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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Book Blitz Better Kids Become Better Adults by Elizabeth Kyle

 

A Complete Guide To Teach Kids How to Identify and Manage Emotions, Generate Empathy, Kindness, and Compassion

 

Parenting

 

 

Would you like to have a book full of great stories that help child to learn about feeling and emotional awareness? Then Keep reading!

Our children absorb a lot of what they see, often, or almost always, reflect in their behavior the behavior of their parents, the emotions they see most often will have a predominant role and importance in their future. All this can lead to a lack of awareness of other emotions that are important for the child's mental growth.

The purpose of this book is to help parents, written and designed in order to teach their children to recognize, accept and manage their emotions, in this way they can become more aware of what they are feeling or what their peers they try, so as to create a more positive growth environment.

The original idea that leads to the making of this book is that better children will become better adults and better adults will create a better world. So, if you want to know more about it, you are in the right place, Better Kids Become Better Adults will cover all the topics you need to know!

I want to show you some of the things that we are going to cover together in the book so that you can better understand what we are going to learn.

 

Here is just some of the topics we will touch together:

* Importance of Identifying and Managing Emotions

* The Four Majors Emotions to Learn as a young Child

* How to Help Toddlers express their feelings step-by-step

* And much more…

 

Do you want your kids to be better and more conscious about their emotions to create a positive environment? Then this book is perfect for you.

 

About the Author

 Elizabeth Kyle is a devoted mother, eeducator, and passionate advocate for emotional intelligence in children. Drawing from years of both professional and personal experience, Elizabeth empowers parents with practical tools to help their children identify and manage emotions effectively. Her work focuses on fostering empathy, kindness, and compassion—essential life skills for building strong, caring individuals. Through her thoughtful insights and relatable guidance, Elizabeth inspires families to create nurturing environments where emotional growth and connection thrive.

 

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Friday, January 3, 2025

The Merblood Saga Book 2 Selena Flowers and the Phantom Tides by Ella English

 


The Merblood Saga, Book 2

 

YA Fantasy

Date Published: 02-25-2025

Publisher: Spider Web Press


 

Just when thirteen-year-old Selena Flowers thought she was safe, strange events plunge her seaside town into peril once more. She must dive back into the dangerous underwater world she narrowly escaped last year to find answers about the chaotic happenings in town.

Beneath the waves, the undead mermaid queen Faustina desperately searches for a powerful ruby necklace while corrupting sea creatures into her zombie army. A sinister dark force is unleashed, spreading its dark magic and corrupting the merkingdom.

To have any hope of stopping this evil and restoring balance above and below the waves, Selena must join forces with unlikely allies, including Faustina herself, and embrace her connection to the underwater world.

With the fate of two realms at stake, Selena must defeat the darkness before it consumes everything and everyone she loves.


About the Author

Ella English grew up in the heart of London, where the hustle and bustle of city life met summer adventures at her grandma’s house on the Kent coast. Exploring tide pools and collecting seashells, she developed a love for the ocean and a knack for creating imaginative worlds that she now brings to life through her writing.

Now living in Baltimore, Maryland, Ella is the author of The Merblood Saga, a dark fantasy YA series that plunges readers into a haunting underwater realm filled with cursed mermaids, ancient magic, and buried secrets. The first book, Selena Flowers and the Cursed Ruby, has been a hit with young readers, drawing them into its mysterious and dangerous world.

Ella also writes and illustrates Kitty in the City, a whimsical series about a singing cat named Katy who takes New York City by storm. The latest installment, Katy in Central Park, will be released in June 2025.

When she’s not weaving dark magic or drawing cats, Ella is kept busy by her two mischievous felines who make sure she stays entertained and grounded. Follow her adventures (and plenty of cat cameos) on Instagram @EllaEnglishAuthor or visit www.ellaenglish.com for more.

 

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Book Blitz A Just Revenge by Patrick L. Scott Esq.

 

Fiction

Date Published: August 26, 2024

Publisher: MindStir Media


 

Sean Roberts loved farming and his girlfriend. After they broke up she disappeared into San Francisco's drug filled hippie environment of the 1960s. Her parents were frantic and no one in their small-town seemed able to help them find their daughter. They reached out to Sean and he agreed to search for their lost daughter.

