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Shenanigan Free Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07200750512813783983noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321226309594947076.post-38870170714968783502015-02-11T08:25:00.000-08:002015-02-11T08:25:02.413-08:00FIFTY SHADES OF GREY by E.L. James<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The fifty shades of phenomenon we love to hate. Could there
be a success targeted more than E.L. James’ <i>FIFTY
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For a time, I was aware yet, innocuous to the story’s
actual premise. Influenced by chatter, I was naively under the impression it was
nothing more than an erotic tale. Then suddenly, everyone is talking about it.
The rumors were and still are brutal: “She can’t write. It’s repetitive. The
main characters are a couple of schizophrenics. It’s the worst book I ever
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This combined with experience and my background left me
baffled and far too intrigued. How could a book sell 20 million copies
generating 145 million dollars of revenue in such a short period of time have
nothing to offer? It simply had to be striking a deep seated chord within the
reader’s psyche. As soon as I could muster the time, I downloaded the
unabridged audio version and set out to see what all the fuss was about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The truth is; <i>FIFTY
SHADES of GREY</i> is a well thought through story about a deeply wounded man
and the very young and naïve woman he longs to share a relationship with…At the
root of his wounds, like many wounded individuals, everything is a
magnification; an extremism that becomes the personal norm. In Christian Grey’s
life, power, sex, money, and particularly trust are all contorted inside a man
that is basically good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the reader <i>FIFTY
SHADES of GREY</i> delves into the question: how far would you go to form a
pact of trust with another human being?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Outside of sitcoms, society is familiar yet, shaded and
bored with stories about the abused child that grows to become a deviant
criminal, but they are mostly unaware of the stories about the alternative
coping mechanisms. However unexpected the looming reality is individuals often
learn to adapt in order to deal with the two war powers sparring within their
damaged souls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christian Grey was born the son of a crack whore. Her evil
pimp inflicted vile pain upon the young Christian. Compounding the abuse was
his lack of basic needs being met. He was hungry and neglected. Abused and
starving, upon the death of his mother, Christian is adopted by and affluent “good”
family. Despite his good fortune, through adolescence he continues to find
himself tossed into the darker side of humanity by yet another abuser. Unfortunately, this does happen all too
often. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The author brilliantly portrays an all too common syndrome
that society prefers to overlook. Hyper-sexuality is a very real result of many
types of abuse. On the other hand, trust is an issue the vast majority of the
population longs for, and is acutely aware of their own deprivation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The story is told by Anastasia Steele the winner for better
or worse of Christian Grey’s misunderstood affection. The two are very young.
Anastasia in particular is only 21 years old. Staying true the character’s age
and immaturity the verbiage is often repetitive, and perhaps for the love of
the reader, should have received one more edit. However, the way it has been
left is more true to life, sometimes it is about story not about a literary
masterpiece. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FIFTY SHADES of GREY is a mature story teetering on the
extremes. It peeks into a place where the dark needs and wants to meet the
light halfway. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Shenanigan Free Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07200750512813783983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321226309594947076.post-21548852344692590792013-11-13T10:02:00.002-08:002013-11-23T05:54:46.388-08:00PRESS RELEASE: The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray by Mitzi Szereto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Publication date: Nov. 2013 (North America); Dec. 2013 (UK, Mainland Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Asia, etc.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">288 pages</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What if Dorian Gray Faked His Death and Led a Secret Life?</span></i></div>
