War Memorial in Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers http://siteblog.kathleenmrodgers.com/?p=3244 Johnnie was abandoned by her mother, Victoria Grubbs, raised by her granny, and remembers only moments in her life when Mama blinked in and out of existence. Her father, killed in Vietnam, is rarely spoken of, if at all. The war memorial is a place of connectionâ
Drawing Sylvia: An Autistic Child Speaks Pubslush Fund Raising Campaign by Katherine Yu For an autistic girl to launch an art line that can sustain her financially at some point in her life is worth donating to. Through May 8th https://pubslush.com/project/6083 www.allaboutsylvia.com Published by Kal-Ba Publishing www.kal-ba.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
Buzz Bernard on techniques of writing in Southern Writers - Suite T Southern Writers - Suite T An author's blog community networking, sharing their techniques on writing, marketing, promoting, and inspiration. Hosted by Southern Writers Magazine. www.buzzbernard.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Published by BelleBooks www.bellebooks.com
Loiacono Literary Agency welcomes Agent Mary Ellen Gavin! Mary Ellen lives in Loudoun County, Virginia only a few miles from the Capitol. Raised in Chicago and Los Angeles, she also includes New Orleans as her third hometown. She teaches writing/screenwriting and judges writing contests. Her specialty is finding seeds of genius accidentally buried in manuscripts that may have been overlooked by the author. MEg loves Political and Suspense Thrillers, Mysteries, Historical Anything, including Westerns; any story that has a well-researched historical background. Loiacono Literary Agency represents over seventy authors with more than 200 books. LLA is interested in all genres from childrenâ
Loiacono Literary Agency Welcomes Agent Melissa Carrigee! Reading and writing is a way of life for Melissa Carrigee. As a literary agent and award winning graphic artist, she combines her two passions of business and writing. She has published works in newspapers and magazines as well as a published novel. Genres: horror, science fiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction, mysteries, thrillers, dramasâ
The long-awaited Please Say Kaddish For Me by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields has garnered several outstanding endorsements and has a fantastic book trailer. Release summer 2015. www.rochellewordart.com Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Art and Blogs Published by W&B Publishers Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Please Say Kaddish For Me book trailer Please Say Kaddish For Me Reviews
2015 North Texas Book Festival http://www.dentonlifestyles.com/2015/03/2015-north-texas-book-festival/ Jeanie Loiacono, President of Loiacono Literary Agency, and Kathleen M. Rodgers, author of The Final Salute and Johnnie Come Lately will be doing an agent/author panel. Find out how to land a hard-working agent and become a rock star of the publishing world. www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com www.kathleenmrodgers.com
Book 4 and Where I am Janet Walter http://janetwalter.weebly.com/ BOOK 4 ON MY READING LIST: Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers. She has a way of putting real life on the page. I can relate to her story as a mother, a wife, and someone who deals with baggage—“mother” issues. I asked for her permission to quote a diary entry that sums up her magic.
Loiacono Literary Agency is seeking agents. Must have experience in the following: Accounting Clerical skills (All forms of Microsoft Office) Editing Marketing Publicity Sales Must be self-motivated and willing to work on commission basis. Send CV to: jeanie.loiacono@loiaconoliteraryagency.com www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
For those who would like to meet Chuck Walsh, author of A Month of Tomorrows, Shadows On Iron Mountain, Backwoods Justice, A Passage Back and A Splintered Dream, and get autographed copies of his books, here are three opportunities! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/for-those-who-would-like-to-meet-chuck-walsh-author-of-a-month-of-tomorrows-shadows-on-iron-mountain-backwoods-justice-a-passage-back-and-a-splintered-dream-and-get-autographed-copies-of-his-book
Buzz Bernard wins EPIC Award for SUPERCELL! Another grand win for Buzz Bernard. He won for PLAGUE last year and has won for SUPERCELL this year. The EPIC- The Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition https://www.epicorg.com/ www.buzzbernard.com Published by BelleBooks www.bleebooks.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
W&B Publishers has acquired Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ novels, Please Say Kaddish For Me and From Silt and Ashes, both based on a true story… http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/wb-publishers-has-acquired-rochelle-wisoff-fields-novels-please-say-kaddish-for-me-and-from-silt-and-ashes-both-based-on-a-true-story
In both Please Say Kaddish For Me and From Silt and Ashes, Havah’s greatest ally and father figure after the murder of her own father is Rabbi Yussel Gitterman. http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/in-both-please-say-kaddish-for-me-and-from-silt-and-ashes-havahs-greatest-ally-and-father-figure-after-the-murder-of-her-own-father-is-rabbi-yussel-gitterman
Jeanie Loiacono, President of Loiacono Literary Agency, will be participating in The Houston Writers Guild’s “Build an Author Persona” Conference March 28th. http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/jeanie-loiacono-president-of-loiacono-literary-agency-will-be-participating-in-the-houston-writers-guilds-build-an-author-persona-conference-march-28th
A gift from a reader of Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers “A handmade dishcloth sent to me from loyal reader Sheri Anderson. I was honored to sign her copy of Johnnie Come Lately. She was also kind enough to post a short review on Barnes & Noble.” www.kathleenmrodgers.com From page 22 of the paperback edition of Johnnie Come Lately: “She shuddered and hid her face in the dishcloth. In her rush to save him, she’d made a horrible mistake.”
Ed Protzel’s novel, The Lies that Bind, a darkly ironic antebellum mystery/drama set in Turkle, Mississippi, 1859-61, has been acquired by TouchPoint Press! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/ed-protzels-novel-the-lies-that-bind-a-darkly-ironic-antebellum-mysterydrama-set-in-turkle-mississippi-1859-61-has-been-acquired-by-touchpoint-press
Military Writers Society of America review of Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers “Kathleen hooks the reader in the first passage, and doesn't let go until the last page is turned.” by Sandra Linhart for MWSA - http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1812 www.kathleenmrodgers.com Published by Camel Press www.camelpress.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
Wally Avett’s historical, southern fiction Rebel Bushwhacker is now available on selected sites, full release schedule for March 11th! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/wally-avetts-historical-southern-fiction-rebel-bushwhacker-is-now-available-on-selected-sites-full-release-schedule-for-march-11th
Claudia’s Book Talk, an online book club, selects Johnnie Come Lately for discussion on Monday, March 2, 2015 @ 8:30 pm EST (7:30 pm CST, 6:30 pm MST, 5:30 pm PST). Anyone can join in on the discussion. All you need to do is ask to join the group. No hurt feelings if you “unjoin” following tonight’s event. Hope to see you there. All you have to do is click on the following link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Claudiasbooktalk/ www.kathleenmrodgers.com
Drs. John Flynn and Bob Blackwood’s two nonfiction/pop cultures Future Prime: Top Ten Science Fiction Films and Everything I Know About Life I Learned From James Bond have been acquired by Library Tales Publishing! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/drs-john-flynn-and-bob-blackwoods-two-nonfictionpop-cultures-future-prime-top-ten-science-fiction-films-and-everything-i-know-about-life-i-learned-from-james-bond-have-been-acquired-by-lib
Jeanie Loiacono will be participating in The Houston Writers Guild Annual Agents & Editors Conference, voted best in Texas! Location: Houston Marriott Westchase . 2900 Briarpark Drive . Houston, TX 77042 Date: April 24, 25, 26, 2015 Jeanie will be taking pitches and doing panels. http://houstonwritersguild.org/annual-conference/
Heidi Schussman interviews Chuck Walsh, author of Shadows On Iron Mountain, Backwoods Justice, A Passage Back, A Month of Tomorrows and soon to be released, A Splintered Dream http://hschussman.blogspot.com/ www.chuckwalshwriter.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
Touchpoint Press takes on award-winning author Thomas E. Simmons’ epic novels By Accident of Birth and its sequel, The Last Quinn Standing! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/touchpoint-press-takes-on-award-winning-author-thomas-e-simmons-epic-novels-by-accident-of-birth-and-its-sequel-the-last-quinn-standing
Joyce Zeller educates and enlightens us on fragrance making and how it ties into her new novel, Love in a Small Town, indeed one of my favorites! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/joyce-zeller-educates-and-enlightens-us-on-fragrance-making-and-how-it-ties-into-her-new-novel-love-in-a-small-town-indeed-one-of-my-favorites
melissa embry's blog - reading, writing, community Wordcraft -- Dark family secrets twist and turn - Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/melissa-embrys-blog-reading-writing-community-wordcraft-dark-family-secrets-twist-and-turn-johnnie-come-lately-by-kathleen-m-rodgers
