
My good friend Lesia Valentine ("Val," to me) is a superb and natural writer. She's also a redhead, a cat lover, an accomplished astrologer, an avid gardener, a cook, and a real Southern lady. Her book, The Brokenhearted, will capture your heart.
Hearts define her life in numerous aspects - from broken hearts (in more ways than one) to a heart replete with powerful, stunning memories of a deep love lost through terrible tragedy. Her paranormal novel chronicles two amazing loves of her life - and a very difficult decision she had to make when confronted with a series of stirring and mysterical experiences.
Check out her site - and if you're a publisher, do yourself a favor and give her a call. She's ready to submit this baby soon. You'll make yourself a ton of money if you get to bid on it first. No kidding. It's powerful stuff.
Val agreed to host a virtual blog tour for Tremolo:cry of the loon, a coming-of-age mystery set in Maine in 1964. She read and helped me edit the book last year and I'm forever in debt to her for her wise and judicious suggestions. Thanks a million, Val!
Please stop by to read her review of Tremolo (reprinted below) and if you've time, check out the interview with me that she posted, as well.
Reprint of Val's review:
"This book is so cool I could eat it like ice cream. I felt like rolling down a hill in a big refrigerator box when I read it, and you will too, because Tremolo by Aaron Paul Lazar, is a nostalgic and adventurous romp through summer camp. After Gus crashes a boat into Big Blue, he and his blood “brothers,” Sigfried and Elsbeth, help search for a missing girl – a young girl they saw being chased by an enraged drunk the night before. Between swimming holes and horseback riding, slide shows and carnivals, Gus comes to grips with his crush on Betsy, a pretty waitress at the camp, and the jealousy he feels for the older William, who is determined to make her his own; as well as the new brother or sister Gus will soon have. There’s a mysterious guest in Cabin Fifteen, and some sinister-looking men in dark sunglasses lurking around. Chills, thrills, spills and danger lurk around every corner of this sylvan lake setting. Gus, Sigfried and Elsbeth manage to get into one dire predicament after another as they follow clues in their own search for the missing girl, as well as the mysterious guest’s missing cat, and Gus finds out what it’s like to be in mortal peril more than once. The denouement had me literally holding my breath. Tremolo makes me want to run down to the dock and splash in, clothes and all. Last one in is a rotten egg!"
- Lesia Valentine, Redheart Novels
Please take a moment to stop by and say Hi to her, and if you'd like to read the interview, click here.
This is just the start of a three month plus book tour. I'll let you know when the next one is live!
Warmest regards,
Aaron Paul Lazar



Comments: 16
Hi, Barbara. I'm lucky to have a friend like Val, too! Thanks!
I absolutely love Tremolo, and I know it will be a great success (followed by the success of the other eleven books you've written). Your time has come. Go out there and WOW them!
I would like to say sorry for taking a while to get to your article. I have been away from gather for a while and I am finally getting to the 3000 plus emails I have awaiting me on here to go through. so I am starting from the most recent received to the first I ever received.... So now I am finally able to read your piece. Thank you for sending me the link to this article.
Now second thing:
Once again very nice very nice... I seriously dont know what else to say about your pieces that I have already said... Ten for you...
I found you through Beryl, and now another! ;-)