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Dress N Jacket's First Video - As A Warning I Say #Music Video

2014-08-26T14:56:00.000-07:00

This post is a bit different from the others I've written,

This one is about my daughter's music band.

I cannot tell you if it's a rock band or a punk rock band,

I will let you guys determine that part.

They have been working on recording an LP for the past 2 years. They both have day jobs and

they are booked for shows at anytime of weeknights, weekends and it can be anywhere. So they're

always on the move and what little free time they have they write their own music.

I can tell you from having been on one of their shows, that their music really rocks.

Being a gril trio they attract a lot of attention.

They are lovable are loved by everyone.

They are French but decided that they wanted to write what they had to say in English, they even take English courses to better themselves

So now without waiting any longer here is their first video.

And I'm really happy to present it here on my blogto you my lovely readers.

Don't hesitate to leave your comments at the end of the video and

you can follow Dress N Jacket on Youtube and Facebook.
Please take time to share this video if you like it, the more views the better this
little band will do.
I thanks you from the bottom of my heart.
Have an awesome day, and thanks for stopping by.

Quite Sick Again

2012-08-15T07:01:00.001-07:00

I know I haven't been posting lately, but I have fallen sick again with Fibfromyalgia so I have not bee feeling like reading or writing.

it's been really hard to do anything actually. The pain is just so unbearable.

So I just wanted to let guys know that I' m thinking of you and I will be back as soon as I can, and I miss you lots.

thanks for being there.

Love you

Forever my lady part 1 by Author Jeff Rivera

2012-06-22T12:29:00.000-07:00

HI, if you guys are looking gor a great YA read, here's a good book by author Jeff Rivera.

It's titled, Forever My Lady part 1.

This is a contemporary romance book.

There are 3 books in this series.

Here's the description of the book.

Dio Rodriguez grew up on the streets and knew all too well the hard, cool feeling of the barrel of a gun tucked down the back of his jeans. But his hard exterior softened when he met Jennifer. Jennifer understands Dio like no one else and makes him want to be a better man. Suddenly a drive-by shooting lands Dio in a prison boot camp and sends Jennifer to the hospital. When Dio learns that Jennifer is pregnant, he realizes that he must find a way to turn his life around and return to his lady. But can trainee Rodriguez get his act together among the hardcases in prison? And will Jennifer be waiting for him if and when he does?

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Dio "Playboy" Rodríguez grows up poor with a drunk single mother in gritty Las Vegas, leading him into gang life at 13. Now 17, Dio hides a softer side beneath a fierce exterior that's known only to his middle school sweetheart, Jennifer. But when a drive-by leaves Jennifer wounded and sends Dio to prison boot camp, their soul mate relationship is put to the test. Rivera, who originally self-published this debut, traces a classic redemptive arc: perpetually scowling Dio resists the authority of drill instructor Jackson and clashes with fellow inmates, but he pours out his heart in letters to Jennifer, forms meaningful peer relationships and gains an appreciation for discipline. A genuine care for dynamic Dio allows Rivera to deliver a sincere story of transformation. (July)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review

"Very Powerful" -- Randy Powell, Bestselling Author "Run If You Dare"

"You gotta get it AHORA!" -- Tony Kannon, KWIN FM

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The Lure of Shapinsay by Author Krista Holle Book Promotional Giveaway

2012-06-14T07:50:00.000-07:00

Good morning everyone, have I got something special for your guys today.

First Krista Holle, the author of this wonderful book titled

The Lure of Shapinsay, is offering one lucky winner a promotion prize which consists of : one T-shirt, a paperback, bookmark/bookplate.

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Ever since Kait Swanney could remember, the old crones of the village have been warning her to stay away from the selkies. They claim that like sirens of old, the seal men creep from the inky waters, shed their skins, and entice women to their deaths beneath the North Sea. But avoiding an encounter becomes impossible when Kait is spotted at the water’s edge, moments after the murder of a half-selkie infant.

Kait is awoken unexpectedly by a beautiful, naked selkie man seeking revenge. After she declares her innocence, the intruder darts into the night, but not before inadvertently bewitching her with an overpowering lure.

Kait obsesses over a reunion deep beneath the bay and risks her own life to be reunited with her selkie. But when she lands the dangerous lover, the chaos that follows leaves Kait little time to wonder—is it love setting her on fire or has she simply been lured?

HERE'S AN EXCERPT

A hand slid over my mouth and stifled my scream before I was even fully awake. When my eyes sprung open, I was ready to be filled with the image of a most ghastly villain, but instead it was forewarned magick that filled my eyes, and I was filled with awe. A man in the lightest sense of the word, loomed over me with eyes so wide and feral, I thought he might howl to the moon. His words came out rough and breathy. “If you make a sound, I’ll snap your scrawny neck.”
The sensible fear one should first feel when they are first assaulted, oozed reluctantly into me, and my eyes strained towards the darkened bedroom. Wake up, Blair.
“He sleeps like the dead,” the Selkie hissed as if he read my mind.
Oh, bloody, bloody, the fire had done no good at all. I silently cursed my ignorance and Blair’s lame advice. The man above me was pearly white and as naked as the day he was born. Even in the blushing light of a dying fire, I could see the smooth skin of his chest and the tiny folds at his tight stomach as he curled over me. It was instantly clear why the women in the village laughed when I asked how I might recognize a selkie man. He would wear a lein and trousers no more than a fish.
The Selkie man slipped his hand from my mouth then sniffed his palm.
“What?” I squeaked.
His dark eyes turned on me with such wildness and intensity; I believed his promise to break my neck. I pressed my lips together too frightened to move, but also mesmerized by the extraordinary sight of him—a wildebeest about to be eaten by a majestic lion. I was frightened—wasn’t I?

You might want to know more about Krista Holle the author,

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The Heritage by Author Johny Ray Book Review And Giveaway

2012-05-31T09:06:00.004-07:00

I just finished the book The Heritage by author Johny Ray.

It was an enjoyable read. First of all it was an e-book and don,t you find it annoying when an e-book is filled with typo errors?

Man that is enough for me to stop reading it right then and there.

But since the story had me going right from the beginning, I decided to keep reading and see how it would end.
I sure was not disappointed.

We will be giving away 5 e-books to 5 lucky followers of Book Eternity so keep reading to enter.

Here is a short bio of the author Johny Ray.

Johnny has a passion, a thirst, for life and adventure that he loves to share with his readers. He has owned and operated several real estate companies, several insurance companies and a stock brokerage company.

He is a graduate of Auburn University with post graduate work at the Birmingham School of Law, The University of Alabama, The University of Tennessee, UCLA, New York University, Wil-Var Institute and The American College. He has received the following certifications: Certified International Property Specialist, Certified Residential Specialist, Certified Managerial Accountant, Certified Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant.

He lives in St Petersburg, Florida where he works full time as a writer. He belongs to the Florida Writer Association, the Romantic Writers of America, and can be found attending various national conventions as well as supporting several local writing groups.

He has won the Royal Palm Literary Award for his novel THE SALSA CONNECTION. His latest releases include THE REJECTION LETTER and THE HERITAGE.

He has worked as a ghostwriter and has a guide to HOW TO WRITE YOUR MEMOIRS published and available on kindle.

