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Onyx Webb Book Three by Andrea Waltz and Richard FentonOnyx Webb, Book Three by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton


Publisher: Courage Crafters Inc. (Oct 22, 2015)
Category: Paranormal Suspense, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural Thriller, Ghosts
Tour Date: Oct and Nov, 2016
ISBN: 978-0990751830
ASIN: B0179RS90O
Available in: Print & ebook,  235 Pages

If you enjoyed the award winning Book One and Book Two, you will love Onyx Webb: Book Three!

As with Book Two, this next book promises to be just as twisted, dark, and creepy as the web of stories continues to be carefully constructed.  Book Three continues to follow the billionaire Mulvaney family including Koda’s obsession with the ghost girl and his grandfather Declan’s sordid history with the mob, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and of course the story of Onyx Webb whose life may finally be ended.

As unrelated as it all seems, the web is slowly being strung together so that the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself will eventually be revealed.

My Thoughts Onyx Webb Series by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton


This award winning series has been on my “TBR” (to be read) list for a long time.  You may wonder why.  After all, I don’t usually read books with paranormal and horror elements.  However, this series has so much going for it and really has a bit of something for everyone.  My favorites are the historical elements wrapped in literary prose.

I am also a huge fan of quirky characters and the ‘Onyx Webb’ series has quirky characters galore, including Onyx, herself! These characters are also unique in that they are not all even living! Of course there is plenty of humor along the journey through the series.

There are lots of creepy elements but nothing this wimp, couldn’t tolerate and they really added to the story. It’s quite difficult for me to describe the plot to you because there is so much going on but you can read the three book descriptions below.  Be forewarned, this series is addictive and you must start it from book one to really know what’s going on.  Book one sets it up.  I can hardly wait to dig in to books four, five, and six! You cannot read just one!

Description Onyx Webb, Book One by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton


The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times. The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series.

Written like a book version of a supernatural soap opera, each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.

Description Onyx Webb, Book Two by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton


Onyx Webb is a complex multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times.

The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of your favorite TV series (think: supernatural soap opera like American Horror Story) each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.

Praise for Onyx Webb Series by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton


Onyx Webb: Book One was selected as a Horror/Suspense Finalist in the 2016 IAN Book of the Year Awards!

“This is an interesting story. I liked how you could follow the different people and just knew that there was more to the story. Onyx keeps adding hints that make it feel like it is linked together. I liked all of the characters; they were descriptive and kept me wanting to find out more about them. I admit that I liked Onyx the best so I loved her story and narrations more than Juniper and Koda’s stories.  5 stars”- JBronder Book Reviews

” I found my new favorite book when I opened the first pages of ONYX WEBB. There is not a dropped thread in this exciting, engrossing, riveting, incredible paranormal, suspenseful, supernatural, mysterious, time-switching, multi-character serial…I realize how Dickens’ audience must have felt, hanging on from week to week with bated breath for the newest installment…ONYX WEBB is a story in a class by itself. I can see it becoming a cult classic–and why not? I certainly plan to read it over and over and over again…because in the words of Jacqueline Susann: “Once is not enough. 5 Stars”- Mallory Heart Reviews

“A must read! Onyx Webb Book 2 offers so much to readers. Suspense is so thick readers will go crazy with what will happen next as they follow each of the interesting characters. The characters pop out from the pages and create an air of drama and adventure that will keep readers turning the pages.”- Danielle Urban

” I raved about the first installment with a five star review. The second one is even better and I am completely hooked. I am repeating myself when I say that the writing and pacing are terrific and that all the main characters are very well drawn and realistic Some are very likable and some not. Highly recommended. 5 stars”- James Tepper, Vine Voice

“As the author’s promised, these next three episodes start tying together the characters from past to future. I knew things were going to be revealed. I knew it would get darker, scarier. And I knew there would be new mysteries and questions. What I didn’t expect was for this story to explode. I couldn’t believe how excited, grossed out, and happy I became. I can’t begin to imagine! Every time I thought I knew something, especially about Onyx, I was given another enigma.
As old characters entered the story, and new ones were introduced, I got more excited to read what was in store for them. These authors pull no punches.  So many breath stealing scenes make these some excellent new episodes  I promise you, it’s hypnotic and unpredictable. Oh, and addictive. I should also point out, it’s meant to be read in order so make sure you start at the beginning. 5 stars” Laura Thomas, FuOnlyKnew

Interview with Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton

TR: Please tell us something about the book that is not in the summary.  (About the book, character you particularly enjoyed writing etc.)

