The Winter Song ~ Book Blog Tour Guest Post & Giveaway!

THE WINTER SONG

(A NOVEL)

By Saurav Dutt

Book Details:
Genre:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  170 pages
Category:  Romance
Publisher:  Amazon Publishing

Pages: 170
Release date:   December, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13. In a few places there is some moderate bad language.

 

Book Description:

From the acclaimed Author of The Butterfly Room comes a powerful afterlife drama conveying how great gifts can be hidden in death and how they can bear fruit in our lives if we have the faith to let them unfold.

Somewhere between the mountains and the mist in North India, a widower must reconcile himself to the loss and grief that haunts him after the recent death of his wife.

Unhinged by grief, anger, and guilt, John Perera has set off on a journey, a journey to honour the love of his life and to fulfill the promise he made to her to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of their son. It is a journey of extraordinary self-discovery that will take him to the extremities of his soul and question all he believes about life, death, and faith.

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Guest Post:

A Storyteller's Responsibility

by Saurav Dutt

Should writing be easy? Does a storyteller have a responsibility to the world, to their community, to their family, to the events that shape our world and matter? I believe they do. Words have proven to be as powerful and incisive as weapons, not just in how they shape discourse and propel movements around the world, but how they assemble our feelings and emotions on an internal level.

I think writers have a responsibility to hold up a mirror to ourselves, to show the world what it means to be human, to be fallible, to seek to learn, and to give actions some sense of meaning.

I made a decision to tackle difficult subjects as a writer because I wanted to help others, help them come face to face with truths they had denied, or to motivate action. I’ve written about issues as wide ranging as domestic abuse, racism, homophobia, and depression, all because I saw so many who had much to say and did not have the words to express their insight.

And I think the reader expects that too, a level of intuition and intelligence that makes them think about their own lives, motivates them to take actions and to hopefully become a better person for having shared a few hours with the writer within those pages.

Of course, there is a time for pure escapism but the older I have become, the more I have evolved as a writer, I think even subjects of pure escapism owe something more to the reader in this day and age. On one level ‘The Winter Song’ is a romance story, but it talks about grief, depression, loneliness, losing loved ones, and these are the universal themes that as writers we owe to discuss with our audiences.

After all, if the writer expects the reader to spend a few hours with them in those pages, then why shouldn’t be both learn more about the world and ourselves in the process?

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Meet the Author:

Saurav Dutt is an author, political columnist, and human rights campaigner. A journalist in three continents, his acclaimed debut novel The Butterfly Room explored issues of domestic violence and homophobia within South Asian communities and has been showcased alongside leading political figures and human rights campaigners. His work for human rights and charity campaign work has taken Dutt to speaking engagements at the WEF, IKWRO, IWN, Houses of Parliament, and TEDx. 

After exploring the issue of psychological abuse and domestic violence in There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Dutt was commissioned by a major Hollywood production house to pen the official novelization of the major motion picture, Tiger (starring Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominated actor Mickey Rourke), and he commemorated the centenary of the infamous Amritsar Massacre in India with "Garden of Bullets: Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh," which was featured in TIME magazine. 

Tiger is the biographical account of Parminder Singh Nagra, a trailblazing Sikh boxer who fought successfully for the right to compete in the ring with his beard, an essential part of his faith. 

A syndicated political columnist, Dutt writes for the International Business Times, The Times of Israel, Human Events, and American Herald Tribune. He has featured on CNN, GQ, Huffington Post, BBC television and radio, RT (Russia Today), Press TV, Sky News, and more. He resides in the United Kingdom, Los Angeles, and India.

connect with author: amazon ~ twitter

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Factor-7 ~ Lone Star Book Blog Tours Excerpt & Giveaway!

 

FACTOR-7

by

J.D. MAY

Categories: Suspense/ Science Fiction / Romance / Medical Thriller

Publisher: Palmetto Publishing

Date of Publication: January 5, 2021

Number of Pages: 468 pages

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Dr. Sam Hawkins’s friend and mentor, Dr. William Roberts, has been struck down by an unknown and hideous disease. Roberts’s dying words are cryptic, and Sam is soon confronted by a massive cover up of his friend’s death. He reluctantly partners with Dr. Rainee Arienzo, an Italian infectious disease specialist, and together they uncover the terrifying truth about Factor-7, a bio-weapon with a 98 percent mortality rate. 

