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…of Where They Bury You by Steven W. Kohlhagen

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WELCOME ELLA DURHAM

ELLA DURHAM

Ella Durham was born and raised in Sunderland, England and following a long career in the UK’s Department of Works and Pensions, she moved to Spain and worked for three years in an abused animal sanctuary in the Costa del Sol, caring for over 125 cats and kittens. Now retired, she resides in a small Spanish village in the Malaga province of Andalucia with her husband. Durham’s passion for creative writing started when she was just eight years old and since retiring, she has won a fiction writing competition, something which spurred her on to finally concentrate on her writing; she’s already working on her next murder-mystery novel, this time setting the action in Spain. Durham is the resident short story writer for two Spanish magazines.
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Q&A with Ella Durham
Writing and Reading:
-Do you draw from personal experiences and/or current events?
Most of my writing comes from personal experiences, memories from my past or just pure imagination but sometimes they are my own interpretation of other people’s experiences where I question, what could have brought that about or what if that happened to me?-Do you start with the conclusion and plot in reverse or start from the beginning and see where the story line brings you?
I begin by deciding on what the message or theme of the story shall be. For example a good moral tale, a funny twist in the tale, a heart-warming feeling, something strange to get the reader thinking or a shock! I like to sketch out the bare bones of the story and then build it up, so that it works towards a natural ending or conclusion. I find creating the characters first helps me to define what the interaction between them shall be and how they will end up as ‘goodies’ or baddies’! Sounds complicated but it isn’t really.-Your routine when writing?  Any idiosyncrasies?
My ideas and story’s development usually come to me at night, while I’m in bed. That’s when my mind whirrs and I often feel like jumping up to the computer to scribble it all down but instead I rely on a shorthand notebook in my bedside cabinet.  I like to write every day if possible, usually in the early afternoons. Sometimes I can hit the keys for four  or five hours without realising the time ticking away,  then other days I can only manage half an hour. It all depends on my mood and energy levels.   I like to have a coffee at my elbow mid afternoon, and if I’m being really naughty, a cold Fino sherry to sip at once the sun has gone down beyond the yard-arm.-Is writing your full time job?  If not, may I ask what you do by day?
Writing is my passionate hobby and an outlet for my vivid imagination (my husband says.)   Otherwise, I love cooking. I spend huge amounts of time poring over cookery books and trying out different recipes from all over the world. I make my own bread, naans, pittas breads, crumpets, tarts and pastries as well as  jam, marmalades, chutneys and fruit curds. Each year I also marinate and produce  batches of green and black olives which my Spanish neighbours kindly give me  freshly harvested from their groves. Delicious!  I also enjoy walking  with my husband and our two rescued dogs. Swimming in our pool  during the hot weather keeps me cool and  of course I love reading and watching TV.   I also thoroughly enjoy our village’s colourful fiestas which bring out the spirit of the Spanish way of life here.-Who are some of your favorite authors?
My favourite authors are
Harlen Coben, Mary Higgins Clark, Alex Barclay, Linwood Barclay and Jane Austin.-What are you reading now?
I am reading, ‘Caught’ by Harlen Coben

-Are you working on your next novel?  Can you tell us a little about it?
Yes, I am working on my next novel. Another murder mystery, this time set in Spain under the working title of “No Sleep Till Dawn”. With the same lead character as Ebony Blood, this time Greg Williams now reconciled with his family, takes his family to Spain for a fresh start and bumps into an old flame. Her wild step daughter, Donna, hangs around with a bad crowd and the step mother is unable to tame her. Donna disappears during the town’s annual Feria and because he is fluent in Spanish and the Spanish police have little to go on, Greg is asked to help in the search for her. When a girl’s body is discovered , it is up to Greg to break the devastating news to her parents and reveal the even more shocking news that he knows who the murderer is.

