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Welcome LGBT AuthorTheo Fenraven to the blog with an exclusive short story just for us.

The Elevator

We were running late, and when we saw the elevator open across the lobby, we darted straight toward it and inside, smiling at each other as the doors shut.

Only a few more minutes, and it would be d...

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Hey guys, I just took a peek at the last time I updated my blogs **cringes** It's been a while. However, I promise I haven't been taking it easy. In fact, I've been writing up a storm to give you guys some hot summer reads.

I've had numerous new releases since my past post, but here's my most rec... Read more of this blog post »

For our first wedding anniversary Will and I went to a bed and breakfast, complete with alpaca farm, in New Jersey. For our second anniversary we went to a bed and breakfast, complete with alpaca farm, in Maine. For our third anniversary, we went to Costco.

It did not have an alpaca farm.

It wasn’t...

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The Huffington Post has just shared an exclusive exerpt from Stephen's upcoming novel Joyland.


Click here to head over to their site and read it now

I got a chance to see the wonderfully creepy cover art today for the upcoming “Dead North” anthology – a collection of zombie tales set in Canada (my “Dead Drift” included) from Exile Editions. It thrills me to bits to have my stories in Canadian anthologies. This will be my second, along with th...

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This was my first book and I am hoping that you like it; I have learned a lot through the four weeks that I had wrote it and look forward to finishing the next one. I wrote this one in such a short time as a present for a special person and the next one should be done in late September. I am look... Read more of this blog post »

I still haven't managed to get a response from XFX yet. I did get a phone number but they only redirected me back to their web site. I am now waiting for them to contact me after finally, with the help of my son, registering the fail graphics card and getting a ticket number. I asked where I coul... Read more of this blog post »

How's This For Nostalgia?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's!


It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?


Nobody owned a purebred dog?


When a quarter was a decent allowance?


You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?


Your Mom wore nylons that came in two p... Read more of this blog post »

The Ironies of Support

After the publication of each of my three books, I’ve noticed a pattern of support that is sufficiently remarkable to note with the thought that the experience of other authors may be similar or quite different.

After garnering reviews from professional critics and after maki... Read more of this blog post »

Two years ago today, I clicked on a button that changed my life.

Publish

I became an Indie Author with that single click.

I watched the world react to Emma’s story. I heard every single cry of anguish. I read every single word questioning why I would end a book that way. I received every single ema...

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Have you ever read a book and felt a really strong connection of some kind to the author? I have! A couple of months ago I saw a review of “Without Reservation” by Alice Steinbach over at Captive Reader and immediately requested the book from my local library. A few weeks ago it arrived and [...]... Read more of this blog post »

When I wrote After Math, I wrote it as a standalone book. I’d never written a contemporary romance, and honestly, wasn’t sure I could pull it off. Even in the middle of writingAfter Math, I wasn’t sure I was going to pull it off.

The day I announced to the world I was writing a new adult romance a...

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Squee!! My book, Rich In Love, will be out soon.

Very soon!

Here's the verse I used for the book and a blurb.



John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

When Ann Thomas is summoned to... Read more of this blog post »

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There it is, up above, St. Francis Xavier School in Winooski, Vermont. Yes, I went to Catholic school. Yes, I have conflicted feelings about that. Yes, I have stories to tell. But never did I doubt that everybody involved was doing their best to educate me.

Skip forward fifty years.

Today after h... Read more of this blog post »

I have spent today sick in bed with some kind of flu which I can only assume is due to the terrible weather. (It was 4 degrees this morning! FOUR! It's nearly June!) So I took the opportunity to do a bit of writing. So here it is, my ode to the delicious bean juice that is coffee. It's not perfec... Read more of this blog post »

Today is the official release of my contemporary romance ‘A Shore of Secrets’
To celebrate, I’m over at Virginia Nelson’s blog http://virginianelson.blogspot.com/ and I’m with the lovely Pat McDermott at http://acrosstheplainofshiningbooks.b... drop by to say hi and comment for the chance to win... Read more of this blog post »

It's all Greek to me. :D

It’s no secret I’m a planner while many of my crit partners are pansters and while I’m not the most organized person in the world, inside my little world of writing...I am. When I take on a new project I have several strategies in mind before I even write the first word.
And yes, I’m just weird e... Read more of this blog post »

JUMP is now only .99 on all sites.

With FALL's release I wanted to be able to offer JUMP at a discounted price and finally it has been changed on the websites.
Although, I've written FALL as a stand alone, there is a lot of play between Waleron and Delara in the first 2 books. I highly recommend... Read more of this blog post »

Today should have been our ten year anniversary and instead we’ve been separated for a month (divorce will be final sometime in August). I’m glad it’s Memorial Day weekend. Going camping with the family so that will help keep me busy. We are under contract on our house and I was able to out in […... Read more of this blog post »

May 20, 2013
By Elizabeth Liberty
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Nancy Miracle takes us on a tour of her childhood with memories of visits to Manhattan and the Upper East Side, events at the fabled Waldorf Astoria Hotel, lunches at the 21 Club with her gambler father, who more than anythi... Read more of this blog post »

1Kings19:11-12 NLT “Go out and stand before me on the mountain,” the Lord told him. And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an ea... Read more of this blog post »

So the weekend is finally here...almost, and I realized, what kind of author would I be if I did make sure that my peeps had something fantastic to read to get them through the weekend?! In light of this revelation, I have come up with three (3) books that I absolutely adore for you to check out... Read more of this blog post »

Lord of Darkness is $4.99 on iTunes, Kindle, Diesel, Kobo, and Nook for the next week only!

