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The Blue Effect

7/9/2014

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Title: The Blue Effect

Author: Rose Shababy

Genre: Adult Urban Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Blue Brennan is jaded and bitter despite her pinup girl looks and quick wit. Night after night, she scours the Seattle club scene looking for someone or something to fill the emptiness inside.

When she meets the mysterious Kasey, her world stops… literally. He claims she has the ability to control time and stuns her even further when he reveals his own gifts.

Blue is inexplicably drawn to Kasey and reluctantly enters his world filled with a new breed of humanity. They’re misfits like her, blessed or cursed with powerful abilities, struggling to hide their differences from the rest of society.

Then the group discovers a nameless, faceless sociopath with nightmarish powers; and he’s coming for Blue. She’s left reeling when they discover her gifts are the key to defeating his terrible evil and saving them all.

Now she must race against the clock to harness her own powers and save her new friends. Can she be more than a renegade? Can she be a hero too?


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Fallen Ashes Cover Reveal

7/8/2014

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About Fallen Ashes:
Title: Fallen Ashes
Author:  Laura L. Zimmerman
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Publication: Expected publication October 2014
Evangeline, a recent widow who lost her husband in a car
accident, suddenly finds herself a single mom of three. When a strange man shows up at their door insisting they come with him or face imminent danger, she must decide if she can trust him with their lives. What secrets is he hiding and what is his connection to her late husband? Why does he seem to have power that marks him as extraordinary... possibly supernatural? As the days pass on their journey together, she can no longer deny the attraction she feels for him... nor his reaction to her, as well. Will he be able to save Evie and her children from those who hunted down her husband? More importantly, will she be able to trust this stranger with her heart? 



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Author Biography:
Laura L. Zimmerman is a homeschooling mom of three, who spends
her spare time reading, writing, doing yoga or kickboxing and drinking copious amounts of coffee. You can also find her singing on her church worship team, cooking a new vegetarian meal or watching the latest episode of "The Walking Dead". She currently resides in Lititz, PA with her daughters, husband and Eliza the cat. 
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www.lauralzimmerman.com
https://twitter.com/lauralzimm
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Too Close To Home Book Blast and Giveaway

7/8/2014

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When the body of a beautiful and popular senior head cheerleader, Melissa Cooley, is found brutally stabbed to death at the local high school it sends the small coastal community in North Carolina into a frenzy. To make matters worse…another body is found. A slacker boy by the name of Ronald Marks is found hanging from the field goal post on the football field only a day later. Pamlico County native Detective Carma Jones, and her partner Harold Green, set out on a search for this ruthless assailant who is wrecking havoc in a normally peaceful community. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. The twists and turns along the way lead them in a direction Carma would’ve never guessed. One filled with deep secrets that were meant to stay buried…  

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Tressa Messenger grew up in a very small town in Eastern North Carolina called Reelsboro in a coastal county called Pamlico. Being as it was such a small area Tressa developed an immense imagination at a young age. That is where she harnessed her love for writing. To date Tressa lives in New Orleans Louisiana with her husband, daughter and an assortment of critters. As of right now Tressa has nine books published, some self-published and some being published through Limitless Publishing. As a young writer Tressa has overcome adversity of Dyslexia and continues to exceed expectations. tooclosetohome Read the REVIEWS http://forhimandmyfamily.com/ http://readingitall.blogspot.com/ http://andisyoungadult.blogspot.com http://mamasgotflair.com/ http://nikita-mattes.blogspot.com/ http://www.amamascorneroftheworld.com The Author is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky reader. Please fill out the form below to enter. a Rafflecopter giveaway
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The Labyrinth Wall

7/8/2014

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LabyrinthBookBlastThe-Labyrinth-Wall-CoverAraina’s isolated teenage life is forever altered when she witnesses a man emerge through a rippling wall into the dark labyrinth she calls home. As a result of the stranger’s arrival, Araina’s Creators have unleashed a series of magical attacks using the labyrinth against its inhabitants. Now Araina must decide if she will trust potentially deceitful allies in order to reach safety on the other side of the labyrinth wall. The Labyrinth Wall is the story of a young woman who discovers that although labyrinth walls confine her and her enemies try to repress her, the power of hope can set her free. Will the walls that confine her be the walls that set her free? Young Adult Fantasy Novel. Hit #2 on the Amazon Best Seller list in its category the day after release and hit #26 on the Top 100 Amazon Free Best Seller List. Only $.99 Grab it today

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EmilyannLab2Though she was born in Germany and raised in Turkey until the age of five, Emilyann Girdner spent the majority of her grade school years in Tallahassee, Florida. She discovered early she had a love for stories. Reading books, watching movies and then acting them out with friends or toys gave living an extra flavor. This is likely why she spent the first part of her college career studying Creative Writing, before switching to Graphic Design and then graduating with a BFA in Digital Art from Missouri State University in 2011. Her writing has appeared on websites and blogs including Center for Work Life, Easter Seals Florida, MU Museum of Art & Archaeology's Musings and Examiner.com. She is best known for her Amazon Best-Selling novel, The Labyrinth Wall. Emilyann is now living and working in Florida. Given her three focus transitions as an undergraduate, it isn't a shock that she is a multi-medium lover, exploring writing, digital art, photography and design. She finds that her creativity is most fluent when given the opportunity to bounce between artistic outlets. To truly understand this Author, there are two things to know about her. Emilyann hopes to share a love for others and God in all she does. She believes that imagination sparks beauty in the soul.

