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Today's Host: Queendsheena

I am amazed with Sheena-kay and her encouraging and positive attitude. She is always willing to support and is a faithful and prolific blog commenter, as well as an imaginative author. So, I am very honored that she agreed to be a host during my Blog Tour. Click on the link below for her post during this tour, and be sure to check out who she is.  
Today's host:         QueendsheenaTuesday 7/30:       The Word Is...Wednesday 7/31:  Scattergun ScribblingsThursday 8/1:        Entertaining InterestsFriday 8/2:            Medeia SharifSaturday 8/3:         PK HrezoSunday 8/4:           DEFENDING THE PENMonday 8/5:         TheWriteGameTuesday 8/6:         Writing Through CollegeWednesday 8/7:    Elise Fallson

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Blog Tour day 3 at S.K. Anthony :)

It’s day 3 of the Salted With Fire blog tour, and today the marvelous S.K. Anthony is hosting. Take a gander over there, and be sure to enter the Giveaway!
Here's the remaining schedule:
Sunday 7/28:        S.K. AnthonyMonday 7/29:       QueendsheenaTuesday 7/30:       The Word Is...Wednesday 7/31:  Scattergun ScribblingsThursday 8/1:       Entertaining InterestsFriday 8/2:            Medeia SharifSaturday 8/3:         PK HrezoSunday 8/4:           DEFENDING THE PENMonday 8/5:         TheWriteGameTuesday 8/6:         Writing Through CollegeWednesday 8/7:    Elise Fallson




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Salted With Fire Blog Tour - Day 2, Nancy S. Thompson

It’s day two of the Blog Tour for Salted With Fire, and today, the lovely Nancy S. Thompson has graciously agreed to be my host. Check her and the remaining hosts out below. Click on the links to be directed to the sites, and be sure to enter the giveaway!
Today's host:        Nancy S. ThompsonSunday 7/28:        S.K. AnthonyMonday 7/29:       QueendsheenaTuesday 7/30:       The Word Is...Wednesday 7/31:  Scattergun ScribblingsThursday 8/1:       Entertaining InterestsFriday 8/2:            Medeia SharifSaturday 8/3:         PK HrezoSunday 8/4:           DEFENDING THE PENMonday 8/5:         TheWriteGameTuesday 8/6:         Writing Through CollegeWednesday 8/7:    Elise Fallson


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Celebrating the start of my Blog Tour and Giveaway!

Today, I feel like a lucky bloke, because there have been some wonderful blogger buddies who’ve agreed to be hosts during my self-organized blog tour. Click on the links below and see for yourself. Share the word, and be sure to enter the Giveaway!
Today’s host is:     Father Dragon WritesSaturday 7/27:      Nancy S. ThompsonSunday 7/28:        S.K. AnthonyMonday 7/29:       QueendsheenaTuesday 7/30:       The Word Is...Wednesday 7/31:  Scattergun ScribblingsThursday 8/1:       Entertaining InterestsFriday 8/2:            Medeia SharifSaturday 8/3:         PK HrezoSunday 8/4:           DEFENDING THE PENMonday 8/5:         TheWriteGameTuesday 8/6:         Writing Through CollegeWednesday 8/7:    Elise Fallson

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Blogger Book Fair Presents: Jeff Horton

Meet Jeff Horton Jeff Horton was born in North Dakota, the youngest son of a career Air Force master sergeant. A voracious reader growing up, he read the Bible, and stories by many popular authors including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Jeff Horton's novel, THE GREAT COLLAPSE-SURVIVORS OF THE PULSE, a story about the coming of the pulse and the end of civilization, was published in 2010. THE DARK AGE-SURVIVORS OF THE PULSE, the sequel to The Great Collapse, was published in 2011, as was THE LAST PROPHET, a fictitious story about the life of John March, one of the witnesses sent by God to warn humanity about the antichrist, and the end of days. Released on September 1, 2012, THE WAY OF NACOR:TALES OF EDEN is a tale about four children, who find themselves lost and stranded on a strange alien planet and struggle to find a way home. Jeff Horton's fifth novel, entitled CYBERSP@CE, is a techno-thriller, in which the world is brought to the brink of nuclear war after a string of deadly cyber warfare attacks against the United States.



