Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Fill Your Device For FREE!!


Hello everyone.
The holiday's are just around the corner along with time off of work, school or play... Fill some of your time by reading FREE eBooks, if you have Kindle Unlimited.
They also make awesome gifts.
Please take a look at my new Second Edition Metatron Book Series. I hope you enjoy them. 
Please share.
Sincerely, 
Laurence














Book 1 - https://www.amazon.com/METATRON-Superhero-Adv…/…/ref=sr_1_3…
Book 2 - https://www.amazon.com/Metatron-Superhero-Adv…/…/ref=sr_1_2…
Book 3 - https://www.amazon.com/Metatron-Superhero-Adv…/…/ref=sr_1_2…





Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Exciting & Humbling - New Publisher!

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First of all, I want to thank all my family and friends for supporting/following me on my book journey throughout the past several years. “Thank you very much!”
It’s been a great 6 years with my previous publisher Imajin Books. I appreciate everything they have done for me in my writing career. However, due to unforeseen circumstances we have parted ways.
Like I said a few weeks ago, “When one door closes, another door opens.”
Well, I’m excited and humbled to announce that another huge door has opened and I have signed a contract with CMP. With this being said, I will be revising my website; my paperbacks will be getting new covers which will hopefully be available again in a few months along with the eBooks.
What do you think of the new METATRON logo??!!
There is much more exciting news coming so please stay tuned!
For now, here is my new publishers’ announcement:


Cosby Media Productions
The CMPDSU continues to grow. Our lineup of #Superheroes or Super-Normals as we call them, are both compelling and original. Our authors are talented creatives that write vivid stories that will capture the imagination and take readers to new worlds that will both inspire and captivate the hearts of millions. Our newest member to the fold is METATRON, a young teen with an array of dazzling #superpowers from author Laurence St. John. METATRON will be making his CMPDSU appearance later this fall and will be a part of our Phase II INFINITY 7 initiative over the next few years. Check out METATRON’S cool insignia below. To find out more about all of our CMPDSU heroes, swing by our website at http://cosbymediaproductions.com/cmpdsu/



Wednesday, April 4, 2018

THE THRILL OF IT ALL: how all kinds of writing use thrillers



Laurence St John writes thrillers with scifi/fantasy elements. I write women’s fiction, but over the course of my five books, I’ve seen most every plot benefits from elements of thrillers. Take my newest book, Never Retreat.  In it, a feisty single mom clashes with an ex-military, macho corporate star at a business retreat in the wild Colorado mountains, where only one can win a huge prize. But when a massive flood imperils their love and survival, they learn the meaning of true partnership.

Potentially thrilling, right? Even if you discount the thrill of new love. I certainly thought so as I was writing the novel. Living in Colorado, I get news every few years about flash floods, forest fires, blizzards. And all of these have the potential to be featured in my fiction. The only one I’ve actually lived through is blizzards, so I depend heavily on narratives, videos, and news to fill in my gaps.

As the writer, I have to ask myself why I’m obsessed with thrilling disasters. Two reasons occur to me. The first was writing itself. A disaster allows me, the writer, to compress action into a short time to keep the story moving. It encourages characters to act their best, or worst, to reveal their personalities. The manner in which they occur--random and uncontrolled--crises provide challenges readers can relate to as well as experiences characters learn from. And like humans, fictional characters learn waaaay more from struggles and failures than they do easy successes.

What does my obsession with disaster reveal about me, personally? That I’m a fraidy-cat. Anything and everything scares me. Example: in the middle of the night yesterday, I woke when the furnace turned on. A strange new noise accompanied the forced air. I immediately thought the equipment was going to explode.

When I take road trips, I worry not only about the car breaking down but also over the possible appearance of a murderer. (By the way, this scene appears in my third book along with the wildfire.) A rash on my kid’s arm is probably lyme disease. A recently discovered error on my taxes means the IRS will charge me with fraud.

So I have a whole load of fears. What do I do about them? I write about people who take steps to meet their challenges and control their anxiety. I’ve learned that doing something, almost anything, positive enables me to restrain real as well as imaginary fears. Witness the recent “March for Our Lives.” These teens are taking a positive action in the face of terrible possibilities and thereby freeing themselves from paralyzing fears.

As a writer, I’ll leave authors like Laurence to handle the really scary possibilities of evil nemesis, superheroes, and terrorists. But I’m grateful all kinds of books exist, with all kinds of thriller sequences.


