Write Now Literary presents Far From Crazy by Jessica Glover

Write Now Literary is pleased to be organizing a two-week book tour and Amazon gift card giveaway for Far From Crazy - Success In Sanity: My Unashamed Truth by Jessica Johnson Glover. The book tour will run May 8-19^th 2023. ISBN: 978-1737531081 Book Title: Far From Crazy - Success In Sanity: My Unashamed Truth Genre: Mental Health

MEET THE AUTHOR

Jessica Johnson Glover is an author, speaker, mental health advocate, and Realtor. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Clark Atlanta University. After almost twenty years of living successfully with a mental illness, Jessica realized she possessed the skills and knowledge to help people who silently suffer from mental illnesses. Purposely, Jessica established and founded The Success In Sanity Society (SISS), an accountability tribe for those who are unashamed and ready to successfully maintain their sanity. In this community, Jessica conducts monthly virtual meetings that help individuals successfully manage mental illness and live the lives of their dreams. With the assistance of the SISS network professionals, Jessica, and her team offer expertise, resources, and skills that are needed to not only be successful BUT maintain mental wellness. Jessica is married to her soulmate, Gerald L. Glover, a mortgage professional. They reside in sunny Jacksonville, Florida. Her moments of purposeful self-care include: spending time with her family and friends, listening to gospel music, getting pampered, and binge-watching some of her favorite television shows with her husband.

ABOUT THE BOOK

   

The first time Jessica Johnson Glover snapped, she walked outside naked with her Gucci bag and African cane. Her sanity left temporarily. However, after spending time in mental health hospitals, Jessica came to terms with her mental illness, and accepted the help and support she needed to win and rise to the top.

However, taking control of her mental health wasn't without determination, a proper diagnosis/treatment, and unyielding faith in God. Today, Jessica is insanely successful - personally and professionally, and she is a champion for those living with mental illness.

Jessica believes that by taking the correct medication-as prescribed- and practicing a balanced lifestyle, those battling mental illness can experience true freedom and live a life that's far from crazy.

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Laugh Cry Reflect 2 from Amy Laundrie

 

Laugh, Cry, Reflect, Book 2
Amy Laundrie
Henschel Haus publisher, 200 pp
April 19, 2023

Print $16.95
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About the Book: 

This compilation of heartfelt vignettes, capturing the joys and sorrows of life, invites readers to share the author's experiences. Each has an underlying message, providing a chance for reflection.

My Review

Laundrie’s second collection of favorite newspaper columns continue to shine a positive and wholesome light on community and family. The stories about animals in her life, siblings, health, and faith are often thought-provoking, highly entertaining, and guaranteed to provide a chuckle or a challenge to readers of any age.

Divided into distinctive sections, Feathered and Furry Friends, Home Fires, Memories, Wanderlust, Nature, Wanderlust, and Grab Bag, Laundrie’s unmistakably enthusiastic style shines through. Tales of Gertie the duck are some of my favorites, invoking memories of childhood pets. I think of Cousin Vic often when I visit cemeteries, and relive the awe of splendor of natural sites such as Mammoth Cave with Laundrie. Walking with her through a health crisis is an educational experience.

Laugh, Cry, Reflect 2 is more than a collection of stories. Introducing the set is a list and a reason of some of her favorite influential books. Rounding out the collection is advice for a long, happy life. Have a purpose and forgive yourself are expanded upon with lovingkindness.

Enjoyable, delightful. Highly recommended little bites of adventures from a gifted storyteller.

 About the Author:

A retired fourth-grade teacher, Amy Laundrie began writing personal essays because of a desire to share some of her favorite stories and connect with others. Readers have called her stories poignant, humorous, and heartfelt testimonials to a woman’s life. They have universal truths and emotions that speak to a wide reading audience.

She enjoys playing tennis, pickleball, and having adventures with family, friends, and her dog Josie.

Amy also loves conducting workshops, presenting, and hearing from her readers. Contact her at laundrie@live.com or visit her online at www.Laundrie.com.

