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Secret Affair!

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Comment by Lynn Pinder on April 4, 2013 at 9:57am

The 2013 Holy Spirit-Filled & Powerful Witnesses of Christ: Christi... is making three Tour stops in Harlem, NY (2013 Harlem Book Fair), Timonium, MD (4th Annual African American Author's Expo), and Baltimore, MD (2013 Christian Writer's Literary Festival). Please visit www.2013caot.blogspot.com and click on the "Tour Schedule" tab to get more details regarding CAOT's 2013 Tour schedule.

We are seeking male and female Christian authors (fiction and nonfiction) who are on FIRE for God and committed to using writing as a tool for Christian ministry to share their book ministries with CAOT on the 2013 Tour. Please visit www.2013caot.blogspot.com and click on the "JOIN CAOT" tab for more details regarding submission information and vending fees.

If you want an idea of what you can expect at a vending event with CAOT, please consider purchasing a 3-Disc Audio CD of the panel discussions/workshops from the 2012 Christian Writer's Literary Festival. Please visit www.christianwritersliteraryfestival.blogspot.com to purchase a $15 3-Disc Audio set.

If you are an angel investor/kingdom giver looking for a worthy project to seed in 2013, consider becoming a corporate sponsor for CAOT in 2013. Please visit www.christianauthorsontour.com and click on the the "Corporate Sponsorship" tab for more details.

Perhaps you have a service, product, business and/or ministry that would be of interest to Christian authors and/or Christian book lovers, consider purchasing a marketing packet with CAOT that would allow your product, service, business and/or ministry to go on Tour with CAOT! Please visit www.christianauthorsontour.com and click on the "Corporate Sponsorship" tab for more details about other marketing opportunities that are available to you.

Remember, you can always listen for FREE to the Christian Authors on Tour (CAOT) Blog Talk Radio Show (www.blogtalk...) LIVE on Fridays at 2 p.m. (EST). Don't worry if you can't listen LIVE, you can download hundreds of FREE On-Demand podcasts to listen at your own convenience to inspirational interviews with Christian authors (fiction and nonfiction)!

Thank you in advance for your continued support, and please continue to pray for CAOT!

God Bless,
Lynn Pinder
Chief Visionary Officer
Christian Authors on Tour (CAOT)
www.christianauthorsontour.com

Comment by SJ Blenman on January 21, 2013 at 10:53am

Good afternoon, on this snowy Monday. I was fortunate to be published by an eBook publisher Aventura last year August. However one review said there were grammatical errors.  Can anyone recommend a good 'reasonably priced' editor? as I do not want the same mistakes in my second novel? 

Thanks and look forward to any suggestions.

Susan

Comment by Lynn Pinder on September 12, 2012 at 8:24am

Comment by Kim Wilson on August 27, 2012 at 11:24am

The Spices In Life by Kimberly Wilson

We add flavor our foods, our homes, our wardrobes and most of us add a little flavor to our lives. Meet Christine Veronica Webbster whose life is flavored with emotional, financial and social spices that fires flavor into her every waking moment.

From the day of her platinum-spoon birth into the household of the super-wealthy Webbsters, her emotional stability went on a downward spiral in to never, never land. Along the way she knowingly makes a life-long nemesis of Angelia McCarthy, acquires two Master Degrees and two multimillion dollar businesses, all the way to giving away her fortune and meeting the Grim Reaper face to face; delicious.

The Spices In Life has all the flavors in the mix.

My first novel can be ordered: http://www.amazon.com/dp/ B007F22K6I and it’s .99.

Thank you for your literary support. Please Facebook this to your family friends and every social circle you have; again, I’d greatly appreciate it.

 

BOLD STATEMENTS

Why are so many people needing to be un-acceptable. Why do they reach out to me in such a forceful manner. Do I appear to relinquish my RIGHTS as an achiever in any given effort. Read me my MEMORIES and the answer will reach out and touch someone; any one. The remedies that reside within my mind are consequences that may render one USELESS in their efforts. Recycle mandatory affections and reside amongst the COMPETITION that may master anger’s rejects. What we fail to sometimes realize is that we make MISTAKES but we are not to be held accountable for the such. RECAPTURE every demeanor that may fight to survive and within that circle, may become beknownst to you. When a TIGER cries and that they do, we can’t hear it as well as when a TREE falls and yes, it does make a SOUND. Feel me when you can’t and even when you won’t because everything I ATTEMPT to become only remembers that which may bring about my DEEPEST fear. ROARING is a call of the wild. Screaming comes from inside the closet and the mercy never rest. FAILURE can never be accounted for if the attempts are MEASURED. Record the evidence and scream it from within. Never allow FORCES to be with you; there is a heaven and the only way to know that, is to FORGIVE. Forgive when you can’t or simply when you don’t want to. Escape and FREE your…..

