PK HREZO - Cover Reveal: Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc.

Aloha,

While I wish I had a little extra time on my hands, I am very happy to help share the news that it's nearly time for the new book by PK Hrezo.

But first!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the COVER REVEAL of: Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc. 

 

The actual book will be released on 11.12.13, which I think is a brilliant day to release a book about a travel agency and its slogan, “Where time is always in your hands.”

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BLURB:
Welcome to Butterman Travel, Incorporated!\

We are a full service agency designed to meet all your exclusive time travel needs. Family-owned and operated, we offer clients one hundred years of time travel experience. A place where you can rest assured, safety and reliability always come first.

Anxious to attend a special event from the past?

Or for a glimpse of what the future holds?

You’ve come to the right place. We’re a fully accredited operation, offering an array of services; including, but not limited to: customized travel plans, professionally piloted operations, and personal trip guides. (*Terms and conditions do apply.)

Conference us directly from our Website. Our frontline reservation specialist, Bianca Butterman, will handle all your inquiries in a professional and efficient manner, offering a tentative itinerary and free fare quote, so you can make the most of your time trip.
We look forward to serving you at Butterman Travel, Inc., where time is always in your hands.  

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For the blogfest theme, BOOK YOUR TIME TRIP TODAY, PK asks, “if you could walk into a time travel agency and book a time trip, where and when would it be, and why?”

Hmmm, I had to think about this, but in the end, I would have skipped the famous people/places to transport myself back to Fairfax, VA in January 1996.

I was twenty-six, a newly minted immigrant to America, having just flown in from England. Within a month, I’d be happily working for TGI Fridays down in Key West, but… if I had known that I could join the U.S. Marines with only my Green Card (I thought you had to be a citizen) I would have, without any hesitation, joined the ranks of the few and the proud…

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PK Hrezo is a native Floridian whose life could easily be a Jimmy Buffet song. She shares her home with her firefighter husband and their two children. When not creating characters and their worlds, PK can be found at her other job of rearranging passenger’s itineraries for a major international airline. The only hobbies she loves more than traveling, are reading, writing, and music, and when the four are combined she exists in total bliss.  

 

She blogs regularly at PK HREZO: Fearless Fiction http://pk-hrezo.blogspot.com/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PKHrezo  @pkhrezo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorpkhrezo
Website http://down-the-rabbithole.com/

 

Kat Sheridan's Latest Release: ECHOES IN STONE

Aloha,

Perferct for the Halloween season, I’d like to share the latest release, ECHOES IN STONE, written by Kat Sheridan who loves to write "Romance to die for."

Scare it away, Kat!

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A letter from the grave…

Lily is dead. But a mysterious letter launches her half-sister, Jessa Palmer, on a harrowing journey into the wilds of Cornwall to rescue Lily’s daughter from a tyrant of a father, a man who confessed to murder. Jessa follows in Lily’s footsteps to a forbidding castle on the cliffs, but discovers the past will not stay dead at Tremayne Hall. Someone—or something—wants to ensure Jessa is no more successful at escaping than was Lily.

 A heart locked in stone…

Bitter, brooding, and tragically scarred, Viscount Dashiell Tremayne believes Jessa is just like her manipulative, unfaithful half-sister. He’s not about to let another treacherous woman into his home or into his heart. Particularly not a woman who’s come to steal his daughter. Only one can win in the battle for a child’s life. Then the accidents begin.

A passion that threatens to consume them…

Jessa wants only to take her niece and escape the grim manor. But Dash, fiercely protective of those he loves, gives up nothing that belongs to him. As the danger escalates, so does the heat between Jessa and Dash. Soon she’ll have to make a choice: surrender the child to a man she cannot trust or surrender her heart to the same fires of passion that destroyed Lily.

(Excerpt http://katsheridan.wordpress.com/from-the-quill/)

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About Kat:

Kat Sheridan is a former project manager and business analyst whose very serious exterior hides a secret romantic. She is fond of books, bourbon, big words, coffee, and shiny things. She is known to wear glitter-pink nail polish under her combat boots, when she bothers wearing shoes at all. To be honest, that isn't very often.

Kat splits her time between the Midwest in the summer and the South in the winter, sharing her home with the love of her life and an exceedingly dignified Shih Tzu. No matter where her body is, though, Kat’s imagination can most often be found on some storm-wracked coast, plotting historical romances that include forbidding castles, menacing villains, and heartthrob heroes. She imagines a world where men are men, and spirited women can conquer even the toughest of them with a sultry glance, a passionate kiss, and a few well-chosen words. Or with a sword, pistol, or jeweled dagger if that whole “sultry glance/passionate kiss” thing doesn't work too well at first.

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Buy Links for ECHOES IN STONE:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble 
 
Smashwords

SPOTIFY versus PANDORA - a musical choice :)

Aloha,

Apart from my on-going posts relating to life-as-a-stay-at-home Dad, one thing I rarely post are Public Service Announcements.

Hovwever, if you use PANDORA while you write/edit,, let me ask... have you heard about SPOTIFY?



Courtesy: Wiki Commons.


