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June 20, 2013
RACIALICIOUS (loving day blog hop)
LOVING DAY BLOG HOP
INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND POP CULTURE
My topic for the blog hop was ‘Interracial Relationships and Pop culture.’ Let’s start with a little bit of history…
Interracial relationships occur when two people of different races are in a relationship. This is a form of exogamy, when someone enters a relationship outside of their social group. Years ago, anti-miscegenation laws forced racial segregation and intimate relationships between two people of different races were illegal.
June 11, 2013
RACIALICIOUS (loving day blog hop)
LOVING DAY BLOG HOP 
INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND POP CULTURE
My topic for the blog hop was ‘Interracial Relationships and Pop culture.’ Let’s start with a little bit of history…
Interracial relationships occur when two people of different races are in a relationship. This is a form of exogamy, when someone enters a relationship outside of their social group. Years ago, anti-miscegenation laws forced racial segregation and intimate relationships between two people of different races were illegal. In 1967 this law was abolished in the United States, after the second World War other nations repealed the anti-miscegenation laws. In recent times there have been an escalating number of interracial relationships, showing how far people have come. There are close to two million interracial marriages in the United States and the United Kingdom.
A great number of authors have fallen in love with the interracial genre. The African American genre has yet to see the large presence that the Caucasians have, in TV, movies and books. An example is the Bachelor and Bachelorette series has been accused of being an all white program. They have yet to have a Bachelor/ette that isn’t white.
RACIALICIOUS is the new term to describe the intersection of race and pop culture. This is according to the website RACIALICIOUS that focuses on Race, Culture and Identity in the Color-struck world.The pop culture especially when it comes to visual media, TV and movies has a large impact on the opinions that their audiences have. People’s opinions on race are at times a reflection on what we see on the media. In recent movies and TV shows and movies interracial relationships have become popular, Joyful Noise, Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy. Celebrities such as Robin Thicke and Paula Patton, Khloe and Lamar Odom and Kim and Kanye, Rutina Wesley and James Fishel are examples of interracial romance taking over the world of entertainment.
The purpose of the Loving Day blog hop is to promote the interracial romance genre and the authors, in the literary world. As an author I mostly write interracial love stories. In my book SHADES OF SPRING 1964; LETTERS TO MY DAUGHTER I write about an interracial couple in both the modern time and in 1964 when the anti-miscegenation laws were in effect. It is about how similar and how different Robert and Kristen/ Taylor and Maxine’s lives are. It is available on Amazon.
On behalf of all the authors I would like to say thank you for being here with us today. Next in line is MYA, http://www.myasden.blogspot.com enjoy!!!
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TWITTER;https://twitter.com/MOK_Author
FACEBOOK PAGE;http://www.facebook.com/MokAuthor?ref=hl
GOODREADS;http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6445835.M_O_Kenyan
June 10, 2013
NEW RELEASE 5 PRINCE PUBLISHING; ANNE SWAN
Available from 5 Prince Publishing http://www.5princebooks.com books@5princebooks.com
Genre:Fiction, Romantic, Suspense
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Digital ISBN 13:978-1-939217-50-9 ISBN 10:1-939217-50-4
Print ISBN 13:978-1-939217-49-3 ISBN 10:1-939217-49-0
Purchase link : http://www.5princebooks.com/buy.htm
Stutter Creek
She went looking for an old flame and found a serial killer instead. When Beth lost her father to cancer and her husband to another woman, she didn’t know where to turn. So she retreated to the family cabin at Stutter Creek. Some of the best times of her life were spent at that cabin. That’s where she met her first crush, a boy named John. But that was many years ago . . . could he possibly still be around? Or would she find something sinister instead?
Ann Swann is the author of All For Love, a contemporary love story published by 5 Prince Publishing. She is the author of Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot, and Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student, tales of the supernatural. She has also written numerous award winning short stories. She lives in West Texas with her husband and their rescue pets. She loves libraries and book stores and owns two different e-readers just for fun. Her to-be-read list has taken on a life of its own. She calls it Herman.
How to Contact Ann Swann:
Amazon Central: http://tinyurl.com/6wl3oe2
Blog: http://www.annswann.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/annswann.authorfanpage
Twitter: @ann_swann
Email: swannann76@yahoo.com
Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/6vuw7vl
EXCERPT of Stutter Creek:
Amanda Myers was making a conscious effort to keep her heavy foot off the Toyota’s gas pedal when she spied what appeared to be a small boy standing beside the road. An old fashioned newsboy cap nearly obscured his tiny face.
