Hello and welcome. I am an author. I've written FOUR true stories, one, #WrongPlaceWrongTime is becoming a movie. I've also written ONE children's book, one FICTION #WriteToKill (Book Two with editor), written EIGHT social media marketing books. I hope that when you delve into the contents, something will catch your eye. I have featured hundred's of books by talented authors from around the world, also featured actors, actresses and musicians.
This film is a snapshot of a motherdaughter relationship when the mother suddenly becomes unnecessary . All mothers pour their souls into their children without thought for themselves. One day suddenly we are discarded, and nobody ever talks about the loss, or the woman who has been left behind. We are left with a trashed house, a dog who's 105 and the onset of the menopause. It's a clash of the hormones, and we know who wins.
I became fixated with telling my own story, after a hugely successful short film called "what happened to Evie" winner at Galway Film Festival 2018, starring both my daughter and I.
An actress for over 30 years, theatre, television and film. Favourites include RSC Merchant of Venice, Stephen Poliakoff's Talk of the City, BBC 1's Cutting It, ITV's Northern Lights, ITV'sCity Lights, Sky 1's Mount Pleasant, Intimacy, Five Seconds to Spare and most recently the Time of their Lives for Universal Studios.
One year out of Drama Studio London. Evie in what happened to Evie, Zoe in Alexa and Me and Margaret in BBC 2's Upstart Crow, and adverts for Ikea and BBC Radio 1.
BECOME THE PERFECT FOOTBALLER WITH THE F2'S NEW BOOK!:
We are The F2. And this is Ultimate Footballer.
We have scoured the planet and analysed what components you need to become the perfect footballer: the speed of Mbappe, the dribbling of Hazard, the tekkers of Neymar and the tackling of Ramos.
If you want to add skills like the ozil bounce pass, the Messi soft scoop and the Neymar rainbow, then look no further. And this time we reveal the secret tips told to us by the top Pros behind the scenes.
And once you've put your ultimate footballer together, you can compare with ours. Who has the best? You decide.
There's a free app to download that will make the pages come to life with exclusive videos, tricks and games. So, what are you waiting for? Open, read, learn, download and get out on the pitch and practise.
The remarkable, moving and exciting autobiography of an African child through wealth, poverty, civil war to Show business Stardom.
An inspiration for all those with faith.
“The first chapter of your book is just awesome – I couldn’t stop reading – it is just one of the most compelling/emotional stories that I have ever read about a young girl – the more extraordinary because of what you have become. So beautifully described – I could imagine myself with you on your long walk. But, of course, as you say, these experiences are so formative in our later lives. I shall read on…….. Wow – what a really fascinating life – you are the most remarkable person..... What a powerful book about someone whose life is so public, yet previously so little known – well done putting it all down for us.” Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel Jarvis CBE KStJ DL FRCR Prior of the Priory of England & the Islands of the Order od St John & chair of St John Ambulance
“All of us who think we had a difficult childhood must read Patti Boulaye’s unbelievable life story. Her riveting story is a paramount example of what can be accomplished when insurmountable odds are overcome by positive thinking, spirit, vitality, never giving up, love and eliminating all excuses. I am an avid reader and could not put down this book written by this multi-talented lady which can help so many people that think there’s no way out of a life of heartache, pain, disappointment, etc. She is the beacon light to having a successful life after experiencing impossible odds on the road to happiness and success.” Coach Dale Brown (National College Basketball Hall of Fame Coach) Louisiana State University 1972-1997
“I just wanted to say, I have sadly finished reading your book. I say sadly - as I never wanted it to end. Indeed, you must write a follow up! It made for a most captivating read. It was funny and sad in equal measure. The lightness, after some certain dark pages, always appeared when I needed it most. But what stood out for me most of all is how brave you were, and how strong you had to be from such an early age. I was desperately sad on reading about what you had to endure. How thankful and relieved I was when Stephen, your knight in shining armour, came into your life. I also enjoyed reading about your friendship and respect you had for John Major, as I am extremely interested in politics. Some of its contents I found disturbing, possibly because reading this book brought back bad memories of my own struggles in life to get to where I am today. Albeit under different circumstances to your own. Anyhow, I would love to review this book for you………Forgive me if my excitement is running away with me, but I feel your autobiography should be a number 1 best seller, and receive the recognition it deserves.” Patricia Merrick (The Lady Magazine)
“Making inroads into your book, and thoroughly enjoying it whilst being horrified at some of what life has thrown at you. Sounds like challenges you have overcome prove the old adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" David Browne Honorary Enterprise Fellow at Coventry University
“This is one of the best, if not the best celebrity book I have read. Very honest and unexpected.” R. Lewis (Journalist)
“I have to say I found your book absorbing from the start to finish. Your childhood memories brought Africa to life, and your experiences in the Biafra war reminded me why I was not allowed over the border from Niger as an America Peace Corps volunteer (1967-1969). My last posting was in Maradi, over the border from Kano. You write with great freshness and spontaneity, which makes all your memories easy and interesting to read. You are indeed a multitalented individual. Mark E. Simpson
"--Clutching on to each page as she relates her intriguing journey,Brilliant!!” Zoë Henderson Author
Know Small Parts: An Actor's Guide to Turning Minutes into Moments and Moments into a Career
by Laura Cayouette and
Foreword by Richard Dreyfuss
Based on 20 years in the industry as an actor, producer, writer and director, Know Small Parts is real life advice from someone who's lived it. The Foreword is written by Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and the book contains behind-the-scenes stories of Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Shirley MacLaine, David Carradine and Tony Scott, among many others.
