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In the Place Where There Is No Darkness by K.M. Douglas #GuestPost

The year is 2019. The Watchers maintain a state of constant surveillance: guns are outlawed, media is censored, and unmanned drones patrol the skies.

Derrion Parsing is a high school senior and the son of an ex-Army Ranger. Unlike his classmates, he has access to information from the time before the Invisible War, when the government shut down the Internet, reformatting into a propaganda tool. When Derrion attempts to use this information as part of a school project, he awakens to his worst nightmare.

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We All Deserve a Second Chance

by K. M. Douglas
In the Place Where There is No Darkness was originally supposed to have been the novel that I have been working towards for almost 20 years. When the first chapter was complete, I was thrilled to see it come to life. As I began the second chapter, I knew that this was not the book that I set out to create when I first began writing it.
The story begins in the final minutes of Arthur Parsing’s life. The second chapter was supposed to go back in time and tell the story of how Art had come to the point where he was deciding whether or not to take his own life. Instead, the second chapter that I wrote took place nine years in the future and began with Arthur’s son, 17-year old Derrion, leaving home and walking to school. I kept writing from there, progressing the story, though I knew that I was not going to publish it. But still, I thought it would be good practice.
I had written almost the entire book when I finally set it aside. I decided that I wanted my first novel to be something special. I let that manuscript sit in a drawer for two years before I finally did the one thing with it that I had yet to do: I read it. I know it sounds silly, but while I was writing it, I would only read sections at a time, editing and adding to it, but I never sat down and read it from start to almost finished.
When I did read it two years later, I saw that there was something there, and though it was not the story I had originally set out to tell, it was without a doubt a compelling and important story that I believed needed to be told.
This is the book I needed to write. This is the book that symbolizes for me both an ending and a beginning. The culmination of a lifetime of writing as well as the birth of a new novelist.
Now, after having received more and more feedback from readers, I am glad that I took this book out of that desk drawer and gave it a second chance. In the first few reviews of In the Place Where There is No Darkness, the feedback I’ve received includes: “one of the best I’ve ever read”, “superbly written with a very vivid and imaginative writing style,” and “Douglas has a visceral writing ability that paints a picture, stimulates the senses and pierces the heart.”
This is a book about second chances, and now I realize how appropriate that is. Looking back, I also realize that the only thing this book was missing was my confidence in it. I said I wanted my first novel to be something special. For me, and for a number of readers already, it is.

A portion of the proceeds from the sales of In the Place Where There is No Darkness will be donated to the Fisher House Foundation, a non-profit organization that donates homes to enable military family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time – during hospitalization for a combat injury, illness or disease.

For more information, visit kmdouglas.org

 

 

K. M. Douglas grew up in Northeast Ohio and studied creative writing at The Ohio State University. He lives in Rainier, Washington with his wife, cat and two dogs.
In the Place Where There is No Darkness is his first novel.

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Meant for Me by L. P. Dover #giveaway

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After a night of raw passion with the man Claire O’Briene had been secretly admiring for years, she thought their time together had come once and for all. Fate had finally brought them back to each other, but unfortunately nothing had changed. He was still the same man who ran away from relationships. Against his better judgment, Mason Bradley gave in to the temptation and allowed himself one night with the one woman he’d been too afraid to want … too afraid to need.
Four months after leaving Claire and regretting every minute of it, Mason gets called in for an undercover mission that’s not only dangerous, but brings back a past he spent years trying to forget. A past of fighting … of getting in the ring and using his fists to get what he wanted: money, women, and drugs. Now there are fighters turning up dead, and it’s Mason’s job to find out the truth.Knowing he might not come out of the mission alive, Mason seeks out Claire to tell her how he truly feels, only to find another man competing for her love as well. Fighting is what he’s good at, and for once he will be fighting not only for justice … but for love.

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L.P. Dover is the author of the Forever Fae series, as well as the Adult contemporary standalone series called Second Chances, and her NA romantic suspense standalone called Love, Lies, and Deception. She lives in the beautiful state of North Carolina with her husband, her two wild girls, and her rambunctious kitten called Katrina.

Before she began her career in the literary world, L.P. Dover spent her years going to college and then graduated to cleaning teeth, which she loved doing. At least until the characters in her head called her away. She has never been the same since.

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posted on January 7, 2014 by
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Drones by Johnny Ray

by Johnny Ray

Matalina heads the elite special forces of Baltonia, a small country near Switzerland, and where the Maliviziati maintain their secret society that opposes the Illuminati’s various splinter groups that want to create a new world order. While she directs the most powerful special operatives in the world, she is very capable of going solo when needed. She was bred like her parents and theirs before to be the best warrior in the world. Unfortunately, her chosen mate, Bjorn, has turned against them, killing her sister in the process. She loved him earlier, and perhaps she still does. Still, when she finds him, she will kill him.

