Two Loiacono Literrary Agency authors featured in Southern Writer’s Magazine March 2017! www.southernwritersmagazine.com

Caroline (McGinness) Giammanco, author of Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit, is featured on page six in the article “Book Signing Basics.” A pro at asserting and promoting herself, she has done more B&N signings than any LLA author in nearly ten years. Read and learn what to do and not to do in getting those events booked and how to draw the readers to you like bees to flowers.

Bank Notes is about how she and Keith Giammanco — bank robber extraordinaire; eleven successful, weaponless bank robberies — fell in love and are planning to marry while he is in jail. Not scheduled for parole for another ten years, they have petitioned to marry this month and promised to save themselves for each other until the day of his release. What a story!

Giammanco may be reached @ booniehatbandit@yahoo.com to schedule speaking engagements or book signings.

Johnnie Bernhard, author of A Good Girl and former agent with LLA, is featured on page ten in the article “Developing Dual POV – Think like an Author and an Agent.”

Since the article was published Bernhard resigned from LLA to concentrate on marketing and promoting her new novel, A Good Girl (Texas Review Press), an all-encompassing novel that penetrates the core being of all who read it, pulling back the skin to reveal the raw actualities of life, love, and relationships, told with candor and honesty; an ageless story of burying parents and raising children through multiple generations. It’s a road we all travel.

As an agent with LLA, Bernhard represented: Linda Case (The Fugitive’s Sister – Argus Publishing), Joan Early (The Other Two-Fifths – Argus Publishing), Jim Garrison (QL4 – TouchPoint Press), Ian McLean (Legend of Shane McLean – Quest for Vengeance – Black Opal Books), Kathryn Brown Ramsberger (The Shores of Our Souls – TouchPoint Press).

Bernhard may be reached @ bryantbernhard@cableone.net to schedule speaking engagements or book signings.

To submit your manuscript to Loiacono Literary Agency, please read and follow the LLA Submission Guidelines found on the HOME page and send to Jeanie Loiacono or Linda Kasten.

March 5, 2017 Listen to Amanda Matti’s live radio interview on VOC Radio out of Houston, TX. They broadcast live every Sunday at 6pm CST on Houston’s KNTH-AM1070 and also over two internet channels – AM1070 website and iHeartRadio Network.

About VOC Radio (Veterans Operations Command): “VOC Radio” with hosts Rob Paiva and Brandon “Doc” Buttrey showcases programs, people and solutions that help military veterans transition successfully to civilian life.  Rob served in the US Navy for 4 years, and Brandon served 10 years in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. – See more at: http://am1070theanswer.com/radioshow/details/877#sthash.bYtdhhz3.dpuf

Robert “Rob” Paiva, VOC Radio with Rob & Doc, SUNDAYS  6-7PM (CDT), Houston, TX USA, Only on: AM1070 The Answer, www.am1070theanswer.com, Apple and Android Apps

iHeartRadio Network rpaiva@norhillgardner.com

Thomas E Simmons to receive the Mississippi Historical Society’s Award of Merit for The Man Called Brown Condor March 4, 2017 at noon at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, 246 Dolan Ave., Gulfport, Mississippi.

Thomas E. Simmons and the bust of Col. John Robinson at the Gulfport Airport.

USCG Auxiliary March 2,2017@ 6:30pm Carteret County Chamber of Commerce  https://nccoastchamber.com

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’s Reader’s World book signing!

https://rochellewisoff.com/2017/02/27/happy-saturday-in-lees-summit/

 Thomas E. Simmons

February 21, 2017 6pm – Speaking engagement: The Man Called Brown Condor at the Pascagoula, Mississippi Library 3214 Pascagoula St, Pascagoula, MS 39567 (228) 769-3060 at the invitation of the Pascagoula Genealogy and History Society. Simmons received an honorarium and a commemorative coin presented in a lovely mahogany box.

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March 3, 2017  Noon – Keynote speaker at the Mississippi Department Archives and History www.mdah.ms.gov annual meeting, this time on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as part of the Mississippi Bi-Centennial celebration. I will receive an honorarium. The subject is my book The Man Called Brown Condor. Lynn Meadows Center, Gulfport www.lmdc.org

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March 8, 2017 Thomas E. Simmons interview with WLOX March 8, 2017 for the 4 o’clock show. Home WLOX-TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Mississippi – WLOX.com …www.wlox.com

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May 3, 2017 Luncheon speaking engagement: The Last Quinn Standing at the Cat Island Coffee House – Home of Pass Christian Books 300 E Scenic Dr.,  Pass Christian, MS 39571. (228) 222-4827  What time is the talk?

