Mark Of The Devil by Tana Collins - Blog Blitz Guest Post

I am super excited to be helping kick off the blog blitz for Mark Of The Devil by Tana Collins. I have a really great guest post by Tana all about her main character, Jim Carruthers. 

Mark Of The Devil  

While Inspector Jim Carruthers and team are busy investigating a series of art thefts they receive an anonymous tip about the body of a young woman on a deserted beach.

The bizarre clues to her identity, and what might have happened to her, include a strange tattoo, a set of binoculars and slab of meat left on the cliffs.

The team’s investigations lead them to a local shooting estate and its wealthy owner Barry Cuthbert. However, Carruthers suspects Cuthbert is not all he seems and the DI soon starts to wonder if the cases of the missing works of art, the dead woman and the estate are connected.

Then when the body of a young gamekeeper is pulled from the sea tensions boil over. The trail of clues lead the team to the unlikely locale of Tallinn and into the sinister world of international crime and police corruption.

Needing answers Carruthers must look further afield than Fife. However, the closer he gets to discovering the truth the more danger he finds himself in.

Since everyone who crosses the vengeful killers seem to end up dead, can Carruthers solve the case with his life in tact?

Guest Post - My Main Character – Inspector Jim Carruthers

A friend once asked me why, when I’m a female crime writer, my lead character is a male. My only response was, “my lead character was always going to be male. I have no idea why. I hadn’t ever considered him being female.”

The second question most people ask is if Detective Inspector Jim Carruthers is based on anyone I know. The answer would have to be several people in fact. What can I tell you about my lead character? Jim Carruthers is complicated. Like many of us. He’s stubborn, headstrong and wilful, forever butting heads with his superior, the long suffering Superintendent Bingham. But he’s also honest, loyal and driven by a desire for justice that will see him putting a huge amount of effort into solving his cases. He wants justice for his victims and he doesn’t sleep well at night until he gets it. Well, to be honest, he generally doesn’t sleep well anyway.

When we first meet him he’s separated from his wife but lives in hope he might be able to win her back. However, very quickly in the opening book in the series, Robbing the Dead, which I’m delighted to say became an Amazon Number One bestseller, he is pitched into investigating both the brutal and senseless murder of a young man from the RAF and the bombing of a car belonging to a controversial politics lecturer. His concern for his failing marriage has to take a back seat. 

Jim Carruthers is unlucky in love. He would love to be settled and living with someone but knows deep down he is unlikely to make them truly happy. This is a man who is a loner - at heart happiest while out hill walking and wild camping. He has a lapsed membership of the RSPB, lapsed purely because he’s always too busy to get round to renewing it. He will one day. He’s also a big fan of the James Bond books and is working his way through them. And he’s both an Iron Maiden, Neil Young and malt whisky fan.

He has a great working relationship with DS Andrea Fletcher who is ten years his junior. Like any good protagonist she has her own demons. She is organised to his messy and he admires her youthful energy and fierce intelligence. The only thing that bugs him about her is that she is very nosy, wanting to know all about his failed marriage and, since Jim Carruthers is an intensely private person, he’d rather try to keep his feelings and personal history to himself. Andrea Fletcher, however, much to Jim Carruthers’ annoyance, has a way of ferreting the information out of him. In Robbing the Dead, they both have their own personal crises to deal with and turn to each other for support, which fosters their close relationship even more.

Characterisation was, for me, the hardest thing to write about and I was absolutely delighted when the Amazon and Goodreads reviews started to come in and readers commented on how much they loved the characters in my novels. By the second novel I had introduced another strong character, that of Gayle Watson, who had been drafted in when Andrea had to take time off work. And the character my readers love to hate, DS Dougie Harris, who has featured throughout the series, may have a few surprises up his sleeve for my readers as we get to see a softer side to him in subsequent books.

I do hope you enjoy reading the series. If you like fast -paced hard hitting crime thrillers, with a deeply personal side to the plot, as one reviewer describes, the Inspector Jim Carruthers series might be just up your street.

