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.

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The Last Christmas Book Tour and Giveaway

 

The Last Christmas
by Seelie Kay
Genre: Contemporary Holiday Romance Comedy

At Christmas time, everyone deserves a miracle!
 
David Wright is dying from cancer. He is not expected to see another Christmas. At least that’s what the medical professionals say. Fortunately, Santa begs to differ. After all, modern medicine is nothing more than a best guess. Santa believes anything is possible until you give up.
 
When Santa tells David’s wife, Joan, that heaven is full and she has to keep her husband alive, she is beside herself. She has no medical skills. How can she save anyone’s life? Set your skepticism aside as Santa embraces a family already mourning their father’s terminal diagnosis and teaches them that a Christmas miracle doesn’t always require heavenly intervention. Sometimes, all it takes is a family with enough love to create their own. As Santa says, a true miracle is when love combines with action to get the desired results. And only humans are capable of that.
 
Will Santa’s words fall on deaf ears? Or will Team Wright find a way to save their father’s life?




Seelie Kay is a nom de plume for a writer, editor, and author with more than 30 years of experience in law, journalism, marketing, and public relations. When she writes about love and lust in the legal world, something kinky is bound to happen! In possession of a wicked pen and an overly inquisitive mind, Ms. Kay is the author of 18 works of fiction, including the Kinky Briefs series, the Feisty Lawyers series, The Garage Dweller, A Touchdown to Remember, The President’s Wife, The White House Wedding, and The President’s Daughter.

When not spinning her kinky tales, Ms. Kay ghostwrites nonfiction for lawyers and other professionals. She resides in a bucolic exurb outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she shares a home with her son and enjoys opera, gourmet cooking, organic gardening, and an occasional bottle of red wine.

Ms. Kay is an MS warrior and ruthlessly battles the disease on a daily basis. Her message to those diagnosed with MS: Never give up. You define MS, it does not define you!



Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

$15 Amazon giftcard,
An eBook bundle of A Touchdown to Remember, The President's Daughter, and The Last Christmas,
an eCopy of The Last Christmas
-1 winner each 


Monday, January 4, 2021

The Far Side of Heave Book Tour and Giveaway

 


The Far Side of Heaven
by D.L. Gardner
Genre: Contemporary Holiday Romance

Charlene survived a deadly fire that swept through the hills of a quiet mountain town. With her ranch home destroyed she lives above her gift shop struggling to make ends meet and still recovering from a vile divorce. Three days before Christmas, a blizzard pounds the already despondent community, blowing in snow and with it a stranger.

With roads closed to the ski lodge, Dallas, a successful entrepreneur who is on a mission to promote his ingenious line of ski jackets, is stranded in the township of Meritville. Lured by the charm of the community, he soon learns that all is not well.  When he meets the owner of a failing gift shop, he loses his heart and is thrust into the turmoil.

With all the forces against them, is it possible to spread the Light and Love of Christmas?






D.L.Gardner is an award winning author and screenwriter, taking home the Book Excellence Award for her Amazon's best selling Ian's Realm Saga as well as various other prestigious awards for her audio books and screenplays. Her young adult adventure fantasy and historical fantasy novels are loved by youth and adults all over the world.
"Dianne's wonderfully descriptive writing style will have you so involved in the story that in a sense you will have forgotten that it was just a story."
Dianne is a columnist for Amazing Stories Magazine, one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy magazines of all time. She's taught workshops and participated on panels at conferences and film festivals. Her concept film for Ian's Realm has won numerous fantasy short awards in L.A., New York and New Zealand.
Dianne was born in Ohio and raised in southern CA. She attended Northern AZ University and later continued her education in the Pacific Northwest. She's an oil painter, book illustrator, screenwriter and filmmaker.





Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

$10 Amazon giftcard, and an audio book of The Far Side of Heaven
 – 1 winner!


