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All’s Fair in Blogs and More: 2012 Blogger Book Fair: Day 2

It’s day 2 of the Blogger Book Fair! Don’t forget to check out the Reader’s Choice Awards and vote for your favorite book. Shameless self-promotion: Thief of Hope is in the fantasy category.

And now for our next featured author, R.J. Burroughs, author of The Boys of ’58.

R.J. Burroughs is a funny guy—just ask his friends. After telling story after story and hearing, “you should write that down,” many times over, Burroughs finally did. That’s when The Boys of ’58, his first novel was born.

The story is set in small-town Oklahoma 1958, and while Burroughs takes his readers on the hilarious journey of a small gang of boys and their shenanigans, the real punch line is not how they get themselves into mischief but how they creatively manage to keep themselves out of trouble all summer long. The more comedic lines include some divine intervention as well as a fainting goat.

Burroughs is sure that everyone will find someone from their childhood, maybe even themselves, in the pages of The Boys of ’58.”

The Boys of ’58 may be Burroughs’ first novel but the fun is far from over. He is currently working on The Boys of ’59 and considering The Boys of ’60.

R.J. Burroughs is a civil superintendent and travels extensively in the US and Canada. He finds time to write in the evenings and on weekends while he is away from home with his work and refers to writing as his “golf.” Although he never thought his knack for storytelling would gain him the title of published author, he’s happy now that he went through the difficult process of trying to find a publishing home for his yarns.

He was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Chickasha, Okla. where he graduated. He now lives, with his wife Marsha, in Wewoka, Okla. The couple recently moved there from Norman, Okla. where they had lived for  eight years. They have two daughters, one son and two grandchildren.

Print and e-versions of The Boys of ‘58 can be found at
http://www.amazon.com/, www.books.google.com/ebooks, and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ and wherever books are sold.

Information about the book and the author can also be found at the publisher’s website: http://www.martinsisterspublishing.com/.

Check out R.J. Burroughs’ website at http://www.rjburroughs.com/.

Sounds like a rollicking trip down memory lane. He’s hooked me with the fainting goat! 

All’s Fair in Blogs and More: 2012 Blogger Book Fair

I’m excited to be participating in the All’s Fair in Blogs and More 2012 Blogger Book Fair! Today is the first day and the event runs through Sunday, July 29. The Book Fair features more than 40 authors and 60 books at more than 20 blog booths, including this one! Check out these links:

Participating authors and bloggers:
http://paranormallounge.blogspot.com/p/authors-and-bloggers.html

Book Fair Catalog, featuring all of the books and links:
http://paranormallounge.blogspot.com/p/book-fair-catalog.html

Book Fair Booths: http://paranormallounge.blogspot.com/p/blogger-book-fair-booths.html

Fun entertainment and souvenirs for the Book Fair:
http://paranormallounge.blogspot.com/p/entertainment-and-souvenirs.html

I’m pleased to be hosting three authors on my blog. Sam Bennett, author of Memoirs of a Trumpet Teacher, and R. J. Burroughs, author of The Boys of ’58, have books that will make you laugh. Alan Zendell, author of The Portal,Wednesday’s Child, and Critical Focus, touches on dystopian futures, time travel twists, and political intrigue.

So please take a look at the booths and authors and their fabulous books! It’s going to be a fun four days. And special thanks to Kayla Curry for organizing the event!

Now here’s my first featured author!

Professional trumpeter and teacher Sam Bennett has written a fictionalized memoir about his more than two decades of teaching trumpet lessons house to house.

He taught the private lessons during his 20s and 30s in suburbs just outside Chicago. Only one decade later, Bennett had already accumulated enough humorous stories for a good-sized book. After years of cajoling, his wife, Ann, convinced her husband to sit down at a keyboard and write a book which simply had to be read.

Bennett, who is a band teacher during the week and performs as a professional musician on the weekends, began writing the book while he was out of school for the summer and continued writing on the weekends into fall and winter.

Print and e-versions of Memoirs of a Trumpet Teacher can be found at www.amazon.com, www.books.google.com/ebooks, and www.barnesandnoble.com.

The book can also be ordered through retail book sellers.

Information about the book and the author can also be found at the publisher’s Web site: www.martinsisterspublishing.com.

Sounds like an interesting book! I was in band all through school and have fond memories of my band teachers. I’m betting there are some great stories in this one.

What do you think of the book? Got any band stories to share?