Friday, April 26, 2013

Review Wrap Up: Pain and Gain by Marc Schiller


Memoir/True Crime
Date Published: 1/25/13

‘Pain and Gain – The Untold True Story’ is a gripping memoir that tells the true story behind the Paramount film Pain and Gain. Written by the real Sun Gym Gang victim, Marc Schiller, ‘Pain and Gain – The Untold True Story’ will take readers on an adrenaline rush with a shocking ending.

This is the untold true story of one citizen’s pointless torture and month-long captivity. The story, formerly mistold if not utterly overlooked, has been made into a feature film. Even as a dark comedy, there is little amusement to be found in human suffering. The sick and twisted minds of Mr. Schiller’s captors would be fodder for the Darwin Awards if the results were not so alarmingly inhumane. Physical, mental and emotional torture, as well as sensory deprivation and starvation, the prisoner of war like conditions differed only in the fact that Mr. Schiller was completely alone during his extended stay at the warehouse he refers to as Hotel Hell. An early victim of identity theft in the years following Hurricane Andrew in Miami, Mr. Schiller chronicles his story in tortuous detail. His humiliation, pain and suffering at the hands of these perverted social misfits is a shocking revelation. 
What is it like to be imprisoned in near dungeon-like conditions? All this mayhem on American soil toward the end of the last millennium. 
Greed, lust for power and the desire to inflict pain and misery were the apparent motivating forces behind this gruesome incident. 
Truly a harrowing tale and one that you won’t soon forget.
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A TRULY POWERFUL INSIDE LOOK INTO ONE MANS BRUSH WITH TORMENT AND CRUELTY. RELEASED IN TIME WITH THE MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME, THIS STORY IS WRITTEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE VICTIM INSTEAD OF THE CRIMINALS. DEFINITELY AN EYEOPENING READ.

This Book has averaged a 4*8 Rating from reviewers during this tour.
Current Amazon Rating of 4.9*'s.
Buy it for $6.99! 

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More Reviews From This Tour:
April 2 - Andi's Book Reviews - Review/Interview
April 12 - Keenly Kristin - Review
April 17 - Author Ever Leigh - Review
April 20 - My Reading Addiction - Review
April 23 - The World As I See It - Review








Marc Schiller was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina immigrating to Brooklyn, NY with his parents when he was seven years old. An early entrepreneur, he started several small businesses by the age of nine. He attended high school in Brooklyn, participating in sports and was member of the school’s track team.





Marc received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a MBA from Benedictine University. Marc has had a long and diversified career both as a professional and entrepreneur. His professional career has spanned the U.S. as well as internationally. On an entrepreneurial level, Marc Schiller has launched several successful businesses including two accounting practices both in Miami and Houston, a delicatessen in Miami and an options and stock trading company.





Marc Schiller currently works as an accounting and tax resolution specialist for a national tax resolution company. He has two grown children: his son graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder with a degree in economics and his daughter currently attends Loyola Marymount University in California.





‘Pain and Gain – The Untold True Story’ is Marc Schiller’s first literary publication.
Twitter  @painandgainbook


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Review Wrap Up - Dead Peasant by Dustin Stevens


Drama- Literary Fiction
Date Published: 2/22/13

Bargain Mart, long a fixture in the Missoula economic structure has fallen on hard times. Things are dire,

and if a financial windfall doesn’t arrive soon, their doors will close.


Across town, a woman grieves her recently deceased husband. Sitting alone at her kitchen table trying

to put her life back in order, a call arrives asking where his quarter million dollar life insurance policy

should be sent. A quarter million dollar life insurance policy she never knew existed.


Answering the phone on the other end of her call for help is Drake Bell, third year law student at the

University of Montana. Joined by his partner Ava, and his loyal friends the Zoo Crew, Drake must

attempt to make sense of the case Alice presents him.


A case that only grows more complex as people continue to pass in Missoula, all with ties to Bargain

Mart, all with large life insurance policies attached to them. Policies known in the corporate world as

Dead Peasants…



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A Legal Thriller that continues with characters in tight knit group, "The Zoo Crew". Definitely keeps you on your toes and guessing til the end. 


