Welcome to Cynthia Eden w/ #RomanticSuspense ‘Wrecked’ @cynthiaeden @GoddessFish

On May 30, 2017May 17, 2017 By Casey's CornerIn Authors & Books, Goddess Fish Promotions1 Comment

Today we have author Cynthia Eden visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* Award-winning author CYNTHIA EDEN writes dark tales of paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World, and IndieReader bestseller.
* Cynthia is also a two-time finalist for the RITA® award (she was a finalist both in the romantic suspense category and in the paranormal romance category). Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over thirty novels and novellas. Cynthia lives along the Alabama Gulf Coast.

A look into…

~ Blurb ~

SHE LEFT HIM ONCE.
* LOST Agent Ana Young was only fourteen when she was abducted by a madman, but unlike many kidnapping victims, she did go home. Now, her mission is to find the missing. But her new case has her on the hunt for the escaped convict who’s obsessed with her. And Ana has an unlikely partner-the sexy, supposedly-by-the-book FBI Agent she had one amazing night with and had to forget.
* NOW HE HAS TO PROTECT HER 24/7…
* FBI Special Agent Cash Knox knows that Ana, the petite, tough-ass former bounty hunter, can get the job done again. But this time, someone else leads them to “Bernie-the-Butcher,” someone who’s been watching Ana. Waiting for her.
* FROM A CRAZED KILLER.
* Now, catching a deranged murderer means Ana must trust her guarded heart to the gorgeous, complicated G-man she wasn’t supposed to fall for.

~ Excerpt ~

* “There are just so many of them,” Ana said, glancing over at her desk and the files that were spread out there. “All those people . . . still missing. All those families . . . just hoping that their kids will come home. Husbands, looking for wives. Mothers, looking for their daughters. Friends, looking for—” She broke off, her lips pressing together. “I just want to help them.”
* And that was why she’d finally given in and joined LOST.
* The Last Option Search Team was Gabe’s baby. Years ago, his sister had vanished, and when the local authorities hadn’t been able to find her, Gabe had joined the search. Unfortunately, he’d found his sister too late. He’d buried her instead of returning her home, and after that terrible tragedy, Gabe had made it his mission to help other families. The agents who worked at LOST were truly the last option for so many. People turned to LOST when their hope was gone. When the FBI and the cops and everyone else said the case was dead . . . LOST kept looking.
* And the agents at LOST had been showing amazing results. Hell, within the last year, they’d even stopped two serial killers. They’d saved victims, not just found bodies. They were making a huge difference in the world.
* And I want to be part of that difference.
* So maybe she’d been burning the midnight oil as she reviewed case files. One in particular kept nagging at her. Cathy Wise. The girl had been just thirteen when she vanished.
* And I was fourteen when I was abducted. Only Ana had gotten to go home again.
* Cathy . . . hadn’t. Not yet.
* “I get personally involved,” Ana confessed. “I know I should probably hold back but . . .” But I can see myself in these cases. We have to help the victims.
* “No.” Gabe’s voice was soft. “We need to be involved, Ana. We need to care. It motivates us to get the job done.” He inclined his head toward the files. “But you can’t let the job consume you. As hard as we try, there will always be other cases out there. Others who go missing.”
* Her stomach twisted because she knew he was right. Every day, someone new vanished. Every day, a life was destroyed.
* “That’s why I’m in your office now,” Gabe added. A faint smile curved his lips and his eyes glinted. “Not just because I wanted to interrupt your nap time.”
* Trust me, with the dream I was having . . . I’m glad you did interrupt.
* “We have a new case.”
* Ana took a quick step toward him.
* But Gabe lifted a hand. “Before you get too excited, this case comes with some strings.”
* Strings? What was that supposed to mean? She was over her probationary period at LOST. She’d been handling cases on her own for weeks now.
* “You’ll have a partner on this one.”
* Well, yes, that was standard LOST procedure. Always have someone watching your ass. That was a Gabe Spencer directive that had come down on day one.
* “He’s . . . not with LOST.”
* Okay, now she was curious. “Then who is he with?”