Book Description

New York City socialite Kristina Sutherland, the daughter of legendary Lawson Sutherland, a top executive with Lyon International discovers she’s pregnant, but doesn’t remember having sex for a long time. While contemplating an abortion she bumps into and confides in Shawn Davis, the head of security at Lyon International and asks him to take her to an abortion clinic out of the city for consultation, making him promise to keep any details in confidence. While she realizes she needs him as a bodyguard to keep the press away and guard her privacy she also knows he has a loyalty conflict due to his position in the corporation. Shawn provides security to the company elite and their families. Desperate, she knows no one else to turn to that she trusts.
Shawn is the secret grandson of Brent Lyon, the chairman of the board of Lyon International. After Brent asks Shawn to come to his office they talk about their past and how Brent regrets his earlier decisions. Brent had disowned his daughter, Shawn’s mother when she ran off with a want-to-be rock star. She had raised Shawn on her own until she died a few years earlier. Brent had invited Shawn back into his life only after her death, and only to a small degree which had to remain a secret to avoid scandals which could ruin the corporation.

My take on the book

This is a romantic, mystery,suspense book.
This book was an easy read, the type of book you want to take with you on vacation or to the beach, a no hassle book.

I found this book to be very interesting.
I thought the story was well held together and I thought the cast of character were believable.
The story of a young socialite falling for her bodyguard is nothing new and so predictable in this story.

I could see it coming all along. I wish it could have been a bit harder to see.

The plot though was a very good one, I thought I had it solved but I had another thing coming.
But by then I was already at the end of the book. Hold on to your hats.It's a knocker!
What I enjoyed in this book is that everyone can enjoy it because it doesn't have ugly stuff in it to make it an enjoyable read.

I have only one other thing to point out. Whenever a writer does a love scene or a sex scene, they should do more research, because it has not been a success in this book. It could have been a bit better

I read a lot of sexy romances and the author in this book tried to do a few romantic scenes and included a sex scene and to my taste, it wasn't that great. But that's just me. I thought it was awkward at times.

But still a very good book

You can get The Heritage by Johny Ray Here.

Connect with Johny Ray on Twitter and Facebook.

and visit his blog at http://sirjohnnyray.blogspot.ca/

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The opinions written here are 100% my own.

Get The Keeper book at no cost for 2 days only

2012-05-17T08:52:00.002-07:00

Revell Books is giving away FREE copies of my new release, The Keeper for Kindle, Nook and other eBook formats!

Pass it on!

And grab a copy for yourself!

May 17th and 18th

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Product Description

Julia Lapp has planned on marrying Paul Fisher since she was a girl. Now twenty-one, she looks forward to their wedding with giddy anticipation. When Paul tells her he wants to postpone the wedding--again--she knows who is to blame. Perpetual bachelor and spreader of cold feet, Roman Troyer, the Bee Man.

Roamin' Roman travels through the Amish communities of Ohio and Pennsylvania with his hives full of bees, renting them out to farmers in need of pollinators. He relishes his nomadic life, which keeps him from thinking about all he has lost. He especially enjoys bringing his bees to Stoney Ridge each year. But with Julia on a mission to punish him for inspiring Paul's cold feet, the Lapp farm is looking decidedly less pleasant.
Can Julia secure the future she's always dreamed of? Or does God have something else in mind?

Full of the plot twists and surprises her fans love, The Keeper is the first in a new series by bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher. Through touching family relationships and trials of the heart, Fisher's vivid characters grapple with yielding to God's will when it doesn't match their own.

So hurry and take advantage of this great opportunity to discover

this great author who is Suzanne Woods Fisher..

Suzanne Woods Fisher is the bestselling author of The Choice, The Waiting, The Search, and A Lancaster County Christmas, as well as nonfiction books about the Amish, including Amish Peace. Her interest in the Anabaptist cultures can be directly traced to her grandfather, W. D. Benedict, who was raised in the Old Order German Baptist Brethren Church in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Benedict eventually became publisher of Christianity Today magazine. Suzanne is the host of Amish Wisdom, a weekly radio program, and a columnist for Christian Post. She lives in California.

Time Donors Wanted By Author Russel Scott Book Review and Giveaway

2012-05-07T08:24:00.000-07:00

I have just finished reading this great book titled Time Donors Wanted by author Russel Scott.

I am certain that you guys will also love it.

There will also be a giveaway for this book.

One paperback and an e-book both International.

So keep reading to enter the giveaway.

So here's little about Russel Scott:

I am in totality Russell Scott Anderson M.D. I have written six screenplays as R.S. Anderson, two alone, the others as a member of a writing team. We did the film Teary Sockets (www.tearysockets.com). While we were in L.A. filming the first half of the film, I was hired to write a screenplay for the Williams Brothers, a gospel dynasty, to tell the story of their family from 1910 to the present called Still Standing Tall. They were in discussions with Tyler Perry at that time so they were in a hurry. I managed to get them to give me six weeks from the time we finished filming Teary Sockets to get the first draft to them. I delivered it on time and was never asked for a rewrite.

After that I returned to the writing team and we did a screenplay called Terrence and the Toilet Fairy, it went to Jack Black's Black and White Productions, they wanted us to get complete funding before they committed. About that time, all of the hedge funds that were funding Independent films went swirling down the toilet. I wrote Time Donors Wanted initially as a screenplay, but really always felt that it fit better as a novel and with no likelihood of getting funding from the hedge funds we had been talking to, I started down that path.

This is my first novel and we decided to put it out as being written by Russell Scott because for the past four or five years I've written a regular monthly column in the Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association as Scott Anderson M.D. It's a literary exploration that the editors have let me take and it has proven to be very popular with the Journal's almost five thousand readers. It actually also draws in a lot of non-physicians, like wives, nurses, and patients. The collected columns will be offered as a 2,000 copy run in the spring of 2012 titled for the column, The Uncommon Thread. My second novel The Hard Times was to come out at about the same time, and since the two things differed so dramatically, Russell Scott came into existence.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

TimeDonors Wanted – Synopsis “If you could have a one-time affair with someone you’d never see again, and no one could ever find out, would you?” That is the question. Jarvis Sloan was an Internet success story. He’d left a thriving private practice as a psychiatrist specializing in sexual medicine in San Diego to form LifeSolutions Seminars. Ironically, it isn’t just Jarvis’s patients that are suffering. His own marriage is a hollow shell. He loves his wife Sharon, when he isn’t hating her, and he loves his sons unconditionally. Jarvis convinces himself that there’s only one way to deal with his growing frustration, affairs. While they may be an answer, they aren’t necessarily a good answer or a safe one. So he tries to come up with a better answer. A site devoted to pairing people to meet one another’s sexual needs on a one-time basis. To avoid any chance of detection he hides the site inside a self erasing server, no notes, no phone calls, no electronic footprints, nothing. It’s a direct connection to another person willing to donate their time to help meet your needs. All information about both parties is erased from the embedded server every seventy-two hours.

MY TAKE ON THE BOOK

This book is a suspense, murder, mystery and a some sex.

Cheating on your spouse or mate has existed since God created man.

We did not need Internet to help us do this. But in this book Jarvis the psychiatrist who creates the site to help out the couples stay together by cheating on the other mate, thinks he's found the answer.

You enter the site and it is 100% secure, no names, and nobody can trace anything back to you.

So you just meet up with the other person, have sex and leave and that's it you never see each other again.

Great, no risk at all

Until the bodies start piling up. And you're the last one that was at the scene of the crime each time.

Things look really bad for you. What will you do?

A great book, suspense, sex, mystery, great plot, The only complaint I have about this book, is in the end, it unravels a bit too fast as if they lacked in the story. Everything is just fine and then poof it's over, they could have taken their time a bit more, cause the tension was just perfect, and all of a sudden it's over , as if they didn't know how to end the book.

I felt like I was making love and the guy just came too fast. What a deception.

but over all I really enjoyed this book.