This clear-eyed, realistic step-by-step guide offers wisdom on breaking down a scene, standing out at an audition, talking to celebrities, how to work without representation, developing marketing materials, landing commercials, creating your own momentum, what to do when it all goes wrong, working outside Los Angeles, surviving rejection, how to get clothing for the red carpet and much, much more.
With information for beginners and pros alike, it's not just invaluable insight for actors looking to mark their mark in the industry, it's great advice for anyone looking to take control of their destiny. Filled with specific examples from movies and television, the book also reveals personal, often funny, stories from the author's own journey through successes and blunders turning minutes into moments and moments into a career.
Chris ‘Kammy’ Kamara has announced his debut album, ‘Here’s to Christmas’, on So What? Records.
The presenter, known to many as being the voice of Saturday afternoon, lends his expressive croon to the sounds of brass, strings and swing on Christmas standards including ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’, and ‘Santa Baby’.
‘Unbelievable Jeff’? Maybe not! A love of big band music has always been in Kammy’s blood, and he was well-known amongst his teammates from his days as a football player as having a remarkably soulful voice.
On his love of music and his debut album, Kammy said:
“I know it might be surprising to some, but anyone who knows me – especially those who shared a changing room with me in my playing days who first told me I could sing – will tell you what a big fan I am of big band music.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d get to record a full album, though!
‘Here’s to Christmas’ is something I’m really proud of and I think it stands up as something fun, but something that doesn’t sound half bad too – an album to get everyone into the swing of Christmas!”
Kammy will be donating 25% of all profits he makes from album sales to Marie Curie, a charity very close to his heart
In the north of England there was a put-down for women with ideas above their station - `Who do you think you are? Lady Docker?' Through Britain's post-War years, scarcely a day went by when Sir Bernard and Norah Docker didn't dominate the newspapers.
The Dazzling Dockers, as they were known, were on everyone's lips.they caught the imagination of a public hungry for frivolity, reality superstars of the age and standard-bearers for our own celebrity-obsessed 21st century.
Yet of the two, there is no doubt whose star shone brightest. Born over a butcher's shop in Derby, Norah Docker would enjoy a level of fame second only to a young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Brash but fun, Sir Bernard was her third millionaire in a row.
The Dockers owned a super-yacht, a castle and country estates. It couldn't last of course, and didn't, but what waves this working class girl made en route from rags to riches and back again.
From the Bright Young Things of London's Roaring Twenties to their swinging equivalents in the 1960's, the adventures of Lady Norah Docker are a dazzling treat.
The giveaway and accompanying blog tour
start on December 2, 2019 and will continue until December 16.
Join us for an incredible journey around
the world through the eyes of our authors and their protagonists starting in
WWII Holland and continuing from to the Middle East over to Hong Kong, through
the hills of Pennsylvania and deserts of Mexico, ending back in time in eighteenth
century London. We are excited to share with you our own holiday traditions and
what life was like for the characters featured in our books.
On Monday December 2 we will begin
our journey in 1941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam with Suzanne Kelman in her international
best-seller A View Across the Rooftops. Suzanne is a British author who
lives in Seattle and delights in her English Christmas traditions every year. Please
visit Suzanne’s video and blog post here: https://suzannekelmanauthor.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-book-giveaway-books-from.html.
Then we pop over to Seumas
Gallacher’s blog on Tuesday, December 3 featuring is international
crime novel The Violin Man’s Legacy. Seumas was born in Scotland and
lives in Abu Dhabi. His main character, Jack Calder, investigates a murderous
diamond heist in Holland that leads him to Hong Kong and South America. You can
visit his video and blog here: https://seumasgallacher.com/2019/12/03/christmas-joint-blog-tour-and-giveaways-o-come-all-ye-faithful-readers/.
