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Sunday 10 May 2015
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Reading His Mind by Melissa Shirley - Release Day
Blurb:
Lyric Brenner is not your average girl. Her start in life was rough. She hardly speaks to her twin sister. And, oh yeah. She can read minds, dabble in the thoughts of others. On her own since she was sixteen, Lyric learned to use her gift to land a lucrative high dollar job in the court system, protect herself from liars, cheats, and baristas with bad attitudes and, more often than not, amuse herself.
Lyric has never forgotten Jace Laugherty or his kiss. Running into him again seems unlikely. But a little shoe-icide, a crazy ex, and a dinner gathering her whole dysfunctional family together, paves the road to happiness with lopsided cobblestones. Can they find love before they lose each other again?
Excerpt:
As suddenly as he’d become playful, he turned the tables, gazing at me while holding my hand between both of his. “What about you, my little Lyric? Can you see yourself kissing it better?”
Hell, yes, I could. I cleared my throat, blinking away the stars in my eyes. “You’d better stick to the barflies and the bachelorettes, mean boy. Flirting with me is pretty useless.”
“Yeah?”
I nodded, pulling away.
“Why is that?” Jace had never met a challenge he didn’t like, and I’d just issued one by accident. Maybe.
If my hammering heart hadn’t been enough to set me on the run, the mischief written on his face would have had me searching out the nearest exit at warp speed. I hopped off the barstool and swayed, certain my next move would be to hit the floor.
Jace’s arms came around me, and a new kind of dizzy clouded my vision. “Where’re you going?”
“You’re too sexy and too pretty, and I’m weak. I should go before I do something stupid.”
His eyes, the exact color of the most comfy jeans I owned, half closed as he looked into mine. “You can’t say something like that then leave me here alone,” he whispered.
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Saturday 4 April 2015
Rain by Taryn Kincaid - Cover Reveal
Revealing a brand new sparkly today!
In a world gone mad, where little
remains but a vast wasteland of sand, the leader of a troop of roving warriors
welcomes a brave young woman into his midst.
Much as he burns for her, Major Clay
Worthington swears to keep his distance from the mysterious woman, so sensitive
even the stinging rain can wound her.
Rosina Brierly is besotted with the
formidable soldier and will gladly trade her life for one torrid night of
blissful passion in his arms.
But when sleep overcomes them, will
true love prevail?
Coming in May 2015 from Decadent
Publishing
Thursday 2 April 2015
Destiny Mine by Nana Prah - Blog Tour
Destiny Mine by +Nana Prah
Destiny series book 2
Published by +Decadent Publishing
Genre: contemporary, medical, multicultural romance
Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25063012-destiny-mine?ac=1
BLURB
Extraordinary midwife, Esi Darfour, is
looking to get married. She’s a master
matchmaker but has no luck when it comes to her love life and has yet to find a
man worthy of her. Until she has to deal with gorgeous Dr. Adam Quarshie
outside of work.
Adam is a player who refuses to get married—ever.
His interest lies more in getting her into bed than in having any kind of
committed relationship. Esi’s matchmaker instincts warn her to run in the other
direction as quickly as possible, but her heart insists she stay…get closer…and
see if what they feel for each other can change his mind.
EXCERPT
Enjoy the following excerpt for Destiny Mine:
Her gaze travelled down his muscular body.
Unlike many of the other doctors who tended to gain a belly as they grew older
and settled into the comforts of married life, Adam Quarshie could overshadow
any man in his late twenties. His stomach had remained flat and his muscles
strained against his yellow button-down shirt when he moved.
She took her time raking her gaze up his
body and to his face. Her gasp of embarrassment stuck in her throat as her eyes
met his.
Why did he have to have such an adorable grin?
God could’ve at least rotted his teeth to save the hearts of women all over
Ghana.
“See something you like, Esi?”
She cleared her throat. “Yes, I do. Your
shoes are nice. Where can I get a pair for my brother?”
He chuckled. “My shoes. Hmm. I got them on
Oxford Street in Osu.”
