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In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Debbie Burke. Debbie reads from Deep Fake Double Down and talks to us about writing a series, researching deep fakes and more.About the Book: Deep fakes mean deep trouble for investigator Tawny Lindholm and her attorney husband Tillman Rosenbaum. A female corrections officer begs them for help after video goes viral, showing she broke a young Native inmate out of prison. She swears she’s innocent and claims her life is in danger because she witnessed a murder. Then she disappears.  At the same time, Tillman’s troubled teenage son creates a deep fake video of his own kidnapping, but that prank takes an unexpected and frightening turn. About the author:Debbie Burke is a suspense novelist, award-winning journalist, and blogger at The Kill Zone website. Her Tawny Lindholm Thrillers with Passion series plunges crime-solver Tawny Lindholm into fast-paced twisty plots with quirky characters and snappy dialogue, set against the rugged scenery of Montana. Her new release, Deep Fake Double Down, is the eighth book in the series.  Sales link: https://books2read.com/deep-fake-double-down  Website: https://debbieburkewriter.com  Twitter: burke_writer    Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B075NNWMNH   Email: debbieburkewriter@gmail.com

Just in time for lunch, welcome back to Bookable Space! In the first episode of Season 2, we're joined by Naomi Kruger reading from and talking about her book May.About the author: Naomi Krüger is a prose writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Central Lancashire. Her debut novel, May was published by Seren in 2018 and her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, featured in Wag’s Revue, commended in Aesthetica and commissioned for various anthologies. In 2021 she was awarded an Eccles Centre Fellowship at the British Library to research her second novel. Twitter: @NaomiKrugerAbout the book:The door to the past has been locked to May but fragments of memories still remain: a boy running on the green, his fiery hair, a letter without a stamp, a secret she promised not to tell. She can’t piece together the past or even make sense of the present, but she revisits what she knows again and again. The boy, the letter, the secret. She can’t grasp what they mean, but maybe the people she’s loved and lost can uncover the mystery of the red-headed boy and his connection to May.Like memories, the book moves through the decades, weaving together the lives of May’s family and the woman who cares for her at the nursing home. Their recollections are linked by feelings of doubt, remorse and a sense that they are mourning the paths their lives could have taken. Aftershocks from the past reverberate in the present.Naomi Kruger’s debut novel is a contemplative tale of what it means to carry the past with you and the power of letting it go.

Just a quick thank you for listening to Season I and news about Season II. Thanks for listening and for your support. To read more about what I'm up to, visit my website here or sign up for my newsletter on substack to hear/read about Curdle Creek, my upcoming novel.I hope you'll join in for Season 2. If you would like to be a guest on the show, get in touch. If you'd like to recommend a writer, please ask them to get in touch. All the best and here's to books and community.Til October!

In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Tammy Euliano. Tammy reads from Misfire and Fatal Intent.Please note, Misfire is now available.About the author:Tammy Euliano’s writing is inspired by her day job as a physician, researcher and educator at University of Florida. She’s received numerous teaching awards, ~100,000 views of her YouTube teaching videos, and was featured in a calendar of women inventors. In addition to numerous short stories, her first medical thriller, “Fatal Intent,” was published by Oceanview in March, 2021. Kathy Reichs called it, “Medical suspense as sharp as it gets.” The sequel, “Misfire,” comes out January 3, 2023.About the Misfire:Dr. Kate Downey fears for her beloved Aunt Irm. The defibrillator implanted to save her life has misfired in other patients with disastrous consequences. Efforts to protect those with the device are thwarted by its inventor, focused on the impending sale of his technology. When Kate’s cardiologist friend disappears and deaths mount, Kate and her colleagues uncover a larger plot of revenge and greed. Seemingly random events come together, the misfires are attacks, and Kate will stop at nothing to protect her aunt and the other patients whose life-saving devices could turn on them at any moment.Amazon Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/Misfire-Kate-Downey-Medical-Mystery/dp/1608095223Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Misfire-Kate-Downey-Medical-Mystery-ebook/dp/B09X5ZPQCLBarnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/misfire-tammy-euliano/1141319819Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/misfire-tammy-euliano/1141319819?ean=9781608095230Google Play https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Misfire?id=KLtzEAAAQBAJ&hl=en_US&gl=US