Mandy hit the brake and steered the Celica toward the gravel shoulder. With a practiced hand, she quickly texted her coworker, Myra, and asked her to concoct a cover story for her tardiness.
The kid had seemed very small in silhouette—maybe five or six years old—and no house or vehicle in sight.
When Myra texted back to say the boss was on the warpath, Mandy replied, “Well, just tell him I stopped to pick up a boy on the edge of town. That should really turn his face red!” It was an inside joke. Everyone knew when the boss’s face was red it was wise to give him a wide berth.
Myra sent back a row of question marks.
“L8R,” Mandy responded. She looked all around. She had assumed the little guy would come dashing up to the car as soon as she had come to a stop. But even when she could no longer hear the crunch of her tires on gravel, he still hadn’t materialized.
I didn’t pass him by that much.
Craning her neck to see past the Toyota’s blind spot, Mandy dropped the phone into the center console drink holder and shoved the gearshift into park. A thick stand of live oaks cast a deep shadow over the bar ditch. The setting sun made the trees appear as black-paper cutouts in a landscape collage.
After checking her mirrors to make sure no one was behind her, Mandy pressed the button to lower the passenger-side window.
It was almost all the way down when a man yanked open the door and exploded into her world like a tornado into a trailer park. Her hand flew to the gearshift, but she couldn’t engage it. Even as her flight instinct kicked in, part of her mind was telling her this was almost certainly the same strange guy who had requested her section at the restaurant the night before. His eyes had seemed to follow her all around the crowded dining room, and his oily stench had made him stand out like a spot of mold on white linen.
Mandy drew in breath to scream, her hand scrambling across the console for her phone or the gearshift, whichever came first, but he was too fast. With lightning speed, he dove across the seat and slapped a rectangle of duct tape across her mouth. At the same time, he buried his free hand knuckle deep in the thick blonde braid at the base of her skull even as his other hand slid down to her windpipe and began to squeeze.
Mandy’s fight instinct kicked in then, and she whipped her head back and forth in an effort to dislodge his hands. His stench, and the oily filth of his unkempt hair, was sickening. She clawed at his eyes, ripped at his skin, but it was no use. The psycho laughed and simply leaned his head back out of her reach.
That’s when Mandy began to claw at her own face, attempting to scratch the silver tape off her mouth. It didn’t matter. There was no one around to hear her scream even if she could have gotten it off.
She wasn’t a quitter, though. Mandy did her best to get her feet out from under the steering column to kick. But he was pressing down on her with his whole weight. She was trapped. Calmly, the psycho took one hand off her throat, doubled up his fist, and hit her so hard the back of her skull struck the driver’s side window with an audible whap!
Then he went back to her throat. As his deceptively thin fingers crushed her windpipe, Mandy’s grip on reality began to loosen. Tiny strobes flashed inside her skull.
He squeezed even harder, the tips of his fingers disappearing into the flesh of her throat.
At the last second, as her world began to grow dark, a memory flashed through Mandy’s mind. She remembered how as a small girl of six, she had begun to worry about running out of air because if you couldn’t see something, how did you know how much of it was left? She could see balloons, though. So she had begged her mom to buy several packages of the colorful party staples, which she’d then blown up and stored in her bedroom closet. Her mom humored her. Her older sister, Kami, however, couldn’t let a good thing like that go unnoticed.
She had waited until Mandy was out, then she’d tied all the balloons together and attached them to the stop sign on the corner. Mandy had felt so humiliated when she came home from school and saw them. She’d wanted to get them down and put them back in her closet, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. She would have let herself run out of air before giving her sister that satisfaction.
The balloon bouquet had wilted quickly in the hot New Mexico sun.
Now, even as she was dying, Mandy grasped the irony of that memory. She really had run out of air. Her last coherent thought—as the fireworks behind her eyelids exploded in the grand finale—was of those wilting, multicolored balloons.
