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Your June chance to win a signed advance “collectors item” copy of The Istanbul Puzzle +news
Last month’s winner was Alenette (comment 88). Please email me (lob@yourasms.com) your address and your prize will be posted anywhere in the world!
This month – to the end of June 2013 – I am offering a signed advance “collectors item” copy of The Istanbul Puzzle, posted anywhere in the world.
You have a chance of winning if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook, with your followers. You must comment below when you have done that to enter.
I truly appreciate your support.
I have submitted the final edited version of The Manhattan Puzzle. It feels good to be finished. The Manhattan Puzzle is due out October 10th in many countries. The truth about the puzzle and symbol in the series will be revealed in The Manhattan Puzzle.
I am now researching and writing the next installment in the series, The Nuremberg Puzzle. It will be released in 2014. All the puzzle series books feature the same characters, Sean and Isabel. They also feature a shocking plan for our future.
If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
If you want to buy The Istanbul Puzzle click here.
And if you want to buy the The Jerusalem Puzzle click here.
Each month, from now until October, one winner will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments below. So keep coming back if you don’t win!
And you can enter multiple times by sharing on Twitter and Facebook on multiple days and commenting on each day below, so you have multiple comments.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for buying my novels and for all your support.
I hope you win! And I hope you’ll enjoy The Manhattan Puzzle when it comes out!
A new month long chance to win signed copies of The Jerusalem Puzzle & The Istanbul Puzzle
Last month’s winner of a paperback copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle was Maggie Lloyd. Please email me (lob@yourasms.com) with your address!
This month – to the end of May 2013 – I am again offering a free copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle & a unique advance reader copy of The Istanbul Puzzle, both signed, posted anywhere in the world.
We expect to sign the contract to make a movie of The Istanbul Puzzle in the next few weeks, shooting to start within eighteen months, so I expect these signed copies will eventually become more valuable.
You have a chance of winning a free copy of both my published novels if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook please, with your followers. You must comment below when you have done that to enter.
I truly appreciate and am humbled by all your support.
I am working on finishing The Manhattan Puzzle. It is due out October 10th. I hope it will entertain and interest you. The truth about the puzzle will be revealed in The Manhattan Puzzle.
If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
If you want to buy The Istanbul Puzzle click here.
And if you want to buy the The Jerusalem Puzzle click here.
Each month, from now until October, one person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments below. So keep coming back if you don’t win!
And you can enter multiple times by sharing on Twitter and Facebook on multiple days and commenting on each day below, so you have multiple comments. I will take a look at any multiple comment winner shares to make sure this is fair for everyone.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for buying my novels and for all your support.
I hope you win! And I hope you’ll enjoy the movie!
Movie news & a new month long chance to win signed copies of The Jerusalem Puzzle & The Istanbul Puzzle
Last month’s winner of a paperback copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle was Jamison Duncan. Please email me Jamison (lob@yourasms.com) with your address!
This month I am offering a free copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle & a unique advance reader copy of The Istanbul Puzzle, both signed, posted anywhere in the world.
An exciting offer has come in from a Hollywood producer to make a movie of The Istanbul Puzzle, shooting to start within eighteen months, so I expect these signed copies will eventually become more valuable. But for now we keep our feet on the ground.
The competition will run for a month, until the 15th April 2013. You have a chance of winning a free copy of both my published novels if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook please, with your followers. You must comment below when you have done that to enter.
I truly appreciate and am humbled by all your support. If I can involve you in the movie making process I will, as I will be a script consultant. Get in touch if you have ideas, what scenes must stay in, who should play Sean and any other thoughts.
I am working on finishing The Manhattan Puzzle this week. It is due out October 10th. I hope it will entertain and interest you. The truth about the puzzle will be revealed in The Manhattan Puzzle.
If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
If you want to buy The Istanbul Puzzle click here.
And if you want to buy the The Jerusalem Puzzle click here.
Each month, from now until October, one person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments below. So keep coming back if you don’t win!
