Friday, September 27, 2013

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Lost Years. 5th in the Lilly Series is now Availble



This is the 5th book I have read in this series now. The author has so much heart, thought and talent that goes into her series you can’t help but be drawn into it.

This book takes you back to when Diego Junior was a teenager which explains some details from the story that came out before The Lost Years. “Memoirs of a Mobster”.

We all think of mobsters, gangsters and drug dealers as unscrupulous, evil people, and most of them are. But with Judy’s Lilly Series they are more than just mobsters and gangsters. They are people who love and hurt, who have children just like anyone else. Some are not given a choice to be who they are, some are born into it. Some try to run from it and get new starts, but where ever they go trouble finds them.

Lilly did her best to try and take Junior away from all that. To have a normal life, but with the name Monitiago being known as the biggest crime lords in the United States and Mexico that is not an easy task.

Junior has shot and killed people, including a couple of his uncles. Junior now feels there may be something wrong with him. He has no regret for what he does, until he falls in love for the very first time and of course with someone else girlfriend, which leads to a whole lot of trouble.

The Uncles have done a good job with grooming him, and teaching him how to protect himself. But not only that, they taught him to respect women as well. Like no sex. And that family and friendship are also very important. Junior gets into trouble; he gets grounded, just like any normal teenager. The only difference between him and other teenagers is he knows how to shoot and will kill you if he has to.

Judy Serrano has so much going on in the stories, she tells parts that terrify you, parts that bring a smile to your face and parts that brings tears to your eyes. She reminds me of the author Danielle Steel who brings out the same emotions in her stories. But don’t take my word for it. Go out and buy the book and if you haven’t read any of the Lilly series buy them all. You won’t be disappointed. I would love to see this series turn into a movie or a TV mini-series one day.

I can’t wait to see what she has coming out next. Judy Serrano is awe-inspiring, outstanding story teller.


Purchase at your local bookstores are at www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com


Interview with Charles Larlham

Welcome Charles Larlham. Thank you for agreeing to do and interview with us.
 
 
 
1.      My first question is, what made you want to tell your story?
a.       I remember most everything that happens to me, and I loved to tell stories about some of those things to my friends. Eventually, I wrote a couple, and then a couple more, and then...
b.      About three years ago I began writing my stories on a writers’ social media site called Gather.com. It wasn’t long before site members started saying I should make a book of them. After a while I strung a bunch together in a single file and discovered I had about ninety thousand words. Sunuvvagun... I had written a book about my youth and all I’d been doing was telling stories.
 
2.      Would you say you can from a large town or a small town?
a.       No town at all, Patty. I grew up on a “gentleman’s farm” about three miles outside the Village of Mantua, Ohio, a village of about a thousand people.
 
3.      Do you have siblings? And if so how do they feel about your writing this book about you and the Old Man?
a.       I have a brother about a year and a half younger than I. He has his own concerns, and the book isn’t really of much interest to him. You’ll meet him in the book.
b.      I also have a sister, Lyndella, about six years younger than I am and she’s very proud of the whole idea. She thinks I glossed over some rough patches, but rough patches are for books of self-analysis. This is a book about the good times I often didn’t recognize until they were past.
 
4.      If you could pick out the one most important childhood memory what would it be?
a.       My twelfth birthday – in The Old Man and Me, it’s a whole chapter entitled “The Best Birthday Ever.” It may be the most important memory of my childhood for my readers, too.
 
5.       Your mother Hattie Larlham started the Hattie Larlham Foundation. Could you tell your readers what the Hattie Larlham is all about? And how that got started?
a.       Oh my, now that’s a big question. The Hattie Larlham Foundation cares for more than fifteen hundred developmentally disabled children and adults, both at the main campus at our old farmstead and in homes and home-like environments. It has expanded so much since we started with a half-dozen children in our home that it would take this whole interview to describe it fully.
b.      It got started with a my mother’s dream to find a way to help the families of developmentally disabled children in Ohio, and the children as well. But it just never seemed to get off the ground. Then a neighbor family was forced to take a child they couldn’t care for home from the hospital. Mother’s response was, “Somebody ought to do something!” According to her, backed by the Old Man, I responded (wholly out of exasperation), “Well, aren’t we somebody?” As it turned out... we were.
 
6.      Your bio said you were a soldier for three years. Were you ever deployed?
a.       I was a soldier from August 1962 until August of 1965. During that time I was sent to South Korea for thirteen months. I suppose it was technically a deployment, since that conflict was only under truce. There was no surrender, no winner, no loser and no end.
b.      The two Koreas were not officially in an active combat situation, although there were constant “incidents.”
 
7.      How old were you during World War II?
a.       I was born the end of July 1942, about seven months after Pearl Harbor. I was barely three when WWII ended.
 