Buzz Bernard, Author of EYEWALL, PLAGUE, SUPERCELL and the soon-to-be released, BLIZZARD is featured in Southern Writers Magazine http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/buzz-bernard-author-of-eyewall-plague-supercell-and-the-soon-to-be-released-blizzard-is-featured-in-southern-writers-magazine www.buzzbernard.com www.bellebooks.com http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/buzz-bernard/ http://authorsvisits.com/
Both JJ White, author of Prodigious Savant, and Dr. John Flynn, author of Intimate Bondage, will be presenters at the Amelia Island Book Festival February 19th-21st http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/both-jj-white-author-of-prodigious-savant-and-dr-john-flynn-author-of-intimate-bondage-will-be-presenters-at-the-amelia-island-book-festival-february-19th-21st
Kathleen M. Rodgers, author of Johnnie Come Lately, to do a book signing event in conjunction with Gypsy Muse Studio May 16 1-4pm! www.kathleenmrodgers.com http://www.gypsymusestudio.com/ http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/kathleen-m-rodgers-author-of-johnnie-come-lately-to-do-a-book-signing-event-in-conjunction-with-gypsy-muse-studio-may-16-1-4pm
Loiacono Literary Agency takes on Drema Hall Berkheimer’s memoir Running On a Red Dog Road! With a voice that is respectful yet sassy, we are taken to West Virginia, to a time when all was volatile…and rich with love. http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/loiacono-literary-agency-takes-on-drema-hall-berkheimers-memoir-running-on-a-red-dog-road
For Valentine’s Day and/or any other day, you must get Dr. Sue’s Chocolates! The best dark chocolate in the WHOLE world. No kidding. Been to Europe, had all the others and NO ONE beats Dr. Sues. You get FREE samples in the store. Try it, buy it. Can order online or even take classes and keep what you make! http://drsueschocolate.com/
Douglas McCullough, Colonel, USMC (Retired), an active member of the Triangle Chapter, Speaker at our Wed, 18 March USO Dinner Meeting http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/douglas-mccullough-colonel-usmc-retired-an-active-member-of-the-triangle-chapter-speaker-at-our-wed-18-march-uso-dinner-meeting
Gospel Revolution Powercast with Mike and Beres and author James "Pep" Washburn, author of Touching Spirit: Letters of Minominike a fictional story about letters from a man's grandfather who has great spiritual insight. You can purchase the book at the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Touching-Spirit-The-Letters-Minominike/dp/0692298029 http://gospelrevolution.podbean.com/e/touching-spirit-author-interview/
Meet Kathleen M. Rodgers and get a signed copy of The Final Salute and Johnnie Come Lately February 7, 2015, 2-4pm, Southlake Barnes & Noble! www.kathleenmrodgers.com http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/meet-kathleen-m-rodgers-and-get-a-signed-copy-of-the-final-salute-and-johnnie-come-lately-february-7-2015-2-4pm-southlake-barnes-noble
Hanahatchee by Trisha O’Keefe A South Georgia murder mystery that spans both past and present, across racial divides ever present in Southern heritage. There is nothing that better describes the legal system in the South. The characters are so well described that they are probably still alive and well way down south. — Barbara Collins – Independent Reviews
Aberration by Lisa Regan is an A+ “A departure from what is normal, or expected. One that is unwelcome.” Aberration. The definition truly describes this book regarding behavioral science used to catch an extraordinarily evil killer. The female agent that brings him down has her own set of problems. As they intertwine, things get really, really bad. Barbara Collins – Independent Reviews
Supercell is truly SUPER! I’m a huge fan of disaster novels, and an even bigger fan of Buzz Bernard. He can’t write fast enough for me. Eyewall, Plague, and now, Supercell. The writing is so intense that you don’t dare put the book down until the end, and then you still want more. Edge of your seat drama. Each of his books would make block-buster movies. Can’t wait to see what the next disaster is…Blizzard! — Barbara Collins – Independent Reviews
Fantastic review for Rose Bush by Stephen Doster! If you like a good old fashion Southern tale, this is the book for you. This book has it all, protagonist, antagonist, and peacemaker, with many a Southern Belle thrown in for good measure, all which are described so well that you think you actually know them. A very enjoyable read, with a very satisfying ending. — Barbara Collins, Independent Reviews
I believe God wants you to know that everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/i-believe-god-wants-you-to-know-that-everything-is-falling-together-perfectly-even-though-it-looks-as-if-some-things-are-falling-apart/
Another outstanding review for 12:19 by Michael Infinito!! 12:19 was a terrifying book. It is not a book you want read at night when you just want a few pages to make you sleepy. It literally gave me nightmares. Nothing Steven King wrote holds a candle to the terror in this book. It just shows how easily it is too be deceived in the vilest way. It truly asks the question, “How do you tell good from evil”? The author will have a hard time topping this one. — Barbara Collins, Independent Book Reviews
Kathleen has invited you to the event: Book launch for Johnnie Come Lately. Date: February 07, 2015 02:00PM Venue: Barnes & Noble, Southlake, TX Location: 1430 Plaza Place, Southlake, TX, The United States Description: Book Launch for Johnnie Come Lately, Barnes & Noble, Southlake, TX Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015 Time: 2-4 p.m. Where: 1430 Plaza Place, Southlake, TX 76092 (Southlake Town Square) 817-442-0735 I’ll also be signing copies of the 2nd edition of The Final Salute Your Response: Yes No Maybe See who else is going and get more info
The BLIZZARD Diaries, countdown to the novel BLIZZARD by Buzz Bernard (BelleBooks, February 2015)— JAN 5, 1821 A significant snowstorm spreads heavy snow from Virginia to southern New England through the 7th. It unloads a foot on Washington-Baltimore, 18 inches on Philadelphia, and 14 inches on NYC. (Image: Charles Cooper Henderson, "Mail Coach in a Snowstorm.")
"Kathleen Rodgers had me from the moment I read the first sentence. Johnnie leaps off the page as a woman who is real, tangible, and someone women in all walks of life can certainly relate to. As each nuance of her character was revealed, I found myself cheering, crying, and, at times, laughing. Rodgers has written a book that will long stand for what it truly means to go after your dreams." — Melissa Seligman, author of The Day After He Left for Iraq and co-founder: www.herwarhervoice.com
Deep review of Touching Spirit: Letters of Minominike by James “Pep” Washburn… Touching Spirit: The Letters of Minominike . . . . . . . . . . . . "Pep, I just finished reading Touching Spirit: The Letters of Minominike a few moments ago. I am simultaneously settled and stirred. Settled in the oneness of Creator and Creation, and stirred to deeper awareness of the Teacher within. This book deserves to be read more than once, and I intend to do just that." — JB from Whetstone, AZ ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL www.theteacherwithin.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Published by Kal-Ba Publishing www.kal-ba.com
Great review for Playing Mrs. Kingston by Tony Lee Moral www.tonyleemoral.com Playing Mrs. Kingston is a suspense thriller filled with intrigue and sizzling tension. Set in the 1950's, this impressive novel contains everything needed to be quite the page turner. Romance, secrets, betrayal, blackmail and murder are the many components that detail this fascinating story. Catriona Benedict is a struggling actress. On the closing night of her cancelled show she meets the wealthy and flamboyant Miles Kingston. He offers her the best role of her life; all she has to do is pretend to be his wife for a few weeks. She will make more money than she ever has for this charade, plus she gets to keep all the clothes and gifts he will shower her with while playing the part of Mrs. Kingston. What is that old saying..."when something sounds too good to be true it probably is" such is the case for Catriona. The plot was solid and the unexpected twists and turns throughout the book will keep you on the edge of your seat. Enjoyable read! Stephanie Lasley, from The Kindle Book Review Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Published by Porfirio Press www.porfiriopress.com
The Final Salute by Kathleen M. Rodgers is yours for FREE today…and THROUGH DECEMBER 22ND! Tis nothing better than FREE! Give it as a gift or say ‘Merry Christmas’ to yourself. https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-final-salute-by-kathleen-m-rodgers?ebook_deal While you are at it, get her NEW RELEASE Johnnie Come Lately http://www.amazon.com/Johnnie-Come-Lately-Kathleen-Rodgers/dp/1603812156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419003224&sr=8-1&keywords=johnnie+come+lately
Love in a Small Town by Joyce Zeller - When Chicagoan, David Martin, moves to Eureka Springs with his step-daughter, he is escaping urban America and all its violence as well as memories of his deceased wife. A marriage of convenience ended in tragedy and left him to raise a fifteen-year-old daughter whom he has only known for two years. Both father and daughter are testing foreign waters: new home, school and work. Neither expected it, but where there is a will, there is love in a small town. A novel that addresses adult, parental and teenage issues, along with all their nuances, bullying, abuse, and adapting to a whole new life, Zeller touches the hearts of all, especially those of us who thought they would never experience unconditional love.
