Date Like a Girl, Marry Like a Woman by Jessica R. Bunevacz

Book Description for Date Like a Girl, Marry Like a Woman:

Navigating our romantic lives can be filled with incredible highs and unfathomable lows. Everyone enters relationships with a unique idea of what makes connection work. But even with our differences, we have a common thread running through all of us: the deep desire to love and be loved.

Based on her experiences, and with the help of her closest friends and the men in her life, author Jessica R. Bunevacz created a series of guidelines for women looking to enjoy dating and romance and avoid common pitfalls and difficulties.

Whether you're dating, getting ready to walk down the aisle, or are already married and looking to take your marriage to the next level, it's profoundly important to celebrate where you are on your journey and make every day special and meaningful for yourself and those around you.

Date like a Girl, Marry like a Woman incorporates Bunevacz's own stories of love, dating, and marriage with practical advice for today's modern relationship and reminds readers not to settle for anything less than the best.

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Author's Bio:

What do you get when you mix a strict Catholic upbringing, a strong curiosity for the opposite sex, and the need to grow up quickly? If you are lucky you get an outcome like Jessica Bunevacz, the vivacious first time author behind "Date Like a Girl, Marry Like a Woman: The Polished Woman's Guide to Love, Romance and Sex."
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Jessica is a former actress and fashion model born and raised in the Philippines, and currently living in Los Angeles. A happily married mother of three, she has made the journey from MANnizer to the quintessential polished woman. Utilizing her own past experiences and a passion for helping others, she will quickly become the best friend you wish you had! 

Connect with the author: Author Website ~ Book's Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~ Pinterest   ~  YouTube

Interview with Jessica R. Bunevacz

1) In your book you use the phrase “ Polished Woman”. What exactly does that mean? 

Answer: She is a woman who is fully confident about herself and knows she has all the tools to do it all.

2) Do you have another profession besides writing? 

Answer: I used to be a TV host, and actress and a model in my country. After moving to the US I decided to be a stay at home mom. However, for some reason I became the go-to-friend to women that I started being friends with. So being  a homemaker didn’t stop me from advising women about relationships, beauty, sex, etc.

3) Is there a ritualistic thing you do during your writing time? 

Answer: Its funny because I realized I always get sleepy after I write about two pages. So I make sure a take a ten minute nap before I write so I know I'll be all pumped up.

4) Do you write everyday? 

Answer: Yes, during weekdays but not on weekends. 

5 )If you were stuck on a deserted island, which 3 books would you want with you? 

Answer: I need my Bible, I need my dictionary so I can still learn new words. I love reading the thesaurus dictionary. ( I am still trying to learn English since English is my second language) And any book that has any historical element in it. I love the story of George Washington. I just love reading books where I learn about history. 

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The After War

by Brandon Zenner

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GENRE: Dystopian, post apocalyptic

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BLURB:

Two years have passed since mankind faced extinction.

Brain Rhodes and his cousin, Steven, are leaving the protection of their underground bunker for the first time, after a cataclysmic war and unrelenting disease ravaged the earth.

On the other side of the North American continent, young Simon Kalispell is leaving the safety and seclusion of his cabin deep in the woods, traveling with his aging canine companion, Winston.

For individual reasons, these men are traveling east, where the fragmented lives of a small number of survivors will soon be decided by the choices of a corrupt few.

Simon Kalispell and Brian Rhodes are not yet aware, but the strength that resides inside them will soon be tested, and destiny will call for their fates to be forever intertwined.

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Excerpt Three:

Brian lowered his gun. “It’s okay, Steve. He’s dead.” He looked around. “There’s no one here.”

Steven lowered his rifle, wiping his palms on his thighs and brushing the sweat from his eyes.

“I said he’s dead, Steve—”

“I reckon he’s dead, Brian. I see he’s dead.”

“Come on now. We’re right at town.”

