tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90782193684484196572024-03-28T15:00:31.855-07:00KENYAN POET A den of book reviewsNumero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.comBlogger1212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-53412653218517656312024-03-28T15:00:00.000-07:002024-03-28T15:00:00.138-07:00Heroes, Holidays, and Hope by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/heroes-holidays-and-hope-banner_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="They fought courageously on the battlefield; now they're fighting for love. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 Genre: Military Romance Anthology with stories by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler" border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="800" height="238" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/heroes-holidays-and-hope-banner_orig.png" title="They fought courageously on the battlefield; now they're fighting for love. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 Genre: Military Romance Anthology with stories by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Heroes, Holidays, and Hope </span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Volume 1</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Genre: Military Romance Anthology</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with stories by</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/heroes-holidays-and-hope-antho-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="They fought courageously on the battlefield; now they're fighting for love. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 Genre: Military Romance Anthology with stories by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/heroes-holidays-and-hope-antho-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="They fought courageously on the battlefield; now they're fighting for love. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 Genre: Military Romance Anthology with stories by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler" width="323" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sacrifice. Valor. Patriotism.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">They fought courageously on the battlefield, and now they’re fighting for love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are a group of Veterans and Veterans' family members who are also bestselling and award-winning romance authors! We put our group together to publish a yearly limited edition, military holiday romance collection that also supports military / veteran-related charities.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 supports Fisher House (comfort homes where military & veteran families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital).</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our goal is to raise $3000 (or more) during our yearlong campaign.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The stories in Volume 1 are contemporary military romances, taking place during the cold weather holiday months. Various tropes and steam levels are part of this “must have” collection and it’s only available for 6 months after launch day, then it’s gone for good as we prepare for Volume 2!</div><br />Pick up your copy today (gift some copies too!) – together we can make a huge difference.<br /><br />Find us online and get all the details about the Heroes, Holidays, and Hope project!</span><p></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Imperfectly Perfect</i> by Dania Voss ~</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A runaway bride, scarred from a horrible accident when she was a girl and disillusioned with love.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A former US Navy fighter pilot who had his heart broken years ago and is untrusting of women.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Resigned to interact for business reasons, can these two find their way in Cascade Springs – the wedding capital of Texas Hill County, or are they destined to remain alone forever? </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Passion and Duty Forever</i> by Laura M. Baird ~</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spontaneous combustion. That's how Navy SEAL, Antonio Vega, felt when he first bumped into Coronado Animal Shelter manager, Leesa Colburn. But a fiery night of fun doesn't ignite as hoped when he's called away for a mission.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Each yearns for the other, and when Antonio returns from a tough deployment, he has a life-altering decision to make.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can Antonio picture a future beyond duty which includes rekindling the passion between him and Leesa, and committing to forever?</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Unexpected Gifts</i> by Lynn Spangler ~</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cyndra “Cyn” Hart hardly ever left her house. After a stint in the US Army involving a child suicide bomber, she spiralled into PTSD-induced isolation, not wanting to be part of a world she didn’t understand. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brady Jacobs, the local package delivery guy, stirred feelings in her that she had no idea what to do about. Gradually, he begins to pull her out of her shell until a misunderstanding sends him into the cold night air and to the hospital. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can she find the strength to fight for the life she could only have imagined before Brady?</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Saved by Her Marine</i> by Laurie Ryan ~</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A single mom. A wounded veteran.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How can Kaedon Powell say no to a woman five thousand miles away from her daughter?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He’s had enough responsibility to last a lifetime, so when the eight-year-old next door asks for help, he’s reluctant to step in, especially since her grandmother doesn’t like him on sight. But the girl’s mother is in Germany as part of her tour. As a vet, he knows what it means to be military. He steps up.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neurosurgical nurse Holly Miller has no choice but to rely on the stranger next door until a single phone call turns worry into a yearning destined to become more. Their long-distance connection turns personal as they discover how much they have in common. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can her love help him accept that sometimes, commitment is worth the reward?</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>The One You Can't Keep</i> by Sadira Stone ~</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Forbidden love is the sweetest Christmas treat.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stationed in Germany, a lonely teacher and a divorced military dad share a hot holiday liaison. Both crave more, but she’s his troubled son’s teacher! Unless they can untangle this mess, their passionate connection fizzles with the new year.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dania Voss and Laura M. Baird co-founded the Heroes, Holidays, and Hope project to share their love of writing military romances but to also use a portion of the sales to help military and veteran charities. Laura served in the US Army, and Dania's husband served in the Navy. They invite authors who are also veterans or veterans' family members to participate. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Each year, a different holiday theme is written about, with volume one all about stories at Christmastime. Each story is unique to the author, ranging from sweet and heartwarming to steamy and sensual. The anthologies will be available for six months, always releasing on December 6</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span>. Volume I benefits Fisher House, an organization which provides comfort homes throughout the nation (with some even overseas) to military and veteran family members where they can stay for free while a loved one is in the hospital. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://fisherhouse.org/" style="font-size: large;"><span><span lang="zxx">Https://fisherhouse.org</span></span></a></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/hhh-dogtags-md-275x269_orig.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="They fought courageously on the battlefield; now they're fighting for love. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 Genre: Military Romance Anthology with stories by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler" border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="275" height="222" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/hhh-dogtags-md-275x269_orig.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;" title="They fought courageously on the battlefield; now they're fighting for love. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Volume 1 Genre: Military Romance Anthology with stories by Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, Laurie Ryan, Sadira Stone & Lynn Spangler" width="227" /></span></a><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">We're looking forward to giving readers captivating stories that also support a terrific cause. We also have a merchandise shop that offers a wide variety of items, from clothes to bags to drinkware, all with our project logo. </span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://bit.ly/HHHmerch"><span><span lang="zxx">https://bit.ly/HHHmerch</span></span></a></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://laurambaird.com/">Laura M. Baird</a> * </b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.daniavoss.com/">Dania Voss</a> * <a href="https://www.laurieryanauthor.com/">Laurie Ryan</a> * <a href="https://linktr.ee/SadiraStone">Sadira Stone</a> * <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lynn-spangler">Lynn Spangler</a></b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Cursed Wolf</strong><br /><strong>Sophie Ash</strong><br />(Howling Death MC)<br />Publication date: March 29th 2024<br />Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em><strong>If the sweet veterinarian finds out I’m a werewolf, she’ll bolt.</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>But she’s my fated mate, and the beast in me is howling for a taste.</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m the wolf she hit with her car and nursed back to health. I’m also the gruff biker who saved her from her creepy boss.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">She has no idea man and beast are one and the same.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We’re from different worlds, but fate’s thread ties us together. She thinks we’re just dating, but she’s meant for me. And as I get to know her, I can’t get enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The more time we spend together, the more my wolf howls to claim her. Soon, I won’t be able to hold back the animal within me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fate has cursed me with an impossible choice. Reveal my wolf to a human and risk the safety of my pack.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Or force her into my world with a mating bite, and bind our fates forever.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Whether she likes it or not.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: medium;">This book features fated mates between a human woman and a protective wolf shifter hiding a big secret. Each book in Howling Death MC is a standalone with a guaranteed HEA!</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">EXCERPT:</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“I love that brain of yours, but don’t think so much right now Emmaline.” His next kiss was softer, sweeter. The warm rumble of his voice pulled me right out of my head. “Be here with me, beautiful. Just feel.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>Don’t think. Feel.</em> The voice in my head echoed what he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">To do just that, I barely lifted my head to kiss him again. My eyelids fell closed and I poured all of my focus into feeling Tryn. The softness of his lips contrasted with the roughness of his beard. The heat of him and the breadth of his body. My hands landed on his back and went searching. When I found the hem of his T-shirt, I dipped under it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, I did not expect his skin to be so soft. The muscles underneath were hard but also moved with a fluid grace that I never wanted to stop feeling. I already knew he gave great hugs, but to feel him wrap around me skin-to-skin would be on another level.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">As if reading my mind, Tryn made off with his shirt when our kisses broke apart for air. When he lowered to me again, his fingers drifted under my shirt slowly, giving me every opportunity to stop him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I didn’t. I kissed him harder, moulding my body to his. A strong hand lifted me a few inches from the bed, just enough to get my shirt and bra off.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Fucking perfect,” Tryn murmured along my collarbone before kissing lower.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">My gaze found the ceiling. Any other time, I’d be in my head again, wondering if I looked weird topless if my chest was smaller than what he preferred. But what I was quickly figuring out? Tryn knew how to make a girl <em>feel.</em></span></p>
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<p><strong>Sweetheart</strong><br /><strong>Cookie O’Gorman</strong><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Publication date: April 25th 2024</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Genres: Romance, Young Adult</div><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Sweetheart (suh-weet-hart): Someone who is kind, friendly, and/or lovable. For reference, see Scarlett Kent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Seventeen-year-old Scarlett Kent likes the idea of love—in theory. She’s just never had time for romance. Voted Most Likely to Succeed, founder of a youth mentoring program, and an aspiring professional violinist, Scarlett has goals—and a list of “firsts” she’d like to complete before graduation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One thing that’s not on her list: Falling for Sam Bishop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Flirtatious jocks who sleep through class aren’t her type—no matter how good Sam looks in his jersey. But when her car breaks down, Sam stops to help…which leads to an unexpected offer.</p>
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Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-58133473780927222272024-03-25T22:00:00.000-07:002024-03-26T00:58:09.823-07:00 OFF THE BOOKS by Dana King<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIG9DwJ_hy7GXCovUt5zeTYorF5JOCuII-MWhxT0Lgksc1GFBET179sIqsOMCis275ENyYzb1mJbheYArb9FMtSBQIjLY1tz7MDIhodZ1vQatNtn7pKCrK8np2BPM8MuMEXCot5x4uUL9oQuwwjMPV8CbCWGESSHBdbBGDgU-17BdXdSBBQLF4qDVaw0/s1200/TourBanner_Off%20the%20Books.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="OFF THE BOOKS Dana King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Hard-boiled Private Investigator" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIG9DwJ_hy7GXCovUt5zeTYorF5JOCuII-MWhxT0Lgksc1GFBET179sIqsOMCis275ENyYzb1mJbheYArb9FMtSBQIjLY1tz7MDIhodZ1vQatNtn7pKCrK8np2BPM8MuMEXCot5x4uUL9oQuwwjMPV8CbCWGESSHBdbBGDgU-17BdXdSBBQLF4qDVaw0/w640-h358/TourBanner_Off%20the%20Books.gif" title="OFF THE BOOKS Dana King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Hard-boiled Private Investigator" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">OFF THE BOOKS</span></b></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Dana King<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: Hard-boiled Private Investigator</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgSDg9eOCgZye7UZ3T03-LYGTBGrZ6vaIh3maA2fPPfcU7Lsg1tFO3ZzSqXKV1XUD4ZYlU9QYoEZKaj7f-W0laRBui9xjyjd__SyRjWCc36e_AwaCPEcFZNiqP_m-OyCiVa3DdEhyG1Lg_3DOPv00wMtVYSL_UeLi6eSVm9R0wNVDvcRTZKXSaRsQTWVQ/s1200/BookCover_OFF%20THE%20BOOKS%20v1%20jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="OFF THE BOOKS Dana King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Hard-boiled Private Investigator" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgSDg9eOCgZye7UZ3T03-LYGTBGrZ6vaIh3maA2fPPfcU7Lsg1tFO3ZzSqXKV1XUD4ZYlU9QYoEZKaj7f-W0laRBui9xjyjd__SyRjWCc36e_AwaCPEcFZNiqP_m-OyCiVa3DdEhyG1Lg_3DOPv00wMtVYSL_UeLi6eSVm9R0wNVDvcRTZKXSaRsQTWVQ/w213-h320/BookCover_OFF%20THE%20BOOKS%20v1%20jpg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="OFF THE BOOKS Dana King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Hard-boiled Private Investigator" width="213" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Nick
Forte has lost his detective agency and makes ends meet doing background checks
and other paperwork. He pays for everything else through jobs he takes for cash
and without any written contract. What starts out as a simple investigation
into a traffic accident exposes Forte to people who have truly lost everything
and have no viable hope of reclaiming their lives. That doesn’t sit well with
Forte, leading him and his friend Goose Satterwhite to take action that ends
more violently than anyone expected.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">“The
return of Chicago private detective Nick Forte, the tough protagonist of two
Shamus Award-nominated novels, is well worth the wait. Nick’s latest escapade
Off The Books—the first in nearly six years—will surely earn additional praise
for the acclaimed series.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">-J.L
. Abramo, Shamus Award-winning author of Chasing Charlie Chan.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">"Nick
Forte reminds me of Robert B. Parker's Spenser: a PI with a finely tuned sense
of justice who doesn't take anyone's s***. Any fan of hardboiled detective
fiction is in for a helluva ride."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">--Chris
Rhatigan, former publisher of All Due Respect Books</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">I told Jason
Worthington I’d find his daughter in a week. I surfed the internet and searched
flophouses, cathouses, bar rooms, pool rooms, jails, hospitals, morgues, and
SRO hotels. Found her in a pay-by-the-hour motel at 10:48 p.m. two days after
her father and I spoke.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Worthington
would have preferred me to find her alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Cindy’s body
was warm, the spike still in her arm. She looked as if she’d fallen asleep
waiting and didn’t hold my tardiness against me.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">I did what
any real-life professional investigator would do, and what no fictional private
eye would even consider.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">I called the
police.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">The cops kept
me at the scene half the night, at the station until dawn. They asked the same
questions in both places and got the same answers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“Why were you
there?”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Her father
asked me to find her.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Why was the
father looking for her?”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">“My guess
would be to keep what happened from happening. You’ll have to ask him yourself
to be sure.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The usual
bullshit.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">I called
Worthington on my way out of the police station. Told him I had news but would
prefer to deliver it in person. I didn’t suppose I needed to tell him anything
after that, but it wouldn’t hurt to allow him time to prepare before I scarred
the rest of his life.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">He answered
the door already dressed for work. Navy suit, white shirt with French cuffs,
gold links. His tie was blue with small designs, maybe horses gathered in a
perfect four-square knot. Red suspenders. A suit coat hung from the newel post
behind him. His forehead gleamed beneath a silvery hairline. His teeth were as
white and straight as a Klan meeting.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b> </b></span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I was
asked to talk a little today about how I developed my plot, which is a timely
question for me, as it has changed over time until I now have a process I feel
quite comfortable with. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Plot
development is a very personal part of writing, maybe even as much as the
voice. There are great writers who never know what’s going to happen on the
next page until they type it. Others outline in gruesome detail. James Ellroy
is famous for writing outlines that are sometimes longer than the book. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I’m an
outliner, but I’m not obsessive about it. I’ll write a sentence or two for each
scene to describe what needs to happen. How it happens, and how I describe it, are
game-time decisions. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“But
how do you develop the outline itself?” is the real question. Early on, I went
through more iterations of each outline than I care to remember and used more
dry-erase markers, note cards, Post-Its, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slides,
magnets, and pushpins to prop up Staples’ stock price single-handedly. The
process can charitably be described as chaotic. Mostly I fooled around with the
events and their order until I was tired of messing with them and decided it
was time to write, or else. Or else what? Don’t ask. I can be hard on myself. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I was
at a Sleuthfest session where the speaker—I wish I could remember her name—showed
a short YouTube video featuring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone
talking about how they outline. (Don’t laugh. I’m serious.) They use a
technique I call “Therefore and But” which is almost laughably simple but more
effective than anything I’d tried in the past.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><o:p> </o:p>Here's
how it works: You have an opening situation, which can be anything that leads
to “therefore.” For every “therefore” there is a “but,” which is followed by
another “therefore,” and so on </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>For
example, in a grotesquely simplified form:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Nick
Forte takes a case.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Therefore<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>He
investigates.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>But<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Things
are not as his client told him.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Therefore<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Forte
takes the investigation in an unexpected direction.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>But <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
client catches wise and pushes back.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Therefore
<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Forte
takes more direct (read: violent) action. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And so
on. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The
biggest benefit of “Therefore and But” is the creation of a plot where each
event leads at least somewhat logically from what came before. Parker and Stone
warn of the dangers of stories where “this happens and then that happens and
then this happens,” as they can wander off almost anywhere, leaving the writer,
