Friday, April 30, 2021

PROMO Blitz: The Heavy Side by Ben Rogers #promo #thriller #technothriller #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

 

 


Techno-thriller

Date Published: 11-16-2019



Silicon Valley Tech meets The Cocaine Trade.


Can you program yourself into a winner?

In the San Francisco Bay Area, tech innovation is King, and money is God.

Vik Singh watched his immigrant parents work their fingers to the bone chasing the American Dream. But standing at his father's funeral, he realizes one thing - hustling will get you nowhere. All you need to get rich is one big idea.

And when he meets Los, a small-time drug lord with visions of grandeur, Vik makes a plan worthy of Jobs and Zuckerberg:

Design a drug sale app.

After all, market disruption is everything.

From his comfortable cottage in Lake Tahoe, Vik writes the code that builds a cocaine empire. When his app attracts an infamous drug cartel leader, it seems like a natural expansion move. And for a while, life is Swiss bank accounts, luxe coke parties, and falling in love with Remi, a beautiful and ballsy woman with secrets of her own.

Then he discovers he is being watched.

The DEA is closing in, the cartel is getting suspicious, and he can trust no one. As things heat up, Vik discovers the real price of easy money.

And that price could be his life.


If you're a fan of Breaking Bad, Mr. Robot, and Dark Mirror, this is the book for you. Get your copy right now!


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Ben Rogers is the author of the novels The Flamer and The Heavy Side. His work has been published in The Rumpus, PANK, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Portland Review, Arroyo Literary Review, The Nevada Review, and Wag's Revue, and has earned the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship and the Sierra Arts Foundation grant. He is also the lead author of Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems, the first-ever comprehensive textbook on nanotechnology, and Nanotechnology: The Whole Story, both of which earned the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award from the American Library Association. He studied engineering and journalism in college and has worked as a business analyst, a newspaper reporter, a teacher, and a scientist at various labs, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is currently the Director of Engineering at NevadaNano. He lives in Reno with his family.


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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Blog Tour: The Walls of Orion by T.D. Fox #blogtour #interview #giveaway #youngadult #yascifi #yafantasy #rabtbooktours @TDFoxAuthor @PublishingAcorn @RABTBookTours

 



Young Adult, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy

Date Published: April 13, 2021

Publisher: Acorn Publishing



Orion City has been on lockdown for ten years. Courtney Spencer, a disillusioned barista doomed to live a “normal” life in a quarantined fishbowl, is certain she’ll never see over the Wall again. Until one rainy evening, Courtney unintentionally befriends W, an eccentric customer who leaves a switchblade in the tip jar. The unexpected acquaintance soon opens the door to a frightening string of questions that flips everything she knows upside down. Stumbling into a world of secrets, lies, and disturbing truths, Courtney grapples with a burning temptation to look again at the Wall. Surrounded by citizens trained to ignore its looming shadow, Courtney no longer can. Intrigued and terrified to expand her world, Courtney finds herself toeing a knife’s edge between the law and justice, learning quickly that the two are not always compatible. She wants to cling to her morals. She also wants to stay alive. But most of all, she wants to see a certain customer again, despite everything in her whispering W is dangerous. In a gritty urban clash of hope and fear, passion and survival, The Walls of Orion explores the edges of light, dark, and the gray in between.




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Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want Readers to Grasp?

 

Yes. I’d love for readers to walk away with the notion that they are never too small to make a difference, no matter how daunting or scary the problem they’re facing. It’s never too dark, too cold, too broken or too far gone for a light to shine and truth to stand. I wrote this novel when I was coming out of a very dark place, and honestly it was a powerful way for me to process PTSD and angry questions about the world. I never intended for this story to see the light of day, or expected a message of hope to emerge from it at all. When it did, it felt healing. I grew from writing this novel, and I hope that anyone with scars or disillusionment grows from reading it.

 

Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?

 

I find it challenging when I can picture a scene in my head or a feeling so clearly but have no idea how to make the words knit it together. Sometimes I wish I could just project the movie screen I see in my head onto a reader’s brain, and call it a day.

