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Saturday, December 31, 2022
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Guest Blogger: James Moushon
Welcome back to our blog author James Moushon sharing the release of his new Christmas story.
New Cozy Mystery Release
Christmas at Oakley Ranch by James Moushon
An Oakley Ranch Cozy Mystery Short Story
Now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. https://bit.ly/3UOlmzG
Read More: https://bit.ly/3Bq8v00
Thank you for your great support.
Blurb
Welcome to Oakley Ranch: An Active Adult Community just outside of Phoenix, Arizona.
Christmas is a big deal at Oakley Ranch. A Parade. A Dinner and Party. Great Music. A present exchange. Just lots of fun.
That all went south when one of the residents is found died in her kitchen. The police say it’s murder. Poison cookies. Who did this is a mystery.
Detective Ferguson and Officer Rizzo are in the park looking for leads. Resident Sarah Sandberg and her neighbor, Mary, go in their own direction to help solve the murder.
Then Sarah’s dog, Jethro does it again. He uncovers the evidence that solves the crime.
Showcased at Author's Spotlight. Read More: https://bit.ly/3Bq8v00
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway!
Starting December 14th Stop by my Amazon author page and pick up a free book. Enjoy Christmas with your families.
Holiday Cooking With Amazing Authors
Today we are going to have fun with some holiday cooking. Stopping by our blog is Elaine DeGroot , Dale Rogers and Ilena Holder.
Check out some of their recipes.
Elaine M. DeGroot
Hot Buttered Rum
1 lb Butter
1 lb Dark Brown Sugar
1 lb Powdered Sugar
1 qt or ½ gal Vanilla Ice Cream
Soften butter & mix in sugars. Add ¾ tsp ground cloves and 1 ½ tsp cinnamon, to taste. Mix well. Add softened ice cream and mix well. Store in the freezer.
To Serve: In a mug, put one shot of rum and 2-3 Tbsp/heaping spoonful of batter. Fill with boiling water and stir well. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.
3 Bean Salad
1 can each kidney beans, green beans & yellow wax beans
½ cup onion, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
½ cup cider vinegar
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
Mix vinegar, sugar & water; boil until sugar is dissolved. Allow to cool, as it must be cold before adding the remaining ingredients.
Dale Rogers
Key Lime Pie
This is the easiest key lime pie recipe in existence--and my favorite!
6 limes (or 3/4 cup bottled juice)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 (8 oz) container Cool Whip (More o1 or 2 drops green food color (optional)
Squeeze juice from limes into bowl with sweetened condensed milk and stir until a thickening occurs. Fold in Cool Whip and color as desired. Pour into Graham Cracker Crust. Refrigerate until firm. (At least one hour)
Ilena Holder
Romaine and cranberry holiday salad
2 heads Romaine lettuce, washed and chopped
1 pack dried cranberries (6 oz)
1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
1/4 cup thinly sliced celery
1 bottle raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing
1/4 sliced almonds
1 small can drained mandarin oranges
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lightly toss all ingredients and chill 4 hours or overnight. Serve with a slotted spoon
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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Karmas are immortals that kept the not so good people in line. They lived by the motto “Do bad things bad things will happen.” Tessa Waters was one of the best Karmas of the Karma realm. However, she wasn’t the fastest. She would watch over the realms, Earth, being her main realm. When she saw somebody not behaving she would send down a Karma punishment on that person. They were always funny and made the other Karmas laugh but she wasn’t fast enough. The head Karma thought it would help Tessa if instead of watching from a far she went down to Earth and passed out the punishments up close. Maybe that would make her faster. She could not return until she hit 100 Karmas. Tessa thought that would be no problem. Until the trickster of all tricksters, Loki, got in her way. How was she supposed to pass out Karmas if Loki was right in the way playing pranks on everyone? Now Tessa had to deal with the trouble makers and Loki. How was she supposed to hit her goal of 100 and make it back home?
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Sunday, October 16, 2022
Guest bloggers: Royzy Rothschild and Emily callacher
My guest bloggers today are Royzy Rothschild and Emily Callacher.
Check out their new song "Lonely Road"
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Guest Blogger: James Moushon
New Cozy Mystery Release
Shots Fired at Oakley Ranch
by James Moushon
An Oakley Ranch Cozy Mystery Short Story
Now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. https://amzn.to/3f11fPI
Thank you for your great support.
