What happened to the fun-loving girl we met in Ooh Matron! #RPBP

As regular readers will know, book 2 in The Nomadic Nurse Series had a quiet launch in February this year and this September sees the official launch of both the digital and paperback formats (with audio coming soon).
This is an exciting month filled with book signings, book fairs, giveaways and price promotions to spread the news about this new nursing memoir which has a slightly different twist on it. 

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Is Sarah Jane playing with fire?

What happened to the fun-loving girl we met in Ooh Matron! Who almost by accident entered the world of nursing after leaving school? 

Sarah Jane's life is set to be turned upside down as she juggles the pursuit of her nursing career with the roles of wife and mother. Her nursing career deviates off course into the aged care sector to accommodate her personal life and calls for a variety of sacrifices and compromises to keep a career and family life on track. It's a journey that sees Sarah Jane dealing with childbirth, bereavement, divorce, miscarriage and child custody issues at the hands of a real life Casanova!

Check out latest 5* review for
Bedpans to Boardrooms 
*****

"While autobiographical books are not my usual genre, I thoroughly enjoyed Sarah-Jane's account of nursing in Care Homes.
Being an ex-nurse it brought back many happy memories for myself as, during my career, I also looked after the elderly although in a hospital situation.
Her accuracy and explanations of various procedures are spot on. You feel for her in her personal life but she has overcome all tribulations and come out smiling at the other end.
Altogether a very good read"
To view the review on Amazon click here

The countdown is on to the first Goodreads Giveaway for Bedpans to Boardrooms!
Enter to WIN a signed copy on Goodreads from 12th Sept - 30th Sept

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Would like to meet Sarah Jane? Well, there will be many opportunities over the coming weeks starting in Narberth on 23rd Sept 

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Did you miss book 1 Ooh Matron? 

Don't worry here is the universal link to all good online stores to catch up on the story so far...

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*****Award Winning Nurse Memoir*****

I am not sure what Florence Nightingale would have made of Sarah Jane! The story starts with a sixteen-year-old country girl who, for no apparent reason at the time, suddenly decided that she wanted to be a nurse.

Sarah Jane was entering adulthood with no obvious career path in sight. She had planned a traditional, some would say old fashioned, future. Her vision was to leave school, find a job in a local store, get married and eventually have children. Then everything changed, as she embarked on a journey which would help to map out her future by offering opportunities in a variety of places and healthcare settings. Find out how Sarah Jane deals with births, deaths and everything in between with laughter, tears and humility in this touching, sometimes heartrending, superbly written memoir. 

‘Ooh Matron!’ is the first book in The Nomadic Nurse Series. Each book in the series takes you on a journey through medical specialisms and environments that formed part of Sarah Jane’s nursing career. Throughout the series Sarah Jane uses her trademark honest and entertaining writing style to share insights into her thoughts, reflections and the changes in her personal life and circumstances as she moves forward in her career.

Marvellous March Memoirs #RPBP #ASMSG

Hello and welcome to my Marvellous March Memoir selection.

Today I an honoured to feature a new release memoir and an outstanding audiobook review. The authors are fellow We Love Memoirs members Frank Kusy and John Searancke.

NEW RELEASE

The true story of two people who tried and failed to destroy each other. And fell in love. Again.

“A memoir about a troubled marriage formed on reckless indulgence being rebuilt offers a fascinating narrative arc. Like all good biographies, ‘The Reckless Years’ is as engaging and dramatic as fiction.” ~ Harper Collins

When Frank’s mother dies on his wedding day, his life spirals into a hopeless existence of drink, drugs, and depression. How will his marriage with his new bride Madge survive?

Featured Review

5.0 out of 5 starsAnother Kusy hit!

ByEvelyn Marbuton February 28, 2017

Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I've enjoyed every Frank Kusy book I have read and this one is no exception! 

