Month: December 2012

Book Brief: The Girl From Long Guyland

The Girl From Long Guyland
by Lara Reznik
Genre: Suspense/Contemporary Fiction
Word count: 84,000

A timeless story of lust and youth, duplicity and deception.

Laila Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can’t quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.

When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate’s suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.

Suddenly for Laila, it’s 1969 again. She’s only seventeen, and she’s left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she’s tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.

Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.

She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

This book is available from Amazon.

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A Word From Ajax Thermal Ports

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After the catastrophic design failures associated with the Death Star debacle, thermal ports got a bad reputation, and deservedly so.

Ajax has put together the best engineers in the galaxy to solve these problems and is pleased to introduce our 204-A “petite” line of thermal ports. Though just as efficient at venting plasma gas, the new 204-A is smaller and nearly impossible to hit with proton torpedoes.

Even in the unlikely event of a superficial penetration, we have taken the additional precaution of adding a P trap, to assure projectiles have no straight line to the reactor.

We are sure you’ll be satisfied with our new thermal ports and will join the many who are glad to proclaim, “It’s finally safe to build death stars again!”

L. A. Lewandowski Announces New Release

Author L. A. Lewandowski is pleased to announce the release of her new modern vampire novel, My Gentleman Vampire: The Undead Have Style.

Natalie Crisan is reeling from her boyfriend’s betrayal. Karma works its magic as a new man enters her life–a fabulous creature whose style and “joie de vivre” shock her out of self-pity. David Fanning’s prescription is novel: a fashion makeover, a tango competition, and a new social circle are the cure. When a sexy scoundrel decides Natalie is to be his next lover, her growing attraction to him threatens her newfound emotional equilibrium. Seduced by the excitement of this dark world, the undead either adore her or want to drain her blood. Can a tango’s revenge and her gentleman vampire save her?

My Gentleman Vampire: The Undead Have Style was released on November 23, 2012 and is available through Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

Turning Pro in 2013

As the year winds down, every blogger, media outlet, television show, and radio program looks back at the past year and reminisces about the best and worst of 2012. If they are not doing that, they are hammering you with Resolutions. I’m here to wish you a Happy New Year and avoid doing those things.

With the sun setting on 2012, many of you have achieved the success that you’ve been wishing and working toward, and for others, you may not be where you want to be, yet. Continue reading “Turning Pro in 2013”