This Book has averaged a 4*5 Rating from reviewers during this tour.
Amazon Rating of 4.5 *'s.
Buy it for $3.99! 


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More Reviews From This Tour:
April 14 - Author Ever Leigh - Review
April 17 - My Reading Addiction - Review
April 24 - My Cozie Corner - Review
April 26 - RABT Reviews - Review




I originally hale from southern Ohio, growing up in the heart of
farm country, and still consider it, along with West Tennessee,
my co-home. Between the two, I have a firm belief that football
is the greatest of all past-times, sweet tea is really the
only acceptable beverage for any occasion, there is not an
event on earth that either gym shorts or boots can't be worn
to, and that Dairy Queen is the best restaurant on the planet.
Further, southern accents are a highly likeable feature on most
everybody, English bulldogs sit atop the critter hierarchy, and
there is absolutely nothing wrong with a Saturday night spent
catfishing at the lake.

Since leaving I've been to college in New England, grad school
in the Rockies, and lived in over a dozen different cities
ranging from DC to Honolulu along the way. Each and every one of
these experiences has shaped who I am at this point and I have
developed enormous affinity for locales and people of every size
and shape.

By day I work as a healthcare attorney in Honolulu, focusing
largely on health policy and implementation. By night I am
usually found barefooting along one of Oahu’s many beaches
before heading inside to write. Dead Peasants is my eighth
novel, and the second in The Zoo Crew series. I am currently
working on the follow-up, along with a handful of independent
projects.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Review Wrap Up: The Queen's Pawn by R.J. Hore


Medival Fantasy
Date Published: 4/1/13

An impoverished scholar and farm youth Harrow, becomes involved with a magician and is forced to assist in the escape of Queen Reginee and Princess Desire-Rose from the burning capital city. Pretending to be a famous duke, Harrow reluctantly agrees to escort the sensuous queen and her very annoying daughter to the castle of the queen’s brother. They have to leave in a hurry and are pursued by a large band of the rebels who captured the city. All the fleeing refugees have are the clothes on their backs and a small squad of untrained guards for protection.
Black wizardry is afoot, sundry dangerous creatures hide in the underbrush, and villains, monstrous and common, seductive and evil, lurk all along the way. If that were not enough for the young man to worry about, the queen’s amorous chambermaid and bodyguard, Mathilde, a smallish giantess, just wants to get Harrow alone. Oh yes, and he can’t stand Desiree-Rose.
They do eventually reach the castle of the queen’s younger brother, but unfortunately they do not find the sort of welcome they were hoping for. Harrow would really like to leave all this strife behind and escape back to his former life on the family farm, but that does not appear to be his destiny.


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DIVE INTO A WORLD YOU WILL BE FASCINATED BY. RJ HORE HAS CREATED A MAGICAL PLACE WITH WELL DEVELOPED CHARACTERS AND A PLOT THAT WILL KEEP YOU INTERESTED TO THE VERY LAST PAGE.


This Book has averaged a 4*6 Rating from reviewers during this tour.
Buy it for $4.95! 



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What a magical world RJ Hore has created! There is never a dull moment in this story. The entire story is constantly moving and kept my attention.

I at times did want a bit more connection to the characters, I feel like the description and detail about the world gave me great insight into where they were and what the atmosphere was like, but sometimes the characters themselves needed to give a little more.

Overall a wonderful journey. on the cake for me! 

More Reviews From This Tour:
April 12 - Playing Jokers 
April 18 - Coffee Break 
April 21 - Author Ever Leigh 




