Author Archives: Jeanie

About Jeanie

I am President of Loiacono Literary Agency, LLC. I have been a literary agency for thirteen years and have over sixty clients and have sold over 200 books to date.

Dance Like You Mean It by Jeanne Skartsiaris gets a Five Star Review from Courtney Talbott for Readers’ Favorite!

Dance Like You Mean It by Jeanne Skartsiaris gets a Five Star Review from Courtney Talbott for Readers’ Favorite! https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/dance-like-you-mean-it

Dance Like You Mean It

Dance Like You Mean It


Fiction – Chick Lit
394 Pages
Reviewed on 12/05/2018

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BOOK REVIEW

Reviewed by Courtney Talbott for Readers’ Favorite

Dance Like You Mean It by Jeanne Skartsiaris is a fun, quick read sure to please fans of women’s fiction. Cassie Calabria is a wife, mother, nurse, and all around people pleaser. She feels content, but somewhat stuck in the everyday, and so she decides to try her hand at writing a romance novel after reading an article about how in demand they are. To her surprise, not only is her novel published, it is a runaway success. Now she is dealing with her newfound fame while simultaneously trying to juggle a floundering marriage, a troubled daughter, and her own desire for anonymity. Can she pull it all together and live the kind of life that she writes about? The reader will enjoy the ride to find out.

Jeanne Skartsiaris’s Dance Like You Mean It is a fun romp through a midlife journey, and readers will certainly be cheering Cassie on. What starts as a frothy confection about a housewife’s everyday frustrations becomes something more poignant as we see what happens when her book forces her to wake up to the realities of her life. Her husband is cheating on her, her teenage daughter won’t talk to her and then ends up in her own ER, her mother is mysteriously ill, and Cassie is just trying to keep her head above water. I really enjoyed the parts that focused on Cassie and her life. The tone of the book is conversational, like chatting with a friend over coffee. I didn’t connect as much with the parts of Wild Rose, her fictional romance novel, but I understood that freewheeling Rosemary was needed as a foil for Cassie’s structured life. Overall, I enjoyed this book very much and I am pleased to have spent time with Cassie and her family.

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the featured artist at the PRP International Wines Last Chance: Holiday Warehouse Sale!

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the featured artist at the PRP International Wines Last Chance: Holiday Warehouse Sale! 

Beginning Thursday, December 6th, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, author of the Havah Gitterman series, will be the featured artist at PRP International Wines. The series not only includes the first three novels — Please Say Kaddish For Me, From Silt and Ashes, and As One Must, One Can — but also the hardback coffee table companion book, A Stone for the Journey! Get autographed copies of all four books!! The collection would make excellent Christmas or Hanukah gifts or for any special occasion.

And if you are not able to attend and wish to have them all before the holidays, you can order them through all the major online sites OR you may purchase directly from the author and have them all signed! WOW! runtshell@gmail.com

Kid Clay by Carl Watson has won First Place in Children’s/YA Maxwell Medal from Serious Writer Inc.

Kid Clay by Carl Watson has won First Place in Children’s/YA Maxwell Medal from Serious Writer Inc.

Based on the real memoirs of Mr. Watson’s great-grandfather, this story follows Kid Clay through the Old West in search of a cowboy adventure. During his escapades, Kid Clay leaves his comfortable Kentucky home at the age of fifteen and sets out to discover what it’s like to be a real cowboy. During this time, he encounters many colorful characters such as Indians, Buffalo Bill, and members of the Dalton Gang.

Along the wagon trail, he encounters typhoid, cattle rustlers, stampedes, bank robbers, and a beautiful Indian maiden. Kid Clay has the determination and bravery he needs to survive, but as he makes his way along the trail, he discovers that the West is beginning to change. That’s when he makes a momentous decision that will affect the rest of his life.

A former educator, Carl Watson has taught Language Art classes in both elementary and junior high environments. He is a graduate of North Texas State University and Texas Wesleyan University (ME). Instrumental in writing a Boy Scouts of America Leadership Training Manual, he went on to assist in creating a syllabus for Social Studies in the Fort Worth Public School System. Then, the Fort Worth National Bank awarded him a fellowship to continue his studies in creative writing. A published author, his work has appeared in both adult and children’s magazines, as well as church school stories for the Methodist Publishing House, Child Life, and in True West Magazine. Kid Clay – A Cowboy’s Life on the Range is an article Watson wrote about his great-grandfather. The quotes were taken from Kid’s journal.

