Book signing @ Barnes & Nobel By Accident of Birth, A Novel by Thomas E. Simmons, 2 PM Saturday December 19th @ 2PM Gulfport – B&N Store & Event Locator stores. www.barnesandnoble.com/store/2961 Gulfport. Gulfport Shopping Center 15246 Crossroads Parkway Gulfport, MS 39503 228-832-8906.
Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Thomas E. Simmons www.thomasesimmons.net Published by TouchPoint Press www.touchpointpress.com
Books and Videotape — A Family Weekend of Book Promotion
Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit by Caroline Giammanco
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What a query means to me…South Carolina Writers Workshop, Jeanie Loiacono, President Loiacono Literary Agency
Thomas E. Simmons book signing at the Gulf Coast Art Association http://www.geocities.ws/gulfcoastartassociation/ Christmas event/sale in conjunction with the Mississippi Historical Photo Museum. He will signing all of my current books: The Man Called Brown Condor (Skyhorse) Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air (Taylor Trade), Escape From Archangel (University of Mississippi Press) and his new release, By Accident of Birth (TouchPoint Press) Friday, December 11th from 5-7 pm.
WlOX TV, Gulf Coast scheduled to interview Thomas E. Simmons on the 4 PM news program Friday, December 18th to announce the book signing on Saturday @ B&N Gulfport for By Accident of Birth by Thomas E. Simmons, Saturday, December 19th @ 2 PM Gulfport – B&N Store & Event Locator stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2961 Gulfport. Gulfport Shopping Center 15246 Crossroads Parkway Gulfport, MS 39503 228-832-8906.
Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Thomas E. Simmons www.thomasesimmons.net
www.robertehirsch.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency, Jeanie Loiacono
Hirsch, who has experienced his own adversities concerning racial stigmas and Catholic doctrine, writes with distinct accuracy of the walled façade individuals construct to insulate themselves against others and the terrors of life no less formidable than those constructed by powerful and established institutions. Contrition, his first novel (JournalStone, 2012) explores the dark underside of the conscience; that infected and decaying region of our past existence that draws each of us back to the pillories of punishment time and time again.
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,
Robert Hirsch is a long-time resident of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Promise of the Black Monks (2016), and its sequels, Hammer of God (2016), Horde of Fools (2017), God’s Scarlet Fury (2017) and the final is yet to be announced, have been acquired and are being published by Argus Publishing.
Promise of the Black Monks – Published by Argus Publishing (release 2016)
The Cross of Mathilde, a crux gemmata made for Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (973–1011).
When Tristan Saint-Germain and his brother, Guillaume are sent to live with the Black Monks in Cluny, they had no idea their fates…nor that those whom they are destined to encounter would change the history of the world.
Hammer of God – Published by Argus Publishing (release 2016)
Schlacht am Weißen Berg (Death on Knowing Mountain)
The sequel, Hammer of God, takes you on Tristan’s journey from the time he becomes a Black Monk of Cluny and a spy for the Pope, to the dawning of the crusades in 1097; an epic tale that leaves you wanting more. Vows were taken, loyalties were chosen and now he must use all his gifts to protect the Pope and serve God. To what lengths, in what ways?
“Ah,” cried the Hermit, “I told that boy he was dangerous, that he would plant the seeds of war!” “Yee-hee-hee!” cackled Duxia in reply, “and I told him he was cursed at birth… and even asked him what it is he wanted, and how many would die as he strived to seek it!”
Horde of Fools – Published by Argus Publishing (release 2017)
Henry IV requests mediation from Matilda of Tuscany and abbot Hugh of Cluny.
The third in the series, A Horde of Fools, gets Tristan tangled up in Peter the Hermit’s Peasant’s Crusade where over 50,000 peasants marched from France to Byzantium to fight the Turks and recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. Flanked by the Danes and his brother, Guillaume, and watched over by an earthly angel and the love of his life, Mala, he is determined to do what God and the Vatican ordained him for — to save the innocent from certain annihilation on their march to Jerusalem.
God’s Scarlet Fury – Published by Argus Publishing (release 2017)
This ia a map of the Crusade route of 1096 of which the Crusaders took the overland route from all parts of Europe to Constantinople, then on to Jerusalem.
