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Talebearers Podcast: Author Interview with A. L. Waddington, author of Essence (The Eve Series)

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Very excited to have interviewed A. L. Waddington. Her new release will be part of a series and has such an interesting concept, I can hardly wait! To find out more about Essence, tune in below.

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Essence (The Eve Series)

Jocelyn Timmons does not believe she is anything special — just an
ordinary high school senior, living an ordinary life full of
school-work, volleyball and friends. She’s about to find out how wrong
she is.

Jackson Chandler moved in to the house across the street. His dark
wavy hair, green eyes and charismatic personality draws everyone to
him. Everyone, but Jocelyn.

Whenever Jackson gets near Jocelyn she feels ill and dizzy. When he
touches her, she blacks out and has visions of another life, in
another time. As the odd hallucinations evolve and become clearer, she
feels a strong pull towards the people she sees there. Frightened, she
watches her once stable life begin to crumble around her and she
begins to question her own sanity.

Could it be possible that these episodes are actually her own memories
of a life she is living somehow, somewhere, some-when? Maybe this is
time-travel or some other paranormal mysticism? Our minds often
wander, but can our souls?

About the Author:

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A. L. Waddington completed her undergraduate studies at University of
Texas Dallas and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
She graduated from IUPUI with a BS in Psychology with a dual
concentration in the psychobiology of addictions and clinical
rehabilitation. She is an avid reader, enjoys spending time in her
gardens, and watching the Indianapolis Colts. A. L. and her husband,
Ty have a son, two daughters, a puppy, and an oversized cat. They
reside in Indiana.

Website/Blog/Author pages etc.

Website
Author Blog
Facebook series page
Facebook author page
Twitter: follow me @eveseries
~or twub#EssenceBook1EVEseries

Check out this AMAZING cover! Isn’t it gorgeous?
Booktrope Essence

Essence full cover booktrope

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with Tonya Kappes, author of A New Tradition, A Magical Cure Series, and A Ghostly Undertaking

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Check out my interview with Tonya Kappes on Talebearers Podcast!

A New Tradition

***2013 WINNER OF THE BEST INDIE ROMANCE NOVELLA***

A NEW TRADITION is the winner 2013 Indie Romance Convention Readers Choice Nominee for Best Indie Romance Novella

For Sabrina Englehardt, Christmas has always been a special day filled with family, friends, and a wacky tradition of watching Breakfast At Tiffany’s while dressed up in the stars costumes. . .…tiara and all.

Sabrina’s biggest client insists on having a Skype call on Christmas day to secure a deal of a lifetime, which is fine with her, because this year she’s going to make a new tradition, celebrating Christmas alone with her cat at her snowy remote family cabin as family and friends go their separate ways to celebrate the holiday.

When everything starts to go array, Sabrina has to call on her hunky neighbor for help in order to secure the deal of a lifetime.

Will it all work out or will Sabrina pull the quilt over her head waiting for Christmas to be over?

About the Author:

“Full of wit, humor and colorful characters, Tonya Kappes delivers a fun, fast-paced story
that will leave you hooked!” Bestselling Author, Jane Porter

“Tonya Kappes continues to carve her place in the cozy mystery scene with the witty and
endearing Ghostly Undertakingseries set in a small town that is as fun as it is unforgettable.”
New York Times bestseller Dianna Love

“A GHOSTLY UNDERTAKING is hauntingly good read with authentic Southern charm.” -Author Heather Webber

“Tonya Kappes strings together the perfect blend of family, friends, and fun.” Author Misa Ramirez

USA Today Bestselling Author, Tonya Kappes writes humorous cozy mystery and women’s
fiction that involves quirky characters in quirky situations. Not only have her novels made
the USA Today bestsellers list, but they are an Amazon Top 100 author, Amazon Movers and
Shakers, and International bestsellers.

Strung Out To Die and A Charming Crime are USA Today bestselling novels.

Splitsville.com, the first novel in the Olivia Davis Mystery Series, is a double finalist in the Next
Generation Indie Book Awards in the Mystery and Humorous Categories.