David P. Perlmuttertakes over on Wednesday, December 4 sharing his Jewish
upbringing in London, and will detail the true life and nearly deadly adventure
in the hills of Pennsylvania where he spends Christmas with his boss in his book
Five Weeks. David spends a decent amount of time in the #1 spot on
Amazon with his soon to be movie, Wrong Place Wrong Time. You can visit
his blog and video here: http://thewrongplaceatthewrongtime.blogspot.com/.
Thursday,
Gloria Casale shares her
holiday memories from her youth in New Jersey in a strong catholic family where
they celebrated the tradition of St. Nicklaus on December 5th
every year. Her book, Bioterror: The Essential Threat, while fiction, covers
an all too real situation of bioterrorism and brings us on a harrowing journey beginning
in Washington, DC and carries us around the world from Russia and Eastern
Europe, to Indonesia, England, Syria, and the White House, as we chase the
outbreak of a mysterious small pox-like illness. You can find Gloria’s blog
here: https://www.gloriacasalewrites.com/post/blog-1.
Chief Thomas J. Nichols is
featured on Friday, December 6, where he will talk about his poor
upbringing in Missouri, some of which was spent in an orphanage. As a former
police chief, he writes crime fiction with teeth and will detail what Christmas
is like for his characters in the dry dusty backdrop of Mexico. His book, Color
of the Prism, follows an undercover agent who spearheads an investigation
into a violent Mexican drug cartel. You can find Tom’s blog and video here: https://thomasjnichols.blogspot.com/.
Finally, on Monday, December 2, we
end the blog tour back in time with KJ Waters and her time travel novel to 1752
London, Stealing Time. What was lifelike in England in the year they
skipped 9 days to jive with Europe’s Gregorian calendar? KJ grew up in Maryland
and will talk about her Christmas family traditions in the south based on her
Grandmother’s love of the holiday and overabundance of gifts and family fun in
a split family. You can see KJ’s blog post here: https://kjwatersauthor.blogspot.com/
More on the books you can win.
A View Across the Rooftops
by Suzanne Kelman
An epic,
heart-wrenching and gripping World War Two historical novel
‘Heart wrenching… I really
struggled to put this book down, particularly the end of the book which I sat
up until 2am reading and trying hard not to wake my husband with my crying!’
Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
1941, Nazi-occupied
Amsterdam. An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a
testament to the courage of humanity in history’s darkest days.
As Nazis occupy his beloved
city, Professor Josef Held feels helpless. So, when he discovers his former
pupil Michael Blum is trying to escape the Gestapo, he offers Michael a place
to hide in his attic.
In the quiet gloom of the
secret room, Michael talks of his beautiful, fearless girlfriend, Elke. Michael
insists that not even the Nazis will come between them. But Elke is a
non-Jewish Dutch girl, and their relationship is strictly forbidden.
Josef sees the passionate
determination in his young friend’s eyes. Furious with the rules of the cruel
German soldiers and remembering his own heartbreak, Josef feels desperate to
give Michael and Elke’s love a chance. But then tragedy strikes, and Josef is
faced with an impossible choice.
In the dark days of war, with
danger and betrayal at every turn, no-one can be trusted. If Michael is to
survive and get back to the woman he loves, it will be down to Josef – to find
the hero inside himself and do whatever it takes to keep Michael alive.
Even if it means putting his
own life in mortal danger.
A heartbreakingly beautiful
story about courage against the odds, perfect for fans of The Tattooist of
Auschwitz, All The Light We Cannot See, and The Nightingale.
THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY
(Jack Calder Crime Series #1)
Thriller with bloody twists and turns as
ruthless killers meet their match in a former SAS hit squad.
Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former
colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a
murderous diamond heist in Holland, but swiftly learns that there is a very
strong Far East connection. He then travels to Hong Kong where he meets the
glamorous chief of ISP's local bureau, May-Ling.
Together they begin to unravel a complex
web of corruption. The twin spiders at the center of this web are the Chan
brothers, leaders of one of Hong Kong's most ruthless and powerful triad gangs.
The trail of death and mayhem coils
across Europe, Hong Kong and South America until all the scores are settled.
A Jack Calder Novel
Bioterror: The Essential Threat by Gloria Casale
A desperate Russian
scientist is bribed by terrorist to release a plague upon the world. Dr. Anne Damiano
teams up with an old flame to avert an international pandemic of the world’s most
feared disease.
