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"Lord and King" by P.L. Stuart

Heart-pounding adventure, intrigue, battle, and romance in an epic fantasy tale. #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Lord and King P.L. StuartFriesenPress (2023)ISBN: 978-1039174511Reviewed by Sheri Hoyte for Reader Views (06/2024) “Lord and King” is the phenomenal third book in The Drowned Kingdom Saga by P.L. Stuart. Epic in scope and heart-pounding in adventure, intrigue, battle, and romance, Stuart entrenches his readers even deeper into the amazing fantasy world of Acremia. To quickly catch you up on…

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Tam Hue Ping: From China to Colombia

An autobiography by Kelvin Christilius “Hue Ping” Tam

Published by me with FriesenPress, Canada.

[violet624]

Never Give Up Bookiversary 💜

It's been One Year since my story was released into the world and what a year its been!

It's been a year of truly healing, the feeling of the world being lifted off my shoulders and the feeling that I can finally breathe again.

Thank you for those who have read of story, shared their own journey's with me and for all the love and support I have gotten.

It was scary to have shared this, so many what ifs... What if my abusers come after me or my loved ones? What if no one believes me? What if my abusers were right and I was crazy?

Finally I can put there's what ifs to rest as I know I have a great support system and people who believe me and I know I am not crazy.

I'm no longer afraid, I am strong, I am Beautiful and this is my truth

Much love as always,

Jess 💜

[httyddragonfox]

Just a little something that has piqued my interest. This is a fairytale, with standard fairytale stuff, the main differences are thus: the guy does not easily get the girl, the heroine must work to obtain her happy ending, oh...and also, she's a Romantic Asexual. Lots more trials and tribulations to reach the fairytale ending.

A new and modern fairytale, with castles, princes, talking animals, and magic roses.

[malakkc-poetry]

Perfectly Flawed, FriesenPress

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Life seemed on the rise for Chase Martin, but there was something else going on in his head--something he couldn't bring himself to tell his bandmates. Meanwhile, Marguerite, for the first time in her twenty-seven years of life, is finally free from her parents and feels like the world is her oyster. What happens when the two of them meet in a cafe, feeling an instant connection between themselves?

A bond exists that is more than simply attraction:

[otter1962crystalball]

News of rising hatred towards the LGBTQA+ community

This Sunday morning, I got up as I always do on Sundays, having a coffee and taking my time to start my day. I normally don’t listen to the news too much as it always contains so much unrest, hate, disasters and the like. Sadly, I didn’t follow my own advice this morning.

What I found was news about the racial unrest in France, the war in Ukraine, a mass shooting in Baltimore, Maryland in the States and so much more sadness. Closer to home here was news about a tornado in Alberta, forest fires, indigenous grave sites found, sexual harassment in the RCMP, and much more bleak news.

Aside from the natural disasters and climate change, what stood out was how humanity has been treating each other. What really jumped out at me was how there is a rise in hatred toward the LGBTQA+ community - around the world but especially here in Canada. I found the following:

Protesters counter-protesting pride events

Students stomping on pride flags

Hate slogans being screamed at our trans community

Trans students afraid to go to school due to the rise in hatred

A trans celebrity, Dan Mulvaney, being targeted after her advertisement for a bee company

A US Supreme Court allowing a Christian web designer to refuse service to a same-sex wedding

News of the stabbing in a University of Waterloo campus and how people are afraid to talk about the violence toward our community

Muslims in Ottawa schools refusing to go to school at the start of pride

A young Indigenous girl talking about using they/them and what she faced

The province of New Brunswick’s gender policy of not discussing gender issues in classrooms, where teachers are banned to use gender titles for students under 16

NB government calling gender dysphoria becoming popular among young people and the need to curb it. 

A rural town in Ontario refusing to put up pride flags

A pride crosswalk painting defaced with black paint in Saanich, BC and Leduc, Alberta

Timmins, Ontario Pride celebration, along with many others in Canada celebration forced to include security costs due to anti-LGBTQ threats

Hate incidents in Alberta spiking - RCMP encouraging reporting of these incidents

Canada’s anti-LGBTQ movement emboldened by what is happening in the USA.

Continuing issues around drag queens reading to children

Sadly, I’m sure there are more that I missed.