Blurb
Welcome to Oakley Ranch: An Active Adult Community just outside of Phoenix, Arizona.
A quite day is interrupted with gun shots fired at four golfers standing on a tee in the middle of the park.
Detective Herb Rush and his assistant Office Rizzo are assigned the incident.
After interviewing the golfers, Rush finds two unknowing witnesses.
Sarah Sandberg and her neighbor, Mary become key contributors to Rush.
Turn of Events: Two days later, one of the golfers is murdered right in the middle of the park and Detective Rush is back, now to investigate a murder.
Sarah, her dog Jethro and Mary go in a different direction to help the Detective.
It’s Friday Night Social time at Oakley Ranch. If you want to hear the latest, this is the place.
As Detective Rush zeros in on the prime suspect, Sarah and Jethro uncover a completely unexpected alternative. Sometimes the best protection is not enough.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Guest Blogger: Doug Bremner
COMING NOVEMBER 1, 2022
For release Nov 1, 2022. Published by Skyhorse Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster, available for pre-order from amazon, barnes and noble, kobo, google play, and apple books.
From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of “innocent until proven guilty” survive in what acclaimed Seattle attorney and legal analyst Anne Bremner calls the age of judgment?
When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn’t commit, family and friends turned to renowned Seattle attorney and media legal analyst Anne Bremner to help win her freedom. The case was dubbed the “trial of the decade” and would coincide with the explosion of social media and a new era of trying cases in public as much as the courtroom. While Italian prosecutors, the press, and online lynch mobs convicted Knox in the court of public opinion, Bremner would draw upon her decades in the courtroom and in front of the camera to turn the tide with a new kind of defense in pursuit of justice.
In Justice in the Age of Judgement, Anne Bremner and Doug Bremner take us inside some of the biggest cases of recent times and offers their expert, thought-provoking insights and analysis as our legal system faces unprecedented forces fighting to tip the scales of justice their way. Why couldn’t prosecutors convict O.J. Simpson despite all of the evidence seemingly proving he killed his wife Nicole? Could a jury remain unbiased in the face of overwhelming public pressure in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd? Why was Kyle Rittenhouse exonerated after shooting three people (killing two) with an assault rifle at a violent rally despite widespread media reports seemingly proving his guilt, and national calls for his conviction?
Justice in the Age of Judgement is an unparalleled and unflinching look at the captivating cases tried on Twitter and TV, where the burden of proof and fundamental legal tenet of “innocent until proven guilty” is under assault from the court of public opinion.
Anne Bremner, JD, is a trial attorney and one of the nation’s most recognized legal analysts. Her decades-long practice emphasizes civil rights, catastrophic loss, defense, and criminal law. In her thirty-five years as an attorney, she has been lead counsel for numerous highly publicized court cases. As a contributing broadcast legal analyst, Bremner appears regularly on national networks including CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, the BBC, Court TV, and others. She has been voted one of the best lawyers in Seattle and one of Seattle’s Top 25 most influential people. She is a Stanford graduate and has a perfect AVVO rating as an attorney. She lives in Seattle, Washington
Doug Bremner, MD, is a psychiatrist, researcher, writer, and professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Bremner is a world leader in research in the field of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and memory, including studies related to false memories with relevance to coerced testimony. He has served as an expert witness in litigation related to PTSD and drug safety and has often appeared on CNN as an expert analyst. He has written over 400 research papers and several best-selling books including Does Stress Damage the Brain? and Before You Take That Pill: Risks and Side Effects You Won’t Find on the Label of Commonly Prescribed Medications, Vitamins and Supplements. Dr. Bremner lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
What would you say if your daughter’s boyfriend called to tell you your daughter had taken off all her clothes, tied her hands behind her back, tied a rope around her feet, stuffed a t-shirt in her mouth, put a rope around her neck, and tied one end to the leg of a bed in a maid’s room, closed the door to the room, crossed over to a second story balcony, and then vaulted to her death without disturbing any of the dust on the railing? Oh, and the leap didn’t cause the maid’s bed to move. And, oh, before she leaped, she painted in black paint on the wall “She saved him, can you save her.” Oh, and by the way, this was a suicide.
Would you believe him? I wouldn’t.