Expecting a chronicle of sadness and excess, instead I found it to be all about the grit, 

perseverance, and sense of humor it took to hang onto TRUE LOVE! Kusy details his and wife 

Madge's slide into heavy drug usage after the tragic death of his beloved Mother on their 

wedding day. This book is filled with the expected stories of drugs, the obtaining of them, 

the escalation of usage and the resulting money problems. What separates this story from similar

ones is that quirky sense of humor Kusy brings to every book he writes! You chuckle and laugh

at the sheer stubbornness of this couple and at the ironies of life and little lunacies that occur. 

Madge insists her written version of happenings be included in the book, bringing forth her unique 

kick a** attitude versus Frank's more laissez-faire view. This couple demonstrates above all how 

to hang onto your marriage through thick and thin, sense and nonsense, tragedy and troubles! 

The secret is to never let go! They survive with humor and grace, grateful that these Reckless 

Years are behind them. Kudos to this long lived marriage, may TRUE LOVE long endure!

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FEATURED AUDIOBOOK

BY

JOHN SEARANCKE

Prunes for Breakfast

Audio book review by Beth Haslam

I am not normally a lover of war-based books, but I was attracted by the title and decided to read it anyway. I’m so glad I did. For me it is as much a study of social history as it is a story about one man’s experiences in World War 2.

Prunes for Breakfast focuses on the experiences of the author’s father, Eddie, when he signs up to join his local reserve regiment in the 1940s. What immediately sets it apart from many others on the subject is that much of the story is told through letters sent by Eddie to his wife. Letters that were so important at the time for the recipient, and which have been cherished and faithfully preserved.

I was fascinated by his commentary on day-to-day activities as the regiment wait for the call-up, some of which seemed humdrum and therefore challenging in their own way. But it doesn’t last forever. They starkly contrast to the horrors of war, which are related in a very different way to protect his wife from the harsh reality of the situation. His later capture and incarceration in a prison camp lends yet another dimension to his wartime experiences.

Without doubt I would recommend this book to anyone who has a special interest in World War 2 and the social history that surrounds it. The intimacy of the letters, in particular, gives the reader a direct insight of how one serviceman coped with being apart from his new wife, and latterly child. That, coupled with John Searancke’s excellent, clear writing style, makes this an extremely compelling read. 

Get your copy now and listen to this touching story of love and war.

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Day 5 Part 2: Feeling Festive #BooksForChristmas #RPBP #ASMSG

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Welcome To Day 5 Part Two Of #BooksForChristmas from Sarah Jane & Rukia Publishing.

The second part of today's book recommendations is from author Pablo Michaels. He has just released a new series but today we would like to familiarize you with a book this author published in 2015!

Affairs of Men's Hearts

On September 7, 2015 Max Lemberger reviewed this book and this is what he had to say!

"I normally don't read M/M stories but a friend recommended this book to me and I'm glad I read it. It is a collection of four stories, two short and two close to novella length that give the reader a look inside of the life of gay men. I especially liked the first two stories, "Growing Up in My Home Town" and "Then and Now". Both of these stories deal with the painful awkwardness of the teen age years with the additional burden of knowing you are gay but lacking the sense of self to act on the realization. The stories were told in a first person style that was more like a memoir than a contrived dark homo erotic confessional. I especially liked the fact that the author used language and expression of a teenager and not the polished prose of an older more seasoned man. Because these two stories are without explicit sex scenes they would make good material for a YA work. Fiction is often a tool of self discovery, theses stories could help young men struggling with sexual identity and on this basis I give the work a five star rating."

Take a look at Pablo Michaels Rukia Publishing Book Showcase for more about this book and his newest series.

You can also find out more about the author Pablo Michaels by going to his Meet The Author Page, where you will find his in depth interview! 

Please sign up to author Pablo Michaels email list here: http://eepurl.com/criJ1H to receive updates on his books, recommendations of other books and occasional giveaways!

