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January 15, 2013
My favorite compliment
I guess I’m not the only one who thinks RUSH TO DESTINYis my best book! I just went on Amazon and looked at the 14 reviews posted there—14 out of 14 five stars! No reviews less than 5 stars. That, and my two favorite compliments out of 30 years of writing: “This is a book [...]
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January 10, 2013
Quiet Ops Free
Free promotion 01/10/2013 – 01/12/2013 Quiet Ops by Bob Burton and L. J. Martin “Bob Burton knows crime and how to write about it…you won’t put this one down.” ~ Elmore Leonard Download Today
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January 4, 2013
FREE promotion
FREE promotion 01/04/2013 – 01/05/2013 Nemesis by L. J. Martin Wild and wooly, this western has it all,” FRESH FICTION L. J. Martin’spassion for the classic western and the wild west spills over into every word he writes. From the diversity of the land and the glorious history of its earliest inhabitants to the brave [...]
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December 27, 2012
Rush to Destiny FREE promotion
FREE 12/27/2012 – 12/28/2012 In this rousing frontier epic, L. J. Martin breathes life into one of the most exciting periods in American history–and into one of its most extraordinary heroes: Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a man whose hunger for adventure led him to feats of valor on the high seas, in the dense jungles of [...]
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Rush To Destiny - Free Dec 27th & 28th
December 22, 2012
Wonderful Reviews For Cooking Wild And Wonderful
Wonderful Reviews for Cooking Wild and Wonderful #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Cooking, Food & Wine > Special Occasions And until I figures out how to raise the price back up, Only $.99 No Kindle, No problem! You can read it on any computer, smart phone or tablet with Amazons [...]
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December 8, 2012
Humbled!
FIVE STARS: 5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, Honest, Inspiring, December 6, 2012
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This review is from: KILLING CANCER (Kindle Edition)
Killing Cancer is a first-person account of cancer survival - or better said, cancer mastery. This book takes you through everything: discovery of the problem (twice!), the fear and the doubt, and finally the resolve and the wherewithal to get the job done. In what could have been a gloomy meditation on suffering, L. J. Martin treats cancer like a call-to-adventure and we watch him face every obstacle with courage, dignity, humor and wit.
Although survival serves as the basic theme of the book, Martin supports it with a kind of Western-hero mythology. He knows the genre well, so in some sense, cancer is the bad guy who has rolled into town and Martin the reluctant, but more than capable Sheriff. His personal story includes a faithful heroine in the form of his wife, and his portraits of the doctors and other patients are filled with human moments, telling dialogue and repartee.
The writing style is wonderful. Within a few pages, you feel like you've been reading the author for years. The voice is strong and I don't think I'll ever forget the joke about the retiree who decides to go to law school.
The book made me feel differently about cancer, particularly since I've come to an age where I've come to see two friends depart under its spell. I felt that they were almost victims of the medical system first, and only after that, of the cancer. But Martin shows how many possibilities exist for a person willing to navigate, if not bend the system to his or her purposes. And in this way, he is kind of like the lone outlaw himself: good at heart, but with the knowledge that if he doesn't take the bull by the horns and find the right sawbones on his own, no one else will.
The most intense scenarios in the book were also the scariest. The confinement and claustrophobia of being under the "death ray," as Martin refers to radiation-therapy are exquisitely described. You feel so much for the author that he makes you wish Killing Cancer really were a fiction instead of a biographical rendering of his race to kill cancer.
This book sets out to give a frank account of what it means to discover cancer and then take the initiative to target a cure. I therefore highly recommend this book to anyone who has heard the word cancer, whether or not it has touched their own lives or the life of a loved one. When the evil C does come around - and for nearly all of us , it eventually will - you're going to want to have L. J. Martin's voice of truth and inspiration close at hand.
December 2, 2012
Against the Odds by Kat Martin
Kat Martin’s seventh romantic suspense in the Raines of Wind Canyon series “Against the Odds” is pulling outstanding reviews. “Magnificent reading and filled with hot and wonderful passion. Martin is superb!” — Romance Reviews RT Book Reviews: 4.5 stars TOP PICK! Martin just keeps getting better and better! Her characters have more depth, and her [...]
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November 29, 2012
Against the Odds by Kat Martin
Watch for Kat Martin’s Against the Odds on shelves every where December 18th or order online here
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November 28, 2012
Write Compelling Fiction by L. J. Martin
Now that I’ve been writing for over 25 years and have 33 or so novels, plus been a critic for my wife’s 55 novels, I’ve come to some conclusions about the novelist’s favorite compliment, “I couldn’t put it down.” And I’ve studied lots of wonderful novels to try and figure out why a reader “couldn’t [...]
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