31 January 2019

The Gun Also Rises (A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery) by Sherry Harris Book Tour and Giveaway! @SHarrisAuthor

The Gun Also Rises (A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery) by Sherry Harris

About the Book

Cozy Mystery 6th in Series 
Kensington (January 29, 2019) 
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages 
ISBN-10: 1496716965
ISBN-13: 978-1496716965
Digital ASIN: B07CWF942Q
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A wealthy widow has asked Sarah Winston to sell her massive collection of mysteries through her garage sale business. While sorting through piles of books stashed in the woman's attic, Sarah is amazed to discover a case of lost Hemingway stories, stolen from a train in Paris back in 1922. How did they end up in Belle Winthrop Granville's attic in Ellington, Massachusetts, almost one hundred years later?
WILL SARAH HAVE TO PAY WITH HER LIFE?
Before Sarah can get any answers, Belle is assaulted, the case is stolen, a maid is killed, and Sarah herself is dodging bullets. And when rumors spread that Belle has a limited edition of The Sun Also Rises in her house, Sarah is soon mixed up with a mobster, the fanatical League of Literary Treasure Hunters, and a hard-to-read rare book dealer. With someone willing to kill for the Hemingway, Sarah has to race to catch the culprit—or the bell may toll for her . . .

About the Author

 
 Agatha Award-nominated author, Sherry Harris, started bargain hunting in second grade at her best friend’s yard sale. She honed her bartering skills as she moved around the country while her husband served in the Air Force. Sherry uses her love of garage sales, her life as a military spouse, and her time living in Massachusetts as inspiration for the Sarah Winston Garage Sale series. 

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The Drumbeats Trilogy by Julia Ibbotson Book Tour!

Drumbeats
It’s 1965 and 18 year old Jess escapes her stifling English background for a gap year in Ghana, West Africa. But it’s a time of political turbulence across the region. Fighting to keep her young love who she believes is waiting back in England, she’s thrown into the physical dangers of civil war, tragedy, and the emotional conflict of a disturbing new relationship. So why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams?
This is a rite of passage story which takes the reader hand in hand with Jess on her journey towards growing into the adult world.
Drumbeats Purchase Link http://myBook.to/Drumbeatstrilogy
Walking in the Rain
Jess happily marries the love of her life She wants to feel safe, secure and loved. But gradually it becomes clear that her beloved husband is not the man she thought him to be. She survived civil war and injury in Africa, but can she now survive the biggest challenge of her life?
Walking in the Rain purchase Link http://myBook.to/WalkingintheRainDrumbeatstrilogy
Finding Jess
Single mother, Jess, has struggled to get her life back on track after the betrayal of her beloved husband and her best friend. When she is on the brink of losing everything, including her family and her job, she feels that she can no longer trust anyone. Then she is sent a mysterious newspaper clipping of a temporary post back in Ghana. Could this be her lifeline? Can Jess turn back time and find herself again? And what, exactly, will she find?
Finding Jess is a passionate story of love, betrayal and second chances – and of one woman’s bid to reclaim her self-belief and trust. It is a feel-good story of a woman’s strength and spirit rising above adversity.
Finding Jess purchase link http://mybook.to/FindingJess

Guest Post: My Publishing Journey, and how I never gave up!
Today I’m celebrating the publication of my Drumbeats Trilogy as one omnibus/box set edition on kindle, brought out by my lovely publisher Endeavour Media who have all my books. You can find it at http://mybook.to/DrumbeatsOmnibus
The last book of the trilogy (Finding Jess) came out last summer (2018) but Endeavour wanted to make the whole saga available together at a reduced price. But I wanted to tell you about the ups and downs of my journey to publishing my six books in seven years (I’m writing my seventh at the moment). It hasn’t always been easy, but I have a message for you at the end of this piece …
Where do I start? So much has happened in the last seven years! I started writing as a child as soon as I could hold a pencil in my little hand but I only began to write seriously for publication in about 2011. I guess I never really believed I could get published, so for years I just wrote for myself. I longed to be a “proper author”, but never had the encouragement needed either from my parents or my first husband. I had a busy professional and personal life: I was a university academic and had spent ten years as a single mum raising my daughters alone, before marrying again to my second husband and trying to blend a step family together. Some of you might know what I mean!
It was friends in the US and Australia that I met at conferences who believed in me and persuaded me to write for publication. My first book was initially self-published; a multi-genre memoir / history of food / recipe book, because we were renovating a Victorian rectory in the heart of the English countryside and I was researching the lives of the previous occupants. I was fascinated by the idea of what they cooked in my kitchen. It is centred on two ideas: that the kitchen is the heart of the home and that people through history leave some kind of ‘mark’ on the fabric of a building. Friends in the USA persuaded me to publish in the US.

