Loiacono Literary Agency has two (2) authors nominated for Georgia Author of the Year!!

Congratulations to ALL!!!

Buzz Bernard – PLAGUE – BelleBooks – fiction

Trisha O’Keefe – Hanahatchee – Deer Hawk Publishing – fiction

http://authoroftheyear.org/nominees.htmll

Robert Shows, ‘A Sentence of Death’: Words That Killed  A President, (Ecanus Publishing www.ecanuspublishing.co.uk/)

book signing Pentimento Books  (http://pentimentobooks.com/), 302 Jefferson St Clinton, Mississippi 39056, Saturday, March 30^th. Contact Debbie Tillman @ (601) 924-2665 for more information.

To schedule Robert Shows for a speaking engagement pertaining to the novel, please contact him @ rmshows@aol.com .

Douglas McCullough

Douglas McCullough is a Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, having been first elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2010.  Mr. McCullough began his career as a federal prosecutor with the Organized Crime Strike Force in Philadelphia upon his release from active duty as a Marine Judge Advocate.  He next worked on Capitol Hill as Counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee and as legislative counsel to a Senator before returning to North Carolina where he served as the senior Assistant in the United States Attorney’s Office in Raleigh.  He retired early from the Government in 1996 and was in private practice until his election.

Sea of Greed

www.seaofgreedbook.com/

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

by Douglas McCullough and Les Pendleton

When the Coast Guard hailed a Gulf Coast shrimp trawler near Cape Lookout, North Carolina on fourth of July weekend 1982, the routine stop set in motion a chain of events that ended with the U.S. invasion of Panama, overthrow of dictator Manuel Noriega, and the biggest drug bust in America’s history.

Now, more than 25 years later, the full story is told in a gripping true-life account by the man who brought the drug lord to justice. J. Douglas McCullough, the U.S. attorney who unraveled the Cayman Island cartel, reveals never-before-known facts of the case that began on the docks of the historic fishing village of Beaufort, North Carolina when authorities found a shrimp boat full of marijuana.

Tom Simmons and The Man Called Brown Condor book signing Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS

This is an unlikely story, given the circumstances, but it is a fascinating one told well by author Thomas Simmons. He researched his subject for nearly three decades, interviewing people who knew the protagonist, and now he has put it all together in a narrative that reads like a novel.

 Mr. Simmons’ book is riveting, with a style and pace that takes the reader on the journey with John Robinson—the African American man called The Brown Condor.

Simmons (Forgotten Heroes of World War II, 2002, etc.) brings to life Robinson’s inspiring struggle against racism … An inspiring affirmation that celebrates the old adage that where there’s a will, there’s a way, even against seemingly impossible odds.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/thomas-e-simmons/man-called-brown-condor/

Well done, old friend.

Shelby

For those wishing to purchase a signed copy of The Man Called Brown Condor by Tom Simmons, below are some grand opportunities to do so. This is destined to be a movie!

Thur. Feb. 21

Mississippi Edition on MPB (Think Radio) 2:30 pm

Jackson, MS

Thur. Feb. 21

Book signing at Lemuria Books, Jackson MS  5:00 pm

Lemuria is the best known book store in Jackson.

Sat. Feb. 23

Book signing at Barnes & Noble  2:00 pm

Gulfport, MS

Sat. Mar. 2

Book signing at Books-A-Million  4:00 pm

Biloxi, MS

Talk before Mississippi Gulf Coast Writers Association http://www.gcwriters.org/

March 30 at 2:00 pm

The New York Journal of Books

The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot

by Tom Simmons

http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/man-called-brown-condor-forgotten-history-african-american-fighter-pilot

THE MAN CALLED BROWN CONDOR by Tom Simmons being presented to the president of Ethiopia, His Excellence Girma Wolde-Giorgis   by Yaw Frederick L. Davis.

THE MAN CALLED BROWN CONDOR

The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot

The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia.

Robinson’s struggles to overcome the racial prejudice that all but closed the field of aviation to Blacks. His outstanding success in accomplishing his dream of flying, his influence toward the establishment of a school of aviation at Tuskegee Institute (there would have been no Tuskegee Airmen without him) and his courageous wartime service in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion in 1935 are brought to life.

It was during Robinson’s service to Ethiopia that he took to the air in opposition to the first Fascist invasion of what would become World War II. This remarkable American Hero may have been the first American to oppose Fascism in combat.

Tom Simmons is the author of three books to date: Forgotten Heroes of WWII, Escape From Archangel and By Accident of Birth. He has also written numerous magazine articles, an example of which, Growing Up With Mr. Faulkner, was published in The Oxford American, a literary magazine founded by John Grisham.

THOMAS E. SIMMONS grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, and attended Marion Military Institute, the US Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama. He has been a pilot since the age of sixteen and participated in air shows, flying aerobatics in open-cockpit biplanes. In the late 1950s, he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He lives in Gulfport, Mississippi.

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