And you can enter multiple times by sharing on Twitter and Facebook on multiple days and commenting on each day below, so you have multiple comments. I will take a look at any multiple comment winner shares to make sure this is fair for everyone.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for buying my novels and for all your support.
I hope you win! And I hope you’ll enjoy the movie!
A month long chance of winning The Jerusalem Puzzle! & Last week’s winner.
Last week’s winner of a paperback copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle was danijcaile. Please email me Danij (lob@yourasms.com) with your address!
I am still running the competition for a free copy, but the competition will run for a month, until the 15th March 2013. You have a chance of winning a free copy of my novel if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook please, with your followers. Please comment below when you have done that to enter.
I appreciate all your support. I am working on three novels this year, which I hope will entertain and interest you!
If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
And if you want to buy the The Jerusalem Puzzle now, click here.
Next month one person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments. I will also run the same competition the following month so keep coming back if you don’t win!
And you can enter multiple times by sharing on Twitter and Facebook on multiple days and commenting on each day below, so you have multiple comments. I will take a look at any multiple comment winner shares to make sure this is fair for everyone.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for buying my novels and for all your support.
I hope you win!
Another chance to win The Jerusalem Puzzle! & last week’s winner.
Last week’s winner was cafe_oui. Please email me cafe_oui (lob@yourasms.com) with your address!
Once again I am running this competition for all those who haven’t won. You have a good chance of winning a free copy of my novel if you share this post on Twitter and Facebook please, with all your followers. Please comment below when you have done that to enter.
I truly appreciate all your support. I intend to give away almost every copy I got from my publisher, thirty in total. I will keep one for myself. So you do have a good chance of winning if you keep coming back and sharing.
If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
And if you want to treat yourself to The Jerusalem Puzzle, to buy it, click here.
Next Friday morning 1 person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments. I will also run the same competition the next week so keep coming back if you don’t win this week! I expect to give away 20 books in the end, so you do have a good chance.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for buying a paperback and for all your support.
I hope you win!
Now win The Jerusalem Puzzle & The Istanbul Puzzle!
Last week’s winner is Galina V. Please email me Galina (lob@yourasms.com) with your address!
This week I am offering a free signed Advance Reader Copy of The Istanbul Puzzle as well as the signed paperback of The Jerusalem Puzzle posted anywhere in the world. You have a chance of winning if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook please. Please comment below when you have done that to enter.
I appreciate all your support. I am working on three novels this year, which I hope will entertain and interest you!
Next Friday morning 1 person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments.
And now a quick ad! I have been directing most links recently to the ebook. But I would really appreciate if just a few more people would buy the paperback and bring it up from the ranking it’s currently at. Your link to buy is here or on the right.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for all your support.
I hope you win!
Almost the final chance of winning The Jerusalem Puzzle! & Last week’s winner.
Last week’s winner of a paperback copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle is Martin Troy. Please email me Martin (lob@yourasms.com) with your address!
I have been directing most links recently to the ebook. But now I would really appreciate if just a few people would buy the paperback and bring it up from the low ranking it’s currently at. Your link to buy is here or on the right.
I am still running the competition for a free copy as well. You have a good chance of winning a free copy of my novel if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook please, with your followers. Please comment below when you have done that to enter.
I appreciate all your support. I am working on three novels this year, which I hope will entertain and interest you!
If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
So if you want to treat yourself to The Jerusalem Puzzle now, click here.
Next Friday morning 1 person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments. I will also run the same competition the next week so keep coming back if you don’t win this week! I expect to give away 20 books in the end, so you do have a good chance.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for buying a paperback and for all your support.
I hope you win!
Your chance of winning my book even better now! & Last week’s winner.
Last week only nine people shared this post and one, Robin Cleary Moore won a copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle.
This week I expect about ten. So you have a good chance of winning a free copy of my novel if you share this post, on Twitter and Facebook please, with your followers. Please comment below when you have done that to enter.
I appreciate so much all this support. If you are a writer and want to be on my list for guest posts please email me: lob@yourasms.com and I will send you guidelines. I want us all to work together to promote our writing.
