The Mission, a powerful and secret society, has declared war. A war not on drugs, or on crime, but on sin! Their cause is a radical one and in order to win in their battle against sin, radical measures must be taken.
The Mission sends one of their top agents, an assassin code-named Brandy, into the world of Internet chat rooms to wage the Mission's war against the devastating sin of adultery.
Brandy has no patience for the adulterous swine who lurk within chat rooms willingly breaking their wedding vows and the sacred laws of God. Brandy gains the trust of these wretched sinners, sets up meetings with them in low-rent motel rooms, and then brutally "Purifies" them.
When Brandy's first victim is found, spread-eagle and naked, filleted by a butcher knife with the word "sinner" crudely written in blood on his forehead, newly-promoted Chicago detective Dallas Holden is brought in to conduct the investigation.
As the case progresses, Holden is thrust head first into the fascinating and highly seductive realm of online chatting. Holden must fight off the temptation of being an in-room star, and the flirtatious attention of three separate women, in order to do his duty and find the killer.
Danger mounts as Holden finds himself entangled in an intricate web of love, betrayal, and power that inevitably leads to a confrontation with a trusted ally and the leader of the Mission. It's a showdown that will bring the unexpected, and change Dallas Holden's life forever.
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St. Louis is an amazing city where elitists, idealists, and pacifists co-exist with the disenfranchised, the amoral, and the secretly racist. Ignored, except by the brave who decide to live here or the damned with no other choice, come thirteen stories that prove there is nowhere in the world like it.
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Bk Walker from Bk Walker Books and the creator of Authors Supporting Authors is currently in the progress of launching a huge Virtual Book Tour and this is one tour you want to be apart of.
Hosting A Virtual Book Tour:
If you would be interested in being a host for a Virtual Book Tour please contact me today!
Hosting includes but is not limited to -
Guest Bloggers - blurbs about an author and their work on your blogging page.
Author Interviews - an interview with the author about them and their work on your blog, online radio show, podcast.
Spotlight Features - a book feature on your blog or website.
Book Reviews - your review of a book posted on your blog or website.
All hosting will be in accordance with a set schedule within the Virtual Book Tour.
Please contact:
bkwalkerbooksATcomcast.net
First I have several blogs set up for blurbs or author interviews. What you need to do now is start creating your blurbs for submission. I am hoping to have up to 20 blogs set up by the time we launch. Not all will be just for blurbs, some will be author interviews, spotlight features and book features and reviews.
You will be guest blogging on the tour so you will need to create a blurb in the form of an author bio, book information such as a synopsis, what brought you to write and what brought you to write your particular novel. Include experiences you went through during your writing process, was your book based on a personal experience, how you came up with your title, what made you choose your publishing company, were there any rejections before you were published, how you came to be published, was it from the opinion of friends, and ideas along those lines.
You will need to make each blog different. This is where it will get a little tricky. You don't want the same information on each blog.
Post any ideas you come up with for your tour on here so other authors can learn and create from it as well. If we all work together, the tours should go very smoothly.
Once you are finished, send them to me via email to bkwalkerbooks@comcast.net with "Tour Blogs" in the subject line.
I am still in need of bloggers to participate in being a host, so if you know of anyone that has a blog page, and would be willing, send me their information so I can contact them.
You can also search the internet for guest bloggers, guest authors, etc. to see what others are posting to get some ideas on what to write. Whatever you come up with for ideas, please share here so other authors can use them as well.
If any of you DO NOT want to participate in online radio shows or podcasts, please let me know that too. I will be creating a mock tour schedule for you once I receive all your blog entries. Once you get the schedule, look it over. If you have a problem with any of the dates, let me know ASAP.
Once the schedules are approved by you, I will send to each blog, radio show, etc. Then the tour will be launched!