May 30, 2013
NEW 5 PRINCE PUB RELEASE; HINDLEY & GOODSELL
Press Release Launch Kit
For
The Perfect Crime: A Story of Truth or Fantasy
Peter Hindley and Susan Goodsell
Available from 5 Prince Publishing http://www.5princebooks.com books@5princebooks.com
Genre: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Political
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Digital ISBN 13:978-1-939217-64-6 ISBN 10:1-939217-64-4
Print ISBN 13:978-1-939217-63-9 ISBN 10:1-939217-63-6
Purchase link : http://www.5princebooks.com/buy.htm
The Perfect Crime: A Story of Truth or Fantasy:
Events have accurately been recorded since the time of Alan’s death; they combine to reveal an intriguing story. Did he die naturally or was he helped in some way? Has a crime or two taken place? Some may think so. Maybe there is a conspiracy; if so how far it may extend is unclear. Nothing is quite as it should be.
This unique book evolves from a simple account to a vast scandalous exposé, a true and topical account showing a fascinating view of human nature, society, and the establishment in the United Kingdom. Many questions are posed for the reader and evidence is laid bare as you take a journey of discovery.
The story and writing style changes drastically as the twists and turns in the narrative expose themselves; ultimately it reaches a logical end, but that is not the end of the story. A sequel is already underway.
About Peter Hindley:
Peter Hindley is a coach to dance competitors and is a jury member for international dance competitions. He left England in 2007 for a new life in France and has been recording events since his brother’s unconventional death in 2002.
About Susan Goodsell:
Susan Goodsell, co-author and Peter’s niece, lives in England with her partner and their two now grown-up sons. She spent many years in London before returning to Kent in 1997. The year her father died she began teaching English in a secondary school; now after finishing work, she returns home to begin another shift, as a detective and writer.
How to Contact the Authors:
http://www.howsafeisawillintheuk.com
http://www.twitter.com/saphireanimal (Susan)
http://www.twitter.com/snakehips99 (Peter)
http://www.facebook.com/AuthorSusanGoodsell
http://www.facebook.com/peter.hindley
Email for Susan: saphireanimal@aol.com
Email for Peter: snakehips47@yahoo.fr
EXCERPT of The Perfect Crime: A Story of Truth or Fantasy:
We have accurately recorded the events near the time of Alan Hindley’s death, who was a brother to Peter and father of Susan, the two authors of this account, and what followed; they combine to reveal an intriguing story. Did he die naturally or was he helped in some way? Has a crime or two taken place? Some may think so. Maybe there is a conspiracy; my lawyer certainly thought so; how far that conspiracy extends is unclear. We are certain that nothing is quite as it should be. Nevertheless this account shows a fascinating view of human nature, English society and the workings of the establishment in the United Kingdom. The story is so bizarre that it could well be fiction, and that is why I have added “A story of truth or fantasy” to the title. What is frightening is that it is all absolutely true.
The normal formalities that follow a death were not adhered to after Alan’s demise: Why the mandatory procedures were bypassed may not be evident, but during the course of our nine year account they certainly do become evident.
Why did his wife act as she did and who aided her? These and so many other questions will become apparent.
In this case what is certain now is that the will and wishes of the deceased, Alan Edward Hindley of Paignton, Devon, has not been adhered to and the UK law and establishment did nothing to aid its rectification: The laws relating to Wills are fatally flawed and the government is fully aware of that. As named executors we have been denied the right to execute his wishes. You may think this is not possible, but it is, and it has proved to be absolutely legal.
His wife, Wendy, acted as sole executor of her husband’s Last Will and Testament without the other two named executors and we reveal how simple it is to do just that. Why she felt this was necessary will ultimately be disclosed. You will learn how the solemn duty of executing a will can be mal administered in a totally legal way and without fear of retribution.
We have experienced many twists and turns along our path of discovery and these have been reflected in both the different styles and structure of the book. Our journey has taken us to numerous office doors and has led us into the heart of the halls of government, where events have made it very apparent that what we were witnessing was true injustice and unchecked corruption within the United Kingdom. It is for this reason that we felt it necessary to pen our story, to be able to share our account with you and all our other readers, who have been reading an abridged account on the Internet since May 2008; it is very much in the public’s interest to be aware of what can go wrong and does go very wrong daily.
We have been told that Alan died in his home during the evening of 14th March 2002 in more than one place, and all on the same night, the last time anything vaguely like this happened was two thousand years ago (please forgive the last statement, it is not meant to offend); but first a little background information about the family.
May 27, 2013
5 Prince Publishing New Release: Lost and Found by Bernadette Marie!
Reblogged from Author M.J. Kane:
Today is release day for book 5 of the Keller Family Series by Bernadette Marie! Check it out!