The Haunting of Aaron House by Joyce Zeller - In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a place where ghosts, witchcraft and the paranormal are part of the local culture, an old farmhouse is haunted by two ghosts, Phineas and Amalie Peale, who have been trying to destroy each other for a hundred and fifty years; each possessing one half of the house. Phineas is an evil, powerful specter; Amalie is much weaker, unable to destroy him. To increase her strength enough to do so, she must inhabit the body of a human female living in the house. Her opportunity arises when the house, left vacant but still furnished since the death of the Aaron brothers two years past, is rented for two weeks by Paul Barlowe, a documentary film producer from Chicago, his wife Samantha and their son, Andy. Paul and Sam are targeted for a hostile take-over by the angry haints’ battle for supremacy, sometimes being completely consumed by them in the most sadistic ways.
When a romance novel author inherits half of a cattle ranch in Arkansas, she is a bit surprised. Maddie had only met the elderly man once — when he rescued her from a freak blizzard ten years before. In order to claim and retain her inheritance she is told she has to live at the ranch for three months… What greets her upon arrival is what steals her heart: two teenage boys in need of a mama and a lonesome cowboy in need of a good woman. A cataclysmic chain of events is set into motion just because of a little ol’ blizzard…cattle rustling, drug smuggling, and unexpected love.
Brace for Impact by Chris Williams - This gripping thriller opens amidst a fierce battle between a top Special Forces A-Team and the Taliban on a remote mountain side in eastern Afghanistan in 2002 and takes us to the present day, where a high level al-Qaeda operative is planning revenge for the death of his family. Set in 2012, the book introduces Jake Walker, who has left the Special Forces and earns a living as a consultant. Jake learns that he can’t hide from his past forever and that he still has the combat skills which earned him the Medal of Honor ten years earlier. Featuring battle scenes in Afghanistan and Iraq and characters from al-Queda and the Colombian FARC, this thriller takes us to the Whitehouse, gives an insight into the investigative skills of the CIA and the NSA, reveals secrets of the cocaine trade in Colombia and takes us to the dangerous region where Panama borders Columbia, the Darien Province.
Prodigious Savant by JJ White - According to Dr. Darold A. Treffert of the University of Wisconsin, there are fewer than one hundred reported cases of prodigious savants in the world. Those few who possess the savant syndrome all have an island of brilliance that allows them to excel in some remarkable talent. Unfortunately, they all share various developmental disabilities. Imagine going to sleep one night as a normal person of average intelligence and waking the next day in possession of several genius level abilities. In 1962 Vermont, seventeen-year-old Gavin survives a horrendous explosion, six hours of brain surgery, and thirty days in a coma, to awake possessing not just one savant talent, but several, including art, music, mathematics, and memory, and all without suffering any of the usual mental disabilities associated with head trauma. His newly acquired abilities thrust him into the public eye as the amazing ‘Whiz Kid’ from Burlington; a moniker he detests. At first excited by his new celebrity, he eventually drifts into deep depression, burdened by a domineering father, his paranoia that someone’s trying to kill him, and his increasing tendency for violence. His genius, paranoia, and increased hallucinations result in some strange and extraordinary encounters with the icons of the 60s, including Bobby Fischer, Nikita Khrushchev, Edward R. Murrow, John Chancellor and even a tragic meeting with John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Gavin’s odds look slim that he will survive not only his external trials, but also his inner conflict keeping him from the one thing he desires most, the girl he’s loved since childhood.
Nisei by JJ White - After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government encouraged all eligible young men to enlist immediately in the fight against its enemies overseas. All eligible young men except Japanese-Americans. Niseiis the story of Hideo Bobby Takahashi, a Hawaiian-born Japanese-American who must overcome prejudice, internment, and the policies of his own government to prove his loyalty to his country. Narrated by Bobby Takahashi and read by his son, Robert, 46 years after Bobby’s death, the story details the young Nisei’s determination to fight honorably for his country and return to the young love he was forced to leave, a girl he cannot have because she is white.
Deviant Acts by JJ White - Jackson is living his nightmares even when his eyes are open. Addicted to heroin since Vietnam, it is the only thing that tends to keep the horror at bay. Besides killing him slowly, it has cost him his job. Living with his mother, in the same home he grew up in, he is now stealing from her and his neighbors for a fix, his girlfriend since grade school has dumped him and the only means of transportation is a beat-up bike. Is there a word for lower than low? Then his rich aunt from Vermont calls requiring his “services”. Cheryl, his so-called cousin, has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Auntie wants her back no matter what it costs, and she wants them all dead. Can Jackson kill again? Can he stay straight long enough to get her back? Nothing is what it seems.
The West Plains Dance Hall Explosion by Lin Waterhouse West Plains, Missouri Friday, April 13, 1928. Looking at the photos and reading the story, I was moved to help them. They want everyone to know the truth, which may have been hit men or geological in nature. If it is the former, most likely the culprits are dead, but the facts need to be revealed. If it is the latter, next time could be catastrophic. Lin has touched the tip of an iceberg and has data, interviews, and stats to prove her findings.
The Ghost of Timmy Wahl: Eternal Secrets at Hunter’s Water Mill by Lin Waterhouse Caroline Hudson’s daughter, Catherine and fiance, Scott, are visiting when they decide to hike the trail behind the mill. Encountering a young boy of about 4 years of age, they assume he is a local who got lost in the woods. They ask him to come with them so they can find his parents, and as they turn to go, he vanishes into the fog. This is the beginning of an unfolding mystery dating back over 80 years. Timmy Wahl in death is about to impact the lives of more people than he ever knew when he was alive…
Bred to the Bone: Deadly Secrets at Hunter’s Water Mill by Lin Waterhouse A mystery set in the Missouri Ozarks town of Hickory Bend. Caroline Hudson, a widow who moves to the Ozarks to start over, works part-time at a renovated water-operated mill turned into a tour stop/shop. She and her boss find a hidden bank safe in the attic. What it contains, certain people would rather not be public knowledge. The extent of their determination leads to stalkings, snakes, and murders.
Shadows on Iron Mountain by Chuck Walsh - What happens on Iron Mountain usually does not leave it, literally or physically… There is an abductor of women with the tendency to silence them permanently when he is no longer amused and he removes any and all obstacles, human specifically. Jason and Kara are excited about their romantic, mountain get-away until they arrive at their secluded cabin on Iron Mountain. Although Kara immediately wants to head for a motel, Jason talks her into staying. The first night she sees someone outside the cabin, the next day she goes to the frig to get a drink and disappears without a trace. She is not the first and won’t be the last. Iron Mountain has a rapist/murderer hiding in its depths. Thomas Jordan, a detective from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, is called in to dissect Iron Mountain, if need be, to find Kara. What he finds are mountain people who won’t turn in their own; willing to kill anyone who tries to ascend their fortress, and a mounting number of floating female corpses in Doe Creek.
A Month of Tomorrows by Chuck Walsh - Based on a true story, it is a memoir dictated to a journalist who gains much more than a story, but also the rebirth of his family. Called to his bedside, Pete is introduced to a simple man whose life is woven between the jungles of the Philippines during WWII and the rolling hills of Tennessee; seen through the eyes of Samuel Gable, a war hero down to his final days on earth. Gable, who is in fact Walsh’s uncle, was accredited for restoring the Ville Verde Monument in 1987 in Luzon which was desecrated after its erection in 1945. When Pete is asked to write the life and times of Samuel Gable, he has no idea the depth of the river he has been asked to swim, nor where the currents are about to take him. Without regard, he pushes all else aside, including his family, as he is overcome by the waters of the past; waters which he sees as an undertow but in reality is a whirlpool that ends up shooting him up and out to a new life and fresh start. One man’s recollections of war, loyal devotion to God, country and family and determination to put it all into words, will retch from you every raw emotion and make you wish there were more like him.