Carpe Bead ‘em is 2012 winner in Amazon’s eFestival of Words in the Women’s Fiction Category.

A Charming Crime, the first novel in the Magical Cures, is the 2013 eFestival of Words in the
Fantasy Category Winner.

A New Tradition the Indie Romance Convention 2013 novella of the year.

When not being the princess, queen, and jester of her family of three teenage boys, an adoring
husband, and three furry kids, she travels to various writing groups as guest speaker on “How to
Market and Promote Your Novels Effectively,” where she is known as a marketing guru.

Become a member of Tonya’s STREET TEAM! It’s a gathering place of readers who love
Tonya Kappes novels and Tonya gives away monthly prizes! To sign up for Tonya’s STREET
TEAM, newsletter, view book trailer, and upcoming news, check out Tonya’s website, Tonyakappes.com.

And be sure to stalk her on Facebook and Twitter!
The Tricked-Out Toolbox~Promotional and Marketing Tools Every Writer Needs

You can purchase her novels at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Createspace (print)
Google Books
Indiebound
Kobo
Smashwords

Also by Tonya Kappes:

A Magical Cure Mysteries series. Check out this great package deal, books 1-3 of the series.


It’s the perfect way to start catching up before the release of book 5, A Charming Magic.

& be sure to check out Tonya’s A Ghostly Undertaking, on sale now!

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with Amanda Tru, author of Secret Santa

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Secret Santa

It was time for Hailey Rhodes to admit the truth: things were not going well. After losing her job as a teacher, she finds herself broke, unemployed, and tricked into accepting a date from a department store Santa Claus. When new opportunities and new love interests present themselves, will Hailey choose a career and a man she’s always admired, or will she wait for the identity of her Secret Santa to be revealed?
About the Author
With a lifelong love of reading and writing, Amanda Tru loves to let her imagination paint pictures in a wide variety of genres. Her current book list includes everything from a Christian time travel / romance series, to an action-packed suspense, to a romance involving a woman who likes to anonymously play matchmaker.

Amanda is a former elementary school teacher who now spends her days being mommy to three little boys and her nights furiously writing. Amanda lives in a small town in Idaho where the number of cows outnumbers the number of people.
http://amandatru.blogspot.com/

Check out some of Amanda’s other work.

and finally, The Romance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, which was previously featured on the show!

 

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with Amanda Tru, author of The Romance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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After one last performance, Calyssa Durant will be trading in her ballet slippers for an uncertain future.

Having sacrificed so much of her life to become a ballerina, Calyssa has met her goals only to long for something more. She will dance the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the ‘Nutcracker’ one more time before quitting her traveling ballet troupe.

But, when a late-night rehearsal ends with surprising danger, Calyssa and theater owner, Nikolas Clauson, are caught in a battle with an unexpected villain. As the smoke clears, Calyssa finds herself on a journey to her own, real-life ‘Land of the Sweets’. Will she also find her own Nutcracker Prince, or will his stormy past and current secrets be more than this ballerina can overcome?

About the Author
With a lifelong love of reading and writing, Amanda Tru loves to let her imagination paint pictures in a wide variety of genres. Her current book list includes everything from a Christian time travel / romance series, to an action-packed suspense, to a romance involving a woman who likes to anonymously play matchmaker.

Amanda is a former elementary school teacher who now spends her days being mommy to three little boys and her nights furiously writing. Amanda lives in a small town in Idaho where the number of cows outnumbers the number of people.
http://amandatru.blogspot.com/

Check out some of Amanda’s other work.

and finally, Secret Santa, which will be featured on the show soon!

