Dear Book Faery,
            My name is
Samuel Bagby and I am an independent author. I have a novel entitled Lily:
The Story of a Life which is offered for sale on Amazon Kindle Store. I am
writing to inquire if you might consider reviewing the novel for your website.
The plot runs something like this:

Stephen Flashman
loves sex. As a womanizer, he’s been using women for sex all his life. Flashman
is what we would call in these latter days an amoral creature, a free and
independent operator looking for nothing more than the next score. As far as
the ugly side of casual hookups is concerned, Flashman is ruthless and unmoved:
he experiences none of the emotional fallout from casual sex, for he has
detached his heart from the all-important business of satisfying the libido,
which as he sees it, is simply the calculus of getting one’s needs met in an
increasingly individualistic society—it is what every mature person seeking
fortune and pleasure must inevitably do.

But
there are two women who leave an indelible mark upon Flashman’s life, two women
whose memory he somehow cannot lay to rest in a sea of forgettable conquests.
Diane Densher is one of those women: she is incredibly smart, savvy and
ambitious, possessing in abundance all the traits Flashman has sought so
arduously to develop in himself; she is an Ivy League graduate and a successful
executive with a budding career on Wall Street—in short, she is everything
Flashman had always aspired to be. No matter how many times Flashman sleeps
with her, he never manages to possess her, to gain the upper hand as it were;
there is something about her which tells Flashman that she secretly despises
him, a subtly veiled conceit which regards him as not quite her equal, as
someone she will eventually detach from and discard as she moves onward and
upward, just as Flashman himself has done to so many women in his past. Diane
does in fact break up with Flashman, suddenly and without warning: Flashman
treats it like just another breakup, but deep down her rejection of him
conjures forth insecurities from his past he had long kept repressed, along
with a terrible nagging feeling which haunts him incessantly, that he could not
keep her because she recognized him as a failure and unworthy to be her mate—to
Flashman their parting is not a matter of simple disconnect  between
lovers but a judgment, a verdict upon his whole life and self-worth, and he is
tormented ceaselessly by the need to somehow win her back. Noelle Cummings is
just the opposite of her ambitious and serious-minded predecessor: she is a
free spirit from her head to her toes, carried along by a simple and insatiable
zest for life itself, to live each day as if it were her last.  Where
Flashman is cerebral and cynical, Noelle is tactile and sanguine and eternally
hopeful; for her life is not a matter of acquiring or achieving but
experiencing, of living from moment to moment with contagious cheer and joyful
expectancy, and she casts a wistful light into Flashman’s bleak inner
world.  After breaking up with Noelle, Flashman is torn between his
affections for both women when a sudden development turns his life upside down:
Noelle reveals to him that she is pregnant with his child, but is anxious and
fearful about raising a child on her own; she tells Flashman that she is
thinking of terminating the pregnancy.

For
Flashman it is the moment which sears his heart, which tears at the very core
of his being: with Diane showing signs of renewed interest, should Flashman
continue to give chase to her, or should he devote his energies to Noelle and
do all he can to ensure the birth of his child, while knowing his life will
never be the same again?
                

This is Lily:
a story of sex and relationships and the search for meaning, as men and women
know it to be. Aside from the synopsis provided here, I think you might be
interested in the excerpts of the story given on the novel’s Kindle page: it’s how a story is told that makes literature a
pleasure for a reader, and in that respect I would love for you to look at a
few passages and see if they grab you, if they spark something in you that
drives you to read on and engage the text. Lily
is a short work of fiction, a quick read paced all the way through with humor
and pathos, and sporting a rather wicked twist at the very end.

The product page on Amazon is: http://www.amazon.com/Lily-The-Story-Life-ebook/dp/B007WMXBL4/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1335378646&sr=1-2

The website is: https://sites.google.com/site/lilybookcom/

I
would love for you to do a review of the novel if possible; if you’re willing I
would also appreciate the opportunity to do a blogpost or some kind of
promotion with you. I would be happy to e-mail you a copy of the novel if you’d
like, please inform me as to what format you prefer. Thank you for your
consideration and I look forward to hearing from you in the future.

Sam Bagby

ps. if there is any other information regarding the book, anything at all you
would like me to provide that has not been provided here, please let me know
and I will respond in kind.

I’m Dennis Bradford. 
My 11th book, A Dark Time, is being published next
month.  Would you like to receive an ARC
of it?

Here’s what the story is about:  A college student vanishes.  Her worried grandfather asks one of her
favorite professors, Max Stephansson, to solve the mystery.  What Max discovers is tragic.  The suspense surrounding her disappearance
unfolds to yield insight, but at the cost of danger and death.

Genre:   mystery/thriller.  Word count: 
66,200.  Publication date:  21 May 12.

Here’s the link to its awesome cover: 

http://dennis-bradford.com/uncategorized/new-book-cover?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-book-cover

Please click on “New Book Cover” when it opens.