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<i>Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic novel </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Picture of Dorian Gray</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><i>, Mitzi Szereto’s </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray <i>continues where Wilde left off with the Faustian tale of a man of eternal youth and great physical beauty who lives a life of corruption, decadence, and hedonism. The story begins in the bordellos of Jazz-Age Paris, moving to the opium dens of Marrakesh and the alluring anonymity of South America. In his pursuit of sensation and carnal thrills, Dorian’s desires turn increasingly extreme as he leaves behind yet more devastation and death. He ultimately settles in present-day New Orleans, joining forces with a group of like-minded beings known as the Night People. They inadvertently return to Dorian his humanity when he falls in love with a young woman he rescues from becoming their victim. Will she be his redemption? Or will she be his final curse?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oscar Wilde’s iconic character Dorian Gray has captured the imaginations of readers for well over a century. A Gothic classic in the tradition of Faust, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Picture of Dorian Gray</span> tells the tale of a young man who barters his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty, leading him down a pathway filled with vice and sin. Of course in a moral world such an existence couldn’t continue indefinitely, for those who commit terrible deeds are inevitably punished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What if Dorian Gray hadn’t died? What if he’d staged his own death so that he could continue to live a life brimming with every decadence and debauchery the imagination could conceive of—and then some?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Dorian Gray has fascinated me ever since I first read the novel when I was ten years old. The quintessential bad boy of Victorian literature, Dorian’s sex appeal doesn’t diminish no matter how evil he becomes. He’s an erotic villain no one, either male or female, can resist; perhaps I too, fell a little bit in love with him!” says author Mitzi Szereto, who boldly picks up the story where Oscar Wilde left off, chronicling Dorian’s whirlwind journey around the world and through time as he indulges in an endless orgy of corruption, depravity, and sex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From consorting with the self-obsessed glitterati of the literary and art worlds in jazz-age Paris to enjoying a life of extreme sexual degradation as a war-refugee in Morocco to his calculated seduction and destruction of a monk in 1960s South America—Dorian continually searches for the next thrilling sensation until he eventually encounters another creature even more corrupt than himself when he joins forces with a group of like-minded beings in modern-day New Orleans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray</span> is Gothic decadence at its best and will titillate and shock you until the very last page!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“How could I not have loved Mitzi Szereto’s new novel about the very much live afterlife of Oscar Wilde’s wonderfully dissolute character? It touches all my buttons and begs to be read after dark...”—Maxim Jakubowski</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“A debauched adventure through time and decadence! Szereto brings an authentically ‘classic’ voice to this modern tale of Dorian Gray.”—John Everson, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Siren</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">NightWhere</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">"<span style="font-style: italic;">The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray</span> is a hedonistic rush that doesn’t shy away from the darker side of passion. I loved it!”—Sam Stone, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Vampire Gene Series</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Sizzling erotica that would make Oscar Wilde blush!”—Lucy Taylor, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Safety of Unknown Cities</span> and winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“With extraordinarily lyrical prose, (Mitzi Szereto) paints a portrait of Dorian that will stay with you forever.”—Janice Eidus, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The War of the Rosens</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Last Jewish Virgin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mitzi Szereto (<a href="http://mitziszereto.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://mitziszereto.com</a>) is a bestselling multi-genre author and anthology editor, has her own blog “Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto’s Weblog” (<a href="http://mitziszereto.com/blog" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://mitziszereto.com/blog</a>)<wbr></wbr>, and is the creator/presenter of the Web channel “Mitzi TV” (<a href="http://mitziszereto.com/tv" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://mitziszereto.com/tv</a>), which covers “quirky” London. Her books include <span style="font-style: italic;">Thrones of Desire: Erotic Tales of Swords, Mist and Fire</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Normal for Norfolk (The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles)</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Getting Even: Revenge Stories</span>; and <span style="font-style: italic;">In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales</span>. Her anthology<span style="font-style: italic;"> Erotic Travel Tales 2</span> is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She divides her time between the UK and USA.</span></div>
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Shenanigan Free Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07200750512813783983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321226309594947076.post-6823912870797459022013-11-05T08:44:00.000-08:002013-12-02T13:40:33.395-08:00Press Release: VENGEANCE IS NOW by Scott D. Roberts <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>SCOTT D. ROBERTS DEBUTS HIS FIRST EROTIC-THRILLER AND JOINS THE RANK OF NEW MALE EROTIC NOVELISTS</b></div>