The Old Rectory: escape to a country kitchen was born http://myBook.to/TheOldRectory  I was amazed when it began to win international awards and became an Amazon best-seller. Later I moved it to a UK publisher, the one I have now.
I also had another book on the go at the time, a children’s medieval fantasy called S.C.A.R.S, which I wrote the first draft of when I was a child and then reformed it when I was at university studying medieval history, language and literature. That one was gathering dust in a drawer. After The Old Rectory was published in the US, I was inspired to begin work again on S.C.A.R.S, adapting it for the current children’s market http://myBook.to/SCARSchildrensbook

My big break came when I joined the Romantic Novelists Association new writers’ scheme, by chance really, following an email from a friend who said ‘apply for it’. I did and I got in. Again, friends had given me the spur I needed. I started drafting A Shape on the Air. Within three months I had an offer from my present UK publisher, Endeavour, who wanted my existing books from my American publisher including the complete Drumbeats Trilogy. So I juggled with getting a number of books prepared for the new publisher’s requirements.

In 2017 Endeavour published my medieval time-slip mystery, A Shape on the Air, which takes me in a new direction in my writing: I love this genre, moving between 499 AD (the Dark Ages) and the present as two strong but undermined women reach out to each other across the centuries. This too became an Amazon best-seller http://myBook.to/ASOTA  My present WIP is a slightly later medieval multi-period mystery.

And now …I’m thrilled that my Drumbeats Trilogy has won more international awards. I had started the trilogy because since I lived and worked in Ghana many years ago, I’ve always wanted to write about that fascinating West African country. The first of the trilogy, Drumbeats, http://myBook.to/Drumbeatstrilogy is set in 1965 in Ghana and it’s a coming of age story about naïve 18 year old Jess working on a gap year there amidst civil war. The second book, Walking in the Rain, http://myBook.to/WalkingintheRainDrumbeatstrilogy moves Jess’s story on, as she has to find the strength to cope with a husband with mental health issues, and  Finding Jess, completes her story back in Ghana. The trilogy is a passionate saga of love, betrayal and second chances; it’s one woman’s struggle to find the strength and spirit to rise above adversity. A feel-good trilogy, I hope http://mybook.to/FindingJess
I love writing about strong women because I think we try so hard to do the best for our families, our loved ones, and lastly ourselves. I’m so grateful for the feisty women around me who don’t let things get them down. What an inspiration! And so my message is: believe in yourself and never give up.
All my books are available on Amazon, in ebook and paperback editions:
But do check out my other sites:
Pinterest page: includes boards with pics and images that inspired each book
Goodreads author page:  https://www.goodreads.com/juliaibbotson


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The Island of Always by Stephen Evans Book Spotlight!

