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May 27, 2016
Meet the Fabulous Authors for Forgetting Jane FaceBook Launch Party Part 3
Happy Friday!
I have another introduction to Three Fabulous Authors who will be joining me for FORGETTING JANE Facebook Launch Party on Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm central time.
8:00 pm Abbie Roads~ 
Seven Things about Abbie Roads:
She loves Snicker Parfaits. Gotta start with what’s most important, right?
She writes dark emotional books featuring damaged characters, but always gives her hero and heroine a happy ending… after torturing them for three hundred pages.
By day she’s a mental health counselor known for her blunt, honest style of therapy. At night she burns up the keyboard. Well… Burn might be too strong a word. She at least sits with her hands poised over the keyboard, waiting for inspiration to strike. And when it does—the keyboard might get a little warm.
She can’t stand it when people drive slowly in the passing lane. Just saying. That’s major annoying. Right?
She loves taking pictures of things she thinks are pretty.
She’s represented by Michelle Grajkowski of 3 Seas Literary.
Her dark romantic suspense novel RACE THE DARKNESS is available for pre-order now.
First in a gripping paranormal romantic suspense duo by an author whose clinical work gives her chilling insights…
Cursed with a terrible gift
Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn’t have to question you—he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, Xander struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night—the voice of a woman begging him to save her.
A gift that threatens to engulf them…
Isleen Walker has long since given up hope of escape from the nightmare of captivity and torture that is draining her life, her mind, and her soul. Except…there is the man in her feverish dreams, the strangely beautiful man who beckons her to freedom and wholeness. And when he comes, if he comes, it will take all their combined fury and faith to overcome a madman bent on fulfilling a deadly prophecy.
Visit Abbie at http://abbieroads.com
8:30 pm Dana Delamar~ 
Dana Delamar is the author of the “Blood and Honor” Mafia romance series, which is set in Italy among the Calabrian Mafia. Her first book, REVENGE, received 4 stars from RT Book Reviews, was a Top Pick at The Romance Reviews, and was a double-finalist for Best First Book and Best Romantic Suspense in the 2013 Booksellers Best Awards.
Her second book, RETRIBUTION, received 4 stars from RT Book Reviews and was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Review’s 2013 Best Indie Book Awards. Her book MALAVITA was a quarter-finalist in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, and her book REDEMPTION was a finalist in the 2014 Maggie Awards and a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Review’s 2014 Best Kindle Book Awards.
The “Blood and Honor” Mafia romance series is set in Italy among the underworld of the Calabrian Mafia. Each story features a hero and heroine forced to make difficult choices in a world where vendettas are quick to erupt and burn for generations; where family ties, both blood and criminal, drive every decision; and where passions flare up and threaten to blaze out of control.
You can visit her at http://www.danadelamar.com
9:00 pm Shannyn Shroeder~
Shannyn Schroeder is the author of the O’Leary series, contemporary romances centered around a large Irish-American family in Chicago and the Hot & Nerdy series about 3 nerdy friends finding love. Her new series (For Your Love) will release this summer with the first title Under Your Skin. When she’s not wrangling her three kids or writing, she watches a ton of TV and loves to bake cookies.
Blood Is Thicker Than Ink. . .
Norah O’Malley has been alone for a long time. It’s been ten years since her father and four brothers shipped her off to be raised by her aunt. Seven months since she’s seen the guy who got her pregnant–who still doesn’t know. And it’s two weeks since she came home to Chicago and discovered none of her family wants to talk–or listen.
She never expected to walk into a tattoo shop seven months pregnant and get her socks knocked off by instant attraction. She can’t even see her socks. But Kai Ellis is big and gruff and sexy as hell, and if he has a past, well, so does she. Even more, Kai knows how to listen so that Norah feels just a little less alone . . .
All the chemistry in the world can’t help Norah make her decisions. And no sizzle of desire will make Kai believe in happy endings. But a little time with someone who understands might just change everything . . .
Find out more at: http://www.ShannynSchroeder.com
3:00, 7:00 & 9:30 pm CJ Warrant~ 
CJ Warrant is an Award Winning Author for dark romantic suspense and thrillers that pulls at your heart, makes you shiver, and hope for a happy ending. A lover of coffee, baking and family, but not in that order–She’s a wife, a loving mother of three and a cosmetologist by trade. Drawing her experiences from her Korean Italian heritage and growing up as an Army brat, her stories stir in dark plots with addictive flawed characters you will fall in love with.
Forgetting Jane is available for Pre-Order now.
Amnesia and an unspeakable crime have stolen everything from Jane Doe except the haunting image of a girl in a yellow dress, which replays itself over and over in her mind.
