Bracha Goetz now has 24 published books! Check it out!
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Think EYEWALL without the ocean – Buzz’s Blogs
Think EYEWALL without the ocean – Buzz’s
Blogs
SUPERCELL
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Vote on Goodreads!
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Have your opinions known and your voice HEARD! Vote on
Goodreads for your favorite books and tell everyone why! Joy Ross Davis’ novel,
Countenance,
is up to #8!
Friday, October 25, 2013
SUPER endorsement for SUPERCELL!
SUPER endorsement for SUPERCELL!
Buzz Bernard has succeeded in writing a captivating book that
not only helps inform people about severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, but
gives a glimpse into the challenges, frustrations, dangers,
and--sometimes--successes of storm chasing. He has woven this into a drama
filled with interesting characters and an exciting plot.--Greg Forbes,
Severe Weather Expert, The Weather Channel
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Robert Shows speaks tonight on the Kennedy Assassination in Raymond, Mississippi!
Robert Shows speaks tonight
on the Kennedy Assassination in Raymond, Mississippi!
For those interested in all
things Kennedy, this is an opportunity of a lifetime! Meet Robert Shows, author
of ‘A
Sentence of Death’: Words That Killed A President, published by Ecanus
Publishing www.ecanuspublishing.co.uk
Title of
event: Friends
of the Library/Raymond
Title of
session: The Assassination of
President Kennedy
Venue:
Raymond Courthouse; Raymond Ms.
Link for
venue: http://www.raymondms.com/business_directory/government_hinds_county_raymond_offices.html
Date/Time:
Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:30 P.M. at the Raymond Courthouse
Website: Robert
M. Shows http://robertmshows.com/
If you can’t make this event,
he will be at the following:
Title of
event: Gulf
Coast Writers Association
Title of session:
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Venue:
East Biloxi Library
Link for
venue: www.gcwriters.org
Date/Time: Saturday,
Oct 26, 2013 6:30 P.M.
Website: Robert
M. Shows http://robertmshows.com/
***
Title of
event: The Applause
Series at the Eudora Welty Library
Title of
session: The Assassination of
President Kennedy
Venue: Eudory
Welty Library Auditorium
Link for
venue: http://www.jhlibrary.com/mainlib/ew_main.htm
Date/Time: Thursday,
Nov 21, 2013 at noon
Website: Robert
M. Shows http://robertmshows.com/
Rose Bush by Stephen Doster will be featured in a blog on The Dan O'Brien Project Nov 19th.
Rose Bush by Stephen Doster will be featured in a blog on The Dan O'Brien Project Nov 19th.
Finding Clair Fletcher by Lisa Regan made Amazon's bestseller list!
Finding Clair Fletcher by Lisa Regan made Amazon's bestseller list
in Kidnapping Crime Fiction, starting out at #17 and yesterday got all the way
up to #8. It fluctuates, lingering between #10 and #12 now. It also shot to #1
on Amazon's Top Rated Kidnapping Crime Fiction which is a list based on
reviews, not sales. Congrats, Lisa!!!
Lisa Regan, Author of Finding Claire Fletcher and Aberration
www.lisaregan.com
www.lisaregan.com
From
the darkness of the past, fear comes calling.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Buzz Bernard and ChaserCon!
Buzz
Bernard, author of SUPERCELL, went storm chasing last May in order to experience
what his characters in his new novel would encounter in search an EF4 or
5 tornado in two weeks!? What he discovered was
much more than he could have ever imagine. It is much harder than you think.
You have to be in the right place, at the right time; besides having the
ultimate conditions and, most importantly, an escape route.
ChaserCon http://www.chasercon.com/
-The National
Storm Chasing Convention is the place to go to hang-out and meet all the best
storm chasers in the world. We are proud to say that SUPERCELL is listed for
the convention. Release date November 1st you can purchase it on
Kindle or pre-order your hard copy now! Book launch for SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard, November
2, 2013 @ 6:30 p.m. BOOKS For Less BOOKS For Less in Alpharetta, Georgia. www.buzzbernard.com
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Author, Dr. David Vastola, renovates The Andrew Carnegie Library as his new home!
