Book Signing – Harlem Days

PLANS HAVE CHANGED BECAUSE OF EXPECTED RAIN! I will be at this event SUNDAY with Author Courtney Rene! My free book to five Facebook friends will now be on SUNDAY until all five are fulfilled (while I’m there, obviously).

This weekend, on Aug. 19^th Author Courtney Rene and I will be at Harlem Days selling/signing books!

Address of event:

3883 S. St. Rt. 605

Galena, OH 43021

(Located in Center Village)

 

As a bonus this year, since I would LOVE to meet some of my Facebook friends… I will be giving away free books!

The first five of my Facebook friends who show up at the Harlem Days event and stop at our table between 9AM-Noon will get a free signed book of their choice from the Rebecca Besser titles on hand for the event. So…come see us!

 

And, while you’re at Harlem Days you get to enjoy all this too!
Note: Admission and most activities are free!

 

Harlem Days – Day 1 (Aug. 19^th) Schedule:

All Day:

– Gary Davis (Whittler)

– Ralph Arms (Native American reenactor)

– Mark Twain Wanderer

– Fire Department equipment display & kids hose spray

– Craft and food vendors, and local exhibitors

 

Times:

9:00 am – Flower show judging, Community Room

10:00-10:45 am – Opening Parade

10:00 am-12:00 pm – Del Co Sheriff Mounted Deputy

11:00 am-6:00 pm – Tractor Tug Pull, south of the firehouse

10:45-11:45 am – Senior social hour in the Big Tent

11:30 am-1:30 pm – Larry Wilson & God’s Country Band in the Big Tent

12:00-2:00 pm – Living Statue wandering park

12:00-5:00 pm – Flower Show open in Community Room

12:00-4:00 pm – Petting Zoo

12:00-4:00 pm – Pony Rides

1:00-5:00 pm – Mechanical Spider and Gyro rides, small bounce house

2:30-3:30 pm – Steve Ball in the Big Tent

4:00-4:30 pm – New Albany High School Band in the Big Tent

5:00 pm – Art and Collectibles Auction, Firehouse Bays

7:00 – 9:00 pm – Whiskey River Band in the Big Tent

9:15 pm – Fireworks

 

If you decide to come on Sunday (I won’t be there, but Author Courtney Rene will) you’ll get to enjoy…

 

Harlem Days – Day 2 (Aug. 20^th) Schedule:

All Day:

– Ralph Arms (Native American reenactor)

– Doc Hollen, old time medicine man

– Steve Ball (Civil War music presentation)

– Gary Davis (Whittler)

– Ralph Arms

– Doc Hollen – medicine man

– Fire Department equipment display & kids hose spray

– Craft and food vendors, and local exhibitors

– Historic and Educational Displays

 

Times:

8:00 am-10:00 am – Pancake Breakfast

9:00 am-12:00 pm – Car Show Registration

10:00-11:00 am – Church Service in the Big Tent

11:30 am-1:30 pm – Fox Valley Harvest Band in the Big Tent

12:00-3:00 pm – Flower Show open in Community Room

12:00-3:00 pm – Car Show Judging

12:00-4:00 pm – McFarland’s Llamas

12:00-4:00 – Carousel and Climbing Wall

12:00-3:00 pm – Del Co Sheriff K-9 Lacey

12:30 pm – Kid’s Pedal Pull, registration

1:00 pm – Kid’s Pedal Pull

2:00-3:00 pm – Steve Ball in the in the Big Tent

3:00 pm – Car Show and other awards in the Big Tent

5:00 pm – See you next year!

 

We hope to see you this weekend at Harlem Days!

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Event – Schedule Change – Country Crossroads Education of Yesterday

Author Courtney Rene and I will be
signing/selling books at this event!

Plans have changed and we will

ONLY BE THERE ON SATURDAY, OCT. 15!

Country Crossroads Education of Yesterday
(Farm Equipment/Machinery/Tractor Show)

3685 Cass Irish Ridge Rd.
Dresden, Ohio 43821

Oct. 15-16, 2016

9AM-5PM (SATURDAY ONLY).

Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/749828578493717/
Facebook Page Link: https://www.facebook.com/EducationofYesterday/

Nurse Blood Blurb – Courtney Rene

Courtney Rene is a very talented author who is mainly published with Rogue Phoenix Press. She has two amazing series that are geared toward teen/YA ladies. She’s also a guest author in my title, Zombies Inside! We live close together and coordinate books signings (she likes dark fiction too). We are also both graduates of the Institute of Children’s Literature!

