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Friday, 05 April 2013 13:25 |
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Snap Factor by Sam Love
Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
$2.99, e-book
ASIN: B00BP3WNOW
March, 2013
Fiction
Available at www.Amazon.com
“Having taught corporate management for 22 years, the personalities in Snap Factor were right on. An exciting and very readable novel!”
—Kevin Reynolds, retired naval officer and management instructor, George Washington University
“A believable story of a workplace that holds the reader’s interest. It will resonate with anyone who has worked under a bad boss.”
—Phil Bowie, award-winning mystery writer
A killer epidemic sweeping workplaces isn’t the flu. It’s workplace violence. Too frequently, we see stories of a frustrated employee picking up a gun to seek revenge. As we probe the murder in the new mystery, Snap Factor, Sam Love exposes the pressures that can build up in the modern workplace leading someone to snap.
In Snap Factor, a washed-up NYPD detective, “Mac” McCormick, confronts this human resources nightmare head on. His life of easy suburban cases is upended when a corporate vice president is gunned down in a sniper-style attack.
Because this case doesn’t fit the standard profile of an angry employee walking in with a blazing gun, the detective first thinks this is a professional hit. But when he discovers the workplace is a boiling cauldron of hate and fear of the maniacal senior vice president, he begins to suspect this is an act of workplace violence. To him, none of the co-workers are beyond suspicion because they are victims of extreme ridicule, bullying, mocking, and even sexual harassment.
Mac has to throw out any preconceptions of a deranged employee as he uncovers the shooter’s methodical planning and sophisticated ballistics; a sniper’s bullet so novel it could only have come from a secret government program.
By the time Mac discovers who fired the shot, we gain new insight into the explosive social dynamics that can make the modern corporate workplace a ticking time bomb.
Reading Snap Factor will help anyone who has suffered with a bad boss realize they are not alone. The book includes a corporate survival discussion guide that can be a great tool for workplace training and discussion groups.
Sam Love is a writer living in North Carolina. As a media producer he worked with major corporations, non-profits, and government agencies to help them tell their story. He now spends his time writing poetry, teaching yoga, and restoring a historic house. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 05 April 2013 09:38 |
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Monday, 01 April 2013 13:00 |
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The Princess and The Cuban by Owen Mitchell
$2.99, e-book
ISBN 978-1-300-55177-5
December, 2012
Fiction
Available from www.Amazon.com and www.lulu.com
Terry Reed had killed men in the line of duty as a soldier, but he never realized as a Homeland Security agent he would again have to kill and even risk his life taking a bullet to save a Princess’ life in a beach house on the North Carolina coast. In The Princess and The Cuban, a novel meant to be the first in a series about a young CIA agent, this good old red-bloodied American boy learns a lot about himself as he defends his country at home.
When he leaves the military, with a Bronze Star for bravery, he’s just a good-looking 26 year-old ready to find his way in the world and enjoy women. He finds himself defending his homeland as a CIA agent, not in some foreign country, but working with Homeland Security and becoming a spy on American soil.
His original assignment of running surveillance on an Islamic terrorist, who lives in a sleepy southern college town, turns into a twisted maze of relationships with a beautiful Egyptian Princess, a run-in with Russian spies, and a one-night love affair with an English stripper/spy.
His life escalates into a relationship with Carlos Cuadrado, who just happens to be one of the most notorious and successful Cuban-Americans in the world with a chip on his shoulder about the American embargo from the ‘60’s. His work with Carlos takes him to some incredible venues in Miami and Cuba.
It all comes to a head when Terry has to stop Carlos’ attempt on the life of the President of the United States at a function in a basketball arena where 21,000 people, including former presidents, cabinet members, and religious dignitaries could all die.
Sound like fiction? It could be. It could also be that Terry Reed is a real hero. Not the kind you see getting medals or proclamations but the kind that is just doing his job protecting America from the inside.
Owen Mitchell's credentials for writing this book are simple. He knows this young man very well. He's followed his career the past five years. Names have been changed to protect people, but this story about secret agents in America protecting our country is very, very true. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:28 |
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:13 |
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Heart of the Light by Lisa Zerkle
Finishing Line Press
$14.00, paperback
May, 2013
Poetry
Available from the publisher
"What I like best about Lisa Zerkle’s poems is their honesty. She has heart, she has humor, but she never sentimentalizes, never makes the world into something she would like it to be."
—Anthony S. Abbott, author of If Words Could Save Us
Lisa Zerkle's poetry has appeared in Crucible, The Main Street Rag, Thrift Poetic Arts, and online at www.literarymama.com. She is a co-editor of Kakalak: Anthology of Carolina Poetry. In 2008, she wrote a monthly column for the Charlotte Observer as one of their Community Columnists. She is the president of the North Carolina Poetry Society. She lives in Charlotte. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 12:59 |
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Hats Off! to Richard Krawiec, who has been asked to be on the Advisory Panel of Writing for Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating empathy through education and creative writing in order to develop a foundation of compassion on which to build a more peaceful world. |
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