Fun questions:
-Your novel will be a movie.  Who would you cast?
If Ebony Blood was a movie, I would cast
Brad Pitt as Greg Williams
Jennifer Anniston as his wife, Trish.
John Altman as Tony
Kevin Whately as DI. Willard
Larry Lamb as Ramsay

-Would you rather read or watch TV/movie?
Both

-Favorite food?
The Spanish dish, Baked Sea Bream and Poor Man’s potatoes

-Favorite beverage?
I love a cold, dry Fino sherry

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Murder in the Scottish Borders throws a brothers’ ill-fated fishing trip off course and their own dark secrets risk being exposed.

“Fishing for the truth can be murder.”

With their personal lives in tatters, and in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the brotherly bond they once shared, Greg and Tony Williams embark upon a fishing trip to the Scottish Borders. No sooner than they arrive, the brothers learn that the police are investigating a gruesome murder and are on the hunt for a fugitive. The news further fuels Tony’s agitated behaviour, intensifying the brothers’ volatile relationship. The pair begin to argue uncontrollably and, ignoring a local’s advice to avoid the notorious stretch of river known as Ebony Blood, they set off into the unknown. Then Tony reels in a headless corpse from the murky waters; shortly afterwards he disappears.

As the body count in this quiet Scottish town starts to rise, the police target Tony as a potential suspect and an official search is launched in order to track him down. Desperate to find his brother before the police do and to prove his innocence, Greg takes up an offer of help from Marie Frazer, a local barmaid, but quickly becomes suspicious of her actions. Following a confrontation, Marie confesses to having known Tony previously and reveals the secrets that threaten to shatter their relationship forever. With Tony still nowhere to be seen, it will fall to Greg to solve the mysterious chain of events himself, whilst struggling to come to terms with the truth of Tony’s double-life, a horror all of its own which is unraveling before him. Greg must enter a dark world of murder, drug crimes and revenge, and face his own personal demons in order to save his brother, that is, if he still wants to.

Ebony Blood is the debut novel from Ella Durham and explores the poisonous effect of hidden jealousies, deep resentments and envy within family relationships. The book looks at how, through adversity and trial, the brothers are able to learn about themselves and move forward. Set in the town of Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders, where she spent a week’s vacation in 1989, Ella Durham draws on her personal memories to craft a bleak and unsettling thriller about the power of secrets.

BOOK DETAILS:

Genre: murder mystery
Ebook published by Ant Press
Paperback published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Publication Date: August 4, 2013
Number of Pages: Ebook 225 pages, paperback 250
ISBN: 1491263695
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……of How Not To Murder Your Grumpy by Carol E. Wyer

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KARINA HALLE

The daughter of a Norwegian Viking and a Finnish Moomin, Karina Halle grew up in Vancouver, Canada with trolls and eternal darkness on the brain. This soon turned into a love of all things that go bump in the night and a rather sadistic appreciation for freaking people out. Like many of the flawed characters she writes, Karina never knew where to find herself and has dabbled in acting, make-up artistry, film production, screenwriting, photography, travel writing and music journalism. She eventually found herself in the pages of the very novels she wrote (if only she had looked there to begin with).
Karina holds a screenwriting degree from Vancouver Film School and a Bachelor of Journalism from TRU. Her travel writing, music reviews/interviews and photography have appeared in publications such as Consequence of Sound, Mxdwn and GoNomad Travel Guides. She currently splits her time between her apartment in downtown Vancouver and her sailboat, where a book and a bottle of wine are always at hand. Karna is hard at work on her next novel.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Sometimes the right choice can be the deadliest. When Ellie Watt made the ultimate sacrifice for Camden McQueen, she never thought it would be easy. But walking away with her ex-lover, Javier Bernal, in order to ensure Camden’s safety has brought a whole new set of dangers. With Javier’s plans for Ellie growing more secretive by the moment, Ellie must find a way to stay ahead of the game before her past swallows her whole.

 Meanwhile, Camden’s new life is short-lived. Fueled by revenge and pursued by authorities, he teams up with an unlikely partner in order to save Ellie. But as Camden toes the line between love and retribution, he realizes that in order to get back the woman he loves, he may have to lose himself in the process. He might just turn into the very man he’s hunting.

 

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                Javier shut the door behind me and flicked on the tall standing lamp in the corner, kitschy Mexican décor. “What side of the bed do you want?” he asked.

