#Authored by Matthew Costello

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You guys should read/listen to both child’s play novelizations, they’re really good. Both are narrated on YouTube and it actually sounds really good apart from the girl playing Kyle sounding like she’s phoning in from the fucking moon. The guy who did chucky’s voice also did a great job, it sounds different but works really well

I also have the PDF downloads for both books since they’re basically impossible to find physically as they’re no longer in print. The author is also really cool, apparently he watches the series and really likes it. He was also a teacher for quite a while and the way he writes from kid Andy’s perspective is really good

I’ll post both of the links to the books here since they’re no longer being printed. I really recommend listening to the narration on YouTube though. Also, there isn’t an official novelization of the first book due to licensing issues 💔

https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/matthew-costello/pdf-epub-childs-play-2-download/

https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/matthew-costello/pdf-epub-childs-play-3-download/

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Episode 163 - Podcasts

This episode we’re talking about Podcasts! We talk about the first podcasts we listened to (and whether we still listen to them), how we find new podcasts, what speed we listen to podcasts at, what podcasts we’ve been enjoying recently, podcasting in our pyjamas, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Podcasts We Recommended

Mangasplaining

Finish It! Podcast

Stuff The British Stole

Hey Riddle Riddle

One Shot Podcast

Gender Reveal

Stronger by Science

The Slowdown

Food 4 Thot

American Hysteria

Dig: A History Podcast

You Are Good

Clue (1985) w. Lauren Milberger

Other Podcasts We Mentioned

War Rocket Ajax

Episode 333 - Long, Sustained Dong f/ [Jam] and Ian from HARK!

Episode 383 - The Christmas Specials Special f/ [Jam] and Ian from HARK

Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins

HARK! Podcast

Wait, What?

Movie Fighters

Welcome to Night Vale

All Songs Considered

Radiolab

On Being with Krista Tippett

Speaking of Faith

Serial

My Favorite Murder

Maintenance Phase

If Books Could Kill (they apparently don’t have a website, just a Twitter feed and a link to Apple Podcasts)

You’re Wrong About

The Satanic Panic

Quarantine Book Club: “Michelle Remembers”

My Brother, My Brother and Me

The Adventure Zone

Alice Isn’t Dead

The Moth

Episode  136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled

99% Invisible

RISK! Podcast

Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Tenure and Transparency (Brenna Clarke Grey talks about the tenure process)

Links, Articles, and Things

Podcast (Wikipedia)

"Podcast" is a portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast". The earliest use of "podcasting" was traced to The Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben Hammersley, who coined it in early February 2004 while writing an article for The Guardian newspaper.

The man who accidentally invented the word ‘Podcast’

ComicsAlliance (Wikipedia)

Judge Dredd (Wikipedia)

BBC Radio 6

Matthew listened to a lot of Steve Lamacq’s show

Evolution of the iPod [2001-2022]

How YouTube Became a Podcasting Powerhouse Without Trying

Podcast Addict

Who's on First? (Wikipedia)

Abbott & Costello Who's On First

Parasocial interaction (Wikipedia)

15 Literary Podcasts by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Podcasters

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this episode on podcasts, we’ve compiled a list of literature-related podcasts featuring BIPOC hosts/creators.

AAWW Radio

Black Chick Lit

Book Friends Forever

Book Women Podcast

Books & Boba

Deadline City

Dreaming In The Dark

Getting Lit Podcast

LibVoices

Minorities in Publishing

Not Another Book Podcast

Shaping the Narrative

Storykeepers Podcast

Tres Cuentos Literary Podcast

Well-Read Black Girl

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 6th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Military Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, December 20th we’ll be talking about our favourite books we read in 2022!

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Best Movies Coming to Netflix in May 2021

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Movies are slowly coming back to life at the cinemas. You can see it with each glowing report about a Godzilla vs. Kong or Mortal Kombat doing solid business. And for those with more discerning tastes, films like In the Heights and Those Who Wish Me Dead are definitely going to make their release dates.

Nonetheless, there are many who are understandably not ready to go back to theaters (or have yet to get an HBO Max subscription). Thus Netflix remains an old reliable option. While the Netflix movie selection can be narrow, each month offers some worthwhile gems to revisit or even discover. And May has a surprisingly robust group of Hollywood films from the last 40 years coming to the streaming service on May 1. Here are the best ones.

Back to the Future (1985)

Great Scott! Back to the Future is coming to Netflix. As one of the most beloved films of the 1980s—if not ever—it’s doubtful we need to explain in great detail why this is exciting news. From its star-making turn by Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly to the grand musical score by Alan Silvestri, everything about this movie justworks. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s script is like a Swiss watch in precision, paying off every single setup in the film’s first act when Marty commandeers a time machine made by Doc Brown (a lovable Christopher Lloyd) and accidentally travels from 1985 to 1955… to meet his parents as teenagers!

More time has passed since the movie’s release than the once massive generational gap between the film’s primarily ‘50s setting and 1985. Yet it still plays as a timeless story about family, time travel, and manure. Large piles of manure. By the way, the rest of the Back to the Future trilogy is coming to Netflix, too.

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009)

Forget about all the “sad” dog movies of the last decade where canines have funny voiceover narrations and then die on repeat. Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is a very bitter, bittersweet dog’s journey based on a harder truth. A remake of the 1980s Japanese film, Hachikō Monogatari, this American movie is based on the real events surrounding Hachikō, an Akita dog who lived in 1920s Japan. Every day Hachikō would run to the train station, awaiting his master’s return from work. One day, after a fatal stroke, his master never returned. Yet for another 10 years, the dog would escape its various new owners and spend the afternoon waiting at the station.

Directed by The Cider House Rules’ Lasse Hallström, Hachi captures this anecdote about a dog’s loyalty with grace and genuine sweetness. But you’re not going to get through it dry-eyed.

The Land Before Time (1988)

Before it birthed a string of straight-to-video movies meant to babysit pint-sized millennials, the original Land Before Time was a generational touchstone for childhoods in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Overseen by Don Bluth at the height of his talent, and in partnership with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, The Land Before Time is a marvel in animation from the period before Disney Animation’s renaissance. It follows an assortment of baby dinosaurs, including a recently orphaned “longneck” named Littlefoot, after a horrible earthquake has rained devastation on all the isolated herbivores. But together they may just find salvation in a land called the Great Valley.

Essentially a dinosaur road movie for children, to the modern eye it’s told with a surprisingly delicate sensitivity. There is no fourth-wall breaking humor and sideways smirks here. It’s a very earnest fairytale captured in the lost art of hand-drawn animation.

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Based on Alice Sebold’s 2002 bestselling book of the same name, The Lovely Bones has a tough premise: a teen girl is raped and murdered, and goes to heaven where she watches her loved ones attempt to process and move on after her disappearance. The debut novel was not only very popular, but generally well-received for its treatment of trauma, sexual assault, and grief.

