Friday, December 5, 2025

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Student Athletes Series

 


Pressure hurting sports and homework? Here’s the fix — evidence-based guides for athletes, parents and coaches to calm nerves, compete better, and lift grades.


Mental Toughness for Student-Athletes

Student-Athlete Series Book 1

by Dobb Mayo

Genre: Non-Fiction, Sports Self-Help




🏆 Award-Winning Book — Winner of two Gold Medals in the 2025 Global Book Awards.

Mental Toughness for Student-Athletes

A proven playbook for student-athletes—and the parents, coaches, and mentors who guide them.

Every practice rep, every late-night study session, every high-pressure moment—it all comes down to this: Will you rise to the occasion or let doubt win?

Mental Toughness for Student-Athletes is your playbook for becoming the athlete who doesn’t just survive pressure, but thrives in it. Inside, you’ll discover proven strategies to:

Transform pre-game anxiety into laser focus
Reframe setbacks as fuel for growth
Balance academics and athletics without burning out
Build resilience and mental clarity that last a lifetime

📘 Unlike generic mental toughness books, this guide is built exclusively for student-athletes.

You’ll find real-world examples, actionable exercises, and insights from sports psychology—all backed by more than 300 research references—to help you perform when it matters most.

Whether you’re chasing a scholarship, a championship, or your personal best, this book will help you develop the unshakable confidence and inner drive that set elite competitors apart.

If you’re ready to take control of your performance and unlock your full potential, Mental Toughness for Student-Athletes is your essential first step.

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Overcoming Anxiety for Student-Athletes

Student-Athlete Series Book 2



"‘Tough it out’ isn’t a strategy—it’s a warning sign. Real mental toughness isn’t about ignoring anxiety or brushing off mental health struggles; it’s about understanding, managing, and using them to fuel performance.”

 

🏆 Award-Winning Book — Finalist in the 2025 Global Book Awards (Health: Counseling & Psychology)

 

Your athlete is disciplined, hardworking, and passionate about their sport. But when the pressure builds, self-doubt, fear of failure, and anxiety can hold them back more than any physical opponent. They push through, but at what cost?

You want to help—but where do you start? Ignoring mental health won’t make it go away—so how do we equip student-athletes with the tools to manage it and thrive under pressure?


As a sports psychology writer, former athlete, and parent of student-athletes, I understand the unique pressures young competitors face. This book isn’t just theory—it’s a research-backed, practical guide designed to help student-athletes manage anxiety, build confidence, and develop mental resilience. With proven techniques used by elite athletes, parents and coaches will gain the tools to support their athletes' mental health while helping them perform at their best—without burnout or fear holding them back.


Inside, You’ll Discover:

 5-Step Strategy to Manage Performance Anxiety – Simple, science-backed techniques to calm nerves before and during competition.
 Overcoming the Fear of Failure – Develop a growth mindset that turns mistakes into learning opportunities.
 Essential Mental Health Tools – Help student-athletes balance academics, athletics, and personal well-being without feeling overwhelmed.
 Strategies for Managing Setbacks & Injuries – Help student-athletes cope with challenges and bounce back stronger.
 Real-Life Case Studies from Athletes & Coaches – Learn how top performers overcame anxiety and built resilience.
 Communication Strategies for Parents & Coaches – Foster open, supportive conversations that empower athletes rather than adding pressure.
 How to Recognize Early Signs of Stress & Burnout – Spot red flags before anxiety impacts performance and well-being.


Will anxiety continue to control your student-athlete’s performance, or will they learn to master it? The choice starts here.


Dobb Mayo is a sports psychology writer, former athlete, and parent of student-athletes. With a passion for mental performance and sports nutrition, Dobb combines research-backed strategies with real-world experience to help student-athletes manage anxiety, build resilience, and optimize both mind and body for peak performance—on and off the field.


Anxiety doesn’t have to hold your athlete back. Give them the tools to manage stress, build confidence, and perform at their best—starting now.


📖 Click “Add to Cart” to help your student-athlete take control today!

  

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Dobb Mayo is an award-winning nonfiction author and entrepreneur focused on sports psychology and performance nutrition for student-athletes. A biologist and editor-in-chief of RateYourSupplements.com, Dobb turns evidence into practical playbooks that help athletes—and the parents and coaches who support them—manage anxiety, sharpen focus, and excel in both sport and school.