and the reader, desperately searching for the thread that hold things together.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jEg9uiLOU">Check out the video</a>. It’s an eye-opener. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">AUTHOR Bio and Links:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDI1vEabFYZEI_xrJm1he_ciIeVRPNyP5OE0sFCiqxoJ_Yapk_8ugvRvPat5Y7v-0CApRV8kMbW3-ZLiDUUqIPHaghaeXKk5P-y4f2PM3PK0b9DRcH371O9H5KqSFd9nI4TtsAE-UfcJNkqMmd2RLLYczofLJORTUO032dtm9PLsHUdhu3J9iRKW0VUI/s1124/author%20image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="OFF THE BOOKS Dana King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Hard-boiled Private Investigator" border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="800" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDI1vEabFYZEI_xrJm1he_ciIeVRPNyP5OE0sFCiqxoJ_Yapk_8ugvRvPat5Y7v-0CApRV8kMbW3-ZLiDUUqIPHaghaeXKk5P-y4f2PM3PK0b9DRcH371O9H5KqSFd9nI4TtsAE-UfcJNkqMmd2RLLYczofLJORTUO032dtm9PLsHUdhu3J9iRKW0VUI/w155-h219/author%20image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="OFF THE BOOKS Dana King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Hard-boiled Private Investigator" width="155" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Off
the Books is Dana King’s sixth Nick Forte private investigator novel. Two of
the earlier books (A Small Sacrifice and The Man in the Window) received Shamus
Award nominations from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dana also writes the
Penns River series of police procedurals set in a small Western Pennsylvania
town, as well as one standalone novel, Wild Bill, which is not a Western. His
short fiction appears in numerous anthologies and websites. He is a frequent
panellist at conferences and reads at Noirs at Bars from New York to North
Carolina.</div></span><p></p>
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<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-size: large;">An Accident Waiting to Dragon</strong></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Abigail Owen</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Brimstone Inc., #3)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Publication date: March 26th 2024</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance</div></span><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s not the heat…it’s the pixie dust.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The day her brother died, Gwendolyn Moonsoar fled from her veil of pixies. Grief drove her away, but a broken heart made her stay gone for good. Lucky for Gwen, Brimstone Inc. was there to break her fall. Now, as a special courier transporting the most valuable and dangerous items of the supernatural world, Gwen is good at her job. Damn good. After all, disappearing is her specialty.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dragon shifter Asher Kato will always be haunted by his best friend Goran’s death. Although a promise he made gave him no choice, Asher will never forgive himself for the role he played…or the fallout it caused with Goran’s younger sister, Gwen. Burying himself in his role as second-in-command of the blue dragons is his only escape. Unfortunately, the peace they fought so hard for isn’t meant for a warrior like him. So, when a courier transporting a rare basilisk egg goes missing, Asher volunteers to track her down.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Except Asher’s mission ends up stranding him on a deserted island with the only woman he’s ever wanted….a pixie who would rather vanish forever than spend a single second with him.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sweaty from their trek and the feelings that refused to fade, Gwen was damn tempted to dive right in, but before she could, Asher stripped off his shoes and socks, his hands going to the fly of his jeans.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What are you doing?” she asked.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He didn’t face her, but she could hear the rare teasing smile in his voice. “Bathing.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was going to bathe. Right now? In front of her?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sure. No big deal. She was a fully grown adult. Most supernatural creatures didn’t have hang-ups about nudity the way humans did. She could handle this. He’d go first, then she’d take a turn. They could draw their drinking water upstream when they were done.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Asher dropped his pants, leaving him in nothing but black boxer briefs, which showed off the muscles of his thighs as he waded into the water. Then he turned to face her, a playful glint in his eyes she hadn’t seen in a long time. Sure enough, next came the shirt.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Damn.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There went the small amount of control she’d wrangled for herself throughout their trek. Gone in an instant.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With an eye roll, she walked to a flat rock at the edge of the water. A second later, a splash told her he was fully submerged now. By the time she’d taken off her sock and shoes and rolled up her pants to dangle her legs, she figured it was safe for her to look.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A horrible idea, it turned out.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A flash of movement under the surface caught her eye a second before Asher came up out of the water, facing her, lifting his hands to slick back his dark hair, his muscles rippling with the movement.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now that was just freaking unfair.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was like nature was trying to highlight all the hotness she’d been missing all this time. The hotness that had just been inside of her.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh. My. Gods.</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heat flared in her cheeks yet again.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Which was when Asher opened his eyes and caught her staring. His gaze locked in on her, and for once she couldn’t make out what he was thinking.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But she couldn’t look away, her chest growing tighter by the second.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Was he—</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Asher swam toward her. “Why aren’t you coming in?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She nearly shook her head. No, it couldn’t be.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Her oh-so-serious dragon wasn’t trying to…tease her, play with her?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Was he?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>He’s not </em>your<em> dragon, Gwendolyn Moonsoar. He’s not your anything,</em> she tried to remind herself. But that thought was feeling more and more flimsy by the second…considering the way he was looking at her.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She shrugged, trying to play it cool while her face was probably still flaming red. Maybe he’d put that down to their trek? “I’ll wait until you’re done.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A frown flitted across his features, far more familiar and comfortable than his teasing, but then he swam forward until he could stand in front of her. “You don’t have to wait. There’s plenty of room.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gwen opened her mouth to wave him off with something vague only to get a little lost in the deep navy of his eyes. “I…don’t think that would be a good idea,” she found herself saying.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His jaw tightened visibly. “I would never—”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Without thinking, she pressed a single finger against his lips and they both sort of froze at the contact. Gwen swallowed and pulled away slowly.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I know,” she whispered. “You’re not the one I don’t trust.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Asher’s brows drew together, stopped, then crept back up as her meaning sank in that <em>she</em> was the problem here. Her and all her discombobulated feelings.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That glint from a moment ago reignited in his eyes, only up close it was even more potent, more dangerous. “Do you need rescuing?” he asked, his voice dropping lower.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh my gods.</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The memory of their first kiss, the first time he’d said those words to her, swirled and blended with this one, and excited butterflies hit her insides full force. But she couldn’t.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>They</em> couldn’t. Could they?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What she wanted to say was, “From you?” like she had back then. Instead, she just shook her head and went to stand up, to put distance between them.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Only Asher grabbed her hand, his hold gentle as she stilled.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I’ve missed you, Gwen,” he said softly. “I want you to know that.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A lump of emotion and longing formed inside her throat.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Was he <em>trying</em> to make this a thousand times harder for her? More confusing? More need-inducing?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When she didn’t say anything but she also didn’t leave, he slowly moved closer, right up against her rock, so that he was standing between her dangling legs. He paused there. “I really want to kiss you, and not just in a dream, but I won’t if you say no, or if you need rescuing for real.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This close, right in her space where she could feel the natural warmth of a dragon shifter radiating from his skin, feel his breath against her cheek…gods, he was temptation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gwen forced her gaze away, dropping it to her lap. It didn’t help. She still wanted to kiss him. “I—”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She shifted her gaze to the left and paused, then peered closer at his side.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">What the—? </span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then she choked.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Asher jerked to follow her gaze, searching the water around him for some threat maybe. “What’s wrong?”</span></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">She stared at him with her mouth ajar for enough time that he stopped searching for danger to bracket her face with his hands, his expression growing harder with concern. “Gwen—”</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Award-winning author, Abigail Owen, writes NA/YA romantasy and paranormal romance. She loves plots that move hot and fast, feisty heroines with sass, heroes with heart, a dash of snark, and oodles of HEAs!</span></p>
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<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-size: large;">My War, My Child</strong></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>My Child, My War</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Publication date: March 26th 2024</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Genres: Adult, Historical</div></span><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A law student at Dhaka University, Afsana’s future is bright. Her greatest concern is whether or not her parents will approve of her marriage. When they do, the young bride knows she can face anything the future holds.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>My War, My Child</em> vividly and compassionately tells the story of Bengali<em> birangona</em>, the war heroines, whose lives were brutally torn apart by the 1971 War for Independence. Though the fight resulted in the freedom and independent nation so craved by the Bengali people, hundreds of thousands of women’s lives were devastated, leaving them to scrape together the pieces and carry on as best they could-often with children and orphans forced upon them.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Farzad was startled when she touched his arm. Her voice had changed indeed, weaker, but still, the voice that in old days—not so very old either—-was the one voice that meant the whole world to him.</span></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">For a single instant, his thoughts strayed away into the past, and the marvel of his first love came back to him.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">He looked down upon the soft hand that held his arm. He stared at the fingers, held in desperation.</div></span><p></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">His heart awoke under that touch, like a sudden flash of light, bringing back happy moments. And sad.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">He recalled the last look that he had seen on her face at the door when they parted, her face conveying the anxiety of uncertainty about seeing him again.</div></span><p></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">He remembered that he had turned away abruptly, that in his preoccupied state of mind, he had not spoken one soothing word to her.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Her voice now sounded like a mournful echo of his dead love.</div></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The days when he adored her, thought her the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, the days when he lived on in the bitterness of missing her gentle love for him, could not be revived again.</span></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">And it occurred to him that he still had a moment to decide, only a brief moment now, whether to take her back or abandon her.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bharati Sen was born in Rangoon, Myanmar and spent much of her childhood growing up in Southeast Asia and West Bengal. She completed a Masters in International Relations, and discovered a passion for writing about disparities and cultural differences, particularly in women. Her debut award-winning book titled, On the Banks of River Sarayu, is a compilation of nineteen stories reflecting the lives of ordinary South Asian women within bittersweet tales. The book was awarded finalist in the 2020 International Book Awards as well as the 2020 finalist for the MiPA Midwest Book Award in the category of Short Stories. Her first novel, My War My Child, narrates the intertwined story of two war heroines during the Bangladesh War of Independence, and will be coming out in Spring of 2024.</span></p>
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<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-size: large;">The Professor</strong></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Skye Warren</strong></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>(Tanglewood University, #1)</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Publication date: </b>March 26th 2024</div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Genres: </b>Adult, Contemporary, Romance</div></b></span><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren, delivers the sizzling first book in a brand new trilogy, The Professor, a forbidden, student/professor, ex-boyfriend’s dad romance.</span></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">One night only with a handsome stranger.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Older. Alluring. Savage. Dominant.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No last names or expectations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just raw, carnal, filthy pleasure.</div></span><p></p>
<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">I never thought I would see him again.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Until the first day of class. He’s my new professor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And my ex-boyfriend’s father.</div></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He has a world of secrets in his eyes and the weight of the world on his shoulders. I should stay away from him, but the more I try, the more consumed he gets.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His possessiveness is rivaled only by his secretive nature. He knows everything about me, but mystery surrounds him. Shadows threaten the entire university…and our forbidden love.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It’s okay,” he murmurs. “Pretend you don’t want it.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His kiss is urgent, unyielding. He forces my mouth open, allowing me to feign resistance. Or at the very least, nonchalance. I let him tilt my head back and run his lips down my neck. It’s a terrible game I’m playing, letting him take the fall for our mutual destruction.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I should at least tell him, confess my own desire, even if he already knows.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It would be an honourable thing to do.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Will—”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Ah ah,” he says with a slow shake of his head, with a devastating expression of knowing in his dark eyes. “In this office, you will address me as Professor Stratford.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My secret muscles clench, and he gives me an almost boyish smile.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This gets you hot, doesn’t it, Ms. Hill?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How is this possible? I had a heavy course load of classes my freshman year, with professors of every shape and size. They were smart and interesting, and for the most part, at least somewhat arrogant. Professor Stratford is all those things…and more. He’s simply more. More handsome, more mysterious. More playful as he nips at my lower lip.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I asked you a direct question, Ms. Hill. Don’t make me punish you.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My eyes widen. It’s not an entirely fake break in my voice. “What kind of punishment?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Let’s see,” he says, tugging my T-shirt off, and leaving me in my bra. The starkness is enough to make my cheeks burn. He’s fully clothed while I’m shirtless. “For the first offense, I wouldn’t be too harsh. Then again, we can’t have disruptive students, can we?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I thought his fist in my hair had been perverse.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That holding me up against the window had been a wild form of desire.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is far worse.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And far better.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At least my body thinks so, becoming hot and clenched, swollen around nothing, hungry to have him inside me again, thrusting and thrusting the ache away.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I tried to behave,” I tell him, surrendering to the game. Surrendering to him. “I tried to be a good student. It’s just that you were so…distracting.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That earns me a dark chuckle. Large, strong hands undress me with calm expediency as if stacking books or finding the right page. With both care and anticipation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At this moment I’m the worn pages of an old copy of Romeo and Juliet.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He thumbs through my pages.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You’d blame your professor for your own lack of focus?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I gasp at his touch, low and intimate. It’s too much, and I scoot back to get away from him. That only lands me on the edge of his desk, smooth wood cool beneath my bare ass. “Maybe I can make it up to you?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Extra credit,” he says, musing. “Perhaps an oral report would suffice.”</span></p>
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</p>Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-21762813384581748582024-03-24T22:17:00.000-07:002024-03-24T22:17:06.731-07:00CHASING THE DRAGON by Mark Towse <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEt9I0xHBHJWs-V9UeWWDYN8oxYdYmnYHFFWKgNTMjPYA_BqJfMRJxGy4HvdFW2TW5btIYJc8A-gIWEZt7a1xMNrITcH-EBVTsfL4dNC3alRBOQ2Zgz7O67POEGOuJcSXK_TdKmvwpdflf4XhdpG0aDYQWLTFlOOsXmklufChz37xHJCnEGwHNvZuWv18/s1200/TourBanner_Chasing%20the%20Dragon.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Towse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Vigilante Crime Thriller/Horror" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEt9I0xHBHJWs-V9UeWWDYN8oxYdYmnYHFFWKgNTMjPYA_BqJfMRJxGy4HvdFW2TW5btIYJc8A-gIWEZt7a1xMNrITcH-EBVTsfL4dNC3alRBOQ2Zgz7O67POEGOuJcSXK_TdKmvwpdflf4XhdpG0aDYQWLTFlOOsXmklufChz37xHJCnEGwHNvZuWv18/w640-h358/TourBanner_Chasing%20the%20Dragon.gif" title="CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Towse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Vigilante Crime Thriller/Horror" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">CHASING THE DRAGON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Mark Towse</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: Vigilante Crime Thriller/Horror</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib957KUnbfd46JlkxwtChCdGl0zsfhAPos0e0GxVJ1Nc5lUlUBV8bPiU659dIqgnbmIvAFNLHYJcgmLw6u4GIwkUkbADptgd_k8yGbO9U418Oomr7vdbscgvPDuK8G7eboKzd7g8l0AGE9F5YCqgAnylUQaI55btS6UzaS7j0ErAVjXr-7AuA9kYNu3hQ/s2000/BookCover_CHASING%20THE%20DRAGON%20jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Towse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Vigilante Crime Thriller/Horror" border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib957KUnbfd46JlkxwtChCdGl0zsfhAPos0e0GxVJ1Nc5lUlUBV8bPiU659dIqgnbmIvAFNLHYJcgmLw6u4GIwkUkbADptgd_k8yGbO9U418Oomr7vdbscgvPDuK8G7eboKzd7g8l0AGE9F5YCqgAnylUQaI55btS6UzaS7j0ErAVjXr-7AuA9kYNu3hQ/w213-h320/BookCover_CHASING%20THE%20DRAGON%20jpg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Towse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Vigilante Crime Thriller/Horror" width="213" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">A
town on its knees, dread's bony fingers wrapping around its throat and
squeezing, death rattles soon to follow.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Drugs,
filth, and a lack of human decency are starving it of hope.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Introducing
Simon Dooley, our trauma-driven wannabe superhero, the relentless voice of his
dead mother pleading with him to "end the chaos." Dressed in a
leotard and armed only with a dozen dog poop bags, Simon's plight will find him
falling in love and going head to head with the seediest characters walking the
streets.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The
town needed a hero... it got Reformo.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><b style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">It’s
happening. It’s finally happening.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">I strip off
in front of the full-length mirror, part self-admiration for my new frame and
part sorrow for the shy and squeamish young boy who first walked the corridors
of the youth detention centre.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Okay, not The
Rectifier. What then? Captain Justice has been done, you muppet! The Shadow?
Nope. Been done, too. The Silhouette? Too jazzy. Unable to wait any longer, the
hairs bristling on the back of my neck, I carefully lift the costume from the
bed and slip my arms through.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Oh, yes!</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">It’s as
though electricity runs through my veins. I feel alive, reborn. I feel—</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">“I’m a
superhero.”</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">I've written 185 short stories and 15 novellas, but
'Chasing The Dragon' is my debut novel. This multi-genre romp will knock your
socks off and rip your heart out.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Chasing The Dragon was a thrill to write. It is a dark
concoction of all the genres I've touched on: horror, thriller, romance, crime,
fantasy, and mystery, with the staple thread of Towse humour to lighten the
load. There's something for everyone here, and I hope you fall in love with
Reformo as much as I did.</b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>N.B. This is certainly not designed to be a self-help book.
