LOIACONO LITERARY AGENCY FIVE AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING EVENT GULFPORT B&N SATURDAY, JULY 23RD 2-5PM

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Robert HirschPromise of the Black Monks and Contrition

Contrition

Robert Hirsch – Contrition and Promise of the Black Monks

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Thomas E. SimmonsBy Accident of Birth, Forgotten Heroes of WWII and The Man Called Brown Condor

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Philip LevinThe Tides of Mississippi

LOIACONO LITERARY AGENCY FIVE AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING EVENT GULFPORT B&N SATURDAY, JULY 23RD 2-5PM

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Robert Hirsch  Promise of the Black Monks

Robert HirschPromise of the Black Monks and Contrition

Contrition

Robert Hirsch – Contrition and Promise of the Black Monks

RMS_photo-213x300  ASOD

Robert Shows‘A Sentence of Death’ Words that Killed a President

Tom and John  BAB cover

Thomas E. SimmonsBy Accident of Birth, Forgotten Heroes of WWII and The Man Called Brown Condor

A US Navy corpsman gives a drink of water to an injured Marine, during the Battle of Guam, August 1944. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)  The Man Called Brown Condor cover art

Thomas E. Simmons – The Man Called Brown Condor, Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air, and By Accident of Birth

Philip Levin The Tides of Mississippi cover

Philip LevinThe Tides of Mississippi

Midwest Book Review – Book Reviews, Book Lover Resources, Advice for Writers and Publishers Reviewer’s Choice – The Lies That Bind by Ed Protzel

Midwest Book Review Midwest Book Review

Book Reviews, Book Lover Resources, Advice for Writers and Publishers Reviewer’s Choice

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The Lies That Bind
Ed Protzel http://www.edprotzel.com
TouchPoint Press https://touchpointpress.com                                                            Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
9780692591888, $16.98, PB, 270pp, www.amazon.com

Synopsis:

In 1859, Durksen Hurst, a visionary charlatan on the run, encounters a dozen hungry slaves stranded in the Mississippi wilds. Led by the deceptively simple-looking Big Josh, together they agree to build their own egalitarian plantation, with Hurst acting as a “figurehead master” to hoodwink the town. But wise Big Josh fears that Hurst’s grandiose schemes may doom them all to the hangman’s noose.

In the town, the reclusive widow, Marie Brussard French, manipulates the region’s bankers and cotton brokers, that is, everyone except her frail, rebellious heir-apparent, Devereau. Driven by unbearable loneliness to mad acts, Devereau threatens to expose the family’s own tenuous facade, a revelation that, if made, would prove fatal to the Frenches.

Meanwhile, Antoinette DuVallier, a beautiful, Cassandra-like fugitive from New Orleans with mysterious ties to the Frenches, arrives on her own desperate mission. Her overpowering presence detonates long-repressed conflicts, unleashing a devastating upheaval of fire and blood that tears asunder the once-sleepy hamlet. As the story’s tangled webs of deceit unravel, each startling plot twist and cathartic revelation shines a fresh light on what it means to be a man, a woman, free or enslaved. Indeed, what it means to be human.

Critique:

The debut novel of author Ed Protzel’s ‘Dark Horse Trilogy’ series, The Lies That Bind is a deftly crafted and consistently compelling read from beginning to end. While strongly recommended for community library Historical Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that The Lies That Bind is also available in a Kindle edition ($4.99).

The East Texas Writers Guild is pleased to announce that The Tides of Mississippi was named a Finalist in the Romance category of Published Books its annual First Chapter Contest 2016.

The East Texas Writers Guild is pleased to announce that The Tides of Mississippi was named a Finalist in the Romance category of Published Books its annual First Chapter Contest 2016.

http://venturegalleries.com/blog/east-texas-writers-guild-first-chapter-winners-published-books/

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Philip Levin

The Tides of Mississippi

Mississippi

Published by Argus Publishing

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

The Stellar Phoenix series by Robert Shows has been acquired by Argus Publishing!

The Stellar Phoenix series by Robert Shows has been acquired by Argus Publishing! astronaut-self-portrait

The Stellar Phoenix a most believable scenario in a time not very far from now.

