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March 10, 2015
Review of Magnolia Secrets
Originally posted on Novels by Jennifer Hinsman:
Magnolia Secrets by Beth Hale
This book was a really fast read, short and interesting. I liked the main characters Lainey and Walker. There are many things about Lainey’s life that are very sad, and hard to read about at times. There was nonstop action throughout and it really kept my attention. I was anxious to finish it to find out how it all ended. I would recommend this book to friends for sure. I enjoyed it!
http://www.amazon.com/Magnolia-Secrets-Beth-Hale-ebook/dp/B00QKT752Q
March 9, 2015
Four days left on the TEN book giveaway at Goodreads for Another Sunset
There are four days left in this ten book giveaway that runs through March 14th for Another Sunset.
I have been getting some good follow up from the readers and some reviews to go along with that. The obvious reasons for doing this is exposure to my writing and the feedback.
So with that – here are the details on this giveaway.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Another Sunset
by Jason Zandri
Giveaway ends March 14, 2015.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
BLOG TOUR ‘It’s Reigning Men’ on A Word With Traci
Welcome to the second week of the ‘It’s Reigning Men’ tour at AWWT! This week, I am pleased to host a special friend of mine, and super nice guy. I recently read his book and truly was so touched by his words, I will never view “another sunset” (the concept, not the book) the same. No pun intended. Please welcome, Jason Zandri to AWWT!
March 8, 2015
Rave Reviews Spotlight Author April Adams and Inspiration
Originally posted on Jennie Sherwin:
It is my pleasure to host April Adams, fellow Rave Reviews Book Club member and Spotlight Author. April shares her thoughts about writers’ inspiration. We all need inspiration as well as practical support. I encourage you to show your support for April by following her on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. Pick up a copy of her book on Amazon. See April’s links below. While you’re at it, stop by the Rave Reviews website, a great place for authors and readers. If you join, tell RRBC that April sent you. Here is April in her own words.
April Adams
How Inspiration Strikes and What I Do About It
Inspiration is a funny thing. It can strike without warning. One minute, I’m sitting there watching my infant being awesome, and the next my mind is swirling with a story line that just sort of blipped into existence! I love those moments. I can…
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March 5, 2015
I, Hero – The Beginning
Prelude
Nathan stepped to the side of his ailing father’s bed. The cancer was about to have its endgame. Nathan did the best he could to keep a strong face forward for his father. He knew if he opened his eyes again, he would want him to see that he wasn’t upset.
“When it’s your time, there’s nothing you can do to change that outcome. The only thing you can do is meet it head on,” Brian Devron told his son the last time he was fully lucid. “I’ve done the best I could to teach you everything I know. A father does that his whole life for his children. Some have very little time. Others have decades. I don’t feel robbed having only twenty two years of your life to do that. It’s not about the quantity of time, it’s the quality. That is what we have had. I don’t know what life has in store for you. No one really does. You move about it the best you can with the gifts you possess. Give back more than you take. Compete only with yourself. Live life by your own measure, no one else’s.”
Those would be the last words of wisdom that he passed along to his only son.
The son would bury the father on a Thursday and spend the next few weeks settling his estate and liquidating his assets.
He would spend the remainder of that school year finishing up his degree. He then moved from Connecticut to an apartment in the Kips Bay area of New York City over that summer.
With the following fall, a year later, came change.
Nothing was ever the same again.
THE BLOG TOUR – starring J.L. MCFADDEN
THE BLOG TOUR – starring J.L. MCFADDEN
J.L. MCFADDEN
Please tell us a bit about Choices.
In the world of vampires that is hidden from humanity there has been a huge power shift: Adela a very attractive female vampire had finally had the power she needed to strike down the man that had tormented and tortured her, her entire life. For centuries one vampire ruled over the covens, but took special joy in taunting Adela due to her rejecting all of his advancements while she was still human. There is a love triangle in this book between Adela, her great grandniece and a human that has some supernatural strength to him. He is bonded to Gala – Adela’s Great grandniece – which is where he gets is strength from. A human that has a spiritual bond with a vampire is called a Guardian. The problem is Gala cannot deal with any sort of deep connection with anyone. The Guardian is torn between Adela and Gala, while Adela fights off her desires for him for her Gala’s sake.