Yuri Bushinikov, a
renowned Russian genetics engineer, has gone missing, along with two vials from
the Russian smallpox stockpile. Dr. Anne Damiano has feared this scenario for
many years. Her warnings have been ignored by other, more powerful Public
Health officials. They adamantly deny the possibility of a bioterror attack.
Bushinikov,
fueled by his concern for his young family, succumbs to an offer from Al Halbi,
the director of the Syrian Institute for Science and International Security.
Huge amounts of money, and multiple false IDs for the biologist and each member
of his family will insure their dramatic escape from Russia. As directed, Bushinikov
delivers the virus to an intermediary in Jakarta. Al Halbi plans to process the
virus into a bioterror weapon that will destroy the Great Satan. Anne's fear is
rapidly becoming reality.
Death and mayhem
aren't Anne's ideas of romance. Yet, when the Director of the CIA teams her up
with her long-lost love, Connor Quinlan, sparks as well as bullets fly. Anne
and Connor must collaborate to stop Al Halbi's plan to inflict disease, mass
terror, and death. Will they be too late to avert an international disaster?
Stealing Time: Book 1 - A Time Travel, Historical Fiction
Adventure
A devastating hurricane. A time travel betrayal. Will Ronnie survive
the witch hunt or forever be lost in time?
Stealing Time is the first book in the best-selling
"Breathtakingly original" time travel series that will keep you on
the edge of your seat.
As Hurricane Charley churns a path of destruction towards Orlando,
Florida, Ronnie Andrews scrambles to prepare for the storm and seeks shelter at
her boyfriend’s weather lab. What she finds there is more terrifying than
Mother Nature's destruction.
During the peak of the hurricane, Ronnie is hurtled back in time to
eighteenth-century London where she is caught in a web of superstition,
deception, and lies in a life and death struggle to return to her own time.
Her best friend Steph is thrust into the middle of the hurricane
where it quickly turns into a living nightmare as she is faced with losing
everything.
Stealing Time is the first book in the “breathtakingly original”
Stealing Time Series of time-travel wrapped in a hurricane. If you like
strong-willed modern women and gripping stories that transport you back in
time, then you’ll love KJ Water's Books.
Don’t miss the next book in the series, Shattering Time, available
now, set during Hurricane Frances tossing Ronnie back to the Lost Colony of
Roanoke Island in a fight for her life and for those facing the mysterious
disappearance of our first colony in America.
FIVE WEEKS – by David P. Perlmutter
True Story: First I had a gun in my back in London and
then I was nearly left for dead in a Pennsylvania wood!
This is another true
story and this time set in London, Eastbourne, and America. I worked for an
Estate Agent in North London and I attend a party along with my friend Steve in
Islington. Then just after Steve disappears to the loo, two guys come into the
kitchen where we were and dragged me across the floor punching me in the face and
ripping my hair out.
A few months
later I'm threatened by the same guys from the party, BUT this time with a gun
in my back and told if I'm seen in the area again, they will have no hesitation
in using the gun.
So, after
resigning from my job, I was invited to spend Christmas in Eastbourne with my
girlfriend Jenny at her parents place. We decide to stay and move to Brighton
where I was offered a job as a tele-sales manager for an American portrait
company, but first must take a trip to Pennsylvania for a five-week training
course.
FIVE WEEKS is a
story of those weeks in America and where in a remote Pennsylvania woodland, I
was nearly left for dead by my cocaine addict boss and his brother!
Color of the Prism by Thomas J. Nichols
Drug Cartels
rule the Arizona border. One undercover agent infiltrates the unseemly world
and risks everything to destroy the violent kingpin. Will his family pay the
ultimate price?
“Color of the Prism,” a
contemporary novel is based on true events in the life of the author. This
realistic story reflects a blend of fact and fiction into a journey of
intrigue, love, betrayal, and tragedy in this police thriller on the
Arizona-Sonora border.
The story
follows Tucson Police undercover agent Antonio Castenada who spearheads an
investigation into the violent cartel of Reynaldo Guzman, a prominent
businessman and drug kingpin.
The complexity
of Castenada’s work is multiplied exponentially by the conflicts that challenge
his personal and professional life as opposed to the unseemly role he plays as
a cartel member. Alone in the netherworld of corruption, his decisions will
impact his family life forever as he scrambles to out-maneuver Guzman and his
hired assassin, Julian Espino Gatica.
“Color of the
Prism” and its non-traditional ending illuminate the true world of crime and
corruption unseen by most people.Indeed, it is the last color of the prism.
