Sweet Success Celebrates LS Hawker's New Release

By Ann S. Hill 

End of the Road

Great minds can change the world . . . or leave it in ruins

When tech prodigy Jade Veverka creates a program to communicate with her autistic sister, she's tapped by a startup to explore the potential applications of her technology. But Jade quickly begins to notice some strange things about the small Kansas town just beyond the company's campus--why are there no children anywhere to be seen, and for that matter, anyone over the age of forty? Why do all the people living here act uncomfortable and jumpy?

On the way home one night, Jade and her co-worker are run off the road, and their lab and living spaces are suddenly overrun with armed guards, purportedly for their safety. Confined to the compound and questioning what her employers might be hiding from her, Jade fears she's losing control not only of her invention, but of her very life. It soon becomes clear that the threat reaches far beyond Jade and her family, and the real danger is much closer than she'd ever imagined.

Paperback: 264 pages

Sold by Harper Collins Publishers

Publisher: Harper Collins Witness Impulse (March 21, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0062435248

ISBN-13: 978-0062435248

www.LSHawker.com 

Quote of the Week and the Week to Come

“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.”   ~ Erica Jong

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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

This Week on Writing from the Peak:

March 13      Action Cures Fear by Stacy S. Jensen

March 15      Pikes Peak Writer Conference Prequel by Patrick Hester

March 17      Sweet Success Celebrates L.S. Hawker

Sweet Success Barbara Nickless Signing & Reading

Pikes Peak Writers is pleased to announce that Barbara Nickless will be one of four featured authors at Tattered Cover’s Mystery Book Talk. She will read from and sign her book, Blood on the Tracks. Barbara said, “A dream come true: a signing at Tattered Cover. I won't have books yet, just bling and a giveaway of an Advanced Readers Copy. Hope to see folks there!”

Event Details:

7:00 PM August 19, 2016

Tattered Cover Book Store

2526 E. Colfax Ave.

Denver, CO 80206

Joining Barbara will be:

Cynthia Kuhn reading from and sign The Semester of Our Discontent.

Ann Myers reading from and sign Cinco de Mayhem: A Santa Fe Cafe Mystery.

LS Hawker reading from and sign Body and Bone. 

For more information: http://www.tatteredcover.com/new-event-calendar

By:  Kathie Scrimgeour

LS Hawker’s thriller, Body and Bone (ISBN: 9780062435217, ebook), was released by Harper Collins Witness Impulse on May 3, 2016. Visit Ms. Hawker’s website at: Website: http://LSHawker.com 

Her book is available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010LU8W2Q

When a commenter on Nessa Donati’s blog starts harassing her online, Nessa shrugs it off. Trolls are a part of internet life. But eventually the troll threatens her and releases personal details  only her missing ex-husband would know.

As Nessa’s life is dismantled, her only option is to find John and put a stop to the lies. But when their son becomes a pawn in his twisted game, she must face a disturbing truth: Maybe John isn’t tormenting her, after all. But if he’s not . . . who is? And how far will this monster go to exact revenge?

LS Hawker grew up in suburban Denver, indulging her worrisome obsession with true-crime books, and writing stories about anthropomorphic fruit and juvenile delinquents. She wrote her first novel at 14.

Armed with a B.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas, she had a radio show called "People Are So Stupid," edited a trade magazine, and worked as a traveling Kmart portrait photographer, but never lost her passion for fiction writing.

She's got a hilarious, supportive husband, two brilliant daughters, and a massive music collection. She lives in Colorado but considers Kansas her spiritual homeland.

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Sweet Success Celebrates Lisa Hawker ITW finalist Best First Novel

CORRECTION: Editor regrets that the cover and blurb for Body and Bone were inadvertently listed as L.S. Hawker's debut and ITW finaling novel. The Drowning Game is Ms. Hawker's International Thriller Writer finaling novel and the corrected blurb follows:   

By: Kathie Scrimgeour

Congratulations go out to Lisa Hawker and her debut novel, The Drowning Game. Her thriller is a finalist in the 2016 International Thriller Writers, Thriller Awards, for Best First Novel. She will be traveling to New York in July, 2016 to attend Thrillerfest and the awards banquet. The Ebook was released September 22, 2015 by by Harper Collins Witness Impulse (ISBN: 9780062435217, available at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010LU8W2Q)

They said she was armed.
They said she was dangerous.
They were right.

Petty Moshen spent eighteen years of her life as a prisoner in her own home, training with military precision for everything, ready for anything. She can disarm, dismember, and kill—and now, for the first time ever, she is free.

Her paranoid father is dead, his extreme dominance and rules a thing of the past, but his influence remains as strong as ever. When his final will reveals a future more terrible than her captive past, Petty knows she must escape—by whatever means necessary.

But when Petty learns the truth behind her father's madness—and her own family—the reality is worse than anything she could have imagined. On the road and in over her head, Petty's fight for her life has just begun.

LS Hawker grew up in suburban Denver, indulging her worrisome obsession with true-crime books, and writing stories about anthropomorphic fruit and juvenile delinquents. She wrote her first novel at 14. Armed with a B.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas, she had a radio show called "People Are So Stupid," edited a trade magazine, and worked as a traveling Kmart portrait photographer, but never lost her passion for fiction writing. She's got a hilarious, supportive husband, two brilliant daughters, and a massive music collection. She lives in Colorado but considers Kansas her spiritual homeland.

Website: http://LSHawker.com