Dr.David Vastola, author of The Fountain of Youth:
Nutritional Therapies and Secrets of the Morning Report, converted
The Andrew Carnegie Library in Rockport, Massachusetts (just north of Boston) into
a summer home. It has been featured in 3 magazines: Design New
England Jan/Feb 2010, Cape Ann (north of Boston living) summer 2010,
the holiday issue of Northshore December 2010 . Now, HGTV will be filming
November 15 and it will air in Spring 2014.
A treasure, it is spectacular. The magazine articles not
only did a good photo profile, but also outlined all our travails in the
restoration process. Our “home” is in downtown Rockport across from the
new Chamber Music facility on the ocean. We not only renovated but
constructed an underground garage and replaced floors with Canadian fir.
Please peruse the links below to find out more about Dr.
Vastola, his books and his wonderful new home.
Countenance by Joy Ross Davis is scheduled to be highlighted on The Fussy Librarian
Countenance by Joy Ross Davis is scheduled to
be highlighted on The Fussy Librarian website on October 27! http://www.thefussylibrarian.com/
www.joyrossdavis.com
https://www.facebook.com/jdavisangelwriter
countenance.joyrossdavis.com
Words from Pep
Sitting in the Dew
The beaver pond dried up years ago
and was now overgrown with sedges. There, under a three-quarter moon in the dew
covered grass I spread out an old canvas and sat down. Leaning back I let my
breathing settle and looked up into the partial face of our celestial neighbor.
Without delay I heard her speak: “I am the timepiece of your night. You and I
entangled, traveling in unison, sailing through the heavens. My silver and gold
captured, embraced by your white and blue. I circle through the tide of the
ages. My vision washed with the magnificent greens of forests, radiant hues of
your seas, the splendor of gray mountains, rich browns/tans of deserts, and the
dazzling reflective poles. Your oceans swimming with life, the firmament above
pierced by flight, the stampede and glory of great beasts, rise and fall of
your civilizations. I have witnessed the visible red stain of warfare, acid
green of effluence being poured into seas and air, tar-like blackness flowing
from bigotry, hatred and the blister yellow religion of greed. I wept over your
ignorance and beheld your murder of the innocent One. . . . . . Yet, I feel the
exhilaration of your potential divinity. I know of your joys and love. Latent
in your being, beauty and grace are yours to bestow upon the world. Kindness,
gentleness, meekness, goodness are already in your heart waiting for
expression. There are those who perceive, yet too many without sight, held
captive in the lightless dungeon of fearful ego. . . . . . Step back from the
abyss, give pause, ponder the true and good in your hearts. Gain again
your intimate presence with the earth. Know that nothing is fulfilled in
itself. All together in union we have made our voyage through light-years of
time. This is the way of the universe, the way of unity and relatedness. . . .
. . From where does your pathology of fear, division and disregard surface? Is
it not that coursing through your brain is the deception of estrangement? If
you knew of your oneness with creation and our Creator the colors of love would
restore and reconcile your world. Allow the love that surrounds you, is you, to
renew your mind, for in this is the salvation of the world and the continuance
of our journey.” . . . . . Silence. There in the dew of that night, in the
heart of the universe, perhaps the most gorgeous place in the cosmos, I found
myself on bended knee thinking of future generations. We are capable of change.
Humanity’s predatory relationship toward the gift of creation can be
transformed. We can live in sustainable harmony with each other and the world.
There is only One World, One Family of Humankind, One Creator of All. . . . . .
As she moved in her great arc across the sky a nocturnal chill condensed my
breath into spirit-like form. I rose, rolled up the old canvas and stood there
musing of wisdom and our interdependent relationship with the universe. --
www.theteacherwithin.com
--
ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL
ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Hurry while it lasts! PLAGUE by Buzz Bernard on Amazon’s Daily Deal!
Hurry while it lasts! PLAGUE by Buzz Bernard on Amazon’s
Daily Deal!
John Flynn to attend Chiller Theatre!
John Flynn to attend Chiller Theatre!
