Monday, April 02, 2012

Cooking the Books



This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Cooking The Books
Abingdon Press (April 2012)
by
Bonnie S. Calhoun


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

As the Owner/Director of the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance Bonnie has helped use the 220+ blogs of the Alliance to promote many titles on the Christian bestseller list. She also owns and publishes the Christian Fiction Online magazine which is devoted to readers and writers of Christian fiction. She is the Northeast Zone Director for American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). At ACFW she was named the ‘Mentor of the Year,’ for 2011, and she is the current President of (CAN) Christian Authors Network. Bonnie is also the Appointment Coordinator for both the Colorado Christian Writers Conference and the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference.

In her spare time she is an avid social media junkie, and teaches Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and HTML as recreational occupations. She also has a novel coming out in the Abingdon Quilts of Love series. Her novel Pieces of the Heart will publish August of 2013.

Bonnie and her husband Bob live in a log cabin on 15 acres in upstate area of Binghamton, New York with a dog and cat who consider the humans as wait-staff.


ABOUT THE BOOK

After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also "inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this you should never ask, “What else can go wrong?”

A lot! Sloane begins to receive cyber threats. While Sloane uses her computer forensic skills to uncover the source of the threats, it is discovered someone is out to kill her. Can her life get more crazy?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Cooking The Books, go HERE.

Watch the book video:



If you'd like to read interviews with Bonnie, try these:
Everbody Needs A Little Romance
A Christian Writers World
Novel Rocket
ACFW - Fiction Finder

Pattie's Review:
Wow, Sloane Templeton is one heroine I don't want to meet on a dark staircase...or in a back alley...

Sloane has this bad habit of carrying a gun in her pocket, and then dropping it, hoping it doesn't go off in the meantime. She also tends to attract the wrong sort of man, and apparently a lot of "strays" like the homeless woman who comes to use the bookstore's WiFi connection and make Sloane her coffee each morning.

Sloane is the type of woman who's trying to keep it all together, but forgot to trust the One who will help her keep it all together. Thankfully, He gets her attention.

What a fun read! This book was really a good mystery, moved along well, a perfectly imperfect heroine with a penchant for choosing bad men...all in all, I really enjoyed it.

1 comment:

Bonnie S. Calhoun said...

Thank you Pattie for hosting my book on your blog! And I'm looking forward to writing more adventures for Sloane.