Friday, June 30, 2023

Guest Blogger: Susan Lynn Solomon

 Welcome author Susan Lynn Solomon to our blog today. Check out her new book.


Somebody is sending Emlyn Goode a message.

The morning of her wedding day a green 4-by-4 nearly smashes into her car. The driver of a limousine no one hired to take her to the wedding warns she’d be easy to kidnap. On her honeymoon in Florida Roger finds a body in the swimming pool. While she and Roger have drinks with Rebecca Nurse and Harry Woodward at a riverside Naples restaurant somebody shoves her into the river. She’s certain that all of this is connected to a cold case Roger and Harry had worked on. Is she being warned to stay away from that case?

A year earlier Emlyn had seen or heard something that would solve the case. When she tries to recall what it is, the warnings become attempts on her life



Thursday, June 29, 2023

Guest Blogger: Keyanna Butler

 Welcome Keyanna Butler to our blog to today.



Kenya and her family are struggling right now and she wanted to share her story with everyone. Go ahead and tell your story Keyanna.


Keyanna Butler: Thank you for having me today. 


Lizzy Stevens: You are very welcome. When you are ready, go ahead and introduce yourself and tell your story.


Keyanna Butler: Hi, I’m Keyanna and I’m trying to raise money to help my family keep up with bills and groceries until I find a new, steady job. Right now I freelance, but I am not bringing in enough to give us any relief. My husband works full time, but we are having trouble keeping up with everything on just his income.


Back in December, I was forced to leave my job because my employer stopped paying me. I have not received the back pay I’m owed, and it took a toll on my family financially. In addition, our food assistance was cut off because my husband grosses too much money according to their guidelines.


I am job hunting and am determined to find something steady by September. Until then my family could really use the help.


Thank you in advance for your support.


If you would like to show your support to Keyanna and her family visit their Go Fund Me page here:

Guest Blogger: James L. Hatch

 Welcome author James L Hatch to our blog today. Check out his new book.




Ten billion ancient Endol flee their dying sun in sixty-four fleets of gigantic starships. For 5.6 trillion years they scatter outward, spreading intelligent life to thousands of Universes. As the population flees they are enslaved by a reasoning glyph known as Marid. Marid heads a fanatical technological religion called The Covenant. Over trillions of years he becomes the all-powerful God of all known Universes. He has indentured his people, and war between Eve and Marid becomes inevitable. Eve’s husband is tortured to death during battles with Marid, and ten billion Endol remain imprisoned on outbound ships. Eve vows to defeat Marid wherever he exists or die trying. Permeated by love, deceit, and subterfuge, this novel presents new views of space and imaginative technology. It is a delight for Sci-Fi readers of all ages.


Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Guest Blogger: Alyne Bailey

 Welcome author Alyne Bailey to our blog today. Check out her new book.



Mr. Johnson is very special to the residents of the St James Apartment building. Not only does he have the skills to keep the 1920’s building in good repair, but he is also the only man who resides there. He has dated many of the single women who call the building home. Now he is the prime suspect after the police determine that the husband of one of those ladies has been murdered.
This cozy mystery is a little wine, a little murder and a whole lot of friendship as the Ladies of the St. James Apartments set out to save one of their own. Can Mable Schmidel and her 70-, 80- and 90-year-old friends show the police how old ladies find a killer? Who else can they trust to do the job?


Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Guest Blogger: Jack Savard

 Welcome author Jack Savard to our blog today. Check out his new book.



Robert is a young American pilot flying charter jets in Asia for Philippine Airlines; a lucrative and often exciting job. Then he meets beautiful Vivien, and falls in love with the sweet Filipina. This didn’t sit well with wealthy Miguel, her admirer who thinks he can buy anything and anyone, including Vivien. Failing at tempting her away from Robert, he resorts to hiring a gang to kidnap Vivien for a $15-million-dollar ransom. Knowing that Robert doesn’t have that kind of money, Miguel is certain Robert would be forced to come begging him for help with paying the ransom. He’d help, of course, with some strings attached. Could there be a more ingenious way to win the rivalry? Maybe…or maybe not – when that rival is Robert.


Sunday, June 25, 2023

Guest Blogger: Glenn Berggoetz

 Welcome author Glenn Berggoetz to our blog today!

Summer is here and we are all enjoying it. Do you and your family have any fun summer traditions?

Glenn Berggoetz:   A favorite summer tradition I have is playing wiffle ball with my nieces and nephews.  When we get together for summer visits, we play a wiffle ball game just about every day, with it being the boys against the girls.  We have a blast running around the yard as the dogs run around as well - sometimes the dogs become part of the game!  We play fun songs like "Barbie Girl" and "Call Me Maybe" and "Friday" while we play, occasionally stopping to dance when a favorite part of a song plays.












