Category: reading

Reading List Alphabet: A

It’s a new month, and I wanted to try a fun idea. Every day, I’m going to post the title of a book I have read, or am currently reading. The catch is, I’m going to work my way through the alphabet. Since this is the first day, today’s letter is A. Feel free to join in by posting a title in the comments section! (note: if the title begins with the, use the first letter of the next word!)

A

Acid For The Children by Flea

This is a memoir written by Flea (Michael Peter Balzary), the bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 

Flea

See you tomorrow!

 

Free Ebook Weekends, Part 4

Welcome to the fourth and final weekend of Free Ebook Weekends with Woolaston Entertainment. It’s been a huge success so far, and I hope everyone is enjoying the books. Hopefully, we won’t need to stay home for much longer, but until things get back to normal, please stay home, and keep yourself and your families safe. 

Here are the titles for this weekend, 4/25-4/26:

Biologicals

Dee Seybrook: Rock N’ Roll Diva

Erin Michaels: Spooky B

Rock N Role Model

 

 

Please visit the Woolaston Entertainment site for more details about the books. 

Free Ebook Weekends, Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of my Free Ebooks Weekends! Every weekend in April, select titles of Woolaston Enterainment books will be available to download for FREE. Since we’re all staying home in order to keep ourselves and our families safe, I thought reading a few books would be a great way to pass the time. Here are this week;s titles, available 4/18-4/19:

A New England Serial Killer

The Valentine series

Novocaine

Another Shot of Novocaine

The Witch of Fulton Lane

Lucia and the Saints, Volumes 4-6

Please visit the Woolaston Entertainment site for more details about each title and links to the Amazon Pages. 

After the Fortune, Comes the Fame

Childhood friends grow up together and accomplish a common goal: to start a successful punk rock band. This is one of the elements in Our Lady of Righteous Rage. A group of friends in late 1990’s/early 2000’s New York start a band, and begin writing and recording music. This is in the first book of the series. As the band begins to stretch its legs and make some money, they have to deal with their newfound fame. But fame, like many things, comes at a high cost…

No one prepared them for the amount of privacy they would need to surrender. No one prepared them for the fake stories that would begin to circulate about them. For Amy, Rob, Nick and Aidan, and their friends and family, nothing will ever be the same. 

 

This weekend, the second, third and fourth books in the series are available to download from Amazon FOR FREE. No, I’m not crazy. If you’ve read the first book in the series, this is the perfect time to jump into the other books. Amy and company are about to embark on the greatest adventure of their lives, complete with live performances, fans, haters, and maybe a fight or two. Your Fame Will Destroy You, Rowdy and Righteous are FREE this weekend, Saturday morning through Sunday night. Head over to the Books page on Woolaston Entertainment for direct links and enjoy!

Remember: Stay Home, Stay Safe. 

Free Ebook Weekends!

Introducing Free Ebook Weekends! Since most of us are stuck at home, why not download some books to enjoy? Every weekend in April, you can download free select W.E. ebooks. Here are this weekend’s choices, 4/4-4/5:

 
The Kindness of Strangers
Our Lady of Righteous Rage (both versions)
Punk & Whiskers
Allan and Mac
Her Name is Lola Vencent
Jo Fuentes: The Black Queen
Please visit the Woolaston Entertainment Website for direct links!

Things I’ve Learned While Working During the Coronavirus

I’m fortunate to still have a job..for now. So, I’m very grateful for that. I have learned a few interesting things while remaining at work during this tragedy, and I’d like to share. I work in a public library. Right now, we’re sanitizing EVERYTHING. The books, CD and DVD cases, shelves, computers, tables, chairs—everything. I’m in charge of sanitizing the fiction books, and let me tell you, there are A LOT OF THEM. But, this humble little activity has helped me discover a few things.

 

1. Many of the movies I love were based on books. Just Cause, starring Sean Connery and Blair Underwood was based on a book by the same name. Plus, I came across Forest Gump and Rosemary’s Baby. Both books have sequels, to my surprise.

2. I had no idea Amish Fiction was a genre. I have cleaned a ton of Beverly Lewis’s books. 

3. James Patterson basically needs his own private bookshelf in the library. His place in fiction takes up five shelves. 

4. Actors Hugh Laurie and Ethan Hawke have published fiction. Laurie’s book is The Gun Seller, released in 1996, while Hawke’s book is Ash Wednesday, 2002. 

5. Those 1980’s/1990’s Avon romance novels all seem to have similar, awful plots. 

6. Incest is the name of the game in most of V.C. Andrews’ books. 

7. David Lagercrantz continued Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc).  Because of their last names, their books aren’t too far away from one another on the shelves.

8. After Ian Fleming’s death, 6 other authors inherited James Bond as a character.

9. Spic and Span is good at cleaning the plastic that was used to preserve the covers of the books.

10. My “want to read” list may be getting out of control. 

 

I’m sure there will be more in the days to come. 

 

 

 

5 Times Lola Vencent Proved She’s A Boss

I recently participated in an event at the Hampton Public Library, titled “Black Books Matter”. It gave me an opportunity to interact with fellow author David Barr III, and meet some people from my community. Books by Black authors featuring Black characters were on display, including A Rose Left Behind by June Parris (my mother!), The Witch of Fulton Lane and Her Name is Lola Vencent (my books). Copies of  A Rose Left Behind and Her Name is Lola Vencent were given away as prizes in a raffle. Plus, I received some positive feedback from the patron who borrowed a copy of Her Name is Lola Vencent.  As a writer, it’s always nice to hear a reader enjoyed one of your books. 

 

ValVerLola
Lola Vencent

 

I chose Her Name is Lola Vencent for the raffle, because Lola is one of my favorite characters from the Valentine series. Why? Simple: Lola is a BOSS. She has no fear, and has no problem when it comes to getting her job done. She’s one of the Syndicate’s few female members, and she’s one of the best hitwomen available. Here’s a look at five times Lola proved she’s a boss.

  1. When she kills a target named Cunningham, she does it without any hesitation or feeling. It’s a job, and she’s been hired to do it. Case closed.
  2. She’s studying law at  NYU. Aside from working as a hitwoman, she’s also in college!
  3.  She puts her foot down with Rafferty right away. When she meets him for the first time, he has a pair of scantily clad ladies in his office. Lola lets Rafferty know their relationship is going to be strictly professional. 
  4.  She uses her connections in Italy to get Val out of a tight situation: Lola speaks Italian and uses her contacts to get Val to an embassy when she gets stuck overseas.
  5.  When Val’s grandfather attempts to kill her, Lola is armed and ready, and saves Val’s life again.

“I’m not one of them. I’ll never be one of those women

 

Of course there are other examples of Lola’s skills, but you’ll need to read Her Name is Lola Vencent and follow her in the Valentine series to learn more!

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