The movie, directed by Peter Jackson and starring Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, and Stanley Tucci, among others… was not as well received, fairly criticized for its prioritization of CGI heavenly visuals over a nuanced, character-driven story. You may wonder, then, why we’re recommending a movie that wasn’t great? Because The Lovely Bones is a fascinating watch for those interested in the limits of adaptation and, in particular, how a great filmmaker with expansive resources (including a very talented cast) can fail if they’re not the right person for the job. 

Mystic River (2003)

As one of Clint Eastwood’s best films as director, Mystic River was the first cinematic adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel, and the author’s hardboiled vision of Boston’s tragically seedy underbelly is well realized here. As much about the hard luck community on the South Side as the story of three men, it nonetheless tracks how neighborhood lives intersect.

We meet three boyhood friends in the movie’s unnerving opening and then jump to their bitter middle age. Oe of them, reformed gangster Jimmy (Sean Penn), has a daughter who’s been found murdered in a gutter. His onetime pal Sean (Kevin Bacon), now a detective, swears he’ll figure out who the killer is, and both men’s estranged acquaintance Dave (Tim Robbins) knows more than he’s letting on. All three’s fates are interlinked in this operatic passion play about the traumas we keep hidden until we’re drowning in regret.

Notting Hill (1999)

Though Four Weddings and a Funeral might have put writer Richard Curtis and star Hugh Grant on the map as the kings of ‘90s British romance, Notting Hill is arguably their true pinnacle. Grant plays a foppish bookshop owner who happens to meet the most famous actress in the world, Anna Scott (played by Julia Roberts who might just have been the most famous actress in the world at that time) when she stumbles into his shop.

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From the sympathy brownie competition, the junket where Grant’s William Thacker has to pretend to be a journalist from Horse & Hound, and Rhys Ifans in his pants, there are plenty of funny, moving moments. But it’s the two montage scenes—a walk through Notting Hill as seasons change to Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” and the final montage to Elvis Costello’s “She”—that would melt the hardest of hearts. Rom-com perfection.

Scarface (1983)

Reviews were not initially kind to Scarface, director Brian de Palma’s explosive three-hour remake of the 1932 gangster classic starring Paul Muni (that in turn was based on a novel which loosely chronicled the rise of Al Capone). Written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as psychopathic Cuban refugee-turned-drug-kingpin Tony Montana, the 1983 film was excoriated by critics for its relentlessly graphic violence, excessive foul language, and over-the-top performances, especially by its leading man. But critics at the time missed the point: Scarface was a reflection of its time—the hedonistic, greed-driven, cocaine-fueled ‘80s—and was appropriately and utterly crazed as a result.

The film did mark the moment when Pacino transitioned from intense, thoughtful character actor to (mostly) histrionic circus barker, but he leaves it all on the field and his mania drives the fast-paced film to its epic, bloodsoaked, and unbelievable (in all aspects of the word) conclusion. As a metaphor for the insane decade of excess that birthed it, Scarface is riveting, breathless, occasionally shocking and often unintentionally hilarious. It’s the gangster movie on coke.

State of Play (2009)

Kevin Macdonald’s remake of a British miniseries by the same name turned out to be a strong thriller in its own right. With a whip smart script by Tony Gilroy and Billy Ray, this movie doubles as both an enjoyable investigative procedural and a love letter to journalism just as newspapers were beginning to die out in the 2000s. Russell Crowe plays Cal McAffrey in the film, the last of the old school guard of reporters, but his ethics will be challenged when the congressman with a dead young woman on his staff turns out to be his old college buddy (Ben Affleck). Rachel McAdams also stars as a young blogger who learns the thrill of chasing a story that takes more than an afternoon to research. Helen Mirren, Robin Wright, and Jeff Daniels also star.

The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

Remember when they made comedies for adults? The Whole Nine Yards is one such anomaly. Really a buddy film about a suicidal dentist (Matthew Perry) and a gangster living under a phony alias who moves in next door (Bruce Willis in one of his last truly charming performances), this giggles and gangsters laugher is a secretly delightful ensemble movie with a deep bench of talent. Indeed, Kevin Pollack, Amanda Peet, Nastsha Henstridge, and Michael Clarke Duncan, as the cuddliest gangster you’ll ever see punch your protagonist in the balls until he’s pissing blood, all get to shine. With a twisty plot, it’s an R-rated throwback to the type of screwball shenanigans that were once Hollywood’s bread and butter.

Zombieland (2009)

It’s rare when calling something the second best zombie comedy ever made is high praise, but in a horror subgenre that also includes Shaun of the Dead, this is high praise for Zombieland. As an R-rated teen comedy, one suspects the filmmakers almost lucked into the absurdly talented cast they assembled with Emma Stone, Jessie Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson. In the years since this movie’s release, all three were nominated for Oscars (Stone even won one), but in ’09 they’re just having a blast with this goofy stoner hybrid about a dysfunctional makeshift family having fun during the zombie apocalypse.

Also, it features arguably the greatest comedy cameo ever conceived. If you haven’t seen it, I’m not going to spoil it for you here either…

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4, 23, and 29?

For this meme, if anyone else wants to play.  ^_^ 

4: three songs that you know thanks to your parents(and Uncle)

1) Yellow Submarine (and many other songs that I had no idea were) by the Beatles (until I was much much older. XD)

2) Mairzy Doats by The Merry Macs

3) In the Mood by Glenn Miller and Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman

4) I Feel the Earth Move by Carole King

5) Just… The Weavers.  Everything by the Weavers.  (Yet another group of songs I had no idea weren’t just “kids songs my mom and uncle sing” until I was much older. I was full on OBSESSED in high school. And college.)

6) THE IRISH ROVERS. (Click that first link for excessive squee, if you’re interested. ;D) Particularly this album: The Unicorn.  (AND EXCUSE ME WHILE I HYPERVENTILATE, BUT APPARENTLY THEY RERELEASED THIS ALBUM TWO YEARS AGO WITH A SEQUEL TO THE UNICORN SONG??? OMGGGGGGGG.  THE UNICORNS THAT WOULDN’T GET ON THE ARK TURNED INTO NARWHALS AND SWAM AWAY AND WITH THAT ONE FELL SWOOP, A DEEP LINGERING SADNESS FROM MY CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN WASHED AWAY.  TT^TT)

7) Who’s on First? (link is to a video) by Abbott and Costello – …TRUST ME, IT COUNTS.  Apart from a million French lullabies and tongue twister songs that I cannot find the names of no matter where I look, this is the only one on the list from my Dad.  -.-;;;  But we listened to it ALL THE TIME when I was growing up, so I say it counts.

