Monday, February 28, 2022

A Kind and Savage Place

 Historical Mystery

Date Published: 03-01-2022

Publisher: 

New Arc Books / Level Best Books



It's 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, are unwilling participants in a horrific event that results in a young man’s death.

Tessa's Books of Elegance

 

 Book 1 – The Lovely Beautiful And Very Elegant Tea Party

Children’s Activity Books - Girls

Published: 2019

Publisher: Ocean Reeve Publishing

Wild Child of the Monsoons

 Poetry

Date Published: December 2021



A collection of lyrical poetry that savours the myriad of emotions that life gifts us.

Abdication


The town of Unity sits perched on the edge of a yawning ravine where, long ago, a charisma of angels provided spiritual succour to a fledgeling human race. Then mankind was granted the gift of free will and had to find its own way, albeit with the guidance of the angels. The people’s first conscious act was to make an exodus from Unity – they built a rope bridge across the ravine and founded the town of Topeth. For a time, the union between the people of Topeth and the angels of Unity was one of mutual benefit. After that early spring advance, there had been a torrid decline in which mankind’s development resembled a crumpled, fading autumnal leaf.

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Swipe Right

 

 

A sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, always brutally honest account of 20 online dates with 20 different men

Memoir, Pop Culture, Relationships, Humor, Dating

Date Published: January 2022

Friday, February 25, 2022

Monkeys On The Road

 One family’s vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life

 Narrative Nonfiction Travel Memoir

Date Published: Nov 28 2021

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Thirty thousand miles driving from the USA to South America with a 6-year-old kid in a camper van. Will they make it?

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Song of the Adoel

 YA Fantasy

Date Published: 2/22/2022

Publisher: Brimstone Fiction



The Adoƫl keep their past a secret, speaking only of some great sin for which they pay penance by living as servants to the royal family. The curse that haunts them, that turns their skin pale and their hair white, is a shame too deep to even speak of.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

This Book Belongs To - Book Tour

Women's Fiction

Date Published: 01-17-2022

Publisher: Cecil Press



While trekking across South America, Ellie Bartlett finds a mysterious guidebook that changes the course of her journey—and her life. 

The Empire's Bladesmen

 

 

War of the Dragon Throne, Book One

Military Historical Fantasy/ Dark Fantasy

Date Published November 2021

Publisher: Armored History

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Reality Testing

 Cyberpunk

Date Published: 01-27-2022

Publisher: Black Rose

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Welcome to Berlin. Population: desperate. In the throes of the climate crisis the green tech pioneers are king, and if you aren't willing to be their serf then you're surplus to requirements.

Monday, February 21, 2022

Heal Yourself


The body wants to return to balance. It just needs the tools to do so. Heal Yourself ~ Body ~ Mind ~ Spirit ~ helps you discover the messages your body is sending, and it also shares the tools to aid your body in healing itself.

 

"Part One: Body" covers Sandie's whole-body approach to healing: rebuilding and rebalancing the body, removing stress, and addressing the root causes of chronic illness. All key systems in the body are covered, including functional laboratory test analysis to determine what support your body needs, and the forms of supplements that are right for you. Because everything in our body is connected, we must also focus on our mind and spirit in order to heal. When we change our negative thoughts, beliefs, and responses to ones that serve us, we remove a huge burden of stress from the body.

 

"Part Two: Mind" dives deep into all areas of personal growth, from empowering language to the Laws of Attraction, building healthy relationships to wealth consciousness, and so much more.

 

"Part Three: Spirit" is focused on meditations to help further your spiritual journey. Through meditation, you learn to become the observer of the body. From here suffering becomes optional, allowing you to shift to a vibration of peace where the body, mind and spirit can heal.

 

read an excerpt... 


One of the most common questions I receive is, “What is the root cause of my illness?” Everyone wants to blame something: Lyme, candida, mold, root canals, antibiotics, medication, and so on. I have found the answer to be that there is never a single root cause of illness. We all start out with a reserve. I think of these reserves as our bodies’ “bank accounts.” Genetics and the health of our mother will determine how much of a reserve a person has in the beginning of their life. Through pregnancy and after birth, any stress we encounter makes withdrawals from the bank account. Stress includes emotional stress, physical stress, and chemical stress. Emotional stress is pretty straightforward. Physical stress will include things like injury and exercise. Chemical stress includes toxins, metals, and pathogens. Our world is a stressful place.

