Friday, January 31, 2020

The Murder of Shelby Putnam



"The Murder of Shelby Putnam" takes place in a small town in Florida in 1940. Sally Boyce Rainey is an intelligent, outgoing, yet naive young woman who comes home from her first flying lesson to discover her husband, Jeff, in jail and a dead woman in their kitchen, her best friend's sister. Sally is determined to prove Jeff's innocence, even though she's not convinced of it herself. While gathering evidence, Sally uncovers the dark secret of a dear friend, but, to free her husband, no sacrifice is too great. Following each lead, as well as her intuition, Sally prepares Jeff's defense and argues his case in court, at a time before women can even serve as jurors.






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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Carnage in Singapore



Terrorist groups such as Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah have flourished in recent years with new recruits joining them and ISIS-affiliates at an alarming rate. Blended operations by various Asian countries have forced the groups to work together to identify a new operational base.

They seek an island nation to call home, one where they can plot against countries who oppose their ideals. They found a target, a small nation-state, perfect for their needs: The Republic of Singapore.

Before anyone can respond, the ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain, and Australia are kidnapped from their residences in Singapore. Right index fingers of each victim are sent as a warning. Any attempt to recover the ambassadors will result in the removal of additional body parts.

Bedlam Charlie team leader, Evelyn Evinrude, leads the group to rescue the ambassadors and capture the local leaders of Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah. Can Bedlam succeed or will events escalate, resulting in more deaths?






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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Gemini Joe


Gemini Joe:

Memoirs of Brooklyn


The The runt of the litter, Gemini Joe is no stranger to tears. His life is a story—following the Great Depression and his parents struggle to provide for his family. Survival in his powerful, sometimes cruel family was not easy. Although he remembers with affection and occasional humor the holidays, his childhood friends, his mother and grandmother, his tough, bullying brothers and indifferent sister, his family was too much for him. He found acceptance in a bottle of scotch. Health issues beginning at birth and compounded by an addiction to cigarettes from the age of seven. In the end, he managed to conquer his addictions, but was it too late? 

A very emotional story that will bring tears to the reader’s eyes and occasional laughter. The way Joe reconnects with his daughter is beautiful, and rediscovering her real father seems to have been a beautiful journey in itself. The story is told from the perspective of Gemini Joe, a man with sensitivity, a party man who’d always succeeded in making people laugh and have a good time, but who was never easy to deal with at home. I also enjoyed the moving, very inspiring poems that open the chapters, poems by the protagonist. This is a story that compels me to revisit my story with my own father. My relationship with my father has never been a great one and, after reading this book, I begin to wonder if he’s been deeply hurt as well? Janet Sierzant tells a story of hurt, addiction, and redemption, and makes readers understand that those who hurt others are themselves hurting deeply, and that behind the ugliness we may notice in some people that there is a wellspring of beauty waiting to burst forth. At times, it needs only a little attention to draw from that wellspring. This memoir is deeply human and intensely satisfying. 

Gemini Joe’s childhood memories inspire sorrow, anger, sympathy, horror, and amusement. As an adult, he inspires forgiveness for the mistakes he made in life and redeemed himself through his considerable talents as an artist, poet, and thinker.

Readers Favorite says, "I loved reading Gemini Joe: Memoirs of Brooklyn and it had my attention right from the beginning to the end. It is a simple story of an ordinary life, but that is precisely what makes it special. I enjoyed reading about all of the day-to-day life in their household with the big Italian dinners, fishing, sports, daily life, their connection with what is known as “the Mafia,” and so much more. Janet is able to write as a silent observer and this to her credit because the narrative genuinely feels like Joe talking to the reader and, at times, to his daughter. It’s a very engaging and well-written book and probably one of my favorite memoirs I have read in a long time!"







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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

The Race



Sally Boyce Rainy adores the feel of speed, the wind in her hair, and the growl of her Duluth Roadster. In 1939, the Florida Highway Patrol has barely opened it eyes, but Sally, and her love for winding country roads, are both hard not to notice. In awe of Sally's beauty and innocence, Officer Bill Billings merely gives her a warning, but their brief encounter sparks an enduring friendship and a love affair that seers the social upper crust of Avondale. Sally, forced to break into the male dominated workforce, is a car salesman specializing in Duluth Roadsters. Although she is happily married to Jeff, an automotive inventor, Sally still struggles to break free of her wealthy and domineering ex-fiancé, Gary Neylands. Gary will stop at nothing, on or off the racetrack, to win her hand in marriage. So when Jeff builds a car to race in the 1939 Indy 500, Gary naturally builds one of his own. Should Jeff happen to die in a fiery car crash.... Well, wouldn't that work out well for Gary.