Friday - 6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Saturday - 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday - 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday - 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday - 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
John Flynn to attend Chiller Theatre as author and film
professional. Get signed copies of his books and speak with him personally. What
an opportunity!
One step closer to publication for Leta Serafim!
Leta Serafim, author of To Look On Death No More
and The
Devil Takes Half (soon to be released by Coffetown Press, 2014) is seen
here in Greece, in the very area where both books take place.
To
Look On Death No More is a historical fiction set in Greece during
WWII, a story that will pull at your heartstrings.
Brendan
O’Malley was an Irishman with heroic ideals who joined His Majesty’s army to
rid the world of tyrannous rulers – specifically Hitler. His former dispatches
were in Cairo, challenging Rommel in the desert; his last in Greece the autumn
of 1943 with the stated objective ‘to make contact with partisan forces and
build airstrips.’ Parachuting in, he is wounded and is found by Danae, a
seventeen year old Greek girl, and her brother, Stefanos. Although they confiscate
all he has upon his discovery, they hide him in a cave for weeks saving his
life. He, in turn, helps Danae’s family and joins the rebel forces to fight the
Germans.
A true
love story, as well as an expose’ of what occurred in a remote part of Greece close
to the end of the war, you feel as if you are there, so hungry your insides
ache; so cold you shiver, bracing against the slicing winds of the mountains,
yet so in love you are afraid to acknowledge your heart; knowing either of you
may not exist tomorrow.
Thoroughly
researched, Serafim’s documentation and pictures give breath to those who lived
and those who were lost. Most WWII stories are written with Italy, Germany,
Great Britain and the United States as the focal points, but who has read of
the atrocities committed against the Greeks? Who has been satisfied with their
meager atonements?
The Devil Takes Half is a murder
mystery set on the Greek island of Chios, five kilometers off the coast of
Turkey.
A
severed hand is found at an archeological site at the monastery of Profitas
Elias in the mountainous interior of the island. A close-knit community with
only one homicide since WWII, the Chief Officer is inexperienced in such
investigations, but with the help of the local priest who watches all the
American crime shows and Marina, a woman he has loved all his life but was not
allowed to marry, he pieces the puzzle together. An ancient Minoan city is the
source of all the malice, murder and mayhem, but also the saving grace of a
poor island.
Twists,
turns and dead-ends combined with gasp-filled events keep you clueless as to
who the villains are until the very end.
Serafim was
a journalist at the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau before moving to
Greece, where she taught art and illustrated books. Upon her return to the
United States, she wrote feature stories for the Boston Globe before trying her
hand a fiction. She continues to spend her summers in Greece.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Buzz Bernard is a finalist in the EPIC’s ebook competition!
Buzz
Bernard is a finalist in the EPIC’s ebook competition!
Congratulation,
Buzz, on being a finalist in EPIC’s eBook competition!
The
winners will be announced at our annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, March
13-15, 2014. Please check http://www.epicorg.com/epicon.html for more details.
We
hope to see you there,
Debi
Sullivan
EPIC’s
Competitions Chair
Monday, October 14, 2013
Five star review for Maddie's Choice!
Five star review for Maddie's Choice!
“Look out Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown! This author of a certain age, (Joyce Zeller),
can hang with the best of them. Her
novel, “Maddies’s Choice” has it all; romance, intrigue, and suspense, all of
which are delivered with a good dose of humor and insight. The
characters really come alive. “Maddie’s
Choice” of course, should be to continue writing romance novels since she has
an extraordinary wealth of subjects in her own backyard. There could be sequel after sequel written
about the main characters. I can just
imagine their stories! The only
disappointment was finishing the book.
It leaves you wanting more, much more….
A thoroughly enjoyable read!
--Barbara Collins, critiques and reviews
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Book launch party - Ed Aymar's novel I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Ed Aymar invited you to
I'll Sleep When You're Dead
by Ed Aymar
Saturday, November 23, 2013
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Where:
RFD Washington (the Backroom Bar)
810 7th Street Northwest
Washington, D.C. DC 20001
RFD Washington (the Backroom Bar)
810 7th Street Northwest
Washington, D.C. DC 20001
Will
you attend?
