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JudiM, author of My Office Is A 3-Ring Circus! just sent over a wonderful podcast that tells readers how her career as a Dancing Bear led to the writing of her wonderful new business/career book. Visit her site to learn more. (She even lets you feed the lions!)

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Saving Miss Olivers
by Stephen Davenport 

The prestigious New England boarding school, Miss Oliver’s School for Girls, is on the cusp of going under. The trustees have just fired Marjorie Boyd, headmistress for the last thirtyfive years, because she’s derelict as a financial manager.

But she is a brilliant educator, beloved of the alumnae and students, who are angry and rebellious and will hate her successor. Nevertheless, if her successor, Fred Kindler, can get the support of the legendary senior teacher, Francis Plummer, he has a fighting chance to save the school. But to Plummer, anyone who replaces Marjorie represents disaster.

His wife, Peggy Plummer, the librarian, thinks differently. She understands why the board of trustees had to save the school from the flaws of the very woman who had made it so worth saving. As passionately loyal to Kindler as Francis is to Marjorie, Peggy steps forward to help the new head, usurping her husband’s position at the head’s right hand. The school’s survival, Fred Kindler’s career, and the Plummers’ marriage are now all at risk. Continue reading »

Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex and World War II
by Jane Leder

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, young Americans knew instinctively that their lives would never be the same.  The “normal” sequence of events – education or work, marriage, children – had been blown to bits and, as they would soon discover, so had long held attitudes toward love and sex. 

In Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II (Praeger Hardcover; October 2006), award-winning author Jane Mersky Leder argues that WWII challenged attitudes about love and sex and, in the process, set the stage for the second wave of the women’s liberation movement and the struggle for gay rights.  Through interviews with members of the WWII generation, she tells the true story of how these men and women responded to the passions of war and how their lives and the relationships between the sexes were forever changed.  Continue reading »

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A Time Before Me
by Michael H. Perronne

NEW! Italian foreign language rights have just been sold for A Time Before Me.  Congratulations Michael!

Growing up in a small Mississippi town, shy and inexperienced Mason spends much of his time with his best friend and childhood crush, Billy.  When a six-pack of beer leads to a kiss between the two, Mason believes his dreams have come true.  Billy’s disregard for the incident, however, dashes Mason’s hopes.

After graduation, Mason fears he’s doomed to spend a humid Mississippi summer scooping ice cream.  But everything changes when his vivacious Aunt Savannah invites him to live with her in New Orleans and work in the box office of her drag queen cabaret.  It’s there- in the decadent and liberating French Quarter- that Mason begins to fall for Joey, a strikingly handsome and sweet nineteen year old, who may just be ready to open his heart to someone new.

When Mason’s lingering feelings for Billy threaten his new romance, he must make a choice.  With the help of his aunt and a sassy drag queen, Miss Althea, Mason learns that the only way to get anywhere in life is to roll life’s dice and take a chance. Continue reading »

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Hot Water
by Kathryn Jordan

Hot Water is a woman’s fantasy come true. For years Julia dreamed of this: a weekend escape as far as she can get from her dull mid-western life and a husband who cares more for his trucks than for her. The kids are raised; if not now, when? And Hidden Springs is perfect, a secluded spa resort in the California desert. Adults only with “clothing optional” tanning decks for her Minnesota white skin. She rents a red Lamborghini and hires a male escort from the internet. Hot, a delicious blend of Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. She doesn’t even know his name. She’ll call him “William.”

For “William,” meeting the Minnesota lady at Hidden Springs is just another job. Hardly the life he once imagined while studying philosophy in college, but lucrative. Besides, women are a study in themselves. Although he could’ve done without the morning’s disaster with Mrs. Carlton. At first glance he knows Julia is nothing like his other clients.

