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Mythica Publishing has made my When Angels Lie available to a very wide audience. The E-book can be bought at Mobipocket and most major outlets.
Love, hate, lust and betrayal. When Angels Lie is a dramatic and romantic story involving taboo love wi…
I'm pleased to say that Awakening Love is presently at number one of the best-selling list for Stonehedge Publishing on the Mobipocket web site.
Apart from the more recent excellent reviews of the book, already published with the book and on the Pow…
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
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- Magpies Nest Publishing: http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk
- About Me:
- I trained for dress designing. Turned freelance when my children were born. Trained for teaching as being more compatible with family life. Retired early and trained for church ministry (lay). Starting writing and became a compulsive communicator — any hour of the day OR night!
Married (56 years) with three sons and six grandchildren.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://gladyshobson.wordpress.com It is called Wrinkly Writers
- Favorite Books:
- Ones most people have not heard of! Miracle of the River Kwai by Ernest Gordon is my favourite.
(The most read is the Bible - favourite pieces there, includes 1Corinthians and Galations, plus the Gospels) )
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Our local one
The Tinners Rabbit at Ulverston Cumbria UK it is on the Internet.
The shop is in a very old building with a warren of little cosy rooms. They actually have a small coal fire burning in the downstairs store, complete with little arm chair. Up the rickety stairs are more rooms with a sofa to sit on and read whatever takes your fancy. A local authors section too. All quaint in this quaint market town where Stan Laurel was born!
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WHEN ANGELS LIE now available as an E-book
Mythica Publishing has made my When Angels Lie available to a very wide audience. The E-book can be bought at Mobipocket and most major outlets.
Love, hate, lust and betrayal. When Angels Lie is a dramatic and romantic story involving taboo love within the Anglican Church. The… Continue
Posted on March 13, 2009 at 7:04am —
Awakening Love gathering popularity!
I'm pleased to say that Awakening Love is presently at number one of the best-selling list for Stonehedge Publishing on the Mobipocket web site.
Apart from the more recent excellent reviews of the book, already published with the book and on the Powell's Books Awakening Love reader reviews, I found a couple done a few years ago from the manuscript. The first is a long Agency reader review by Penelope Blake, but I put here just a few snippets:
"This is a story of suppressed urges, a story of deep… Continue
Apart from the more recent excellent reviews of the book, already published with the book and on the Powell's Books Awakening Love reader reviews, I found a couple done a few years ago from the manuscript. The first is a long Agency reader review by Penelope Blake, but I put here just a few snippets:
"This is a story of suppressed urges, a story of deep… Continue
Posted on March 5, 2009 at 12:41pm —
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Are you ready?
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, and I am writing because I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your thoughts on Amazon.com (or some of the other book review sites). If you're interested, I'd be more than willing to send you an e-book version by e-mail. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com