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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Release Blitz ~ Summer's Heart - A Sweetwater Cove Novel by Ciara Knight

 


Title: Summer’s Heart

Author: Ciara Knight

Genre: Clean Romance, Contemporary Romance

Publication Date: Aug. 31st, 2023

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR


Blurb: 

Hearts. One broken. One Sick. One chance.

Summer Morgan left home with the goal of turning her family farm into an empire. Driven to succeed, nothing could stop her until a virus damaged her heart. Despite that, she vows to continue to grow the business by evicting tenants paying mediocre fees to lease family land.

Zane Whittaker hoped that by sacrificing his family’s property, he could save his mother, but no amount of money could save her life. To honor his late mother, Zane wants to create an organic preserves company to restore their family’s legacy.

A hostile takeover of Monroe Enterprises threatens to gobble up both Zane’s dream and Summer’s business plans, so they join forces. While fighting to hold on to their visions, romance blooms. But when she collapses in the heat of the day, Zane can’t face losing someone else he loves.

Summer must convince Zane that she won't leave him, and fast, because they only have one chance to regain everything: their legacy, their land, and most importantly, their love.

 



 


Ciara is a USA Today, Amazon Bestselling and award-winning author of heartwarming, small-town contemporary and historical romances.

 

Her contemporary stories are hailed as "Hallmark movie-worthy." The popular Sweetwater County series takes readers into a southern town filled with family trials, friendly competition, and community love.

 

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Relaunch Blitz ~ Reaper Reborn Series by Harper A. Brooks

 


Title: Reaper Reborn Series

Author: Harper A. Brooks

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publication Date: Aug. 31st, 2023

Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR


Blurb: 

Life's a b*tch--but what comes after isn't much better.

Jade Blackwell, a paranormal reaper, helps supernaturals cross over after death. Her job comes with lots of rules--but not following them is kind of her thing...until it ends up involving her in something much deadlier than she ever imagined.

With the protective veil fading away, demons are crossing realms and impregnating humans, and Jade's best friend is among their victims. She's determined to save her friend, even if it means working with Cole Masters, a dangerous demon halfling and notorious gun-for-hire.

But time is running out to fix the barrier and find a demon cure. With supernaturals everywhere in danger, and the balance between good and evil tipped for the worst, Jade must choose between her own eternal afterlife...or the living world she so desperately wants to be a part of.

Either way, death is coming.

REAPER REBORN SERIES
#1 Death Wish
#2 Death Trap
#3 Death Match
#3.5 Christmas Spirits: A Holliday Novella
#4 Death Deals
#5 Death Sentence
#6 Till Death
#7 Halfling for Hire: Short Story Collection

START THE SERIES TODAY!


Harper A. Brooks lives in a small town on the New Jersey shore. Even though classic authors have always filled her bookshelves, she finds her writing muse drawn to the dark, magical, and romantic. But when she isn't creating entire worlds with sexy shifters or legendary love stories, you can find her either with a good cup of coffee in hand or at home snuggling with her furry, four-legged son, Sammy.

She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

RONE Award Winner

USA TODAY Bestselling Author

International Bestselling Author

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Blog Tour ~ Protecting Everleigh - Ghost Legacy by PJ Fiala

 

PJ Fiala’s new release, Protecting Everleigh, is a gorgeous new small town romance out now! Check it out and be sure to order your copy today!