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With the New York Times bestseller 50 Shades of Grey becoming such an immense success, interest in erotica has grown. In the past, most male erotica writers (aka as “romantica”) would write under female pseudonyms not only to attract what</div>
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is a predominantly female marketplace, but also to protect their identities — erotica didn’t always have mainstream appeal. But with the success of Shades and other big sellers like Jennifer Cruisie’s Tell Me Lies, authors like Scott D. Roberts have not only stepped out of the shadows under their true genders but have also kept their pen names.</div>
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Roberts released his first novel Vengeance is Now, which is defined by the author as an “erotic-thriller.” The book takes readers into the life of Tate Holloway, a disgraced former police detective and secret gigolo, who goes on the run after his arch nemesis and serial killer “The Eye” successfully frames him for murder.</div>
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“First, erotica has broadened and is no longer a well-defined genre,” said Roberts. “Many other genres including my book Vengeance is Now is primarily a thriller and mystery about a serial killer where the protagonist Tate Holloway happens to be a private investigator and a male prostitute. With the economy being what it has been, it’s not unusual for people to‘moonlight’; but in this case, the second ‘job’ involves sex and adds the erotic elements to the book.”</div>
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Since many male erotic writers often disguise their genders under female pseudonyms, Roberts felt that with the rise in interest and mainstream acceptance of erotica as an accepted literary genre, why hide behind a woman’s name or even hide at all.</div>
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“It’s slowly becoming more acceptable and credible to write erotic action,” said Roberts.“With the worldwide success of novels like Shades, resistance by the reviewer community is crumbling. I am trying to build a career as a serious artist and adding the erotic element means a greater chance for market success. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Most people have sex and enjoy reading about it. I think a legitimate story with erotic elements offers the perfect mix to satisfy readers who like their action to be sexy, too.”</div>
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Roberts comes from the Hollywood film community where he wrote, produced, and co-directed the award-winning documentary, “Gas Hole,” narrated by Peter Gallagher. He has written several screenplays and has had projects optioned or bought by Paramount, Columbia, MGM, EUE/Screen Gems, and New Line.</div>
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“Making a film is such a collaborative, creative process with many people’s hands in the cookie jar,” said Roberts. “Writing the book allowed me to escape into Tate’s world and enjoy the process of sharing the words on the paper with an audience. When you hand in a screenplay for a film or TV show, you have no clue how the final product will stray from your vision. 3L allowed me the freedom to do what I do, but also assist in the final product in a very ‘artist-friendly’ environment. This has truly been one of the great creative</div>
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Enthusiastic readers will agree, once in a while a book will dramatically change or deepen your view of a specific issue.<br />
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My recent research into the language and customs of the Yuchi (Euchee) members of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, introduced me to the admirable work of Dr. Dan Wildcat PhD. Dr. Wildcat is a prominent, respected scholar, and member of the Muscogee Nation. He is a professor at the Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.<br />
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Dr. Wildcat's forte' is in environmental research, and indigenous knowledge. My curiosity led me to video of some of his appearances at various symposiums around the country. His focus is on 'Global Warming' or as he refers to it 'Global Burning'. In RED ALERT, Dr. Wildcat introduces the reader to a harsh look into a devastating problem, but, ultimately, with a hopeful solution.<br />
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Although, the Professor is more convinced than I of the entire human cause of "Global Burning", I believe his argument is convincing, and gives credence to cyclical natural events. Despite the weight of blame, the human race is responsible for many vile acts against Mother Earth. Dr. Wildcat's solution rests in the indigenous peoples of our country, and around the world.<br />
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The tone of his book is poignant, and filled with passionate concern. About half of the book focuses on the problem, while the other half is a well thought out outline to a solution. Dr. Wildcat's resolution promotes the idea of a return to nature, living within our own unique geographic area. His theory points out many destructive problems that are a result of our Global Society. He often refers to this as "Homogenized". The result is a compilation of problems that can be solved no other way than through awareness, education, and ultimately a change in our "lifeway" path.<br />
