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Houston, TX – When the Saints Go Marching In (Insomniac Press) is the first book in the highly anticipated new series by author Anthony Bidulka. The fast paced thriller features a dynamic and original protagonist.
Readers will thrill to the quick action and quicker thinking demanded of Adam Saint, a Canadian Disaster Recovery Agent. A man-of-the-world adventurer, Saint lives a fast-paced, often dangerous, always exciting life. When a passenger train crashes in Detroit, terrorists blow up a public building in Belfast, a cyclone ravages Bangladesh, or Angola descends into civil war, if Canadians are there, so is the CDRA. And so is Adam Saint.
In When The Saints Go Marching In, you meet a character of satisfying depth and humanity. He’s a man whose best friend is killed. His wife is leaving him. His son hates him. Then comes the bad news. When a Sukhoi Superjet carrying a Very Important Person plunges from the sky over subarctic Russia, a Canadian Disaster Recovery Agent inspecting the crash site is murdered. CDRA sends in their best to investigate.
Saint’s Russian investigation is derailed when he receives devastating personal news. Suddenly, the penultimate man of action is thrown into emotional and physical turmoil that tests his moral fortitude. Thrust into a fight for his life, Saint undertakes a thrilling journey of danger and deceit from the bucolic prairies of Saskatchewan and high rise hijinks of corporate Toronto, through London’s outer boroughs, to steamy Southeast Asia and Sin City itself, Las Vegas.
Anthony Bidulka is best known for the beloved long-running series featuring another unique main character. The Russell Quant mysteries tell the story of a world-travelling, wine-swilling, wise-cracking, gay, Canadian, prairie private eye. The Quant series is a multi-award nominee including for the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award, ReLit Award and Saskatchewan Book Award. The series also won the prestigious Lambda Literary Award. Mystery Scene Magazine proclaimed: “Quant makes for a riveting hero…the kind of friend you want to have—unless you’re a killer.”
Anthony Bidulka has enjoyed time well-spent and misspent in the worlds of academia, accounting, footwear, food services, and farming. In 1999, Anthony Bidulka left a decade-long career as a chartered accountant to pursue writing. He has toured extensively and spoken at conferences and literary events throughout North America. Bidulka has served on the boards of The Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild, Crime Writers of Canada and the International Association of Crime Writers. He is an avid traveler, art collector and party giver who lives on the Canadian prairie.
When The Saints Go Marching In An Adam Saint Novel Insomniac Press Available for purchase online and at all fine booksellers in Canada, USA, UK ISBN-13: 978-1554831005
San Diego, CA – For young accident victims with facial burns, the pain never really stops. The stares, name-calling, teasing and cruelty of their peers create a sort of living hell for this special group of survivors. Lesia Cartelli knows this is true, because she lived through it herself. Her desire to heal from a serious burn injury over 50% of her face and body at the age of nine in a natural gas explosion encouraged her to create Angel Faces for girls who suffer similar disfiguring burns and other traumatic injuries. This year, the retreat is at Glen Ivy Resort in Corona, California on June 23-29, 2013.
During the week-long, intensive retreat, survivors hear first-hand from Cartelli about her injuries and the long road to recovery. The young women work closely with experts and meet others with similar struggles. They learn to use new tools that will help them become more confident and able to embrace what the world hands them. Most important of all, they are empowered and given hope that they can create the life they desire.
“The retreat is only one small component,” Cartelli explains. “We see the fruits of our labor when the girls go back home. We receive several calls and emails from the parents and medical centers about how confident and content their daughter/patient is since she has returned — she joined a sports or academic team at school or now is going to prom, or interviewing for a first job, ending their social death.”
This year the girls are coming from Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, Tampa, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Indianapolis, Portland, West Virginia, and even England.
Angel Faces® is a national nonprofit organization, headquartered in Encinitas, California, whose mission is to provide healing retreats and ongoing support for adolescent girls and young women with burn/trauma injuries to achieve their optimum potential and develop meaningful relationships for themselves, their families, and their communities.
The unique retreats and aftercare programs focus on the healing process within a holistic framework of mind, heart, and spirit. In addition to art therapy and private, corrective-cosmetic sessions, the program provides licensed therapists to help the girls through their loss and trauma issues, and provides the girls with strategies to handle staring and teasing. The goal of Angel Faces® is to offer a physical, spiritual, and emotional transformation so each girl walks away with a new confidence and a hopeful outlook toward the future with the skills to be excited about their life.