When he's not penning his next novel, he enjoys reading, going to church, and spending time with his family. Jeff Horton is a member of the North Carolina Writers Network.

Website:                   www.hortonlibrary.comFacebook Page:      https://www.facebook.com/Author.Jeff.HortonTwitter:                    http://twitter.com/#!/Jeff_HortonGoodreads Page:   http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4478744.Jeff_W_HortonAmazon Author Page: http://tinyurl.com/8tapc5xA devastating cyber attack leaves 100,000 people in the United States dead, and evidence points to the Chinese, setting the world on the inevitable march towards nuclear war. Nick Reynolds with US Cyber Command soon learns that former KGB agent Nikolai Chervanko, who has long dreamt of rebuilding his beloved Soviet Union, could be behind the massacre, with something even bigger planned. Lacking evidence linking Chervanko, however, outrage over the attack soon forces the United States to declare war on China. With no means to stop another destructive cyber attack and prevent a nuclear conflict, Nick finds help from an unlikely source—Area 51. 
Find Cybersp@ce on Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16165295.Cybersp_ce
Find Cybersp@ce on Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Cybersp-ce-Jeff-W-Horton/dp/1938961579/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361692228&sr=1-1&keywords=Cybersp%40ce
Cybersp@ce on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FxTFLAccv8
How can four stranded children survive and get back home after finding themselves transported to an alien planet in a distant part of the galaxy?


Following a family tragedy, the Seekers children find themselves transported to a strange, alien world named Zantura, where a powerful, evil being named Sarin has either murdered or enslaved nearly everyone. The siblings must face and survive a series of seven deadly trials on the journey to find a long-lost ancient relic, which has the power to save Zantura from Sarin, and to send the children home.

Find The Way of Nacor: Tales of Eden on Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15844943-the-way-of-nacor
Find The Way of Nacor: Tales of Eden on Amazon:http://tinyurl.com/978uo8v
Find The Way of Nacor: Tales of Eden on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0I70cD5-8A
The Last Prophet (2011) Would you believe it if someone told you that you were one of the last two prophets mentioned in the book of Revelation? 


It is the End of Days. The power of the Antichrist and his grip on humanity grows stronger with each passing day, enabling him to deceive the world and entice humanity into joining him in his corruption, and in his eternal punishment. With the help of the False Prophet, the Beast persuades many to fall down and worship him, also forcing them to take his mark. 


When someone tells John March that he has been chosen by God to become the last of the two prophets mentioned in the book of Revelation, he doesn’t believe it. After a visitation by an angel followed by a miraculous sign however, he becomes convinced that it is true and decides to embrace his calling, despite learning that doing so will lead to his untimely death. March begins his mission by proclaiming God's message: that the End of Days is at hand, to beware the growing power and influence of the Beast, and to know that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent. 


Supernatural disasters, including a worldwide drought, rivers of blood, massive earthquakes, and a devastating asteroid, testify that the end of the world is at hand. Join John March on his journey to becoming, The Last Prophet.

Find The Last Prophet on Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11021735-the-last-prophet
Find The Last Prophet on Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Last-Prophet-Jeff-W-Horton/dp/1937085031/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318051078&sr=1-1
Find The Last Prophet on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIXH_-8_DY4
The Dark Age- Survivors of the Pulse (2011) Suppose you learned that an ancient prophecy about an artifact, said to be powerful enough to dramatically change the world, was true. Would you risk everything to find it? 


It has been five-hundred years since the Pulse caused the Great Collapse, ending the Golden Age, and civilization on planet Earth. Humanity has waited ever since for a long-anticipated sign from God, which has finally appeared in the night sky. The time has come for Ferrell Young, the Warrior Clan, and the Church to risk everything in an effort to restore civilization, and bring hope to a world full of despair. 

