Today, we roll out the red carpet for the amazing Raphael Pond, who is about to unveil the beautiful cover of his new science-fiction dystopian thriller, Bell Tower.

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In a future where one phrase can heal any pain, there exists a meditation unlike any other: Solosis. It’s a practice that forms an empathetic bond between two souls, unlocking unparalleled healing power. But its secrets are fiercely guarded by Sasha Sumzer, a mysterious meditation teacher with a darker agenda.
Sasha is determined to bring down Axiom, the social media giant that has reshaped society with its revolutionary Glow Domes—devices that have replaced smartphones and altered daily life forever. While Glow Domes captivate the masses, Sasha believes the human mind is the final frontier for true liberation.
As an unsuspecting group of individuals stumbles upon Sasha’s teachings, they become entangled in a dangerous game that forces them to question whether Solosis is a tool for healing or a weapon for control. To discover the truth , they must confront their deepest fears and decide what they’re willing to sacrifice to save the nation’s collective consciousness.
In this gripping thriller, the battle for the mind has begun—and the line between healing and manipulation is dangerously thin.

You can find Bell Tower here:
Amazon | Vine Leaves Press | Goodreads | Barnes & Noble | Book Bub | Book Sirens

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About The Author

Raphael Pond

Author bio: Raphael Pond earned a degree in professional writing at York College of Pennsylvania. While there, he also studied the philosophy of technology and its effects on humankind. Raphael currently lives in Salem, Oregon where he is a personal trainer by day and a writer by night. In the summers, he and his wife like to go on adventures in nature. They are always looking for a good hike, hot spring, swimming hole, or rock wall to climb.

You can find author Pond here:
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Today, we roll out the red carpet for the amazing Andrew Goliszek, who is about to unveil the beautiful cover of his historical fiction novel, Like Embers in the Night.

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During Stalin’s brutal reign of terror, Janek, a Polish soldier, and his wife, Wanda, endure the horrors of Soviet labor camps and Siberian gulags as World War II rages across Europe. While millions perish, they endure the invasion of Poland by Germany and Russia and then miraculously survive mass deportations, imprisonment, torture, and starvation. Broken both physically and emotionally by their near-death experiences and the unspeakable atrocities of dictatorships and of war, Janek and Wanda are reunited seven years after he marched off to defend his country. They must begin a new life and try to forget the many scars of their past, but where? And can they ever truly forget all that happened to them while they were apart…

You can find Like Embers in the Night here:
Amazon

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About The Author

Andrew Goliszek

After receiving a Ph.D. in Physiology from Utah State University, Dr. Andrew Goliszek was a research associate at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in both the department of Physiology and the department of Medicine. Following that, he was Associate Professor of Biology and Human Anatomy & Physiology at North Carolina A&T State University where he developed and taught 6 undergraduate and graduate course. He has written numerous books and articles, was principal investigator on several NIH biomedical research grants, and was recipient of the prestigious College of Arts & Sciences Faculty of the Year Award for excellence in teaching, research, and student advising. 

You can find author Goliszek here:
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Today, we roll out the red carpet for the amazing Solveig Larssen, who is about to unveil the beautiful cover of her newest dystopian novel, Don’t Feed the Beast: But Do Punish the Free-Riders (Triumvirate Book 1).

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Mountainland, the richest, proudest, and freest nation in the world, has resorted to forming a militia and creating incarceration camps to stem the influx of migrants… Fjordland, the most civilised, equal, and just nation in the world, is falling apart, unable to accommodate its newfound diversity…

Meanwhile, life is getting worse on the Savannah and in the Jungle, with autocratic high-tech city-states and abundant cheap labour to exploit. Somewhere, amidst it all, only the rootless global technology organisations seem to prosper.
Eskild, the sympathetic Brotherhood bear, expelled and humiliated—is on his journey to visit his younger, liberal siblings, Dag and Selma. Justice has deteriorated in the world because Selma, to navigate the changes of globalisation, has abandoned her old ways.

If Eskild cannot persuade Selma to support a new order that promises peaceful coexistence among all parties, even with the sinister C-Cult, Fjordland will cease to be a liberal democracy. Globalisation will grind on, forcing most people to join the workforce of the disruptive transnational platform organisations.

Don’t Feed the Beast is the first book in the Triumvirate series, featuring delightful fable animals in a dystopian world. It’s a fast-paced story, perfect for readers who want to explore our changing world.