…also, I can’t count to 3, apparently.  XD

23: three songs that never fail to get you pumped up

1) Pride by American Authors

2) Get Some by Lykke Li

3) HandClap by Fitz and the Tantrums

4) Run-Around by Blues Traveler

5) Ants Marching by Dave Matthews Band

OH, MAN, I haven’t thought about this one in FOREVER but…

6) Santorini by Yanni (TRUST ME.  YOU WILL BE PUMPED.)

7) Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24 performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra

8) …I’m tempted to just throw the whole Carmina Burana in here, but mostly that’s a signing kind of pumped, not a listening kind of pumped, so I won’t.  ;D

9) OK, and honestly, In the Mood, Sing, Sing, Sing, and I Feel the Earth Move could go here, too.  ;D

(…stopping there, but THERE ARE DEFINITELY MORE.)

29: three songs that influenced you most (some songs change or save lives)

This is most definitely a cop-out, but I honestly can’t think of any right now.  O_o;;;

OK, that’s not true.

1) Dana, Dana / Dona, Dona (Original Yiddish version written by Sholom Secunda, Aaron Zeitlin. English lyrics by Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz.  The linked version is the version recorded by Joan Baez.)

Warning on this one: the lyrics are sad.  They are VERY sad.

This song hit me hard and fast as a kid and I still can’t sing it without choking up somewhere in the middle.  I can’t honestly even express HOW it influenced me, but it most definitely did.

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Review: Never Fear - The Tarot

Review: Never Fear – The Tarot

Synopsis: 13Thirty Books asked twenty-six authors to agree to write stories based on the Tarot, with the cards determining which stories the authors would write.  Over the course of several months we reached out to some of the best genre authors and proposed our idea.  Once we had our authors, we took a tarot deck and a list of all twenty-six names. We would read the author’s name, shuffle the…

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Chucky’s First Victim Was His Own Mother Matthew J. Costello wrote the official novelization of Child's Play 2 and the author added a few bonus scenes to the story which fleshed out the backstories of Chucky and Andy Barclay. One chapter whisks the reader back to the youth of Charles Lee Ray, to a time long before his soul was transferred into a tomb of plastic. It reveals that the soon-to-be serial killer was placed in special needs classes as a child, was bullied, had an absent father and an abusive mother. His first murder victim ended up being his own mother, whom he strangled to death. This would go on to become his MO, hence the nickname the Lakeshore Strangler.

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COVID-19 In Pregnant Women Endangers Unborn Children

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COVID-19 In Pregnant Women Endangers Unborn Children

Contracting COVID-19 while pregnant dramatically increases the risk that a woman will give birth before the normal 39-44 weeks of pregnancy. Babies born significantly before term are at higher risk of critical, life-long health problems. The probability of premature and very premature delivery is especially true for women with medical comorbidities including diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. These findings are detailed in a paper in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Regional Health – Americasdescribing a new, large population study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and at the University of California San Diego, the Department of Family Health Care Nursing, the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the University of California Berkeley, the Stanford University School of Medicine, and the University of California Davis.

The researchers used birth certificates issued by California Vital Statistics between July 2020 and January 2021 to track the births of 240,147 pregnant women in California. The certificates recorded the race and ethnicity of each woman. Hospital records indicated each woman’s insurance status. Information about COVID-19 was gleaned either from tests at about the time of delivery or from women’s medical records. As acknowledged by the researchers, diagnoses of COVID-19 from early in pregnancies or from women who did not get regular prenatal care were not always captured in the data.

Findings:

·     About 3.7% of the pregnant women were diagnosed with COVID-19 during pregnancy.

·     A COVID-19 diagnosis increased the odds of very preterm birth (delivery at fewer than 32 weeks), preterm birth (fewer than 37 weeks), and early term birth (37 and 38 weeks).

·     Overall, the women with COVID-19 diagnoses had a preterm + very preterm delivery rate of 11.8%, while women without a diagnosis had preterm + very preterm deliveries at a rate of 8.7%.

·     As perhaps was to be expected from data from the general population in the United States, comorbidities complicated the picture. Women who’d had COVID-19 and who also had hypertension or diabetes or who were obese had a 160% higher risk of very preterm birth and a 100% higher risk of preterm birth.

·     BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other people of color) pregnant women carried what the scientists called an “outsized burden of the pandemic,” as they contracted COVID-19 at a much higher rate than did white women. Latinx pregnant women, for example, represented 72% of those who’d had COVID-19, yet they represented only 47% of the population studied. The paper noted that the higher rate of contraction may have been linked to “occupational exposures wherein racism and capitalism fundamentally shape COVID-19 disease inequity under the concept of racial capitalism.” [Emphasis is in the original.] The researchers also speculated that higher infection rates among BIPOC pregnant women may have resulted from risk factors like crowding in neighborhoods and buildings.

·     Having public rather than private insurance did not seem to affect the rate of pre-term births.

The researchers acknowledged a few areas for further study. Because they didn’t distinguish between early births that were spontaneous and those that were medically induced, more research is needed to understand spontaneous early deliveries by women who’ve had COVID-19 during their pregnancies. Information about what point in their pregnancies the women contracted COVID-19 was not always available from medical records, and neither was information about the severity of infection. The impacts of timing and severity on birth outcomes both require further study.

According to lead study author Deborah Karaskek, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and a researcher with the California Preterm Birth Initiative at UCSF, the takeaway from the study is that public health officials and doctors should prioritize preventative measures, including vaccination, for pregnant women. Karaskek is especially concerned about the lack of equity for BIPOC women and their families. “With the surge in infections and increase in the Delta variant, we must think about pregnant people, especially Black and Brown populations, as the groups that need to be prioritized, with supportive policies to reduce exposure and stress, and increase access to care.”

The study team included Deborah Karasek PhD, MPH; Rebecca J. Baer MPH; Monica R. McLemore PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN; April J. Bell PhD, MPH; Bridgette E. Blebu PhD, MPH; Joan A. Casey PhD; Kimberly Coleman-Phox MPH; Jean M. Costello; Jennifer N. Felder PhD; Elena Flowers PhD, RN; Jonathan D. Fuchs MD, MPH; Anu Manchikanti Gomez PhD, MScj; Kayla Karvonen MD; Miriam Kuppermann PhD, MPH; Liang Liang PhD; Safyer McKenzie-Sampson MSPH; Charles E. McCulloch PhD; Scott P. Oltman MS; Matthew S Pantell MD, MS; Xianhua Piao MD, PhD; Aric A. Prather PhD; Rebecca J. Schmidt PhD; Karen A. Scott MD, MPH, FACOG; Solaire Spellen MPH; Jodi D Stookey PhD; Martha Tesfalul MD; Larry Rand MD; and Laura L.Jelliffe-Pawlowski PhD, MS.