A reader of genre fiction since a very early age, got down to serious attempts at writing over thirty years ago, although employment kept getting in the way.
I did write a considerable amount of non-fiction during my business career, enough to be listed as a professional writer by the Canadian Authors Association.
Hobbies include trying to keep on the good side of my wife, keeping track of my children and grandchildren, and wrestling the blasted cat off of the keyboard. In my diminishing spare time I sail on Lake Winnipeg and try not to get lost.
My writing history includes:
Winning first prize in a National Canadian Authors short story contest (a romantic ghost story) and having that published in an anthology, and a modern vampire tale published in another anthology.
A current member of several writing organizations, for many years I was in charge of the judging for a national Canadian history book contest, and chaired a writer’s workshop in Winnipeg that self-published an anthology, including three of my pieces: a sci fi piece, an attempt at an epic poem, and a true tale of how I almost drowned my brother and his wife in a storm the first year I owned a sailboat.
I currently review science fiction and fantasy genre novels and anthologies for an on-line magazine aimed primarily at school libraries. I have done somewhere over 60 reviews so far and also co-authored a history: “The Rotary Club of Winnipeg-100 Years of Service”.
Through BURST Books, writing as R.J.Hore, I have a medieval fantasy tale of murder and intrigue entitled “The Dark Lady” that came out in February 2012 and a fantasy detective story in December 2012 called “Housetrap”. Housetrap is the first in a series of novellas under the The Housetrap Chronicles. Three others in the series are already scheduled for publication: “Dial M for Mudder” in July 2013, “The House on Hollow Hill” in September 2013, and “Hounds of Basalt Ville” in November 2013. I have another medieval novella “Knight’s Bridge” in March 2013, and a full length novel, again a medieval fantasy, “The Queen’s Pawn,” in April 2013.
I also have a large stack of completed manuscripts in various stages ranging from a “What If” — the North Americans discovered Europe first, set in 1215AD – to a contemporary bickering married couple swept away to an alternative universe, and a futuristic tale of a lady archeologist set in outer space. Working on sequels for “The Dark Lady.”



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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Review Wrap Up: Fate War: Alliance by E.M. Havens




Sci Fi Romance / Steampunk
Date Published: 2/25/13

Prince Cole meets Samantha when she walks down the aisle. Though she seems like the polished women he is familiar with, there is something different. She is complicated and full of mystery. Her dowry comes with a promise of air ships and mech capable of defense against their common enemy and for his country to survive, he must unravel her secrets. It is only when each accepts their destinies can they save their people from the plans of the Fate Sovereign.



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STEAM PUNK AT ITS FINEST. FROM READERS NEW TO THE STEAMPUNK GENRE TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN READING THE GENRE FOR A WHILE, E.M. HAS CREATED A WORLD ALL LOVED EQUALLY. GREAT ACTION, ROMANCE, and FANTASY!


This Book has averaged a 4*75 Rating from reviewers during this tour.
It is currently at 4.8*'s on Amazon.
Buy it for ONLY $.99! 


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This was such a fun read. It had several aspects that were new to me and I can say that I am completely intrigued by the Steam punk genre now! 

Fantasy-esc, yet Sci-Fi and Steampunk. This really is a unique tale and one that was full of action and Romance. It kept me flipping pages well into the night.

EM Havens has created characters that are well developed and I absolutely loved PRINCE Cole! He was the icing on the cake for me! 

More Reviews From This Tour:

April 8 - My Reading Addiction - Review
April 10 - Fictional Reality - Review
April 11 -  A Bibliophile's Thoughts - Review
April 17 - My Cozie Corner - Reviw
April 18 - Queen of All She Reads - Review
April 19 - Shelf Space Needed - Review
April 23 - Wormy Hole - Review/Guest Post


E.M. Havens
Who is E.M. Havens? I’m a lot of things. The word that seems to define me most at the moment is mom. It can be all consuming. Not only am I a mom of three (one of them is a teenager…pity me), but I also home-school (pity me more). I share this awesome responsibility with the love of my life, best friend, and soul-mate husband.

Add to that, the twenty-five chickens, twelve turkeys, ten guineas, nine pigs, three barn cats, two Great Pyrenees guardian dogs, a Chihuahua, a house cat, and a goose, it makes for one crazy, full, and certainly entertaining life.

Somewhere in there I find the time to write. I started out young writing poems, then moved on to songs. I actually have a Bachelor in Music with a secondary in Science because I can’t stand English. Yes, the writer hates English. I like to read the story for the experience of reading the story, not to nitpick each letter and comma. But I digress.

I eventually found blogging and really enjoyed sharing my life that way. When an unfortunate turn of events separated me from my music equipment, I decided to use my overactive imagination, my love of reading, and my new found hobby, prose writing, to release some of my creative energy. I wrote my first novel and loved the experience. Fate War: Alliance is actually the second novel I wrote and the first to be published. Now I’m working on my third and several sequels to Fate War!