His search forced Sean to assume his nom de plume, George Wescot and enter a world of extreme wealth and of people who only cared about their own pleasures and not the pain it caused other people. George uses his skills learned from hunting, fighting and evasion to penetrate this sadistic society. Subsequently, he pursued across the United States, India, and Europe. Finally, Sean stopped running from the Brothers, and started hunting those people who caused his ex-girlfriend's and her family's pain from injuries she sustained.


About the Author

I have been a writer all my life. I wasn't very good partly because I'm dyslexic and partly because of my dyslexia I was a terrible reader. But I love to write and therefore wrote often. I wrote many stories. One was published in a magazine. Before the pandemic I started writing my first novel,"Farm Tough", and self published it. The book got good reviews from readers but wasn't promoted. Shortly thereafter, I started to write "A Just Revenge" partly about my time at Yuba College, Chico State College, Los Angeles and finally Europe. I found that I write best when I write about something I know, about something I've done or about something I feel.

 

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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Kathryn Amurra Timeless Heart's True Desire Pre-Order Blitz


Timeless

Heart’s True Desire Series: Book Two

By

Kathryn Amurra

 

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Genres: Contemporary Romance with Mystical Elements / Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Wild Rose Press

Publication Date: March 12, 2025

 

Erin Dovetree cannot forgive her father for cheating on her mother years ago and has sworn off men altogether. That is until destiny leads her to her grandmother’s incredibly attractive and mysterious landlord.

 

William Abbott has lived for over a hundred years, cursed with a static and unnatural existence as punishment for his past sins. Although drawn to the lovely and intelligent Erin, he refuses to subject her to the fate that is his alone to bear.

 

As Erin pieces together the story of Will’s past and discovers the true cause of his timeless existence, she must reconsider the judgments she has made in her own life. And to have any chance at a life together, she and Will must find answers to the questions that have plagued them both.


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Erin snorted quietly. “Meet him? When would I ever meet your landlord?”

“Right now,” replied her grandmother, as though it were obvious. “I need you to take my rent up to him.”

“What?” gasped Erin. “Absolutely not. I am not going up there to check him out, Grandma. I’m sure our paths will cross eventually.” She added under her breath, “And I’m sure he’s not as ‘handsome’ as you say he is.”

“Get up, Erin. My rent check is already made out. It’s under the saltshaker on the table.”

Erin sat up straight and crossed her arms, feeling like a petulant child. “No, Grandma, I’m not going up there.”

Her grandmother rubbed her hands together, then looked up at Erin with a crinkle in her brow that was designed to elicit sympathy.

“Honey, I really need you to take it. It’s almost the end of the month, and I forgot to give it to him when he came for his visit. It’ll be late if I mail it. You know I would take it up there myself if it weren’t for my arthritis.”

“I’m sure there’s a grace period,” replied Erin, already feeling her resolve weaken. “Or you can have Dad do it when he comes over tomorrow.”

“Please, Pumpkin.” The crinkles in her forehead deepened masterfully. “I would sleep a lot easier knowing my rent is paid.”

Erin never could resist a “Pumpkin” plea from her grandmother. She knew she had no choice.

“He’s probably not even up there,” said Erin, pulling herself up and walking reluctantly to the table where the check lay, mocking her. She picked it up and slipped it into the back pocket of her jeans. “There’s probably a mail slot or some basket for rent checks up there, now that he’s here,” she reasoned, walking to the door. “Your devious little scheme to have me meet this mysterious Mr. Abbott is not going to work, you know.” Erin reached for the doorknob. “I’ll be back in a minute, Grandma. Prepare to be sorely disappointed.”

She could hear the old woman chuckling from her chair as she closed the door behind her.

Shaking her head, Erin walked up the three flights of stairs to the apartment where the allegedly gorgeous Mr. Abbott resided. Half annoyed, and half amused, she wished she could have just a fraction of her grandmother’s spunk when she turned twenty-seven later that year, let alone when she was in her eighties.

