Next Meeting: Thursday, 8 October, at 6:30 p.m.
at Great Park Ice (888 Ridge Valley, Irvine)
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The London Olympic Stadium is 53 meters high. This blog had about 730 visitors in 2012. If every visitor were a meter, this blog would be 14 times taller than the Olympic Stadium – not too shabby.
Doha 12, Lance Charnes, thriller
Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them.
Jake manages a bookstore in Brooklyn. Miriam is a secretary at a Philadelphia law firm. Both grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other exists…until the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad uses their identities in an operation to assassinate a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in Doha, Qatar.
Now Hezbollah plans to kill them both.
Jake, Miriam and ten other innocents in five countries – the Doha 12 – awake to find their identities stolen and their lives caught between Mossad and Hezbollah in an international game of murder and reprisal. Jake stumbles upon Hezbollah’s plot but can’t convince the police it exists. When his wife is murdered in a botched hit meant for him, Jake and Miriam try desperately to outrun and outfight their pursuers while shielding Jake’s young daughter from the killers on their trail.
Hezbollah, however, has a fallback plan: hundreds of people will die if Jake and Miriam survive.
Inspired by actual events, Doha 12 will sweep you from the suburbs of Beirut and Tel Aviv to a pulse-pounding climax in the wintry streets of Manhattan as Jake and Miriam race along the thin, faded gray line between good and bad, hero and villain, truth and lies.
Available for Kindle on Amazon US/AU/BR/CA/DE/FR/IN/IT/JP/UK
ePub available on Nook, Kobo and iTunes
Trade paperback available at Amazon US/CA/DE/FR/IN/IT/JP/UK | Barnes & Noble | Books-a-Million | Indiebound | Powell’s | Vroman’s
Lance Charnes has been an Air Force intelligence officer, information technology manager, computer-game artist, set designer and Jeopardy! contestant, and is now an emergency management specialist. He’s had training in architectural rendering, terrorist incident response and maritime archaeology, but not all at the same time. Lance tweets (@lcharnes) on shipwrecks, scuba diving, archaeology and art crime.
Madness of March, Burt Golden, mystery
In this exciting mystery novel, all high-school basketball coach Conrad Byrnes wants is to be a winner, and with the help of mind-power course Winning Dynamics he has some success. But when his big break arrives on his doorstep, amidst shady shoe contracts, gambling casinos and disappearing coaches, Byrnes finds out how much he might have to lose to win it all.
As a college basketball coach, Burt Golden knew the upsides and downsides of the rough-and-tumble game like the back of his hand. As a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Examiner, the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, and the Japanese-language newspaper Rafu Shimpo, he learned to turn the game into an adventure. His novel Madness of March combines these two passions, matching the inner workings of high-pressure sports with a natural talent as a mystery writer.
Romancing the Pages, Rose de Guzman (contributor), romance
Romance isn’t limited to one season within a year. From the celebrations on New Year’s Eve, to the sweet sensations of a summer weekend, to spooky Halloween, and into the chill of winter, love blossoms at the least expected times.
In this anthology, the Orange County Chapter of the Romance Writers of America has brought together a short story collection featuring seventeen fresh voices. The anthology offers a little something for historical readers with the lush “Purple Orchids” to the modern meet-up in “The Guy with the Dragon Tattoo,” and the darker horror romance, “The Carnival,” where marriage proves to be more than everlasting, and “The Meat of Romance,” which puts a paranormal twist on an age-old battle, reminiscent of futuristic Romeo & Juliet.
Enjoy your taste of the talent OCC offers. We invite you to celebrate all year long through Romancing the Pages.
Available for Kindle on Amazon US | AU | BR | CA | DE | FR | IT | JP | MX | UK.
ePub available on Nook, Kobo, and the Sony Reader Store.
Available in multiple eBook formats on iBookstore and Smashwords.
Available in trade paperback on Amazon US | DE | FR | IT | UK.
Rose de Guzman is a former competitive figure skater who never managed to leave the world of skating behind. She also loves writing and telling stories. It was only a matter of time before she would combine her two passions and write a Young Adult romance set against the competitive backdrop of Olympic-level pairs skating. “Melting the Ice”, a short-story spinoff of her work-in-progress novel On Thin Ice, is featured in the anthology Romancing the Pages. She lives in Orange County with her husband and their dog.
PFL Published Authors Listing
I’ve added a new page to the PFL website: PFL Published Authors. This will be a listing of books created or participated in by active PFL members available for sale in whatever venue.
If you have a published work that’s available for sale, please send the following so I can add it to the listing:
- Back-cover or query copy
- A decent cover graphic or a link to where I can find one
- Links to all the various places your book is on sale
Thanks.
