February 11, 2017 · 6:27 pm

Featured Audio: Dial Up for Murder: The Hacker Chronicles, Book 1 by Clem Chambers

February 11, 2017

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Title: Dial Up for Murder: The Hacker Chronicles, Book 1

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Author: Clem Chambers

Narrated by:  Jack Wynters

Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Fiction

Format: Audio (also Paperback and ebook)

Length:    8 hours 37 minutes

Publisher: A for Authors Ltd

Publication Date: April 12, 2016

Synopsis:

When Making Your Fortune Could Cost Your Life! 

Cyber-crime didn’t exist in the 1980s. Or did it? Clem Chambers’ gripping techno-thriller series, The Hacker Chronicles, is a reminder that the dark art of hacking is as old as network technology. Dial Up for Murder is set in 1984, long before the revolutionary advent of the Internet and World Wide Web. The hacker hero Peter is an entrepreneurial nerd struggling to attract paying subscribers to his new-fangled network. A chance meeting with a shady customer soon has the young computer whizz raking in the dough. Yet before long, he finds himself sucked into a dangerous world, consorting with gangsters and running for his life. Will Peter live long enough to spend his criminal spoils? The Hacker Chronicles details Peter’s terrifying yet financially-lucrative descent into a dangerous world of real-life crime and ruthless 1980s gangsters.

 
 
 

 

 

Buying Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Dial-Up-Murder-Hacker-Chronicles/dp/B01E43WVNC

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February 9, 2017 · 7:23 pm

Black History Month Paperback Release: Black Ice by John Gallagher and Val James

February 8, 2017-

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Title:  Black Ice: The Val James Story

Author: Val James and John Gallagher

Genre: Non-Fiction/Sports Bio/Hockey

Format: Paperback Release

Publisher: ECW Press

Publication Date:  January 10, 2017

Synopsis:

Val James became the first African American player in the NHL when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982, and in 1987 he became the first black player of any nationality to skate for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Born in central Florida, James grew up on Long Island and received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday. At 16, James left home to play in Canada, where he was the only black person in junior and, often, in the whole town. While popular for his tough play and winning personality, the teenager faced racist taunts at opposing arenas, and the prejudice continued at all levels of the game. In his two NHL stints, James defined himself as a smart team player and opponent, known for his pugilistic skills.

Black Ice is the untold story of a trail-blazing athlete who endured and overcame discrimination to realize his dreams and become an inspiration for future generations.

As featured in a Fox News Black History Month documentary, on NHL.com, NPR’s Morning Edition, ESPN’s Olbermann, and in Newsday, the L.A. Times, and the New York Times, Black Iceis the untold story of a trail-blazing athlete who endured and overcame discrimination to realize his dreams and become an inspiration for future generations. This edition includes a new afterword that explores James’s legacy.

Review

“Val James’ story is compelling, and surprisingly, not widely known. It’s a story that deserves to be told and appreciated. And now, here it is.” ― Bob Costas, broadcaster for NBC and MLBN

“Black Ice is an engaging read that sheds some important light on the subject of racism in hockey. James is an entertaining narrator, and his story is certainly one worth spending some time with.” ― Winnipeg Free Press

“James may have been the first African American to play in the NHL, but that’s just a small part of his fascinating story.” ― PuckJunk.com

Amazon Link:    https://www.amazon.com/Black-Ice-Val-James-Story/dp/1770413634/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1486667666&sr=8-1

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January 31, 2017 · 12:19 am

New Release: Payback by Eve Rabi

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Title: Payback

Author: Eve Rabi

Genre: Fiction/Supense/Romantic Intrigue

Format: eBook

Publisher: Amazon Digital Services

Publication Date: US: December 23, 2016

UK: January 31, 2017

Synopsis:    

Sometimes a woman has no choice but to fight back. Sometimes a woman has no choice but to fight dirty. A gripping, romantic crime and suspense thriller about revenge that will leave you turning pages.