Oh, and there are no dragons in it. Or are there?<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">Put simply, this is a tongue-in-cheek story about the
long-term effects of trauma and how it never fails to continue shaping us. This
is essentially me on these pages, bearing my soul, making it an incredibly
cathartic and therapeutic experience.</span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">Life is imperfect, and so are we. </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">A bit about the book:</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">Our protagonist, Simon Dooley, had a strict upbringing. His
iron-fisted mother made life claustrophobic and uncomfortable. It didn't take
much to set her off: crumbs on the counter, dishes left out, someone parking
outside their house, or playing loud music. "End the chaos," she used
to cry until she passed.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>But even when dead, his mother's voice lives on in Simon's
head. The only way he believes he can finally end it is to have a cape made by
the local chain-smoking seamstress, Janice, and take to the streets to
"End the chaos." Introducing Reformo, the superhero we never knew we
needed.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">I promise a unique and extraordinary ride.</span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">Early ARC reviews:</span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">'Sublime.'</span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>'Tragic. Brutal. Hilarious.'<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>'Had me laughing out loud one minute and crying the next.'<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>'The writing is a tour de force.'<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i><b>'Jaw-dropping.'<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="color: #222222;">'What a debut!'</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p>
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<p class="normal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_HiDM6JCcyZz3_JTh4VKVvrztGll-MTalZlNyrKqcgWKoX04FgOMmWFZQzdfSawloRolhQYcaTsxKBPhyphenhyphen4v8hNAeS1JWGZ7Ep3fEzDQRtzpM-r_M98D0U7dhGtq3IbgzqlUFAHsExU7hVmQCQcAtc2dQJUF4SjFO5w0vkHSHyoF3sPYjaAlKyULPJGI/s2400/Author%20Photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1600" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_HiDM6JCcyZz3_JTh4VKVvrztGll-MTalZlNyrKqcgWKoX04FgOMmWFZQzdfSawloRolhQYcaTsxKBPhyphenhyphen4v8hNAeS1JWGZ7Ep3fEzDQRtzpM-r_M98D0U7dhGtq3IbgzqlUFAHsExU7hVmQCQcAtc2dQJUF4SjFO5w0vkHSHyoF3sPYjaAlKyULPJGI/w159-h239/Author%20Photo.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" width="159" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN">Mark Towse is an English horror writer living in
Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he
could write full-time. Alas, he left it very late to begin this journey,
penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of forty-five.
Since then, he’s been published in over two hundred journals and anthologies,
had his work made into full theatrical productions for shows such as The No
Sleep Podcast and Tales to Terrify, and has penned fourteen novellas, including
Nana, Gone to the Dogs, 3:33, and Crows. Chasing The Dragon is his debut novel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><p></p>
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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Crossroads Magic Witchtown Crossing Book One Tracy Cooper-Posey" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7eqJbBo2g0qkg2UrTMEfvePw4hizZwEvat0PLSJBHUycR4-iiCu5rcp1wPe_ZhKJvJIqp64F8c-b3CAsXImIxA_q2ysUJhv-FuQopSSwcFOIccISi_Z5a2ppTshL9aGtvtWSB2X7ZPW1xm7C__EzR1fgO599O-AJWpeqyOtqRFHuoZRvGMvVIfOQ7Enij/w213-h320/Crossroads%20HD.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Crossroads Magic Witchtown Crossing Book One Tracy Cooper-Posey" width="213" /></a></div>Crossroads Magic</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Witchtown Crossing</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Book One</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Tracy Cooper-Posey</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Genre:</b> Paranormal Women’s Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Fantasy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Publisher:</b> Stories Rule Press</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Date of Publication: </b> March 21, 2024</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Amazon ISBN: </b>9781779431943</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ISBN: </b>9781779432018</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ASIN: </b> B0CP3CKP12</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Number of pages:</b> 306 pages</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Word Count: </b> 74,000 words</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Cover Artist:</b> Dar Dixon, Wicked Smart Designs</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Tagline: </b> I’m just an ordinary, middle-aged woman, and my life is falling apart….</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Book Description:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When did I become such a cliché? I’m divorced, working a crappy job, living on next to nothing, and wondering how it all went so wrong. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then it goes even more wrong. My grown daughter turns up after not speaking to me for two years, with stunning news of her own, and to cap it off, I’m summoned to a tiny, isolated hamlet in northern New York called Haigton Crossing, where my mother has lived for decades.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Haigton Crossing looks like a throwback to another time. For such a small place, it is stuffed full of secrets. The people there are different, including the town’s doctor, Benedict Marcus. And Haigton Crossing is way, way too small to host a murder….</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>This book is part of the paranormal women’s fiction series, Witchtown Crossing</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>1.0: Crossroads Magic …with more to come!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>A Paranormal Women’s Fiction novel.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/49OGkX4">Amazon</a> <a href="https://books2read.com/CrossroadsMagic">Books2Read</a></b></p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-dYHvhESqEIiq-SUKX25Nc-UUM5UU9JLy3JcrG3lKjqSGSqv0FWfPvj-Ct5Q4kgkTTu4iaxX4AaNN2MnxdWseeoM0mKMQ_NGnpNTbwJs53gaEf5pn24jOpIWp1DzzGrn5Jymdz-lNU1OK5VE8HZhttyL4v50GTgCUAPV9Ei3GebZ6xD-ujA2d1jZFzvh/s1000/Crossroads%20Print%20Promo%201000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Crossroads Magic by Tracy Cooper-Posey" border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-dYHvhESqEIiq-SUKX25Nc-UUM5UU9JLy3JcrG3lKjqSGSqv0FWfPvj-Ct5Q4kgkTTu4iaxX4AaNN2MnxdWseeoM0mKMQ_NGnpNTbwJs53gaEf5pn24jOpIWp1DzzGrn5Jymdz-lNU1OK5VE8HZhttyL4v50GTgCUAPV9Ei3GebZ6xD-ujA2d1jZFzvh/w640-h426/Crossroads%20Print%20Promo%201000.jpg" title="Crossroads Magic by Tracy Cooper-Posey" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Praise for Crossroads Magic:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Love this new series. Once I started reading, I didn’t want to put it down.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Now I must wait for the next book which is pure torture.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Nice to read about a woman starting over after her daughter has grown.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>As I adore everything Tracy writes...I am on cloud nine with the start of a new series.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>It was wonderful to read a book about a woman who is closer to my age and facing problems that I might actually have.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>She explains the sights, sounds and smells in a way that makes you feel like you are there. I am eagerly awaiting the next book in this series!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>What a delight! A heroine with some life experience, with real-world problems.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>A NEW Series From TRACY!!! EEEK!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Tracy's strong suit in her writing is her character development and knowing when a good twist and turn is needed to further captivate her audience.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>An excellent beginning to what promises to be a most intriguing series, Crossroads Magic is a fascinating story in itself, though there are so many different directions this series could take.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Excerpt
Chapter One</b><br />
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The only thing I was worried about as I headed back to my apartment
building was the spot on the back of my hand where hot fat had left a burn the
size of a nickel. Small, but mighty, the burn throbbed and ached,
reminding me it was there. It was worse when the sun hit it, which it did
frequently. It was one of those perfect, mild days in December, when you
could actually see the sky over L.A. and it was blue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Who am I kidding? The burn spot wasn’t the only thing I was
worried about. If you were to ask me, I could rattle off a dozen major
and minor problems, including the sumo-sized rat I suspect was trying to take
up residence under my kitchen sink. But those were all chronic problems. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The burn on my hand was new and painful. I didn’t need new
problems and was trying my best to ignore it until I could slather aloe vera
gel on it. Marjorie, at the diner, had hacked off a leaf from the plant
sitting in the pot outside the kitchen door when Deborah, the assistant
manager, hadn’t been looking. Marj had wrapped the leaf in plastic. It was in
my bag, along with the serving of pecan pie which Deborah had ordered the
waitresses to throw out because it was too old. Three days old…there was
nothing wrong with it, and it had more calories in it than the egg and toast I
had lined up for dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In this world that wasn’t the one I would voluntarily choose, today was
turning out okay. Pecan pie, and Hobgoblin of History in my ears. I had
been waiting weeks for book fifteen of M.K. Lint’s fantasy series. The
library had doled it out to me yesterday and I was on chapter three.
Harry the Hobgoblin was looking for the Fairy Eloise, this book; he’d
lost her at the end of the last one, because he hadn’t closed the Doors of
Eternal Flame in time and a demon had abducted her. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I like reading. I like it a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> My building was a white monstrosity that did nothing to enhance
the L.A. skyline. The white had long ago turned to a stained, dull grey.
Five years ago, a fire had broken out on the top floor and burned out a
few apartments. The black smoke had billowed up out of the windows,
staining the walls above them. The stains were still there and every time
I saw them, I had to remind myself they were smoke stains, not black mould
taking over the building. Black mould seemed more appropriate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I turned off the audiobook, stashed my phone in my pocket and headed
for the front door. I only used the front door when I came home from
work. Usually, I used the side door, because it was closer to the bus
stop. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;">There was another homeless person sitting on the front steps, leaning
against the wrought iron bannister as if they couldn’t prop themselves up,
their jean jacket pulled in tight. It wasn’t that cold, although this
late in the afternoon, any warmth in the day was beginning to fade.</span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I swung around the homeless person’s worn boots, and up the steps, digging out
my key.</span></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Mom?” The voice wavered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I whirled, my heart rate climbing, to face the woman rising from the
steps, a denial on my lips. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Blue, short, spiky hair. A nose ring. Black eye makeup that
had run…or that she had been wearing for too many days. The black looked
like bruises. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Ghaliya?” I asked, for the high cheekbones, narrow chin and high
forehead were hers. So were the blue eyes—even if they were blood shot.
The next question was right there, behind my teeth. What the hell
are you doing here?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Ghaliya pulled the jacket in around her once more. She’d lost
weight since the last time I’d seen her…two years, two months and five days ago.
And about thirty minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“The super said you’d be home around now,” Ghaliya said. She bent
and picked up a small black backpack that had been sitting under her knees and
straightened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Was it possible she’d got taller? She’d been an inch shorter than
me. I didn’t think she was shorter than me anymore, and I am nearly
always the tallest woman in the room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I didn’t ask why she was here. That was obvious. She needed
help. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I hefted my keys instead. “You’d better come in.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
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<!--[endif]--><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiC8-L9RDYb81UZLghpCf0iQXOpjNtyPTmukc2dVqpwizIsqSr7Wk574y9v23HApxmPu_3NBdDZR9FfGMhOR_onqcl6mWSDouBmsMloLSDZqsJHp_aGugLJ0ihzWS8a7W0cmDb01diReFCYL9fnqg-7usjvcNBhLRBdKBLdbRisT1fHQ5udT3BHWdKj9w/s520/Tracy%20Snow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="395" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiC8-L9RDYb81UZLghpCf0iQXOpjNtyPTmukc2dVqpwizIsqSr7Wk574y9v23HApxmPu_3NBdDZR9FfGMhOR_onqcl6mWSDouBmsMloLSDZqsJHp_aGugLJ0ihzWS8a7W0cmDb01diReFCYL9fnqg-7usjvcNBhLRBdKBLdbRisT1fHQ5udT3BHWdKj9w/w152-h200/Tracy%20Snow.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" width="152" /></a></div>About the Author:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tracy Cooper-Posey is the author of the popular Once and Future Hearts historical fantasy romance series, among others. She writes romantic suspense, historical, paranormal, fantasy and science fiction romance, plus women’s fiction. She also writes under the pen names of Cameron Cooper (science fiction) and Taylen Carver (fantasy). She has published over 200 titles since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, an SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 and came fourth in Hugh Howey’s SPSFC#2 in 2023. She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Website: <a href="https://TracyCooperPosey.com">https://TracyCooperPosey.com</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kobo: <a href="https://shorturl.at/eIV48">https://shorturl.at/eIV48</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">iTunes: <a href="https://shorturl.at/jlxAG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shorturl.at/jlxAG </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Barnes and Noble: <a href="https://shorturl.at/fhsu7">https://shorturl.at/fhsu7</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Google Books: <a href="https://shorturl.at/amGM1 " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shorturl.at/amGM1 </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pinterest: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/cooperposey/">http://www.pinterest.com/cooperposey/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Amazon: <a href="http://amazon.com/author/tracycooperposey">http://amazon.com/author/tracycooperposey</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bookbub: <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/tracy-cooper-posey">https://www.bookbub.com/profile/tracy-cooper-posey</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Facebook Fiction Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TracyCooperPosey">https://www.facebook.com/TracyCooperPosey</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Facebook Readers' Hangout: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCPHangout/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/TCPHangout/</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/184679.Tracy_Cooper_Posey">www.goodreads.com/author/show/184679.Tracy_Cooper_Posey</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBwalmaokvGulCjZdHMM0nxuV4ef0KxH3eCfluTZ0-Mq2zgQDDwTMJR7Z6ef417hlTxnDV-KmE62lj5HfMSCJhucbgGnn24xxq1U1gtY-DRU1CohbwBUd7Zp-VQKXkZwBBia7WtKEjkC4QzI7uCMETg3wpZOAPCwDVxJfZ39WqhfcIsugqK3_EvtGVS5C/s1080/Crossroads%20Magic%20Instagram%20Post.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBwalmaokvGulCjZdHMM0nxuV4ef0KxH3eCfluTZ0-Mq2zgQDDwTMJR7Z6ef417hlTxnDV-KmE62lj5HfMSCJhucbgGnn24xxq1U1gtY-DRU1CohbwBUd7Zp-VQKXkZwBBia7WtKEjkC4QzI7uCMETg3wpZOAPCwDVxJfZ39WqhfcIsugqK3_EvtGVS5C/s320/Crossroads%20Magic%20Instagram%20Post.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>
Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-6575212320016396392024-03-21T14:00:00.000-07:002024-03-23T03:40:12.855-07:00The Other Murder by Kevin G. Chapman<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/the-other-murder-banner_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="The Other Murder by Kevin G. Chapman Genre: Mystery, Suspense" border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="800" height="238" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/the-other-murder-banner_orig.png" title="The Other Murder by Kevin G. Chapman Genre: Mystery, Suspense" width="640" /></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes,
the most dangerous thing . . . is the truth. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
Other Murder</b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">by
Kevin G. Chapman</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Genre:
Mystery, Suspense </span></span>
</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/theothermurder-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="98" data-original-width="504" height="62" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/theothermurder-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i><b>A
sleek, gripping thriller that raises important questions about truth
and justice.” ~Kirkus Reviews </b></i></span></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b>FINALIST
-- 2023 CLUE AWARD </b></span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sometimes,
the most dangerous thing . . . is the truth.</b></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/the-other-murder-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Other Murder by Kevin G. Chapman Genre: Mystery, Suspense" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/the-other-murder-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="The Other Murder by Kevin G. Chapman Genre: Mystery, Suspense" width="323" /></a></span></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>For
disgraced cable news producer Hannah Hawthorne, covering the shooting
of a pretty NYU sophomore is a chance for redemption. When the story
snowballs into a media circus, Hannah’s reporting fans the
sensationalistic flames and earns her acclaim. The tragic murder,
seemingly the result of random urban gun violence, prompts protests
and vigils that further magnify the story.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Meanwhile,
Paulo, a reporter for a small online neighbourhood newspaper, is
following the other murder in Washington Square Park that same night
– a Hispanic teen. He discovers an unexpected connection that is
political dynamite. When Hannah and Paulo team up, they uncover
disturbing facts, leading them to question everything they thought
they knew. Their reporting also leads them to the man who might be
the killer.</span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>When the story is ready to explode, the truth may be
hotter than anyone can handle. Breaking the next scoop could ruin
Paulo’s paper and wreck Hannah’s career – and it could get them
both killed.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>If you like David Baldacci's page-turners,
Michael Connelly’s cops, and Sara Paretsky’s quirky characters,
you will love The Other Murder.</span></div></span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>What
readers are saying:</b></u></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.07in; margin-right: 0.08in; orphans: 0; text-align: justify; widows: 0;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>With
intelligent characters and believable dialogue, Chapman has managed
to create a riveting whodunit that also speaks volumes about social
issues plaguing the justice system. . . . The social issues are
skillfully woven into the narrative, making readers seriously
consider these problems<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>even<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>when<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>they’re<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>immersed<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>conversations<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>possible<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>snitches<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>chaos<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>climactic<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>shooting<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">
</span>scenes.” </span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.43in;">~</b><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.43in;"><b>Kirkus
Reviews</b></i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.07in; margin-right: 0.08in; orphans: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.43in; widows: 0;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-indent: -0.5in;"><span>"Haunting,
chilling, and heroic . . . a must-read novel." </span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">~Chanticleer
Book Review </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.07in; margin-right: 0.08in; orphans: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.43in; widows: 0;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">(5-star "Best Book") </b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Chapman
once again knocks it out of the park.” “The author did a superb
job of developing all the essential players.” </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">~</span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Feathered
Quill Book Reviews</b></i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Chapman's
attention to building a fast-paced story filled with satisfyingly
unpredictable twists and turns creates a memorable, compelling saga.</span><span color="#">
. . .</span><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Worthy
of a top recommendation.” </span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">~Midwest </b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Book Review</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>The
Other Murder</i> will grip you from the start and keep you reading
through all the twists and turns until the surprising end.” </span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">~ReadorRot.com</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Magnificent.”