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Monday, January 27, 2020

Falling For You


"I wonder if anyone is having sex in it," Sophie thought when she found out that the elevator was not working. Her friend Alice had told her several stories about the exploits of some employees of the marketing agency on the fourteenth floor.

She snorted. "That’s probably it."

Taking a long breath, she braved the many flights of stairs to the ground floor.

When she reached the end of the long climb down, she stopped to take a breath but was soon thrown onto the floor instead. A man-god was crouching by her side and Sophie was certain that a deity or another was having fun at her expense.

There is something to be said about that. The poor thing was paying a heavy price for a deity’s bad luck with the dice. Brokenhearted and struggling to pay the rent, it was time for her to have an adventure. In comes the handsome and charming Matthew Bryant and Sophie can’t help but fall over and over again.









Saturday, January 25, 2020

Strange Love




An Alien Abduction Romance (Galactic Love Book 1)


He's awkward. He's adorable. He's alien as hell.

Zylar of Kith B'alak is a four-time loser in the annual Choosing. If he fails to find a nest guardian this time, he'll lose his chance to have a mate for all time. Desperation drives him to try a matching service but due to a freak solar flare and a severely malfunctioning ship AI, things go way off course. This 'human being' is not the Tiralan match he was looking for.

She's frazzled. She's fierce. She's from St. Louis.

Beryl Bowman's mother always said she'd never get married. She should have added a rider about the husband being human. Who would have ever thought that working at the Sunshine Angel daycare center would offer such interstellar prestige? She doesn't know what the hell's going on, but a new life awaits on Barath Colony, where she can have any alien bachelor she wants.

They agree to join the Choosing together, but love is about to get seriously strange.











Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Death by the Jaguar



A Vietnam veteran, wounded and returning home, was not looking forward to spending the rest of his life tied to some wheel chair. He had planned to make this homecoming the beginning of a new life with the woman he was to marry. A barrage of mortar shells had changed all that, now nothing would ever be right again! He wasn’t going to ask Nickie to be his future wife, knowing what would be involved and the sacrifices she would have to make. What he hadn't realized was the strength and tenacity of this beautiful person who would bring him back from despair to begin a new life, have his Son, and enjoy life to the fullest. The inseparable three, along with their ever-present Maltese Lulu, enjoyed leisure time aboard their trawler, in the California Delta. His world is to be forever changed when his treasured wife, and son are taken from him violently, in the river they so loved. The only other survivor, Lulu, is a constant reminder of what was lost yet gives the man comfort until it is no longer safe. His search for those accountable and thirst for vengeance, takes him deep into those dark place’s designed only for those responsible and where his anger is transferred into a physical reality of manmade horror. Follow his grisly punishments and the final explosive ending







Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Born Slippy



A provocative, globe-trotting, time-shifting novel about the seductions of -- and resistance to -- toxic masculinity.

"Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess, or something like it, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years."

Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry's office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry's wife, and things go from bad to worse.

Combining the best elements of literary thriller, noir and political satire, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism.


ENDORSEMENTS:

“A highly literary and always engaging twenty-first-century noir. Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.”– Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, After Kathy Acker

“An instant, finely wrought story of friendship, ingenuity, and blithe evil. Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!” – James Ellroy, author of Hollywood Confidential, Perfidia, This Storm

“A whip-smart, whirlwind novel of noir and adventure, humor and horror, cynicism and romance. Lutz’s sterling prose and love of literature light up this unique page-turner about the friendship between a man who would be good and the amoral, magnetic narcissist who comes to dominate his life story.” – Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay, Follow Her Home

“The kind of novel a globetrotting Graham Greene might have written had he lived to trot around our contempo, gone-to-hell globe — now divided into neo-imperialist sociopathic zillionaires, and the rest of us. Born Slippy is smart, dark, funny and, best of all, what used to be called a real page-turner.” – Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty 

"An entertaining neonoir about the wages of greed." – Kirkus Reviews










Monday, January 20, 2020

America's Culture War


America's Culture War: 

2020 DiVision 


No matter what anyone tells you, we’re in a war—a culture war. Our morality is at stake, and our children are growing up in a dangerous world. We’re hearing conflicting things online and from the media; our fellow citizens are becoming lazy, relying on the service of the government and the kind hearts of the religious. The best thing we can do in these troubled times is open our minds to the truth. The real truth, not the truth spouted in fake news and reports. 

