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.

Monday, September 28, 2020

Get Minted Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Get Minted!
Learn How to Build Massive Wealth In the Midst of Uncertainties
by Nora A. Gay
Genre: Non-fiction, Self-Help, Inspirational Business 

In today's volatile economy, self-discipline and sensible financial planning are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible-or even desirable-to build wealth solely on a paycheck as you move up some corporate ladder. Rather, today's sound decision makers are anticipating the certainty of uncertainties in life and in their finances. In Get Minted!, Nora Gay shows how the strategies that help the world's wealthiest individuals flourish can be adapted and applied to everyone. By challenging assumptions, pinpointing one's unique economic value, and identifying weaknesses in established personal financial plans, anyone can achieve financial success and prosperity. Gay, a financial strategist who has researched, taught, and implemented financial concepts for individuals and families of all sizes, describes the unique method she has used to help them create, multiply, and pass on wealth.
Incorporating stories from her own experience and anecdotes from other wealth builders and financial advisors, Gay shows how self-discipline and a little know-how lead to massive financial rewards. Get Minted! offers clear and empowering advice for anyone looking to break through; for anyone with a big financial goal but with no idea on how to achieve it. This engaging, perspective-shifting book demystifies the mechanics of wealth building for individuals and families alike.




Nora A. Gay started a fintech company with the mission of helping people accomplish financial security. She specializes in everything ranging from personal finance, wealth management, and financial technology platforms. 



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Devil and Dayna Dalton Book Tour and Giveaway


The Devil and Dayna Dalton
Bulwark Anthology Book 9
by Brit Lunden
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Reporter Dayna Dalton's reputation has been ruined since birth. The daughter of wild child, Becky Dalton, is expected to follow her mother's footsteps; never given a chance to prove she's different. Dayna's been in love with Clay Finnes since she was a teenager. Her unrequited love for Sheriff Finnes leaves her empty. He's happily married and unavailable. Instead, Dayna finds herself stuck in the revolving door of bad relationships. But this is Bulwark, Georgia, a town where strange things are always happening. Dayna is doomed to this loveless life until she can find someone who will appreciate the depth of her character. Can she overcome her fears and look beyond her own perceptions to accept a greater love?


*Contains Sexual Content*






Brit Lunden is a prolific author who's written over 50 books in assorted genres under different pen names. Bulwark was her first effort in adult fiction and was chosen by several of her fellow authors as the basis for a new series, A Bulwark Anthology.  Using her characters, they are creating new denizens in spin-off stories to this bizarre town. Brit Lunden lives on Long Island in a house full of helpful ghosts.





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$10 Amazon giftcard, Print Copy of book – 1 winner each!





The Heart's Bidding Book Tour and Giveaway

 


The Heart's Bidding
by Jordan Riley Swan
Genre: Clean Contemporary Romance 

Kaylee Heart would rather run through a roaring fire than endure even a minute of public speaking. Put in an eighty-hour work week? No problem. Shut down her grandfather’s gold-digging girlfriend? Easy peasy. Stand in front of an auction crowd and call for bids? Show her the exit.


So she has no idea how Gerald, the golden-voiced auctioneer she’s been crushing on at the local auction house, can find the courage to stand on stage every week, with all those eyes on him. But as cruel fate would have it, she is about to find out.
Her family antique shop, the Vintage at Heart, has tripped over one financial hurdle too many and Kay is propelled, full speed, into her biggest phobia—the spotlight.

With terror chasing her, she’ll have to fight to keep the family business from closing forever. Even if the battle takes place in front of a live crowd.



**Only .99 cents until Sep 14th!!**





Jordan Riley Swan is a wild word hunter living in the far and dangerous reaches of rural Ohio. He spends his nights tracking down big-game stories, capturing them in paper cages, and training them to be better tales.


The Heart's Bidding was the first novel he'd dared to use the keys of his typewriter to release back into the wild.




