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June 10, 2014
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Zandernatis
I’m hosting the starter day party today for fantasy / alternate history / conspiracy theory novel “Zandernatis”. The tour runs from June 10 to July 10. I’ll be hosting an excerpt from the book during the tour. Please visit all the tour stops when you have the time.
Tour Schedule
June 10th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
June 11th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
June 12th: Promo Post @ Bestselling Thrillers
June 14th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian
June 15th: Book Excerpt @ Book...
June 9, 2014
Book Review: Savage by Gary Fry
Author: Gary Fry
Genre: Dark Fiction, Horror, Novella
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 2 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Driving home one day from a conference, Daryl seeks a shortcut through a barren countryside. He chances upon a mysterious village whose residents seem rather odd. But they have something to show him—a creature so strange he can hardly believe it exists.
And that’s only the beginning of Daryl’s problems, as he seek...
Book Tours: Guest Post for Divine Healing Made Simple
I’m hosting a guest post today for the book tour for “Divine Healing Made Simple” by Praying Medic . Enjoy the guest post!
Healing as Seen From the Spiritual Perspective
by Praying Medic
A friend came to visit me in Phoenix, but he forgot to bring shorts. I broke my coffeemaker a couple days after he arrived so a trip to the Goodwill store was in order. After a few minutes of browsing through the store he found his shorts, I picked up a slightly used Mr. Coffee and we headed for the checkout. W...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Unnerving
Title:Unnerving
Author: Karen J. Gallahue
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Pages: 231
Genre:Suspense/Thriller
Format: Kindle
Purchase atAMAZON
“You’re telling me that Ralph Kendrick, the bogeyman of my worst nightmares has escaped from jail?” Eyes wide and unbelieving, Fiona Morgan asked the detective standing at her front door. She reached for the door frame to steady her wobbly legs. When she was ten years old, Fiona Morgan and two Girl Scout friends stumbled across Ralph Kendrick murdering a young woman at...
Book Review: Hold Still by Lisa Regan
Author: Lisa Regan
Genre: Mystery / Suspense
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon Barnes & Noble Smashwords Kobo
After saving her three-year-old daughter from a car-jacking, off-duty police detective Jocelyn Rush ends up in the ER. The last person she expects to run into is Anita Grant, former prostitute and an old acquaintance from Jocelyn’s days on patrol. In spite of her obvious injuries—mutilated hands and feet—Anita refuses to talk about what happened. Reluctantl...
Release Day Party His Paris Affair

Author Bio
Christina OW writes suspense, thrillers, erotica, interracial and multicultural romance books. She is the author of Contemporary, Fantasy, Paranormal, Regency Romance books and a poet of currently 3 titles. She loves reading novels that take her on a ride of wild emotions. Books have always been an escape for her, for a few hours she gets to live the lives of characters she grows to cherish and admire. She’s always had an active imagination and because of it has lived in her head m...
June 8, 2014
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Peace and Love
Title:Peace and Love
Author: Leland Bedford
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 114
Genre:Religion/Inspirational
Format: Kindle
Purchase atAMAZON
My second book is full of songs, poems, short stories, commentaries and humor. It too is written in Spanish, English and Spanglish. You will be surprized to know how many Whites, Blacks and Asians here in the U.S. speak Spanish! This book too includes idioms and sayings between the poems and short stories. I hope you enjoy it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I was raised here in t...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Soul of the City
Title:The Soul of the City
Author: John McMillan
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 310
Genre:Literary Fiction
Format: Kindle
Purchase atAMAZON
The Soul of the City is a tale of two cities, Belfast and London, in the heady, liberating days of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Young Jim Mitchell moves through a succession of jobs, girlfriends and apartments in the quest for personal fulfillment and his dream of becoming a writer in the face of often dispiriting circumstances. There is the trauma of his affair...
June 7, 2014
Mini-Review: The Iron Traitor, Of Triton and Some Quiet Place
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
The Iron Traitor
Title: The Iron Traitor
Author: Julie Kagawa
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal
Rating: 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
In the real world, when you vanish into thin air for a week, people tend to notice.
After his unexpected journey into t...
June 6, 2014
Book Review: Earth Cell (The Ux-Blood Trilogy #1) by Charles Brass
Title: Earth Cell (The Ux-Blood Trilogy #1)
Author: Charles Brass
Genre: Science-Fiction
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
For centuries, the league of Cells and the Witches Guild have worked together to maintain order and stability across the overweb’s countless worlds. Young Maels Raptori stands to fulfill his dream of serving as warden – the highest honor one might achieve in a lifetime. When a powerful intruder n...