The majority of people eat a Standard American Diet (SAD). Kids grow up lacking nutrients. Moms are nutrient deficient, which creates more genetic mutations being expressed from the womb and beyond. If a mom’s detoxification pathways, in particular methylation, are not functioning optimally, it will mean less detoxification capability for the baby. Formula fed babies start out with a propensity for leaky gut. Moms are now getting vaccinated while pregnant, and babies currently being born have the most vaccines in history.

Withdrawal after withdrawal is happening from our bodies’ bank account, which quickly becomes depleted. Once the person hits zero balance and goes into debt, symptoms start occurring. The further in debt they get, the more symptoms appear, and eventually, disease is inevitable. It is no wonder we are seeing illness in increasingly younger individuals, and the rate of all diseases continues to climb. The amount of stress we face is outrageous.

By the time you start showing symptoms, the last event is what most people correlate with their symptoms and illness. In reality, it is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. If it were not that case of food poisoning, for instance, then it would have been the next stressor.

That is why I don’t focus on pathogens or metals in the beginning, and I do not recommend strict diets. Both of these end up stressing the body further. We need to stop making the withdrawals, or at least reduce them, and start making deposits. Deposits are supplements, herbs, and foods that fuel us.

Deposits include fueling our souls with passion, purpose, joy, and love. Stopping the withdrawals is done by removing chemicals in our environment, reducing emotional stress through mindset work, eating clean, whole foods, and in time, removing metals and pathogens. Rebuild and rebalance, repair detoxification pathways, and remove stress; these 4 Rs are critical to replenishing our bodies’ bank account.

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:


Sandie Gascon is a Health Coach who has helped guide hundreds of people from over twenty-five countries on their healing journey. After suffering severe side effects from medications during her twenty-year battle with chronic migraines, when she was diagnosed with Lupus she committed herself to healing naturally. Through her experiences, she developed a whole body, mind, and spirit approach that addresses the person in a truly holistic manner. She takes the guess work out of the equation by running functional lab work to see what the body needs. She healed herself of migraines, depression, lupus, interstitial cystitis, and cystic acne. Her purpose is to help educate others on the importance of shifting focus to rebuilding and rebalancing the body and removing internal and external stress so the body can heal itself.

Sandie lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband Eric and son Kaiden. She has a passion for riding horses and spends much of her free time at the barn with her horses Bee and Vala. She loves playing with Kaiden, spending time with family and friends and hiking with her dogs.

Sandie is available for speaking engagements, workshops, and personal coaching. Find out more at www.motivated2heal.com

Connect with Sandie Gascon

WEBSITE https://sandiegasconauthor.com/

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/motivated2heal

INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sandie.gascon/

TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@sandie.gascon

YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/c/motivated2heal

GOODREADS https://bit.ly/35a7jQM

Purchase links for Heal Yourself: Body ~ Mind ~ Spirit       

AMAZON.COM https://amazon.com/dp/0228853869

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BOOKSHOP https://bit.ly/3s8HYjD

INDIGO CHAPTERS https://bit.ly/3gXKbIc

BARNES & NOBLE https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heal-yourself-sandie-gascon/1140015874

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KOBO https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/heal-yourself-28

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APPLE BOOKS https://books.apple.com/us/book/heal-yourself-body-mind-spirit/id1581434561 


More personal "stuff" about Sandie Gascon...

Does this book have a special meaning to you? i.e. where you found the idea, its symbolism, its meaning, who you dedicated it to, what made you want to write it?

Yes, it is very special to me.  I poured so much knowledge on how to heal naturally into the pages. I went through so much suffering on my own personal journey to find these tools. I shared all my personal meditations and a compilation of the most powerful mindset tools I had learned in the five years prior to writing the book.  I dedicated Heal Yourself to my family as they have been my greatest spiritual teachers.

Where do you get your storylines from?

The entire book has been created through my personal experiences healing and the hundreds of clients I have worked with over the years along with the thousands of hours I have put into studying and taking courses in natural healing and functional medicine.

Was this book easier or more difficult to write than others?  Why?

It is my first book and was very easy to write in that when I sat down to write the words always flowed.  It was a challenge committing to writing every day.  It took me almost a year to write it and do the preliminary edits before I sent it off to be edited professionally.  The most difficult part was the editing.  After each edit, I reread it and if I found and mistakes, I would send it off to be edited again.  I went through seven rounds of editing and 5 different editors.  I also listened to the entire audiobook after the first audiobook recording round and then again in full after the mistakes were corrected. 