“Thanks.”
He moved towards her, and she refused to
step back as he crowded her. He smelled amazing, like he was fresh from a
shower. She struggled not to move closer or inhale deeper.
“Or I could take you.” His voice came out
soft yet had a distinct rumble.
Did the man not know how to be anything but
seductive?
If she checked her pulse, she knew it would
be way above the normal range. She snorted as she stepped around him and went
to the patient’s bedside. “I’m going home. You did a great job.” She tilted her
head to view the child’s face cradled in the new mother’s arms then smiled at
the newborn’s mother. “You were able to gather the strength to push the baby
out. You are a strong woman, Ama.”
The woman ducked her head. “Thank you.”
Esi turned to Adam, not bothering to hide
her annoyance. “Are there any other patients you want to see?”
“I’ll come back to do ward rounds later.
How about going to Osu?”
“I’d rather…rather….” Fatigue had blocked
her brain. Later on in the day, long after it was too late, she’d think of any
number of things she could have said to put him in his place.
He raised an eyebrow. Their perfect arch
sat over slanted dark brown eyes.
“You’d rather what?”
“Eat a live snail.”
He scrunched his face. “Disgusting. No Osu
for you, then. Next time, I’ll ask to take you somewhere that won’t make you
prefer eating something raw and slimy over hanging out with me.”
“No such place exists, Quarshie.” They
walked, rather, she stalked while he strutted, down the hallway towards the
nurse’s station.
“I’m sure there is somewhere, and one day
I’m going to take you there.”
She didn’t bother to look at him. “In your
dreams.”
He winked. “Always in my dreams.”
Her heart skipped a beat as Sade’s classic
song “Smooth Operator” came to mind. She regarded him through narrowed eyes as
he headed towards the door. His heartbreaking ways didn’t appeal to her at all.
Everyone knew relationships weren’t his thing. She’d never even consider going
out on a date with him. She knew too many casualties of his charm. The type of
guy who would go to all sorts of lengths to get a woman on his radar. Once he
caught and used her, he moved to the next one…or two. After having once dated a
womanizer, she wouldn’t subject herself to that kind of man again.
No way. Not her. Never
TEASERS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nana Prah is a multi-published author of contemporary,
multicultural romance. Her books are sweet with a touch of spice. When
she’s not writing she’s reading, indulging in chocolate, and enjoying life with
friends and family.
Contact
Details:
Blog
: www.nanaprah.blogspot.com
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Wednesday 1 April 2015
This is No Joke - D.L. Jackson, Guest Post
Today, I'm turning my blog over to D.L. Jackson for a guest post about a charity near and dear to her heart. Please read, and make difference if you can.
Thank you for your help,
This is no joke.
Every 65 minutes, a military veteran commits suicide.
Today I'm kicking off my three month fund raiser. Please join me. I've provided links to get you started. Please take a moment to read this and share. The more this post is shared, the more eyes will be on it. Because of federal regulations, I can not state I am donating total sales of a product to a particular charity, so I need to be non-specific who I give to. I know, I know, regulations. I will therefore round up my donation up to the nearest whole dollar amount and give a lump sum that is close to what I earned for the quarter. It will not be the "sales" but a sum a little bit more than what I earned and to a charity that won't be named (Just know it's going to help service members, past and present).
I'd like to thank Tara from Fantasia Frog for donating her time and money to create a great banner for this event. Jessica Subject for the upcoming Decadent Publishing Newletter that highlights this event, and Decadent Publishing for tracking and posting updates monthly on how we're doing.
This is no joke.
Every 65 minutes, a military veteran commits suicide.
I'm going to be honest here. Finding Mercy took a lot out of me when I wrote it. I had so much to say and there was no other way I could think to show you what I felt. Finding Mercy is not a warm and fuzzy romance. It is a struggle for one man to learn to love again, himself, and someone else. It is a book about hope, when all seems hopeless. It is a book about choosing to step out of the dark, no matter how impossible it seems.