Title: Protecting Everleigh

Author: PJ Fiala

Genre: Small Town Romance

About Protecting Everleigh:

USAT author PJ Fiala, brings you the next generation of GHOST operatives set in the small-town of Glen Hollow, Kentucky, where a long-standing rivalry is brewing into an all out war, and love comes calling even in the worst of times.   When the job can only be handled by a team that doesn’t exist, you call GHOST.   He was raised to be a GHOST operative.   She's an Army-trained, skilled negotiator.   Together they play a game of push and pull—until she finds herself in need of his protection.   Henry Delany inherited his father’s muscular frame and his mother’s penchant for the law. Working for GHOST gives him the opportunity to use both while doing what he loves—protecting the lives of others. Determined to bring tranquility and harmony to Glen Hollow, the small-town he now calls home, he has agreed to work with a closed-off, government liaison in an effort to broker a peace deal .But Protecting Everleigh just might be Henry’s most challenging mission to date .   Everleigh Hayes was raised to be a negotiator, and Glen Hollow, Kentucky is a small town in need of a truce. She is just the woman to make that happen. Like her previous assignments, she approaches this one with her finely-tuned grace and finesse. But when Everleigh comes face to face with the undercurrent of darkness permeating this little town, she finds herself ensnared by more danger than she’s ever faced. Needing Henry and falling in love with him is a development she’s never negotiated before.

Excerpt:

The elevator door opened, and she stepped out and moved toward her room. Her fingers shook as she pulled her little metal key from her little handbag. This hotel still used metal keys, it was quaint. Henry reached down and plucked the key from her hand. He lifted her hand and kissed her fingers. "I'll protect you."
She swallowed the lump that sat in her throat. He'd protect her. When had anyone ever said that to her? The answer was never. Never in her life did another human being tell her they’d protect her.
Her lips quivered. "Thank you."


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Catching Up with the Series:

Finding Lara

Saving Elena

Rescuing Kenna

Guarding Adelaide

Shielding Maya

About the Author:

USA Today Best Selling Author, PJ Fiala, has independently published multiple romance novels over the years. Focusing primarily on romantic suspense, she weaves a little bit of reality with a little bit of make-believe to create stories with heat, heart and all the feels. PJ lives in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area but travels to destinations unknown via motorcycle. Spending time with her grandmother Ruth, in Kentucky has helped to mold PJ into a person who enjoys life on the farm as well as life in the burbs. But it was romance novels that took her to places she’d only dreamed of and solidified her love of all things romance and swoony. Her family keeps her feet on the ground when her mind travels too far from home, delivering both a reality check and a nudge to keep it real.  

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Book Tour ~ Mexican Sunset - The Vision Quest of a Modern Day Explorer by Rich Jebb

 



The Vision Quest of a Modern Day Explorer


Memoir

Date Published: May 26, 2022

Publisher: MindStir Media

 

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After the unexpected death of his thirty-eight-year-old stepfather, fourteen-year-old Rick embarks on a five-year journey that begins in the Midwest's Edenic Driftless Area canoeing a mysterious wild river in eastern Iowa.

While embracing the idealism of the 1970s counterculture, he seeks to discover himself in pursuit of his escapism. Amidst the backdrop of reconstructing his deconstructed Christian faith, sharing adventures with friends, his interior conversation gives a glimpse into the author's inner growth during these years. If anything kept him moving forward, it was the delusion of his magical thinking: his imagination and wanting, and the wandering search through the looking glass of his impressionistic mind, slicing through glacial meltwaters of northern forests in a canoe and other evocative childhood memories.

On Colorado's high chaparral, just as he begins to reconcile his industrialist roots with his curious artist's soul, Rick falls in love with a girl from Sinaloa, Mexico. After high school, he hitchhikes back and forth across the country, visiting old friends before returning to Mexico to find the girl. Traveling the back roads of Mexico with new friends, looking down from the top of an active volcano, and taking a dangerous acid trip at the edge of Cholula's Great Pyramid, he comes to see his life's trajectory reflected in the struggles of his ancestors and buried in the secrets of Mexico's past.

 

Editorial Reviews

 

"A debut recollection of teenage existential angst and travel in the Age of Aquarius."

— Kirkus Reviews

 

"A deeply poetic book, far-reaching in its complexity, 'Mexican Sunset' is a fascinating look at the connectedness of peoples, nature, and their origins. It is unreservedly recommended!" 