Publication date: January 6, 2019
Print ISBN 978-0-9915759-7-8; 6 x 9, 344 pages; $16.95;
E-book ISBN 978-0-9915759-6-1; $4.99
What the Critics are Saying:
“A charming literary screwball comedy.”—Kirkus Reviews
“…a zany and unpredictable comedic literary novel.”—Foreword Clarion Reviews
“This creative and cleverly written novel is well structured and engaging. A surprise twist at the end will leave readers smiling.”—The BookLife Prize
“…smart and well-crafted….highly entertaining and worthwhile…”—BlueInk Reviews, starred review
About the Book:
Nick is charming. Erratic. Brilliant. Quixotic. And possibly Delusional.
His passion for environmental and animal rights constantly gets him in trouble. And his ex-wife and former law partner Lena inevitably comes to his rescue.
But when he ‘liberates’ the lobsters from Minneapolis grocery stores and loads them into the mayor’s pool, the ensuing media event goes one step too far. While Lena fights to save Nick from being committed or going to prison, her hopes for a normal life are left dangling.
And when the man she still loves has one more wild idea, Lena has a choice to make.
In this funny and endearing extension of Stephen Evan’s The Marriage of True Minds (also included in this volume), we follow this Hepburn and Tracy-like pair through animal rescues and courtroom dramas toward an ending only Nick could foresee.
The Island of Always is a fast-paced comic novel about a partnership that extends beyond law, beyond marriage, and possibly beyond reality.
Excerpt:
“Lena Grant stepped off the elevator on the skyway level of the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Minneapolis, slipped quietly down the deserted corridor until she reached the atrium, paused as she took two deep breaths leaning against the Italian marble wall near the museum with the working telegraph, slid into the historically accurate fully restored red and gold stage coach, hunched down low on the rear bench, and sang, very softly, the Wells Fargo Wagon song from The Music Man.
The lobby was deserted, except for the lone security guard at the front. Lena was sure he was aware of what she did. But he was discreet enough not to notice her singing and she was discreet enough not to mention how little affect his thermos of coffee was having.
Qui tacet consentire videtur was the common law maxim: silence gives consent, as Nick would surely have reminded her, after which he would have quoted the entire summation by Thomas More at his trial for treason in 1535, then perhaps a chapter or two of Utopia. Lena was a superb attorney, but she did not have her husband’s legendary legal memory.
De facto husband, not necessarily de jure, she reminded herself. Nick had signed the divorce decree. But was he competent to do so? Nick had suggested that he was not. But in making that argument, wasn’t he contradicting the argument? How can he argue that he wasn’t competent if he was competent enough to argue competency?
Lena sat upright, rocking the coach. Exactly, she thought. This was exactly what being married to Nick was like, even when you weren’t. Nothing was what it was, and everything was something else entirely that you had never imagined or anticipated.
She couldn’t live like this, she decided. And she was going to go home and tell Nick to his face. After no more than three more choruses.”
Praise for The Marriage of True Minds:
“Stephen Evans’ first novel, The Marriage of True Minds, is a funny, poignant, oddly beautiful book about three divergent life forms—animals, people, and lawyers. You will love it if you read it with a true mind.” —Kinky Friedman
“Poignant and outrageous, moving and profound, Evans’ delectable debut novel thrums with zesty dialogue and a memorably zany cast of irresistible characters.”—Booklist
“Evans demonstrates his playwright’s mastery of dialogue and tension in his accomplished and  whimsical first novel about love and the bizarre behavior it ignites.”—Publishers Weekly
“Evans writes throughout with a sense of refreshing humor, and the snappy repartee … is also  very funny and fun.” —ForeWord Magazine
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30 January 2019

The Forgotten Children by Isabella Muir @rararesources @SussexMysteries

The Forgotten Children
A woman’s search to find her son uncovers the shocking truth about one of Britain’s darkest periods
Struggling with the demons of her past, Emily is a children’s author with a dark secret, and a guilt that threatens to consume her.  For twenty years she has lived in Brighton, England, trying to forget the day they took her baby from her, just hours after he was born.  But now, in the summer of 1987, she decides to begin the search for her son. 
Emily takes refuge in a small town on the Isle of Anglesey to plan the search, where she meets Walter, a gentle stranger, who helps her with his words of wisdom and kindness.  But it is when she decides to return home to Hastings, that she really has to face her demons. 

Estranged from her parents when she was just sixteen, Emily is shocked by what her mother has to tell her about events that occurred before Emily was even born.

Beside her, throughout her search, is Emily’s beautiful Irish friend, Geraldine, recovering from her own sad experiences.  Together they uncover a truth that shocks them all.

The Forgotten Children draws the reader into lives affected by narrow-minded beliefs and blinkered thinking at the highest level. Children who weren’t allowed to be born, children who were abandoned, and children who were taken, forced to lead a life thousands of miles away from everyone and everything they knew – leaving scars that may never heal.