A Gentle Sun Coming by Maryann Wakefield - When Kade Turner lost her husband and son to a freak automobile accident, she tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized for a year. Daily sessions with Dr. Luke Bradshaw brought her back to the land of the living… and also of loving. Or so she made him believe, as an unexpected and suppressed emotion is kindled and an eternal flame ignited on the night of her departure. She flees to Destin, Florida with the goal of being reunited with her family ‘on the other side’; unable to believe Luke could love a ‘lost cause’ like herself. Instead, she is targeted by a serial killer who sees her as a challenge. Unbeknownst to Kade, her worst nightmare is her next door neighbor; a man who knows her every move and hears even her thoughts. Will Luke find her in time? Is what they shared strong enough to turn a determination to die into an undeniable desire to live?
Dr. David L. Vastola, author of The Fountain of Youth - Nutritional Therapies (Carrel Books/Skyhorse Publishing, July 2015), Secrets of the Morning Report (contract pending), and The Nutritional and Medical Book of Secrets (available for acquisition) is a Board Certified Internal Medicine and Gastroenterologist who has done extensive research proving that taking vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements is a sensible precaution to avoiding nutrient deficiencies that are common throughout life. He also believes that candidness and positive communication between patient and physician, as well as being diligent and proactive are the keys to staying healthy. http://www.yourgoodhealthfl.com/
The Fountain of Youth - Nutritional Therapies by Dr. David Vastola (July 2015) There is ample scientific evidence suggesting that taking a daily multivitamin-and-mineral supplement is a sensible precaution to help avoid nutrient deficiencies. But making sense of sometimes confusing and contradictory information can be a challenge. In The Fountain of Youth, Dr. David Vastola demystifies the complicated world of vitamins, minerals, supplements, and herbs. Dr. Vastola’s common-sense approach, combined with the science to back it up, explains what product labels do not. He makes clear that FDA, RDA, and directional use provided on bottles are not necessarily individually applicable. Since each person’s physical makeup is unique, the author “defragments” nutrient information based on individual characteristics. The author maintains that the term “vitamins” is a misnomer; because when it comes to nutrient therapy, consumers must consider not only vitamins but minerals, trace elements, and herbal remedies. In The Fountain of Youth Dr. Vastola provides fundamental information about how, when, and why all forms of supplements are so important. His book provides a guide not only to understanding these important nutritional additives, but to using them appropriately as well.
A Killer Past by Maris Soule - Mary Harrington doesn’t want to revive her past. She certainly doesn’t want her son and granddaughter to know what she did forty-four years ago. But when two teenage gang members try to mug her, old habits are hard to forget. Sergeant Jack Rossini, Rivershore, Michigan’s lone investigative detective, initially doesn’t believe an “old” woman could have put the punks in the hospital, but once he meets Mary, he becomes curious. That curiosity grows when he discovers there’s no record of her existence prior to forty-four years ago. Mary’s and Jack’s lives continue to intersect as a gang the police have been investigating vows to teach Mary a lesson, and a man from Mary’s past arrives in Rivershore, threatening to reveal her secrets.
Submarine Stories of the 20th Century by Mary Nida Smith is about teenage boys who left the farms, small towns, and inner cities to go on the adventure of a lifetime during the early 40s to present day. When they returned home as young men, they were older and wiser. These stories were shared by men who rode the submarines to great depths and across the world into unknown strange seas. They share a peek into the dangers encountered while on war patrols. Many stories will never be told; held securely within a deep, secret compartment of their souls. One story was shared by a Pearl Harbor survivor of the Battle Wagon USS California BB-44, bombed by the Japanese Air Force. Soon after, he joined the submarine service. Another veteran checked the sonar on the U-505 that is displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry at Chicago, Illinois. You will be able to share the fears and joys of the submarine sailors who went out to sea for many days, where friendships were formed and sealed for a lifetime. They are a special breed of men who chose to brave the sleek steel giants of the seas known as “submarines.” It was difficult finding veterans of that era to release their stories. Now in their late 80s and 90s, they were trained for years to keep silent, for “loose lips sink ships.” Submarine Stories of the 20th Century was written to honor the men who served and are serving today on submarines.
By Accident of Birth by Thomas E. Simmons (available for acquisition) is an epic account of the life of Bethany Quinn, based on a true story. Simply put, one of the best manuscripts I have had the privilege of reading and representing. A most incredible life and tragic end begins in 1915 as Bethany Quinn receives a call from the British Crown saying she is in possession of a cache of arms stored in her sugar mill warehouse in Cuba. An era she thought long past is resurrected in the last “special cargo” shipment to England to aid the allies in WWI. In preparation for the trip, she re-reads her mother’s and Dr. Perkins diaries which brings us to that fate-filled day in 1863 and takes us on a journey we will never forget… During the siege of Vicksburg July 1863, sixteen year old Annielise Quinn is shot by a stray bullet which had passed through the groin of a confederate soldier and lodged itself in her pelvis nicking her uterus, thus impregnating her. The only persons to know of the “bullet baby” were her immediate family and Dr. Perkins. Two year old Beverly Bethany Quinn is the only survivor when a trio of crazed Yankees slaughters her family. Having been hid in a basket by her mother, Annielise, she is found by the Quinn’s nanny, Arabella, and taken to be raised by Dr. Perkins in Vicksburg, and subsequently her Uncle Jonathan who lives in Cuba. Wars, love, friendships, tragedies, clandestine shipments and harrowing escapes – life. As unbelievable as it may sound, the events mentioned in this manuscript did actually take place. An Appendix, Facts of Interest and Note to Readers list the documentation, bibliography, and newspaper articles to authenticate Simmons’ research.
The Last Quinn Standing by Thomas E. Simmons (available for acquisition - sequel to By Accident of Birth) Ansel Quinn is the last of his family line. Unbeknownst to him, until the death of Beverly Bethany Quinn on the fateful downing of the Lusitania, the mother and father that raised him were not his birth parents. When the Quinn family attorney sends the diary left by Bethany, he reads penned words of love and devotion and realizes Bethany was not his aunt but his mother, and his father none other than General Henri Bourget, Armee de France. This chain of events, coupled with Europe on the brink of WWI, sends Ansel on an epic quest for honor and self.
Escape from Archangel by Thomas E. Simmons - During World War II, merchant marine tankers in convoys plied the frozen North Atlantic through the flaming wreckage of torpedoed ships. Working to keep sea lanes open, valiant merchant seamen supplied food, fuel, and goods to the Allies in the last pockets of European resistance to the Nazis. This exciting book acknowledges that the merchant marines, all volunteers, are among the unsung heroes of the war. One of these was Jac Smith, an ordinary seamen on the Cedar Creek, a new civilian tanker lend-leased to the U.S.S.R. and in the merchantman convoy running from Scotland to Murmansk. Smith’s riveting adventures at sea and in the frozen taigas and tundra are a story of valor that underlines the essential role of merchant marines in the war against the Axis powers. This gripping narrative tells of a cruel blow that fate dealt Smith when, after volunteering to serve on the tanker headed for Murmansk, he was arrested and interned in a Soviet work camp near Arkhangelsk. Escape from Archangel recounts how this American happened to be imprisoned in an Allied country and how he planned and managed his escape. In his arduous 900-mile trek to freedom, he encountered the remarkable Laplanders of the far north and brave Norwegian resistance fighters. While telling this astonishing story of Jac Smith and of the awesome dangers merchant seamen endured while keeping commerce alive on the seascape of war, Escape from Archangel brings long-deserved attention to the role of the merchant marine and their sacrifices during wartime.
The Man Called Brown Condor by Thomas E. Simmons is the biography of John Charles Robinson, known in the media of the 1930s as The Brown Condor of Ethiopia. This is the true story of Robinson’s struggles to overcome the racial prejudice that all but closed the field of aviation to Blacks. His outstanding success in accomplishing his dream of flying, his influence toward the establishment of a school of aviation at Tuskegee Institute (there would have been no Tuskegee Airmen without him) and his courageous wartime service in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion in 1935 are brought to life. It was during Robinson’s service to Ethiopia that he took to the air in opposition to the first Fascist invasion of what would become World War II. This remarkable American Hero may have been the first American to oppose Fascism in combat.
Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air by Thomas E. Simmons - Forgotten heroes, they truly are. Men of honor, integrity, and perseverance, love of God, country, and family who fought on many fronts and survived to tell their stories – stories of horrors seen which live on forever in their minds and hearts. These veterans are slowly “crossing to the other side” to be greeted by those who have long been there – welcomed with open arms. Men and women you share combat and service time with, you never forget, especially those you see take their last breath. These are the personal accounts that will live with you till the end of time.
“A Sentence of Death”- Words That Killed A President by Robert Shows is a step back in time. A melded novel of historical fact and fiction surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it stimulates the reader to a thought provoking analysis of what could have happened before and after that fateful day in Dallas, Texas. Fifteen years later, the U.S Congress re-opened the Kennedy investigation. Their findings: “…the facts suggest that President Kennedy was killed as the direct result of a conspiracy.” Thus giving plausible answers to the who, what, when, where and how of the fatal plot, and creating an atmosphere of intrigue, treason, murder, cover-up, and eventual, but delayed, disclosure of the men responsible for the death of JFK. Also available at Amazon UK, Amazon USA, Amazon India, Amazon Germany, Amazon France, Amazon Italy, Amazon Spain, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBook, Sony, Kobo, Baker & Taylor, Copia and Gardner’s.
From the Devil’s Farm by Leta Serafim (Coffeetown Press 2017) A child’s body is found in the ruins of an ancient temple, a famed landmark marking the entrance to the harbor of Naxos, one of the largest Cycladic Islands in Greece. The boy has been bled dry, his carotid artery nicked and the blood apparently collected as there is little in evidence. “The work of two people,” Yiannis Patronas, Chief Officer of the Chios police who is called in to investigate, decides when he arrives at the scene, “one to hold the boy down, the other to do the cutting.” Was it cult related? Is it a sadistic murderer? Did the boy perhaps know his deliverer from this worl
To Look on Death No More by Leta Serafim (Coffeetown, 2015) Kalavrita, Greece Brendan O’Malley was an Irishman with heroic ideals who joined His Majesty’s army to rid the world of tyrannous rulers – specifically Hitler. His former dispatches were in Cairo, challenging Rommel in the desert; his last in Greece the autumn of 1943 with the stated objective ‘to make contact with partisan forces and build airstrips.’ Parachuting in, he is wounded and is found by Danae, a seventeen year old Greek girl, and her brother, Stefanos. Although they take his guns and food, they hide him from the enemy in a cave for weeks, saving his life. He, in turn, helps Danae’s family and joins the rebel forces to fight the Germans. A true love story, as well as an expose’ of what occurred in a remote part of Greece close to the end of the war, you feel as if you are there, so hungry your insides ache; so cold you shiver – bracing against the slicing winds of the mountains, yet so in love you are afraid to acknowledge your heart; knowing either of you may not exist tomorrow. Thoroughly researched, Serafim’s documentation and pictures give breath to those who lived and those who were lost. Most WWII stories are written with Italy, Germany, Great Britain and the United States as the focal points, but who has read of the atrocities committed against the Greeks? Who has been satisfied with their meager atonements?
When the Devil’s Idle by Leta Serafim (Coffeetown Press 2016) When an elderly German is found with his skull bashed in on Patmos, the same isle St. John wrote the Apocalypse, Yiannis Patronas, Chief Officer of the Chios police, is called in to investigate. He asks his top detective, Giorgos Tembelos, and his friend and amateur sleuth, Papa Michalis to join him. With only a handful of suspects on such an isolated island— the gardener, the housekeeper, the deceased’s son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren— Patronas is limited, and yet even more challenged. Who is capable? Who has motive? Who wanted the old German dead? Why? Could the answers be immediate or far reaching?
The Devil Takes Half by Leta Serafim - An archeological dig near a desolate monastery in Greece is no longer the innocent search for Minoans, the mysterious precursors to the Greek who disappeared without a trace more than 3500 years before; giving rise to the legend of Atlantis. A severed hand and what seems to be all the blood from the missing archeologist, Eleni Argentis, is found in a trench and her teenage assistant, Petros, is found nearby with his throat slit. On such a remote island, there are only so many suspects, then again, Yiannis Patronas, the policeman in charge of the investigation, finds all is not as it appears, and some secrets are as ancient as the site itself.
The Final Salute by Kathleen M. Rodgers - At a small air base in Louisiana, family man and seasoned fighter pilot, Tuck Westerfield’s life could literally crash down around him. In this business of flying fighter jets, the odds of staying alive are stacked against him. Haunted by the memories of dead friends killed in air mishaps, this Vietnam vet and father of three must deal with a devious commander, an animal-crazed neighbor, whose husband hates pilots, a beautiful, but suspicious wife and a rebellious teenage daughter. The last thing he needs is another war. But when Iraq invades Kuwait in the middle of a muggy Louisiana summer, duty calls. Tuck and the other pilots in his squadron head to the Middle East. Back in Louisiana, Gina Westerfield and other military wives learn that war is hell on the home front, too. Later, when tragedy strikes, everyone at Beauregard Air Force Base must pull together and live on or forever be consumed with grief.
Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers - He was her savior and she was his saint. But sometimes, even saints kept secrets. In an effort to save her son, Johnnie Kitchen exposes a deeply hidden secret that tears her family apart. Still haunted by her mama’s disappearance and her father’s death in Vietnam, she turns to the comfort of her journal, penning irreverent letters to the missing… and the dead. Her youngest son enlists in the military as the United States is involved in two bloody wars; fear grips her soul on all fronts. Rebuffed in her efforts to repair the damage she’s inflicted on her marriage, Johnnie finds herself trapped in a terrifying emotional spiral that threatens to trigger a relapse of the bulimia that almost killed her. A midst sightings of her mysterious mama, an odd new neighbor, a granny who knows all yet tells nothing and Bubba Dog who is her constant companion and best friend, will Johnnie succumb or survive?
The Stonehenge Scrolls by KP Robbins - Although fiction, it has years of research and facts to back it up. The story follows The Monument Builders and how they succeeded in constructing such incredible feats of art with only man and farm animal power, Mother Earth, and the elements. She opens our eyes to the emotional, spiritual, philosophical, and physical aspects of the endeavors. Her style of writing allows you to “pass through the stones” to the time of their construction and into the lives of the people who dared to defy, nature, gravity, and physics. This book explains so much of the stigma, dogma, and mysticism surrounding the structures, as well as the significance of where and why it exists. A true enlightenment. “A fine saga, The Stonehenge Scrolls is driven by drama and tight, involving writing and is a pick for any who enjoyed Auel’s ‘Earth’s Children’ series and similar historical novels.” –Midwest Book Review.
Finding Claire Fletcher by Lisa Regan - Fifteen-year-old Claire Fletcher is abducted in 1995 by a psycho pedophile. Ten years later, she has survived the most hideous of tortures to be bound by invisible chains of fear; not for her own safety, but for her family and anyone she tries to contact for help. The last person she reached out to was a police detective whose obsession with finding Claire Fletcher unearths horrific cold-cases and disappearances of a dozen children over the span of 20 years. This is a must read to understand what children who are abducted in real life go through, and what it is like for those reunited with their families after their rescue. Compared to the Jaycee Lee Dugard case, it is made ever more real. You never know who this may help to accept what was done to them, what was done to their loved one, solve a case, or prevent one from happening.
Aberration by Lisa Regan - FBI agent Kassidy Bishop is brutally attacked by a serial rapist she had arrested two months prior, who had gotten off on a technicality, and decided she would be next. Someone unties her hands when he is out of the room and places her 9mm in her hands telling her, “He’s coming. You have to do this. Listen for him.” Forty-five degrees. Upward one foot. His body hit the floor. Five years later, corpses start materializing with “For you” stuck to their cadavers. Assigned to the cases as they came up, Kass sees a pattern forming but does not connect the dots until it is almost too late. She is the “you”; saved by the one man who is obsessed with her; keeps killing… for her. Aberration will keep you gasping for air.
Pyramid of the Lost World by Sandra Page - A Maya archaeological site—Rio Verde—in the lush Guatemalan rain forest is the setting. Shortly after twelve-year-old Carly finds a valuable jade carving of Lord Sun, the piece is stolen and her mother, the site’s archaeologist, is blamed. Carly, best friend Zoë, and Maya friend, Emelio, comb the pyramids and palaces of the ancient city in search of the real culprit. Along the way, they encounter frenzied bats, a highly venomous snake, and a red-lored parrot. The three friends are stranded in a cave, view mysterious cave paintings, and receive help from ancient Maya tools. But will they locate the thieves in time to recover Lord Sun or will the looters slip away and sell Lord Sun on the black market? To make matters worse, serious family matters from the past threaten to explode, causing Carly to grapple with the dangers posed by keeping secrets. By story’s end, Carly has gained crucial insights into the nature of friendship and family ties and has a new appreciation of cultural differences.