About The Author

Edinburgh based Tana Collins is the author of the popular Jim Carruthers detective series set in Fife. Her debut novel, Robbing the Dead, published February 2017, became a No 1 Amazon bestseller for Scottish crime fiction.  Care to Die, the follow up in the series, also became a Top 10 Amazon bestseller. Published on 1^st June 2017 Care to Die was described by Peter Robinson, author of DCI Banks,  as  “A finely plotted mystery. Tana Collins racks up the suspense on this one. DI Jim Carruthers is a cop to watch.”  In September 2017 having won one of the coveted Spotlight places at Bloody Scotland Tana supported Lynda La Plante on stage.

Her third novel, Mark of the Devil, is to be published 24^th April 2018. Author Leigh Russell writes of it, "A cracking read. The suspense never lets up."

Tana is a trained Massage Therapist and Stress Management Consultant.

To Connect With The Author

Website: tanacollins.com

Twitter: @TanaCollins7

Author Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Tana-Collins-490774634440829

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A Glimmer Of Hope by Steve McHugh - Guest Post

Life Of A Nerdish Mum is honoured to be a part of the blog tour for Steve McHugh's newest release, A Glimmer Of Hope. I recently reviewed the last book in his previous series, The Hellequin Chronicles, which was absolutely fabulous so I'm really excited about getting my hands on this book too. 

Now to hand over to Steve and a fabulous guest post on character creation...

Character Creation

Character creation is one of the cornerstones of being an author and writing something people want to read. Bad characters will doom a book, and good characters can carry a book along even if the plot isn’t that interesting. They’re frankly essential. They’re also one of the more difficult parts of writing to get right.

Now, I’m not saying I have the magical best method to do this, because no one does and anyone saying they do is wrong, but my method works for me, so maybe it’ll work for someone else.

And now for the part of the blog post where I discuss spreadsheets.

Yep, spreadsheets. I can almost hear a groan of boredom, and to be honest Excel isn’t exactly the most exciting of things to use, but stay with me.

Creating characters is something that gets easier the more you do it, but you probably don’t want to not have half a dozen people in the book who all look, sound, and act the same. That’s where the mighty spreadsheet comes in.

When I go to create a character, I start with a few details. Are they male or female? How old are they? What species are they? What’s their name? What’s their profession? What do they look like?

These details are necessary to figure out any character, and for characters that only have a small part, that’s fine. I log the details in my spreadsheet, giving a row to each character and the names of topics as the column headers. I’ll add them to the spreadsheet as I go through the book, as I don’t like to plan out in advance by a such a degree that I know all of the bit players before I get to them.

For characters I need to know more about from the start of the book (or  those that just pop in when you’re halfway through and you realize you need a new character), I have more columns for information to be added. So, more detailed abilities, their homelands, where they were born, allegiances, likes, dislikes, sexuality, etc.

It’s a lot of information to think about, but it really helps set the character to be something more real in my head. It also helps me, at least initially, to keep characters traits separate so I don’t have them start to behave in a way that isn’t realistic to that person.

The last thing you want to do is change how a character behaves because you forgot something, or because you wrote yourself into a corner. And I find that having all of the information about them readily available avoids that. It’s not perfect, but it works for me, and once I’ve filled in an entire row for a character, I usually find I have a good grasp on them. Also, it helps me change things about the character if I find they’re not working. If I get to the end of the row and something isn’t sitting right in my head, it’s usually easy to point to the part that I don’t think works.

So, yes, spreadsheets aren’t exactly sexy, nor are they the most exciting thing in the world, but they’re incredibly useful. I use them for all kinds of world building stuff by just putting tabs with different aspects of the world I’m working on. The time I spend entering the characters and details of the world they live in, allows me to realize who these people are.

A Glimmer Of Hope

From Steve McHugh, the bestselling author of The Hellequin Chronicles, comes a new urban fantasy series packed with mystery, action, and, above all, magic.

Layla Cassidy has always wanted a normal life, and the chance to put her father’s brutal legacy behind her. And in her final year of university she’s finally found it. Or so she thinks.

But when Layla accidentally activates an ancient scroll, she is bestowed with an incredible, inhuman power. She plunges into a dangerous new world, full of mythical creatures and menace—all while a group of fanatics will stop at nothing to turn her abilities to their cause.

To protect those she loves most, Layla must take control of her new powers…before they destroy her. All is not yet lost—there is a light shining, but Layla must survive long enough to see it.

