MWSA’s Excellent Review of Uncommon Bond by John House http://www.mwsadispatches.com/library/2018/uncommon-bond

Great review for Ginny Fite’s Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder!

Lying, Cheating, & Occasionally Murder is a well-planned, well-conceived murder mystery, with characters that you will enjoy to learn more about as the plot progresses. Ginny Fite litters the plot with subtleties designed to both guide and mislead the reader to the ultimate conclusion. As a fan of murder mysteries, I found this to be one book I had a hard time putting down, there is so much attention to detail that you’re not reading the story, you’re living it, trying to piece together events before the final revelation. As the title suggests lies, cheating, and murder are woven into the plot, and the author’s style of backtracking to previous events in order to paint a fuller picture of both characters and circumstances is impeccably executed. I’ll certainly be keeping an eye open for more work by Ginny Fite, and it’ll certainly win the hearts of lovers of the genre.

—    K.J. Simmill – Darrienia: The Forgotten Legacies Series

Dr. John House, author of Uncommon Bond, Rancor, and Trial of Deceit, on IMPACT RADIO USA Paul Reeves, “Dr. Paul’s Family Talk”!

House’s interview will air on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (March 7, 8, and 9, 2018) at the following times (all times are EST Detroit times):

WEDNESDAY
11:00 a.m. (LIVE Show)
3:00 P.M.
8:00 p.m.

THURSDAY
2:00 a.m.
5:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
3:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.

FRIDAY
2:00 a.m.
5:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

You can listen by going to: http://www.impactradiousa.com (click on LISTEN LIVE), or go straight to the live stream at: http://streaming.radio.co/sb17f7f4fa/listen

IMPACT RADIO USA provides the best in news, talk, sports, and music 24 hours a day, 52 weeks per year. Launched in the spring of 2017, our goal is to keep you as the most informed Internet Radio audience.

I would like to introduce you to Ziba. She is an incredibly courageous woman who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in December completely on her own – no husband, no children, no family at all. She is also a hero – risking her life to serve as an interpreter for five years assisting US military and Civilian Expeditionary Forces in carrying out humanitarian and civil affairs missions throughout Afghanistan, including helping to open several schools for girls.

She was originally resettled in Buffalo, NY but she was completely alone there – no friends or other Afghans near by – and she was miserable. She discovered there was an Afghan family out here in the El Cajon area that she knew and they invited her to come live with them. She pooled all her money and bought herself a plane ticket to San Diego. What she didn’t understand (and what seems to never be explained to refugees) is that by moving states she basically left behind all her welcome money and resources in New York. When she got to El Cajon, she and her friend tried to do the right thing and told the apartment manager about Ziba coming to live there. The management promptly told them another permanent resident would not be allowed and that she could only stay as a “guest” for four weeks.

Thanks to a connection through one of our volunteers, Julie Dickerson we found Ziba a VERY reasonably priced room to rent from a lovely single woman here in El Cajon who hosts foreign exchange students. The woman allowed Ziba to move in this weekend, but Ziba is completely broke at this point and needs money for rent and some other expenses until she can get on her feet. We are in the process of getting her a job but it will take at least a few weeks to get her up and running. In the meantime, one of the U.S. Navy officers Ziba worked with in Afghanistan has started a Go Fund Me to assist Ziba and I will personally be taking a check to Ziba’s new land lady today to cover her first month’s rent. If you are able to donate anything at all to Ziba’s “Welcome Fund” it would be greatly appreciated. You can donate to the Go Fund Me or directly to me via PayPal or Venmo. All links are below. Even if you can’t donate personally, please share this post and/or her Go Fund Me page across your social media channels..

As always, thank you all for everything.

Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/zibo-an-afghan-interpreter
Venmo: @MandyMatti
PayPal: Amanda@AmandaMatti.com

Amanda Matti, author of A Foreign Affair and Voicing the Eagle

Author Ginny Fite — Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime Authors Panel

May 17, 2018 6 p.m.

5910 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214 (410) 396-6088 http://www.prattlibrary.org/

Panel:
Barbara Bourland –  Fashion magazine editor Catherine Ono (amateur detective)
John DeDakis – Investigative Journalist Lark Chadwick
Ginny Fite – State Police Detective Sam Lagarde
Eileen McIntire – The 90s Club at Whisperwood Retirement Village
(amateur detective)
Meg Opperman – Mystery short stories
Jill Yesko – Baltimore private detective Jane Ronson

Eileen McIntire, president of the Maryland Writers Association, will lead the panel.

