Sequel out at last!

The sequel to Mr. Planemaker’s Flying Machine is now available on Amazon’s Kindle.

I’ve had tremendous fun writing this book, the second in the Planemaker series. Dell and Emmelisa are put through their paces again when they decide to take on a gang of cyber criminals. They attend the Cyber Fraud Busters Institute, take scuba diving lessons and enrol on a course at the School of Aquatics to train to become submersible pilots.

With all the training behind them, they set out on their next mission: to fish out the cyber criminals.

This adventure is action packed from the start with never a dull moment for the two young Planemakers. It’s also full of information about cyber crime and how to prevent it. Learning has never been so much fun!

Find it on Amazon.com: Mr. Planemaker’s Diving Machine

Find it on Amazon.co.uk: Mr. Planemaker’s Diving Machine

Forever Travels Facebook Page

I have set up a page for Forever Travels. I will be adding brief descriptions of the stories in the anthology over the next couple of weeks or so.

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Black Diamond by Ja’Nese Dixon

Black Diamond by Ja’Nese Dixon is a romantic suspense novel about an undercover FBI agent investigating a vicious group suspected of trafficking conflict diamonds.  Ja’Nese chats about some of the key topics she researched while writing Black Diamond.

About Black Diamond

Camille Blackwell, an undercover FBI agent, poses as a jewelry purchaser in an international diamond trading company in hopes of identifying the domestic players in a vicious rebel group suspected of trafficking conflict diamonds. The Bureau requests CIA renegade Marc Fulton’s assistance with sweeping international intelligence to identify the major rebel organizations with the finances and stateside connections strong enough to evade criminal prosecution, despite Camille’s objections.

Their attraction is instant and tense; both resolve to focus on the case. But when Camille receives an encrypted memory stick from a murdered co-worker Marc may be the only person she can trust.Black Diamond is the eagerly anticipated debut novel by Ja’Nese Dixon. True love, like black diamonds, is rare and precious but when murder and a persistent criminal threaten a frail relationship, will love triumph?

About Ja’Nese Dixon

Ja’Nese Dixon writes fiction novels for readers yearning to escape and disappear into a good book. Ja’Nese’s debut novel, Black Diamond is scheduled for release in June 2010. She resides in Houston, Texas, with her husband and their two children. For more information visit http://www.janesedixon.com.

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Black Diamond by Ja’Nese Dixon Virtual Book Tour is organized by Nia Promotions, a marketing company that assists authors and publishers with using web-marketing strategy to market and promote books on the internet. Follow Ja’Nese’s tour at http://bit.ly/blackdiamondvbt.

Literature & Fiction Interviews Volume II

Twenty-five of the authors  interviewed on Literature & Fiction in the first half of 2010, appear in the second volume of Literature & Fiction Interviews.

The authors in the book have provided snippets of their books and their best reviews.

The book is now available! Click on either the image or the link below to see the book on Lulu.com:

Buy now on Lulu.com $7.49

You can read the book on slideshare:

Literature & Fiction Interviews Volume II by Shelagh Watkins

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Coming Soon!

FREE download of the book onto ebook readers, you will find the book in e-format on Smashwords:

Thank you to all the authors who took the time to answer the questions in such detail. Together, they have contributed to a book that is informative, insightful and entertaining.

Check it out; it really is a lovely book!

~Shelagh Watkins

J. A. Adams

Today’s guest author is J. A. Adams. This interview is from the blog tour arranged by Nia Promotions.

Tell us about Chameleon.

When dreams turn into nightmares, spur of the moment decisions test the silent codes of family honor. Diane Darhling, beautiful, scholarly, and heir to a multi-million dollar fortune, finds herself caught in a triangular web of love gone seriously wrong. Two men, Jimmy and Jerrell, whose polarized unrelenting desire to have her is felt to the depths of the soul.  One loves unconditionally. The other, a suave psychopath. Reading like a backdrop story from headline news, a twisted plan, forged in pathological and psychotic manipulation, is plotted by the Chameleon.

From where do you get your characters?

Everywhere.  Life, everyday life, personal experiences and encounters with people.  I am a people watcher. Sometimes I may meet someone and their persona matches a character I am working on or a future book in my head.  My characters are often composites of several individuals and/or personality types.  I may meet a person that stays in my head and eventually I may create a story around them.  I joint down a few notes for use when I begin working on that particular character.

For example the new novel I am working on, Pineview’s Secret.  One of the major female characters in the story came out of a bus ride I took 4 years ago traveling from Austin to Houston.  She was one of the passengers.  I did not meet her directly, she sat behind me and in her conversation with another passenger she made mention she was in the adult entertainment business. Then just a few months ago, I met another young lady which provided me with the additional persona I needed to finish out this character.  You will meet her in the upcoming novel Pineview’s Secret.

