Summer of Indie Meets Steven Greenberg

Summer of Indie's latest guest author is Steven Greenberg, here with us to talk about his dystopian novel, Enfold Me. The topic of this book may be seen as controversial by some, as it " poses a question from which Israeli authors have typically shied away: what happens when modern Israel ceases to exist? Enfold Me takes this formerly-taboo scenario as a starting point, and builds an accessible and compelling story within it." Written by an Israeli, Enfold Me is a provocative and dark journey into a chillingly-realistic post-Israel Middle East.

Enfold Me

Precipitated by a massive earthquake and an Iranian-led attack, the fall of Israel rips Daniel Blum from his suburban life and scientific career. Alone and scarred, he endures subjugatioand terror in Hamas-controlled Northern Liberated Palestine.

Now, Daniel must follow George Farrah, a figure from his past, deep under the Carmel mountain and through Egyptian-controlled, quake-ravaged Tel Aviv. Haunted by tragedy, Daniel strains the bonds of duty and family as he and George uncover a secret that could alter the region’s balance of power.

 

Available here on Amazon

Readers can also find an excerpt from Enfold Me here: http://enfold.me/enfoldme/excerp/

Summer of Indie asked author Steven Greenberg to briefly tell us more about him:

"I am a professional writer and an Israeli. I am also a full-time cook, cleaner, chauffeur, and work-at-home Dad for three amazing young children, and the lucky husband of a loving and very supportive wife.

Born in Texas in 1967 and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I emigrated to Israel only months before the first Gulf War, following my graduation from Indiana University in 1990. In 1996, I was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, where I served for 12 years as a Reserves Combat Medic. Since 2002, I’ve worked as an independent marketing writer, copywriter and consultant."

You can find author Steven Greenberg online at:

http://enfold.me

http://facebook.com/enfoldme

Summer of Indie Discovers "A Spy At Home" With Joseph Rinaldo

Today's Summer of Indie guest is contemporary author Joseph M. Rinaldo. We spoke with Joseph about two of his books: A Spy At Home,  a thrilling novel about a former CIA agent who steals millions of dollars from the government but is later met with personal tragedy, and Hazardous Choices, which tells the story of a young man who tries to escape his future as a Chicago gang member by accepting a football scholarship to a small college.

A Spy At Home

 

A retired CIA operative comes to believe he wasted his professional life not only promoting questionable American policies, but missing life with his family. To ease the pain he diverts millions that the CIA expected him to use funding a coup attempt that would establish a pro-American government in an African country. Seeing the coup would fail, Garrison decides to keep the money for himself. You, the reader, can decide if he’s a villain with evil intent, a hero with altruistic motives, or a regular guy sick of working for peanuts in a dangerous environment.
Back at home he and his wife look forward to their golden years being luxuriously comfortable and opulently relaxed. Suddenly, his wife is gone, and he must learn all that she knew about caring for Noah, their mentally retarded son. After a life of planning for contingencies, the former spy must deal with the possibility that he may die before his son. Who will care for the son when the dad spent a life out of the country and now has no one to lean on?

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/A-SPY-AT-HOME-ebook/dp/B0033WSVVC  

Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Spy-At-Home-Joseph-Rinaldo/dp/1475122594

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Hazardous Choices

After surviving life in a violent Chicago street gang through his high school years, Darnell Jackson’s future appears promising. A football scholarship gives him the chance to escape the thug lifestyle.

During his first year in college, Darnell safely resides in a small Kentucky town, playing Division Two college football and trying to make something of himself. Adjusting to the new surroundings proves tough, but a teammate and a girl give him hope that his future will be better than his past.

In the summer after his freshman year, he returns to the old neighborhood to be with his mother. The gang reasserts its hold on him, and the leader orders Darnell to kill a member of a rival gang. Nearly dying in a gang fight, Darnell shoots an enemy gangbanger. This forces Darnell to re-evaluate his future. As a result, he lies to the mercurial leader of his gang, claiming he completed his assignment. After “doing work” for his gang, Darnell receives permission to head back to school and the security of small-town life.

When the head gangbanger learns of Darnell’s lie, the small Kentucky town isn’t so safe anymore.

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/HAZARDOUS-CHOICES-ebook/dp/B005SJSN0C

 

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Joseph Rinaldo currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. From this most American of southern cities he writes about the internal turmoil in the CIA in A SPY AT HOME and about trying to escape deadly gangs in HAZARDOUS CHOICES. "You've probably heard that authors write  about what they know. Think it's true?"

You can find author Joseph Rinaldo online at:

Author Website: http://www.josephmrinaldo.com  

Blog: http://wwwjosephmrinaldocom.blogspot.com  

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joseph.rinaldo  

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-M.-Rinaldo/e/B003APFY62/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1339161430&sr=8-1

and on Twitter:  @jmrinaldo

Summer of Indie Talks to Ashley Fontainne

Our next guest is suspense and thriller author Ashley Fontainne, whose greatest joy is making "a reader stay up until their eyes rebel and finally close while reading my books!". Author Ashley Fontainne met with Summer of Indie to talk with us about the gripping first two books in her Eviscerating the Snake Series.