Find her books by following the link below, and see what she has to say about my novel, Nurse Blood!

https://www.amazon.com/Courtney-Rene/e/B004X6SS2Y/

Click here to visit Nurse Blood on Amazon!

Event – Book Signing at Licking Valley Elementary School Festival

Author Courtney Rene and I will be
signing/selling books at this event!

Licking Valley Elementary School Festival
(Flea Market and Craft Show)

92 5th Street S.E.
Newark, Ohio 43056-9422

Sept. 10, 2016

10AM – 5PM

Free Admission.

Table will be inside, close to the concession stand.

Book Signing at Harlem Days – Ohio Event

I will be teaming up with the lovely and talented, Author Courtney Rene on August 20, 2016 for Harlem Days!

If you’re in the area, please stop by, say hi, buy a signed copy(ies) of our books, and enjoy the fun, free festivities!

For information on what Harlem Days has to offer, and directions (address), visit this website: http://harlemtwpheritage.org/

Author Courtney Rene – The Full Moon Rises

Excerpt from The Full Moon Rises by Courtney Rene:

Fear trickled down my spine. How close were they? I needed to run. I needed to get inside. I turned my head to see how far to the house it really was. It was a long way. Could I run it fast enough? Could I out pace the danger?

I decided to take the chance. I jumped to my feet and in the same breath, bolted for the house and the back door I had come out. I ran like I was being chased and for all I knew I was. I ran so hard my chest hurt. I pumped my arms as I ran. I ran so fast I hardly felt the cool grass on my bare feet. I hurled up the stairs and in the same motion threw open the door and fell inside. I slammed the big door closed and bolted it.

I dropped flat on my back on the floor and gasped for breath. My heart beating like it was trying to get out of my chest. I settled a hand on my chest and tried to slow my breathing and my heart.

I was almost back to normal when the overhead light winked on and blinded me.

“What the hell is going on? Abigail? What are you doing down here?”

My father, of course, towered over me. It had to be him, of all people. My eyes slowly adjusted to the light and I squinted up at him. I didn’t get a chance to answer as his eyes were focused on my feet. My mud and grass covered feet. Oh crap, I was in trouble. My slowing heart picked up speed again.

“You were not just outside, right?” he said. It was not a question. It was a statement said with deadly calm. He already knew the answer. He just needed to say it out loud.

Since I was happy to have made it back inside alive, I wasn’t all that afraid. Well maybe a little, because who wouldn’t be? He was a big man, with a bit of an animal temper. I answered him, “Yes.”

He bent over me, grabbed my shoulders and hauled me up to my feet in a single motion. He didn’t let go of me though, oh no, instead he pulled me up off the floor where my feet were no longer touching and up to his face, where he asked with that same calm, that was completely contradictory to his actions at the time, “Why were you out side, Abigail?”

I swear I about peed myself. I half wanted to run back outside. At least the danger out there would have probably killed me quickly. “I…I wanted to run in the forest. I couldn’t sleep. I thought the run would wear me out.”

It was the truth, the whole truth and yet, I doubted he believed me. There was something in his eyes that told me he didn’t.

With extreme gentleness he set me back down on my feet. He turned away from me and said, “Go to bed. I don’t want to look at your right now.”

“I’m not lying to you,” I said.

“We will discuss it in the morning,” was his only reply.

“Fine, don’t believe me,” I said. I held my head up and proudly left the room. Yes, maybe going out in the middle of the night hadn’t been all that smart, but it wasn’t for any bad reason. I wasn’t sneaking to meet anyone.

I snorted at that thought. Heck, if I wanted a guy right then, all I had to do was crook my little finger in their direction and I figured they would come running to me. I didn’t have to do any running, not with the way I smelled. That thought made me crinkle my nose. Smell, such a simple thing, but it grossed me out. I wanted to smell good in a conventional way, not a hormonal way.

I didn’t really want a guy anyway. Did I? Derek’s face flashed in my mind. No, no. I didn’t want him. He was a controlling ass and heck he didn’t even believe in love. I didn’t want him. Even telling myself that, I knew I was lying. Maybe what I should remind myself was that I didn’t want to want him.

I flopped back into my bed, dirty feet and all. I didn’t care. I’d get the sheets changed in the morning. Part of the reason I didn’t want Derek was that my parents wanted me too. It was a stupid reason, but that was a big one. I was the keeper of my own destiny. Plus he doesn’t believe in love. No, he was not suitable. Just no.

Stupid Derek and his stupid gorgeous face were my last thoughts before I finally allowed sleep to claim me.

