Blue Sullivan’s Your Ex-boyfriend Will Hate This is featured as one of the top twelve reads for Haloangle Reads! Represented by Loiacono Literary https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/blue-sullivan/ Published by Limitless Publishing 

Kara Evans, the Collection Librarian/Archivist of Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, has agreed to include Please Say Kaddish For Me by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields in the Missouri Valley Special Collections.  Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Art and Blogs  Rochelle’s website Published by Argus Publishing 

3 Ridiculous Things People Say About Online Dating

http://www.yourtango.com/experts/blue-sullivan/3-ridiculous-things-people-say-about-online-dating

Jodie Cain Smith will be speaking and signing copies of her novel The Woods at Barlow Bend @ Victory Spouses Club Super Sign-up!

Ft. Jackson NCO Club

5700 Lee Road

Columbia, SC 29206

August 18, 2015, 4-7p.m.

http://fortjacksonmwr.com/nco_club/

Loiacono Literary Agency has two outstanding new novel reviews in Publisher’s Weekly!

Authors Leta Serafim and Maris Soule are not only in the same edition, but also the same review page in the August edition of Publisher’s Weekly!

Maris Soule’s novel, A Killer Past, Published by ROBERT HALE LTD was released in June with incredible reviews.

Mary Harrington doesn’t want to revive her past. She certainly doesn’t want her son and granddaughter to know what she did forty-four years ago. But when two teenage gang members try to mug her, old habits are hard to forget. Sergeant Jack Rossini, Rivershore, Michigan’s lone investigative detective, initially doesn’t believe an “old” woman could have put the punks in the hospital, but once he meets Mary, he becomes curious. That curiosity grows when he discovers there’s no record of her existence prior to forty-four years ago. Mary and Jack’s lives continue to intersect as a gang the police have been investigating vows to teach Mary a lesson, and a man from Mary’s past arrives in Rivershore, threatening to reveal her secrets.

Maris Soule has had two mysteries in the P.J. Benson (Crows) series published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage, 25 category romances published by Harlequin, Silhouette, and Bantam, and a mini-mystery published by Woman’s World. Several of her romances were romantic suspense. Soule is a two-time RITA finalist, and her books have won or placed in several contests. A Killer Past was a finalist for the 2012 Claymore Award as well as a finalist (under a different title) in the 2012 Writers-Editors Network International Writing Competition. www.marissoule.com

Leta Serafim, author of The Devil Takes Half and its newly released sequel, When the Devil’s Idle, Published by Camel Press, has had a soft release with the official launch scheduled for September 1st!

The Devil Takes Half

An archaeological dig near a desolate monastery in Greece is no longer the innocent search for Minoans, the mysterious precursors to the Greek who disappeared without a trace more than 3500 years before; giving rise to the legend of Atlantis. A severed hand and what seems to be all the blood from the missing archaeologist, Eleni Argentis, is found in a trench and her teenage assistant, Petros, is found nearby with his throat slit.

On such a remote island, there are only so many suspects, then again, Yiannis Patronas, the policeman in charge of the investigation, finds all is not as it appears, and some secrets are as ancient as the site itself.

When the Devil’s Idle

When an elderly German is found with his skull bashed in on Patmos, the same isle St. John wrote the Apocalypse, Yiannis Patronas, Chief Officer of the Chios police, is called in to investigate. He asks his top detective, Giorgos Tembelos, and his friend and amateur sleuth, Papa Michalis to join him.

With only a handful of suspects on such an isolated island— the gardener, the housekeeper, the deceased’s son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren— Patronas is limited, and yet even more challenged. Who is capable? Who has motive? Who wanted the old German dead? Why? Could the answers be immediate or far reaching?

Leta 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. She has two other novels coming out with in the next years: To Look on Death No More and From the Devil’s Farm, the third in the Greek mystery series. www.letaserafim.com

Leta Serafim’s When the Devil’s Idle, sequel to The Devil Takes Half, receives an incredible review from Publisher’s Weekly!

“This classic fair-play whodunit, the excellent sequel to 2014’s The Devil Takes Half (Serafim’s first Greek Island mystery), takes Yiannis Patronas, the endearing chief police officer on the island of Chios, to Patmos, where someone has bashed in the skull of Walter Bechtel, a 90-year-old German, in the garden of his foster son Gunther’s holiday residence–and carved a swastika on the victim’s forehead. When Patronas asks Gunther about his foster father’s past, Gunther becomes defensive and claims that his papa was ‘just an ordinary man’ and did not commit any atrocities during WWII. Serafim does an especially good job of integrating Greece’s current financial struggles into the story line, and Patronas’s colleagues, especially an eccentric priest with a taste for seafood, lighten what otherwise could have been a very grim tale without minimizing the underlying horror of the background to the crime.”