Do you only write one genre?

Yes, I only write in the holistic health and wellness genre though in the future I could see myself writing specifically on conscious parenting.  I also have ideas and storylines for fantasy novels. 

Give us a picture of where you write, where you compose these words…is it Starbucks, a den, a garden…we want to know your inner sanctum?

Most of my ideas came to me in bed between 3:00 and 5:00 am.  I find I am most connected to source at that time.  While I was writing Heal Yourself, I was usually up between those times most nights.  I would be awoken with a flood of energy and ideas would pour in.  My son was co sleeping with me so I would turn my phone on red light mode and write down all the random inspiration.  I would usually fall back to sleep around 6:00 am.  I would then awaken at 8:00 am, turn on my computer and type.  I would organize and make sense of all the ideas that came through the night.  I would write in my office and regularly be interrupted by my toddler.  I made a commitment to not be irritated with any interruptions.  I would allow them and go with the flow.  Any lower vibration emotions like frustration would only hinder the creative process.  I knew that what was important would come back if it was meant to be in the book. 

And finally, of course…was there any specific event or circumstance that made you want to be a writer?

I have always wanted to be a writer.  When I was a child, I would sit at the kitchen table and try to write a book.  Looking back at my determination and my stick figure drawings is quite amusing.  In university I tried so very hard to write my ideas for fantasy novels.  I read so many books on how to write.  I could never get anything on paper besides the story line, characters, and plot. When I started writing Heal Yourself the words just flowed.  I could type for hours without needing a break, stop, and pick up where I left off the next day.  It was an amazing feeling, and I am very grateful I had the experience.  Currently I am working on creating a practitioner course where people who are passionate about helping others heal can become certified as a health coach.



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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Taken

 A Detective Al Warner Novel

Warner series, Book 6

Suspense / Thriller


Date Published: 11-11-2021

Publisher: GnD Publishing LLC


photo add-to-goodreads-button_zpsc7b3c634.pngDetective Al Warner’s investigation of a street hooker’s death leads to a case of human sex-trafficking. Nicki, an undercover cop, is snatched while carrying a concealed tracking device, but it’s stripped from her before she can activate it. Warner is stymied as she struggles to send the locating beacon.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Playing Possum

 

Playing Possum by Lois Schmitt

Playing Possum

by Lois Schmitt

February 1-28, 2022 Virtual Book Tour

Synopsis:

Murder, Mayhem, and Missing Animals.

When animals mysteriously disappear from the Pendwell Wildlife Refuge, former English teacher turned magazine reporter Kristy Farrell is on the case. Days later, the body of the refuge’s director is found in a grassy clearing.

Kristy, assisted by her veterinarian daughter, investigates and discovers strong motives among the suspects, including greed, infidelity, betrayal, and blackmail.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

The Sphere of Spirit

 

 


YA Fantasy Romance

Release Date: April 19, 2022


The Sphere is an ultimate weapon to destroy a world and requires the sacrifice of ten magical kids. Nine are missing and novice fae, Sophie, is the tenth.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Mother Blues

 Mystery / Literary Fiction

Date Published:Sep 30, 2021

Publisher: OTF Literary



What if your childhood harbored a dire warning about your future? What if your life and the lives of dozens of others, including your future child, depended on you deciphering that warning before it is too late?

Mother Blues is about the maternal relationships we never knew existed, the evil we never expect, and the redemption we never think possible. Subversively feminist and environmental, this is a novel about mothers: those we have loved and lost, those we have never known, and those who have always been there for us whether we have realized it or not. And while this is not a novel about blues music, the blues is everywhere in this story, both grounding it in history and pushing it forward in a slow, rhythmic ache.

If there is one maternal presence that binds together the characters of this novel, living and dead, it is the blues itself. Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Mahalia Jackson, and all the timeless mothers to that quintessentially American genre are here, a soulful Greek chorus singing from the shadows, warning and imploring, offering hope, and bearing witness to lives adrift and in danger of capsizing.



About the Author


Owen Thomas is a life-long Alaskan and avid reader. He has written five books: "The Lion Trees" (which has garnered over sixteen international book awards, including the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, the Beverly Hills International Book Award and, most recently, a finalist in the 2020 Book Excellence Awards); "Mother Blues," (a novel of music and mystery set in post-Hurricane Harvey Texas); "Message in a Bullet: A Raymond Mackey Mystery," (the first in a series of detective novels); "Signs of Passing" (a book of interconnected short stories, and winner of fourteen book awards, including the 2014 Pacific Book Awards for Short Fiction, also named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015 by Shelf Unbound Magazine); and "This is the Dream," (a collection of stories and novellas that explore that perplexing liminal distance between who we are and what we want). Owen maintains an active fiction and photography blog on Facebook, Tumblr and on his author website at www.owenthomasliterary.com. 

