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Q Audiobooks: I’m So (Not) Over You, by Kosoko Jackson, Narrated by Timothy Bell Reese
I’m So (Not) Over You
By: Kosoko Jackson
Narrated by: Timothy Bell Reese
Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
4.5 out of 5 stars (50 ratings)“Shine[s] with a beautiful, blooming sense of wonder.”—New York Times Book Review
A chance to rewrite their ending is worth the risk in this swoony romantic comedy from Kosoko Jackson.
It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a café. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love. . . But no, Hudson has a favor to ask—he wants Kian to pretend to be his boyfriend while his parents are in town, and Kian reluctantly agrees.
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Hotel Review: Boston’s Verb Hotel Gets 4.5 Fresh Towels
Prefer to listen? Just click for the audio version.
Hotel reviews are based on a Fresh Towel rating. Five means a top destination, one means check in at your peril.
Welcome to the first hotel review. It’s being added to my restaurant reviews (1-5 Yums), and my general travel reviews and blog posts.
Like a lot of people, we’ve been traveling a lot since the removal of pandemic restrictions. We’ve been to Delaware, Atlantic City, and we’ll be heading to California and Las Vegas soon, as well as taking a cruise to Canada in October that arrives back in Bayonne, NJ, on my birthday!
I was especially prompted to kick these off because we’ve come to Boston to visit one of Frank’s oldest friends (who takes the ferry to Provincetown every year in August when we head their for our annual time share). Frank booked us into The Verb Hotel, and I was wowed!
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‘Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers’ Hits #1!
It’s a hit! ‘Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers’ hits #1 in LGBT mysteries. Now I KNOW I have to write another book in the series.
You can listen to the first three chapters of Book #2, ‘Beautiful Corpse,’ narrated by the amazing Sean Rhead HERE, as an episode of the Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast.
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BookBub Featured Deal! Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers (February 17 – 22)
I’m delighted to announce another BookBub Featured Deal, this one for my recently-released triple-header. Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers combines all of the Marshall James books in one page-turning collection. It’s reduced to just $1.99 for five days, February 17- 22. That’s three, three, three thrills in one. I’ve also marked down most of my other books to .99 cents for the duration of the deal. So head over, and prepare to stay up late for a few nights. You won’t be able to put these down.
Update: For fans of the series, rest easy! A new Marshall James Thriller is on the way. He just needed some time on a beach, but he’s got a return ticket booked for 2024.
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New Release! ‘Double Trouble: 2 Maggie Dahl Mysteries’ Now Available on Amazon
Now on Amazon! Why not start the new year with some page-turning detection? Join Maggie Dahl and the cast of characters from the Maggie Dahl Mysteries as she finds herself in a new life, new town, and new adventure searching for killers who may very well be searching for her.
Double Trouble brings together the first two Maggie Dahl Mysteries: Black Cat White Paws, and Open Secrets. Maggie and her late husband David had left New York City for a new life in Lambertville, NJ. Soon after following their dream there, Maggie finds herself pursuing it alone after David’s sudden death. She opens Dahl House Jams, she devotes herself to success, and she comes face to face with murder.
In Black Cat White Paws, Maggie throws herself into solving the murder of her neighbor, whose cat Checks quickly becomes part of Maggie’s family. Her sister moves from Philadelphia to help her in this difficult time and forget her own rocky relationships with men. Soon the sisters are tracking down a killer and revealing a shocking secret that has kept a notorious case unsolved … until now.
In Open Secrets, Maggie has become a minor celebrity in town, and she suddenly finds herself trying to learn what happened to another one: local author Shanna Delaney, whose second book of essays threatens to reveal secrets someone wants kept unknown. Throughout the two books, we’re introduced to characters who all have one thing in common: life in an idyllic Delaware River community that had not seen a murder in decades … until Maggie Dahl came to town.
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Free for Subscribers to LGBTSr.com: In Harmony with the Seasons: Herbs, Nutrition and Well-Being, by Cathy McNease, Dipl CH, RH
Now complimentary for all subscribers to LGBTSr.com: In Harmony with the Seasons: Herbs, Nutrition and Well-Being, by Cathy McNease, Dipl CH, RH.