Combat medics have a dangerous job, and part of that job is dragging wounded off hot battlefields. They have hearts for healing and helping, and because of this, cannot help collecting a few scars of their own, both physically and mentally.
If you haven't read Finding Mercy, I’ll warn you, it probably has one of the most grisly battle scenes I've written. The hero is damaged—searching for peace and a way to start over. He is at a crossroads in his life that many vets face every day. He's in pain and a very dark place. He has a weakness for the bottle, desperate to drown memories he can't forget. For some readers, I've been told, the scenes are hard to stomach. What the hero goes through is too painful to read. I am aware I was pretty brutal to my hero, but I needed to paint a realistic portrait of the face of PTSD in our active duty military and veterans. This story has been called everything from graphically violent to an anti-romance.
So be it. It got your attention.
We cannot erase PTSD or injuries caused in battle by pretending they don't exist. But we can move forward by supporting our military and vets, as they face those crossroads. Here’s a link to some facts about veterans and active duty military featured on PBS, Public Broadcasting System: http://www.pbs.org/coming-back-with-wes-moore/about/facts/
I’d like you to join me in raising some money for a great cause. I’ve asked my publisher to track all sales for this book for the month of April, May and June 2015. I’m not asking for reviews or a bump in the ratings. You don’t even have to like this book, but I hope you do. What I am asking, is that you buy this book April 1st- June 30th 2015, and share the link. It costs $2.99, the price of a cup of coffee. Not a huge chunk of change. We spend more than that on a salad or burger at any given time.
Starting April 1st and running through June 30th, I will donate my total royalties from the sale of Finding Mercy, an erotic military romance, to a charity that helps military and veterans who suffer from PTSD. I have to be non-specific which charity, because of federal regulations. Buy the book, help a service member. It’s that simple. This is about something I strongly believe in. You see, I’m a vet. My husband is a vet. His grandfather served in the Navy in WWII, my father in the Air Force during Vietnam. My mother-in-law is a Marine, and both of my sons are active duty. My oldest is currently on his third deployment. My youngest, a Combat Medic, is preparing for his first.
I’ve seen the face of PTSD. It belongs to our sons and daughters, wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, grandmothers and grandfathers. It is our neighbors, friends and co-workers. It doesn’t discriminate, and it doesn’t just go away. Wounded vets need help.
Help me, help them.
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Mercy-Evans-Poi…/…/ref=sr_1_4…
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/finding-mercy-d…/1114016159…
All Romance eBooks: http://www.allromanceebooks.com/storeSearch.html
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/267538Thank you for your help,
D. L. Jackson
Wednesday 25 March 2015
Submission Call for Three Worlds Press!
We want small town romance. So imagine a cross between Gilmore Girls and Hart of Dixie set in the fictional Midwestern town of River Bend, Missouri.
River Bend is a typical small town with quirky characters, and (usually) friendly faces, and we’re looking to populate the town with fantastic people and enjoyable stories.
In town, the streets are named after US president, and the River Bend Diner sits at the corner of Washington and Van Buren, with a view over the river, and a large deck out the back. At Christmas, the owners go to town with fairy lights on the deck, and it’s a perfect place for quiet chats all year round. Please note: The diner must be featured in at least one scene per book.
In this quiet little town where everybody knows everyone else, and their business, the diner is the hub of all gossip. As mentioned, at least one scene in each book must take place there and include at least a mention of the owners, Darla and Eli Johnson. Darla and Eli were high-school sweethearts who still believe in love at first sight, and are the kind of people everyone loves and will go to for advice on love and life. If you need a room, they can advise you, if you need an ear, they can lend one.
The River Bend diner is a 1960s, leather-boothed diner with mini jukeboxes on the tables and milk-shakes made with real ice cream and always served with two straws. With a red and white striped awning in front, and the deck in the back that overlooks the river, the diner is a meeting place for businessmen, citizens of the town and newcomers looking for good food.