A Refuge Bay Christmas Book Tour and Giveaway

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A Refuge Bay Christmas
A Men of Refuge Bay Novel
by Susan Saxx
Genre: Contemporary M/M Holiday Romance


Two Gay Men. Their Adopted Daughter. Her First Real Christmas.
Welcome to Refuge Bay!
Where trouble is brewing in a little girl's heart this holiday season...

When Nathan and Og fell in love, little did they realize their union would end up in an unexpected adoption: that of the six-year old runaway child they found at Hope House. Now her first Christmas is fast approaching, and everything is hard for the orphan who’s never had a real family. She’s still dealing with ghosts of the past, and she's trying to do it alone. How can Nathan, Og, and the whole gang at Hope House, show her everything Christmas can be, in a forever family? Most importantly, how can they make sure that the Refuge Bay community’s unparalleled Christmas magic will work its special miracle…on her?

It's the holidays. Come and celebrate with all of Refuge Bay this holiday season...

"A great read. This reads like a warm fuzzy blanket or an awesome Hallmark Christmas movie."
- Reviewer

I don’t know what it is about this series, or these people but I am totally hooked!”- Reviewer

*This book can be read as a standalone, though readers will enjoy the additional details provided by the main series.

* This holiday sub-series is part of the main Men of Refuge Bay series, beginning with Book 1: Nathan Unwrapped. Book 2: Zachary Undone, is slated for publication in early 2021.

*Sign up for Ms.Saxx's M/M newsletter HERE!



 
Amazon Bestselling Author Susan Saxx is a top 2 Amazon bestseller with her small town military romance series, Real Men, currently over 10 books long. She has a passion for the small towns of North America, and sets her compelling stories in the north country (Jack's Bay), western mountain country (Terrence Point, Dawson Ridges, Golden) and in Chesapeake Bay (Refuge Bay), all replete with quirky yet big-hearted neighbours always willing to lend a hand—and an opinion, whether requested or not.

Susan also deeply loves Christmas, with numerous Christmas stories in her series, and adds more holiday books (including Valentine’s and Halloween), annually.

As she continues to write the beloved Real Men series, she is applying her passion for love without boundaries to the m/m genre. Her first book in the Men of Hope House series is garnering excellent reviews, with formerly m/f only readers exhorting others new to the genre to pick up the first in the series, calling it, “Pure Joy”, and ‘one of the best books I have read in a very long time’ – GoodReads.
Susan can be reached at susansaxx@gmail.com.



Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!
$10 Amazon



Raised in a Bottle Book Tour and GIveway

 


Raised in a Bottle:
FREE yourself from a childhood with alcoholism
by Kristina Hermann
Genre: Nonfiction, Self-Help


FREE yourself from a childhood with alcoholism
Growing up in a family with alcohol abuse can leave you significantly scarred as an adult.
The addiction robbed you of a caring, nurturing, secure and playful childhood, forcing you to become an adult too early.
A lack of attention and compassion stifled your ability to grow into a whole person.
As an adult, you might experience personal and professional problems related to feelings of abandonment or loneliness, relationship problems, low self-esteem, unhealthy coping strategies, and lack of clear boundaries.
If you have felt traumatized, anxious, and depressed throughout your life, this is the book for you.

Through in-depth chapters and exercises, you will:
· Understand how families are shaped by alcohol addiction
· Gain insight into how trauma affects your body and your mind
· Learn how to build your self-esteem and become aware of your own feelings
· How to identify unhealthy patterns and relationships and break free of them
· Reshape your thoughts and beliefs about yourself and your future

This book offers extensive insight into the dynamics and consequences of growing up with addiction.
It provides the help and compassion that addiction stole from you when you were a child. In short, Raised in a Bottle offers new hope for reclaiming your own life.



Kristina Hermann is a psychotherapist and author with a clinic in Copenhagen, Denmark.
She has worked with families afflicted by alcohol abuse since 2000 and has written extensively about adult children of alcoholics.
In 2015 she published a self-help book in Danish: Du er ikke alene: en opvækst med alkoholproblemer ("You are not alone: An upbringing shaped by alcohol problems"), now in its third printing. Raised in a Bottle: A Workbook for Adult Children of Alcoholics (in progress) is her first book in English.
She received her Master in Psychology from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. In addition to her work as a psychotherapist, she also teaches seminars, conducts workshops, and is a supervisor of the work of other therapists.