• Publishers Weekly, August 3, 2015

When an elderly German is found with his skull bashed in on Patmos, the same isle St. John wrote the Apocalypse, Yiannis Patronas, Chief Officer of the Chios police, is called in to investigate. He asks his top detective, Giorgos Tembelos, and his friend and amateur sleuth, Papa Michalis to join him.

With only a handful of suspects on such an isolated island— the gardener, the     housekeeper, the deceased’s son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren— Patronas is limited, and yet even more challenged. Who is capable? Who has motive? Who wanted the old German dead? Why? Could the answers be immediate or far reaching?

Published by Camel Press  Amazon  B&N When the Devil’s Idle reviews

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

Stephen Doster’s biography of Marjorie Catherine Terry Terry-Smith Doster, Her Finest Hour: One Teen’s Personal War with Hitler’s Germany – A Memoir  Published by Argus Publishing 

Amazon  BAM  B&N  FishPond  The Book Depository

Doster is the author of Lord Baltimore (John F. Blair, 2002, nominated for the Pulitzer the same year), is the fictional account of a young man’s travels through Gullah country along the Georgia coast.  His second book, Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island’s Past (nonfiction, John F. Blair, 2008), is an oral history of Coastal Georgia. Published by Deer Hawk Publications: Georgia Witness (nonfiction, 2012) is a compilation of twenty-six interviews of the most influential Georgians of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, Shadow Child: Tales From The Georgia Coast – Sixteen Works of Fiction & One True Story (2012) chronicles a historical artifact and the people it impacted from 1597 to the 21^st Century, Rose Bush (2013) is a southern novel depicting a conflict between environmentalists, a paper mill, and the aristocracy of a rural Georgia town, and Jesus Tree (2014), a novel based on the true story of a black man who was wrongly convicted of murdering a family in Southeast Georgia in the 1930’s. www.sdoster.com

Anti-Discrimination in Arkansas – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart with Joyce Zeller!

Joyce Zeller, author of Maddie’s Choice, Love in a Small Town and The Haunting of Aaron House, speaks for the majority! Gotta love Joyce! She makes sense. Love is unconditional!

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ifkeox/anti-christian-discrimination-in-arkansas

An outstanding review for Leta Serafim’s sequel to When the Devil Takes Half, When the Devil’s Idle!!!

“When The Devil’s Idle is loaded with twists and turns and red herrings that will leave you guessing all the while you are flipping pages to find out what happens next. Ms. Serafim has provided us with a marvelous whodunit and I am already looking forward to the next book in the series.”

—Vic’s Media Room

https://vicsmediaroom.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/book-review-when-the-devils-idle-by-leta-serafim/

HOPEFUL EYES

What sad weary eyes we have
that see, in all the world,
such poverty and pointless pain.
Would not the sunlight bathe upon it
if we simply look again?

For the eye of the beholder
may choose the depth of tint
we see, through a rose coloured lens.
A hint of fanciful forms,
as they filter the rays they sense.

From beneath the haze
of the shimmering sun,
lies beauty, long forgot.
Or is it simply a mirage,
cavorting through rays far too hot?

Skies of deep azure
with clouds of cumulous mass
drifting lazily on the breeze.
Picturesque landscapes of floral palette,
until winters frosty frieze.

Glorious forests of glazed art,
twinkling icicles, like baubles
on the trees of December.
Wondrous days of innocence pure;
of younger days remembered.

Beasts wandering wild and free
in bountiful wooded wonderlands
of willow, beach and pine.
Snowflakes join to form a blanket
of majestic patterns, sublime.

Meandering melt-water streams
flowing, afresh with new life;
untainted and abundant.
A world reborn of marvelous magic,
colours and scents, resplendent.

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To look upon a world in pain
and see beneath the silken shrouds
to the beauty lying below.
The scent of love, life and passion
is there for all to bestow.

We need to look from behind
eyes that want to see,
the life that we need, restored.
As a composer, creating the music of life,
is prepared to re-write the score.

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Written by Darren Scanlon, 15th November 2014.
Revised 27th July 2015.
©2015 Darren Scanlon. All rights reserved.