Day 5 Part 1: Feeling Festive with #BooksForChristmas #RPBP #ASMSG

Welcome PT Macias

Welcome To Part 1 of Day 5 #BooksForChristmas 

From Sarah Jane & Rukia Publishing

Part One of today's Festive Book Recommendations is from author PT Macias! She is an Amazon award winning, Top 10 Bestselling and immensely popular author P.T. Macias channels her engaging and irresistible characters so that they spring from the pages and cause her readers to fall permanently in love. She is widely recognized as "The Reigning Queen of Alphas" P. Mattern, Amazon Best Selling Author.

Learn More About P. T. Macias, click here!

THE WATCHERS BOOK 1

Samyaza 
The pure exhaustion of eternal punishment as a fallen has left our sexy but naughty angel, Samyaza, desperate for companionship...desperate to be set free and only you hold the key.

What would you give for one night of unbridled passion? Samyaza gave his life, his freedom...everything. After thousands of years of pain and punishment the fallen one thought he'd seen it all...not even close.

Now evil threatens the world and the Watchers are our only hope. Falling from grace was easy, eternal suffering has become common place, wishing for death an everyday occurrence but when faced with a chance for redemption Samyaza fears he could fail.

His test for heavenly grace comes in the form of a beautiful, confident, modern woman who captures the fallen one heart and soul.

Strength he has. Faith in the God that sentenced him to a life in chains he holds close but all may be lost with just one look from this very special woman.

With his life, his soul and his heart on the line, can Samayza save the world or destroy it?

You can read a sample from this book and the next three in this series plus many more of her books at the authors Rukia Publishing Book Showcase!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Day 3 Feeling Festive with #BooksForChristmas #RPBP #ASMSG

Welcome To Day 3 Of #BooksForChristmas from Sarah Jane & Rukia Publishing

            Meet the author Judith Lucci here

Get your copy here http://bit.ly/SeeViralIntent

           Rukia Publishing recommended read

Viral Intent by Judith Lucci

A major political convention and an unidentified killer virus in the CCMC Emergency Department has the NOPD hopping. Internet chatter suggesting a terror attack in the Big Easy has chilled the hearts of law enforcement. Alex and Jack must learn to play well with the CDC, FBI, and Secret Service to save the streets of New Orleans.

Reader Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars

Another Thrilling and Emotional Novel 

By Linda Rainey on December 1, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition 

Wow!!!!! Another thrilling and emotional novel with Alex, Robert, and CCMC. The suspense kept me riveted to the pages. Judith Lucci paints a portrait with her characters, the setting and the story line. I look forward to the next book in the series.



5.0 out of 5 stars

Sharp 

By Mandus on April 24, 2016 

Format: Kindle Edition 

Viral Intent is a gripping and compelling read by Judith Lucci that builds upon former plots and characters in her first two novels. This book further distinguishes her as an excellent thriller writer. The story begins with an unidentified viral outbreak in the emergency department where the first fatalities prove to be part of the upfront security detail for the US President. The plot builds as more people become ill and the local and federal authorities suspect either domestic or international terrorism. A tale of changing values, duplicity, terror and reward make this an excellent read. All in all, this is a well-written and compelling thriller with great drama and excellent pacing that keeps the pages turning. Highly recommended.

Get your copy here

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Day 2 Feeling Festive with #BooksForChristmas #RPBP #ASMSG

Welcome To Day 2 Of #BooksForChristmas from Sarah Jane & Rukia Publishing

An ideal Christmas gift idea for the teenage reader - The Darzoids' Stone

When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelia, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything is better than being stuck at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchers. But he goes along anyway, even if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want to be left at home by himself.
And it doesn't take long for the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them to hidden treasure.
As our heroes search for treasure, they find themselves pitted against these ancient forces. And they will need some extraterrestrial help if they ever hope to defeat them.

Find out more here

Meet the Author Richard Smith 

Want To know More About Richard Smith? You're in luck! Rukia's Interview with Richard about his life and newest book The Darziod's Stone is here. 