- The BookViral Review


INTRODUCTION

 

Where to begin? I had been born and bathed in the sunrise that spread

across an artist colony on the Florida coast like an impressionist painting.

The first soil I touched was sandy. My childhood memories were the

smell of salt air, exploring undeveloped places, launching out into the Gulf Stream

with my father in a homemade boat, hot chocolate, and predawn fishing off a pier

as the sun broke along the horizon.

 

My first pet was an alligator, then a stray dog. Then the dog was gone.

Run over by a car. Then the alligator escaped, and my neighbor’s character “Al

Alligator” helped bring the Florida alligator back from extinction. In his eighties,

Pat was my best friend, a political cartoonist, and environmental activist. My

childhood was boats, beaches, and planes, and while I searched for my identity in

these, their sum was something less than the trajectory of my soul. Then, a friend

was hit by a train, and everything changed.

 

But there was a little more backstory. It seemed important: I was born to a

beautiful artistic mother in her early twenties, the daughter of a Chicago meatpacking

family, and the man she met on the beach at spring break. He had been

compelling enough for her to break off an engagement in their rush to marry. They

had only known each other for a few weeks.

 

After six years and four kids, she threw in the towel. His insanity had broken

through his charming crew cut, ukulele serenades, and that big Buffalo industrialist

pedigree. So, we moved to an affluent Chicago suburb to be close to my

mother’s family, where my mind focused on almost anything except the present,

on to the next thing before the work at hand was complete. I was a seeker of what I wasn’t sure, if it wasn’t for hope. Preoccupied with the past and the future and

the woods. And I was a weaver of delusions.

But that wasn’t the opening… Then I had it, the story began with a loss: At

fourteen, I came to a place of doubt, my trust in God ironically shattered by death.

And this wasn’t the first time I’d found myself stuck in a dark hole. The question

wasn’t how I would find my way out (I had strategies for that), but why the losses

kept piling up just as I was trying to become my own person?

In the midst of the counterculture of the seventies, my five-year vision quest

spanned the continent of North America; fueled by escapism and drawn by the

magnificence of the mountains and the lakes and rivers where I found individualism,

independence, and confidence. The problem was how to infuse those feelings

with survival in the sophisticated world.

About the Author

Rick Jebb is a neuro divergent author who writes about adaptation: multigenerational influence, the power of community, art and nature. He has been called an “artist trapped in a businessman’s body,” and has striven to transverse the realms of ecology, geography, history, literature, fine art, neuroscience, religion and business.

His life often focused on the question: how to go-on when you want to quit? He deals with death, depression, mental illness and love.

Rick’s literary influences include: Herman Hesse, Anthony Doerr, Barry Lopez, Fredrick Buechner, Phillip Yancey, Christian Wiman, William Kent Krueger, John McFee, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Frank Herbert, Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson.

An avid world traveler, and wilderness camper, since the age of twelve, he has led numerous canoe and hiking trips ranging from three to twenty days. As a canoeist and white water paddler, from age eleven through thirty, Rick paddled over 2,000 miles on lakes and rivers mostly throughout Ontario, Canada. He has run numerous white water rivers, and hiked mountain trails throughout the eastern United States.

He has been seriously writing since 2010, with seven essays published in The Boundary Waters Journal, Fathom, and Ekstasis magazines since 2019.

 

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Book Tour ~ Fiascoes and Foibles by Paul Burton

 

 

An Unfiltered Look at Public Finance, Media, Politics and Sports


Business Biography

Date Published: November 28, 2022

 

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Get unfiltered broadcasting and career advice with this biting and provocative firsthand account of working in media.

Paul Burton has 45 years under his belt, including 10 as a regional editor for New York City-based trade publication, Bond Buyer, and he’s survived—and thrived—to tell the tale. From his humble beginnings to his rise in the industry, Burton covers a lot of ground in his stories, from dealing with people in media and finance to workers in tech and personnel. He not only gives honest insights about financial news but also reveals the controversial internal politics of journalism and publishing that run rampant.

