Friday, October 4, 2024

Mystery Spotlight: To Find a Killer by Leah Brewer

This morning, I have a mystery in our book spotlight! Check out To Find a Killer, learn about author Leah Brewer and be sure to enter for a chance to win a prize in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post!

 

A Natural State Murder Mystery, Book 1

 

Murder Mystery

Date to be Published: 10-04-2024

 

 

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When Atlanta Detective, Tammy Sharp's past collides with her present, it's a wild ride of bullets, broken hearts, and chilling mysteries.

In her hometown of Pocahontas, Arkansas, she faces not just her ex, Jace Eubanks, but also a dangerous killer on the prowl.

With murders old and new intertwining, Tammy faces a choice: team up with her ex or let justice slip away.

As the clock ticks down to a sinister ultimatum, will Tammy outsmart the sociopath or fall prey to a deadly game of cat and mouse? 

 

  

About the Author

 

Leah Brewer writes all kinds of things.

Sometimes, she writes Christian Fiction (Seeds of Faith Series). Other times it’s Historical Fiction (Petunia 1949). Right now, it’s all about murder. The first novel in her Natural State Murder Mystery series, To Find a Killer, is set to release this October.

In 2019, after an Ovarian Cancer diagnosis, Leah decided to pursue her passion for writing. Being cancer-free, she now revels in her life as an author.

With an extensive 28-year career that encompasses diverse leadership roles in a Fortune 500 company, Leah brings an authentic perspective to her storytelling.

 

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Facebook: @writingleahbrewer

Twitter: @leahlbrewerr

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Non-Fiction Review: Oh No He Didn't! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy J. Murphy, JD

This morning, I have a non-fiction book that bridges women's studies with a biographical angle that serves to highlight some contributions from brilliant women that you may not have known for reasons that you may not have realized! Check out Oh No He Didn't, learn about author Wendy J. Murphy, JD, and enter for a chance to win a prize in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post.


 

Book Title:  Oh No He Didn't! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy J. Murphy, JD
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction (18+),  240 pages
Genre: Biography/Women's Studies; would also appeal perhaps to high school age
Publisher:  Cynren Press
Release date:  September 2024
Content Rating:  PG + M. PG but there was one woman who experienced rape, and that is briefly described.
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​Don’t you hate it when someone takes credit for another person’s idea? It happens a lot, and the people who lose out are often women. This book tells the stories of women whose inventions, discoveries, and creations were credited to men—women like Zelda Fitzgerald, the novelist, painter, and playwright who was more than F. Scott’s wife, and Margaret Knight, who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag but saw the patent go to a man who stole off to the Patent Office with her idea. By telling the stories of the brilliant women artists, inventors, scientists, architects, and mathematicians who were denied their due, Oh No He Didn’t! will help all women tackle obstacles and create a kinship of understanding that will inspire and transcend generations.
 
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Oh No He Didn't! Highlights Brilliant Women--and the Obstacles and Accomplishments. While the environment for women in the workplace has improved since some of the historical examples presented by the author, many of the obstacles and challenges remain--especially for women in historically male-dominated careers. This book offers a wonderful, well-researched look at the accomplishments of many women throughout history that were credited to men--whether husbands or employers or simply other men in their fields, giving the details, questionable circumstances and justifications, and significance of these contributions. Don't be surprised if you have not heard of many (or most) of these brilliant women! This fact makes the impact of this book all the more profound.

 

Short Chapters Offer Eye-Opening Realizations. As a former engineer, the scientific accomplishments were not as surprising to me as the artistic slights, such as the insights into the lives of the Fitzgeralds. While the chapters are short, they are well-researched and highlight many eye-opening aspects that remove the masks applied to many of history's great inventions, artistic creations and contributions. As the mother of three daughters--one an artist, one in law school, and one studying neuroscience--the short chapters pack quite a heartbreaking punch as the women's "stolen" works are exposed.

