A super pre-view of SUPERCELL by Buzz Bernard!

Buzz Bernard storm chasing with Silver Lining Tours.

Buzz Bernard’s latest weather thriller takes us along as a disgraced storm chaser strives to regain his ruined career, connect with his alienated son, and win a deliciously sleazy movie producer’s million-dollar reward for film of an EF 5 tornado. On board for the chase is a female FBI agent with her own issues who’s chasing two brothers who use their storm-chasing skills to loot destroyed homes and stores. It’s a wild ride you don’t want to abandon to eat or sleep.–Jack Williams, author and founding USA Today Weather Page editor

Another fantastic review for Robert Shows’ ‘A Sentence of Death’: Words That Killed A President, published by Ecanus Publishing

Another book about the assassination of President Kennedy is apt, for anyone living that awful November day, to produce the yawn factor; not so the version of that event and its aftermath in Robert Shows’ novel A Sentence of Death. I have no idea about Dr. Shows’ ability in the emergency room, where he practiced for many years, or in his medical office where he still holds forth, but I can testify to his ability as a writer.
This doctor can write, and if you are a fan of the character driven suspense novel, then this history-laced book is for you. It is a page turner, and even though I still can see in my haunted vision the events of that day in Dallas, as I was reading the pages leading up to the sound of the gunfire, I still hoped that someone or something would intervene. The story does not end in Dallas, however, but extends over a period of almost 25 years and finally in Vicksburg.
In between, the reader travels to New Orleans in prose so vivid, you’ll want to call and make reservations, to a Davis Island camp in the Mississippi, precious to southerners whose sense of place contains the acknowledgement of evil in our most loved places. This novel is global, however, for those who like to look around and meet interesting characters wherever you are.
The premise that Kennedy’s assassination was set in motion by an off-hand remark by the then Assistant Director of the FBI might seem slim, but so were the many ideas of a conspiracy that ultimately destroyed many other lives. That we, after so many years, still argue about conspiracies and cringe when we hear the words Dealey Plaza, certainly shows the power the assassination still has to haunt us. And in this novel, the realization, that one assassination calls for another and another so that no witness can be left behind, says something vital about the perpetuation of any evil act. The easy disregard for human life mirrors today’s society and will leave the reader breathless with fear.
The strength of this book is in its characters, all people we have met or think we know: ruthless politicians, hungry for power and filled with such hubris, the arrogance of their crimes against the country and its people seem today taken right out of the news. Mafia figures and people on the fringe who feel a type of misplaced devotion, the Jack Rubys among us, we’ve learned to live with in a sort of hopeless resignation. But characters in this work, living with regret and remorse after one ill-fated decision and who ultimately have to pay, can still draw from us a knowing sympathy.
And there are the ordinary people, trying to keep marriages together and friendships secured and children safe who grace this extraordinary novel: characters who go about making the movements of life with no idea that they will be thrust into violence but who exhibit courage and skill beyond their own imaginings when confronted with people from our worst nightmare. That the main character is an emergency room doctor will not be lost on us, we who long to be the hero of our own adventure.
So find a place where you won’t be disturbed and start reading. You will love this book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlJ7THUEkE

SAM TOWNSEND (character in SUPERCELL), OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE “GUST FRONT GRILL”

By Buzz Bernard

www.buzzbernard.com

Sam Townsend, rheumy-eyed, weatherbeaten and heavyset, sports a face folded with age and memories.  If you ever searched for him in a crowd, he wouldn’t be difficult to spot.  He wears a black stovepipe hat with an eagle’s feather jammed into the hatband.

Half Osage Indian and a Vietnam combat veteran, Sam is conflicted by visions rooted in his native American background, and nightmares erupting from his memories of the killing grounds of Southeast Asia.  For instance, when he tells his old friend and veteran storm chaser Chuck Rittenburg to Beware the thunder, it turns out he wasn’t warning of thunderstorms.

Sam owns and operates The Gust Front Grill, a strange but popular gathering place for storm chasers that exudes an acid-rock Zeitgeist of the 1960s.  Clinging to existence on the windswept grasslands of Oklahoma, you might find within the Gust Front’s confines on any given day in the spring, the height of the tornado season, a wide variety of chasers: TV news crews, tour groups, researchers, dedicated hobbyists, and maybe a few amateurs.

Within the chaser community, a legend has grown to surround Sam, but no one knows how much of it is truth and how much is fable.  The story goes that he has a fortune hidden away somewhere in or near the Gust Front and that it’s guarded by a mysterious but fierce sentinel named Monty.

Fiction or fact?  Is the fortune real?  And if so, is Monty real?  You’ll find out in November–when SUPERCELL thunders into the book world.