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I found his belief uplifting and energizing, since this is a sentiment I have long shared. The difference is in Dr. Wildcats faith in humanity, he is convinced change can happen prior to disaster. My fear is disaster will bring change, and of course, survival would rely on our return to indigenous roots to begin, again. Nevertheless, the Professors solution with the right campaign is completely plausible.<br />
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I must mention, RED ALERT is a great resource for education, through parallels and lessons of both current and historical events Dr. Wildcat provides the reader with a great many little known facts. The reader will discover, how many wars were fought by Native Americans in the name of 'The Great Spirit'. The intricacies of the planes Wind Power Project and the treaties perhaps, responsible for the recent decline in their use as a serious solution to Green Power. These important facts, along with details of an ancient waterway supply in Arizona, and the indigenous practices of several current and ancestral tribes are fascinating, and helpful .<br />
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I urge everyone to buy and read a copy of RED ALERT by Dr. Dan Wildcat PhD. This is a situation that effects everyone.<br />
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GIDEON'S SPIES is a comprehensive, and balanced picture of Mossad. The author begins with a plunge into the circumstances revolving around the death of Princess Diane. He paints an intricate picture of facts, and faux paus that clearly complicated the situation then and now. It is an interesting beginning to a book of this nature. However, it does demand the reader's attention, therefore, I believe it serves the purpose well.<br />
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After the dramatic introductory story, the author settles into a more traditional format based on the chronological events, and history of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad. The Mossad has enjoyed a much more secretive past than its American counterparts. This alone, has me celebrating the encyclopedic work the author provides in this book. I literally could not put it down, and found myself reading it every time I had even a moment to spare.<br />
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The sources, and intimate knowledge the author provides is phenomenal. He was afforded many hours of interviews with intricate members that commented directly and anonymously. The history of the agency and incidents in which they were involved are fascinating. The author details the successes as well as the failures in dynamic detail.<br />
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This is a long book, but I highly recommend it for those interested in an absolutely fascinating look into this secretive agency and World History! Bravo!!!! <br />
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smooth, flat river water, then Michael Neale can show it to you. His book, <i>The River,</i> is a marvelous journey
through one man's life from boyhood to manhood. The use of the river as
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with moments that are not always smooth as glass, much like the river, life can
become a raging torrent that bruises. Yet, no matter the bruises, in our lives
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still alive and well. Like other modern story tellers such as; Cormack
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committed against a group of archaeologist, he and his team move to investigate
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themselves in the ruins of an ancient city where Genghis Khan slaughtered more
than a 100, 000 citizens. Later, Buddhist monks inhabited the area adorning and
meditating in the nooks and crannies of rocky mountainous terrain, destroyed by
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Does Altori suffer from a multitude of mental illnesses or is something stranger lurking in the darkness? Her affliction could certainly be described as delusional paranoid schizophrenia with a tendency to inflict wounds upon herself.<br />
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The author takes a great deal of time and effort into stimulating the reader's senses, but ultimately where is she leading us in this short prequel? Ultimately, "Brigadoon" and then "The Knowing" came to mind, but the again are we just eaves dropping into the mind of a mental patient?<br />
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The Void is an absolutely brilliant mind-bending story that will keep you guessing!<br />
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<b><i>Killing Wall Street: A look at America’s growing financial unrest Banker, author takes deadly aim at corporate greed in new thriller.</i></b><br />
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NEW YORK CITY – From the corporate greed that fueled the collapse of the economy to the rise of movements like Occupy Wall Street, the last several years have seen the average American consistently at odds with Corporate America, and growing anger beneath the surface with a rigged financial system and exploding income inequality.<br />
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Investment banker-turned-author Sanjay Sanghoee rips into Wall Street and takes America to the boiling point in his new corporate thriller, Killing Wall Street (Argo-Navis, a division of Perseus Books, June 2013).<br />
