Month: November 2013

Video Trailer: The Six-Degree Conspiracy

Senate investigator Jackson Guild discovers Wall Street War Lord Manny Granov has crossed the threshold from wealth to power. Now, the CIA uses the greedy financier for its off-the-books operations. But when Langley and Granov broker a deal to buy a massive Soviet-era nuclear weapon hoping to keep it from the Middle East’s arms bazaar, the bargain sours, and Guild’s probe leaves him hung out like bait.

The Six-Degree Conspiracy, the espionage thriller by Jeff Shear, is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

Don’t forget, you can cast your vote for trailer of the month on November 30, 2013 at 5 p.m. Pacific time.

Walk on the Dark Side

I saw on the news where Lou Reed died the other day. If you’re not an alternative rock aficionado or an aging, misanthropic New Yorker, you probably don’t consider that a very great loss. But it is.

Reed was a seminal figure in rock and roll history, as important, in his own way, as Dylan and Springsteen though he never quite caught on with the public like they did. He didn’t write catchy pop diddies, nor did his songs generally carry messages of hope or love or inspiration. Instead, Reed wrote in a matter-of-fact way about the things he saw on the mean streets of New York, things like drug addiction, male prostitution and child abuse. He was an artist who went to a place most artists either fear or simply ignore, that sometimes dark and often painful side of the human experience which many of us simply call life. Continue reading “Walk on the Dark Side”

Sneak Peek: Space Available

Today we have a sneak peek from Space Available, the science fiction action-adventure novel by author K. Rowe.

Space Available is the third installment of Dar’s Adventures in Space series. Join Dar and Parnela as they traverse not only their galaxy, but make a visit to the Milky Way Galaxy where they receive a less than a warm welcome. Dar must rely on the good nature of one of his captors to free them. Once freed, they make a bee-line back to the Ontarrin Galaxy and the re-born planet of Satiris that they hope to call home someday.

Space Available is available from Amazon US, Smashwords, and Amazon UK.

Here is an excerpt from Space Available…

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Book Brief: The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters

The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters
by Barbara Silkstone
Genre of this Book: Comedy Mystery
Word count: 52K

Miami real estate broker and terminal anglophile, Alice Harte, falls for the wrong White Rabbit. Nigel Channing is an international conman with a gift for crafting Byronesque emails. He sweeps Alice off her feet and down a rabbit hole laden with mugs, thugs, and be-headers. Will Alice be able to keep her head when all about her are losing theirs? Are the cards stacked against her or will she find true love? And how will she untangle her pantyhose in the courtroom?

This book is available from Amazon and as an audiobook from Audible.com Continue reading “Book Brief: The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters”