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October 1, 2018
Random Image Day!-#34
I almost did a cartwheel this morning. Ok, busted. I thought about doing one then realized I’m about as flexible as a cinder block, but at least I gave it a go in theory. Why would I even remotely envision myself attempting something I know would land me in the ER looking like a crash test dummy thrown off a building? Simply put, because it’s October 1st!
We’re starting the season off right at the Bearded Scribbler and diving right into my favorite season! Now that the RRBC Blog Hops have reached their conclusion and the celebratory “debut” of Book 3 post has been tossed out into the world, we can get back to the creepy and cool of this time of year.
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The weather begins to shift and the veil begins to weaken. The heavier clothes start to make an appearance as meals start arriving in bowls. I mean seriously, who doesn’t like heartier meals and desserts made of pumpkin, apples, or just random Halloween candy!?
The magic begins to increase as the wind carries with it a whisper of longer nights and starry filled skies amid pumpkins, bats, ghouls, and ghosts. Those who love the cooler weather will be found with a spring to their steps and eyes all aglow in the wonderment of the season. What better way to enjoy the magic but with a new read, or many!?
To start October off right, let’s call it Bootober, or Scareober, or Octocreepber…well you get it. If not, just follow along and enjoy the spills and thrills 
September 30, 2018
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 13: Part 2! #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Michael Hicks Thompson
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Book: THE RECTOR – https://www.amazon.com/dp/098452827X
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Book Blurb:
Thompson’s engaging, high-energy Christian murder mystery is narrated by Martha McRae, a woman living in a small Mississippi town who seeks to solve the mystery of the sudden death of pastor David Baddour. Throughout the novel, readers are introduced to the cast of characters who inhabit the small Delta town in the 1950s. The book gleefully mixes all the elements of a small-town murder mystery—gossip, foul play, backstabbing—and, as more is revealed about Pastor Baddour and the other townspeople, more mysteries, hypocrisies, and dangers add to the intrigue. Thompson’s tale looks intimately at what it means to function in a community—how a population can reveal and obscure the truth. The Rector works as a suspenseful murder mystery, Thompson also incorporates a spiritual and religious undertone to the story. This Christian Murder Mystery successfully intertwines faith in its plot twists with surprising results.
This small-town tale, set in the 1950s, delves into religion, spirituality, and murder; and is exceedingly clever and cunning. The small community of Solo, Mississippi, is rocked after the murder of a prominent religious figure. Law officials consider the case closed, much to the dismay of widow Martha McRae. She questions how the young rector could die so unexpectedly. After sharing her suspicion with her bible study leader, Betty Crain, a chain of events is set off in the small southern community. Gossip soon abounds with murmurings of foul play, murder, and loss of faith. In the case of whodunit, Martha soon finds that asking questions has put her own life in peril, as she comes face to face with evil.
Twitter: @mhthompsonsr
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 13: Part 1! #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Victoria Saccenti
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Book: DESTINY’S PLAN – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010361G4O/
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Book Blurb:
One empty bus seat. Two aching hearts. A future written by Fate…When Raquelita Muro’s overbearing mother rips her and her little sister away from their beloved Papa, one tiny, rebellious corner of Raquelita’s heart is grateful that the bus is crowded, and the only seat left is out of Mama’s sight. Next to a handsome young man.
Matthew Buchanan’s beautiful traveling companion is more than something pretty to look at before he ships out for Viet Nam. Deep in her sad, whisky-colored eyes he glimpses a new dream to replace the ones he’s leaving behind. It breaks his heart to leave Raquelita in her tyrannical mother’s hands, but she gifts him with a token of love and a tender promise to exchange letters in secret.
But their first, shy “hello” has reached the ears of Fate. Fate is in the mood to see how far it can push two lonely hearts—to the brink of temptation, desperation, and despair—before they break. Perhaps beyond any hope of healing…
Twitter: @VictoriaSAuthor
September 29, 2018
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 12 #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Nia Markos
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Book: ELEMENTS – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XDK1PLW/
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Book Blurb: For eighteen-year-old Alexa finding a place to put down roots after being forced into a nomadic life by her paranoid mother was not as simple as she had believed. Her attempt to settle down in the coastal town of Beverly comes to an abrupt halt. Within months an explosion levels her apartment building, and all her preconceived ideas of her world come to an end.
Now on the run, Alexa can only follow Bet, her roommate, into the unknown, where the worlds of the Sidhe race of faeries, warlocks, daemons, and shadows, threaten her very existence. Pulled into a prophecy that she together with Aidan, the Sidhe Prince, would right their worlds, Alexa finds herself fighting against the prophecy’s telling of her being bound to Aidan. What makes it worse is her increasing attachment to his brother Liam.
With her destiny set centuries ago, can she save their worlds in time, does she have a choice in whom to love, or will choosing her own path lead to their destruction?
Twitter: @NiaMarkos
September 28, 2018
Hold my baby, it’s the debut of Book 3!
As writers, especially indie authors, we go through a lot. Those within the realm of artists, be it paint, photography, or really anyone who creates can attest that there are times when we’re one drop of drool away from an asylum when it comes to our craft. As self-published authors, it can sometimes feel like we’re trying to lasso a tornado or herding cats when it comes to drafting, revising, editing, formatting, and the entire process. Sometimes we go a little crazy, sometimes that crazy makes magic.
In the span of a couple months, yes months because I’m not a magician with an additional twenty fingers able to run on multiple keyboards, magic happened. Maybe not the kind you imagine, but for me, it was oddly supernatural. It could be kismet or fate, but in the end, it was considered magic and good enough for me.
I managed to complete Book 3 of my supernatural fantasy and magical realism series, The Keeper Chronicles titled, “Withering Haunts” which oddly enough popped into my head after nixing several other contenders. Everything was complete, the only thing missing, my cover.
