New Release from Stephany Tullis – ‘Love’s Legacy’ (Religious/Inspirational fiction) – 19th July

Today author Stephany Tullis’ new release ‘Love’s Legacy’ (Contemporary Religious/Inspirational fiction) is published by Kindle Worlds at $1.99.

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Can their marriage survive the loss of one of God’s greatest gifts?

Can ‘A’ list couple, Kevin and Deidre O’Connor’s marriage survive the escalating inter-family turmoil that follows the murder of their three-year-old son? In the midst of their raging storm, car trouble leads them to Sweet Grove, Texas and an opportunity to find the peace that surpasses all understanding.

Blurb

When stunning Deidre Torres, the new HR Director, introduces herself to Kevin O’Connor at an Executive staff meeting, Kevin’s heart forewarns danger.

When he invites her to have coffee with him the next day, she hesitates but accepts. The following week, she flatly refuses his dinner invitation citing company policies that prohibit co-worker dating.  After six months of Kevin’s non-stop persistence, Deidre risks her job and agrees to have dinner.

Deidre and Kevin follow their hearts despite the objections and advice of well-meaning family and friends who advise of the complexities of interracial dating. In a fairy tale-like wedding, they vow to each other and before the many doubting wedding guests that nothing will ever separate them.

Six years later, they not only violate their vows but for the first time question the depth of their love for each other.  Previously unknown racial stereotypes, beliefs and differences threaten to destroy their marriage when their three-year-old son is killed by a stray bullet at a local peace rally.

Will Kevin’s hatred of his son’s killer unmask feelings he never knew he had? Can their marriage tolerate the escalating inter-family turmoil? Can their marriage survive the loss of one of God’s greatest gifts?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In my world there is no life without writing, travelling, family, music, and my love of politics.  My loves and interests are central to my writing.  With this backdrop, regardless of the date or time of your visit, you will find me and my family.  My world (my back-story) is guided by my faith and the inspiration I receive from God.  Without exaggeration, family and relationships are the core of every book I write.

I love to travel and like me, my characters are always off and running and in so doing require me to research (and often visit) so many fascinating places.  I also love music – all kinds and I’m never surprised by what track finds its way to my personal playlists and a character’s ring tone, door chime, or car radio station.

People frown sometimes and don’t understand my love of politics, but I have a political administration background and thrived on and in my past government career.  For me, it’s the people, the process and what democracy offers.  As with life, my fictional towns and cities include mayors, governors, and school board members etc.

If you haven’t guessed, I love my world that allows me to not only live the life I love, but to also share it with others.

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AuthorPilot

I thought I’d let you all know of a promotional website to showcase Indie authors’ work that you might not have come across – AuthorPilot:

https://www.authorpilot.com/

Do check it out folks.  It’s completely free.  You can add the first chapter of your book and the cover, and answer a couple of interview questions as well.  There is a list of readers too, if you just want to subscribe to that.

https://www.authorpilot.com/house-without-windows/

Do send me a friend request if you join!  Thanks!

https://www.authorpilot.com/members/stevieturner/

 

Bargain Book – Ein Haus Ohne Fenster

For all German readers, my romantic suspense novel ‘Ein Haus Ohne Fenster’ is just $0.99 / £0.99 from today 22nd June until Thursday 29th June.

http://bookShow.me/B01FR7DK70

Der Roman “Ein Haus Ohne Fenster” kostet vom 22. bis 29. Juni 2017 nur 0,99 $ und wird danach auf allen Amazon-Seiten zum ermäßigten Preis angeboten.  “Ein Haus Ohne Fenster” ist ein preisgekrönter Roman der britischen Autorin Stevie Turner, der von Jutta Schmitt-Teiwes ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde.  Er erzählt die Geschichte von Dr. Beth Nichols, die, am Anfang ihrer Schwangerschaft und verlobt mit Dr. Liam Darrah, entführt wird und gegen ihren Willen von ihrem verwirrten Ex-Patienten Edwin Evans gefangen gehalten wird.  In der Gefangenschaft bringt sie ihre Tochter zur Welt, Amy, die 10 Jahre später ein intelligentes, neugieriges Kind ist, das nie die Außenwelt kennen gelernt hat.