Boca Raton, FL – Dr. Emile Allen thought he had a near perfect life; he was an accomplished surgeon specializing in urologic oncology, with three successful practices and a wonderful life in Boca Raton, FL. That is, until the day he was operating to save a woman’s life and an accident nearly killed him.
Eaten by the Tiger: Surrendering to an Empowered Life (Inspire on Purpose Publishing) by Emile Allen, M.D., is the true story of what happened the day this brilliant surgeon was nearly electrocuted and the voice he heard while on the other side of his near-death experience. It clearly said, “I’m not ready for you yet. You have more work to do.” He had no way of knowing the long road back to physical and emotional recovery that was ahead. Years of pain, despair, and ultimately triumph awaited him on his transformative journey of self-discovery.
There were times Dr. Allen wanted to give up; he had gone from performing intricate surgical procedures to struggling with reading a book or just counting change. The accident not only changed his career and ability, it changed who he was. He had yet to realize the full significance of this incident and the impact it would have on the rest of his life.
He heard the voice again while undergoing extensive therapy for pain and infections during his recovery: “I’m not ready for you yet. You have more work to do.” But with all he cherished in life collapsing around him, what could the message mean? What could he contribute? It was only after a clinical psychologist helped him identify his struggles as challenges rather than problems, he went from being a victim of his circumstances to being the victor of his life.
Years later, in 2007, working as a medical consultant and still struggling with his loss he decided to attend a 10-day spiritual retreat in Fiji. One afternoon as he meditated, he again heard the voice only this time something else happened; he saw his own body sitting on the ground while his spirit was floating above the room. What felt like a few minutes was, in reality, more than an hour and afterwards he experienced heightened sensory perceptions of the world around him. Explaining to the Dasaji that he felt the peace of another world, the spiritual leader explained why he had earlier told Emile, “You have to let the tiger eat you in order for you to live.”
“Emile, you have been in fear of the tiger for so many years. You climbed a tree to get away from the tiger, but you grabbed a branch and would not let go . . . today you finally let go of the branch and had faith that God would catch you,” he said.
Dr. Allen is a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He completed his general surgery internship and urology residency at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. He is the former Chairman of Urology and Vice Chairman of Surgery at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA.
Eaten By The Tiger is a compelling collection of stories and insights acquired through personal experiences as surgeon, patient and son that can help anyone conquer their fear of the unknown and bring clarity to their life. As a highly respected inspirational speaker and author, Dr. Allen is sharing with the world a gift: a second chance at life – and touching more lives than he ever could have as a surgeon. For more information, please visit: www.eatenbythetiger.com .
Eaten By The Tiger: Surrendering to an Empowered Life by Emile Allen, M.D. Inspire on Purpose Publishing LLCN: 2012956492 Hardcover ISBN 10: 0988753308 Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-9887533-0-3
Mount Kisco, NY – ReTake Talent Search is an innovative company dedicated to helping all artists get the recognition they deserve, with particular emphasis on former television talent show contestants, and giving them a second chance at becoming tomorrow’s superstars.
Recently unveiling its new website, www.ReTakeTalentSearch.com, is a listing service that works equally well for newcomers to the music industry and established artists looking for additional exposure. ReTake has made it easier for anyone to access music, videos, images and performance schedules. The site also features an online community that will engage music fans from all around the world.
Headed up by Kenneth Schwartz, president, the company’s innovative marketing solutions will help artists promote and grow their business. The company offers free access to the site for fans, recognizing that it’s the fans that drive popularity and success, and have made it easier for fans to follow their favorite artists. As fans discover new music or follow their favorites, this will increase the popularity of the artist’s profile, also allowing artists to keep fans informed about new music, releases, promotions, concerts and shows.
What sets ReTake apart from other platforms is that their artists get far more exposure. Other sites handle millions of participants and are overloaded with so much information that their artists get lost in the confusion. ReTake positions their artists for success and gets them closer to their fan base. They offer promotional tools that no other directory site offers to their artists; for example, video marketing, social bookmarking and tweeting the artist’s message to large promotional accounts.
ReTake has eliminated the legwork and simplified the process. An artist just needs to go to the website at: www.ReTakeTalentSearch.com and create a profile, then start working with agents to get their music promoted – and watch as their exposure and fan base increases. ReTake is built for artist promotion with a goal to see everyone succeed and get a viable shot at a recording deal with a major record label!
