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Featured Author Jay A Blum

Featured Interview With Jay A Blum

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Jay was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but grew up on the sun-kissed shores of South Florida after the age of three. As an adult, Jay has had the privilege to live and work in nineteen countries, five U.S. states, and one Indian Reservation. I have been happily married for 17 years and we have two children, a boy that’s 10 and our puppy that’s 1.

Stricken with Renal Cell Carcinoma, which took both of his kidneys and the sight in his left eye, Jay had to retire from his traveling circus. Now as a member of the Georgia Writer’s Association, National Writers Union and the Author’s Guild, Jay now writes from the comfort of his home in a quaint and small town in Georgia.

In a previous life, Jay earned his master’s Degree in Business Administration with a Specialization in Marketing and Communications. Jay is a veteran marketing consultant with more than three decades of experience. Jay’s marketing expertise drew on a broad range of experience that has helped him analyze market dynamics and translate them into effective marketing strategies for major corporations, governmental agencies and foreign tourism departments to name a few.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started reading, for pleasure, around the age of 8. I am a sci-fi freak and would love being transported to strange worlds, cool people, and someone’s version of our future. I began writing in 2011 as my health began to deteriorate.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I am a huge Sci-Fi, Espionage, and Military reader. My favorite authors, besides myself of course, are Brad Thor, Tom Clancy and Larry Bonds.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer’s Journey is a hilarious story of a simple man that blows his minuscule IRA to play some of the world’s famous golf courses in the home of Golf, Scotland. Stubborn as Jeff is, he knew he could do better than the “golf tours” offered by many companies. As a result, the book is a tee by tee description of Jeff’s trip from deciding which courses to play, how much he wanted to spend, the trials of driving on the wrong side of the road, and the simple beauty of Scotland. Here is my story. (make Law & Order sound in your head)

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Potion Voyages Book 1: Castle & Conceit by Jeremy Dwyer

About Potion Voyages Book 1: Castle & Conceit by Jeremy Dwyer:

Adventure across the world of magic oceans!

A vain prince and his advisor construct castles to plunder their rivals.

They capture a magic music scholar in one town. She sings a song to seek higher knowledge, beginning a series of dangerous discoveries.

**Links to listen to all songs FREE are included in every book in the series.**

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Featured Author Bruce Calhoun

Featured Interview With Bruce Calhoun

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Exploring the woods behind my house when I was growing up in rural Wisconsin, working passage on a tramp freighter, fending off White Tipped oceanic sharks on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, filming lowland gorillas in Africa, capsizing a sailboat in the Bermuda Triangle, mushing sled dogs in Alaska, teaching marine biology in Puerto Rico, visiting the Amazon and founding Save the Rainforest in 1988 are but a few of the highlights in my life. Other highlights include writing an award winning play, an autobiography and my latest novel, Ardennia. Currently I am serving as president of Save the Rainforest and living a rather sedate life in Southwestern Wisconsin with my beloved wife and my dog, Paco.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I fell in love with books in conjunction with falling in love with nature at the tender age of fourteen. Not only did I fall in love with nature, I became enamored of wilderness – especially after reading some Jack London novels. His books had such an influence on me that I went to college at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, where as I already mentioned, I did some dog mushing.

I started writing at sixteen, as I recollect. My first short story was about a hunter getting treed by an grizzly. Little did I dream that some day I would I would have my own encounter with a grizzly – in Glacier National Park. Life mirrors fiction?

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read a lot of historical non-fiction, but I also love the literary fiction: Cervantes’s DON QUIXOTE is one of my all time favorites; such a favorite that my latest book draws inspiration from Cervantes. I must give honarble mention to the books of Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde and John Steinbeck, as well.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
A Cinderella story like no other, my book, ARDENNIA: THE UNLIKELY STORY OF CINDERELL’S PRINCE, is a young adult historical fantasy that captures the magic, brutality and earthiness of the medieval age. It chronicles the many adventures of Cinderella’s prince as he experiences his first joust, undergoes his baptism of fire in the Battle of Paris, is charmed by Cinderella at a masquerade ball, and sets off on a quest to find her after she flees the ball at the midnight hour.

The quest takes him and his folksy mentor, Sir Guy, through strange lands supposedly inhabited by ogres, pixies, hobgoblins, man-eating plants and giants; and peopled by an extraordinary and motley cast of characters that include an epileptic bard, a bean counter who wagers his gold tooth in a dice game, a merchant who can never be too prosperous, a little girl who has a running feud with three bears, pilgrims that argue over who is the most pious and a beggar who has been cursed with leprosy for committing all the cardinal sins. Be on the look-out for a bit of Chaucer-like satire in this adapted fairy tale.

It only took me a couple months to come up with a rough draft of ARDENNIA. It has taken twice as much time to polish it, and get the word out about it. So, if you are reading this – that’s great: And let me just add there are at least seven great reasons for reading ARDENNIA. They are:

7. Robinette the Hood’s cameo
6. The buffoon’s gambit
5. The ironic ending
4. The love affair between Cinderella’s stepmother and the hunchback
3. Sir Guy’s story of the elf and the troll
2. Queen Bernadette’s sagacity
1. Prince Henry’s tete-a-tetes with the 14 ladies who attended

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The Aboriginal Cameleer by Gordon Smith

The Aboriginal Cameleer by Gordon Smith

In 1930’s fictional Australian rural town of Willow Vale. Baddar, a wild hearted 7 years old, would tell you he is special. Because of his dual heritage (his father is the son of the last Afghan cameleer and his wife, Rose, an aboriginal woman,) Baddar knew he was destined for more than his little town. Bored of small-town life and overwhelmed by childlike curiosity, his ancestor’s tales of tribesmen and cameleers is all he needs to fuel his imagination. The story follows the adventures of 4 of the children from Willow Vale. Baddar and his sister Delari are special people. There are the children of the Muslim son of the last Afghan cameleer and his Christian wife, Rose, (an aboriginal who was raised by missionaries). Beddar (pronounced bed-are) is a typical 7-year boy. and is in grade 2 at Willow Vale Rural School. Beddar has a mischievous streak although he is what could be described as “the naughty little boy that every mother would fall in love with.”Baddar is not sure if he wants to be known as an Afghan tribesman or an Aboriginal Cameleer. Realising that Baddar is confused by his duel heritage, the Charmchi family goes on a mini camel caravan with their Afghan grandfather. An accident happens, and Delari’s leg is in a cast during a school exchange visit to the Bulling Beach School.While at Bulling Beach, Freda is bitten by a poisonous sea creature and is in a coma for several days.Everything goes back to normal until a bushfire threatens Willow Vale. Eventually, Baddar and Billy save the lives of a railway crew that had been caught up in the bush fire.

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