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Killing Wall Street, a novel about the frightening power of an ordinary citizen’s rage, follows Catherine, a working class single mother living on the edge of a breakdown. After the financial crisis ruins what little is left of her life, she decides that she has had enough, and takes a shocking revenge against the system that has victimized her. As Catherine targets and kills bankers, lawyers, and CEOs with escalating fury, an FBI Agent races against the clock to catch the ultimate anonymous killer. When he discovers that the victims were all hiding a financial conspiracy, he thinks he is close, but the biggest shock of all is yet to come.<br />
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Sanghoee describes Killing Wall Street as a strong statement about modern America with a slyly populist and feminist flavor. The novel was inspired by Sanghoee’s time at leading investment banks and hedge funds in the 1990s and 2000s, during which he got an inside look at how the 1 percent of America works, lives, and connives. As corporate scandals rocked the nation, Sanghoee realized that corporations and wealthy individuals were gaming the system and leading the country on a path of destruction.<br />
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“My goal is to make a statement about the state of America today and to address the needs and concerns of all Americans, not just the 1 percent,” Sanghoee says. “Corporate corruption is destroying our country and people need to speak about it,so I thought I’d do that in this novel.”<br />
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In an interview, Sanghoee can discuss:<br />
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- Why our system of Darwinian capitalism doesn’t work and what could be done to fix it<br />
-Solving big-picture problems: Income inequality, crumbling infrastructure, tax abuse, healthcare and the debt trap<br />
- Rethinking America: How to balance the individual profit-motive with the common good<br />
Sanjay Sanghoee is “the banker who came in from the cold.” After publishing a hard-hitting novel, Merger, a corporate thriller from Forge (St. Martin’s Press), he began writing about business and politics. The novel was praised by critics, including at Chicago Tribune and BARRON’s, and set Sanghoee on the path to becoming a commentator and a vocal opponent of corporate excess.<br />
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Today, he blogs regularly for the Huffington Post and other publications on many hot-button topics, including the dysfunction in Washington, Wall Street reform, tax policy, corporate crime and gun control. Sanghoee has offered unique takes on each issue and is not afraid of taking a stand on what he believes is right. For more information, please visit www.killingwallstreet.com<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The second book in the Dominguez Adventures, Hidden Mountain, is packed with enough adventure, history, factual, and mythical elements to delight any reader.</span><br />
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With dialogue that sets the fast pace of discovery, scenes that draw you into the private and often times quite sensual debates on the validity of the Scrolls Message, the entire book leaves you with that sense of completion that only comes with complete satisfaction!<br />
Read it and see, you will find laughter, tears, magic, suspense, drama, sensual interludes, past-present-future chaos, Native American mysticism, male and female interaction that is true to their genders, spiritual healing, faith and hope, and you will find lives that allow you to live and move vicariously through them with ease and pleasure!</div>
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I am excited to introduce or further acquaint you with Award Winning Author, Eduardo Santiago.<br />
Interviewing Eduardo has provided me a delightful experience to get to know this professional yet, humble man. Eduardo is a fabulous author, and a Cuban Immigrant with a fascinating background. I am so delighted to share this chat I had with a man I want to call my friend.<br />
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I feel I must confess that my job was easy. Eduardo answered my questions like a wonderful long time friend. For a time, I even forgot it was posting… It was a man personally telling me a story I so longed to hear. Without further introduction, I will let you experience the same from Eduardo in his words.<br />
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Eduardo's Cuban Experience<br />
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Sammy: How old were you when you and your family left Cuba and came to America?<br />
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Eduardo: I was nine years old when we left Cuba and ten when we arrived in the states. It was difficult for our family to leave because my father had been involved in politics and had, at the time of my birth been incarcerated and there was a very good chance that, if a friend of my grandfather’s, who had some political clout, hadn’t intervened he would have been executed. So as a result of all that, exit visas were denied time and again until my aunt, my father’s sister, who was at the time living in New Jersey got a few thousand dollars together and bought us passage to Spain. Somehow getting from Spain to U.S. was easier than getting here from Cuba. We lived in Madrid for close to a year. There were others from my hometown in Madrid at the time and we created a small social circle – we did not become friends with any Spanish natives, they seemed too foreign to my parents, I guess. Also, Cubans tend to be very insular, it’s their nature. It’s not my nature though; I’m always fascinated by other cultures. But I was always odd, from day one.<br />