New book by Randy Richardson

 

Havana Hangover

Randy Richardson
Fiction, contemporary crime
Renegade Press LLC, March 2023
256 pp

Print $4.99

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About the Book

Thirty-year-old Chicago corporate lawyer Tanner Ford leaves behind a painful past and lucrative job for a bucket-list trip to Cuba with Jackson Swift, his estranged best friend from law school. But when they arrive, the oddities start adding up. Jackson evades questions about his wife and kids. Their itinerary keeps changing, and their tour guide might work for a fake company. When Tanner awakes after a rum-soaked night beside Dannel, a local musician with something to hide, and a text from Jackson that reads “HELP ME,” his dream vacation turns into a fight for survival. He is held hostage in an abandoned cigar factory, interrogated by the police, and hunted down by a mysterious “ghost” in the Cuban government. Beset by anxiety and panic attacks, Tanner is hurled unwittingly into an international conspiracy leading right back to Jackson and a friendship that began in betrayal.

Havana Hangover combines the disoriented protagonist of Andrea Bartz’s The Lost Night with the political intrigue of a Paul Vidich novel. It is a story about healing, friendship, love and deceit, set within a lovingly-rendered Cuban cityscape and fueled by rapid twists and turns, eventually landing in the corrupt corners of DC politics.

 My review

Havana Hangover is a contemporary road trip gone off the edge. Attorney Tanner Ford, just long enough out of law school, realizes the big-money dream wasn’t living up to reality and decided to jump off the merry-go-round when a former law school roomie came p with tickets to a bucket-list trip of a lifetime worth crashing his career for; even giving up the final game of the World Series-serious. Cuba, magical land of hero Ernest Hemingway, beckoned, and for the first twenty-four hours or so, truly lived up to Tanner’s expectations and then some. Able to ditch his sleezy former buddy for a hot hookup, things take a serious downturn with a progression of texts ending in an all-cap call for help.

Everything about the trip and the people involved, the tour guide, the partner, the hookup girl…even Jackson, the former friend, turned out to be anything more than smoke and mirrors.

Throughout the story, which takes place at the turning tide of planetary unrest in political and pandemic turmoil, Tanner’s life seems to parallel to divide between what he knows and what he’s always dreamed of, and what he thought he wanted. Crisis after crisis, both in Cuba and at home, lead him in directions borne of fear and disgust. Havana Hangover could be read as a simple ultimate bad trip novel, but deep down, it’s a warning about the darkness of desire and depravity at every level of society. Richardson’s research and setting come from experience as an attorney and a traveler, smoothly inviting the reader into his world. Recommended for those who enjoy espionage and thrillers without pages of jargon or a host of throwaway characters.

About the Author

Randy is an attorney, former journalist, and a die-hard Cubs fan. As the president of the Chicago Writers Association, he is deeply involved with Chicago’s writing community, including as an organizer of the Let’s Just Write! conference. He is the author of two well-received novels, Cheeseland and Lost in the Ivy, as well as co-author of Cubsessions, all from hybrid publisher Eckhartz Press. His essays have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including Hypertext and Memory House. Visit his website, randyrichardson.co, to learn more about his work.

Things God Hates by Rabbi Hershberg

 

Things God Hates, Things God Loves by Rabbi Greg Hershberg

Aneko Press, January 2023

$5.99 ebook

$18.99 Print

About the Book

Journey through this book with me and consider the Scriptures that tell us what the Lord hates and what He loves. Ask the Lord to teach you to live with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength for Him, in such a way that He will look upon you with favor.

My Review

Things God Hates, Things God Loves is a precious look at our Savior through Scripture from the point of view of a messianic Jewish Rabbi. It’s a wonderful story and guidebook of what can happen when we open ourselves to God’s great invitation and enjoy Him. Set up in 18 chapters, seven of which detail things God hates, followed by seven chapters of things God loves, Hershberg walks us through the Bible to help us understand these concepts. Chapters are uniquely balanced between Old and New Testament, bringing stories of favor and trials to life. Those familiar with Proverbs will pick out those things God hates and learn how to clearly understand the original intent in order to put them into perspective and turn away. Those familiar with Psalms and the letters to the early church will see things God loves put into practice for today.