Hanahatchee by Trisha O'Keefe - Set in the late 1930’s in a small, southwestern Georgia town, an innocent black is set to be executed for the murders of a store clerk and the Boyer family, who was found shot by a then twelve-year-old boy, Jordan Tanner. Nearly Twenty years later, Tanner receives a distressed call from a dear, old black man, Charlie, who taught him to fish and hunt as a child. Charlie has caught something bigger than a fish – a dead man floating in the Hanahatchee River. Tanner is now a reporter for a newspaper. His curiosity, and the fact that the victim is trussed-up just like another body found in the Hanahatchee years before, spurs him to uncover the truth – something this rural community has been avoiding for too long.
Project Keepsake by Amber Lanier Nagle is a collection of short stories told in first-person by both writers and aspiring writers about their treasured keepsakes and mementos. From buckeyes to pocket knives to pound cake pans to rings to fishing lures, each keepsake—and each story—is unique, yet each reveals common attributes that bind us together and celebrate the glorious human experience.
Playing Mrs. Kingston by Tony Lee Moral - When actress Catriona Benedict is approached by Miles Kingston, it is much more than admiration for her work…it is the audition of a lifetime. Miles can’t touch his inheritance unless he is married by forty. This international playboy would rather not, but his need for money overrides all else and he asks Catriona to pretend to be Catherine Kingston at all costs. Murder, forgeries, burglaries, stalkings, and the sacrifice of her one true love. What else must she do playing Mrs. Kingston?
Sea of Greed by Douglas McCullough - When the Coast Guard hailed a Gulf Coast shrimp trawler near Cape Lookout, North Carolina on fourth of July weekend 1982, the routine stop set in motion a chain of events that ended with the U.S. invasion of Panama, overthrow of dictator Manuel Noriega, and the biggest drug bust in America’s history. Now, more than thirty-two years later, the full story is told in a gripping true-life account by the man who brought the drug lord to justice. J. Douglas McCullough, the U.S. attorney who unraveled the Cayman Island cartel, reveals never-before-known facts of the case that began on the docks of the historic fishing village of Beaufort, North Carolina when authorities found a shrimp boat full of marijuana. Sea of Greed is based on the true story behind the arrest of Manuel Noriega and the invasion of Panama pursuant to Operation Just Cause. Sea of Greed slideshare
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Jack Martin (available for acquisition) Set in the 1930’s amidst the effects of Prohibition and the Depression, there is a conspiracy to assassinate President Roosevelt. Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation is in full-swing, and his key agent, Harry Bierce, has been tasked, with and without “knowledge,” to find the hit man. During his ceaseless delving, he solves several other cases which, unbeknownst to him, are tumbling dominos leading him to home plate. Bierce’s unusual tactics and his resemblance, in many ways, to Dorian Gray, keep the question marks flying through your head. Who, or better yet, what is he? How is it he knows so much? How would a photograph taken in 1865 have him in it…and him look exactly the same now? Refreshing compared to today’s modern action/thrillers, it takes you back to a time when men and women really dressed well and where intuition, sleuthing and skills were needed to track down and apprehend bad guys. No cell phones, GPS, computers or even police radios. Martin keeps you thinking and craving until the last word. You finish saying to yourself, There has to be a sequel! Martin has taken 90% historical facts and events and inserted Harry Bierce in such a way that you are confused with reality. ‘Standing ovation’ writing.
Battle Cry of Freedom is the 2nd novel in the Alphonso Clay Civil War Mystery Series by Jack Martin. A traitor, a free-lance female spy, and a murderer-all must be dealt with or the Army of the Ohio is lost. Tennessee, Autumn 1863. Staggered by the loss of Vicksburg in July, the Confederacy has rebounded with a crushing defeat of the Union forces at Chickamauga. The shattered Union army now lies stranded and under siege. Washington has dispatched Ulysses S. Grant to repair the situation. Grant finds that his task is made almost impossible by the presence of a rebel spy high in the Union command structure. Unfortunately, the only officer who could identify the spy is murdered before he can reveal the traitor’s name. Grant assigns Captain Alphonso Clay to root-out the murderous turncoat, but Clay soon finds himself in a nest of intrigue. To identify the traitor, he must solve the murder, deal with a lethal female undercover agent bank-rolled by financier Jay Gould, and overcome a monstrous secret society that is older than the United States itself. As Longstreet’s army surrounds Knoxville, Clay races the clock to keep the Army of the Ohio from being betrayed to the Confederacy. If that should happen, the Confederacy would regain all that it lost at Vicksburg, and will be well on its way to ultimate victory.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic is the 4th novel in the Alphonso Clay Civil War Mystery Series by Jack Martin. The murderer of our late beloved president, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. April 1865. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia has surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. The Civil War is all but over, the Union victorious. However, a sinister plot has been hatched to restart the war, and the assassination of Lincoln is only the beginning. The consequences could cost hundreds of thousands of civilian lives and tear the country apart forever. Colonel Alphonso Clay has been tasked by the Secretary of State to thwart this conspiracy at all costs. Aided by a beautiful, mysterious agent he embarks upon a dangerous journey into the heart of a cult even older than the United States that is determined to destroy the country. If they fail in their task, all that has been gained in four years of savage combat will be lost.
Marching Through Georgia is the 3rd novel in the Alphonso Clay Civil War Mystery Series by Jack Martin. Georgia, the summer of 1864: General William Tecumseh Sherman commands a mighty Union army, tasked with delivering a knockout blow to the Confederacy by rendering the rich resources of Georgia unavailable to the rebellion. Relying on impeccable intelligence, he launches an all-out attack on the Confederate lines at Kennesaw Mountain – and is bloodily repulsed. To make matters worse, his most reliable scout, Captain Ambrose Bierce, is critically wounded, and Sherman’s most reliable general is mysteriously killed under the cover of battle. Sherman is persuaded by Union Army nurse Teresa Duval that these are murderous attacks perpetrated by a saboteur in his army. She urges him to summon Major Alphonso Clay, General Grant’s sinister troubleshooter. However, Sherman is unaware that Duval is a spy for Wall Street financier Jay Gould, and has her own agenda regarding Clay. Clay and his friend Lieutenant Jeremiah Lot find themselves accompanying Sherman’s army on its march through Georgia, desperate to identify the traitorous murderer before he can strike again, and possibly allow the Confederacy to snatch a miraculous victory from the jaws of almost certain defeat.
Hail Columbia is the 5th novel in the Alphonso Clay Civil War Mystery Series by Jack Martin. It is the summer of 1869. America is only four years removed from the end of the war that nearly destroyed it. Southerners groan under what they perceive as an unjust military Government, propped up by corrupt Northern civilian officials and recently freed slaves who, they believe, are not suitable for a voice in Government. Embittered Confederate veterans are forming an organization, the Ku Klux Klan, to fight what they perceive as the unjust oppression of the North and the Freedmen. However, Ulysses S. Grant, the newly inaugurated President, sees things very differently. He views the Klan as a terrorist organization, using arson and murder to destroy the newly won rights of former slaves and the newly re-established authority of Washington in the South. He is looking for a way to break the back of the Klan without returning to the slaughter and destruction of the Civil War. Desperate, he turns to his most trusted agent, Major Alphonso Brutus Clay. Clay accepts the assignment, not realizing that the Klan violence is being secretly encouraged by the Wall Street speculators Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. The sinister financiers are encouraging Klan violence, hoping to distract Washington from their plan to gain control of the country’s entire gold supply, and hence of the country itself. Clay also does not know that the plans of the speculators are in turn the merest smokescreen for an even more sinister, far-reaching plot; one that will encompass the entire world. Aided only by his friend the writer Ambrose Bierce, and by his lovely, terrifying mistress Teresa Duval, Clay embarks on his greatest challenge yet. Not just to preserve the unity of the country, not just to prevent corrupt financiers from gaining control of the United States – but to save the world from the designs of an organization far older than the United States itself.
