Hazel Tharsing was born in California in 1888. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Counted among the most beautiful women in America, she married a British aristocrat in London, then the twenty-year-old son of her mother’s lover in San Francisco, then a famous artist in New York, and finally America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill, in Paris. This novel about her life is an … [Read more...] about Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Free Book 01/22/2019: Resolutions by Tatumn Dixon
This book is free on these days only - 01/22/2019 at midnight PST until 11:59 pm on 01/25/2019. If the dates are the same that means the book is free one day only. Another year bites the dust and Elle Morgan is drumming up a list of resolutions for the next. Craving a change more spiritual than joining a gym and cutting sugar from her diet, she books a stay at a wellness spa which promises tranquility, happiness, and life-altering changes. Blaming the absence of her inner peace on the men … [Read more...] about Free Book 01/22/2019: Resolutions by Tatumn Dixon
FEATURED BOOK: Will by Christine Bernard
Be careful what you wish for. What would you do if you stumbled across a magic eight ball with all the answers? Would you ask it for the lottery numbers? Would you ask about the love of your life? That’s what Will Pearce did. But as Will starts relying more on the eight ball to provide him with the answers that he seeks, he soon realizes that his magical gift comes with a heavy price. Will leaves you wondering: What would I have done? Link to buy book … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Will by Christine Bernard
Interview with Author – Donna Cummins
About Donna Cummins: After the success of Donna Cummins’ debut Mystery/Thriller RAIN OF TERROR, Book 1 in The Blacklick Valley Mystery Series and named to “Best Kindle Books of 2015” by Digital Book Today, came A REASON TO KILL, ANGUISH, DEADLY SECRETS, and now NIGHTMARE, the final book in the series. A REASON TO KILL, a gripping Romantic Suspense, exposes the horrific crime of domestic violence in powerful, graphic detail-- an issue for which the author has a deep concern. ANGUISH is a … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Donna Cummins
Interview with Author – Carrie Mumford
About Carrie Mumford: Carrie Mumford has lived on both the East and West coasts of Canada, and many places in between. She completed a degree in English literature, and went on to complete a master’s in information studies. Carrie now lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her husband, three naughty cats, and one rambunctious dog. What inspires you to write? I get story ideas from questions I have ("What if...?"), from the feeling a movie or song gives me, and from hearing interesting … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Carrie Mumford
Fateful Voyage by Danielle Van Alst
What lengths would you go to for love? A terminally ill heiress trying to make the most of what little time she has left and a suave mobster on the run from the executioners electric chair, meet and fall in love on a trans-pacific crossing from San Francisco to Tokyo, each without knowing the other’s tragic secret. Little do they know, they are each journeying toward their doomed fate while cheerfully masquerading under ballroom lights, breezy late night dinners, cocktails conversations, and a … [Read more...] about Fateful Voyage by Danielle Van Alst
Interview with Author – Jeff Stilwell
About Jeff Stilwell: Jeff Stilwell excels at the unexpected. Not content with his midwestern roots, he found ways on the cheap to explore the wider world including selling gummy bears in high school to visit the Alps of southern Germany. To pay for college, he worked a slime line as a head chopper in the clammy tundra of Alaska. His thirst for adventure next took him to Asia where he studied the martial arts and Asian philosophy while exploring exotic locales such as the Himalayas and the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jeff Stilwell
Interview with Author – Vicki Tapia
About Vicki Tapia: A native Montanan, Vicki Tapia has lived in south central Montana for most of her life. International speaker and advocate for breastfeeding and most recently, dementia awareness, she is the author of two books and numerous articles. Her first book, Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia, began as a diary to help her cope with caregiving, after both parents were diagnosed with dementia. This memoir was a finalist in the 2015 High Plains Book Awards. Vicki’s … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Vicki Tapia
Interview with Author – Nick J. Hart
About Nick J. Hart: The author Nick J. Hart travelled through Southeast Asia, New Zealand and Australia for over a year with the sole purpose of having no plan at all, but to find everything out on the way. Little did he know that he would find so much more than just the next stop or the next way to go. He found a place where the Australian winter was better than the German summer. A place he didn’t even plan on stopping, but called home for more than five months. And a place he found … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Nick J. Hart
My Lady Zane by Steven M. Sullivan
Inspired by exciting true events in our history in the time of the American Revolution! Letters from the States came often and, sometimes, more than five at a time. Marines do love to get mail Not email. The real thing. Good old U.S. Post mail. Handwritten. Had to be. It was 2003 and Sergeant Leah Ann Sullivan read her mail every day, addressed to her 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, which was just south of Fallujah, Iraq. The mail was from her grandmother, with whom she was very close. One … [Read more...] about My Lady Zane by Steven M. Sullivan
Interview with Author – Mary Elizabeth Fricke
About Mary Elizabeth Fricke: Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 37 years have lived 35 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons married to wonderful women and two beautiful grandchildren. A graduate of the Writer's Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mary Elizabeth Fricke
FEATURED BOOK: The Sweet Life by Sharon Struth
Now 99 cents! In Italy, the best attractions are always off the beaten path . . . Mamie Weber doesn’t know why she survived that terrible car accident five years ago. Physically, she has only a slight reminder—but emotionally, the pain is still fresh. Deep down she knows her husband would have wanted her to embrace life again. Now she has an opportunity to do just that, spending two weeks in Tuscany reviewing a tour company for her employer’s popular travel guide series. The warmth of the sun, … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: The Sweet Life by Sharon Struth
