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CONSIDER THIS YOUR OFFICIAL INVITATION TO DECEMBER BOOK MAYHEM Eight themed giveaways, each with a prize, PLUS the big one: a $75 Amazon gift card and a Blind Date With a Book bundle. But you only get a shot at the Grand Prize if you enter all eight. So, if your TBR wasn’t unhinged before, it will be now. The Sleigh the TBR Mega Giveaway is LIVE for the whole month. Grab books, enter prizes,…
Grab A Bar, Two Dates, and Reindeer Cookies and read about our super Christmas and Holiday Book Festival, below! Christmas Eve isn't the best time to be alone and the holidays are tough when you're newly single and smarting from a break up. Not a time to stay home. But is it a good time for an internet date? Jenn decides to reach out to a couple of strangers. Which is how she gets herself…
This is an 18+ scene with mature content. Please be aware that sex-related language and accompanying photos are used in this piece. These two chapters are the steamy bonus scenes for readers of Revamped, A Vampire Comedy. They won’t make sense if you haven’t read the book. NOTE: Content is explicit. CHAPTER ONE Dante and Sophie are dog/cat sitting for the weekend. They are leaving Sophie’s parents’ house after dinner with the…
Before meeting my cinnamon roll hero with the vampire edge, you've got to know starting over is a theme in all my books. If you think it's easy to begin again, ask Dante, the hero of my first paranormal romance. He's all twisted up like a pretzel trying to please his parents, especially his mother when he wants to please Sophie. Only problem? She's not a vampire. But hey, the way he sees it,…
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I'm thrilled to introduce the author of Artist, Ginny Frost. Artist is the last in the Mortar & Pestle series of seven romances. An artist's retreat, a thirst to learn more about what she loves doing... an old love. Who knew she'd run into him again? This is not a good time to revisit old wounds. Even if he's making his interest apparent. Before learning more about Artist, I asked Ginny to share her answers to three…
Revamped with energy, the mortar and pestle materialize in Redford Falls. As smoke circles within the stone, orange flecks of glitter turn to green, strengthening its chosen path and setting its magic in the hands of a woman with eyes the colour of jadestone. She is the only one who has the gift to heal the man known as the trickster. Blurb for Trickster Can she heal a trickster before he breaks her heart?…
Read Sea Hunter for the adventure and the love story, but enjoy the research that went into this slow burn romance with a touch of paranormal. Book Blurb for Sea Hunter On the turbulent high seas, an archeologist must protect a historic shipwreck from treasure hunters—not fall for one. Zahra Corbyn I’m a Sea Hunter. As an underwater archeologist and professor of antiquities, it is my duty to stop treasure hunters and looters from raiding…
Meet author Marilyn Barr's short alpha hero and set sail on the spirited cruise where he finds his happily ever after. Learn some history too! Since Quartermaster has elements of fantasy, I asked Marilyn to share her answers to three fantasy questions. Her answers are from the heart. What would you do if...? You had three hours alone. Sometimes, authors are super busy with kids and family. In this scenario, money and kid-sitting are not a worry. …
A few words from author Jean M. Grant on Seeker A Thread of Elements Water, fire, air, and earth…these elements have symbolic roots and importance in many cultures and communities from the ancient Greeks to current-day scientists. According to the Ancients in my trilogy (and in Seeker, a spin-off), these elements are the essence of life. Each of my main characters in the trilogy has a supernatural ability linked to an element: Water and…
How can he marry one woman when his heart sings for another?
