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Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Warwicks of Slumber Mountain by Cheryl B. Dale




Lindy Rand, almost eighteen, hears voices from distressed creatures that others don't. But she isn't crazy. She's a clairaudient.

After fleeing her stepfather's abuse, she lives with her grandmother at the bottom of Slumber Mountain owned by the wealthy Warwicks. Scattered throughout the world, clan members drift in and out of the mountaintop mansion like wraiths. People say they’re different. Maybe even witches. Cross them and your children sicken, your garden withers, your dog dies.

Lindy avoids them until one night The Voice makes her rescue GARETH WARWICK from drowning. When she takes him to the mansion, his aunt plies her with tea that puts her to sleep. Then the aunt proposes a trade: in return for fame and fortune, Lindy will loan her soul to the Warwicks. They need her clairaudient ability to communicate with the mountain.

It’s wrong to give away her soul, but Lindy wants desperately to be like other people, untainted by a sordid past. Maybe if she becomes successful, someone like Gareth can love her.

In a weird, erotic dream, Gareth takes her into the heart of Slumber Mountain and brings her back. But she’s dreaming. And it’s only a loan. She’s not really giving away her soul.


I’m fascinated by the paranormal, and as a Wiccan, I respect the energy of the Earth.  The Warwick’s give witches a bad name.  But, a book needs a good villain and Eleanor Warwick is a great one.  What she doesn’t understand is, you can take the girl out of the mountain, but you can’t take the mountain out of the girl.  Lindy was raised by her grandmother, and she learned those lessons well.

Eleanor may think she’s responsible for Lindy’s success as a model, but getting an agent to sign a girl only goes so far.  A reputation for showing up on time, clean and sober, professionalism, and being easy to work with is what keeps a person on magazine covers for ten years.  Listening to her financial advisor and investing wisely is what builds her fortune.  A lot of pretty faces come and go.  A lot of cover models come in from the sticks and spend their money as fast as it comes in.  Not Lindy.  When she returns to Slumber Mountain, she can hold her head up with the wealthy Warwicks.  She’s their equal, even though she still feels like little Lindy, the barefoot girl from the cabin at the base of the mountain.

You’ll love Lindy, hate Eleanor, and wonder about Gareth.  But mostly, you’ll enjoy this book.  The Warwick’s need her.  But the Mountain needs her more.  And you have to read the book to find out why.

Length:  230 Pages
Price:  $5.95

You’ll notice I always include the publisher’s buy link.  That’s because authors usually receive 40% of the book price from the publisher.  Editors and cover artists usually receive about 5%.  When you buy a book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or another third-party vendor, they take a hefty cut and the author, editors and cover artists receive their cuts from what is left.  So, if a book costs $5.99 at E-Book Publisher.com and you buy from there, the author will receive about $2.40.  If you buy the book at Amazon, the author will receive about $0.83.

Downloading the file from your computer to your Kindle is as easy as transferring any file from your computer to a USB flash drive.  Plug the USB end of your chord into a USB port on your computer and simply move the file from your “Downloads” box to your Kindle/Documents/Books directory.  I actually download my books using “Save As” to a “Books” file I created on my computer that’s sorted by my publisher, friends, and books “to review,” and then transfer them to my Kindle from there.  That way, if there’s a glitch with my Kindle, the books are on my computer.  Your author will be happy you did when he/she sees his/her royalty statement.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Going to the Dogs by Elle Druskin




Sam Kendall is a cop with a mission; find the killer who murdered his partner and track down the diamond thieves behind the killing. Chief suspect Jodie McBride is a brilliant dog trainer but a loser with men. Dog-hating Sam is stuck with a junk food addicted poodle as his new partner and stuck on a cute redheaded dog lover that he desperately wants to be innocent. Mix in an assortment of eccentric pooches, their offbeat owners, baseball fans and two very smart canines who know humans can’t be trusted to know a good thing when they see it. Before Sam and Jodie know what's happened, everybody is going to the dogs.




I’m not normally a fan of pedigreed dogs.  They’re inbred, spoiled and hyper.  Give me a mutt from the pound any day.  But ya gotta love a dog who eats pizza and Fritos, watches baseball (even if it is the Yankees and not the Cubs), and sings along with the radio.  And ya gotta love a cop who looks like George Clooney and bumbles his way through a case involving a dog trainer and her canine clients and their wacky owners.  I try to follow a schedule each day—so much time writing, promoting, reading, etc.  At night I read a chapter or so and drift off to sleep, often with my Kindle in hand and the light on.  At some point my head bobs and I wake up enough to put my Kindle on the bedside table and turn out the light.  Not so last night.  I read straight through until I finished the book somewhere around five a.m.  I highly recommend this book.  Just be sure you don’t have anything else scheduled and you don’t have to be anywhere the next day when you pick it up.  It’s not a bathtub read unless you don’t mind getting cold and pruny.


Length:  132 Pages
Price:  $5.50


You’ll notice I always include the publisher’s buy link.  That’s because authors usually receive 40% of the book price from the publisher.  Editors and cover artists usually receive about 5%.  When you buy a book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or another third-party vendor, they take a hefty cut and the author, editors and cover artists receive their cuts from what is left.  So, if a book costs $5.99 at E-Book Publisher.com and you buy from there, the author will receive about $2.40.  If you buy the book at Amazon, the author will receive about $0.83.

Downloading the file from your computer to your Kindle is as easy as transferring any file from your computer to a USB flash drive.  Plug the USB end of your chord into a USB port on your computer and simply move the file from your “Downloads” box to your Kindle/Documents/Books directory.  I actually download my books using “Save As” to a “Books” file I created on my computer that’s sorted by my publisher, friends, and books “to review,” and then transfer them to my Kindle from there.  That way, if there’s a glitch with my Kindle, the books are on my computer.  Your author will be happy you did when he/she sees his/her royalty statement.