This is exactly what happened in the mysterious case of Rebecca Zahau.
On July 13, 2011, Rebecca Zahau was found bound and gagged, hanging from a Juliet balcony at the Spreckles Mansion in toney Coronado, California. John Spreckles had two mansions in Coronado and one in San Francisco, and he settled in Coronado when he started the San Diego Tribune. One of the Coronado mansions, built in 1908, was directly across from the famed Hotel Del Coronado. It even had a $40,000 room fashioned for the visit of the duke and duchess of Windsor in the 1940s. The mansion, which last went on the marker for $17.5 million, was owned by Jonah Shacknai, Rebecca’s boyfriend, the billionaire owner of the company Medicis, which made Restylane, a cosmetic face filler.
The pair lived with his five-year-old son, Max (known as “Maxey”). Just two days prior to the discovery of Rebecca’s body, Max fell down the grand staircase and was critically injured. He pulled down a chandelier in the fall. A scooter and ball were nearby, as was the family dog, Ocean. Rebecca and her sister, Xena, were home at the time and in opposite ends of the mansion from the central sweeping staircase. Jonah rushed home, and Max was rushed to the hospital. He lived for only two and a half days. The doctor said he had been suffocated. Jonah’s brother, Adam Shacknai, flew in from Tennessee for support. He settled into the guest house behind the mansion but never visited Max at the hospital. Rebecca was found dead and hanging before Max succumbed to his injuries. I was asked to represent Rebecca’s family.
“She saved him, can you save her” was painted on the door of the balcony room in black paint and large letters. Rebecca’s hands were bound behind her back with red rope and perfect nautical knots. Her feet were similarly bound. She had a T-shirt fashioned as a gag in her mouth. The rope from which she was hanging was tied to a bed in the maid’s room. The bed had been moved but didn’t drag from her weight. Enough rope was used for her to go over the railing but not touch the ground. The soles of her feet were dirty. A neighbor heard a scream around 11:00 p.m. from his den window, which faced the mansion.
Adam claimed to police he “discovered” Rebecca in the early morning, the day after he arrived at the mansion. He later testified in a civil trial he had been in his room in the guest house watching porn on his cell phone that morning and hadn’t heard anything. He claimed when he found her, he immediately cut her down and called 911. In his call, he described her as “that girl” and seemed disoriented. His lawyer was one of the first on the scene. He took a polygraph approximately twelve hours after calling 911, in which he admitted to “not having the best bedside manner.” He departed for the Lindberg airport almost immediately, having never been to the hospital.
Later it was discovered that the writing on the door matched his height, and blood from Rebecca’s menstrual cycle was found in the master shower and on a knife linked to Adam. We asked famed forensic expert pathologist Cyril Wecht to exhume Rebecca and conduct an independent autopsy. He found four symmetrical injuries to the top of her head. And most importantly, he found that she didn’t die from hanging: she died from strangulation and blunt force trauma while on her back. Lividity, which is where the blood settles when you die, was found fixed in her back. Rebecca had not been depressed or suicidal. But the San Diego Police Department immediately closed the case as a suicide. They left her naked body exposed in the house for seventeen hours. It was filmed by news crews from the air. Interestingly, the French doors to the balcony where she supposedly jumped to her death were noted to have been closed behind Rebecca, as if she reached behind her to close them on her way over the edge. The balcony had no disturbance in the dust on the rail.
Adapted from "Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age." From Skyhorse Publishing distributed by Simon & Schuster, coming Nov 1 2022.
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Monday, September 12, 2022
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Monday, August 29, 2022
Guest Blogger: E.A. Smiroldo
5 Things You Don't Know About E.A. Smiroldo
1) I was a finalist in the Washington Post’s Peeps Diorama contest a few years ago.
2) I’m a guitar-playing fool and laced my novel The Silent Count with original song lyrics. I’m in the process posting most of the songs, written and performed by me on guitars and vocals, on my YouTube channel. Here’s a sample: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRu5MHs9LSs
3) I was a diplomat for two weeks, serving as a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management. (No, I did not take advantage of my temporary diplomatic immunity).
4) My family is from Sicily, and I speak both Italian and Sicilian dialect. They are from a town a stone’s throw away from where The Godfather was filmed! I had an apartment there until 2019 but sold it. I’m thinking of buying a derelict villa for 1 Euro and restoring it because I am crazy.