8.      How did the great depression impact your family and town?
a.       It affected the Old Man and Mother a great deal. As did many people, they worried constantly about whether they were about to find themselves in similar circumstances again. What we could buy was often tempered by a need to do without and put that money aside for something “important.”
 
9.      Getting back to your books. How does it feel to be a first time author so late in your life? And if you could give one piece of advice to other people in your age group, on how to tell their stories or how to get started. What would that advice be?
a.       Ah, one of those questions. How does it feel? I don’t think about it a lot, but when I do there is a great sense of wonder. I guess it’s tinged with a bit of wistfulness, because I tried selling short stories when there were magazines that bought them, and I tried writing novels, but I always ran out of story at about 30,000 words. I kind of wish I’d tried this genre’ a lot earlier. But it is what it is.
b.      I can only tell other people what I did, and what my kid brother told me a long time ago. I just wrote as if I were telling stories in a bar, around a campfire, in the barracks... wherever. What Giles told me was to add the background... talk about the setting, describe the room, the woods, the sky above you, the dog trotting by and distracting you. Modern writing teachers say, “Show the story, don’t tell it.” That’s why my stories take off on tangents. It keeps people interested and they learn something.
 
10.  Have you started writing your second book in the series yet? Have any ideas when that will be available?
a.       I have the second book about ninety-five per cent written, and about fifty percent edited. I will write at least one more story about undergraduate college days, and there may be a couple more that I’ll drop in if I get time to write them.
b.      I have not discussed a publishing target with Black Rose Writing, but I would think it would be out by early spring 2014. Book Three is about 50 percent ready as well, and it might be a story for this time next year. Whether there would be more, I can’t say.
 
11.  Ok I have to ask. Your name is Charles and I know your friends call you Chuck but your Initials are RC. What does the R Stand for?
a.       My given name is Richard Charles Larlham. Richard was also the Old Man’s first name, and he went by “Dick.” People would ask Mother, “How’s Dick?” After I came along, the question & answer session would go something like this: A friend would ask, “Hello, Pat. How’s Dick?” Mother would answer, “Oh, he’s fine. Has to work this weekend.” The friend would then ask, “And little Dickie?”
b.      Mother hated diminutive names, so I quickly became Charles, and then Chuck (although never to Mother).
 
Well Chuck I want to thank you for taking the time to talk to us and to let your readers know more about you.
 
You can find Chuck Larlham on the web at these locations,
 
 
Chuck’s first book “The Old Man and Me” is now currently available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble or order them from any of your favorite book stores.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Interview with author RC Larlham

RC Larlham has agree to do an interview with us September 19, 2013
The day his book entitled " The Old Man and Me will be released from Blackrose Writing
We invite you all to come out and here what he has to say.
 
The Old Man and Me
Welcome to my Author’s website. My first book, “The Old Man and Me: Extraordinary Stories from an Ordinary Childhood Post WWII,” begins my story of growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. The book is published by Black Rose Writing, and the planned Release Date is September 19, 2013. Black Rose and I hope to count you among its readers and fans. This is planned to be a series of at least three books, and it is my hope that all of them bring joy (and a bit of education) to all who read them.

Once the book is released, there will be opportunities to order the book directly, including author’s signature. We’ll make a chapter available to read as soon as possible (and when the second book begins its journey to publication we’ll offer an early chapter as a teaser). There will be links to other author sites and chances to win free books.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

New Release: Symbiotic Mates 7: Cullen and the Kindred Spirit

A new release is always cause for celebration, but this one is extra special to me because it's been a long time coming. Books one to six have been revised, lengthened and re-released by Siren Publishing. Here's a look at book seven which features a new couple and brings back all your old favorites.

 This title is offered at a 10% New Release discount. Offer ends midnight CST, September 14th.

Symbiotic Mates 7: Cullen and the Kindred Spirit


What happens when natural enemies suddenly become blood mates?

 Vampire Cullen Blackhawk gets caught helping a wolf-shifter rescue his human mates from the Colony. Now he's forced to accompany the fugitives to Arcadia and spy on the pack. Cullen figures the humans will be his blood donors, but the shifter leaves Arcadia and takes Cullen's only food source with him. Then the unthinkable happens. Cullen finds himself attracted to an omega wolf.

 Mika Hill's role in the pack has always been that of submissive slut, but Cullen treats him like an equal and Mika shows his gratitude by offering Cullen blood. A starving Cullen can't help himself, and now he's forced to confront his escalating feelings for an omega who's mated to someone else. Mika falls hard for Cullen, but he knows there's no future for a wolf and a vampire. Or is there? Mika will do anything to keep Cullen—even if it means forcing a blood-mating.

Available at Bookstrand:

http://www.bookstrand.com/symbiotic-mates-7-cullen-and-the-kindred-spirit

Happy Reading!

 Gale

  [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, shape-shifters, HEA]