Product Details

Paperback: 238 pages
Publisher: R. S. Anderson (September 5, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615556906
ISBN-13: 978-0615556901
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches

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The Fire Starter Sessions by Author Danielle Laporte Author Spotlight and Giveaway

2012-04-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon,

Today I want to introduce you guys to a great author that I'll be spotlighting And she'll be giving away 2 of her books. Please read on for these.

The book is titled The Fire Starter Sessions by author Danielle Laporte.

This is a self help-success book

A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide
to defining success on your own terms.
With her signature in-the-trenches truth-telling and humor, Danielle re-frames
popular self-help and success concepts to cut through dull thinking and fear in
order to get straight to one's core desires, pragmatism, and courage.
Part sermon, part pep talk, and part Q&A, THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS is oxygen for aspirations and a modern-day philosophy for people who want to

believe that "consciousness and cash can coexist...that desire will burn the way to
fulfillment...that all dreams are renewable." Each session in the book is
accompanied by worksheets that are provocative and results oriented. Danielle's
unique personal narrative of loss and achievement--
from boardrooms to
ashrams--flow with stories of women and men who stopped playing it safe and
became freedom seekers and fear tamers.

About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Vancouver, CA

As a motivational speaker, Danielle combines spoken word with acumen and inspiration, and practical how-tos—from wellness conferences to women’s business groups. In her one-on-one strategy sessions, Danielle has helped thousands of entrepreneurs clarify what success truly means for them. As the executive director of a Washington, D.C., think tank, Danielle managed a team of futurists studying global trends for the likes of the Pentagon and the World Bank . . . though she never went to college herself. She ran her own communications agency, “promoting visionary people and projects,” including Nobel Peace Prize laureates and philosophers, and she has written company manifesto books for Lululemon and Peer1.

A list of “Top 10 Blogs by Women That Might Change Your Life” describes Danielle like this: “She’s confidently contrarian, feminine, decisive, and creative. She combines spirituality with sound business principles. She has an e-program (The Spark Kit: A Digital Experience for Entrepreneurs) and gives coaching sessions at $1000 a pop. She’s been listed, ranked, and quoted. At the core of her success is her ability to write. She writes beautifully, lustfully, and poignantly.”

A former news show commentator, Danielle has been featured in Elle, Body + Soul, More, Flare, Vogue Australia, Better Homes & Gardens, Globe & Mail, the National Post, and USA Today and on Huffington Post, Entertainment Tonight, and BusinessWeek.com.

Danielle lives in Vancouver, BC, with her firefighter husband and their young son.

You can find her on Twitter @daniellelaporte + on Facebook at www.daniellelaporte.com/facebook

DANIELLE LAPORTE is the creator of WhiteHotTruth.com, which has been called
"the best place online for kick-ass spirituality." She is an inspirational speaker, a
former think-tank exec, and a news-show commentator. She's been featured on
BusinessWeek.com and USAToday.com, and in Elle, Body + Soul, Better Homes
and Gardens, Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, and Entertainment Tonight, among
others.

Insightful, poetic, and just the right kind of brazen,

Danielle reframes success + self-help — and burns some illusions to a crisp.

: Life balance is a myth,

and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress than the craving for balance itself.

: Being well rounded is highly overrated. If you want to live from your own creative edge, you have to ride the tension of your contradictions and focus on what makes you feel powerful.

:Competency is for suckers. Your most valuable currency is what comes naturally to you.

When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone.

:You're an artist, and that’s that.

When we’re giving our best, we’re being artistic. When you’re bringing your whole self to the party, you’re making poetry happen—and you do it all the time, naturally.

: Screw your principles.

They might be holding you back.

: We have ambition backward.

Clarifying how you want to feel in your life + work is moreimportant than setting goals. It’s the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it’s what leads to true fulfillment.

: Be the giver. Force it if you have to.

Make generosity part of your growth strategy and you will cross that sacred divide where love is no longer a concept but is your soul made manifest. You. Giving. Love. Gorgeous.

THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS is the permission slip you've been waiting for

— to fully want what you want and go forit, to expand your consciousness andyour cash flow, to up the ante on your dreams, to be incredibly generous with your love. This is a modern-day pep talk and soul-centered Q&A for people ready to shine brighter than they ever have.

After Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talking sermons and burning questions about your truest desires—from career to relationships—it will be clear that the only permission you need to shine . . .is your own.

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The Editorial by Author Arthur Graham Book Review

2012-04-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

Goos afternoon everyone,

Today I want to tell you about a book I have just finished reading which left me quite perplexed.

It's title is The Editorial by author Arthur Graham.

Here's a bit about Arthur Graham before we get to the book:

Here's what Arthur had to say when I asked him to tell me a bit aobut himself for this review.

''I started writing as a juvenile delinquent, and it's kept me out of trouble (for the most part anyway) ever since. As a man of many thoughts and opinions, I find that writing allows me to express myself in ways that verbal or physical assault could never hope to accomplish. Readers might feel themselves under attack either way, because there's not a lot I typically hold back, but none of it is intended to be taken personally.
As a human being I accept my own ego, and as a writer I admit the full size of it. That said, it is my humble hope that readers will be able to share at least some of the enjoyment I derive from writing the books that I do''.

About the author

Hailing from the north woods of Michigan, Arthur Graham currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and her cat. He writes his books alone in the dark, usually nude, surrounded by empty bottles and loaded guns. Occasionally, he prefers to work nude while astride a rainbow.

His style is one that willingly loses itself in the false dichotomy between "genre" and "literary" fiction, with much of it cleaving towards satire and surrealism. His work has been called "clever", "tacky", and "even a bit obscene", and one reviewer was kind enough to label it "Burroughs-lite".

His novella Editorial was recently picked up by Bizarro Press, and his short story "Zeitgeist" is set to appear in an upcoming anthology from the same imprint. One day, he hopes to sell enough books to supplement his drinking habit, but not so many that he's forced to claim the income on his taxes.
Visit Arthur Graham's Site at http://arthurgraham.blogspot.ca/

Now for the book's description

Follow the editor and his client into the infinite ring of Ouroboros, the self-devouring, in this episodic novella by Arthur Graham. A story told through concentric circles of narrative, each adding a layer of truth while further smothering all notions of certainty, Editorial will leave readers wondering just how many times the same tale can be swallowed...

My opinion on the book.

Get ready for experimental writing. This book is an apocalyptic, experimental and satire fiction. I personally did not like this book very much, I am no used to this type of writing at all.

The author here changes from the first to third person a lot which had me confused quite easily.

There are a few stories being told at once and it gets quite confusing and I think it is voluntary. At one point in the beginning I almost put the book down, but then I told myself, I had to go on and that maybe I was missing something.

the book start with a young boy who's parents get killed in an accident. He then goes to live with an aunt and uncle far away up on a hill. Until one day his uncle puts him out on the street with only his suitcase filled with porn magazines and a satchel with clothes. The boy then transforms himself into a snake and then transforme himself into a man again. Goes into a dinner dressed into a tarpol and then he meets a sales man who gives him some clothes. Our boy then learn that giving sex for cash is a great way to make a living.

Then we jump to an editor in an office cubicle to a marine merchant and the stories go on and on as being more bizarre. I tell you I got lost, the more I read, then at one point i thought I understood to then get lost again. At one point you have an office filled with people buzzing tail tails like snakes. I mean what is that.

The book talks about time line, end of the world, nuclear war, the future. One thing for certain these are all things that I don,t usually read, maybe that is why I got lost.

Maybe some of you will like this book, but on my part, I did not.

I give this book 2 stars

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Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: Bizarro Press (March 5, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615612091
ISBN-13: 978-0615612096
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces

Thanks for stopping by and reading this review.

Thanks also for leaving a comment.