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March 11, 2017 Thomas E. Simmons book launch for The Last Quinn Standing (book two of the Quinn Saga)– Gulfport B&N, Cross Roads Shopping Center, Saturday, March 11th 2:pm to 5:pm!

Johnnie Bernhard has resigned as agent with LLA to concentrate on her writing career. With her new book, A Good Girl, coming out, she will be focusing all her attention on marketing and promotion.

Please join me on wishing her the best and shower her with blessings for a prosperous career as an author.

Send all future submissions for LLA to: Jeanie Loiacono Jeanie.L@llallc.net or Linda Kasten Linda.K@llallc.net

Promise of the Black Monks by Robert Hirsch and narrated by Joshua Young is now available on Audible! A must read and now a must listen to novel of immeasurable proportions! Nothing but 5-star reviews!

Be prepared for an exemplary voiceover by Joshua Young!  Audible

Promise of the Black Monks

Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, the fate of seven-year-old Tristan de Saint-Germain is thrown to the winds upon the execution of his father for treason against William the Conqueror of Normandy. Then, abandoned by his mother who remarries and departs for England, Tristan and his four-year-old brother, Guillaume, find themselves thrown into the monastic world of the Benedictine Black Monks of Cluny, France. Under the tutelage of Grand Prior Odo de Lagery, who one day will ascend to the very pinnacle of power within the Catholic Church in Rome, Tristan develops into an academic and linguistic prodigy by the age of twelve and becomes known as the ‘Promise of the Black Monks’.

Tristan’s unusual talents become useful to the Benedictines as well as to Rome, and the boy soon finds himself pulled into the visceral power struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Heinrich IV as they mercilessly wage spiritual, political and military war upon each other to claim supremacy over the continent of Europe.

Robert Hirsch received his undergraduate degree from Cameron University and began teaching history and French, then earned his Master’s Degree at the University of Southern Mississippi and Doctoral Degree from Nova Southeastern University of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale,

He has experienced his own adversities concerning racial stigmas and Catholic doctrine, writes with distinct accuracy of the walled facade individuals construct to insulate themselves against others and the terrors of life no less formidable than those constructed by powerful and established institutions. Promise of the Black Monks sequels—Hammer of God (2016), Horde of Fools (2017), God’s Scarlet Fury (2017) and the final is yet to be announced—are all being published by Argus Publishing.

• Joshua Young is a voice actor who breathes a new range of emotional articulation into every book he works on. Capitalizing on his uniquely flexible voice, he narrates novels with an unparalleled passion that needs to be heard to be believed. He also handles all post-production needs, polishing the audio to a mirror shine. Isn’t it about time other people heard the voices in your head? To learn more and listen to some of his incredible demos: on ACX  or joshacts.com. Young CV 

A deeply moving story with an unforgettable heroine By S.C. Potter

As One Must, One Can (The Havah Gitterman Saga Book 3)

After reading the first two 5-star books in The Havah Gitterman Saga, I thought that Rochelle’s Wisoff-Field’s writing couldn’t get any better, but As One Must, One Can is her crowning achievement.

Until I read the first novel in the saga, set at the end of the 19th century, I’d no idea about the persecution and wholesale slaughter of Jews in Czarist Russia at the hands of so-called Christians who accused them of being “Christ killers”; and yet, it seems that what came later in World War 2, has overshadowed all earlier atrocities and genocide committed against Jewish people.

Whilst reading As One Must, One Can, I kept thinking, here’s Havah settled in the US with those of her family and friends who have survived the horrors of the pogrom in Russia, and yet the prejudice towards Jewish people still exists in the Land of the Free and is clearly demonstrated in certain quarters; a violence bubbling beneath the surface, waiting to erupt. In fact, the author does a masterful bit of foreshadowing, which I’ll not reveal in this review, as it would be a spoiler, but it left me thinking, is this saga going to end with this novel, or is it going to march onwards into both of the Great Wars? In some ways, it is best left, lest it breaks my heart. I say this, because it’s impossible not to feel a deep fondness for Havah, her family, and her friends, warts and all. They are such real people, their emotions laid bare for the reader to see. I also say this, because music is one of the themes in Book 3, as one of the characters is a child musical prodigy (no spoilers here), and I kept thinking of all those talented musicians who had their lives needlessly snuffed out in the gas chambers a few decades later.

In summary, you need to read the books of this saga in order to gain the most from your experience. Yes, As One Must, One Can could be a standalone novel, with its non-intrusive backstory, but there’s a huge cast of characters whose names are a challenge to assimilate and recall at speed. It is the nature of any epic work: that you need to concentrate. It is with huge skill that Rochelle Wisoff-Fields manages to keep control of all those threads and weave them into something so complex on one level, yet so full of fine detail on the other. A brilliant achievement.

Book one and two…