INTRODUCTION

Hi everyone My name is Victoria Zumbrum, 40 years old, married 14 years with 1 son. This is my very first blog. So bear with me. I have always wanted to have my own blog. I have always loved to read. I enjoy getting lost in a good book.
I love becoming part of the story and characters. I am hoping to bring my love of books to my readers.

I love reading different genres such as paranormal, young adult, romance, romantic suspense, mystery, Christian fiction, some horror, etc. The list goes on. I started reviewing books a couple of years ago and have done reviews for different blogs and even some authors. I really have enjoyed reviewing books and I will continue to do so. If anyone is interested in me reviewing a book for them, please contact me. I still have a lot to learn regarding my own blog so bear with me. I welcome and appreciate all followers.

Friday, March 29, 2019

The Sherlock Jr. Detective Agency Book Tour and Giveaway


The
Sherlock Jr. Detective Agency
by
Marc Morgenstern

Genre:
YA, Teen Mystery


Chas,
Zoe, Xander, Nickie and Patricia and Sally make up the Sherlock Jr.
Detective Agency. Even though they are only 12 years old, each one of
them possess their own unique specialty. Patricia is a computer whiz,
Zoe and Xander, the twins, are inventors, Nickie is a mathematician,
Sally is their administrator and Chas is the leader. In this
adventure, they are hired by Skids, the local skate boarding champ,
to find his missing dog Casper which was stolen out right of his back
yard in broad daylight. Suspecting foul play their detective skills
and the Sherlock Jr. Network in the neighborhood. They must put their
best foot forward to solve the crime before time runs out and the
kidnapped Casper is sold on an auction web site to the highest
bidder.




**only
.99 cents**





Marc
Morgenstern has been a part of the film industry for at least 25
years, but became a serious writer/director in 2004 when he shot his
first feature film, The Vampire Conspiracy, that went on to receive
worldwide distribution. In addition, it has been translated into four
languages and sold in Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, Target, and more. It
launched Fangoria's, the nations largest resource for horror
fiction's online streaming service Fangoria TV, and during its
release was searched in the top 700 searched movies on imdb.com.
After it was turned into a graphic novel, it won a silver medal at
the 2010 Independent Publishing Awards.


Since
then, Marc has achieved international recognition with his Cannes
Lions Shortlisting commercial "Poker Face", that either
placed or won in 10 different award shows. 

One
of Marc's greatest industry accomplishments was as the creator of the
variety show HouseCapades with Mike Bullard, and achieved the #1 show
of its kind in its time slot and ran for over 250 episodes, one of
the longest running television shows in Canadian history. 

After
that, he ended up becoming the Broadcasting Creative Director at Avid
Life Media, where he created and produced over 80 international
commercials for over 30 markets and directed the documentary Affairs
Across America. With Avid Life Media, Marc has written and developed
a variety show, a reality show, two feature films and a
sitcom. 

Marc
is no stranger to directing children. He also created the three
award-winning nationally renown live-action shorts titled: Operation:
LabBrats. In 2013 Marc moved to California where he immediately went
into production, writing and directing the feature film 'Vitals' with
Christopher Showerman, Charlene Amoia, Tim Russ, Claudia Wells and
Sachin Mehta.

He
currently lives in Burbank, CA with his loving wife Tanya.










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It Ends Here Book Tour and Giveaway


It
Ends Here
Rebekka
Franck Book 10
by
Willow Rose


Genre:
Mystery, Thriller

Every
Parent's Worst Fear!

Inspired
by a true story!
She
thought it would be okay.
She
thought her son would be fine if she left him in the car.
It
was after all just for a few minutes while she went to grab something
at the store. It was no big deal. But when Mrs. Cunningham came back
out from the store, the car was empty, and her 5-year-old boy was
gone.
In
a town filled with dark secrets, who will you dare to believe?
Reporter
Rebekka Franck is traveling to central Florida to interview a famous
author when the body of a young boy turns up inside an abandoned
house.
The
death of the boy leaves the small town of Webster horror-stricken.
Forty
years ago, another little boy was found killed in that exact same
house.
Now
they are all asking themselves: Will it end here?
As
Rebekka Franck digs deep into the story, she realizes this town is
harboring a lot of secrets that some people will go to extremes to
keep hidden.
This
highly anticipated and exhilarating new chapter in the Bestselling
Rebekka Franck Mystery series,IT ENDS HERE, is a stand-alone
mystery. It serves up a double dose of nail-biting, chilling
suspense, twists, and shocking revelations as only #1 Amazon
bestselling author Willow Rose can. This mystery is determined to
terrify you. No one is more addicting than the Queen of Scream.


















The
Queen of Scream aka Willow Rose is a #1 Amazon Best-selling Author
and an Amazon ALL-star Author of more than 60 novels.


