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March 2, 2009, Monday, 9 PM Central
Managing Editor of AllBooks Reviews Shirley Roe
The Whittaker Family Reunion
In depth historical research makes this novel an education as well as a very entertaining read. With characters so real they feel like family, readers won't be able to put this book down. The Whittaker Family Reunion is the sequel to Of Dreams and Nightmares but stands alone for new readers. As with the first book in the series, this one leaves us wanting more. Emotion filled, heartfelt, with both suspense and romance, Shirley Roe has given fans another five star novel! We were introduced to the Whittaker family in Of Dreams and Nightmares. The Whittaker Family Reunion takes readers back to 1881 and the family is reunited once again. Martha and Jeremy await the arrival of their two sons, Abraham from Mississippi and Ezekiel, from England. The third son Isaac lives near St. Louis and is anxious to see his brothers again. Daughter Anna is spoiled and nothing but trouble. Abraham arrives with a woman, much to the family's surprise. Ezekiel makes a narrow escape in England. Will the reunion be a happy one? Who will leave St. Louis in disgrace? Will Martha get to spend time with her entire family before tragedy strikes? The reunion is shadowed by another man, one seeking revenge; will he get what he wants? Will he kill one or all of them?
Author, Shirley A. Roe divides her time between Southern Ontario, Scotland and Florida. Shirley travels extensively with her husband and is always researching her newest project. She is currently working on historical fiction novels number four and five, to be published by RealTime Publishing. Her website is: www.booksbyshirleyroe.bravehost.com
Shirley is the Managing Editor and founder of Allbooks Reviews an author's source for reviews and promotion. Website address is: www.allbookreviews.com
Thank you for the opportunity to serve you.
Shirley Roe, Managing Editor
Allbooks Review
Where books are appreciated and judged by their merits
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March 5, Thursday, 9 PM Central
Author Tina Howe with Book 2 of The Telling of Xunr-kun
The Trail Folks of Xunar-Kun
It is four cycles later. The Folk and Trailmen have accepted that they are part of something greater than themselves. They have come together as “the Seekers”. Their purpose: to find the true Parents of the Orphans.
But they find something much more insidious and more lethal than any threat they have faced before.
Tina Field Howe lives in Corning, New York. Her first novel, Alysa of the Fields, Book One in the Tellings of Xunar-kun, won the 2006 Dream Realm Awards for Cover Art. She has published illustrations internationally in several books and other media. In addition to writing stories, poetry and screenplays, Tina has been a freelance communications designer since 1995. She creates everything from web content and graphics to business communications. Although creative in various media all her life, Tina became serious about writing during the 1980s. Tina is available for talks, writing workshops, readings, and signings. Visit Tina Field Howe Multi-Creative to view her extensive portfolio. She also teaches writing workshops.
Tina holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Anthropology and Art. Her favorite college studies included physical and cultural anthropology, archaeology, studio art, and art history. Her love of creativity, her interest in diverse peoples, and the experience of her own struggles inspired her to write Alysa of the Fields, in which she created the cultures, religions, and creatures. She has been writing for several years, mainly business communications, poetry, screenplays, web content, and short stories.
Tina illustrated the book’s cover and graphics, as well. She has been involved in digital graphic design since the ‘90s and for most of her life has been creating artwork in some form.
Where did Tina grow up? Tina grew up in Waverly, New York, a village on the border of northern Pennsylvania. Although she lived in the middle of town, she was not far from nature, as several acres of abandoned farmland behind her home had grown into a small forest that the neighborhood children called “the Woods”. It was fortunate that the Woods bordered her back yard (nature plays a very important role in Alysa).
The many neighborhood children (post-WWII baby boomers) spent hours involved with nature and her many creatures. If nobody happened to be around to play with, Tina had no qualms about spending time by herself in the Woods - alone, but not really, as nature is a good friend and filled the hours with birdsong, musky smells of vegetation turning to soil, and solace found beneath the shelter of pine branches laden with snow.
Where does she get her ideas? She gets her ideas from her life; sometimes from the lives of others; sometimes, it seems, from thin air! Tina loves to imagine. What if? is one of her favorite imagination stimulators. When the What if? sends her into her imagination, she tries to discover details she hasn’t seen (or read) anywhere else. Truly, the process of writing is the process of self-discovery for Tina. Through writing, the tapestry of her life becomes apparent to her. In writing for others, she learns much along the way. It is her hope that her readers come away feeling changed in some way...a good way. The most influential authors (not all fiction) in Tina’s life are Ursula K. LeGuin, Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffrey, Don Miguel Ruiz, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein.
Can Tina come and speak to our group? The author is an experienced speaker and actress, having talked many times to school groups. She is available for school writing workshops, book signings, radio interviews, speaking engagements, school presentations, and professional gatherings.
Tina also wrote and illustrated a children’s picture book titled Snailsworth, a slow little story. 24 pages. Full color cover and interior. ISBN 978-0-9768585-3-9. Available from the author, Amazon.com, B&N.com, and a thousand other online booksellers. Visit Snailsworth’s website!
www.alysabooks.com
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March 9, Monday, 9 PM Central
Poet Mathew Abuelo with Oranic Hotels
Mathew Abuelo is a writer, pot and activist. He works as a news analyst and his work appears regularly on www.wordpress.com, www.prologs.com and www.blogit.com .
