HIS KILT DROPPED HERE: A MAGICAL REALISM SCOTTISH ROMANCE

 

Title: HIS KILT DROPPED HERE: A MAGICAL REALISM SCOTTISH ROMANCE
Author: Kathleen Shaputis
Publisher: Clutter Fairy Publishing
Pages: 170
Genre: Magic Realism Scottish Romance

BOOK BLURB:

Rogue Bruce enjoys running a Scottish castle turned bed-and-breakfast with her Aunt Baillie from America. They specialize in hosting romantic Elizabethan-themed weddings, complete with resident ghost, Lord Kai. But love is something Rogue is not the least bit interested in. Content with her work, she requires no male accompaniment for happiness.

A new delivery service brings Bruce MacKenzie, a Thor look-alike in plaid and denim, fetching more than the usual number of groceries from town, while Jonathan Olson, a snobbish, dark, Rhett Butler type, arrives at the castle to administer a writing seminar for aspiring authors. With two men after the heart she’d thought safely locked away, Rogue is flattered and confused. But when things start to take a sinister turn, danger befalls Rogue and those dear to her. The musical soundtrack of Rogue’s life flares from complacent, to dizzyingly romantic, to heart-thumping scary in this sizzling triangle.

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Other Books by Kathleen Shaputis

HER GHOST WEARS KILTS

THEIR WITCH WEARS PLAID

SORRY, YOU CAN’T ENTER HEAVEN

THE CROWDED NEST SYNDROME

CHANGES IN ATTITUDE

50 FABULOUS PLACES TO RAISE YOUR FAMILY

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Meet The Author

Kathleen Shaputis, author/ghostwriter, lives in the glorious Pacific Northwest with her husband, Bob, a clowder of cats, two pompously protective Pomeranians with little social aptitude, Brugh and Miss Jazzy, and an overgrown adolescent blue tick coon hound, Juno.

If not writing during her lifestyle in an acre of forest, she keeps busy reading from her never-ending, to-be-read pile and watching romantic comedies. Her hygge in the woods.

WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:

Website:  http://www.kathleenshaputis.com

Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/NWAuthor

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/KathleenShaputisAuthor

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My Review

HIS KILT DROPPED HERE: A MAGICAL REALISM SCOTTISH ROMANCE was an enjoyable read that kept me guessing on who Rogue Bruce would end up with. I also enjoyed the fact that there were some other genres mixed in that added a bit of danger to Rogue Bruce's romance life.

How To Overcome Insomnia

Title: HOW TO OVERCOME INSOMNIA ALL BY YOURSELF
Author: Antoinetta Vogels
Publisher: Balboa Press
Pages: 163
Genre: Self-Help

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It’s time for bed. You’re tired, but you know you’ll be tossing and turning for hours to come. At dawn, you fall into a deep sleep, but it’s short-lived. Long before you’re ready, your alarm clock mercilessly informs you that it’s time to get up.

After decades of nights like this, Antoinetta Vogels unraveled the enigma of her sleeping problem and restored her ability to get a good night’s sleep.

In her newest book, How to Overcome Insomnia All by Yourself, Antoinetta reveals how to become a healthy sleeper through self-knowledge and her own self-healing method.

Taking examples from her own life and firsthand experience with this sleep disorder, Antoinetta explores the childhood circumstances that can lead to unhealthy motivation, approval-seeking behavior, and chronic insomnia in adulthood. She offers practical advice, tools, and techniques for healing the wounds of the past so you can enjoy a future full of joy, healthy relationships, and restful sleep.

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Meet The Author

Antoinetta Vogels has a bachelor’s in French and a master’s in music. She worked in the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra as a bassoonist, has two grown daughters, and lives in Bellevue, WA, USA. In 2013, Antoinetta created the Sense of Self Method, a self-help program for people who want to get a good night’s sleep no matter what!

With her company, Healthy Sense Of Self, LLC, Antoinetta and her team provide education about what can be wrong in the way a person experiences their self and, consequently, others. Antoinetta has made it her life’s work to help people improve their quality of life by reversing issues related to a negative self-image. She wants everyone to have the ability to be their most authentic self – and have a good night’s sleep!

WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:

Website: http://www.healthysenseofself.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HealthySoS/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealthySenseOfSelf/

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My Review

How To Overcome Insomnia proved to be an interesting read. As a graduate psychology student I found the book to be filled with useful information that I can use to help other people with their sleep issues. I also found the book useful for learning more about insomnia.

Arrowed

 

Title: ARROWED: Resort to Murder #4
Author: Avery Daniels
Publisher: Blazing Sword Publishing Ltd.
Pages: 250
Genre: Cozy Mystery

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It all began when a dying man with an arrow in his chest grabs her ankle.