Some days, it’s particularly hard to get anything written, and I shut my laptop in frustration and insecurity because I’m comparing myself to other writers or role models that can crank out 3,000 words in a day, every day… and I can’t even write 250 some days. But when I get my motivations back on track, and realize that I’m writing this story for me, and for God, and not for anyone else, it’s easier to find the words and flow again. If I don’t enjoy what I’m writing, it’s time to take a break until it’s fun again. 

 

How many books have you written and which is your favorite?

 

I’ve written eight novels, including The Walls of Orion, some of which will never see the light of day because they were penned when I was a baby writer and didn’t know much about anything. XD But they still hold a special place in my heart. My favorite novel series is actually a saga I’ve been working on off and on since 2013, a series called Shadow Walkers. It’s about a secret non-human race that’s been living under our noses since history began, and a girl with stolen memories who discovers she’s a war hero… and soon finds out she doesn’t want to be the warrior she once was, and starts questioning whether that war should’ve been won at all.

 

 

If You had the chance to cast your main character from Hollywood today, who would you pick and why?

 

I’d cast Julianne Hough from Safe Haven as Courtney, since she just looked a lot like her with her short hair in that movie. It’s been really hard to find an actor to fit W! I spread my search wider to just any celebrity that looks remotely like him, and landed on Tyson Ritter, the lead singer from All-American Rejects. Not an actor, I know, but they definitely look similar! W’s just way thinner, all skin-and-bones, so an actor would probably have to be super method and go on some super-diet to play him, lol.

 

When did you begin writing?

 

I’ve been writing since I could hold a pen, and was pumping out stories and comics for my mother to read as early as five years old. I wrote my first full-length novel at age twelve, and taught myself how to type on our old keyboard that year. My mom was a hobbyist writer at the time, and inspired me a ton, teaching me her tricks and editing my stuff (she didn’t pull her punches! Lol, but I’m grateful for it).  

 

How long did it take to complete your first book?

 

A year. I wrote my first 120k word novel between seventh and eighth grade, and kept cranking out more in that old fantasy series throughout high school. Funny enough, it took longer and longer to produce a novel the older and more experienced in writing I got. Hopefully that means my words are better? Lol. Now, on average, it takes about 2 years to write something I can type “the end” to with satisfaction.  

 

Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer?

 

My Mom, and Bill Meyers. I actually had the privilege of meeting Bill last year, and it was such a great experience. He writes thrillers and speculative Christian fiction, geared towards adults, but I was reading his stuff in 4th grade and loving it. I loved how he could put deep truths into fiction, and write meaningful stories full of action and exciting characters that revealed sharp insights about the world.

 

What is your favorite part of the writing process?

 

Dreaming up the characters and their interactions :) I love a character-driven story. My favorite thing is when I’m randomly walking through the grocery store, or in the shower, or on a run, and I have to drop everything (sometimes literally leaping out of the shower into a towel to run to my laptop or notebook) and write down some plot twist or character conversation that just popped into my head. I solve the biggest plot holes or come up with the best twists at the most inconvenient times. I’ve got all these characters banging around in my head, and they often wake me up at 3a.m. with an urgent whisper to go write down their next scene, before I forget it, and if I don’t listen to them, I likely will. Lol. But I love it all and wouldn’t trade it for anything, extra hours of sleep included. 

 

Describe your latest book in 4 words.

 

Gritty, thought-provoking, edgy and fast-paced.  

 

Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the future for your writing?

 

 I’m working on my next big saga, Shadow Walkers, and am ridiculously excited to share it with you all. Probably even more excited than The Walls of Orion, to be honest, because this book includes my favorite character I’ve ever made (a close second to W, he’s up there pretty high on my list too). It’s got all the fun tropes like the “found family” storyline, a sizzling enemies-to-lovers arc, and a rich, complex world with non-human characters and folklore from multiple cultures blended into an “oh-shoot-the-stories-were-real” type of adventure. I’m hoping to have the first one out within the next couple years, so stay tuned and check in for updates on my instagram ;) @tdfoxauthor

 


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A world-romper from the Pacific Northwest who quite enjoys the label “crazy,” T.D. Fox supplements a hyperactive imagination with real life shenanigans to add pizzazz to her storytelling endeavors.