Gilbert, AZ – Watching Sareena Dominguez delving into her talent is a dizzying experience. Previously signed to River Jones Music Label, the name is familiar to music fans in Arizona. Her voice has velvety depths and sweet, sometimes jazzy riffs as she performs original material, with an exotic and captivating stage presence. Dominguez is a prolific composer.
Growing up, her family had widely diverse tastes in music, from Michael Jackson to Marvin Gaye and everything in between. “With all those different types of music floating around the house, I have a hard time picking my favorite genre,” she says. “I love listening to Jack White and then jumping into John Mayer and then out of nowhere busting out some Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland. Changing genres up is just exciting. I’m this 80’s pop, old school soul music, Rat Pack-loving monster who always wants to write.”
Dominguez picked up a guitar in the seventh grade. “All the boys I was friends with were doing it. And I started to realize I had been surrounded by wonderful music all my life. It’s funny how that happens when you learn how to play an instrument. It’s like you are instantly a part of this musical universe that can only be unlocked when you bring a song to life.”
Her first album, “Moonbeams,” is a compilation of high school love songs. With a sophisticated style and poise uncommon for her age, she is now represented by KALM Talent Group.
“The experience of having people reach out and connect with my music has been unreal,” she says. “I am just this dormant volcano waiting to explode with an album of new music. I’ve morphed into this sassy, funky, jazzy, romantic, poppy, music playing girl,” she concludes with a laugh.
Mount Kisco, NY – After months of development, ReTake Artist and Music Listing and Promotion Service just unveiled its new website−a dedicated listing service for bands, singers, songwriters and musicians. Kenneth Schwartz, president of ReTake, announced the company’s commitment to signing former television talent show contestants who competed in shows such as American Idol, The Voice, and America’s Got Talent.
ReTake provides innovative marketing solutions to help artists promote and grow their business. “The website offers far more exposure than other popular platforms that typically handle millions of participants and whose artists tend to get lost in the confusion,” says Schwartz. “Instead, ReTake understands it is fans that drive popularity and success, so fans are free on our platform. As the fans discover new music or find out more about favorite artists, this will increase the popularity of the artist’s profile.” The company has made it easier for fans to follow their favorite artist and have likewise simplified the process for artists to keep fans informed about new music, releases, promotions, concerts and shows.
ReTake will be bringing in talent from all corners of the world. They offer unique features and their packages will be customized to the individual artist to have the maximum affect on their marketing and promotional success. Vigorous online advertising will draw venues, labels, managers and promoters who will have easy access to each individual artist’s music, videos, images and other key features. ReTake is built for artist promotion with a goal to see everyone succeed and get a viable shot at a recording deal with a major record label! For more information, please visit their website at: www.retaketalentsearch.com .
Mount Kisco, NY – KALM Talent Group remains inspired by the quality and range of untapped talent and the success of such young powerhouses as Justin Bieber whose rise to fame began on YouTube. In a world where fresh talent is being discovered and fostered in progressive new ways, including reality shows and the Internet, the time – and need — for an innovative up-to-date talent agency has arrived…and its name is KALM Talent Group.
Going outside the bounds of traditional methods for discovering new talent, KALM heavily utilizes the power of the Internet for everything from discovering and auditioning prospective clients, to presenting its growing roster of signed artists to major records labels via their website at: www.kalmtalentagency.com .
KALM is committed to identifying America’s finest contemporary musical talent and providing an environment that allows them to develop their skills, personally and as artists−generally doing whatever it takes to put their clients on top! As evidenced by the success of Sareena Dominguez, a truly gifted singer who already has two albums under her belt (please see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVQ0pRXJWs ), and the extraordinary talent of Oceanroyal, Lexi Ulmer and Katie Ekin, they are all rapidly becoming household names!
“Like the KALM before the storm, we make history and redefine the art of artist management as we take it to the next level in the present and future,” says Kerry Kessel, Founder and CEO of KALM Talent Group. “Our artists produce and perform original material and we help them not only find their voice but a worldwide audience to share it with.”
An accomplished entrepreneur and philanthropist, Kessel blended his keen business sense and desire to help others with his life-long passion for music into KALM. With a forward-thinking mindset, he created an agency that discovers and fosters fresh talent differently. He is a man of many interests and extraordinary drive who is committed to presenting the music industry with quality artists who have the ability to become the superstars they were born to be. For more information, please visit: www.kalmtalentagency.com .