During a heat wave at a Santa Fe resort, Julienne has the resort owner pressuring her to solve the murder.

The victim is a high-profile businessman who made enemies rather than friends, leaving Julienne with a roster of suspects. She was supposed to be training the staff and spending quality time with Mason rather than investigating a murder. The heat turns up when an old girlfriend of Mason’s checks in and is determined to get back together.

Arrowed is the fourth book in Avery Daniel’s Resort to Murder series and is a contemporary cozy mystery.  If you like Cleo Coyle, Maddy Hunter, Duffy Brown, Lynn Cahoon, and Annette Dashofy, then you’ll love this series with a strong intelligent sleuth, lavish settings, and tantalizing mysteries.

Buy this spunky clean cozy mystery and start enjoying Julienne’s adventures today!

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Other Books in the Series

NAILED

ICED

SPIKED

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Meet The Author

Avery Daniels was born and raised in Colorado, graduated from college with a degree in business administration and has worked in fortune 500 companies and Department of Defense her entire life. Her most eventful job was apartment management for 352 units. She still resides in Colorado with two brother black cats as her spirited companions. She volunteers for a cat shelter, enjoys scrapbooking and card making, photography, and painting in watercolor and acrylic. She inherited a love for reading from her mother and grandmother and grew up talking about books at the dinner table.

WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:

Website:  http://avery-daniels.com/

Blog: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16863152.Avery_Daniels/blog

Twitter Address:  https://twitter.com/my_averydaniels

Facebook Address:  https://www.facebook.com/AveryDanielsAuthor/

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My Review

Arrowed was a great contemporary cozy mystery read. I really loved the plot and the cast of characters though Julienne was easily my favorite character! I just love a smart strong female lead in mystery books and the author delivered this perfectly!!

LEMAR AND HER MAGICAL PETS by Nesrine Sleiman

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  LEMAR AND HER MAGICAL PETS by Nesrine Sleiman
Category:  Children's Fiction (Ages 3-7), 30 pages
Genre:  Fiction Pets General
Publisher:  Self-Published
Release date:   September 25, 2020
Tour dates: Feb 22 to Mar 5, 2021
Content Rating:  This children's book is rated G.

Book Description:

Perhaps, Pets are more than best friends, they are a huge responsibility. Lemar and her Magical Pets teach simple facts about pets and give children a glimpse of what it means to own a pet; that pets require lots of care and are hard work. Lemar finds a gemstone in her backyard. She will use it to ask for a pet. Little did she know that the gemstone will unfold the truth of owning a pet. With a little bit of time left to try over and over again, will magic work for her after all? This children's book is full of unexpected magical Outcomes! Children will love to read it over and over again.

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Meet the Author:

Nesrine is a full-time preschool teacher for more than ten years. Nesrine holds a degree in child development and is currently working on a master's degree in Family and Human Development. Nesrine loves to read fantasy books and believes in the magic of hard work! Currently, she is working on books two of ,both, the Magical Gemstone Series and Learning Through Reflection Series. More on the personal side, Nesrine loves white flowers, horses, birds, and is fascinated with ants’ teamwork.

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RETRIBUTION by Lawrence Gold

 

SPOTLIGHT BOOK TOUR: Retribution by Lawrence Gold

2/5/2021

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Book Details:
Book Title:  Retribution by Lawrence Gold
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 yrs +),  330 pages
Genre: thriller
Publisher:  Grass Valley Publishing
Release date:   December 20, 2020
Tour dates: Mar 1 to Mar 12, 2021
Content Rating:  R for some graphic violence.

Book Description:

Can the pursuit of justice go too far? The kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of Dr. Joshua West’s nine-year-old daughter, Mattie, shatters his life. He lives for the capture, trial, conviction, and punishment of her killer. Fate, however, has its own grotesque form of justice—the killer’s release on a technicality, never to be tried again. A gripping story of a grieving father’s thirst for justice, Retribution exposes the hard truth about what happens when law fails the innocent and leads them down a dark path from which they may never return

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Meet the Author:

Lawrence Gold practiced internal medicine and nephrology (diseases of the kidney) in Berkeley, CA for 23 years. In 1995, he retired and set sail with his wife Dorlis and Furina the cat. They cruised Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Bahamas and Canada. Dr. Gold has published 17 published novels and 2 nonfiction books. He is back on land in Grass Valley, CA.