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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Victorian Romance Boxset from Shayla Black. Strictly Seduction and Strictly Forbidden together in one bundle. Start your historical romance adventure today! Strictly Seduction: It can’t be love if it’s Strictly Seduction… As an innocent girl, Madeline Sedgewick learned that nothing comes without a price—even desire. Five years later, now widowed and deeply in debt, she’s certain that the stranger who bought her last husband’s notes of credit will demand swift, steep repayment. But she never imagines her creditor will be Brock Taylor, her baseborn former stable-hand turned newly wealthy entrepreneur—the man who stole her virginity and her heart. She’s even more stunned when he says that he’ll forgive her debts only if she becomes his wife. Brock’s memories of their parting are no less bitter than Maddie’s, and his plans for their future are hardly a rekindling of their blissful first love. But seeing Maddie again—just as spirited, strong, and beautiful as ever—reawakens a desire he thought long dead. When she refuses his proposal, they strike a dangerous wager, with Brock’s self-made fortune and Maddie’s treasured independence at stake. It’s a wager only one of them can win—as long as they resist the other’s passionate seduction…and falling in love again. Strictly Forbidden: A passion this tempting must be Strictly Forbidden… Miss Kira Melbourne is anything but a proper English rose. Her exotic beauty, courtesy of her foreign mother, has marked her as an outsider, and her ghastly reputation as a woman of loose virtue has only added to that status. The victim of a devious viscount's horrible lies, Kira has the chance to redeem herself and become a member of polite society as the fiancée of a respected country clergyman. She'll finally have a place to belong…even if it's in the tepid arms of a man she doesn't love. Gavin Daggett, Duke of Cropthorne, isn't about to let his naive country cousin marry a scandalous woman like Kira Melbourne. The solution is a simple one: Gavin will seduce the vixen and prove her unworthiness, thereby releasing his cousin from any obligation. But spending time with Kira is like awakening to a world of color and beauty, and it stirs the fiery desires Gavin has fought to suppress his entire life. Caught in his own dangerous game, sharing forbidden pleasure with Kira, Gavin knows that the price of loving her is high—and yet it is one that he will willingly pay…with every beat of his heart.

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Shayla Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly than eighty novels. For over twenty years, she’s written contemporary, erotic, paranormal, and historical romances via traditional, independent, foreign, and audio publishers. Her books have sold millions of copies and been published in a dozen languages. Raised an only child, Shayla occupied herself with lots of daydreaming, much to the chagrin of her teachers. In college, she found her love for reading and realized that she could have a career publishing the stories spinning in her imagination. Though she graduated with a degree in Marketing/Advertising and embarked on a stint in corporate America to pay the bills, her heart has always been with her characters. She’s thrilled that she’s been living her dream as a full-time author for the past eleven years. Shayla currently lives in North Texas with her wonderfully supportive husband, her daughter, and two spoiled tabbies. In her “free” time, she enjoys reality TV, reading, and listening to an eclectic blend of music.

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

Fly Twice Backward Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Fly Twice Backward
by David S. McCracken
Genre: Alternate History, SciFi 


You wake back in early adolescence, adult memories intact, including ones that could make you very wealthy now. Your birth family is here, alive again, but your later families are gone, perhaps forever. What has happened, what should you do about coming problems like violence, ignorance, pollution, and global warming? You realize one key connects most, the fundamentalist strains of the major religions disdaining science, equality, and social welfare. You see that there are some things you can change, some you can’t, and one you don’t dare to.


Fellow idealists help you spend your growing fortune well--such as an artistic Zoroastrian prince in the Iranian oil industry, a rising officer in the Soviet army working to find a way to destroy his corrupt government, a Bahai woman struggling against Islamic brutality, a Peruvian leader working for a liberal future, and a snake-handling Christian minister, grappling with doubts, sexuality, and destiny. They are supported by an ally who develops essential psychic powers. The group faces familiar-looking corrupt politicians, religious leaders, and corporate czars, but there is an ancient force in the background, promoting greed, violence, hate, and fear.

This exciting, emotional, thoughtful, humorous, and even romantic sci-fi novel weaves progressivism, music, movies, and literature into a struggle spanning the globe. Vivid characters propel the action back up through an alternative history toward an uncertain destination.





David McCracken was born in Louisville, KY, in 1940. Raised mostly in Winchester, KY, he now lives in Northern Virginia, with his third and final wife. He has three children, two stepchildren, and six grandchildren.


After three years in the U.S. Navy following a lackluster academic start, he graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1963, in Diplomacy and International Commerce. He then worked as a Latin American country desk officer in the U.S. Department of Commerce until he returned to school to earn an M.A. in Elementary Education in 1970 from Murray State University, having always been intending to teach. Eventually realizing his children qualified for reduced-price lunches based on his own teaching salary, he studied computer programming at Northern Virginia Community College and worked as a programmer until shifting back into elementary teaching.

He began working on what became Fly Twice Backward in 1983 and finally finished it in 2019! At 79, David strongly doubts he'll be doing another novel of such scope and complexity, but is preparing to work on a children's science fiction novel with a progressive bent, being a devout progressive in politics and religion, as well as a lover of learning.






