BPW: Spotlight on Jeff Pearce

Jeff Pearce has been writing professionally for his entire adult life, mostly because sales were disappointing when he worked on news articles as a toddler. He has worked in television and for magazines, both in his native Canada and in the UK. He has won several awards for his fiction and also written four non-fiction books on history, current events and pop culture. His latest releases can be found through Gallivant Books and you can follow his blog at http://jeffpropulsion.blogspot.com/


Bianca: The Silver Age

It’s the Age of the Paladins, the age of the so-called “Vigil-ebrities” who fight crime and protect the innocent as the world tries to recover from economic collapse. And on the streets of Bohemia, Bianca is trying to find answers to her unique chemistry. She’s a succubus, forever trapped in a cycle of lust and violence that affects her very survival.

But when she looks into the murder of a chemist responsible for the latest addictive gel, the trail leads to exotic cities, new allies and sinister criminal enemies, and a corporate conspiracy that threatens everyone on Earth. By the end of her journey, Bianca will join the ranks of the most famous Paladins in the world: Orson Hawkwood, the leader of Defenders Without Borders, the enigmatic Clerfayt, detective avenger of Paris, Thelonius Minh, the peculiar "shrink to the stars” and master of combat yoga and the creepy, disturbingly powerful Plague Man.

Enter the Silver Age and join a unique heroine on her first exciting quest!

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The Karma Booth

They say, “Executing a murderer won’t bring your loved one back.”

But now it can.

It’s terrifying. It’s devastating. It will change history, ethics, religion, science, everything. The Karma Booth. What are its terrible secrets? How does it work? And how can it be stopped?

Ethics consultant and ex-diplomat Timothy Cale is hired by the U.S. government to investigate this earth-shattering scientific breakthrough, and he better do it soon because the moral quagmires and complications are multiplying. Cale and his partner, London police detective Crystal Anyanike, must stop a powerful psychopath on a killing spree while searching for the elusive billionaire behind the Booth's invention, the one man with the answers to all their questions…

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Reich TV

The Germans had television in the early years of the Hitler regime. Now see what happens when TV changes the history of Nazi Germany and World War Two! It's a 1934 world of cell phones, social networks, early computer technology and more. The BBC has lured the Marx Brothers away from America to London so they can perform a variety show each week that's transmitted all the way into Berlin. Their producer is the young, hard-drinking, womanizing Dylan Thomas, who goes from hating foreign politics to being obsessed with stopping the Nazis.

Meanwhile, on the night of the Reichstag Fire, young English correspondent George Orwell manages to explore the ruins and makes a startling discovery: the burned bodies of five men handcuffed together, one of them a Brown Shirt and another a high-ranking army officer. Orwell has to team up with a roving band of pirate signal broadcasters to expose the truth about the fire-and the secret of a terrifying new weapon in Nazi hands.

Espionage, murder, sabotage and betrayal. They'll all be exposed on Reich TV, culminating in the most sensational trial of the century.

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Buddha on the Road

Burma is known as "The Golden Land." And for Brin Harper, Burma means golden memories from a youth spent in an exotic country with his mother, an accomplished diplomat. But today Brin Harper is an NYPD homicide detective haunted by his mother's suicide, and his grief is slowly eroding his relationship with his journalist boyfriend, Richard.

Now a set of vicious murders is about to dredge up secrets and bitter regrets from thousands of miles away and many years ago. The trail leads to a strange monk who doesn't behave at all like a holy man. Brin is faced with a range of suspects, including the American widower of dissident Marlar Swe, to his on-again, off-again lover, Aung, a quiet professor who has survived time in Burma's infamous Insein Prison.

As the killer claims more victims, each murdered in a fashion inspired by Burmese culture, Brin must confront his own past and play a duel of wits with the monk, trying to decipher what his role is in the case. And there are more disturbing personal revelations waiting for him than just exposing a psychotic murderer...

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Wild Trivia

1. I started my novel career writing erotica under female pseudonyms and won Britain's Best Erotic Writer of the Year award in 2006. My trophy, I'm told -- because it never arrived in the post, and I couldn't very well show up for the gala (yep, there really was a gala) -- was a golden phallus with wings. What the wings are supposed to do, I have no idea.

2. I've been a farm reporter without ever seeing a farm, written an article on trucking brakes when I don't drive, edited banking magazines when I can't balance a checkbook, written history books when I don't have a degree and ghostwritten editorials for an Indian newspaper when I'm certainly not from India.

3. I taught myself how to ride the unicycle. This involved a lot of falling down. Somehow, it has never delivered a second career option.

4. I turned down a chance to be one of the first radio hosts to interview Whitley Streiber when he released his alien abduction memoir, Communion. Dumb. It went on to become a bestseller.

5. I have the bizarre superpower of often being able to enter places without anyone bothering to check if I've paid to get in or have the right credentials.

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