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Whispers Series - Book Tour and Giveaway

12/28/2018

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You're Not Alone
Whispers Series Book 1
by Nance Newman
Genre: Paranormal Mystery

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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it. Nothing more. At least that’s what Quinn O’Reilly thinks until she starts hearing whispers after losing the love of her life to cancer. Quinn either has to start believing in an afterlife or admit that her own sanity is in jeopardy. As a battle begins for her beloved’s estate, threatening her with financial ruin, the voices intensify. 

To make them stop, Quinn and her best friend Chaz follow an unlikely mix of characters into the world of spirits, ghosts and specters. What they must do to unravel the mystery of the whispers tests Quinn’s belief system in every way. Can the dead really reach out from the other side? Can Quinn open her mind enough to help her and her dead lover? Is it okay to commit a crime for a greater purpose? And what is appropriate attire for a séance or digging up a grave?



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Bad Man, Bad Ghost
Whispers Series Book 2

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Finding clues in the shoes of a dead man in a coffin wasn’t what Quinn thought she would do when she became a mortician. She also didn’t expect the bodies that entered her funeral home to have lived their lives as bad men or to whisper their requests to her—not only demands that she has to fulfill to get them to stop, but ones that might lead her to commit acts on the wrong side of the law.
The spirit of a mob boss has entered Quinn O’Reilly’s funeral parlor and his whispers drag her into a world of criminals, secrets and lies. Once again, she enlists the help of her friends—Andjela, a communicator with the dead, Mr. Princeton, a professor of Egyptian studies at the local university, Chester, the owner of the town cemetery and Chaz, her best friend and assistant—to find the clues that will lead her to what the dead man wants. She realizes that she can’t answer the whispers alone which force her to put her friends in danger. 
Soon she finds it’s not only the dead Mafia boss that wants something from her, but so does his wife, his mistress and strange, dark men in dark suits.
To make matters worse, Quin is realizing that the whispers of spirits aren’t going to go away. Neither is the specter that still haunts her apartment. 



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Dirty Wrong
Whispers Series Book 3

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Eleanor’s spirit is doing a lot of griping in Quinn’s funeral home. She was the wife of a member of the Mafia who was murdered several years prior and now she wants something from Quinn. Her best friend nicknamed her “Mafia magnet” since this is the second spirit to contact her who is connected to the mob. She knows she is destined to a life of answering their ghostly requests but she wonders if all the spirits that contact her will always be on the wrong side of the law.
Once again, Quinn must put her friends in danger to help her decipher the clues Eleanor’s spirit has communicated to them. It leads them to the now defunct, dark, and foreboding subway tunnels beneath the city where they discover they’re not the only one’s searching for whatever Eleanor has hidden. There’s a war going on in the tunnels and they can’t tell who’s winning—the ghosts or the Mafia. What will happen if the war in the tunnel keeps them from finding the answers to Eleanor’s clues? Will the price they have to pay for being in the middle of it be too much for Quinn to handle? 



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Sound Travels
Whispers Series Book 4

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Once again, Quinn hears the whispers of the dead, but when it follows her on a trip to New York City with Andjela and Chaz to help her parents find a missing girl, Quin realizes the whisper is that of the missing girl, Sofia. 
The niece of Eleanor, the last spirit to elicit Quinn’s help, Sofia had somehow gotten mixed up in her family’s Mafia mess. Now she is dead. 
Quinn summons Mr. Princeton and Chester to New York City to help them communicate with Sofia. Together, they must follow the clues to find Sofia’s body and the cause of her death. 
Who is really responsible for the murder of a young girl? What was Sofia hiding that got her killed? Will Quinn and her friends find her and what it was she was hiding? 
And why are there two different black SUV’s that show up where ever they are? 
Follow Quinn, Andjela, Mr. Princeton, Chester and Chaz into two very menacing worlds-that of the Mafia and of the dead, and discover the newest hiding spot—a very large hole in Brooklyn.



