Charles, a newly qualified lawyer without a penny to his name, plunges into the archaic world of the Bar as it was thirty-five years ago. After a stroke of beginners’ luck – and a taste of good living – he soon becomes established in practice battling away in the criminal courts, conducting court-martials in Germany [...]
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Interview & Book Giveaway with Wig Begone’s Robert Seymour
November 8th, 2010 
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Tags: author tour, blog tour, book promtoions, book publicity, book tour, Charles Courtley, courtroom, criminal courts, East London, humorous fiction, humourous fiction, judge, online book promotion, online book tour, Pump Up Your Book, retired judge, Robert Seymour, virtual blog tour, virtual book tour, Wig Begone 
1 Comment »Interview with M.M. Bennetts: ‘I wanted to play with the Dickensian sense of multiple storylines’
November 8th, 2010 admin On a summer night in 1812, a boy sets fire to a house in Paris before escaping over the rooftops. Carrying vital intelligence about Napoleon’s Russian campaign, he heads for England. But landing in Kent, he is beaten almost to death. The Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is desperate for the boy’s information. He is even [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Assassination, blog tour, book promotions, book publicity, book tour, Castlereagh, Code-breaking, historical fiction, historical fiction author, historical fiction book, historical fiction novel, literary fiction, M.M. Bennetts, Military Intelligence, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, Of Honest Fame, online book promotion, Perceval, promote your book, Pump Up Your Book, sell your book, thriller, Trafalgar, virtual book tour, Waterloo No Comments »A Day in the Life with Thriller Author Vincent Zandri
November 8th, 2010 admin A Day in the Life is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we get a glimpse into our favorite author’s day-to-day life! Today’s guest is Vincent Zandri, author of the thriller novel, The Remains (Stone House Ink).
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A Day in the Life of Vincent Zandri
by Vincent Zandri
Being from New York, the night before [...]
Interview with John L. Betcher: ‘The bad guys plan. The good guys discover the plot’
November 3rd, 2010 admin Al Qaeda plans to attack Minnesota’s Prairie River Nuclear Power Plant as a means to return the down-trodden terrorist organization to international prominence.
In addition to their own devoted forces, the terrorists enlist some homegrown anarchists, and a Three Mile Island survivor with a pathological vendetta against the nuclear establishment, to assist in the assault.
James [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: al Qaeda, author tours, bestselling book, blog tours, book marketing, book promotions, book publicity, book tour, Createspace, doomsday, international terror, James Becker thriller, John L. Betcher, Minnesota, mystery, nuclear, nuclear power plant, nuke plants, online book promotion, online book tour, Pump Up Your Book, Red Wing, suspense, suspense author, suspense novel, Terrorist, The 19th Element, Three Mile Island, thriller, thriller author, thriller novel, U.S. government intelligence, virtual book tours, volleyball coach, youth volleyball No Comments »Interview with Science Fiction Author Valmore Daniels: ‘When I’m writing, I’m fully absorbed in the world I’ve created’
November 3rd, 2010 admin In true nomadic spirit, Valmore Daniels has lived on the coasts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, and dozens of points in between.
An insatiable thirst for new experiences has led him to work in several fields, including legal research, elderly care, oil & gas administration, web design, government service, human resources, and retail [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: adventure, Aliens, blog tours, book promotions, book publicity, fiction, first contact, Forbidden the Stars, future, hard science fiction, hard sf, high tech, online book tours, science fiction, science fiction author, science fiction book, science fiction novel, scifi, space, space opera, space travel, technothrillers, thriller, Valmore Daniels, virtual book tours 1 Comment »Interview with Women’s Holiday Fiction Author Sheila Roberts: ‘I’m very partial to the ending of the story’
November 3rd, 2010 admin Sheila Roberts lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her novels have appeared in Readers Digest Condensed books and have been published in several languages. Her novel Angel Lane was an Amazon Top Ten Romance pick for 2009 and her holiday perennial, On Strike for Christmas is slated to be a Lifetime Channel movie presentation [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Angel Lane, blog tour, book campaign, book into movie, book marketing, book promotions, book publicity, book tour, books to movies, Christmas, Christmas book, Christmas gift, Christmas miracle, gifts for writers, holiday book, holiday treasure, Lifetime channel, Lifetime channel movie, Lifetime movie, On Strike for Christmas, online book promotion, online book tour, Pump Up Your Book, Sheila Roberts, St. Martin's Press, The Snow Globe, virtual book tour, virtual book tour company, women's fiction, women's fiction author, women's fiction book, women's fiction novel No Comments »The First Page: ‘The Staff of Rahgorra’ by Mark Oetjens
November 2nd, 2010 admin The First Page is one of Literarily Speaking’s newest features. Here we get a glimpse into an author’s work and what better place to begin than the first page? Authors share their first pages and answer a few questions about why they started their books off the way they did. Today we welcome [...]
‘The Sixth Surrender’ a surprisingly seductive mystery-romance
November 2nd, 2010 admin It’s Anno Domini 1200. King Richard the Lionheart is dead. And in the final years of her own eventful life, queen-duchess Aliénor of Aquitaine launches a deadly dynastic chess game to safeguard the crowns of Normandy and England for John Plantagenet, her only surviving son.
To that end, Aliénor coerces into matrimony her two pawns: Juliana [...]
Posted in Books to Watch Out For Tags: author tour, blog tours, book marketing, book promotions, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hana Samek Norton, historical consultant, historical fiction, historical fiction author, historical fiction book, historical fiction novel, historical romance, king John, medieval historical fiction, medieval mystery novels, Middle Ages, Middle Ages book, online book promotion, online book tour, Penguin, Plume, promote your book, sell your book, The Sixth Surrender, virtual book tour, women’s fiction No Comments »The First Page: ‘The Remains’ by Vincent Zandri
November 1st, 2010 admin The First Page is one of Literarily Speaking’s newest features. Here we get a glimpse into an author’s work and what better place to begin than the first page? Authors share their first pages and answer a few questions about why they started their books off the way they did. Today we welcome [...]