“An excellent story, it is a must-read for
mystery-suspense/thriller lovers!” </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">~InD’Tale
Magazine</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>The
story is a mystery that kept me involved as the different pieces of
the whole story came to light. But there is also a side story that
sent my thoughts off on tangents, pondering the press, what we can
and should expect from them. Chapman’s story ought to get us all
thinking.”</span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span></span></span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">~Big
Al, Big Al’s Books & Pals (5-stars)</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>The
writing is gorgeous, the narrative is filled with realism and
mystery, and the action moves in unexpected directions.” </span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">~The
Book Commentary (5-stars)</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Absolutely
chilling. It's a gripping and harrowing storyline! A great story to
follow and try to figure out what will happen next. This is one of
those books that grabs you from the start and pulls you in.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span><b><span style="background: rgb(); font-size: medium;"> ~Amy’s
Bookshelf Reviews (5-stars)</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>A
captivating story with a thought-provoking</span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: rgb(); line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span> premise.” </span></span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.5in;">~Bookpleasures.com</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fans
of a ‘whodunit?’ mystery will love trying to piece together this
mystery. . . . With its suspense, mystery, and twists, this book is a
must-read.” </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b>~
</b></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b><a href="https://reedsy.com/discovery/user/georgialyonhyde">Georgia
Lyonhyde</a> for Reedsy Discovery</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Kevin
G. Chapman is an attorney specializing in labour and employment law.
In 2021, Kevin finished the first five books in the Mike Stoneman
Thriller series: </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Righteous
Assassin (CLUE Award </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>finalist),
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Deadly
Enterprise</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
(Kindle Book Award semi-finalist), </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Lethal
Voyage</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>,
(</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b>Winner
of the 2021 Kindle Book Award, </b></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>CLUE
finalist, RONE finalist), </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Fatal
Infraction</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
(</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b>Best
Police Procedural of the year – CLUE Award),</b></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
and </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Perilous
Gambit</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>.
In late 2022, Kevin published a stand-alone mystery/thriller titled
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Dead
Winner </i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>(</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b>CLUE
Award - Best Suspense/Thriller of the Year)</b></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>.
Kevin is a resident of Central New Jersey and is a graduate of
Columbia College and Boston University School of Law. Readers can
contact Kevin via his website at </span></span><span><u><a href="http://www.KevinGChapman.com/"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>www.KevinGChapman.com</span></span></span></a></u></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>.</span></span></span></p>
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Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-70629544457183062872024-03-19T20:59:00.000-07:002024-03-19T20:59:00.136-07:00THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan <p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwYGfEblrySIARhBicdladfaVxsEAXVXJxqpVcziB6IWU4uFyh_R0121g2jypPhWsbJ5J4KOG2m7lJDjxgRIWys_0aE64e3TnFJUAL3MamcMR-D3btZl40YLaJutUe4S_zQPT8aNoA24ilp23btFedGQA8EfZxpb5S9fX7pnTsld4gBFO7nI4T9pLKuM/s1200/Sophia-Freeman-animated.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwYGfEblrySIARhBicdladfaVxsEAXVXJxqpVcziB6IWU4uFyh_R0121g2jypPhWsbJ5J4KOG2m7lJDjxgRIWys_0aE64e3TnFJUAL3MamcMR-D3btZl40YLaJutUe4S_zQPT8aNoA24ilp23btFedGQA8EfZxpb5S9fX7pnTsld4gBFO7nI4T9pLKuM/w640-h358/Sophia-Freeman-animated.gif" title="THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES</span></b></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">by T.X. Troan</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: Middle-Grade Fantasy Mystery</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmhsJztSAV0G05A9RMoeTLTGsJRjDrmI2ED476yCfrVlyFEQb_D-f51vxWpVTrRgC5w3KTLG5tvKp53_kGqSpElC22J6XDYEmyDXg3H3CZE4_tJQLeYFclqgxWunlB6f91b_l3uYjEeCOqdsE1Tjnwbu-PjbUeWNAaFt9MBG5K12EP1g-ujfe9s5o-Sgg/s1200/1Book%20Cover_%20Sophia%20Freeman%20series.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmhsJztSAV0G05A9RMoeTLTGsJRjDrmI2ED476yCfrVlyFEQb_D-f51vxWpVTrRgC5w3KTLG5tvKp53_kGqSpElC22J6XDYEmyDXg3H3CZE4_tJQLeYFclqgxWunlB6f91b_l3uYjEeCOqdsE1Tjnwbu-PjbUeWNAaFt9MBG5K12EP1g-ujfe9s5o-Sgg/w213-h320/1Book%20Cover_%20Sophia%20Freeman%20series.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">What
begins as a special trip for eleven-year-old SOPHIA FREEMAN and her billionaire
father, leaves her trapped on a mysterious island with a tree boy and other
fantastical creatures.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The
moment Sophia thinks her situation can’t get any crazier, she is shocked to
learn the island is under a deadly eternal curse. All living things are rapidly
decaying and soon nothing and no one—including herself—will be left alive.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">From
competing in a three-round yearly held competition to reviving a long-lost
magical spell, Sophia and her new companions must gather every ounce of
courage, wit and skill as they step closer to breaking the 150-year-old
curse. But will they make it in time while surrounded by enemies and traitors
aiming to stop them at any cost?</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEjSkHMYVc8IMe3Vc9YsYjjQ7nuMCKTCya1xRVXBR_ys4RpDPSPJQmgmdUS650kDF7iobM_RBDh7Ww11VjBZUx8_kx0v_aLv2p_YxOpkU4nbOdsZ2xoPHBaYtAAMtLknqsFpctzjjx5f_d55ji7fIs0ByobWwfCj3TVVwV6jrUWjY0QcRfw-DshumFiAk/s2704/Sophia-Freeman-series-covers%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="2704" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEjSkHMYVc8IMe3Vc9YsYjjQ7nuMCKTCya1xRVXBR_ys4RpDPSPJQmgmdUS650kDF7iobM_RBDh7Ww11VjBZUx8_kx0v_aLv2p_YxOpkU4nbOdsZ2xoPHBaYtAAMtLknqsFpctzjjx5f_d55ji7fIs0ByobWwfCj3TVVwV6jrUWjY0QcRfw-DshumFiAk/w640-h236/Sophia-Freeman-series-covers%20(1).jpg" title="THE SOPHIA FREEMAN SERIES by T.X. Troan" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“So, what’s
on your agenda today, my dear?” Grandma asked.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Dad and I
are going to explore his new island after this,” she replied, sitting on the
edge of her seat.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Oh, yes,
your father told me about that on the phone last night,” said Grandpa, then
gave Sophia a serious look. “My girl, do you know why all the previous owners
vanished?”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Sophia shook
her head slightly but kept watching him without blinking.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">“Rumors say
the place possesses some sort of magical energy. As dusk arrives, the island
comes to life: boulders begin to quake, monstrous trees uproot themselves, and
mysterious creatures crawl out of their homes. They will do<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">anything to
protect their island … especially from humans.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Sophia’s eyes
widened and her hands began to sweat.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Joe, that’s
enough!” Dad ordered. “You’re scaring her.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“That was
very mean of you, Joe,” Grandma added.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Grandpa
chuckled. “Well, it looks like I haven’t lost my touch. You’re still that
innocent girl that I used to know.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Sophia sighed
with relief. He must have been teasing.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">When she was
a lot younger, Grandpa used to tell her ghost stories and it would frighten her
every time. The all-time best story was about an invisible spirit that watches
us from behind since the day we were born. It would one day transfer our soul
to a magical place when<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">we are ready
to go. He told the little girl it was time for him to go and would never
return. She burst into tears and tried to convince him it wasn’t time yet. She
stayed with him that whole night and never let him out of her sight.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 107%;">Stories
from Start to Finish</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 107%;">For each book, I started out by brainstorming
the storyline and characters. I would do sketches and notes on the characters,
trying to figure out their purposes, look and feel, and how they will grow
throughout each book. Once I am confident with the story, it would go through
months of detail plotting, writing and multiple revisions. The manuscript would
then be sent off to my wonderful editor and I would start the illustration
process. After the manuscript gets the approval and all illustrations are completed,
book formatting would be the next step. Once that part is done, it’s test print
time! The most fulfilling moment is when you get to hold all your hard work in
your hands for the first time. When I am satisfied with the hard copy, it will
go out for publishing.</span><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", "sans-serif""> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">AUTHOR Bio and Links:</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqxW3YBxuYRaIlw3sk_Ej70kMXYLkgoQgGOSU2mhZwhoVMbIv6dzRJ7tEt9ecrzioKmGjRwQemDbiDUHlqZt0d5dUIoFxbYHyyiDbBsLSkAbQwaFgPAsFJpVisUOgTDbT5iMJg68XBPrBQx8iiNk6d8tyFxMKGwJf4jOuB2j0Sp7qCe13xIAqhJkaR4ZA/s801/author%20pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="801" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqxW3YBxuYRaIlw3sk_Ej70kMXYLkgoQgGOSU2mhZwhoVMbIv6dzRJ7tEt9ecrzioKmGjRwQemDbiDUHlqZt0d5dUIoFxbYHyyiDbBsLSkAbQwaFgPAsFJpVisUOgTDbT5iMJg68XBPrBQx8iiNk6d8tyFxMKGwJf4jOuB2j0Sp7qCe13xIAqhJkaR4ZA/w250-h188/author%20pic.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" width="250" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Thuan Doan is an award-winning author of the Sophia Freeman
series. He conceived his first middle-grade fantasy novel, Sophia Freeman and
the Mysterious Fountain, during a trip to Gabriola Island, British Columbia in
the summer of 2013. Then he took his work and settled in a small town of
Enderby, where it’s peaceful and quiet.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Thuan is writing under the pen name of T.X. Troan. “X” stands for
Xu, his grandmother’s name who passed away. And “Troan” is a combination of his
parents' names.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“No matter how this turns out, I want my family to be a part of
this wonderful journey.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">T.X. Troan married Sarah, his original fan and longtime love, in
2016. They live in Enderby with their pack dogs!</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="www.txtroan.com " target="_blank">Author Website: </a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><a href=" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B5M559C1 " target="_blank"><b>Amazon:</b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href=" https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/t.x.%20troan " target="_blank">Barnes & Noble:</a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sophia-Freeman-Sophia-Freeman-and-the-Mysterious-Fountain-Book-1-Series-1-Paperback-9781999481308/820434750 " target="_blank"><b>Walmart: </b></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Social Media:</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></b></p>
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Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-81486694558986070652024-03-19T20:36:00.000-07:002024-03-19T20:36:00.132-07:00GREYSTONE by Betty<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2024/02/book-blast-greystone-by-b-l-ryan.html" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="GREYSTONE by Betty" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKauh-Gxaz1z5we31YQHTzwxI2OL_0h2yrn3vbommv5NHKP0eQapFYohkoswpqOnoep44kSAkl1PNkkWEidg5azn38upixhx_1-78UHU0jFn3cpseB7OiRlPeYYm2gxxnT7NeR63Uwsme0yDTg4LvhsKsUxwc6Qs3Qe4TYZMp2Xy0NpsxBtQtWkH2Czcg/w640-h357/TourBanner_Greystone.gif" title="GREYSTONE by Betty" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by <a href="http://www.goddessfish.com">Goddess Fish Promotions</a>. B L Ryan will award a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.</div>
</span><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAHzUYtBu6PGF7TF5_gNoerZv0rznOZGXnxwdHauMsCQmc6ZhM_Jkc-2gi3s5dIl-gSsS3Bboqf3EFszmD79F4wsBaRTn0SJUx7JXr4-SNSEuEqktAIETiI8G4E7efZTNHfgJTdrSHyqn1_cevHfFPR1EJDTPxy7Tx6uw_VxrCeO3CFEnXYWse_i7VKg/s2700/BookCover_Greystone.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="GREYSTONE by Betty" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1796" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAHzUYtBu6PGF7TF5_gNoerZv0rznOZGXnxwdHauMsCQmc6ZhM_Jkc-2gi3s5dIl-gSsS3Bboqf3EFszmD79F4wsBaRTn0SJUx7JXr4-SNSEuEqktAIETiI8G4E7efZTNHfgJTdrSHyqn1_cevHfFPR1EJDTPxy7Tx6uw_VxrCeO3CFEnXYWse_i7VKg/w213-h320/BookCover_Greystone.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"title="GREYSTONE by Betty" width="213" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">All Mouse could remember about her father was sitting on his lap while he told her stories. She wished she could remember what he looked like. When she hangs a white pendant that belonged to her father in her bedroom window, this wish becomes the key to great adventure in another world. A gate appears with a dragon twirling in the air above a colourful garden on the other side of the gate. Zeeta, the royal dragon, greets Mouse and invites her into the garden. The garden is part of Sweet Water holding, home to Lady Jane, who is the seer for Prince Ruler Jared.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As Mouse and Zeeta struggle to complete a quest, Mouse searches for her father. Their journey takes them across the plains of Norlanda and south to the Border Mountains.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The seers have foretold that a far traveller will appear and lead Norlanda against its enemies. This does not seem likely, as Norlanda is prosperous and peaceful at this time. Meanwhile, dark forces gathered in the Border Mountains have recognized the presence of Mouse in the lines of destiny and have started to move towards her.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How will the presence of a child, a far traveller from another world, affect the destiny of this world?</div></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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King Henry regarded Jared impatiently.<br /><br />
“It has come to my attention that you and members of the Royal Guard have taken up with all manner of disreputable people. I have been told that you visit mead houses and the common rooms of guild holdings throughout Greystone City.”<br /><br />
“The Royal Guard are not responsible,” said Jared. <br /><br />
“No, they are not!” His father slammed his hand on the table. <br /><br />
The King’s scribe, sitting in the corner, jerked and dropped one of his ink brushes. It fell off the desk and rolled across the floor. He knelt and picked it up quietly.<br /><br />
“I had hoped Captain Hawke would subdue your more eccentric tastes in companions!”<br /><br />
“Are not the common folk my people?” Jared asked. “That is not the issue,” said the King, his voice rising with irritation. <br /><br />
“You disappear with Zeeta for days at a time. It is time you acted as the future King of Norlanda.”<br /><br />
“Father, how else can I know this Kingdom and its people?”<br /><br />
“An excellent sentiment!” the King said. He pressed both hands on the table and leaned forward. “A grand tour would give you a chance to meet some of your other loyal subjects as well as suitable maidens.”<br /><br />
Jared’s jaw tightened; his grey eyes narrowed. “I would meet only the maidens the Council deemed suitable,” he returned shortly. <br /><br />
The King glared at him. “You have a life of great privilege and responsibility. By the grace of the Etu, your life belongs to this land and its people.”<br /><br />