Author Courtney Rene

Courtney Rene lives in the State of Ohio with her husband and two children.  She is a graduate and member of the Institute of Children’s Literature.  Her writings include magazine articles, short fiction stories, several anthologies, as well as her young adult novels, A Howl in the Night, and new release, The Full Moon Rises, as well as the Shadow Dancer series (Shadow Dancer, Shadow Warrior, Shadow’s End, and a break away novel, Shadow Fire), published through Rogue Phoenix Press.  For a complete listing, visit www.ctnyrene.blogspot com or feel free to contact her at ctnyrene@aol.com.

©Courtney Rene, 2016. All rights reserved.

Author Courtney Rene – A Howl In The Night

Excerpt from A Howl In The Night by Courtney Rene:

Then a new thought crashed into my brain.  “Wait a sec.  If my father is a werewolf . . .,”

“Not a werewolf, just a wolf,” my mom said interrupting me.

“Okay fine,” I said.  If her story was true though, I had to wonder, what did that make me?  It was my turn to pop up off the bed and pace around.  What about me?  Was I going to grow hair and fangs and run around trying to bite people?  “Oh, God.”

It felt as if my life was over.  How was I supposed to finish school if I turned into a wolf every time the moon was full?

Would it hurt to change?  It always looked like it did in the movies.  I had seen that werewolf movie where the guy runs around London eating people.  The change was always accompanied with screaming and pain.  Was I going to hunt down my friends and family and eat them?

I didn’t know if that was really how it worked or not, but before I could work myself up into a real freak fest, my mom said, “I have watched you all your life Abby, and I have never seen anything wolf-like about of you.  I promise.  That worry has always been in the back of my mind, but nothing has ever come of it.  You’re fine.  Come on, you don’t even like meat.”

I had to admit, thankfully, that she did have a point there.

She gave me a sideways look then said, “How do you think I felt?  There were times that I was worried that I was going to give birth to a puppy.  How would I have explained that to my doctors?”  My mom said this with a raise of her eyebrows and a grin.

This threw me for a moment.  She was actually teasing me?  At a time like this, she was cracking jokes?  “That’s not funny,” I said.

“Oh, come on.  Yes it is.”

Maybe it was a little funny, but there was no way in the world I was going to admit it then.

“Whatever,” I said with a shake of my head.  “So, now what?”  I was still holding onto the hope that she had just hit her head that night and thought she saw what she saw.

“I don’t know, honey.  I just thought with your dad finally getting in contact with us well, that you should be prepared.  That it was time.  You know?”

No, I didn’t know.  In that moment, I felt a little lost.  That day was supposed to be a great day.  It was my sixteenth birthday.  My world was supposed to have been great.  Instead, I may have lost my best friend and found out that I not only had a father, but one who may or may not be a wolf.  It was not a fabulous day after all.  In fact, I decided that birthdays kinda sucked.  “No.  He may be my father, but he’s not my dad.”

“Abby.”

I shook my head at her and left to go to my own room.  I needed to think, and I couldn’t do that in her room with her looking at me with her sad eyes.

Mine was just your average teen room.  It had a bed, dresser, desk, and full mirror.  There were clothes thrown about, but that was to be expected.  I was a teenager, after all.

I dropped down on my bed with a huff.  I had so much swirling around in my head that I was getting a headache.  I felt it coming behind my eyes.  It figured.  It was just one more thing to go wrong that day.

I looked longingly out my window at Brian’s little yellow house and wished that I could go over and talk to him.  I could see that he was home.  The light from his room was spilling out into the night.  Maybe he would laugh at me and tell me I needed to go have my mom checked out.  I would have agreed.  Maybe he would just help me do some research and we could figure it out for ourselves.  Instead, I felt so alone and lost and overwhelmed.

My mom was not the loony type.  She always had her feet firmly on the ground.  She never lied to me and always tried to tell me the truth.  I didn’t know if I should believe her now or not.  I know I didn’t want to believe her.  Who would?

I looked down at my hands.  They looked like just normal hands.  No claws, or hair.  They were just small, thin, girly hands.

Author Courtney Rene

Courtney Rene lives in the State of Ohio with her husband and two children.  She is a graduate and member of the Institute of Children’s Literature.  Her writings include magazine articles, short fiction stories, several anthologies, as well as her young adult novels, A Howl in the Night, and new release, The Full Moon Rises, as well as the Shadow Dancer series (Shadow Dancer, Shadow Warrior, Shadow’s End, and a break away novel, Shadow Fire), published through Rogue Phoenix Press.  For a complete listing, visit www.ctnyrene.blogspot com or feel free to contact her at ctnyrene@aol.com.

©Courtney Rene, 2016. All rights reserved.