Ginny Fite is the author of the Sam Large Mystery Series: Cromwell’s Folly, No Good Deed Left Undone, and Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder and No End of Bad (2018). She resides in Harpers Ferry, WV. She is represented by Loiacono Literary Agency and published by Black Opal Books.

When it comes to murder, even brilliant scientists aren’t immune…

The night Harold Munson is shot dead in his car, the primary suspect is the man’s brainiac wife. But Charlotte, who has a passion for science and sex with strangers, swears all she wants is a Nobel Prize for curing brain cancer, even if that requires fudging her research and a few dead patients along the way.

When the next body drops, all signs point to Charlotte, but Detective Sam Lagarde doggedly follows the clues until he has his own Eureka moment.

Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist who has covered crime, politics, government, healthcare, art and all things human. She has been a spokesperson for a governor, member of Congress, a few colleges and universities, and a robotics R&D company. She has degrees from Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University and studied at the School for Women Healers and the Maryland Poetry Therapy Institute. She is the author of I Should Be Dead by Now, a collection of humorous lamentations about aging, three books of poetry — The Last Thousand Years, The Pearl Fisher, Throwing Caution — and a short story collection, What Goes Around. The Sam Lagarde mystery series includes: Cromwell’s Folly, No Good Deed Left Undone, and Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder and No End of Bad (2018). She resides in Harpers Ferry, WV. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.llallc.net Ginny Fite www.ginnyfite.com Published by Black Opal Books www.blackopalbooks.com

Two Loiacono Literary Agency authors nominated for Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award! Johnnie Bernhard for A Good Girl and Thomas E. Simmons for The Last Quinn Standing!

Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations

2018 NOMINATIONS

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY APRIL 1, 2018.

Fiction

Nominations:
Johnnie Bernhard – A Good Girl
Julie Cantrell – Perennials
John Grisham – Camino Island
Michael Knight – Eveningland
Catherine Lacey – The Answers: A Novel
Darden North – The Five Manners of Death
Thomas E. Simmons – The Last Quinn Standing
Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give
Steve Yates – The Legend of the Albino Farm
Jesmyn Ward – Sing, Unburied, Sing
Nick White – How to Survive a Summer

The Midwest Book Review of DQLOL is out!

http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/feb_18.htm#fiction

Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice and El Dorado in the Digital Age
Stefan Soto
W & B Publishers Inc.
www.a-argusbooks.com
9781635540413, $17.99, PB, 300pp, www.amazon.com

Synopsis: After years of living off their celebrity, Don Quixote and Candide join forces to seek adventure in the modern world. In this re-imagining of literary history, the two meet Cyrano De Bergerac, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes, the crew of the Starship Enterprise, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Dean Moriarty, Elizabeth Darcy (nee Bennett), Mr. Darcy, and multitude of historical figures, and share unexpected encounters with people from their past.

While Don Quixote remains rooted in days of yore, Candide is preoccupied with exploiting all things modern.

Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice and El Dorado in the Digital Age by Stefan Soto is rollicking fun-filled tale that will entertain the well-educated and erudite readers with tongue-in-cheek humor as they join Don and Candide on their quest to find truth, justice, and El Dorado in the digital age.

It is interesting to note that author Stefan Soto was raised by a Romani Princess and a Ukrainian circus performer. He resides on an English Canal and has no known address. His early works were banned by most right-thinking European powers. Stefan also invites his readers to investigate Cervantes’ and Voltaires’ original treatments of the title characters.

Critique: Unique, original, and above all, entertaining, Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice and El Dorado in the Digital Age is an inherently fascinating read from cover to cover. A classic in the making, Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice and El Dorado in the Digital Age is decidedly and unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary Literary Fiction collections, as well as the personal reading lists for anyone who appreciates a well-crafted literary and historically derived work of complex, multifaceted fiction. Simply stated, Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice and El Dorado in the Digital Age is one of those novels that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf.

Kid Clay feels authentic to the bone. This young adult novel, which is based on a true story, takes place in the West in the 1880s. It was written by Carl Watson, grandson of the book’s fifteen-year-old cowboy hero. Watson’s writing is lean, straight forward and on the mark. His young protagonist drives cattle, faces down outlaws and rustlers, falls in love, lives with Indians, and more than holds his own. If you’re looking for a good book about the adventures of a young cowboy in the fading days of cattle drives and the Old West, Kid Clay is the ticket.
— Michael de Guzman

The real Kid Clay                                                                                      Author Carl Watson

History comes alive in Ed Protzel’s HONOR AMONG OUTCASTS — released in conjunction with Black History Month! Protzel’s Blog