Night Blindness by Susan Strecker

night blindness by susan strecker

Photo Credit: St. Martin’s Press 9/29

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Night Blindness

Jensen at 16 experienced a life event that haunts her to this day. When she was 16, she was young. In love. Happy.

After one fateful night, though, life changed for Jensen. She wasn’t young. She wasn’t happy. She was changed.

She gave up her dreams, left her hometown, and moved on. Running from her past, marrying a man that loved the Jensen she was currently.  Continue reading →

Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne

Angel Killer

Photo Credit: Bourbon Street Books

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Angel Killer

Summary from Goodreads:

FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she’s left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test.

A hacker who identifies himself only as “Warlock” brings down the FBI’s website and posts a code in its place that leads to a Michigan cemetery, where a dead girl is discovered rising from the ground . . . as if she tried to crawl out of her own grave.

Born into a dynasty of illusionists, Jessica Blackwood is destined to become its next star—until she turns her back on her troubled family to begin a new life in law enforcement. But FBI consultant Dr. Jeffrey Ailes’s discovery of an old magic magazine will turn Jessica’s world upside down. Faced with a crime that appears beyond explanation, Ailes has nothing to lose—and everything to gain—by taking a chance on an agent raised in a world devoted to achieving the seemingly impossible.

The body in the cemetery is only the first in the Warlock’s series of dark miracles. Thrust into the media spotlight, with time ticking away until the next crime, can Jessica confront her past to stop a depraved killer? If she can’t, she may become his next victim.

 

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

This is a book that made it home with me from BEA 14. I was intrigued by the summary. The cover was eye-catching as well. As it sometimes happen, though, some books in my stacks get shuffled around- so I found myself just recently reading ANGEL KILLER. Continue reading →

{Guest Post} Teresa LaRue Tells The Truth About Southern Women

It's a Guest Post day

Hello folks- let’s welcome Teresa LaRue to Traveling With T today! Her debut, A TALENT FOR MURDER, is out there in the world today- just waiting for you to go buy it or check it out from the library!

So, you know, after you read the guest post- then give the book a good looking over 🙂 🙂

Ready for Teresa? Let’s go! Continue reading →

What You See by Hank Phillippi Ryan

What You See

Photo Credit: Forge Books 10/20

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

What You See

Jane Ryland, our favorite reporter, is back with a story that intertwines lies, blackmail, and family drama.

Jane is interviewing for new reporter job- one back on television- when she hears the news about an incident at Fanueil Hall. The TV station sends her to the scene with a small recorder and tells her to get the story.

Jane’s love interest, Detective Jake Brogan, is already there and trying to determine what happened. With multiple people on the scene- shooting video and taking pictures on a lovely day- he knows in his gut that someone, somewhere has the crime on camera and can help them. The problem is finding the person! Continue reading →

BEA 2015 (Books. NYC. Fun. Did I mention books?)

Bea 2015

I know! I know! I’m so late with this post. I know most people are now planning their BEA 16 trip and I’m just now posting about my BEA 15. Oh well!

After the fun of BEA 14 last year, Kristin and I immediately started making plans for #BEA15OrBust! Feeling like slightly seasoned pros- we made our plans.

Then BEA changed things.

Seriously.

Instead of having the Blogger conference all day on Wednesday and BEA being Thursday, Friday and Saturday- they changed it to half a day on Wednesday, all day Thursday and Friday- and Book Con (which was included in your BEA badge last year- would be a separate ticket.)

Ok. No biggie. We talked- we knew what we wanted to do (no Book Con for us or Blogger Conference). We decided to arrive on Tuesday, then leave on Saturday.

Back in Mississippi, I awoke at 4:30 am- COMPLETELY convinced that something was amiss and I was going to have problems on my flight (after last year’s debacle- one could hardly blame me for this feeling!)

But, no problems- except arriving at the airport ridiculously early and finding out that even though I TRIPLE confirmed that a shuttle would be around to pick me back up on Saturday- Holiday Inn Express in Flowood, MS says “our shuttle doesn’t run on Saturday”. Jerks.

I breeze through security and breeze through my layover at Atlanta- eager to get to NYC. I arrive between 3 & 4pm, let Kristin know I am on my way to hotel and then arrive at Holiday Inn Express Times Square.

Kristin and I head to Javits Center to pick up badges, then decide to head to Gotham Market for an early supper (I was starving because I’m usually too nervous to eat much on travel days!) and then went walking around Times Square (where I bought some new earrings at Fossil!)

Wednesday:

We got up early on Wednesday with the brilliant idea of arriving early-ish at Javits, reading the Publishers Weekly magazine ( an absolute gem of info we discovered last year) and hanging out till the doors opened to let people in at BEA. This was a great plan- Kristin and I were relaxed, got to chit-chat with people, take pictures and mark addition items on our list. Continue reading →

Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain

Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain

Photo Credit: St. Martin’s Press 10/6

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Pretending to Dance

Molly Arnette is a good liar. Married to a man she adores, living in San Diego, and eager to adopt a baby since she is unable to have a child- Molly feels fear as the adoption process turns personal- and the social worker begins to question Molly about her past.

Why is Molly nervous?

Because she’s told a lie. A lie, that if her husband found out, might destroy every bit of happiness she has found. And Molly could not handle that- especially since she lost so much happiness when she was 14 and living in North Carolina.  Continue reading →

Literary Friday ya’ll……

literary friday

 

Happy Literary Friday (err…. Saturday!) I’ll be honest- yesterday, while I had most of the Literary Friday post planned in my mind- I was just in a funky mood. I felt zapped. Cranky. Tired. I needed to take 5, get back in the right frame of mind and relax.

So, last night, after eating some delicious Mexican and texting with 2 friends (one who always has the appropriate HATERS GONNA HATE text and my other- who knows that piranhas sometimes take human form) helped get my mindset on the right track. And then I dived, headfirst, into the delicious writings of Beatriz Williams- and her last book about those Schyuler sisters- ALONG THE INFINITE SEA.

Now on to Literary Friday (albeit a day late!)

1. Deep South Magazine and their #literaryfriday: Literary Costume Ideas, news about festivals and 15 minutes with Ron Rash- and that’s just for starters!

 

2. Giveaways: Traveling With T has 2: THE GOOD NEIGHBOR by Amy Sue Nathan (currently 366 entries in the giveaway!) and  a Kindle Paperwhite giveaway from author L.A. Long. Doing Dewey is giving away SILVER TONGUE by AshelyRose Sullivan. Always With A Book is giving away PARCHMENT AND OLD LACE by Laura Childs.  Continue reading →

{Giveaway} L.A. Long is giving away a Kindle Paperwhite!

giveaway giveaway

Ya’ll today is a giveaway that will make you do cartwheels, backflips, and jazz hands all over the house! ( Pictures or it didn’t happen 😉

Back to serious giveaway talk.

So, L.A. Long is giving away a Kindle PaperWhite that will come pre-loaded with 2 of her books- her newest- IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR THERAPY (released August 5th), a romantic suspense- OPERATION NO COINCIDENCE and then- just to sweeten the pot- 3 books of the winner’s choice.

SQUEE. *Faints dead away from the excitement*

Since I just did a post about 5 Reads To Put The Ho-Ho-Ho In Your Holiday (and I did refrain from reminding us all how many shopping days till Christmas!) I cannot refrain from *gently reminding* you all that a Kindle PaperWhite would make a great gift for the holidays for your mom, dad, kids, nieces, nephews or your favorite blogger 🙂

Follow me for the giveaway details. There may be milk and cookies involved (maybe not- you’ll have to take a chance!) Continue reading →