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A RENDEZVOUS TO REMEMBER by Terry Marshall

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  A Rendezvous to Remember: A Memoir of Joy and Heartache at the Dawn of the Sixties by Terry Marshall, Ann Garretson Marshall
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction (18 +), 18 yrs +, 378 pages
Genre:  Memoir, Romance
Publisher:  Sandra Jonas Publishing
Release date:   Feb 2021
Content Rating:  R. This memoir contains mature themes, explicit sex scenes, one f-word, and occasional profanity.

Book Description:

In June 1964, Ann Garretson skips her college commencement to tour Europe with Lieutenant Jack Sigg, a tank commander on the German-Czech border, with the hope of returning as his fiancée. A month later, her best friend, Terry, proposes marriage—by mail—throwing all their lives into turmoil.
 
Jack offers the military life Ann grew up with. Terry, a conscientious objector, will leave for the Peace Corps at the end of the summer—unless the draft board intervenes and sends him to jail. Her dilemma: she loves them both. Caught between the old mores and winds of change, Ann must make an agonizing choice. 
 
In alternating voices, A Rendezvous to Remember presents firsthand accounts by the two who eventually married, enriched by letters from the rival, whose path led him elsewhere. Provocative and delightfully uncensored, this coming-of-age memoir is a tribute to the enduring power of love and family.

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Meet the Authors:

Terry Marshall and Ann Garretson Marshall taught English in the Philippines as Peace Corps volunteers and later served as Peace Corps country co-directors in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. Back in the States, they worked side by side as community organizers and activists in Colorado. Terry went on to write fiction and nonfiction works on discrimination, poverty, rural development, and intercultural conflict. Ann has thirty years of experience as a writer, editor, and community-government go-between for issues related to nuclear and hazardous waste cleanup. Always seeking adventure, Terry and Ann have traveled to forty-three countries. They live in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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What are the main takeaways you hope your readers will get from A Rendezvous to Remember?

Ann. 1. Love can be powerful: listen with your heart, but season those feelings with common sense! 2. Marriage is about more than choosing a partner. It also involves choosing—and embracing—a way of life. 3. Listen to your social conscience: you have to live with your decisions of conscience the rest of your life. 4. Dare to be adventurous, but temper that with good judgment also!

There’s a lot of dialogue in A Rendezvous to Remember. How could you possibly remember conversations you had 50 years ago?

Terry. We’d like to claim we have exceptional memories, but no, we don’t. Fortunately we have a trove of letters between Ann and me, as well as between Jack and Ann, and many hours of Jack’s cassette letters to Ann. They sparked memories. Plus, they provided us with exact language we could use to reconstruct those long-ago conversations. We also use quotes from a number of those letters.

How were you able to write about past loves without stirring up jealousy?

Ann. Love and common sense can take you a long way. Love has always bound Terry and me together, so I have never felt threatened by his past girlfriends. Common sense made me realize he and I are so close I would probably feel a bond with someone he loved. And when I met Laura Lee, I was right! She remains a dear friend to both of us.

A Rendezvous to Remember includes material that reflects badly on your main characters—that is, on you, the authors! Why did you include those actions and thoughts?

Terry. Writing the book was a process of discovery. We wanted to explore how we ended up being a couple. We could learn that only by examining every facet of our lives and the relevant events going on around us. We, too, have made mistakes. Without recognizing and coming to terms with that, the book would not have been authentic.

What was the scariest thing you did during the period covered in A Rendezvous to Remember?

Ann. Venturing into Communist East Berlin (before the wall fell) by myself, on foot, without being able to speak German, and without knowing how to get to my destination (the Pergamon Museum). And then on my way out, I took a pamphlet that didn’t belong to me. That was worse than scary. It was so stupid that I can’t speak about it! I thought I was going to die of anxiety. Read the book for the full story.

MICKEY ON THE MOVE by Michelle Wagner

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  Mickey on the Move by Michelle Wagner
Category:  Children's Non-Fiction (Ages 3-7),  38 pages
Genre:  Children's Picture Book
Publisher:  Mascot Books
Release date:   Jan, 2021
Format available for review:  print (USA), pdf
Tour dates: Feb 1 to Mar 5, 2021
Content Rating:  G for everyone.

Book Description:

In this bighearted book, the real story of a young boy with deafness in his ears is aided by his mother and teachers in navigating new school experiences. Mickey is just like everyone else, except he wears cochlear implants and has to do things just a little differently than most. This charming tale reminds us that we can all find happiness if we lean on and support each other.

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Meet the Author:

Born and raised in Chicago, Michelle Wagner was always a very positive and outgoing woman. Her energetic love for children and zest for life was admired by everyone who knew her. Michelle is a realtor whose career background involved restaurants and always helping other people. She has dedicated time and support to charities and events to help other children with hearing loss and assist families as they work through the different approaches to raising a special needs child in a typical environment.

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