Happy Easter

2012-04-08T07:41:00.002-07:00

Thanks to all my readers for stopping by and following,

and to all a Hoppy Easter

A great Sunday to all of you and your families.

Deal With The Devil By Author J.Gunnar Grey Book Review and Giveaway

2012-03-29T11:20:00.000-07:00

I've just finished reading part one of Deal With The Devil.

A book that must not be read as a stand alone book since it's part of a 2 part series and I must warn you that you will be left as a cliff hanger at the end of the first book.

But none the less this book is fantastic and hits the spot for me.

It takes place in England, 1940. It's a mystery, suspense and action book.

It hints a bit towards some light romance but just a hint.

I really loved that protagonist in this book. He is a German officer, Faust, who is parachuted down in England against his will and is made prisoner.

He is a very special character in his own way and I don't know if we can trust him. But he does have charm.

Each character in this book each have their own special traits and blend in very well in this story.

I could not put the book down from the start. The writer know her history very well and makes us the readers carry on through the story as a hot knife through butter.

Please keep reading to take part in the the 2 part e-book giveaway of Deal with the devil.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

An intense, riveting psychological drama in the spirit of Leon Uris's QB VII

August 1940

He wasn't supposed to be on the plane. Now Major Faust is a prisoner of the English and he must escape before they break him. But every time he gets away, a woman is raped and murdered. The English need someone to hang. He's the hot suspect.

He's got to catch the killer, even though he's helping the enemy. It's collaboration, almost treason. It's making a deal with the devil.

Length: 156,000 words, 424 pages

Excerpt

Caution: may contain spoilers
*****

Something soft and annoying whooshed past his face. Faust brushed at it, but it was already gone and he was too fragging sleepy to care. He dropped his arm to the bed.

There was no bed.

There wasn't anything. His arm was dangling out in space. So was the rest of him. Faust snapped his eyes open. A strong wind pummeled him, tumbled him head over turkey. The ground was a long way down. He was falling and it was real, not some stupid nightmare.

Panic leapt like a predator through his veins. He twisted, fighting against gravity. An icicle of light from the distant ground stabbed at his eyes, swept past him, and several red flashes popped in quick succession. A rumbling vibrated the air, something sounding like an artillery round exploded nearby, and sharp chemical smoke scoured his nostrils.

Tight cords wrapped about his body, between his legs, jerking him upright and throwing him higher, dangling him across the light-slashed night sky. The rumbling intensified. His head snapped back. Above him, a parachute canopy blazed white in the spotlight from below. Beyond it loomed a huge dark beast, moving past in impossible slow motion. It towered over him. The parachute danced closer, second by drawn-out second; then it bowed, canted, and slid away, laying Faust on his back as it hauled him aside.

He gripped the harness shroud lines, chest and belly flinching. It was the bomber, the one he'd been riding in. The belly hatch framed Erhard's laughing face, lit from below by a spotlight. With one hand, Erhard clutched the rubber coating, cupping the other about his mouth. He yelled something -- something short -- which was overwhelmed by the racket and growing distance.

Maybe the plane was having mechanical problems -- but they and the mechanics had tuned the Heinkel's twin engines all afternoon. No one else was bailing out.

Erhard had thrown him overboard.

It didn't matter how much schnapps he'd slugged nor how drunk he remained. When Faust hit the ground, Erhard was toast.

So if you want t great mystery, suspense and a great read, get your hands on this book.

Get it here.

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Lastway Station Mega Book Tour Giveaway

2012-03-06T06:09:00.000-08:00

Giveaways:

One Signed, Paperback Copy of:

The Last Way Station By Jon Reisfeld
Carry on the Flame: Destiny's Call By Jodine Turner
Harmonic Deception By Barbara Reed
Wheezer and the Painted Frog By Kitty Sutton

One eBook Copy of:

Covert Dreams By Michael Meyer

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Six Indie Authors Read Excerpts from Their Books

Jon Reisfeld

Today, we wind up the Last Way Station Mega Book Tour where we began it just 60 days ago, with a special multi-author book-reading experience. Below you will find not one, but six, Indie authors reading Chapters and/or excerpts from books representing a variety of genres: Historical fiction, Historical Fiction/Fantasy, Paranormal/Spiritual/Suspense fiction, Fantasy, Murder Mysteries and Thrillers. I hope you enjoy our readings from these distinctive works. Please share your thoughts
… and pose any questions you may have, in the Comment area below. (Be sure to use RaffleCopter to enter your name in the drawings for the giveaways listed above.)
I want to take this time to thank the great group of writers who participated in this “book-marketing experiment,” as well as the many wonderful book bloggers, such as Book Eternity's own Nathalie Brault, who supported this program from the start and helped us bring our new book-tour format to your attention.
When you finish reading/listening to this post, be sure to click here to enter our Mega Book Tour Sweepstakes — the Grand Prize is a Kindle Fire! (Today's the LAST DAY we'll be accepting entries!) and here to learn more about our featured authors and their books.

Jodine Turner, Carry on the Flame: Destiny’s Call

Story Summary for Carry on the Flame: Destiny’s Call :
Humanity is in the midst of the greatest crisis in its history. Sharay is the one chosen to show the way forward and help humankind move through the fear and dark times of today’s world. Born in modern-day Glastonbury, England, into an ancient line of priestesses, Sharay finds her way blocked by her jealous Aunt Phoebe, who uses black magic to steal her neice’s fortune and her magical powers.

When Phoebe commits Sharay to a psychiatric hospital and accuses her of murder, Sharay struggles with the temptation to fight Phoebe’s vengeance with her own. Through the ancient Celtic ceremony of Beltaine, Sharay experiences a profound sacred union with the Welshman, Guethyn, who also is a patient on the ward. Guethyn shows Sharay how to open her heart. Now, Sharay must learn to transcend her hatred for her aunt and unlock the power held deep within her cells. Sharay must fulfill her destiny by showing humankind that the ultimate magic can only be released through the power of love.

A few words about Jodine Turner:

Jodine writes Adult/Young Adult fantasy, visionary fiction, magical realism and paranormal romance. She started the Goddess of the Stars and Sea series, of which Carry on the Flame is the third, and latest, installment, when she was living in Glastonbury, England, site of the ancient Isle of Avalon. Jodine’s books, all of which take place in Glastonbury, chronicle the lives of modern-day priestesses, who have lived in that part of Great Britain for millennia. Her novels provide an adventure-filled initiation into the ‘Mysteries of the Goddess’ and contain keys to embodying its ultimate magic: love.
When Jodine isn’t writing, she practices Adorata, a form of spiritual healing. She also works as a therapist, and she serves as a consecrated priestess, and deacon, in the Gnostic Church of Mary Magdalene. Jodine currently lives in Oregon with her husband, Chris, and their three ‘magical’ cats: Mojo, Pumpkin, and Minnie.

Barbara Reed, Harmonic Deception

Story Summary for Harmonic Deception :
Tonight’s performance could make Liz Hanlon’s music career. For Liz, the night is magical until three teenage girls in outlandish disguises burst into the LA nightclub with assault weapons. Within minutes, two hundred patrons are stripped of their cell phones and valuables, one man is dead, and two others are wounded.

As the robbers make their getaway, the shooter’s belligerent remarks let Liz know this is more than a random attack . . . and she is the target. Desperate to expose the shooter before she attacks again, Liz seeks help from an eccentric investigator and her brother, an attorney, but neither they nor the police detectives believe the crime was personal. Her debut is on hold, her love life in a tailspin. She devises a perilous plan to draw the shooter out of hiding, but the girl makes a counterattack and when the girl confronts her, Liz&tsquo;s desire for revenge forces her to make a choice. By morning, it’s over, or so it seems. But an unresolved issue from the past comes to light and it changes everything . . .