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Maryann Wakefield’s Blog…
Maryann Wakefield’s Blog…
If you have not had the opportunity to read Maryann
Wakefield’s blog, please do. I am going to make Duffy Tea in honor of her. J
What a joy she is to all who know her personally or by her works. Her novel, A
Gentle Sun Coming, will be out soon. She uses her protagonist in the
novel, Kade, as her muse for the blogs. It makes her ‘real’. To Kade and
Maryann! Thank you!
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Words from Pep Night Fires
Words from Pep
Night Fires
By
James “Pep” Washburn
Here and there among the ashes a
small flame would brighten the night as my stick stirred the remaining coals. I
slipped my pipe into its leather pouch. It was past midnight. Time to begin
threading my way home across the meadow under night skies. . . . . . .
Millennia after millennia we gathered around the night fires, absorbed their
radiation, and gazed upward into eternity. Drawn together around the soft glow
and dancing embers, night whispered mysteries to our human family of long ago.
There we mused over the day as darkness tenderly pulled us toward
introspection. The sun may have scattered our souls, stretched them over of the
land, but Cassiopeia, Polaris, Orion and our fires returned us to our center.
It was the splendor, the patterns and power of that black dome that brought us
again to our humility. It was fire that kept the terror of the night away. In
the light of our fires, a light swallowed by the overwhelming heavens, we
understood our frailty. . . . . . Hundreds of thousands of mystical nights and
fires are imprinted on our genetic memory. Our initiation to the divine came
through baptism in those night fires of the past. To know your place in the
world, the roots of your being, sit in the night. Tend the fire in silence and
meekness. Look within and look above. Feel the magnitude of your
insignificance. The catalyst of night fire, the flicker of stars, still turn
our heart toward the loving gaze and embrace of the Architect of the Universe.
. . . . For the soul’s wisdom, flee the toxic lights of mercury, neon and
sodium. Turn from the glare. Peer into the coals of low fire and endless sky.
Know that you are being observed and understood. You are not alone. Go into the
frightening majestic night, light your fire and listen to our ancestors softly
speak, “there is nothing to fear.”. . . . . Leaving the meadow and stepping
onto gravel road I again removed my pipe from its leather pouch. In the silence
I rekindled a tiny red glow in its bowl, offering fragrance into the air around
me. Night-bird hooted in the east as if calling up the moon not yet risen. The
distant past was walking with me and starlight would guide me home.
-- www.theteacherwithin.com
ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL
-- www.theteacherwithin.com
ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL
DELICIOUSLY SLEAZY
DELICIOUSLY SLEAZY
By
Buzz Bernard
As
a way of raising the curtain on my new Website, I’d like to introduce you to
Jerry Metcalf, a key character in Supercell. Jerry isn’t necessarily a likable guy. But he is, as one reviewer put it,
“deliciously sleazy.”
Metcalf
is a self-proclaimed “chief of staff” for Global-American Cinema. “I make sure stuff gets done and things
happen; I kick ass and take names,” he tells Chuck Rittenburg, whom he’s hired
to find a violent tornado to film.
A
big man with a broad face and full black beard, Metcalf stands out in a
crowd. Especially since he’s usually
dressed in Timberland hiking boots, cargo shorts and a white Greek fisherman’s
cap.
He’s
impatient, goal-oriented and profane. He
detests being away from Hollywood chasing storms on the Great Plains, an area
he views as a sort of purgatory. “People
don’t really choose to live here, do
they?” he asks.
When
he and his film crew are forced to spend some down time in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he
reacts badly.
Metcalf mostly bitched, proclaiming
Tulsa the tedium capital of the world.
After discovering the city was
originally part of Indian Territory, he suggested giving it back to them and
letting them turn the town into a giant casino. “At least there’d be something
to do,” he groused, “and it might even attract some decent [hookers].”
(He
actually used a more pejorative term than hookers.)
Metcalf
and Chuck lock horns almost immediately on their “great hunt.” It’s a conflict that escalates throughout
their 14-day odyssey and ends with Metcalf the object of Chuck’s deep-seated
anger.