She
writes Mystery, Thriller, Paranormal, Romance, Suspense, Horror,
Supernatural thrillers, and Fantasy.

Willow's
books are fast-paced, nail-biting pageturners with twists you won't
see coming. Several of her books have reached the Kindle top 10 of
ALL books in the US, UK, and Canada. She has sold more than three
million books.

Willow
lives on Florida's Space Coast with her husband and two daughters.
When she is not writing or reading, you will find her surfing and
watch the dolphins play in the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.











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Anniversary Celebration


The
BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader turns one year old this March. [Cue
the party music!] The time has flown by so quickly. My to-be-read
list has expanded even faster. As a reader, you know that is both a
good and bad thing. LOL!

YouTube
for the Bookish?

YouTube.com
is the second most visited website in the world - where over 1.9
billion logged-in users visit each month. And each day, people watch
over a billion hours of video and generate billions of views. While
many people are aware of the music videos, make-up channels and
gaming channels on the platform, far fewer know about the great
bookish content available on YouTube. BookTube is a community of
content creators on YouTube that film videos about books. The
BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader is a daily online newspaper
featuring social shares from booktubers (including authortubers) and
some bookish neighbors (like bloggers and readers). Are you familiar
with BookTube?

Once
Upon A Time...

Between
changes in YouTube's algorithm and my book reading taste, it was a
struggle for me to keep up with my favorite booktubers and keep
a look-out for new booktubers. I knew many other fans of BookTube
were having similar problems.

When
YouTube changed it's monetization rules in early 2018, many people,
including myself, worried about it's overall impact on small content
creators. As I looked at my personal BookTube channel list, I
thought, "What can I do to help support and encourage bookish
content creators?" Then poof! The idea for The BookTube Your
Shelf Daily Reader popped into my head. [Yes, with a poof]. What
started out as an idea in March of 2018 has morphed into a passion
project with an online newspaper and email newsletter.

Find
Your Next Favorite...

One
of the goals of The BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader project is to
help you find your next favorite booktuber. Check out the Videos
section of TBYSDR for suggestions on bookish YouTube videos to watch.
It features over 25 videos each
day. 
https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1517059010#/videos

Another goal of the
project is to help you find your next great read. In The BookTube
Your Shelf web newspaper, you'll find a variety of posts like:
  • Book
    News
  • Book
    Giveaways
  • Book
    Reviews
  • Videos
    about Books
  • Videos
    about Reading
  • Videos
    about Writing
  • Book Trailers

Don't
Miss A Thing.

Don't
struggle with searching for book-related videos in the YouTube hay
stack. Subscribe to The BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader Email
Newsletter to have the paper delivered to
your email inbox. 
https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1517059010#/

Be
sure to "Like" the TBYSDR Facebook page to stay
up-to-date on the latest
edition. 
https://www.facebook.com/BookTubeYourShelf/


But
wait... there's more!

During
March I will be hosting a month-long event called BookTube Z to A,
highlighting BookTube channels on YouTube, at the Readeropolis book
blog. Look for the hashtag #BookTubeZtoA on your favorite social
sites.  

You
can follow all of the anniversary celebration events by joining the
Facebook anniversary event page (click "Going" to get
updates): 
https://www.facebook.com/events/358689728051151/


So,
let's chat in in the comments.

Do
you watch book-related videos on YouTube? What are some of your
favorite BookTube Channels?

Have you checked
out the latest edition of The BookTube Your Shelf Daily
Reader?


BookTube,
keep doing what you're doing. You're hands down amazing!



Mayor
Sonni: Reader extraordinaire. Mayor of the Readeropolis book blog.
Content curator. Lover of books, lists, sweet tea, and vacations.
Well, not necessarily in that order.

Are you connected?
You can find her all over the Internet under the handle Readeropolis.








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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Saving John Lennon Book Tour and Giveaway


Saving
John Lennon
by
A.J. Gallant

Genre:
Time Travel Romantic Adventure 

A tale
of love, time travel, humor, and healing hearts. The adventure of a
lifetime. (Think you know how it ends? You don’t.)
In
2018, two friends discover an open door in the summer forest in
Maine. It’s winter inside and they’ve never seen anything like
it. When they realize that it’s 1980 on the other they hatch a plan
to go to New York and save John Lennon.
In
1980, a stranger invades Sarah’s dreams on a nightly basis. He’s
handsome and funny, but when she bumps into him in real life she
can’t believe her eyes. But his story of time travel is
preposterous and it’s difficult to decipher his motives for acting
so weird. He claims to be from 2018.
Can
love bloom under such circumstances? Will Richard be trapped
thirty-eight-years in the past?
Payton
is from a thousand years in the future; he’s trying to stop Burton
from time jumping because it can cause changes that could have
serious repercussions. Burton has arranged for Taft and Richard to
save John Lennon, but will it all go terribly wrong?