You can find Don’t Feed the Beast here:
Amazon

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About The Author

Solveig Larssen

Solveig Larssen is the pen name of Sune Larsen,  a transportation policy advisor, and co-founder of Almenr, a co-living business. Sune lives with his spouse, Regitze, in Copenhagen.

You can find author Solveig here:
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Today, we roll out the red carpet for the amazing Harold Phifer, who is about to unveil the beautiful cover of his newest masterpiece, Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar. Prepare to be enchanted, for what you’re about to see is not just a cover—it’s a visual symphony that captures the very soul of the story. 📚💖

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About the Book

For more than fifty years, Harold Phifer’s childhood living conditions remained a secret, even from those who thought they knew him best. No one knew about his past growing up with a mother who suffered from mental illness; a greedy aunt; a mindless and spoiled older brother; an absent father.

It wasn’t until an explosion in Afghanistan that his memory was blasted back into focus. This book is the result of a long, cathartic chat with a stranger at a beach bar, where Harold finally found some peace.

You can find Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar here:
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About The Author

Harold Phifer

Harold Phifer was born in a deeply segregated South It is here he learned how to survive the harsh life of being unnurtured and unloved on the streets of Columbus, Mississippi. His first twenty-five years were spent dreaming, hustling, and ducking bullies at every turn. After graduating Mississippi State and Jackson State Universities, he became a highly specialized Air Traffic Controller, living and working as an international contractor, serving numerous tours in lraq and Afghanistan. Because of those experiences of being so close to death and the Taliban, he had no choice but accept the Tee-shirt while authoring his memoir “SleepWalking Out of Afghanistan: Walking it all Back.” Next, Harold followed up with an expanded autobiography, “Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A
Beach Bar,” which is a combination of two books through different phases of trauma all meshed into one big novel.

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Today, we roll out the red carpet for the amazing Asher Black, who is about to unveil the beautiful cover of his newest masterpiece, The Guitar Decoder Ring. Prepare to be enchanted, for what you’re about to see is not just a cover—it’s a visual symphony that captures the very soul of the story. 📚💖

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About the Book

Meet SIGIL—the new language of guitar. Guitarists who want to improvise and compose, from novice to advanced, will find SIGIL works like a decoder ring for the guitar, yet it’s simple enough to keep in one’s head.

Visualize the whole fretboard. Gain portable knowledge of modes, scales, and intervals without wall charts. This is guitar study re-engineered for every level.

Create more interesting solos. Break through your lull or stall. Decrypt the instrument and unleash your play. The authors are a seasoned musician with albums under his belt and a lively storyteller who walk you through the toolset with eye-opening and sometimes hilarious examples.

• 023 NYC Big Book Award Winner in the category of Music.
• 2023 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for a How-to Book.
• Hollywood Book Festival honorable mention, 2023.
• Global Book Awards finalist, 2023.

You can find The Guitar Decoder Ring here:
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About The Author

Asher Black

Asher Black is an author, karateka, musician, digital ecologist® and maintainer of tobacco pipes of various personalities in Brooklyn, NY. He writes about everything, is a host of multiple podcasts, and (for his day job) connects enterprise sales teams with their audience through sales enablement campaigns and brand story. He boats, dances, and plays with cryptography and linguistics, while reading history and hard-boiled detective novels.

Asher Black is an enforcer for the creativity mafia, plying his art through storytelling (even in non-fiction), collecting oil paintings, improvising and composing for the guitar with the romance of a practitioner in love with the fretboard, and pushing through to zen-like execution of the martial arts. He is a hitman with words, broadcasting from the home studio a continual critique of one-sided thinking, and is known for his raucous sense of humor.

You can find author Black here:
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Today, we roll out the red carpet for the amazing Glendall Jackson, who is about to unveil the beautiful cover of his newest masterpiece, Naked Came the Detective. Prepare to be enchanted, for what you’re about to see is not just a cover—it’s a visual symphony that captures the very soul of storytelling. 📚💖

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WINNER: 2023 Paris Book Festival
WINNER, best novella: 2023 Firebird Book Awards
WINNER, best noir mystery: The 2023 BookFest Awards
WINNER: 2023 Literary Titan Gold Book Award
RUNNER-UP, sleuth-mystery: 2023 PenCraft Book Awards

In many murder mysteries, the call girl gets killed. This novella turns that tired trope on its head.
A skilled and versatile sex worker learns that one of her clients, a prominent businessman, was brutally murdered just hours after their last date. With her unique access to the upper echelon of Washington D.C. society, she embarks on an investigation that leads to a shocking discovery.
Glendall C. Jackson III, an award-winning non-fiction writer, creates a vivid portrait of high-end sex work.