Then he proceeded to take off his suit. He flung the jacket onto an armchair across the room and began unbuttoning his shirt. I didn’t know where to look, my cheeks growing hot like I was a naïve teenager. I’d seen him shirtless before. Hell, I’d seen and felt every single part of that man. Still, it didn’t make the feeling go away.

“Feeling bashful?” Now his tone was smug.

I looked up and his shirt was off. His body was pretty much the same as I remembered, but wider, in a more athletic and lean kind of way. He’d grown into it and taken great care of his body over the years. His abs and arms looked like he’d do chin-ups in his spare time, yet it was still very elegant and subtle. His skin was a dark bronze, shadowed by the lamp.

“No,” I answered.

“Good.” And then his pants dropped.

And I’d totally forgotten he liked to go commando.

“Oh my god,” I cried out, shielding my eyes and facing the wall. “Please, put some pants on. Or underwear.”

“Say ‘Oh my god’ again, I liked the sound of it,” he said and I could hear him coming closer. “It reminds me of old times.”

“Javier, I’m serious.”

“When are you not serious, Ellie?”

I kept my eyes clamped shut until he started shuffling through the drawers. “Okay, okay, calm down. There, I have pants on now.”

I bent down and snapped up my pajama bottoms and a t-shirt then walked past him to the door, not wanting to risk a look in his direction. When I came out of the bathroom, after a long, hot and much-needed shower, he was already in bed with the lights off. This was exactly what I was counting on. I wanted to go to sleep on my side of the bed and be done with it. No thinking about the situation, no chit chat.

I carefully closed the door and eased my way across the room, my bare feet padding on the woven rugs, the moonlight outside the open window illuminating my passage. With the sea breeze coming in and the sound of the fishing boats rising and falling in their berths, the whole thing was soothing. Even romantic.

I crawled in, pulling only the sheet over my body and faced the wall. The moon was bright on my face.

After a few moments, when my heart rate had started to calm and I was beginning to forget where I was, Javier called out softly. “Angel?”

I wanted to pretend to be asleep. I wanted to ignore him. But he’d used a name I hated and I was sick of hearing it.

“Please don’t call me that,” I whispered back, pulling sheet closer around my shoulders.

He turned over in the bed and suddenly he was right behind me, causing the hairs on my neck to rise. “Why not?”

I tried to steady my breath. “I’m not your angel.”

“You’re someone’s angel. God’s.”

“God’s? How can you call me an angel when you think I’m no good?”

He was silent for a moment. Waves crashed outside.

“There are fallen angels, too. Angels with dirty wings.”

“Lucifer was a fallen angel,” I pointed out.

“You’re right. But Lucifer had no moral code. You and I, angel, I think we fell somewhere in between all of that. We made our place. Our own home.”

I closed my eyes at his words, my soul and heart and everything getting sucked back into a vortex of memories, all bright, shiny, and good. Memories of him and I together, memories I thought I’d done away with.

His lips were at my ear, his warm hand on my shoulder, holding me in place rather than giving comfort. Instead of stiffening, my whole body relaxed into it.

“We evolved, Ellie,” he whispered, sending shivers down my back. “And we’ll keep evolving.” Then he moved away, back to his side of the bed, cozying up under the covers.

I didn’t fall asleep for hours.

BOOK DETAILS:

