Blue Parrot Books 2020 Calendar. The best of our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and resident Witch Princess Tara, and her sidekick the Blue and Gold Macaw Aboo, from the past year:
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019
Blue Tara Trilogy: Princess Tara Chronicles
★★★★★ Fast and Feathery
Michael Ostrogorsky lives in Seattle, Washington with a flock of parrots and a coffee business and apparently a very creative mind to turn out this wild and woolly (or, more appropriately, fast and feathery) yarn about meeting a parrot who turns out to be so much more than he ever imagined (that happens to most of us who turn over our lives to an avian tyrant) and leads him through several apocalyptic turns, all firmly rooted in real-life Seattle. Three, even four dimensions are not enough for him and Princess Tara, who is, of course, just a hyacinth macaw (yeah, sure), as they ramble through Vajrayana Buddhism, shamanism, and even a bit of contemporary politics. I have never tasted his coffee, but after reading this yarn, I say, "I'll have what he's having!"
Michael Ostrogorsky lives in Seattle, Washington with a flock of parrots and a coffee business and apparently a very creative mind to turn out this wild and woolly (or, more appropriately, fast and feathery) yarn about meeting a parrot who turns out to be so much more than he ever imagined (that happens to most of us who turn over our lives to an avian tyrant) and leads him through several apocalyptic turns, all firmly rooted in real-life Seattle. Three, even four dimensions are not enough for him and Princess Tara, who is, of course, just a hyacinth macaw (yeah, sure), as they ramble through Vajrayana Buddhism, shamanism, and even a bit of contemporary politics. I have never tasted his coffee, but after reading this yarn, I say, "I'll have what he's having!"
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Blue Tara Trilogy
All three books of the Blue Tara Trilogy, the first three books of the Princess Tara Chronicles, are now available for purchase through your local book store anywhere on the planet! Just in time for your Christmas shopping for all the fantasy fiction fans on your holiday shopping list.
ISBN-13: 9781087800868
ISBN-10: 1087800862
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books, Seattle
Published: September 16, 2019
List Price: $9.99
ISBN-13: 9781087801261
ISBN-10: 1087801265
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books, Seattle
Published: September 21, 2019
List Price: $14.99
ISBN-13: 9781087801445
ISBN-10: 1087801443
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books, Seattle
Published: September 23, 2019
List Price: $15.99
Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess?
ISBN-13: 9781087800868
ISBN-10: 1087800862
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books, Seattle
Published: September 16, 2019
List Price: $9.99
The Princess Witch: Or, It Isn't As Easy To Go Crazy As You Might Think
ISBN-13: 9781087801261
ISBN-10: 1087801265
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books, Seattle
Published: September 21, 2019
List Price: $14.99
Parrots and Witches: Or, Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith.
Without Them, Life Is So Simple, Believe Me
ISBN-10: 1087801443
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books, Seattle
Published: September 23, 2019
List Price: $15.99
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Blue Tara Trilogy: Princess Tara Chronicles
New DUST-JACKETED HARDCOVER Blue Parrot Books edition of the Blue Tara Trilogy, the first three books of the Princess Tara Chronicles, complete under one cover, released today just in time for the Christmas shopping season for all the fantasy fiction fans on your holiday shopping list. 200,000 words. 666 pages. TWO AND A HALF pounds! Best part is, you can order copies through your local book store anywhere on the planet.
From an Amazon Customer:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Caffeine fueled fantasy ride. Blue Tara grabbed my interest immediately! I couldn't put it down, as it rushed me headlong into a supernatural world that is a mix of history and fast paced fantasy. The characters are so believable I felt that I knew them. What a fun read for a parrot owner!
Blue Tara Trilogy: Princess Tara Chronicles
ISBN-13: 9781087800097
ISBN-10: 1087800099
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Binding: 6 x 9 Hardcover With Dust Jacket
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books
Published: September 24, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Blue Tara Trilogy Princess Tara Chronicles
Blue Parrot Books is pleased to release the First Blue Parrot Books Edition of Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess? Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy. Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles.
Available through your local book store anywhere on the planet:
ISBN-13: 9781087800868
ISBN-10: 1087800862
Author: Michael Ostrogorsky
Format: 6x9 162 Pages
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Blue Parrot Books
Published: September 2019
Parts Two and Three of the Blue Tara Trilogy, as well as a dustjacketed hardcover edition of the Blue Tara Trilogy complete under one cover, coming soon, just in time for your Christmas shopping for all the fantasy fiction fans on your holiday shopping list.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The Pose
The Pose. Also known as the Hollywood Glamour Shot. When you know you are gorgeous. Our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Princess Tara modeling at Seattle's Alki Beach on a sparkling September morning:
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Monday, August 5, 2019
Parrots and Witches; Or, Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without Them, Life Is So Simple, Believe Me
I closed my eyes. I could feel Jean’s breasts press into my chest. Loose strands of her long flowing brunette hair tickled my nose. Her breathes, initially short and rapid, slowed to a relaxed warm pulse against my cheek. Her clothes reeked of sweat infused with the stench of fired gunpowder. I could still hear the last echoes of machine gun fire fade across the darkened walls of the enclosure like the staccato clicking of a tap dancer’s shoes slowly drifting off a stage.