One of the things that is not in the book or in any of the summaries is how much of the book series falls into the ‘crime’ genre which we both enjoy writing. Of course that’s where the mystery comes in. But we really focus on the paranormal aspects of the book but there is major plot involving a serial killer as well as the FBI.  

TR: All of your characters are so unique, how did you come up with the title character, Onyx?

Coming up with Onyx’s character was the result of a lot of ‘what if’ and brainstorming about the series. She was the second major character after we came up with Koda and Juniper. The most challenging part of her story was deciding how we wanted to tell it. We actually had a first version of Episode One that included seeing Onyx young and old – back and forth throughout the book. That turned out not to work for many readers so we scrapped that version and revised it to start with her at age going to the 1904 World’s Fair. We did however add a couple of her journal entries so readers could get a sneak peek into her future instead of showing it.

TR: Are any of your characters based on real-life friends or acquaintances?

Ultimately everyone is a product of our imagination. We do have one character, Robyn, who becomes the semi-love interest of our hot, billionaire, ghost-obsessed character Koda Mulvaney. So she is based on a real person but we still put words in her mouth, and create fictional situations so there is nothing biographical in nature!

TR: Describe the room you are sitting in as though it was a scene in Onyx Webb.
“It was a large den area right off the kitchen with a spider web graphic etched on the wall, three oddly shaped glass desks each with a computer and all of which had stacks of paperwork that had been sorted through multiple times with no progress ever being made.”

(As most Onyx Webb readers know, we give sparse descriptions so that’s about as detailed as we would ever do!) 

TR: Which character do you love to hate?

We recently surveyed our special reader group called the OnyxWebb100 to discover the answer to this question. They love to hate the same ones that we do. For us it’s probably a character named Mika. She’s wildly selfish, greedy, narcissistic, vindictive… and she is so much fun to write because of what she does to try to enhance her wealthy lifestyle and marry Koda Mulvaney.  

TR: You are sitting in a coffee shop. What does your writer mind see?

We were actually just talking about this. Just the other day we came out from the movies and noticed a little note taped to someone’s car window. Our writer’s minds immediately went to something nefarious and we started coming up with a plot: the first person to read the note would be watched and then pulled into some horrible game of life and death. So, the coffee shop probably doesn’t so a lot for us in terms of inspiration… but anything out of the ordinary gets our imaginations working!

TR: If Onyx were doing this interview what is the number one question she would like me to ask?  What would be her answer?

How do you feel about your life now?

Onyx would say: Teddy as you know what I call my life is very different than what it was when I was truly living. I fill my days with the things that give me a touch of energy and a slight amount of joy although I don’t really feel it… I remember the feeling. So perhaps your readers will simply trust me when I say… think life is precious now? Just wait until you’re dead.


About Andrea Waltz and Richard FentonOnyx Webb Book Three by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton


Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz are a married writing team. Most well known for their business fables, they’re professional speakers who teach audiences on how to overcome fear of failure and rejection.  The Onyx Webb Series is their first serious dive into fiction.

Richard and Andrea have been in love with creating stories together since they met almost twenty years ago and even spent some time in Hollywood writing screenplays, being represented by the producer of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Their favorite genres are suspense, thriller, crime and anything of a paranormal nature which is how Onyx Webb turned into a mash-up of all their favorites!

Website: www.OnyxWebb.com
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Twitter: www.Twitter.com/Onyxwebb
Pinterest: www.Pinterest.com/OnyxWebbSeries
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5835138.Andrea_Waltz

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Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Sarah BatesLost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Sarah Bates


Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. (February 15, 2016)
Category: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance
Tour Dates: Oct/Nov, 2016
ISBN: 978-1634910262
ASIN: B01D6YS52G
Available in: Print & ebook,  420 Pages

The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

From award winning author, Sarah Bates, Johnstown, New York, 1823: It is a time when a wife’s dowry, even children, automatically becomes her husband’s property. Slavery is an economic advantage entrenched in America but rumblings of abolition abound.

For Elizabeth Cady to confront this culture is unheard of, yet that is exactly what she does. Before she can become a leader of the women’s rights movement and prominent abolitionist, she faces challenges fraught with disappointment. Her father admires her intellect but says a woman cannot aspire to the goals of men. Her sister’s husband becomes her champion–but secretly wants more. Religious fervor threatens to consume her.