 

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

*Cover Reveal* Cursing Cupid

 


Title: Cursing Cupid

Author: Harper A. Brooks

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Cover Designer: Cangxxx

Publication Date: Feb. 14, 2026

Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR

Blurb: 

This paranormal romance short story will be featured in the CURSED LOVE anthology!


Lyra has spent her life hunting what shouldn’t exist, so when the Order of the Ashen Flame sends her to kill the Dark One--a fallen angel who steals the souls of innocent women--she doesn’t hesitate. Her arrow hits its mark, but instead of killing him, it binds their fates. Now, tied to the creature she was trained to destroy, she’s quickly realizing that his blackened heart may be the only one that truly understands her own... and that terrifies her more than any monster ever could.


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Harper A. Brooks lives in a small town on the New Jersey shore. Even though classic authors have always filled her bookshelves, she finds her writing muse drawn to the dark, magical, and romantic. But when she isn't creating entire worlds with sexy shifters or legendary love stories, you can find her either with a good cup of coffee in hand or at home snuggling with her furry, four-legged son, Sammy.

She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

RONE Award Winner

USA TODAY Bestselling Author

International Bestselling Author

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*Release Tour & Giveaway* Greed

 


Some desires can't be satisfied... only claimed.


Greed

7 Deadly Sins MC #4

by Kay Maree

Genre: Dark MC Romance



PAYTON
Greed – Defined by the dictionary as an excessive and insatiable desire for more wealth, power, or possessions than one needs.
I’m not the type of girl who wants or needs all that.
The only thing I am greedy for is my freedom.
Freedom to live.
Freedom to be free.
But...
Darkness is my burden.
It clings to me daily, trying to drag me down into its cold clutches.
I do my best to fight its pull, but sometimes surrendering to its power is more alluring than living in fear.
Pain = Love Bear or Man?
Being with another man scared me more than the darkness chasing me, but then I met him...
He knocked down all my carefully constructed walls...
He unlocked all my dark fantasies I had kept hidden for so long, and he savoured every single one, stoking the fire to a crescendo that living without him now wasn’t an option.
Jag was my Dark Broken Angel...
The man who brought me back to life.



JAG
Payton came waltzing into my life with a broken smile that drew me in.
Had me craving things I had blocked out years ago.
In her mind, Love = Pain, and I was on a mission to prove her wrong at every turn, even if that meant watching her from the shadows until she was ready for me...
Us.
One sheltered look lured me in.
One kiss brought me back to life.
All her dark fantasies she locked away, afraid to set free, were now mine.
Payton is my imperfect, perfect sin...

 

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Kay Maree is a mother and a wife. Born and raised in Newcastle, NSW Australia.

Her passion was to show her children that you are never too old to make your dreams come true.

Which is what lead her to write and publish Angel Mine in 2017.

With support from her family and friends, Kay has managed to accomplish something she never thought she could.

And she just hopes you fall in love with her characters as much as she has.

 

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

*Cover Reveal & Giveaway* A Hundred Black Sunrises

 


Check out this fateful cover reveal! 


A Hundred Black Sunrises

A Friday the 13th Story

by Tamela Miles

Genre: Dark Paranormal Romance


A hundred different ways to break your heart, a hundred different ways to take your last breath.

Sienna and Finn are exploring their strange attraction to each other until strange becomes something sinister. The clock is ticking as they fight to unravel the mystery of what draws them together on fateful Friday, the 13th.

 

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Tamela Miles is a California State University San Bernardino graduate student with a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Development and a former flight attendant. She grew up in Altadena, California in that tumultuous time known as the 1980s. She now resides with her family in the Inland Empire, CA. She’s a horror/paranormal romance writer mainly because it feels so good having her characters do bad things and, later, pondering what makes them so bad and why they can never seem to change their wicked ways.

She enjoys emails from people who like her work. In fact, she loves emails. She can be contacted at tamelamiles@yahoo.com or her Facebook page, Tamela Miles Books. She also welcomes reader reviews and enjoys the feedback from people who love to read as much as she does.

