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Please enjoy this interview with Frederick Lee Brooke, author of the genre-bending mystery  Zombie Candy . Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including $550 in Amazon gift cards, a Kindle Fire, and 5 autographed copies of the book. 1. What was the inspiration behind your novel,  Zombie Candy ? There was a famous golfer whose wife chased him out of the house with a golf club in the middle of the night a couple of years ago. It was funny that she attacked her husband with his own weapon of choice. I got to thinking what must be going through a woman's mind in that situation? I thought it would be interesting to explore the thought processes of a woman who discovers that her husband is a serial cheater. After the denial comes anger, but there is also a phase of grief. There's guilt. Maybe she blames herself, rightly or wrongly. Candace oscillates between wanting revenge and wanting her husband back, and as the novel winds up she ...

Please enjoy this excerpt from Zombie Candy , a genre-bending mystery by Frederick Lee Brooke. Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including $550 in Amazon gift cards, a Kindle Fire, and 5 autographed copies of the book. They sit at long tables under grape arbors. Heavy bunches of grapes hang from the vines. An eight-piece dance band in white tuxes and black bow ties plays tunes from every decade. Heavy silver dessert forks and coffee spoons rest untouched on the linen tablecloth. She can’t eat another bite. All the glasses, at least, she has used: white wine, red wine, water. A light breeze comes up. It feels heavenly on her face. With nightfall, the heat has gone out of the air. The heat must be trapped in these old stone walls — the walls of the farmhouse, the walls surrounding the vineyard. The aroma of fresh herbs floats from a nearby garden, rosemary, and mint, she thinks as she watches people dancing. The bride, her beautiful whit...

Joanne Troppello is an author of romantic suspense novels.  She has published three books: Shadowed Remembrances , Mr. Shipley’s Governess and Bella Lucia . Currently, she is working on her new writing project, The Paradise Redeemed Series . Joanne is married and loves spending time with her husband and family. She enjoys interacting with readers at The Mustard Seed Blog . Author Contact Links Joanne's Blog: The Mustard Seed Find Joanne on Facebook Find Joanne on Twitter Blog:  381 Words Readers: Their Role for this Author One of the most gratifying aspects of writing and publishing a novel for me has been the response from my readers. I’m a fairly new author with only three books published and it still gives me goose bumps when I read a comment or receive an email from a reader who loved one of my books. I feel humbled that they actually read my book and were touched and inspired by the story. That inspires me to continue writing. If no one read my books, who would I be...

Solar Storms 6 Part Guest Post brought to you by Tasha Haight. References Hathaway, D. H., Ph.D. (2007, January 18). Coronal mass ejections . Retrieved from NASA/‌Marshall Solar Physics website: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/‌CMEs.shtml National Geographic Preppers, & NASA. (2012, April 5). How to prepare. In How to prepare for the coming super solar storm (sidebar link). Retrieved April 22, 2012, from NASA website: http://solarstormwarning.com/ Odenwald, S. (1999, March 10). Solar Storms . Retrieved from The Washington Post Company website: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/‌press/‌WashPost/‌Horizon/‌196l-031099-idx.html Rincon, P. (2012, March 8). Q&A: solar storms [Question and Answer]. Retrieved from BBC News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/‌news/‌science-environment-17301956

Solar storms are also known as geomagnetic storms (Rincon, 2012). Solar storms are created from magnetic energy that is released from the sun (Hathaway, 2007). A solar flare or a coronal mass ejection, also known as a CME, enters the Earth's atmosphere to cause a true geomagnetic storm (Rincon, 2012). Solar storms are important because of their many effects on Earth. Along with these major effects, solar storms send massive mounts of radiation to Earth, enough to be equivalent to 100 x-rays (National Geographic Preppers, 2012). Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Flares are a major factor when it comes to creating Solar Storms. Coronal Mass Ejections are actually "huge bubbles of gas threaded with magnetic field lines that are ejected from the sun over the course of several hours" (Hathaway, 2007). Coronal mass ejections have been seen during eclipses for several minutes but can occur without an eclipse happening; they can occur anywhere from 2-3 times a day to once a week ...

Please enjoy this guest post by Frederick Lee Brooke, author of the genre-bending mystery  Zombie Candy . Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including $550 in Amazon gift cards, a Kindle Fire, and 5 autographed copies of the book. What Dad and I saw in Italy by Frederick Lee Brooke I was on the train yesterday returning from Rome back to Basel, where I live, and I mentioned Monte Chianti to my seatmate. We were on the Red Arrow, the Italian bullet train, which cruises at 180 mph and covers the distance from Rome to Milan in just under three hours. Rossana is a banker who was travelling to Milan on business; in her hand was a paperback mystery in English. That's how we started talking. She sort of nodded and looked to the heavens and tried out the name: "Monte Chianti, hmmm. Nice." I like Italy so much I decided that the action in Zombie Candy , my latest mystery, should move to a fictional town in Tuscany called Monte C...

The solar cycle is expected to be at its highest point, or peak, sometime in 2013 or 2014; no one can truly be sure when (Rincon, 2012). More solar flares and coronal mass ejections are expected in the next few years because of the solar cycle gaining in activity. Some storms are expected to cause some problems with technology on earth, such as satellites and aircraft signals and navigation (Rincon, 2012). Every once in a while, magnetic energy is released from the Sun's atmosphere making solar flares, or intense bursts of radiation, appear. Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, occur when particles with high amounts of energy are released into space. Coronal Mass ejections and Solar Flares often go hand-in-hand though coronal mass ejections can occur by themselves. Geomagnetic storms, or solar storms, are then created as soon as the particles in coronal mass ejections or solar flares collide with Earth. They mess up the magnetosphere which "pro...