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About The Author

Steve's been writing from an early age, his first completed story was done in an English lesson. Unfortunately, after the teacher read it, he had to have a chat with the head of the year about the violent content and bad language. The follow up 'One boy and his frog' was less concerning to his teachers and got him an A.

It wasn't for another decade that he would start work on a full length novel, the result of which is Crimes Against Magic.

He was born in a small village called Mexborough, South Yorkshire, but now lives with his wife and three young daughters in Southampton.

Twitter @StevejMchugh

Website: http://www.stevejmchugh.wordpress.com/

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Guest Post - J.C. Macek III - The Enigma of Calderon

Life Of A Nerdish Mum is handing over the reins to author J.C. Macek III today as he talks about the Enigma of Calderon, a character in his new novel [Cargo]. 

Cargo 

Over the years Anthony Peterson has amassed a fortune, numerous properties, a trophy wife and a reputation for ruthless business dealings. He is a man who is used to getting his own way.

But when Peterson wakes to find himself locked in a metal shipping container, with only a cell phone and twenty-four hours of air left, he begins to unravel.

Desperate to escape Peterson soon learns that there is more to the container than he first realised. And when the kidnappers call and demand ten million dollars, while threatening to murder and rape his beautiful wife if he doesn’t comply, Peterson must fight to meet their impossible terms or face being left to die alone in the darkness.

Why has Peterson been targeted?

Who are those responsible for his kidnap?

And will Peterson make out of the container alive?

Cargo is an edge of your seat thriller about the choices we make.

Guest Post - [Cargo]: The Enigma of Calderon.

Agatha Christie once wrote “Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill...”

In a world where everyone is a killer, how does one determine the good guys from the bad guys?

Enter the mercenary known as Calderon. Calderon is the kind of killer who never attempts to rationalize himself as a good man, yet still sees the world in different shades of evil. The man called Calderon would certainly agree with Christie’s assertion about murderous mankind, but he separates different kinds of killers by motive.

“The difference is why.” Calderon has often told himself. For Calderon the “why” had always been money. Calderon had spent much of his life following the wrong men and, being that Calderon had few scruples, following the wrong men proved never to be much of a problem. That was as long as the checks cleared. And Calderon always made damn sure his checks cleared. Money made the world go round, right? So what the hell else was there?

There was no malice, no killjoy, no bloodthirst in what he did. Killing was his proficiency. If he had proven to be the best at football, he would have pursued football. Had it been flying he would have become a pilot. Had he been blessed with the pipes of an angel he would surely have graced the covers of several worn album covers by this time in his life. However, his blessing was more in line with the homicidal arts, so he followed what he had proven to be proficient in.

Some killed for sport. Some killed for pleasure. Some killed for greed. Some killed for convenience. Others hired people like Calderon so they could kill but still keep their hands clean and pretend they weren’t killers. Weren’t they all killers? If so, what is the difference? The difference… was “why”. Why do they kill? The “why” made all the difference in the world.

You can kill a guy because you’ve been paid to. That’s a living. You don’t ask questions. Maybe he’s being killed because he owes somebody money. Maybe he’s being killed because he coveted the wrong man’s wife. Maybe he was just as bad as any killer out there, including Calderon. Or maybe he was being killed for the wrong reasons. The wrong guy at the wrong time? The difference is why.

Calderon’s descent into the underworld was not prompted by loss. Calderon’s descent was paved with proficiency and opportunity. By separating himself from the emotion of the job he was able to isolate himself from the loss of life. That is until loss of life hit too close to home. That is until the one person who truly mattered to Calderon died while Calderon was too far away to be of any help.

Because of that loss, Calderon was painfully faced with a new question… does “why” truly make any difference? Is not a person just as dead regardless of the reason? And if there is no reason… what kind of world did Calderon occupy? If the difference is why and there is no why then the world was chaos. And Calderon is a man who values his control.

It’s enough to drive even the coldest man into a depression.

It is Calderon who is called in for the very specialized operation involving Anthony Peterson in the novel [Cargo]. This operation begins with revenge and evolves into an elaborate game in which Anthony Peterson, the man in the box, must deliver ten million American dollars in ransom lest he forfeit both his own life and that of his wife. With Calderon’s involvement the operation soon becomes rife with betrayal, deception, pensive introspection, mind games and intrigue.