Connect on Twitter @RichardSmithTT

Get a copy of this enticing new YA Literature:
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Merry Christmas!

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Day 1 Feeling Festive with #BooksForChristmas #RPBP #ASMSG

Welcome To Day 1 Of #BooksForChristmas from Sarah Jane & Rukia Publishing

Meet The Author The Black Rose

Check out the Meet the Author feature at Rukia Publishing and read an interview with The Black Rose, aka Alexandra, who kindly talked to me about her breath-taking series The Killing Game and her writing.

Visit The Killing Game Book Showcase page here

&

Featured Book page here

These magnificent ebooks are just 99c each, so why not top up your ereader with some great books fro the Christmas Holidays!

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Merry Christmas

Let's take a look at When Angels Fly by S. Jackson #RPBP

Hello and welcome to an in depth look behind the scenes of When Angels Fly by S Jackson.

http://www.rukiapublishing.com/meet-the-author-s-jackson.html

S. Jackson is a retired registered nurse; a member of the Catholic Church, and has taught kindergarten Catechism; she has worked in various capacities for The American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, Cub and Boy Scouts, (son, Noah, is an Eagle Scout), and sponsored trips for high school children music. She loves all forms of art but mostly focuses on the visual arts; such as amateur photography, traditional, and graphic art as her health allows.

"When Angels Fly"
http://smarturl.it/AngelsFly99

We often find ourselves daydreaming about what our futures will be like. This may be especially true if one lives in an environment most would consider less than desirable. Some are lucky to find their futures much like their childhood dreams. Others find the paths to their dreams strewn with hurdles.

Growing up, Sarah dodged her mother's blows. She often hid in her room crying about her life. Still, she believes in her future and the happiness it can bring. In their book, When Angels Fly, authors S. Jackson and A. Raymond tell Sarah's story - their stories. The authors use their journals to describe Sarah's experiences of family dys-function, strength, courage, faith, abuse, grief, and so much more. You'll read how, like many, she attempts to escape from her mother's abuse through marriage. And like many, she learns it is not a viable alternative. Then Sarah experiences a parent's ultimate tragedy twice, the deaths of her sons, Joshua and Eli.

When Angels Fly is about much more than the telling of a family's tragedy. It is also the story of finding faith after it has wavered. Most of all, it's a story of love lost and found.

Before we get into some Q&A let's take a look at the book trailer.

Thank you for joining us today.
What was your childhood like?
I vividly remember my childhood. As a little girl, my mother would force feed me foods I hated, such as peas, until I threw up. She did this to me often and she seemed to enjoy the abuse she inflicted upon me. I had six siblings and none of them remember my mother doing the force feedings except for my older brother who was eight years older than me. Abuse affected him, too, and to this day he stays away from any kind of contention. I wish I could say that the abuse abated as I got older, but it didn’t. I was always a kicking and punching bag and she would drag me around by my hair. No one could please her and my father never saw the treatment she doled out to me as he was always working. I had absolutely no self-esteem and I would retreat into a fantasy world where I was a princess and loved by all. I would curl up in my bed and thrust that fantasy into my child’s brain as a form of escape. I liked reading and as soon as I could read well enough, I started reading the Nancy Drew series, Hardy Boys, Cherry Ames, and Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I would escape into a world of my own through books. I could stay in my little room, in my bed, and read. Sometimes I would make paper dolls and dress them up with paper dresses. I remember how I would oftentimes try to draw younger siblings into a hug as none of us received hugs from her and I tried to show them how to love each other.“ (I have pictures)

"Starting around age eight, I tried to please her in other ways by doing work around the house. I would vacuum without being told to do so, and I washed dishes. I started doing the entire households laundry from washing to hanging on the line, and then take down and fold. I delivered the clean wash to the respective recipient’s bedroom and it didn’t make my mother proud. In fact, she simply expected me to continue with these chores. She left my father after 21 years if marriage and I chose to live with my father as I was 14 at the time and could choose. Then she forced him to sell the house and he was forced into a tiny apartment, after which I had to move in with her again. In high school, she was relentless in her treatment of me, and she never bothered to show her anger to the world. To this very day, I don’t understand why this was allowed to go on. The only thing I can think of is the fact that our neighbors were just as scared of her and she kept her punches to areas that were covered by clothing. In looking back post high school, I could see that some teachers knew that my home life was rough but that was as far as it went. My only escapes were school and work. I was so tired of her beatings, and the emotional and mental abuse she inflicted.