Full of Scripture and thoughtfully laid out, readers who desire a deeper walk with our Lord will find Things God Hates, Things God Loves a treasured added resource to your library of books you’ll want to read more than once. I received an arc from Aneko Press and provide my own opinion.

About the Author

Rabbi Greg Hershberg was born in New York City, and raised in Orthodox Judaism. He graduated from Pace University, Magna Cum Laude in 1980 and worked in the financial sector. He later owned and operated an executive search firm in New York City. In 1989, he married, and while on his honeymoon in Israel had a miraculous visitation from the Lord. From that point on, his heart was set on serving God. He  currently resides in Macon, Georgia with his wife, Bernadette, and their four children and leads the Beth Yeshua International global ministry.

Updated Timeless classic released Call to the Unconverted

 

Call to the Uncoverted to Turn and Live

by Richard Baxter

Updated and Annotated 

Aneko Press January 2023

1681 pp

Print $12.99

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About the Book

This book is from 17^th century classic Reformed minister Richard Baxter, revised from the 1863 version. “If you will turn and live, do it determinedly, and do not stand still and deliberate as if it were a doubtful case. Do not stand around wavering as if you were uncertain whether God or the flesh is the better mas­ter, whether sin or holiness is the better way, or whether heaven or hell is the better result.”

My Review

Originally written and published by Mr. Baxter during his ministry in England, this “little treatise” speaks a powerful but simple word, especially to those who have heard the gospel but haven’t chosen to follow it by repenting and living a worthy life. God does not give you prophets, but ordinary ministers, Baxter writes.

Using heart-felt pleas, Baxter makes liberal use of Scripture to appeal to the reader to stand now, while here and alive, before it’s too late. He’s astonished at how many are called but how few will be saved, he writes in his introduction. His goal is two-fold: to convince readers it’s not God’s fault if they are in misery, and it’s their fault if they choose to reject God. Following, he lays out seven principles to support his exhortation.

Baxter’s conclusion again begs the reader to convert to a life of faith, and lays out reasons to do, as well as concise directions, such as “read and heed the word of God,” “immediately give up your known and willful sin,” and the very practical “change your company.” Ending with a lovely prayer, Baxter’s love for people is clear and dear.

Updated with call-outs and readable, elegant typesetting, this timeless plea for the souls of humankind will surely touch all readers.

About the Author

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) preached “as a dying man to dying men.” He was devoted to God and was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Best known as the minister of Kidderminster in England, his love for God and others resulted in practically the entire town of Kidderminster turning to Jesus during Baxter’s ministry there. Richard Baxter desired unity among Christians, which often resulted in opposition from those who held to church loyalty or theological views rather than to Christ and God’s Word. Baxter had his share of persecution, even being imprisoned on several occasions.

Write Now Literary Tour with Dr Debra Moore Ignont

Write Now Literary is pleased to be organizing a two-week book tour and Amazon gift card giveaway for What Do You Do When Your Faith is Unsure? My Journey of Singleness to Intimacy by Dr. Debra Moore Ignont. The book tour will run Dec 5-16, 2022.

ISBN: 978-1-958207-30-7

Genre: Christian Memoir

Book Release Date: September 1, 2022

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Dr. Ignont is passionate about ministry and has served in various capacities for many years; be it as a youth department administrator, singles ministry leader, choir member, or interceding for others on the altar.

A Bay Area native, Dr. Ingot graduated from Bishop O’Dowd High School and studied at University of Phoenix earning a Bachelor of Science in Business with an emphasis on Small Business Entrepreneurship. Additionally, Dr. Ingot was recently bestowed with an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the God School of Ministry.