NEW SECOND EDITION of the caffeinated spine-tingling head-lopping conclusion to the Blue Tara Trilogy, Book Three of the Princess Tara Chronicles, now available in a dead tree edition from Blue Parrot Books. Bigger and Better than ever!
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Princess Tara Chronicles
Our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and resident Witch Princess Tara admiring herself on the cover of her own fantasy novel series, the Princess Tara Chronicles, about a parrot that just happens to be a witch. With a coffee addiction. Available from Blue Parrot Books:
Monday, June 24, 2019
One Foot in Sea, and One on Shore, To One Thing Constant Never
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Princess Tara searching for her pirate at Seattle's Alki Beach.
Monday, June 3, 2019
She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Unrefined
Princess Tara is thrilled to release the dead tree edition of her latest fantasy novel, She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Unrefined, Part Two of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, now available from Blue Parrot Books.
What do you do when you discover your parrot is a witch? A witch with a coffee addiction. She needs your help to save your world from a goddess of death and her zombie army of the dead. A coven of witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat seek the help of a couple of Seattle history professors to uncover the magic that will give them a fighting chance against a witch who controls death and time:
What do you do when you discover your parrot is a witch? A witch with a coffee addiction. She needs your help to save your world from a goddess of death and her zombie army of the dead. A coven of witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat seek the help of a couple of Seattle history professors to uncover the magic that will give them a fighting chance against a witch who controls death and time:
Thursday, May 23, 2019
She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Unrefined
Princess Tara is thrilled to release Book Five of the Princess Tara Chronicles, Part Two of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, available for FREE download from Smashwords through Memorial Day weekend. Watch for Kindle and dead tree editions coming soon from Amazon.
What do you do when you discover your parrot is a witch? A witch with a coffee addiction. She needs your help to save your world from a goddess of death and her zombie army of the dead. A coven of witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat seek the help of a couple of Seattle history professors to uncover the magic that will give them a fighting chance against a witch who controls death and time.
Dragons. Zombies. Cannibals. Pterodactyls. Coffee. Parrots and Witches. More coffee! Book One of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Four of the Princess Tara Chronicles, as well as all three books of the Blue Tara Trilogy, are available in eBook and dead tree editions from Smashwords ebook and Amazon:
What do you do when you discover your parrot is a witch? A witch with a coffee addiction. She needs your help to save your world from a goddess of death and her zombie army of the dead. A coven of witches comprised of a pandemonium of parrots and one black cat seek the help of a couple of Seattle history professors to uncover the magic that will give them a fighting chance against a witch who controls death and time.
Dragons. Zombies. Cannibals. Pterodactyls. Coffee. Parrots and Witches. More coffee! Book One of the Kālarātri or Black Night Trilogy, Book Four of the Princess Tara Chronicles, as well as all three books of the Blue Tara Trilogy, are available in eBook and dead tree editions from Smashwords ebook and Amazon:
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
She Was Not Quite What You Would Call Unrefined
A tale of love. And love lost. Coming to Smashwords and Amazon this Memorial Day weekend!
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
Romeo. Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene One, 1599
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, 1919
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Strange Case of the Parrot That Refused to Talk
As I near the completion of my latest fantasy novel I'm looking forward to my next project, a noir detective novel featuring a World War II era burlesque dancer famous on both sides of the Atlantic named Yvette Dare. Performing from the late 1930s until at least 1950, she had a strip tease act that featured her scarlet macaw parrot named Einstein taking off her clothes to the beat of music.
Not only was Yvette Dare a parrot person, she apparently also was a history buff and it was her reading of Greek history that supposedly gave her the idea for the act.
What a great focus for a noir novel. A World War II stripper with a parrot and a love of history. Of course, this being World War II, there will be Nazis and Nazi gold involved, and secret documents that could change the course of history.
May 16, 1939 issue of the entertainment magazine PIC, costing a whole dime!
Yvette Dare publicity shot at the 1948 World's Fair in Brussels:
Monday, April 1, 2019
Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles, Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy
My first author reading with my Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and resident Witch Princess Tara at Seattle's Ballard Public Library for the It's About Time Writers Reading Series, April 13, 2017. Reading from Introduction and Chapter One of Book One of The Princess Tara Chronicles, Part One of the Blue Tara Trilogy: Blue Tara; Or, How Is a Hyacinth Macaw Parrot Like a Tibetan Goddess?
Book One of the Princess Tara Chronicles currently is on the Most Downloaded Books list for Smashwords fantasy fiction.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Blue Parrot Books
Our Hyacinth Macaw Parrot and Resident Witch Princess Tara admiring her new label for Blue Parrot Books, publisher of the Princess Tara Chronicles, about a parrot that just happens to be a witch, available from Amazon:
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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