They sidestepped the corpse until it was well behind them. If the body was someone they had once known, it was now impossible to determine who that person might have been.

“That won’t be the last of them,” Brian said. “You better get your head on straight.”

Steven opened his mouth to speak, but then shut it again.

They stepped onto the road as the first house emerged from the woods. They walked past it, taking careful notice of the blank windows—as black as the eye sockets of the corpse—and scanned for any sign of movement, like the fluttering of drapes, or the partially covered face of a person peering out from the darkness with a shotgun clenched tight in their hands. Anything.

But there was no movement.

“Think anyone’s left?” Steven said, with a crack in his voice.

Brian shrugged. “I know as much as you do.”

The yards around the homes, and Pearl Street itself, were spotted with litter and debris of every kind blowing in the gentle breeze. Overgrown tree roots buckled sections of the sidewalk and emerged from cracks in the pavement. They passed the police station bordering the center of town. The cruisers were vacant in the parking lot, and the building was cold and silent.

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Brandon Zenner is an American fiction writer and an Amazon best selling author. His short fiction has been published in both print and online publications, the first being submitted when he was 19 years old. THE EXPERIMENT OF DREAMS, his debut eBook thriller, has reached Amazon's best seller list many times. His second novel, WHISKEY DEVILS, was released in early 2016. THE AFTER WAR, a dystopian thriller, is available now as a pre-order, at 80% off the final sale price. You can follow the author on his Amazon page, or through his email list on his website. All email subscribers will receive his futuristic short story, HELIX ILLUMINATED, for free as a thank you. His genres of choice are thrillers, crime, dystopian, and science fiction.

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Book Tour - Goth Girl, Virgin Queen - Young Adult Paranormal

Welcome to the 2-week blog tour for Goth Girl, Virgin Queen by JoAnne Keltner.

Follow the tour and connect with bloggers, read reviews of the book, and meet the author.

Book Information:



Title: Goth Girl, Virgin Queen

Author Name: JoAnne Keltner

Genre(s): Young Adult Paranormal

Length: Approx. 298 pages

Release Date: December 3, 2015

Publisher:  Solstice Publishing

(http://solsticepublishing.com/)



Tour Schedule:



http://saphsbookblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/blog-tour-schedule-goth-girl-virgin.html

About Goth Girl, Virgin Queen:

Calling Jackie Turov psychic makes her cringe. But Jackie’s no normal seventeen-year-old. She picks up emotions from people and objects like a freak. The emotions make her sick, and the guilt she feels for lying to her church when she was twelve causes her to deny her psychic abilities.

So Jackie goes goth to make others stay away from her and forget her past. But her past is soon resurrected when her jealous friend Trish invites a demon, a persecutor of healers, to steal away Jason’s love for Jackie. The demon causes Jackie to be bullied for the lie she told and puts her best friend, Jason, in danger.

Jackie must learn how to use her gift to protect Jason and herself and to heal the negative energies of those around her. To do so means she must overcome her guilt and accept who she is before the demon claims her soul.



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Read an Excerpt:

The medicine cabinet mirror—dotted with rust and turning gray—made the powder foundation on Jackie’s face look ashen and her jet-black hair, blurry. She looked like a shadow of a girl. She smeared black lipstick on her lips and shook out her shoulder-length hair. Her straight-cut bangs veiled her mascara-lined eyes, and the layered ends of her hair stuck out in defiant wisps.



Some of the kids at school—the ones she didn’t hang out with—called her Goth Girl. Some, whose memories wouldn’t die, called her VQ for Virgin Queen.



Jackie preferred Goth Girl, to be one of the living dead, to be numb to the emotions that plagued her. But this was what she wanted, not what she got.



Goth Girl or Virgin Queen, she was a freak, absorbing the emotions around her like a sponge. Sometimes the emotions made her sick. Sometimes they made her see things.