As she climbed up the last few steps to the third floor, she scanned the area all around the door marked 3A for a mailbox or a slot for dropping off rent without success. Too soon, she thought. The poor guy hadn’t even gotten himself situated yet, and her grandmother wanted her to stalk him.

Taking a breath, Erin raised a fisted hand and gave the heavy wooden door three strong knocks. She would wait about five seconds, and, if there was no answer, she would return to her grandmother’s apartment victorious.

Two seconds had gone by when the door opened. “Can I help you?”

Damn it. He was gorgeous.

 

About the Author:

Kathryn Amurra is the author of sweet and sensual love stories. Her debut series, Soothsayer's Path, is a historical romance series of standalone books set in Ancient Rome around 115 CE. Her new series, Heart’s True Desire, is a paranormal romance series of standalone books published through The Wild Rose Press. Kathryn has been making up stories for as long as she can remember and writing since grade school. Against the advice of her 12th grade English teacher, she studied Mechanical Engineering in college, then worked as an Engineer for a few years. After finding and marrying her own hero, she and her hubby went to law school together. They currently live in North Carolina with their three girls.

 

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Email - kathrynamurra@gmail.com

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Book Blitz and Giveaway Conquist by Dirk Strasser


Historical Fantasy

Date Published: September 1, 2024

Publisher: Roundfire Books


 

Capitán Cristóbal de Varga's drive for glory and gold in 1538 Peru leads him and his army of conquistadors into a New World that refuses to be conquered. He is a man torn by life-long obsessions and knows this is his last campaign. What he doesn't know is that his Incan allies led by the princess Sarpay have their own furtive plans to make sure he never finds the golden city of Vilcabamba. He also doesn't know that Héctor Valiente, the freed African slave he appointed as his lieutenant, has found a portal that will lead them all into a world that will challenge his deepest beliefs. And what he can't possibly know is that this world will trap him in a war between two eternal enemies, leading him to question everything he has devoted his life to - his command, his Incan princess, his honor, his God. In the end, he faces the ultimate dilemma: how is it possible to battle your own obsessions . . . to conquer yourself?


About the Author

Dirk Strasser’s epic fantasy trilogy The Books of Ascension—Zenith, Equinox and Eclipse—was published in German and English, and his short stories have been translated into several languages. “The Doppelgänger Effect” appeared in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Dreaming Down Under. His historical fantasy novel Conquist was published in 2024. The serialized version of Conquist was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards Best Fantasy Novel category. Dirk’s screenplay version of Conquist won the Wildsound Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival Best Scene Reading Award and was a featured finalist in the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival and the Creative World Awards. He is the co-editor of Australia’s premier science fiction and fantasy magazine, Aurealis, and was a judge on the 2024 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival Screenplay Awards. Dirk has been a high school teacher, a writer of best-selling textbooks, an educational software developer, a publishing manager, and a soccer club president.

 

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Elysian Hunt Essentially Sweet Romances Book Tour and Giveaway

 

This series is like a box of chocolates, each one has delicious mystery, a sweet romantic filling, essential oils, and its own unique flavor! From the big city of Raleigh, to the big sky of Montana, and all the way to Buffalo, you'll find laughter, sweet romance, and best of all, dogs!


The Lavender Thief

Essentially Sweet Romance Book 1

by Elysian Hunt

Genre: Sweet Romantic Comedy 

 

When Stephanie Pierce got home from a long day with her millionaire boss, nothing could prepare her for finding the apartment’s caretaker dead in the hall or her extreme attraction to the hot detective assigned to protect her and solve the case.


Still, she can't help but notice that things in her overly organized life are out of place, especially her beloved essential oils.

Was she the real target?

Can she let go of perfection and embrace real life and love? Is there any chance she and her Goldendoodle catch the heart of the detective and survive the thief lurking in the shadows?

This is a laugh out loud, cozy romance, with an amateur sleuth x hot detective, and a heartwarming HEA ending! On a scale of 1 to 10 here is what you'll find inside...