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Thank you for joining us here today, Cynthia Eden! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Cynthia Eden will be awarding a digital copy of Wrecked to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use this RAFFLECOPTER LINK to enter the drawing. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

Welcome to Samuel Jay w/ #mystery #romance ‘Deception’ @GoddessFish

On May 19, 2017May 17, 2017 By Casey's CornerIn Authors & Books, Goddess Fish Promotions1 Comment

Today we have author Samuel Jay visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* The author and his wife, Joan, live in Hunterdon County, NJ. As a public relations professional he and his firm successfully handled major public issue campaigns, including raising $68 million to build Liberty Science Center, now the nation’s fourth largest hands-on science museum. He is also president of a family-owned water utility. Deception is his third novel. He welcomes speaking invitations and correspondence via email.

I asked him what was the best piece of writing advice he ever received and here is his answer:

* The best piece of writing advice I ever got came in phases. First phase — I attended a Writer’s Digest conference featuring bestsellng author David Hagberg. He had us write a piece and gave it back to me with this scrawled on the first page: “Your scene-setting sucks!” So I hired and went to bestselling author Robert Gover’s sessions in which he showed me what I was doing wrong. After that I went back to Hagberg’s reviews and he told me “Wow! Have you come a long way.” So the writing advice I got from Gover got me rolling in the right direction.

Find Samuel Jay here…
eMail | Facebook | Website

A look into…

~ Blurb ~

* Lieutenant Jack Morro has just days to go before being sent home from the war in Vietnam. But after inadvertently learning of evidence of a conspiracy involving his captain, he is hit by the captain’s ‘friendly fire’ in the midst of battle. He is left for dead but is only wounded, captured by the Viet Cong, and imprisoned. When Jack is reported killed in action, his fiancé, Diane – a rising New York journalist – plunges into alcoholism. A media giant named Vidal helps her recover, and Diane falls in love with him. But Vidal has secrets – including a connection to Jack’s supposed ‘death.’
* However, Jack is alive, and after a year of imprisonment, he manages to escape. But he comes home to find Diane married to Vidal and his life still in peril from the information he learned in Vietnam.
* Vidal, Jack, and Diane find themselves wrapped in a web of romance, deceit, and danger – and none of them will escape unscathed.

~ Excerpt ~

* Manhattan, November 1971
* Standing in the men’s department at Macy’s, Diane Gannon smiled as she enthusiastically fingered her way through layers of folded sweaters to find one for her fiancé, Jack, who’d soon be coming home from the war in Vietnam. Alongside her was future mother-in-law, Grace Morro, also smiling as she held a shopping bag in both hands. Out in the center aisle, heel-clicking women shoppers marched along on their way to Ladies’, some of them peeling off near Diane and Grace into other rows and racks of men’s clothes. Brightening the scene, broad paths of sunlight flowed through the large windows on Seventh Avenue, revealing rows of appealing merchandise as saleswomen stood behind glass counters, chatting with customers or placing clothes in gift boxes.
* Diane stood in low heels, wearing a brown suede jacket over a white sweater and black slacks, her dark, reddish hair pulled back in a ponytail, her sculptured face of fair skin and striking eyes heightened by a cleft in her chin. Holding up a light blue sweater by its shoulders, she looked over at Grace and said, “What do you think, Mom? Wouldn’t this look great on Jack?”
* Wearing a gray overcoat open down the middle, Grace nodded. “Yes, it would. It really would, but I can’t stop feeling nervous about him. Him still over there. Won’t stop ’til he’s home. Two years of worrying. Sorry, hon.”
* Diane lowered the sweater and arched her eyebrows at Grace. “Thirty-five more days and all our worries will be gone! He’ll be home just before Christmas!”
* Grace nodded. “Meantime, he’s still over there, in the fighting.”

Buy Deception here…
Amazon The book will be free during the tour!

Thank you for joining us here today, Samuel Jay! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Samuel Jay will be awarding a signed copy of Deception to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour! So be sure to leave a comment AND use this RAFFLECOPTER LINK to enter the drawing. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!