So that’s pretty much me, sitting in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma, reading, writing, collecting eggs from the coop, and being a schoolmarm. It’s a pretty great life.

twitter: havensem


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Cover Reveal: Blue Lines by Toni Aleo


Blue Lines - Cover Reveal
Toni Aleo
Contemporary Sports Romance
Date to be Published: August 13, 2013
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Synopsis: 

Opposites do more than just attract in Toni Aleo’s latest Nashville Assassins novel about a very bad boy and the good girl he can’t resist.

The instant Piper Allen sees Erik Titov, she wants him—wants his rock-hard body, sure, but the strength and mystery that lies behind that superstar hockey jock demeanor, too. So when he sidles up to her at a bar and slinks his arm around her waist, she’s lost. What follows is the wildest night of her life . . . followed by inevitable heartbreak the next morning. And then, a few weeks later, a very big surprise: two blue lines on a pregnancy test.

Only a check to the head could make Erik fall for a nice girl like Piper. But since their crazy-sexy night together, he’s been trying to forget about her alluring body by falling into bed with every woman in Nashville, and it’s not working. So when Piper shows up at his house with a baby-bomb to drop, it doesn’t take much for Erik to suggest the nuclear option: marriage. While it’s supposed to be all for show, the second they say “I do,” the ice between them starts to melt into sizzling steam.

About the Author:

My name is Toni Aleo!
I am a wife, mother, and hopeless romantic.
I have been told I have anger issues, but I think it's cause of my intense love for hockey!
I am the biggest Shea Weber fan ever, and can be found during hockey season with my nose pressed against the Bridgestone Arena's glass, watching my Nashville Predators play!
When my nose isn't pressed against the glass, I enjoy going to my husband and son's hockey games, my daughters dance competition, hanging with my best friends, taking pictures, and reading the latest romance novel.
I love things that sparkle, I love the color pink, and did I mention I love hockey?

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Review Wrap Up: Jagged Little Edges by Lorelie Rozzano


Edgy Addiction Fiction
Date Published: 1/15/13

British Columbia author Lorelie Rozzano has taken her own life experience shackled by the chains of addiction and is turning it into a series of fictional novels that weave first-hand experience into compelling stories. The book takes you on a ten year journey, through the depths of despair, as Lyndsey, a darkly fascinating protagonist, looks for her happily ever after. This story will move and inspire you. It will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more. The first in the series – Jagged Little Edges is now available.

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THIS BOOK GIVES GREAT INSIGHT TO THE WORLD OF ADDICTION AND THE MAIN CHARACTER IS VERY EASY TO BE DRAWN TO. 

EMOTIONAL, INSPIRING, AND EYEOPENING. DEFINITELY A GREAT START TO THE SERIES.


This Book has averaged a 4*5 Rating from reviewers during this tour.
It is currently at 4.3*'s on Amazon.
Buy it for $7.99! 



Lorelie pens "Jagged Little Edges" in her own unique writing style, taking personal experiences and putting them to words. Filled with emotion and relate-ability, the story line revolves around a young woman's addiction and takes place over several years. A must read for all parents and older teens.

I give "Jagged Little Edges" a 5 star rating.


More Reviews From this Tour! 

March 26 - My Reading Addiction - Review
April 4 - Author Ever Leigh - Review
April 6 -Texas Book Nook - Review
April 8 - The Serial Reader - Review
April 10 - The Muse Unleashed - Review



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Monday, April 15, 2013

PROMO Blitz: The Order of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann



The Order of the Black Swan
By Victoria Danann

Paranormal Romance / Fantasy
Date to be Published: 2/14/2013

Synopsis:

Synopsis:  Discover a world of adult fantasy where modern day knights of a secret society 
interact with an alien, a witch, a demon, a psychic, a berserker, a most unusual vampire, 
werewolves, elves, and fae. Fairytales intersect adventure, romance, and emotion proving 
that true love can find you in the strangest places, even when you're least expecting it, 
even when you're far, far from home.
This is a compilation of the first three installments of the Black Swan serial saga

Victoria Danann
 http://www.VictoriaDanann.com

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