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Top Ten Tuesday 23 February 2021

Welcome to this weeks Top Ten Tuesday. Originally created by The Broke & The Bookish, which is now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week it features a book or literary themed category. This weeks prompt is:

Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud

(Claire @ Book Lovers Pizza)

Rachel’s Holiday 

Synopsis: Here’s Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she’s fond – some might say too fond – of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters – Dublin’s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She’s outraged. Surely she’s not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he’s worth.

Can You Keep a Secret?

Synopsis: Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets.

Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur.

…From her boyfriend: 2. I’m a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks. 3. I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

…From her colleagues: 4. When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day) 5. It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.

…Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: 6. My G string is hurting me. 7. I faked my Maths GCSE grade on my CV. 8. I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is…

…until she spills them all to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger…

Get You Kit Off

Synopsis: Formerly Sex, Lies & Llamas From the author of the Number 1 bestseller – No Bra Required & Guess Who I Pulled Last Night? I’ve read Nikki’s previous books and loved them so I was expecting great things from her again. Guess what? She’s delivered!! The combination of humour, thrills and classic girl might- or might not-get her man is a real winner. If chick-lit is your thing Nikki is the author you need to read. Just brilliant!! – Amazon Reviewer WOW!! I loved this book. I have to be honest and say I put off reading it after I’d bought it, I loved the other 2 books by this author but football is not my thing and I thought the football theme running through it may have spoilt it for me … how wrong was I !! I can’t recommend this book or this author highly enough, I couldn’t put my Kindle down – can’t wait for more stuff from Nikki Ashton!!! – Amazon Reviewer Molly Pearson doesn’t have children, but as the Player Liaison Manager for a premiership football club, she does have twenty-two professional footballers and one jealous fiance to take care of – which as far as she can see is quite similar. With having to deal with problems from players buying zoo animals as pets, to losing their false teeth and a whole lot more, Molly can’t wait for the season to end. But, her life becomes even more complicated, when the man who broke her heart six years earlier, comes back into her life. Hail the returning hero, Joe Bennett, now one of the best footballers in the world and the club’s most expensive signing. Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him, and he’s returned for one reason only – he wants Molly back. With engaging characters, Sex, Lies & Llamas, is a humorous, yet sometimes sad romance depicting the difficulty in always doing the right thing, especially when love is involved.

Someone Else’s Fairytale

Synopsis: Jason Vanderholt, Hollywood’s hottest actor, falls head over heels for every girl, Chloe Winters, who hasn’t gotten around to watching most of his movies. It’s the ideal fairytale… for most people. The last thing Chloe needs is public attention. It brings back dangers from the past that she’s worked her whole life to escape.

The Single Girl’s To-Do List

Synopsis: Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: • Boyfriend • Flat • Great job

NOT on the list: • Being dumped

Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list – The Single Girl’s To-Do List. Rachel doesn’t know it, but it will take her on all kinds of wild adventures – and get her in some romantic pickles too. And then it won’t be a case of what but who she decides to tick off…

• Mr. bendy yoga instructor • Mr. teenage sweetheart • Mr. persistent ex • Mr. deeply unsuitable

The Single Girl’s To-Do List gives Rachel the perfect heartbreak cure – and proves love is out there if you’re willing to take a chance.

Wedding Tiers

Synopsis: The path of true love never runs smooth. But for some, it’s one seriously bumpy ride! A heartwarming new romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A WINTER’S TALE. Growing up in the beautiful Lancashire village of Neatslake, Josie Gray and her childhood sweetheart, Ben Richards, always dreamt of living a life of rural bliss. And when Josie inherits her beloved Grandmother’s cottage, it seems they might just have got what they wished for. Josie throws herself into her wedding cake business, whilst Ben gains increasing acclaim as an artist. But the tranquil village turns into a hive of activity when Josie’s childhood friend, Libby Martin – now a wealthy widow – returns to the village, planning a lavish wedding to rival any celeb bash. The day goes with a bang, and soon Libby and Josie are hard at work at their fledgling wedding business, hiring out Libby’s beautiful Elizabethan home for ceremonies, with Josie creating all manner of wonderful cakes. But amidst all this romance, Josie’s fairytale relationship with Ben turns into a nightmare, and she quickly becomes Love’s number one cynic – until charming wedding photographer Noah Sephton arrives in Neatslake with a very different outlook on love! Can this hopeless romantic persuade pessimistic Josie to give romance another try? Or will it be a case of always the cake maker, never the bride!? A charming, witty and feelgood novel, ideal for fans of Katie Fforde and Harriet Evans.

The Bette Davis Club

Synopsis: The morning of her niece’s wedding, Margo Just drinks a double martini and contemplates the many mistakes she’s made in her fifty-odd years of life. Spending three decades in love with a wonderful but unattainable man is pretty high up on her list of missteps, as is a long line of unsuccessful love affairs accompanied by a seemingly endless supply of delicious cocktails.

When the young bride flees—taking with her a family heirloom and leaving behind six hundred bewildered guests—her mother offers Margo fifty grand to retrieve her spoiled brat of a daughter and the invaluable property she stole. So, together with the bride’s jilted and justifiably crabby fiancé, Margo sets out in a borrowed 1955 red MG on a cross-country chase. Along the way, none of what she discovers will be quite what she expected. But it might be exactly what she’s been seeking all along.

From acclaimed humor writer Jane Lotter comes this madcap, laugh-out-loud adventure, The Bette Davis Club.

Revised edition: This edition of The Bette Davis Club includes editorial revisions.

13 Dates

Synopsis: When Noah Wilson first encounters the quirky, opinionated and very beautiful Angel Fallon, his world is turned upside down. It’s clear she’s not his normal type, but Noah can’t stop thinking about her—which doesn’t bode well for the blind date he’s already late for.

Convinced by his friend (and self-professed dating expert) Marlon that thirteen dates is all you need to fall in love, Noah decides to give it a try with Angel. They should be incompatible: she’s impulsive and he’s a planner; he wants to settle down and she doesn’t ‘do’ relationships—or anything, for that matter—the way Noah is used to. But there’s something about Angel, and Noah can’t shake the idea that all they need is twelve more dates.

Despite some near-disasters involving rock climbing, saddle sores and jellied eels, it seems his plan may actually work. But even if they do reach the magic number, can that really mean they’ll just fall into their happily-ever-after?

The Shelf

Synopsis: Everyone in Amy’s life seems to be getting married (or so Instagram tells her), and she feels like she’s falling behind.

So, when her boyfriend surprises her with a dream holiday to a mystery destination, she thinks this is it – he’s going to finally pop the Big Question. But the dream turns into a nightmare when she finds herself on the set of a Big Brother-style reality television show, The Shelf.

Along with five other women, Amy is dumped live on TV and must compete in a series of humiliating and obnoxious tasks in the hope of being crowned ‘The Keeper’. Will Amy’s time on the show make her realise there are worse things in life than being left on the shelf?