5) I won a Rubik’s cube tournament as a teenager, against college students no less! I love puzzles—evil Sudokus, crosswords, Wordles…bring ‘em on!
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She’s determined to stop climate change before it’s too late…
Nuclear engineer Dara Bouldin’s life is a mess. She’s paying off her dad’s gambling debts, reeling from a broken engagement, and practically invisible at the energy research agency where she works. Meanwhile, her ex Jericho’s latest single is racing up the charts and her handsome new colleague Dmitri is friendly with everyone but her.
All around them, wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters have become the norm. But Dara has an audacious plan to reverse climate change, if only someone would listen.
Little does she know, someone at the CIA has been paying attention. And when the public demands action, Dara gets the chance to turn her dream into reality, with the blessings of Congress and the President. Things are looking up.
That is until she discovers a secret that thrusts her into the center of a global conflict that could rewrite history, in dire ways she never intended. Things are going to change, big time. And the countdown has already begun.
Be careful what you wish for, Dara.
About:
E. A. Smiroldo is a nuclear engineer specializing in weapons nonproliferation. She’s also a Washington Area Music Association Award-nominated singer-songwriter and has won prizes in writing competitions sponsored by the Bethesda Literary Festival and the International Screenwriters' Dig. After placing in the latter, she optioned the treatment for her screenplay, Blood Like Water, with X-ray Media. Premised on real science, The Silent Count is her debut novel.
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Saturday, August 27, 2022
Guest Blogger: Jimmy Wayne
Inspiring Keynote Speaker
Walk To Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
Imagine yourself a 13-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.
That’s the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn’t just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especially teenagers in foster care who are about to age out of the system.
Walk to Beautiful is the powerfully emotive account of Jimmy’s horrendous childhood and the love shown him by Russell and Bea Costner, the elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the chance to complete his education. Jimmy says of Bea, “She changed every cell in my body.”
It also chronicles Jimmy’s rise to fame in the music industry and his Meet Me Halfway campaign: his walk halfway across America, 1,700 miles from Nashville to Phoenix, to raise awareness for foster kids.
Reviews:
“It reads like a movie to me, and if so, I’ll be the first one in a seat to see it.”
“If your story could use a better chapter, take inspiration from Jimmy’s.”
About Jimmy:
Jimmy Wayne is a former foster kid turned award-winning country recording-artist whose songs and story highlight his mission to raise awareness for children in foster care. Jimmy’s hits include “Stay Gone,” “Paper Angels,” “I Love You This Much” and “Do You Believe Me Now,” which earned BMI’s prestigious Million-Air Award for receiving more than one million radio spins in America. In 2009, Jimmy toured with Brad Paisley and recorded “Sara Smile” with rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame duo Daryl Hall and John Oates.
In 2010, Jimmy walked halfway across America (from Nashville to Phoenix) to raise awareness for kids aging out of the foster care system. While walking, he wrote the Christmas novel Paper Angels (2011, Simon & Schuster). In 2012, Jimmy lobbied to pass legislative bills extending the age of foster care from 18 to 21 in California and Tennessee.
In 2013, Jimmy’s first film, Paper Angels (UPtv) became an instant holiday classic and in 2014 he released Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way (2014, Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins) which became a three-time New York Times bestseller, crossing the 170,000 sales milestone in early 2019, and became a #1 Bestseller at Amazon.
In 2016 Jimmy received the prestigious Points of Light award from President George W. Bush (41), while simultaneously contributing to the extension of foster care services from age 18 to 21 in North Carolina and Ohio.
In 2017, Jimmy was honored with the inaugural Community Maker award by Verizon and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from William Woods University. In 2018 he received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Cal State University San Marcos and most recently, (May, 2019) he was honored by the National Council For Adoption with the Warren and Mary Alice Babineaux Award in recognition of his continued commitment to creating positive change in the lives of children in foster care who need permanent families.
Jimmy has shared his story — The Power Of One — around the world as a keynote speaker and has performed on the Grand Ole Opry 224 times. He lives in Nashville and continues to work tirelessly on behalf of at-risk foster youth.
For information on his awareness campaign, Project Meet Me Halfway, please visit: www.projectmmh.org
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