Alex Montgomery is an archaeologist who has spent many years looking for a mysterious book on behalf of the Holy Christian Church. The book is said to contain the location of the Great Oracle which, according to legend, can endow the one who finds it with great power and wealth. Of much greater importance to the Clan and the Church however, is the fact that it may also enable the world to emerge from five centuries of darkness and suffering. 

When a powerful, intelligent, but sadistic barbarian leader named Kraken learns of the Oracle, he plans to destroy the Warrior Clan and the Church, take the Oracle for himself, and enslave the rest of humanity. 


Join Ferrell and his companions as they set out on a desperate journey to find the Great Oracle, and rescue humanity from The Dark Age.

Find The Dark Age on Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11021753-the-dark-age-survivors-of-the-pulse
Find The Dark Age on Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Age-Survivors-Pulse/dp/193708504X/ref=pd_sim_b1
Find The Dark Age on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeG5qT13Te8
The Great Collapse-Survivors of the Pulse (2010) While scientists prepare for a massive solar flare heading towards the earth, a hostile foreign government steals a top-secret, experimental weapon. When they use the EMP weapon to attack America however, the result is the immediate and catastrophic loss of modern technology all over the planet. The president calls upon Dr. James White to lead a group of scientists and theologians in an effort to develop a plan that will offer humanity a second chance at civilization. When societies begin to unravel, refugees flee the anarchy in the cities as people learn how to survive in a world without technology, a world for which they are not prepared. Will humanity survive this catastrophic event? Join author Jeff Horton for a journey into the chaotic and perilous new world of The Great Collapse.
Find The Great Collapse on Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9766649-the-great-collapse
Find The Great Collapse on Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Great-Collapse-Jeff-W-Horton/dp/1616638443/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Find The Great Collapse book trailer on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2aenYa-VqM
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Blogger Book Fair Presents: Through the Crimson Mirror

Tired of Your Children’s Bad Attitude:Back Chatting, Fighting, Whining…?
Would you like to:gain the respect you deserve?reclaim your relationships with your children?build a happy, harmonious home, free from fighting?give your children the best start to life?protect your child?
About the Book Communication and relationship experts say that communication should be a two-way street. For many years however, society adopted the attitude of “children are to be seen, not heard.” This has had a profound effect on our ability to build relationships today, often resulting in children who backchat, fight and whine. Sound familiar…?
To help you better understand your children you need to turn things around and look at life from their point of view. This helps you improve your understanding of their feelings, attitudes and thoughts, so you can give them the best start to life and create the happy, harmonious home you’ve always dreamed of.
Much research and professional input went into writing the latest breakthrough-parenting book Through the Crimson Mirror. Many interviews were conducted including those with psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, children, parents, reformed drug addicts and alcoholics, people who work with children who have learning challenges such as ADHD and dyslexia, and many more.
Through the Crimson Mirror is unique. It shares all the lessons the author wishes he’d learned while growing up, wrapped in a story. This makes it easy to read and interesting for parents, young adults and book readers.
About the Author Daniel Alexander was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1983. After a largely uninspired, uncreative and lonely youth, he graduated from college with a diploma in computer science and worked as a programmer. Programming left him un-stimulated, so after many years he left. The next few years turned out to be tempestuous. Traumatic events followed and inspired this book, which fulfills one of his goals and desires.
Life has changed now, and the author studies the mind and gives talks on parenting and related subjects. He has a deep passion for those in need and has formed relationships with wellness and addiction centers, family crisis mediators and other similar organizations. His passion now lies in helping people understand how their beliefs affect their lives and how often those beliefs start when they are young. His mission is to educate parents and make them aware of the impact they have on their children, so we can build a better tomorrow for all children.
What others are saying“Daniel interviewed many educators, parents and medical professionals to get a balanced insight.” Pat Pughe-Parry of Living ADDventure.
“Whether you're a parent or not, you'll enjoy it and start thinking critically about the world around you. That's something very few authors can achieve, so I have to congratulate Daniel Alexander on that. I give this book 4.5/5 stars.” Internet book reviewer, Carrie Slager.
More reviews: http://daniel-alexander-book.blogspot.com/p/reviews.html.Computers have very quickly integrated themselves into our lives. We have to regularly update the software to make sure they run at their best.Isn’t it time you learned something new about what’s most precious to you: your children?
Through the Crimson MirrorHalf price on Kindle for the Blogger Book Fair: only $2.99 - your children are worth it!Kindle 
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Blogger Book Fair Presents: Melissa Ann Goodwin & The Christmas Village