 

Would I Recommend Oh No He Didn't! by Wendy J. Murphy? Whether you are a history lover or have an interest in women's studies, this book gives readers a lot to consider. Even if you are not a women's rights advocate, the pages of this book are enlightening and educational. As a parent of girls, I find this book enlightening and infuriating. While the book highlights the work and accomplishments of women that was credited to men--the book also discusses the historical justifications and societal implications that allowed it.  Written in a short story style, the author provides a lot of points to ponder in an easy-to-read format.


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Meet the Author
​Wendy J. Murphy is an attorney specializing in women’s rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, and violence against women and children. Codirector of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project under the Center for Law and Social Responsibility at New England Law | Boston and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy served as a columnist for the Boston Herald for many years and has appeared frequently on network and cable news shows as a pundit and legal analyst. Her first book, And Justice for Some (2007), is an exposé of injustices endured by women and children victims of abuse. Wendy, a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor, lectures widely on women’s rights, Title IX, constitutional law, and criminal justice policy and is a national leader in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. A mother of five, a grandmother of one, and a yoga student for life, Wendy lives outside Boston.

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular Feature: Black in White by JC Andrijeski

This morning, I have a thriller to share in our book spotlight! Check out Black In White, learn about author JC Andrijeski, and enter for a chance to win a prize in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post.


 
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Black In White
Quentin Black Mystery 
Book One
JC Andrijeski

Genre: Urban Fantasy Mystery Romance
Publisher: White Sun Press
Date of Publication: September 9, 2015
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-1545436714  
ISBN-10: 1545436711
ASIN: B01554ZHH6
Number of pages: 268
Word Count: 76,755

Cover Artist: Damonza

Meet Quentin Black: Private Investigator. Psychic. Possible murderer.


Gifted with an uncanny sense about people, psychologist Miri Fox works as a profiler for the San Francisco police. When her best friend, homicide detective Nick Tanaka, thinks he's finally nailed the serial murderer known as the "Wedding Killer," she agrees to check him out, using her gift to discover the truth.

But the suspect, Quentin Black, isn't anything like Miri expects.

He claims to be hunting the killer too, and the longer Miri talks to him, the more determined she becomes to uncover his secrets.

When he confronts her about the nature of her peculiar "insight," Miri gets pulled into Black's bizarre world, and embroiled in a game of cat and mouse with a deadly killer--who might just be Black himself.

Worse, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Black, a complication she doesn't need with a best friend who's a homicide cop and a boyfriend in intelligence.

Can Miriam see a way out or is her future covered in Black?

THE QUENTIN BLACK MYSTERY SERIES encompasses a number of dark, gritty paranormal mystery arcs with science fiction elements, starring brilliant and mysterious Quentin Black and forensic psychologist Miriam Fox. For fans of realistic paranormal mysteries with romantic elements, the series spans continents and dimensions as Black solves crimes, takes on other races and tries to keep his and Miri's true identities secret to keep them both alive.
 
 
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I tilted my head, still smiling, but letting my puzzlement show.

“Why are you talking to me at all?” I asked finally.

“Why shouldn’t I talk to you?” he said. “I’ve already told you that you’re the first person to walk in here that I thought might be worth my attempting to communicate.”

“Because I’m female?” I said.

“Because you seem to be less of a fool than the rest of them,” he corrected me at once.

“But you said Nick had a mind?”

“I said he had a mind of sorts. Not the same thing at all. Although, given the nature of his intellect, he has undoubtedly chosen the right profession for himself.”

I smiled again. “I’m sure that will be quite a relief for him.”

I heard laughter in the earpiece that time, right before Nick spoke up.

“See if he’ll tell you his name,” he said to me.

“Certainly, if you really want to know,” the suspect said, before I could voice the question aloud.

“My name is Black. Quentin Black. Middle initial, R.”

I stared at him, still recovering from the fact that he’d seemingly heard Nick give me an instruction through the earpiece.

Clearly, he wanted me to know he’d heard it, too.

“You heard that?” I said to him.

“Good ear, yes?” he said. Smiling, he gave me a more cryptic, yet borderline predatory look.

“Less good with you, however. Significantly less good.”

He paused, studying my face with eyes full of meaning.

I almost got the sense he was waiting for me to reply—or maybe just to react.