There is also a ‘haunted’ mansion hotel with rooms to let. Three are rented on a long term basis and four on a short visit basis. These will also be advertised on the blog, as ‘Rooms to Let’. The house used to be owned by ‘Old Nell’ McQuade but no one knows much about her, and even hotel residents don’t see her very often – not that they should see her at all. No one can say for sure if the Newbury Mansion is haunted, and the town is divided. Some townsfolk and visitors firmly believe, and others don’t. This is one subject Eli and Darla won’t be drawn on. A knowing smile and a quick shrug of the shoulders is the only reply they’ll give when questioned.
To get you started, please see the included issue of the River Bend Register for inspiration of the positions vacant and the local gossip. Please do let us know, though, before you start in your story, in case the position has already been filled. (Email: riverbendtwp@gmail.com) We will also maintain a River Bend authors’ group on Facebook so you have the benefit of chatting to other authors about the town and ensuring consistency and continuity for the characters appearing in multiple stories, and the representation of the town.
River Bend is a town harking back after more gentle times, and will have a heat level of 3 maximum (according to the following ARe Guidelines), with little-to-no kink:
1 flame- Stories will either not have consummated love scenes, or if the loves scenes are consummated detail is not given.
2 flames- Stories will have some love scenes. These will be more sensual than graphic and will mostly rely on euphemism.
3 flames- Stories will have sensual, yet more explicit love scenes, and the language used to describe them may be more graphic and direct.
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/faq-1.html#a28
In line with Three Worlds Publishing, any stories with a 3(+) heat level will be printed on the erotic imprint, I Modi, under the name River Bend: Nights so people know the content of the book and can choose according to their reading preference.
Obviously the town lends itself well to contemporary romance, but any romance story could also contain a hint of the supernatural/paranormal—ghosts, or cleverly done time travel, for example, but not shifters or vampires—or stray more towards Women’s Fiction, if an author wanted to write a story about a family or marriage.
To add a sense of fun and consistency to the series, we have created an inspiration map for the town. Notice the town has plenty of scope for expansion, and also for stories – we have river front properties, weeping willows trailing their long branches into the river, potential for a beach for long summer day dips, and also a trailer park.
We will be keeping an up-to-date bible for common characters (waitresses, doctors, etc.) as they move into town, so that authors wanting to send their children to the doctor for a scraped knee, for example, can remain consistent.
Word count is currently set at a 30K minimum, apart from by arrangement with existing series authors for companion shorter novellas and short stories. We want as wide an appeal as possible, so hope to produce a range of full-length novels, novelettes, novels and short stories, or short story anthologies over time.
Please contact: riverbendtwp@gmail.com with questions.
Please contact: riverbendtwp@gmail.com with questions.
See the Help Wanted "ads" below for inspiration!
Currently, the following positions have been filled:
Live in Nanny
Psychic/Wedding Planner
Currently, the following positions have been filled:
Live in Nanny
Psychic/Wedding Planner
If you don't see a story for you here, let us know what you'd like to write for the series.
Full disclosure: I'm helping to co-ordinate the call, build the town 'bible', run the author discussion FB page and edit come of the finished stories.
Thursday 19 March 2015
Craving Cameo by TL Reeve - Cover Reveal
Blurb:
The daughter of the
Sentinels pack and MC Alpha, Cameo Cruz moved across country to escape her
pack—and the wolf she can never have. Making a new life, she embraced her
freedom and went to school. One partying night with her best friend shatters her
bubble of safety, and she’s forced to do the one thing she swore she never
would…ask for help.Quade Rainwater lives for his pack and the life the Sentinels Alpha gave him when he took him in. He’d do anything for them, even cut himself off from the she-wolf he’s loved for as long as he’s known her. When all hell breaks loose and someone puts a bounty on his girl, Quade will cross the country to protect her. Unfortunately for him, he’s the last person she wants to see.
All he has to do is keep her safe from the bounty hunters, the locals, and himself….
Excerpt:
“Why? Why are you here?”
“Do you really think I want to be here?” he asked. “Do you think I find it fun leaving my home to drive clear across the fucking country to find you? Huh? I don’t want to be here anymore than you want me here, but your fucking father—” He snarled and began to pace. “He’s losing it where you’re concerned.”
