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August 17, 2015
Another place to list your titles!
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed since I’ve become an indie author, it’s that visibility is usually the biggest obstacle to success. I hear this from indie authors of all ilk, asking how can I find readers if I’m just starting out. Well, one great way is to find where the readers go, and list your book there. There are tons of sites that do this, but they charge you a fee, and I am flat broke. Enter Don Sloan, another author extraordinaire.
Don has started a sight where you can list your work, for free, as long as it is a free or bargain book. There are all kinds of titles on this site, from just about every genre.
So, when he contacted me and asked me to make a post about it, I said, “Why the hell not? What better way to help support my indie author friends than finding them places to get their books in front of readers eyes?” So, without further ado, I give you https://justfreeandbargainbooks.wordp...
Check it out, find your next read, and have an excellent week! #SupportIndieAuthors!
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The Masquerade, an Altar, & a Fairy by Kristin D. Van Risseghem
This book was a fun quick read for me. I enjoyed the character of Sidelle. I enjoyed this book very much. * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review* 5/5
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Deadly Secrets by Gordon Bickerstaff
This book kept things interesting for me. I did enjoy the story line. I like mysteries and thrillers so a blend of the two was very nice for me. Being that is also a medical thriller is very dear to me. I had to give this book a chance and I did enjoy it. * I received this book from the author in a LibraryThing giveaway in exchange for an honest review* 4/5
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Deadly Secrets by Gordon Bickerstaff
This book kept things interesting for me. I did enjoy the story line. I like mysteries and thrillers so a blend of the two was very nice for me. Being that is also a medical thriller is very dear to me. I had to give this book a chance and I did enjoy it. * I received this book from the author in a LibraryThing giveaway in exchange for an honest review* 4/5
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The Season of Lightning by Kate Avery Ellison
I enjoyed this book as well. I like the author Kate Avery Ellison. I enjoy her books very much and this one is no exception. This book felt a little Civil War era to me. I enjoyed the character and the romance and also the adventure within these pages. This book has many good qualities in it. I think you should give this book a try. * I received this book from the author in a LibraryThing giveaway in exchange for an honest review* 4/5
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Rarity from the Hollow by Robert Eggleton
This book to me was very different in a good way. I love the character of Lacy and I love the idea of her powers to help. This book was unique and I enjoy finding books that to not fit any type of certain mold. Lucy’s father is a bad guy and I do not like his character but what is a story without good and evil right? * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review* 5/5
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August 16, 2015
Brain to Books Blog Tour Madelein McLaughlin
Fast Facts:
Author: Madeleine McLaughlin
Genre: Young Adult/ Tween/ Horror/ Children’s Picture Book
Book: Beggar Charlie
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Bio
Madeleine McLaughlin began writing in the 1990’s after a career of several types of jobs. By this time she lived in Ottawa, having come from BC on the west coast of Canada.A story she wrote in 1990’s was released by MuseItUp Publishing in 2011 and her second release, Beggar Charlie, was published by the same publisher in 2014,
She still lives in Ottawa.
Accomplishments
Madeleine McLaughlin is a graduate of Career Canada College in Travel and Tourism. She has published in e-zines, including Apollo’s Lyre and Flurries Of Words, and others which have since gone off-line.
2011 – The Mountain City Bronzes published
2014 – Beggar Charlie published
2015 – I Want To Go To School will be published in September by Fox Tots Publishing.
Blurb
Beggar Charlie is an orphan from England in the Victorian Era. After winding up on a merchant ship, he gets shore leave in China with another sailor. There, they make friends with Tang, a wealthy Chinese boy.When the boy’s father is killed in a rebellion and their ship is sunk, the three boys must find a way to get back to England and find a home for Tang.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Short Read July 30, 2014
By Lady Bug Lin
Beggar Charlie, by Madeleine McLaughlin, a Tween adventure available from MuseItUp publishing is a short story set in a time frame when children were not cherished, and life is not all that valued.Orphaned when he woke to find his mother had died beside him somewhere throughout the night, Charlie is sold into the sailing life under Captain Butler, a man who keeps him close against the river rats that would set upon the boy without a second thought. Living at sea is a brutal life under the best of times, but when you are barely as high as a knee cap and you’re grieving your mother, it can be terrifying.
Captain Butler sails them to China, gifts him and the next oldest boy Hickory Dick the first shore time…but the China shores are in unrest and the people, many of them addicted to the vagaries of Opium, angry.
Walking the streets of this strange land where people speak “China-talk” they find a native lad Tang who invites the boys to his father’s house for some hospitality. What they find will bring three lads together to brave the world as they seek refuge somewhere for them to live out their childhoods together.
Leaving the house of violent death, Tang now a part of their little unit watch the captain tossed overboard and the ship…sink.
The three boys set off, watching each other’s back heading for Tang’s aunt in Shanghai and the hope of a future three boys can share and find comfort in.
Family, they learn, can come from those not attached to you by blood. Some comes through shared experience, shared concern for making it through times no longer anything remotely like what they expected.
This is a beautiful, touching story about courage in the face of terrible necessity, and opening your heart, soul, and beliefs to those who might be strangers but are more important to you now that you have survived so much, than the very breath you breathe.
This is a powerful short story I cannot recommend highly enough.
In a time where we look at others and call them names because we have nothing important to otherwise focus our inner powers on, I found this a story that any and every teacher should make required reading.
Well Done, Ms. McLaughlin
FIVE STARS easily..wish I could give it more.