[Backup:  Click on my
blog at:  http://dennis-bradford.com/.  Scroll down to the bottom of its navbar on
the left.  Click on “New Book Cover” in
“uncategorized.”  When the post opens,
click on “New Book Cover” again.]

I’m willing to consider an interview, giveaway, or anything else you’d like.

Thank you for the service you provide as well as for taking
the trouble to read this.

I hope to hear from you soon!

Be well,

Dennis Bradford

My autobiography is entitled “Still Walking”. The centerpiece of the
book is a body surfing injury that occurred when I was 21 years old that
left me paralyzed from the chest down. At that point in life, I was
faced with a variety of limitations and uncertainties. My choice was to
live life to the fullest. I have learned many invaluable lessons about
life and share them throughout the book. The underlying theme is about
focusing on what we can do, appreciating what we do have and never
giving up. I am honest about my life. Some of the book is funny, some of
it is emotionally touching, all of it is real. My goal in the book is to
provide a positive reminder that no matter what limitations and problems
we face, we can still be happy, successful and live full lives.

If you have any questions or need further clarification, let me know. I
look forward to hearing back from you. If you decide to do a review, let
me know where to send the book and we can talk about other ways to work
together.

Thank you very much,

Rob

Thank you. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Sherri Hayes

http://www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/publishinghouse/authors/detail/12

http://sherri-hayes.blogspot.com/

Behind Closed Doors

Elizabeth Marshall
spent the last nine years doing all the things she was supposed to do. She went
to a good college. Married a man with a promising future. Elizabeth even had a
nice house in a respectable part of town. There was even the promise of 2.4
kids in her future. From the outside everything looked picture perfect.

Then one night, the
world she lived in came crashing down. Six months later with her husband dead
and her friends gone, Elizabeth moves to the small town of Springfield, Ohio to
start a new life where no one knows who she is or about her past.

Christopher Daniels
enjoys the simplicity of his bachelor life. After his divorce three years ago,
he swore off women. He has no desire to change that philosophy.

When Elizabeth
Marshall moves into the apartment below his in the small Victorian house, she
makes him reconsider the motto he’s lived by for the last three years: women
are trouble. She is everything his ex-wife is not, and it doesn’t help that she
is his wet dream come to life.

He is determined to
resist her charms; however, when someone sends threatening messages to
Elizabeth, he finds himself in the role of protector. Can he protect Elizabeth
and still resist the pull she has on his body and his heart?

My official site: http://www.jackwhitsel.com

My blog: http://jwhitsel.wordpress.com

My publisher: http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com

Incase you don’t have time to be nipping about the internet to see what the book is all about the main description is here…..the link above does show you some of the reviews that it has already received though if they are of interest.

Every now and then a self-help book comes along that questions the very nature of happiness, shakes the very foundation of all the things you hold dear, and forces you to reconsider every assumption you’ve ever made.

This isn’t one of those books.

‘How to Do Everything and Be Happy’ is a book for ordinary people. With ordinary lives. It’s for people who have been ambling along and wondering why they’re not – well – just that little bit happier. It’s a book for most people. It’s a book for you.

Mumbo jumbo & jargon free, ‘How to Do Everything and Be Happy’ is direct, practical, occasionally witty, and stuffed full of ways to make your life just that bit happier. If you’ve got a brain in your head, if you can pick up a pen, if you’ve got half an inkling about what makes you smile, ‘How to Do Everything and Be Happy’ will show you how to fit those things into your life and, as a consequence, feel much, much happier.

Would love to hear if you think How to do Everything and Be Happy would be of interest to you

Peter

I am Jon Renaud, the author of the soon to be released military-fiction novel Dereliction of Duty. I am looking for book sites willing to do author interviews to help me promote the upcoming release. Feel free to take a look at my site at http://www.jonrenaud.com and contact me at the e-mail address provided. I would also like to announce the give away detailed on the site.

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you,
Jon Renaud

A scandal that shocks a nation…
A passion that transforms a woman…

At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the modern, the exotic, and the ground-breaking collide as exhibitions from all corners of the globe draw millions of spectators. But Dora Chambers has more pressing matters to consider.

Dora has hopes to begin a long-dreamed-of life of wealth and privilege in Chicago. So she sets out to earn the approval of the local women of high society–the World Fair’s Board of Lady Managers–to appease her socially ambitious, aloof husband. Unimpressed with the young bride from New Orleans, they give her the distasteful task of enforcing proper conduct on the Egyptian belly dancing exhibition.

But Dora’s sensibilities are not so easily flustered by the dancers. She finds herself captivated by these exotic women, and by their enigmatic manager, Hossam Faruk, who makes his mistrust of her known–although his lingering glances hint at something else.

As Dora’s eyes are opened to the world beyond her own oppressive life of social expectations and quiet servitude, she finds the courage to break free of her self-imposed bondage, and discover the truth about the desire and passion in her own heart.