Burton’s wisdom on topics such as covering hot-button issues and fighting against negative stereotypes proves that a career in media is just like the news itself: eclectic, bold, and unexpected.

Take part in the drama and missteps that are a part of success in one of the best journalistic memoirs about business on the market.


“This book is a fun, provocative read that wields a first-person narrative and mixes deep insight with attitude and sarcasm. These pagers are not ‘safe-space’ approved.”

 

“I got a writeup in my personnel file that falsely accused me of ‘repeatedly throwing objects at co-workers.’ I never threw anything at anybody. The author of the letter lectured about being a professional, but his behavior at company conferences was anything but.”

 

“Recent ownership by the recent wave of bad guys – private-equity and hedge-fund folks who’ll kill you for a quarter – has clearly hurt the industry. To call them snakes would offend serpents.”

 

“Business journalism needn’t be stuffy, and being ‘proper’ doesn’t cut it anymore.”

 

“I was always the ‘push-the-envelope’ type. ‘Core mission’ to me represented stagnation.”

 

“[Harrisburg’s] story was tragic, though laced with absurdities … multiple doses of Three Stooges-style slapstick to entertain media, both local and national.”

 

(Re: municipal bond bid-rigging trial): “Witnesses included a recovering alcoholic who recalled a certain meeting between bankers because ‘the sake was exceptionally good.’ “

 

(Re: Former baseball pitcher Curt Schilling’s failed video-game company that failed in Rhode Island): “The video-game company belonging to the man with the bloody sock was a bloody mess.”

 

(Re: life in Hartford): “Hartford – and Connecticut as a whole – had trouble letting down their collective hair. It’s an inevitability when your dominant employer is insurance, an industry that calculates probability of disaster.”

 

(Re: podcasts/broadcasting): “ ‘John, I lived up to my promise. No NPR snoozers,’ I told a Rhode Island banking source. He replied: ‘Funny you mention NPR. Last week I was on one of their shows and 10 minutes in, I wished the hell I wasn’t on it.’ “

 

(Re: podcasts/broadcasting): “The voice is yours, not that of some nondescript desk editor.”

 

“Screw the layers of complexity. Just keep it simple.”

 

(Re: cafeteria-style open-office setups): “The company tried to put on its best face. One multimedia person even shot footage at our workstations as part of a video for the annual meeting. He asked us to smile and wave. I ducked and ran despite two bad hips. Smile and wave? What are we, North Korea?”

 

“While effective workplace communication is a must, the kind of fake dog-and-pony ‘collaboration’ you see all too often today is just make-work.”

 

 

Story (that you want to highlight)
 
Here’s a fun anecdote from my New York MTA chapter regarding Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s micromanaging:

 

“Cuomo’s absurd ways included an overreaction to a New York Post article about subway commuters citing a mosquito problem in summer 2016, notably at Rockefeller Station and amid concerns about the Zika virus. After the piece ran, though, MTA officials had trouble finding standing water in the system, so at Cuomo’s insistence they staged a press conference at Whitehall station on the lower tip of Manhattan, which they could shut down while keeping the rest of the system running. The MTA then pumped thousands of gallons of water into the subway pits just so Cuomo could swat mosquitoes along the tracks in front of the TV cameras and further placate his ego.”

 

 

About the Author

I am a retired journalist and author of two books, the most recent, “Fiascoes and Foibles: An Unfiltered Look at Public Finance, Media, Politics and Sports” (Elite Authors). It came out last Nov. 28. My earlier book was “Tales from the Newsrooms: An Offbeat Look” (Create Space), in 2011.