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The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

7/7/2014

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About the Book:
Thrilling new historical fiction starring a scoundrel with a heart of gold and set in the darkest debtors’ prison in Georgian London, where people fall dead as quickly as they fall in love and no one is as they seem.

It’s 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he’s going to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women, and cards. But there’s a sense of honor there too, and Tom won’t pull family strings to get himself out of debt—not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London’s notorious debtors’ prison: The Marshalsea Gaol.

Within moments of his arrival in the Marshalsea, Hawkins learns there’s a murderer on the loose, a ghost is haunting the gaol, and that he’ll have to scrounge up the money to pay for his food, bed, and drink. He’s quick to accept an offer of free room and board from the mysterious Samuel Fleet—only to find out just hours later that it was Fleet’s last roommate who turned up dead. Tom’s choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder—or be the next to die.

Review:
Tom Hawkins was once a man destined to follow in his father's footsteps and become a man of the cloth, that is, until he was disgraced on the day of his graduation by his own brother.  Now, free to live life as he chooses, Tom gambles, drinks and chases after women.  It is no surprise that he soon falls into debt and through a series of unfortunate events, finds himself being locked up in the infamous Marshalsea debtors prison.  Upon his arrival, Tom finds out that he looks very similar to a man who was just murdered, a man whose bed he now sleeps in with a cell mate, Samuel Fleet, who might just be the murderer.  Tom is now in the position to find the murderer or be killed himself.

The most interesting part of this story is that it takes place almost entirely within the walls of the Marshalsea gaol. The Marshalsea was a very real and very dangerous place to be, but within itself there was almost the feeling of  a small community.  Antonia Hodgson has done wonderful research into the setting, bringing this gaol to life in all of its brutality and intensiveness.  Using real people as inspirations for many of the characters that worked and lived within the Marshalsea at the time created a rich historical atmosphere that I love to see in my historical fiction.  Tom is a rich character, caring and intelligent, but otherwise content to let life take him for a ride, he is the perfect unintentional sleuth for the murdered Captain Roberts.  Tom's crime-solving partner, and suspect, Samuel Fleet is a colorful and mysterious character himself, I never quite knew if he was trustworthy or not.  The mystery, although only unfolding over Tom's stay of five days in the Marshalsea, is a little slow unfolding and Tom seems to spend almost as much time getting in and out of trouble as he does mystery-solving.  However, near the end the pace picks up and the details of this intricately woven mystery come out, I found myself absorbed.

Praise for The Devil in the Marshalsea

“Hodgson…conjures up scenes of Dickensian squalor and marries them to a crackerjack plot, in her impressive first novel…Hodgson makes the stench, as well as the despair, almost palpable, besides expertly dropping fair clues. Fans of Iain Pears and Charles Palliser will hope for a sequel.” –Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)

“The plot develops almost as many intricate turns as there are passages in the Marshalsea…Hodgson’s plotting is clever…the local color hair-raising.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Satisfyingly twisty debut thriller…so well detailed that one can almost smell the corruption, and the irrepressibly roguish Tom makes a winning hero.” —Booklist

“Historical fiction just doesn’t get any better than this. A riveting, fast-paced story…Magnificent!” —Jeffery Deaver, author of the bestselling The Kill Room and Edge

“Antonia Hodgson’s London of 1727 offers that rare achievement in historical fiction: a time and place suspensefully different from our own, yet real. The Devil in the Marshalsea reminds us at every turn that we ourselves may not have evolved far from its world of debtors and creditors, crime and generosity, appetite and pathos. A damn’d good read.” —Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian and The Swan Thieves

“A wonderfully convincing picture of the seamier side of 18th-century life. The narrative whips along. Antonia Hodgson has a real feel for how people thought and spoke at the time—and, God knows, that’s a rare talent.” —Andrew Taylor, author of An Unpardonable Crime and The Four Last Things

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About the Author
Antonia Hodgson is the editor in chief of Little, Brown UK. She lives in London and can see the last fragments of the old city wall from her living room. The Devil in the Marshalsea is her first novel.

For more information please visit Antonia Hodgson’s website. You can also find her on Goodreads and Twitter.









The Devil in the Marshalsea Blog Tour Schedule

Monday, June 10
Review at Flashlight Commentary

Tuesday, June 11
Interview at Flashlight Commentary

Wednesday, June 12
Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past

Monday, June 16
Guest Post & Giveaway at Let Them Read Books

Friday, June 20
Interview at Reading the Past

Monday, June 23
Guest Post at Kinx’s Book Nook

Wednesday, June 25
Review & Giveaway at Book Nerd

Monday, June 30
Interview at Caroline Wilson Writes

Tuesday, July 1
Review at Mina’s Bookshelf

Thursday, July 3
Review at A Bibliotaph’s Reviews

Monday, July 7
Review & Giveaway at 100 Pages a Day

Tuesday, July 8
Review & Giveaway at The True Book Addict

Wednesday, July 9
Spotlight at Layered Pages

Friday, July 11
Review at Princess of Eboli
Spotlight & Giveaway at Historical Fiction Connection


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7/1/2014

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