The Christmas Village by Melissa Ann Goodwin
Story Summary

When 12-year-old Jamie Reynolds comes to his grandparents' Vermont home for Christmas, he just wants things to go back to the way they were before his dad disappeared. Time and again he is drawn to Grandma's miniature Christmas village, where he imagines that life is perfect. Late one night, the village comes to life before his eyes, and his fantasy of escaping into it becomes very real indeed.
Jamie discovers that the village is called Canterbury, where the year is 1932. He becomes fast friends with Kelly and Christopher Pennysworth, and is taken in by Ida, who runs the local boarding house. But he also makes a dangerous enemy of the mysterious and menacing Jim Gordon, whose return to town is nothing but trouble.
As Jamie desperately races against time to find his way back home, he is suddenly faced with a terrifying choice: to go ahead with his plan to leave or to stay and help his friends at the risk of never going home again.
T he Christmas Village  is a holiday adventure the whole family will love, filled with suspense, secrets and surprises to the very last page.
A few reviews of The Christmas Village from Kids and Grown-up Kids:
From kids:~The Christmas Village is so exciting. It felt so real as I was listening to the story. I have read many other books but not one like your amazing book. From Mara
~I loved The Christmas Village and especially the ending. When my teacher stopped reading, I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. I can't wait to read it again on my own. From Andrew
~It is an honor to write to you. I love your book The Christmas Village. And the way you ended it was phenomenal. From Munai
~I loved The Christmas Village! It was so interesting and exciting that I wouldn't stop reading it until I finished the whole book! ... Everyone should read it because it is packed with action and like I said is so exciting. I think you had an amazing choice of your describing words. Sincerely, Ava 
From Grown-up kids:"I highly recommend this delightful story that isn’t just for Christmas, but for anytime of the year – and for anyone who is young, or young at heart." Ann Best, author of the bestselling memoir,In the Mirror. 
"The author came to visit our school and spoke with our 4th and 5th grade classes … As she was discussing how and why she wrote certain passages (from The Christmas Village), we all became hooked on the story. There was a mad dash to our school library to borrow the one copy of this book. Not only is the story great, but the writing is vivid. The author's writing style has you caught up in the story, you feel like you are there. There is plenty of suspense that makes it hard to put the book down. The ending is wonderful.”
“The characters are beautifully developed and feel like friends. When you reach that last page it is ever so hard to say goodbye.” 
About Melissa Ann Goodwin
Originally from Andover, Massachusetts, Goodwin now lives in Florida with her husband, artist J.R. Secor. She has been writing professionally for more than 15 years and has had more than 40 stories, poems and articles published in the FunforKidz family of magazines. Her feature articles have appeared in Caring Today, Guidepost’s Angels on Earth and The Caregiver’s Home Companion. Her poetry won a top prize in the 2010 Writer’s Digest Annual Poetry Competition. The Christmas Village, a middle grade fantasy-adventure, is Goodwin’s first novel. She is completing work on the sequel, Return to Canterbury, which she hopes to release in November of this year.
Ms. Goodwin actively promotes literacy through school and library visits with children in grades three through six. During fun interactive sessions, she uses passages from her book to explore how writers make stories come to life through the use of active and descriptive language. Last year she traveled throughout New England and Canada, doing readings and signings, talking with book clubs and writer’s groups and visiting schools and libraries. She can be contacted by at melissaanngoodwin@yahoo.com regarding personal appearances.
The Christmas Village is available in paperback and ebook for Kindle from Amazon.com; in paperback and ebook for Nook from BarnesandNoble.com, and in all digital formats from Smashwords.
Links to buy The Christmas Village:Amazon.comSmashwordsBarnesandNoble.com
Other links to The Christmas Village:
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Links to Melissa Ann Goodwin’s Blogs:Author blogPersonal blogInspirational blog
Twitter: @GoodwinMelissa
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Blogger Book Fair Presents: Fight For You