These are super healthy cookies from a young friend who designs and experiments with her own recipes. Check out The Cretan Nutritionist on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/thecretannutritionist/ *How can anyone not love a crunchy, chocolatey macaroon? These macaroons are a similar version of the favorite little gem but since it’s a healthier version, it’s perfect eaten as part of breakfast or better yet, for an afternoon energy pick-me-up! Chocolate Macaroon Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup…
This is Sunny's first time getting on an online dating site. Notice what I named the dating site. Go ahead, peek right now, I'll wait. Well, that never made it into the book. I must have been drinking my furniture polish. This is a no-spoiler read, btw. That night I sat at the computer in my home clothes, threadbare shorts with tiny blue bears, and an old gray T-shirt I’d cut the sleeves off.…
Before covid, I used to go dancing with a few friends on Sunday afternoons at a restaurant on the Connecticut shoreline called Donahue’s. Over the years, I met other dancers and we became rabid regulars. The idea of three friends who hang out, go dancing, and work together grew and became part of the storyline for A Little Bit of Lust. But something was missing. Not only was I online dating at the time, I…
Some readers like it hot, while others like their books sweet or steamy. What's your preference? Please be aware that sex-related language is used in this piece. Despite the title of my new book, A Little Bit of Lust, writing love scenes is more about the feels and less about lust. Here are the first two sentences from an early chapter in A Little Bit of Lust. The main characters, Lucy and Deon, take…
Meet Lucy, Deon, and Phoebe, three middle-aged friends who share a bond that is tested by careers, loss, and love. A heartwarming story of forgiveness and starting over. Blurb for A Little Bit of Lust Love-cynical Lucy Bernard delights in her independence. Baking, all things Instagram, the occasional fling, and most of all hanging out with best friends Deon Goldbloom and Phoebe Karis. But when Deon kisses Lucy at the beach on a…
Meet Lucy, whose best friend Deon is about to pop in while she's baking. Is it a goodie he's after? Or something more? Or less? An excerpt from A Little Bit of Lust. Twelve days until summer vacation. Between spoonfuls of oatmeal, Lucy dictated her list of summer resolutions into the Reminders app on her phone. Birds chirped outside the open kitchen window where the scent of freshly mown grass hung in the air. A…
I'd like to introduce Author Mary Morgan to our readers. Her new book, Wishes Under a Highland Star, won the Crème de la Cover Contest! Please tell us a bit about your historical medieval Scottish fantasy romance. Hello, Shirley! I’m delighted to be a guest on your lovely blog today! I’d like to share a wee bit about my upcoming new Highland holiday story… Wishes Under a Highland Star wraps up the last son of Clan MacFhearguis. In writing…
1950s London. Who would guess a simple shoebox would hold life-changing secrets…a new life and new friends. One of those friends has a shoebox full of answers.
Nana Marley has her heart set on more great-grand babies, and with the help of a folklore legendary rabbit, she might receive her wish. Blurb for Derailed Hearts Single father and ER doctor, Ethan Marley, is ready to put down roots. He and his daughter embark on a train adventure across Canada from west to east coast. Boarding the train, he meets a woman who steals his breath, and he learns that she too is headed to…
Heartsong Hills is Book 2 in the Hears of the Ridge Series by Wendy Rick Stetson Release date is October 19! Blurb for Heartsong Hills Amish girls don’t dance. Dancing is against the rules, and Nora Beiler always follows the rules…until a runaway logging truck shatters her world forever. Desperate to heal from the accident, she enrolls in Shuffle off to Fitness, an exercise class at the local senior center. She…
Author Mike Torreano writes about right and wrong, values that characterized the Old West. "Values we could use more of today." He was inspired when a friend approached him a while back and said he had the idea for Mike's next novel. He spun a fascinating story about thousands and thousands of gold bars supposedly hidden under a peak north of Las Cruces. "I had to know more. What I found was a legend that never…
August + Ice Cream Books! Choose from 50 reads. With one click of the link, scroll, baby scroll. I haven't written an ice cream book, but fifty of my author friends have every kind of ice cream story you can imagine. Romance to paranormal romance with witches and ghosts and vampires. Mystery and murder. Historical. Older couples and second chances. Mermaids. Exotic settings. Your own backyard. Summertime is reading time, so indulge yourself. Choose your favorite genre…
Today is special. I've got a character interview with the stars from Marilyn Barr's new vampire-pirate series, Walk the Walk. Of course, I traveled back to 1724 and climbed aboard the pirate ship, Patricia's Wish, to talk to the crew. Teeth, Chub, and Branko were on deck to greet me. Shirley: We are docked just off the coast of Aruba on this beautiful starlit night with Carajillo cocktails in our hands. Let’s get started. Good evening,…
"Clothes make the character," says author Jana Richards. She should know. In this special introduction to Child of Mine, her first book in the Masonville series, she writes about clothes, weddings, her favorite scene in the book, and...secrets. One of my favorite scenes in Child of Mine, book 1 in my Masonville Series, is the wedding scene. Lauren and Cole are getting married in a hastily arranged wedding at Cole’s house a few weeks before Christmas.…
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