Saturday, March 18, 2017

2017 Tucson Festival of Books – The Dreams Convention Part 1

Today the HBS Author's Spotlight is showcasing 2017 Tucson Festival of Books - The Dreams Convention Part 1 who attended the event. This booth was the co-winner of the HBSystems award for the best author booth at the festival. #tucsonfestivalofbooks



Tucson Festival of Books 2017



Mwalgi Justice

Mankind's Redemption Book 3


Author: Colette Black

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In a few days, the authorities will arrest Lar for treason and plans to keep Aline safe with Lar’s brother prove impossible. The loving family of Lar’s youth has disappeared, replaced by animosity, prejudice, and betrayal. If Lar and Aline thought surviving on a Mwalgi spaceship was difficult, now they face a planet deemed uninhabitable to humans whose populace would like to see them dead.


Author: Colette Black
Author: Colette Black
Author Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Website: Colette Black
Twitter: @cmbvyawrite
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Author Description:
Mwalgi Justice (Mankind's Redemption Book 3 B00ZJ5AD8K When Colette Black isn't caring for her family, dogs, and a mischievous cat, she spends her time writing. Colette also loves to travel. Born and raised in the United States, she has also lived in the Philippines and Switzerland. Currently, she resides in the far outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, where she loves the warm weather and the cotton fields.




Sleight of Hand

Redemption Club Book 2


Author: Anne Marie Becker

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Some skills never fade…

Raised by con artists, Emily Moore has done her share of manipulating others to make ends meet. She’s working hard to go legit and make up for her past, but she still knows how to spot an easy mark. And when to walk away from a bad situation. Emily learned life’s lessons the hard way, and now a tough exterior hides her one weakness—her love for the man who left her.

Some hurts never heal…

After a high profile murder, Detective Adam Wilde’s brother disappears, becoming both the Las Vegas Police Department’s primary suspect and the real killer’s target. Tanner has hardly been an upstanding citizen, but Adam believes he’s innocent. He suspects an underground group called the Redemption Club, which trades in dark deeds, is behind the murder, and it’s essential he finds his brother before the Club does. If anyone can think like his brother, Tanner’s childhood friend Emily can. But first, Adam will have to repair their friendship and make up for hurting her—even if his rejection was intended to protect them both.

Some gambles are worth the risk…

Their hearts are telling them to let go of the past, but trust has never been easy for either Emily or Adam. It’ll take a common purpose, and an undeniable passion, to reunite them. To find Tanner and defeat the head of Redemption Club, they’ll need each other—and they’ll need to come up with the con of their lives.


Author: Anne Marie Becker
Author: Anne Marie Becker
Author Genre: Romance, Thriller, Suspense

Website: Anne Marie Becker
Twitter: @annemariebecker
E-Mail: AnneMarieBecker@me.com
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Author Description:
An award-winning author of romantic suspense, Anne Marie has always been fascinated by people--inside and out--which led to degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, and Counseling. To date, as a tutor, waitress, personal and family counselor, and high school counselor, she has indulged her curiosity through sanctioned professions. Now, as a stay-at-home mom of three children, her passion for understanding the human race is satisfied by her roles as mother, wife, daughter, sister, and writer. She writes to reclaim her sanity.









Miss Sinclair's Secret

The Secrets Series Book 4


Author: Amylynn Bright

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Anna Sinclair is an English lady who refuses to settle—not if all her friends have love matches. When she receives notification that her father, General Sinclair, is missing and presumed dead in America shortly after the War of 1812, she knows she has nothing to lose by going to find him. In an untamed country, she’ll need to navigate the Mississippi River, miles of wilderness, earthquakes, Indians, and one absurdly attractive American sea captain.

Nathaniel Johnson is an American patriot whose only goal is to return to the country he loves with his recently located brother, a sailor impressed by the British. The money offered to escort a young English woman to the United States is too much to pass up when he’s desperately trying to save his family’s shipping empire. The beautiful lady spins a ridiculous tale about looking for her father, but Nate has powerful reasons to believe she’s a spy for the Crown. He’ll help her on her quest, at least until he can prove her villainous intent.