At its heart, The Forgotten Children is a story of survival, but the journey that Emily has to take is painful.  Even more so because she knows it was allowed to happen by individuals, religions and governments, who should have known better.
Purchase Links:
US - https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Children-chilling-inspired-events-ebook/dp/B07GZYHLKV

THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN by Isabella Muir
1.  Where did you get the idea for the story?
When I was studying for my MA in Professional Writing I came across a book entitled, Empty Cradles.  It is a book I would recommend everyone to read.  It is the factual account by Nottinghamshire social worker, Margaret Humphreys, who uncovered the travesty that was the British policy of transporting children to British colonies.  The book contains heartbreaking stories of families torn apart, many who were lied to and many more who suffered terrible abuse. Having read Empty Cradles I wanted to write a novel to help raise awareness of the plight of all those families who were affected.
2.  Why did you set the story in Sussex?
I was born in St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex and spent almost all of my life living in and around Hastings and Bexhill.  So it made sense to set the story in towns I was very familiar with. In The Forgotten Children we discover that Emily’s home town is Hastings, then when she flees her home she travels to Brighton and spends the next twenty years there.  Brighton is the perfect place for Emily as it offers plenty of distractions to help her try to forget the sadness of her past. Also when she arrives in Brighton in 1967 it is already buzzing with the new ‘pop’ culture, with music and fashion finding its way there from London.
3.  Why did you choose to send Emily to the Isle of Anglesey?
When Emily decides to leave her boyfriend, Mark, she doesn’t have any idea where she wants to be.  She closes her eyes and puts a pin in the map and finds herself heading to Anglesey. I have been to Anglesey a few times in my life, and I made a point of visiting it again while I was writing The Forgotten Children.  It was fascinating to find a headland with a bench, that could have been Walter’s bench – the site of many important conversations between Walter and Emily.  I also found a cottage that could easily have been Martha’s Cottage, the place where Emily stays while she tries to decide how best to track down her son. Anglesey is a place where you can immerse yourself in nature, with a strong sense of community, which is exactly what Emily is in need of.
3.  Did you feel differently writing this novel, when compared with your Sussex Crime Mystery novels?
Writing The Forgotten Children has been much harder, not from the writing side of things, but from the emotions that it stirred up.  I am lucky in that I had a wonderful childhood, but in order to write many of the scenes I needed to put myself in Emily’s shoes, to imagine what it must have been like to have your firstborn child taken away from you.  And worse was still to come, when Emily discovers the truth about what happened to her son. Research for the book involved reading harrowing true accounts of what some of the child migrants experienced at the hands of those who were purporting to ‘care’ for them. So, while I am really pleased I have written this book, I think I will be relieved to return to my crime mysteries, with amateur sleuth Janie Juke, librarian and avid Hercule Poirot fan, ferreting out clues and solving crimes.
4. What is the main thing you want readers to take away from The Forgotten Children?
I really hope that the book will help to raise awareness of the plight of the child migrants.  Not only what they experienced back in the 1950s and 1960s, but the troubles that they and their families are still experiencing.  Margaret Humphreys continues to work on their behalf through the Child Migrants Trust, to seek justice and to help piece families back together. If every one of my readers goes on to read Empty Cradles I will feel I have at least spread the word just that little bit further.
5.  What do you do when you’re not writing?
This year my husband and I have got into walking, which I love.  We run a small touring caravan site in West Sussex so pretty soon we will be gearing up for another busy season – but hopefully I will still find time to hide away with my notebook and pencil…!
Find out more about the whole range of titles from Isabella Muir:

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Author Bio – Isabella Muir has been surrounded by books her whole life and – after working for twenty years as a technical editor and having successfully completed her MA in Professional Writing - she was inspired to focus on fiction writing.
As well as her newest title, The Forgotten Children, Isabella is the author of the Sussex Crime Mystery series.  These Agatha Christie style stories are set in the sixties and seventies and feature a young librarian and amateur sleuth, Janie Juke, who has a passion for Agatha Christie. All that Janie has learned from her hero, Hercule Poirot, she is able to put into action as she sets off to solve a series of crimes and mysteries.
Aside from books, Isabella has a love of all things caravan-like. She has spent many winters caravanning in Europe and now, together with her husband, she runs a small caravan site in Sussex. They are ably assisted by their much-loved Scottie, Hamish.
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