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LLBR Is Looking for More Reviewers!
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If so, we'd love to hear from you. LLBR is looking to add a few more reviewers to its team. Email us at llbookreview@gmail.com for details.
Hello,
Please consider my poetry book for review:
Title: “Venison”
Brief synopsis: Percy and Mary Shelley, a window washer, a transvestite, a talking vending machine …. These are just some of the characters featured in “Venison”, an eclectic selection of diverting, visually-charged poems. In addition to being a poet, James Mirarchi is a filmmaker, whose pictorial sensibility is evident in much of his writing.
Self-publishing company: Xlibris
Link: http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=25210
Why pick my book: It is unusual and unconventional and you might find it interesting!
Thanks for your consideration!
James Mirarchi
Hello. I am a long-time Lulu user and forum power poster, and hope that I have learned the lessons in preparing my book as professionally as possible while helping many other Lulu users. My latest novel is a humorous take on the world we live in and what could go wrong with it, and is available in a digest edition at Lulu for just $5.95, and a trade paperback size on Amazon via CreateSpace priced at $7.95.
The book is “Not Fit For Human Consumption: A Comedic Farce.” Here’s the direct Lulu link: http://www.lulu.com/content/7812982, and the blurb text:
A tale not to be taken too seriously, with cockroaches, genetically enhanced rats, explosions, hedgehog conspiracy theorists, military coups, adolescent bomb shelter romance and cosmic entities bent on annihilation. The novel contains suggestive language (the PG-rated variety), and those seeking literature are best served by looking elsewhere. However, if you are in the mood for a farcical comedy step right in, and meet:
Arax the Annihilator, an entity bent on destroying the earth;
Henry Stewart, member of the Hedgehog Surveillance Network;
Loretta the rabbit, who just wants to hop free in a meadow;
Omar Sharteen, who wants to bomb his own Parliament building so the US will build a new one;
Peter the Cockroach, a prophet who sees cockroaches as the final survivors;
and a host of others, including but not limited to strippers, teachers, t-shirt vendors, moths, prime ministers and cats.
The author regrets immensely not having any zombies in this book. Or monkeys. Or zombie monkeys.
Thanks for considering the book for review.
Elmore Hammes
http://www.lulu.com/KanapolisFog
Seeing as how Dan Marvin enjoyed “Life’s A Gas”, it’s possible he’ll also enjoy this book, which is also influenced a fair bit by Douglas Adams…albeit the books a bit more about time than it is about space. Here’s the windup, and the pitch:
Time travel novels are always fairly clear about one point, which is this: the fabric of space-time is not a thing to be trifled with. People can’t change what’s supposed to happen in history. When people attempt to change history, that’s always when all hell breaks loose. Indeed, if people don’t take care to protect the sanctity of the timeline, the whole universe could collapse into nothingness.
That’s one theory, anyway. But it’s not the premise of my book Time Tourists, a book in the Douglas Adams tradition of humourous science fiction and in the Harry Turtledove tradition of plausible alternative history. My book is based on a different premise. What would happen if people could go back in time and mess with everything – with no consequences?
When a 23rd Century grad student, Regina Karsen, discovers that’s pretty much exactly what people could do, she decides to bypass the stuffy old ethics board at her university and go ahead and invent time travel (rather than finish her boring old metallurgy thesis). Since she figures telling people what she’s doing will only encourage them to try and stop her, she only shares her secret with her friend Kai Baraka, a history student. Despite initial misgivings (mostly about time travel being illegal and all), Kai comes to realise that a student of history can benefit from seeing it close up rather than reading about it in a book. So Kai signs on to go gallivanting for a few years around the length and breadth of the space-time continuum with Reg, living off the proceeds of their foreknowledge of outcomes of stock market values or sporting events. After a fair bit of chronological meandering, the two cross paths with Thom Rosenberg, who will be an existentialist novelist at some point in the future, though at present he is a twentysomething slacker bartender in 1995 New Orleans. He hasn’t yet written a word (though Kai is a devoted fan and has read every word he hasn’t written). Thom joins the two in their barrel roll through time and space, along with his best friend Christine Sheridan, a neurotic Catholic school girl from Iowa whose lack of self-confidence is the only thing masking her ultimate destiny to become Acid Rock Queen of the Sixties.
Confused? It would be surprising if you weren’t. In fact, that’s the general idea. The fun thing about this quirky and off-beat book is that there’s more where this came from. After a dizzying and nonlinear jaunt through numerous epochs, the reader may become a bit disoriented. (But it’s a good kind of disoriented.)
I would like a review of my newest book Wishful Thinking.
Ballerina Maevis Etherwood came home one night to find her husband in bed with a young starlet…
What happened afterwards remains a mystery, even to Maevis herself.
The next day her sisters came in to find Maevis unconscious on the floor in the hallway. The husband and his mistress lay in bed dead. Debris was scattered across the room.
The two investigators working on the case are baffled by the lack of any real evidence.
But what the two men do not realize is that Maevis is a faerie, who could have cast a wish-spell that killed the two victims…even inadvertently.
Could it be that hell hath no fury like a faerie scorned?
Or is it just a case of wishful thinking?
Published at: Lulu.com
Will soon be published on CreateSpace
ISBN: None currently (no distro)
Genre: Fantasy/mystery
Age range: Young adult (16-25)
Page length: 154
Product page url: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/wishful-thinking/8174260
Thank you,
K. Crumley
Actually, 1 small correction to the above request(Wishful Thinking): 144 Pages
After getting a cracker of a review for ‘Elysian Fields’, my only disappointment was getting slated for a weak ending to the story. That’s because it wasn’t really the end – just the gap between parts one and two!