If you want to treat yourself to The Jerusalem Puzzle now, click here.
On next Friday morning 1 person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments. I will also run the same competition the following week so keep coming back if you don’t win this week! I expect to give away 20 books in the end, so you do have a good chance.
Thank you all for sharing this post and for all your support.
I hope you win!
Who profits from war? The truth behind The Jerusalem Puzzle
Bodies of some 400 Korean civilians lie in and around trenches in Taejon’s prison yard during the Korean War in Sept. 1950.
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” Smedley Butler the most decorated US Marine at the time of his death wrote that in an essay entitled, “War is a Racket,” back in 1935.
Smedley served all his life in the military, won two medals of honor during combat and saw first hand the horrors of war.
Currently, there are a lot of people profiting from war. Three of the largest arms manufacturers in the world are:
No 3. Beoing – 49% of their 2010 sales worldwide of $64.3 billion were arms related. They have about 160,000 employees and their main military products include the F-15 fighter jet.
No 2. BAE – achieved €32.9 billion of arms sales in 2010. They employ about 98,000 and their products include the Bradley fighting vehicle and the F-35 fighter jet.
No 1. Lockheed Martin – achieved $45 billion of arms sales in 2010. They employ 132,000 and their products include the F-16 and Trident nuclear missiles.
But maybe all this war machinery is a necessary evil.
But why then did US arms sales total $66.3 billion in 2011, more than three-quarters of global arms sales? Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals. We don’t need this level of arms sales.
To illustrate the growth and market for arms sales consider this, US arms sales to Saudi Arabia totaled $33.4 billion in 2011. That amount surpassed the entire total of US arms sales to all countries in the world in 2009, $31 billion.
Keep this in mind when you contemplate our future. The number one killer in history is governments. In the 21st century they killed 292 million people.
Smedley had this to say about how profitable war is, “In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. . . . new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the war.”
The trillion dollars a year that emerges from the US Defense Department doesn’t all end up in the pay of ordinary soldiers. Here’s who Smedley thought paid for all this.
“The general public shoulders the bill. And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.”
So have things changed since then?
Yes they have. These days our great arms companies sell their wares to debt ridden African countries, fearful Sheikhs and brow beaten allies to ensure their trough is filled higher and higher each year.
I don’t expect any of this to change soon, but I am fearful that new wars will be sought out by a military industrial machine which needs to keep production lines rolling, faster and faster.
The end of the Iraq war and the pullout from Afghanistan will lead to reduced demand for their goods, if they are not careful. The surge in spending by countries fearful of Iran must be maintained.
In my novel, The Jerusalem Puzzle, a plot to profit from war is described. My fear is that the people on both sides of this conflict will be the losers, sacrificial victims in the search for profits from the greatest racketeers the world has ever known.
Christmas winners and a new prize!
For this week there will be one new winner!
The winner in the next week will receive a signed paperback first edition copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle and a signed advance copy of The Istanbul Puzzle, 2 books, posted free to wherever you are in the world!
The winner will be among the first to receive the physical copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle.
The winners of the Christmas 3 day competition were Lorely, Suzan Lacey & Reeca. A copy of The Jerusalem Puzzle & The Istanbul Puzzle, all signed, will be on its way to you all soon. If you are reading this please email us your address Suzan and Reeca (lob@yourasms.com)!
And now we have a new competition for anyone who didn’t win!
All you have to do to enter is to share this page on Twitter or Facebook (both if you can!) and comment below to tell me what you have done.
On next Friday morning 1 person will be chosen using a random number generator from the list of comments. I don’t expect more than about 30 to do this so you will have a reasonable chance. I will also run the same competition the following week so keep coming back if you don’t win this week! I expect to give away 20 books in the end, so you do have a good chance.
And thank you all for sharing and for all your support. The Jerusalem Puzzle is still doing well in the Kindle charts, a great result for a new author this year.
And if you have read The Jerusalem Puzzle please go to Amazon and review it on the US site here or on the UK site here.
I hope you win!
