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AUTHOR TACKLES POLICE VIOLENCE HEADLINES—FUTURE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE?

Posted: September 25, 2015 in Announcements, Author Interviews, Press Release, Recommended Reading
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Jeffrey Poston has added two significant African-American fiction characters to the entertainment world, and hopefully to the big screen sooner rather than later. Hero Jason Peares, forced to survive as an outlaw, and hero Carl Johnson, mistakenly labeled the American Terrorist. Both protagonists represent not just the everyman, but the everyman who looks trouble in the face daily just because of a society plagued by racism. These ordinary men suffer trials and tribulations because of their ethnicity and kick ass anyway.

the collectionWe’ve known and loved movie characters only Samuel L Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Lennie James, and Denzel Washington could truly bring to life—Jeffrey Poston’s two key characters reminded me of the qualities in all these actors that made those movie personalities real. As I read, Lenny James was the face of Carl Johnson and a cross between Samuel, Denzel, and Clint was the face of Jason Peares. It would be an injustice to movie lovers far and wide not to get these books into production for the big screen!

What if the police came for YOU?

Untitled designJeffrey Poston has woven an intricate and suspenseful tale with a very realistic view of police use-of-force doctrine and the power of the government in attempting to prevent domestic terror attacks. In his series inspired by his own brush with police brutality, Poston brings visibility to issues behind today’s headlines: police violence, racism, and constant threat of terrorism.

Poston’s books have been well received, garnering 5-star reviews from all corners of the country. Grady Harp, an Amazon Top-100 Hall-of-Fame reviewer, says American Terrorist is “one of the most poignantly important novels about life as we are experiencing it, in the US (and the world), yet encountered. This man writes with the passion of a crusader, but never steps away from allowing his story to speak on its own.”

In an interview, author of best-selling American Terrorist: Where is the Girl Jeffrey Poston said:

“I wrote the novel because ten years ago I was jacked up by police, and for ten years I’ve been dealing with the trauma of that experience. This is a work of fiction, but the perceived violence of police against non-white citizens is a complicated topic. What I’ve tried to capture are the thoughts and feelings and fears of a wanted man trying to deal with the loss of his family, his dignity, and his very reason for living.

“Of course, a good novel needs plenty of action, suspense, and plot twists. So what if an innocent Black man was assaulted by federal cops who take everything from him? What if he goes berserk and decides to do to them what that they did to him? But what if he is the only person in the world who can find a missing child who will surely die if he doesn’t find a way to work with the same police who destroyed his life?” – Read the full Making of American Terrorist at http://jeffreyposton.com/

Enter to win 1 of 10 signed paperbacks of this best-selling action/thriller/suspense novel on Goodreads:

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at1Everyman Carl Johnson’s mundane life is turned upside down when mistaken identity makes him the target of our government’s Terror Event Response unit for the kidnapping of Madam President’s daughter. Brutality and torture and the needless shooting of his only son cause him to spiral beyond reach of the most elite, highly trained agents while he attempts to uncover the plot behind it all and rescue the girl.

http://youtu.be/a65BN8i7-pM

About the Author

Before pursuing a writing career, Jeffrey obtained an electrical engineering degree in laser optics and was an Air Force officer and gentleman. He lives in the great American southwest in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The acclaimed author has created two significant African-American fiction characters to the entertainment world, and hopefully to the big screen sooner rather than later. Hero Jason Peares, pushed to survive as an outlaw, and hero Carl Johnson, mistakenly labeled the American Terrorist. Both protagonists represent not just the everyman, but the everyman who looks trouble in the face daily just because of a society plagued by racism. These ordinary men suffer trials and tribulations because of their ethnicity and kick ass anyway.

All Books by Poston

American Terrorist: Where is the Girl? – http://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Where-Jeffrey-Poston-ebook/dp/B00JAOM4SS/

Contagion: American Terrorist 2 – http://www.amazon.com/Contagion-American-Terrorist-Jeffrey-Poston-ebook/dp/B00NIDCLMQ/

Courage: A Jason Peares Historical Western (Jason Peares Westerns Book 1) – http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Peares-Historical-Western-Westerns-ebook/dp/B00K6ITEUS/

Legacy Of An Outlaw: A Jason Peares Western (Jason Peares Westerns Book 2) – http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Outlaw-Peares-Western-Westerns-ebook/dp/B00K6J2EZE/

Warriors: A Jason Peares Historical Western (Jason Peares Historical Westerns Book 3) – http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Peares-Historical-Western-Westerns-ebook/dp/B00K6L9ZGI/

Manhunter: A Jason Peares Historical Western – http://www.amazon.com/Manhunter-Jason-Peares-Historical-Western-ebook/dp/B00KC07USS/

Coming Soon:
Head Shot: American Terrorist

Carl Johnson, known as the American Terrorist, takes on today’s most controversial news headline: Police Brutality. While tracking leads to find those responsible for the assassination attempt on America’s first female president, Carl Johnson finds himself in a confrontation with militarized police in a major US city. To protect innocent civilians, Johnson has to defy laws which clearly support the police and government.