Will Anna’s secret destroy his country and be his undoing?


Author: Amylynn Bright
Author: Amylynn Bright
Author Genre: Romance

Website: The Quill Sisters
Twitter: @amylynnbright
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Author Description:
Amylynn read her first romance novel in 2008 after being a lifelong literary snob. By the time she was done, she was hooked. Now she pens Regency and contemporary romances that will make you laugh.

She is an Arizona native and lives in the same house her husband owned before they were married. Amylynn fears she will never call another state home unless someone tells her husband there are forty-nine others to choose from. In reality, she'd settle for a walk-in closet.

Her family consists of the aforementioned husband, two beautiful children, two dogs, two cats, some fish, and a hankering for a panda. She'd like it mentioned she's never been in prison, but we'll see how that panda thing works out.









If It Bleeds

Author: Darryl Dawson

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Television is killing us. A wave of violence is sweeping across the city, triggered by subliminal messages in local TV broadcasts. And those messages are more than suggestion–they are living demons corrupting the souls of unsuspecting viewers, driving them into insane rampages of cannibalism that no one can stop. A video journalist named Moses Mayborne sees the changes first-hand in his wife, and now he must rescue her and their child, or get swept up in the carnage.


Author: Darryl Dawson
Author: Darryl Dawson
Author Genre: Fiction

Website: Darryl Dawson
Author's Blog: Darryl Dawson
Twitter: @ddawsonbooks
E-Mail: darryl@darryldawsonbooks.com
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Author Description:
I write stories to frighten and thrill you. If It Bleeds is my latest book, a novella scheduled for release in January 2014 by Nightshade Publications. The Crawlspace is my first book of my writing career, published originally by AuthorHouse in 2009, and now on Fear Of Sleep in 2011. I was born in Los Angeles to a pair of teachers. If you live in the L.A. area, you've probably seen my big brother on TV. I developed a taste for horror by watching Rod Serling's Night Gallery and watching my brother feed mice to his pet snake. My chief literary inspirations are Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Brandon Massey among many others. I've been known to take some unusual pictures with my digital camera, and take in a baseball game or soccer match every once in a while.









Stealing the Southpaw

All's Fair in Love & Baseball Book 5


Author: Arlene Hittle

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A potentially career-ending injury sends Arizona Condors pitcher Luis Castillo home to Miami to rehab and recuperate. He hasn’t even unpacked the rental car when he runs into his ex-best friend’s kid sister. She’s not a kid anymore, but she remains the main reason he ran as far and fast as he could six years ago. A successful college baseball career and two good years on the mound with the Condors did nothing to change what they did, or help him forget its consequences. He doesn’t deserve Randi’s warm welcome—and she sure as hell shouldn’t still look at him that way.

Miranda Vega sets out to convince Luis to take a chance on their relationship, which came to a premature end the night her brother found his baby sister in the arms of his best friend. The discovery sent Ricky into a vehicle, a near-head-on collision and ultimately a wheelchair. To get the boy—now man—she started crushing on at puberty and still loves today to believe Ricky’s accident wasn’t his fault, Randi needs a game plan. With any luck, she, Ricky and a Little League team in serious need of coaching will be able to notch the win.

Even with a bum left arm, Luis is a skilled opponent, adept at getting in his own way. But Randi grew up stubborn. And this time, she’s playing for keeps.


Author: Arlene Hittle
Author: Arlene Hittle
Author Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

Website: Arlene Hittle
Author's Blog: Arlene Hittle
Twitter: @arlenehittle
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Author Description:
Arlene Hittle is a Midwestern transplant who now makes her home in northern Arizona. She suffers from the well-documented Hittle family curse of being a Cubs fan but will root for the Diamondbacks until they run up against the Cubs. Longtime friends are amazed she writes books with sports in them, since she's about as coordinated as a newborn giraffe and used to say marching band required more exertion than golf.