This episode of Bookable Space features Lynn McAllister reading from About the author: Lynn lives in Twickenham with her family. She has two daughters who are 15 and 17. She has worked in education for some years and was compelled to write about current issues affecting the pre-teens of today, sensing a need to highlight the dangers of living in a technological bubble! Lynn originates from Lancashire and grew up in Lincolnshire, moving to London in the 1990s, migrating from South East London to South West London over the years. Her girls provide the inspiration for the protagonist and heroine in the drama, Pixie Van Dimple!About the book: Childrens books 9-13 years Introducing twelve-year-old Pixie Van Dimple, the centre of all the drama, the protagonist and heroine! She is a typical girl; goes to school, hangs out with her friends in the park, has sleepovers, loves shopping and is always hungry! She also loves her phone! The linchpin of her world. Everyone has one and they are all connected – all is not well in smart phone world though as there are many dangers… she has been warned… what is the fuss about? Well, she will soon find out and it is truly disturbing

In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Robert Rosen reading A Brooklyn Memoir. About the book: Robert Rosen, author of the international bestseller Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, is back with A Brooklyn Memoir, a childhood journey through 1950s and 60s Flatbush, an insular neighborhood where Holocaust survivors lived side-by-side with WWII vets, and the war lingered like a mass hallucination.About the author:Robert Rosen is the author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography, and A Brooklyn Memoir. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Independent, and Uncut. He lives in New York City with his wife, singer-songwriter Mary Lyn Maiscott.

In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Laura Stegman reading Summer of L.U.C.K.About the bookThree struggling kids stumble upon a magical carnival that’s about to change their world.Eleven-year-old stuttering Darby believes she's supposed to be perfect, just like her mother demands. But summer away at camp promises temporary escape. There, she befriends Justin, who hasn’t uttered a word since his dad died, and Naz, who is trying to learn English. When mysterious calliope music from a nearby warehouse grants the trio power to communicate without words, they sneak inside to find out why. After the abandoned building bursts into a full-sized carnival with magical rides, they're greeted by the ghost of Leroy Usher, Carnival King, who can’t rest until his property brings joy to children once again. He asks for their help convincing his estranged sons and daughter to restore the carnival to its former glory before summer's end. In return, Mr. Usher promises he'll teach Darby, Justin, and Naz how to find their voices. Using an enchanted pocket watch, he sweeps them off on a series of midnight adventures. As the kids learn they're capable of accomplishing more than they ever imagined, they scheme to persuade the Usher siblings to bring the carnival back to life instead of selling the property to developers. With each challenge they face, their confidence in communicating – and in themselves – grows. But when Darby’s bunkmates trick her into taking a starring role in the camp's talent show, her budding confidence falters. If she can't risk being less than perfect by performing in the talent show and speaking up to Mr. Usher's resistant son, she'll put the carnival in danger and sabotage her most important quest: to believe in herself, stutter and aAbout the authorLaura Segal Stegman is the author of Summer of L.U.C.K. for middlegrade readers, published by Young Dragons Press. Two sequels, Ready or Not and The Chambered Nautilus, will follow. Her non-fiction credits include collaboration on the travel book Only in New York. Her feature stories have appeared in Los Angeles Times and Westways Magazine.

This is the second part of a two-part episode featuring Nimbilasha Cushing reading her memoir Come This Way There is an Exit.

In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Nimbilasha Cushing reading from Come This Way, There is an Exit. This is part one of a two-part episode.About the bookThe story of growing up in the South as a sharecropper in the 1950's.A deeply-felt account of the girlhood of an African-American, Nibilasha Cushing, who was born in St.Louis, Missouri in 1948 as the sixth child of what she describes as 'a dirt poor family of share-croppers'. This is her extremely revealing and moving memoir about growing up in Eads, Tennessee. This often moving memoir, which is not without touches of humor, reveals a life in the South in the 1960s which in many ways had not changed greatly for at least two generations.