THE BOOK: Years ago, Ramona (‘Raye”) Soto faced harsh reality when a roving con man knocked her up. Now at thirty-something she’s concentrating on her career in a major telecommunications firm and funding college for her teenaged son. Enter Desmond Emmett—a fast talker and smooth operator. New to the office, the ex-serviceman possesses every negative quality for a guy Raye should avoid. Thrown together at a corporate retreat in the wilderness, the reluctant duo struggles to complete management’s extreme mental and physical tests for a huge reward. But only one can win the prize, and Des needs the money to underwrite medical treatments for his adored younger sister. See-sawing between attraction and antagonism, the mismatched couple face their biggest challenge: learning the meaning of true partnership. When a massive flash flood sweeps down the rocky canyon and threatens their love and survival, they must put aside their difference to rescue their colleagues—and their future as a couple.


  

THE AUTHOR: Bonnie McCune has been writing since age ten, when she submitted a poem about rain rushing down the gutter to the Saturday Evening Post (it was immediately rejected). This interest facilitated her career in nonprofits doing public and community relations and marketing. She’s worked for libraries, directed a small arts organization, and managed Denver's beautification program. Simultaneously, she’s been a free-lance writer with publications in local, regional, and specialty publications for news and features. Her true passion is fiction, and her pieces have won several awards. Never Retreat is her third novel and her fifth book of fiction. 


Visit her at www.BonnieMcCune.com


About her new release:




NEVER RETREAT FACT SHEET

CONTACT: Bonnie McCune, 303-377-1455, Bonnie@BonnieMcCune.com

BLURB: A feisty single mom clashes with an ex-military, macho corporate star at a business retreat in the wild Colorado mountains, where only one can win a huge prize. But when a massive flood imperils their love and survival, they learn the meaning of true partnership.

Years ago, Ramona (‘Raye”) Soto faced harsh reality when a roving con man knocked her up. Now at thirty-something she’s concentrating on her career in a major telecommunications firm and funding college for her teenaged son. Enter Desmond Emmett—a fast talker and smooth operator. New to the office, the ex-serviceman possesses every negative quality for a guy Raye should avoid. Thrown together at a corporate retreat in the wilderness, the reluctant duo struggles to complete management’s extreme mental and physical tests for a huge reward. But only one can win the prize, and Des needs the money to underwrite medical treatments for his adored younger sister.

See-sawing between attraction and antagonism, the mismatched couple, Raye and Des, face their biggest challenge: learning the meaning of true partnership. When a massive flash flood sweeps down the rocky canyon and threatens their love and survival, they must put aside their difference to rescue their colleagues—and their future as a couple.

WRITING: This is the new fiction for you: unafraid to debate contemporary concerns. . . pulls no punches. . .provides a fresh look at age-old issues. This is your kind of writing if you think. . .People are smarter than any phone. . .Feminism is just starting to come alive. . .You’ll always take a human over the most advanced app. . . .You can laugh at yourself. . . Women use four-letter words, including l-o-v-e.

AUTHOR BIO: Bonnie McCune has been writing since age ten, when she submitted a poem about rain rushing down the gutter to the Saturday Evening Post (it was immediately rejected). This interest facilitated her career in nonprofits doing public and community relations and marketing. She’s worked for libraries, directed a small arts organization, and managed Denver's beautification program.

Simultaneously, she’s been a freelance writer with publications in local, regional, and specialty publications for news and features. Her civic involvement includes grass-roots organizations, political campaigns, writers' and arts' groups, and children's literacy. For years, she entered recipe contests and was a finalist once to the Pillsbury Bake Off. A special love is live theater. Had she been nine inches taller and thirty pounds lighter, she might have been an actress.

Her true passion is fiction, and her pieces have won several awards. Never Retreat is her third novel and her fifth book of fiction. For reasons unknown (an unacknowledged optimism?), she believes one person can make a difference in this world.


Visit her at www.BonnieMcCune.com


PUBLICATION INFO: PUBLISHING MARCH 15, 2018, 978-1-77223-350-6 Kindle ebook, 978-1-77223-351-3 Trade paperback, 240 pages. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079SY632Z http://getBook.at/NeverRetreat
 or. Imajin Books, www.imajinbooks.com
Ebook and paperback.



ADVANCE PRAISE: “A breathtaking page-turner that will leave you exhausted but wanting more!” —Corinne Joy Brown, award-winning author of Hidden Star; “Likable, relatable characters…a real treat!” —Cindi Myers, author of The View from Here; “Intriguing…engaging…A great vacation read for sure!” —Meg Benjamin, author of the Brewing Love Trilogy; “A compelling story about a hard-working single mom who faces adversity head-on, learns from her mistakes, and perseveres.” —Kim McMahill, author of Marked in Mexico; “Few novels operate on such different levels, moving their characters to challenge not just each other, but their own not just each other, but their own perceptions. . .McCune provides just the right blend of comic relief, interpersonal encounters, and outside environment changes to make her story a powerful blend.” --Midwest Book Review






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