“I could not put it down, and when I did, I picked it up 2 mins later! The story grips you from the go. A must read.” Amazon reviewer

Amazon UK Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Payback-Sometimes-yourself-romantic-thriller-ebook/dp/B00CPSGLEE

Series:   Girl on Fire Series

 

 

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January 13, 2017 · 11:15 pm

New Release: Consumed by Joseph Pontillo

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Consumed by Joseph Pontillo

Title: Consumed

Author: Joseph Pontillo

Genre: Fiction/Drama/Romantic Intrigue

Format: Paperback/Harcover/eBook

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Publication Date: December 12, 2016

Synopsis:    This book is about love, deep love adoration, arrogance, self righteousness, and over powering consumed hatred and revenge which is and becomes over the top uncontrollable hatred that lingers for decades. There is a fine line between love and hate. Anyone who has ever been in any kind of a relationship in life can attest to that.

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537108441/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Meet the Author:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signing-with-joe-pontillo-author-of-consumed-tickets-30972868684?aff=es2

 

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January 11, 2017 · 8:31 pm

Featured Book: The Beauty of the Fall by Richard Marcello

January 11, 2017-

Title: The Beauty of the Fall

Author: Richard Marcello

Genre: Fiction/Novel

Format: ebook/paperbook

Pages:    378

Publisher: Langdon Street Press (October 25, 2016)

Synopsis:

 

A TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE CHARTS A HIGH-RISK, UNCONVENTIONAL PATH WHILE GRIEVING THE LOSS OF HIS SON 

Dan Underlight, a divorced, workaholic technology executive, suffers lingering grief over the death of his ten-year-old son, Zack. When Dan’s longtime friend and boss fires Dan from RadioRadio, the company that he helped create, he crashes and isolates himself. 

Willow, a poet and domestic violence survivor, helps Dan regain his footing. With her support, Dan ventures on a pilgrimage of sorts, visiting Fortune 500 companies to flesh out a software start-up idea. He then recruits three former RadioRadio colleagues and starts Conversationworks, a company he believes will be at the vanguard of social change. 

Guided by Dan’s leadership, Conversationworks enjoys some early successes, but its existence is soon threatened on multiple fronts. Will Dan survive the ensuing corporate battles and realize the potential of his company? Or will he be defeated by his enemies and consumed by his grief?

Buying Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Fall-Novel-Rich-Marcello/dp/1635054028/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1478271000&sr=8-2

Additional Information:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32711997-the-beauty-of-the-fall

https://www.facebook.com/richmarcelloauthor/

https://www.instagram.com/rich.marcello/

About Richard Marcello:  

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Rich is a poet, an accomplished songwriter and musician, a creative writing teacher at Seven Bridges’ Writer Collaborative, and the author of three novels, The Color of Home, The Big Wide Calm, and the forthcoming, The Beauty of the Fall, due out in 2016. Previously, he enjoyed a successful career as a technology executive, managing several multi-billion dollar businesses for Fortune 500 companies.

The Color of Home was published in 2013 by Langdon Street Press, and melds together honest generative dialogue, poetic sensory detail, and “unforgettable characters who seem to know the complete song catalog of Lennon or Cohen.” The Big Wide Calm was published in 2014, also by Langdon Street Press. The US Review of Books stated, “Marcello’s novel has a lot going for it. Well-written, thought-provoking, and filled with flawed characters, it meets all of the basic requirements of best-of-show in the literary fiction category.” The Beauty of the Fall will be published in 2016. Faulkner Award Winner Mark Spencer commented, “Few novels are as intelligent and relevant as The Beauty of the Fall. Almost none is as eloquent, compelling, heartbreaking, and ultimately, uplifting.”

As anyone who has read Rich’s work can tell you, his books deal with life’s big questions: love, loss, creativity, community, aging, self-discovery. His novels are rich with characters and ideas, crafted by a natural storyteller, with the eye and the ear of a poet.

For Rich, writing and art making is about connection, or as he says, about making a difference to a least one other person in the world, something he has clearly achieved many times over, both as an artist, a mentor, and a teacher.

Rich lives in Massachusetts on a lake with his family and two Newfoundlands, Ani and Shaman. He is currently working on his fourth novel, The Latecomers.

