Blog Tour For Oddities and Entities by Roland Allnach From February 4, 2013 to March 28, 2013 - Come Join Us!

Hello Everyone! I am extremely happy to announce that Roland Allnach will be touring the blogosphere to promote his most recent horror/paranormal/supernatural anthology Oddities and Entities. This is Roland's first virtual book tour with Pump up Your Book! He will be coming to a blog near you from February 4, to March 28, 2013! Come join us for all the fun!

Oddities and Entities Blog Tour Information:

Meet Roland Allnach

Roland Allnach has been writing since his early teens, first as a hobby, but as the years passed, more as a serious creative pursuit. He is an avid reader, with his main interests residing in history, mythology, and literary classics, along with some fantasy and science fiction in his earlier years. Although his college years were focused on a technical education, he always fostered his interest in literature, and has sought to fill every gap on his bookshelves.

By nature a do-it-yourself type of personality, his creative inclinations started with art and evolved to the written word. The process of creativity is a source of fascination for him, and the notion of bringing something to being that would not exist without personal effort and commitment serves not only as inspiration but as fulfillment as well. So whether it is writing, woodwork, or landscaping, his hands and mind are not often at rest.

Over the years he accumulated a dust laden catalog of his written works, with his reading audience limited to family and friends. After deciding to approach his writing as a profession, and not a hobby, the first glimmers of success came along. Since making the decision to move forward, he has secured publication for a number of short stories, has received a nomination for inclusion in the Pushcart Anthology, built his own website, and in November 2010 realized publication for an anthology of three novellas, titled Remnant, from All Things That Matter Press.

Remnant has gone on to favorable critical review and placed as Finalist/Sci-fi, 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards; Bronze Medalist, Sci-Fi, 2012 Readers Favorite Book of the Year Awards; and Award Winner-Finalist, Sci-Fi, 2012 USA Book News Best Book Awards. Roland’s second publication, Oddities and Entities, also from All Things That Matter Press, followed in March 2012. It, too, has received favorable critical review, and is the recipient of four awards: Bronze Medalist, Horror, and Finalist, Paranormal, 2012 Readers Favorite Book of the Year Awards; Award Winner-Finalist, Fiction/Horror and Fiction/Anthologies, 2012 USA Book News Best Book Awards.

His writing can best be described as depicting strange people involved in perhaps stranger situations. He is not devoted to any one genre of writing. Instead, he prefers to let his stories follow their own path. Classification can follow after the fact, but if one is looking for labels, one would find his stories in several categories.

Sometimes speculative, other times supernatural, at times horror, with journeys into mainstream fiction, and even some humor - or perhaps the bizarre. Despite the category, he aims to depict characters as real on the page as they are in his head, with prose of literary quality. His literary inspirations are as eclectic as his written works - from Poe to Kate Chopin, from Homer to Tolkien, from Flaubert to William Gibson, from Shakespeare to Tolstoy, as long as a piece is true to itself, he is willing to go along for the ride. He hopes to bring the same to his own fiction.

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About Oddities and Entities:

Oddities and Entities is a surreal, provocative anthology of six tales within the supernatural/ paranormal/horror genres, exploring a definition of life beyond the fragile vessel of the human body. The stories are: ‘Boneview’, in which a young woman struggles to balance her ability to see through people with the presence of a supernatural creature in her life; ‘Shift/Change’, in which a hospital worker struggles to regain his memory as he is confronted by a series of desperate people; ‘My Other Me’, in which a lonely college student finds himself displaced from his body by his alter ego; ‘Gray’, in which a frustrated man is stunned to discover a little creature has been living in his head; ‘Elmer Phelps’, in which a brother and sister find themselves linked in a strange reality by a bat bite in their youth; and lastly, ‘Appendage’, in which a cynical mercenary is hired by his son to protect a research lab on the verge of a stunning discovery.

Praise for Oddities and Entities:

Oddities and Entities by Roland Allnach, categorized as horror fiction, is unlike any other horror fiction I have ever encountered. The book is comprised of six stories, each of which is written a cut above the norm. There are no recognizable monsters in these stories, no sophomoric zombies, no evil ancient vampires, and none of the standard fare I have become accustomed to in the horror genre. I do like the usual run of the horror genre, but this book is written with thoughtful intelligence, for an intelligent adult reader. 

I do not mean to imply sexual situations or coarse language. What I mean is, any intelligent reader, capable of deep thought, will find this book irresistible. The six individual stories are as unlike as any six stories can be, yet each one is so sufficiently well-written that, if sold as individual short stories, I wouldn't hesitate to award 5 stars to each of them.

To say I like this book is a crass understatement. Each story drew me in and evoked my empathy for various characters. These stories forced me to actually think beyond what I was reading. Each premise was unique, at least in my experience; I have never encountered any other stories that even approach the situations these present with authority and authenticity. 

If I could boil down my perception of this book into a single word, that word would be WOW! Roland Allnach's first anthology, Remnant, which I have also read, was placed as a finalist in the Science Fiction category in the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards. I absolutely expect Oddities and Entities to follow suit. If you read only one book this year, make it this one. Be prepared to have your comfort zone challenged.

- Readers Favorite (ReadersFavorite.com)

Purchase your copy from Amazon and Barnes and Noble!

Oddities and Entities Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

Monday, February 4 – Interview at Examiner

Tuesday, February 5 – Interview at The Writer’s Life

Wednesday, February 6 – Interview at Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews

Thursday, February 7 – Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Friday, February 8 – Interview at Books Books the Magical Fruit

Tuesday, February 12 – Guest Blogging at Delphina Reads Too Much

Wednesday, February 13 – Interview at Literarily Speaking

Thursday, February 14 – Interview at Blogcritics

Friday, February 15 – Interview at Book Marketing Buzz

Monday, February 18 – Guest Blogging at Precious Monsters

Tuesday, February 19 – First Chapter Reveal at As the Pages Turn

Wednesday, February 20 – Interview at As the Pages Turn

Thursday, February 21 – First Chapter Reveal at Beyond the Books

Friday, February 22 – Interview at Review From Here

Monday, February 25 – Interview at Pump Up Your Book

Friday, February 28 – Interview at The Book Connection

Monday, March 4 – Book Review at Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews

Tuesday, March 5 – Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Wednesday, March 6 – Interview at Between the Covers

Thursday, March 7 – Book Review and Book Giveaway at Urban Girl Reader

Friday, March 8 – Book Review at Deal Sharing Aunt

Monday, March 11 – Book Review at Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks

Tuesday, March 12 – Interview at Beyond the Books

Wednesday, March 13 – Guest Blogging at Moonlight Lace & Mayhem

Thursday, March 14 – Guest Blogging at The Paperback Pursuer

Friday, March 15 – First Chapter Reveal at Waiting on Sunday to Drown

Monday, March 18 – Guest Blogging at Bibliophilia, Please

Tuesday, March 19 - Guest Blogging at Fantasy Pages

Tuesday, March 20 – Book Review at Beauty in Ruins

Wednesday, March 20 – Book Review at My Cozy Corner

Thursday, March 21 – Book Review at Emeraldfire’s Bookmark

Thursday, March 21 - Interview at The Writer’s Life

Friday, March 22 – Guest Blogging at Literal Exposure

Monday, March 25 – Interview at Broowaha

Monday, March 25 – Book Review at Must Read Faster

Tuesday, March 26 – Guest Blogging at Emeraldfire’s Bookmark

Friday, March 28 – Guest Blogging at The Top Shelf

Friday, March 28 – Interview at American Chronicle

May you read well and often