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Sammy: Could you share a little about the actual experience...leaving your home, country, the trip, and arriving in America?<br />
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Eduardo: I remember that, as a child, I was very eager to get to America. I anticipated that it would be earth-shatteringly different. But I also remember being disappointed because when we got here it didn’t feel so different at all. Looking back I think that if you go from a place of lack and inconvenience to a place of plenty and practicality, you don’t notice the change as much, you simply adapt and I adapted quickly. It might have been more of a culture shock to my parents because after half a lifetime of a relatively easy life they both had to go to work in factories and deal with a foreign language and a different way of life. It was a miserable time for them, but I was enjoying all the plastic toys and color television and all the stuff the U.S. has to offer kids – clean, safe, playgrounds, air conditioned classrooms and so on.<br />
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Sammy: Have you or anyone in your family made a return visit to Cuba?<br />
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Eduardo: I have been back twice exactly: For two weeks in 1996 and for one week last year, January 2010. I have cousins in Havana whom I did not grow up with but we love each other as we had. They are Maria and Lourdes; they are my mother’s brother’s daughters, so there is a strong bloodline. But regardless of the family connections, they’re just so wonderful to me. We communicate via Facebook, which just astonishes me. Before Facebook, telephone calls were expensive and difficult to place. Now we communicate often and send photographs back and forth. I’m kind of surprised that the Cuban government allows it. Progress!<br />
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Sammy: In your novel, Tomorrow They Will Kiss you touch on the fact that during this time Castro changed. In your novel, the family experienced this change personally. I found this interesting and unusually forthcoming. In the past, I have found authors tend to either avoid these dynamics or distance their characters from the issue. Could you share some insight?<br />
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Eduardo: Well, my father risked his life to help put Castro in power and when Castro turned out to be a Communist (no one, apparently, saw that coming), he felt horribly betrayed and I heard it every day growing up. It’s the bitter pill my father has to swallow ad infinitum. So in my novel I couldn’t help but bring that to light because it takes up such a huge part of my tiny brain.<br />
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Sammy: I understand in The Weight Of My Shadow you deepen the experience. Can you tease us a little on what we might expect?<br />
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Eduardo: My first novel, Tomorrow They Will Kiss, is based largely but in a very fictionalized way, on the early experiences of my parent’s generation, people who had established lives in Cuba and then had to become re-established in the U.S. The Weight Of My Shadow is more about my generation and the struggle some of us faced as we became adults – whether to embrace the traditional Cuban lifestyle and customs or to follow a more American road. People reading this may want to suggest that we split the middle, but that’s not as easy to do as it may sound. Anyway, at the time, when we were 16, 17 years old, it felt like a black or white choice. But because it’s not black or white and because there were forces pulling us in this direction and that direction, I felt that it would make an interesting novel. A novel allows me to explore these feelings and events in ways that no other artistic medium does.<br />
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Eduardo on The Weight of My Shadow<br />
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Sammy: The Weight Of My Shadow is told by Jorge a thirteen-year-old boy. Please, give us some insight about becoming Jorge?<br />
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Eduardo: It was actually fun to go back and look at the world from the perspective of a thirteen-year old boy. My personal adolescence was very painful, I was very sensitive and too aware of the future. I gave Jorge some of those same traits but also other qualities – Jorge is much more principled than I ever was at that age and he’s even more sensitive. My best friends have a thirteen-year old son whom I’ve been privileged to know from birth and I gleaned a lot from him. Here’s something interesting, thirteen-year old boys believe that they can turn invisible, that if they don’t say something or lie, or make something up, the adults around them can’t see it, when, of course, quite the opposite is true. My father had an expression that used to drive me crazy. He’d say, “while you’re on your way I’ve been there and back.” That’s a rough translation of the Spanish that he used. But he was constantly letting me know that there was nothing I could do that he wasn’t aware of. I was under constant surveillance. I also got to visit with myself at seventeen and eighteen, Alfonso and Gerry's ages and that was a trip, as we said back then.<br />