When I didn’t, he leaned back in the chair, making another of those graceful, flowing gestures with his hand.

“I find that… fascinating, doc. Quite intriguing. Perhaps that is crossing a boundary with you again, however? To mention that?”

I paused on his words, then decided to dismiss them.

“Is that a real name?” I said. “Quentin Black. That doesn’t sound real. It sounds fake.”

“Real is all subjective, is it not?”

“So it’s not real, then?”

“Depends on what you mean.”

“Is it your legal name?”

“Again, depends on what you mean.”

“I mean, could you look it up in a database and actually get a hit somewhere?”

“How would I know that?” he said, making an innocent gesture with his hands, again within the limits of the metal cuffs.

Realizing I wasn’t going to get any more from him on that line of questioning, I changed direction. “What does the ‘R’ stand for?” I said.

“Rayne.”

“Quentin Rayne Black?” I repeated back to him, still not hiding my disbelief.

“Would you believe me if I said my parents had a sense of whimsy?” he asked me.

“No,” I said.

“Would you believe that I do, then?”

I snorted a laugh, in spite of myself. I heard it echoed through the earpiece, although I heard a few curses coming from that direction, too.

I shook my head at the suspect himself, but less in a “no” that time.

“Yes,” I conceded finally. “So it is a made-up name, then?”

The man calling himself Quentin Black only returned my smile. His eyes once again looked shrewd, less thoughtful and more openly calculating.

Even so, his weird comment about “listening” came back to me.

Truthfully, he was looking at me as if he were listening very hard.

The thought made me slightly nervous.



Meet the Author

JC Andrijeski is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of gritty, character-driven, “real”-feeling paranormal mysteries and apocalyptic fiction. Her books have strong romance subplots, found families, and often a metaphysical bent. JC has a background in journalism, history and politics, and loves hiking, people watching, yoga, meditation, weird tourist destinations, the beach, coffee, birds, snails, and tacos. She grew up in the Bay Area of California, but travels extensively and has lived abroad in Europe, Australia, and Asia, and from coast to coast in the continental United States. She’s now living and writing full-time in Hollister, California.



 










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Monday, September 30, 2024

Memoir Spotlight: Death and Ham by Bobby Evers

Today, I have a memoir in our book spotlight! Check out Death and Ham: Life is a Real Traip and learn about author Bobby Evers!

 

Memoir / Humor / Essays

Date Published: November 16, 2022


 

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Bobby Evers never takes himself—or the world—too seriously. Death and Ham: Life is a Real Trip offers twenty-three new essays that weave together the funny and tender aspects of life, death, and the world around him. The flair for storytelling that Evers premiered in his first book (Shoes and Cheese: The Boonetown Chronicles) is alive and well in this follow-up that travels beyond Boonetown, a journey full of interesting people and heart-felt discoveries. He even lets the reader glimpse his own apprehensions about turning sixty—while also revealing that he’s not too worried about not being the most tech-savvy one at the office. Meet some of his favorite people, and some of the most outlandish people he’s ever met. Death and Ham is a fun, wacky, sometimes-nostalgic journey that may leave you a little wistful for the past, and will surely lend you some laughs for your days ahead.

 

About the Author

Bobby Evers is a life-long Tennessean, a theater enthusiast, and avid traveler. Being a keen people-watcher, he has always been a storyteller, and now he brings those stories to the page in his first book. He has worked in the construction business, and as an interior designer and architectural consultant for over thirty-five years.

  

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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Nonfiction Book Spolight: Everything I Know About the Universe

Today, I have a nonfiction book in our book blitz spotlight! Check out Everything I Know About the Universe by an anonymous author!

 

Meditations on Reality and Spirituality from a Doctor, a Patient, a Scientist, and a Reluctant Believer

  Nonfiction

Date Published: June 29, 2024


 
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Written from the perspective of a doctor and scientist, Everything that I Know About the Universe is a selection of essays explaining why we need to rethink some of our basic assumptions about science and theology and how the two fields of thought can coexist. The need to ask where we came from and why we're here is a fundamental part of being human. This text seeks to take those two questions and reframe them to show how they can be scientifically answered, but spiritually informed, with appeals made to evolutionary biology, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and large number theory. Along the way, the author lays out definitions for the mind, consciousness, and spirituality, and shows that even if we can't have definitive answers to the big existential questions of life, asking those questions is one of the most important things that we can do. The essays also delve into some of the most important critiques of traditional religious and scientific perspectives on the universe.