Spice level: 2 (some sizzling kisses)
Thriller vibe: 4
Cute dog: 10
Clean romance: 10
Essential oil twist: 9

 

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The Peppermint Villain

Essentially Sweet Romance Book 2 


Beck Graham is a city girl at heart, but her Montana roots are calling her. But when she arrives, she finds her long lost Gran dead, with a mysterious local legend to blame. Heading back to Raleigh would be the easy thing, but the ranch catches at her heart. Determined to discover the actual killer, Beck finds the one man she can’t seem to attract is the one with the answers she seeks.

Can she survive Montana’s wilderness? Can she prove true Graham blood runs in her veins? Not without the help of a tall, dark, and handsome Navy Seal who knew Gran better than anyone else.

This is a laugh out loud, cozy romance, with an amateur sleuth x hot detective, and a heartwarming HEA ending! On a scale of 1 to 10, here is what you'll find inside...

Spice level: 2 (some sizzling kisses)
Thriller vibe: 6
Cute dog: 9
Clean romance: 10
Essential oil twist: 7

 

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The Lemon Gunman

Essentially Sweet Romance Book 3

Wanted for assassination.

I’m the top female sharp-shooter in the US, so it makes sense, I guess. Only I didn’t do it.

Running is my only option in order to figure who framed me, and exactly what happened in that Cincinnati hotel room. But I’m trapped here in the city, incapable of producing an alibi, when all I want is the wide-open fields of Montana. Oh, and Harper Wasden, the Navy Seal who stole my heart the second I laid eyes on him. But he’s off fighting a war somewhere, I’m alone, with only an abandoned Pitbull to keep me from going crazy. When help arrives out of nowhere, saving my neck from the FBI’s clutches, dare I trust it? Not when every heart beat pounds out the name Harper Wasden.

The problem is, it looks like I did it. Even. To. Me.

 

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The Spearmint Spy

Essentially Sweet Romance Book 4 

 

A dark anniversary looms over the most luxurious cruise ship on earth.

Escaping myself in order to survive the date that almost killed me last year is imperative. Daddy's ship is the perfect place to do it, with no reminders of the past or familiar faces. But finding a body in my car just before boarding is no help at all. Especially since she’s dressed just like me, designer nails and all.

To make things worse, an infuriatingly handsome passenger is determined to ruin the entire trip, and besting him might be the only enjoyment I get. Except all my usual tricks fall flat, and he seems impervious to my seething rebukes.

Finding a gun hidden in my room is the last straw; espionage surrounds me and I haven’t got a clue how to survive it, or the anniversary I’ve never been less prepared for. I’ll need all the brute force my protection dog can dish out, and, I hate to say it, the help of the one man I can’t intimidate.

 

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The Myrrh Boss

Essentially Sweet Romance Book 5 

Have you ever been deceived, hoodwinked, snookered?

Well, I have, by a man I once a looked up to and, it chokes me to say it, dated. Turns out he runs the mob in Buffalo, NY, and I was 100% wrong about him. One thing I’m not wrong about is that spurning him equals life over for me. He has eyes everywhere, and the police force is wrapped around his little finger too, which is why I’m also running from fake drug charges.

But when I discover his under-ground dog fighting ring, something deep down and red-headed flares up. One of us is going down, and it won’t be me, I’ve got dogs to save.

A street-wise kid named Cooney hatches the craziest plan. He says the mob’s second in command, Billa, will help me, but isn’t that jumping from the pan into the fire? And a fire he is too. How can I keep from repeating my mistake when Billa is stealing my heart piece by piece? Can a girl from the suburbs take down a mafia boss?

In this sweet but sizzling mafia romance, you’ll laugh out loud all the way to the feel good ending!

 

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Writing across multiple pen names, Elysian Hunt has sold more than 1.4 million books, won multiple awards, and been a best seller many times over. With over 35 novels in print, she enjoys many genres as long as they are fast-paced and engaging.

She never wanted to be a writer, but she couldn’t ever find that one book, the perfect one for her. So, she wrote it, and the rest is history. With fresh story ideas churning and a deep love for sharpening her writing skills, Elysian’s work gets better with time.