Armed with a bachelor’s degree in Intercultural Studies, her favorite stories to write usually involve a clash of worldviews, an unflinching reevaluation of one’s own internal compass, and an embrace of the compelling unease that arises when vastly different worlds collide.

When not recklessly exploring inner-city alleyways during midnight thunderstorms in the States, she can be found exploring rainforests without enough bug spray somewhere along the equator.


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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Release Blitz: Coldwater Revenge by James A. Ross #promo #releaseday #mystery #giveaway #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

 

Mystery

Date Published: 4/27/2021

Publisher: Level Best Books (S&S)



COLDWATER REVENGE is the story of two brothers involved with the same woman, and the ensuing crisis when one brother begins to suspect the other of helping her cover up a murder.


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The tiny voice that sometimes appears when you’re about to do something stupid, hissed at Tom to be thankful, sit still and keep his mouth shut. Instead, he braced himself on the underwater rock, gathered breath and shouted.

Yo!” His throat was raw and his lungs shredded, but he continued to bellow. “Eat shit and die, asshole!” Tom struggled to his feet and staggered noisily through the shin-deep shallows. The spotlight from the patrol boat leapt toward the sound. As the boat drew nearer, he dropped and rolled to his back, as if he were afloat in deep water. The twin Sea Witch outboards roared and the thirty-foot cruiser leapt through a cone of halogen light. Tom lifted his one good arm and waved. The battered cruiser hydroplaned erratically through the water like a wounded shark. The bow-mounted spotlight bounced above and around its target, losing and then finding it again. Tom could see the man’s face in the halo of light—cadaverous and grim. He could see his eyes, mad and murderous. The little voice screamed at Tom to be quiet and lie still. He crouched in the shallow water, extended his arm and raised a finger.


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James A. Ross has at various times been a Peace Corps Volunteer, a CBS News Producer in the Congo, a Congressional Staffer and a Wall Street Lawyer. His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary publications and his short story, Aux Secours, was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize.


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PROMO Blitz: Despite the Devil by Shawna James #promo #sale #giveaway #womensfiction #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @Shawna_James_

 


They Loved Collection Book 1

Women's Fiction

Date Published: 11-11-2020

Publisher: Drummond Martin Publishing



To Stephanie, Andrew Simmons seemed like the perfect man. He was smart, handsome, kind, and athletic. And best of all, he was interested in her. As their romance begins to blossom, the truth about Andrew’s past comes to light. A misguided choice made many years before, hung over him.

When they start a family together, Andrew tries to move on from the past and enjoy his family life, but the past still haunts him.

As Andrew and Stephanie build a stable and happy home life together, they long for the day they can stop looking over their shoulders. With resilience and perseverance, can they overcome the dark cloud together?


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When author Shawna James is not instructing at university or writing in her favorite coffee shop, Shawna spends most of her time reading, hiking, traveling abroad, and catching her favorite football games on Sunday afternoons.


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Release Blitz: Once Upon a Tinder by Dr. Ann Donnelly #promo #releaseday #nonfiction #dating #selfhelp #giveaway #rabtbooktours @dranndonnelly @RABTBookTours @AuthorParul

 

 


Nonfiction / Self Help

Date Published: 27th April 2021


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If you suddenly find yourself in the dating world after a long absence, things have changed. Please don’t despair. ‘Once Upon a Tinder’ is here to gently introduce you to the world of dating Apps with some hard earned do’s & don’ts.

Dr. Ann Donnelly recounts stories of electronic communication, first dates & romantic encounters interspersed with learning tips and suggestions for your personal adventures!

As the stories unfold we explore the importance of boundaries, self love and self care while we live, love and learn. We also experience tonnes of self discovery and laughter along the way!

Relationships teach us about ourselves! Every encounter reveals more and more about where we are in our healing and growth as a person.

The overall lessons learned stimulate a sense of hope, and a call to adventure with better relationships between men and women as we grow in our knowledge of each other and ourselves.