John Brown’s Body is the 1st novel in the Alphonso Clay Civil War Mystery Series by Jack Martin. Martin designs and constructs an intricate web of events extrapolated from in-depth research of Civil War memorabilia, journals, photos, and correspondence. Although this a fictional account of the months before and the time during the Battle of Vicksburg, the characters and information are very much real. The John Brown depicted is not the infamous Brown who ignited the War Against the States but a former Boston detective who solved a gruesome child murder case which caught the eye of Abe Lincoln, appointing him to U.S. Grants battalion. Brown uncovers treason at the highest levels of the Union Army. He sends for the one person who can help him with the investigation, Cpt. Alphonso Clay but before Clay could meet with Brown, Brown is assassinated. Now it is up to Cpt. Clay to decipher Brown’s cryptic notes and follow his deductive instincts to solve the murder, unveil the traitors, and ensure the Union’s victory at Vicksburg, a decisive battle of the war.
A Wish to Die For by Michael Infinito - Throughout history, people have sold their souls to the dark side in order to make their selfish wishes come true. With the dawn of the computer age, the ritual continued. Rock stars, race car drivers, and even politicians found their fame and fortune with the help of a new and mesmerizing evil website. The only price they paid for the use of its services was a gruesome death, which occurred one year to the day after they had made their requests. When Carrie, a frustrated housewife, logs in to the website and enters her under-duress wish of If you want to make my life better then you should just kill my husband, a chain of events begins to unfold that no one could have ever predicted. She is the only one who has put two-and-two together; trying to contact other bloggers to explain and to warn them before it is too late for all of them.
XXXtreme Discretion by Michael Infinito shows us just how dangerous the world of casual internet dating can be. Non-stop suspense, a touch of supernatural involvement, and unexpected twists every step of the way, A shocking, raw, and powerful juggernaut that puts a new twist on common abduction tales. In the dictionary, under the definition of the word ‘psychopath’, there should be a picture of Dwight Barnes, a self-made business man whose success was born out of his twisted desire to fulfill a secret promise to a lost loved one. When Roxbury, New Jersey detectives, Monica Ross and Mike D’Tavio, discover their case involving a missing woman might be linked to three others in the nearby area, all traceable to a casual affair dating site known as XXXtreme Discretion, they try to fit the puzzle pieces together with little success….Until Ross spirals into what appears to be a hopeless situation of pain and suffering, leading to an unexpected ending that will keep everyone on the edge of their seats.
The Hanging Tree by Michael Infinito is a fast-paced ghost story that chronicles the histories of two post-Civil War American families and their struggle to break free from the stigma of slavery. Divided by race, their separate journeys, over several generations, are thrilling, suspenseful, triumphant, and sometimes tragic. Infinito has you crying and cheering at the same time, and may just cause you to sleep with a light or two on at night. When South Carolina Plantation owner Samuel Worthington liberates his slaves, he offers them some land in exchange for their continued service. His best worker, Jeffrey, accepts the deal and begins building a life for his freed family. Upon Samuel’s death, everything changes. His son, Jake, alters the agreement, setting in motion a destructive pendulum that swings relentlessly for generations to come. Inhabited by ghosts of a dead rice plantation, the fertile land serves as a battleground in the war between greedy, ruthless men, and the spirits of its rightful owners. You’s on my land. Two plantation families, both torn apart by injustice and bigotry, branch out away from their roots and struggle to make it into the early twentieth century. Through World War I, Prohibition, and the modernization of America, the South Carolina land and its ghosts remain common ground in a prolonged chess match between the two clans. Unfortunately, neither family can ever fully prosper unless all the stray pieces find their rightful place and balance is restored, but justice proves elusive in the shadow of America’s darkest social blemish.
12:19 by Michael Infinito - 12:19…The time has been set… Violet and Johnny Dotson pull up stakes and relocate to the beautiful countryside near Asheville, North Carolina in an attempt at starting over after series of miscarriages – unbeknownst to them they’ve actually been summoned there by a higher power. Locked away in a mountaintop mental institution, J.C., a mysterious man who was the only survivor found at the scene of a brutal murder/suicide, will only utter five words… “I am the son of God.” Strange events centered around the unknown patient spur Detective Tom Drayton to connect several bizarre deaths to the time of 12:19. Armed with an old priest’s advice and a touch of new found faith, Tom follows a path that could very well lead him to the destruction of all mankind. Is he doing God’s bidding, or could he in fact be the dreaded serpent himself? 12:19…The clock is ticking….
Emilio Iasiello’s short-story collection Why People Do What They Do. Below are the synopses for each story. In this eleven chapter compilation Iasiello delves into complex and controversial topics which we have seen in the news or experienced personally but most have not questioned. Each story will leave you asking questions such as “Why ?”, “What if ?”, and “Did this really happen?” Only the author knows for sure.
Contrition by Robert Hirsch - When Brother Placidus finds young Amanda Lefleur butchered in the attic of the Brothers of Holy Cross, he knew evil had entered their sanctuary…but it was not unfamiliar. Placidus intimately knew of the last person who hung from its rafters. Peter Toche is assigned the murder case. His father had headed-up the last death in the Holy Cross attic and Toche’s last investigation was of another murdered child, who through dreams and visions has led him home just for this reason. There had always been challenges from nature in this coastal community, but no one could imagine the terror which had decided to invade their midst; one that has existed for over a thousand years…or longer – perhaps.
Dr. John L. Flynn, author of Intimate Bondage, Intimate Disclosure (2015), Intimate Denial (contract pending, BelleBooks), (available for acquisition- co-authored with Bob Blackwood) Everything I Know About Life I Learned From James Bond and Future Prime: Top Ten Science Fiction Films is a psychologist, and college dean. Born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from theUniversity of South Florida and a Ph.D. from Southern California University. He is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and has been a regular contributor and columnist to dozens of science fiction magazines. In 1977, he received the M. Carolyn Parker award for outstanding journalism for his freelance work on several Florida daily newspapers. He sold his first book, Future Threads, in 1985, and has subsequently had twelve other books published, including Cinematic Vampires: The Living Dead on Film, The Films of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dissecting Aliens, Visions in Light and Shadow, War of the Worlds: From Wells to Spielberg, 75 Years of Universal Monsters, 50 Years of Hammer Horror, 101 Superheroes of the Silver Screen, 2001: Beyond the Infinite, The Jovian Dilemma, Phantoms of the Opera: Behind the Mask, and Future Prime (with Bob Blackwood). He has also written the Introduction to Signet’s new edition of Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera, and the Afterword to Signet’s new printing of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Flynn was nominated for three Hugo Awards for his science fiction writing. John also received an honorable mention for his unproduced screenplay for The Jovian Dilemma in the 2003 Screenplay Festival writing competition. In 1997, John switched gears from writing and literature to study psychology, and earned a degree as a clinical psychologist. His study, The Etiology of Sexual Addiction: Childhood Trauma as a Primary Determinant, has broken new ground in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual addiction.
Intimate Bondage is an erotic thriller which allows access to the taboo world of S & M, internet porn and who is actually participating— regular men and women, politicians, entertainers, and even those we trust with the safety and welfare of our children… What if the person you fell in love with was a serial killer? Kate Dawson, a homicide detective with a past, faces that chilling possibility as she penetrates the seedy underworld of porn shops, internet sex sites, and S&M clubs to catch her man.
Shadow Child by Stephen Doster chronicles a historical artifact and the people it impacted from 1597 to the 21st century. Spanning a number of eras in coastal Georgia, the stories vary in scope, ranging from historical fiction to the supernatural. A sub-plot threads throughout the book from beginning to end. In the first tale, Mission Asao (1597), a bronze bell is taken from a Spanish mission during an Indian uprising and is lost in what is present-day Gould’s Inlet on St. Simons Island. The bell is discovered by two slaves two-hundred-and-fifty years later in A Man Whut’s A Man. It hangs briefly from Christ Church after the Civil War in Casagrande and is returned to the Franciscan Order in the final story, Padre’s Run.
Rose Bush by Stephen Doster is a southern novel depicting a conflict between environmentalists, a paper mill, and the aristocracy of a rural Georgia town. A mysterious story of starting over, political ladder climbing, environmental debates, and the Guiding Hand which, no matter how hard you try to fight it, is always there… This would appeal to those who like the nitty-gritty of politics, environmentalists who cringe at the sight of a smoke stack, and history buffs who know the past never really dies.