If you live in the Champaign/Urbana area, I hope you'll join me, Valerie Bowman, and Jade Lee for a reading, Q&A, and signing at the Barnes and Noble on Saturday, June 8th at 2:00 p.m. Read more of this blog post »

The Summer Book Blast runs from May 24-27 and is THE hottest and largest ebook sale to date for today’s best selling young adult, new adult and romantic fiction.We're giving away over $1,000 in prizes! In addition to all books being priced at .99 for the four-day sale, there will be:
a Kindle Fi... Read more of this blog post »

Dear Ms. Hart:

I have to start out by saying that those abs look faker than a Louis Vuitton knock off sold on Canal Street. Ahem. Cade is one of the MacKenzie brothers and I think I bought it because it was on sale. From the website, it appears that Cade is the last of the brothers’ books to be wr...

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Hola a todos, quisiera presentarles mi nueva novela titulada Si todos los tréboles fueran de cuatro hojas, es una historia sobre el amor, los nuevos comienzos y la búsqueda de la verdadera fortuna.

Hi, I want to present my new novel titled Si todos los tréboles fueran de cuatro hojas (Spanish vers... Read more of this blog post »

About the only writing I've managed to do, since we started this insane selling a house/buying a house adventure, was a children's book for one of my lovely young relatives -- Mystery of the Stormy Night, a Lilly Bug, Girl Detective, Story.

Backstory

I decided to write this Chapters Book for Early... Read more of this blog post »

http://www.alwatan.com.sa/Articles/De...
أسرار صغيرة

My erotic mosaic novel, Her Twisted Pleasures, is just 99 cents at Amazon and Barnes & Noble until the end of May. Get hooked then check out the rest of the series. (You can get a sneak peek at the cover of Book 3 at my publisher’s website.)

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Sometimes dirty little sec...

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I figured I’d kick off Memorial Day Weekend with a few fun bits & pieces…

1) Best part of summer?

2) Worst part of summer?

3) Favorite food on the barbecue?

4) Chips or fries?

5) Dry rub or barbecue sauce?

~Elizabeth

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Drifting – pain – autumn’s cool air. People surround city streets, the majestic banks of nobody, glass towers, palaces of low-frequency shudder. Tensile tear of sharp metal scales of black, bleak, black, mumbling jets. I hear one pass now, every night, every night since they took the cranes...

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We’ve all had it (or, at least, those writers among us have). Those days when the words just don’t come, whatever you try; days that turn into a week, two weeks, and suddenly the pressure towrite is adding to the problem, weighing you down with a sense of failure, of literary impotence. It just w... Read more of this blog post »

Now available FREE on Kindle - Limited time only!

http://viewbook.at/B00CTY172A

Hailee Mai Hart is just a simple, normal girl. Or so she thought.

When she left her one-horse town for a college education in the big city, she never could’ve imagined what awaited her.

She’s quickly thrown into a world filled with angels, danger, and a curse…her curse. Come to find out, she’s no...

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I hate _________.
________ book sucks.

Yep, you could fill in all those blanks. It's easy to dislike a book, a writer, or even a reviewer (mostly reviewers cuz they are spawn of the devil, only those who give me bad reviews mind you, the rest rock).

People often do suck. They can be assholes (as se... Read more of this blog post »

All right, no more teasing: The official release of "James Potter and the Morrigan Web" will begin Sunday, July 7-- the day that the events in chapter one actually occur (albeit in the year 2020).

For those of you (and there are MANY) who weren't along for the ride during previous releases, here's... Read more of this blog post »

Get a glimpse into the best-selling series, SOUL GUARDIANS, by watching this dazzling 3D animated trailer of MARKED:

Free Until the 26th!
Download Here From Amazon

Ever since super star, Arial Oakley, could remember, she's been in love with her hunky co-star Bryce Valentine. The only problem: Bryce has been in a relationship with another ac-tress for quite some time. Not wanting to be “the other woman”, Arial ne... Read more of this blog post »

And here it is in all its glory … the WATERFELL front cover from Harlequin TEEN! *dies*

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Well, duh, you might be saying. Most of us get paid to do school visits. But beyond that, do author visits create new readers? Do they sell books?

Me (Mike Mullin) at a school in Columbus, OH.Below I've listed the top titles in circulation at a few school libraries I visited this year. Note that... Read more of this blog post »

Wattpad is a free community site for reading and sharing stories, connecting readers and writers through storytelling, and offers an mobile reading experience by giving the ability to read on your computer, phone, or tablet.

Wattpad is from a Canadian company and till a few days ago I knew nothing... Read more of this blog post »