THIS is the whole thing, and I’d love to see what either Dan or one of the other review team thinks of the real ending!
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/alter-inferno/8180720
And the pitch…
“Life ain’t cheap – no. Life is a rare and fragile thing. DEATH is cheap. One whisper, and a world burns…”
Now it’s our turn.
From the ragged nebular veils of Damaun to the grinding ice of Gagraal Tho, the servants of the Praetor march into the grinder of war. Living voidships scour worlds with fire, holding back the Great Exterminator, She-In-Glory.
Meanwhile, Kaito Kayzi’s life is getting complicated. Headhunted by the hacker-zealots of the Ashishim, under the thumb of a corrupt gutter cop, and best friends with a Subcity adrenochrome ‘pharmer’, he’s twenty-five pushing fifty.
But the tension isn’t just inside his wetwired head…
The Last City is tearing itself apart. From the cloisters of the Kheptarchy, dripping with noble blood, to the sunless warrens of the Reclaimed Territories revolution taints the air. Kronos is failing – a great A.I. tyrant brought down by corrosion and betrayal. And in the machine’s necropolis heart lies a power so great that it can undo the scars of a nuclear holocaust…
Kaito just has to survive the night. But with the Technicians of the Multiplicity loose on Earth, that might be a very big ask. Because when the Praetor’s agents decide that a power is too great for human hands to grasp, that means trouble.
And when one of those inscrutable beings goes rogue… that means WAR.”
‘Alter Inferno’ comprises ‘Elysian Fields’ (which you’ve already reviewed) and ‘Chains of Tartarus’ (which you haven’t)… all streamlined and polished for a faster-paced read.
I’d love to have this definitive edition reviewed with the same verve and enthusiasm you gave to part one!
Thanks for your consideration!
Drew Bryenton
Hello. Jonathan Shaw here.
My book THE LONELY WALK, has been published by XLIBRIS.
It is an amazing yet thrilling scene into a downfall of a man who blames himself for his freinds death.
http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Walk-Jonathan-Shaw/dp/1436367190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264426382&sr=1-1
Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (March 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1436367190
ISBN-13: 978-1436367196
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: No customer reviews yet. Be the first.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,241,114 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books
I think it shold be reviewed becuase it is a new book, alternative fiction from a new writer, and has yet to be avaluated. and its british made, something of a rarity.
so please reply when you can.
and thank you for what you are doing.
Hello, T.R. Braxton here. My book Dirty Hands has been published through Createspace and also available as a multi-format ebook through Smashwords. It is a fast paced, intense, and suspenseful crime thriller.
Here is a synopsis/pitch:
In this fast paced crime thriller,Terrell Hawkins, his closest cousin, and his best friend set out to have a good time on a Saturday night. Alcohol, marijuana, and immodest girls who like to partake in both are part of that pursuit. They all expect to be hung over the next day, but they do not expect the tragic accident that will unravel their lives that very night. Nor do they expect their horrible response to embroil them in a struggle to avoid the authorities while growing increasingly distrusting of each other. Terrell and the others quickly learn that dirty hands can lead to desperate acts and that the worst of circumstances can cause even the best of friends to become enemies.
My author website (there is an extended excerpt on the home page): http://www.trbraxton.com/
My Amazon book page:
http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Hands-T-R-Braxton/dp/0984124403/
My Smashwords ebook page:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/6119
My Createspace store page:
https://www.createspace.com/3389853
I also have a Smashwords Author Profile Page:
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/trbraxton
Here are the ISBN/EAN-13 for the book: 984124403/9780894124404
Thanks for the opportunity to post this information.
My book, Oak Mountain (ISBN #978-1-4252-7699-0), was originally self published through Trafford Publishing in paperback and is now available for Kindle. Both editions are listed on Amazon.com and Trafford’s website bookstore.
The story opens in St. Louis with the assassination of the President of the United States. The assassin simply walked away, drove to the airport and escaped. Special Agent Mike Trapper, a Secret Service agent and team leader for presidential security, follow his trail and connections across the country and around the globe.
It is soon discovered the plot is broad and planned over many decades. Mike and a team of specialists in Washington discover a network of “sleepers” who hold many positions in the government, and the chase is on to find where they will strike next.
Mike is hounded by the reason and objective of the attack. After three tours in Iraq, he knows the cost of failure and the price of personal injury. His heroism and leadership place him in a position requiring secrecy and determination as the plot expands to envelope the nation.
But the tension increases when he discovers his family is in the cross-hairs of the next attack. The evil he pursues seeks to turn against him and strike at his very heart, threatening his wife Elli, and their four children.
The compelling story in Oak Mountain is captivating. It is the first novel of the Oak Mountain trilogy and launches the reader into a spellbinding journey. The technology used in the story is contemporary, exciting, and real. The events portrayed could happen on the evening news any day, any time.
Join Special Agent Mike Trapper as he pursues those who would destroy a nation. Discover their targets and see how hard work, keen intuition and the high-tech tools of tomorrow save the day.
Traffords Bookstore
http://www.trafford.com/Bookstore/BookSearchResults.aspx?Search=Oak%20Mountain
My posting on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Oak-Mountain-Stephen-T-Gerdel/dp/1425176992/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265649162&sr=1-1
Reader’s Reviews:
“Absolutely riveting” – 5 stars – Lori, Berlin
“Too REAL to be fiction!” – 5 stars – Nancy, Washington MO
“A Quick read” – 5 stars – David – Missouri, USA
“Intense, exciting, up to date” – 5 stars – Lewis, Washington, MO
Thank you for your consideration and review.