News from Karen’s Writing Desk
Welcome to my monthly newsletter. Hot of the Press contains my writing and reading news and a few selected books I’ve read and enjoyed.
Publishing News!
Time Lines, my latest book is now live! I’m thrilled to bring this time travel story to you.
Reading News
I’ve been editing three of my short stories to appear in anthologies which will be released early next year.
Play the Game is the romance I’ve been working for what seems forever. But we are almost there and I hope to bring it to you before the end if the year.
This month I’ve two ARCs this month. The Day the Earth Turned, Autumn, is the second of a series. I don’t have a release date or a cover as yet, but look forward to sharing it.
The other, The Cook, the Ghost and her Sister, another thrilling read and went live on 10th September.
The Ink Black Heart has been the biggest book I’ve ever read at over a thousand words. Although, this time I listened solely to the audio book.
Pandemic, I downloaded from a Facebook advert, and The Lost Princess was a free newsletter sign up gift.
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Here are this month’s book recommendations:
For cousins Jenna and Hannah, life is anything but ordinary.
When Jenna loses her parents in a tragic accident, their lives in Washington’s Snoqualmie Valley change in unexpected ways. Despite the changes, Jenna still finds love with a mysterious young man she once believed was Hannah’s imaginary friend.
Tall, dark and hairy, Adam brings to light rumors of Bigfoot. Can science explain his appearance? Is he really a supernatural creature, like some people propose? Or, is he just as human as anyone else?
John Medina is a living legend with the CIA, a shadowy specialist in Black Ops, those operations that are never openly funded, and the details of which never see the light of day. Only few people inside the CIA know him on sight, while foreign governments offer bounties for him, dead or alive.
Neima Burdock is a communications specialist for the CIA who retired from field work after the death of her husband, also an agent and under orders from John Medina.
Niema and John enter the underground world of an international arms dealer and its many dangerous and glamorous intrigues.
When Niema is needed in an arms deal operation headed by John she is extremely reluctant to take the job but her director convinces her.
They discover a passion for each other, but will they survive the race to evade the people who are trying to kill them and transmit the documents they have managed to steal?
Would you stop a Good Samaritan from killing a killer?
When Sarah Palmer is attacked on her way home, she knows she is seconds from death. That is until a passing stranger miraculously appears out of the darkness to save her, before vanishing into the downpour.
All his life he has heard voices, his mother used to call them his imaginary friends. Now, he can hear only one, and it’s telling him to do bad things.
Amidst so much horror and death DS Lasser finds himself hunting a killer who has no moral compass, but when the true nature of the murderer is revealed, Lasser is forced to acknowledge that someone else sowed the seeds that bloomed into insanity.
As the killer runs amok, Lasser and the team must try to second-guess his intentions before more innocents are slaughtered. Though he soon comes to realise it’s not only the police hunting the killer, someone else has a stake in putting an end to his reign of terror. Someone who literally has nothing left to live for.
Stephanie never truly let go of her first love James in 1988. When the relationship ended she kept her diaries, letters and memories safe in the attic and her heart locked away from any future heartbreak. Now her daughter Charlotte is experiencing the same relationship break up that she did. Handing her daughter the diaries she hopes to save her from the bleakness she felt at the loss of first love. The diaries inspire Charlotte to strive for true love as she realises that finding the right man is worth the wait.
Can Charlotte heal two broken hearts at the same time through a strange twist of fate, destiny, music and dance?
Linking the lives of a mother and daughter together you can join them on their journey of discovery through the highs and lows of first love. Will Stephanie finally face the future after the scars from the past, and find out why James left her? Charlotte starts to discover that dancing with Mitchell will be the time of her life. Does anyone ever forget their first love and can you go back?
Karen J. Mossman - World of Stories 