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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Teaser Tuesday Book Spotlight: Dread by J. Hali Steele

Today, I have a MC Romance novel in our book teaser spotlight! Check out Dread by J. Hali Steele and learn about the author!

 

Scorned Devils MC, Book 1

 

Contemporary LGBTQ MC Romance

Date Published: 9/6/2024

Publisher: Changeling Press LLC


 

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  Dread: Nicholas "Dread" Derickson is all about his MC, Scorned Devils -- until he spies a young man who sets his rebel blood on fire. Sexy bastard might be his undoing if Dread can't get the president to turn a blind eye to his entanglement, which is cutting into club business just as a splinter group from another club moves into the area. One rider of the wayward gang rubs Dread the wrong way -- particularly when he discovers the biker had a prior relationship with the man Dread wants to make his.

Marvin: Marvin Branch hadn't planned on attending an outlaw biker club party with a woman he'd met at his new job, but now he can't stop eyeing the handsome older guy who's definitely a member. Marv's last liaison ended because the biker he hooked up with refused to be open about their relationship. Vowing not to go down that road again, Marv can't help being enthralled by Nicholas. Soon Marvin struggles with his new lover's actions, and his fear of what will happen when he walks away gets the better of him. The man is not only possessive, he's hell-bent on keeping Marv until he's had his fill.

 

About the Author

Growl and roar -- it's okay to let the beast out. -- J. Hali Steele

J. Hali Steele wishes she could grow fur, wings, or fangs, so she can stay warm, fly, or just plain bite the crap out of… Well, she can’t do those things but she wishes she could!

J. Hali's a multi-published Amazon bestselling author of Romance in Paranormal, Fantasy, and Contemporary worlds which include ReligErotica and LGBTQ stories where humans, vampyres, shapeshifters and angels collide -- and they collide a lot! When J. Hali’s not writing or reading, she can be found snuggled in front of the TV with a cat in her lap, and a cup of coffee.

 

Connect with the Author & Publisher

 

Author on Instagram/Facebook: @jhalisteele

Publisher on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @changelingpress

 

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Children's Book Spotlight: Cows Can't Be Clowns

This morning, I have a children's book in our book release blitz spotlight! Check out Cows Can't Be Clowns and learn about author Debra Daugherty!

 

Children's Book

Date Published: September 3, 2024

Publisher: Everimagine Books (Harbor Lane Books, LLC)

 

 

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  Bella wants to be a clown, but she's a cow! Rooster, Pig, and Horse laugh when Bella tells them her dream, so she sneaks away to join the circus. Bella proves to the clowns she is moo-larious, and they welcome her into their act. As the star of the show, Bella should be happy, but she misses her friends on the farm. Will she choose circus stardom, or her farm-animal friends?


About the Author

Debra Daugherty is a Central Illinois author and a member of SCBWI, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Debra’s publishing credits include Calamity Cat (2013, MeeGenius/HMH); The Dragon’s Ring (2016, Clean Reads); The Memory Jar (2023, Young Dragons); Cows Can't Be Clowns (2024, Harbor Lane Books/EverImagine Books), two children’s stories in Guardian Angel Kid's e-zine; three articles in SCBWI-Illinois Prairie Wind magazine, and a short story in an anthology, Adventures on the Go, Book 2, (2021, Offbeat Reads). Her short story, Heart of Stone, won first place in a writing contest in 2015.

Debra began writing children’s stories for her nieces and nephews when they were young. Now their children read her books.

When not writing or reading, Debra enjoys exploring flea markets, visiting local museums and historical sights, and playing ball with her pup nephew Elmer, her brother’s dachshund, when he visits from Texas.

Something most people don’t know about Debra - she’s kissed the Blarney Stone.

 

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