Sometimes, the fiercest battles in life are not fought on the battlefield.
Keturah was not content to stay home while her brothers marched out to battle against the Lamanites. She fought her way into the army, but now she's in Judea building embattlements and fighting boredom. The other soldiers resent her, her brothers are becoming strangers, and Zeke's jealousy is getting worse.
Working to gain the trust of the men in her unit, she completes every order with determination. A spy mission into Antiparah. A secret assassination at Cumeni. A guard detail to Zarahemla. From burying the dead to whiling away hours on guard duty, Keturah will do whatever it takes to protect her religion, her freedom, her peace, and her family. But in a camp of two thousand boys, the most important thing she has to protect is her heart.
Fight For You is the second novel in Misty Moncur's Stripling Warrior series, all of which are available FREE during the Book Blogger Fair. Check them out! And follow Misty's blog for the cover reveal of Fight For You coming up next month!



Misty Moncur wanted to be Indiana Jones when she grew up. Instead, she became an author and has her adventures at home. In her jammies. With her imagination. And pens that she keeps running dry.












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Indie-Fever! "Awake" Review - free Kindle version

It’s time again for an indie book review for b00k r3vi3wsIndie Fever Reading Challenge 2013. Today, I have the opportunity to review Awake, a horror story by Matthew Blake.

Awake is a decent story about a successful novelist, Lee, who has a rare, genetic and fatal insomnia disorder. Once he learns that the disorder is incurable, he decides to purchase an RV and go traveling across the country with a best friend. After picking up a couple of “hot” hitchhikers, the four enjoy the tourist’s life with an unlimited budget – Lee’s dying, so why not enjoy his stored loot? Only, along the way, a demon follows in pursuit, taking over seemingly unaware tourists, and gives him demonic stares. This, of course, freaks out the writer. Lucky for him and his best friend, the hitchhikers are perfect mates, and Lee  now has his soulmate by his side while traveling the sites, trying to get in enough sleep to keep going, dreams of the demon in pursuit when he does sleep, and viewing the demon at almost every stop.
The characters and dialog are realistic; however, the repetitive nature of the story goes on for too long. It makes you think that this is a buddy traveling story, not quite what I was expecting. I was also not sure why Lee remains so terrified of the demon who does nothing but takes over the form of a tourist and glares at him. Though the nightmares are sufficiently scary, at least I feel I’d be scared if it was me having them, they are very short. The other worlds Lee happens into is another good sidetrack of the story, that should, instead, be the main part. The demon and Lee’s disorder have very little to do with the story at least for half of the book, again being a buddy traveling book.
The ending has a sufficient amount of action, though the resolution seems a bit too un-supernatural. All-in-all I did enjoy the characters.
Awake is available in print for $10.40 and free for Kindle at: Amazon
It bothers me that this review seems more negative than I intend. I enjoyed the read and continued to think about it and what was going to happen, which drew me back to it each time. I’m not too much into horror, so that this book did not have very much horror wasn’t an issue. I’m glad I’d read this book.
Until next time! Have a wonderful weekend.

After-a-long-haul Celebration

After many trials and tribulations, and looking forward to going on her what could be her last camping trip, my mom got everything she needed to leave for camp this morning, including a van, a hitch for the trailer, her inverter, her oxygen, and all the tests she needed before she leaves. Whoopee for her! Definitely a grand celebration for VikLit’s Celebrate the Small Things weekly blog hop. Pray that all goes well and is stress free for her.
I’m also celebrating because the Book Blogger Fair starts Monday and I've already scheduled all my posts for the authors I’m promoting. :) It’s great to get things done early! Make sure you check out all the events going on over there.
Although I didn’t make it into Write Club, I made a couple of changes to my piece and am submitting it to anthologies. I still think it’s a wonderful and emotive story.
See you this weekend!

** If you haven't already, please check out this terrific author interview of Graeme Brown.