A funny, feminist and all-too-relatable novel about our obsession with coupling up, settling down and the battle we all have with accepting ourselves, The Shelf introduces the freshest new voice in women’s fiction.

The Wish List

Synopsis: Be careful what you wish for… Florence Fairfax isn’t lonely. She loves her job at the little bookshop in Chelsea and her cat, Marmalade, keeps her company at night. But everything changes when her stepsister, Mia, announces that she’s engaged to her boring golf-playing boyfriend. That’s when Florence meets Irish love coach, Gwendolyn. …because you just might get it! When Gwendolyn makes Florence write a wish list describing her perfect man, Florence refuses to take it seriously. Finding someone who likes cats, doesn’t wear pointy shoes and can overlook her ‘counting habit’? Impossible! Until, later that week, a handsome blond man asks for help in the bookshop… But is Rory the one, or is he simply too good to be true? Florence is about to find out that her criteria for finding Mr Right aren’t as important as she thought – and that perhaps her perfect man has been right there all along…

Until next week.

#JustForFun, #Top Ten Tuesday, #TopTenTuesday, #TTT

[bellamysgriffin]

future fics

here’s just a bullet point list at what’s coming next, in the general order they’re coming, most are gmw

five times riley matthews fell for maya hart and one time maya hart fell for riley matthews (gmw) : what it says on the tin. fell is meant literally. 

i can do that (gmw) : little kid!zay. his dance origin story. 

waiting for you (gmw): uhhh this is kinda the opposite of a josh/maya fic, it’s sorta lucaya, but it’s more so just about maya’s character

dear future husband (gmw): how riley lowered her expectations after dating mishaps, and how farkle slowly started to build them back up again

[request]

end of a love affair: maya getting over lucas, and the relationship they never really had. 

amy/rory one shot (dw) - unknown

[miscellaneous au]

alison (gmw): lucas/maya, future high school reunion au. songfic to alison by elvis costello

maybe (gmw): lucas/maya at the end of a painful relationship. they still love each other, but it’s not that simple. maybe it’s time to let go. but maybe...

[request]

like i’m gonna lose you (gmw): lucas/maya, you never really know how much time you have left. lucas and maya decide to make the most of theirs.

missing you (gmw): clique six friendship fic, maya centric. every time maya feels herself falling, she turns to her friends. and in the end, she always comes back to riley. 

[request]

[miscellaneous au]

coat of many colors (gmw): little kid!maya, involves cute katy/maya moments and maya having pride in her family

[request]

it’s gotta be love (gmw): lucaya au, lucas wakes up at some unknown apartment, head pounding from a massive hangover. all he remembers is this girl, not her name, just her, and wow, why are his knees weak all of a sudden?

[miscellaneous au]

miserable at best (gmw): set after lucas and riley break up but maya is still hung up on josh, and even though he’s finally realized he wants her, all he really wants is for her to be happy, even if that means he’s miserable

[request]

all shades of blue (gmw): yes, another lucas/maya, lucas helping maya heal. she wants to sink into her sadness. he won’t let her. 

[miscellaneous au]

[request]

i’ll follow you into the dark (gmw): actually the angstiest lucas/maya fic ever, cancer!au

[miscellaneous au]

[request]

you (gmw): yes, bite me it’s another lucaya fic, okay?

[request]

learn how to fight (gmw): letter from lucas friar addressed to maya hart - never sent

[miscellaneous au]

over you (gmw): lucas and maya both trying to get over each other. not canon compliant. 

people will say we’re in love (gmw): the only fluffy fic i will ever write. people are starting to notice maya and lucas getting closer, and they don’t like it. 

tie a yellow ribbon round the ol’ oak tree (gmw): farkle is coming to see if riley might just want him back again. if she does, she knows what to do. she knows where to find him. if she doesn’t, well, it’ll be his fault. 

requests under the cut! (always open, but may not be done in a timely manner)

"I will never apologize for saving your life, even if it costs me my own.” Amy x Rory or Lucaya.

could you do Riarkle, where Farkle tries to save Riley from a dangerous situation, but she gets seriously hurt despite his efforts and Farkle blames himself for it?

Rilaya — "Why are you avoiding me?"

1: “Come over here and make me.” Riarkle please :)

Riarkle, “I think I’m in love with you and I’m terrified.”

Lucaya, “I wish I could hate you.”

“Kiss me.” Lucaya

“I thought you were dead.” Claire/Charlie please!

Romione “I thought you were dead.” !!!

Amy and Rory, right after Amy get sent back by the angel to Rory (you might've already done this one) :)

Riarkle + their first major fight (angst and fluff please)

Angsty Romione not long after the battle of hogwarts

Tenrose — Tentoo and Rose adapting to life after Journey's End

Topanga finding out she's pregnant (w/ Riley not Auggie, so when they were quite young) and telling Cory

Romione angst and fluff — The two dealing with nightmares and PTSD

Angsty Corpanga — Topanga's feelings/POV during the Lauren triangle

I'm watching A Town Called Mercy right now & I can't help thinking they could've added some small Amy and Rory scenes into the episode, can you do something with that?

"I like watching you. When you laugh, when you smile, when you’re passionately engaged in something you enjoy.” Amy x Rory

"You can’t tell me that all this time spent together has meant nothing to you.” Amy x Rory

"Remember what happened last time we played this game? I’m still looking for my dignity.” Either Amy x Rory or Lucas x Maya

"Stop borrowing flowers out of my garden to woo people who don’t even treat you right.” Lucas x Maya

“I did this all by myself. Can’t you be proud?" Amy x Rory

"You are small and full of anger.” Lucas x Maya

"I know I said I trust your judgement, but I’m thinking that maybe I shouldn’t." Lucas x Maya

“I could eat these cookies for the rest of my life.” Amy x Rory

"It took me a year to figure out how much you meant" Riarkle please xx

I have you shoved against the wall but now I can’t stop looking at your mouth/We’re hiding from the authorities and it’s very close quarters in here, I can feel your body against mine/We were pretending to be lovers but I’m not pretending anymore and I have to know if you feel the same way/you’re my clumsy roommate and I’m a nursing/med student and am constantly patching you up under the guise of ‘gaining experience’ but I just really like taking care of you/touching you - any for Amy/Rory :)

“I just want you to let me in, babe.” “Okay, I see that you’re trying to be romantic, but listen, I would. The door’s jammed.” For Lucaya

Things you said while I cried in your arms. Riarkle

can i request one in Riley's point of view (there isn't so much of that) like how she start to notice her feelings, maybe a confesion of her part at the end

I'd really like to see you write another zayadora something. If you could include something about the reasons why zay likes her, that would be amazing. Some possible prompts would be established zayadora facing heading off to college, an angsty school dance piece where zay can't help feeling jealous of Farkle, or zay asking Smackle out for the first time.