 

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December 28, 2016 · 11:23 pm

My Sexy Stranger: (Book 1 of the Wolfe Brothers Navy SEALs Erotica Thriller Series) by Valetta Steele

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December 28, 2016-

Title: My Sexy Stranger: (Book 1 of the Wolfe Brothers Navy SEALs Erotica Thriller Series)

Author: Valetta Steele

Genre: Fiction/Erotic Fiction/Romance

Format: eBook 

Publisher: Valetta Steele

Publication Date: September 28, 2016

Synopsis:

My name is Savannah Elizabeth Montgomery.

I’m horny and my life is a mess.

Oh, I’m also on the brink of financial ruin. All thanks to my ruthless ex-husband, Harlan Ready.

So what’s the harm of having a hot one-night stand with a sexy stranger on a cold, winter night in New York City to momentarily forget my troubles?

He is more than I could ever dream of. So why do I feel uneasy about him? Why do I feel this night of passion is connected to Harlan? Is there no limit to how far my ex-husband’s tentacles of treachery reach?

Book 1 of the Wolfe Brothers Navy SEALs Erotica Thriller Series.

Buying Links:

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Wolfe-Brothers-Erotica-Thriller-ebook/dp/B01LZZ6MJ0

 

 

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December 15, 2016 · 4:01 pm

New Audio Release: The Charming Drifter by Brian Lee Tucker

December 15, 2016- 

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The Charming Drifter by Brian Lee Tucker

Title: The Charming Drifter (AUDIO)

Author: Brian Lee Tucker

Narrated by:  411 Audio , J.M. Kuczynski

Genre: Non-Fiction/True Crime

Format: Audio

Length:    2 hours 1 minutes

Publisher: Brian Lee Tucker

Publication Date: December 14, 2016

Synopsis:

 

Rape, sodomy, strangulation, stabbing, murder, and dismemberment. So were some of Joel David Rifkin’s favorite “hobbies” that he inflicted on mostly drug addicted or alcoholic prostitutes from 1988 to 1993. Police finally caught up to Rifkin on June 28, 1993, when state troopers spotted him driving his pickup truck without license plates on the Southern State Parkway. A high-speed chase ended in Mineola, New York, when he crashed into a utility pole directly in front of the courthouse where he eventually stood trial. Troopers detected a foul odor from the back of the truck. It came from the corpse of his final victim: prostitute and dancer Tiffany Bresciani, 22. A peek inside the tarp revealed the woman’s decomposing body. Motorist Joel Rifkin, now in handcuffs, helped identify the corpse as 22-year-old Tiffany Bresciani. She was a prostitute, he told the officers. I had sex with her, and then I killed her. He was on his way to dump the body near Republic Airport, he explained, when he was spotted by Ruane and Spaargaren. The case was open-and-shut…but it was far from simple. 

In custody, Rifkin soon began confessing to other homicides, a total of 17, including Bresciani. The interviews he gave to the police were so horrifying it sickened even the most seasoned officers and detectives. In The Charming Drifter, author Brian Lee Tucker offers an inside look into the mind of one of the most vicious serial killers in New York history and a nightmarish glimpse into the final moments of his victim’s lives. 

©2016 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2016 Brian Lee Tucker

 

 

Buying Links:

http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_pd_Nonfic_c2_1_narr?searchNarrator=+411+Audio

 

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November 22, 2016 · 4:19 pm

Audio Feature: The Origin of F.O.R.C.E.

November 22, 2016-

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Title: The Origin of F.O.R.CE. (AUDIO)

Author: Sam B. Miller II

Narrated by:  John Pirhalla

Genre: Fiction/Science-Fiction

Format: Audio

Length:    12 hours 12 minutes

Publisher: Audible

Publication Date: August, 2015

Synopsis:

The Chrysallaman Empire made contact in 1947. Their mission was simple: find a suitable planet for colonization. Rich with land, minerals and water, Earth – HG-281- could boast only of a primitive race of defenders known as Humans, bugs who could be easily squashed by the might of a single Chrysallaman’s mind. When a Chrysallaman ship is unexpectedly brought down in Roswell, New Mexico, the aliens return to their home planet to regroup, leaving behind a broken ship and a young alien boy who would grow to become one of Earth’s greatest assets – and her greatest ally. 

Mankind has 60 years to prepare a strategy to defend against not only superior technology, but superior psychic ability and strength. F.O.R.C.E., an elite group of military personnel, brilliant scientists, and a sombrero-wearing alien, is formed to develop a worldwide defense, the likes of which the Chrysallamans have never known. 

