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May 12, 2014
Book Review: Hangman by Stephan Talty
Title: Hangman
Author: Stephan Talty
Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty’s acclaimed fiction debut, Black Irish, won him comparisons to such thriller masters as Jo Nesbø, Karin Slaughter, and Tana French. Now, his chilling new novel brings back intrepid heroine Absalom Kearney, a driven police detective with a haunted past, trying to...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Earth Cell
I’m hosting a starter day party today for science-fiction novel “Earth Cell”. The tour runs from May 12 to June 12. I’ll be reviewing the book on June 7. Stay tuned for the review, and in the mean time, visit the other tour stops.
Tour Schedule
May 12th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
May 13th: Book Excerpt @ Deal Sharing Aunt
May 14th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian
May 15th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
May 17th: Book Review @ Bookish Madness
May 18th: Book Excerpt @ Bookaho...
May 10, 2014
Guest Post: The Writer’s Life by Jeffrey Perren
This Writer’s Life by Jeffrey Perren
Up before dawn — make tea for me, coffee for the wife. Check emails — marketing tasks, correspondence with beta readers, and miscellaneous.
So far, that doesn’t sound very exciting. But that’s the business side of things. I leave as much of that as I can to my publicist — remembering how blessed I am to have one who loves my work.
Later, write or edit the latest story. Currently, that’s Clonmac’s Bridge, the tale of a maritime archaeologist who discovers a Da...
Book Review: Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
Title: Monument 14
Author: Emmy Laybourne
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 3,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only, if i...
Book Review: This Could Have Been Our Song! (Coulda Woulda Shoulda Song #1)
Title: This Could Have Been our Song! (Coulda Woulda Shoulda Song #1)
Author: Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba
Genre: Romance, Interracial Romance, Comedy
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon Link | Smashwords |B&N
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Book one:
Love can be such a “coulda, woulda, shoulda” song sometimes…
Lucia Mpobo-Riddell could have been a dancer like the rest of women of her family but instead she chose music. Marcus Gra...
May 9, 2014
Book Review: Blood Moon by T. Lynne Tolles
Title: Blood Moon
Author: T. Lynne Tolles
Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance
Age Group: New Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
The gang finds themselves up to their eyeballs in family history when clues are revealed that suggest an evil curse is hidden within the O’Rielly Book of Shadows. An old family diary divulges the O’Rielly family was an integral part in stymying a power hungry witch that took the lives of...
May 8, 2014
Book Review: Policing the Paranormal by Paul Hope
Title: Policing the Paranormal
Author: Paul Hope
Genre: Non-Fiction, True Haunting
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The Commonwealth of Virginia has witnessed some of the most dramatic events of U.S. history and is known to be rich with haunted locations and paranormal activity. But what most people don’t know is just how paranormally active Virginia is, especially within the center of the Commonwealth’s most politically presti...
Release Day Party Collide
We’re happy to host the release day party today for contemporary romance “Collide”. Get your own copy of the book here:
Buy a copy of the book on Amazon!
Buy on KoboBooks
Or if you’re feeling lucky, there’s a giveaway for 5 eBook copies of the book. Scroll down to participate!
About Collide
Title: Collide
Author: Melissa Toppen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Grace Morgan is just like any other new college graduate. Driven, head strong, and full of life, or so that’s what she lets...
Book Tours: Guest Post for the Heartbreak Series
Special Guest: Renee Lee Fisher!
What you have learned in the process of writing The Heartbeat Series?
First to answer the question above, I believe I have learned that in life possibilities are truly endless. When I started with a story line for The Heartbeat Series, I knew how I wanted the series to flow and which characters I wanted to create. What I didn’t foresee was that there would be an entire other story line played out in real life at that same time.
While wrapping up the first book Ro...
Book Review: Five by Ursula P. Archer
Title: Five
Athor: Ursula P. Archer
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
EVERY CORPSE IS A CLUE
N47° 46.605 E013° 21.718. A dismembered hand
N47° 48.022 E013° 10.910 Two severed ears
N47° 26.195 E013° 12.523 A mutilated corpse
A woman is found murdered. Tattooed on her feet is a strange combination of numbers and letters.
Map co-ordinates. The start of a sinister treasure hunt by a twisted killer...