This fictitious but heart-wrenching story tackles the complex social issue of Americans versus Americans, and takes a deeper look at who stands to gain from the hardline stance many police units take against protesters. If this topic covered in today’s real news coverage disturbs you, then you won’t want to miss this free short novel, HEAD SHOT. – Sign up on author’s website to reserve your copy, currently in production.

The Joshua Experiment

How hard can it be for a squad of government mercenaries to kill a super-smart six-year-old boy who literally has the power to destroy the world? Plenty hard, when Raven is protecting him. – See more at: http://jeffreyposton.com/home/#sthash.uYobtAQ6.dpuf

Connect with Jeffrey Poston

 

Email: jeffrey@JeffreyPoston.com

Twitter: @booksbyJPoston https://twitter.com/booksbyJPoston

https://www.facebook.com/JeffreyPostonBooks

Google Plus: +Jeffrey Poston

http://jeffreyposton.com/

Goodreads Book Giveaway
American Terrorist by Jeffrey Poston

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5 Stars for Novel About Coming-of-Age in the 1960s Amidst Racial Injustice

Posted: August 27, 2015 in Announcements, Recommended Reading
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61tG-lFg7yL__SX372_BO1,204,203,200_5 STAR review for this must read period fiction novel:
Jon Michael Riley has a gift for compelling narrative.  In Searching for Cool, Praying for Heat, set in the early 1960s, he has woven together a coming-of-age story with one of racial injustice in rural North Carolina. As Riley does in an earlier novel, Dream the Dawn, he pulls the reader in immediately, this time with the violent rape of a young black girl. Riley  proceeds to build a palpable tension between those horrified by the cruelties visited on blacks and those who see those cruelties as essential economic controls.
 