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I live in upstate New York with my two dogs; a 17 year old Min Pin (Zeus) and a female dog I recently rescued from the Puerto Rico hurricanes (I have been learning Spanish and she is learning English!). Her name is Ela and she is a joy.
I have been writing in some form or other since high school when I bought my first guitar (a 12 string for $50 from one of those magazines my mother used to receive in the mail) and began writing songs. In college, I started my first novel that I hope to go back to and finish someday.
I currently work for a school district in transportation as a router and dispatcher where I use software to solve the puzzle of getting 5600 students to many different schools, but my goal is to become a full time writer of novels and music. I try to fit writing in with my full time job and hobbies that include biking, gardening, hiking, kayaking and watching movies (lots of them and all kinds)
I continue to write songs and perform with Dooley(my music partner) We have a CD of original songs and it is available for your enjoyment. Visit me at nancenewman.com to check it out.
I am really excited to share my work with you, and some days you might see me driving a big yellow school bus.



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Facts Mixed with Fantasy in the Whispers Series

Ideas, Ideas, Ideas


I have been writing since high school. The first thing I wrote, other than a journal, was a song. I bought my first guitar from a magazine and have been playing and singing ever since. I wrote my first novel while I was in college, but never finished it. Throughout my life, I have written many songs and with my singing partner, we put out a CD of some of our originals a few years ago. One of the songs we are most proud of was one she wrote during chemo and radiation for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She started to lose her hair and rather than be depressed about it, she wrote a great, fun poem that we put to music. We performed it several years after that at the Cancer’s Survivor Celebration at the hospital where she had treatment.
About seven years ago, I took a creative writing course from a friend of mine who is an established lesbian romance author. It was then I began to write my stories. Ideas for my books come from everywhere—experiences, movies, visiting places, dreams, and sometimes just my imagination.
I started with You’re Not Alone. The idea came to me from something my mother went through. Turning the series into a mystery with the ghosts being part of the Mafia came to me after meeting a man who managed a fast food restaurant. I’m not a fast food junkie, but I went every week with my family and mostly to hear the stories of this man who befriended my mother. Heartwood came from my love of camping and the Adirondack Mountains.
I start with my ideas and start to research the Internet for things that might connect to my idea. Often, it takes a lot of googling before I find what I’m looking for. For example, for my book Heartwood, I began to google everything about trees-the kind of trees in the Adirondacks, things associated with trees, diseases, why we need trees, etc. All of this added genuine value to the story from the names of the characters to information on Forest Dieback and the value of trees.
The actual premise for the Whisper series was communicating with the afterlife. I had a lot of fun googling for this from Tarot cards, to séances to Egyptian Studies. I found the Spells of the Book of the Dead and introduced a character who is a professor of Egyptian Studies and was adept at re writing these spells to work during sciences. With the fourth book in the Whisper’s series, I was researching places in New York City and Brooklyn where the Mafia lurked. I found a tour you can take in Brooklyn just for this purpose and one of the stops was The Hole—a place where it is said they buried some bodies.
I think my favorite thing about writing is taking my ideas and stretching them and molding them into the stories they become, and I know I’ll be doing this for a very long time!



​​Location, Location, Location
In the Whisper’s series, a paranormal mystery series, I used my home town Rochester as the main setting for the first book. However, each book after that takes place in a different location. This series started out as a story about a woman losing her love to cancer and his spirit trying to contact her to help her out. But the next three books take on a more ominous feeling. The only ghosts that contact the protagonist are those that were involved with the local Mafia. It’s immoral and unlawful ghosts meeting the Mafia putting our protagonist in the middle
So when I was looking for a place to hide some valuable Mafia stolen items, I was on another camping trip during which my friends and I visited the Lockport Tunnels and Cave. If you’re ever near there, go see it. It’s fascinating and scary at the same time and it was a perfect setting for the second book. In the third book, I visited the defunct subway tunnels of Rochester, New York and it is pitch black and very scary down there. It was perfect! The third book takes us to a place I found on line in Brooklyn, New York where it is rumored the Mafia used to bury bodies. It is a place called “The Hole”. Literally a small community that is sunken in the middle of Brooklyn due to being too close to the water table.
I have found this is my favorite genre to write in, so look for more novels that take real live places and real facts and weave them in and out of my magical and fantasy ideas!



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43 Comments
James Robert
12/28/2018 05:58:53 am

Always fun to hear about another new great book. Thanks for sharing!

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:44:23 pm

This was a fun series. I was inspired by a man I met in a fast food restaurant who was involved with the Mafia. I got lots of great stories and ideas!

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Rita Wray
12/28/2018 10:17:27 am

Sounds like a good series.

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:44:51 pm

I hope you get a chance to enjoy them!