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$25 Amazon






Friday, September 25, 2020

Monsters Under the Bed Book Tour and Giveaway


Monsters
Under the Bed
Children
of Chaos Series
by
Kristen Collins
Genre:
Paranormal Fantasy Thriller

When
the Queen of the Sandmen, Ana, decrees that she will give teddy bears
magic through the power of their golden Sandman dust and life is
sustained through the belief of a child, the only purpose is to
protect the children from nightmares, or rather the monsters under
the bed. The Boogeymen who were defeated long ago are gone but their
creatures did not die off with their masters. The balance of good and
evil has to be maintained.

A
supernatural orphan, Sharon, and her faithful pitbull dog, Lieutenant
Twinkleton, catch the attention of Queen Ana when she goes to fulfill
her part of the decree. Unsure of the little orphan child's
abilities, she gives special orders to the little girl’s only toy:
a teddy bear named Sir Snugglestiltskin.

Unknown
to Queen Ana, there’s more to Sharon than what her eyes can see and
these creatures are hungry to get their hands on the little girl.


**Only
.99 cents!!**


I'm
a Native Texan, born and raised close to the heart of the great Lone
Star State. I was born in January of ‘89 and was able to grow up
during a great time. I honestly don’t consider myself a Millennial,
and really dislike that title. I'm a part-time secretary and a
full-time mother and wife, as well as a Lupus Warrior.
Having
Lupus means living my life indoors, and the sun is my arch-nemesis,
my personal kryptonite. I want to leave a legacy behind, something my
kids could one day look back on and say, “yeah my mom did that.”
Thanks
to the encouragement of friends and family, I found a passion for
writing paranormal romance books. Anything in the realm of fantasy
usually suits my novels and tends to be able to reach a large
audience in multiple genres. Most of my story ideas come to me in the
most unexpected times and places, such as my dreams. They will plague
me nonstop until I sit down and write it out.
I
like to explore new types of characters such as Sandmen and
Boogeymen, for example. I enjoy creating all the facets of their own
worlds, such as in A Sandman’s Forbidden Love.
God
has blessed me with success that I never imagined was possible, which
allows me the freedom to explore and create with intense focus in
paranormal fiction. Now, I know Shifters aren’t real but Angels are
another story. So Angels are also a part of my focus and research. I
will often sit on the computer doing extensive research on both
Sandmen and Angels, trying to learn as much as possible about them.
In
addition to fiction, I create Art Journals that are cross
generational from thirteen to ninety years young. My goal, with these
types of books, is to reach people who need that extra encouragement
and quiet reflective stillness that journaling can bring into their
lives.




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$10 Amazon 







Tainted Truth Book Tour and Giveaway


Tainted
Truth
The
Wolf Riders of Keldarra Book 1
by
Nathalie M.L. Römer
Genre:
Epic Fantasy 


Begin
your journey in the land of Keldarra...





It's
a land on the brink of war. Who wins it depends on which side is
stronger: truth or the lies of thousands of years of deception and
manipulation. But whose truth? What lies? That's for you to find out
in the first book of this nine-book series!


When
truth and lies have been used as a weapon. When you fight an enemy
from the past using lies, and truth becomes the weapon with which you
fight that enemy.

The
story takes you to an ancient land under siege. The history of
Keldarra is long but forgotten. A distant past when someone knew the
Wolf Riders would rise. They also knew they would come to an
end.

The
Truth: Words spoken.

Still
spoken to speak a lie.

Marrida.
Alagur.

Each
individual has a reason for wanting change. But can the reasons
co-exist without clashing? Can truth prevail when each of them exists
because of lies? When they discover similarity it reveals a hidden
past, a past that means so much more than either knew.









**Coming
Soon!**

Stolen
Truth
The
Wolf Riders of Keldarra Book 2
**Release
Date: Dec 1, 2020**




Truth
of a Betrayer
The
Wolf Riders of Keldarra Book 3
**Release
Date: Aug 24, 2021**






Nathalie is a
published author, based in Sweden, and born and bred in the
Netherlands, with roots squarely planted culturally in Britain and
Curaçao. She primarily writes epic fantasy, futuristic science
fiction, mysteries, romance with a twist, and is now venturing into
fairytale retellings, dystopian stories and much more (just keep
visiting to see where stories take you and the author alike). And
Nathalie describes her style of writing as unapologetically
wordy, because she has discovered that the best part of writing is
weaving a world that's interesting to explore, to discover its back
story, to meet its people, and find out what makes them tick.
Nathalie weaves each world with her own experiences into the
stories, and will touch on various causes and situations that speak
to her...











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Signed
Copy of the Book – 2 winners! , 
$10 Amazon giftcard – 1 winner