What neither of them imagine is that the famous Hidden Springs water isn’t the only magic, and this one weekend will change their lives forever. Continue reading »

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Title: Life. Be There at Ten ‘Til
Author: R. Dean Johnson
Paperback: 159 pages
Publisher: iUniverse Star
ISBN: 1583482326
$9.95
Available from your favorite bookseller

About Life. Be There at Ten ‘Til

Listen to the author:

In his first book, “Life. Be There At Ten’Til.” (iUniverse), Johnson bridged the geography and culture of these two distinct worlds and offered a refreshing new commentary on life and its bounty of wisdom. With the re-release of “Life.” (iStar), his knack for finding the extraordinary with the ordinary remains ever present as he adds four new chapters to the already engaging collection of homegrown wisdom..

Excerpt

When visiting my parents one Christmas holiday, I heard my three-year-old niece plunking away at the piano in their living room. As she banged her hands randomly over the keys, she sang a childhood lullaby that pays homage to the celestial wonders we see at night. Her voice was strong and confident: “Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high…”

At the time, I was working as a personal assistant to a well-known actor in Los Angeles. I couldn’t help but recognize the truth of these fabled lyrics. Her words echoed the thoughts of the modern-day celebrity enthusiast who is similarly captivated by the luster and allure of these romanticized star figures. Her words also carried a strong reminder that people and things arenalways what they appear to be. People have always asked whether I would ever consider writing a tell-all book of my adventures in the entertainment field. They figure I must have interesting stories to share with the inquisitive public. After all, I have had the opportunity to work with a handful of noted film and television performers. Surely, there was intrigue, gossip, innuendo, indiscretions, and never-before-known secrets that only I could expose. Continue reading »

Thanks to Judy Weigle for sharing her informative podcast with BloggingAuthors.com readers.  Judy, the author of My Office Is A 3-Ring Circus! Must I Take Orders from Clowns, is a veteran business consultant, speaker, and former Dancing Bear. Enjoy more of her business-related podcasts and blog posts at her website.

 During this podcast, Judy tells how to make those dreaded cold calls both enjoyable and profitable.

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Behind the Eyes
by Francisco X. Stork  

Francisco X. Stork follows The Way of the Jaguar with Behind the Eyes, the story of sixteen-year-old Hector Robles, an intelligent Chicano kid who tries very hard, but ultimately to no avail, to stay clear of the violence that surrounds him.

Claire Rosser, of KLIATT Reviews, writes “Stork was born in Mexico, grew up in the projects of El Paso, and now is an attorney living in Massachusetts. He wanted to write about the Chicano youths he remembers; to create a suspenseful story his own teenage children would enjoy reading. He has accomplished that goal.

His narrator is Hector, an intelligent boy who dreams of escaping his family’s life of poverty and violence. Hector’s father is dead. Now, his brother is dead. When the story opens, we know Hector is in trouble with the law, that he has committed a violent act, and that he has been given the option of doing a year in a special school for troubled boys near San Antonio.

Throughout the novel, as Hector adjusts to the school, the background story of what caused him to commit the assault is slowly revealed, exposing an adolescent world of honor, revenge, and inescapable violence. Getting away from his neighborhood, into college, will be Hector’s only hope of survival. Even in the special school he isn’t safe, because someone has been sent to exact vengeance for the act Hector committed—a circle of violence. Continue reading »

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Me and My Father’s Shadow
by Dawn Williams

Both biography and autobiography, this book tells the story of Ted Lewis, The Jazz King who was the originator of The Big Bands.  Lewis was considered by many of his contemporaries as the highest paid bandleader, recording artist, entertainer, and movie/radio/television personality of the 20th century. This story is told by his daughter, whom he never knew.

Although this is a work of nonfiction, some portions are fictionalized since the alternative – not including them at all – would have detracted from the overall truth of the story: ! Some anecdotal narrations and dialog are reconstructions or speculations ! In the interest of privacy and anonymity, pseudonyms are used for persons whose names are not biographically significant. Names of Ted Lewis’s relatives and of public officials and celebrities are accurately recounted. Visit the author’s Website to learn more.