A Dragon's Clutch

Children of Fire, Book Four


Author: Alica McKenna Johnson

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Tokyo is more than Hello Kitty, manga, ninja-themed restaurants, and cherry blossoms. Supported by her family, sixteen year old Sapphire deals with hostile magical beings, suspicious spirits, and poisonous nightmares.

A tormented creature haunts the Suicide Forest calling the hopeless to their death. With innocent lives on the line Sapphire must trust herself to lead her family and friends through the dangerous beings of Japan. Burdened by the memories of her failures and hurt by her friends’ distrust Sapphire isn’t sure how she can make it another day.

Giving in to Cartazonon’s offer tempts her, but two world’s depend on her finding her strength to choose the right path, no matter how much it hurts.


Author: Alica McKenna-Johnson
Author: Alica McKenna-Johnson
Author Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Fiction

Website: Alica McKenna-Johnson
Author's Blog: Alica McKenna-Johnson
Twitter: @AMckennaJohnson
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Author Description:
Being told she was a horrible speller and would never learn to use a comma correctly, Alica never thought to write down the stories she constantly had running through her head. Doesn’t everyone daydream about flying on a spaceship while walking to school?

Not until she was thirty did Alica dare to write down any of the people living exciting lives in her head. The relief was instantaneous. By giving them life on the page they could be released from her mind and given greater adventures.

As her books grew in size and the voices in her head learned to wait their turn, Alica found a loyal group to journey with. Women who would help her slay her commas, and use their magical gifts to traverse plot holes, transform words into their proper spelling, and release characters from any Mary Sue spells they might be under.

In-between magical adventures, Alica hides from the sun in Tucson, AZ with her two kids, two cats, and yarn collection.




A Baby for the Deputy

Mustang Valley


Author: Cathy McDavid

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A secret, no-strings relationship with Aaron Travers has suited Melody Hartman just fine for the past eight months. The lives of the Mustang Valley veterinarian and the deputy sheriff have always been complicated—and are about to become more so, because Mel is pregnant!

Raising his toddler daughter and protecting his Arizona town are Aaron's priorities. But this unexpected pregnancy is a life changer. The widowed single dad is ready to do the right thing and marry Mel. Can he say the three words she is waiting to hear? Will she think he wants to marry her only because of the baby? Or will she acknowledge that their feelings for each other run deeper than either of them realized?


Author: Cathy McDavid
Author: Cathy McDavid
Author Genre: Romance Western

Website: Cathy McDavid
Twitter: @CathyMcDavid
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Author Description:
In the third grade, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Cathy McDavid made it her goal to read every Walter Farley book ever written. Who knew such an illustrious ambition would eventually lead to a lifelong love of all things western and a career writing contemporary romances for Harlequin? With over 1 million books sold, Cathy is a member of the prestigious Romance Writers of America’s Honor Roll. An “almost” Arizona native and mom to "fairly" grownup twins, she lives with her own real-life sweetheart and spends her days penning stories about good looking cowboys riding the range, busting a bronc, and sweeping gals off their feet. It a tough job, but she’s willing to make the sacrifice.









The Three Fates of Ryan Love

Beyond


Author: Erin Quinn

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Ryan Love’s life is about to go up in flames—literally—when a mystical being named Sabelle appears, claiming to be from the Beyond—the realm of heaven, hell, and mysteries both awesome and terrifying. As Ryan’s family business and home are destroyed in a freak explosion, Sabelle saves him just in time. So why does Ryan feel like she’s the one who needs saving? He wants to resist this dangerous attraction, but how can he fight a fate this tempting?

Sabelle is a powerful oracle who has broken the laws of the Beyond to save Ryan’s life, but once she meets Ryan, everything changes. Ryan steals her heart and awakens her passions, making her long to be human. But corruption is seeping out of the Beyond and Sabelle must choose between saving the fate of mankind and following her heart. Is she Ryan’s fate or the destiny he won’t survive?