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lynn clayton
12/28/2018 11:17:42 am

oh love the cover looks like a great read thank you

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:45:29 pm

Thank you. I hope you get a chance to read the series and enjoy the stories!

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Calvi n
12/28/2018 02:09:18 pm

Nice spooky read to end the year off.

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:46:55 pm

I really enjoyed writing the series and am busy working on the next book!

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wendy hutton
12/28/2018 02:35:33 pm

great cover, looks very mysterious

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:47:40 pm

Thank you. I found a lot of great mysterious, real places to write the stories about!

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Kelly Nicholson
12/28/2018 02:50:02 pm

What do you think of the books or the covers?

a gjost from a wishing well that you can't see

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Debbie P
12/28/2018 04:17:03 pm

This sounds like my kind of book and I can't wait to read it.

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:49:18 pm

I hope you enjoy them. I had a lot of fun writing the series and researching places to write about.

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Mood Reader
12/28/2018 06:28:25 pm

The whole series sounds good!

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Nance Newman
12/29/2018 02:50:12 pm

I hope you get a chance to read them. I had a lot of fun writing the series and I'm working on the next installment.

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Dale Wilken
12/28/2018 11:32:22 pm

Series sounds really great.

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:50:42 pm

Thank you. I hope you get a chance to read the series!

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heather
12/29/2018 02:23:17 pm

I really love the book cover they look so mysterious.

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Nance Newman link
12/29/2018 02:51:23 pm

Thank you! I hope you get a chance to read them.

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SHERRY
12/29/2018 08:15:42 pm

This sounds like it will be a very good series.

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Nance Newman link
12/31/2018 09:58:04 am

I hope you get a chance to read it and tell me what you think about it!

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Tammy
1/1/2019 02:52:41 pm

These sound so good I love the covers.

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Nance Newman link
1/2/2019 02:21:02 pm

Thank you! I do hope you get a chance to read them!

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bn100
1/2/2019 10:53:03 pm

interesting cover

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Ann Fantom
1/4/2019 10:04:17 am

I like the covers. Very nice!

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Nance Newman link
1/4/2019 02:12:21 pm

Thank you! I wanted something that represented the ghost in each book!

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Carolle Hall
1/5/2019 02:28:54 pm

Book cover is nice

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Nance Newman link
1/6/2019 06:44:16 pm

Thank you! I hope you get a chance to read them!

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Bea LaRocca
1/7/2019 06:03:45 am

Congratulations on the tour and thank you so much for the guest post and giveaway. Love the book covers and the synopses are intriguing. This sounds like an awesome series!

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Nance Newman link
1/11/2019 02:37:36 pm

Thank you so much for the kind words. I hope you get to read the series. I am at work on the next book and each one seems to be more fun than the one before it!

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Gwendolyn Jordan
1/9/2019 11:26:45 am

I like the cover

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Nance Newman link
1/11/2019 02:38:07 pm

Thank you. I hope you get a chance to read them.

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Anna Nguyen
1/12/2019 04:14:08 pm

very interesting sounding book

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Nance Newman link
1/15/2019 01:05:38 pm

I hope you get a chance to read them!

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Lavender
1/14/2019 09:25:17 am

The covers do a great job of conveying mystery & creepy!
I like reading these type of books because I'm too curious yet chicken to watch ghost shows/movies. So it's a happy compromise.

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Nance Newman link
1/15/2019 01:05:08 pm

Awesome! Thank you for the compliment on the covers. I hope you get a chance to read them. I'd love to hear what you think.

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peggy sue greco
1/17/2019 02:14:17 pm

The cover is definitely a little scary but story looks worth reading

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Francine Anchondo
1/21/2019 11:03:21 am

I like all the covers.

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Mary Songer
1/21/2019 02:23:15 pm

I like the covers. The images of the ghosts are well done and eye catching and I like that you used the same cemetery on each cover. Great premise for a series. You have so many options for stories. Congratulations.

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Celeste Herrin
1/24/2019 07:52:05 am

Oh wow, now these are my kind of books! You definitely have my interest.

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Daniel M
1/24/2019 06:29:23 pm

like the cover

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Corey Hutton
1/28/2019 10:40:28 pm

Good luck with the book and Thanks for the giveaway.

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Jerry Marquardt
1/28/2019 11:23:41 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including the
Whispers Series, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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