He is a member of Poetry House and has won the Editor's Choice Award from the National Library of Poetry in 1999, 2002, and 2004. This is his second published collection of poetry.
Mathew Abuelo lives in New York City on the upper Westside with his wife Vivian and their two cats Harry and Bullseye.
http://www.lulu.com/content/609313
http://writersprizefighters.ning.com/profile/MatthewAbuelo
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March 12, Thursday, 9 PM Central
Award Winning Author Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc with Playing Devil's Advocate.
Playing devil's Advocate:
Blayre Tabers has the perfect life or so it seems. That is until the day he comes home from school to find his parent’s disgustingly mutilated corpses. Losing all sanity he runs away. Failed by the child welfare system designed to protect him, he spends the next ten years of his life in a downward spiral, sickeningly abused, twistedly tortured and finally—as an adult—homeless. Hating God he makes a deal with the devil to serve him. But what he doesn't realize is that the devil owns more than Blayre's soul. Blayre is furious to discover the devil’s treachery and plots to not only pay the devil back for his deceit but regain the object the Dark One stole from him. With the help of a kind cop and a renegade demon he sets out to do what no man has ever done before and lived...double cross and defeat Satan himself!
Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc:
MY FANS ARE MY LIFE, MY BLOOD AND HAVE MY UNDYING GRATITUDE. WITH THAT SAID, ANYONE WHO IS A FAN OF MINE OR WHO WISHES TO BE A FAN OR IS INTERESTED IN MY WORKS OR THINK THEY MIGHT BE, PLEASE ADD ME--NO MESSAGE NECESSARY.
EVERYONE ELSE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BEFORE GETTING CLICK HAPPY!
MY SPACE IS 100% BUSINESS FOR ME. I AM HERE FOR MY FANS...PERIOD! MY *ONLY* PURPOSE FOR BEING HERE IS TO MEET MY FANS AND TO MAKE NEW ONES.
IF THE OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF, I ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO NETWORKING WITH LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN HELP FURTHER MY CAREER. HOW? BY HAVING ME AT THEIR EVENT, ON THEIR RADIO SHOW, INTERVIEWED FOR THEIR MAGAZINE OR BLOG, FEATURED ON THEIR WEBSITE, AS A SPOKESPERSON FOR THEIR CLOTHING LINE/STORE, ETC AND/OR MAYBE A MOVIE OR MUSIC VIDEO CAMEO/WALK ON OR TWO.
ANYONE WHO WRITES IN A DARK/PARANORMAL/HORROR GENRE AND SELF PUBLISHES (I.E. LULU.COM) IS WELCOME TO ADD ME!
SMALL PRESS PUBLISHERS...DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT WASTE MY TIME BY SENDING ME A FRIEND REQUEST. I DON'T NEED YOU OR THE HASSLES THAT I ENDURED AS A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED SMALL PRESS AUTHOR. SO UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAVE A CONTRACT TYPED UP AND HAVE A *VERY* LARGE ADVANCE ROYALTY CHECK WITH LOTS OF ZEROS AT THE END OF IT TO LURE ME AWAY FROM SELF PUBLISHING...PASS ME BY. IF YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ME, E-MAIL ME AND I'LL *CONSIDER* YOUR OFFER.
IF YOU ARE NOT A PUBLISHER OR FAN AND ARE NOT INTERESTED IN BECOMING A FAN, BUT FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF NETWORKING, A MESSAGE MUST BE INCLUDED IN YOUR FRIEND REQUEST OF HOW YOU WISH TO NETWORK WITH ME OR YOU WILL BE DENIED.
THIS APPLIES TO ANYONE WHO CLAIMS THEY ARE HERE FOR NETWORKING.
Thanks for understanding...
www.myspace.com/gothicscrybe
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March 16, Monday, 9 PM Central
Author Gloria Teaque with Beyond The Surgeons Touch.
I was born in Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains, a region abounding with natural beauty, the birthplace of country music and Jack Daniels whiskey. Even though I currently live in another state, Tennessee is, and always will be, my home.
Now I'm called an Okie and I'm not quite sure I like that term but the natives don't seem to mind. Hey, even Merle Haggard sang about being proud to be an Okie from Muskogee! I live in a very small town on Lake Keystone, about 25 miles from Tulsa. I'm married (the reason I moved to Oklahoma) and I have two grown daughters and a very spoiled Boston terrier named Tiger.
I won an essay contest when I was twelve. At the time I lived in France, thanks to being an Air Force brat. My mother heard about a European-wide essay contest about Law Day--May 1st. Looking back I realize this must have been a military "holiday" because no one else I know has ever heard of it. Being terribly patriotic I thought I'd give it a try. There were only ten winners across Europe and I was one of those ten. The winners got to go to a courtroom in their country and watch a day of trials with lunch at an outdoor cafe. Even though I hadn't learned a great deal of French yet, I thought it was wonderful! That night as I lay in bed, totally exhausted, I had an epiphany. "I think of something, put it on paper, and someone rewards me for it? Yeah, that's what I want to do when I grow up--BE A WRITER!"