Dr. Ignont is married to George Ignont and the stepmother to 4 adults and step-grandmother to 6 grandchildren, while also assisting in the care of her 85-year-old mother.

She currently serves at the Well Christian Community in Livermore, CA where she has completed a 2-year ministerial course and is currently enrolled in their School of Worship. When not serving in ministry, she is the CEO of D. Moore Consulting, Inc., a labor, and contract compliance consulting firm.

ABOUT THE BOOK

 

We’ve all had moments in our lives when our faith is being challenged. Perhaps you’re trusting and believing God for something and the manifestation of it feels like it’s a lifetime away. This transforming story of triumph, victory, and God's relentless grace is not without setbacks and disappointments. Author, Dr. Debra Ignont takes us on a self-revealing journey as she uncovers the underlying reasons of low self-esteem and rejection that has plagued her faith for decades. Debra helps readers connect by sharing her non-public journey of broken relationships, but also her journey to redemption and freedom. A beautiful aspect of this book is that it reminds readers of the extraordinary path we each must take to reach our own promised land.

EXCERPT

The negative body image and height insecurities were planted in my adolescent years. I was always teased because of my weight and height. It began in my Junior High years and continued into my adulthood. I was tall and really skinny until my sophomore year in High School (I will explain this transformation in a later chapter). I was also somewhat shy. The kids would call me all kinds of names such as bean pole, skinny Minnie, skyscraper, etc. But to come home and have my dad comment on my weight would send me over the edge.

However, my intent in giving my number to him, I believe, was so I could hear him validate me some more. This was where the insecurities that are never addressed will get you trapped in some mess. Needless to say, I don’t believe he intended to ever give me rides to school, but instead give me rides emotionally and physically after school, if you know what I mean.

Crazy how the enemy can have your moral compass all screwed up. Although I ended things,

he wanted to keep them going. The only righteous thing to do was to walk away, and I did just that. In my warped sense of accomplishment, I was sure God was pleased by my walking away and I didn’t think about how I disappointed God yet again by committing adultery.

 

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Holiday Indie Reads Tour and Giveaway Dec 13-19

 

I’m so excited to be a part of @NNP_W_Light’s Indie Reads Bookish Event. Check out all the featured books and enter the giveaway to win a $35 Amazon gift card: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/indie-authors-bookish-event 

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Below is a complete list of authors participating. Find new reads!

On Tuesday, December 13, my mystery, Meow Missing, will be featured.

On Friday, Secember 16, my suspense, UnderCut, will be featured.

Enter to win a $35 Amazon gift card: a Rafflecopter giveaway Open Internationally. You must have a valid Amazon US or Amazon Canada account to win.

Runs December 13 – December 21, 2022.

Winner will be drawn on December 22, 2022.

Tuesday 12/13

Regina Jeffers

Lucinda Race

Ellis Summers (Smuggler)

Susan Payne (Harrison)

Lisa Lickel (Meow)

Joyce Reynolds-Ward (Pledges)

Barbara Barrett (Dragon)

Karen Doctor (Cop)


Wednesday 12/14

Kathleen Lawless

Norm Harris (Deception)

Veronica Scott (Kyden)

Chrysteen Braun

K.L. Doctor

Joyce Reynolds-Ward (Netwalk)

Marilyn Barr

N. Christine Samuelson

Thursday 12/15

Louis Ambrosio

Dania Voss

Ellis Summers (Quinn)

Susan Payne (Midwife)

P.L. Parker

Friday 12/16

Linda McLaughlin

Veronica Scott (Dancer)

Lisa Lickel

Saturday 12/17

Susan Payne (Jeremy)

Park Cooper (Talking)

Barbara Barrett (Drywall)

Karen Doctor (Satin)

Sunday 12/18

Norm Harris (Girl)

Don Meyer

Lloyd Jeffries

Monday 12/19

Ellis Summers (Granted)

Susan Payne (New Banker)

Park Cooper (Song)

Diane Bay

Joyce Reynolds-Ward (Enduring)

Suzanne Winslow