Darcy McCary came to Nashville with some big expectations--to find her birth parents. She had no plans of making a life in Tennessee. But when her sources lead her to Eduardo Keller, her heart took over, and plans changed.
Eduardo Keller is a man who goes after what he wants and he doesn't have time for playing games.
Love Forever After is FREE!!!
Hi all!
I hope you are having a wonderful Monday so far. Well, I'm having a fab day because Love Forever After is #FREE for the next 5 days (27th-31st May)!! So, if you've always wanted to read this book, and wasn't so sure you'd like to spend the cash (I'm like that too so no worries :) ) this is your chance to get a FREE copy!
May 23, 2013
COVERT EXISTENCE COMING SOON FROM LAZYDAY PUBLISHING
What do you do when you have committed the ultimate no no? You keep the secret for as long as you can.
Charlie Montgomery has kept her child a secret for six years. But when push comes to shove she has to bring in her baby’s father to help her.
Reece Morgan wanted it all, the family, the house with the white picket fence and maybe a dog. But all that is taken away from him in a night. The woman he thought was his future just abandoned him.
Charlie Montgomery has always wanted to be a star in her own right. The only child of a General in the joint chief of staff, she is tired of living in the shadow of her father. Tired that the only reason why the F.B.I let her in was to appease her father. But when she is there she meets a roguish man who is also on the fast track of his career. Should she live under his shadow too?
Reece Morgan is the F.B.I superstar. He built his career of profiling criminals and putting them behind bars. His perfect record has him up for a promotion, to be the director of his own field office. His career on the right track, Reece feels like it is time to put his life in order, and Charlie Montgomery is the center of it all. Imagine his surprise when he wakes up, his fiance has disappeared and so has the life he had planned.
Reece Olivia Morgan has been born in a world she did know could be so cruel. Her mother kept her away from her father for six years, and her father is too angry to hear reason.
But when she is kidnapped, Charlie is able to fool Reece into helping her find their daughter, without telling him he is a father. But when Reece discovers the deceit he is angry and hurt. He puts his daughter as first priority and plans on taking full custody when she is found.
Read the scene that has been playing in my mind below;
“Lee!” she heard Reece call after her but she didn’t stop. But when he called her once more, her legs froze in place, “Charlie Montgomery don’t walk away from me again.”
She could feel his hands on her arms as he spun her around. Everything around her seemed to be moving in slow motion as her eyes locked on his. In that second when she saw all the love in his eyes, she almost broke. If the anger hadn’t shadowed all the love she would have told him everything and begged for forgiveness. But her anger matched his.
“We need to talk about the past six years.” He groaned.
“I can’t. I need to think about the past six minutes of my life.” She tried to step of his embrace but he held her tighter, “I need to get her back.”
“Olivia?”
May 6, 2013
5 Prince Publishing New Release! A Heart at Home (An Everlasting Heart, Book 3) by Sara Barnard
Reblogged from Author M.J. Kane:
Can a love already tested to the limit survive on the trail to the wilds of California to their new home? After bidding farewell to her despondent family, newly-pregnant Charlotte drops everything to follow Sanderson to a promised job out west. The journey proves more difficult than any of them could have ever imagined. Wild animals, natural disasters, and a heavy Indian presence test not only Sanderson and Charlotte’s strength and endurance, but their faith in each other as well.
April 24, 2013
SEX; THE ONLY WAY TO FEEL
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omething that I learned very early in life is that sex controlled a lot of things that grown up do. It’s a mode of trade really. If we went back to the battering days, it would be a commodity or a currency. Maybe if it was people wouldn’t be so fascinated with it, yeah right. It is used in a less formal way, in the private quarters of husbands and boyfriends, wives, girlfriends and mistresses a wand of power.
April 23, 2013
ARTHUR J. GONZALEZ, THE PHOTO TRAVELLER
THE PHOTO TRAVELER is young adult author Arthur J. Gonzalez’s first novel. Arthur was born and raised in Miami surrounded by his loud Cuban family. He graduated from the University of Florida, where he acquired his coffee obsession and his chocolate hoarding antics. He’s the proud father of one baby girl, Sookie—his miniature schnoodle dog. Arthur is a self-professed goofball who spends 98% of his life laughing. He’s now working on his second novel.
The Photo Traveler- If you could time travel through photos, where would you go? That’s exactly what happens to 17-year-old Gavin Hillstone, when he discovers his ability to time travel through photos. The decisions Gavin makes in the past, will directly affect his future.
