VBT# Stilettos and Scoundrels - Laina Turner- Molaski

About The Author : Laina Turner-Molaski

Who am I? It kind of depends on the day. I am a human compendium of unrelated things. I used to think I was just weird, had shiny ball syndrome and couldn’t focus, scattered, you name it. Then I decided it was OK to be all over the place as long as each avenue I wanted to explore had meaning and purpose or was fun. So I embrace the fact I am a college professor (Go Capella), a writer of fiction and non-fiction,promoter of other authors, human resource professional, business consultant, and all around interesting person (according to my closest friends).

There is so much I want to accomplish before I die and it isn’t going to happen if I do things one at a time. In 2011 it’s my goal is to accomplish the following things:

1.My official iPhone app launch (that in itself has raised my coolness factor at least 20 points according to my kids)

2. Official release of Chiczofrenia – crazy is an art form

3. Release of But It’s my Business iPhone app and website

4. Get in shape and look hot for when I turn 40 in June

5. Go to Europe or Australia or Rio de Janeiro for my 40th birthday

6. Release of Fragments by Tracy Bull, the first book published by my publishing company, Five Seas Ink, that’s not mine.

7. Release of the Multiple Sclerosis awareness iPhone app, website, and book

8. Release of the novel, Don’t Write in my Notebook

9. Release of the 2nd Presley Thurman novel – title TBD ….and that’s just to name a few. It’s going to keep me busy and hopefully out of trouble. Well, maybe.

When I’m not working toward my goals I like, ok fine, LOVE wine, coffee, shopping, and books. I enjoy my kids, they are awesome. I hate the cold but yet live in the mid-west. Vegas is one of my favorite spots as I love to people watch and if I ever get married again it will definitely be in a drive through chapel by a fake Elvis.

Review : Stilettos and Scoundrels - Laina Turner- Molaski - February 2010

When I first heard about this book being offered for a Virtual Book Tour, I jumped at the chance as from the cover and title I was drawn to it and then when I read that it was a chick-lit mystery, that drawn-ness became stronger and I was like now I definitely have to read it and Im glad I did as I have personally always had a thing for newspaper reporters and those amateur detectives like Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars and now after reading Stilettos and Scoundrels , I can add a new name to my list Presley Thurman. The story starts with shoe-loving gal Presley being called into her boss's office and ending up fired because she simply won't sleep with him, good on her I say- leave with dignity. The start of the book reminded me alot of Legally Blonde with Elle Woods played by Reese Witherspoon. We then see Presley taking a job writing for an newspaper and her first story is to write about Senator Daniels, who happens to be in her hometown at the moment. So deciding to kill two birds with one stone, as her parents have been practically begging her to come and visit and she's also now unemployed and seen some Manolo's she covets, she accepts the job. However, on the job she discovers that the Senator has been murdered , now here's a story with excitement and mystery to solve, so we soon see Presley swapping her writers hat for amatuer detective as she ventures out to solve his murder, unfortunately there's one thing standing in her way - a guy - the head of Senator Daniel's security Cooper who happened to be Presley's high school sweetheart . So readers expect to see some romance blossom between these two as well as some reporter/ detective solving to the rescue and of course Presley's motto can be seen throughout the novel "A Girl can never have enough shoes".