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Magicide is free July 17 – 18

magicideMaxwell Beacham-Jones, the world’s most famous magician, has reached the zenith of his success. Now he’s planned the most daring, outrageous trick of his career.

But when Maxwell dies in a Las Vegas roller coaster escape stunt before a national television audience, it’s no accident. He was hated by his contemporaries, and all of the suspects are magicians—with plenty of secret motives for murder.

MAGICIDE introduces Las Vegas Metro Police detective and single mom, Cheri Raymer, and her vegetarian partner, Tony Pizzarelli. Together they follow a trail through the world of magic and show business that leads to intrigue and shocking revelations.

Raymer will face the most devastating personal threat in her career when her teen-aged son, Tom, fascinated by magic, becomes the protégé of a suspected killer.

About Magicide author Carolyn V. Hamilton

Magicide author Carolyn V. HamiltonWriting is my life…

?well, maybe not completely…but I do love what I do, and I think that makes all the difference!

After a long career in advertising, marketing, graphic design & public relations, I joined the U.S. Peace Corps. As a volunteer assigned to rural community development work in the South American country of Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana), I lived for a year in an indigenous Amerindian village on the northeast corner of the Amazon basin.

This experience inspired my first novel, the adventure/romance, “Hard Amazon Rain.”

It was also In Suriname where I learned the history of Elisabeth Samson, the first black woman in the 18th century Dutch plantation colony to get legal permission from the government to marry white, inspiring me to write my second novel, “Elisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride.”

And I was off and writing… completing my Las Vegas-based murder mystery, “Magicide”, co-writing the Cork Proctor memoir, “My Mind is an Open Mouth,” and most recently “How to Create a Personal Art Journal.”

Right now I’m finishing my own memoir about coming to Las Vegas in the 70s to join a circus and opening the original MGM Grand Hotel as a cocktail waitress. “Coming to Las Vegas, a True Tale of Sex, Drugs & Sin City in the 70s” will debut in September 2014.

When that’s done, I’ll be completing another in-the-drawer project, a non-fiction book for authors, “Power Editing For Fiction Writers.”

If you’d like to contact me, comment, or ask writing questions, e-mail me any time at info@carolynvhamilton.com

You can also follow me on Twitter @AnAdventuress

Fairy’s Fairy tale kingdom

fairy author nirit littaneyMake-believe and dress-up are so much fun, especially for Fairy, a young girl with plenty of imagination. Halloween is her favorite time of the year and her preferred costume is, of course, a fairy. She’s always wanted to be a part of a legendary fairy tale, and with the shutting of her eyes; Fairy nods off to sleep to dream the most wonderful of adventures.
A series of magical doors transport the little girl from one amazing fairy tale to the next, experiencing too many to count in a single night.

 

About the Fairy Tale Kindgom author: Nirit Littaney

Nirit LittaneyNirit Littaney is a fresh, imaginative author who weaves vivid images and important life lessons into endearing stories for children. After being confined to her bed for years by an incurable illness, Nirit experienced the same triumph of spirit that many of her characters undergo in their journeys through lands near and far.

Nirit’s commitment to personal and physical healing, along with her story-like travels around the world, have inspired her to pen inventive tales for families in search of humorous, insightful bedtime stories. She writes for children in hopes of making them giggle while they also learn a lesson or two.

Today, Nirit lives in Israel with her angel of a husband, who champions each of her new books as if he were the wide-eyed child she wrote them for. When Nirit isn’t dreaming up new characters, she works as a nutritionist, medical coach, and spiritual leader. She is eager to inspire and help others with the lessons her own challenges have taught her–and what better way is there than through books?

To inspire your children while filling their minds with creativity, check out Nirit’s latest books, “Candy’s Chocolate Kingdom”, “Zigi the alien and the stinky socks”, “Zoe’s trip to the Zoo”, “Fatty Betty”, “Bart! Stop the Farts!”, “Fairy’s Fairy tale Kingdom” and “Bad Boy Bradley”!

clarity by loretta lostHer world has always been dark, but he might be able to change everything…

Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college. Disillusioned by the cruelty of people, Helen retreated from society to live by herself as a reclusive writer in the woods–where no one could ever hurt her again.

