QL 4 by James Garrison has been named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award

2018 Montaigne Medal! http://hofferaward.com/Montaigne-Medal-finalists.html#.Wp_4aFpMGhA

AND on top of that honor, here is Garrison’s interview with Book ‘Em Book Club – Books, Authors, and Reviews – Author Interview with Jim Garrison

https://bookembookclub.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/author-interview-with-jim-garrison/

On March 3, 2018, Francisco Gonzalez, Board President of the The John C. Robinson Aviation Museum – Brown Condor Association, was asked by Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America to speak about Robinson in Washington D.C. He was presented with a special plaque commemorating the great pilot’s life. It was then placed next to his bust in the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.

Thomas E. Simmons penned The Man Called Brown Condor, the biography of John Charles Robinson, known in the media of the 1930s as The Brown Condor of Ethiopia. This is the true story of Robinson’s struggles to overcome the racial prejudice that all but closed the field of aviation to Blacks. His outstanding success in accomplishing his dream of flying, his influence toward the establishment of a school of aviation at Tuskegee Institute (there would have been no Tuskegee Airmen without him) and his courageous wartime service in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion in 1935 are brought to life.

It was during Robinson’s service to Ethiopia that he took to the air in opposition to the first Fascist invasion of what would become World War II. This remarkable American Hero may have been the first American to oppose Fascism in combat.

Come meet and get all three books — Please Say Kaddish For Me, From Silt and Ashes, and As One Must, One Can!

Carl Watson, author of Kid Clay, will be doing a book signing at Half-Price Books, 2211 S. Cooper St., Arlington, TX April 21, 2018 1-3 PM. Come hear about the true story of Kid Clay based on his grandfather’s memoirs in which he describes his experiences as a teen cowboy during the time of the National Cattle Trail from 1880 to 1887.

From a Catholic High School (Archdiocese of Hartford, CT) in response to a Senator’s remark about “Where is God in all the tragedy in the world?”

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ jFz4uUfPfN8?rel=0&autoplay=1

Author John Flynn and Jeanie Loiacono to present at SpyCon Atlanta, March 30-31^st!

John L. Flynn, author of Everything I Know About Life I Learned From James Bond is schedule for two sessions and to emcee “My Life as an Agent’s Agent” panel at SpyCon, featuring his own agent, Jeanie Loiacono, President of Loiacono Literary Agency, Friday, March 30th @ 6:30pm.

SpyCon 2018 Programming 

Spy Con opening ceremonies are Friday at 4 PM. Get your tickets for Friday evening’s dinner with Bond Girls Trina Parks and Lana Wood at http://spy-con.com/dinner-with-the-bond-girls.

Saturday is casino night and formal wear or a costume is great!

5:00 PM Dr. John Flynn, Norm Worsley – Everything I Know About Life I Learned From James Bond (A must-read for any Bond enthusiast — from gadgets to Bond Girls, learn all the behind the scenes info!)

Friday @ 6:30pm, Jeanie Loiacono, Dr.John Flynn – “My Life As An Agent’s Agent” – Jeanie talks about repping for spy novelists, her love of the genre, and how aspiring writers can hone their craft and get published.

Saturday 2:00 PM “Forgotten Bonds” with John Flynn – Unique touchstones to Barry Nelson, George Lazenby, Tim Dalton, David Niven …

Special chance to meet and hear Judge Douglas McCullough, author of Sea of Greed, the story of Manuel Noriega’s capture and prosecution.

March 8, 2018 @ 6 pm After Hours Rotary Club, Jacks Waterfront Bar, 513 Evans St., Morehead City, NC 28557 For more information contact: awh827@gmail.com

In reading God’s Scarlet Fury by Robert Hirsch, I was once again
transported to the eleventh century crusades. The characters continue to
remain true. The unfortunate actions by some of the crusaders remains an
integral part of the story. I was sad to see the book end and was
searching for more pages thinking I had missed reading something vital. I
am looking forward to the next chapter with the main characters Tristan,
Guillaume, the Danes and the new younger Christos.

• Pam Weimann

Jeanne Skartsiaris, author of Dance Like You Mean It, is having an event at Churchill Estates, Dallas, Texas Saturday, March 17^th @ 2:30.

What if you wrote a steamy, erotic novel that was so hot bookstores couldn’t keep it on their shelves? What if you couldn’t tell anyone you wrote it?

With a mundane life as a nurse, a husband who is grazing other fields, and a daughter of an impressionable age, Cassie checks her horoscope one morning just for kicks and notices an article about romance novels and how profitable publishing could be if one could spin a good tale.

She pens Wild Rose under a pseudonym and it flies to the top of the charts, is the talk of the town, and people are clamoring to know who the author is. What would her children think if they knew? Or her own mother, who ‘taught her better’, and worse, her husband who’d thought she’d turned back into a virgin since they’d not had sex in so long. How could she be thrown into the spotlight and still be a good mom?

Wild Rose, Cassie’s cauldron of prose, is woven through this story. Set it the 70s, it is the story of Rosemary, a beautiful photographer who wants to be recognized for her body of work, not her haunting beauty. Although, a modern woman, she is as adventurous sexually as she is with her camera and beds men like candy…until she falls in love.

Both novels parallel each other as Cassie realizes Rosemary is not so different from her.

When not writing Jeanne Skartsiaris works as a Sonographer. Prior to that she was a medical/legal photographer for a plaintiff’s law firm. She attended creative writing courses at Southern Methodist University and is a member of Romance Writers of America’s local chapter, Dallas Area Romance Authors. Author of Surviving Life and Snow Globe, she lives in Dallas, Texas. www.jeanneskartsiaris.com  Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency   Published by Black Opal Books

Carl Watson, author of Kid Clay, is having an event at Churchill Estates, Dallas, Texas on Saturday, April 14^th @ 2:30. www.churchillestateslh.com

Based on the real memoirs of Mr. Watson’s grandfather, Henry Carleton Clay, 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.

Was the West more than Kid Clay bargained for?

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 grandfather. The quotes were taken from Kid’s journal. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency  Published by Argus Publishing