All Things Books and Publishing

On today's show Mary and I talked about all the small press publishers popping up as well as how using AI to write your book will destroy you as a writer on so many levels

The year is 1888. The Place is the East End of London. Dead and mutilated bodies are popping up all over the east end from Stamford to Whitechapel.

Jack the Ripper is making his mark in the East End in ways that puts the city on edge, so to speak.

Johnathon Rhoades has been exposed to mercury since he was a boy of sixteen working in his father’s hat factory, which he now owns due to his father’s unexpected death. The hats that are created at the factory are in such demand that he almost cannot keep up with the orders.

Young Elizabeth, who happens to be in the employ of Johnathon Rhoades manages the storefront on Whitechapel road.

As the body count climbs and all of the East End is quaking in their shoes, the hat factory is booming. Everyone who is anyone wants a creation from the Rhoades Hat Factory including Sam Flanghan, the local dead body man. However, he gets more than he bargained for.

What could go wrong in a nice little southern home for the geratric group

who can no longer live in their own homes? They are in the twilight of their years

and have no worries, or do they? Join Ms. Amanda Peacock one of the

South's premire families of old money, as she along with Andrew Jackson and

Henry Wadsworth take on a not so nice employee whose only goal in life is murder while seducing

the bosses daughter for his own neferious goals.

See all formats and editions

This little book is a collection of short stories that range from the believable to the unhinged. They were part of several anthologies which are no longer in print.
For instances, how many of you know a Granny Assassin? Or how about having tea with a sweet little old lady?
Then there is a rougue homicide detective. This is just three of the stories in this book guareented to keep you up nights.

Lala and Dante Sherman have both been released from confinment. Lala from the institution of the insanely stupid and Dante from prison because of an alleged technicality. Chuck Bennett has returned for whatever reason and there is a new woman in the shadows who looks vaguely familiar. A woman who was supposed to be dead.
Once again Greer O'Malley is up to her neck with accusations of murder,madness and mayhem. Will she find out why there are bodies piling up wear nothing but thongs? Who put the thongs on the grass in a straight line? Why is Lala hellbent on making Greer the bad guy? Has Greer moved into the village of the living dead?
Amanda Peacock Rochester, Andrew Jackson and Henry Wadsworth, join Greer on this journey of comedy, drama, murder, madness and meyhem. We can't forget the queens who show up to help solve the crimes.
Duct Tape, Tarp and A Shovel is the second book from the Murder in the Village Series.

EPIC FANTASY ADVENTURE CONTINUES! ⚡

Journey on a Hostile Sea Book 2: Wilderness of Ren by Roy Owenby

🌊 A sea as treacherous as the enemies they face.

The band of misfits from the world of Ren returns in a storm of danger and destiny!

Yani and his loyal crew — human and animal alike — battle raging waves, savage foes, and an unforgiving wilderness. From one perilous shore to the next, they fight not only for survival… but to rescue every soul they can along the way.

Will their courage hold against the fury of the Hostile Sea?

Heart-pounding action. Unbreakable bonds. A world that never stops testing its heroes.

Perfect for fans of epic fantasy, animal companions, and non-stop nautical thrill rides!

Jake Slater is a private detective. The year is 1947. World War II is finally over. It was time to rebuild. Hollywood was moving from silent movies to voice. Young women with stars in their eyes and dreams of being the next Hollywood leading lady were making their way to the glitter city.
Among those women was young woman by the name of Elizabeth Short. Naïve, young, stunning and sexy. So much so that she gained the attention of Jake Slater. It was a one-night stand, then she was gone.
Then she was dead. She was known as the Black Dahlia.
Jake is on a mission to find her killer. Will her ghost consume him? No one deserved to die like she did. No one deserved to be mutilated like she was. Will her case ever be solved or would it remain among those files that never see the light of day after a period of time?
The Black Dahlia, A Jake Slater Mystery is based on a true crime.

Fear Will Not Win Today is the the story of one woman's journey througth the emotion of living in fear and of being fearful. How she overcame it and how she learned to trust God by understanding that fear is destructive. A tool
used by the Devil to make us Question God and his plan for us.

in Hollywood history

1947. The war is over. Hollywood is booming. Glamour. Lights. Cameras. And beautiful young women with stars in their eyes pouring into the City of Dreams.

One of them was Elizabeth Short — stunning, sexy, naïve… and unforgettable.

Private Detective Jake Slater met her for one sizzling night. Then she vanished.

Now she’s dead. Mutilated. Bisected. Left on a vacant lot like a broken doll.

No one deserved to die like that. No one.

Jake Slater is on the hunt. But the deeper he digs into the shadows of Tinseltown, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Will the ghost of the Black Dahlia consume him… or will he finally bring her killer to justice?

A hard-boiled detective. A glamorous victim. A city that eats its own. This isn’t just another murder case. This is personal.

THE BLACK DAHLIA A Jake Slater Mystery Based on the true crime that still haunts Hollywood

Today two new books went live A Journey With Angels by Mary Brotherton and Footsteps on an Empty Beach by L.E. Ryan - The Black Dahalia by J.C. Macek, III will go up for publication today -it is coming soon