“By the grace of the Etu, I would not ask for such a life,” his son returned tersely.<br /><br />
The King signalled the scribe to leave the room and came around the table to stand by his son. He tried to speak reasonably. It had been a long day. He was not feeling well, and he knew his temper was not helping. He placed a hand on his son’s shoulder.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author: </b>Born in Saskatchewan, Betty has lived in several areas across Canada, from Ottawa to Vancouver Island while growing up. Her fondest memory as a child is of her father building a tent trailer and her mother sewing yards and yards of canvas for the tent. The family travelled across Canada and down the eastern seaboard of the United States for several summer vacations.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Betty worked as a drawing office assistant in Oxford, England, for almost two years before returning to Canada to work as a topographical clerk in Edmonton, Alberta. She pursued a BSc. in Agriculture with a major in Horticulture from the University of Alberta. While raising her children, Betty worked as an Office Manager for a non-profit society and took writing courses at night school and from the Institute of Children's Literature, Connecticut.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The garden has always been a source of inspiration and joy for Betty, as are all the beloved cats and dogs who have walked into her life. Betty believes stories are the foundation of our life. The stories we enjoy, the stories we tell ourselves, our children and others, reflect how we view the world around us. She enjoys writing fantasy for the youth genre because she feels there is still so much of the wonder of life, and the attitude that anything is possible, from this age group.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Greystone is her first novel. She is currently working on the sequel, Greystone: A New Beginning.</div><br />
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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by <a href="http://www.goddessfish.com">Goddess Fish Promotions</a>. The author will award a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.<br /></span><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdsgGr6earjTofG6SFh40Ys6qgDaAvEN6RuIa9IX2KjyR0NdEpCaChiD81CeVOWJ3u4Wn-om_N2eBZdI3ISDOWNmnIaKneI8PYRHvi6Czrf5VbgkRqv_ccG46jtLeQuYC2kXWQnY_gXi_BvK4sxXcb-ClEyKYsWaBYhJjqXWVLp3YTBpjjk8zQy8jsNTg/s2752/BookCover%20In%20All%20Things%20%20God%27s%20Providence.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="IN ALL THINGS by Dr. John Neufeld" border="0" data-original-height="2752" data-original-width="1824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdsgGr6earjTofG6SFh40Ys6qgDaAvEN6RuIa9IX2KjyR0NdEpCaChiD81CeVOWJ3u4Wn-om_N2eBZdI3ISDOWNmnIaKneI8PYRHvi6Czrf5VbgkRqv_ccG46jtLeQuYC2kXWQnY_gXi_BvK4sxXcb-ClEyKYsWaBYhJjqXWVLp3YTBpjjk8zQy8jsNTg/w212-h320/BookCover%20In%20All%20Things%20%20God's%20Providence.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="IN ALL THINGS by Dr. John Neufeld" width="212" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The issue of control is a central question of life. At work, in family, community clubs and schools, with the economy or international politics, the question is, "Is anyone in charge here?" Dr. John Neufeld demonstrates the Bible teaching of God's providence. We are assured that God's Hand is upon everything and everyone, without exception. Dr. John explores God's sustaining grip through the natural world and human endeavor, in pivotal matters or the seemingly trivial, the things we welcome and those we shun. He teaches the impact of God's sovereign rule upon our hearts, minds, work, worship, homes, and nation. We can live in the confidence that God is unfolding His purpose for time and eternity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What people are saying about Dr. John Neufeld's teaching:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This is such an important message for us today. Thank you, Dr. John, for your encouragement to view what is presently concerning us in the world from the perspective of God and His providence. That should take a huge weight off our shoulders!"</div></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Read an Excerpt</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Creator is involved both in the world and in our lives, every moment of every day. How foolish when we only see His hand in miracles, for His hand is always around us. God speaks in creation and directs the properties of every created thing, both living and non-living. He not only causes them to exist and is responsible for their existence, but He also gives purpose to all. Yes, it really is true that all things are caused by God, for the purpose of His glory!</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author: </b>Dr. John Neufeld, Bible teacher of Back to the Bible Canada, is well known both nationally and internationally for his excellence in expositional Bible teaching. Dr. Neufeld is passionate about bringing the truth of God's Word to life across Canada and beyond.</div>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Ann Swann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: Romance</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJ9Sz_VFhEPtlLuc4irF9s3TZgAnYu6Sfry8nKbOkvDdNkbyyPvIuxVLtMqARvg3LBMu9wAqCLc6BUNo-j_wu-eQoUstsG_rJOh_7-UAW5vYABf8fMepKMYDT3ll1q5jh0Qj-FRMO85UAvPa2GpxuU9ypnh9btzS5OEGL1Us8pUKNxzj4jNWafQvTGeI/s2700/BookCover_ATraceofRomanceEbookCoverUse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A TRACE OF ROMANCE Ann Swann ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Romance" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJ9Sz_VFhEPtlLuc4irF9s3TZgAnYu6Sfry8nKbOkvDdNkbyyPvIuxVLtMqARvg3LBMu9wAqCLc6BUNo-j_wu-eQoUstsG_rJOh_7-UAW5vYABf8fMepKMYDT3ll1q5jh0Qj-FRMO85UAvPa2GpxuU9ypnh9btzS5OEGL1Us8pUKNxzj4jNWafQvTGeI/w213-h320/BookCover_ATraceofRomanceEbookCoverUse.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="A TRACE OF ROMANCE Ann Swann ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Romance" width="213" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Laynie
& Trace. On the first day of her new second-grade school year in tiny Beach
Way, Oregon, Laynie and Trace became fast friends. Through the years, their
friendship deepened into young love. They did everything together. Then tragedy
took the life of his beloved sister, and because of the circumstances of her
death, Trace felt compelled to move as far from Beach Way as possible. Laynie
was left behind, heartbroken, and alone. But she was no quitter. She picked
herself up and, with her family’s help, made a wonderful new life for herself.
She heard he’d done the same down in Texas. But now he was back, standing in her precious flower shop doorway, taking up all the space the same way
he’d always done. Her Trace, larger than life. What was he doing here, after
all this time?</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">As he clasped
her to his chest, the steady beat of Trace’s big heart finally began to calm
her. It thumped strong and solid, just the way she remembered.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">They stood
that way, her cheek to his chest, for aeons—or at least a split second—until she
finally gained a measure of control and pushed herself lightly away. “I still
can’t believe it’s you.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“I’m an
idiot,” he said. “I’ve missed you. All these years—”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“No,” Laynie
shook her head. “Don’t say that.” She cleared the stupid tears collecting in
the back of her throat and managed to get herself around the end of the counter
so that it was physically between them.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Trace ducked
his head and rubbed the edge of his thumb along the corner of his mouth, a
small gesture she knew well, which meant he was contemplating what to say
next. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Keeping
herself carefully out of his reach, Laynie said, “I’m closing up now.” She
pulled the door open, surprised as a big gust of cold air shivered its way
inside, setting the red bubble hearts away.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">She aimed her
key fob at the Jeep and started the engine. Opening the shop door hadn’t been
necessary, but her mind was scattered, running on instinct.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">She needed
him to go, but she wanted him to stay. Wanted him to somehow turn back time.
Turn back the years to the Trace he’d been before the tragedy that had changed
all their lives. Back to the Trace she’d loved and lost.</span></p>
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sometimes-crazy world. Most of the time, it even keeps her sane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">by Fatemah Mirza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: NonFiction</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlBQmOsF5beeDo1ny7BlzEH9xzq3QAfBBWne9CsKlOQxaM5AB-7EoCrRSSrl7rYfUWxzOqUurGPWDQYDlepK0v_0BQv_tSosfpP6Gy_jpmcjjK3UrHeQiMRltaepZ7YMhep3t0OCGmXdJjhWUJxfbDa3_dUpotOps4BA4MYGF2s5yCzqAeHuyOA3gHeg/s1000/BookCover_My-Career-Journal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="MY CAREER JOURNAL by Fatemah Mirza ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: NonFiction" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="707" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlBQmOsF5beeDo1ny7BlzEH9xzq3QAfBBWne9CsKlOQxaM5AB-7EoCrRSSrl7rYfUWxzOqUurGPWDQYDlepK0v_0BQv_tSosfpP6Gy_jpmcjjK3UrHeQiMRltaepZ7YMhep3t0OCGmXdJjhWUJxfbDa3_dUpotOps4BA4MYGF2s5yCzqAeHuyOA3gHeg/w226-h320/BookCover_My-Career-Journal.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="MY CAREER JOURNAL by Fatemah Mirza ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: NonFiction" width="226" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are
you seeking to enhance your career and significantly increase your salary? 'My
Career Journal' by CareerTuners is your guide to achieving these goals. This practical
workbook, enriched with insights from my 13+ years as a career and salary
coach, is tailored for individuals at any career stage - whether you are just
starting or looking to make major changes.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">In
'My Career Journal', you will:</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
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Set clear, achievable career goals with defined weekly, monthly, and quarterly
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Track and record your accomplishments, laying the groundwork for salary
negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Build and refine a professional portfolio that showcases your strengths and
achievements.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The
strategies in this workbook have been refined through my extensive experience
and continual input from over 3,000 recruiter partners. This is how I have
empowered marketing leaders to approach their promotion plans with renewed
vigour.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
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Who aspire to align their career success with making a meaningful difference in
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drives your career success and be equipped to double your salary through
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">AUTHOR Bio and Links:</span></b></span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfF-avHocIF6wHOvBTfZopjY0j4hccPs_8TPXmDDFU2cn_p0UdNHDXs6wUYQAIx2RpEeW3ShMlHG0XVB0OhiWcG1IXb1SpmfEm-kZe8VcH0XCGjKSZYNfHO5yChGkAqj_0sz4KcZw-iKxoWlOwY8ktJQmuQH3-HwKsOM_4cbqY1gS3CorzeooRsaQZHg/s2048/author%20image%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="MY CAREER JOURNAL by Fatemah Mirza ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: NonFiction" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfF-avHocIF6wHOvBTfZopjY0j4hccPs_8TPXmDDFU2cn_p0UdNHDXs6wUYQAIx2RpEeW3ShMlHG0XVB0OhiWcG1IXb1SpmfEm-kZe8VcH0XCGjKSZYNfHO5yChGkAqj_0sz4KcZw-iKxoWlOwY8ktJQmuQH3-HwKsOM_4cbqY1gS3CorzeooRsaQZHg/w291-h291/author%20image%20(1).jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="MY CAREER JOURNAL by Fatemah Mirza ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: NonFiction" width="291" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Fatemah Mirza is a Certified Resume Master and a highly
sought-after speaker and coach who helps ambitious job seekers find
higher-paying, more fulfilling jobs. She’s been helping job seekers since 2010
when she founded CareerTuners, which is a small team of skilled professionals
from various industries who specialize in providing professional resumes, cover
letters, LinkedIn profiles, and many more career-related services to help
ambitious people land their dream jobs and achieve career goals. She has created
free resources that have seen more than 160,000 downloads, helped hundreds of
clients increase their pay, and built a network of more than 3000 recruiters.</div></span><p></p>
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brothers fight the monsters who killed their family and uncover a
dark secret that could destroy a kingdom.</span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
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Darkhurst Novel Book 3</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>by
Gail Z. Martin </span></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Genre:
Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure </span></span>
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Undertaker
brothers fight the monsters who killed their family and uncover a
dark secret that could destroy a kingdom.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/3-reckoning-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Reckoning A Darkhurst Novel Book 3 by Gail Z. Martin Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/3-reckoning-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Reckoning A Darkhurst Novel Book 3 by Gail Z. Martin Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure" width="323" /></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When Corran, Rigan, and their
friends became outlaw monster hunters and fled beyond the walls of
Ravenwood City, they thought they had defeated the source of the
abominations that killed so many of their friends and loved ones. But
the more successful they become at destroying the creatures, the more
they realize that greater evil is at work—larger and more
terrifying than they ever imagined.</span></div><p></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The city-state of Ravenwood is
wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Ambitious and ruthless leaders use
betrayal and assassination to gain their ends. Blood magic conjures
monsters to further the goals of the ruling class and stolen power
is paid for by the deaths of commoners. But now the magic extracts
too high a toll, merchant princes scheme against each other,
smugglers and pirates threaten the trade that holds the kingdom
together, and old alliances shatter. Darkhurst’s wastrel king seems
ill-suited to stop the collapse of the merchant league and the
kingdom itself.</span></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When fanatic priests begin a
reign of terror to summon ravenous beings and cause the unmaking of
the world, Corran, Rigan, and their friends face an impossible task.
They must bind the monstrous First Being, stop the priests from
bringing about their blood-soaked reckoning, and put a king on the
throne that will end the cull forever. The price of failure is the
destruction of Darkhurst and the world itself.</span></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reckoning is the fast-paced,
action-packed conclusion to a monster-filled fantasy adventure with
non-stop twists and turns, loyal brothers, found family, forbidden
magic, vengeful ghosts, high-stakes intrigue, and dangerous secrets
set in a vibrantly visualized world.</span></p>
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Vengeance</b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
Darkhurst Novel Book 2</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/darkhurstseries-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="505" height="80" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/darkhurstseries-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/2-vengeance-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Reckoning A Darkhurst Novel Book 3 by Gail Z. Martin Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/2-vengeance-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Reckoning A Darkhurst Novel Book 3 by Gail Z. Martin Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure" width="323" /></a></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fighting
the monsters that killed their family and friends cost undertaker
brothers Corran and Rigan Valmonde their home and livelihood and made
them want men—but the worst is yet to come.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The
city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant
Princes and Guild Masters wager fortune to outmanoeuvre League rivals
for the king’s favour and the best trading terms. Ambitious and
ruthless leaders use betrayal and assassination to gain their ends.