The story centers on a 16-year-old white Northerner, Brian O’Rourke, and his family. The O’Rourke, who have recently move to the South, don’t share the prejudices of many around them.  Riley conveys Brian’s excitement about approaching adulthood, his sometimes touching, sometimes funny sexual awakening,  and his confusion and sorrow that he, his family, and his black friends are victims of a hatred he can’t understand. The well-written, timely narrative will keep you reading, held by its well-drawn characters, drama and poignancy.
 
~~~~~Dorothy Foltz-Gray; Author of With and Without Her: A Memoir of Being and Losing a Twin (Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors 2013 Prize for Memoir/Autobiography)
Posted by permission of author and reviewer.
Find this author at: http://jonmichaelriley.com/ and find all of his books here: Amazon

Wanted

Posted: July 21, 2015 in Announcements, Blog Tour Hosting, guest post, Recommended Reading
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WANTED

Author: Krista Holly

Genre: Contemporary Romance

~ SYNOPSIS ~

With a Mother that shipped her off to boarding school as fast as she could, feeling unwanted is nothing new to Lo. When she got a chance to convince her parents to let he move back home, she went from feeling unwanted to being wanted by every guy in school.

Chase has always looked forward to summer and seeing Lo. He’s loved her devil-may-care attitude from the start. But when she moves back to town for good she’s changed and no longer the carefree girl she once was.

When jealousy gets the best of some people, you never know what’s going to happen, especially when they want something you have.

Would you let someone take away everything you’ve ever wanted?

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~ EXCERPT ~

 

I knew exactly how to throw her off her game. But I didn’t wanther to throw me out.
“Lo,” I barely whispered when I came up behind her at the sink.She was rinsing off our plates. I was an inch from being flush against herback. The urge to close the gap was strong. Like a moth to a flame, my body wasbeing pulled to her. My muscles ached, clenched, wanting her wrapped around me.
I reached around her and took the plate, placing it at thebottom of the sink. She turned the faucet off then braced herself, handsclenching the edge of the counter. I heard her breathing hitch, then shallow,quick breaths escaped her mouth. I could see her shoulders rise and fall. Ireached my other hand out and placed it next to hers. “Can I stay?” It was theonly thing I really wanted.
I didn’t care if we just stayed up and talked, or not eventalked. Music, movies, games—I didn’t care. I just wanted to be in herpresence. She blew out a hot breath.
“No,” she breathed out.
I knew if I pushed her too much she would throw my ass out in aheartbeat. But I wasn’t leaving without a fight.
“Please, Lo.” I leaned into her, still not touching her butmoving my mouth close enough to her ear that she could feel my breath and Icould see her hair move from the force of it. “I won’t try anything. I swear.”I’d promise not to touch her, if that’s really what she wanted. I’d promise heranything.
But when I looked down to her arm I could see the goose bumpscovering her bicep. I could practically feel the heat radiating off of her. Itwas euphoric and entrancing. This moment felt just right. It felt like I couldstay here forever. Hovering over the most infuriating and beautiful girl I’dever laid eyes on.
Her shoulders slumped when she let out a deep breath. “What areyou doing Chase?” Lo was trying not to give in but even I could tell that shereally wanted to. She felt it too. “Weren’t you just with Cam?” It was aquestion but came out as more of a statement.
I hated being reminded of that night. I was so damn frustratedwith Lo that I didn’t even think twice. I just buried myself in somethingmeaningless so I wouldn’t focus on Lo running off in the middle of the nightwith some fucking douche bag.
Cam was absolutely nothing to me. I’m a dick for saying it, butit’s true. Lo was becoming everything. I was obsessed. I needed to get underher skin like she did mine.
“That was nothing,” I whispered to her. I knew it wasn’t theanswer she would want or the answer she deserved. But it was honest and shedeserved that much from me. “I’ll do whatever it takes to prove that I’m notthat guy. I’m not Dieter and I’m certainly not Beckon.”
She finally released her hold on the edge of the counter andturned to face me. She kept her head low and avoided eye contact. Her chestrose and fell quickly. “I can’t do this with you. Just last week you werecalling me a whore, now your defending me and trying to prove your worthiness?What is it with you guys? You can’t get me one way so you’ll try to swoon meinto oblivion.” With her last word she finally locked eyes with me.
There was always a wall up in her eyes, but I could see it crackand start to crumble. Lo was putting up a worthy fight but I could feel herfaltering. If I just swooped in and sealed the deal with a kiss I know she’dfinally let go of the chain holding her back.
Leaning into her, tasting her breath, watching her eyes shiftfrom my mouth to my eyes, I was almost there. She put her hands on my chest. Ithought she was going to push me away. She started to but then she gripped thematerial like it was her lifeline.
Our lips touched, but before devouring her like I wanted to, Iasked, “Is this okay?” She took a deep breath, her ocean eyes shut for whatfelt like forever. I was struggling to hold myself back and when her eyesfinally opened I could see her letting the wall crumble.
She moved her lips tentatively and kissed me, slow. It was soslow it was painful. I felt the buzz spread through my body and head straightfor my dick. I wanted to speed things up, but she seemed more comfortabletaking it slow so I followed her lead.. I pushed myself into her, pinning heragainst the counter. I wrapped one hand around her waist and the other threadedthrough her hair and traveled down to her neck.
I didn’t want to be rough but I couldn’t help but jerk hertowards me. She started to open her mouth to me and I took the opportunity tosink my tongue into her mouth and take what she was giving. She tasted spicyand sweet at the same time. It was the perfect, heady combination.
I almost lost my control when she moaned into my mouth. Loreleased my shirt and wrapped her arms around my neck and threaded her fingersinto the hair at the nape of my neck. It tickled but it was the best fuckingturn on I’d ever had.
Her touches were hesitant, but when she finally made contact itwas greedy. I could stay here forever.
Consuming her.
Raptured by her.
I was lost in her touch and when she bit down on my bottom lipand tugged a little, every sensation I had shot straight to my groin. I wasrock hard and straining to contain myself. I moved my hand down to her ass andpushed her harder against me.
I wanted her to feel what she was doing to me. Her effect wasonly growing stronger with every second, minute, and hour I got to be with her.It was torture but the good kind. Feeling her like this.
I had no doubts about her. She was wild but tame. Almost likeshe was questioning if she was doing it right. I pulled her against me harder,pressing her into me, not giving her an inch away from my body. She pulled backand gasped for air. I took the moment to kiss her jaw and down her neck.Kissing and sucking as I went. She let out a taut moan and I could feel herpulse hammering in her neck. I kissed her there. Trying to calm her, but shit,even I wasn’t calm.
When I slid my hand down from her neck and to the front of hertank top I felt her jump a little. I rested my hand on her hip and started tocaress the little sliver of skin that showed. I continued to suck on her neck.
“Chase,” she said, and I couldn’t tell if it was a plea for moreor a sign that she was about to stop what I damn well didn’t want to stop.“Chase, stop,” she said so hoarse and raspy, I couldn’t actually believe shewanted me to.
But then she pushed on my chest and turned her head away fromme. Shock coursed through me.
“Lo, what’s wrong?” I asked panting. I knew she felt what I did.Why was she stopping me?

“I just can’t do this,

okay? You need to go to your party.”

 

~ TEASERS ~

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~ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ~

Krista Holly

Krista Holly is an avid reader and a Namast’ay in bed kind of girl. She started life in the City of Sin then traveled the country most of her life, going from coast to coast. A gypsy at heart with a passion for traveling and meeting new people. An ambivert, if you will. The only things she likes at Starbucks are Valencia Orange Refreshers and pumpkin bread and the occasional French Vanilla Cappuccino. She loves dogs and cuddling with her 85 pound white unicorn. When she’s not reading or writing or working she’s watching TV with her family or making fun of her brother’s love life.

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