Welcome to Bill A. Brier w/ #mystery #thriller ‘The Devil Orders Takeout’ @billbrier @GoddessFish

On May 16, 2017May 12, 2017 By Casey's CornerIn Authors & Books, Goddess Fish Promotions2 Comments

Today we have author Bill A. Brier visiting. Welcome!

What would you like to tell readers about yourself?

* Bill grew up in California and went to Hollywood High School, then served in the Air Force as a combat cameraman.
* After hiring on at Disney Studios as a film loader, he soon advanced and moved on to other film studios.
* He earned a master’s degree in psychology. A big help when working with Trumpish Hollywood producers. You’re fired!
* During his more than twenty-five years in the movie business as a cameraman, film editor, and general manager, Bill worked on everything from the hilarious, The Love Bug, to the creepy, The Exorcist, to the far out, Star Trek and Battle Star Galactica.
* Eight years ago, Bill switched from reading scripts to writing thriller/mysteries and driving racecars. After completing three award-winning novels, he signed with Black Opal Books. His first novel, The Devil Orders Takeout, is about a devoted father and husband who makes a deal with a real-life devil to protect his golf-prodigy son after his wife and older son are killed in a mysterious accident — and pays hell for it.
* Bill’s second mystery, The Killer Who Hated Soup, is Book One in the 1950s The Killer Who series, and it launches this Summer. The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart phones? Who you kiddin’?
* Energetic and eager to make his mark on what Time magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario leaves his daddy and little sister in Louisiana and rides a bus to Defiance, Oklahoma, a town not particularly adverse to murders, just the embarrassment of them when committed by high officials.
* Book Two, The Killer who Wasn’t There, will be on bookshelves this fall.
* Bill writes every day and golfs infrequently (that damn right knee!). His five children and eight grandchildren keep him busy going to birthday parties, and he never misses a one!
* The Brier Patch is Bill’s wildly entertaining blog about his shameless early days in Hollywood. It’s on his website, billbrier.com, along with a contest linked to The Devil Orders Takeout, which will award the grand prizewinner $1,000.
* Bill is a member of Mystery Writers of America.

Find Bill A. Brier here…
Blog/Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Twitter | Bill’s USA Today revealing interview

A look into…

~ Blurb ~

* A tax attorney with integrity…a powerful mobster determined to bend his will…
* Grayson Bolt isn’t about to compromise his integrity to help a notorious crime boss escape the cross-hairs of the IRS. But there’s a steep price to pay for defying The Man–Grayson’s beloved wife and older son.
* There’s only one way for Grayson to prevent his younger son, Jim, an innocent golf prodigy, from also being taken out: play a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And what will Jim be forced to do when the woman he loves gets ensnarled in a web of betrayal and deceit?

~ Excerpt ~

* “I’m afraid you’re going to get it hard, Mr. Bolt.” Costanzo had that fatherly tone of this will hurt me more than you. “Did you ever stop to think that there’s only one way of being dead, but many ways of dying?”
* Grayson felt something cold touch his spine, all the way down. “I don’t follow.”
* “Take your man Stockard. He killed two of your beloved family members, wife and eldest son. Isn’t that right?”
* A strangling tightness gripped Grayson’s throat. “That— that’s right.”
* “Wouldn’t you say a part of you died too?”
* “What’s your point?” Grayson’s voice erupted in suppressed panic.
* “You don’t have to die to feel dead. I’m going to kill your other son. That’ll be your punishment.”
* The blood drained from Grayson’s face. Just like that. Most people held the basic principle that no man should be punished for the deed of another. Costanzo was not one of them. Grayson would be cut right to the bone, and his son would be the sharpest knife Costanzo could use. Costanzo had spelled out the thought in invisible brushstrokes. It was there and Grayson had tried not to see it.

Thank you for joining us here today, Bill A. Brier! It was a pleasure getting to know you and your story.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Bill A. Brier is awarding to a randomly drawn commenter a $25 Amazon/BN GC! So be sure to leave a comment AND use this RAFFLECOPTER LINK to enter the drawing. Also, visit the other tour stops for a greater chance of winning!