Roberts’s journal tips them off that a clandestine plot for using the virus is about to be unleashed by a secret society, the Keepers Collegium. The Collegium, an international group of rogue intelligence agents, ex-military, and government officials, has a demonic plan to use the pathogen to destroy anyone who threatens their twisted ideology. Sam and Rainee soon realize that public exposure of the evil plot would be as dangerous to the world’s security as the bio-weapon itself—the fallout could lead to World War III. Therefore, they must not only shut down the plans of the Collegium, but also keep the top- secret information away from the media. 

But as they work to stop the plot, Sam and Rainee are kidnapped by the drug cartel. The kingpin, who financed much of the Collegium’s plot, wants them to hand over Roberts’s journal because it lists the names of the major players in the Collegium who had double-crossed him. He plans to carry out his own revenge. In order to survive, Sam and Rainee have no choice—they must play with one of two devils or be burned by both.

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ONE MONTH SINCE BILL ROBERTS’S DEATH

Excerpt from FACTOR-7 by J.D. May 

Sam tossed and turned that night. He thought he must have looked at his clock fifty times and gotten up to pee just as many. His mind reviewed the morning hours when Bill died. He thought about John Albright and his history with him. He replayed everything that Rainee Arienzo had told him. It was beginning to come together but was still so unbelievable. It was what science fiction movies were made of and couldn’t be real life, but then again, he knew the threat of biological warfare was real. It was considered in the top three threats, right up there with nukes and cyberattacks. The world had seen multiple novel viruses arise in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Were these Mother Nature’s hand at work or something else? 

But what could a man-made pandemic achieve, and how would it be played out? How could it be proven that the pathogen was manufactured? And if it could be proven, would the major world governments even report that or do anything about it? Panic would spread, causing world economic and collateral devastation. If intentional like Rainee suggested, innocent collateral damage would be a war crime, but who would prosecute? Sam had no idea how he could help with stopping such an atrocity, especially if it was so secret. Dr. Arienzo had no proof. Bill Roberts’s autopsy specimens and blood had all been stolen and most likely destroyed. Where were the pictures taken during the autopsy? Dr. Morris had been killed. Could he have known too much? Sam wondered. There were no breadcrumbs to follow on Bill’s death.

If the pathogen Factor-7 existed and existed for the purpose that Rainee outlined, then the players might be about to engage in the rawest barbarism, and what would Sam Hawkins, MD, do to stop it? So rogue agents or not, there surely was someone in the United States government who had heard about the threat of the Factor-7. No way could something this large not be leaked. So perhaps if Sam did contact someone within the government for help, they might already know. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? he asked himself. But if they knew the scope of Factor-7 and feared the secret getting out, and Sam and Rainee knew about it, then they could be seen as a detriment…a liability. They needed proof to tell someone in the government, or they didn’t have a chance in hell of getting anyone’s attention. And that proof could also be an insurance policy or a death sentence. Maybe there was no proof. Maybe it was all a big hoax. But he knew that was wishful thinking. If Albright and his cronies were willing to make a bacteriophage to kill people they did not agree with, Sam’s life was not worth a flyspeck to them. If those government officials in charge wanted complete silence to avoid panic, then Sam and Rainee would equally be worthless to them. But Sam knew deep in his heart that Rainee was right. They had to take a chance. They were not people made to do nothing in the face of such an atrocity. They must have proof. Yes, he convinced himself. Knowledge could be dangerous, but knowledge could also save our lives.

   

J.D. May is a third generation Texan from the Lower Rio Grande Valley. She loves her band of house cats as well as the large tribe of fat, happy TNR’d feral cats that came with her rural property in a small citrus-growing community. Palm tree-lined roads, natural waterways, and roaming wild animals including alligators, deer, wild hogs, and birds of every color make Bayview a perfect place for a writer and painter. She also loves the beach, rock and roll, Tex-Mex food, cooking, Shiner Bock beer, and she believes wine is a legitimate food group. She shows her paintings at The Laguna Madre Art Gallery in Port Isabel, Texas.

J.D. May attended Sam Houston State University, San Miguel de Allende Instituto, and Rice University where she studied drama, art, creative writing and Spanish. J.D. May worked in advertising for most of her career. She is married to a former award-winning surfer and has a daughter and soon to have a brand-new granddaughter.

 

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