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In the Spotlight – J.J. Johnson

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It’s a pleasure to welcome the fabulous J.J. Johnson into the spotlight today. His brand new novella, My Friend Louie, is an intriguing look at a bi-polar teen. It’s a genre-bending Young Adult story that blends psychological thriller with Christian fiction and is certain to please fans of those genres .

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J.J. Johnson is a suspense author who loves stories laced with twist and turns and a bit of weirdness to them. He attended Oklahoma Baptist University where he studied Biblical Theology and Sociology. He lives Edmond Oklahoma with his wife, his son Miles. In his spare time you can find him yelling at the TV while watching Sooner football or Thunder Basketball.

Let’s find out more about J.J. and his new novella!

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In the Spotlight – Travis Luedke

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It’s always a pleasure to interview Travis. He’s been a guest here before and also on the MythBehaving podcast. I also have the pleasure of working with him through ASMSG (Authors’ Social Media Support Group). Travis is an innovative, savvy author. He’s also generous with his time and always willing to help others. He is the author of  the fascinating Young Adult Paranormal novel, The Shepherd. But today we are spotlighting his newest addition to his oh-so-very-steamy and delectable adult books, The Nightlife Series. I think San Antonio will never be the same!

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Travis Luedke

Travis is a husband, father, and author of Urban Fantasy Thriller, Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, and Sci-fi. He is currently catching a 3rd degree sunburn in San Antonio, Texas, and loving every minute of it.

As the author of The Nightlife Series novels, Travis lives very vicariously through his writings. He invites you to enjoy his macabre flights of fancy, but be warned: The Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.

Read on for more about Travis and his newest steamfest!

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In the Spotlight – Lillie J Roberts

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It’s such a pleasure to have Lillie J Roberts stop by today. Always interesting, super nice and quite the talented author, you can count on Lillie to bring fun and variety to the party! And this time she even brought her her little dog, too! There’s just something special about a dog-lover. 🙂 Plus we share a lot of the same interests and that’s always fun to learn in an interview.

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Lillie J. Roberts is a multi-published author who loves to read as much as she does to write. You can most often find her lost in her favorite genre, whether it be a hardback/paperback or an ebook (or maybe she’s writing one), especially on road trips. She writes Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Chillers/Thillers, Suspense from Modern Contemporary to New Adult and YA.

She lives in central Illinois with her husband, three children, one krazy kat, and a wild Westie (who is usually her reading partner. He also listens to all her new story ideas, almost always with a wicked sense of humor). She loves movies and listens to them while she writes, it doesn’t matter if they’re old or new, as long as they’re engaging. She loves all kinds of music, especially if it has a hard driving beat. You’ll find some on her favorite artists mentioned in the pages of her books.

 

Read on for more about Lillie and SoulFire!

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In the Spotlight – Norma Jeanne Karlsson

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Blackness Takes Over is Norma Jeanne’s debut novel. What began as an homage to the home town of a homesick Midwestern girl, unfolded a story of love, danger, humor, and trust. And now we have her sophomore effort in the series. We can’t wait to see what thrilling saga she leads us through next in Blackness Awaits!

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Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Norma Jeanne recently found herself relocating to the United Kingdom. Now living in Belfast, she took hold of the opportunity to kick the 9-5 job for a chance to become an author. The best part: working from her home office, she gets to spend more time with her cast of crazy characters (written and real).

In her free time Norma Jeanne is a voracious reader and consumes books as readily as meals. She is a people watcher by nature and uses her experiences in life, observed or otherwise, to build the worlds and characters that thrive in her books. A believer in the strength of the human spirit, Norma Jeanne writes the stories of people that persevere when all appears to be lost.

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” –Dylan Thomas

 

Read on for Norma Jeanne’s interview and to enter her giveaway!

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In the Spotlight – GS Jennsen

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It’s a pleasure to welcome author GS Jennsen into the spotlight today. GS is a gamer and we actually belong to the same gaming guild. So getting to feature her on my blog is cool not only because she’s an awesome writer, but because she’s a guildmate, too!

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When she was two years old, GS Jennsen informed her parents that she would be learning to read now. When she was four, she brought the dinner-table conversation to a screeching halt by inquiring as to what they knew about the nature of infinity.

The rest is history. A long, convoluted history that wound across the United States and back again—and back again—through a shocking variety of windowless libraries, windowless corporate boardrooms and windowless engineering labs.

She has been a corporate attorney, software developer, freelance editor and author (she finds she prefers the latter). She currently lives in Colorado with her husband and best friend (they’re the same person), who works as an electrical engineer, and their two furry, four-legged children.

There are many windows in her home, half of which look out on the Rocky Mountains.

Starshine is her first novel.

 

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in the Spotlight – Chad Ganske

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Today, I’m happy to welcome the always fun Chad Ganske into the spotlight, with his fascinating debut novel, Idyllic Avenue.

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Chad was born in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada in 1976, relocating with his family to the small harbor town of Sidney, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island in the late eighties. After graduating from high school in 1994 he enrolled in the University of Victoria but left after one semester to enter the workforce. He slogged through a variety of entry level jobs before finally publishing his first novel, Idyllic Avenue. He presently resides in Victoria, British Columbia, where he spends a great deal of time alternating between states of elation and frustration while watching the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League.

 

Read on for Chad’s interview and more about his book!

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In the Spotlight – Diane Adams Taylor

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Please join me in welcoming Diane  and her most recent novel, The Healer of Wounded Souls.

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Diane Adams Taylor is a retired school administrator with over thirty-two years in the field of education.  She is now working in her second career as a writer, author and lecturer.  She had her first novel, Circles in Time published by Tate Publishing in May 2012.  Her second novel, The Healer of Wounded Souls, isher newest release through the Bush Publishing Company.  She writes for two on-line publications; one specifically on education topics and the other as a contributor of short stories. Diane continues to write novels and she is currently working on three new manuscripts as well as a series of children’s books.

 

Read on for more about Diane and her novel.

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