Published by BelleBooks

www.bellebooks.com

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

Camel Press Announces the September Release of Maddie’s Choice: A New York Writer Finds Love and Adventure on a Cattle Ranch

Seattle, WA—On September 1, 2013, Camel Press will release Maddie’s Choice ($14.95, 274 pages, ISBN: 978-1-60381-959-6), a contemporary romance by Joyce Zeller about an author with writer’s block who finds inspiration and a renewed sense of purpose after she inherits part of a cattle ranch in Arkansas.

“A bull hooked on chocolate plays the hero in this love story of two people struggling to restore their destroyed lives. Maddie’s Choice is a touching family story that will have readers laughing and crying simultaneously. Zeller has created flawed but sympathetic characters and a bucolic setting that will appeal to readers of all ages. A must read for anyone who has ever dreamed of living on a ranch. As Maddie is fond of reminding herself, ‘How hard can it be?’ ”

—Velda Brotherton, author of western historical romances

“Joyce has walked the walk with her Western romance set on a cattle ranch. Good read!”

—Dusty Richards, Spur winning author of more than 120 western novels, many under the name, Josh Logan

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.

Says Zeller, “Maddie’s Choice features my favorite theme—that being human is a lonely business, but for everyone there is somebody to love. It’s a matter of finding them. There will always be kids and animals in my books, and always humor, because life without humor is unthinkable.”

Joyce Zeller has written articles for a magazine and a cooking column for a chain of suburban newspapers north of Chicago. She has written five books and published two, The Hidden History of Eureka Springs, and Accidental Alien, a work of science fiction, both available on Amazon. Her short story, “Love is a Seed,” is featured in Embrace: A Romance Collection, (2012 Goldmine Press). You can find Joyce on the Web at joycezeller.blogpot.com.

Maddie’s Choice is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com. After Sept. 1, it will also be for sale in both eBook and 5×8 trade paperback editions on BN.com, the European Amazons, Amazon Japan and select independent bookstores. Bookstores and libraries will be able to order wholesale through Ingram, Baker & Taylor or by contacting info@camelpress.com. Libraries can also order from Follett Library Resources or Midwest Library Service. Other electronic versions will be available on Smashwords.

ABOUT Camel Press—Based in SeattleWashington, Camel Press is a new imprint owned by Coffeetown Press. Camel Press publishes genre fiction: romance, mystery/suspense, science fiction, horror … or any combination thereof. We publish the books that grab you and hold you in their grip long into the night.

CONTACT:

Catherine Treadgold

Publisher

Camel Press

P.O. Box 70515

Seattle, WA98127

206-414-7673

catherine@camelpress.com

www.camelpress.com

‘A Sentence of Death’: Words That Killed A President new book trailer!! Fantastic!

By Robert Shows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlJ7THUEkE

Joyce Zeller’s novel Maddie’s Choice (for pre-purchase) release date September 1, 2013!

http://www.amazon.com/Maddies-Choice-Joyce-Zeller/dp/1603819592/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373998227&sr=1-4&keywords=joyce+zeller

A wonder woman, Joyce Zeller has done it all: from serving in the military to being a professional perfumer and aroma therapist. She has also written three books: two novels and a nonfiction. Her latest, Maddie’s Choice, touches the heart of both men and women. Her protagonist, Maddie, is a writer with a major “block” who has inherited an Arkansas ranch, but that is not all. Oh no… A set of twins and a vet with PTSD are only the beginning. Add cattle rustling and a motorcycle drug gang and you have a reason for Maddie to get an attitude. Does she stay and fight it out or head back to NYC? It really is Maddie’s choice.

Hidden Secrets of Eureka Springs

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Eureka-Springs-AR/dp/1609493761/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373998308&sr=1-1

Embrace

http://www.amazon.com/Embrace-A-Romance-Collection-ebook/dp/B0078IVG6E/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373998308&sr=1-2

Accidental Alien

http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Alien-ebook/dp/B007FSX13I/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373998308&sr=1-3

Joyce Zeller – jzeller9847@scbglobal.net

http://www.amazon.com/Joyce-Zeller/e/B005N0BVCS/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1373998227&sr=1-2-ent

Now available on ebook and soon in print … Chasing Horizons-The Great Air Race that Changed the World!

By Jim Bolander

www.jimbolander.com

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

Published by Ecanus Publishing

www.ecanuspublishing.co.uk

This impossible feat set precedence for Lindberg, Earhart, Redfern and Yeagar.  This story touches on every element of emotion: a grand love story with beautiful poetry written on cigarette wrappers, to flying over open-ocean in horrific, frigid temperatures and one of the most patriotic and death-defying feats accomplished until space flight.

This “Indiana Jones” action starts out with Bolander and his daughter touring The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum where he is showing her Chicago, Great-Uncle Lowell’s plane, which inspires her to write about him for a school assignment. Then Bolander takes us to that very time and around the world in an open-air cockpit to win the race. It is an incredible read and a true story.

