Willie Springer from KTRS 550 AM for McGraw Milhaven will be interviewing Caroline Giammanco, author of Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit Friday, December 23^rd !

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Affinity’s Window by Doug Wilson is now available!!

Affinity’s Window, a horror/thriller equal to Poltergeist, it will have you afraid to turn the light off!

Affinity Bell, a lonely child whose only companion is the threadbare doll she’s christened Mr. Moppet, roams the empty halls of Bell Manor attempting to escape the evil that pursues her. The Others, the horrifying creatures only she can see, attack young Affinity at every opportunity. But Mr. Moppet will protect her, he’s told her so, and Mr. Moppet knows magic.

Tanner Dann, a world-weary writer searching for proof that ghosts actually do exist, is being called by an unknown force to Bell Manor. Will the two powerful psychics he’s hired help him to discover the proof for which he’s been searching, or will they too be dragged down into the noxious pit that is Bell Manor?

Evil flows through the heart of Bell Manor, pulsing and ebbing like some hideous tide. Will it drag Tanner and his friends down into its gaping maw, or will they battle back at Affinity’s Window?

Along with Carolyn, his wife of twenty-six years, and their two cats Clancy and Tyler, he lives and writes in Northern Virginia.

“Having a passion for writing that goes back as far as I can remember, I can’t describe how liberating it feels to finally be doing it full time. I spent my entire adult life working as a mechanical contractor, almost thirty-seven years in the trade, but I was forced by health issues to leave that demanding life. It was a blessing in disguise. Devoting myself to writing the horror suspense novels I’ve jealously devoured since childhood, immersing myself in the process, I’ve finally been able to put down on paper what’s been trapped inside me for years.”

Affinity’s Window is his third novel written, but first novel represented. He is currently honing the first two books in this series: Angel Rising Parts I and 2. “It is my intent to entertain with suspense and horror anyone that reads my books. In other words, I plan to scare the crap out of you.” Doug Wilson  Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency  Published by A-Argus Publishing  Amazon

Caroline Giammanco and her nonfiction Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit made the Best of Everything Nonfiction for 2016 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016

Bank Notes  – Caroline Giammanco.  One man’s bad decision to get out of debt by robbing banks and the consequences of that decision. http://everythingnonfiction.com

Hanahatchee by Trisha O’Keefe is scheduled to be republished by Argus Publishing in 2017.

Set in the late 1930’s in a small, southwestern Georgia town, an innocent black man is set to be executed for the murders of a store clerk found floating in the river by Charlie Russell while fishing, and his family who’d been found by a then twelve-year-old boy, Jordan Tanner, .

“Lord help me, I done found another body in the creek. Same place as I found poor Mr. Freddie Boyer. Done in the same way, too. Can you come on down home, Mr. Jordan? I’m so scared, I don’t know what to do,” Charlie Russell pleaded.

Nearly twenty years later, Tanner receives this distress call from Russell, who’d taught him to fish and hunt as a child. Charlie has caught something bigger than a fish—another dead man floating in the Hanahatchee River.

Tanner is now a reporter for a newspaper. His curiosity, and the fact that the victim is trussed-up just like the first body found in the Hanahatchee years before, spurs him to uncover the truth, something this rural community has been avoiding for too long.

As an anthropology student, many years ago, Trisha O’Keefe became aware of the past’s potential for mystery. “Until an instructor remarked that some of my student papers sounded more like novels,” O’Keefe says. In response to her mother’s question, “All that’s interesting but what are you going to do for a living?” the author taught school. “Or they taught me,” she says. “I’m a perfect example of history repeating itself. As one of those exasperating children always asking ‘why?’ I ‘m faced with an entire classroom full of them every day.” O’Keefe lives in Georgia where she teaches and, of course, writes mysteries.

Published by Argus Publishing (re-release 2017) Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Love Song of the Chinaberry Man and The Mama Tree, by Trisha O’Keefe are available for the 2016 Christmas rush!

Love Song of the Chinaberry Man — It is said that in the Thicket right outside of Julia Springs, Georgia lives a creature of myth and legend, the Chinaberry Man. Rightly so named due to the sweet, pungent scent those who have remotely come across him remember smelling. I say remotely because very few have lived to tell of a close encounter, except one… Gina McFarland has always been special, predicting plane crashes, having visions and dreams that come true; mostly the kind that don’t have happy endings. Now she sees the dead and, of all people, the creature has chosen to save her.

In a matter of days, several horrid things seemed to develop in this quiet hamlet, all of which culminate with hatred, ignorance and revenge, Mother Nature’s wrath, pure serendipity… and the love song of the Chinaberry Man.