Riarkle: Riley realizes she's in love with Farkle during the worst day of her life.

"Look at me-- just breathe, okay." for Riarkle.

lucaya prompt where they set riley and farkle up after smarkle & rucas both break up, and then stay and spy on them throughout their date.

lucaya prompt where maya loves lucas and is all freaked out because commitment issues and hope is for suckers and lucas tells her he loves her first and maya is like wooosh thank god i love u too babe

okay so just because i love you and your writing so very very much, i've got a lucaya prompt for you: it's senior year of high school and maya's working really hard to get her grades up, to get into her dream school, and eventually an application comes at last minute saying she got into to whatever the dream school was, maybe nyu or brown, and lucas is there with her to open it because she's so nervous and her hands won't stop shaking and she asks him to open it for her and JUST FLUFF PLEASE

Riarkle: Riley and Farkle has a huge fight and Farkle refuses to talk to Riley. This is a story of Riley doing everything she can to get him to forgive her.

“I don’t know where I am. Help me” for Riarkle please. I love your writing btw!!

Riarkle Prompt: Rucas and Smarkle is broken up. Riley realizes her feelings for Farkle. She has been making advances towards him for several weeks now, but Farkle has failed to notice. The Farkle gets sick and Riley does everything she can to take care of him.

“I heard you scream. Nightmares again?” Riarkle

“Hey. Just look at me. Breathe.” Riarkle

“Hold my hand. You’re going to be fine.” Riarkle

“I could just use a hug.” Riarkle

Riarkle Prompt: Farkle notices that Riley has been off lately and he tries to get to the bottom of it by asking non-stop questions. Riley tries to answer as best as she can, but she can't tell him the real reason she's upset. Riley is in love with Farkle and he is seemingly interested in someone else.

“I’m at the hospital.” Lucaya, Maya is hurt

“Don’t touch me!” Lucaya

Riarkle prompt please. "I miss you, not the i haven't seen you in awhile kind of miss you, but the I wish you were here at this very moment kind of miss."

Riarkle prompt: Riley giggles when she's nervous and lately she's been giggling a lot around Farkle.

Farkle has been working a lot lately and Riley is starting to feel as though maybe Farkle isn't as interested in her, so Riley asks for the help of Smackle to try to get his attention.

Right when Farkle finally decides to give up his feelings for Riley, Riley decides to show Farkle how much she loves him.

scorbus' first kiss?

jiles, jax realises he likes miles and starts avoiding him bc he doesnt know how to handle it, but miles gets confused and hurt that his best friend his avoiding him until bianca points out why...

can you do me an angsty as hell peraltiago one? maybe one where jake is working on an emotionally exhausting case (something to do with a kid maybe), and he breaks down and amy comforts him??

Zayadora: Smackle meets parents or first date ask out or college goodbyes or typical hangout

Lucaya prompt- They go to the Carnival together for their first date and have a good time.

“Oh geeze, is that all my blood? Crap. Okay. Cool. I’m not panicking. Uh, shoot. Wow.” (peraltiago, this dialouge is ssooo jake)

“I’m worried about you.” lucaya

Riley starting to think Farkle will never ask her out especially when he starts being really friendly towards a new girl in his science club.

“Do you think that this was a bad idea?” + lucaya

“Do me a favor and never talk to me again. We’re done.” + lucaya

Could you write me some zayadora? I'm not particular about the prompt, but these ones did remind me of them. “I’ve heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason.” “Never lose your heart, use your head!” “I was lost in your spell.” “I believe there’s something in you.” “How can I resist you?”

Imagine Person A in a situation where they have to die so that Person B can live. A is only able to overcome their fear of dying by thinking of B’s smile, and how they’d be protecting it with their sacrifice. A dies peacefully - that is, they would have, if they didn’t suddenly realize how they’d never be able to see B’s smile again. → doctorrose

isadora/riley

For the I love you prompts can you do a lucaya with a shuddering gasp and/or with a whisper in the ear maybe make them kind of sexy 

[itunesbooks]

Cherringham - The Secret of Brimley Manor - Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

Cherringham - The Secret of Brimley Manor A Cosy Crime Series Matthew Costello & Neil Richards Genre: Short Stories Price: $3.99 Publish Date: May 31, 2019 Publisher: Bastei Entertainment Seller: Bastei Luebbe AG Brimley Manor, home to an eccentric museum of oddities from its owner's lifetime of exotic travels also holds dark secrets. When a suspicious fire breaks out, the biggest question must be ... was it just an accident? Sarah and Jack think not. As they begin to explore the history and people of Brimley Manor, they soon learn that this very curious place might also be quite deadly ... Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90's, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and the successful crime fiction series Cherringham. http://dlvr.it/R5llhs

[atlanticcanada]

Visitation to be held for Bobbie Lee Wright in Fredericton

FREDERICTON -- A public visitation is being held Wednesday for one of the victims of the deadly shooting spree at a Fredericton apartment complex.

Bobbie Lee Wright and Donnie Robichaud died in Friday's shooting, along with responding officers Const. Robb Costello and Const. Sara Burns of Fredericton police.

In an obituary published by Carleton Funeral Home in Jacksonville, N.B., Wright is remembered as a compassionate person who loved to help others.

The obituary says Wright graduated from Canterbury High School in 2003 and from New Brunswick Community College with a diploma in medical office administration in 2008.

The 32-year-old woman had previously worked on a tree farm, catered and worked in an office before embarking on a career as a home support worker.

A public visitation is set for Wednesday between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., although there will be no funeral service by request.

Matthew Vincent Raymond has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

He is set to appear in court on Aug. 27.

Meanwhile, lawyers appeared in court Wednesday to discuss a publication ban on certain court documents in the case.

The province's Court of Queen's Bench issued the ban on Monday, hours after media reported their contents.

Public prosecutor Cameron Gunn told the court that the Crown was prepared to lift the blanket publication ban.

He said an amended order seeking a more "narrow ban" has been filed instead. It would unseal the documents but continue to block the publication of names of individuals that have not spoken with media yet.

"We've made our best efforts to limit this ban," Gunn told the court, noting that the amended order strikes a balance between freedom of expression and the open court principle with the right to a fair trial.

But David Cole, a lawyer representing various media outlets, told the court there was no basis for sealing the identities of individuals named in the court documents.

He said the names would be in the public domain during the trial, and that reporters could learn the names from other sources.

"The way this order reads, even if they learn the identities independently they can't publish them," Cole told the court. "I don't think there is authority for the court to do that."