Chasing Horizons-The Great Air Race that Changed the World is a historical fiction depicting the aeronautical challenge of 1924 in which four Douglas World Cruisers and eight American crewmen set out from Seattle, Washington, to attempt the first around-the-world airplane flight. One hundred seventy-five days later two of the aircraft and crews became the first to circumnavigate earth.

Bolander has taken 90% fact and added the background story to bring it to life. His research and historical details will chill you to the bone when they are in the tundra of Alaska, make you want to swat the mosquitoes in the Orient, feel the sting of the sandstorms as they fly across the deserts of the Middle East, and stand in ovation as they make each extraordinary landing. Imagine a single engine, open cockpit, and wooden airplane held together with wires and bands; no GPS, no radios, no heater or a/c or toilet or any type of refreshments and you are to pilot this “just invented” flying machine around the world – and before any of the other 5 countries who joined the race. To these men, there was no turning back.

Britain, Italy, Argentina, Portugal, and France were all vying with the United States in 1924 to win the race to be first to fly around the world. The story of what transpired in the six months it took to accomplish this virgin task is the stuff legends and heroes are made of.  Lowell Smith, the first to complete the mission, is not only a humble and patriotic aviation icon, but also the great uncle to Jim Bolander, which makes this world and family history as well.  The desire for Bolander to honor his family by putting into words what everyone has forgotten was ignited by the curiosity of his daughter who chose Lowell Smith as the subject of a fifth grade report and oral presentation concerning a famous American.

Bolander has written Beating Kings and Burning Angels published by Digital Pulp Publishing He has written several other novels and a book of poetry as well.

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=jim+bolander

Jeanie Loiacono

President

Loiacono Literary Agency

448 Lacebark Dr.

Irving, Texas 75063

912-230-2207

jeanie.loiacono@loiaconoliteraryagency.com

www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

April Grace Reilly is at it again in a short story by KD McCrite, Flowers for Isabel.

http://kdmccrite.com/flowers-for-isabel/

April Grace has entertained us in three wonderful mid-grade novels in the Confessions of April Grace series: In Front of God and Everybody, Cliques, Hicks and Ugly Sticks! and Chocolate-covered Baloney. Her country, teenage humor mixed with real-life issues and always a mystery in tow, keep you turning pages, laughing, crying and agreeing whole-heartedly.

Enjoy and if you have not read them, please do.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=kd+mccrite

http://www.booksamillion.com/search?id=5729489791814&query=kd+mccrite&where=All&search.x=-700&search.y=-134&search=Search

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/kd-mccrite?keyword=kd+mccrite&store=book

Sea of Greed by Judge Douglas McCullough and Les Pendleton Acquired by Deer Hawk Publishing

Judge Douglas McCullough’s autobiography, Sea of Greed, based on the true story behind the arrest of Manuel Noriega and the invasion of Panama pursuant to Operation Just Cause, has been acquired by Deer Hawk Publishing.

www.deerhawkpublications.com

McCullough, a former U.S. Attorney, prosecuted a sophisticated group of drug smugglers and money-launderers that had successfully gained access into Texas, North Carolina, Louisiana, Kentucky and Michigan, amassing over $50,000,000 which was placed in Panamanian banks with Noriega’s assistance.  The investigation and apprehension of these smugglers eventually led to the exposure of Noriega as a drug lord and money launderer despite the fact that on occasion he provided intelligence to the CIA and DEA and received an award from President Reagan. A conspiracy that spanned this hemisphere, stretching from Colombia to the Grand Caymans, Jamaica and the United States, involved were local politicians, businessmen, celebrities and entertainment agents as well as Noriega and members of Colombian drug cartels. This is the only occasion where a head of state has been prosecuted in a federal court like any other criminal.

Judge Douglas McCullough sits on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.  Following service in the U.S. Marine Corps, McCullough was a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia before becoming Counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in Washington. He returned to his home state, North Carolina, in 1981 and became the senior Assistant United States Attorney where he served until 1996.  After 4 years in private practice he won his first election to the court and was re-elected in 2010.

Stephen Kalish, the mastermind of the whole operation, has done his time and become a successful businessman in California. He has graciously agreed to an endorsement for the book.

www.seaofgreedbook.com/     https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/douglas-mccullough/

Author Maris Soule featured at the Buchanan Art Center in Buchanan, Michigan Saturday, July 20^th from 10am-4pm.

http://www.buchananartcenter.org/   http://marissoule.com/blog/   http://marissoule.com  The Crows, available in Trade Paperback, ebook and audio – As the Crow Flies, a Five Star Mystery, available on Amazon.

Mark Your Calendars
for this upcoming events at the
Buchanan Art Center:
MEET THE AUTHORS DAY!
Adults, Teens and Children
SATURDAY, JUL 20
10 AM – 4 PM.