Author: Erin Quinn
Author: Erin Quinn
Author Genre: Romance, Paranormal, Literature & Fiction

Website: Erin Quinn
Author's Blog: Quinn's Essentials
Twitter: @ErinQuinnAuthor
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Author Description:
New York Times Bestselling author Erin Quinn writes romance for the thinking reader. Her books have been called "riveting," "brilliantly plotted" and "beautifully written" and have won, placed or showed in the Booksellers Best, WILLA Award for Historical fiction, the Orange Rose, Readers Crown, Golden Quill, Best Books, and Award of Excellence.




Hit The Road, Jake!

The Lindsey Lark Series Book 3


Author: Cricket Rohman

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Thrilling, romantic, and sprinkled with humor, HIT THE ROAD, JAKE! reinvents the ‘buddy movie’ concept with the written word … and a pretty woman. Jake and Lindsey are good at tracking down offenders responsible for petty theft and blackmail, but when new mysteries become personal—slashed tires, spattered blood, steamy love letters, a stolen pet—everything changes.

Who is this enemy that secretly harasses them from town to town? Jake calls in some favors and manages to finagle the DNA testing of several blood samples. The results are shocking, and the dangers they face become deadly.

Practically newlyweds, the couple thought they’d created the perfect win-win plan. While traveling between Tucson and Estes Park in their RV, Jake would solve embarrassing mysteries that schools wished to keep under wraps, and Lindsey, being the ‘cover’ for their presence, would conduct workshops for teachers. Then all hell broke loose.


Author: Cricket Rohman
Author: Cricket Rohman
Author Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Romance

Website: Author Cricket Rohman
Author's Blog: Cricket Rohman
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Twitter: @CricketRohman
E-Mail: CricketRohman@gmail.com
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Author Description:
Cricket grew up in Estes Park, Colorado, and spent her formative years among deer, bobcats, coyotes and beautiful blue columbine. Today she is a full-time author writing about the great outdoors, teachers, dogs, love, laughter, and life’s little mysteries—think romantic suspense.

Prior to writing, Cricket's career path included the following jobs: actor, singer, audio/video producer, classroom teacher, school principal, and U of A, College of Education assistant professor.

The first three novels in The Lindsey Lark Series are--WANTED: AN HONEST MAN; LETTERS, LOVERS, & LIES; and HIT THE ROAD, JAKE!.

And, yes. All three books are works of fiction. REALLY! (Well, except the part about the dog; Cricket really had a dog like Wendell, the mastiff, who appears in every book.)









Relic

Brethren Series Book 2


Author: Deena Remiel

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Raphael, a Brethren Savior, an angel with a forgotten past, has lost his power to heal and is on a self-imposed guilt trip to get it back. If he can’t, his tour of eternal duty as Brethren Savior will be revoked. On his journey, he winds up enmeshed in a web of attempted murder and resurrection, all thanks to a woman he’s only seen in a photograph and by chance on an Arizona desert hiking trail.

Serena Sikes is a wanted woman. Desired by “undesirables” for a gift her brother gave her—a stolen relic with suspected healing powers. Hunted down in the Arizona desert and left for dead, she is found by none other than the angel who cannot heal.

Raphael and Serena are inexorably bound together, for locked deep within the relic’s heart had lived the soul of his long lost wife. Now, it resides inside Serena. Evil lurks around every corner as Raphael tries to keep both Serena and his dead wife’s soul alive and lustful temptation at bay.

Three souls bound together by an ancient relic, a timeless gift, and a love that is eternal.


Author: Deena Remiel
Author: Deena Remiel
Author Genre: Romance

Website: Deena Remiel - Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance
Twitter: @deenaremiel
E-Mail: dremiel@yahoo.com
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Author Description:
AAD DEBUT AUTHOR OF THE YEAR NOMINEE...