What we are going to do is a signed book give away with each tour. This will encourage people to visit the blogs on the dates set on your schedule, and if they leave a comment on that day, they will be entered into the drawing to receive one of your books. At the end of the tour, a name can be drawn and the announcement made as to who won the signed copy of your book. This means you too will have to revisit your guest blogging post to follow up with any comments made by the viewers.
As we get further into the tours, we may have other prizes as well. The key is to have people visit each blog or website and leave a comment.
I have also created my own online radio talk show. So I too will be hosting author interviews for those of you that would like to do radio.
I am very excited and looking forward to launching the Virtual Book Tours! You may also check over Kaylin McFarren's VBT which is in the events tab to see what your tour will look like.
One more thing, for those of you that I haven't done a book review, I don't have any pictures of your book covers, so you will need to send me a JPG of that to be included with your blog submissions. Also include your purchase links and personal websites.
If anyone has any suggestions or questions, please contact me.
On Sunday night, Dec. 13, 2009 at about 9:13 p.m, our granddaughter Heavenlee-Angel Johns was critically injured in an auto crash. She is currently recuperating at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She was permanently and totally paralyzed as a result of the accident, which was compounded by the fact that, according to Indiana State Police reports, she was not secured in a proper child seat and was restrained only by a factory-installed lap belt.
She will never walk again or move anything again except her mouth and eyes. She will never breath on her own again but most likely infection after infection will set in and eventually end her life.
The Indiana State Police report confirms that the driver, grandmother of Heavenlee and her daughter, birth-mother of Heavenlee, failed to secure our granddaughter in a child safety seat, as required by Indiana law: IC 9-19-11-2. Sadly though, this provision provides for only a Class D Traffic Violation with a $25.00 fine.
Apparently, Heavenlee's life is only worth $25.00 to the state of Indiana. It's comforting to know the state places such a high dollar value for the life of our children.
We harbor no anger towards the local law enforcement agencies with which we have had contact with to date. They are only enforcing the laws as written. Our anger is directed towards the state legislature who enacted impotent laws which fail to protect our children from negligent parents and/or caregivers.
This situation now provides the citizens of the State of Indiana the chance to remind those within the law community that we remember well and will not forget those who have suffered at the hands of negligent parents and/or caregivers.
Please join us in insuring justice is served for even the most innocent of our own.
Our goal now is to enact new legislation which will ensure that child safety seat laws are strengthened and that mandatory jail terms apply when injuries and/or death occur as a result of failure by negligent parents and/or caregivers to secure children in the appropriate and/or mandated restraint.
We ask that you please contact the following state senators and representatives and convey to them your opinion about this matter.
Senator Timothy Skinner(D)
District #: 038 Staff Contact: Brent Stinson
Phone: 800-382-9467
Address: 200 W. Washington St
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Representative Clyde Kersey(D)
District #: 043 Staff Contact: Christina Cesnik
Phone: 800-382-9842
Address: 200 W. Washington St
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Email: h43@in.gov
Please refer to this specific website: http://justiceforheavenlee.blogspot.com/
when addressing your concerns to them. We will be in constant contact with them as this process moves forward.
Thank you and God bless each of you for your assistance, concerns and prayers for our granddaughter Heavenlee-Angel Johns.
ISBN 978-1-60318-212-6
Publisher: L&L Dreamspell
http://www.lldreamspell.com/
Without Hesitation The Rasner Effect II
Mark Rosendorf follows up The Rasner Effect with his new thrilling novel Without Hesitation The Rasner Effect II.
Clara Blue is back and she finds herself once more in the horrors of the Brookhill Children’s Psychiatric Residence. The injustice of the residence and the awful events that happen there will most likely have the reader cheer again for Clara to find her way out of the place. This character develops nicely throughout the book, growing seamlessly from frightened young girl, to taking charge of her situation with a vengeance young woman. The language used from the characters surrounding Clara feels awfully out of place at times and I did feel that the charades in the residence went on for a little longer than necessary-almost being too ridiculous to be believable.