When faced with the bloody pasts of all interested players, Calderon witnesses the lines blurring between every killer in the game. The stakes get even higher when Calderon matches wits with a fellow killer who has her own cynical take on the reality of humankind. While Calderon’s philosophy hinges on the difference of why, his new colleague argues “When you become the truth of death, there are no consequences.”

Before the final page, the mercenary named Calderon must reconcile these opposites in order to both survive and maintain his sanity.

In adapting the original screenplay [Cargo] into a full-length novel I knew there was no choice but to expand the novel outside of the box and to add new sequences and new characters that fit perfectly into the jigsaw puzzle that lay before me. Calderon and his nihilistic philosophy are two completely original additions to the story of [Cargo] that I created to enhance, more than expand, the narrative. You won’t find him in the film version, but you may still feel his shadow once you know he was there all along.

With virtually everyone a killer to one degree or other, it is hard to call any character the conscience of [Cargo]. However, if not the conscience, Calderon does prove to embody the second thoughts of [Cargo], the regrets and perhaps even the reckoning of [Cargo]. Is there a difference of why or are there no consequences for truth?

If these are the questions there can be very little room for innocents in Calderon’s underworld of [Cargo].

About The Author

He began writing at a very young age and launched his professional writing career after graduating from Louisiana State University with a BA in English Literature.

His first noteworthy professional writing was in the world of entertainment journalism. He became a movie, TV, book and music reviewer which soon expanded to film history columns and celebrity interviews. Over the years, J.C. has become known in his professional life for interviewing bands such as The Cult, Judas Priest, Faith No More, The Zombies, Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry,  Queens of the Stone Age’s Nick Oliveri and KMFDM.

After writing literally thousands of articles, columns, reviews and interviews for multiple print and online magazines, J.C. published his first novel Seven Days to Die: A Jake Slater Mystery in 2016. He followed this success in 2017 with a collection of short stories and novellas entitled The Pretty Good and Pretty Representative Stories of J.C. Maçek III. This collection continues the hardboiled detective saga of Jake Slater with the new novella The Pestilence of Spring: A Jake Slater Mystery.

J.C. is also an actor, musician, director and film producer. His most recent film is [Cargo], produced by J.C. and written and directed by James Dylan. As producer, J.C. also took the commission to write the novelization to [Cargo] which will be published by Bloodhound Books in early 2018.

J.C. lives in Southern California with his wife, daughters and a veritable zoo full of pets. He is currently working on more Jake Slater crime novels starting with the thriller Hard Core and is looking to expand the mythos of [Cargo].

Connect With The Author

https://www.facebook.com/JakeSlaterMystery

https://twitter.com/kneumsi

https://www.amazon.com/J.C.-Macek-III/e/B07111NTNF

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15259619.J_C_Macek_III

http://www.bloodhoundbooks.com/jc-maek-iii

Why We Love Mysteries - A Guest Post by Larry Enmon

Today on Life Of A Nerdish Mum I am very pleased to welcome debut author Larry Enmon to my blog as he discusses just why everyone loves a good mystery.

WHY WE LOVE MYSTERIES

Just so we start off on the right foot here, I've read everything Sir Author Conan Doyle ever wrote about Sherlock Holmes. As a young man I was fascinated by mysteries and mystery writing. Read everything I could get. But I did something that caused me to stop following the genre. I became a policeman.

For thirty-seven years I lived the dream—and often the nightmare—of solving mysteries. I started as a municipal police officer in Houston working uniform patrol and undercover vice. I eventually accepted an appointment as a special agent with the Secret Service and continued investigating crimes and solving mysteries. But I stopped reading them. That was probably a mistake.

Every good story contains an element of mystery. It's in our human DNA to ask why—to solve the puzzle, to discover the secret. That's what pushes mankind forward. Everyone wants to be the first to figure it out.

Reading a good mystery allows the reader to experience the thrill of the hunt without the inherent dangers involved in hunting. Staying at a safe distance from danger is always better than experiencing it first hand. Trust me—I've been shot at more than once. And what else do we love about mysteries? The crime gets solved and the bad guy either gets killed or goes to jail. Not always so in the real world.