Blood magic conjures monsters to further the goals of the ruling
class, and the price of stolen power is paid for by the deaths of
commoners. Now, the fate of Ravenwood hangs in the balance as rival
city-states manoeuvre to gain an advantage.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Corran Rigan and their friends became outlaw monster hunters and fled beyond
the walls of Ravenwood City, they thought they had defeated the
source of the abominations that killed so many of their friends and
loved ones. But the more successful they become at destroying the
creatures, the more they realize a greater evil is at work – larger
and more monstrous than they ever could imagine…</div></span></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b>Scourge
</b></span></span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
Darkhurst Novel Book 1</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/darkhurstseries-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="505" height="80" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/darkhurstseries-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="border: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; padding: 0in;">
<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Three
undertaker brothers fight the monsters who killed their family—and
uncover a plot larger and far more dangerous than they ever imagined.</b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Reckoning A Darkhurst Novel Book 3 by Gail Z. Martin Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/1-scourge-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Reckoning A Darkhurst Novel Book 3 by Gail Z. Martin Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure" width="323" /></span>
<p style="border: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
a city beset by monsters, three brothers must find out who controls the abominations. The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy,
powerful, and corrupt. Merchant princes and guild masters wager
fortunes to outmanoeuvre League rivals for the king’s favour and
advantageous trading terms. Lord Mayor Ellor Machison wields
assassins, blood witches, and forbidden magic to ensure his
powerful patrons get what they want, no matter the cost.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="border: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Corran,
Rigan, and Kell Valmonde are guild undertakers left to run their
family’s business when guards murder their father and monsters
kill their mother. Their grave magic enables them to help souls
pass to the After and banish vengeful spirits. Rigan’s magic is
powerful and enables him to hear the confessions of the dead,
the secrets that would otherwise be taken to the grave.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="border: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
the toll exacted by monsters and brutal guards hits close to home,
and ghosts expose the hidden sins of powerful men, Corran, Rigan, and
Kell become targets in a deadly game and face a choice: obey the
guild or fight back and risk everything.</span></span></span></p>
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<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Scourge
is a fast-paced, action-packed, monster-filled fantasy adventure with
non-stop twists and turns, loyal brothers, found family, forbidden
magic, vengeful ghosts, high-stakes intrigue, and dangerous secrets
set in a vibrantly visualized world.</span></span></span></p>
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<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gail
Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy, steampunk and more for
Solaris Books, Orbit Books, Falstaff Books, SOL Publishing and
Darkwind Press. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and
the Night Vigil (Sons of Darkness). Epic fantasy series include
Darkhurst, the Chronicles Of The Necromancer, the Fallen Kings Cycle,
the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and the Assassins of Landria.</span></span></span></p>
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<span color="#"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Together
with Larry N. Martin, she is the co-author of Iron & Blood, Storm
& Fury (both Steampunk/alternate history), the Spells Salt and
Steel comedic horror series, the Roaring Twenties monster hunter Joe
Mack Shadow Council series, and the Wasteland Marshals near-future
post-apocalyptic series. As Morgan Brice, she writes urban fantasy MM
paranormal romance, with the Witchbane, Badlands, Treasure Trail,
Kings of the Mountain and Fox Hollow series. Gail is also a
con-runner for ConTinual, the online, ongoing multi-genre convention
that never ends.</span></span></span></p>
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is a LO-EC, a human who gained superpowers as an unintended side effect of a
biotechnological breakthrough. Her unique abilities allowed her to survive
while others like her, including her parents, were exterminated by a world
government fearful of their potential.<span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">After
decades of hiding, she meets Naren, another superpowered survivor who has
infiltrated the ranks of the military. Together, they form a plan to unite with
other surviving LO-ECs, claim vengeance against the forces who murdered their
families, and ultimately stoke a worldwide rebellion against the government
that wanted them dead.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The
entirety of 26th-century Earth’s armed forces stand in their way: Soldiers
equipped with terrifying weaponry, armies with electromagnetic cannons,
merciless bloodthirsty androids, and Spidre, the World Leader with unnatural
abilities of his own. The world brought Sera and the other LO-ECs pain and
loss, and they’re determined to return it in kind.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">In the
basement of a skyscraper hundreds of stories high, a constant shaking and
groaning accompanied the cacophony of breaking glass and falling bricks from
the street above. A man and a woman had spent the night here, fearing those
sounds meant their building was on the verge of collapse. Finally, the sun rose
and the sounds gave way to stillness. The death of the noises gave life to new
fears, in that now the man and woman had to take action.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Are there
any sort of supplies on the cycles?” the man asked. He was bleary-eyed, his
face was flush, and even the simple task of standing up seemed to be a
struggle.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“I doubt it,”
the woman replied, her expression as beleaguered as his. “And you’re sure there
was nothing in these boxes?” she continued, glancing around the small storage
room.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The man shook
his head. “Just lots of cleaning supplies. And we can’t risk going back
upstairs,” he replied. “I can’t even hear the big one lumbering around, that
has to mean they’re searching another building. We need to move now. We’ll
worry about supplies after we get out of New Orleans, and after it feels safe.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The woman
nodded and walked over to one smaller pile of boxes. She pulled them away and
the room lit up in an orange glow. The boxes had been covering a young girl, no
more than six years old, whose skin had trails of orange light swirling across
her arms, legs, and face.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">“We need to
leave, sweetie. We’re going to find our cycles in the garage, Ok?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The little
girl nodded.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“Do you
remember that woman? Alison?” she asked the girl. “Do you remember where she
and her friends live?”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The little
girl nodded slowly, while the man’s face furrowed with scepticism.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“If anything
happens to us, you go straight to her. Do you understand?”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“She can’t go
to them!” the man exclaimed in an elevated whisper. “They’re a bunch of
fanatics!”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">“They are,
but they will keep her safe!” the woman responded</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Latency virtual book tour <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> About a
year ago, a journey down the YouTube rabbit hole led me to a channel called
Green Mountain Metal Detecting. As the name would suggest, the channel follows
the adventures of a metal detectorist named Brad as he explores the Green Mountains
in Vermont. Brad’s calming voice and gorgeous B-role footage made the videos
very soothing, but at the same time it was very exciting when he found
something unique or historical. Little did I know, watching that calm but interesting
video one year ago, that it would lead me to one of the craziest days of my
life.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> I found a
metal detector on sale at half price about a month ago, and jumped at the
chance to finally get into the hobby myself without making my wallet suffer. I
got my metal detecting permit from NYC’s Parks Department, and started
exploring the parks around my neighborhood. I found some interesting the
things, the coolest of which is the mercury dime pictured below. It was minted
in 1939. Back then dimes were made of 90% silver, so this dime is now worth
almost $3!<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaz1sYXXGUZXfcb1OZMM_Q9LIKbw0pw9bZ2x306SMco8dtfvYdYEJqK8csO8DzPNl-o7hmAiQ10VYAvKbYXCSn0Kvr0otsCeTUCzOjRffVXKCeAg-1p9AoZO_-dlUhcMcRZbfF6bccxOoNYvcZbo229DyYr2q-TECM7ga8wZb3OmbUBGYbP-75xUzEDWI/s706/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="706" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaz1sYXXGUZXfcb1OZMM_Q9LIKbw0pw9bZ2x306SMco8dtfvYdYEJqK8csO8DzPNl-o7hmAiQ10VYAvKbYXCSn0Kvr0otsCeTUCzOjRffVXKCeAg-1p9AoZO_-dlUhcMcRZbfF6bccxOoNYvcZbo229DyYr2q-TECM7ga8wZb3OmbUBGYbP-75xUzEDWI/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Today for this blog post, I thought
I’d go out to a new area and take you through the journey as I found things. I
thought that at best, I could end the post with another silver coin and that
would be epic. Let’s just say my expectations were shattered.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I had heard that there were ruins
of an old house in one part of the park, so I detected as I made my way there.
It was on that first leg of the walk that I found these:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz4CiFkYDETgWN_f1eQw_ADxhXaxFtXGC3ADoJ6QIwochOWpM__sdYpC7-hNMmkzkYqkvqNEima7MsWmRkBiFdrTyS-TAR8yEiDuWwWEpG89owLEjx-m-6SNbNLziC9_ZjFPhS4NrF0GBhJ_h2NyNRtCS_rz1Dh6Mta5DwtiuocM4GnhOVRTwjC0IDwA/s851/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="851" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz4CiFkYDETgWN_f1eQw_ADxhXaxFtXGC3ADoJ6QIwochOWpM__sdYpC7-hNMmkzkYqkvqNEima7MsWmRkBiFdrTyS-TAR8yEiDuWwWEpG89owLEjx-m-6SNbNLziC9_ZjFPhS4NrF0GBhJ_h2NyNRtCS_rz1Dh6Mta5DwtiuocM4GnhOVRTwjC0IDwA/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>On the left is a paint scraper, and
on the right is, according to Google, the tines of a rotary cultivator (the
spiky parts spin). Having never seen a rotary cultivator in my life I thought
it was a cool find, but it’s apparently modern, probably dropped by the Parks
Department at some point recently.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The next find was much closer to
the old house, and much older, but not particularly interesting:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> <span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4FYss03CvTAOT7ZFx631KoWWZ9zfeyd4Ro4KmoFUH_Krb9At6oynJ4JDU2ml-pZ0Njkc6r0BvGvSGOI_9qEY8lvSIQ_toJ3YUrQB9_8jWo6uvxqThckU6iHSkACycNT5QZGPDGWLMpazDpcpLCRsw8EDt5u_R24Hv0L3AJbrU_psCKvJQP-8ckdJNlM/s688/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4FYss03CvTAOT7ZFx631KoWWZ9zfeyd4Ro4KmoFUH_Krb9At6oynJ4JDU2ml-pZ0Njkc6r0BvGvSGOI_9qEY8lvSIQ_toJ3YUrQB9_8jWo6uvxqThckU6iHSkACycNT5QZGPDGWLMpazDpcpLCRsw8EDt5u_R24Hv0L3AJbrU_psCKvJQP-8ckdJNlM/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><o:p></o:p></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>At last I finally made it to the
house! Or at least what’s left of it:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lEAfbgzqzo0sfDnX6oNTtfAA69EdPw96Cx3EYzXteZ8_RE2dI5tNFUspfYLYC7DRqDD1FowWEJf_jGxGlrn91NEBqiY90NU4I2FSGXHBWukylVpKSR6jmWfC9vszg3XrkFRrPB2OSRX5QxI9BtBewzv2il5mYGDqDdhFb8v3O0TdZEas9OvsudkdE0g/s880/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="880" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lEAfbgzqzo0sfDnX6oNTtfAA69EdPw96Cx3EYzXteZ8_RE2dI5tNFUspfYLYC7DRqDD1FowWEJf_jGxGlrn91NEBqiY90NU4I2FSGXHBWukylVpKSR6jmWfC9vszg3XrkFRrPB2OSRX5QxI9BtBewzv2il5mYGDqDdhFb8v3O0TdZEas9OvsudkdE0g/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>My first find at the house was the
least exciting yet, a very muddy piece of unidentifiable iron (the black thing
is the plastic trowel I use to dig):<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_uTAfL7TuMzZUPB9-OIHCtvHg1Ij9X0gORiwKo3npTx7UKWZqM9yqoL_TXHJDTsxzMYhPAvUdzMBSC44m42dgG0eaWA6YnleWpEXBINDxXrnRdJ4k_vwHP5KmMUUDxcYnc_agt3kGBwucEsHQzgBwaigDSpiFnnZBCmSkHMRQ8c0xuWcNo6jbLQZp-68/s959/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="959" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_uTAfL7TuMzZUPB9-OIHCtvHg1Ij9X0gORiwKo3npTx7UKWZqM9yqoL_TXHJDTsxzMYhPAvUdzMBSC44m42dgG0eaWA6YnleWpEXBINDxXrnRdJ4k_vwHP5KmMUUDxcYnc_agt3kGBwucEsHQzgBwaigDSpiFnnZBCmSkHMRQ8c0xuWcNo6jbLQZp-68/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I detected right next to the wall
and got another hit! This one was, yellow…and buried under too much other stuff
to actually pull out of the ground.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRGnXEDs66DZEfo_rnR-Oskyp71pLpALLnaoP_4nSyMKw8NER_Enh_F0qOQz4VxXD6UNbb2IGrK-7AmmGnPBcKZITjj6kTkRNFCCO4mrm8uhTua4FD7KALOlvHMRUhbUwL8UjLrKKhRJde-Jk8gtpOscRSLUPw5KUUmRCtoExURWhhr_hIjIFGxpJ2zg/s726/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="726" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRGnXEDs66DZEfo_rnR-Oskyp71pLpALLnaoP_4nSyMKw8NER_Enh_F0qOQz4VxXD6UNbb2IGrK-7AmmGnPBcKZITjj6kTkRNFCCO4mrm8uhTua4FD7KALOlvHMRUhbUwL8UjLrKKhRJde-Jk8gtpOscRSLUPw5KUUmRCtoExURWhhr_hIjIFGxpJ2zg/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I climbed up above the ruins, to a
spot that looked like would have been just outside the house when it was still
standing, I immediately got a hit, but what is it?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7Mu1bNLRuRf4sF_NLMlu034LFw5IrRv2clpKBsV9JMM_iban19USSBzSVTES_tGyRYnFcQ43OxI2DoqwF7SjW7icSnqpmXh0bFvXpyIp6uGYODc511hZa2tDPYb_JewMDODFQCTiSmtfqrckGUHyycqlUzofkaio6lpQT897wfnI6n2fKKJQdssvhRg/s990/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="990" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7Mu1bNLRuRf4sF_NLMlu034LFw5IrRv2clpKBsV9JMM_iban19USSBzSVTES_tGyRYnFcQ43OxI2DoqwF7SjW7icSnqpmXh0bFvXpyIp6uGYODc511hZa2tDPYb_JewMDODFQCTiSmtfqrckGUHyycqlUzofkaio6lpQT897wfnI6n2fKKJQdssvhRg/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>From the pom-pom on top I
eventually realized I was looking at a winter hat, one that had been decomposing
for quite a while. I moved the hat away, thinking the metal object was buried
somewhere under it, but was shocked when it was the hat itself that was making
the detector go off! I picked up the hat by the pom-pom and this came tumbling
out (Warning – the next photo is of a firearm):<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(Warning – the next photo is of a firearm):<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(Warning – the next photo is of a firearm):<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJviAPVr8AKcQCJ4XBJ81ykalz0_oaXtDuTZGUtYzWp-HJGuL0E0guN8YIF61P7LfvjWxUa8Z-zAHS5xSwwORcZTpjV8-mmFrTwIf3Dt6FVRkDUb9g0jrZS8LkskAuHaNTzRC3KvSk1T_ODadZ3SIUMh8KUWJva7guEytcIWuxTUqgy2LoC2NDtpphuzM/s973/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="973" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJviAPVr8AKcQCJ4XBJ81ykalz0_oaXtDuTZGUtYzWp-HJGuL0E0guN8YIF61P7LfvjWxUa8Z-zAHS5xSwwORcZTpjV8-mmFrTwIf3Dt6FVRkDUb9g0jrZS8LkskAuHaNTzRC3KvSk1T_ODadZ3SIUMh8KUWJva7guEytcIWuxTUqgy2LoC2NDtpphuzM/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I am not a gun owner, and it is
historically very difficult to legally own a handgun in New York City, so
needless to say I was floored when this thing was sitting at my feet. After a
few “Holy shit holy shit holy shit” in a row, I did what I’m pretty sure anyone
else in my situation would do; I looked to see if anyone else was around (there
wasn’t), thought about keeping the gun, then realized that was a stupid fucking
idea and called the police. If it was wrapped in a winter hat and hidden behind
an old wall, it was done intentionally, and whoever put it there probably
didn’t use it with good intentions. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The police came and confirmed that
it was a Glock something (I didn’t catch the number they said), and that it was
reported stolen in another precinct in 2017! My half-price metal detector broke
open a seven-freaking-year-old cold case! Here is a photo of the cop as he ID’d
the gun, which you can see still sitting upside down near his feet.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEX5czpWS7MmO86FUR5aiciEOTu0lQtkxelm8PE-s7KgoF12YvUE-4nW9CIgWIFnD7UpVfA6AZWsOgxLatPUqYl4mQwaCP9SS9JPUvcJaw_c5FTgHNQEfCD53nUUYPlr8Xj8eZFr-dQnspErtQkNDEFYH3nya-WTyXadbIgSdY8yhqMTG3h3jmiQd19h8/s882/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="882" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEX5czpWS7MmO86FUR5aiciEOTu0lQtkxelm8PE-s7KgoF12YvUE-4nW9CIgWIFnD7UpVfA6AZWsOgxLatPUqYl4mQwaCP9SS9JPUvcJaw_c5FTgHNQEfCD53nUUYPlr8Xj8eZFr-dQnspErtQkNDEFYH3nya-WTyXadbIgSdY8yhqMTG3h3jmiQd19h8/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Given the nature of the revelation
(if a gun was stolen and then hidden, it was almost certainly involved in a
violent crime in between), the police asked me to come to the precinct to give
a statement to their detectives, and I obliged. I took my very first ride in
the back of a police car and then waited for a few minutes while staring at
this lovely view:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHHAdkNvh641HlccFRPrlrVl16MWZi4nMqPvsA9EMGo0jHWOlBErnrAD2NbXajkeB5f4bD6lQ8yrKnmMt7fXrvFUAK5KzjNrNWqSt1Lua5toSSaZd34pN79c-YqQDCK2mvOJjz4Q4mPKCDRzlDQvukK1eiD3kNfMBMVOGI1sPDw6GpRusosgoa240L-w/s949/BookCover_Latency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="949" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHHAdkNvh641HlccFRPrlrVl16MWZi4nMqPvsA9EMGo0jHWOlBErnrAD2NbXajkeB5f4bD6lQ8yrKnmMt7fXrvFUAK5KzjNrNWqSt1Lua5toSSaZd34pN79c-YqQDCK2mvOJjz4Q4mPKCDRzlDQvukK1eiD3kNfMBMVOGI1sPDw6GpRusosgoa240L-w/s320/BookCover_Latency.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Eventually I was brought upstairs
to talk with the detective, and that conversation lasted all of about ninety
seconds because I’m literally just a novice metal detectorist who stumbled on a
find many in the hobby will never experience in their whole lives. I did wind
up getting a cool souvenir out of the ordeal though, an NYPD Detective Squad
business card:</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>So that’s how a mild-mannered
youtuber I watched one year ago led to an absolutely bonkers day today. In case
you are wondering, I do still plan to continue metal detecting, I’ll just stay
away from deteriorating winter hats for a while.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><i>
</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Check out Green Mountain Metal
