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Fan Reviews!

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Fan reviews for my most recent releases.

Memories Erased: Treachery - Release date:  October 15, 2011

10/18/2011 4:01:57 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time - tina opperman

 Hi Emily,
     I just purchased your Memories Erased: Treachery this morning and started reading it. I knew that forward was too well fleshed out not to have been a complete book by itself but, of course, I couldn't find it on Extasy's website. So, I took a chance and Googled you, found the first book at LooseID and read both of them today.
     I loved them! The plot's, the character development....the love affair :-) I admit, I love me them strong Alpha/more submissive Omega relationships, yet Ewyn still kicked ass!
Anyway, hope you start publishing more m/m cause I will buy them!
Thanks!Tina

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Cruise Into Jeopardy - Release date: May 12, 2011

9/11/2011 3:00:00P.M. US Mountain Standard Time - Dana

     Not critic but was entertained from page one forward. Raven is one smart, sassy   and strong lady. So many bad guys and subplots. Keep up the good writing and am  looking forward to Ruthless Redemption. See you in Pogo.Dana

Mob brat Ewyn Calderone and covert op Devin Nilsson are back!

Memories Erased: Treachery
Contemporary M/M Romantic Suspense

Now Available
eXtasy Books

For two years, despite an odyssey of fear, deception, murder, and heartache dogging their lives with all the deadly twists and turns of a crime drama, their relationship survived. Believing the worse is behind them, they realize they’re wrong when Ewyn’s brother, the Calderone mob boss vanishes, Ewyn becomes head of the family, and his pregnant niece and her sister die in a purported accident. The baby survives and a bewildered Ewyn becomes her guardian.

Then Ewyn learns his nieces’ deaths are homicides. Devin enlists the aid of his law enforcement friends and they institute their own investigation. While dealing with the good, the bad, and the perplexing of parenthood, can Devin and Ewyn unravel the mystery of the child’s paternity, and the deception of the nieces’ lives, before the child becomes the killer’s next victim.

Check it out!

Website reconstuction, Word of the Day, Humor...

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For the last week, this part of Arizona has had freaky rain storms. But hey, don't think for a minute it to any substantial rain. We get downpours that last for a half-minute, then depending on the time of day, it dries as soon as it hits the ground. Oh-kay, that's a slight exaggeration, but the thunder and ligntning are for real. I'm working on my laptop battery power for now, just in case we get those intermittent power outages again.

Been remodeling my website (on batter power), so if it looks like I've lost touch with reality for a while, it will get better. The majority of it is functional. Have a few glitches with moving hyperlinks around.

Word of the Day

I Feel Your Pain Word of the Day
(brought to you by ThinkMap Thesaurus)

dolorous

If you heard this word without seeing it you might think it had something to do with dollars, but seeing the word -- or hearing it with an alternative pronunciation -- should put you on the track of recognizing its pedigree. The sad truth about dolorous is that it's related to condole and indolent, both descendants of Latin dolere, "feel pain." If you've walked down a via dolorosa, you know what that's about.

Humor

Why we love children

1) NUDITY
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, 'Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!'

2) OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, 'The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.'

3) KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. 'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle.'
4) MORE NUDITYA little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room... When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, 'What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?'
5) POLICE # 1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, 'Are you a cop? Yes,' I answered and continued writing the report. My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?' 'Yes, that's right,' I told her. 'Well, then,' she said as she extended her foot toward me, 'would you please tie my shoe?'

6) POLICE # 2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. 'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked.
'It sure is,' I replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, 'What'd he do?'

7) ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, 'The tooth fairy will never believe this!'8) DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, 'Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit.'
'And why not, darling?'
'You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning...'
9) DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.

The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: 'Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and into the hole he goes.' (I want this line used at my funeral!)10) SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. 'I'm just wasting my time,' she said to her mother. 'I can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me talk!'11) BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible... He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out.
'What have you got there, dear?'
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear!

NOW IF THIS DIDN'T BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY, GO BACK TO BED

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Hey... Originally, I had a tentative publication date of...

Hey...

Originally, I had a tentative publication date of October 1, 2011.  Well... Ta-Dah!


Publication Date
October 15, 2011
eXtasy Books




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Upcoming Chat

Hey... Passion In Print Author Day @ LoveRomancesCafe
When: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time: 12 pm - 8 pm EST
Come to Love Romances Cafe and join me along with other PIP authors for good conversation and fun. Ask us about our current books and upcoming releases. I'll be chatting about my latest release.

Cruise Into Jeopardy

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Considering cruises to be the playgrounds for the sexually hopeful, the day after setting sail, Raven’s exercise in sexual exploration becomes a workout in survival skills when someone tries to kill her.

Also, I'll have questions for you. Answers can be found on my website or in the chat information. Submit the correct answers for a chance to win a prize. ( See my website contest page .) I'll announce which prize will be given away before each question.

 Hope to see you there!

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M. E. Reid

Quiz for Bright People & Word of the Day

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It's been a while, but I'm working on two WIPs, almost non-stop, really. Although for a few weeks, the weather played havoc with the electricity in this area. I had to reset clocks way too many times, during that period. Tired of resetting my VCR/DVD player, I left it blinking for days, because every time I reset it, the power went out. Nothing like sweltering in the 100+ temperatures with no air conditioning.

But hey, the thunder and lightening shows were fun to watch and listen to, and the threat of rain finally manifested itself into an actual downpour that lasted maybe an hour? Whatever. Since it was the first rain of any duration here in this part of the desert for quite some time, I guess I would have been satisfied, if it hadn't brought humidity with it. So much for living in the desert to ease the irritation of Bronchial-asthma.

Quiz for Bright People

There are only nine questions.
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers..

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing.
2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls .. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

PLEASE DO YOUR PART for National Mental Health.
You can do your part by remembering to send this to at least one person. Just don't send it back to me. I've already flunked it once! Well, my job's done!

That's Just Fine Word of the Day

mulct
You don't find triple consonants in one-syllable words all over the place in English, so it's worth treasuring the minority of words that sport them. Mulct is an infrequent verb that means, roughly, "defraud" or "swindle." An earlier noun meaning, "fine," is now pretty much obsolete. The root is Latin mulcta, "fine, penalty."

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