Laura Libricz's Blog, page 5
August 8, 2018
Looking for a great summer read? My pick is Flowers and Stone by #RRBC #RWISA author Jan Sikes @rijanjks
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My review:
I really enjoyed this book. It’s a simple love story about Darlina and Luke and their whirlwind romance. (Click here to purchase the paperback and the kindle version.) I loved the biographical aspect and the honest, innocent way we were allowed to peek into the lives of these two people. It’s set in the world of country music in the early seventies and I really liked that, too. I found I wanted to tell people about this book as I was reading it and took my kindle everywhere with m...
July 9, 2018
WELCOME TO #RRBC #WritersConference & #Book Expo! #WCBE
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Three years into the conference game and RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB is getting better and better at it!
Last year’s conference opened up such a wide window of opportunity for our members, as they got the chance to meet and mingle with fellow members they had never met before, and many of them went on to become closer colleagues during the past year. Our books were introduced to a larger reading audience and our knowledge of the literary world, and all that it takes to become better in this fiel...
July 2, 2018
Welcome, #histfic #author Joyce Shaughnessy, the #RRBCSpotlightAuthor for July!
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Indie Publishing
I have always self-published. I now have published five books. Barnes & Nobles won’t sell self-published books except for e-books on their website. I have become discouraged about that aspect of self-publishing. Of course, it doesn’t make any difference when asking for other chances at a book signing locally. There are many local merchants who are willing to sponsor a signing. And there is RR...
July 1, 2018
#RRBCSpotlightAuthor for July – Joyce Shaughnessy #RRBC #historicalfiction
Welcome to SPOTLIGHT Author’s Blog Tour, its first stop, here on my blog. Congratulations Joyce Shaughnessy! I’m happy and excited to be the first to host Joyce Shaughnessy, our Rave Reviews Book Club SPOTLIGHT Author for July. I’m sure that many of you would love to get to know Joyce and her work better. You’ll enjoy the experience very much!
Over to you Joyce:
When I Decided to Write a Book
I was watching a history channel production of “The American Dust Bowl.” It particularly i...
May 22, 2018
#RRBC May Member on the Move! Author and #editor Susan Hughes @hughesedits4U #melanoma
Our beautiful cover model for May, Mrs. Susan Hughes is a phenomenal supporter of RRBC and its members. You can find her Twitter timeline overflowing with support for others. She is a mom, wife and editor. But, because May is Melanoma Awareness Month, and because Susan is a Melanoma survivor, we are going to share her personal story.
Because I was in detective mode, I found a post that Susan shared last May on our dear Club Secretary’s blog. Marlena nor Susa...
May 16, 2018
Drop Dead Gorgeous: 19th Century #BeautyTips for the Aspiring Consumptive @DrtySexyHistory
“Although having an active (rather than latent) case of consumption was all but a death sentence, it didn’t inspire the revulsion of other less attractive diseases until the end of the 19th century when its causes were better understood.”
Picture the ideal nineteenth century English beauty: pale, almost translucent skin, rosy cheeks, crimson lips, white teeth, and sparkling eyes. She’s waspishly thin with elegant collarbones. Perhaps she’s prone to fainting.
It shouldn’t...
May 9, 2018
Join me and #RRBCSpotlightAuthor @MarethMBotha on her Author Blog Tour! #RRBC #ChildrensBooks
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Join me in welcoming Maretha Botha, the RRBC Spotlight Author for the month of May!Maretha Botha is an Italian National who grew up in South Africa. She now lives in the United Kingdom with her family. Her grandchildren are her worst critics and she often has to change or add a different bird of prey instead of the one she originally intended to use, because her grandson loves Peregrine Falcons. So, the Tawny Eagles made way for a Peregrine Falcon in book 1, and he will also re-appear in B...
April 30, 2018
#Belthane blessings for this 2018 Walpurgisnacht #MayDay #Witches
What comes to your mind when someone mentions the 8th century? Could it be the introduction of the triangle harp by the Picts in Scotland? Or maybe the reign of Charlemagne, King of the Franks. Or the popular epic poem Beowulf, which could be as old as the 8th Century? Or marauding Vikings invading the coasts of Europe? Or of the Bendedictine nun and English missionary to the Frankish Empire Walburga, later to be canonized on May 1, 870, one hundred years after her...
April 23, 2018
Discover #RRBC author Laura Libricz in this interview with @DianneAscroft @HFVBT THE SOLDIER’S RETURN blog tour
Today, I’m over at Dianne Ascroft’s blog for an interview! Read more here:
Today I’ve invited Laura Libricz, author of The Soldier’s Return, the second book in the Heaven’s Pond trilogy to Ascroft, eh? to tell us about her latest novel.
Welcome Laura.
Thank you so much for having me over today, Dianne!
Let’s get started, shall we?
Tell us about your novel.
LL: The Heaven’s Pond Series is a three-part historical series set in Franconia, Germany, in the early 17th
century during the Thirty Yea...
April 7, 2018
#NewContest “What is the Gender of this Author?” Submit a #ShortStory of 500 hundred words or less … in ANY genre.
“Just how perceptive are you?” asks Suzanne Burke. It’s been quite a while since she came up with a contest here, and she does hope this one proves to be both challenging and entertaining. Continue reading here:
Welcome to the World of Suzanne Burke.
You all know by now just how much pleasure I get from supporting my fellow authors. It’s been quite a while since I came up with a contest here, and I do hope this one proves to be both challenging and entertaining. I think it will be inter...
