Cam Shaw is hoping that her life will be ghost-free from now on. But that hope dies with the appearance of Mac “the Faker” Green, a wise-cracking ghost from Vegas who has followed her grandmother home. And during the opening night of Blithe Spirit, someone has sent Susan Ingram to her ghostly afterlife. What does her death have to do with the death of her mother-in-law fifty years ago? Who is trying to wipe out the Ingram family one person at a time? And when will that Vegas ghost stop sticking his nose into Cam’s business?
One of my most favorite songs is Boondocks by the band Little Big Town:
And here's my 'twisted' A to Z version:
BLOG POSTS
I feel no pain
I'm up all night again
Trying to write my posts for the A to Z.
One thing I know
To the store I will go
Cause blogging takes a lot of hot coffee.
I sit here wond'ring if it will be 'good enough'
And then I realize, hey, maybe it's not that tough.
And the blogosphere is callin' to me.
[Chorus]
I got my snacks and drinks
And they are all right here.
I'm gonna knock posts out
'Cause it's oh, so clear.
That the blogosphere is callin' to me.
[Chorus]
It's where I learned about writing
It's where I learned about chats
It's where I learned about SEO
Tryin' to get some friends and follow back,
It's where I learned about teamwork
And having Sundays off.
You may not know me quite yet, but
This is me
And this is my blog.
Give me a desk, a laptop and an ergo chair
And that's fine with me, feels so fine to me.
[Chorus]
You and an A, I'll get a B
We'll keep writing till we hit that "Z"
Lots of great blog posts for you and me
At the end we'll have a big party!
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Mercy Row Retribution
By Harry Hallman
Genre: Crime Fiction
271 pages
While serving as a pilot during the Vietnam War, Gerry Amota, the grandson of Jacob Byrne, the head of a powerful North Philadelphia Irish crime family, seizes an opportunity to create a lucrative marijuana smuggling operation. It's 1967 and under the secrecy of a classified military operation and with the assistance of a French Marseille Mob, who owns plantations in Cambodia, he is able to send tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana a month to Philadelphia. His grandfather's criminal enterprise distributes the drug to a population who has developed and insatiable appetite for the marijuana.
A rival French from Paris gang tries to force Amato to buy their product and this triggers war between the Byrne family and the Paris mob. From the steamy jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia, to the streets of Saigon, Paris and Philadelphia the ruthless actions of the Paris mob threatens to destroy the Byrne family. Gerry Amato orchestrates merciless campaign of retribution against his foes in order to save himself and his family.
Soup shop owner Lucky Jamieson stirs up more trouble in the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of Ladle to the Grave…
When Lucky Jamieson opens up By the Spoonful to host an event with a famous author, she’s not expecting a bunch of nuts to descend on her small-town soup shop. But the author’s exasperating entourage—from a prickly publicist to a snippy son and his tipsy wife—give fresh meaning to the phrase, too many cooks spoil the broth.
The evening is more than spoiled, however, when it ends with a homicide. When the manner of the murder—as well as another recent unsolved crime—echoes the author’s fiction, Police Chief Nate Edgerton realizes he has a copycat killer on his hands. And Lucky hopes that one of her regular customers who has mysteriously gone missing isn’t involved. Once again, the soup shop owner will need to stir up some clues to find her friend and catch a cunning killer—before things really take a tureen for the worse…
Jane Hays has been told all her life that it’s dangerous to be out in the forest past sundown. At fifteen, she’s quite sure that it’s all old wives’ tales... yet, why does her village bar the gates every night? Why do they even have gates? When she is caught in an unexpected rainstorm on her way home, Jane ignores all the warnings and seeks shelter in a cottage in the middle of the forest. Soon, she is caught up in a world of magic and beauty – and in the storm of the Fairy Queen’s wrath.
The Fairy Queen is out for blood. There have been intruders - human intruders - in her domain and she will stop at nothing to find them and kill them. After all, it is only fair. She is only seeking retribution for the death that humans leave in their wake.
But Jane isn’t all that she seems to be. And the events of the night aren’t as innocent as they appear.
A tale of magic, fairy creatures and family, Coexist is a novella for the young and the young-at-heart.
Coexist is a place where beings of multiple sentient species can live together - can being the operative word. Past, present and a little future can also occur in the same place.
There are humans, fairies, elves, wood spirits and a whole cast of characters in this fun making-the-fantastical-seem real book.
The humans tell their children many cautionary fairy tales, designed to gain their obedience and maybe a little out of concern for their safety. What they don't know at first is that long ago, a pact was made between the humans and elves to have no contact with each other - and the means by which that was accomplished was that the humans would have access to the forest during the daylight hours and the elves could be out at night. You see, the elves didn't much care for the humans (did they ever)?
So, good daughter Jane goes out to gather some herbs for her mother, who was creating some sort of tonic. Unfortunately, she got caught out by a sudden thunderstorm (cue the ominous movie music), and had to spend the night in the woods. Luckily she did not have to wait without shelter, as a young part-man-part-dog, took her in and said he would guide her back to the village after the rain stopped. Well, the rain didn't stop that night.
Imagine, being young, alone in a place you are not supposed to be after dark, and a thunderstorm comes up and your rescue comes from a being only half-human? Jane seemed to take it in stride. Most of us, with our 'logical' brains would try to convince ourselves that we were hallucinating, I think.
A theme of tolerance runs through Coexist. Not many characters get along with many others at the beginning. Threats pass back and forth amongst the species as well as within each group. Later, several long-held secrets are revealed in an entertaining denouement.
We have our different countries, religions, skin colors, genders, social or financial classes, and many other variables that seem to separate us. But we are all human. Everyone should just Coexist!
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About the Author:
Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. In 2015, she traded in a life of annoying other bean counters for one of annoying the online world with questions about life and death and everything in between. The answer is sometimes 42.
When she is not writing or nitpicking over other writers' copy, she can be found reading a book or attempting to organise her room.
During the month of April, I will be offering my readers a 50% discount coupon on purchases of Coexist via Smashwords. The coupon code is "ZM78D" and it's valid from the launch day until 7 May. I'm extending this coupon to your readers as well - I'll leave it up to you how you want to handle that.
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This book helps me complete the following 2016 reading challenges:
So I had this last-minute flash of inspiration to take a song title, beginning with each letter of the alphabet and 'tweaking' the lyrics to fit an A to Z theme.
Today's real song is: "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth":
(The song portion begins at approx 2:22).
So, here's my version:
ALL I WANT FOR APRIL IS MY A TO Z
All I want for April is my A to Z,
My A to Z, yeah, my A to Z.
If I could write my blog posts for the A to Z
Then I could go visit my friends' blogs!
It seems such a short time till April 1st,
I'm stressing over all the wri-ting.
But there are friendly bloggers there,
Who will make it real ex-ci-ting!
All I want for April is my A to Z,
My A to Z, yeah, my A to z.
If I could write my blog posts for the A to Z
Then I could go visit my friends' blogs!
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Many thanks to Jeremy at Hollywood Nuts! for the letter graphics.
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