Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Charterhouse of Evil by Janice Tremayne

 



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Bound to life old and new, the sins of the departed still haunt her. When wickedness infects the innocent, can she see the curse undone?

Western Australia. Clarisse Garcia is ready to return stronger than ever. With her husband by her side, the plucky spirit hunter is back on familiar territory with an assignment for Benedictine monks. And now she’s out to vanquish whatever evil is plaguing the monastic village that caused orphans to mysteriously die.

With what could be a voracious demon on her hands, Clarisse partners up with a man who grew up in the local orphanage to investigate suspicious activities. And as they dig through the monastery’s shrouded history, she discovers that some of these servants of God might not be as benign as they claim… and she may be their next quarry.

Can this driven woman end the impiety before more lives are sent to the grave?

The Charterhouse of Evil is the shocking fifth book in the Haunting Clarisse supernatural horror series. If you like bold characters, adrenaline-spiking investigations, and jaw-dropping twists and turns, then you’ll love Janice Tremayne’s malevolent tale.


Read an Excerpt

“So, what do you have to say for yourself this time? Cat got your tongue?” The voice was more pronounced now, with a slight echo. It had a cheeky twist to it.

Father Fitzgerald took hold of his glass of red wine and guzzled it before slamming the glass on the table. There was an endless supply of the red sacramental stuff that he had stolen from the distillery—his only retreat from the monastic life and the dust that penetrated every nook and cranny.

Dust, dust, and even more red dust everywhere—on the bed sheets, the floor, and the table. It also managed to cover his one-inch, overgrown beard.

He ignored the voice for a while, though it was futile—the devil wanted something, and it was payback time. Eventually, he knew he would have to turn around and confront the demonic presence once again and settle his debt.

“The grog isn’t going to solve your problems, monk. You have so many issues that you would need gallons of the stuff. While you drink yourself into oblivion every night, your worries only come back to haunt you the next day. Your devious thoughts are saturating your feeble mind with uncontrollable lust.” The demon scoffed at him then laughed.

“We made our deal, and I delivered the boy to you. Aren’t we done, demon?” Father Fitzgerald pointed toward the ominous shadow in front of him. He knew it was the demon; he had seen it many times before.

“Oh, not so fast, monk. Yes, you delivered, but there is still one problem.” The demon paused for a moment as the room filled with an eerie silence.

“What is it?”

“Hmm, your state of mind. You have become a risk to my enterprise. You have delivered, all right, but you are a drunken fool and a deviant; a man who is not in control of himself. That means you’re a problem … a big problem.”

About the Author:
Janice Tremayne is an award-winning supernatural horror writer from Australia. Her acclaimed novel, Haunting Hartley, was a finalist in the Readers' Favorite 2020 International Book Awards in fiction-supernatural and was awarded the distinguished favorite prize for paranormal horror at the New York City Big Book Awards. She was recently awarded the silver medal at the IPPY Awards 2021 Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim – Best Regional Fiction and the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards 2020 Bronze Award in Adult Fiction.

Janice is an emerging Australian author who lives with her family in Melbourne. The Haunting Clarisse series has regularly reached number one in the Amazon kindle rankings for Occult Supernatural, Ghosts and Haunted Houses, and British Horror for hot new releases/bestsellers. Janice is well-versed in her cultural superstitions and how they influence daily life and customs. She grew up in a family with a cultural heritage where religious taboos and superstitions were entrenched into their way of life. This fascinated her as she was growing up and laid the foundations for developing a passion and style for writing supernatural horror novels for adult readers.

Writing the Haunting Clarisse series was spawned over a cup of coffee many years ago when she finally decided to put pen to paper, and she has never looked back. Her books contain heart-thumping, bone-chilling, and thought-provoking paranormal experiences that deliver a new twist to every tale to the delight of her readers worldwide.

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Unwillable: A Journey to Reclaim My Brain by Jackie M. Stebbins

 

Unwillable: A Journey to Reclaim My Brain

by Jackie M. Stebbins

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GENRE: Memoir

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BLURB:

“Jackie Stebbins’ UNWILLABLE is an inspiring story of a brilliant woman’s battle with autoimmune encephalitis and the circle of support--from loving family members to dedicated physicians--who helped guide her through a hard-won recovery. Her story is as moving as it is important and is destined to help so many others facing this condition.” 

~ Susannah Cahalan author of NYT #1 Bestseller Brain on Fire".