Now, I have no financial (or other) dog in this race - and this PSA is just my humble opinion, but if you like Pandora, you'll *love* Spotify... :)


I only found out about Spotify last month while I was travelling to see my old man. I assumed Pandora had a box in Holland, but I was mistaken.

I shared this with Peter, an old, bald buddy of mine, and he was like, "Ja hoor, just do Spotify, man."

My old mate, Peter from Edam, home of the cheese:)

"Do Spotify?," I said, over breakfast in downtown Edam (with nary a clog, tulip or windmill in sight.) "It sounds contagious... What's a Spotify?"

He explained and I downloaded the app for Android in about five minutes. For the next ten days, I had music on my smartphone (and laptop) the entire time.


Wikipedia has a lot of technical information here, but here are some, for me, positive differences between Pandora and Spotify.


Courtesy: Wikipedia Commons

With Spotify,

>>> You can *rewind* a song (love that!)

>>>  It's free for basic service, (which isn't "basic," it's awesome.)

<<< You can go into your " radio stations" and choose specific tracks, not just wait in hope...

>>> The ads on Spotify seem shorter and less obtrusive.

<<< Spotify sets itself up at the bottom of your screen, and just waits to be clicked on (no more pressing the x close button by mistake :)


Anyway, just wanted to share the info and let you know there is another option to Pandora - if you're interested!

Have a great, music-filled weekend, y'all ;) 

Misha Gericke's THE VANISHED KNIGHT - pay it forward :)

Aloha,

Ever since my first boss in the newspaper industry, Tammy Raits, gave me The. One. Chance. needed to shove my foot through print journalism's door, I’ve been a firm believer in Paying It Forward – in life and in writing.

It is then with a genuine WHOOP! that I have Misha Gericke over to share the goods about her new book, THE VANISHED KNIGHT.

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Thanks for having me over today, Mark!

When we were discussing this post, Mark asked me to write about paying it forward and why it’s important to writers to do it.

And this… is a bit of a tricky question. See, I could go on and on and on about how paying forward actually scores brownie points with the universe, and how you’d be lucky as a result. Or how being seen as a generous and helpful blogger can be great for book sales. Or any of such things.

But to me, it’s not about that at all. See, whether or not any of the above is true, they’re not the reasons why I pay it forward and spend at least every two months asking other people to do the same.

To me, paying forward is about saying thanks. I have talent. I have finished projects. And now I have a book published. And behind all that, I have a marvelous support structure that is the writing blogger community. The other writers are always there with advice, sympathy or encouragement when I need it. They’re always willing to lend a helping hand.

And they’re always rooting for us, no matter where they might be in their writing journeys.

So in return, I try to be the same for everyone in the blogging community. But more than that, I want to show them how much they’re appreciated. Not only by me, but by everyone else who they’ve touched. That’s why I ask for sponsors, and why I ask others to nominate possible winners, and why I ask others to vote for the winners.

And you know what? I figure that if I brighten an amazing blogger’s day by only a little because of the Paying Forward Awards, I would have said thanks the proper way.

If you want to be part of the Paying Forward Awards, please mail me at mishagericke(AT)gmail(DOT)com and we can talk about it. I’m busy collecting sponsors for October right now.

Thanks for reading! What do you like to do for others?

(Hahaha after writing this, plugging my book feels so silly, but this is, after all, why I’m blog touring. Hope you don’t mind!)
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Gosh, Misha, I don’t mind at all… we writers have enough angst: (Medic!! We need a medic! I need a shot of IWSG. Stat, people!!!) so to share the success of one, is to help all of us.
(What’s the old saying… what doesn’t get rejected, makes you stronger… something like that…)

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THE VANISHED KNIGHT Blurb:

Since the death of her parents, Callan Blair has been shunted from one foster family to another, her dangerous secret forcing the move each time. Her latest foster family quickly ships her off to an exclusive boarding school in the Cumbrian countryside. While her foster-brother James makes it his mission to get Callan expelled, a nearby ancient castle holds the secret doorway to another land...

When Callan is forced through the doorway, she finds herself in the magical continent of Tardith, where she’s shocked to learn her schoolmates Gawain and Darrion are respected soldiers in service to the king of Nordaine, one of Tardith's realms. More than that, the two are potential heirs to the Black Knight—Nordaine's crown prince.

But when the Black Knight fails to return from a mysterious trip, the realm teeters on the brink of war. Darrion and Gawain set out to find him, while Callan discovers there is more to her family history than she thought. The elves are claiming she is their princess.

Now with Darrion growing ever more antagonistic and her friendship with Gawain blossoming, Callan must decide whether to stay in Nordaine—where her secret grows ever more threatening—or go to the elves and uncover the truth about her family before war sets the realms afire.

Bio:

M. Gerrick (AKA Misha Gericke) has basically created stories since before she could write. Many of those stories grew up with her and can be seen in her current projects.
She lives close to Cape Town, with a view over False Bay and Table Mountain.
Feel free to mail her at warofsixcrowns(AT)gmail(DOT)com, Circle her on Google Plus or follow her on Twitter.

If you'd like to see her writer-side (beware, it's pretty insane), please feel free to check out her blog. 

LINKS:

Amazon

Amazon UK

Barnes & Noble
Goodreads