“By the way, the incidence with Chinaberry Man that Tanner has on the way to Root Woman’s place in Love Song of the Chinaberry Man happened to my cousin while he was night-stalking deer at Rood Creek in Lumpkin County.  He is now an avid believer in Chinaberry Man. I think climate change and loss of habitat has a lot to do with increased sightings of these legendary creatures, although I heard about them when I was a kid from these guys who work on oil rigs stuck out in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. The world is still full of wonders, thank God.” — Trisha O’Keefe

 The Mama Tree lives in the Thicket, a place so wild it hides all kinds of creatures who don’t want to be seen. Prayer bundles and gris-gris bags dangle from its matronly branches like ornaments on a mother goddess. It has hidden Kenya and her disfigured face until, healed by the loving care of her grandmother, she emerges again, morphed into Chantal West, the sexy R&B Princess of Memphis.

Her triumph is shattered when the body of her childhood friend, Holly Simpson, is found in a dumpster. Could the fresh tattoo on the body possibly lead them to her killer?

Kenya has hit many bumps on the road of life, and even some ditches, but there are no air bags for this ride.

Detective Grover Moss knows in one millisecond that this crazy, beautiful woman is the love he’s been looking for, and that she will be the next victim unless he finds first.

The first of the series, Hanahatchee (Argus Publishing), will be republished in 2017.

As an anthropology student, many years ago, Trisha O’Keefe became aware of the past’s potential for mystery. While living and studying in Egypt, she began writing with that connection in mind. O’Keefe now lives in Georgia where she teaches and, of course, writes mysteries. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Published by Black Opal Books www.blackopalbooks.com

Book Shelf radio interview with Amanda Matti, author of A Foreign Affair, by East County Magazine  http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/sites/eastcountymagazine.org/files/Bookshelf-AmandaMatti-Final.mp3  Published by Argus Publishing

Argus Publishing has acquired all Stephen Doster books from Deer Hawk Publications!

In an incredible deal, William Connor, EIC Argus Publishing, has bought all rights to republish Stephen Doster’s books: Georgia Witness, Shadow Child, Rose Bush, and Jesus Tree. He took on Doster’s mother’s memoir, Her Finest Hour, which Doster was ever so passionate about having published. Terry Doster, his mother, is 97 years’ young this year! All four are due back out on the market next year. Doster’s latest achievement is St. Simons 360—a DVD his brother, Jonathan Doster, produced—that chronicles the history of St. Simons Island. It is a companion DVD for all four of the newly-acquired books; all take place on or around the Golden Isles. Stephen Doster Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency  Published by Argus Publishing

Stephen Doster was born in England and grew up on St. Simons Island, Georgia. He is a student of history and has extensively researched the Gullah and Geechee cultures of South Carolina and Georgia. He received a degree in Marketing from the University of Georgia and has recently received his Master of Liberal Arts and Science degree with a certificate in history. Doster has appeared at BookExpo, the Southern Festival of Books, the Amelia Island Book Festival, The Southern Kentucky Book Fest and has spoken at colleges, historical societies, and library associations in Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He has been interviewed on public radio and television in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia. Currently, he is an assistant editor for a peer-review journal at Vanderbilt University. His other works include: Voices from St. Simons, Lord Baltimore.  His new novel, (OMG) Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice and El Dorado in the Digital Age (LOL), penned as Stefan Soto, is available for acquisition.

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the mother of triplets! And doesn’t she look fabulous?!

No, not human babies, but three literary babies in her series! The third in the Havah Saga, As One Must, One Can, has just been released. Her two older siblings, Please Say Kaddish For Me and From Silt and Ashes, have been receiving global 5-Star Reviews since their launches causing those who read one to want them all. So, if you want to give the gift that keeps giving, buy all three.

Maryann Wakefield’s novel, A Gentle Sun Coming, has been acquired by Argus Publishing!

A Gentle Sun Coming

When Kade Turner lost her husband and son to a freak automobile accident, she tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized for a year. Daily sessions with Dr. Luke Bradshaw brought her back to the land of the living… and also of loving. Or so she made him believe, as an unexpected and suppressed emotion is kindled and an eternal flame ignited on the night of her departure. She flees to Destin, Florida with the goal of being reunited with her family ‘on the other side’; unable to believe Luke could love a ‘lost cause’ like herself. Instead, she is targeted by a serial killer who sees her as a challenge. Unbeknownst to Kade, her worst nightmare is her next-door neighbor; a man who knows her every move and hears even her thoughts. Will Luke find her in time? Is what they shared strong enough to turn a determination to die into an undeniable desire to live? (Release 2017)

Maryann Wakefield is a retired academic professor who has garnered many distinguished awards and was the Sleuth’s Ink contest winner, 2006. She is currently a member of several writing organizations: Board Member of Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, Ozarks Writers League, Springfield Writers Guild, and Sleuth’s Inc, Panel member for Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, October, 2012. Having been published in several literary magazines, this is her first novel, but far from her last.

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

Published by Argus Publishing www.a-argusbooks.com