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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Now That's Just Stupid Weight What? Book Tour and Giveaway


Now
That's Just Stupid: Weight, What?
By
Debra Taylor

Genre:
Self-Help

The
F-Word: A three letter word that carries the greatest impact to the
deepest void inside the soul…Fat there I said it.Just the word
alone makes every hurt, pain, failure or haunting memory rise to the
surface and food is the only thing that will quiet the storm.You
don’t have a problem with food! You have problems, issues,
behaviors and you go to food. There is a big difference!WEIGHT, What?
is the third release in the Now That’s Just Stupid, Inc. book
series. It’s a journey through real weight loss using regular,
every day foods only this time you will solve the issues and keep the
food. No one should tell you what to eat, what not to eat or how much
to eat. YOU know how to do that! What you don’t know is how to
solve the reasons why you overeat. Healthy foods and exercise didn’t
make you fat and they won’t make you thin UNTIL you face the
emotional issues underneath the weight. This book will show you how
to use your food to guide you toward your C.O.R.E. issues and take
the steps to solve them.





Author,
Debra Taylor has battled obesity since childhood topping out at
almost 400 pounds before learning to manage her adiction to food. She
now holds a Masters of Science with an emphasis in Applied Behavioral
Analysis and a Ph.D. In Psychology, with an emphasis in addiction.
Her specialty is working with clients who struggle with behavioral or
emotional eating before, during and after their weight loss. She has
traveled nationally and internationally as a motivational speaker and
was Director over several hospital surgical and non-surgical weight
loss programs. While working with tousands of obese individuals she
designed the meaning behind food groups that explain and solve
emotional eating while teaching people to lose weight eating
regular every day foods.







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The Mourner's Cradle Book Tour and Giveaway


The
Mourner's Cradle: 
A
Widow's Journey
by
Tommy B. Smith


Genre:
Horror

The
tale of a widow's harrowing journey through grief and peril into the
cold remnants of a dead world.


Damon
Sharpe had in part found victory, he believed, in his battle to
unearth
a
truth obscured by time
.
By autumn, he was dead, leaving to his wife Anne a house of
unfulfilled wishes, remnants, and the key to the enigma of his
obsession, the Mourner’s Cradle.

A
journey through grief and peril
delivers
Anne Sharpe from her home in St. Charles to the faraway skeletons of
a long-dead civilization where she will find the desperate answers
she seeks…or die trying.










Tommy
B. Smith is a writer of dark fiction, author of The Mourner's Cradle,
Poisonous, and the short story collection Pieces of Chaos, as well as
works appearing in numerous magazines and anthologies throughout the
years. His presence currently infests Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he
resides with his wife and cats.





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the tour HERE
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Salvaging Truth Blog Tour


Blog Tour
February 27th - March 5th




The world could be transformed if Riley can only stay alive long enough.


Most parents leave you a house, a car, or money when they die. Riley’s mom left her a treasure hunt with a mysterious payoff. Now everyone seems to want a piece of Riley and her inheritance: the university, the military, mega corporations, and Russian spies.

Riley needs help to solve her mother’s murder, and Dagger Easton’s salvage and investigation company comes to her rescue. Retired SEAL, private eye, and leader of a diving and salvage team, Dagger promises to protect Riley with his life. But as the value of her mother’s research becomes clear, Riley begins to believe there’s no one she can trust—not with her life, her heart, or her mother’s legacy.













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Joanne writes romantic suspense, paranormal, mystery-thriller, supernatural suspense, and contemporary romance. She loves to submerge herself in the world of her characters, to live and breathe their lives and marvel at their decisions and predicaments. She enjoys a wide variety of books including paranormal, suspense, thriller, and of course romance.

She lives with her husband and Dobermans, in their home located on the Olympic Peninsula with a panoramic view of the Olympic Mountains.

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Emily Knight Series Book Tour and Giveaway




Emily
Knight I Am....
Emily
Knight Series Book 1
by
A. Bello


Genre:
YA, MG Fantasy

Emily
Knight I AM... is about a thirteen year old warrior named Emily, who
is far from ordinary and she hates it! The daughter of a heroic
warrior and the press favourite problem child. Against her wishes
she is sent to the Osaki Training School to control her powers. She
learns to fly, breathe under water and battle but someone has their
eyes set on Emily and now she has to chose between the two people she
loves.

Emily
Knight I AM... has elements of grittiness that is more mature than
other fantasy books. As well as being laugh out loud funny, the
characters are real, complicated and relatable. A. Bello pushes the
boundaries by breaking the conventions in this diverse, absorbing
novel.










Emily
Knight I Am...Awakened
Emily
Knight Series Book 2

Dark
times are upon us. Neci is back and she is more dangerous than ever.
The warriors are forced to pick a side and to stand up for what they
believe in. The race is on to find the missing warrior first. It's
the only way to prevent a war from happening and to stop Neci from
destroying everything. Emily Knight has to get sharper, stronger and
faster because Neci has made her a target and someone is going to
great lengths to hurt her. Can Emily win the race? Or will Neci take
her down once and for all?


**Nominated
for the 2019 Carnegie Medal!**
**Finalist
for London's Big Read 2019!**











A.
Bello is a young author from North London and the author of the Emily
Knight series (Emily Knight I am... & Emily Knight I
am...Awakened)

She
wrote her first novel at aged 8, where she fought monsters and
dragons daily and was first published at aged 12 for a poem she wrote
in school.

A.
Bello wrote the first in the Emily Knight saga at aged 12, with the
intention of filling in a gaping hole in children's fiction for an
inspirational, strong, black female protagonist (who can fight like a
man!)

