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This is my first time reading anything by author A.C. Fuller and I’m now a fan of his Alex Vane media thriller series. So, let’s dive into this novel which is set against the backdrop of the 9/11 event in New York.  Macintosh Hollinger, a billionaire managed to escape before the towers collapsed. He made a call to Denver Bice, a trusted friend who picked him up, murdered him and then dropped him off at the half-collapsed Marriott to make it appear he died in the 9/11 event. I loved that right upfront we are introduced to the protagonist. Fast forward a year later and readers meet Alex Vane, a reporter covering the trial of Eric Santiago, a young NYU student charged with murdering Professor John Martin in Washington Square Part on New Year’s Eve, 2001. Alex meets Camila Gray, Martin’s girlfriend who is watching the trial intently. Alex wants to learn more about her relationship with Martin to determine why Martin was murdered.   The story kicks into high gear when Alex me...

Networking is a beautiful thing. This was my second virtual author appearance and this opportunity came about while I was booked to make my first virtual author appearance with The Ladies Who Love Literature book club meeting in October 2020. It all happened when Soror Gayle Lloyd, its founder connected me with Soror Crystal Echols, IVBC Chairman of the Ivy Vine Book Club, Great Lakes Region, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Alpha Sigma Omega Chapter. Ms. Echols booked me as the guest author for their last book club meeting of the year on December 28, 2020 at 7 pm. I was thrilled to spend the evening with these wonderful ladies who savored every bit of the juicy drama, the characters, plot twists, and surprises of my first romantic suspense novel, Gotta Let It Go .  The Agenda for the evening was as follows:  Welcome  ( Soror Carrie J. Clark, Great Lakes Regional Director) Introduction of Author    ( Soror Crystal Echols, IVBC Chairman) Book Discussion  ( ...

Author’s Bio: Charlene Rhinehart is the Best Selling Author of  How to Find Happiness Again  and  Dividends Are a Queen’s Best Friend  available on Amazon.  She is a Certified Public Accountant, Former Financial Analyst, and Writer. At the age of 28, she left her dream job to live her dream life. She traveled to over 10 countries around the world, took a five-year sabbatical, and tapped into her passion: helping women unlock their career potential and create a life they love. Now, she writes for several publications all over the web, manages Wealthy Women Daily and Career Goddess Academy , and helps women build a stock portfolio that’s bigger than their shoe collection. Follow Charlene on Instagram at @charlenerhinehart.  Deliah Lawrence: What inspired you to write your book? Charlene Rhinehart: When the 2020 pandemic hit, I started receiving calls from family and friends who lost jobs, relationships, income, health, and all types of unfavorable situ...

Author’s Bio: Lori A. Manns is an award-winning marketing expert, sales coach and business strategist who works with small business owners to help them elevate their brand, get more dream clients and grow revenue. In a word, Lori is a trailblazer who has excelled in the corporate arena, small business and philanthropy.  Lori is President of Quality Media Consultant Group, a consultancy firm specializing in media, marketing and sales solutions for optimal business growth and success. Lori is the founder of the Trailblazer Business Academy where advancing entrepreneurs go to learn growth strategies and how to run a profitable business the soulful way. Prior to founding Quality Media Consultant Group, Lori worked as senior multi-media account manager for two major radio conglomerates in the United States: Cox Broadcasting and CBS Radio Group. After leaving Corporate America in 2009, Lori decided to start a non-profit organization dedicated to children's health and wellness. In 2010...

Deliah Lawrence:  Hello and welcome, Jaclyn Thom (Interior Designer, Systematic Art, Inc.). It's a pleasure to have you here with us today. I know my readers will enjoy getting to know you and learn more about professionally hanging art work. Jaclyn Thom: Thank  you. It's a pleasure to be here. I have been involved with interior designing for art galleries for the past 10 years. I currently work for  Systematic Art Inc., a US-based company which was established in 2005. Systematic Art offers innovative, museum-quality, professional art-hanging services through technologically advanced art-hanging hardware.  At its inception, Systematic Art served galleries, museums and, corporations worldwide. They quickly realized that their products could benefit discerning individual art collectors as well.  DL: How did you get started in your profession? JT: I started assisting a designer named Ayush in India back in 2016 when I went there for a small trip. Since then ...

I’ve been an avid Eric Jerome Dickey fan for many years. He has mastered an addictive fiction formula that pulls you into a story filled with characters readers both love and love to hate. Sometimes the characters and their motivations will have you scratching your head and at times you can totally understand why they do the things they do. Anyway, let’s dive into this novel which is the prequel to Bad Men and Wicked Women which I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed . When I first met the main character Ken Swift and his sidekick, Jake Ellis, I knew I found a dynamic duo I would love to learn more about. Ken and Jake are debt collectors (enforcers) for San Bernardino. At the heart of the first book was the complications of Ken Swift’s daughter Margaux, now a young woman walking into his life after several years. Why? Because her mother, Jimi Lee after divorcing him, whisked Margaux away from him as a child in effort to get back into the good graces of her Ethiopian family. In the preq...

Author’s Bio: Award-winning screenwriter and director Bonné Bartron has always loved books, but it took the world shutting down for her to finally write one. Whispers is a spine-tingling thriller with a sharp satirical perspective, the perfect genre for her to cozy up to in these unprecedented times. The most humorous moments live in the tension of fear, and Bartron serves both up in her debut novel.  On October 6, 2020, Whispers debuted at #13 on the satire best seller charts, and #10 on the Amazon new release best seller list. On October 8, 2020 Whispers took #1 and #2, for the paperback and e-book respectively, on the Amazon Best Sellers New Release charts in the following categories: sociology of abuse, satire, mystery, and political misconduct.  Deliah Lawrence: What inspired you to write your book? Bonné Bartron: It was more of a response to feeling silenced. I saw something else spreading with COVID and realized if I was going to have any chance of helping or contribut...

Author’s Bio: Amazon best-selling author Sharon Buchbinder’s broad range of writing includes internationally best-selling textbooks and award-winning novels that tell haunting tales of love, family secrets, forgiveness, extraordinary abilities, truth, justice, and redemption. She believes happily-ever-afters are born through strengths developed in overcoming adversity in fiction and real life.  Sharon’s Western romance ghost stories are woven with supernatural and Native American paranormal suspense elements. Set in small towns in the American West with strong female heroines, sexy male heroes, secret government agencies, undercover agents, shape-shifters, werewolves, weretigers, ghosts, jinnis (genies), telekinesis, teleportation, and remote viewing, these stories will make you wonder about those bumps in the night. For more information go to: https://www.sharonbuchbinder.com Deliah Lawrence: What inspired you to write your book? Sharon Buchbinder: The Missing and Murdered In...