Historical Fiction
Date Published: 08-01-1021
Publisher: BQB Publishing
England, 1609. Matthew did not trust his friend, Richard’s stories of Paradise in the Jamestown settlement, but nothing could have equipped him for the privation and terror that awaited him in this savage land...
Ghosts of the Big Thicket, Book Three
Southern Gothic, Mystery, Paranormal Women’s Fiction
Published: July 2021
Publisher: Zimbell House Publishing
on sale: AMAZON
I've read Book 1 and Book 2 of this series and I'm headed for Book 3. You'll see my reviews below. I was going to tell you I was "working my way through the series" but working isn't the right term to use. I've been reading as fast as I can through this fun cozy because that's just what it is...fun.
What a fun cozy. Although inheriting a restaurant might not
be an odd theme in a cozy, inheriting one with uncommonly good soups and extra
special friends might be. Paranormal is
not a genre I read a lot of but I love mysteries and somehow the “special
soups”, the fun, and so many laughs blended together for a good story and a
good mystery.
What really made me enjoy it from beginning to end were the
characters. Not just Juli, the main character, but all of them and that’s
because they became so real. Somehow Elizabeth Rain got all of these
characters defined enough that I knew their personalities and that leads us to
the next point. The humor and the sarcasm. My favorite flavor in a cozy.
Reasons to laugh. A couple of these characters are even as snarly as I am now
and then:) But aside from all the other what I call “elements” of a cozy, there
are a few subtle twists and turns; making you really wonder if this amateur
sleuth is following in her uncle’s footsteps or completely off-track.
Elizabeth Rain has several books published. Some cozy
mystery genre as well as some from the fantasy genre. There is a YA series to
look at as well. Risky Bisqueness is Book 1 of a series titled “Snips and
Snails Cafe Mystery”. So far there are 3 books in the series. I hope there will
be more. Check out Elizabeth Rain’s books here: https://amzn.to/3sqCmhr
I read Book 1 of Elizabeth Rain’s Snips and Snails Café
series, and I just finished Book 2. It was everything I hoped for and yet
better. Not one bit of the delicious laugh out loud humor is gone. The cozy mystery series with Juli as an amateur sleuth continues, and
the café just gets better and better. The soups keep pleasing people every day,
and I mean Really pleasing people. After all, Juli’s a soup witch. This must
give you a hint that there is a little magic in this café and in this story.
But you know, it’s the fun kind of magic, crazy sweet characters, cookbooks
that come alive, and yummy soup to take all your cares away. But this is still
a mystery. One with all of the “twisties and turns” a good mystery should have.
Elizabeth Rain put out a lot of red herrings and really had me guessing about
who was the bad guy, or girl.
I’m moving on to Book 3, but in the meantime, I’m going to write the author and ask if she can make me a dessert witch :)
Book 3...I'm all ready curled up with this one in my hands...
I already have it preordered!
Watch for sales: https://amzn.to/3xhkTdv
Somewhere past 40, I realized the tights were never going to fit, and the only flying I was ever going to do was in a plane.
So instead, I write my Strong and Sassy Heroes/Heroines into
the novels I pen...
I build doorways into contemporary worlds filled with magic
that allow all of us to be a hero to our own fantastical imaginations.
To me, every character is real. I walk alongside them as they
discover that fear is the flip side of courage, that survival may just be a
badge of honor, and that our flaws are an opportunity to emerge stronger, and
discover our own personal brand of superpowers--at any age.
Next month in August, the 25th-through the 31 I am running a big promotion to launch Death by Dumpling. The first three books are part of a KCD on Amazon. Book One, Risky Bisqueness will be FREE for those 25-28...the other two on serious sale as part of Kindle Countdown Deal through the 31st.
Fantasy Adventure/Fantasy Humor
Release Date: 7/29/2021
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Say Yes to Life provides you with seven keys to unconditional, abundant living. Each key opens a doorway to experiencing life as a gift...
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Risk-averse ER nurse, Alyssa Beckman, is about to lose her job because of yet another bad decision. In order to put her life back on track, she books a week at a rustic mountain resort to ponder her next steps and rejuvenate. But when she arrives, she learns she’s enrolled in boot camp, an adventure program far out of her comfort zone...
Sanity is something you don’t miss until it’s gone. Hard charging pharmaceutical executive Jillian Cooper fears she’d destined to inherit her mother’s history of mental illness when she finds herself accused of murdering her boss...
Thriller, Mystery, Police Procedural
Publisher: Aakenbaaken & Kent
Published: March 2021
Publisher: Bleaknorth Publishing
What terrible secrets lie inside those doors?
It was to be an ordinary holiday by the sea for the Miller family, a chance to bond after difficult times; but when they meet a local family, the Trevelyans, they become embroiled in a dangerous and disturbing conflict with the unstable owner of Leybury Hall, and must face the terrifying truth of The Trophy Room.
Three hearts can equal one great love...
Hera, the goddess of mothering and childbirth, wants more than to be Zeus’s throwaway partner. She wants a lover and a hot romance she can call her own, but she’s not sure she deserves to be happy. When she meets Crane in Vegas, all bets are off...
Publisher: Freedom Thorn Press
Fifty years after a coup replaced President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a fascist dictatorship, America is a land of hopelessness. Ben Adamson, a 19-year-old farm boy in southern Illinois, wants only to spend his time fishing and hunting. But when his dead brother demands justice for his suspicious fate in a colonial war, Ben and Rachel, his brother’s fiancée, are drawn into an underground revolutionary movement.