What do you want most for readers?

I hope that my books will invoke discussion about the lines and boundaries surrounding our most intimate relationships.

I want the reader to come away with the understanding there is true evil in the world.  Situations that on the surface appear to be within the normal realm of life, coincide as residents of evil.

One may discover themselves suddenly caught up in a world of mayhem with no seemingly available outlet. Incidents, commonly known as red flags, are evident throughout the story of Chameleon, but are completely ignored by the innocent and naive main female character Diane.  This shows the danger naïve young women, upon leaving home for the first time entering the adult world, can fall prey to the influences of a seemingly well meaning male whose true intention is solely personal gain at any cost.

What is your base for these theories?

My master’s work is in psychology with concentration in development. Plus, I have 25 years experience and training working with dysfunctional individuals as well as families.

What do you want most for readers?

I hope that my books will invoke discussion about the lines and boundaries surrounding our most intimate relationships.

About J.A. Adams

J.A. Adams, author of three psychological suspense novels, uses personal and professional experiences to bring awareness to psychological issues that affect our relationships.

For 30 years, Adams has worked with traumatized victims of violence and crime. Adams’ experience, paired with her writings, allude to healing the spirit and soul of victims.

Adams currently resides outside of Austin, Texas. She continues to write and volunteers with numerous organization bringing awareness to teen dating violence and women issues, as well as, advocating against intimate partner and family violence. Such organizations include the Ortralla Foundation and Recovery Ministry at Gateway Church. Moreover, she regularly speaks and mentors women using her life as proof that one can love again after trauma.

To learn more about J.A. Adams and her work visit www.jaadamsauthor.com or they can post a comment on my Facebook Fan Page www.facebook.com/fansofjaadams. She also has an author’s profile on SIR Authors at www.sirauthors.com.

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This interview is brought to you by SIR Authors, a book marketing and promotions group organized by Nia Promotions featuring seven authors working together to market and promote their work. To learn more visit www.sirauthors.com

Giveaway Winners

Thank you to everyone for taking part in the giveaway contest! The comments were highly entertaining and added a great deal to the blog.
Erma Odrach is giving away two signed copies of  Wave of Terror to the lucky winners selected randomly (all names in a hat).

The two winners are:  J. Conrad Guest and Malcolm R. Campbell.

Book Giveaway Preview

Erma Odrach has translated one of the works of her father, Theodore Odrach. Wave of Terror is his first novel to appear in English. A review of the book in the Times Literary Supplement said:

“Theodore Odrach is that rare thing, a political novelist who is also an artist of the first rank.”

Erma will be giving an interview here on February 21st. One lucky commenter will receive a free copy of the novel:

Theodore Odrach was born in Belarus (then a part of Czarist Russia), and in 1939 he became caught up in Stalin’s world. Studying at the university in Vilnius and watching the Soviet tanks roll in, he decided to head south, back to his native Belarus (by then a part of eastern Poland). Securing a teaching position just outside the town of Pinsk, it is really during this time that Wave of Terror began to take root. There he witnessed first-hand unspeakable atrocities committed by the Soviet regime, where innocent men, women and children were routinely persecuted, tortured and slain. Deemed an “enemy of the people” himself, he became a man on the run, changing his name from Sholomitsky to Odrach in the hopes of protecting the family he left behind.

Read the interview this Sunday and leave a comment. You could be the winner of this fascinating book!

Literature & Fiction Interviews by Shelagh Watkins

I hadn’t considered putting together the interviews until Maryanne Raphael made the suggestion six weeks ago on one of the comments:

“Thank you so much for allowing me to be interviewed. You ask wonderful questions and made me look inside myself and my writing. That is a beautiful thing. I would love to see a book of interviews by you. Ever think of that? Best wishes Maryanne”

I was too busy adding more interviews to give the thought any serious consideration. By the time I decided to get on and do it, I was running out of time! If the book was going to be out and available for Christmas, I would have to crack on. Somehow I managed it and the book is now available! Click on the book image or the link below to see the book on Lulu.com:

Buy now on Lulu.com $6.70

You can read the book on slideshare:

Literature & Fiction Interviews by Shelagh Watkins

View more documents from shelaghwatkins.

For a FREE download of the book onto ebook readers, you will find the book in e-format on Smashwords:

Literature & Fiction Interviews

The authors in the book have provided snippets of their books and their best reviews.

Thank you to all the authors who took the time to answer the questions in such detail. Together, they have contributed to a book that is informative, insightful and entertaining.

Check it out; it really is a lovely book!

~Shelagh Watkins