Liam sucht nach Beth, der Liebe seines Lebens und kommt schließlich zur Schlussfolgerung, dass seine Verlobte tot ist.  Nach zehn Jahren gibt er auf und gründet ein Zuhause mit Patti, die ihm einen Sohn schenkt, Toby. Kann Beth aus dem Haus ohne Fenster entkommen? Werden Liam und Beth wieder vereint? Dieser Roman wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven erzählt: zunächst von Beth, die in Gefangenschaft erwacht und von Amy, die kein anderes Leben außerhalb des Haus ohne Fenster kennt.  Die Geschichte wird auch aus Liams Sicht geschildert und nicht zuletzt auch von Edwins Standpunkt aus.  Sechzehn Jahre später wird die Geschichte von Joss, Beth und Edwins Sohn erzählt.

Auf Amazon.com gibt es 60 Rezensionen. Nachfolgend eine der 5-Sterne-Rezensionen:

“Verheerend, gruselig und tief berührend, Stevie Turners “Haus ohne Fenster” ist vieles: unter anderem eine verwirrende Liebesgeschichte, die Erzählung einer Entführung, Gefangenschaft und Bedrohung, die Erzählung einer Frau, die sich im Angesicht von blanker Verzweiflung an die Hoffnung klammert sowie die Schilderung der klaustrophobischen Welt eines traumatisierten kindlichen Opfers und der gequälten Erwachsenen, zu der sie wird.  Die vielschichtigen und wechselnden Erzählebenen schildern die verwirrende Verrücktheit des Edwin Evans und seiner psychotischen Handlungen, die jeden, der zum Opfer seiner Geisteskrankheit wird, verschlingen. Das Buch ist ganz sicher nicht für Kinder geeignet, jedoch wirklich sehr empfehlenswert.”

Kindle Scout Campaign – The Porn Detective

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Kindle Scout Campaign

My thanks go to Amazon, who have now accepted that the second edition of my novel The Porn Detective is totally different to the original.  As the new version has never before been published, they have approved it for a Kindle Scout Campaign, which launches today and runs until 15th July.  However, I’ve had to use a new temporary cover.

Kindle Scout is reader-powered publishing for new, never-before-published books. It’s a place where readers help decide if a book gets published. Selected books will be published by Kindle Press and receive 5-year renewable terms, a $1,500 advance, 50% eBook royalty rate, easy rights reversions and featured Amazon marketing.

Please can I ask you to nominate The Porn Detective?  To cast your vote please click on the link below from 15th June – 15th July.

https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/3IQ62RDNCFI3F

Told from the perspectives of both Martin Andrews and his wife Frances, The Porn Detective charts the damaging effect that an addiction to pornography has on a previously happy marriage. When Frances tells Martin that she wants to leave, Martin begs her to accompany him for therapy. Counsellor Rhona advises them to take a holiday and start talking to each other again. Will the holiday bring Martin and Frances together again, or force them further apart?

Thanks in advance for your vote – it is much appreciated!

 

Alys In Hunger-Land

I’ve often read that as authors it’s good to sometimes write outside of our comfort zone.  I must admit that I do prefer to base plots around middle-aged protagonists carrying emotional baggage or going through some sort of crisis.  I find a mid-life crisis more interesting to write about rather than younger people who are yet to experience life’s ups and downs and tend to be more self-absorbed in their quest for a career and/or partner.

Even before I had begun writing my debut novel in 2013 I had started a short story based on an overweight 18 year old, Alys Linford, who spends most of her life sitting with her equally large mother Jackiey on the sofa watching daytime TV.  Alys wants to be slim and have a life outside of their dingy council flat,  and after one particular over-indulgent Christmas she gets the motivation to try and shed half her body weight.  Jackiey has no such inclination to lose the pounds, and therefore Alys and Jackiey’s contrasting lifestyles start to cause some friction.

