3L Publishing's Great Summer Reads

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Are you looking for that great beach book? You know the one that is pure mind candy? Maybe you need a book for that long plane ride to your vacation hot spot. My company 3L Publishing has some great books for some summer reading fun -- mind candy, brain junk, escapist pleasure. So here are the new releases books out of the 3L catalog I recommend if you want to just lay on the beach and do a whole lot of nothing but read and not think.

Now this one is just gratuitous to promote, but it is the THE beach read of the summer releases. It's my book California Girl Chronicles, Brea's Big Brea. The second book picks up where book one, Brea and the City of Plastic (which you can get for .99 cents on Kindle on Amazon, click here). Brea has finally gotten her first screenwriting job, but what's a girl to do when she still can't get her dreamboat producer's forgiveness along with a myriad of other hot men to choose from, including the crazy rich playboy Ryan and the hunky actor Johnny. Of course beauty also has its price, and Brea finds herself being stalked and sexually harassed. This book goes a little deeper than the first one, but I promise you not by much. It's just a great piece of fluff -- pure beach-time fun. Order your print copy, click here. Brea's Big Break is available as eBook, too, on Kindle, Nook and iBook. Order your Kindle version, click here.

My personal favorite, which is being heavily promoted this season, is Vengeance is Now by Scott D. Roberts. This book is written in a unique style that shifts back and forth between the serial killer's point of view and the other character's viewpoints. It is layered in sub-plots and I defy any reader to figure out who is the killer. It's about a disgraced homicide detective Tate Holloway, who goes down as one of my favorite "F"-up characters. The author loves to create flawed characters, and he does a superb job in the irreverent Tate in whom he has created a masterful voice. I think of all of the fiction books in 3L's catalog, you will be very impressed with this one, as Roberts takes you on a tour de force action-adventure as Holloway quickly goes from being the hunter to the hunted in this fabulous erotic-thriller. Roberts has already received rave reviews on Amazon. Find out why by ordering your copy today (click here). The book is available as eBook, too, in Kindle, Nook and iBook. Watch for the second book in the Tate Holloway series to come out in 2014.

Are you an author? We are also running a great SUMMER SALE on our editorial services. Need your manuscript edited? Buy 20 hours of editing and get 5 FREE hours, which is nearly a $500 value. For more information, send an email to info@3LPublishing.com or call 916-300-8012.


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