Because of this, she kept to a tight-knit group of goth friends—Jason, Zeta, and Trish—and avoided social activities. She attended high school only because Mom wouldn’t let her homeschool. Mom was afraid she’d hang with Babu all day, making piroshki and doing needlepoint instead of studying. Jackie, afraid of what life offered a freak like her beyond high school, had to admit that hanging with Babu all day was tempting.



Typically, Fridays were movie nights for Jason and her, but tonight would be different. Tonight, she’d subject herself to a hodgepodge of emotions from crowds and rides and the very ground she’d walk on to protect Jason. For this, she would need physical and spiritual strength, which she sought from Babu these days.



Babu’s door was cracked, and Jackie slowly pushed the door open. “Babu?”



The room smelled of beeswax and down. A candle burned on the shrine on the dresser. The flickering flame animated the icon of the Virgin of Vladimir and cast shadows across the picture of Babu, Grandma, Mom, and Jackie. Although Babu didn’t speak English, and Jackie didn’t understand much Russian, Jackie knew Babu kept that picture on her shrine to pray for Grandma, who passed away several years ago; for Mom, who divorced Dad; and for the girl who saw the Virgin when she was twelve—for the girl she had become as a teen.



Babu sat in bed, a country quilt spread over her legs, her thumb pressed against a knot of her prayer rope, her head bowed sleepily, and her lips wording prayers.



“I wanted to say goodbye,” Jackie whispered.



Babu crossed herself and then smiled at Jackie, her gold eyetooth shining from the light of the bed-stand lamp. She patted the empty space beside her. “Sadees.”



Jackie sat down beside Babu at the edge of the bed and took Babu’s hand in hers. Babu’s hand was warm and knotted with arthritis. Jackie rubbed her thumb over the bumps on Babu’s knuckles; her black fingernails were a sharp contrast to Babu’s flour-white skin.



She wasn’t afraid to touch Babu’s hands and absorb her emotions. Jackie got a good feeling from her. Babu filled Jackie’s inner vision with white light. She renewed her spirit. And this is what Jackie needed for the commitment she had made for tonight.



“Kooda eedyosh?” Babu asked.



“I’m going out,” Jackie said as if Babu understood her. This is how they communicated: Babu telling her stuff she couldn’t understand, Jackie telling Babu stuff she couldn’t understand. Somehow they carried on fine this way.



“Eedyosh sdroozyamee?”



“I’m going with Jason.”



Babu rubbed the top of Jackie’s hand and ran her thumb over black fingernails. “Fsyevo kharoshevuh,” she said in a comforting tone and gently squeezed Jackie’s hand. Then she cupped her hands around Jackie’s jaws and pulled her forehead to her lips. Jackie imagined Babu’s kiss imprinted on her forehead and carrying Babu’s blessings and love with her tonight.

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Solstice Publishing: http://solsticepublishing.com/goth-girl-virgin-queen

Meet the Author:

JoAnne Keltner is the author of Goth Girl, Virgin Queen (Solstice Publishing, 2015) and Obsession (Musa Publishing, 2013 ed.). As an only child and avid daydreamer, she spent hours alone in her backyard on the South Side of Chicago, which she imagined to be everything from an alien planet to the Antarctic. She currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, four dogs, cat, and three chickens. When she isn't writing or freelance editing, she's obsessively streaming popular TV shows.



Social Media Links:

Website: www.joannekeltner.com



FB: https://www.facebook.com/JoAnneKeltnerAuthor/



Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6896673.JoAnne_Keltner



Twitter: @JoAnneKeltner

Interview with JoAnne Keltner

• Where do you get inspiration for your stories?