There are a few things you can count on with her rom com and cozy mystery books: sweet romance, happily ever after’s, and don’t forget the dogs! Fall in love with vivid characters, intriguing settings, and mysteries that will keep you turning the pages.

 

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Robert Winter Falcon Saga Cover Reveal and Giveaway

 


An elf afraid of opening his heart, and a human who is heir to an awesome power: Only by embracing their shared destiny can they save Iceland…and each other.


FalconSaga

by Robert Winter

Genre: Epic Fantasy 



In modern-day Iceland, a place of glaciers, volcanoes, and legends, the Norns have foretold a sorcerous invasion that could destroy everything.
Magnús, an elf of the huldufólk, is driven by the murder of his human lover a century ago to save those humans he can, and to figure out what is behind recent troll attacks on tourists. But the Norns have spoken. He must protect Altair, a young human from Boston, who is bringing a dangerous magical force to Iceland. If Magnús fails to keep Altair safe, the country will fall to a sorcerer called the Black Priest. Yet if Altair lives, Magnús will meet his doom.
For his part, Altair is a graduate student bullied to visit Iceland by mentors who seem to have their own agenda. He knows nothing of elves, sorcerers or prophecies. Suddenly, the handsome, mysterious Magnús is guiding Altair around Reykjavik and into danger. A witch, a berserker, and more elves are along for the quest across Iceland’s forbidding landscape. And why does everyone keeps calling Altair “the Falcon”?
An elf and a human with a shared destiny. Will they solve the mystery linking their fates before it is too late for all Iceland?

 

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Robert Winter is a recovering lawyer who likes writing about love and adventure much more than drafting a legal brief. Once upon a time, he went to Georgetown University law school. Upon graduation, he moved to New York to work in a large law firm, but later returned to Washington, DC. The legal work was entertaining and Robert spent a lot of time in bankruptcy court, usually representing either groups of creditor or the debtors themselves. But legal work didn’t satisfy the urge Robert felt to tell stories.

When he turned 50, Robert left behind the (allegedly) glamorous world of international law firms and bankruptcy court to pursue his real passion. Now he lives in Montreal with his husband, studying French between trips to exotic locations.

When Robert isn’t writing, he loves to cook Indian food. The aromas of the spice blends excite and challenge him. Although he’s never been to India, the food seems comforting and home-like. Add a trip to the Golden Triangle to the bucket list!

 

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Book Tour The Landmark Achilles by James George Brianas

 

In Search of His Palace, His Family, Homer, the War, and the Bronze Age Mediterranean

 

Nonfiction

Date Published: October 30, 2024

Publisher: Mindstir Media


 

The Bronze Age Mediterranean, 3200 1200 BC, was a period of high movement, intrigue, and warfare. In this book, the author, through extensive research with "Boots on the Ground," provides a new, cohesive, and comprehensive view of that age, the evolution of the Greeks into the Mediterranean, the kings and commander with their fortresses and palaces, and capped in the final years with Homer's war, "The Greatest War Story Ever Told." He describes not only how the Greek hero Achilles and events of that war leave a lasting legacy but also weaves in five generations of the family of Achilles, the truth about Homer and his war, and solves the mystery of the palace site of Achilles and his father Peleus. Excavations of Troy from 1871 to the present are revealed as are the discovered clay tablets of the Hittites identifying numerous wars at Troy and along the Aegean Sea in western Anatolia. The ultimate collapse of the Bronze Age and its kingdoms brings this author's epic saga to its final conclusion, the devastation of that end period harboring ominous signs for our own world today.

 

 

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A general reader, Jason Breyer, Palm Harbor, FL, working with the UPS, said of the book, "I couldn't put the book down. I was absorbed in fact versus myth and I had to keep on reading."


A Publishing Director, Danielle Allan, Boston, MA, with Mindstir Media, stated, "Your manuscript is fascinating. The book captures powerful storytelling while leading the reader through your adventures and combining them with legendary stories."


Another reader, Alexander Lardis, Annapolis, MD, a Senior Scientist (retired) with the U. S. Government, said, "The research is phenomenal, well-documented, and with a wealth of information. It was fascinating. I left feeling I had read a great story."

 

 


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