Sharon Buchbinder's Blog

Dear Readers--

I hope you are enjoying a special day with loved ones. For those of you who must work the holiday, please know that I worked in healthcare delivery on many Christmas days. You are serving a higher power and patients do appreciate you. To our emergency responders, please stay safe and warm. Everyone be a little kinder to each other and hug your loved ones tight. For now, I'd like to share a little flash fiction in the spirit of the season. https://sharonbuchbinder.blogspot.com...

And to add to my joy, Legacy of Evil also won the Florida Writers Association First Place Award for Published Romantic Fiction!!! https://floridawriters.net/wp-content...

Legacy of Evil

Legacy of EvilLegacy of EvilYes, you read that right! It is LEGACY of EVIL, Book 2 in the Hotel LaBelle Series! In case you have not heard of the RONE Award, it is awarded by InD'Tale Magazine to the best of independent and small press books from all around the world. Even before I won the RONE, I considered myself a winner because I was a Finalist--and I was able to attend InD'Scribe Con.

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I am thrilled to announce that THE HAUNTING OF HOTEL LABELLE has been nominated for a Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewer's Award in the Paranormal Romance category. There are a lot of great books
and authors in the Paranomal category. I am deeply honored to have my book baby listed among them.

I need your votes, my faithful fans and readers.
Voting opened at midnight on 1/4/17 and will close on 1/12/17 at midnight.
Only one vote per person and you must be logged into your Google account to vote.

Here is the link to the Paranormal Romance Guild's Google Docs voting form:
https://goo.gl/forms/68PryN8aHbROeIr92

THE HAUNTING OF HOTEL LABELLE is about a quarter of the way down the list of nominees.

Tallulah, Lucius, Franny, and I thank you for considering our request!!!

1. Where are you from? Did you have a happy childhood?

I’m from Damascus, Maryland. I’m only 13, so some people think I’m still a kid. When I was a little kid things were good. My family’s nice and I have friends. Things got really hard lately though, for three months I kept losing weight and everyone thought I was anorexic. It sucked. I really tried to eat, but it’s like Mom wouldn’t leave me alone about it. Turned out to be a lot weirder than anorexia. I wish that had been what it was…

2. Where do you live now and what do you do for a living? Is there something you’d rather be doing?

I’m a student at the College of Deaths. I’m learning how to reap souls. Yeah, you heard me, like a Grim Reaper. I do it because I’m forced to, at least for this year, and then I can go home. What would I rather be doing? Anything! I hate it here. Not only is the job super-weird and depressing, but I’m the only girl. It’s the first time in a million years they’ve had a girl Death, and they all treat me awful because I’m different.

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School of Deaths

One of the running jokes we authors have is that if we ever get arrested, our computer browsers will get us in a lot of trouble. Some of us even say, “If I die before you, delete my browser history!”

For me, I think this curiosity and need to find more information dates back to my nerd girl days. When I was a kid, I often acted out my favorite characters exploits. One time, in a Nancy Drew inspired moment, I decided to tie myself up and see if I could get out of the knots. I did. Finally. After a LOT of wriggling and praying my siblings didn’t catch me trussed up like a turkey! That urge for verisimilitude in reading and writing drives me to this day.

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Some Other Child

SKUNKS AND BATS AND NARCOLEPTIC CATS, OH MY! As if being struck by lightning wasn’t bad enough. I spent a month in a coma. Of course that was when I was a teenager. It left me with some pretty unusual abilities. For instance, I can find just about anything or anyone. Oh, and I can see ghosts, too!

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Lightning Strikes

DB Corey lives in Baltimore Maryland with his wife Maggie, an oafish Chocolate Lab, and a Catahoula-Leopard Hound. After a stint in college, he joined the USNR flying aircrew aboard a Navy P-3 Orion chasing down Russian subs. During his time there, he worked in Information Technology. He began writing in his mid-50s. He’s currently working on a second crime thriller with a target release date of late- 2014.

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D. B. Corey

Her marriage a disaster, Lilly closes the door to her personal life. Can meeting Bruce open a door to a new life or will her fear shut her off from love?

All Lilly has ever wanted to do is sing, but being an internationally famous superstar has turned her life into a living nightmare. Closing the door on her destructive marriage, she runs to her best friend’s rural home in northern Arizona, hoping to stay out of the public’s eye and sort out her life.

Bruce Silk, a Flagstaff police officer, doesn’t approve of his brother’s rakish rock star lifestyle but still keeps an eye on his remote home when he’s out on tour. More than once he’s had to arrest groupies who invaded the property to steal some small memento from the famous Clay Silk. So why does he feel sucker-punched when he slaps the cuffs on this latest trespasser?

When One Door Closes is the first book in the “Rock Star Series.” Another Door Opens, the second book, will be released in mid-2014. Both books are stand-alone novels.

Sandy Wolters is a prolific writer with four other novels to date. Her last novel, Soul Mates, won first place in the Paranormal Romance Guild’s Reviewer Choice Awards for Paranormal Romance-Novella.

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Sandy Wolters

I am delighted to have my new friend, Cerece Rennie Murphy, with me today to chat with us about Order of the Seers.

Cerece Rennie Murphy first fell in love with science fiction as a 7-year-old girl, sitting in the grand Uptown Theater in Washington, DC watching Empire Strikes Back with her sister and mother for the first time. It’s a love affair that has grown ever since.

In addition to completing the Order of the Seers trilogy, Ms. Murphy is also developing a children’s book series titled Enchanted: 5 Tales of Magic in the Everyday, and a 2-part science fiction thriller novel set in outer space. Ms. Murphy lives just outside of her hometown of Washington, DC. with her husband, two children and their dog, named Yoda.

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Cerece Rennie Murphy