A.
J. Gallant is the best selling author of several books, including
Knights of the Dragon (of Knights and Wizards series) and Dracula
Hearts series, the first book in the series is Dracula: Hearts of
Stone.


Detective
Olivia Brown Mysteries is also gaining in popularity. (Anita's
vacation in New York City ends tragically when she's killed in
Central Park, but instead of the end, it's only the beginning. Her
soul remains at the scene trying hard to process what happened. There
are other ghosts that don't seem to be much help. And, of
course, the new reality of being a ghost does not sit well with
Anita.
What
is she supposed to do now?)

The
author has two cats that make him rise at 5 each morning to keep him
on his toes.









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The Changing Earth Series Book Tour and Giveaway


Day
After Disaster
The
Changing Earth Series Book 1
by
Sara F. Hathaway


Genre:
Dystopian

How
fragile everything had been. People walked through life everyday
taking it all for granted, their cars, their cell phones, their
lattes, their dramatic social issues and their medical problems.


She
started her day at her home in the mountains just like any other.
There was nothing unusual about making the familiar drive down to
Sacramento to go to work. Then in a flash Mother Nature decided it
was time to create a new landscape. Follow the journey of a dynamic
young woman, mother and wife, Erika, as she is thrust into a world
turned upside down by a series of natural disasters. Alone in a
mutilated city, she must navigate the path home, back to her family.
Not knowing if they are alive or dead, Erika calls upon all of her
survival instincts to traverse this broken environment. Will she make
it home? Will her family still be alive? What will Mother Nature dish
out next?








Without
Land
The
Changing Earth Series Book 2

I
thought I was entering a brave new world of freedom but I walked
right into the arms of soldiers I thought were there to protect me...
They told us we were going to live at this ‘happy’ camp where we
would be cared for until the country was stabilized.”


Erika
thought America would let freedom reign forever but nine years after
the Great Quake the reaction by the American Government was quite
different. The Day after Disaster brought hardships to the world. The
American citizens fought valiantly to bring back some sense of
normalcy in a world that was shaken to bits. Many people were left
landless and those still in possession of land had many obligation to
fulfill for the citizens left fighting for their lives. Erika and her
family are just another group left landless and forced to find their
way in this new government construct. They are caught between a
yearning for the freedoms they used to take for granted and a will to
fit in and excel in this new landscape. However, Mother Nature will
always have the last word and she isn’t done yet.










The
Walls of Freedom
The
Changing Earth Series Book 3

"I
just hope I...Have the spirit to go on fighting. Have the power to
take on forces that are so much bigger than me."



On the run, Erika, her
husband, Vince, and their children flee the government forces in
search of a new life. The Great Quake ten years ago left the United
States devastated. FEMA camps sprouted up in Regional Districts to
control the chaos and separate the landowners from the refugees.
Erika and her family spent nine years as refugees in the camp before
they found out that Vince's parents were still alive and they were
searching for them. The Las Vegas FEMA Director, realizing his
mistake, attempted to have the family eliminated to save his career.
Vince and Erika take their family's future into their own hands and
flee the camp in a cross country action packed adventure. Will they
find Vince's parents? Will society accept them again? Can they accept
this new government system?











Battle
For the South
The
Changing Earth Series Book 4

I’ve
come to realize that staying true to your values and loyal to the
people you love can make you into a legend…We must fight the hatred
and fear that is crippling the spirit of our country.”


Unsure of the loyalty
of her mentor, Erika and Vince take drastic measures to ensure the
safety of their loved ones. After trying to merge back into an
American society severely altered by the repercussions of the first
Great Quake ten years before, Erika and Vince are unsure whom to
trust. Time has spread the people they love out across the country
and another Great Quake is imminent. One thing is for sure: they will
not let their loved ones be annihilated by disaster. As the Federal
Government takes steps to eliminate any signs of resistance among its
citizens, Erika and Vince seek refuge in the free south where they
can find help to rescue their friends and family from the Las Vegas
FEMA camp. Can they make it in time? Are their loved ones still
alive? Who is loyal to a freedom that was once provided under the
Constitution?













Dark Days in Denver
The Changing Earth
Series Book 5

 “I wanted to give
up so many times. Take my family and find a hole to crawl into, but I
believe in a country that once stood for something beautiful. A
supreme message that gave all its citizens equal rights to exist.”


As the Earth continues
to unleash a series of natural disasters at the surviving
inhabitants, Erika finds herself hiding from the federal forces
aiming to eliminate her. Rapidly trying to adjust to new
circumstances, the refugees from the Earth’s fury spread out into
new geographic regions, searching for someplace safe to live. The
Federal Government’s grip on its lands tightens, as food becomes
scarce and overpopulation intensifies. Fighting for control of the
West, the world is turned upside down as the unthinkable happens to
the planet and Erika’s family. Is this the end of life as they know
it? Who will survive to continue the fight for the freedom of the
American people?