Whether you’re conservative or liberal, you can agree that the United States of America needs some old-fashioned TLC. Neither political party is perfect, and focusing on our disagreements isn’t solving our problems. Instead, think back to our Constitution. Think back to our Founding Fathers. Is this really the nation we made? Can we really justify pandering to today’s society?

I’m asking for your eyes and ears, just for a short time. I’m no politician, no expert of any kind, but I implore you to rethink what it means to be an American. Let’s make a more perfect union together for this is a country of the people, for the people, and by the people.






Monday, January 13, 2020

Book Promotion, Yeah Baby!!



Authors, we know you are ready to get back to writing.  We also know that book promotion is important.  This makes it rough as most authors are not skilled at book promotion.  Why not let us help you out a bit.  Sharing your book is our specialty.  


Sunday, January 12, 2020

The Top 100 Intimate Items for Lovers



Sex is amazing, Sex is Fun, Sexy is out of this world
However, it can always get better!

Sexy Challenges knows that there is not limit to the sexual energy you can experience. However, a good majority of people out there do not have any clue what products are out there to help improve their sexual experiences. That is why I put together a crack team of experts to help find the best products for your sexual satisfaction. 

Now-a-days there are millions of sexual products out there to choose from. Which means there is a lot to consider when making a selection to put more pleasure in your sex life. Not only are their choices but there are health issues to sexual items, and now many times come with warranties and options, that a person can get overwhelmed in a hurry. Sex should not be stressful nor should picking out items to assist you in your sexual escapades. 


That is why this book was created. Items to enhance your sexual experience are investments. You put out money for said items and hope they will deliver massive returns on your investments. However throwing money blindly in a sex toy store or online isn’t the best investment policy. You have to do the research. With that being said most people don’t have the time or the balls to really dive into researching sexual items. Good thing my team here at Sexy Challenges does.  

We want to take as much of the guess work out of the process as possible. This book was designed to share our top picks with you so that instead of having millions of items to choose from you will have 100 or a few more of the best of the best. High quality, best price, longest lasting items to keep your libido active and excited. Together we will help you build a arsenal of sexual items to keep things new and evolving in your bedroom, and outside of it also.

We are not just talking about sex toys such as vibrators. There is an entire world out there of amazing products that when used in the correct fashion will help turn you on and up to a new level of sexual excitement. The list is so long believe me it was a daunting task narrowing this book down to 100 items. Sure there will be sex toys in the list but there will also be games, beverages, items to cleaning up, storage, and a lot more areas that you might not have through about. That is why I brought in the experts.  

The goal here is to update this book twice a year to help keep it fresh and up to date on all the advancements in the sexuality felid. Part of our process is listening to our readers, so if you have a suggestion for a product to be in our next edition by all means sent the information to me. You will be able to find my contact information at the end of this book. Also if you have any question you can send them to me and if I don’t know the answer I will do my best to find it from our team or a different source.  

My suggestion for using this book is as follows. Go through the book all the way before you decide on anything to add to your play time. After you have finished mark down a few items you would like to try and have your partner do the same. If you are single and not dating you can skip that last step. Now compare lists and if any items are the same on both lists don’t hesitate pick those up right away. Next set a plan on what Item or items you want to try next and start a budget for your sexual pleasure items. Understand that everything in these pages might not be for you and the is okay we all are different and unique so embrace that fact. So if something doesn’t appeal to you don’t just pick it up cause it is in the book! Trust your feelings use the sexual force.  

Making your list out of the items in the pages and sharing it with your lover is a great way to help during gift giving times, such as the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, as well as weddings and bridal showers, and bachelor parties.