Spanning six decades, the defining technological achievements, people and events of human history, from the Roswell incident to the Dali Lama to the Hubble telescope to the Pioneer missions, are masterfully re-envisioned and woven into The Origin of F.O.R.C.E. As they learn to work with each other, the humorous, tumultuous and sometimes romantic interactions of the F.O.R.C.E. team bring the book to life. 

©2015 Sam B Miller II (P)2016 Sam B Miller II

 

 

Buying Links:

http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_mn_mt_ano_tseft__galileo?advsearchKeywords=the+origin+of+f.o.r.c.e&sprefixRefmarker=nb_sb_ss_i_3_14&sprefix=The+Origin+of

 

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October 5, 2016 · 3:33 pm

New Release: Unexpected by P.F. Citizen One (10/7/2016)

October 5, 2016-

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Unexpected by P.F. Citizen One

 

Title: Unexpected-Short Stories from Around The World

Author: P.F. Citizen One

Genre: Fiction/Short Stories/World Travel/Literature

Format: Kindle 

Publisher: Bookbaby

Publication Date: October 7, 2016

Synopsis:    A series of short, true life stories, which are the product of the travels and observations of one man. The stories are a miscellaneous collection of the funny and sad, of tragedy, love and friendship. And they are all, in a way, unexpected.  
Unexpected takes you on a journey from a Brazilian working on the oil rigs of Venezuela, who gets the shock of his life, to the uplifting story of a Chinese beggar living on the streets, entertaining passers-by with his songs and surviving through the mercy and kindness of others.  
There is a story for each of us in this book. Each one is subtly different and each carries either a message of hope for lost, or of caution for the unwary.
Unexpected is just that. Just as life is and just as the course of our lives run, at times unexpectedly.

AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR P.F. CITIZEN

If you had to describe your book as a whole in three sentences (they can be long sentences) what would they be? 
Unexpected is a collection of true life short stories my travels around the world and the people I have met. The book features seven thought-provoking, humorous and engaging stories that end with the most unlikely twist.

 What was the inspiration for the selection of short stories? Why did you decide this instead of one continuous novel?  I have learned a lot about life from listening and being kind to people, as well as from stories others have shared with me. I actively listen, and often feel like I’ve heard these stories many times before, until I realize that each story is unexpected and instructive. These experiences have inspired me to write.

I wanted to write the type of stories that I would enjoy reading: true life stories. Short stories. At first, you feel like you’ve heard these stories many times before, until you read the ending. This is true life—unexpected.

Can you tell us more about one story?

In one of the stories, The Wedding Contract, a man who was forced to sign a pre-nuptial agreement simply because his wife was wealthy and he was considered poor. As time went on, fortunes changed and the man became far wealthier than his wife. His wife and friends dreaded the worst from him because of his new financial position but what he did next was shocking.

Finally where can my readers keep up with you and your writing?   You can keep up with me through my website or my Facebook page:

Website: http://c1unexpected.com/

Facebook page: Unexpected by Citizen ONE
https://www.facebook.com/Unexpected-by-Citizen-ONE-175623995830489/

Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Unexpected-Short-Stories-Around-World-ebook/dp/B01LYV8MIB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475525996&sr=8-1&keywords=pf+citizen+one

 

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September 28, 2016 · 5:20 pm

New Release: Writings from the Soul by Xan Tucker

September 28, 2016-

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Writings from the Soul by Xan Tucker

Title: Writings from the Soul- A Love Story

Author: Xan Tucker

Genre: Fiction/Poetry/Romance/Literature

Format: Paperback (70 English pages)

Publisher: Createspace

Publication Date: August 23, 2016

Synopsis:    Writings FROM THE SOUL is a compilation of love poems that make for an interesting read. Love never gets old and this work is an excellent reminder of the many phases that we often go through when finding love. Finding love requires transparency and dealing with unexpected emotions from time to time. In this stirring book, Author Xan Tucker, takes the reader on an inspiring and emotional journey of finding love as told with poetry. Each poem is beautifully written with emotion and passion.

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537108441/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

For More Info:  http://www.xantucker.com/store/

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