You can find Naked Came the Detective here:
Amazon | Goodreads

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About The Authors

Glendall C. Jackson III

Glendall C. Jackson III is an award-winning writer who has long specialized in deeply-reported non fiction. Naked Came the Detective, his first novel, won an award in the Paris Book Festival and has earned numerous five-star reviews.

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Today, we roll out the red carpet for the sensational Greg Belliveau, who is about to unveil the breathtaking cover of his newest masterpiece, Gods of Imago. Prepare to be enchanted, for what you’re about to see is not just a cover—it’s a visual symphony that captures the very soul of storytelling. 📚💖

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It has been ten years since Christopher Dante, the last storyteller, defeated the Ghul in the abandoned subway tunnels under Cogstin, and now he has vanished without a trace. There are rumors and whispers of a new evil emerging, ancient, dark, beyond the Black Mountains, a Horned God who rules the skeleton people of the north. Welcome to Gods of IMAGO, book two in the stunning IMAGO Series. Gods of IMAGO is literary dystopia at its absolute best, blending amazing world-building with thought-provoking, artful prose in an unforgettable, page-turning experience that will haunt the reader long after the last sentence.

You can find Gods of Imago here:
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International Thriller Writers – Author Spotlight

Gods of IMAGO by Greg Belliveau

Authors Guild of America: Author Spotlight

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About The Authors

Greg Belliveau

Greg Belliveau’s books include his dystopian novel Gods of IMAGO (Rogue Phoenix Press, 2023), IMAGO, and Go Down To Silence (Multnomah Publishing), a Christy Award Finalist for Best First Novel. He has written a collection of creative nonfiction entitled Seeds: Mediations on Grace in a World with Teeth (Crosslink Publishing, 2017). His short stories have been published in Fathom Magazine, The Atticus Review, The Cleveland Review, and Vine Leaves, where his vignette “LG Don’t Want To Fly” was selected for their 2012 Best Of Anthology, published by eMergent Publishing. He is a Christopher Isherwood grant recipient and teaches Creative Writing at Antioch University, Midwest, and has taught at The Antioch Writer’s Workshop, Yellow Springs, OH. He is currently a Visiting Instructor at Capital University and lives in Ohio with his wife and two daughters.

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Welcome to TRB Lounge. Today, I’d like to welcome authors Julie G Fox and Tzuri King for the cover reveal of their upcoming book The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over.

Presenting the beautiful cover of The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over by Julie G Fox and Tzuri King

In “The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over,” readers are transported to a small town in Ukraine where a young girl and her family huddle together in a bomb shelter. With bombs raining down above her, she dreams of a peaceful world where she and her pet are safe, her family is reunited with her veteran dad, and she can dance with her friends without fear. Through the eyes of the brave and hopeful girl, we see the power of imagination and the strength of family in the face of unimaginable hardship. This heartwarming story inspires children of all ages to dream big and never lose hope, even in the darkest of times.

The Dreamer is the brainchild of Tzuri King and Julie G. Fox. It is the first book in a series that aims to incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals into children’s literature. This first book is dedicated to Global Goal 16, which promotes ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’. There are more books to come!

You can find The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over here:
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About The Authors

Julie G Fox

Julie G Fox is the author of over fifty award-winning children’s books.
Julie’s philosophy is to write  up to children, challenge them with demanding stories and use language and ideas to help them  become empathetic and responsible citizens of the world.
As an ambassador for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Julie incorporates into her work the UN’s messages of peace and  prosperity for people and the planet, ending poverty and other deprivations, improving health and  education,

reducing inequality and tackling climate change.

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Tzuri King

Tzuri is a curious adventurer with a warm, empathetic personality.
He ponders the mysteries of the world, and loves lighting fires, fishing, and listening to music. Though he values solitude, he also has a group of students whom he teaches to swim every summer. He has a restless spirit and feels a strong urge to travel and explore. He divides his time between Tel Aviv in the spring and summer, and wandering during winter. His students often ask him why he travels and he answers, to see new things and to have time alone without feeling lonely.
He is a non-material person, carrying everything he needs in a single suitcase. Zuri is not fond of authority and hates restrictive signs.
He has a sweet tooth and loves his mother’s cakes, especially chocolate ones.

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Welcome to TRB Lounge. Today, I’d like to welcome author Eliza Harrison, for the cover reveal of her upcoming audiobook The Mystery Of Martha.

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Two timelines, one truth . . . 