The mystery of Jake Scarberry definitely does a nice job of making sure the story resumes a good, fast pace. He falls in love this time and maybe it isn’t the love relationship expected but this romance works really well, until of course it doesn’t and the end of that was a great and suspenseful twist.
Jennifer Duke, the leader of the Duke Organization also charges in with a flourish and makes a even more stunning exit—you have to read it to credit it.
Mark Rosendorf once again, creates a story that is thrilling, mind-twisting and the end result is an intelligent read, with well defined and interesting characters and enough plot twists and turns to keep a reader well engaged and wanting more from the Rasner Effect series.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
Marcus Aurelius
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Anon.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
~William Shakespeare
What do we lose by another’s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them,That should be our desire and determination.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
A Voice from the Grave tells a story of a death at Andersonville Prison in Anderson Ga in 1864 during the civil war and Sherman's march to the sea. The cause of this death and the reason behind it is not solved until 2009 when Jonas Biggs is hired by the Historical Society in Anderson to do an archeological dig. Who are the two skeletons found at the deadline? Why are they there? How long have they been there? Why is someone after the Biggs family especially Savannah Biggs, Jonas' niece.
All these questions and the answers will be told in Florida Author Yvonne Mason's latest release A Voice from the Grave.
She has taken real battles, real generals and real happenings and wove a story for the 21st century.
This is a must have for history buffs as well as readers who love a good murder mystery.
Pick up a signed copy at http://thebookattic.ecrater.com on Lulu.com or on Amazon Kindle.
This book will soon be available on Amazon.com in about six to eight weeks.
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"Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts", is the first fictional book to address what doctors and experts are calling Social Networking Addiction. The book takes a satiric look into the lives of twelve individuals who have entered into rehab (“Social Networking Anonymous”) to help kick their habit. Each chapter is the testimony of one of these individuals, all reflecting the vivid and creative imagination of the author. Recognizing the overall seriousness of this issue, Osuagwu collaborated with the New York Daily News to provide real life accounts of Facebook addiction gone wrong.
What happens when you find out that Grandma's vase mistakenly sold at a yard sale is worth tens of thousands of dollars—and somebody else is about to cash in on it on Antiques Roadshow? Of course, you hop on a plane with your best friend and race off to Las Vegas to get Grandma's vase back! Filled with action and suspense, hunky blackjack dealers, divine drag queens, strange sex, and sex in strange places, plus a Federal agent or two, Divas Las Vegas puts the sin in Sin City. A fun, new take on the murder mystery genre, Rob Rosen's Divas Las Vegas is a hilarious, touching, and compulsively readable page turner!
Opportunity
is a pimp. He will not wait for you and expects you to be ready regardless the
time or inconvenience. There is rarely a second chance with opportunity. He
will expect you to wordlessly follow wherever he may take you, despite what
your reservations may be. The primary thing to remember with opportunity is
that he expects you to make money for him. If you can't do that, maybe it's
time to find a new career.
Sound
harsh? It is. To be a professional writer, or any style of artist, you must
have a devotion to your craft that is unquestionable. You must be willing to go
anywhere, meet anybody, forgo sleep and food should it bring you even one step
closer to your goal. For some, the road is easy, but those fortunate few are
truly the exception to the rule. The rest of us mortals find that in addition
to our forty-hour work week that we are focused on our art an additional ten to
fifteen hours. This includes writing, editing, book signings, research, query
letters, meeting other writers either in person or virtually, and spreading the
gospel that is your work with flyers, bookstore consignments, and the Internet.
If you have a spouse and children, you may add a minimum five hours due to the
inevitable interruption factor.
It
took a year of sleep deprivation to complete your version of the great American
novel. Your family and friends all say its wonderful, a real writer in the
family, we couldn't be more proud. Does the expression ‘standing in a garage
doesn't make you a Cadillac’ ring any bells? The people closest to you are the
worst critics of your work. They love you, which is wonderful, but it is not
especially helpful. Until you find an editor, opportunity doesn't even know
where you live.