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Excerpt :


I remember the moment it hit. It was like the physical feeling of lightning striking me and an earthquake ripping through me all at once. It had an instantaneous feeling of terror and destruction. The explosion started in my brain and reverberated through my entire body. It caught and spread like wildfire. It is my memory that I sat upright in bed when it felt like the lightning bolt struck my head. My hands and arms immediately started to fly wildly and uncontrollably all over the place, as if I was trying to brace myself while the earthquake tore through me. For just a second, I wanted to scream out for help, but I couldn’t. I peed my pants. And after that, it all goes black. The memory I have is only an instant long, but I can still feel the desire to scream. I can feel my arms moving so rapidly and uncontrollably that they are almost screaming out too. It is the worst of all the nightmares, all the terrors, and all the episodes I had in that bed for those seven months, in a few split seconds.

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Jackie M. Stebbins was living her dream as a nationally recognized family law, criminal defense, and civil litigator. But Stebbins’s career as a lawyer abruptly ended in May, 2018, when she was diagnosed with a rare brain illness, autoimmune encephalitis. Stebbins persevered to make a remarkable recovery and turned herself into an author and motivational speaker. Stebbins is the author of the JM Stebbins blog and host of the Brain Fever podcast. Stebbins’s side hustle includes raising three lovely children with her wonderful husband, Sean, in Bismarck, North Dakota, and in her leisure time she can be found reading, trying to be funny, and aqua jogging.

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AUTHOR INTERVIEW 

Hello and welcome to my blog! Can you tell me a little about yourself, and how you became an author?

I was born a feisty, argumentative, and independent little person. I grew into a feisty, argumentative, and independent trial lawyer. I had wonderful parents and grew up on a farm in a rural town in the small state of North Dakota. Beginning in fifth grade when I read my first John Grisham book, The Client, I wanted nothing more than to become a lawyer. For nearly ten years, I practiced in Bismarck, North Dakota, with the support of my husband, Sean, and my children. Unfortunately for me, I don’t have a beautiful experience where I stopped to smell the roses and the muse hit me to write a memoir. But in 2018, I was living my dream as a successful trial lawyer and senior partner of my own law firm when I suddenly lost control of my mind and body and was diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis (AE). AE is a rare brain illness wherein the person&#39;s immune system attacks her brain. I was fortunate that intravenous steroids turned my brain back on and I woke up from my nightmare. But waking up wasn’t all sweet, because I immediately realized that my life as I knew it was over and that I was going to lose my beloved career. As I began to process my illness, I learned that Susannah Cahalan had written a memoir about her experience with AE, called Brain on Fire, which was a NYT #1 bestseller. My neurologist had actually referenced Brain on Fire to my family as he diagnosed me, so the book helped save my life. I vowed to write Unwillable about my experience to hopefully help others faced with this disease or another debilitating situation.

What is your book about?

Unwillable is the story of my journey from a thirty-four-year-old, thriving, bright woman, lawyer, and mother, to someone who couldn’t tell the time or date, who was committed to the psychiatric ward, who began having seizures, and who couldn’t be left alone with herself or her children. Unwillable characterizes the torturous onset of AE and what it took for me to recover from its devastation. I like to think that the arc of the story bends towards resilience. Who is your hero/heroine? Is he/she based on someone in real life? I’ve been telling the story of my AE journey for years now through blogs, Unwillable, media appearances, and motivational speeches. Most times I believe I’m telling a horror story and a tale of redemption about a random woman. And then it hits: the story is about me. AE happened to me. I lived the horrific onset and near-death experience. But I also survived, recovered, and rebuilt my life as an author and speaker. So while I’m really proud of Unwillable’s protagonist, the heroes of my story are honestly my husband, parents, doctors, and a lot of friends and other family who worked hard to garner me a diagnosis and help me recover.

What are your favorite times for writing? Morning? Evening?

When I first began writing Unwillable, I wrote constantly for days and months on end. I was breathless and processing trauma. I had a manic desire to get my story onto paper all at once. I usually started really early in the morning and wrote as long as I could. Once the skeleton of the story was written a year after I began, my life changed a lot: I had my third baby at the onset of the pandemic. From there, my husband and I turned to home school and constant full-time parenting. After all that, my morning writing schedule never really recovered. I still prefer to work on my larger writing projects in the early hours in my home office, but with chronic health conditions and a busy family, I end up writing whenever I can, including late afternoons at my office space.