Chuck’s
assessment of the the whole affair: “Thanks to that weasel, Metcalf, it turned
out to be a classic example of finding defeat in victory.”
Meet
Jerry Metcalf for yourself when Supercell
swirls into book stores November 1st.
PLAGUE review
PLAGUE review
I have to tell you, I am not a reader. I hate having to read
anything; prefer audio books that take no effort. BUT, Jeanie Loiacono gave me
this book, PLAGUE, to read last Christmas. Yes, last Christmas, nearly a year ago. She said it was “right up my alley”
as I am a phlebotomist at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. Well, I can
say that I have read four books since I graduated high school and this was #4.
I have been reading it in bits and pieces for months and just finished. An
absolutely fabulous book; ever so believable. I cannot thank Buzz enough for
writing a book I am willing to read, and not just read, but enjoy. And, of
course, Jeanie for giving it to me.
--David Deep
Great review for Maddie's Choice!
Posted on October 8, 2013 by Maryann Wakefield, author of A Gentle Sun Coming
Maddie’s Choice was
recently suggested to me by my agent, Jeanie Loiacono. I thought it
wasn’t a good time for me to read for-fun books. I was wrong.
It’s always a good time for reading a book that keeps me turning the
pages. This is the summary that caused me to buy the book.
Maddie’s Choice
By
Joyce Zeller
Maddie’s Choice4.5 of 5 stars4.50 · rating details · 2 ratings · 2 reviews
Romance
writer Maddie Taylor’s career is in trouble. Convinced that true love does not
exist outside of her imagination, she can’t complete her current manuscript.
When a friend, Jonah Spartman, dies and wills her half of his cattle ranch, she
seizes the chance to leave New York City. There is one catch: in order to
inherit, she must stay in Arkansas for three months. The other half of the
ranch belongs to Gideon Spartman, Jonah’s grandson, a black-ops veteran whose
humanity was torn from him in Afghanistan. Rugged and sexy, Gideon embodies the
hero in Maddie’s current manuscript. He is far from happy to be sharing an
inheritance that is rightfully his with a “gold-digging bimbo” and resents
having to care for his two orphaned nephews. But Maddie senses the need behind
Gideon’s rough and unwelcoming exterior. She must also contend with the two
love-starved boys and an Angus bull who craves chocolate. The ranch is hardly
the safe haven Maddie expected. It is operating in the red, and the area is
plagued with drug dealers and cattle rustlers. Maddie can return to her barren
New York existence or stay and fight to save the ranch and win Gideon’s love.
The choice is hers.
This
is a book about life and its content is very explicit at times. It’s also
about cattle rustling, drugs, and the way adults and kids go about getting what
they want. I thought it was very well written. I give it a thumbs
up.
Joyce Zeller speaking at the Ozark Creative Writers' Conference
Joyce
Zeller, author of Maddie’s Choice (Coffeetown Press, 2013) will be speaking at
the Ozark Creative Writers Conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas Saturday,
October 12th @ 2pm.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard is now up for pre-order on Amazon!!
SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard is now up for pre-order on Amazon!!
With a release date of November 2nd, SUPERCELL
by Buzz Bernard, his third thriller published by BelleBooks, is developing
quite a store-m front…Less than a month from launch and you can now pre-order
on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=SUPERCELL
Book
launch for SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard, November 2, 2013 @ 6:30 p.m. BOOKS
For Less BOOKS For Less in Alpharetta, Georgia.
For
more information contact George Scott, Events Coordinator, BOOKS
For Less. (404)
451-7112. For details
and directions: http://www.mybfl.com/contact.php
Buzz
Bernard, author EYEWALL, PLAGUE, SUPERCELL, published by BelleBooks www.bellebooks.com
http://www.buzzbernard.com/
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Win a FREE copy of Rose Bush by Stephen Doster!
Enter
to win Rose Bush by Stephen Doster - Goodreads “Giveaway” through
November 4th!
Once
you get to that page, there is an "Enter to Win" button.
Monday, October 7, 2013
SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard will be highlighted
in Southern Writers magazine in November!
www.southernwritersmagazine.com www.buzzbernard.com
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