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Please welcome Shirley Harris-Slaughter today. She’s a great supporter of every RRBC Author and a wonderful person. About Our Lady of Victory (Second Edition) This is a second edition with updates on the state of this historic church. In the original publication, files were lost then resurfaced with content altered along with missing photos during transition from one publisher to another. Such is the fate of an Independent Author. This book evolved out of years of frustration at the total disregard and lack of respect for the contributions of Black Catholics in the city of Detroit. The author says, “We are not mentioned in the pages of history along with the other Catholic churches that sprung up during the World War II era, and that needed to be corrected.” The author did fulfill one dream since publication … that this church can now be found on the web even though it has merged with another church. It is now called Presentation-Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church. About Shirley Harri...

Today, I’m welcoming back Harriet Hodgson for the 5th day of her RRBC Spotlight Tour. What Can You Do When Book Sales Stall? By Harriet Hodgson Book marketing is a never-ending task. To track your efforts, you may want to keep a marketing log. Try to take one marketing step a day. Despite your best efforts, your book sales may stall. What can you do? Don’t give up. When seeing an ad or article and order your book, buyers may think they took immediate action. In truth, three or four weeks may pass before a buyer takes action. So you need to continue your book marketing efforts. Learn more about marketing. My current publisher has an authors’ portal on its website. Authors can click on the portal, enter the password, and find information on a broad range of topics. This information includes copyright information, wholesale pricing, and marketing ideas. Bring your book to consumers. The days of autographing books in a bookstore seem to be fading. Instead of having buyers c...

DAY 1 Turn The Light On–Developing Alessio Terracina and Della Cartwright I started writing Turn The Light On in 2015. I wanted to capture the feeling of suspense and passion between a man who was rarely understood and an older woman that had a big compassionate heart. Two things were important to me when I started writing it: The woman had to be an African American, and that women of color be able to identify with her. Too often I have heard people speak negatively about the Strong Black Women Syndrome as if we were not women who can feel emotional pain or understand the essence of loving a man. The male character is an Italian American living in Europe. His job dangerous. His handicap, Asperger’s Syndrome. Highly intelligent, he comes out of an orphanage. It was hard to write. I put the story aside for months several times. It is not unusual for me to work on three or four stories at a time, so I would work on something else. Once, I let him tell who he was to a small group of author...

Today, please welcome Dr. Randy Overbeck. Giveaway: (1) $25 Amazon Gift Card Leave a comment below for your chance to win! First, the Wild Rose Press published BLOOD ON THE CHESAPEAKE in 2019. The novel earned a national award, the Gold Award (Literary Titan), and became an Amazon and B & N #1 Best Seller! Darrell thought Wilshire was the perfect Chesapeake shore town—quiet, charming, quaint. Until he learned about the thirty-year-old murder at the high school. And the ghost haunting his office. “An absolutely chilling ghost story wrapped around an even scarier piece of history –or perhaps it’s the other way around.” ★★★★★—Chanticleer Reviews “An amazingly complex, detailed novel that offers well-developed characters, a stunning backdrop and an unpredictable story line.” ★★★★★ —Long and Short Reviews “Well plotted and skillfully written, a novel that entertains readers and appeals strongly to their consciences and sense of humanity.” ★★★★★—ReadersFavorite.com Then the Wild Rose Pre...

GIVEAWAY Check this out! You can win a $25 Amazon Gift Card & 1 e-book or paperback copy of one book in the Haunted Shores series (Winner’s choice). Simply leave a comment below for your chance to win! Why set a Christmas mystery in sunny Florida, of all places? This is one the first questions I’ve received from readers of my new ghost story/mystery, SCARLET AT CRYSTAL RIVER. That is, after they share how much they love the two kids, and the romantic honeymoon, and Luis, and the manatees And it’s a fair question. When you mention a Christmas mystery, images of snow-covered cabins and frosty mugs of hot cocoa spring to mind. Of feet stomping the frozen ground and breaths expelling a white cloud while questioning suspects. Not swimming in the warm surf or lounging on the porch in only a shirt. Before beginning the first draft of SCARLET AT CRYSTAL RIVER, I’d read quite a number of Christmas mysteries, from Agatha Christie’s Hercule Parole’s Christmas to Mary Higgins Clark’s The ...

Please welcome back Breakfield and Burkey as they talk about some short stories. Giveaway (7) ebook copies of “HOT CHOCOLATE” Please leave the authors a comment anywhere along the tour for your chance to win one of these awesome prizes. Zara appears in several stories of the Enigma Series. We created her as a Darknet hacker and one of our original characters readers love to hate. Like our readers, we both loved and despised her choices. She kept reminding us that part of her complexity as a character evolved from her rough beginnings and ill-treatment by despicable men. Her survival methods made her hard and cynical—focused only on her payday and next mark. Buzz Buswald II is affectionately known as Buzz. He first appears in The Enigma Factor as Jacob Michael’s classmate from school. Buzz comes from wealth, well-educated, yet somewhat lazy. Along his journey, Buzz has made some bad choices with fortunate outcomes. Both characters received lots of comments from readers throug...

From May 3 to June 1, 2021, I’ve teamed up with some great Horror authors to scare the pants off of you. Each of the participating authors is offering some of their books at a discounted price.  To check out all these books follow this link to the Things that go BITE in the night landing page. I’m including Amilcar and will keep it 99¢ through June 1, 2021. So this is your chance to get a Kindle copy of Amilcar before the price goes up to $3.99. About Amilcar When the Carrington Collective calls Ezra Thompson to investigate an occurrence in Waldgrave, he and his son, Eli, are confronted with a Fallen Angel few knew existed. The past shows that Amilcar finds ones who yearn for something beyond their reach and provides them with everything they desire. The ones who succumbed to his charms received their wishes, while the sacrifices to Amilcar were not so lucky. Katrina, Heather, and Aletha are some who stood against Amilcar, fighting him to the end, but will Ezra and Eli come...

For the month of April, I’ve teamed up with some great authors in the Horror, Paranormal, and SciFi genres as part of a group promotion featuring Otherworldly beings (non-humans or former humans). Each of the participating authors is offering some of their books at a discounted price.  To check out all these books follow this link . From April 1-8, 2021, The Road to Saratin is on sale for 99cents. For those who haven’t read it, The Road to Saratin is my break away from Horror, entering the SciFi Dystopian genre. This book was a great change for me and I’m pondering if I will write another, though my next book returns to Horror. We’ll see. About The Road to Saratin Twenty-two years ago, voices started talking inside six-year-old Carl’s mind, causing him to be taken to the Freedom Institute for observation by a megalomaniac doctor until the voices tell Carl it’s time to leave. He begins his trek across an unwelcoming land to find his mom, finding many p...

Giveaway – (2) e-book copies of GHOSTLY INTERFERENCE SEXUAL ADVANCES IN THE WORKPLACE Hello, and welcome to one of the final stops on my Ghostly Interference blog tour! I am honored to be here today. Sexual advances in the workplace is as common as a coffee pot in the break room. But we tend to think of them as being a man coming onto a woman. In Ghostly Interference, Jag Peters is forced to deal with unwanted sexual advances from his boss Yvette (Yvette Calleiro this in NO way reflects on you). 🙂 His boss continually tries to corner him and it finally escalates to a breaking point. I’ll share a short excerpt. Within minutes, he pulled into the crowded parking lot of the Glass Slipper. He’d make a few minutes of polite talk with his co-workers, then excuse himself. He liked the project Yvette had assigned him, and he wanted to stay there. But he had limits as to how far he’d go. Crowds freaked him out and made his underarms sweat. This place was packed. He squeezed through a grou...