So this book is part of a series or trilogy?
Yes, it is the 3rd in the series, but I have written it in the way that it can be read as a standalone.
Why do you think that people are so drawn to the paranormal world?
The evident clicking down of someone’s own mortality could be a good enough reason for someone to fantasize about vampires. I really believe there is some other reason, because there is a romance that we find with it, is there not? If not a vampire that could give you immortality and super human abilities – a werewolf that could give you supernatural powers – I think there is something deeper and more primal about this that lay somewhere deep in our natural born instincts, that I myself nor anyone else is ever going to completely understand.
Who are some of your heroes in the writing world?
Well, Terry Pratchett, Dan Brown, Stephanie Meyer, King, and Poe. Terry Pratchett is my favorite by all means, because of him flipping our world on its head and having fun with it. I love how Dan Brown can paint the canvas of your imagination – when his characters walk into a room – you can actually imagine the room in great detail in your mind. Stephanie Meyer has written my favorite book of all time – the Host – the emotional roller coaster she takes the reader on in this incredible epic I have never seen before. King who is also the King of horror – and scared the hell out of me as a child with his movies – has written a large volume of works that for the most part hold the same quality of work as his earlier. My mother was a member of his book club, so every time a new book was released she got a new book and had a month to decide if she wanted to keep it or not. I was about nine years old and thought, “Wow, he is an author and smart business man.” Poe he is and will be known as one of the best tragic authors of all time. Last year, I was truffled to bits when I found a fully illustrated complete works of Poe.
Do you have a favorite character out of the books you read?
Death from Terry Pratchett – he is always bending the rules trying to save a person or humanity from an ill fate. It is funny how he is always trying to understand people – he loves them and cares for them – but can’t get his head around them.
Do you have any hobbies?
Languages are a big thing for me since I live overseas. Martials arts have been a huge part of my life for years; I have been studying Jujitsu most of my life and now am studying Aikido. Skiing is also one of my favorite hobbies.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be yourself and never give up. You need to find people you are comfortable with working with. You also have to be careful of scammers that just want to take your money and not really deliver what they pitched to you. Best advice I can give you is befriend authors that have been in the business and ask them about who they use and who to stay away from.
Can you describe to us your work station?
You mean the man cave – I have two monitors running at all times – one is playing music videos or a movie and the other has MS opened up for me to work on. I always have my chinchilla nearby, because he likes to sit on my shoulder and watch me type. Sometimes I think he is being a critic of my work and other times he will be parkouring around my “man cave” while I am writing. In the warmer months I am out on my enclosed balcony that out looks a nice tree line. There is an old two shelf cabinet that is over head with glass doors that I use for my collection of spirits and I have two Japanese type lamps hanging below it to help light my working space. I have a Zen type of battery powered waterfall that I have in between the two monitors. There is also a painting of a European park in the autumn time that fits perfectly between my desk and cabinet.
After looking over your FB page I noticed that you are dating what the modal for your last two books, am I right about this?
Yes, Lenka and I started dating after she did the cover for Choices. I did the cover even before I wrote the book, because I knew I wanted the two covers to match up, so I asked her to do the cover for Choices while I was still writing Adela.
How do you two communicate?
She doesn’t speak any English, so we only speak to each other in Russian and Ukrainian. It is common in this country for people to actually use both languages together.
Out of curiosity, is there ever any communication issues?
Not so much, we understand each other pretty well. More like cultural issues from time to time, but no not really.
What do you think about self-publishing?
It has its advantages and disadvantages I believe every author needs to way out publishing verses self-publishing for themselves. I believe that the most important thing is watching the small print on everything and beware of the scammers out there – that is in any industry.
It has been a pleasure interviewing you and I am looking forward to your next book…
Thank you and it was a pleasure as well.