Genre: New Adult, Contemp. Romance, Suspense
Print Length: 265 pages
Publisher: Forever
Publication Date: August 20, 2013
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ALAN SHELTON
Alan Shelton is a leader who colors outside the lines, a corporate executive
mentor with an entrepreneurial spirit and a gripping speaker who engages his audiences.With a reputation like that, it is no wonder that his book, “Awakened Leadership: Beyond Self-Mastery,” has become so successful. Shelton graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah after completing missionary work in Peru. By 1977, Shelton had landed his first big gig in the corporate world at PricewaterhouseCoopers, now PwC, where his clients included IBM, Sunkist, Beckman Instruments and Toyota Motor Sales. His journey continued through 1990 when he sold his CPA firm, Shelton, Smith and Townsend, and turned to leadership training. Since then, his client list has grown to include the University of San Diego, Wrangler, VF Corp., The North Face, Celgene and many others.“Awakened Leadership,” published by Red Hatchet Press in May 2012, has taken the
leadership world by storm. The book is the winner of a 2013 National Indie Excellence
Book Award as well as a 2012 USA Best Book Award.Shelton advises and facilitates workshops for international businesses in Oceanside,
Calif., where he lives in a refurbished fire station with his loving wife, Justine. He has
two children, Kristin and Michael, who earned business degrees from the University of
Southern California and the University of Arizona, respectively.
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Transformational leadership books and processes have delivered us to the era of self-mastery. But how do we move from being effective leaders to being awakened leaders? By situating leadership in the nest of the seeker’s journey toward truth, you can now stand on the shoulders of the visionaries who have come before, and become conscious of your own position within Source.
Leaving behind charts, maps, and graphs, “Awakened Leadership” is a portal to direct experience via pointers and personal stories that will help you recognize the gift of being who you really are. Then your leadership essence will effortlessly manifest not only in the boardroom, but in all facets of your life.
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Genre: Motivational
Published by: Red Hatchet Press
Publication Date: May 2012
Number of Pages: 220
ISBN: 978-0984712502

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SANJAY SANGHOEE

Sanjay Sanghoee, a banker-turned-author, is a contributor to Huffington Post, FORTUNE and other publications on politics and business, and is the author of Killing Wall Street, a fast-paced new thriller about corporate greed and the frightening power of an ordinary citizen’s rage. Sanjay was also a news anchor with WKCR 89.9 FM in the ’90s.

Sanjay Sanghoee is a contributor to Huffington Post, FORTUNE, and other publications on politics and business. He has a wide following for his articles on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Topics that he routinely writes about include corporate crime, Wall Street reform, political gridlock, workers’ rights, and gun control.

He is the author of Killing Wall Street, a fast-paced new thriller about corporate greed and the frightening power of an ordinary citizen’s rage, as well as Merger, a corporate thriller published by Forge Books (St. Martin’s Press) and which Chicago Tribune called “Timely, Gripping, and Original,” and BARRONs called a “high-octane thriller.”

Sanjay is a former investment banker from Lazard Freres and Dresdner Bank, and worked for several years at a leading multi-billion dollar hedge fund. He currently helps new hedge funds and private equity firms with their launch and operations. He also sits on the Board of a mid-sized Hispanic radio station group.

In addition to his work and writing, Sanjay was a news anchor with WKCR 89.9 FM in the ’90s in New York City, and interviewed notable media personalities including Larry King, Christiane Amanpour, Art Buchwald, and others. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School and received an Award for Ethics in Business in 1999.
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KILLING WALL STREET is a timely thriller about the terrible consequences of corporate greed and the unimaginable power of working class rage.

Catherine is a working class single mother whose life is spiraling out of control. Her husband has left her, her daughter thinks she is a failure, her job is in jeopardy, and her savings have evaporated after the financial crisis. When an arrogant banker whom she is dating betrays her trust and threatens to ruin her completely, she decides that she has had enough, and plots a shocking revenge against the system that has victimized her.

Special Agent Michael Sands, a rising star in the FBI, is fresh off a terrorism case when he is put in charge of an unusual investigation. Someone is killing high-profile CEOs, bankers and lawyers connected with a multi-billion dollar merger, and the killer is a step ahead of law enforcement every time. When Wall Street begins to panic at the murders, the race is on to catch the phantom killer. But as Michael investigates, he discovers that the victims were all hiding a deadly secret – one that involves a conspiracy of the highest order and which threatens to corrupt and destroy our democracy forever.

The stakes keep escalating for both Catherine and Michael as they encounter the frightening reality of financial power, and are confronted with impossible moral choices at every step.

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Genre: Thriller
Published by: Argo-Navis
Publication date: May 7, 2013
Number of Pages: 296
ISBN: 978-0786755028

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