Two women, two millennia apart with seemingly unconnected lives – one from the Lake District in England and the other from Bethany in Palestine. Both experience loss and betrayal, which engender feelings of fear and uncertainty about what their future holds.  

Martha from the Lake District faces challenge and change in 2000 AD as her deepest insecurities are exposed. But supported by her partner Ben, she discovers the mystical Aramaic teachings of Yeshua that offer her a pathway to Self-realisation and freedom.

In 30 AD Martha of Bethany has Yeshua as a friend and guide. From a place of tenderness and vulnerability, she witnesses the last three years of his life as he embodies the ultimate mystery and power of love, which inspires her own journey to awakening. 

These two stories weave together seamlessly until finally they converge in a hauntingly beautiful tale of revelation and redemption.

You can find The Mystery Of Martha here:

Website | Audible | Goodreads

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About The Author

Eliza Harrison

Eliza has had a lifelong passion for exploring different spiritual pathways in the East and the West and has been a teacher of meditation all her adult life. Alongside her work as a spiritual mentor and guide, she is a photographer and author and has produced several books on the life and landscape of Northern England, including The Light Within – A Celebration of the Spiritual Path, and the story of her own: In Search of Freedom – One Woman’s Journey. Now, with her husband David, she runs Sacred Meditation from their home in Cumbria. 

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Welcome to TRB Lounge. Today, I’d like to welcome author Debarshi Kanjilal, for the cover reveal of his upcoming book SuperBu: Homecoming.

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This is not a children’s book or a fairy tale. This novella is not all about fun, or that fuzzy feeling you get from stories about dogs. It is a dramatic story of a family who brought home a dog. If you are looking for a book that’ll keep you continuously smiling through the antics of an adorable puppy, this is perhaps not the book for you.

So, now that you know what not to expect, let’s talk about what you can expect from this book. Have you or someone you know ever felt like something is missing in your life and getting a dog could help you fill a void? Did you, or an acquaintance of yours, end up actually getting that dog? Did you and your dog figure out how to navigate through life together?

This is the story of that dog, or a dog like that one. But more importantly, this is the story of that version of you, or that acquaintance of yours, who decided to act and bring home that dog, or of people like you who went through similar experiences in life.

You can find SuperBu: Homecoming here:

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About The Author

Debarshi Kanjilal

Debarshi Kanjilal (DK) is an urban fiction writer based out of Bangalore, India. His debut novella, Based on Lies, was touted as a gripping psychological thriller by several reputable reviewers.

His latest novella, SuperBu: Homecoming is an emotional journey of a family and their dog. Debarshi ran the ‘God of Absurdity’ blog from 2012 to 2015, which published humorous anecdotes and reflection pieces.

He is also an accomplished learning experience design professional who has helped shape adult learning strategy for some of the most well-known organizations globally.

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Welcome to TRB Lounge. Today, I’d like to welcome author Roland Sato Page, for the cover reveal of his upcoming book Eating The Forbidden Fruit.

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A gritty fictional novel based on true events in author Roland Sato Page life as a St. Louis police officer convicted of federal crimes. A tale of karma, confession, and redemption. The author takes you on a roller coaster ride of his journey searching for the answer “Where did he go wrong?”

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About The Author

Roland Sato Page

Eating the Forbidden Fruit is a gritty fiction novel loosely based on true events in author Roland Sato Page’s life. The newcomer author delivers a personal journey into his rise and demise as a St. Louis City Police Officer. He takes the readers on a roller coaster ride of good ole family memories to the nightmarish reality of being a police officer indicted on federal charges. During his trial, he wrote memoirs as a testimonial of redemption. Roland’s case stems from the conflict of his childhood affiliation and his oath to uphold the law. What is certain is one can’t run from sin for karma is much faster.
Roland Sato Page was born in Brooklyn New York in a military household with a mother from Osaka Japan and a combat trainer father with three war tours under his belt. He grew up in a well-disciplined home with five other siblings. As he got older his family relocated to St. Louis where the author planted his roots and also pursued a military life in the Army Reserves.
Roland married his high school sweetheart and started a family of four. Roland joined the St. Louis police department were his career was cut short when he was convicted of federal crimes due to his childhood affiliation.
After enduring his demise he rebounded becoming a famed a tattoo artist opening Pearl Gallery Tattoos in downtown St. Louis Mo. The company grew into a family business yet another unfortunate incident tested his fate. He was diagnosed with Lupus which halted his body art career. However, with tragedy comes blessings. Roland’s sons took over the business and propelled the shop to a higher level. Roland consumed with depression began writing to occupy the time. With a newfound passion, he traded visual art for literary art.

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