Detecting (at your own risk) at this link: <a href="about:blank">https://www.youtube.com/@GMMD</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">AUTHOR Bio and Links:</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKW3OtcI3bnRShOs2M1pVdw6ftvlVFsyjR_ONLECRj1f4tsczeMGz688IFYTPVzvSx0AWi91maKCMbhuXoIqPai6QJC91mMFRqIcePwwGLIwIFkw4HaXyU-cjFmkzVaioyCz0F0ZraOHTNFr6pMRoTydUhFswcnf82SZm7FpKK6MuWoggTAx3gqksP3Tc/s1536/Author%20Image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="LATENCY by Nathaniel Koszer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Sci-Fi biotech" border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1536" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKW3OtcI3bnRShOs2M1pVdw6ftvlVFsyjR_ONLECRj1f4tsczeMGz688IFYTPVzvSx0AWi91maKCMbhuXoIqPai6QJC91mMFRqIcePwwGLIwIFkw4HaXyU-cjFmkzVaioyCz0F0ZraOHTNFr6pMRoTydUhFswcnf82SZm7FpKK6MuWoggTAx3gqksP3Tc/w237-h178/Author%20Image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="LATENCY by Nathaniel Koszer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Sci-Fi biotech" width="237" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Nate
grew up in Brooklyn NY, but now calls the Bronx home along with his wife and
their sons. Nate grew up on all things sci-fi. Partly due to his chronic
illness, Nate always had a special place in his heart for the X-Men, and
especially the invulnerable Wolverine. This was heavy inspiration for his first
novel, Latency a superhero sci-fi story to be released March 5, 2024.<span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://natekoszer.com/" target="_blank"><b>Website: </b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/natejklol.bsky.social"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://bsky.app/profile/natejklol.bsky.social</span></a></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href=" https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1144430187;jsessionid=4518EDABA47D37FB06C0E2C54744DFA9.prodny_store02-atgap17" target="_blank">BN:<o:p></o:p></a></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Nathaniel
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<b>Read an Excerpt</b> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gazes from Pablo Picasso are like brushstrokes. Some are long, lingering, and full of texture and pigment. Some are short, shallow, and even accidental. His gaze on me now falls somewhere between the two.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once, his gaze would have found enough for an entire painting. He would have seen flesh, and the bone and muscle under the flesh, the question or certainty of the eyes. He would have seen past, present, and future and painted them in a way that made time irrelevant.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, that was how he pained me. Everything and at once, all the angles and geometry of the body, and he made of me something eternal and always beautiful. That is what an artists can do for a woman. When most men looked at me, all I saw in their faces was desire, the urge to possess. When Pablo looked at me, his face filled with wonder waiting to be translated to lines and brushstrokes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Spring. The second year of the Great War. I wasn’t twenty yet, and had returned from cold, starving Moscow, where a loaf of bread cost as much as a silk dress…Back to Paris for me!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Pablo first saw me, I was sitting on the rim of the Wallace Fountain in Place Emile, face turned up to the sun like a basking cat, enjoying the fine day and wondering what adventure I might find…It was early summer. I had stolen a bunch of cherries at Les Halles and a roll, but my stomach rattled.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author:</b></div>
</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbzKZ6rjT7-Xb7KxEpsd6b527QQ8nmGZTf5M8RcQpZ0DcMytHCQRq4OgomC09_LmCfnHzBFea6-J-Wp0bIVovEmaQiLWI10Ux2J3utCDOi4-rZZVlDZ7z9HbZDnEh2m9VmexRisDSJP0A4wmLCTd_ChgAeOLtDhyC9FF1S1RvD6w1Q2Lk8BHV1jKebfg/s2219/author%20image.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="PICASSO'S LOVERS by Jeanne Mackin" border="0" data-original-height="2219" data-original-width="1791" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbzKZ6rjT7-Xb7KxEpsd6b527QQ8nmGZTf5M8RcQpZ0DcMytHCQRq4OgomC09_LmCfnHzBFea6-J-Wp0bIVovEmaQiLWI10Ux2J3utCDOi4-rZZVlDZ7z9HbZDnEh2m9VmexRisDSJP0A4wmLCTd_ChgAeOLtDhyC9FF1S1RvD6w1Q2Lk8BHV1jKebfg/w208-h257/author%20image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;" title="PICASSO'S LOVERS by Jeanne Mackin" width="208" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels, including The Last Collection, which has been translated into five languages, and The Beautiful American, which won a CNY award for fiction. She has taught in the MFA Creative Writing program at Goddard College won journalism awards, and is currently working on her next novel.</div></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Website: <a href="http://www.jeannemackin.com">http://www.jeannemackin.com</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JeanneMackinAuthor">https://www.facebook.com/JeanneMackinAuthor</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JeanneMackin1">http://www.twitter.com/JeanneMackin1</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Instagram: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/JeanneMackinAuthor">http://www.instagram.com/JeanneMackinAuthor</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amazon:<a href=" https://www.amazon.com/Picassos-Lovers-Jeanne-Mackin-ebook/dp/B0C3C2J4FH/ref=sr_1_1" target="_blank"> https://www.amazon.com/Picassos-Lovers-Jeanne-Mackin-ebook/dp/B0C3C2J4FH/ref=sr_1_1</a></div><br />
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</span><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0Y551uNW4nvPEgR-yVUTGKKIHFiYUYLxGXe5eNIklAc7qHgbJJqQoB4g4uHjWVyt1-T0D1ongcfcKUktbXeVFa5RlVgEanVuNggsMHEtNF9gB7ODYrumHjbL-Ux8HBi-TK1vTNnhWE2z96JqDRQs6fGqC8Cqio3I3VJYd6E5pO9dwqAQUa5fTmdxEK4/s2700/BookCover_Toothbrush%20Animal%20Hunt.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="TOOTHBRUSH ANIMAL HUNT by Carleen Dehaney" border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="2700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0Y551uNW4nvPEgR-yVUTGKKIHFiYUYLxGXe5eNIklAc7qHgbJJqQoB4g4uHjWVyt1-T0D1ongcfcKUktbXeVFa5RlVgEanVuNggsMHEtNF9gB7ODYrumHjbL-Ux8HBi-TK1vTNnhWE2z96JqDRQs6fGqC8Cqio3I3VJYd6E5pO9dwqAQUa5fTmdxEK4/w320-h320/BookCover_Toothbrush%20Animal%20Hunt.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;" title="TOOTHBRUSH ANIMAL HUNT by Carleen Dehaney" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Embark on a delightful adventure with Toothbrush Animal Hunt, the perfect children's book to encourage daily toothbrushing habits in a playful and enjoyable way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From a clapping sea lion at the beach to a cheeky squirrel in the forest, children will be fascinated as they learn about toothbrushing through the actions and antics of these charming creatures. And don't forget to spot the toothbrushes hidden throughout the pages, making this hunt, a delightful game of discovery.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Say goodbye to toothbrushing struggles and let the adventure begin!</div></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
<b>Enjoy an Excerpt</b><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCLBJ43DMFLDIuj-nJ75gIGjng2Y2Qiy1QQr5r_UAhn1Fmb-rcouzWGya1ytJrlzcH8ZCtmz60s7Pl5Z7ftdv0kFR_HpKouKNga-DVr7mQ8obq4KeOgTxm8tM6UZ6Y84ClANzcfIwuakRMlX3FbAFW0P9nuFwN2sv5wRs_5j8nUb0UsS9P5nsNwFC2iY/s1000/Excerpt_1_ToothbrushAnimalHunt.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="TOOTHBRUSH ANIMAL HUNT by Carleen Dehaney" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="985" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCLBJ43DMFLDIuj-nJ75gIGjng2Y2Qiy1QQr5r_UAhn1Fmb-rcouzWGya1ytJrlzcH8ZCtmz60s7Pl5Z7ftdv0kFR_HpKouKNga-DVr7mQ8obq4KeOgTxm8tM6UZ6Y84ClANzcfIwuakRMlX3FbAFW0P9nuFwN2sv5wRs_5j8nUb0UsS9P5nsNwFC2iY/w274-h279/Excerpt_1_ToothbrushAnimalHunt.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="TOOTHBRUSH ANIMAL HUNT by Carleen Dehaney" width="274" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author:</b> Meet the author, Carleen Dehaney! Carleen is a mother and wife. She hails from the UK but now calls Canada home. This enchanting book draws inspiration from a tenacious 2-year-old in need of some toothbrushing magic. Carleen embarked on a whimsical journey, incorporating playful animal sounds into her daughter's brushing routine, and thus, the idea for this captivating book was conceived. Today, her little one, who has since outgrown her toddler years, recites this tale back to Carleen, forging cherished moments between them.</div></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />
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</div>Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-74230702442405391022024-03-11T07:15:00.000-07:002024-03-11T07:15:55.377-07:00 Belega by Dianne Hartsock <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehCjyfEFwjQZvokCATaSv9-BD-3xvKepO7JTuDOdTUEZ79c5zkGjkeyN3VNFYwqwlPgBOc27XJZMeESlz2r4pEPGw08ZL1hTIG0y_uPNMqccCvjrEkN6mLC16Ec7Qp8nW0z9niV4R15Sms9dVym-LNInE44NwEqogIMkbg84csGPldesphVQJaEj01eg/s1200/TourBanner_Belega.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Belega by Dianne Hartsock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Erotic Fantasy Romance (M/M)" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehCjyfEFwjQZvokCATaSv9-BD-3xvKepO7JTuDOdTUEZ79c5zkGjkeyN3VNFYwqwlPgBOc27XJZMeESlz2r4pEPGw08ZL1hTIG0y_uPNMqccCvjrEkN6mLC16Ec7Qp8nW0z9niV4R15Sms9dVym-LNInE44NwEqogIMkbg84csGPldesphVQJaEj01eg/w640-h358/TourBanner_Belega.gif" title="Belega by Dianne Hartsock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Erotic Fantasy Romance (M/M)" width="640" /></a><br /><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Belega</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">by Dianne Hartsock</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: Erotic Fantasy Romance
(M/M)</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">BLURB:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJmSaqHPpKOAspnOYkH0llyTeicAH6hz4_loCfPFySFhaGu1cmZ10w8yX6-rlNTm3hM52xYMIsc4PvkKMFnt9jf7jT5nGauPXocLwg11KgRsGSHblOAIYa_7nbjuCbACnqjSq8YdTz_7uC4fJoAnLzrhb795piin74m80HzFFZh7LUoHCnxALCHAQelU/s1200/BookCover_Belega.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Belega by Dianne Hartsock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Erotic Fantasy Romance (M/M)" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJmSaqHPpKOAspnOYkH0llyTeicAH6hz4_loCfPFySFhaGu1cmZ10w8yX6-rlNTm3hM52xYMIsc4PvkKMFnt9jf7jT5nGauPXocLwg11KgRsGSHblOAIYa_7nbjuCbACnqjSq8YdTz_7uC4fJoAnLzrhb795piin74m80HzFFZh7LUoHCnxALCHAQelU/w213-h320/BookCover_Belega.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Belega by Dianne Hartsock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Erotic Fantasy Romance (M/M)" width="213" /></a></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">The Karthagans have regained their ancient powers of manipulating
nature but at the price of madness. In their lust for control, they've
destroyed their island and most of their race. They come now to Belega, where
one of them, Camron, seeks domination over the known world. The Mage has come
from the northern continent of Sennia to bring peace but finding his strength
no match for the coming struggle, he passes his abilities on to Natan, who only
desires a simple life.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Now
only Natan has the ability to stop Camron, but the personal cost is more than
he imagines. It is only with the combined strength of his friends, his
Karthagan lover, Kavi, and his deep desire to bring lasting peace to the earth,
that he finds the courage to overcome Camron and restore balance to the world.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">EXCERPT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He sharpened his knife on a whetstone to pass the time while
the soldier remained unconscious. As the stars came out, an ache crept into his
chest as he thought of Kavi and how they used to lie awake, watching for
falling stars. Natan would make them tea in a little pot over the fire; then
they’d wrap in warm blankets and talk quietly while the sky wheeled overhead.
Sometimes they made love, Kavi’s warm sleek body pliant as Natan searched out
new ways to draw those sweet breathy moans from his lips.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then it had all ended. Natan closed his eyes at the jab
of pain in his heart. The Nagal soldiers had come to their camp and dragged
Kavi away, laughing when Natan struggled, and methodically beat him senseless.
That had been two weeks ago, and every attempt he’d made to find his lover had
failed. The last time he’d been in Amara he’d been threatened with imprisonment
himself.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He would do Kavi no good behind iron bars, he reminded
himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Natan opened his eyes to find the captive staring at him
from where he’d slumped against the tree. Natan went over and helped him to a
sitting position.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What’s your name?” he asked with ice in his voice. The man
continued to stare at him, insolent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Natan looked him over carefully. “Let me guess. You’re
dressed as a Nagal soldier, though you’re obviously not one. Maybe a deserter?
Maybe a Barkuit spy?” He watched the soldier’s face as he named the rival
country, then leaned closer to whisper, “What of Kavi?”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“That trash?” the man asked in surprise, then yelped when
Natan lunged at him, knife slipping into his hand.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“Say that again and I’ll slit your throat. Now, what is your
name?”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“Captain Syros Reed.”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Natan sat back on his heels, fury hot in his chest. “Speak.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“I could tell you where they mean to bury him,” Syros
drawled, holding Natan’s gaze, and smiled slightly at his sharply indrawn
breath. “That is, once Landlan has drawn the secret to the Karthagans’ power
over nature out of him. The power the Barkuit army would kill to use in our
coming conflict. Kavi was alive the last time I saw him, but I heard they meant
to bury him soon. If you hurry, he may still be breathing. I don’t know.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">“And you didn’t help him?” With a sudden enraged cry, Natan
drove his knife into the sapling inches from Syros’s face. “He’d better be
alive, for your sake.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">He left his water skin for Syros, should the man succeed in
freeing himself, then gave the soldier no more thought as he snatched up his
pack and settled into the long run ahead, determined to be at the Lake of Glass
on time.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">AUTHOR Bio and Links:</span></b> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihcDe2NJzM1RdEPqGWBz3H0vcc4et4tcEH_UNaynAa2TE7Ajo0VVPFIATPN3Mq2hUWxzgZT99aDvIDSWIw0inCcu08iXzspNNI7NaZnPBVfFcscVAZZr9kSjwXTm9Ao388u2FNrP_3MebMwbpqhtc2qwVbYyfST_iF85VfjQYNBuorKPnuzwPVUvhXL1w/s680/authorpic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Belega by Dianne Hartsock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Erotic Fantasy Romance (M/M)" border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihcDe2NJzM1RdEPqGWBz3H0vcc4et4tcEH_UNaynAa2TE7Ajo0VVPFIATPN3Mq2hUWxzgZT99aDvIDSWIw0inCcu08iXzspNNI7NaZnPBVfFcscVAZZr9kSjwXTm9Ao388u2FNrP_3MebMwbpqhtc2qwVbYyfST_iF85VfjQYNBuorKPnuzwPVUvhXL1w/w213-h320/authorpic.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Belega by Dianne Hartsock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: Erotic Fantasy Romance (M/M)" width="213" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Dianne grew
up in one of the older homes in the middle of Los Angeles, a place of hardwood
floors and secret closets and back staircases. A house where ghosts lurk in the
basement and the faces in the paintings watch you walk up the front stairs.
Rooms where you keep the closet doors closed tight at night. It’s where her
love of the mysterious and wonderful came from. Dianne is the author of m/m
romance, paranormal/suspense, fantasy adventure, the occasional thriller, and
anything else that comes to mind.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">She now lives
in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Oregon with her incredibly patient
husband, who puts up with the endless hours she spends hunched over the
keyboard letting her characters play. Dianne says Oregon’s raindrops are the
perfect setting in which to write. There’s something about being cooped up in
the house with a fire crackling on the hearth and a cup of hot coffee in her
hands, which kindles her imagination.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Currently,
Dianne works as a floral designer in a locally-owned gift shop. Which is the
perfect job for her. When not writing, she can express herself through the rich
colors and textures of flowers and foliage.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://diannehartsock.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Blog: </span></span></a></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Kevin King</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: YA Fantasy Adventure</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCpTVSUhPgBNI0TGZqNoUcJBWe5jdptmV1yLxuDAPBQttcnmGAbIk96MxrOjen3YywT7fQvnk_11lDe6jp7fK1nzYHDZmmfRNKJnAWRf8kZ6XCuC_rhAqQgD8Nzr4QA1THxVqZ26pT0ujdYCnt-atYz7jC1B2bg5ykL_9PLhcBzvXRTHUjk_C2S0A0t8/s1280/BookCover_Song%20of%20the%20Adoel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SONG OF THE ADOËL Kevin King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: YA Fantasy Adventure" border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCpTVSUhPgBNI0TGZqNoUcJBWe5jdptmV1yLxuDAPBQttcnmGAbIk96MxrOjen3YywT7fQvnk_11lDe6jp7fK1nzYHDZmmfRNKJnAWRf8kZ6XCuC_rhAqQgD8Nzr4QA1THxVqZ26pT0ujdYCnt-atYz7jC1B2bg5ykL_9PLhcBzvXRTHUjk_C2S0A0t8/w200-h320/BookCover_Song%20of%20the%20Adoel.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="SONG OF THE ADOËL Kevin King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: YA Fantasy Adventure" width="200" /></a></span></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Raendel
is one of the Adoël, the cursed people. Passed on to each generation, the curse
drains his body of colour, leaving his skin and hair a ghostly white. To protect
himself from the commoners who fear what they don't understand, all of the
Adoël live as servants to the royal family, using their unique skill with
illusion magic to entertain bored nobility. Raendel is bound by traditions, but
also by his own lack of self-confidence. Prince Kenan is the younger of two
princes, frustrated by his gilded cage and the combat tutoring that feels
pointless in a secure and peaceful kingdom. He dreams of adventure, of making a
name for himself with heroic deeds. An unexpected assault from an ancient enemy
sets the two on a quest that begins as the pursuit of vengeance but soon leads
them into a struggle for survival that will teach them both that they are small
pieces of a long, dark history. But even the smallest actions can change the
fate of a kingdom.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">Raendel wove
through the room with practised ease, gliding between isolated clumps of
noblemen scattered across the room, passing the time with idle gossip as they
waited for the guest of honour to arrive. His gaze flicked along the way in
front of him, choosing the path that would keep him farthest away from the
guests. Most of them wore enough perfume to give him a headache from five yards
away. The enhanced sense of smell shared by Adoël only added to Raendel’s
trepidation. All the nobles stank of pride. The smell of fear drifted in
clouds, especially near visitors who had never seen one of the Adoël before.