Prefer a paperback? In Harmony with the Seasons is available on Amazon.Already a subscriber? Look for a link to your eBook copy in the weekly email. -
Restaurant Review: 4 Comfy Yums for Plumsteadville Inn (Plumsteadville, PA)
By Mark McNease
Plumsteadville Inn
5902 Easton Road Pipersville, PA
Tel: 215-766-7500
$$ – $$$ (depending on what you order)
4 Overall Yums (3.5 food, 4.5 service)Yes, the restaurant reviews are back. In my early blogging days I sometimes got responses from restaurants I reviewed, but that’s not why I’m doing it. I love to eat, and I love to write, it’s that simple
I realized that some of our favorite places to eat are not the sort of fine-dining, 5 Yum establishments I sometimes have the good fortune to rave about. Sometimes they’re just diners, or casual establishments, and I can’t fairly compare them to a $200 meal, excluding tip, that was worth every penny. In the case of Plumsteadville Inn, where we went for the second time last night, they’re just very inviting, popular, often crowded and crowd-pleasing places where you can get good comfort food and great service.
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Now on Substack: Mark McNease On Topic
It’s a blog! It’s a newsletter! It’s a new adventure in writing!
Having just discovered Substack and all the great writers, journalists, thinkers and contemplatives offering up their intellectual property, I decided to jump right in. Mark McNease On Topic is the result. I’ll be examining something at least twice a week (gun rights, self-creation, the dangers of the unwoke, politics, culture). And on Fridays I’ll put out my Weekly Readlines news roundup.
While a lot of the writers on Substack are journalists or quasi-journalists offering paid subscriptions roughly the monthly cost of a cappuccino, mine will be free until further notice or until I have a much bigger subscription base. So why not sign up now and take this journey of discovery, recovery and misdirection with me!
Here’s my first official post from this morning (New World Disorder). Like a good blob of dough on a floured baking board, I expect to knead this out week by week until it’s something everyone in their wrong mind will want to get in their inbox. Yours, Mark.
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It’s a Very Scary Christmas: ‘A House In the Woods’ Joins A Book Funnel Giveaway (Dec. 16 – Jan. 6)
Wait up for Santa while you read one of these blood-tingling books by authors who know how to chill and thrill. My own supernatural chiller, ‘A House in the Woods,’ is among this great collection of free reads you can download from December 16 – January 6. Why not make Christmas a scream this year?
Just click HERE to start downloading, and prepare not to sleep for awhile! Authors include: Steve Hudgins, Jade Madden, Ben Farthing, Faith Gardner, Levi Fuller and many more!
(All books require joining the author’s email list.)
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‘I, Warlock’ Racks Up the Reads with 8 Chapters and Counting! A Kindle Vella Exclusive
The story continues and the mystery deepens with the first 8 chapters of ‘I, Warlock’ on Kindle Vella. I’m writing and publishing new chapters every Wednesday and Saturday, and having a rollicking good time doing it!
Please check it out at the Kindle Vella store. The first three chapters are free for any Vella story. Also, PLEASE RATE IT, and folllow it, too. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to keep writing …
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Santa Comes Early with the Release of ‘Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers’
This was set for a January 1 release, but Santa had other ideas! Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers is now available on Amazon in eBook and paperback editions. This 3-book collection presents the Marshall James Thrillers in a single volume, with three times the thrills and a story arc that takes us from Marshall’s shaky beginnings to a final, heart-rending conclusion.
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Cover Reveal: ‘Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers’ Releasing January 1
I’ll be starting 2023 with a bang, releasing the three books in the Marshall James Thrillers series as a single volume January 1 – and at just $6.99 for the eBook! Here’s the cover reveal. Look for a release-day update when we welcome in the New Year.
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‘A House in the Woods’ Now Free for Subscribers!
I’ll be publishing the sequel, A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due, in 2023. In the meantime, the original is now available to all current and new subscribers. (Current subscribers can look for it in the next email).
Just click HERE to subscribe and download from BookFunnel.
Laurel and Jeremy Calloway have longed for a new life away from the chaos and confusion of New York City. Driving along a country road in New Jersey with a young real estate agent in the back seat, they almost miss it: a small house in the woods for sale. Laurel immediately thinks this could be the house for them, the house of their dreams, where a simpler life awaits. Laurel can finish her debut novel. Jeremy can look for a job in Philadelphia just an hour away. Stopping to take a look at the property, they meet the house’s caretaker, Eileen, and within a few weeks they find themselves the very lucky owners of their ideal home. But who are the mysterious old couple who’d put the house up for sale, having moved out months ago? Is Eileen more than a friendly neighbor? Who are the townspeople they meet, who all seem aware of the young couple now living in the house in the woods? And is it the house of their dreams, or of their nightmares?