Closer to home, the high school where my students go when moving to grade 10 was recently in the news where students stole the pride flag from the cafeteria and took it into the woods and burned it. The principal at my school was told by the district to take down the LGBTQ flag that I put up in our teaching pod. He was instructed to find a way to show it in some sort of enclosed box to protect it from being vandalized.

Even closer was when my publisher, FriesenPress put up a pride symbol on their website. I sent a message celebrating the release of my gay science fiction romance and thanked them for their support. I received homophobic slurs as a result. FriesenPress thankfully blocked those people and supported me.

I grew up in an environment where being gay was a dangerous thing. I faced hatred, taunting, harassment and some violence when I was in school. Since then, I’ve seen things change for the better since the 1970s. Now, it seems that things are going backwards and it frightens me.

In the next few blogs, I will be exploring what is going on around me. Your comments would be welcomed.

Carpe diem

[lovebooksgroup]

Starting in January the Finding Ruby Draker by Marianne Scott @MScottauthor44 #blogtour organised by @lovebookstour @KellyAlacey 16th Jan - 2nd Feb #BookTwitter

Finding Ruby Draker by Marianne Scott 16th Jan – 2nd Feb 2023 Genre: Suspense, Thriller Publisher:  FriesenPress About the Book Blurb  Join Ellery in her second year at the Quinton Earth Science School as one by one, another friend goes missing — lost without a trace. But Ellery is also on the verge of losing herself. Unable to cope with being the chosen one to bring back balance to Mother…

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This is a story of moving from abuse, crippling fear and low self-esteem to knowing the ultimate love of God. Author W. Veronica Lisare has discovered courage, joy, hope, freedom and fulfillment as she embraces her authentic identity as a daughter of the King of kings…

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I’m slowly, slowly working on illustrations for Chelsea Richardson’s second kid’s book that she’s writing about her dogs, and I handed off some video of me inking and shading for her Instagram. Behold. :o

She picked some really cute music for this clip! aaaa

Over the past few years, I illustrated her first book as well and it’s available in various bookstores around Victoria, BC as well as online at FriesenPress! I’m still hoping to get my name on a book as an author one day, but being a genuine illustrator is a nice feeling, too. <3

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"The Once Upon a Time of Now" by Hope West

Finding your worth among the stars. #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

The Once Upon a Time of Now Hope WestFriesenPress (2023)ISBN: 978-1039167889Reviewed by Rachel Dehning for Reader Views (02/2024) Hope West’s “The Once Upon a Time of Now” is a mystical, mythical, and thought-provoking story that teaches the art of appreciating your surroundings and making every moment count.One night, a young Canadian girl named Agnes, while marveling at the vast starry sky…

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This is a story of moving from abuse, crippling fear and low self-esteem to knowing the ultimate love of God. Author W. Veronica Lisare has discovered courage, joy, hope, freedom and fulfillment as she embraces her authentic identity as a daughter of the King of kings... 

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Starting the week off with a lil preview of what’s to come: signed copies of The Formula #1! In the meantime, follow the link in the bio for more on our big debut!: linktr.ee/theformula #indiecomics #theformula #MondayMotivation #inspiration #selfpublished #friesenpress #NCBD #drawingwhileblack #newauthors #blackcreatives #BLM #booksigning https://www.instagram.com/p/CESeozMg5u5/?igshid=18jya8xmugp1y

[malakkc-poetry]

The Cycle of Life

Exert from my poetry book, Perfectly Flawed, available on all eplatforms, paperback, hardcover

[cjpaxton]

Social Distance Book Launch! Come out to the Langford Legion July 4th 12-4pm for the launch of The Old Black Curtain! Reading, signing and maybe even some singing!! #booklaunch #selfpublished #romancenovel #friesenpress https://www.instagram.com/p/CB00OAzMqg-/?igshid=qr0w05kgmgyb

[couragecoach]

Welcome Home

“We are all just walking each other home” ~ Ram Dass Dear Anxiety,So, here we are, we meet again. You have this habit of showing up whenever things are going well and your goal is to disrupt that and throw me under the bus while watching…You’ve managed to pull the trigger many times and have succeeded by setting my nervous system on fire and clouding my judgment over the yearsWell, I have news…