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Sammy: In previous brief exchanges you and I have shared, I came away with the distinct impression that The Weight Of My Shadow is special to you. Could you share with us some of your feelings towards this novel?<br />
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Eduardo: Yes, because although the novel is a complete work of fiction, there is so much of me in all three of the main characters – Jorge, Alfonso, and Gerry. People who know me well who have read early drafts say it’s as if I split myself three ways in order to tell the story of an era. The era itself, the early to mid 70s in Southern California were strange years, after the effects of “The Summer Of Love” had waned and before Disco gave the culture a new focus. They were lost years in many way and also very exciting to experience. Joan Didion wrote extensibly about this era, her collections of essays, The White Album, is one of my favorite books. But she was writing from a sophisticated, adult perspective while I am doing exactly the opposite and nowhere near as brilliantly. In terms of the Cuban community it was also a crazy time – three of the “Watergate burglars” were Cubans (Bozo Rebozo anyone?) so we had that shame to deal with compounded by the sinking realization that we wouldn’t be going home any time soon, that we may be stranded in the U.S. for good.<br />
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Eduardo the Author<br />
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Sammy: Thinking back, when were you first inspired to write?<br />
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Eduardo: I always wrote, it was the only activity that seemed worthwhile to me, so as a kid I wrote stories and plays both in English and in Spanish. I was always a big reader. When I was eleven and finally could read English, I went to the local public library one Saturday afternoon, pulled down a book, found a comfortable chair and spent the whole afternoon reading. What I did not know was that my parents were going crazy looking for me. I only meant to be there for a little while but the hours just melted away and no one knew where I was. I think my parents even called the police! I believe that it’s inevitable for an inveterate reader to want to write, but there is a huge difference between writing and making the decision to write professionally, to write to publish and try to make a living from. That did not occur to me until much later and I'm still figuring most of it out.<br />
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Sammy: Did you have a mentor?<br />
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Eduardo: I’ve had wonderful mentors over the years, namely Ann Louise Bardach who is a mad genius and knows more about Cuban history than anyone I have ever met. She’s not Cuban, she’s a Jewish woman from New Jersey. She wrote to amazing non-fiction books: Cuba Confidential and most recently, After Castro. I wrote a large part of Tomorrow They Will Kiss at her house where I had access to an arsenal of information, as well as privacy and encouragement. She was amazingly supportive. And it helped that she not only knew Cuba, she also knew New Jersey, where the novel takes place. I’m constantly taking classes, reading books about writing and about writers, most of my friends are writers and we proof each other’s work, we mentor each other.<br />
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Sammy: If you will, share a little about your work in the TV and Film industry?<br />
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Eduardo: It’s bound to happen, if you live in Los Angeles, you'll put in some time in the film and television industry. Even if you hate the industry and you think you don't work for them, you do. Without the studios, what would be L.A.'s economy? Anyway, I started out at the bottom of the bottom - writing promos for local news, I wrote stuff like:<br />
Something in your kitchen could be killing your kids!<br />
The frightening facts tonight at Eleven<br />
On Channel 2 Action News.<br />
But hey, I was getting paid TO WRITE! My job was to create alliterations that scared viewers into watching the news. It was not fun because the story was always changing (we’re not doing deadly kitchens we’re doing deadly bathrooms) while the clock was ticking and the anchor wanted to rewrite the copy and then the executive producer would get involved and it often got ugly. Even four seconds of airtime during prime time is incredibly expensive so you had to make sure that you really hit it and the next day if the news program got low ratings THEY ALWAYS BLAMED THE PROMO. But I did it for a long time and then I went on to work on bigger shows, make more money, until the day came when I couldn’t do it anymore. I wanted to write books! I knew I could, I just had to find the courage to say bye bye to the big paychecks and the security and honor my humble and at the time nascent, gift.<br />
But those jobs, because the copy went on television live, taught me to work fast, proof even faster and get to the dramatic point quickly. To this day, I don’t know how to procrastinate. When I sit down to write short stories and novels, I do it very fast as if I have a “live deadline.” Then I revise it until it’s as perfect as I can get it, a luxury I did not have when working in news. Back then, one a good day, as soon as I had typed it, it was torn from my fingers and rushed to an anchor who immediately read it to ten million viewers. It was intense!<br />
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Sammy: I understand you are quite the champion in helping and teaching others to develop their creative writing skills. Please enlighten?<br />