Knowing their mind allows the PLEASURE to revolve around what I resolute; and the REWARD will be all mine, no yours too.

Support that which is MANDATORY. I don’t think so far that which we accept is only as far as the eye can see and to only see can bring about UNBELIEF. Boldness is a fortified ELEMENT that will extinguish an enormous, burning DESIRE; there is another understanding which must be LEANED on.

Kim Wilson

OOWEE

onmyownkikl@yahoo.com

http://www.kimkologne@synthasite.com

Comment by JXW on August 26, 2012 at 9:55pm

JXW BOOKS DEBUTS WITH FIRST EBOOK

“The University of Perdition, An EBook Horror Series, Volume One” allows you to examine for yourself three case study files that explore how courageous and curious students learn there is nothing in life that is impossible or unbelievable.
 
The horror series can be found in the Amazon Kindle Store.
 
 
 
 
Coming soon are adult fiction books that will include “Disrespecting Lela.”
 
A number of stories for children and teens are also on the agenda for release in the very near future.
 
Comment by melissa love on August 21, 2012 at 6:12pm
Lena Spencer is a practical woman whose world is carefully ordered by schedules and timelines and she doesn’t like surprises. So when she receives a call from a beautiful model detailing an affair with her boyfriend, her world is thrown into chaos. With the help of her boisterous sister and niece, Lena manages to pick up the pieces and resume her role as a single working mom with the added bonus of a few slinky dresses to show off the figure she’d always hidden.  Feeling sexy and confident, she is almost prepared for Ethan’s return from a European tour. Almost.
 
 
 
 
Musician, Ethan Holden, realized too late that he’d miscalculated the level of Lena’s fury. A ten month tour through Europe and a crazed fan had proven too much for the both of them. Returning to his hometown, he is determined to win her back despite her resistance. But can he give up the music he loves if that’s the only thing she wants?
Comment by Deborrah Cooper on June 2, 2012 at 7:32pm

The Black Church...
Where Women Pray and Men Prey

 

A shocking exposé of the manipulative games of female behavioral control, fleecing the flock and other questionable goings-on in Black churches across the U.S. 

This book contains dozens of real-life stories of sexual abuse by Pastors, Ministers, Bishops, and church members, along with astute observations about the games being run on women in Black churches across the nation. 

Based on the shocking blog post that had CNN, Al Sharpton, Michael Baisden, Michael Eric Dyson, Al Joyner and all of Black America in an uproar: The Black Church: How Black Churches Keep African American Women Single and Lonely! author Deborrah Cooper continues an uncomfortable examination of Christian religion in the black community, non-biblical tenets of the prosperity gospel, and the games of unscrupulous black preachers in the exciting book: The Black Church: Where Women Pray and Men Prey. 

 Exposing Dozens of Shocking Realities About The Black Church...

  • Why adolescents who attend Black churches are sitting ducks for child molesting pedophiles
  • Why the majority of Black women in church will hear nothing but false promises made by false prophets
  • The ten traits of a religious cult and how many nondenominational black churches meet the legal standard of a cult 
  • How Biblical scriptures are cleverly twisted to manipulate women's thoughts and behaviors with guilt and shame
  • The TRUE reason there are few single Black males of marriageable quality in Black churches
  • Why no one prospers from seed planting or Prosperity Gospel but the men to whom you give your money
  • How the tactics used by street pimps to convert women into prostitution are the same games used to manipulate women by pimps in the pulpit!

 

The book concentrates on the behaviors of preachers - all of them, not their job title, not their role, not their church and how long its been there or how many people go there, or what you believe about God or Jesus or anything else...

 

IT FOCUSES SOLELY ON THE BEHAVIORS OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN BLACK CHURCHES!

Log onto Women Pray Men Prey.Com for more information or to order your own copy today!

Comment by Eric at BooksofSoul.com on February 6, 2012 at 12:51am

February's bestselling African American paperback, hardcover, and Kindle books are being posted at Books of Soul. See the top-sellers at http://booksofsoul.com/?p=5341

Comment by melissa love on January 11, 2012 at 2:23am
Secret Affair
Check out my new jaw dropping book that is set to be released this month.
ISBN: 13:978-1468131123
Retail: $4.99
Available @ Amazon.com and most book stores.
Printed & E-Book form
I am available for book tour and interview.
Stay tune for a chance to win a $25.00 Amazon gift card!
 
Comment by Eric at BooksofSoul.com on June 13, 2011 at 10:02am
The list of the bestselling African American books, by African American authors or about African Americans, to be published in June 2011, as listed by Amazon.com: http://booksofsoul.com/?p=4331
 

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