This is the fourth novel in the continuing saga of Tristan, Mala, Guillaume and the Danes which covers the outbreak of the First Holy Crusade in the wake of the fiasco of Peter the Hermit’s Peasant’s Crusade.
Published by Argus Publishing www.a-argusbooks.com
Represented by Jeanie Loiacono, Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
Chesterfield Towne Center Barnes & Noble
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January 23 from 2-4 pm
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January 30th 1-5pm
Books and Videotape — A Family Weekend of Book Promotion
Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit by Caroline Giammanco
http://www.booniehatbandit.com/bank-notes-and-family/
The Lies that Bind is a darkly ironic antebellum mystery/drama set in Turkle, Mississippi, 1859-61.
Durksen Hurst, aka Dark Horse, a visionary charlatan on the run, encounters a dozen hungry slaves stranded in the Mississippi wilds. Two desperate peoples, both in need of one another, agree to build an egalitarian plantation, with Hurst acting as figurehead “master” to deceive the town after he “wins” the land from a Chickasaw chief, the actual deed holder.
On the adjacent property live the Frenches: a controlling matriarch who manipulates the region’s bankers and cotton brokers, and her frail, rebellious heir-apparent. They “legally” adopt a child from New Orleans to carry on their legacy. Now, Antoinette, the mother, has come for her son and gets much more than she expected.
No one is who they pretend to be and more than anyone can imagine.
The novel is based on Protzel’s screenplay which was recognized by the Missouri Playwrights Association. It had brief Hollywood exposure; was called “a great script” by 20th Century Fox’s Murray Silverman, Paramount’s Sherry Lansing, and Chelsea Studios producer Stan Zuckerman. Get the inside scoop on the novel on David Clarke’s online radio show “Different Strokes for Different Folks.” http://www.blogtalkradio.com/authordavidclarke/2015/12/04/talk-with-historical-fiction-writer-ed-protzel For one hour he discusses life as a writer and the novel. Clarke brings an eclectic mix to his show and focuses on books with positive or spiritual themes. The Lies that Bind touches our common need for love, freedom and belonging; not an easy task for many in antebellum Mississippi.
The final two novels of the trilogy include the same major characters as the original: Honor Among Outcasts is set in Missouri during the transition from the Civil War to a violent reconstruction and Something in Madness is set in California as Dursken and Antoinette become the tumultuous state’s embattled first couple while others side with vested powerful interests.
Ed has written five original screenplays for feature film and worked developing film scripts/projects for 20th Century Fox. He has a Master’s in English Literature/Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a B.A. in English, with a minor in history, from the University of Hawaii. www.edprotzel.com
Published by TouchPoint Press www.touchpointpress.com
Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency
Rogue Phoenix Press takes on William Delamar’s The Brother Voice, a Civil War historical fiction of telepathically linked twin brothers who are on opposing sides…and in love with the same woman.
During the Civil War, the country was torn asunder, but so were families…right down to twins—Hol and Sel who were inseparable since conception. With the ability to hear each other’s thoughts and actually feel one another emotionally and physically, the only thing they did not share was their opinions of the war.
Their best friend, Cora Dee, was in love with them both. Unable to choose whom to marry, her father told her God would help guide her when the time came; little did either of them dream of how that final choice would be made. Hol sided with the Confederacy; loyal to the South although he could not decide if slavery was right or wrong. Sel knew the Union was doomed, if there was a permanent split, and that all men were created equal. His choice was for God, country and Cora Dee; loving them with all his being.
Then there’s what Old No, an ancient black man who has always been, and what he said… His granddaughter, Minnie Lou has bewitched Hol, and a forbidden love, due to fear, prejudice and racial laws in a time death and destruction, is consummated.
Until the end, the brother voice prevailed.
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Delamar has been involved in the literary arts most of his life, contributing a chapter in the textbook, Hospital Industrial Engineering, co-authoring a creativity text, Brain-Webbing and contributing to Weymouth, a compilation of poetry (The Saint Andrews Press, 1987). A writer-in-residence at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, NC, he instructed students in creativity techniques, and has conducted workshops at national writer’s conferences. He is a board member and past president of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. The Caretakers (2015), The Hidden Congregation (2016), and Patients in Purgatory (2016), are all being published by Rogue Phoenix Press. He is currently working on the sequel to The Brother Voice, titled The Other Voice. www.delamar/org www.roguephoenixpress.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com
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