We always get excited when we have a new book on the horizon, but this one has us especially excited! Our favorite romance author Jean Marie Stanberry, is trying her hand at the murder/mystery genera and we absolutely love what we’ve seen so far! Continue reading Coming Soon!
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Happy birthday!
Wishing a very happy birthday to one of our wonderful Kingsmuir Press authors, Jean Marie Stanberry. Our Montana based friend tells us she is taking a much deserved day off of work today to chill with family and go out for dinner tonight. When she says chill out, she really means it, when we spoke with her this morning, the temperature at her house was -5 degrees. BRRRRR!
You can make Jean’s birthday sweet by checking out her website at jeanstanberry.com . You can also purchase one of her four books available on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. available as e-books or paperback. For romance lovers check out “Laying Low In Hollywood” or “The Illusion of Order”. Science fiction buffs will love the political satire in “One World United”. Action and drama fans will appreciate “Blood, Sweat and Fears”.
Book Excerpt-An Imperfect World by Lyoness Bradley
The year is 1978 and Court Ordered School desegregation doesn’t sound like such a big deal to 17 year old Leigh Webster, but then again maybe she is just too young to realize the social and political firestorm that is just igniting in her community.
Leigh’s relatively sheltered life with extremely overbearing parents is about to take a radical turn. When Leigh meets attractive and smart desegregation student Chris Logan, she is attracted to him right away, but with social tensions running high, can they risk a relationship? A touching story about love, hate and every emotion in between. Continue reading Book Excerpt-An Imperfect World by Lyoness Bradley
Book Excerpt-Blood, Sweat and Fears
Chilly winter nights are the perfect time to curl up with a good book. Kingsmuir Press has many wonderful books, to delight just about any reader on your Christmas list. We have everything from charming romances to action filled science fiction books. Today we are featuring an excerpt from Jean Marie Stanberry’s latest work, “Blood, Sweat and Fears”.
“Blood, Sweat and Fears” is an adventure of sorts. It follows the life of a young figure skater Jenna Bruce. Jenna seems to be set up for failure by her own parents when she is shipped off to Paris to skate in an ice show, all the while masquerading as an adult when really she is a minor, just 15 years old.
When Alexander, a Russian co-worker with his own agenda begins sexually harassing her, no one in the company takes it seriously. Jenna is forced to work side by side with a man she eventually begins to fear, in the meantime all the while he has infiltrated the rest of the cast with lies and everyone there is soon convinced they are lovers.
No one can anticipate how quickly Alexander’s passion will deteriorate into obsession and his desperation will escalate into a grim web of deception and violence.
Chapter Seventeen-Blood, Sweat and Fears Continue reading Book Excerpt-Blood, Sweat and Fears
Fall Is Here!
The leaves are turning, the nights now have a bit of a chill in the air. Everywhere you look you can find goodies made with pumpkin, lattes, scones, pies, ice cream. The list goes on and on. There are a lot of reasons that fall is my favorite season, but fires in the fireplace are my favorite thing of all. I stack floor pillows on the hearth and grab my Kindle and read all evening long. Continue reading Fall Is Here!
Book Tour Highlights
A book tour is a high point for any successful author and Kingsmuir Press author Jean Marie Stanberry just returned from a very successful book tour in her home town St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis has suffered in the press recently with tales of racial tension and protests in the township of Ferguson but when one of their own is back home in the spotlight St. Louis has a way of welcoming them with open arms. Continue reading Book Tour Highlights
Fast Update for a door, by Jean the Queen
What can you do when you have ugly hollow core doors and don’t have the budget to replace them all? Get creative! My husband and I plan on eventually replacing all our hollow core doors, but unforeseen hits to our budget mean not right away. Most of the doors we will sand down and re stain a darker color to help disguise their ugliness, but I had another idea for our pantry. Continue reading Fast Update for a door, by Jean the Queen
DIY Adventures-Refacing a fireplace
Anyone who knows me, knows that when my husband and I have a project, we will at the very least, attempt to do it ourselves. After a bit of trial and error we do know our limits. For instance, we try to avoid large concrete projects and my husband Gary is not allowed to paint. Other than that, we will try just about anything at least once.
Our latest project involved refacing our fireplace. We built the fireplace when we moved into the house almost ten years ago. It is a gas fireplace and it was meant to augment our aging heating system and conserve space over the home’s previous heat source, a large and unwieldy wood stove which was not only dirty, but because of allergies, I had bronchitis most of that winter. Continue reading DIY Adventures-Refacing a fireplace
Book Excerpt: “Blood, Sweat and Fears”
Looking for an epic late summer read? Why not pick up a copy of Jean Marie Stanberry’s “Blood, Sweat and Fears”. This action packed drama has been racing up the Amazon charts and intriguing readers all over the world with it’s unique writing style and dual viewpoints.
We hope the following except will wet your appetite for all the intrigue this story induces. “Blood, Sweat and Fears is the first book in the “Heart of a Phoenix” series and it is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon and on all major e-readers.
“Unfortunately, dinner that night turned out to be a complete fiasco. Alexander was seated with the “stars” at the front of the cafe, wedged between Marika and Maria Gastineau, an alcoholic, bulimic mess of a woman who seemed to have her heart set on seducing him. Continue reading Book Excerpt: “Blood, Sweat and Fears”
Still waiting for the truth in Ferguson
I try to stay out of political firestorms but this one has hit too close to home and gone on way to long. The media is pushing the story that an established Ferguson Police officer, who is white, shot an 18 year old black man for no apparent reason.
Let’s think about this shall we. All police officers know that if they discharge their weapon at all, let alone if they actually shoot someone, a full investigation will ensue. They know if they want to keep their job, the discharge of their weapon must be justified whether or not they actually shoot someone. If they actually shoot someone the scrutiny will be more intense and require more justification, thus most police officers just don’t go around shooting people just for the hell of it.
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