The short story was never finished, and it was put on the back burner as I then had the idea for The Porn Detective.  Recently after re-writing The Porn Detective I picked up Alys In Hunger-Land again and turned it into a 29,000 word novella. It seemed strange after 4 years of writing novels about over 50’s and then sitting down to finish this one about a person who is so young, but if you’re looking for a light beach read this summer for just $0.99/£0.99, why not give it a go?

At the moment Amazon seem to have published the old book cover which I had originally added back in 2013, but hopefully the new cover will be on view soon.

http://bookShow.me/B00BGS2E0O

Here’s a little taster from Chapter 1:

Hi.  I’m Alys Linford.  The Alys is pronounced the same as Alice, but Mum wanted me to be a bit different from all the other Alices.  I certainly am a bit different, because I’m probably somewhat larger than the majority of them.   I’m only 5ft 3, and look like a little round ball of fat.  Life sucks big time.

I hate weighing myself, but I’m addicted to seeing just exactly how much I do weigh.  In the privacy of the bathroom I flick my shoulder-length brown hair behind my ears out of the way and gaze down at the scales (I make sure I’ve ‘been’ to the loo), noticing with some alarm that two more pounds have been gained, tipping me over into 20 stone something instead of 19 stone something.  I want to cry.

I trudge back into the front room and flop down dejectedly onto the sofa.  Mum looks up from doing The Sun crossword, takes another puff of her fag, and blows out a smoke ring.

“What’s up?”

I wipe away a tear and look down at my feet.

“I’ve just gone up another two pounds.”

“That’s Christmas for you.” Mum shrugs. “Eat and be happy, that’s what I say.  I’m going to throw those bloody scales away.”

Mum had bought a huge turkey for Christmas Day.  She hates vegetables and never cooks them, so we had eaten loads of turkey and chips and baked beans for our Christmas dinner.  She doesn’t like fruit, fruit cake or Christmas pudding either, and so she had made a big chocolate cake full of fresh cream for afters.  There was just Mum and I to eat it all, as Dad had died of a heart attack last year and I don’t have any brothers and sisters.  The turkey and chocolate cake lasted us about three days.  After that it was back to normal.  We often have Chinese takeaways for dinner, or if not Mum will cook something like pizzas, pies or sausages with loads of chips, or big fry-ups with lashings of fried bread.  It all tastes lovely.  Sometimes I wish it tasted like shit, and then I wouldn’t want to eat it.

 

 

 

The Donor is FREE Today and Until 12th June.

My publisher Creativia is offering my family drama ‘The Donor’ free today and until 12th June.

http://bookShow.me/B01G3KFZ64

When you meet the love of your life, the last thing you expect is your sister luring him away.

Clare faces this scenario when her sister, Isabel, marries singer and guitarist Ross Tyler. To make things even worse, Ross hits the big time, makes a fortune and moves to France with his family.

But when tragedy strikes, Ross and Clare are forced to revisit their common past, one which they must try to put behind them for Isabel’s sake.

REVIEW:

5.0 out of 5 stars  “THE DONOR” GRABS YOU FROM THE OPENING LINE

ByMichael Phelpson January 15, 2016

Format: Kindle Edition

AUTHOR STEVIE TURNER is a novelist from “across the Pond”, Great Britain. “THE DONOR” is my first read of her lengthy list of novels. Now,I am excited to read every novel she has written.

In “THE DONOR”, Ms. Turner has crafted a novel with characters so well developed, you instantly visualize their physical appearances and through her real descriptions of their personalities, through “their” thoughts and words, you feel you KNOW them as living human beings. I found her writing style to be very unique. I have been a voracious reader for over sixty years and must confess I have never read any book that is outside the traditional “first persone” or “third person” point of view. I was immediately quite impressed that Ms. Turner has written “THE DONOR” with each character’s individual point of view.