We asked author Ashley Fontainne to tell us about the thrilling revenge story of Accountable to None, and Zero Balance.

Accountable to None:

Glorious revenge, the dish known as best served cold. Audra Tanner has waited for five years to invite her unwitting guests to her feast of just desserts and now her dinner party approaches.

Audra was a brilliant CPA that for years, worked the grueling hours her job demanded as she made her way from lowly grunt auditor to a minority partner at a prestigious accounting firm located in the southwest. Her dedication took a tremendous toll on her not only mentally, but physically as well, and culminated the night that she met with the sadistic managing partner, Olin Kemper, to discuss her promotion to equity partner. That night, Audra learned that to become part of the ‘elite’ at Winscott & Associates required much more than she was willing to give. Unfortunately, that knowledge came too late and partnership was granted as a reward for her silence after her violent beating and rape.

Five years later, Audra is now an entirely different creature at work, a shell of her former self that wears the guise of partner during the day yet retreats at night to her hidden self as she plots her revenge on not only her rapist, but all those in power at the firm who knew what Olin had done to her, yet did nothing to stop him, as they were immersed in their own corrupt behaviors. Now head of the IT department and a self-taught hacker, Audra has spent the last five years perusing the firm’s computers, searching and digging through the mounds of encrypted words for anything that she can use to allow her the opportunity to exact revenge on all those responsible for her pain.

What she finds changes the course of not only her life, but everyone else’s as well, as her research leads her to the impending demise of the firm as well as an unsolved murder of a local college girl over thirty three years ago, both which stem from the monstrous hands of Olin. In her climactic confrontation with all the partners, Audra eviscerates all their hidden deceptions as she finally obtains her long awaited revenge and rocks the firm to its core.

Paper Back: http://www.amazon.com/Ramblings-Mad-Southern-Woman-Collection/dp/1475294638

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Ramblings-Southern-Collection-Stories-ebook/dp/B007Z1IGJO

Readers who have not read Accountable To None may not want to read on about Zero Balance, as the plot synopsis will contain spoilers for the first book.

Zero Balance:

Nine months ago, I served my own personal brand of punishment on those
that kept their silence when I was raped.

Nine months ago, I was the voice that found justice for a beautiful young life, viciously slain in her prime many years ago, and helped her grieving mother to finally find peace.

Nine months ago, I saw this rapist/killer escorted to jail in handcuffs and now, I reign from his old throne.

Nine months ago, my horrid nightmares were finally quieted after eviscerating the snake’s body and crushing its evil head.

Two weeks before the trial of Olin Kemper was scheduled to begin, the dreams came back. Haunting, disturbing dreams that I can’t escape nor understand.

A week ago, I realized that I didn’t kill the snake; I just wounded it.

And it’s back with a vengeance and after us all.

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Balance-Eviscerating-Snake-Series-ebook/dp/B0073WAT04

You can find author Ashley Fontainne online at: 

Facebook: Ashley Fontainne

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002323213303 

Blog: Ramblings of a Mad Southern Woman - http://ramblingsofamadsouthernwoman.blogspot.com

Amazon Author Page:

http://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Fontainne/e/B0055O0VBY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2

Twitter: @AshleyFontainne

Summer of Indie Greets Author Allison Bruning

Summer of Indie's next author is Allison Bruning. Allison Bruning is the author of Calico. Calico is a historical fiction, romance, and suspense novel, and it is the first book in the Children of the Shawnee series.

We asked author Allison Bruning to give us a closer look at her book:

Calico

"A man whose heart appears pure shall deceive you. The power he holds over you leads you to evil. You shall denounce the ways of Our Grandmother. Another man comes, whose pure heart beats for you alone, and who has a pure spirit devoted to Our Grandmother. He shall defeat the evil and sets you free."

A prophecy has been cast against her. In a harsh world deep within the western frontier of Ohio and Kentucky, Calico Marie Turner must learn to survive among the Shawnee and the trust the one man who hates her the most, Chief Little Owl Quick as the Wind.

http://www.amazon.com/Calico-Children-Shawnee-ebook/dp/B007Z8V982/

After learning more about Calico, we asked author Allison Bruning to give us more details about them:

"The Executive Director of the Kentucky Young Writers Connection, a non-profit agency of writers who promote young authors throughout the state of Kentucky, Allison originally hails from Marion, Ohio. Allison is a member of the Daughter of American Revolution, tracing her linage to Rueben Messenger of Connecticut. Her educational background includes a BA in Theatre Arts with a minor in Anthropology and a Texas Elementary Teaching certificate. Both acquired at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. She received National Honor Society memberships in both Theatre Arts and Communication. Allison was also honored her sophomore year with admission into the All American Scholars register. She holds graduate hours in Cultural Anthropology and Education. In 2007 she was named Who's Who Among America's Educators. She is also the recipient of the Girl Scout Silver and Gold Awards. Her first novel, Calico, is published through Page Turners from Evansville, Indiana. Calico is book one from the series, Children of the Shawnee. Allison's interest includes Ohio Valley history, anthropology, travel, culture, history, camping, hiking, backpacking, farm life, and genealogy."

You can find author Allison Bruning online at:

Twitter: @emeraldkell

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

And her blog http://allisonbruning.blogspot.com/