Read an Excerpt
When I heave my limping body up from sleep, calm seas are washing under me
and along China-land. I use senses I haven’t thought of for months, almost tasting the
food’s delicious scents that float through the air, while touching my finally steady feet
solidly on the planks. For a while, I can leave worm-filled ship grub behind and walk
as proper as the highest born lord.
The air carries a tumult of voices up to me. Not one word I’m able to understand.
These China-men stand around the outside of a giant brick wall, yelling and ajabbering
away like their tongues be the fastest road to Heaven itself. They be market
men, like the fishmongers in London. All about them is food and China things. This
China soil is so damp and fertile that its smell seems to grow right up into my nose. I
feel, too, that here be a place I might like.
My dream last night didn’t tell me how long I would have to wait to go ashore. I
find Captain Butler on the poop deck.
“Captain Butler.” I can run quite well onboard even though my legs are still
shaking from the fright of the storm. If avoiding the heavy ropes and pulleys of the
winches is making me a sea cur then I guess that’s what I am. It seems like a crowd of
winches are on deck and the tars are a-hauling them up to the sides, maneuvering the
taffrails and other parts of the ship. I stop short in front of the captain. “Could I go
ashore now, please, Master-sir?”
“I’ll fetch Master Richard. You there! Don’t move the winches too fast! Well,
there’s Master Richard right there. Come here, sir.” The captain’s voice is always
loud, even when we are among the babble of the riverbanks, the closest point to the
city of Shanghai’s East Gate.
“Yes, sir, Captain.” Hickory Dick’s lean body bends toward Captain Butler like a
bowing waiter.
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Brain to Books Blog Tour Wolf Schimanski
Fast Facts:
Author: Wolf Schimanski
Genre: Action/Thriller
Book: Meter of Corruption from the Meter Series
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Bio
Wolf Schimanski is a member of the London Ontario Writers Society, Books are in the London, Ontario and Wasaga Beach Ontario Library system, published interviews by various blog sites, Short story “The cat than knew too Much” published in Online Mystic Illuminations Magazine, Came second in international “Cover Wars” contest with over 800 votes, attended prestigious Eden Mills Writers festival 2 years running, 2 library book readings and various book sales and signing event.Blurb
Jon-Erik, Joey, Angel, and Tina have been through some severe tough times together, and they have made it through to the other side. But just as things are finally calming down and starting to go smoothly for them, chaos re-enters their lives and threatens to destroy everything they hold dear.
This highly anticipated sequel to author Wolf Schimanski’s debut novelMeter of Deception finds the fearless foursome comfortably settled in a domestic paradise. Jon-Erik and Angel as well as Joey and Tina have settled down and are engaged to be married, and the men are working together as partners in Joey’s family furniture business.But corporate shark Richard Rasmussin has his sights set on their business and he is determined to swallow it whole. A ruthless, underhanded, crooked man, he’ll stop at nothing until he takes hold of the business, and he will do whatever it takes to make sure that no one interferes with his larger, wide-sweeping, wicked schemes.
Can these four friends muster up the courage and skill to survive Rasmussin’s attacks? Or will they fall victim to corruption, depravity, and danger that is unprecedented even for them?
The second installment in the Meter trilogy, Meter of Corruption, follows the protagonists as they look to protect their lives and livelihoods from the sinister web that threatens to suffocate them. Full of non-stop action, unexpected plot twists, and spine-tingling revelations, this page turner spans wayward and exotic locations such as Jamaica and Russia, and delves into an underworld so dark and diabolical it will leave you at loss for words.
“Bigger and Faster than James Bond” Hercule Poirot Literary Prizewinning author Bob Van Laerhoven
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Excerpt
Like a coiled spring, Angel launched herself at her hated adversary who shook her off as if she was water from a shower.
“You want to play. And I will play with you but for now we will wait and watch the show I have arranged for both of you. Unfortunately, your skillful friend here is a key part of this demonstration and you have the extreme privilege to watch as my Ubertier destroys what could up to now not be destroyed.”
“Release the beast,” instructed Richard.
“If my creature passes this final test and destroys our friend, he will be ready for cloning and mass production. Let the fun begin.”
The Monster stood perfectly still in the middle of the large enclosed room sniffing the air and he knew what assaulted his nostrils now was not human. The other door in the room opened and nothing happened for a second or two until a flash of color streaked into the battleground. But even the bloodthirsty and highly on edge creation hesitated just for a moment, as its finely tuned senses told it this was not the usual offal it was used to tearing limb from limb. This was something that made it sit back on its large muscular haunches and study this powerful looking human now also fully focused on it before making a move.
“Good, it has sensed that this opponent is extra-ordinary and is studying him before attacking. We have never had the opportunity to see it do this until now,” exclaimed the German, rubbing his hands with glee.
Angel was too transfixed by the sight below her to make any more sudden moves. She just sat there rooted to her chair watching a creation from the bowels of hell itself creeping ever so slowly up to her protector. And as if on cue, knowing this was its starring role, the Ubertier moved with incredible speed diagonally along one of the outer walls before launching itself onto the spot where the Ninja stood.
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Because everyone needs a little support at some point in their life! Love the lines in this one.
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A Spirited Evening and Other Stories by K.B. Goddard
Good book of supernatural short stories. I enjoyed each story very much. I like the vengeful ghosts idea in some of the stories as well. I different like dark and creepy and this stories did that for me. * I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review* 5/5
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