I am amazed at how Ms Turner deftly switches between her characters to pen a very touching novel.  ‘The Donor’ opens in 1970 with the end of a three day band festival, a sort of British version of America’s infamous ‘Woodstock’ of 1969.  The reader is introduced to Clare Ronson, who at almost 19 had secreted away three days earlier with her best friend Ruth to attend the festival, unbeknownst to her father Donald and mother Marian. Her father, a doctor and her mother, a nurse are upper-middle class and devoted to Claire and her older sister, Isabel (“Izzy”), At the end of the festival, having been awake for three days and nights, she has her food stolen, and she is penniless. We then meet “Ross Tyler”, a blond Adonis, her “Knight in Shining Armor”. He provides her with an apple. He wraps a protective arm around her and offers to take her to the Ferry Station and assure her safe passage home. They spend several hours together, hitching a ride with a farmer to the Ferry boat station. Claire instantly falls in love with Ross and is positive he will be her “soul mate”.  Ross invites her to a local Pub, where he and his band will be performing the following Saturday night. She agrees. She knows, however that her father will never approve of Ross, an art student and guitar player /singer in a rock band.

Once home, she finds her sister Izzy is home from the University, where she is a medical student. She tells Izzy all about the festival and her meeting Ross. She learns from Izzy that she has broken off her relationship with her long-time boyfriend, Jeff. She invites Izzy to the pub to meet Ross and watch the band’s performance. Izzy accepts and they tell their parents they are going to visit her friend Ruth. Events unfold from there, taking the reader through the next three decades with many twists and turns, incidents unfold which tears the family apart. The reader is gripped as each character describes the incidents through their individual point of view. The ending will blow your mind!

“THE DONOR” is a love story that has all of the characters intertwined. Reading how each character views the evolving events in “real time” through the years is unique and makes “THE DONOR” one of the very BEST novels I have read in the last eighteen months. I LOVED it!

I give “THE DONOR” FIVE STARS, would give more if allowed. I highly recommend it. Ms. Turner is a true professional. Now, I will purchase every novel this extremely talented Author has written. A list of her novels appears in the front of “THE DONOR”. Oh, did I mention that Ms. Turner has used a lot of true English slang, and I loved it.

THE ETERNALS

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A DARK FANTASY EXTRAVAGANZA!

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A Question …

At the moment one of my books ‘A House Without Windows’ has been reduced in price by Amazon for a promotion on Amazon.CA for the entire month of June.  It’s currently on page 13 of the ‘Featured Deals’ section, which you can check out if you like by clicking on this shortened link:  goo.gl/yhgV3A

The question I’m putting to all you writers out there, is how do I promote a book that is only discounted on Amazon.CA?  All the promotional sites I usually feature my discounted books on want details of the Amazon.COM site only.

I’ve sold one book in Canada so far this month, which has pushed the book up the ‘Featured Deals’ section from page 17 to page 13, but if I can find the right site to promote it on perhaps I’ll have more sales which might get it to page 1 (she says hopefully)!

Anybody have an answer for me please?  All comments gratefully received!

 

Discount on Amazon.CA

Amazon.CA is featuring my romantic suspense novel ‘A House Without Windows’ at a discounted price of 1.79 Canadian Dollars for the entire month of June.  Below is the buy link, where you can also read a synopsis and preview.  Would appreciate some shares please folks!

Any Authors Had Success With This Promotion?

Hi all,

Today I received an email from Amazon to say that they are considering including ‘A House Without Windows’ in an upcoming promotion in the Kindle Store on Amazon.ca for the whole month of June at a discount that they would determine.  The original price and the discount would be listed on the book’s page.  The discount could be up to 85% off, and royalties would be paid according to the discounted price.  As an aside, they state that they cannot guarantee my book will be featured.

I just wondered how many other authors have taken part in this Kindle promotion?  If you have, did you find it successful?  Also, why only Canada and not a general discount?

This is the first time I’ve been contacted in this way.  A House Without Windows is my best-selling book, but reading through the rules I see that books must be priced between 2.99 – 9.99 CAD before they are able to be discounted.  This leads me to another question:  Would it be best if all e-books were priced at $2.99 to start with?  Would they all then have an equal chance at this promotion?  Currently all my other books apart from this one are at a lower price.

I’ve told them to go ahead.  I’ve no idea whether I’ll sell hundreds of books or none at all.