Faded Dreams is an epic autobiography by my fellow writer and good friend Carlos Rubio. Beyond being a very personal story of a young man growing up to the backdrop of this remarkable country of Cuba, there is as well a political subplot of a country that is dragged through the mud by one of the most ruthless dictators in recent world history. The people who populate his world all fantastically come alive on the pages; Carlos does so well in telling how special they were to him, and are still … [Read more...] about Faded Dreams by Carlos Rubio
Rum, Cigars, and Corpses by Jerold Last
*NEW RELEASE* A cancer researcher from California dies in a suspicious accident while touring Cuba. The tour guide, who was fired for negligence, hires Roger to clear her reputation. Roger’s first problem is how to get to Cuba where another complex case awaits solution. Fortunately, he has Suzanne. His second problem is how to proceed in a foreign country where he doesn’t know anybody and nobody knows him. Before long the reader is touring Cuba with our detective couple, very much on … [Read more...] about Rum, Cigars, and Corpses by Jerold Last
Interview with Author – Barbara E. Joe
About Barbara E. Joe: Last posting here was made after my first book came out, Triumph & Hope: Golden Years with the Peace Corps in Honduras, which continues to attract readers, even though Peace Corps left Honduras for security reasons. I’m a firm believer in walking the walk, not just writing about it. I still travel annually to Honduras to volunteer with medical brigades and other humanitarian projects (last time, in Feb. 2016), partially supported by sales of that book. I continue … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Barbara E. Joe
TRIPL3 CROSS by John Hegenberger
Interview with Author – John Hegenberger
About John Hegenberger: Born and raised in the heart of the heartland, Columbus, Ohio, John Hegenberger is the author of several upcoming series: Stan Wade LAPI in 1959, Eliot Cross Columbus-based PI in 1988, Tripleye, the first PI agency on Mars, and Ace Hart, western gambler in Arizona in 1873. He’s the father of three, tennis enthusiast, collector of silent films and OTR, hiker, Francophile, B.A. Comparative Lit., Pop culture author, crime-fighter, comedian, ex-lead in the senior class … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – John Hegenberger
Forgotten Objects by Carlos Rubio
Forgotten Objects traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis and Francesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the mid sixties. The novel proper is made up of three parts: Italy, Cuba and United States. Married at seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortune in Cuba, she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco grower who later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so … [Read more...] about Forgotten Objects by Carlos Rubio
Interview with Author – Libby Fischer Hellmann
About Libby Fischer Hellmann: Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago 35 years ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. Twelve novels and twenty short stories later, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few. With the addition of Jump Cut in 2016, her novels include the now five-volume Ellie … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Libby Fischer Hellmann
Buyer’s Guide: Confessions of a Secret Latina: How I Fell Out of Love with Castro & In Love with the Cuban People by Barbara E. Joe
Targeted Age Group: 18 and up Category: Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs Print book price range: $16-$18.99 eBook price range: $5.99 About Confessions of a Secret Latina: How I Fell Out of Love with Castro & In Love with the Cuban People: Whatever your ethnic background or personal opinion of Fidel Castro, you will find something new and revealing in this book. It offers a frank firsthand account of one woman’s journey, not only through Cuba, but through a life filled with … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: Confessions of a Secret Latina: How I Fell Out of Love with Castro & In Love with the Cuban People by Barbara E. Joe
Olas by José Ramón Torres
Waves draws a parallelism between three major Cuban migration episodes (Camarioca, Mariel, Rafters) and to some degree describes the political wrangling between Fidel Castro and various US administrations. But above all it narrates the misadventures of three members of a Cuban family ―father, daughter and son― who decide to emigrate to the US after individually seeing for themselves that they cannot lead a satisfactory life on the island. “De este país lo que hay que hacer es irse de una … [Read more...] about Olas by José Ramón Torres
Interview with Author – José Ramón Torres
About José Ramón Torres: José Ramón Torres was born and raised in Cuba, where he spent 32 years of his life. He completed his university studies in English Language and Literature at University of Havana and a PhD program in Education (Language Teaching) at the University of Barcelona. In Havana, Vancouver, Barcelona and Cambridge (where he is currently based with his wife and two children), he has worked as a language teacher, translator, interpreter, TV presenter, proofreader, localisation … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – José Ramón Torres
Beverly Hills is Burning by Neil Russell @NeilRussellAuth
"It was just after midnight when the girl in the blue diamond necklace fell out of the sky." In Hollywood, an ex-con movie producer, fresh out of San Quentin, is lucky if he can get a valet to take his car at the Ivy. Teddy Chessman got his own studio. Why? Because Teddy controls the most important motion picture property to hit town since agents were invented. And attached to this expected critical and financial bonanza is the biggest female action star in the world, Valentine … [Read more...] about Beverly Hills is Burning by Neil Russell @NeilRussellAuth