Thursday, January 9, 2020

Little Red and the Crocodile (Fractured Fairytale)


Little Red and the Crocodile

(Fractured Fairytale)


Meet Zara! She’s a smart, friendly, and curious girl who loves to visit her Auntie. This is a FRACTURED version of a famous tale. This retelling of Little Red Riding Hood takes the reader to the Louisiana swamps where we meet a new character in Cory the Crocodile. Will Little Red follow her mother’s rules? Will Cory the Croc succeed? Find out what happens when they meet on a journey.






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Tuesday, January 7, 2020

1860 America Moves Towards War




The 1860 presidential election divided the United States as never before. 


The novel 1860 takes the reader back to that time. Michael Drieborg, his family and teenage friends must face the terrible consequences of that election. 



How does Michael satisfy his desire to join his friends and fight for his country with his duty to obey the wishes of his parents and stay home?


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Monday, January 6, 2020

The Mystery of The Burned Book


Recently I got a message from a person that wanted to let me know that they burned a book that I was co-author on called, The Big Black Book of Sex Positions.  My first thought was someone actually burned my book, and I was appalled.  I could not have imagined someone purchasing a book that I put hard work into and then burning it.  That seemed so primate and middle ages to me.  Then I tried to put a positive spin on it, thinking maybe they had no heat in their house and the burning of books was to keep their family warm. No matter how hard I tried to make something up that seemed positive it didn't work.  So I sat with this all night and then...

That is when I realized some thing, if they purchased my book they have ever right to burn it!  I let go of the thought that they were burning my personal property and allowed myself to be okay with it.  You see their freedom of speech allows them the right to have their opinion of my book even if that meant burning it.  So I am now at peace with it.  I actually responded to this person and told them that if they felt that strongly about it they should see if they can get a million people to purchase my book and burn it.  

So, I hope they take up that challenge and appreciate that we have the freedom of speech here.  In that process I am sure that many of those people might find The Big Black Book of Sex Positions very helpful and instead of burning it using it to set their relationship on fire again!  

IF you are curious the book is listed below and I am okay with you picking up a copy to either help your relationship or if you want to make a statement and burn it.  Peace be with us all and be thankful we live in a place where we can express our opinions.   



Within this accessible and approachable guide, you’ll find exciting and steamy sex positions like Bottoms Up, The Joyride, The Lotus, Spread Eagle, as well as more than twenty less-frequent, but more adventurous sexual topics and positions. You’ll also discover sections about foreplay, toys, setting the mood, exercises to improve your performance and flexibility, why size only matters when it’s wrong, and many other burning topics that are often overlooked. 

Get ready to take your sex life to a whole-new level with The Big Black Book of Sex Positions.


Friday, January 3, 2020

Against My Fathers Will



"A Son is a son till he takes a wife; a daughter's a daughter all of her life." Motivated by her experience at Smith College Jane aspires to become more than a "daughter all of her life." She aspires to become a modern, “liberated” woman, to break the housewife mold of her mother and her mother's contemporaries. That journey toward liberation entails painful conflict with her traditional father, lawsuits against the sexism of her local government and country club, but most significantly, her own internal battles to overcome culturally inculcated ideas of acceptability. In AGAINST MY FATHER'S WILL, the reader follows her, a woman we can all identify with, as she metamorphasizes from captain of her high school cheerleading squad, cheering only for the guys, to active feminist.

When her father dies, she discovers that his Last Will and Testament favors her sister with the bulk of his estate, the family homes. Her principles and ideals collide with the searing emotional pain of rejection. Jane is left wondering if her father's Last Will and Testament is his final repudiation of her for her declaration of independence and equality.

Filled with wit and heart, ultimately, Jane's memoir recounts the universal struggle to affirm and love oneself. It is her hope that her story will help other women recognize that the fight for dignity and equality rages not only without, but more deviously and crucially, within. Until the battle is won there, women are all still vulnerable to accept “less than” status. 




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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

America is the True Old World



Where is the lost continent of Mu and Atlantis? Have Mu and Atlantis been discovered? Yes, Mu and Atlantis have been found. The new book, “America is the True Old World,” has the answer to all of those questions and more with their discovery. The book, America is the True old World, demonstrates that the Americas is the birthplace of civilization; and it comes with 40 color illustrations to highlight the beauty of Old World America. This book is volume I of a IV volume book series that covers 12 chapters, so there is more to come








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