Lord Baltimore by Stephen Doster, nominated for the Pulitzer in 2002, is the fictional account of a young man’s travels through Gullah country along the Georgia coast. A twenty-something "professional student," who still lives with his parents on Sea Island, Georgia, has his "Come to Jesus meeting" when his father tells him to get his backpack, that they are going for a ride. Halfway to Savannah, on Hwy 17, near Darien, his father pulls over and says, "Get out. It is time for you to grow up." What happens next is the stuff legends are made of...he meets Lord Baltimore.
Jesus Tree by Stephen Doster is a southern novel, based on a true story, which follows the life of a black man who was falsely imprisoned and the circumstances and consequences of the crime. In the summer of 1932 Ben, a black man from Georgia, is wrongfully accused of murder. His forty year prison sentence completed, he returns home to where nothing much has changed except the date on the calendar, including the animosity towards blacks and the fact that the real murderer is still living the gentile southern life. Ben’s struggle to regain his life and adjust to society brings one confrontation after another with friend, foe, and a daughter who thinks he is dead.
Kathaleen Deiser writes touching, sometimes funny stories that portray ordinary people living lives from the depths of their extraordinary souls. Under KD McCrite, published by Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins: Confessions of April Grace: In Front of God and Everybody - a finalist for the Mark Twain Readers award for 2013-14 (2011), Confessions of April Grace: Cliques, Hicks, and Ugly Sticks (2011), and Confessions of April Grace: Chocolate-Covered Baloney (2012). Under Sidney Archer: Desolate Heart (Ecanus Publishing). www.sidneyarcher.com
Confessions of April Grace: In Front of God and Everybody by KD McCrite is a mid-grade novel and the first of a series of stories about a rural community in the Ozarks and April Grace Reilly, who changes everything. Centered on the Reilly Family who has lived there for generations and the St. James who reluctantly moved there to start over, it is a true “country mouse” meets “city mouse”. The challenges of tolerance and acceptance and the miracle of saving grandma because of it make this a endearing novel. You will be as captivated by The Reillys as we all were with The Waltons in the 70s.
Desolate Heart by Sidney Archer, a story of spurned, lost, and true love found. In the spirit of Somewhere In Time, this is the story of a love that surpasses time and triumphs against all odds. When a fiery mountain girl’s obsessive love is rejected by Andrew, a young medical student one hundred years ago, she demands the help of the local medicine woman, who is also known for dark sorcery. The curse is one of selfish revenge and dooms them both; the girl to her death, and Andrew to his exile – in a painting. Abbie, a successful defense attorney in our time, is disillusioned with her career and sets off to her friend’s home in the Ozark Mountains to sort out her life. In route, an unrelenting urge compels her to stop at a ramshackle roadside antique shop where she buys a mysterious painting; one that draws her into it, transporting her into Andrew’s existence. The key to their escape from this endless time in a bewitched painting is true love. Time, space, and a hundred-year spell will challenge and reinforce what is truly meant to be.
Confessions of April Grace: Cliques, Hicks, and Ugly Sticks! by KD McCrite - Just when April Grace thought the drama was over . . . After an automobile accident, Isabel St. James—resident drama coach and drama queen—needs help putting together the church play. Mama insists April Grace and Myra Sue will help. April’s fall is now devoted to spending every afternoon with Isabel and Myra Sue—if anyone is as big of a drama queen as Isabel, it’s Myra Sue. Plus, she’s dumb. (Okay, not dumb, but "older sister dumb.") If that’s not enough, Isabel is wreaking havoc in the community trying to get Rough Creek Road paved, the new boy at school will not leave her alone, and then Mama drops the biggest bombshell of all . . . April Grace is no longer going to be the baby of the family . . . Girls will completely relate to April and love her sense of humor as she deals with siblings, boys, and the many changes that come with growing up.
Confessions of April Grace: Chocolate-covered Baloney by KD McCrite - The last thing April Grace wants is more change in her life--but that's exactly what she gets! Plus, April has a new mystery to solve when Myra Sue starts sneaking around and acting very suspicious! From snooty new neighbors to starting junior high to getting a new baby brother to having her grandmother get a boyfriend, April Grace has had enough change to last until she is at least 87 years old. But when it rains, it pours, and April Grace is in for the ride of her life when her prissy, citified neighbor Isabel becomes her gym teacher and a long-lost relative suddenly reappears and throws everything into a tizzy. On top of that, April's sister, Myra Sue, has been hiding something and sneaking around. April needs to find out what is going on before her silly sister gets herself into trouble again. More important, will April find the grace she needs to handle her topsy-turvy life and forgive past wrongs?
Countenance by Joy Ross Davis - When a woman’s life is shattered by the loss of nearly everyone she loves in one fell swoop, she seeks solace at her aunt’s historic inn, a place of mystery and magic where she unlocks family secrets that have held the forces of good and evil in balance for generations.
Jim Bolander, author of Chasing Horizons:The Air Race that Changed the World, took his daughter, Jamie, to The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum where he showed her Chicago, his Great-Uncle Lowell Smith’s plane. She was so inspired she wrote about him for a school assignment. Then Bolander decides it is time to take us all to that very time; around the world in an open-air cockpit to win the first circumnavigation-aeronautical race. What an incredible read, true story, and gift to all mankind.
Chasing Horizons-The Air Race that Changed the World is a historical fiction depicting the aeronautical challenge of 1924 in which four Douglas World Cruisers and eight American crewmen set out from Seattle, Washington, to attempt the first around-the-world airplane flight. One hundred seventy-five days later two of the aircraft and crews became the first to circumnavigate earth. Lowell Smith, Jim Bolander's great-uncle, won the race in CHICAGO, the airplane displayed in the Smithsonian.
PLAGUE by Buzz Bernard - In 2008, a congressional commission warned, “...given the high-level of know-how needed to use disease as a weapon to cause mass casualties, the United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists.” In a remote part of Siberia, a lab dating back to the cold war is still active. In its depths are the deadliest viruses known to man. Barashi has his own plans for them; a diabolical one that would affect the world and trump 9/11...
EYEWALL is to St. Simons as JAWS was to the New Jersey shore. Buzz Bernard’s Eyewall, an action-packed novel depicting a category five hurricane that originally is predicted to make landfall around Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, but is discovered instead to be headed for St. Simons Island, Georgia. St. Simons, a barrier island with a population of over 40,000, has not been forewarned... and it’s Labor Day Weekend. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter’s crew, a hurricane expert at the Atlanta-based Natural Environment Television Network, and a family trapped on St. Simons Island all have one thing in common: Hurricane Janet. The unimaginable has just been predicted!
SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard - When Chuck, a meteorologist, ventures out on his own to form a company which does storm chasing, the big bucks roll in until lightning strikes… literally. Out of work and living in a dive, he is approached by Hollywood with a million dollar deal - lead cinematographers to a violent EF-4 or -5 tornado. But they are not the only ones striking it rich with twisters, a brotherly pair of thieves are looting and killing immediately after tornadoes. Throw in an undercover FBI agent and Chuck’s son, a former Green Beret who is a less-than-willing participant, and you have non-stop, breath-catching, chill-bumps-all-over-your-body excitement page after page.
Malcolm Barber Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Malcolm Charles Barber is a British scholar of medieval history, described as the world's leading living expert on the Knights Templar. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, The Trial of the Templars (1978) and The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (1994).[1] He has been an editor for The Journal of Medieval History and written many articles on the Templars, the Cathars, various elements of the Crusades, and the reign of Philip IV of France.
Based in the Baltimore, D.C., Virginia triangle, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead is a thriller about assassins and one man’s determined vengeance coupled with protecting his daughter, the one and only good thing in his life. Ed Aymar www.eaymar.com Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Black Opal Books www.blackopalbooks.com
Last Bigfoot in Dixie - Deep in the peaceful, Smoky Mountains of North Georgia, a huge black bear kills a child in a campground and the hunt begins. Wade, an outdoors-man and backwoods columnist, is quickly deputized to find and slay the massive beast terrorizing tourists and locals alike. A giant Cherokee, wannabe-writer whose gifts are enhanced by mushroom trances and a Minnesota Vikings horn-helmet, offers to help and proves a modern Sasquatch when he tracks the mythic, killer bear Ol' Nathan. But that is the least of the small town’s worries.
Touching Spirit: Letters of Minominike by James Washburn is the best spiritual book I have read since Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch and The Shack by William Young. Absolutely inspiring and empowering. The old saying, "You can never go back" is so wrong. Sometimes you must reconnect with the past in order to complete the future. I highly recommend this for anyone—any culture, any religion, any walk of life. It brings you back to what is most important. Love.