Daily Archives: December 1, 2020

The Chennai Killingsby Chital Mehta

Inspector Vikram Rathi is battling memories of his sister’s brutal murder that has rendered him sleepless nights. But it is the recent murder of a young woman in Chennai that takes Vikram on a journey of buried secrets, complicating his already messed up life. As he ventures further, Vikram comes close to unravelling his sister’s murderer. Is Vikram prepared to learn the secrets that will finally put his doubts to rest? But what if these secrets threaten to change his life forever and question everything that he ever believed in? Chital Mehta’s latest mystery novel is all about discovering dangerous secrets lurking inside human minds, set against a backdrop of Chennai, India’s megalopolis.

The Other Side of Goodbye: A Thriller (Norman Green Book 1)by Ben Follows

From the author of Blind River and the Absence of Screams comes a new mystery you won’t be able to put down!

Norman Green is a disgraced former professional athlete turned private investigator. He has created a career out of working for those the police have turned their back on. The only people he won’t work with are child abusers, rapists, and journalists.

However, when Robin Sweetwater, a journalist working for the same paper that destroyed Norman’s athletic career, comes begging for help, Norman finds himself dragged into the same web of lies and deception that destroyed his life once before.

In order to find the truth surrounding the alleged suicide of Robin’s younger brother, a star athlete himself, Norman will need to wade through the dark depths of his past and unravel a conspiracy stretching farther than he could ever have imagined.

Lord of All Thingsby Andreas Eschbach

Winner of the 2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best German science fiction novel, Lord of All Things is also a story about love against all odds.

They are just children when they meet for the first time: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress’s son. One day, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world. An unprecedented idea of how to sweep away all differences between rich and poor.

When Hiroshi runs into Charlotte several years later, he is trying to build a brighter future through robotics. Determined to win Charlotte’s love, he resurrects his childhood dream, convinced that he can eradicate world poverty by pushing the limits of technology beyond imagination. But as Hiroshi circles ever closer to realizing his vision, he discovers that his utopian dream may contain the seeds of a nightmare–one that could obliterate life as we know it.

Crisscrossing the globe from Tokyo to the hallowed halls of MIT to desolate Arctic islands and Buenos Aires and beyond–far beyond–Lord of All Things explores not only the dizzying potential of technology but also its formidable dangers.

Believe Meby KEN MCGEE

Ben Ford is not leading his best life. A college dropout, he moved with a girlfriend to Alabama, only to be dumped six months later for his lack of ambition. That same inertia keeps him in a job moving furniture instead of returning to Saint Louis, until he learns that an uncle has died and left him something in his will. Although that something is quite a significant amount of money, he unearths another mystery that could prove much more lucrative. It appears that his uncle had an object that Anna Dare, a local woman who claims to be a Prophet of God because she won the Powerball twice, desperately wants to get her hands on. Others seem to want it as well and are anxious to buy it or take it by force. His problem is to find It and get his big payday before someone finds it first or kills him.

Take A Chance On Meby Weston Parker

Not all alpha males are assholes.

But the guy that messed up Tiffany’s self-image sure as hell was.

This beautiful, curvy woman has held my imagination captive since the day she started working with me.

She has no idea how gorgeous, powerful, and intelligent she is.

But that ruse is up.

I’m going to tell her. Show her. Press that truth upon her until she sees herself like I do.

I haven’t been with a woman since losing my wife around the holidays, but it’s time to give love a second chance. My son and I are ready to have a family again.

Now I just need to convince her to take a chance on me.

It’ll be the best decision of her life.

I’ll make sure of it.

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston

Lights, Camera, Sell: Sales Techniques for Independent Filmmakersby Alec Trachtenberg

Film producer and sales consultant Alec Trachtenberg argues that one must adopt a sales mindset in order to be successful as an independent filmmaker. By highlighting a variety of sales strategies that have worked for him in the world of startup technology companies, Alec shows how you can use the same sales strategies in every stage of filmmaking.

Whether you are a budding freelance cinematographer searching for your next gig, a first-time director ready to shoot your first feature-film, or an indie producer acquiring funding for your next project, Lights, Camera, Sell will teach you how to succeed through strategic sales techniques used by cutting-edge tech startup companies. Walking you through the five stages of the sales process, Alec shows you relevant case studies involving a variety of scenarios in the low-budget independent filmmaking process. Alec will teach you how to:

• Prospect a screenwriter and option a feature-length screenplay
• Lead a discovery call with a prospective domestic distributor
• Demonstrate value with a powerful pitch deck to a financier
• Close a deal with a non-union actor by creating an initial talent agreement outline
• Resolve conflicts with crew members by understanding the principles of relationship success

Lights, Camera, Sell will debunk the negative myths surrounding salespeople formed by our media and society, reveal best practices on asking the right questions, explain how to present your ideas and services in a compelling way, and more.