When a new faction attempts to release drones in America, Matalina has to respond to keep this from playing into the hands of those wanting to create a new world order. She soon learns that the leader of this group is one of Bjorn’s operatives, Mario, a guy she should kill, but he is also the one person she needs to take alive to be able to locate Bjorn. With mercenaries flown in from Columbia to help this terrorist faction which was formed out of Afghanistan, this novel circles the globe as many players fight for eventual control of the world.

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Johnny Ray has a passion for life and adventure that he loves to share with his readers. As an avid traveler and professional businessman conducting business worldwide for years he has made many interesting contacts and received numerous awards for top production. He has owned and operated several real estate companies, several insurance companies, and a stock brokerage company. He loves radio and TV talk shows, as well as speaking in front of various audiences. Feel free to contact him if you need a guest speaker.

When it comes time to play, he is very active in many sports including dancing, swimming, tennis, biking, and skiing. While he loves adventures that are new, interesting and challenging, making friends that share his passions is a special gift.

Johnny lives in Clearwater, Florida where he works full time as a writer, and he can be often found in one of the hundreds of coffee shops along the beach working on his next novel. He belongs to the Florida Writer Association where he recently won the Royal Palm Literary Award for best thriller, the Romantic Writers of America, and the Mystery Writers Association. He attends various national writer conventions throughout the year, as well as several local writing groups in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

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Arcadia’s Book Tour By Jesi Lea Ryan

 By Jesi Lea Ryan

Most people who experience death don’t live to tell about it.

When sixteen year old Arcadia “Cady” Day wakes in a hospital after experiencing what can only be called a psychic episode, she finds her family in tatters. With her twin sister gone, her dad moved out, her mom’s spiraling depression and her sister’s boyfriend, Cane, barely able to look at her, the only bright spot in her life is Bryan Sullivan, the new guy in school. When Bryan’s around, Cady can almost pretend she’s a regular girl, living a regular life; when he’s not, she’s wracked with wild, inexplicable mood swings. As her home life crumbles and her emotional control slips away, Cady begins to suspect that her first psychic episode was just the beginning…

 

 

Think high school sucks? Try being an empath who has to experience everyone else’s suckage on top of your own. (Literally.)

In the months since her family life imploded and her psychic gifts began to arise, Cady has struggled to figure out how she can fit into her normal life without going crazy from the constant presence of emotional energy. Her grades have tanked. Her best friend is afraid of her. And she begins to have doubts about why her boyfriend, Bryan, is really keeping her around. But a chance meeting with another gifted girl online opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Unfortunately, this new world comes at an awful price.

 

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Author Bio:

Jesi Lea Ryan grew up in the Mississippi River town of Dubuque, IA. She holds bachelor degrees in creative writing and literature and a masters degree in business. She considers herself a well-rounded nerd who can spend hours on the internet researching things like British history, anthropology of ancient people, geography of random parts of the world, bad tattoos and the paranormal. She currently lives in Madison, WI with her husband and two exceptionally naughty kitties.

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Haunted U by Jessica Gibson “New Year’s Resolution”

Ezzie Lovegreen lives in a world where witches and ghosts are real. That doesn’t mean she’s not surprised when she’s suddenly being haunted by one at school.

With the help of her best friend Stella, her boyfriend Beau, and her grandmother Winifred, Ezzie must find out what happened to the ghost and set her free.

Secrets will be revealed that could change Ezzie’s life forever. Will Ezzie be strong enough to face the challenges set in her path?

 

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I never have been one to make a New Years resolution, the tradition of it always seemed sort of silly to me. Like why are we all waiting until the new year to change things in our lives that need changing?

 

This year I decided to make a resolution. I have decided to take more time for myself and my family, and to realize that I am not Wonder Woman, and that I cannot in fact do it all at all times. I’ve had a problem with saying yes to everyone when they ask me to do things, and this year it’s really become a problem for me.

 

Saying yes in itself is not bad, I still plan on saying yes a lot, but not at the expense of time with my family, or time allotted for writing. I want my son to remember doing fun things with me, not watching mommy on the computer all of the time. I’ve already started Sunday Adventure day with him. This past week we went on a hike by the beach, and he was soaking wet and filthy, but the smile on his face as he climbed on rocks and saw tide pools made it all worth it.

 

Also, I will…..go to the gym at least 4 times a week! I have the membership, and I actually like going, I’m just lazy when it comes to making myself go lol.

 

Are you making a resolution this year???

 

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About Jessica Gibson

Jessica Gibson is a recovering bookaholic, she’s down from four books a week to a more reasonable one. It was that love of words and creativity that made her dream about writing her first book. That dream was hidden for years, always put on the back burner, filed away in the “someday” section, until her husband Matt gave her the kick in the pants she needed to actually get off her butt and write.
Jessica and Matt live in Southern California and have a serious addiction to reality tv shows like Pawn Stars and American Restoration. They have one son and hope to add to the family in the near future.

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