There is no doubt about the fact that men and women are opposites, completely opposing forces. This explains why, when we do come together in love and in acceptance of each other, the potential is infinite and it is one of the greatest Magicks in life!

It is time to stop fighting and rediscover the love that is possible between a man and a woman. Your dating App is a doorway. What you do with it is up to you. I look forward to hearing from you.

Your Love Doctor Ann <3


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Dr. Ann Donnelly MB MRCGP DRCOG DFP DYT Dippallmed LFhom

Dr. Ann, 'the love doctor'', author of Once Upon a Tinder, is a Family Doctor with over 25 years experience working in the NHS. She also has a broad portfolio of work in Palliative and Holistic Medicine. She is often consulted as a medical expert in the media, including Yahoo, Cosmopolitan and Glamour.

Her passion for helping people understand their full potential in life shines through, in this, her first book. It was written from her home in Ireland during lock down while unable to travel internationally. It was born out of a desire to create better understanding and more love between men and women. After her marriage ended, the valuable insights she gained through her personal dating life, gave her the courage to inspire others to 'Dare to Love Again.' In this little book about first dates and romance, she takes the lessons learned and gives a fresh perspective on what each of us bring to a potential relationship. Of course, the most important relationship of all reveals itself over and over, the one we have with ourselves. This dictates the ways in which we nurture and sustain ourselves.

Self knowledge is a key theme in healing and Metaphysical studies. Since Dr. Ann began her studies in Metaphysics with the Modern Mystery School in 2006, she has graduated as a Life Activation Practitioner, a Healer and Guide. She is also an Ensofic Reiki Practitioner and a Fundamental Ensofic Reiki Teacher. She is an International teacher with the Modern Mystery School while joyfully continuing her studies as a Universal Hermetic Ray Kabbalah Teacher.

Divina Ann serves as a Member of the Counsel of twelve women.


You are welcome to connect with her via: thelovedoctor@onceuponatinder.com

Or check out her website: onceuponatinder.com


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Saturday, April 24, 2021

PROMO Blitz: Danger in Shadow by Tessa Carr #promo #romanticsuspense #giveaway #rabtbooktours @TessaAuthor @RABTBookTours

 

 


Shadows of Council Creek (Book 2)

Romantic Suspense

Date Published: 03-26-2021



Laurie Lancey has always loved the old picturesque bridge over Council Creek; it's that beauty which gave the town its name.

But then...

A near miss... A chinese fortune cookie with a deadly warning

A murdered co-worker

She knows now the serenity is just a deception. Something sinister is going on here,

And it's all around her.

Investigator Nick Allyn barely manages to save her when the shots are fired.

"This tells me only one thing, young lady," he tells her firmly.

"Those bullets were meant for you.

And only you."


About the Author

It all started with my fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. J. Ever the elegant, perfectly coiffured lady, gave us an assignment to write a short story and read it aloud to the class.

Mine was about a group of fifth grade kids who went on a weekend camping trip, and encountered a grizzly bear. When it was my turn, I read.

Poor Mrs. J! I began to notice a twitch around her left eye sometime around the approach of the grizzly bear. By the time the body parts began flying, it had increased to her mouth, and her whole face was as white as a sheet.

But she was a trooper, and stayed upright throughout the whole story.

However, the other kids loved the story, because it was about them. Suddenly, I was hooked! Over the years, my writing changed from gory stories (my term as a kid) to space stories. Then spy stories, and finally romance. But the other thing I found I really loved was mystery and romance. I wasn’t satisfied with just reading it. I wanted to write it!


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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Blog Tour: List of Fears by Trevor Shane #blogtour #mystery #giveaway #interview #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @childofparanoia

 


Mystery

Date Published: 2/1/2021



What would you do if God asked you to help destroy the world?

After a full-grown gorilla is kidnapped in the middle of the night from the San Diego Zoo, Jim is hired by a Hollywood movie producer to try to track down the animal. Following the death of a child and the collapse of a marriage, Jim has been surviving as a private detective in Los Angeles. Jim follows the peculiar trial of clues, including the business card of a mysterious gypsy fortune teller, deep into the dark abandoned subway tunnels beneath New York City. Meanwhile, a young boy in Brooklyn secretly keeps a list of his fears in his closet, adding fears and crossing them off as he ages. Near the top of the list is one word that has never been crossed off: “God”. Their lives become mixed in this darkly relevant, heart pounding adventure that will keep you up at night, making you ask yourself questions that you may not be ready to answer.