“Fiascoes,” a collection of anecdotal essays, reflects largely on my coverage of U.S. public finance over the last 10 years of my career – as a regional editor for a business publication in the shadow of Wall Street – against the backdrop of my 45 years in media. They capture drama, missteps and intrigue I encountered with color and biting, irreverent humor. Plenty of attitude. Topics range from transit/infrastructure to media and politics, and also include broadcasting and podcast dynamics, the alarming clout of tech bureaucracies, the abject failure of open-plan office layouts in the workplace and how my early days in sports journalism shaped and benefited my career.

Unique to my perspective is my blue-collar background. The media employs precious few people from working backgrounds these days. I didn’t go to Harvard, Duke or Stanford and prance right into the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. I was the son of a bartender who navigated a winding road, often working for small-to-medium media outlets who punched above their weight class, and frequently landed a rewarding knockout punch.

 

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Release Blitz ~ The Ever Mage by Angelina J. Steffort

 


Title: The Ever Mage (The Quarter Mage Book 4)

Author: Angelina J. Steffort

Genre: YA Fantasy

Publication Date: Aug. 31st, 2023

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR


Blurb: 
When fate beckons, will you dare to listen?

 

Fairy bargains should have been familiar for Sanja by now. But even with Eherea’s best interests at heart, she can hardly come to terms with the deal she struck with the Crow King. Leaving her mate behind was supposed to protect him, but the Crow King’s cruelty knows no bounds.

 

With every new day Sanja spends at the Crow palace, she discovers how dark a place her new home truly is. Among the Crows, malice and brutality thrive, and Sanja soon finds herself face to face with the hardest decision of her life: Refuse the Crow King and risk retaliation by the ancient magic of fairy bargains, or endure to save her family and her people.

 

If they don't figure out a way to defeat the Crow King's new army, even her sacrifice will not be enough to save them.

 

The Ever Mage is book four in The Quarter Mage and concludes Angelina J. Steffort’s award-winning romantic fantasy series.





"Chocolate fanatic, milk-foam enthusiast and huge friend of the southern sting-ray. Writing is an unexpected career-path for me."

Angelina J. Steffort is an Austrian novelist, best known for her
Wings Trilogy, a young adult paranormal romance series about the impossible
love between a girl and an angel. The bestselling Wings Trilogy has been ranked
among calibers such as the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, The Mortal
op
listed among angel books for teens by bloggers and readers. Her young a
Instruments by Cassandra Clare, and Lauren Kate’s Fallen, and has been
tdult fantasy series Shattered Kingdom is already being compared to Sarah J. Maas’s
Throne of Glass series by readers and fans
.

Angelina has multiple educational backgrounds including
engineering, business, music, and acting, and lives in Vienna, Austria with her
husband and her son.

 

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Release Blitz ~ How to Fake-Date A Vampire - the Charming Cove Series by Linsey Hall

 

 

Title: How to Fake-Date a Vampire

Author: Linsey Hall

Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance, Romantic Comedy

Publication Date: Aug. 31st, 2023

Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR

Blurb:

Faking it with a vampire duke should be simple, right?

I’ve got one chance to prove to my coven that I’m worth my wand. But to do it, I'm going to have to make a deal with a vampire duke. I get to use his gorgeous estate in Cornwall to host the Beltane Ball--and in exchange, I'll pretend to be his girlfriend. But it's all a show for his grandmother.

The rules of our fake relationship are simple:
No flirting. No emotion. No sex. Simple, right?

Except I can't seem to ignore the allure of the infuriating and devastatingly sexy vampire. Falling for a duke isn’t an option, though. I would lose the anonymity that protects me and my coven, and that would ruin my life. 
And the lives of those in my coven.

So yeah, totally simple, right?


Before becoming a writer, Linsey was an archaeologist who studied shipwrecks in all kinds of water, from the tropics to muddy rivers (and she has a distinct preference for one over the other). After a decade of tromping around in search of old bits of stuff, she settled down to start penning her own adventure novels and is freaking delighted that people seem to like them. Since life is better with a little (or a lot of) magic, she writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance.


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