A.
Bello has received rave reviews for her debut book as well as success
with her Emily Knight Warriors pop-up book. She is the founder of The
Lil' Author School and co-founder of The Author School. The Author
School was shortlisted for The Great British Entrepreneur Awards
2016.

A.
Bello has appeared in Female First Magazine, The Mirror, BBC1XTRA to
name a few.










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Drop Dead Crime Book Tour and Giveaway


Drop
Dead Crime
Genre:
Mystery, Thriller, Suspense

with
stories by 
Lisa Regan, Leslie Wolfe, Colleen Helme, Amy Vansant,
Julie Smith

Five
women. Five sublime authors of crime fiction. One stunning book.





Gripping
thrillers, packed with deviously executed crimes and in-depth
investigations are some of the most popular reads available on
traditional and virtual book shelves today.

Now,
you can sample some of the best female writers of crime fiction, in
Drop Dead Crime, a
collection of novellas packed with the twisted plotlines and
memorable characters that excite readers and leave them demanding
more.

Lisa
Regan, Leslie Wolfe, Colleen Helme, Amy Vansant,
and
Julie
Smith
are
among the most skilled and prolific writers of the genre today, and
each one knows exactly how to tease a story to maximum effect. Their
use of strong female leads, combined with delicately balanced plots,
means suspense is always kept at a fever pitch—ready to boil over
at any second.

Lisa
Regan’s
Over
The Edge

is
guaranteed to keep you up at night. When
P.I.
Jocelyn Rush
witnesses
a young mother jump from a bridge, she is determined to solve the
mystery of why, and what she finds is a complex web of secrets and
lies so shocking it could destroy the people left behind.

Leslie
Wolfe
introduces
FBI
Agent Tess Winnett
in
Not
Really Dead,

a
fast-paced, intense thriller about a serial killer who makes a
terrible mistake.

Colleen
Helme
stuns
with
Behind
Blue Eyes
.
A grisly murder along with a new client hiding a deadly secret is
just the beginning for
Shelby
Nichols,
mind
reader extraordinaire. Don't miss this exciting thriller!

In
Amy
Vansant’s
exclusive
novella
Parental
Kilt
,
the stars of her "Kilty" romantic suspense series,
Catriona
Phoenix
and
Brochan
the Highlander,
find
themselves trapped in a serial killer's maze during a movie
wrap-party gone wrong. The serial killer was supposed to be dead, but
the bodies are piling up...

Julie
Smith
brings
a dazzling story of suspense,
The
Big Crazy.

Detective
Skip Langdon, NOPD,
while
navigating a world of chaos and betrayal after Hurricane Katrina,
takes on a gang of rogue cops who may be acting as self-appointed
executioners.

Get
a copy of
Drop Dead
Crime
today
and sample some of the best crime fiction writing, from some of the
best female crime writers around!








**Only
.99 cents!!**







Lisa
Regan
is the USA Today & Wall
Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series
as well as several other crime fiction titles. She has a Bachelor's
degree in English and a Master of Education degree from Bloomsburg
University. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International
Thriller Writers, and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in
Philadelphia with her husband, daughter, and Boston Terrier named Mr.
Phillip.






Colleen
Helme
is the author of the
bestselling Shelby Nichols Adventure Series, a wildly entertaining
and highly humorous series about Shelby Nichols, a woman with the
ability to read minds. When asked if reading minds is something
Colleen wishes she could do she says, “No way! It gets Shelby into
so much trouble that I would never want that ability.” Known for
her laugh since she was a kid, Colleen has always tried to find the
humor in every situation and continues to enjoy writing about
Shelby’s adventures. Besides writing, she loves reading, biking,
hiking, and playing board and card games with family and friends. She
loves to connect with readers and admits that fans of the series keep
her writing.







Amy
Vansant
is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today
bestselling author, specializing in fun, comedic reads about
accident-prone, easily distracted women with questionable tastes in
men.




So,
autobiographies, mostly. Ha! But seriously… She writes happy,
occasionally slightly twisted, thrilling, romantic comedies,
mysteries, and urban fantasies.







Edgar-winner
Julie Smith is the author of more than twenty mysteries, most
set in New Orleans and starring one or the other of her detective
heroes, a cop named Skip Langdon, and a PI named Talba Wallis. (Both
female, both tough and wily.) She also has two series set in San
Francisco.




Her
novel, NEW ORLEANS MOURNING, won the Edgar Allan Poe award for best
novel.


She
changed direction in 2010, with her start-up digital publishing
company, booksBnimble (www.booksBnimble.com),
beginning with four books by friends. She later added other authors
and got the rights back to her own books, Then in 2015 booksBnimble
spun off bbnmarketing (www.bbnmarketing.com),
with the aim of helping self-published authors find their audience
and backlist print authors find their way back into the game.


Twelve
years after Hurricane Katrina; Skip Langdon returned last year in
MURDER ON MAGAZINE. But so many readers have asked--what did she do
when Katrina struck? That story's THE BIG CRAZY.











Leslie
Wolfe
's novels break the mold of traditional thrillers.
Fascinated by technology and psychology, Leslie brings extensive
background and research in these fields that empower and add texture
to a signature, multi-dimensional, engaging writing style.


Leslie
released the first novel,
Executive,
in October 2011. It was very well received, including inquiries from
Hollywood. Since then, Leslie published numerous novels and enjoyed
growing success and recognition in the marketplace. Among Leslie’s
most notable works,
The Watson Girl
(2017) was recognized for offering a unique insight into the mind of
a serial killer and a rarely seen first person account of his
actions, in a dramatic and intense procedural thriller.
A
complete list of Leslie’s titles is available at
http://wolfenovels.com/titles.
Leslie
enjoys engaging with readers every day and would love to hear from
you.
Become
an insider: gain early access to previews of Leslie’s new novels!










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