January Book of the Month for AAMBC: Gregg Burton

What Happens OverSeas Stays OverSeas   By Gregg Burton  Bed Stuy Author Gregg Burton takes readers away to a world where all bets are off the minute the ship leaves port. What Happens Overseas Stays Overseas lets the reader leave their problems landside, to follow the escapades of an ensemble cast comprised of romantically complex characters. ? Watch a reformed lothario slide back into his field-playing ways. ? Follow a sexually frustrated housewife as she finds trouble and satisfaction away from home. ? Look in on a lover longing to return home, but finding dark truths along the way. ? Walk with a young soul looking to shed a short lifetime of heartache. Each one of these characters find themselves slipping down paths that are quite different from what they expected from ! your average naval deployment. Burton sets his sensuous, but intricate tale in the military world of the U.S. Navy. However, Burton’s Navy is not the one you’ve heard about in the news. On this naval vessel, there’s seduction, secrets, and complex couplings that threaten to ruin the lives each sailor has left waiting back at home. ” Biography: Burton is a Brooklynite who hails from the infamous town of Waco, Texas. He came by the military experience showcased in his book, What Happens Overseas Stays Overseas honestly. Burton left Texas for the U.S. Navy in 1999. Those four years overseas gave Burton an insider’s eye to a world that few people know or even understand. Upon leaving that world, Burton stumbled upon his unique talent. While working with a group of women, lovers of mainstream erotic fiction, Burton picked up his first piece of erotic literature. Instead of blushing and then thrusting the novel aside, this future author studied its content, intrigued by a genre he hadn’t known existed. His first product was a short story that friends and family analyzed and raved about. Burton moved on to poetry and a full-length novel What Happens Overseas Stays Overseas that was published in 2010. It draws on Burton’s naval experience, but is not written from a male perspective. Instead of becoming a tangled mess, What Happens Overseas Stays Overseas is a fluid, thrilling, and wildly entertaining foray into the provocative lives of four very complicated characters. Interview with Gregg: 1. When did you start writing erotica?a. It’s something that I’ve always done. I got serious after reading erotica and seeing what it was. I knew that I could tell those kinds of stories in a way that people can relate to them or take something away from them. 2. How much did you draw from your military background for this book?a. Of course, the book is fiction. So, don’t go thinking that these people really exist. They don’t. With that said, people outside the military need to know that the men and women in uniform are the same as the people in regular clothes. They are not robotic or hardcore individuals. They are just like you and me. They also have the same drama, problems, and romantic hang-ups as everyone else. 3! . Your book is written in a female voice, why should women trust it? a. Why not? If a story is a good, one that readers can lose themselves in, that’s the only thing that matters. Don’t worry about the person weaving the tale. That person is not in the story; he—or I—just wrote it. Avid readers pick up a book, read the back cover, the first of last chapter to determine if it is a good book anyway. Like the puppet masters used to say, “Pay no attention to the man pulling the strings behind the curtain.” Just sit back and enjoy the story. 4. What is Tahli’s Publishing?a. It is a company I started in order to publish market and promote my book along with others eventually. You can find out more about the company at www.tahlispublishing.com. 5. Speaking of your website, on there you talk about a new genre in fiction. What is that?a. You mean Romatica. It is a term that describes what we like to call the sensuous fiction genres, erotica and romance. The premise is that a good sensuous story has elements of both, but is not overpowered by them. The “steamy scenes” are all some of these writers concentrate on, but readers wa! nt more. They want a good story that holds their attention from the first page until the last. They want characters that are worth investing precious time in. With Romatica, you not only get a good steamy story, you get a quality piece of fiction—a good story--that is predominantly lacking in today’s market. 6. How do intend to get this genre off the ground?a. That’s where the Love Romatica Campaign comes in. Right now, it is an open forum to get people thinking and expressing their views on the state of erotic and romantic fiction today. Like every grassroots movement, the discussion will educate and empower lovers of sensuous fiction to question current standards. We welcome the questioning because that leads to change. All we want is to bring quality back to erotic and romantic fiction, while losing the stigma attached to them.  7. Where can we find out more ! about your efforts?a. You can look me up at www.loveromatica.com.   Weblinks: • Facebook o http://www.facebook.com/people/Author-Gregg-Burton o http://www.facebook.com/people/Author-Gregg-Burton/1120750970#!/pages/Love-Romatica-with-Author-Gregg-Burton • Twitter: o http://twitter.com/LoveRomatica • Websites: o www.tahlispublishing.com o www.loveromatica.com • Blogs: o www.tahlispublishing.com o www.loveromatica.com Email:•  tphouse@ymail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Information AAMBC National News aambookclub@gmail.com www.aambookclub.com www.twitter.com/aambookclub

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Got Books? Help Strengthen Detroit’s Literary Community!

Got Books? Help Strengthen Detroit's Literary Community! Starting from November 13, 2010 to April 30th 2010, it will be my mission for a year to try to collect 100, 000 books for the Metro Detroit Literary Community. I know the impact of books in a home for a child and I want to give every home that doesn't have books in Detroit some. This sounds like an interesting challenge and I'm asking everyone to help me. Photo by: J Michael Collins Why? I love books. My mother put that love in my heart way before I came into this earth and I'm blessed to have passed this love to my children. Now I want to share my love with everyone out there who struggles to make a choice to buy a book or pay a bill in Detroit. I don't want to see anyone have to make that choice. Plus statistics states even one book in a household increases the chances of a child graduating from high school* If you would like to drop your book off in person, subscribe to this site (see sidebar) and when you see I'm having an event, come and bring your books to donate (while picking up a couple of copies of mine - although that's not a requirement).  Click here to read more Find out Where to Drop off Your Books | Send Donations Through Mail or other  http://sylviahubbard.com/bookdrive  Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network & The African American Electronic Literary Network Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com

Got Books? Help Strengthen Detroit’s Literary Community!

Starting from November 13, 2010 to April 30th 2010, it will be my mission for a year to try to collect 100, 000 books for the Metro Detroit Literary Community.

I know the impact of books in a home for a child and I want to give every home that doesn't have books in Detroit some.

This sounds like an interesting challenge and I'm asking everyone to help me.

Photo by: J Michael Collins

Why?

I love books. My mother put that love in my heart way before I came into this earth and I'm blessed to have passed this love to my children.

Now I want to share my love with everyone out there who struggles to make a choice to buy a book or pay a bill in Detroit. I don't want to see anyone have to make that choice.

Plus statistics states even one book in a household increases the chances of a child graduating from high school*

If you would like to drop your book off in person, subscribe to this site (see sidebar) and when you see I'm having an event, come and bring your books to donate (while picking up a couple of copies of mine - although that's not a requirement). 

Click here to read more

Find out Where to Drop off Your Books | Send Donations Through Mail or other 

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Book Chick City Mystery & Suspense Reading Challenge 2011 & My Reading & Writing Goals

As 2011 approaches, I've decided two things... get back to writing mystery and suspense and to also get down to reading more mystery and suspense.

Last year was mostly technical books on things, but now that I think I got that under my thumb, I'm going to get these fingers to writing some good stuff for my readers and that means reading something goo.

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Here at my blogspot, I've deemed it my reading blog and I wanted to host Book Chick city Mystery & Suspense Reading Challenge. 

The majority of the books will be e-books so I can read from my phone. I've made it my mission one a month, but I hope to increase that. I just wish God would grant me that 13th and 14th hour.

Without further ado, here's the Book Chick city Mystery & Suspense Reading Challenge. 

Timeline: 01 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2011

RULES:
* To read TWELVE (12) mystery & suspense novels in 2011 (12 is the minimum but you can read more if you wish!)

* You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.

* You can join anytime between now and the later part of next year.

* At the beginning of Jan 2011, you will find a link to specific month to add your reviews. There will be a monthly prize too courtesy of the lovely Simon & Schuster - you must be signed up to the challenge and add the link to your review to be entered into the monthly prize draw. 


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Reader Inquiry: Who's Charisse Sheridan? #HSW #syllit

Click thru for more detail : http://sylviahubbard.com/blogs Reader Inquiry: Who's Charisse Sheridan? #HSW #syllit sylviahubbard1 | December 2, 2010 at 1:47 pm | Tags: charisse sheridan, Diamond In The Rough, his substitute wife, hsw, Work In Progress | Categories: Author's Notes, Work In Progress | URL: http://wp.me/p8Zp8-vj Now that I've had over 400 downloads of Diamond In The Rough in one week, I've been getting questions mainly over who is Charisse Sheridan? Now she doesn't have any lines or show her face, but people want to know why was Rob trying to help her kill herself. She does sound rather complicated. She [...] Read more of this post Add a comment to this post Click thru for more detail : http://sylviahubbard.com/blogs

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click thru for details Got Kindle? Download a great book by Sylvia Hubbard right now!! From $1.00 to $4.00! sylviahubbard1 | November 23, 2010 at 8:45 am | Categories: Books, Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p8Zp8-uA Amazon's Sylvia Hubbard Page Discover books, read about the author, find related products, and more. Visit the page. Go straight to the page on Amazon.com at: http://ping.fm/uA14P Read more of this post Add a comment to this post http://sylviahubbard.com/blogs