Monthly Archives: February 2015
HANNAH FIELDING: VENICE CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION
Hannah Fielding’s The Echoes of Love was released year ago. The readers gave positive critics to the story (av. 4.2 stars from 40 Amazon reviews). It’s a great pleasure to present our next guest who speaks not only about her books, but also about herself and her travels around the world.
– Hannah, what is your book The Echoes of Love about?
– The Echoes of Love is a touching love story that unfolds at the turn of the new millennium, set in the romantic and mysterious city of Venice and the beautiful landscape of Tuscany. It is a tale of a lost love and betrayal, unbleached passion and learning to love again – and a terrible truth that will change the lives of two strangers forever.
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D.M. PULLEY: I AM STILL IN SHOCK FROM AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD
D.M. Pulley’s debut novel The Dead Key is currently on the second place at Kindle Amazon Bestselling list. The novel will be officially released on March 1. The story won the Grand Prize of Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for 2014.
We’ve got a chance to speak with D.M. about her book and many other things.
– What the readers will find in your book The Dead Key?
– The Dead Key tells the story of two women separated by twenty years and brought together by the same mystery. In 1998, Iris Latch is a young engineer just starting out in her career and adrift in her life. She is assigned to survey an old bank where she stumbles upon clues to a conspiracy that’s been hidden away in the abandoned building for twenty years. She soon discovers a young secretary named Beatrice Baker left behind a trail of breadcrumbs in 1978 that lead directly to the vault. As Iris follows in Beatrice’s footsteps to uncover the secrets locked in the safe deposit boxes, she realizes too late that the key to the mystery may cost her life.
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SIMON WOOD: AN ISSUE OR SITUATION INSPIRES ME TO WRITE A BOOK
Simon Wood’s next book The One That Got Away was select among Kindle First Choice by Amazon. The novel was send straight to the top ranks and the readers loved the editor’s selection. So far the book was described by reviewers as “Page Turner”, “Soooo Good” and “Excellent Thriller”. The average rating is 4.6 from 19 reviews. The official release of the book is set for March 1, but we’ve got a chance to speak with Simon in advance about the novel, his other stories and himself.
– Simon, How did you decide to write The One That Got Away?
– Usually an issue or situation inspires me to write a book. THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY is no different. I was interested in the subject of survivor guilt. There’s something paradoxical about the guilt someone feels after surviving a trauma, especially when others don’t.
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STEPHANEE KILLEN: I AM A WOMAN WHO TALKS TO THE MOON
Stephanee Killen is a poet, entrepreneur, and the author of Buddha Breaking Up: A Guide to Healing from Heartache and Liberating Your Awesomeness. She has edited work for numerous authors, including books appearing on The New York Times Best Sellers list, and published articles in elephant journal and Huffington Post. In 2014, she was a juried poet for the Columbus Arts Festival and is a regularly performing poet based in Columbus, Ohio. In her spare time, she paints pictures, sips Ginger tea, and enjoys cosmic jokes.
This is the official introduction part. The unofficial is that our next guest’s answers are really cool. I am sure Stephanee will visit Land of Books some other time for her next release.
– Stephanee, what is your book Buddha Breaking Up about?
– Buddha Breaking Up is a modern-day spiritual guide for how to embrace dramatic, life-altering change and use it as a means of rediscovering the Self. I worked with a lot of Zen principles to provide practical techniques for dealing with a broken heart, battling the wounded ego, managing anger, creating better relationships, and finally, loving and valuing yourself so you can reach a place of acceptance and grace in your new life.
At its core, it’s really a book about dealing with heartache. While the primary focus is on healing from a breakup, it can truly be used as a guide to deal with loss in general—even the loss of our illusions about life. Plus, people tell me it’s actually pretty funny. Getting people to laugh at themselves and the absurdities of life is also definitely part of the point!
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BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATION: UNBROKEN
It’s a very rare case when a book and a movie are in head to head battle which one will win more awards. The non-fiction biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand was published late in 2010. The author of Seabiscuit found by coincidence the incredible source of her inspiration and created a masterpiece.
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CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG: EVERY GREAT WRITER HAS A STACK OF REJECTION LETTERS
Charlie N. Holmberg’s Paper Magician Series established as a top story in fantasy genre. The first part, The Paper Magician, was released in September. The sequel, The Glass Magician, followed two months later. The third part, The Master Magician, is set for official release in June, but is currently available for pre-order.
We’ve got a chance to speak with Charlie about her novels. It’s a dream for every author to make such a debut with so many positive feedbacks by the readers.
– Charlie, The second book of The Paper Magician series, The Glass Magician, was released in November. What the readers will find in the sequel?
– The sequel is a continuation of Ceony and Emery’s story, albeit in a less abstract setting. The Glass Magician is a little more adventurous and less whimsical. There are new characters, new bad guys, and Ceony has to deal with a certain confession she made at the end of book one.
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AMAZON TOP 10 BESTSELLERS: JANUARY 2015
The first chart for 2015 surprised everyone with a winner from a debuting author. In the month before Academy Awards the books with movie adaptations did it very well. I added just one new thing to the ranks – a notification about the books, which were selected by Amazon as Kindle First Choice. You may see below the explanation.
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MICHELLE HAUCK: ACTION SCENES ARE THE BANE OF MY WRITING
Michelle Hauck’s debut novel Kindar’s Cure was something fresh in the fantasy world. The book was published in August 2013. The fans accept it very positively with av. 4.6 stars in Amazon from 17 reviews. We’ve got a chance to speak with our next guest during her blog tour, organized by Goodreads’ group Making Connections.
– What is your book Kindar’s Cure about?
– The book blurb says it best: Princess Kindar of Anost dreams of playing the hero and succeeding to her mother’s throne. But dreams are for fools. Reality involves two healthy sisters and a wasting disease of suffocating cough that’s killing her by inches. When her elder sister is murdered, the blame falls on Kindar, putting her head on the chopping block.
No one who survives eighteen years of choke lung lacks determination. A novice wizard, Maladonis Bin, approaches with a vision—a cure in a barren land of volcanic fumes. As choices go, a charming bootlicker that trips over his own feet isn’t the best option, but beggars can’t be choosers. Kindar escapes with Mal and several longtime attendants only to have her eyes opened that her country faces dark times.
Her mother’s decision to close the prosperous mines spurs poverty and joblessness, inciting rebellion and opening Anost to foreign invasion. As Mal urges her toward a cure that will prove his visions, suddenly, an ally turns traitor, delivering Kindar to a rebel army, who have their own plans for a sickly princess.
With the killer poised to strike again, the rebels bearing down, and the country falling apart, she must weigh her personal hunt for a cure against saving her people.
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