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1.     Do you have another profession besides writing? I am a technical writer for a software company. I telecommute from home, which has allowed me over the years to be a mom, a professional, and a fiction writer all at the same time.                 2.         If you’re a mom writer, how do you balance your time? It isn’t easy, which is why it takes me so long to write a book. Sometimes I write in the minivan while I am waiting for them to finish an activity. They are teenagers now and like to write also, so they understand when mom locks herself in her office.                 3.         If you could go back in time, where would you go? I wouldn’t go back too far. I like the Hollywood glamor of the late 1940s/50s. I love to watch the black an...

Name of Book: Venice in the Moonlight Author: Elizabeth McKenna ISBN: 9781492720195 Publisher: Self published Type of book: 1753, Italy, mystery, murder, carnival season, Venice, romance, matchmaking, secrets, money, leaders, playboy, Giacomo Casanova Year it was published: 2013 Summary: After her husband’s untimely demise, Marietta Gatti is banished from the family’s villa by her spiteful mother-in-law. She returns to her hometown of Venice and her only kin—a father she hasn’t spoken to since her forced marriage. Her hope of making amends is crushed when she learns she is too late, for he recently has died under suspicious circumstances. Grief-stricken, Marietta retraces her father’s last night only to discover someone may have wanted him dead—and she may be next. When the prime suspect turns out to be the father of the man she is falling in love with, Marietta risks her future happiness and her life to avenge the death of a man she once hated. Elizabeth McKenna’s...

"Healing the Past" SYNOPSIS A Therapist Insider's Guide is an Amazon Bestseller! Relationships are complex and challenging, they are also vitally important to our sense of well-being. This book will guide you through a deep personal exploration of your life’s relationships. Breaking out of the mold of traditional therapist protocol, expert therapist Roxanne Derhodge delves into her own past relationships to show how you can heal from the past the same way she did. Using her own experiences as an example and drawing on years of professional expertise as a counsellor, she explains how you can decipher your template for relationships and decide which aspects are in line with what you value and which are not. Through a step-by-step process you will learn how to create fulfilling and positive relationships that will enhance your life in every way. PURCHASE Amazon Influence Publishing Barnes & Noble *ebook coming soon* About the Author ...

Name of Book: This Dark Road to Mercy Author: Wiley Cash ISBN: 978-0-06-208826-0 Publisher: William Morrow Type of book: baseball, 1990s, South Carolina, Charleston, North Carolina, Gastonia, father/daughter relationship, foster home, white poverty, minor league, revenge, murder Year it was published: 2014 Summary: The critically-acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins When their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are shuffled into the foster care system in Gastonia, North Carolina, a town not far from the Appalachian mountains. But just as they settle into their new life, their errant father, Wade, an ex-minor league baseball player whom they haven't seen in years, suddenly appears and wants to spend more ...

Sons-Pearl Buck SR: May 29th, 2014 FR: N/A What a lady needs for christmas-Grace Burrowes SR: October 3rd, 2014 FR: N/A This Dark Road to Mercy-Wiley Cash SR: October 16th, 2014 FR: November 3rd, 2014 Seldom Come By-Sherryl Caulfield SR: November 3rd, 2014 FR: November 15th, 2014 The War Nurse-R.V. Doon SR: November 17th, 2014 FR: N/A Bittersweet Greens-Kathryn Forsyth SR: November 10th, 2014 FR: N/A The Book of Unknown Americans-Cristina Henriquez SR: November 8th, 2014 FR: N/A The Vineyard-Michael Hurley SR: November 4th, 2014 FR: November 17th, 2014 Fog Island Mountains-Michelle Bailat-Jones SR: October 27th, 2014 FR: November 3rd, 2014 Botticelli's Bastard-Stephen Maitland-Lewis SR: October 30th, 2014 FR: November 30th, 2014 The Beautiful American-Jeanne Mackin SR: November 6th, 2014 FR: N/A Us-David Nicholls SR: November 1st, 2014 FR: November 26th, 2014 Omphalos-Mark Patton SR: November 26th, 2014 FR: N/A The Oblate's Confession-Wil...

Title of the book: The Gossamer Years; The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan Author: Michitsuna no haha Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Date: 1964/ written from around 954 up to 975 ISBN: 978-0-8048-1123-1 Summary: Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of He...

Name of Book: Bad Taste in Men Author: Lana Cooper ISBN: 9780615899602 Publisher: self published Type of book: 1980s-1990s, teenage crushes, relationships, close siblings, failures, desires, middle school to college, humor, small town Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Have you ever felt like even Mother Theresa has got more game than you? If you have, you'd be in the same boat as geeky, awkward metalhead Nova Porter. Bad Taste In Men follows Nova from her prepubescent years through young adulthood and her attempts at getting dudes to dig her. Juggling self-esteem issues, small town outsider status, and questionable taste in guys, Nova is looking for love in all the wrong places - like the food court at the mall. Nova's circle of friends and her strange(ly) endearing family more than make up for what her love life lacks. Along the way, Nova alternately plays the roles of hero and villain, mastermind and stooge; picking up far more valuable life lesson...