“Well.” She gave a humorless chuckle, turning away from him. “You can tell him I’m perfectly fine.” She wouldn’t give her father or him the benefit of seeing her fear. She’d take care of the other problem on her own.
“Little girl, don’t start.” He laid his hands on her shoulders, and she shrugged them off. “Don’t you know you have a bounty on your head?”
“What?” She whirled around and stared up at him.
“The other night when you called Hui, Xavier also found out about a bounty on your head.” Indifference seemed to coat his unreadable expression and words. “There are more coming. They’ll be here by tonight. We need to leave. If I can get you to your dad—”
“No.”
“Cameo,” he snapped. “This is not a fucking game.”
“You’re right. It’s not a game. I will not forfeit my life for some bounty. I’m staying.” She wouldn’t add he could stay and watch over her.
“Well, you’ve got two choices, sweetheart. Come with me or wait to be picked up by the guys who are out for your bounty.” He didn’t blink. He didn’t get angry, nothing.
“My answer is still no.” Crossing her arms, she arched a brow, daring him to say something to the contrary. She played with fire, knowing full well what might happen if she pushed him too far. Quade was not a wolf used to hearing the word no. His nostrils flared. His body tightened.
“Damn it, Cameo,” he growled, while taking a step toward her. “Why are you being so damn obstinate?”
She blew him off and pushed past him, crossing the room to her small fridge. “I’m sorry if I seem obstinate to you, but this is my life we’re talking about.”
“Is this because I wouldn’t give you the time of day?” Typical wolf. Always thinking with their penis.
“Not hardly.”
“What in the hell do you want from me?”
Want from him? She didn’t want anything from him. She hadn’t even wanted to see him again.
In two strides, he closed the distance between them and dipped his head. “Is this what you want?” He nuzzled her neck and groaned. “Tell me,” he demanded. “Do you want me to drop to my knees and beg for forgiveness? To tell you I’ve wanted you since the moment you turned eighteen?” His lips were only inches from her ear. His warm breath brushed against the shell, causing her to shiver. “You ran away from me.”
“Ran away from you? I left home so I could get an education and be someone better than a thug.” She grimaced inwardly when he flinched and withdrew from her. Quade wasn’t a thug, neither was her father.
“So, I’m a thug now?” He shook his head while clenching his fists at his sides. “Are you saying when you were on pack lands you thought so low of me…of your father and our friends?”
“Now you’re twisting my words.”
“Am I? Didn’t you say you left home so you didn’t become one, meaning we, the members of your pack, are thugs?” He cocked a brow, daring her to say something else stupid. Insert foot in mouth, dummy.
“Look, I didn’t storm into your home and pick a fight with you. So…so why don’t you leave?” Brilliant! Way to go you.
A dark sinful chuckle passed his lips as he pulled her to him, engulfing her in his embrace. “You never did know when to shut up.”
His lips slammed down on hers in a brutal kiss. He tasted of danger and excitement. Of raw masculine power. Cameo’s wolf preened, desperate to rub all over him and submit to his dominance. He swiped his tongue across hers, and she became a puddle of goo. “Would you like to know where my mark will go when I mate you?”
Author Bio:
TL Reeve, a muli-published author
with Decadent Publishing, Cobblestone Press and Evernight Publishing, was born
out of a love of family and a bond that became unbreakable. Living in the
south, TL misses Los Angeles and will one day return to the beaches of Southern
California to ride the waves at Huntington Beach. When not writing something
hot and sexy, TL can be found curled up with a good book, or working on
homework with a cute little pixie.
Saturday 14 March 2015
Saturday Shout-Out
I wanted to do a quick shout out to the people who helped reveal my cover for 'Her Dollmaker's Desire' on Wednesday. I've collected the blog URLs of those who let me know they posted it, but if I've missed you from the list, please let me know and I'll put you in this post, too.
Thank you so much for your help.
Thank you so much for your help.
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