A few words about Barbara Reed:

Barbara writes about what she knows: the world of professional musicians and recording artists. Before turning to writing, Barbara was a professional pianist and jazz vocalist who, for ten years in her career, toured up and down the East Coast as the lead singer with jazz bands. By the time she moved to Los Angeles, Barbara discovered that her primary venue, the “nightclub scene” had changed. “Crowds weren’t filling the clubs as they had before,” she said. “Drum machines were replacing drummers, and acoustic instruments were becoming outdated. Bands were forced to down-size and competition for gigs was fierce. Suddenly, singers were considered a luxury. I remember one club owner snarling, ‘That’s all the broad does, just stand there and sing?’”
That’s when Barbara turned to her second passion: writing. She has since written two screen plays and three “musical murder-mystery novels” about fictitious singer Liz Hanlon. Her latest book in the series is Harmonic Deception

Jon Reisfeld, The Last Way Station

Story Summary for The Last Way Station :
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, one of the most notorious mass-murderers in history, retired to his room in his bunker, 25 feet beneath the old Reich Chancery garden. Above him, the Red Army was encircling Berlin as his dream of a thousand-year Aryan empire lay in ruins.

Hitler placed a glass cyanide capsule between his teeth and pointed a loaded service pistol at his right temple. Then, smugly believing he had both evaded capture and escaped all accountability for his crimes, he bit down and pulled the trigger. He was wrong!
The Last Way Station begins moments after Hitler’s successful suicide, when the Führer finds himself mysteriously transported to a numbingly cold, solitary holding cell in the afterlife. There, he meets his caseworker, a supernatural being tasked with helping him face, and work through, his sins. The caseworker explains that Hitler will remain in solitary confinement indefinitely, as he prepares his soul for eventual return to the material world. The method, Hitler learns, involves seeking enlightenment through physically embodying his victims and then personally reliving the atrocities committed against them in his name.
This speculative, historical fantasy narrative explores Hitler’s psychology, the psychology of evil and asks, ‘What, if anything, constitutes fitting punishment for the ‘super evil?’’

A few words about Jon Reisfeld

Jon, a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, has worked most of his adult life as a writer and marketer. He has more than 25 years combined experience in journalism, corporate communications, advertising and marketing.
Jon began writing long-form fiction in his 40s. His eclectic interests run the gamut from cosmology, chaos theory, technology and sci-fi to social issues, politics, the economy, anthropology, marketing and writing. His most immediate writing project will be to finish expanding his novella, The Reform Artists into a novel. After that, Jon will start writing a sci-fi trilogy that takes place on earth and spans “hundreds of years of human history.”

Michael Meyer, Covert Dreams:

Story Summary for Covert Dreams:

COVERT DREAMS is an international thriller that roars through London, Rome, Munich, and Saudi Arabia. It is the story of a murder mystery that collides, head-on, with an international conspiracy as elements of parapsychology blur the lines between what’s “real” and “imagined.”
Is the mysterious disappearance of an American in today’s Saudi Arabia somehow linked to a terrible murder in Munich back in 1984? Is B.J. living a nightmare, or is it reality? How can he dream the same dream night after night and know intimate details of Munich, a city in which he has never been? How can he speak German in his dream, a language he does not know? Why does everybody think he is losing it? Is he going crazy?

How can a woman suddenly disappear in the Saudi Arabian heat, along with every trace of her very existence? Why is there absolutely nothing, not one single detail in any records anywhere, to prove that she is indeed a living person and that her spouse is not crazy for thinking so? Why do both the American government officials and the Saudi Arabian authorities insist that she never even existed?

A few words about Michael Meyer

Mike recently retired from a 40-year career as a professor of writing, amassing numerous teaching awards along the way, from both his students and his colleagues. He lives in the Southern California wine country with his wife, Kitty, and their two other cats. Mike Meyer, many years ago, was a student in Germany. He has since visited Munich numerous times. He also was a professor at the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East. The locales he writes about here are real.

Kitty Sutton, Wheezer and the Painted Frog

Story Summary for Wheezer and the Painted Frog:
Who killed Usti Yansa? Find out September 15, 2011, in Wheezer and the Painted Frog, Kitty Sutton’s debut novel about the aftermath of the infamous Trail of Tears. Healthy little boys shouldn’t grow weak and die when they have shelter, food and the care of their families, yet Sasa’s little brother, the last of her family, sickens, mumbling the mysterious ‘I didn’t do it right, I didn’t do enough. Why didn’t it work?’

Left alone, mourning and trying to survive in a new place with new ways, Sasa seeks answers with the help of her new friend, Wheezer. The Jack Russell Terrier seems too wise, too fierce and too loyal to be just a dog. Did the Creator send Wheezer to Sasa and if so, how can a dog, albeit a smart one, help to solve a murder?
From the time Europeans landed in North America, the People were forced out of the land they had known for generations. By the nineteenth century, the United States had pushed them into the remote and undeveloped area known as Indian Territory and promised them food and protection that never came. Plagued by the loss of their ability to farm and hunt, the lack of food and shelter, the disease brought by the White Man, every tribe suffered losses so great only the memories of the survivors could document the dead. This story, taking place among the Cherokee after the Trail of Tears, is a story for all the People.

A few words about Kitty Sutton

Kitty was born Kathleen Kelley to a Cherokee/Irish family. Both sides of her family were stage performers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Kitty was trained from an early age in dance, vocals, arts and musical instruments. Her father was a Navy band leader. Kitty married a wonderful Cherokee artist from Oklahoma, and settled in the area that she writes about in her Wheezer series of novels. After her children were grown, Kitty and her husband moved to Branson, MO, where Kitty performed in her own one-woman show for twelve years. To honor her father, she went by the stage name “Kitty Kelley.” She has three music albums and several original songs to her credit and is best known for her comical, feel-good song called, “It Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady Sings.”
Kitty has been writing for many years, and in 2011, Inknbeans Press published her historical Native American murder mystery. First in a line of stories featuring Wheezer, a Jack Russell Terrier and his Cherokee friend, Sasa, it is called, Wheezer And The Painted Frog. Kitty and her husband now live near Branson, MO, with their three Jack Russell Terriers, one of which is the actual “Wheezer.”

Renée Pawlish, Nephilim: Genesis of Evil

Story Summary for Nephilim: Genesis of Evil:

A dark power described in Genesis revisits a small mountain town. A journalist who witnessed an evil presence searches for answers. He finds a town succumbing to supernatural forces. Now, an evil prophesy may be fulfilled by the Nephilim.

A few words about Renée Pawlish

Renée Pawlish was born in California, but has lived most of her life in Colorado. When she’s not hiking, cycling, or chasing ballplayers for autographs, she is writing mysteries and thrillers. She also has some middle grade novels waiting to be published.
Renée loves to travel and has visited numerous countries around the world. She has also spent many summer days at her parents’ cabin in the hills outside of Boulder, which was the inspiration for the setting of Taylor Crossing in her novel Nephilim: Genesis of Evil.

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Judgment of Evil by Author Lori A. Lowthert Book Review

2012-02-28T06:51:00.000-08:00

I've just finished reading the sequel to Instrument of Evil.

Which is titled Judgment of Evil and I enjoyed it, though at times I thought somethings were a bit odd.