Who are your favorite authors? Did they influence your writing, and if so, how?

Growing up, I loved John Grisham and read everything he published. I read novels in high school and turned to a lot of political, social justice, and current events books in college and law school. And I patiently awaited each Harry Potter book to be released after I began reading the series in the late nineties. I had read a lot throughout life, but when I began penning my memoir, I realized I had never studied what I was reading through the eyes of a writer. Learning the craft took a lot of time and error, and I greatly benefitted from writing classes through The Loft and a local group, the BisMan Writers Guild.

Did you have a favorite book as a child? Did it influence your choice to become an author?

In second and third grade, I remember reading every Hardy Boys mystery book my older brother and the library had. From there, I moved to reading John Grisham. I always loved mysteries and suspense novels, but felt moved by To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of Wrath. Yet I read for fun and spent most of my waking hours plotting how to become a great trial lawyer. It was when my career as a lawyer was taken from me because of my AE diagnosis that I pivoted to writing. Without my rare brain illness and near-death experience, I don’t believe I ever would have desired to become an author. I always wanted to live like the main characters in the Grisham novels, I never wanted to write about them.

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

REFLECTIONS ON THE BOULEVARD by Louis J. Ambrosio

 



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Michael's story continues from "A Reservoir Man" (2022) where we find him teaching at a university ready to retire. He unexpectedly meets a young man named Ron who becomes his protégé and journeys with him in a haphazard adventure throughout America and Europe. In Michael's final journey in life, each twist and turn of the road brings unexpected adventures. The journey taken is one of joy, friendship, and discovery.


About the Author
Louis J. Ambrosio ran one of the most nurturing bi-coastal talent agencies in Los Angeles and New York. He started his career as a theatrical producer, running two major regional theaters for eight seasons. Ambrosio taught at seven universities. Ambrosio also distinguished himself as an award-winning film producer and novelist over the course of his impressive career.

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Friday, May 5, 2023

2023 FAVORITE FAN COMPETITION

 


🏆💜2023 FAVORITE FAN COMPETITION💜🏆


World Famous author, Opëshum will be opening The 2023 Favorite Fan Competition on June 1st and closing it for entries on June 30th.

 

If you love SciFi and Fantasy Fiction Novels, and have a solid following on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, you are eligible to enter the competition, and compete with others for the title of being her FAVORITE FAN of 2023 along with a cash prize of $75 U.S.

 

👉🏼CONTEST RULES:

• Read "Beyond the Father -Book 1 of gods on Trial: The Series™️"

• Prepare a video reel on Instagram, FaceBook or TikTok, sharing your analysis of the book, the plot, theme, greatest problems facing at least two characters, and what you liked most about the book. 

• Reels must be authentically yours and reflect ACTUAL content in the book. Brief recap summaries of the book synopsis are not eligible to win.

 

• The competition opens on June 1, 2023 which means those competing may start posting their Instagram, Facebook or TikTok reels as early as June 1st.

 

• The competition closes on June 30, 2023, meaning the last eligible reels must be posted on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok no later than 12 midnight IST on June 30th

 

• Opëshum and staff members from 1iR3 Publishers will be viewing each reel to judge them for quality, depth, and to look for the person who provided the BEST analysis and details on the book. The person with the best analysis posted to Instagram, Facebook or TikTok will be selected as Opëshum's Favorite Fan of 2023!!

 

The winner will be named in mid July via 1) an announcement on Goodreads, 2) the author's Instagram and FaceBook page, and 3) on the publisher’s Twitter page.

 

• Only ONE winner will be selected. 

• Contestants can borrow a copy of the book from a friend, check out a copy at the library, or get a copy of the book on Kindle here

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Father-Book-Trial-SeriesTM-ebook/dp/B0BL3YPKWN

 

• REGISTRATION TO ENTER THE COMPETITION IS FREE: However, you must email the author directly to register for the competition before you start. Email Opëshum Patroz directly at  BookReviews@GodsOnTrial.com 

 

• In your email include your name and link to your Instagram, TikTok or Facebook page so that the author and judges at the publishing house can view your reel

when you start posting your book analysis in June.

 

• The winner will receive:

🏆 $75 U.S 

🏆 A personally autographed paperback collector’s copy, signed with the author's famous purple pen

🏆 A gods on Trial T-shirt 

🏆 And the coveted title of Opëshum's FAVORITE FAN OF 2023!! 



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