When a brilliant young doctor shows up on her doorstep, promising her that his new research can give her the ability to see for the first time, Helen stubbornly refuses. She has learned not to trust anyone, and to rely only on herself. But Dr. Liam Larson will not take no for an answer. He makes it his personal mission to rescue Helen from her loneliness, and bring joy into her world once more–the joy she has denied herself for so long.

When Helen’s demons come racing back into her life, threatening to rip her apart and destroy the strength she has carefully rebuilt, Liam is the only one who might be able to save her. Can he reach the broken girl in time, helping her to heal and see the world in a different light? Or will Helen’s grief send her spiraling out of control, lost to him forever?

**********This is the first book of the three-part Clarity Series.**********

About Clarity author: Loretta Lost

Loretta LostLoretta Lost writes for the same reason that you read: to experience all the love and excitement that can often be lacking from real life. She finds it therapeutic to explore her issues through the eyes of a different person. She hopes to have a family someday, but until then, her characters will do nicely.

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Pierced is Free Today!

Free eBook on Amazon

Pierced by J. C. Mells

free ebookFor the last two years, life has been good for Pierce.

Okay, so she’s on the run from Dorian, the man who kept her locked up in a vampire compound for most of her teens, has a ten-year-old brat in tow, believes her panic attacks are due to the anxiety disorders she may or may not suffer from, is still dealing with an opioid addiction forced on her by her captor, and is guided by two imaginary characters from a 1945 classic film that live in her head and represent her conscience and her courage. Things could be worse…right?

Then two mercenaries hired by Dorian finally catch up with her…

 

About Pierced author J. C. Mells

Pierced author J. C. MellsJ. C. Mells has had every job from an ice cream truck driver to chocolate factory worker to waiting tables in a Las Vegas casino.

She grew up in the Middle East (Abadan, Iran) and Spain (Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol) and finally ended up finishing High School in England (Weymouth, Dorset). J. C. emigrated to the United States in 1990, and returned to school at the ripe old age of 28, where she obtained a BA and then two MA degrees – all in New York, NY. (Hunter College, NYU and Columbia, respectively)

She has traveled extensively, including a 3 month stay in India, but has finally settled in Las Vegas, NV of all places where she has been living for the last 7 years with her two “babies” Alabama Worley Mells and Persephone Jayne Mells. (Why is it all writers have cats…?).

Oh, and she can’t cook to save her life.

Please visit her website at www.jcmells.com

Alice in Monologue Land

Free eBook July 5 – 7

Alice in Monologue Land by Amy Gettinger

alice in monologue landPractice your snort laugh, kids! College instructor Alice is headed down the campus rabbit hole into a world of adventure, romance, and danger, spiced with a generous splash of chaos and made awkward by embarrassing talk of female body parts. On stage. Amid monologue practices, some female students are going missing. Can Alice find them in this carnival ride of a tale with more spins than a tilt-a-whirl?

When adjunct English instructor Alice Chalmers gets roped into reading a part in an upcoming campus production of The Venus Monologues, her life spirals out of control. The teaching job of her dreams is open, but the staid hiring committee won’t appreciate seeing her on stage discussing the “V-word.” Pressured by her dean to perform, Alice is in monologue hell. When she calls the production “The Venomous Mambas” or “The Viral Meningitis,” her children howl. But Alice has more pressing problems: some of her female students are disappearing.

About the Author of Alice in Monologue Land: Amy Gettinger

alice author Amy GettingerAmy Gettinger lives in Orange County, California with her husband and her two piteous poodles under the shade of a very old eucalyptus windrow full of crows and wild parrots. When she’s not writing novels, she’s creating Reader’s Theater plays and coaching a local senior group to perform them, complete with feather boas and tiaras. Her blog is at amygettinger.com.