I'll explain more as you read on.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK

Rebekah had vowed to stop killing for love, but she finds herself unable to stop. Scott still knows nothing about her secret life.She is happily attending graduate school when the unthinkable happens--she is arrested and charged for one of the murders she committed last year. She spends a few nights in jail before she goes in front of a judge, who sets the bail at an exorbitant $1 million. Her father and Scott are able to raise the necessary money and get her out on bail. She kills again, even when she is out on bail. Rebekah has hired an excellent criminal defense attorney, but she's afraid it won't be enough and she'll go back to jail.

MY TAKE OF THE BOOK.

If you have not read the prequel of this book, you might want to because it has quite a lot of info on this character that explains a lot of her psychopathic behavior and a lot of other things which makes it easier to comprehend what happens in the second book. I'm this way I have to read all the book in a series just so I know what is going on. In this book, Rebekah has promised to stop killing since she wed Scott but she cannot seem to stop herself so she only kills once in a while. And then she gets arrested for a murder she did in book one. The weird thing here is that Scott her husband, doesn't seem too upset that she is being arrested for a murder, he's being pretty apathetic about, just like Rebekah. Though for Rebekah, it's pretty normal since she is psychopathic. Through the whole book, I noticed that instead of talking about the real feeling or things about being a psychopath, I only read about happy things like, shopping, Ikea, burberry, getting a new house, having sex and stuff like that. I was a bit confused. When it should have been more like fights, inner turmoil and confusion. I've read a lot of psychopath books and there is definitely something missing here. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the book, but at times it just left me a bit blasé.

These 3 people received these books

2012-02-10T04:21:00.000-08:00

These 3 persons won these books:

Corey L. won: A Feeling In My Bones.

Sandy W. won: Crime Fiction for Beginners.

Heather L. won: Prince Korasoff´s Road Map

Thanks to everyone for participating in this book giveaway and have a wonderful day.

Is Titanic Rising By Author Thomas Hanna Book Review

2012-02-01T10:50:00.000-08:00

I've just reviewed Is Titanic Rising by author Thomas Hanna.

About The Author
Thomas P. Hanna has taught biology at the high school and undergraduate levels on both coasts. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he was born and raised.

This is a fiction a novel. It's about Marie Theresa Fleming who disappeared when the Titanic went under while her fiancé Oliver Nessler waited for her back in New-York.

It is said that Miss Fleming was a spiritualist of note back in 1912. She claimed that she had an amulet that united her and her fiancé forever no matter what.

There is this spiritualist named Adrian Barakat who senses that the Titanic will rise. And it does but it's all restored as if it was brand new. The ship sails in the direction of New-York.

What forces can be driving it?

Is it any danger to anyone?

No one seems to be able to board it except Adrian Barakat.

What if it wa Mary Theresa Fleming's ghost trying to get to her fiancé back in New-York who's now 99 years old. You really need to read it to find out.

I really liked this book. It is really well written. I had a bit of a hard time to get into the book a first but I'm glad I stuck with because once I was into it I could not get out of it.

It's a great mix of fiction and fact, adventure and danger. The author sure did a great job in this book.

I give this book a 4/5

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Oral Expressions bu Author Ann Campbell Book Review

2012-01-30T13:03:00.000-08:00

I've just reviewed Oral Expressions by author Ann Campbell and I must say I enjoyed it tremendously.
This is a naughty erotic romance. 18+.

If you are in the mood for a bit of hot romance and a fast read, then I suggest this very enjoyable book.
It only has around 34 pages or so.

I'ts the story of Trey Cano that organizes a 900 number party for his friend's bachelor party but his friends decide to bail out. So Trey decides to give the girl a call to let her know.
But after talking to her , her voice drives him wild so he ends up staying on the phone longer then expected. He fantasizes about a woman that works at the office with him. Not a bomb shell but still, she turn him on.
This story has everything you'll want in a heating romance story. It has foreplay, builds up slowly, and brings you up right up until you explode into pure reading orgasm. You'll love it. It's a well written story. Another thing I also liked is that it was all done with good taste, nothing dirty.

You can buy Oral Expressions at Amazon, just click on the image below

I was given the book Oral Expressions for by the author for a fair review but the opinions are 100% my own.

A Feeling In My Bones By Author Gervase Shorter Book REview and Give@way

2012-01-26T08:59:00.000-08:00

Good mornign everyone,

Welcome to my book blog.

Hope you are all having a great week.

Today I'll be reviewing the book A Feeling In My Bones by Author Gervase Shorter

and doing a giveaway for 3 different e-books from this author.

A feeling in my bones
Crime Fiction for beginners
Prince Korasoff´s Road Map

Gervase Shorter is an English writer who has traveled and lived in many parts of the world but has made the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro his home since the 1970s. He lives with his wife Charmian and Zoë, his daughter (a Paris trained pastry chef) in an apartment in central Rio with a view across the lagoon, but whenever it´s too hot in Rio he escapes to the farm they built three thousand feet up in the mountains where it´s cold enough for log fires in the winter.
When he´s not enjoying Zoë´s incredible desserts, listening to his collection of classical music or reading any kind of book he can lay hands on, Gervase is writing. So far his three novels ‘A Feeling in My Bones’ (a thriller), ‘Prince Korasoff´s Road Map’ (a romance) and ‘Crime Fiction for Beginners’ (a murder story) have appeared as e-books and there are more in the pipeline. [152 words].

Book Synopsis

What was Jake Forrester doing when he disappeared while on an assignment for a reclusive billionaire? Did he really travel to Central Africa? A month later he reappears in a Miami clinic suffering from a nervous breakdown. Whatever happened during that month makes Jake and his wife Sally rich but when she tries to investigate what she discovers is so frightening that she has to run for her life.

My take on the book

I absolutely loved this book. This is a mystery and thriller genre.

The story is very well written and thought out from beginning to end. From the beginning I thought I had the plot figured out, but I was wrong, because the end totally surprised me.

This author sure has the knack with words and described every situation as if you were there for real. I could have sworn I lived the story myself.

This book is hard to put down from beginning and you'll want to read as much as you can before putting it down. The characters are truly believable and Sally's character is very plausible.

I fell in love with her from the start. If you like fast action mystery, thrillers, then this book is for you.

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You can also get it at Apple, Sony and Diesel.

Connect with Gervase Shorter on his website at gervaseshorter.com

And now for the giveaway, Gervase is giving away 3 different ebooks to 3 different winners

Check out the different titles of the e-books on his website to give you an idea of what you will win.

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W-I-N one of Rebecca Sinclair's Books

2012-01-16T08:50:00.000-08:00

LEAP INTO REBECCA'S WORLD

DIGITAL CHOICE CONTEST

RULES OF THE CONTEST ARE
AS FOLLOWS

Post review(s) or buy a copy of Perfect Strangers, Montana Wildfire, and/or California Caress by 2/29/12.

1st Place Winner gets their digital back-list of Rebecca Sinclair books completed* PLUS s/he gets to help Rebecca decide which one back-list book will be digitally published next. As a Bonus Prize, you will also receive a review acknowledgment in said book when it is published, (This is great exposure for your or your blog/website/whatever!) and you will also receive a $50 Amazon or Book Depository gift card . Open internationally.

2nd Place Winner gets their choice of whichever digital titles of Rebecca's they haven't purchased yet.* and as a Bonus Prize you will also receive a $25 Amazon or Book Depository gift card . Open internationally.

Please email contest@rebeccasinclair.com with the purchase information and/or review information to be eligible to win one of the above prizes.
If you need a review copy, please email heather@rebeccasinclair.com with your request and website information.

Winners will be chosen by Random.org on 3/1/12.

*Perfect Strangers, Montana Wildfire, and California Caress only. Murphy's Law optional.

REVIEW CRITERIA

First of all, thanks for taking the time to review one of Rebecca's books and for entering this great contest.