I played with writing for the next several years. I never dreamed of submitting anything (no one told me about S.E. Hinton writing that killer book, The Outsiders, at the age of 16!) but I never stopped writing. I'd write scary stories and tell them to my cousins, hoping one of them would cry or run away screaming. When I hit high school I wrote stories with my friends in the leading roles. They loved it. Then I allowed life to drag me away from writing.
I came to my senses and went back to writing in 1995.
I’ve had over four dozen short stories published in national magazines, as well as serial and holiday stories published in regional newspapers. I have a short story, "The Flying Saucer", published in the anthology Shades of Tulsa and I’m a contributing author to Book Marketing A to Z. In 2004 I won first place for a short story submitted to the OWFI conference contest in the confession category. I won first place in the America Nostalgia Prose category at the OWFI conference in May, 2005 for a short story created from a chapter in Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge. I won prizes for poetry and a Sci-Fi book in OWFI writing contest in 2008. It is my pleasure to be a member of Tulsa Nightwriters and have the honor of being the editor of NightScripts, the organization’s newsletter. I’m also a member of Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. (OWFI).
Synop:
Beyond the Surgeon's Touch (One Miracle Away from Death) Do you feel that medical personnel are cold, unfeeling and put religion aside when they don the mask of their profession? The truth is they know that’s when they need divine intervention the most—when they’re face to face with death. Beyond the Surgeon’s Touch is a book of stories based on actual events that brings the staff of emergency rooms and surgical suites to life and prove that they are, after all, just human.
http://www.myspace.com/452648003
www.gloriateague.com
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March 19, Thursday, 9 PM Central
Author Jennifer L. Miller with Gentlemenof Horror Anthology and Crew.
Gentlemen’s Pages:
Dylan J. Morgan http://www.myspace.com/dylanjmorgan
Lucien E.G. Spelman http://www.myspace.com/lucienegspelman
Joe Lopez http://www.myspace.com/twilightmage
Sean Patrick Little http://www.myspace.com/seanpatricklittle
Mark Phillips http://www.myspace.com/marksblog
Matthew M. Heaton http://www.myspace.com/matthewmontana
Jason L. Keene http://www.myspace.com/keenehorror
Troy Barnes http://www.mypace.com/troybarneswriter
Gregory L. Hall http://www.myspace.com/gregorylhall
William “Curly” Leach http://www.myspace.com/zenthavion
www.myspace.com/horrorgents
www.myspace.com/hinothia
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March 23, Monday, 9 PM Central
Author Jennifer L. Miller with Ladies of Horror Anthology and Crew
Lisa Kessler http://myspace.com/Lisas_Lair
Shells Walter http://www.myspace.com/sonar4ezine
Jezzy Wolfe http://www.myspace.com/jezzywolfe
Kerry A. Morgan http://www.myspace.com/krymrgn
P. D. Williams http://www.myspace.com/pdauthor
Elyse Draper
http://www.myspace.com/authorelysedraper
Chris Bartholomew http://www.myspace.com/horristchris
Tonia Brown http://www.myspace.com/backseatwriter
Dora Badger http://www.myspace.com/dorabadger
L.B. Goddard http://www.myspace.com/themonstersnextdoor
www.myspace.com/horrorladies
www.myspace.com/hinothia
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March 26, Thursday, 9 PM Central
Author Christle Gray with Second Chance
Christle Gray was born and raised in Ohio, but has lived in Kentucky for the past ten years with her husband and her cat. She's a Gemini, which means she's of two minds about everything, and have more projects in progress than she can ever hope to complete in one lifetime. Her interests vary as widely as her opinions, and she's in no short supply of either. Just go ahead and ask. Visit her on the web at www.christlegray.com
Book Blurb:
Gallery owner Kristin Shepherd is resigned to living a life on her own in London, England after losing her husband to cancer. That was before she met handsome Scottish actor David McDougal.
David swears the relationship with his fiancé, Sophie Miller, is for public convenience only, but Kristin finds Sophie’s unwillingness to release her hold on David quite a complication to the chemistry that exists between them.
Within David’s dark eyes, will Kristin find the courage to trust enough to love again? And, are there such things as Second Chances?
www.christlegray.com
http://www.sapphirebluepublishing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=48&osCsid=be6dbc41741e364a5b55eae05994459e
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March 30, Monday, 9 PM Central
Horror Author David Dunwoody with Dark Entities
DARK ENTITIES, from Dark Regions Press. It's my first collection.
“Within the pages of Dark Entities you’ll find a mix of
artistic sensibility, extreme characters and gruesome horror
- crafted with both skill and aptitude.”
-James Roy Daley, author of The Dead Parade
http://www.myspace.com/thac
http://daviddunwoody.com/
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You can find all books above on Amazon.com or the authors website.
Thank you for listening to the independent authors of today.
Lesa Trapp
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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