My name is Deena Remiel, and I am an author of paranormal romance, urban and dark fantasy, and romantic suspense. I also teach language arts to middle schoolers. I belong to RWA national and the Desert Rose Chapter of RWA, where there are outstanding people writing fabulous stories.

I grew up in Philadelphia, home of the most amazing cheese steaks, soft pretzels, oh and the Liberty Bell. My husband and I began our own family in New Jersey, and just a few years ago, Arizona called to my spirit and tempted my husband with much better weather! We moved our family, and the rest is history, or the present, as the case may be!

These are a few of my favorite things: writing and reading of course, chocolate, music with lyrics or melodies that speak to me, soaking baths, singing in the shower, dancing with my buds, romantic dancing with my hubbie, scrapbooking, watching my girls enjoy what they love to do, and laughing at jokes. Visit my website for the latest news and available books: www.deenaremiel.com.









Me Tarzan--You Jane

Author: Camelia Miron Skiba

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Moving on doesn’t always have to mean goodbye.

Widowed makeup artist Jane Sullivan is more comfortable keeping her husband's memory alive than dating a pool full of sharks. Ella, her 4 year-old daughter, is her whole world.

When Jane meets Lucas Oliver, famous cover model, it’s hate at first sight. His playboy persona rubs her the wrong way.

Accustomed to every woman fawning over him, Lucas is drawn to the shy, uncompromising single mom and completely melts at the sight of Ella. He is determined to convince Jane that sometimes a second chance can mend a broken heart.


Author: Camelia Miron Skiba
Author: Camelia Miron Skiba
Author Genre: Romance, Women's Fiction, Historical Fiction

Website: LOVE. WITHOUT YOU
Twitter: @CamiSkiba
E-Mail: authorcameliamironskiba[at]gmail[dot]com
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Author Description:
I'm a dreamer
I'm a sinner
I love my books
I conjure hooks
And heroes with good looks

Romance is my guilty pleasure
Taking me to places with new decor
Come join me if you dare
I promise not to bore

If you like to read my stories
Pray my husband continues snorin'
For he's the one who keeps me up at night
When I give my heroes wings and flight.









Clear To Lift

Author: Anne A. Wilson

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Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Alison Malone has been assigned to a search and rescue team based at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, near the rugged peaks of the Sierra Nevada, and far from her former elite H-60 squadron. A rule follower by nature, Alison is exasperated and outraged every time she flies with her mission commander, "Boomer" Marks, for whom military procedures are merely a suggestion. Alison is desperate to be transferred out of the boonies, where careers stagnate, and back to her life and fiancé in San Diego.

Alison's defenses start to slip when she meets mountain guide Will Cavanaugh during a particularly dicey mission. Will introduces her to a wild, beautiful world of adventure that she has never known before. Stranded on a mountain during a sudden dangerous blizzard, Alison questions every truth she thought she knew about herself. When Will braves the storm to save her life, she must confront the fact that she has been living a lie. But is it too late to change course?

Full of action and adventure, dangerous and heart-stopping rescues, blizzards and floods, family secrets and second chances, Clear to Lift by Anne A. Wilson is a thrilling woman's journey as she finds confidence, truth, love, and herself against the majestic backdrop of the Sierra Nevada.


Author: Anne A. Wilson
Author: Anne A. Wilson
Author Genre: Fiction

Website: anne a. wilson
Author's Blog: anne a. wilson
Twitter: @Anne_A_Wilson
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Author Description:
Anne A. Wilson is the author of Hover and Clear to Lift. She was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in ocean engineering. She served nine years active duty as a navy helicopter pilot, including three years flying search and rescue, where she specialized in high altitude, technical mountain rescue. Following her military service, she worked for four years in the semiconductor industry. Currently, she and her husband own a triathlon coaching company, Camelback Coaching, and she specializes in teaching adults how to swim. Anne lives in Fountain Hills, Arizona, with her husband and two sons.


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