YA Fantasy
Date Published: 08-10-2021
Publisher: Cinnabar Moth
A JD Pickens Mystery, Book Four
Mystery
Published: June 2021
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Murder and mayhem hit close to home for Sheriff JD Pickens. Someone viciously attacked his father from behind, and his best friend, Leroy Jones, was shot in the back and left for dead. Several other attacks forced Pickens to seek outside help, not only for solving the crimes but for his peace of mind. Never before had Pickens and his deputies had to deal with so many harsh realities of life.
Mystery
Published: January 2021
Publisher: Lifelong Dreams Publishing
On Sale for $.99 – For a Limited Time!
Bodies turn up in the strangest places.
Sports Thriller, Crime Thriller, Romantic Thriller
Published: April 2021
Publisher: The Hutchinson Group
A ballplayer. A diva. The mob. Trouble, 1920s style.
I was lucky enough to be asked to review this book. What luck. It was delightful. My review is as follows but make sure you check out Lis Anna-Langston's other publications as well as her website. All are listed below my review of this great book.
My Review...
I had the most fun! I loved Science Fiction as a kid. Still
do. The kind that could be real, but well...not really. The kind of Sci-fi that
you could picture. Be a part of. That’s what Gobbledy is.
It’s a story that has many aspects of real life today. Doing
your homework, doing your chores, traveling to your grandparent’s lake house IF
you are good. But then in the midst of this real-life humdrum stuff comes
Gobbledy. He changed lots of lives. He’ll change yours if you read this book.
The Library of Congress lists this as at the 10- to
13-year-old reading level. I thought it was delightful, and I am most certainly
not young anymore:) Depending on a child’s reading level it could be read by a
younger child or read with a young child. It’s exciting and yet there isn’t one
possible word or action you would have to worry about your child reading. The
reason for the wide age range is that it’s such a good story. It’s something
that could hold almost anyone’s attention. It has good guys, bad guys, humor
(lots of wonderful humor) and characters you can almost picture whether it’s
the dad or the kids. Or...the Gobbledy.
Lis Anna Langston has several books published within this 10
to 16+ year reading span. We can only wish she’s writing more as we speak.
https://www.lisannalangston.com/
https://twitter.com/MyGreatGobbledy
To Purchase:
Non Fiction - Sales & Selling - Business, Money, Sales
Date Published: June 2, 2021
Publisher: Elite Online Publishing
Sales is an art and it is a passion.
Mystery-thriller and romantic suspense
Date Published: 03-31-2018
A beach wedding, with a hidden explosive device waiting to murder the newlyweds.
A kidnapped teenaged girl, strapped with an IED vest that turns her into a suicide bomber.
A former Marine and his girlfriend, along with their trained K-9, who volunteer to hunt for the bomb-maker...
Non-Fiction
Date to be Published: August 11th
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Of all the groups to emerge during the folk era of the 1960’s, first the Chad Mitchell Trio and later The Mitchell Trio were unequivocally the best. Their complex harmonies, sense of comedic timing and stage presence were unique to the folk movement. They didn’t enjoy the commercial success of other groups because their material made political and social statements that radio and television refused to play. They were wildly popular, though, on college campuses throughout the country during this turbulent time and fostered political and social awareness among thousands of young men and women as they faced the challenging era ahead...
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On a freezing night in 1778, General George Washington vanishes. Walking away from the Valley Forge encampment, he takes a fall and is knocked unconscious, only to reappear at a dog park on San Francisco Bay—in the summer of 2014...
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Two men, one song and a summer to reconnect.
Jude Sanders walked away from Blake Payton three years ago and vowed not to look back…but the song he wrote and recorded with Blake has become a hit and he’s forced to perform the song with Blake all summer. He’s got to make a decision—face the mistakes in his past and give Blake another try or turn his back on their love forever...
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Grace Morgan has been on the music scene long enough to know the life of sex, drugs & rock & roll is just a dream. But after a messy divorce, Grace wants to give her dream of being a music journalist one last shot...
Release Date: July 20, 2021
Publisher: Little Brown Dog Press, Pinehurst, NC USA
Carli Morris is looking forward to a quiet retirement. Earning billions from the sale of her Madison Avenue ad agency, she dreams of spending her golden years painting and giving back to society. But the heartbreaking discovery of a homeless woman poisoned to death reopens the wounds of Carli’s own tragic loss.
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The year is 1950. Zoe and John, two young nuclear scientists from Berkeley, seem to have the perfect life, with promising careers and marriage plans. But their innocence is soon shattered when the Chinese Communist Party seizes power. Choosing to postpone the wedding and return back to her home country, Zoe finds herself locked in a political cage and separated from John indefinitely...
Literary LGBTQ
Date Published: 5/29/21
Publisher: Blue Fortune Enterprises, LLC
Three friends, one life-changing summer.
M/M Romance
Date Published: June 2021
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Ahhh, the good life. Goodbye Navy SEALs, hello rehabbing a rundown lake house he inherited. Being a former Lieutenant Commander will come in handy for Brick Matthews. He gets to boss himself around while tearing down a dilapidated shed and re-roofing his new home, among a hundred other things.
Spy Thriller
Date Published: 11-25-2019
Who can you trust when corruption and danger are a way of life?