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Judy Clendening has reserved her decision until Friday morning.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/2w4DyvK

[bookclub4m]

Episode 123- Psychological Horror

This episode we’re talking about Psychological Horror! We discuss gore, people being weenies, books with running in them, kiwi fruit, checking the under the bed for monsters, Law & Order: SVU, and our guest host says they want to poison everyone!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Alan Woo

Things We Read (or tried to…)

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay 

Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Grip of It by Jac Jemc

Read by Meghan but not discussed

We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy 

None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney

Other Media We Mentioned

Hostel (2005 film) (Wikipedia)

Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena, translated by Tyran Grillo 

Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia)

Dead Space (video game) (Wikipedia)

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Wikipedia)

Your Turn to Die

The manga’s not legally available in English, but you can find it online...

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory

Ring by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley

The Exorcist (film) (Wikipedia)

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Green Ribbon (Wikipedia)

The first version of this story is The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving (Wikipedia)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Wikipedia)

TV Tropes

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Dark Fang, Vol. 1: Earth Calling by Miles Gunter Kelsey Shannon

Links, Articles, and Things

Junji Ito (Wikipedia)

John Saul (Wikipedia)

Dean Koontz (Wikipedia)

Friday the 13th set to Benny Hill music

Episode 004 - Psychological Thrillers

Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers

Shirley Jackson Award (Wikipedia)

The four times Book Riot has linked to us:

25 More Outstanding Podcasts For Readers by Kate Scott

Masochistic Reading by Tiffani Willis

13 Must-hear Librarian Podcasts by Anna Gooding-Call

33 Of The Best Book Podcasts For All Genres by Julia Rittenberg

Japanese horror (Wikipedia)

Korean horror (Wikipedia)

SCP Foundation

The wolves are under the bed, they’re in the walls

Over the Rainbow Booklist

Not haunted house for sale

To Arrakis by DarkSunn

16 Psychological Horror Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Let's Play White by Chesya Burke

The Between by Tananarive Due

After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones

The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated by  Jordan Stump

Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael & Mitsuko Volek

Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

Helter Skelter by Kyōko Okazaki

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Dark Water by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Glynne Walley

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Just again on Tuesday, April 20th when we’ll be giving an update on non-podcast media we’ve been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing.

Then on Tuesday, May 4th we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Theory and Literary Criticism!

[paleyparksoul]

On the creation of Captain America:

"It was a provocation for intervention as well as an anti-Nazi commentary," notes Matthew J. Costello, a professor of political science at Saint Xavier University and author of the book Secret Identity Crisis, in an e-mail interview. 

[perusingprincesses]

Hot New Releases! ~ Mar 23

Infidelity World

INFIDELITY WORLD IS LIVE!!!!!

Sacrifice by Rae Riley http://amzn.to/2npD7tp Inheritance by T.C.Winters Author Page http://amzn.to/2n9k5oJ Suspicion by Donya Lynne http://amzn.to/2mSBXmc Manor by Ted Persinger http://amzn.to/2mSLzNI Devoted by A.d. Ellis http://amzn.to/2npBonN Incentive by Pam Godwin http://amzn.to/2npsDdg Indiscretion by D.D. Lorenzo, Author http://amzn.to/2nfg57Q Illegitimate by Lulu Astor http://amzn.to/2mSAufB Insider by Jillian Jacobs http://amzn.to/2mSIxZC

Indiscretion (Infidelity World) by D.D. Lorenzo

Love is dispensable; companionship is critical.

Some words of wisdom that my father imparted to me. I never gave much thought to either. My only desire was to be my father’s well-bred heir. A true Southern gentleman who took what he wanted and paved the road to success with the spoils.

Hiding behind the curtain of gentility, I perfected my role.

Until desire tore it in two and I was left with the tattered remains.

Incentive (Infidelity World) by Pam Godwin

Desperate men do desperate things. When Decker Gabrielli hits rock bottom, he accepts a job as a hired companion at Infidelity. Surrendering a year of his life to a woman he’s never met might be the worst idea ever. But money, prestige, and sex are powerful incentives. That is, until the job becomes more than a contractual agreement. Hard limits are breached, panties are shredded, and rules are broken. In the end, his secret to getting ahead is… her .

  Devoted by A.D. Ellis

Adam & Kyle: Something About Him 

Kyle Matthews and Adam Jeffries have a terrific relationship, fabulous friends, and plans for the perfect wedding and honeymoon.

When their plans are derailed, a mysterious stranger comes to their rescue. Yet even with their honeymoon back on track, Kyle and Adam face doubts, hostility, and opposition.

Is their mutual devotion strong enough to save their marriage? Or will the bitter malice awaiting them be the beginning of the end?

**This is a male/male romance meant for ages 18+ due to adult material.**

Suspicion by Donya Lynne

My name is Max.

I’m a con man. A good one, too. One of the best.

But I’m tired of looking over my shoulder, waiting for my luck to run out. So I’m making a career change into the world of professional poker. Which is why I’m in Vegas. There’s a huge Texas Hold’em tournament at the Rio, and I’m going to win it.

My best friend and business partner, Shaun, isn’t happy with my decision to go legit. He says he brought me into the con game and that I owe him. He’s even willing to blackmail me to keep me under his thumb.

I don’t respond well to blackmail, so this isn’t going to work out the way Shaun wants.

Then there’s the girl. Disarming eyes, innocent smile, long legs. Nash came out of nowhere and filled a void in my unworthy heart I only recently realized existed. She’s trying to make a fresh start, too. Maybe together, she and I can create a new beginning and leave our crap pasts behind.

I’ll admit I’ve fallen hard for this girl.

Harder than I’ve ever fallen, and probably harder than I should have.

Because I, more than anyone, should know how easy it is to fall for a con.

Suspicion is an Infidelity World novella about how things aren’t always what they seem.

Manor by Ted Persinger

A woman’s heart can break the shackles of servitude. 

In antebellum Savannah, young Sarah Montague inherits control of a manor and plantation after her husband is commissioned in the Confederate army and leaves to prosecute the war. She is faced with decisions she never could have imagined. But her troubles multiply when the Union army first burns nearby Atlanta to the ground and then occupies Savannah. Sarah has to overcome trials she was never prepared for as her husband fails to return when the city is besieged, and she’s required to quarter a Union general, an intimidating man with dark secrets.

Is Sarah strong enough, or will these forces break her? As her new country disintegrates, she must do what is right for her and those she loves. Will she have the strength to persevere and the will to resist the handsome general?

Manor explores the choices and fortunes Sarah must overcome. It is a novella in the Infidelity Kindle World of Aleatha Romig, and is a prequel to that series.

Illegitimate by Lulu Astor

Meet the new boss… 

Luca Costello, heir apparent to the New York Costello organized-crime family, is a man committed to sin, both professionally and personally. He takes no prisoners and expects no quarter.

