

Thank you so much :)

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Sherry
10/22/2021 03:10:47 pm

I really like the cover and the excerpt.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:28:07 am

Thank you! :)

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Beyond Comps
10/22/2021 03:30:08 pm

Great cover!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:29:19 am

Glad to see that many readers share your opinion :)

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Peggy Salkill
10/22/2021 03:34:22 pm

Sounds good!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:29:56 am

Yay :)

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Jon Heil
10/22/2021 06:11:42 pm

Rock up the world with 2 sides

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:31:12 am

Sorry, what? Coffee is slow in waking up my brain today.

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bn100
10/22/2021 08:31:38 pm

cool

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:32:10 am

:) :) :)

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Debbie P
10/22/2021 09:20:49 pm

This sounds like a good read. Great cover!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:33:42 am

Thank you :)

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Kari B
10/23/2021 06:22:46 am

Sounds like an epic read!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:34:24 am

Thanks! :)

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Michele Soyer
10/23/2021 06:53:22 am

Love the cover art - sharing this with my granddaughter she will want it for Christmas.. best of luck and thank you....

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:36:06 am

Thanks, glad to hear the cover is catchy. Hope your granddaughter enjoys the books :)

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Bernie Wallace
10/23/2021 08:36:52 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Amy B. Nixon
10/23/2021 09:40:56 am

Hey Bernie, it typically takes a few months per book, depending on whether I've driven myself into a burnout - in which case it takes longer.

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Barbara Montag
10/23/2021 04:11:32 pm

Romantic Dark Fantasy - perfect for my next read!
Thank you for sharing this with us.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/25/2021 11:26:32 am

Thanks! Hope you'll enjoy it :)

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Terri Quick
10/23/2021 04:25:32 pm

Cool cover

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Amy B. Nixon
10/25/2021 11:27:35 am

Thanks :)

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Julie Lundstrom
10/23/2021 04:37:01 pm

I like the cover of this book.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/25/2021 11:28:02 am

Thank you :)

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Elizabeth H.
10/24/2021 04:03:33 pm

I love the covers and the colors. And I'm a big fan of Norse mythology. Thanks for sharing an excerpt!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/25/2021 11:29:38 am

Yay! Norse mythology's twisted myths and peculiar creatures have always fascinated me :)

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Karin
10/25/2021 08:28:37 am

Awesome excerpt!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/25/2021 11:30:11 am

Thank you :)

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Victoria Carson
10/25/2021 10:14:42 am

Really interesting covers.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/25/2021 11:30:43 am

Thanks :)

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Bea LaRocca
10/26/2021 04:20:14 pm

An awesome cover and an intriguing synopsis and excerpt, this sounds like a must read for me. Thank you for sharing your bio and book details and for offering a giveaway

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Amy B. Nixon
10/27/2021 04:41:57 pm

Thanks, glad you like them! :)

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BILL HOFF
10/28/2021 07:51:28 pm

My daughter would enjoy this book

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Amy B. Nixon
10/31/2021 02:48:20 pm

Yay :)

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athena graeme
10/29/2021 01:02:42 am

Great cover, super freaky cool.

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Amy B. Nixon
10/31/2021 02:49:00 pm

Glad you like it :)

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Christina Gould
10/29/2021 08:02:08 am

I love the artwork on the cover. Thanks for the giveaway!

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Amy B. Nixon
10/31/2021 02:50:09 pm

Thanks and good luck! :)

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Courtnie
11/14/2021 07:05:44 pm

This sounds like a really good read!

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Amy B. Nixon
11/18/2021 06:05:33 am

Thank you :)

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jose rosado
11/21/2021 05:55:29 pm

What do you think of the book details? Do you have any questions for the author?


A very good blurb

THX

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Amy B. Nixon
11/24/2021 06:57:16 pm

Thanks :)

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Jen R
11/22/2021 12:21:52 am

The book description caught my attention and I am eager to read this genre. It would be a new genre for me.

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Amy B. Nixon
11/24/2021 06:57:39 pm

Thanks :)

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Sarah L
11/22/2021 01:29:55 am

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Amy B. Nixon
11/24/2021 06:58:33 pm

Thank you :)

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Ken Ohl
11/22/2021 04:43:53 am

this book looks intriguing

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Amy B. Nixon
11/24/2021 06:58:58 pm

Thanks :)

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Renata
11/22/2021 10:09:35 pm

Sounds good!

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Amy B. Nixon
11/24/2021 06:59:19 pm

Thanks :)

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