Friday, April 8, 2016

Virtual #BookTour ~ LOVE & HAPPINESS ~






LOVE & Happiness by Ben Burgess Jr.

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Ben Burgess
Jr. (April 23, 2015)


Language: English

ISBN-10: 0988374544

ISBN-13: 978-0988374546





Karen has it all: a handsome husband, beautiful twin daughters, a lovely home and a great job. Karen also has a secret; she’s cheating on her husband, with not one man, but two. 


On the outside her life seems perfect, but on the inside Karen feels neglected, bored and unappreciated. Yearning for affection and excitement, she falls into the arms of first Raheem and then
Tyrell. Out of fear of losing her husband and breaking up her family, Karen ends the affairs but things don’t turn out how she planned. When Karen’s dirty secrets are revealed she must fight to keep her family together. 

Chris is doing all he can to hold his marriage together. He loves Karen but she grows more distant every day. When she starts coming home later and later, he suspects she is being unfaithful. When Chris accidentally takes her cell phone what he finds changes their lives forever. 


When tragedy strikes, Karen must decide if she should sacrifice her happiness for her husband’s love, and Chris wonders if he should stay with Karen because he still loves her despite her infidelity. But
if they do stay together, will they ever find love and happiness again? 

Sexy and relatable, insightful and inspiring, Love and Happiness shows us both sides of Chris and Karen's story, and reminds us that sometimes to have it all, you must first lose it all.



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ABOUT BEN BURGESS JR:


Ben Burgess Jr. is the author of the award winning novels Monster, Wounded, the poetry book Times Have Changed and Life is Strange and the new novel Love and Happiness He is an active performer of spoken word poetry. 


Ben uses his love of writing to inspire and influence youths to strive for what they believe in, and to never give up on their dreams. His poetry book Times Have Changed and Life is Strange and his novel Monster are currently used in schools on the lower east side of Manhattan.


Ben Burgess has a BA degree in Business Management, and a MA degree in Educational Leadership.
He is the proud father of his daughter Jaelynn and is active in trying to improve urban neighborhoods and communities.



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Sunday, March 6, 2016

#NewRelease #Romance ~ SWEET INDULGENCE

The Silicon Beach Trilogy continues with Becca and Leo's story...


SWEET INDULGENCE


The Silicon Beach Trilogy continues with Becca and Leo's story...


Becca Markham spent the last six years trying to please everyone else. Now it's her turn. She ditches her cheating boyfriend, quits her high-stress job as a software engineer, and decides to transform her life-long love of baking from a part-time hobby into a full-time business.

Leo Kogan spent years scrambling to escape a life of poverty—first in Russia, then in the U.S. Now a successful surgeon, he needs just one thing to complete his American dream: the perfect woman. But making the leap from casual friends to lovers proves harder than he expects.

Despite a sizzling attraction, Becca and Leo don't see eye to eye—especially when it comes to love and money. She’s looking for sex without strings; he wants a partner for life. She stakes her future on a risky new business; he’s obsessed with financial security.

Can love bring two headstrong people together…or will their differences end up tearing them apart?


Release date: MARCH 25, 2016

(Read for Free on Kindle Unlimited)


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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Updates (In case you were wondering…)

I’ll be the first to admit: I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. Why? Because too much has been happening in real life lately, and there’s only 24 hours in a day…

Here are some of the highlights:

  • NEW BOOK! Sweet Indulgence, book 2 in my Silicon Beach Trilogy, is coming out in late March! Wait…what trilogy? Yep, you heard it here first: I’ve renamed the Kogan/Lazarev series. Somehow, Kogan/Lazarev just doesn’t roll off the tongue easily, as some of you pointed out.  The series still follows the interconnected lives of the Kogan and Lazarev families, but hopefully with less head scratching over some of those foreign-sounding words. Which leads me to my next news item…

  • GLOSSARY!  Break out the fireworks! Yes, there is now a glossary included at the end of each book in the Silicon Beach Trilogy. When you grow up in a dual language household like I did (in my case, it was Russian and English), it’s easy to forget that not everyone understands what you’re talking about when you pepper your speech with foreign words. Now that I live in California, I hear it done all the time with Spanish and English—there’s even a term for it: Spanglish. With Russian and English, though, it sounds a little more awkward…what would you call it? Russlish? Englian? Anyway…for those of you who haven’t picked up the first book in the series, Beyond the Ivory Tower, have no fear: all those pesky terms are now explained in the handy-dandy glossary at the end of the book. For those who’ve read the book already and are still curious, I’ve attached a copy of said glossary at the end of this post. And book 2, Sweet Indulgence, will for sure include a glossary! (Though as you many notice from the length of the glossary, there aren’t that many words in Russian in either book….Much as I loved A Clockwork Orange, I’m no Anthony Burgess, and my books are romances, after all, not dystopian social-political satire.) 

  • GOING WIDE! Thanks to everyone who’s been asking when my books will be available in stores other than Amazon…I’m pleased to say: Now! Without a Net, Coming Home, and Balancing Act are now available on iTunes, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo....

The Santa Monica Trilogy, Book 1 by Jill Blake

Without a Net now available on...





The Santa Monica Trilogy, Book 2 by Jill Blake

Coming Home now available on...




The Santa Monica Trilogy, Book 3 by Jill Blake

Balancing Act now available on...




  •  TRANSLATIONS! If you’d like to read my books in Portuguese or Italian, now you can! Thanks to the amazing Andreia Barboza, the Santa Monica Trilogy is now fully available in Portuguese. Without a Net is out in Italian, courtesy of the lovely Sarah Ferarri, and Coming Home will be available in Italian this summer. If you have friends in Brazil, Portugal, or Italy who love romance, please spread the word. Obrigada! Mille grazie!

Paixao Inesperada by Jill Blake

Without a Net (Paixão inesperada)
available from:



De Volta Para Casa by Jill Blake
Coming Home (De volta para casa)
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Balancing Act (Ponto de equilíbrio)

available from:



Senza Freni by Jill Blake
Without a Net (Senza Freni - trilogia di Santa Monica, libro #1)

available from:



And now, without further ado, from Beyond the Ivory Tower....


GLOSSARY (RUSSIAN-ENGLISH)



Chort poberi - Damn (Literally, “Devil take it”)
egoist - egotist, arrogant man
Kakaya yerunda - What nonsense
Nichevo sebe - Wow
On takoi babnik – He’s such a playboy
Yesli’b ya skazal chto ya luchshiy hirurg v mire, togda ya bil bi egoistom – If I’d said I’m the best surgeon in the world, then I’d be an egotist.