Inspiration for my stories always comes from images in my dreams. For example, Goth Girl Virgin Queen was inspired by various dreams: a psychic operating out of her apartment on Main Street in a small town; an iconostasis in a church on fire; someone picking up emotions through touch and healing the negative energies in a house; attending a carnival in a rural area and being followed by a fortune teller. Obsession, although also based on my experience from living in Wisconsin in an unfinished house, was inspired by reoccurring dreams in which I was obsessed with finishing the house and in an elaborate way, even though it was in the woods—installing glass tiles on the floor, painting murals on the walls—and that something evil was keeping the house from being finished. I was also inspired by dreams of a ghost living in the outbuilding and of running through the grassy field and woods to get away from something evil. Of course, these dreams didn’t transfer exactly as they were into these novels. It takes a lot of work building an actual story from snippets of dreams. And once I establish who the main character is and what they want, the story is different. Just the imagery and mood of the dreams remain.

• How did you do research for your book?

For every book I write, I first do research on the Internet. I save links to websites, bits of information, and pictures of characters and setting in a digital folder on my computer. For Obsession and a book I’m currently working on, I’ve used Google Maps and virtually walked up and down streets to get a feel for location. If I need to learn more about a subject than what’s present on the Internet, I’ll buy a book. For example, for Goth Girl Virgin Queen, I bought a book that described the Russian Orthodox iconostasis and the meaning of the pictures in it and also a book that described the Russian Orthodox mass. For a book I’m working on now, I bought a book on fostering children and on astral projection. When I need to double check facts, I’ll contact an expert. For example, for Goth Girl Virgin Queen, I had two translators check the bits of Russian dialog.

• Do you have another profession besides writing?

Yes, I’m an editor. From 2002 to 2010, I worked as a technical editor in the computer/electronics/electricity product line for a textbook publishing company. Since semi-retiring in 2010, I’ve worked from home, picking up editing jobs here and there. I also volunteer as a copyeditor for Newfound.org, an online literary magazine.

• If you could go back in time, where would you go?

Wow, that’s a hard question. I’m pretty much a “here and now” kind of person. Maybe, though, I’d go back to somewhere between1905 to the 1940s in the Back of the Yards Chicago—just for a while though—to see how my great aunt and great grandparents on my father’s side lived. My great grandparents came to America from Poland in 1904 (great grandfather) and 1905 (great grandmother). They raised five kids in a two-bedroom flat and worked in a meat packing house. Some of the kids did too when they were old enough to work. The house they lived in was built in 1895 and was at first built on stilts so that animals could be kept under it. Later, they added a basement apartment, turning the building into a two-flat. ( I lived in that basement apartment until I was about 11.) It would be interesting to see how my great grandparents acclimated to America, what their concerns were, what they cooked, how they dressed. My great aunt always talked about riding a street car to work. I would like to travel with her on that street car. But then, I’d like to come home to 2016, check my email and stream something good from Netflix!

• What is your next project?

Without giving too much away, I can say that I’m working on a fantasy about a twelve-year-old girl who can astral project and that I’m having fun writing it!

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Kon
Lisa Cardiff
(Trassato Crime Family #2)
Published by: Limitless Publishing
Publication date: November 1st 2016
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Once upon a time, I was the woman you envied. I had it all. A wonderful family. The perfect fiancé who also happened to be my best friend. Money and resources. The power and influence that came with sharing the Trassato name.

One night my fairytale became a nightmare, and I’ve been living in Hell ever since. A rival family killed my fiancé. My father succumbed to cancer. In the middle of it all, I bargained away my future to Konstantin Trincher, a member of the Russian mafia. It seemed like the perfect solution at the time—my brother’s girlfriend in exchange for me.

Only things weren’t that simple. I promised myself to Konstantin and my family promised me to Nico DeAngelo, the underboss of the Trassato Crime Family.

Konstantin and I form an alliance to unravel our bargain. The only problem? We didn’t expect to fall for each other in the process. Now I’m forced to choose between love and loyalty. One choice will break my heart and the other will break my family.

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Author Bio:

After spending years practicing law and a million other things, Lisa decided to pursue her dream of becoming a writer and she must confess that inventing characters is so much more fun than writing contracts and legal briefs. A native of Colorado, she lives with her husband and three children in Denver.

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