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Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want Readers to Grasp?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  List of Fears starts out as an oddball, but relatively straightforward, detective story where a rich movie producer hires a private detective to find a gorilla that has been kidnapped from the San Diego Zoo. It doesn’t take long for the story to turn in directions that I hope surprises readers and makes them think. Instead of sending readers a specific message, I hope that List of Fears forces them to question certain fundamental aspects of the world around them, all while keeping them entertained. Specifically, I hope readers walk away from List of Fears with new questions about free will and the meaning on purpose of life. From there, I leave it up to the readers to discover their own meaning, their own message.   
 
 
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  I’ve now written seven novels and published six of them. Each one of them has had its own challenges. Of all of them, List of Fears was far and away the easiest one for me to write. This story really seemed to flow out of me. Every chapter, every paragraph, even every sentence had a purpose in the story and in bringing the characters to life.  
 
How many books have you written and which is your favorite?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  Of the six novels that I’ve published, List of Fears is the only one that I chose to self-publish. Each of the others were published either by Penguin Random House. I chose to self-publish List of Fears because, as much as I love every book that I’ve written, it is far and away my favorite. I simply love List of Fears too much to subject it to the normal editing process where you are asked to make changes for commercial purposes. I didn’t want to change a thing.  
 
If You had the chance to cast your main character from Hollywood today, who would you pick and why?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  List of Fears has three or four main characters, all of them with specific traits that I think make them compelling. Jim, the private detective, is an everyman who’s been beat down by life but who is still grasping for some sort of hope. I feel like Jeremy Renner plays that type of role really well. Vintner is kind of the opposite. He’s a character that’s had everything fall into place for him but he’s still searching for meaning, so it would have to be an actor that can combine confidence with sadness. Someone like Denzel Washington could really nail that. Finally, Darryl and Virgil would have to be played by unknowns because I wouldn’t want anyone coming into this with any pre-conceived notions.     
 
When did you begin writing?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  I also wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t really begin writing in earnest until about fifteen years ago, when I turned thirty. Until then, I was afraid that I hadn’t lived enough to have anything worth sharing. Now, I’m old enough to know that everyone has something worth sharing, no matter how much you’ve lived and what you’ve experienced. Everyone has something unique to bring to the table.   
 
 
How long did it take to complete your first book?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  My first book took about two and half years to write. By contrast, List of Fears only took about six months. As I said, it simply flowed out of me.  
 
 
Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer?
 
Trevor Shane Response:  I’ve read so many books that have been meaningful to me during my life. I would consider the authors of each of them an inspiration. The authors that I have found the most inspiring were the ones that wrote books that I loved but that never found a broader audience. It’s easy to write when you know that people are going to read your work. It takes real courage to write when you don’t.  
 
What is your favorite part of the writing process?
 
Trevor Shane Response: I love the quote: “I hate writing but I love having written.” I find some truth in that. However, my favorite part of the writing process is the brainstorming at the beginning. I love developing the story in my head. That part isn’t even work. It’s work getting what’s in my head down on to a piece of paper.  
 
 
Describe your latest book in 4 words.
 
Trevor Shane Response: Dark, meaningful, entertaining, pulp.  
 
 
Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the future for your writing?
 
Trevor Shane Response: COVID has made life exhausting so I haven’t been writing too much. I do have a few ideas floating around in my head though. One concept that I’ve been thinking about for a while is a superhero type character but one who develops their superpowers, not by random chance or luck, or even something that they were born with, but through years of study and practice. I love stories about people who are obsessed with their own art or skills because I love people who have such obsessions. I am attracted to passion and love reading about it.  
 

 


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Trevor Shane’s novels have been published across the globe in numerous different languages. He is the author of the Children of Paranoia series and the award-nominated Memory Detective series. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Georgetown Law Center. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.


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