The old-style detective and mystery writers weren’t as concerned about characters as the new writers of today. What started out as a plot-driven genre has evolved into a character-driven one. In the digital age, we want to know everything about everyone. This has led to the characters in mysteries becoming more interesting than the plot. Let me share an example: True Detective – Season One (HBO). Sure we care about the detectives discovering the identity of the serial killer, but what keeps us coming back to view the next episode is the relationship between the two detectives, Rust and Marty.

Another writer once asked me how many homicides I saw as a uniform police officer. This started me to thinking about all the different types of death I investigated. Each had a mystery associated with it that needed solving. I saw death by shooting, stabbing, drowning, electrocution, crushing (yes, that happens), poisoning, blunt force trauma, falling, hanging, and burning. I was the first unit on the scene, and it was my job to determine what happened, how it happened, why it happened, and round up the witnesses before the homicide detectives arrived. (Old Cop Trick #1: Always ask the witnesses for some identification. Once they present it, drop it in your pocket. If you don't, in all the confusion, they might just wander away.)

I suspect that few police officers read mysteries, probably for the same reasons that I stopped. It's hard enough living with the horrible real images we see as police. Also living with the fictional ones is like taking your work home with you. But having the experience as an officer gave me the background necessary to write a good mystery. I still love to solve crimes, but only fictional ones, please.

So let me leave you with a real police mystery I witnessed first-hand. My partner and I made the scene of a shooting involving two men. The victim was in his mid-twenties, six foot five, and unarmed. The suspect was in his late teens and five feet tall. According to a half dozen witnesses, the older man began harassing and threatening the younger one over the affections of a woman. The younger man pulled out a small caliber pistol and pointed it at the older one. The victim screamed, "Nooooooooooooo!" just as the single shot rang out. The victim fell to the pavement, dead as a door nail. But there was one problem. The body didn't have a mark on it. No entry wound of any kind!

Everyone assumed the guy either cracked his skull when he fell or suffered a heart attack out of fear. The only blood was a few drops on the guy's lower lip, which could be attributed to biting his tongue or lip as he hit the pavement. The homicide detectives were on their way, so I had only a few minutes to figure it out. As far as everyone was concerned, the suspect had missed the victim when he shot at him. But it was a homicide. Want to know how?

The short suspect fired the small caliber pistol at the taller victim as he screamed, "Nooooooooooo!" The bullet entered the victim's mouth and, because of the angle of the shot (five-foot-tall guy shooting at six-foot-five guy), went into his brain, killing him instantly. The small amount of blood on the victim's lower lip was the only sign of violence. But the bullet in the brain was the cause of death.

Yes, everyone loves a good mystery.

Wormwood

In Dallas, Texas, Katrina Wallace goes missing. As the mayor's daughter, her kidnapping triggers mounting political pressure and forces the Chief of Police to put two senior detectives on the case. Rob Soliz and Frank Pierce have done the impossible in the past, but their methods are unconventional.

The only evidence at the scene is a Bible found in the girl's car and soon Frank and Rob find themselves involved in a disturbing investigation shrouded by Bible prophecy, doomsday cults, and murder.

Is Katrina still alive? And what exactly is Wormwood?

As the trail leads them into the woods of rural East Texas, Frank must deal with his lingering religious doubts and solve the case. His worst fears will be realised when he must discover the ugly truth about Wormwood. But he and Rob will have to get out alive to tell the story...

About The Author

Larry Enmon retired from the U.S. Secret Service and started writing. During his career he acted as liaison between the USSS and FBI, working in the Joint Terrorism Task Force.  He received special training from the FBI and CIA in weapons of mass destruction.

For relaxation, and to get away from the city, he likes spending time at his ranch in rural Eastern Texas. With 200+ acres, private shooting range, a 2 ½ acre pond, and miles of woodland trails to explore on four-wheelers and RTV’s, it’s the perfect getaway.

He swims four miles a week, holds a Divemaster rating with the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and has a black belt in Tang Soo Do karate.  He is married with two children and lives in Tarrant County, TX.

His debut crime mystery novel Wormwood is being published by Bloodhound Books, Cambridge. He is represented by the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, Ltd, London.