 

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with Kevin Jakubowski, author of 8-bit Christmas

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It’s 1980-something and all nine-year-old Jake Doyle wants for Christmas is a Nintendo Entertainment System. No Jose Canseco rookie card, no GI Joe hovercraft, no Teddy friggin’ Ruxpin—just Nintendo. But when a hyperactive Shih Tzu is accidentally crushed to death by a forty-two- inch television set and every parent in town blames Nintendo, it’s up to Jake to take matters into his own hands. The result is a Christmas quest of Super Mario Bros. proportions, filled with flaming wreaths, speeding minivans, lost retainers, fake Santas, hot teachers, snotty sisters, “Super Bowl Shuffles” and one very naked Cabbage Patch Kid. Told from a nostalgic adult perspective, 8-Bit Christmas is a hilarious and heartfelt look back at the kid pop culture of the 1980s.

ADVANCE PRAISE: “Hysterically funny and full of heart. It’s A Christmas Story for the Nintendo generation.” – New York Times bestselling author James Frey

“Jakubowski captures the late ‘80s Nintendo craze with hilarious precision. You won’t be able to put 8-Bit Christmas down.” – Marnie O. Mamminga, author of Return to Wake Robin

“Absolutely charming. Like an old home movie, it instantly brings you back to the magic of childhood.” – Academy Award-nominated director Steph Green

“No bull crud about it! The 1980s are alive and rad in this charming, rollicking tale.” – South Park producer and Out There creator Ryan Quincy

About the Author: A native of Batavia, Illinois, Kevin Jakubowski is a film and television writer best known for the Bruce Willis comedy Assassination of a High School President and for his work on the Comedy Central series Brickleberry. He has written and co-written scripts for Warner Brothers, Paramount, Lionsgate, Sony and Fox and is currently developing his own animated series at Nickelodeon. He lives in California with his wife and his Nintendo. 8-Bit Christmas is his first novel.

kevin-jakubowski.com

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with Veronica Steck, author of Heartfelt Letters from Santa to You: A Christmas Keepsake that grows more precious with every passing year

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Heartfelt Letters from Santa
Helping Santa Create a Tradition for Your Family

The magic of Christmas for children is embodied in Santa Claus. This book shows you how to capture that magic by writing a personal letter from Santa for the child or children who are special to you.

Letters from Santa can describe situations your child has been in, recount good deeds he or she has done, make suggestions for improving behavior, and generally inspire your child in positive directions you see for them.

The finely crafted companion volume is where you will write this special letter each Christmas Eve, after your child has brought their book of Santa’s letters to its honored place near the Christmas tree. On Christmas morning, the whole family can gather around as your child discovers what Santa has written just for them.

As the years pass the book with these letters will grow more and more precious. It will be a chronicle of years past, and a guide for years to come.

It will:
•Transport both the child and the family back to the special moments in life,
•Recap major events in the child’s progression to adulthood, and,
•Remind children of how their biggest fans have stood with them and supported them, with loving, patience, and humor.

This guide for parents and adults will provide you with excellent ideas, key phrases, and topic areas to consider. It will clearly assist you in writing meaningful and heartfelt letters your child – and the whole family – will love.

About the Author

Veronica Steck hopes to help families create new Christmas traditions that motivate children to be on their best behavior.

Born and raised in Texas, Steck is a financial adviser in the Midwest where she owns Steck Wealth Management and St. Nick’s Publishing.

Stack’s first publication, a two-book boxed set titled “Heartfelt Letters from Santa,” releases October 2013. The activity helps parents and relatives master the art of writing personal notes on behalf of Santa Claus to the children in their lives.

Steck now lives in Chesterfield, Mo. with her husband and their three children, Angelina, Christine and Nicholas. When she’s not busy celebrating Christmas with her family, Steck is running marathons, attending Bible studies and cheering on her kids at athletic events.

Veronica Steck on the long-lasting tradition of
“Heartfelt Letters from Santa”

“These letters will become more precious as the years go by, mainly because of who wrote them for the child. As adults, the children will look back and see not only who they were but most certainly see the love the author of the letter had for them. This book will be a keepsake for every child to share with their own children.”

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with Rich Adams, author of Eben Kruge: How “A Christmas Carol” Came to be Written

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We will be giving away a copy of Eben Kruge: How “A Christmas Carol” Came to be Written. Stay tuned for more info!