To avoid people abusing the privilege of review copies, here are the review guidelines for our book reviewers specifically for the Rebecca Sinclair Digital Choice contest.

1. Must be a Book blogger with at least 100 followers and frequent traffic to their site. If you have under 100 followers, please email to contest@rebeccasinclair.com and we will see if we can work something out.
2. You have your choice to review Perfect Strangers, Montana Wildfire, and California Caress. One entry per book reviewed during the contest.
3. Be willing to post our contest spiff on your blog and post your review at Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or any other site you wish. Just email us the information.
Below is the book information for the above contest.
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This person received the Wicked Wives Book

2012-01-13T09:34:00.000-08:00

This person received The Wicked Wives Book

Congratulations to you

KELLEY J.

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Perfect Strangers by Author Rebecca Sinclair Review

2012-01-11T13:47:00.000-08:00

This is a must read historical romance.

I completely fell in love with this book and I'm certain you will too.

Perfect Strangers is set in the beautiful 16th Century lands of England and Scotland.

It's the sotry of Gabrielle Carelton who is on her way to Scotland from England to wed Colin Douglas to end all feuds between the Maxwells and the Douglases that have been going on for the past century. But on her way she is kidnapped by Colin's twin brother, The Black Douglas, Connor

Connor kidnaps Gabrielle because he needs an heir and also loves to anger his brother.

I cannot tell you to much without giving away too much of the story.

But when Gabrielle sees Connor, she feels the heat rise in her as she has never felt this feeling before.

And Connor, well, need I say more?..

But sparks fly between these two, that's for certain.

This book is filled with action, love, and oh yes, a few well written and quite respectful love/sex scenes. Nothing distasteful, but on the contrary so preciously romantic.

I must warn you that it is written in some Scottish burr but you willg et the hang of it quite fast.

I mean I'm French and I understood it quite fast, so if I did, anyone can too.

The other thing I really enjoyed about the story, is that the author Rebecca chose to make her leading lady not very beautiful or not the perfect body. Which is one of her main concerns when she first gets really close for the first time with Connor, but he has a way of making her feel very beautiful, because he truly does find her beautiful and he loves that she is shapely and curvy because that makes her stronger and healthier. It also makes her perfect to have children. Through his eyes, Gabrielle eventually finds herself beautiful.

I myself am 6 feet and am curvasious and big boned and at 47 years old, I can say that I still hold my own.

I totally loved this character for these reasons, because it made her feel so real and close to me.

Except that my husband is not taller then me but a bit shorter, lol....

But even though, this story moved me to the core, I truly enjoyed it.

I cannot wait to read another one of Rebecca Sinclair's books.

Visit Rebecca Sinclair's Website

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Thank you for stopping by to read this review.

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The Wicked Wives

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It's a riveting novel about wives murdering their husbands during the depression in the 1938s

to get their hands on the insurance money.

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Last Way Station Mega Book Tour & Indie Author Showcase

2012-01-05T07:16:00.000-08:00

Good morning everyone, if you remember a little while ago I reviewed a great novella

titled The Last Way Station by Jon Reisfeld which you can read again if you go here.

But today I'm having an interview with the author and he'll be telling us about his mega book tour that will be going on for 60 days starting on the 4th of January 2012. This tour will promote Jon Reisfeld and 60 of his peers. There will also be sweepstakes for a Kindle Fire and secondary prizes.

Please take time to read the interview all the way down and you'll get all the info concerning this mega book tour as Jon talks about it in this interview.

Thanks for stopping by.

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1-How did the idea of the book The Last Way Station come to you?

I guess the germ of the idea began, when I was eleven years old and my parents first let me watch a TV documentary about the Holocaust. The documentary took you inside the liberated death camps. It showed the depravity, cruelty and enthusiasm with which the Nazis had pursued their goal of annihilating Jews. It also showed the results of the final panic, when camp guards massacred the remaining inmates in advance of the approaching allied forces. I saw what the liberating troops found: Camps littered with dead, emaciated corpses, left crumpled wherever they fell, like common debris. In the midst of them, the few remaining survivors stood, desperate and confused. They wandered about aimlessly, on shaky, unsteady feet, like the living shadows of death that they had become. At every turn, the camera found piles of withered, naked corpses, with barely enough remaining flesh on them to hold their bones together. Most were stacked, like cords of wood, awaiting disposal in the maws of open pits. And inside the pits, lay endless rows of naked dead of all ages, from the very young children to the elderly, piled high, sprinkled with lime and then hastily deserted. The documentary also showed the gas chambers and the ovens still filled with partially incinerated bones. It reported on the sadistic medical experiments and, probably scariest of all, the systematic way the Nazi regime had used the apparatus of government to dehumanize, isolate, impoverish, exploit and ultimately destroy its own Jewish citizens. Knowing that Hitler, the architect of all of this, had escaped capture and punishment, I wondered what had awaited him in the hereafter. Had he finally received the judgment, and punishment, he deserved? What punishment, of an individual, could ever atone for sins of such magnitude? And finally, I wondered, if my hoped-for "justice" was even a realistic expectation? In writing, "The Last Way Station," I hoped to find out.

2-Are you of Jewish descent? Just out of curiosity really.

Yes, Nathalie, I am. Growing up, as a Jewish survivor of the holocaust (I've come to realize, over time, that all Jews alive today are holocaust survivors, even if indirectly.) As a kid, in religious school, I learned, primarily, about two things: the Jewish holidays … and the holocaust. The disheartening message I took away from my studies was, "Here's how you observe Judaism … until the next holocaust comes along and annihilates the rest of us."

3-I really enjoyed your book because I always wanted punishment for people like Hitler. Did you feel some kind of relief in writing this book?

I felt relief in having finally addressed the subject of Hitler, his crimes and culpability, in some manner. It was as if nothing I would ever write about again could possibly measure up to the importance of the subject matter contained in this little book. I was glad, in some small way, to contribute to the ongoing discussion of Hitler and The Holocaust.

For most Jews, the holocaust is the 'elephant in the room,' always sitting in the corner … demanding our attention and, in a sense, defying us to ignore it long enough to focus on living our lives and pursuing our dreams.

4- Did you have to restrain yourself as in, could it have been a worse fate for Hitler in your book?

No. Because I approached the subject matter almost as if it were scientific experiment, and I tried to limit the variables to Hitler, in as true a portrait of his character as I could muster and his supernatural caseworker (who was capable of operating on a plane safely beyond Hitler's guile.)
On many levels, I was quite pleased with the punishment I settled upon … as well as the book's conclusion. (A message to any would-be readers of the book out there: If you have developed the unfortunate habit of reading the last page of a book first, please refrain from doing so in this case. It will greatly detract from the overall reading experience.) My basic notion was to attempt to develop a punishment that I felt a just God would impose. But I soon discovered certain elements of Hitler's character would complicate the narrative, and they did.
One of my favorite elements of the book, by the way, was my method of incorporating, and exploring, the influence Hitler's paternal grandmother, Maria Shicklgruber, may have had in developing his nascent anti-semitism. This was pure speculation on my part, because she died before Hitler was born. But it feels right.

5- Are you satisfied with your book?

Yes. I think it explores a number of important questions about Hitler, the nature of his crimes and his responsibility for them. The book also addresses, and, I believe, debunks the faulty arguments put forth by many Holocaust deniers. The big question for me, regarding the narrative, is
whether I should have stayed true to my original vision for the book. I initially had planned to include two more vignettes in the story, instead of just one. This is a subject I wish readers would address with me, but, so far, none have. Although many have written that the book gave them food for thought, as I intended it to.

6- Are you working on another book?