Yes, the cover, front and back. Anyone who has ever written a book can tell you that beyond the blurb writing hell we go through that cover design is an additional beast with many heads. Either one has to be talented enough to attempt your own or you have to pass it off to someone who can, I think we all know where I’m heading. I needed to swaddle my beastly creation, my baby, and hand it off to someone who could share my vision and masterfully navigate my spinning circus of ideas on what I expected. I have to admit I was nervous. It all worked out, my baby came home, the rest is now history. This is where the magic part got even better…
Before dropping the book pic, I just want to add a little information. Eeva from The Book Khaleesi at http://thebookkhaleesi.com did an amazing job and I could not possibly be any happier with the finished product. She took my baby and handed it back shinier, fresher, and shimmering with so much love that I’m surprised it didn’t start giggling and dancing, which would be weird considering it’s a book, but I digress. Major kudos to her skill and ability to “artify”(I don’t care I like the word and I’m sticking with it) from minor details. Much love and cheers to her continued success and all she works with. If you get the chance or are in need, I highly recommend. 
Poetry Friday — The Writer Next Door|Vashti Q
Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog. My plan was to release my new book, Son of the Serpent late summer. Well, things don’t always work out the way we plan them. The formatting is taking a while and I am now looking at a publication date at the beginning of November. However, Son of the […]
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 11 #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Amy Reece
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Book: THE WAY TO HER HEART – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D5FJ41M/
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Book Blurb: No amount of counseling can bring Josh Harris back to his old self. After a tragedy that changed his life forever, eighteen-year-old Josh has lived in a year-long fog of medication and confusion. It’s all he can do to not think about his dad—a culinary genius who raised him in the kitchen. Thankfully, Josh inherited his golden palate and sixth sense for cooking, which is the only thing that makes sense anymore.
For a seventeen-year-old girl, life can’t get much worse… Bernie Abeyta is a senior in high school and lives with her drug-addicted mother, but has managed to keep her grades up so she can get into college. With her father in prison and her mom’s sleazy boyfriend getting too close for comfort, Bernie turns to her best friend Gabby Rodriguez for help, but discovers Gabby has gone missing. Distressed over her friend’s sudden disappearance, Bernie resorts to living out of her car while she looks for answers and tries to avoid foster care.
Part love, part mystery, part cookbook—and all heart.
Twitter: @AReeceAuthor
September 27, 2018
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 10 #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Wendy Scott
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Book: HIEROGLYPH– https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016IZYDE4/
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Book Blurb:
13 year old TC has a secret. No one knows she possesses a supernatural power.
Can TC help her Uncle Max, an archaeologist; to unearth enough evidence to prove Ancient Egyptians visited Australia, before he’s discredited in the media by those that want the past to stay buried?
“Some would say that I have a gift, but to me it’s always been a curse. Before I changed my mind, I tugged off my gloves and whipped my head left and right, checking to see that no one was watching. I sucked in breath and steadied my nerves then thrust my hands against the stones and touched one of the cartouches. Time and place ripped away.”
An enthralling archaeological mystery, mixing the supernatural with humour and suspense.
Twitter: @WendyJayneScott
September 26, 2018
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 9 #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Bette Stevens
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Book: DOG BONE SOUP – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S5RMUDK/
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Book Blurb:
Whether or not You Grew Up in the 1950s and 60s, you’ll find DOG BONE SOUP (Historical Fiction) to be soup for the soul. In this coming-of-age novel, Shawn Daniels’s father is the town drunk. Shawn and his brother Willie are in charge of handling everything that needs to be done around the ramshackle place they call home—lugging in water for cooking and cleaning, splitting and stacking firewood…But when chores are done, these resourceful kids strike out on boundless adventures that don’t cost a dime.
DOG BONE SOUP is the poignant tale of a dysfunctional family struggling to survive in America in the 50s and 60s, when others were living The American Dream.
Twitter: @BetteAStevens
September 25, 2018
“TREAT” Reads Blog Hop!- Day 8 #RRBC #RRBCTreatReads
Greetings! Welcome to the 2nd RRBC “TREAT” Reads Blog Hop! These members of RRBC have penned and published some really great reads and we’d like to honor and showcase their talent. Oddly, all of the listed Winners are RWISA members! Way to go RWISA!
We ask that you pick up a copy of the title listed, and after reading it, leave a review. There will be other books on tour for the next few days, so please visit the “HOP’S” main page to follow along.
Also, for every comment that you leave along this tour, including on the “HOP’S” main page, your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to be awarded at the end of the tour!
Author, Bernard Foong
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Book: TURPITUDE – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQYPU30/
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Book Blurb:
Turpitude is the fourth book to A Harem Boy’s Saga, a provocative story about a young man who was initiated into a clandestine sexual society through his UK boarding school. From there, he was spirited to the Middle East to attend the Bahriji (Oasis) School in The United Arab Emirates in preparation for Harem services for the wealthy elite. It is also a love story between the young man, his ‘Big Brother,’ and his ‘Valet,’ who served as his chaperones and mentors.
This book follows the teenagers’ erotic and exotic adventures and experiences at their fourth Arabian Household, the Assalamu Alaikum (Peace Be with You) Harem. There, they became confidants to a sheik, assistants to his numerous international ventures, especially that of a film production: “Kāmasūtra – Lover’s Tale.” The teenagers continue to apprentice and model in a controversial photography project, “Sacred Sex in Sacred Places.”
This story is an account of the author’s experiences. Through these truths, often demonized by contemporary societies that deem such behaviors inappropriate, the author hopes to dispel condemnation and negativity related to sexuality, love, and personal freedom.
Twitter: @bernardfoong