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Eduardo: When I teach novel writing, first day of class, I always make a pledge to my students: I will never humiliate you, I will never tell you that your work is worthless. I will always honor your work and try to lead you to better writing. I am your cheerleader. Because I know how scary it is to put your hopes and dreams on a page and share it. For most beginning writers it’s a heart-stopping event. I’ve taught creative writing in places where egos are so fragile, like a school for gay teens who had to leave their high schools because they were being bashed and abused by their classmates into a state of nervous collapse. So for them to be able to express themselves through writing in a safe environment was essential to their survival. That was an amazing experience for me. I’ve also taught in prisons where the same rules applied, except for my own survival. I seem to be the go-to teacher for difficult situations because I’m both extremely sensitive and extremely tough. In both instances the students challenged me because neither gay teens nor inmates are known for their trusting natures. I had to prove to them that I am who I say I am, their cheerleader.<br />
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Sammy: Please, share a little about your continuous strive to further your education?<br />
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Eduardo: I did not study writing in college, I studied film and television production, so I recently enrolled at Antioch University and am pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing/fiction. I just felt that I wanted to go deeper in my field, it’s like I have this unquenchable thirst for education. It’s been great, I’ll have my degree in June, pretty awesome for my family, my father dropped out of school in the 8th grade, my mother finished high school and never touched a book again for the rest of her life. Funny how children can be from their parents – a topic that is painstakingly explored in my new book.<br />
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Sammy: What awards have you received for your abilities as a writer?<br />
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Eduardo: Tomorrow They Will Kiss took Best Historical Novel and Best First Book honors at the International Latino Book Awards and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. I’ve also earned two fellowships from P.E.N., Emerging Voices in 2004 and The Mark in 2010. They are great honors, but I really wanted the National Book Award but instead it deservedly went to my friend, Carlos Eire for his amazing autobiography, Waiting For Snow In Havana. To this day I feel that his victory was also mine because we are brothers in the struggle. I'm very proud of him.<br />
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Sammy: Tell us about your experience as a short story writer.<br />
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Eduardo: I’ve always loved short stories. I love how, when they’re good they create this brief, intense world that stays with me forever. My first loves were the short stories of J.D. Salinger and for a while I (unsuccessfully) wrote with his voice. I read at least one short story every few days. I’m also very attached to the film reviews of Pauline Kael, another prominent American voice) which are like short stories about movies. So when I first stopped working in television I concentrated on writing short stories. I felt I needed to walk before I could run. I wrote a collection of eleven because eleven is my lucky number. The collection was called The Sex Lives Of The Saints. Three of those were published by fairly distinguished literary journals, most notably, zyzzyva (who years later reprinted it as one of their best stories of the last 25 years). The collection didn’t sell but it got me an agent, B.J. Robbins. She urged me to I turn one of the short stories into a novel and that’s Tomorrow They Will Kiss. My new novel, The Weight Of My Shadow, also stems from a short story from that collection. What I know now that I didn’t know then is that some stories require more pages.<br />
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Sammy: I think that is a fabulous thought to end on…Eduardo thank you for your time, and wonderful insight into your background, and your new novel. I love Tomorrow They Will Kiss and anxiously look forward to The Weight Of My Shadow.<br />
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Eduardo: Thank you, Sammy. It was a pleasure chatting with you.<br />
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Related Links<br />
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Read: The Golden Rings of Paris; a Short Story by Eduardo Santiago.<br />
http://bit.ly/eyQ4SV<br />
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About: The Weight Of My Shadow by Eduardo Santiago<br />
http://sammywrites.blogspot.com/2011/01/about-weight-of-my-shadow-by-eduardo.html<br />
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Sammy's Review of Tomorrow They Will Kiss by Eduardo Santiago<br />
http://sammywrites.blogspot.com/2011/01/sammys-review-of-tomorrow-they-will.html<br />
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Tomorrow They Will Kiss is available on Amazon:<br />
http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-They-Will-Kiss-Novel/dp/B000Y8SE56/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295816010&sr=1-1<br />
Visit Eduardo Santiago's Author Site:<br />
http://www.eduardosantiago.com/<br />
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