Raendel spent most of his day inside the castle, serving Prince Kenan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">His
distinctive features would have drawn stares even without the stories. The name
Adoël had been used to frighten children for generations. Mothers would clutch their children as they
passed in the street. Don’t go outside at night or the Adoël will get you.
Don’t wander into the woods, the Adoël will catch you and suck the life out of
you. Each passing generation believed the stories a bit more than their
parents. To encounter an Adoël in person resurrected the terrors planted in the
hearts of children now grown.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Whispers
swirled in his wake. Ghost-child. Cursed. Tainted. Touched by the Necromancer.
Raendel had heard them all before, but he still flinched with every sting.</span><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Order and Chaos – The advantages and disadvantages of
structured versus discovery writing.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>You may be familiar with the terms ‘pantser’ and ‘plotter.’
You’re probably familiar with the concepts, at least.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Some authors plan everything before they begin to write.
They research, chart, they outline. Everything is structured and orderly. Others
just start writing and go with the flow.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I’ve had this discussion with other authors in my circles,
and we all have different levels of each. We also all agree that you should do
it in whichever way works best for you. The truth is, every author is a little bit
of both. The difference is in the proportions, and sometimes in which details
they plan and which they let happen naturally.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>In all my discussions, only once or twice has the topic come
up of the strengths and weaknesses of each method. It’s an interesting study,
and possibly helpful in figuring out your own preferred balance.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Discovery writing, or ‘Pantsing’, has the advantage of
resulting in a natural story flow and rich, believable characters. Often
stories written this way end up being character-driven, as if the characters
themselves are writing the story. Rather than forcing the characters to do what
needs to be done for the next plot point, discovery writing allows the
characters to make whatever decisions seem best to them at the moment. They
feel real, which makes them easier for the reader to connect with. The danger
is that discovery writing tends to meander, and can easily lose momentum. The
pacing might feel off, as the characters kind of muddle around in the middle
trying to figure out what to do next. The ending may tend to fizzle out, or
feel incomplete, as random plot threads are left without resolution and all the
pieces don’t quite fit together.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Structured writing, or ‘Plotting’, has the advantage of
resulting in a well-developed and efficient storyline. Things happen as they
are supposed to, and problems arise at just the right time to maintain good
tension throughout the book. It allows for complex plot threads that all merge
together in a satisfying conclusion, leaving nothing to chance. The world feels
real, allowing the reader to be immersed in the story without distracting
inconsistencies. The danger is that structured writing tends to produce wooden
or robotic characters, as they are forced to make decisions that fit the
assigned plotline whether that character would naturally make that decision or
not. The plot might feel predictable, as each point leads inevitably to the
next in purely logical succession.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The trick is to intentionally lean on the strengths of each
method as much as possible. I like to start with a bit of structure – I want to
know what the major conflict is, how it will be resolved, and possibly a
few major events along the way. Then I think about what kind of characters
would naturally exist in this world I’ve created and would tend to do the
things that would move the plot toward the goal I’ve set for it. Then I write,
discovering the details of the characters along the way, letting them have some
freedom to make their own choices and perhaps change some plot points as they
go. Then I go back again and impose order on the chaos, smoothing out plotholes
and trimming out loose story threads.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;"><i>
</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I’ve viewed an online writing class where the teacher
described all the different methods as tools in your toolbox, each one with a
specific purpose. The more tools you have in your toolbox, the more projects
you’ll be able to do well. So by all means, figure out whether you naturally tend
to be a Plotter or a Pantser, and use the method that works for you. But
understand why it works, and how it works, and be aware that every now and then
you might want to pull the other method out of your toolbox and use it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">AUTHOR BIO:</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
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day, and an author by night. He enjoys Renaissance Fairs, bookstores, fencing,
and daydreaming. He has been reading fantasy from age six, and writing from age
twenty-two. He loves exploring fantasy worlds, especially exploring human nature
through fiction. Fantasy is his first love, but he also dabbles in sci-fi,
creepy horror, and devastatingly sad dramas. He posts regular flash fiction
stories on his Instagram account and website.</div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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first quarter, but I play to the final whistle.</div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Out of Bounds</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Game
Time Series Book 2</span></p>
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Tam DeRudder Jackson </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Genre:
Contemporary Sports Romance</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/outofbounds-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="529" height="53" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/outofbounds-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>There is only one truth: guard
your heart.</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/2-out-of-bounds-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Out of Bounds Game Time Series Book 2 by Tam DeRudder Jackson Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/2-out-of-bounds-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Out of Bounds Game Time Series Book 2 by Tam DeRudder Jackson Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance" width="323" /></a></div><a name="_GoBack"><div style="text-align: justify;">All I want is a quiet drink. Guess
it is too much to ask. Especially for my ex who will not take a hint
when I tell him the seat beside me is taken—by my purse. My gaze
snags on the super-hot guy in the reflection behind the bar, the one
whose knowing wink should put me off. But my attention keeps straying
to him. When football standout Wyatt “Bax” Baxter makes his move,
steals the barstool from my purse, and sends my ex on his way, I
can’t decide if I’m irritated or intrigued. After I caught my ex
cheating, I know better than to trust a man with my heart. Yet when
one thing leads to another, Bax becomes the only thing on my mind.</div></a><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>It
was supposed to stop at a one-night stand.</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Bax
is unexpected. I don’t usually date football players. The fact that
he listens when I talk is as big a turn-on as his broad shoulders
stretching his T-shirt. When we hook up, he rocks my world. But my
terrible history with men stops me from giving him my number. One and
done, moving on is my motto these days. Though Bax lets me walk away,
he refuses to let me go. He finds a way to live rent-free in my head,
and to my everlasting shock, I keep seeking him out. Our backgrounds
are wildly different. We make no sense together, but I can’t stay
away.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>She’s
out of my league—like that ever stopped me.</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Piper
Maxwell is the whole sexy package—smart, independent, and the best
time I ever had. When I wow the crowd with a pick-six during a big
rivalry game, I know exactly where to point the ball—at a
purple-haired hottie cheering in the student section. She insists on
keeping it casual, but she is too special to let get away. I’m
known for my tenacity on the field, something Piper is about to find
out extends off the field too.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">She
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tam
DeRudder Jackson is the author of the paranormal romance Talisman
Series and the contemporary romance Balefire Series. Her favorite
“room” in her house is her patio where she dreams up stories of
romance and risk. When she’s not writing her latest paranormal or
contemporary romance, you can find her driving around in her
convertible or carving turns on the slopes of the local ski hill. The
mom of two grown sons, Tam likes to travel, attend rock concerts,
watch football and soccer, and visit old car shows with her husband.
She lives in the mountains of northwest Wyoming where she spends most
of her free time trying to read all the books. Her TBR piles are
threatening to take over her office, and she’s fine with that.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.tamderudderjackson.com/">Website</a>
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Numero Unohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03440460786191985286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078219368448419657.post-11233605126806781862024-03-10T04:50:00.000-07:002024-03-11T05:04:00.872-07:00 THE FAMILY THAT FINDS US by Phoenix<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwW3aDMQCwVKxAlz7qyiJ9fAdkKgkabpP7xFWdVUaPfhVFzSGOMV9sIq-iHmp8-ZSGlUgcDkLqkE4OovGXmQsdV6IPdRW2G9ZjwvWii3FtZZKm-Ecf1cORLDHnlIcMZK1IW00dit5xYrGnnIYRTSXr1TrRV0La0WYRbbIwqX5YuG8Y_Kr6TWkL9XX-fw/s1200/TourBanner_The%20Family%20that%20Finds%20Us.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="THE FAMILY THAT FINDS US Name of Author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: LGBTQIA+ Coming of Age ~~~~~~~~~~~~~" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwW3aDMQCwVKxAlz7qyiJ9fAdkKgkabpP7xFWdVUaPfhVFzSGOMV9sIq-iHmp8-ZSGlUgcDkLqkE4OovGXmQsdV6IPdRW2G9ZjwvWii3FtZZKm-Ecf1cORLDHnlIcMZK1IW00dit5xYrGnnIYRTSXr1TrRV0La0WYRbbIwqX5YuG8Y_Kr6TWkL9XX-fw/w640-h358/TourBanner_The%20Family%20that%20Finds%20Us.gif" title="THE FAMILY THAT FINDS US Name of Author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: LGBTQIA+ Coming of Age ~~~~~~~~~~~~~" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">THE FAMILY THAT FINDS US</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Name of Author</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">GENRE</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">: </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #222222;">LGBTQIA+ Coming of Age</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">BLURB:</span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISiLWQmIgUi6rJ_EEQ6wC_dqNa1phkfW2aOCdlw1Ghs7xqbTB9ieZ0iFDXIABOluTk5TVHy_axM2fV22zj-YGaXFsWLdlHYVZppjRDoKvx3CwP1XxghfTw64IIGe5A2MTdXnrD0e-toPOgB3cjv9bUtCcZqd4Smn50MLmzAUrnh0GlglMqDRc-zDm1h8/s1200/TourBanner_The%20Family%20that%20Finds%20Us.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="THE FAMILY THAT FINDS US Name of Author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: LGBTQIA+ Coming of Age ~~~~~~~~~~~~~" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISiLWQmIgUi6rJ_EEQ6wC_dqNa1phkfW2aOCdlw1Ghs7xqbTB9ieZ0iFDXIABOluTk5TVHy_axM2fV22zj-YGaXFsWLdlHYVZppjRDoKvx3CwP1XxghfTw64IIGe5A2MTdXnrD0e-toPOgB3cjv9bUtCcZqd4Smn50MLmzAUrnh0GlglMqDRc-zDm1h8/w320-h179/TourBanner_The%20Family%20that%20Finds%20Us.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="THE FAMILY THAT FINDS US Name of Author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GENRE: LGBTQIA+ Coming of Age ~~~~~~~~~~~~~" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Phee
hides her secrets well until they become too much to bear. Her biggest secret
is one she’s kept even from herself. Her longest-kept secret hurts
her every day. Her final secret will set her free.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">In
a school that doesn’t accept them, Phee, Theo, and Alex fight for a community
close to their hearts. The community desperately needs the trio to help the
rest of them leave the shadows without fear of violence and discrimination.
Through some heroic activism, the three push the school officials to their
limits — forcing them to act — for better or worse.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">For
Phee, the fight for a place where she can be herself doesn’t stop when she gets
home. The strain of taking care of her alcoholic and abusive mother threatens
to break Phee away from her family bond forever. Her mother can go from a messy
drunk to an angry one in an instant, turning Phee’s home life from an obligation
to a war zone.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">Theo’s
house offers respite to Phee. With compassion scarce in her life, Alex and Theo
are Phee’s light in the dark. They protect and cherish her. At Theo’s, Phee is
free to be herself and explore her identity safely — her chosen family is ready to
catch her if she falls. That’s what family does, how family finds us when we
feel lost and alone.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">EXCERPT</span></b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thank you, my precious-ous-es son.” She slurred her words as
she spoke into the table, and I sighed inaudibly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">At least she wasn’t angry drunk. This was the drunk I could
handle, the drunk I knew how to care for. I’d been doing it half my life, it
would be strange if I weren’t good at it by now. I finished the dishes and laid
them out on the drying rack after wiping them dry with a kitchen towel, then
sat down in the chair next to her at the table.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do you need anything, Mom? Have you eaten? Drank anything?”</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mmno.” She rolled her face to look at me, her deep dark eyes
glistening but not completely there.</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I got a plastic cup from the cupboard and filled it with
some ice water and handed it to her. Her hands shook as she tried to lift the
cup from mine, so I helped her guide it to her mouth and take a couple sips, then
set it back down on the table in front of her. I rummaged through the fridge to
pull out some milk and went to the pantry for some cereal. Only, as I lifted the
milk to pour, I felt objects hit the side of the carton. I opened the cap to
take a whiff and gagged; the milk was sour. Sighing, I dropped the carton into
the trash and opened the barren fridge to search for another option.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Everyone loves a
hero! Tell us all about this genuine character and the inspiration behind their
development.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Phee’s
conceptualization has changed a lot over the years, and even over the course of
the series. Phee and Theo became fast friends, Theo quickly recognizing the
signs of abuse in Phee’s life and offering her all the help they could give.
Phee harbors a crush for Theo – one that she tries hard to ignore but casually
lets slip on an occasion. She doesn’t expect anything from Theo, she knows
their feelings for Alex and that nothing can change them. However, she
continues to struggle with her feelings, afraid that she’ll do something
inappropriate with Theo if she shows any affection, even if it’s met in a
friendly way. It’s always in the back of her mind when she’s alone with Theo,
and it can make for some awkward situations.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
part of Phee that’s completely unspoken is her place on the autism spectrum.
She’s undiagnosed, and hasn’t had the resources put into her for anyone to
recognize it. She’s often nervous in social situations, as she knows what she
calls “quirks” are off putting to people. Theo and Alex meet her needs so
completely, even though they’re unaware. They don’t view her as strange or
bothersome – when she has a need, they’re right there to meet it. Because of
this, she feels a lot safer with the two of them than she does anywhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The
major development in this book, however, is her realizing that she’s trans.
She’s been out as gay with specific people for the entire series, but she
hadn’t even considered that she was trans, she just knew that some things felt
wrong and didn’t know why. Everything really comes to a head in Family, where
she’s left remembering the party of the end of Love where Alex really made her
up in an effeminate way, and how good it felt. How free she felt. She continues
to deny herself, hoping desperately for it to be untrue. She holds a double
standard for herself – she thinks Theo is amazing for how out and proud they
are, but thinks that she’s terrible because she’s trans, that she can’t be
trans. It would cause too many problems.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I’d
have to say that Phee is the character that is the most like me in the series.
I shared most of these inner battles, and went through many of the same
emotions. I felt so much for her through all of these, and ended up really
rooting for her in the end. The inspiration for most of my characters is really
by the seat of my pants – I just sit down, and the words come. Because of this,
I think a lot of them draw from the inner parts of myself and the people around
me. She’s a beautiful soul, and I think you’ll really enjoy getting to know her
in The Family that Finds Us.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: medium;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></b></p>
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the origins of classic fantasy films by including an in-depth
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">by
Jim Nemeth and Bob Madison </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Genre:
Film History, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/itcamefrom-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="381" height="77" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/itcamefrom-about-the-book_orig.png" width="279" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/it-came-from-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="It Came From… The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films by Jim Nemeth and Bob Madison Genre: Film History, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/it-came-from-ebook_orig.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="It Came From… The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films by Jim Nemeth and Bob Madison Genre: Film History, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction" width="323" /></span></a><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">By day, Jim Nemeth is a technical
writer within the fields of computer software and biotechnology.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 0.2in;">As a professional writer, in 1993,
Jim won 1st Prize in a national magazine’s short story writing
contest for which novelists Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch were
judges. Winning held special meaning for Jim, as Robert Bloch remains
his favourite writer and main literary influence. Jim has had essays,
articles and reviews printed in a variety of magazines, including
</span><i style="text-indent: 0.2in;">Filmfax</i><span style="text-indent: 0.2in;">, </span><i style="text-indent: 0.2in;">Mad About Movies</i><span style="text-indent: 0.2in;">, and </span><i style="text-indent: 0.2in;">Scary Monsters</i><span style="text-indent: 0.2in;">.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A long-time community activist, Jim
is particularly committed to the causes of animal rescue and breast
cancer research.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>It Came From…: The Stories and
Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films</i>
is his first book. </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Born and raised in Chicago, Jim now
lives with his husband in historic Marblehead, Massachusetts.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theworksofjimnemeth.blogspot.com/">Website</a>
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