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Dear Reader,Welcome! This is the official website of R.E. Blakeslee, author of the novel, Origination.Origination has been released! The 460 pp. novel is now available for purchase from Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, and many other online resellers. So check out this site, listen to the songs that are a part of the fiction world, or download a wallpaper to decorate your desktop. Oh, and don't forget to buy your copy of Origination today.R.E. Blakeslee
Dear Reader,
Welcome! This is the official website of R.E. Blakeslee, author
of the novel, Origination.
Origination has been released! The 460 pp. novel is now available for purchase from Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, and many other online resellers. So check out this site, listen to the songs that are a part of the fiction world, or download a wallpaper to decorate your desktop. Oh, and don't forget to buy your copy of Origination today.
R.E. Blakeslee
AVAILABLE NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK.
ORIGINATION
"Confidently we send the Seed with The Betylos encapsulated. He will be reborn on the blue planet and remind the men their women are cunning, lustful creatures. Let them embrace The Philosophy as we have..."
On a rainy night, naïve, eighteen-year-old Eran Aeggle flees his childhood home, stumbling across an extraordinary stone. He picks it up, and with a bright flash of light, he falls unconscious. When Eran wakes he is unable to explain what happened or why he's so fascinated by the peculiar rock. Did it cause the two tattoos of an unknown origin on his shoulders?Buffalo, New York - 2075 As Eran's need to attend The Alluvium Institute and become a botanist matures, so does his attraction to Simon Duncan, a handsome artist. It seems as if fate has brought them together. However, life is not meant to be an ever-blooming garden... Will Eran nurture their growing love or let it wither from uncertainty? How can Eran accept the destiny aliens set out for him if he doesn't believe? Will he let his turbulent past drag him into darkness? As wide-eyed citizens of the City of Light live unknowing, a sadomasochistic killer stalks the night. But there is hope - in the moonlight a reluctant hero soars on wings of mysterious illumination. If only Eran could find the courage to realize...
On a rainy night, naïve, eighteen-year-old Eran Aeggle flees his childhood home, stumbling across an extraordinary stone. He picks it up, and with a bright flash of light, he falls unconscious. When Eran wakes he is unable to explain what happened or why he's so fascinated by the peculiar rock. Did it cause the two tattoos of an unknown origin on his shoulders?
Buffalo, New York - 2075
As Eran's need to attend The Alluvium Institute and become a botanist matures, so does his attraction to Simon Duncan, a handsome artist. It seems as if fate has brought them together. However, life is not meant to be an ever-blooming garden... Will Eran nurture their growing love or let it wither from uncertainty? How can Eran accept the destiny aliens set out for him if he doesn't believe? Will he let his turbulent past drag him into darkness?
As wide-eyed citizens of the City of Light live unknowing, a sadomasochistic killer stalks the night. But there is hope - in the moonlight a reluctant hero soars on wings of mysterious illumination. If only Eran could find the courage to realize...
AUTHOR
R. E. Blakeslee works as a Follicular Consultant in the architecturally energetic city of Buffalo (USA). He consults with multiple editors from Atlanta to New York, giving life to a hero the world can take pride in and maybe aspire to be.
EXCERPT
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Cover By Rebecca Price
PURCHASE
AVAILABLE NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK
$18.95
£12.69
Also available in PDF, Mobipocket, MS Reader, and Sony Reader formats for $7.99 at
In Amazon Kindle edition $7.99
MEDIA
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 - IV
Jules Massenet - Meditations from Thais
MUSIC HEARD IN THE NOVEL
Chopin - Nocturne piano | XIX - E min.
Rene Gruss - Urban Dusk - Bellatrix
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TRAILER
ORIGINATION VIDEO BOOK TRAILER
PRESS
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release -- Origination by R. E. Blakeslee
What happens when a superhero flies into Buffalo, New York one night in 2075? How can the largest solar sail corporation keep a secret hidden from a city of five million? Is a son's love more powerful than hate?
Fantasy fiction author R.E. Blakeslee answers these questions and more in Origination -- a tale of atonement, a shirtless winged hero, alien worlds, Buffalo city charm, and imagination!
Ginger Geoffery, of Channel Seven Eyewitness News WKBW-TV, says, "I missed the characters days after I read it [Origination].
Origination covers a range of subjects from a monomythic superhero called Betylos to a sadomasochistic killer. With an alien religious conflict that mystifies the readers mind and a romance page after page for a changed millennium and beyond.
Marla Wick, Ph.D. - University of Buffalo says of Blakeslee's mix of mystery, love, redemption, and vision: "Origination is a fantasy epic full of wry good humor that combines a poignant story of love and loss with nuanced social critique. R.E. Blakeslee has created a world that is both seductively magical and resonantly familiar. This is a story about what we have been, what we are, and what we could be."
R. E. Blakeslee works as a Follicular Consultant in the architecturally energetic city of Buffalo. He consults with multiple editors from Atlanta to New York, giving life to a hero the world can take pride in and maybe aspire to be. He is currently marketing this first novel and diligently writing the sequel.
To arrange a book signing or interview, contact R.E. Blakeslee. E-mail: reblakeslee_reblakeslee.com | URL: www.reblakeslee.com
Origination by R.E. Blakeslee: Fiction/Fantasy/Contemporary/LGBTQ. Available through 30,000 online resellers, including Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble | 460 pp. Trade paperback | $ 18.95 Also available in multiple eBook formats at Lillibridge Press www.lillibridgepress.com - ISBN 978-1-61584-583-5
REVIEWS
"Origination is a fantasy epic full of wry good humor that combines a poignant story of love and loss with nuanced social critique. R.E. Blakeslee has created a world that is both seductively magical and resonantly familiar. This is a story about what we have been, what we are, and what we could be."
Marla Wick, Ph. D. University of Buffalo
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Ginger Geoffery, of Channel Seven Eyewitness News WKBW-TV, says, "I missed the characters days after I read it [Origination]."
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"His prose is vibrant, his characters are real, and the pages fly by. A fun read by a promising author."
Mark Slagle - owner of Fables Cafe in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
"This is not a simple fantasy but a fantasy romance embedded in a larger tale about gender politics, human love, and the origin of suffering,"
C. Keegan, Ph.D. - University of Buffalo
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