Yes. My next book will be the expansion of my novella, The Reform Artists, into a novel. The Reform Artists tells the story of Matin Silkwood, an innocent man, accused, by his estranged wife, of domestic violence. Martin's wife makes the accusations in order to gain the upper hand in their pending divorce. The book reflects the sorry state of present-day American divorce law. It also introduces the 'reform artists,' an underground group, founded by rogue members of the national intelligence community, who use high-tech tools and a covert network to 'level the playing field,' for folks, like Martin, who get victimized by 'the system.'

I expanded the book into a novel, because I kept finding unanswered questions in the original narrative. I'm leaving the door open to turning The Reform Artists into a series.

After I finish The Reform Artists, I will resume work on a sci-fi trilogy I've been planning that spans hundreds of years of life on earth. No working title yet.

7-What genre of books do you read?

Well, Nathalie, my tastes are broad, but, I have to confess, not as broad as yours. When it comes to fiction, I read: literary fiction, historical fiction, sci-fi, suspense/thrillers (I particularly like legal and mysteries) and some horror. In the non-fiction area, my tastes are highly eclectic. I read everything from business books to biographies and self-help, science, history, politics, economics and some humor -- to keep me sane.

8-Before writing what did you do?

Breast fed, mostly. Then, moved on to assorted baby foods. In other words, I started writing early: in second grade. Most of my early writing was poetry. Here's one of my favorites. It's called, The Car Wash: "We go into the carwash/And watch the water spout./But we don't see it very long/Because the car comes out."

9-When you are not writing what do you enjoy doing?

I'm an avid movie-goer and reader. I also watch way too much TV. I'm a big fan of "Everybody Loves Raymond" reruns, Fringe and The History Channel.

10-Please tell my readers about your book tour?
Today, January 3rd, marks the start of a 60-day Mega Book Tour that I'm sponsoring to promote my book, The Last Way Station, to showcase the talent and, literary contributions, of Indie Writers, in general. (Indie writers are self-published authors, such as myself, and writers represented by non-traditional "indie," or independent, publishers, who fulfill a role more akin to literary "service companies" than traditional, full-service publishing firms.

In the past, traditional publishers described everyone who participated in self-publishing-- publishing houses and authors alike -- as being part of the "vanity publishing" industry. The implication of "vanity publishing" was that those who engaged in it produced "inferior" works, unfit for commercial publishing, but works designed to appeal to the "vanity" of the writer.
I hope to show the public, with the help of about 60 of my peers, that nothing could be further from the truth. Indie Authors today produce highly original, entertaining works of ever-increasing sophistication. They, in fact, offer the public the best value for their money.

The Mega Book Tour contains three components: (1) A 30-Stop Blog Tour, which, on some days, such as today, will feature just me and my book, but on others will present tag-team, multiple-author blogging events with panel discussions, roundtables, live and pre-recorded podcast discussions and much more. (2) An idie author showcase, housed at the tour's website -- still under construction, but nearly complete -- with information on each author, one of their best books and links to make purchases. And (3) a tour-wide Sweepstakes with a Kindle-Fire as the grand prize and bundles of ebooks as consolation prizes.

11-Also let them know about the sweepstakes?

Oh, sure! Glad you mentioned it. The Last Way Station Book Tour Sweepstakes is free and open to all residents of the 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Canada, Great Britain and Australia, who are 18 years or older. Grand Prize of a Kindle Fire, but the tour offers a lot of great secondary prizes as well: Second-Place prize, for instance, is a
15-book bundle of ebooks and/or signed paper back novels. The sweepstakes offers a minimum of six additional book-bundle consolation prizes. Each of these prize bundles contains an ebook or paperback version of all the books featured in one of each of six possible genre categories: sci-fi/fantasy; historical fiction; romance; horror/paranormal; suspense/thriller or young adult. In addition to receiving one free chance by signing up, entrants who Twitter or use Facebook to alert friends and fans can receive additional chances. To learn more about the Sweepstakes and to sign up visit: http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/twitter/233/contests/171952

12 And tell us more about the Indie author showcase?

Sure, Nathalie. The Indie Author Showcase is part of the Mega Book TourTM site at www.reisfeldgroup.com/hotgatespress/ . There, by the end of the week, visitors will find a showcase featuring up to 60 Indie Authors writing in the six genres I've mentioned above. You'll find author profiles, information about their latest books and links to learn more about them via their websites, blogs, goodreads and Amazon pages. You'll also be able to go to the Book Tour section to find detailed information about each tour stop and blogger. Stop by and check it out. You may find that many of the books are on sale for the duration of the tour, too!

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Wicked Wives by Author Gustine Pelagatti Book Review and Give@way

2011-12-29T13:10:00.000-08:00

Good afternoon, hope your Holidays are going well so far.

Mine are quiet, and I'm very sick. Bummer actually.

I've just finished reading a fantastic book titled Wicked Wives by author

Gustine Pelagatti. Wicked Wives is based on a true story that happened in the '30s.

Take time to read my review and enter to win your own print copy of Wicked Wives.

Interview with the Author

Question 1: What inspired you to write the novel “The Wicked Wives”?
I was born in 1938 at a time when Philadelphia citizens learned of the local poison murder scandals. Giorgio DiSipio, the book’s mastermind conspirator, had a tailor shop and apartment located two blocks from my family’s home in South Philadelphia.
As I grew up, I would often eavesdrop on adult conversation concerning the evil and unfaithful wicked wives. When I was old enough my mother explained the scandals to me.
I’ve always wanted to write a novel about these infamous wives and lovers.
Question 2: How did you use your trial lawyer experience to help research the book?
When I became an attorney, I interviewed people directly involved in the poison cases. They were judges, lawyers, policemen, sheriffs, trial witnesses and neighbors of the defendants. These sources possessed true knowledge of the defendants’ personality and character.
I then researched legal citations of records of the poison murder trials, appellate court decisions, newspaper articles published between 1938-1943 and all reading matter pertaining to the scandals. From this information I recreated the testimony of defendants by applying my trial experience in criminal cases which I have tried in the past.

SYNOPSIS

The Wicked Wives is based on the true story of the 1938 Philadelphia murder scandals in which seventeen wives were arrested for murdering their husbands.

Mastermind conspirator Giorgio DiSipio, a stunning lothario and local tailor who preys upon disenchanted and unfaithful wives, convinces twelve of them to kill their spouses for insurance money.
The murder conspiracy is very successful until one lone assistant D.A., Tom Rossi, uncovers the plot and brings the perpetrators to justice.
The Wicked Wives is a story made for Hollywood, combining murder, corruption, treachery, love, lust and phenomenal detail as it vividly captures Depression-era Philadelphia.

MY REVIEW

I absolutely loved this true crime novel. It is masterfully well written. The story takes place during the depression era back in 1938. It was a time when strong willed women who when left at home doing the cooking and cleaning just got tired of waiting for their husbands who in turn some had mistresses. So these women had plans of their own to murder their husbands. But it took only one man to get the ball rolling and that was Disiprio the Tailor. A very good looking man who could give them the attention they craved and help them do exactly what they had in mind, murder their husband for the insurance money. All this would have been perfectly hush if it would not have been for the DA Tom Rossi who after some suspicion in one death, he investigated deeper and discovered the poison ring as he called it, and they found 17 women in all that had poison and murdered their husband for insurance money.

Through the whole book you won't fins a dull page, and though the characters do intertwine each other, you never loose track of who is who and what events are taking place and nothing ever gets confusing.

Even if the wives are killers I kind of got attached to them. You must know that these women were very clever. The way this book is written, you feel as though you are in the courtroom with them. I tell you this book is a great read. I really cannot wait to read this author's next book.

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