As she faces depression and despair, she records these struggles and other dark confidences in diaries. When she learns the journals might fall into the wrong hands and discredit her, she panics and rips out pages of entries that might destroy her hard-fought reputation. Relieved, she believes they are lost to history forever.

But are they? Travel with Elizabeth into American history and discover a young woman truly ahead of her time.

My Thoughts, Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Sarah Bates


Elizabeth Cady was not like other girls growing up in 19th century Johnstown, New York.  She hated working on her embroidery sample and didn’t understand why she couldn’t take part in more intellectual pursuits like talking about law with her father’s law students. Her father wished, often out loud, that she was a boy.

When it came time for her coming out, she wouldn’t do it.  Sure, she liked boys but wanted one who would be more her intellectual equal and agree with her that women should have the same rights men had.  She also believed that all slaves should be free with all the same rights and liberties as whites.

Though it was rare that a father would agree to further a daughter’s education, her father did so, reluctantly, at the urging of Elizabeth’s brother in-law. Elizabeth attended and graduated the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary.

At age 25 she finally met the man she thought of as her equal, Henry Brewster Stanton. 

The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton covers Elizabeth’s childhood and young adulthood, before she becomes a suffragette. I would have liked the book to go on and cover her suffragette years or perhaps a sequel.  However, as Sarah Bates, has pointed out, Elizabeth’s time as a suffragette is well documented.  So, she chose to cover the earlier years.

I thought the book ended a bit abruptly but that is a small quibble. Sarah Bates painted a vivid portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the stroke of her pen. I felt transported to the time and place and even became a close friend.  The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a must read for historical fiction readers.  It has really made me hungry for more and Sarah Bates recommended two books that may just satisfy that need.

I received the ebook version for my honest review.

4.5/5

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About Sarah BatesLost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Sarah Bates


Sarah Bates worked as an advertising copywriter for ten years then as a freelance writer.  Her clients included a book packager, the local chamber of commerce, a travel newsletter and a weekly newspaper where she covered business and schools.

Her short fiction has appeared in the Greenwich Village Literary Review, the San Diego North County Times (now the Union-Tribune) and the literary magazine Bravura. She is the author of Twenty-One Steps of Courage, an Army action novel published in 2012 and co-author of the 2005 short story collection, Out of Our Minds, Wild Stories by Wild Women.

She is the winner of Military Category, for Twenty-One Steps of Courage, Next Generation Indie Book Awards (2013) and 2nd Place Finalist, The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Unpublished Novel- Category, San Diego Book Awards (2015)

Bates was an English Department writing tutor at Palomar College in California for ten years. She continues to privately tutor both academic and creative writing students and is writing a new novel. Sarah Bates lives in Fallbrook, California.

Website: http://www.sarahbatesauthor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bateswriter
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Vegan: High Protein Vegan Cookbook by Sam KumaVegan: High Protein Vegan Cookbook by Sam Kuma


This vegan cookbook is small in size at only 99 pages but big on taste and inventive recipes.  It doesn’t include much information about veganism for those new to it however; they include a link to a free ebook titled ‘Vegan Living’.  The author claims that it provides all the benefits of going vegan and challenges involved.

Vegan: High Protein Cookbook is broken into the following recipe types:

 

Smoothies
Breakfast
Salads
Soups & Chili
Appetizers
Main Courses
Side Dishes
Deserts

Many of the recipes include supplement protein powders which, I don’t like to use.  However, for most you can just leave them out.  I just don’t like to use supplements and prefer to get my protein and vitamins by eating a balanced diet.  I also think unless you are an athlete, you really don’t need the excess protein of supplements.  However, for those worried about getting enough protein this is a great cookbook.  I wish it had been around when I first went vegan!

All of the recipes are easy to make and most are quick, under 30 minutes.  It’s great for those on the run and have little time to cook.

I recommend this cookbook to beginner vegans who are worried about getting enough protein and to seasoned vegans who just want some new quick and easy recipes to add to their repertoire.

I received the ebook version of this book for my honest review.

4/5

About Sam Kuma


Sam Kuma is passionate about sharing his culinary experience to the world. His work involves modernization of healthy diet plans. He is good at vegan, ketogenic, paleo, dash and several ethnic cuisines. His main focus is to make healthy diets like vegan and ketogenic mainstream by producing delicious, appetizing recipes. In his first two books regarding Vegan recipes, he has produced delicious Vegan Chocolate meals, Vegan Desserts, Vegan Ice Creams, Vegan Burgers and Sandwiches.