 For the ninth consecutive year since he has been measuring his commercial success as an author, Owen has not won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Also, to great acclaim, he has not won the Man Booker Prize. Most recently, in April of 2020, Owen was not nominated for a Pulitzer. 

 Owen makes his home in Alaska, Arizona and Hawaii. When he is not writing, Owen can be found recreating and taking photographs in the grandeur of these wonderfully picturesque locations. Some of these photos are posted on Owen's photo blog, 1000 Words per Frame.


Contact Links

Website 

Facebook 

Twitter



Purchase Link

Amazon

 

RABT Book Tours & PR

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Six Word Stories

 

 

Stories, Poems, Memoirs, and Jokes, told in only six words

Short Stories, Poetry

Date Published: February 16, 2022

Publisher: Hebe Publications



Six Word Stories is the latest collection of stories told in only six words. Following on the success of Six Word Wonder and Six Word Stories, hundreds of new stories, poems, memoirs, and jokes are shared here for your amusement.

A Pain in the Tuchis


Combining the classic charms of Agatha Christie with the delightful humor of M. C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin novels, Mark Reutlinger’s Mrs. Kaplan mystery series returns as a notorious crank meets an untimely fate.

Yom Kippur is a day of reflection and soul searching. But at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors, Vera Gold misses this opportunity to atone for her many sins when she up and dies. Indeed, Vera was such a pain in the tuchis to all those around her that when her sister claims Vera was deliberately poisoned, the tough question isn’t who would want to kill her—but who wouldn’t?

Monday, February 14, 2022

Journey of the Heart - Release Blitz

 Awakening To Love: Channeling the Teachers of the Light

Nonfiction / Self-Transformation

Date Published: 02-15-2022

Publisher: Heart Light Publishing


Discover profound wisdom from the Teachers of the Light and enjoy a life of peace, happiness, and hope.

The Mirror Code

 

Breaking the Zodiac Killer Cipher Codes

Nonfiction / Serial Killers / True Crime

Date Published: September 28, 2021

Publisher: MindStir Media

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Ghosted

 The Game, Book 2

Technothriller - Sci-fi Thriller

Date Published: Feb. 14 2022

 When social media obsessed Audrey is offered the chance to test a program where she can meet ‘ghosts’ - digital impressions of people created from their online data - she eagerly accepts.

For The Bright Ones Release Blitz

May they come out of the shadows

Poetry

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb 14 2022


This collection of poems came as a surprise to me.

When something is easy, brings joy and excitement I do more of it and that is what happened here. Poetry has been a life-long pleasure, but usually as a reader. I have dabbled in writing private pieces before, then these came. 

Stabbed in the Tart


Home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Kayla Jeffries has been hired for the Gourmet and Stay Valentine's Weekend at the historic Countryside Inn in Los Robles, CA. 

When one of her fellow cooks is murdered during dinner service, she becomes a person of interest-and a possible suspect.

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Heart of Swine

 Dystopian, Humor

Publisher: Obex Publishing



A Ridiculously Realistic, Deadly Serious Comedy - With a Superhero Pig

Think you're living in an environmental dystopia?

Wait until we start thawing a frozen planet with pig farts.

Friday, February 11, 2022

The Timekillers

 

 

Military Sci-Fi, Techno-Thriller

Date Published: January 6, 2022



U.S. Intelligence Operatives travel back in time to 1990 to stop the aftermath of a Pacific War.

A War between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

A crushing but costly American victory.

Unintended consequences, hidden nukes, a Viral Weapon and an aftermath that killed millions upon millions of people in North America, China, Korea, and Russia.

Thursday, February 10, 2022

How I Found My Superpowers

 An Introduction to the Spirit World

New Age / Memoir

Date Published: November 2021

Publisher: ‎ Your Divine Birthright Publishers


A memoir of spiritually uplifting proportions.

Katharine Branham guides you through the life-changing journey she experienced while finding her superpowers.

Options Are Power Book Tour

Leadership / CEO / Career Strategies

Date Published: January 2021

Publisher: Elite Online Publishing


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