Almost anyone would be excited to leave all that behind and strike out on her own. Is that what you did?
"Before I was age 18, I was looking for an escape ~ ANY escape. Working as a waitress left me with little money. I dated a few guys, and then my mother said to me one time, with a sneer, that I was only a “sperm receptacle” and that no one would want me. I wasn’t having sex. Eventually I found a guy I liked, and we dated for a few months and then we simply started living together. I had thought this was my escape into happiness and that he was my prince. He drank alcohol almost daily, and he invited me to move in with him. I thought that this was my chance! My chance to get away from my mother and the abuse she inflicted. I thought I could change this man into drinking less alcohol, I was in love and we married."

Did you love him? So many women go down this path, and they always think they love him. Is it because you've never known true love?

Read the answer to this question and many more here

The next stop for The Nomadic Nurse Series #RPBP

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As the pre-order launch of Bedpans to Boardrooms gets underway I must first apologise for the delay in bringing the second book in this series to my loyal followers. Those of you who also read my travel memoirs or are followers on my personal mailing list will know that my 4 children and 3 step-children are rapidly adding to the population as a further 3 grandchildren are expected over the coming months to add to our existing one! My family are the centre of my world and finding the work life balance can be tricky so I had added in a pre-order cushion period in case my time frames get pushed back, but I actually hope to be bringing the launch date forward!

In book one the scene was set when, as a sixteen year old slightly old-fashioned country girl, I found myself on a pre-nursing course at Ipswich College. This book has been my most successful today wining book industry awards for comedy, writing and excellence in story-telling.

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*****Award Winning Nurse Memoir***** 

I am not sure what Florence Nightingale would have made of Sarah Jane! The story starts with a sixteen-year-old country girl who, for no apparent reason at the time, suddenly decided that she wanted to be a nurse. Sarah Jane was entering adulthood with no obvious career path in sight. She had planned a traditional, some would say old fashioned, future. Her vision was to leave school, find a job in a local store, get married and eventually have children. Then everything changed, as she embarked on a journey which would help to map out her future by offering opportunities in a variety of places and health care settings. Find out how Sarah Jane deals with births, deaths and everything in between with laughter, tears and humility in this touching, sometimes heartrending, superbly written memoir. ‘Ooh Matron!’ is the first book in The Nomadic Nurse Series. Each book in the series takes you on a journey through medical specialisms and environments that formed part of Sarah Jane’s nursing career. Throughout the series Sarah Jane uses her trademark honest and entertaining writing style to share insights into her thoughts, reflections and the changes in her personal life and circumstances as she moves forward in her career.

Available at all good bookstores books2read.com/OohMatron

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Bedpans To Boardrooms follows Sarah Jane's story as she endeavours to juggle being a Registered General Nurse, wife and new mum to two babies in quick succession. Her nursing career deviates off course into the aged care sector to accommodate her personal life and this tests her in a variety of ways. As Sarah Jane struggles to accept her new reality, career and personal sacrifices have to be made. It's a journey that sees Sarah Jane dealing with childbirth, bereavement, divorce and miscarriage in her personal life, whilst managing to use her new nursing qualification to take her from washing bedpans as a care assistant to sitting in the boardroom of a national nursing home group. As usual it's a roller-coaster ride that you do not want to miss as we find out more about aged care working practises, occupational therapy, community support and how aged care staff have to be highly skilled professionals to deal with the many and varied situations they find themselves in.

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