Gabriella Buchanan, a beautiful and determined Chicago attorney with family ties to Brooklyn is on her way up when her path accidentally crosses with this son of a major New York crime boss. One look at the sexy, sloe-eyed Luca and she is instantly conflicted. She’s never been so attracted to any man before but they’re on different sides of a dividing line: the law.

For Luca, it’s simple. He can take what he wants and what he wants is Gabriella. In a universe of what-ifs, one thing is certain: Gabriella will prove to be either his saving grace or his fall from grace. The only question is which one it will be.

Inheritance by T.C.Winters

Every stroke of the brush creates an illusion. 

Renowned artist Dante Costello’s carefree lifestyle is shattered by his father’s brutal murder. Although is mafia family is suspect, when he confronts the person he believes is responsible, the man is executed right before his eyes.

In a bizarre twist, his younger sister is arrested for their father’s murder, and Dante is ordered to locate a priceless stolen painting to exonerate her.

During his search, Dante investigates the family business and is devastated to discover his father’s legitimate lifestyle was only an illusion.

As the hunt turns deadly, Dante must race against time to protect everyone he loves

Insider by Jillian Jacobs

Within the lens, everything is picture perfect… Or is it? 

Stepping through Infidelity’s doors binds all who enter to the strictest secrecy. Even insiders have secrets they must keep, and the consequences for betraying that bond are dire.

Infidelity insider Imina Lesedi is forbidden to share her employer’s secrets—and her own. Only one man understands the delicate nature of working for a company that provides companionship for the elite, but his social and financial status make him unattainable, even though Imina craves a visit to his darkroom.

Award winning photographer Aiden Maxfield views life from behind the camera. A charmer by nature, he relishes the moments he makes the elusive Imina smile—but he would much rather picture the exotic beauty on his rumpled sheets.

When the two are trapped together, the enticement proves too strong to resist. Raw passions are exposed, and their years of denial culminate in an insatiable desire for more.

But not everyone celebrates their newfound bliss. A malicious foe is threatened by Imina’s knowledge of a dark secret from their shared past. When that truth is exposed, Imina and Aiden must fight for their love before it becomes shuttered by lies, deception—and Infidelity.

Sacrifice by Rae Riley

What would you do to save your best friend? 

Chelsea Moore took the deal and signed the agreement. She was supposed to be assigned to a lobbyist. He was supposed to be a stranger. Of course, life doesn’t usually go the way it is supposed to go.

Instead of spending a year of her life investigating a stranger, Chelsea is stuck. Her new client isn’t a stranger. It’s her best friend’s ex-boyfriend. He is the son of the devil and she is the sacrificial lamb.

To escape his entrapment, Chelsea will have to be cunning, use deception, and commit to a year of fidelity. Most importantly, she will have to convince her best friend that it wasn’t a betrayal – it was a sacrifice.

ASH (Jagged Edge #5) by A.L. Long

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Two cops have been among the many 4 individuals shot and killed Friday morning within the Canadian metropolis of Fredericton, New Brunswick, police mentioned.

 (Fredericton Police Division)

Two cops have been among the many 4 individuals shot and killed Friday morning within the Canadian metropolis of Fredericton, New Brunswick, police mentioned.

The suspect taken into custody has been recognized as Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48. He was charged with 4 counts of first-degree homicide at an arraignment Saturday morning, the Globe and Mail reported. Raymond was hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a confrontation with police, authorities mentioned.

The suspect is because of seem in court docket Aug. 27, the report mentioned.

The slain officers have been recognized as Sara Mae Helen Burns, 43, and Lawrence Robert Costello, 45, officers mentioned throughout a information convention.

Burns had been on the drive for 2 years earlier than beforehand serving as an auxiliary officer for one more two years, police mentioned. She leaves behind a husband and three youngsters.

Costello was a 20-year veteran of the police division and leaves behind a companion and 4 youngsters, police mentioned.

A minimum of 4 individuals have been killed in a capturing incident on Friday, August 10, 2018.

 (Keith Minchin/The Canadian Press by way of AP)

On Saturday, authorities recognized the 2 slain civilians as Donald Robichaud, 42, and Bobbie Lee Wright, 32. A Fb submit by Wright earlier this month mentioned the pair have been in a romantic relationship, the Globe and Mail reported.

Fredericton police responded to calls of pictures fired round 7:10 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Martin Gaudet mentioned. After arriving to the scene, officers noticed two civilian victims on the bottom earlier than getting shot themselves.

Earlier Friday morning officers tweeted to warning residents to keep away from Brookside Drive on account of an “ongoing incident.” Later, police confirmed 4 individuals had been killed. It was not instantly clear what precipitated the capturing.

Police urged residents to remain of their properties and lock their doorways on the time of the incident. 

Residents advised CBC Information the gunshots gave the impression of popping noises. 

“With the tempo, it would’ve been a gunshot. It was kind of like a pop, pop, pop, pop,” resident Robert Didiodato advised CBC Information. 

Didiodato mentioned individuals have been staying inside their properties and following the division’s directions. 

CTV Information spoke to a girl who was escorted from her residence within the space and he or she advised the station she heard what seemed to be gunshots. The media outlet reported police have been speaking to residents within the space asking what they heard or witnessed.

David MacCoubrey, who lives in Fredericton, mentioned he heard about 20 pictures and was hiding on his kitchen flooring.

“I am on my flooring,” he advised the Related Press in a telephone interview. “The cops have come via my place. They’ve searched all of the residences within the constructing. It sounded prefer it began within the courtyard space.”

Two officers have been killed within the incident in Fredericton, Canada, on Friday, August 10, 2018.

 (Keith Minchin/The Canadian Press by way of AP)

MacCoubrey mentioned police have been looking out the buildings, and he’s been sitting away from home windows.

Travis Hrubeniuk mentioned his fiancée had simply left for work round 7:45 a.m. native time when he started listening to a gentle stream of sirens.

Hrubeniuk mentioned residents have been suggested to remain inside with their doorways locked. The quiet residential neighborhood, which has homes, grocery shops, a church and an elementary faculty, is the final place Hrubeniuk mentioned he anticipated to come across a harmful scenario.

“That is the primary time I’ve even heard of any critical crime or violent crime on this metropolis,” he mentioned.

Map locates Fredericton, Canada, the place a capturing has killed a minimum of 4 individuals in keeping with police.

 (AP)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted his condolences following the incident.

“Terrible information popping out of Fredericton. My coronary heart goes out to everybody affected by this morning’s capturing. We’re following the scenario carefully,” the prime minister wrote. 

Fredericton has a inhabitants of about 58,000 and is situated simply northeast of Maine. The town is the capital of New Brunswick. 

Fox Information’ Elizabeth Zwirz and the Related Press contributed to this report.

Kathleen Joyce is a breaking/trending information producer for FoxNews.com. You may comply with her at @Kathleen_Joyce8 on Twitter.

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