The three greatest impediments to space travel—distance, gravity, and radiation—are overcome by the works of a more-than-brilliant physicist, who designs a revolutionary spaceship; a true flying saucer, The Stellar Explorer, capable of enormous speeds and safety. Launched in 2019, the Stellar Explorer and its seven-member highly-intelligent, highly-trained crew settle down to the routines of space travel and their two-year maiden voyage mission of mapping the Milky Way Galaxy. All was normal and according to schedule until…

A cascade of events disrupts the mission: the unexpected erosion of crew morale; the sudden, unexplained emergency of a hull breach and the resultant deaths of four of the crew; betrayal and abandonment in space; human survival and ingenuity; and an alien rescue. The latter ultimately resulting in an Aesopian Fable: the rescuers become the rescued.

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After spending twenty-five years as an ER doctor and serving as a physician in the United States Army, Robert Shows is now a full-time author, pulling two weekends a month ER duty and volunteering his medical services to causes. His novel exposing secrets of the Kennedy assassination, ‘A Sentence of Death’ Words That Killed A President, was published by Ecanus Publishing in 2012. He has also published numerous short stories. Shows has several degrees in mathematics and physics, and is a forever student of history, empowering him with the knowledge to write believable and logical science fiction.  Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency Published by Argus Publishing

 

 

It is time for the Northwest United States to pack their ‘go bags’! Cascadia by Buzz Bernard has arrived!

It is time for the Northwest United States to pack their ‘go bags’! Cascadia by Buzz Bernard has arrived!

Cascadia

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Cascadia, the new release from disaster thriller author Buzz Bernard will sound the alarm for those of Northern California to Vancouver, but Oregon’s 4 million residents best have an evacuation plan…

Is the Pacific Northwest overdue for a huge quake and tsunami, or will the region remain safe for hundreds of years yet to come? No one knows…or does someone?

Dr. Rob Elwood, a geologist whose specialty is earthquakes and tsunamis, is having nightmares of “the big one,” which are way too real to disregard. His friend, counselor and retired reverend does not think he is nuts. Just the contrary, he believes them to be premonitions to be taken seriously. No one else does, however, even after a press conference.

Some live to regret it, most don’t.

In addition to this storyline, we have a remorseful, retired fighter pilot who is attempting a twenty-five-year-old late apology and Neahkahnie Johnny who has been in search of a legendary treasure chest, buried since the late 1600s, most of his life.

All are about to live Rob’s nightmare.

Tsunamis 101 – National Geographic

Buzz

Although fiction, Bernard has done his research as usual. He writes from vast experience. He has a B. S. in Atmospheric Science, University of Washington, was a Weather Officer in the United States Air Force Reserve 1963-1996 (two tours in Vietnam 1965-1966), Meritorious Service Medal 1993, flew with Hurricane Hunters 1995, received the Legion of Merit 1996, and worked as a meteorologist and defense contractor 1968-1996. He has also won numerous awards for both nonfiction and fiction from the Southeastern Writers Association (SWA) and the Atlanta Writers Club (AWC). In 2005, a short story, “Oregon Grinder,” was granted an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Competition. Bernard’s other published works include: Weather Watch (1979, Walker and Company), The Greenhouse Effect (1980, Ballinger Publishing Company/Harper Colophon Books), The Travelers Almanac–North America (1987, The Riverdale Company), The Travelers Almanac II–Europe (1991, The Riverdale Company) and Global Warming Unchecked (1993, Indiana University Press). Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

He has written four other thrillers for BelleBooks:

EYEWALLPLAGUESUPERCELL and BLIZZARD.

EYEWALL Plague Supercell BLIZZARD

 

Put these dates on the calendar to meet John L. Flynn, author of Future Prime: Top Ten Science Fiction Films, Everything I Know about Life I Learned from James Bond, and Intimate Bondage!

Put these dates on the calendar to meet John L. Flynn, author of Future Prime: Top Ten Science Fiction Films, Everything I Know about Life I Learned from James Bond, Intimate Bondage and Intimate Disclosure!

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Comic-Con International 2016: July 21–24 (Preview Night July 20) San Diego, California www.comiccon.org


DragonCon – September 2, 2016 to September 5, 2016.  Atlanta. Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels and the Merchandise Mart. More information as we get closer to the date. www.dragoncon.org


New York Comic Con – October 6, 2016 to October 9, 2016. New York.  Jacob Javits Center.  More information as we get closer to the date.


Celebration 2017 – Official Star Wars Convention – April 13, 2017 to April 17, 2017, Orlando Convention Center. More information as we get closer to the date.