Editors
are soulless beasts that roam the earth and live to devour inexperienced
writer’s manuscripts. Okay, so that is a little over the top, yet if you think
your work is wonderful, perfect, the next 'Great Gatsby' waiting to be
discovered like a beautiful starlet on the Sunset Strip, good luck with that.
Most novels have been vigorously edited and most novelists, including Faulkner,
Hemingway, and Steinbeck, have had editors. Great men and women who names if
listed would be unrecognizable as names in a phone book. That being said a good
writer and a good editor can make a terrific novel together. Don't be fooled
though, it is work, hard work that will tax body, mind, soul. You will question
and doubt yourself, your editor, and maybe even wonder why in the hell you ever
thought you could do this anyway. Then one day it is done. No more re-writes,
no more red ink to slosh through. Now what?
If
you dislike the word no, stop now.
There
are two paths that are both equally difficult to achieve the same goal:
self-publish or submit your unsolicited manuscript to literary agents via a
query letter. You may even do both, but do not submit the self-pub book to an
agent. More on this later.
A
word of warning in regards to self-publication. Do not pay someone to publish
your book. This is a scam. If you pay anyone during this whole process, pay a
certified, independent editor with a proven track record of published books to
their credit with authors you can speak with as to their credentials. Not
unlike hiring a contractor to work on your house, you take bids and make a
final decision based partly on cost, partly on experience. The exception here
is no matter what the outcome you cannot blame anyone but yourself if your book
sucks.
Talent
unlike tenacity is an organic thing. You either got it or you don't. That isn't
to say you can't be skilled at what you do. Give fifteen minutes a day to any
dedication and one can become a theoretical master over any subject. There is,
however, a touch guided by insight that can only be described as the elusive
talent. At a certain point you will have to decide what side of the coin you
have landed. Do you enjoy writing? Does it give you a lift to write even if no
one is reading your work? Then, by God, go in peace. If, however, you want to
find fulfillment, readership, a career applying electronic ink to a digital
page, and (gasp) a livable income from writing you should at least be a damn
good storyteller in your particular genre. I highly recommend the low-budget
film available at almost any public library titled, "The Hero's 2
Journeys," starring the amazing Christopher Vogler, author of "The
Writer's Journey." If the information contained between the book and the
movie doesn't make you excited as having the power to accurately predict
lottery numbers, then buy a guitar.
The
acquisition of an agent for a debut novelist should be a submission of a
writer’s best work. If you have self-published in the past, I wouldn't mention
it in your query letter unless you have sold thousands of copies. There is a
stink to self-published books that smells worse than molting sweat socks to an
agent. Your odds of getting an agent to take your self-published work, as-is,
and presenting it to a major publisher are about as good as winning the next
Pulitzer Prize. On the bright side, if you do get an agent and become a popular
author, you will own the exclusive rights to a book no publisher outside of you
has access to print. Literally, a license to make money. I consider my own book
an ace up my sleeve, that is both an introduction to the literary world and a
possible gold mine claim to be declared at a later date.
The
best thing about being a writer is that your age, your looks, your weight, your
religious views, your sexual orientation, or your gender will not determine
your popularity. It is one of the few level playing fields still available
today that is open to anyone who possesses the power to engage a reader. To
initiate the suspension of disbelief so well a person will sacrifice going to
bed on time to finish a chapter or the whole damn book.
Regardless
the sacrifices, only you can deem if it is all worth it. The early mornings and
late nights perfecting your stories. Times you could have been at parties or
out with friends that you choose to stay home and work on your art. If you are
in it for the money alone, you will be disappointed. If writing stories first
and foremost for your own enjoyment turns you on, no matter what the world
thinks, you will be successful.
Remember
that opportunity asks only one question and then waits to see if you are brave,
bold, or indifferent. It is the same thing I ask myself every time before I sit
to write. What would you do if you truly believed you could not fail?
Opportunity
is waiting. All you have to do is be prepared for his knock.
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