To Connect With Larry Enmon

Twitter: @LarryEnmon

Instagram: @Larry_Enmon

Website: http://www.larry-enmon.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/larryenmonbooks/

Pay The Penance by Rob Ashman - Blog Tour Guest Post

Today Life Of A Nerdish Mum is taking part in the blog tour for Pay The Penance by Rob Ashman, the third book in the Mechanic Trilogy. 

Pay The Penance

Murder. Corruption. Revenge.  

Lucas has been tracking a killer, known as Mechanic, when his world is shattered. Unable to continue his hunt for the murderer he is forced to rely on his friend and colleague Dick Harper. But Harper has a knack for not playing by the rules. He doesn’t disappoint. 

Meanwhile Detective Moran is trying to piece her life back together. The police stumble upon new evidence without grasping its significance. She has to divert the investigation if she is to survive. 

The police are closer to Mechanic than they realise which puts Moran right in the firing line. 

Mechanic, as usual, has other plans and the consequences for Lucas and Harper are terrifying… 

Guest Post - House-husband and writer.

I am lucky enough to be able to write full time. My wife Karen has a responsible job and works hard to keep me in the luxury to which I have become accustomed, so I have taken on the responsibility for running the house. Well, it seems only fair.

My day starts at 6am when the radio goes off for the news. I get up, make tea and fix Karen’s pack lunch while she gets ready for work. Then I make a start around 6.30.

If I am in full blown writing mode the words start flowing straight away. It’s as if my characters have been waiting for me to wake up and they compete for my attention, each one eager to tell me their side of the story. I write in bed until about 8am, then get up and have breakfast and check my social media.

By 9am I am back at my desk, well when I say my desk, I mean whatever room feels right. I write in the dining room, my office, the lounge, the kids bedrooms and out on the patio when the weather is good. I find that helps to keep the dreaded writer’s block at bay. I also write in two local cafes and the library. I like to keep moving around, it keeps my thinking fresh.

I normally stop for lunch at midday while catching up with the news and respond to Facebook and Twitter messages. Though sometimes I am so engrossed in my writing that I lose all sense of time. This normally culminates with me running out of steam and starving hungry, I look up from my work to find it’s 2.30pm and I haven’t moved.

I try to be really disciplined with social media because it eats up the time. To help this I switch off the wifi on my laptop to ensure I am not tempted when I should be writing. If I want a break I do the food shop or the washing which helps me get things straight in my head for the next time I am sat at my keyboard.

The time flies by and in the blink of an eye it is 6pm when I stop to prepare dinner. Cooking is a great source of relaxation for me, I reckon I am really a frustrated chef.  If I am on a roll I will start work again at around 8pm and write until I’m done. There are times when I finally pack away my laptop in the small hours of the morning. When the voices are in full flow you have to go with it.

My friends are hugely supportive of my writing and are always asking how I have spent my day. I tell them that I watch day time TV in between taking naps. They are fine with that.

About The Author

Rob is married to Karen with two grown up daughters. He is originally from South Wales and after moving around with work settled in North Lincolnshire where he’s spent the last twenty-two years.

Like all good welsh valley boys Rob worked for the National Coal Board after leaving school at sixteen and went to University at the tender age of twenty-three when the pit closures began to bite. Since then he’s worked in a variety of manufacturing and consulting roles both in the UK and abroad.

It took Rob twenty-four years to write his first book. He only became serious about writing it when his dad got cancer. It was an aggressive illness and Rob gave up work for three months to look after him and his mum. Writing Those That Remain became his coping mechanism. After he wrote the book his family encouraged him to continue, so not being one for half measures, Rob got himself made redundant, went self-employed so he could devote more time to writing and four years later the Mechanic Trilogy is the result.

When he is not writing, Rob is a frustrated chef with a liking for beer and prosecco, and is known for occasional outbreaks of dancing.

Rob is delighted that all three books in the Mechanic Trilogy will be published with Bloodhound Books in 2017.

Those That Remain  –  22 June

In Your Name            –  13 July

Pay The Penance     –  8 August

Rob now writes full time and has recently completed his fourth novel titled Faceless.

To Connect With Rob Ashman

Twitter tag : @RobAshmanAuthor

Facebook author page : Rob Ashman Author

Website link : www.robashman.com

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