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$50 Amazon 

Happy Release Day Shape of Darkness

Happy Release Day @dfischerauthor ! Check out The Shape of Darkness, a YA Epic Fantasy! For ten years, Nefari Ashcroft, princess of the Shadow Kingdom, has hidden. For ten years, she’s endured the memory of everyone she’s lost. Half the shadow people are dead, the other half are enslaved, and her once prosperous kingdom is nothing but an elaborate mass grave. Now, dark magic has allowed the Queen of Salix to wreak havoc on the realm; wraiths hunt from the sky, the harvestmen march across the land, and the bone criers pick apart the flesh of the corpses left behind. Nefari was prophesied to rise and be the sword of the realm. With her bright starlight magic, she was born to conquer the darkness. And for ten years, she’s trained to do just that. . . It should be easy to step into the position her mother let for her, since everyone thought she died the day her kingdom was destroyed. But staying hidden - remaining ‘nobody’ - is simpler than accepting her dark past, enduring her harrowing fate, and claiming her broken crown. Grab it here: http://mybook.to/HLTCONE #igreaders #fantasylover #fantasybookstagram #fantasybookseries #fantasyauthor #fantasybooklover #fantasybooksrus #fantasybookcollector #fantasynovels #fanfasynovel #fantasyfiction #fantasyromance #epicfantasy #epicfantasybooks #dfischer #heavyliesthecrownseries

Manners from the Moon Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Manners From the Moon
by Simeon A. Shigg
Genre: Children's Fiction


Moon watched over the Earth for ages, but was too far to help Earth with her problems.

That is until she received help from some friends.

Manners from the Moon is a heartfelt reminder to use your manners in every way, every day. 

Moon, Sea Turtle, Owl, and Wolf share an important message with their friends that is needed today. 

A simple story with a powerful message of kindness and hope for tomorrow.




Simeon is husband to his 9th grade Geometry classmate and father to one daughter.  He was born in Los Angeles, raised in a loving two parent household, and molded by many afternoon church services, playing piano for gas money and too much television.  This is his first published work even though he has been writing his dreams in notebooks or cloud-based applications for years.
  


Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

$10 Amazon gift card, 
Free ebook copy of Manners From the Moon
 – 1 winner each 

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Call Me Dragon Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Call Me Dragon
Dragon Fires Rising Book 1
by Marc Secchia
Genre: Humorous Fantasy



Call me Dragon. It’s the last thing you’ll ever do.

Blitz the Devastator has never done a decent day’s devastating in his life. Fireless, artistic and shunned by his Dragon Clan, he struggles to pillage even the meanest village. A future full of misery and failure beckons.

This much is true until the day the burly brown Dragon successfully – imagine that – kidnaps the Princess Azania. As a black Princess of T’nagru, this spirited beauty is by definition the most unforgettable woman in the seventeen realms. Knights errant, men-at-arms and sundry Princes expire at her feet in drivelling worship.

Unfortunately, they all want his scaly head on a platter shortly thereafter. Goes with the territory.

To Blitz’s consternation, the royal nuisance refuses to behave herself and be a typical pampered Princess. With humour, unconventional flair and the odd stomp of her diminutive slipper, she sets out to reform her Dragon.

One question remains. Who will save the Dragon from the Princess?




Marc is a South African-born dragon masquerading as an author, who loves writing about dragons and Africa, preferably both at the same time. He's the author of 25 fantasy books in 5 languages including 10 rip-roaring dragon fantasy bestsellers. Dragonfriend won a Gold Award for Fantasy in the 2016 IPPY Book Awards.
When he's not writing about Africa or dragons Marc can be found travelling to remote locations. He thinks there's nothing better than standing on a mountaintop wondering what lies over the next horizon.



Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

$50 Amazon