Give thanks in advance…

I believe God wants you to know that gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe. Most people do not know this, yet it is true. Expressing thankfulness in advance is the way of all Masters. So do not wait for a thing to happen and then give thanks.

Give thanks before it happens, and watch energies swirl!
To thank God before something occurs is an act of extraordinary faith. And that, of course, is where the power comes from. It’s Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. Why not make it Thanksgiving Day in the hearts of people everywhere, all the time?
Love, your Friend …
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B&N Sugar Land hosts The Kingdom Child by Jennifer Johnson!

Barnes & Noble hosted one of their most successful book-signing events, featuring Jennifer Johnson, author of The Kingdom Child and the Allen Family, whose fourteen-year-old son, Jordan, inspired the book. The event was a tremendous success which resulted in a sell out of every book ordered by the Barnes & Noble. Both Jennifer and the Allen family were overwhelmed by the support of the Sugar Land, Texas community and the staff at B&N.

“We were told this book signing was one of the most successful author events they’ve ever had. We are tremendously grateful to B&N and look forward to future book signings in 2019.” — Jennifer Johnson, author, The Kingdom Child

*** All proceeds for any sales of The Kingdom Child go to the Allen family and the healthcare costs associated with Jordan’s illness. What a grand gesture of agape love and paying it forward.

All those who stayed the whole night.

The Norris Family, Moran and London Norris with children

Jennifer Johnson and Rosalyn Allen (Jordan’s mother)

Angela and Jerry Cheatham. Angela is Sam Allen’s sister

Jennifer Johnson and Melineh Petrosian, author of Cry for Rain

Johnson and SJ Swanson

Jennifer Johnson

Alisha Beard, left/Bianca Hayes, right

Johnson and Bianca Hayes

Johnson, Rosalyn, and SJ Swanson

Johnson

Johnson hugging TJ Szafarz who provided one of the testimonials for The Kingdom Child and prayed endlessly for it!

Steve hugging Dottie

Johnson and Lynn Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please join Jennifer Johnson, author of The Kingdom Child, and the Allen family Wednesday, November 14th at Barnes & Noble!

If you are in the Sugar Land area, please join Jennifer Johnson and the Allen family for a heartwarming book signing event Wednesday, November 14th from 4:30-6:30pm at Barnes & Noble in Sugar Land at First Colony Mall. 

  

Rosalyn and Sam Allen experienced an unfathomable event, the loss of their son, Jordan. And yet, from this tragic ordeal, lives have been dramatically changed. God reveals both His plan and His purpose in both our joyful moments and also our trials. The Kingdom Child is not only their story but a story for everyone who wonders why God allows tragedy. There really is a reason for everything.

We would love to meet firsthand all our supporters and hear their stories as well as how the book has affected them.

The weather will be perfect for pumpkin spiced lattes! Hope to see you there!

Blessings,

Jennifer Johnson & the Allen Family

www.jenniferwjohnson.com

 

Two New Fruppings to Vote for Bracha Goetz’s Searching for God in the Garbage!

#5 Searching for God in the Garbage by Bracha Goetz

https://fupping.com/taegan/2018/11/10/19-books-that-will-help-you-stick-to-your-new-years-resolutions/

#1 Searching for God in the Garbage by Bracha Goetz

https://fupping.com/taegan/2018/11/10/11-biographies-and-memoirs-all-young-adults-should-read/

Bracha Goetz is the author of 37 books to help children’s souls shine:

http://www.amazon.com/author/spiritualkidsbooks-brachagoetz

and the new memoir for adults only, Searching for God in the Garbage

 

Meet Judge Douglas McCullough, author of Sea of Greed!

Sea of Greed is based on the true story behind the arrest of Manuel Noriega and the invasion of Panama pursuant to “Operation Just Cause.”

November 13, 2018 @ noon, Beaufort Lions Club, Clawson’s Restaurant , 425 Front St., Beaufort, NC 28516 (252) 728-2133 www.clawsonrestaurant.com

Former U.S. Attorney Douglas McCullough, now retired from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, 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 Manuel Noriega’s (1934-2017) assistance. The investigation and apprehension of these smugglers eventually led to the exposure of Noriega as a drug lord and money launderer, although on occasion he’d provided intelligence to the CIA and DEA and even 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 local politicians, businessmen, celebrities, and entertainment agents as well as Noriega and members of Colombian drug cartels. This is the only occasion in history where a head of state has been prosecuted in a federal court like any other criminal.

Judge Douglas McCullough served in the U.S. Marine Corps and 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 four years in private practice, he won his first election to the North Carolina Court of Appeals and was re-elected in 2010.