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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Author Interview – Sunny Benson

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What genre are you most comfortable writing? I enjoy reading and writing fast-paced mysteries with a humorous bent. I especially delight in plotting out interweaving mysteries and endeavor to surprise the readers with the associated twists. Who or what influenced your writing over the years? Authors...

Review: Away from the Spotlight by Tamara Carlisle

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Away from the Spotlight by Tamara CarlisleMy rating: 4 of 5 starsDid the book description relate to the story? Almost but the description provided was short and did not provide enough details about what was to come. How did you feel about the opening / ending sequences of the book? This is was a short...

January Exposure by Sunny Benson

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January Exposure by Sunny BensonMy rating: 5 of 5 starsDid the plot pull you in or did you feel you had to force yourself to read the book? It definitely pulled me in, hook, line and sinker.How realistic was the characterization? The development for all characters was very good. Everything they did...

Orangeberry Spring Fling - Away From The Spotlight - Tamara Carlisle

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In the closing weeks of law school, Shannon Sutherland meets handsome and charming Englishman Will MacKenzie. Initially swept off her feet, Shannon finds that Will has a secret that, once discovered and the consequences realized, could destroy their fledgling relationship. Will and Shannon take great...

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Author Interview – James R Johnson

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What is your favorite quote, by whom, and why? “It’s nothing personal, Sonny.  It’s strictly business.”  This was said by Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, in the 1972 Best Picture Oscar winner, The Godfather.  If you can’t tell, I’m a huge movie nut.  This quote always stood...

NG Osborne – The Right to Love

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The Right to Love by NG Osborne When we think of the struggle for women’s rights, the rights we most often think of are the right to vote, the right to property and the right to work and equal pay. These are all phenomenally important rights, and ones that women in the West have fought hard to secure....

Author Interview – Jessica Kristie

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Tells us a bit about your publisher? Winter Goose Publishing is a traditional small press who have been supportive, caring, and let you feel a part of the entire process. They made my book beautiful. They have grown exponentially over the last year and I expect great things from them as they grow their...

Orangeberry Book Tours – For Gods & For Men by James R Johnson

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This bold new story written on an epic scaoe vibrates with its unique setting and time frame. Trapped in an alternate universe, the memorable characters set off on a quest to overcome nearly insurmountable odds. The setting: 98 BC Rome. The story: Marcus Tegerius Castimus has just learned he is immortal....

Orangeberry Book Tours – Refuge by NG Osborne

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On a dusty, sweltering night, Noor Khan, a beautiful, headstrong Afghan refugee, comes face-to-face with Charlie Matthews, a brash, young American aid worker. To Noor’s fury, Charlie breaks every cultural norm and pursues her. She wants nothing to do with him: her sole aim in life is to earn an overseas...

Orangeberry Book Tours – Barbed-Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie

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Elani Benjamin had never imagined the level of fear and uncertainty that was now a demoralizing part of her everyday life. With freedom ripped from her world, Elani must stand alongside the hundreds of other women forced into slave labor by the mysterious organization that runs The Hub. At only thirteen...

Review: Refuge by NS Osborne

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Refuge by N.G. Osborne My rating: 4 of 5 stars How did the main character feel during the book? He was sad, how the people lived. He was determined to help them. He saved Wali's life. He cried like a baby, when he got home. Felt like it was his fault.What was the author's purpose or purposes in...

Review: Barbed - Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie

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Barbed-Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie My rating: 5 of 5 stars What part would you change in the story, and why? I might add a little more at the end. Would have been nice to witness the raid on the Hub.What do you think is the climax of the book and why. When Eddie hid Elani in the truck. Because...

Friday, March 29, 2013

Author Interview – Julia Tagliere

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Do you recall how your interest in writing originated? I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in writing, so it’s hard to fix a point of origin—maybe in the womb? When and why did you begin writing? I started writing when I was very young, awful poems and song lyrics, mostly to try to work...

Orangeberry Book of the Day - The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan

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Murdered artists. Masterful forgeries. Art crime at its worst. A straightforward murder investigation quickly turns into a quagmire of stolen Eurocorps weapons, a money-laundering charity, forged art and high-ranking EU officials abusing their power. As an insurance investigator and world...

Orangeberry Book Tours – Greedy for Life: A Memoir on Aging with Gratitude by Lori Stevic-Rust

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  Through reflections on the guidance of her one-hundred-year-old grandmother, national healthcare expert, Dr. Lori writes a powerful memoir on aging that is humorously told and sure to be warmly received by all generations. The personal life lessons shared in Greedy for Life, become a universal...

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Orangeberry Book of the Day - Only A Glow (The White Warrior) by Nichelle Rae

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What if the world was ending? What if only you had the power to save it? And what if your power wasn't in your control? Welcome to Azrel's dilemma. "Only A Glow" is the first book in an epic new fantasy series, The White Warrior. Join Azrel, her brother Rabryn, and her best friend Ortheldo as...

Orangeberry Book Tours – Gallows Ascending (Stone Quest) by Leigh Podgorski

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Gallows Ascending continues the saga of tracker and pyschic visionary Luke Stone in Book Two of the Stone Quest Series. It has been thirteen years since Luke’s confrontation in the desert with his nemesis, black magician Armand Jacobi. Luke’s wife Consuelo, whom he met at Eppie Falco’s Desert Inn...

Orangeberry Book Tours – The Learner by Alan Nayes

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NayéLi has come from the dark side of the universe to learn as much as she can about the third planet from the sun, and to communicate her findings back to her home world. NayéLi is a Learner – and on Earth she assumes the form of a young human female of the indigenous host species. NayéLi is bound...

Leigh Podgorski – March is Women’s History Month

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March is Women’s History Month by Leigh Podgorski March is Women’s History Month, and this month I would like to remember a very special young woman, someone who perhaps very few people might remember or have even heard of outside of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a young woman who was brutally and coldly...

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Orangeberry Free Alert - Temptation (Under Mr.. Nolan's Bed) - Selena Kitt

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Buy @ Amazon Kindle US Genre - Romance Rating - MA 4.4 (29 reviews) Free until 29 March 2013 "Lead us not into temptation..." ~Matthew 6:13 What happens when you fall in love with your best friend's father? Leah is a good, Catholic girl, and she and Erica have been best friends since their first communion....

Orangeberry Book Of The Day – Playing Nice by Rebekah Crane

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Martina “Marty” Hart is really nice. At least, that’s what people think. It’s Marty’s junior year at Minster High. Minster’s a small town where making great grades, smiling pretty, helping old people, running the new-student Welcoming Committee, and putting up decorations for all the dances–including...

Blue Hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas

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  Blue Hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas Retta Heikkinen knows the unspoken rule of society: love between androids and humans is forbidden. A simple enough edict until Hemingway Koskinen spends an evening charming her with his intense gaze, bewitching smile, and sparkling conversation that hints...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Orangeberry Book Tours – For Gods & For Men by James R Johnson

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This bold new story written on an epic scaoe vibrates with its unique setting and time frame. Trapped in an alternate universe, the memorable characters set off on a quest to overcome nearly insurmountable odds. The setting: 98 BC Rome. The story: Marcus Tegerius Castimus has just learned he is immortal....

Review: For Gods and For Men by James R. Johnson

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For Gods and For Men by James R. Johnson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Did the plot pull you in or did you feel you had to force yourself to read the book? Many of us at the book club had differing views. Most enjoyed the flow amidst it's own world created by the author. Some felt it was slow. I felt it...

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