In rural Indiana in the 1950s, an elderly African American man befriends a young white boy whose father is openly racist and who is determined to put the friendship to an end, even if that means exhibiting violence toward his son and the elderly man.


Saturday, June 24, 2023

Guest blogger: Kevin Bouchard

 Welcome our guest blogger Kevin Bouchard to our blog today.


It's summer time! Do you have any fun stories to share about summer?


Kevin:  My wife worked as Director of Nurses at a state residential facility for severely disabled adults for many years. Every summer they would host a large fair with rides, food and exhibits in a large field abutting the grounds.  I would work one of the booths.  This was the inspiration for the Summer Harvest Fayre in my first book, Blue Moon which took place on the grounds of an abandoned state facility. 



A Blue Moon is a rare occurrence, a time when strange things happen, when the vast universe might reveal its darkest mysteries, or at least that’s what Jack Graves has always heard. Jack is a teacher in the quaint New England town of Wickham, a place where nothing changes and life moves lazily along. But Jack’s serene world is about to be torn apart. A teacher with summer’s off and time on his hands, Jack should be at his leisure, tending to his house and yard, and helping his wife, Joanna, a librarian, sell her wares at the annual Summer Harvest Fayre. But things on Jack’s quiet dead end street are not what they appear. Someone is stalking the couple, creeping about their yard after dark and leaving grisly ‘deposits’. But Jack, not wanting to alarm his wife, enlists the aid of his eccentric friend, chemist ‘Gospel’ Tom Williams, a man whose investigatory skills are as good as ‘Gospel’, who sets about analyzing the evidence. But when Jack’s neighbor is brutally murdered and ‘Gospel’ Tom’s findings suggest that something amazing has been happening on Jack’s once peaceful street, the Graves’ household and the entire town of Wickham are plunged into a dark realm where myth and reality merge and even those closest to Jack may not be who or what they seem to be.


Friday, June 23, 2023

Summer Time Sale! Books only 99 cents!

 It's Summertime. Grab these great books for 99 cents. Get them before they go back up to regular price!



Amazon.com: Ravencrest Book Two: Preparing For Battle eBook : Stevens, Lizzy, Miller, Steve: Kindle Store

Lucinda had settled into her role as the head of the Ravencrest clan but now everything was at stake. She was about to lead them into the battle of a lifetime. They had to fight the Underwood clan. The same clan that had taken her father’s life. Feelings of anger and revenge were running through her veins.
There was only one way to successfully beat them. It wouldn’t be easy. It would be dangerous and lives could be lost.

Will Lucinda be able to be the leader that her clan needs? Will she be able to claim the victory?



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?




Amazon.com: Don't Make A Wish eBook : Stevens, Lizzy, Miller, Steve, Miller, Jason, Miller, Noah: Kindle Store

Tara’s day goes from bad to worse when she finds a lamp while cleaning out her grandma’s attic after she died. She found an old lamp with a note attached. ““Whoever finds this lamp, Take my advice. Do not rub the lamp. Do not make a wish. Put it back where you found it and run away.” Tara thought her grandma was just making a joke until she accidently rubbed the lamp and the genie popped out.

Mark, the Genie of the lamp, was not very happy to be a genie any longer. He wanted out of his life. So what he did to show that he wasn’t happy was that no matter what the person wished for he would twists and turn the words of the wish and make it a little more fun for him and not so much fun for the person who made the wish.

After two wishes went in the wrong direction, Tara wished to be left alone which in turn, Mark sent her to a deserted Island. He thought he was being his usual funny self until his punishment was to be sent there with her, but he was sent without his powers.
How will this all work out for Mark and Tara? How will they get off the island without his powers?




Blackbeard's Treasure - Kindle edition by Stevens, Lizzy, Miller, Steve. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.


Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard, was killed November 22, 1718. Two months before, he purposely ran his ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, aground at what is now called Beaufort Inlet.

He emptied the ship of all treasures into his other ship, The Tender, and fled to where nobody knows. Two months later, when he reappeared, he was killed in battle, and his body was tossed into the ocean. To this day, nobody knows where the treasure went.

For years, people have searched high and low for his treasure. It has been said that Blackbeard said nobody but he and the devil knew where it was located.
Cassie Andrews returns to Branson Missouri to clean out her grandfather’s house, who recently passed away. While emptying the attic she comes across an old diary belonging to a woman who claims to have been married to Edward Teach. Cassie soon realizes that she holds the key to the famous Blackbeard’s Treasure.

Cassie turns to her friend Levi for help in finding the treasure. "In her zeal to uncover the clues to Blackbeard's Treasure Cassie lands herself in the hospital.

Attraction explodes off the page as Levi nurses Cassie back to health and together they experience the adventure of a lifetime to uncover their true feelings for one another and Blackbeard's Treasure





Thursday, June 22, 2023

Guest blogger: David W. Thompson

 Welcome author David W. Thomposn to our blog today to share one of his books.




Amazon.com: Sister Witch: The Life of Moll Dyer (Legends of the Family Dyer Book 1) eBook : Thompson, David W.: Kindle Store


Amazon best seller!

Moll Dyer prays she can leave her troubles behind when she immigrates to the new world, but a paranormal threat grows, and soon follows her across the ocean to Maryland.

Colonial life in the Old Line state was tough on both man and woman. Hunger, disease, Indian attacks, and drought tested the resolve of the settlers daily, but troubles for the Dyers included the threat of a succubus on a mission! Will the demonic call initiated by her family prove too much to resist as she labors to rebuild her life in a distant land?

The legend of Moll Dyer originated in earliest colonial Maryland. Despite 300 years of civilization, and scientific reason, Moll's name is still often heard there, especially around campfires late at night, or as a warning to misbehaving little people. Her spirit is often seen as a wisp of unnatural fog in the swampy woodlands near her homestead, with her half wolf companion at her side. This is her story.



Guest Blogger: Daniel Richardson

 Welcome author Daniel Richardson to our blog for Summer time fun.

Daniel, What is something you do during the summer?


Daniel Richardson: In Chicago, I love to take my dogs down to the beach. They run around until they tire themselves out and we get pup-cups on the drive home. 




ON SALE FOR $0.99 JUNE 22ND - JUNE 29TH


They demanded the impossible to convince him that he could achieve the improbable.

Longtime partners Bernard Yates and Sofia Wren are traveling to Besimeni, a quiet fort town on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to visit her grandparents who are in self-imposed exile on their nearby farm. Meeting them for the first time, Bernard seeks their permission to propose to their granddaughter. The Wrens may welcome him into the family but not before they test his mettle, for they possess more sanguinary and otherworldly secrets of their own to disclose.

Unsettled by the townsfolk and shadowy neighbors, he quickly becomes enmeshed in Besimeni’s history and The Wren’s future. The more he learns, the further he spirals towards the truth about Sofia’s missing parents and their clandestine technological enterprise. Bernard must endure their acceptance and be buried by the weight of his want or succumb to his better nature and unmake the world.


Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Guest Blogger: Sandra Perez Gluschankoff

 

Welcome our guest blogger, Sandra Perez Gluschankoff,  to our blog today.


Sandra with summer here is there anything you like to do?


Sandra Perez Gluschankoff: I enjoy time off work to get to do what I love like outdoor activities, writing, reading.


FREE June 22nd - June 25th


Amazon.com: The Last Fernandez eBook : Gluschankoff, Sandra Perez: Books


After being inexplicably removed from her family in a small fishing town in Argentina, six year-old Angelina is sent to a Catholic convent where she spends her next twelve years. During her lonely days at the convent, she finds solace in the company of a mysterious presence, by the name of Sara Fernandez, which gradually reels her into the life of a Marrano family living at the end of the 15th century in Cordoba, Spain.

As Angelina embeds herself in the life of the Fernandez family, she understands that Sara is not a product of her imagination, rather the link to her secret past and her only hope for survival.

Set amid the notorious Spanish Inquisition and the murderous Dirty War in Argentina of the late 1970s, two women, more than four centuries apart, transcend the barriers of time and fight political and religious persecution to ensure the survival of their lineage.



ON SALE $0.99 June 22nd - June 29th

Amazon.com: Thorns for Raisel eBook : Perez Gluschankoff, Sandra: Books

Semi-Finalist - 2020 CIBA Goethe Book Awards for post 1750 Historical Fiction.Four gunshots, a dead woman, and a frantic crowd. Veronica Simon watched the chaos unfold around her, unable to grasp how this nightmare started...It was supposed to be a glorious day. The grand event Veronica had diligently planned over the last year was finally here. Dame Salva, the legendary nonagenarian, the champion of women's rights, was set to deliver her last public address before a hall filled to capacity. But the excitement turned to panic when Raisel Wisnik - an old hat maker, gunned down the famed activist. The police tried in vain to get her to talk, but Raisel would only speak to one person-- Veronica Simon.As Raisel tells Veronica her story, she is swept back seventy years to a shtetl in 1922, Poland. It is there that Veronica discovers Raisel, at only fourteen years of age, was sold as sex slave to the notorious Jewish Polish mafia, the Zwi Migdal, and shipped to South America. The details of Raisel's tragic journey cross paths with the Dame's, making it hard for Veronica to distinguish fact from delusion or one woman from the other. Now, with conflicting facts in her hands, Veronica is left with the choice of either walking away from it all and labeling Raisel a deranged old woman or giving a voice to a macabre story that lay buried for over seven decades.