 

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*Book Tour & Giveaway* Born Like This-GUEST POST

 


She went back in time to rescue him.

She never counted on falling in love…


Born Like This

Maizemerized Book 2

by Maggie Blackbird

Genre: Historical Paranormal Time-Travel Romance



She went back in time to rescue him.  She never counted on falling in love…

Alma Whitecrow prefers hunting and fishing with men, not romancing them. But hearing about the roguishly handsome coureur de bois, who saved her sister from the Dakota, haunts her thoughts and dreams. Well-versed in surviving the wilds, Alma resolves to travel to the mid-eighteenth century, as her sister once did, to save the man from impending death.

Charlot Baudelaire thumbs his nose at society’s expectations, content living as a loner, trading with people he calls the Saulters. If he needs a woman for the night, there is always a willing maiden. What he doesn’t expect is a spunky and stubborn female warrior to challenge him.

Charlot is not the man Alma dreamed about, and Alma is not the kind of woman Charlot pursues. But the longer they are together, the more drawn to each other they become, until Alma faces the biggest decision of her life. Stay with a man who may never reciprocate her love, or return to her Ojibway home and bland existence.

 

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Born For This

Maizemerized Book 1



She’s always been obsessed with her ancestors, and now he’s offering her a chance to live with them... forever.

Second-year university student Edie Whitecrow gobbles up each course on Indigenous studies. If only she could experience the lives of her Anishinaabe ancestors instead of reading about them. On her way to a Halloween party decked out as a historical Ojibway maiden, she spies a corn maze in a spot known to be barren.

A scarecrow figure beckons Edie to enter with the enticing offer of making her biggest wish come true. She jumps at the chance and finds herself in the past, face to face with the man who haunts her dreams—the handsome brave Thunder Bear. He claims he’s spent twelve years waiting for Gitche Manidoo to send her to him.

Life in the eighteenth century isn’t what Edie romanticized about, though. When her conscience is tested, she must choose between the modern day or the world of her descendants—where the man she was born for resides.

 

What readers are saying:

“This novel is true to history while still spinning a lovely tale of love. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves historical and time travel romances.” –Goodreads Reviewer


“The story had me glued to the pages from start to finish. Loved and recommend this book.” –B&N Reviewer


“Based on prior reading from the author, I knew this would be a great book. I had no idea just how much I’d love it.” –BookBub Reviewer


“Once I started reading, I was not putting this book down.” –Goodreads Reviewer

 

This is one of the best romance novels I’ve ever read in my entire life. This book will pull you in full force and make you feel so many different emotions.” –Goodreads Reviewer

 

 

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An Ojibway from Northwestern Ontario, Maggie resides in the country with her husband and their fur babies, two beautiful Alaskan Malamutes.  When she’s not writing, she can be found pulling weeds in the flower beds, mowing the huge lawn, walking the Mals deep in the bush, teeing up a ball at the golf course, fishing in the boat for walleye, or sitting on the deck at her sister’s house, making more wonderful memories with the people she loves most.

 

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Guest Post 1:


Book Titles:


For the book series title, I came up with Maizemerized because each character is “mesmerized” by the corn maze and their adventure into the past.  So I combined mesmerized with the corn maze they enter.  Hence “Maizemerized.”


I’m a huge fan of The Cult, a hard rock band from the 80s.  Some of their lyrics are quite mystical.  I found the songs really suited the essence of the series.  The Cult has a song called Born into This, so I played on that title with the first book in the series called Born for This, since the heroine is born to be a part of her ancestors’ Ojibway village when she travels back in time via the corn maze.


As for the second book, Born Like This, again plays on The Cult song since Alma is a female warrior in contemporary times who is a misfit and can’t find her footing.  But once she ventures back into time, she knowing being “born like this” is perfect for the interior of Canada during the mid eighteenth century.


I am currently working on the third book (which will be fully drafted by the time this post goes live) in the series titled Born into This.  I used the actual song title because the heroine for this novel is “born into” her ancestral land when the hero travels back in time and meets her.


Then there is the final book in the novel called Born Again (which I will be writing by the time this post goes live).  I won’t give away too much, but it will feature Fire Woman and Thunder Bear from the first book Born for This.

 


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