Author
Sara F. Hathaway is an individual with an insatiable urge for
learning. She grew up in the woods of Michigan, fishing, hunting,
gardening, canning, and horseback- riding with her family. She loved
to learn about the stories of times past from her great-grandparents
and grandparents. After moving to the rural mountain landscape of
California, she attended the California State University of
Sacramento and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in General
Business Management. She managed many businesses, all while working
on the manuscript for her first novel, Day After Disaster.
Eventually, she realized that her passion for the outdoors and
learning about survival techniques outweighed her passion for the
business world. Sara still lives in Northern California with her
husband and two sons, where she is at work on the next installment of
The Changing Earth series.











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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Afterglow Book Tour and Giveaway


Afterglow
General's
Daughter #6
by
Breanna Hayse
Genre:
Contemporary Romance 

If
you’re an AQUAMAN and Neil Gaiman fan, you WILL fall in love with
THE GENERALS’ DAUGHTER

Marine Biologist, and USMC special
ops officer, Samantha Quimby, is back with brand new adventures, and
(as always) a whole lot of trouble! From a family camping trip in the
Sierra Nevadas, to investigating a mysterious phenomena in the black
depths of the La Jolla trench, the young woman attracts danger like a
bee to honey. As if that’s not enough, Sam’s also introduced to
the intimacy of both Richard's love-making and the
severity of his discipline. However, neither expect that her
instinctive ability to converge with the local cetaceans have an
added benefit that can make even the most unpleasant event one Sam
longs to repeat as the term,Afterglow,takes on a whole new
meaning!
Sam’s not the only one receiving a
stern wake-up call from the special man in her life. Teagan, her
brother’s girlfriend, is coming face-to-face with the reality that
Michael isn’t going to turn a blind eye to her mischief anymore
than he does with his sister. Sam’s influence is rubbing off on the
quiet girl, and soon Teagan finds herself in more hot water than ever
before.

Will Sam ever learn to behave? This
question is the ongoing theme with her family and now, her boyfriend,
Lt. Richard Lewis is just as involved. The answer-

Probably
not.

Finally-
in the process of planning a family vacation to Florida, some old,
familiar names are brought up on the ‘to visit’ list, including
‘Big Bill’ Johnson (The Game Plan), Dr. Dan Paige and Dorian
Graye (The Whip Master, Billion Dollar Daddies and Northern Lights:
Lena). Does this mean that the Generals might consider giving in to
temptation and have an adventure of their own?
You
better believe it!





The
Siren
General's
Daughter Book 1
**Only
.99 cents or FREE in KU!**

Up
a Notch
General's Daughter Book
2


Caught
in a Net
General's Daughter Book
3

Convergence
General's Daughter Book
4

Under
Cover
General's Daughter Book
5


BDSM/AP
lifestyler Breanna Hayse strives to give her readers truth and
reality of the BDSM/Age-Play/Total Power and Erotic Exchange
lifestyle.


Who
am I?


I'm
a native Californian gone 'wild', and had the opportunity to travel
the globe and discover the world through the eyes of both a Marine
Intelligence specialist and a BDSM lifestyler. I left the service to
go into hospice nursing and grief counseling, eventually working as a
marriage and family therapist for those involved in alternative
lifestyle development. This experience has allowed me to gain unique
inspiration for my books and offer realistic plots and relatable
characters.

In
2004, my husband, John, and I joined forces to work with both
submissives and dominants- teaching, training, listening and loving.
Our goal was to take the mystery and fear out of the lifestyle and
mentor people in safe, consensual and healthy relationships. 

My
first book, The Game Plan, was published in 2012 and opened the door
to the now-booming world of Age-Play literature. Since that time,
I've devoted my 'spare' time to writing, researching, community
involvement, and private and group pro bono counseling in deviant
behavior, alternative lifestyle, and addiction recovery.

I
was formally 'dungeon trained' as a Domme before discovering my
submissive side when I joined the service. My scenarios are pulled
primarily from either personal experience or observation, including
spending time in BDSM clubs as the safety/medical officer. My
multi-faceted background allows me to glean from many avenues and
give a unique and intelligent literary experience through elements of
fantasy and fiction. I also discuss the questions and psychology of
the lifestyle in a manner that is fun and informative, and based on
'the real deal.'

I
live with my husband, musician, and fellow-author, John Hayse, and
two border collies in southern California. We practice a 24/7 D&S
relationship with speckles of AP (and many trips to Build-A-Bear),
and happily spend every moment together that we can. My hobbies
include my puppies, hiding my vanilla salt-water taffy where John
can't find it, exotic art, collecting inspirational trinkets, and
developing my own paddle line. You can also see me as a featured
author/instructor in professional conference settings and as a
Sexpert for kinkyliterature.com.






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