Guest Blogger: Lois Crockett

 Welcome author Lois Crockett to our blog today!


Thanks for stopping by Lois. It's nice to see summer here. Do you and your family have any fun traditions that you do every summer?


Lois Crockett: We like to cook out on the grill. 

Here’s a good recipe:

Get a VERY good piece of beef or chicken
Rub a binder like mayo, mustard, ranch or Italian dressing. 
Then add a thick coating of seasoning like Dan-O’s & cover & rest for about a half hour while the coals get hot.

Grill to your liking. Baste if you like.
When done to taste (use a meat thermometer) remove from grill.
Put a big piece of foil down & add bbq sauce and pats of butter. 
Put the meat on the foil.
Top with more butter & sauce. Close the foil.
Rest 10-30 min, prep sides. 
Serve & enjoy! 




Amazon.com: Tough Luck Lane (Tough Luck Lounge Book 1) eBook : Crockett, Lois: Kindle Store


Stacey Jennifer Longacre is a bartender who leaves her hard-bit existence in Okeechobee, Florida. She’s likeable, but with a touch of sand.

Landing in a quirky Key West-style compound in south Florida, she and her new-found crew head off a ring of dangerous bed guys who keep her off-balance while perpetrating their deadly game.

Stacey is no stranger to danger yet she always strives to do the next right thing in spite of her "tough luck" attitude. An “ordinary” woman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, she’s someone with whom you will relate to and cheer on.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Summer Solstice is here! June 21st Grab some free books to celebrate!

Enjoy the Summer Solstice with some free books. Load up your kindles and find a nice comfy spot to enjoy the day!


FREE JUNE 21ST - JUNE 25TH



AWARD WINNING "LOCKED IN A CASTLE"

Kelly wasn’t like other women. She was locked in a castle. Ghost by day. Human by night. Day after day, the same thing. She was cursed. She could never leave the castle grounds.

There was only one way to break the curse but it had to be done by somebody else and she couldn’t tell them how to do it. They had to figure it out on their own and she had to find this person.
Would she ever find them? Would they break the curse?



FREE JUNE 21ST - JUNE 25TH



"RAVENCREST BOOK ONE LUCINDA'S STORY"


Lucinda Ravencrest’s whole world was turned upside down when her aunt that she barely knew left an estate to her. There were stipulations to it. She could not sell the estate and she had to take care of the people who lived there was what she was told.

What she found out when she got there was nothing like she was told. Secrets started to come out, and some were downright crazy

Lucinda didn’t know whether to run or to embrace this crazy new life. How was she to handle all of this?


FREE JUNE 21ST - JUNE 25TH


Amazon.com: Make Love Not War eBook : Stevens, Lizzy , Miller, Steve: Kindle Store

"MAKE LOVE NOT WAR"

A historic tale of the Vietnam War, returning home, and starting over. This poignant tale follows Christopher Douglas from the war torn jungle to a hometown on the brink of extinction. He heals himself along with the town as everyone works to rebuild.


Sunday, June 4, 2023

Guest Blogger: Jody J. Sperling

 Welcome our guest blogger:  Jody J. Sperling






Luke and Lyle have gotten used to investigating lost pets and cheating spouses.

Then Marva DeLonghi walks into their office. Someone's out to kill her but her story's vague.

When a tip from a gambling river rat leads them to a rundown gentleman's club to question a mysterious suspect named Laser, the night ends fatally for Luke and Lyle.

How then does Luke end up outside her office eavesdropping on Marva propositioning Lyle to find the perp who wants her dead? Was Luke's death a dream, déjà vu, or something worse?




About the Author

Jody J. Sperling is a novelist, podcaster, husband, and father. He's obsessed with writing the best books and showing other authors how to make the best books bestsellers.



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Guest blogger: Glenn Berggoetz

                                        Glenn Berggoetz is the author of books ranging from novels to prose poetry to non-fiction. He's...