Author Bio: J.L McFadden was born in Pennsylvania and spent his life bouncing around the States until beginning to travel the world. Starting out he was a well-known musician in upstate New York that had a heavy playing schedule. Later he went back to his home state to work in the Lumber mills of the mountains. In California working in sales, management and even directed a small moving company until deciding to see the world. His travels around the world have allotted him to not only join an International Aikikai Aikido Federation, but have trained with Sanseis from Belgium, Ukraine, Russia and other European countries. He accounts his journeys and meeting of new people to his broad character types in his books.
Book Blurb: While still doubled over, picking up a book, Adela stated with a sultry voice, “One of these days, I am going to make you deliver on all of those promised ideas, running through your head when you watch me.” She had a playful sound to her voice with her smile, telling that fulfilling his dreams was not out of the question.
Website: http://www.jlmcfadden.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officaljlmcfadden
G+: https://plus.google.com/+JamieLeeMcFadden/posts
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamieleemcfadde
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20842432-choices
Purchase:
BN: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/choices-j-l-mcfadden/1121101320?ean=9781492747246
Rafflecopter Giveaway: https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/4af5be7f12/
Goodreads Event Page: https://www.goodreads.com/event/show/956279-choices-blog-tour
This tour sponsored by 4WillsPublishing.wordpress.com
March 4, 2015
A Book Review of my book “Another Sunset” as reviewed by Andy Peloquin
Originally posted on Andy Peloquin
Book Review: Another Sunset by Jason Zandri
Posted on March 4, 2015 by Andy Peloquin
It’s Book Review Wednesday again, and today I’m quite pleased to bring you a story that was surprisingly moving for me…
To read the entire post, please follow the “Book Review:” link above.
This time a TEN book giveaway at Goodreads for Another Sunset
Yeah I decided to do ten books in this giveaway that runs through March 14th. I have been getting some good follow up from the readers and some reviews to go along with that. The obvious reasons for doing this is exposure to my writing and the feedback.
So with that – here are the details on this giveaway.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Another Sunset
by Jason Zandri
Giveaway ends March 14, 2015.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
March 3, 2015
Two projects on tap – the “As Life Goes” five book series and “I, Hero”
Well I’ve decided on my next two literary works.
I was planning to work on “As Life Goes” and working two of the titles over the summer with a planned autumn release. The series is tentatively set to be:
As Life Goes: Elementary – (expected September 2015)
As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence – (expected November 2015)
As Life Goes: The Reunion – (expected April 2016)
As Life Goes: The Wedding (expected July 2016)
As Life Goes: The Funeral (expected October 2016)
The book series follows the lives of a group of friends through two segments of their lives together as kids and teens in high school, and then again as adults.
I plan to write the books in pairs, with As Life Goes: The Funeral, as a single element at the end.
While I was outlining this another story cropped up on me (“I, Hero”) so I MAY (big MAY) try to execute this now ahead of the summer writing session.
I plan the summer time as my kids are away but I have been “accidentally” executing 1,000 words a day (unplanned) on “I, Hero” and if that pace maintains I would be able to get it off to editing for May with a possible release for the summer.
So it’s really a big “maybe” but we’ll see how that goes.
But “As Life Goes” – that’s green; I am doing that from a coma if need be.
The energy is there. I am not sure how but I never question why. I throw gas on the fire, harness the energy, and WRITE.
March 2, 2015
Marquee Monday – Jason Zandri
Originally posted on See Bethany Blog:
On Marquee Monday, I don’t self-promote at all. Whatever time and energy I have goes instead to another author to whom I want to say thanks. I’m genuinely excited to spend a day promoting today’s marquee author, and I hope you will help me raise him up a bit.
Just so you know, I decided on Saturday that Jason Zandri would be on the marquee this Monday. And then on Sunday, Rave Reviews Book Club named him Member of the Month. Why do I point this out? Because it just drives home the fact that everyone is taking note of the support Jason Zandri is giving to others! I’m not featuring him on Marquee Monday because he is the RRBC Member of the Month, but that fact does make me even more proud to send a little more attention his way.
Last week in a Rave Reviews Book Club online…
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