Eben Kruge, recipient of a ForeWord Clarion five-star book review, is a story wholly unlike A Christmas Carol, yet, like the Carol, a story of transformation. It is about Charles Dickens, the man, and the circumstances of his life at age thirty, and what inspired him to write his Christmas classic that for one hundred and seventy years at Christmas time has drawn people to their better nature and universally engendered a sense of concern and charity for the poor and downtrodden. The story setting is factual and will come as a surprise to most readers, as will the reality that A Christmas Carol was Dickens’s first completed fictional work after the events portrayed in Eben Kruge.

The author, Rich Adams, is a forensic engineering consultant, a Vietnam veteran, a former Army aviator, and a former ski instructor for Vail Resorts. He is also the first of three brothers to graduate from West Point. His first book, the award-winning historical novel, The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War, is the true and epic story of the West Point Class of 1861 during its final year at the Academy. Rich enjoys speaking to civic groups, schools and universities, church groups, book clubs, libraries, Academy alumni groups, museum-sponsored groups, special interest groups, and, most recently, a cruise ship audience. He and his wife live in Miramar Beach (Sandestin), Florida, after having raised their family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he founded and later sold a regionally based environmental consulting company.
For more information about the author and his books visit: www.RichardBarlowAdams.com

Also by Rich Adams,

Eben Kruge and The Parting may also be ordered from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Xlibris websites.

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Talebearers Podcast: Interview with John Williams, co-author of The Crimson and the Frost

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Talebearers Author Price McNaughton recently had the opportunity to interview John Williams about his new release, The Crimson and the Frost. Tune in to hear more about this great book and click on the link below to find it on Amazon!

The Crimson and the Frost

There is a centuries old rivalry between Santa and Jack Frost with the fate of the Christmas town and the entire world hanging in the balance.

Delve into a unique story that takes iconic Christmas legends and spins them into a new tale full of magic, mystery and thrills.

Late one night young Billy Hampton investigates a strange presence in the woods behind his house. His fear turns to excitement when he discovers a team of reindeer harnessed to a sleigh with the initials ‘S.C.’ carved into the side. Suddenly, Billy spots two figures approaching and makes the hasty decision to climb aboard.

Billy soars through the air in the back of the flying transport toward the remote winter lands of the far north. While airborne, his curiosity gets the best of him and he removes a large red jewel fitted in a chamber in the back of the sleigh. During some turbulence, he accidentally loses the jewel over the side and it disappears in the snowy expanse below.

Billy finds himself in Christmas town, a place full of wonder where Santa and the elves had lived in peace for centuries, protected by a secret and powerful magic jewel known as the Heart of Polaris. It is their only defense against the wicked and covetous King of Winter who wants them cast out of the lands he claims are his alone.

Billy soon learns that the jewel he lost over the side of the sleigh was indeed the Heart of Polaris and without its protection Christmas Town is vulnerable to the power and fury of the King of Winter and his army of savage grimghouls.

Its desperate race against time as Billy and his friends search for the Heart of Polaris before they fall victim to the impending onslaught.

About the Author:

Cousins and co-authors John Williams and James Colletti are close in age and always had the same creative interests. As teens they wrote music and formed a handful of rock bands. The pair shares a long and successful creative history that includes writing music, playing in rock bands, writing screenplays, producing shows and music videos for broadcast television, and directing an internationally released movie. There was one screenplay in particular they had co-written that they absolutely loved. One film producer in England read it and said, “I love this! It would make a great movie but we’ll never be able to raise the 150 – 200 million it would take to make a film this epic and grand-scale. It is too new and unknown by the masses. There is a reason the Harry Potter movies got made, that series had a huge built in audience from the books.”
So, instead of letting that script sit on a shelf collecting dust, John and James decided to transform it into what had become their first novel “The Crimson and the Frost.” During the novel writing process the story became so much more than the screenplay ever was and we are even more proud of it.

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