Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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Fling! by Lily Iona MacKenzie
When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother’s ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles convinces her hippie daughter Feather to accompany her on the quest. Both women have recently shed husbands and have…
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The Harlem Renaissance Time Traveler’s Diary by Lashonda Beauregard
West Barrington, a musician from 1926 Harlem, awakes in 2016 Harlem after falling asleep on the eve of 1927. During West’s journey in the future, he discovers the reason behind his time travel. Buy your copy and follow the author, Lashonda Beauregard, on Twitter! Amazon Book Link | Twitter | Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lashonda Beauregard hails…
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The Salt Prejudice: A Poetry for Souls by Keefe R.D.
What does it take for us to have courage in life? The Salt Prejudice consists of ten spiritual poems and short stories about the bitter taste of life, sadness, joyousness, and living as a human being. That’s it: A poetry for souls. Buy your copy and follow the author, Keefe R.D., on Facebook! Amazon Book…
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Writing Prompt Contest, Deadline September 8th!
It’s time to flex your writing muscles again and have a little fun with words. Waking Writer’s quarterly Writing Prompt Contest has returned. The winner’s story will be featured on Waking Writer and shared widely via social media for broad exposure. What writer can’t use an extra bit of exposure, eh? So, what are you…
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Plane Walker, by C.P. Dunphey
The Manus Dei system proved that a deity exists. The universe was changed forever. Mankind desires equal footing with the God. The God seeks to abandon mankind. After his wife dies during childbirth, Lazarus’s life takes a turn for the worst. Addictions and neglect spread across the years as Lazarus focuses on the Deity as…
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The Brede Chronicles, by P.I. Barrington
Half-human Alekzander Brede is a law unto himself…or so he thinks. Elektra Tate, the street orphan who loves him has other ideas. When she betrays him for no apparent reason, he vows to punish her one way or another. Taking the one thing she treasures most—their son—begins a cat and mouse relationship spanning two planets…
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The Villa, by Maureen Bukhari
After her husband’s violent death on the rocky shores of their quiet fishing village home, Hannah is plagued by horrifying and confusing nightmares that make her question everything she knows about herself and the night that changed her life forever. When she decides to befriend an outsider to the town, in the hopes of shaking…
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The Haunting of Delavere Hall by Amy Flint
Paranormal investigator Dr. Porter Biggleswade is settling into her new life in York. While pensioners caught up in a ghostly battle, and civil war soldiers haunting a local pub are keeping her busy, a call from a friend takes her to a crumbling estate on the Yorkshire coast. Rumours are rife at Delavere Hall, with…
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Gray Widow’s Walk by Dan Jolley
“The only thing in this world you can truly control is yourself.” Janey Sinclair’s ability to teleport has always been a mystery to her. She tried for years to ignore it, but when tragedy shatters her life, Janey’s anger consumes her. She hones her fighting skills, steals a prototype suit of military body armor, and…
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A Blue Horizon by M.R. Darling
The economy teeters on the edge of ruin as strange events invade the last metropolis capable of maintaining the balance. An early rainy morning brings the inexplicable destruction of two metro trains, leaving nothing but questions behind for reporter Beau Bradley. Was it a terrorist attack or just an unfortunate accident? The answer could tip…
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