Small town cop Elias McAvoy is haunted as well, by the crushing guilt he feels over the deaths of two women, one by his own hand. He can’t-he won’t-let Jane down too.
Together they delve deeper into Jane’s case, battling against her memory loss, and an increasingly tangled web of lies and murder that span forty years-and ties Elias and Jane together in ways they never imagined. As the mystery of the girl in the yellow dress unfold, so does Elias and Jane’s love for each other. However, when the killer reappears, intent on finishing what he started, Elias must face his demons in order to save the woman he loves or lose her forever.
Come and visit and follow me at: Facebook, twitter, Instagram, cjwarrant.com
Have a wonderful Memorial Weekend!
CJ
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May 26, 2016
Meet the Fabulous Authors for Forgetting Jane FaceBook Launch Party part 2
I promised another introduction to four Fabulous Authors, who will be joining me for FORGETTING JANE Facebook Launch Party on Wednesday, June 29th, 2016, from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm central time. So without further ado…
5:30 pm Cici Edward-
My name is Cici Edward. I love books! Reading them and writing them. As an avid romance reader for many years, I always knew I wanted to write a romance novel of my own. As a kid, I created a list of five life goals. One of those goals was to write a romance novel. I’m happy to say I have been able to cross that off my list (along with visiting Venice, Italy). Once I wrote my first novel, a passion for writing burned inside me and one book was not enough. If you like sweet, steamy paranormal romance, you’ll love my haunting ghost stories with heart. When I’m not writing, I love being walked by my Great Pyrenees who never lets me forget to smell the flowers.
Possession of the Heart
Acting out of desperation to tear down his broken past, Cole Barlow has spent his life in failed revenge against his abusive father, buying and destroying each of his father’s businesses and properties. With each destruction, Cole becomes more like his dead father, but that won’t stop Cole from destroying the last property standing, Penniberg Mansion, his father’s beloved home, the place where Cole hated growing up. With each attempt to destroy the mansion, Cole’s workers are frightened off by his father’s evil ghost. In order to bring workers back, Cole has no choice but to hire Paranormal Investigator, Angela Haven. Cole, brooding, intelligent, and brutally handsome, is a savage skeptic, but Angela sees deeper, that more than the mansion is haunted. Can Angela help Cole rebuild the ruins of his heart before he becomes the man he hated?
Visit Cici’s website to learn more information about the Possession Series.
http://www.ciciedward.com
6:00 pm Patricia Rosemoor~
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Rosemoor writes “Dangerous Love”– both romantic suspense and paranormal romantic thrillers. She has had 98 novels with 8 publishers and more than 7 million books in print.
His Deception: Deception and desire intertwine as an undercover bodyguard gets too close to the woman he’s sworn to protect.
(Digital book from Random House/Loveswept)
Tabloid drama isn’t Katelyn Wade’s style. The illegitimate daughter of a notorious tycoon, Katelyn has worked hard to build a successful business on her own terms. She doesn’t put much stock in the rumors that she’s being targeted by someone with a vendetta against her father—until one of her employees at her restaurant turns up dead. Suddenly, she can’t trust anyone. Especially not her new bartender, a man with an instinct for trouble . . . and a body made for sin.
Katelyn has no idea that Thorne Hudson is being paid to protect her. He certainly never meant to seduce her. Crossing professional lines never ends well, especially when the slightest distraction could put both their lives at risk. But even Thorne’s military resolve, honed by years of training, is no match for Katelyn’s undeniable sex appeal. And after one taste of her lush lips pushes him past the edge of temptation, Thorne aches to tell her the truth—just as soon as he knows she’s safe from harm.
Visit Patricia Rosemoor at:
6:30 p.m. Clara Kensie~ 
Clara Kensie grew up near Chicago, reading every book she could find and using her diary to write stories about a girl with psychic powers who solved mysteries. She purposely did not hide her diary, hoping someone would read it and assume she was writing about herself. Since then, she’s swapped her diary for a computer and admits her characters are fictional, but otherwise she hasn’t changed one bit.
Today Clara is a RITA© Award-winning author of dark fiction for young adults. Her RUN TO YOU series is a super-romantic psychic thriller about a family on the run from a deadly past, and a first love that will transcend secrets, lies, and danger. The RUN TO YOU series was named an RT Magazine Editors Pick for Best Books of 2014, and Book One, DECEPTION SO DEADLY, is the winner of the 2015 RITA© Award for Best First Book.
Her next book is AFTERMATH, a dark, ripped-from-the-headlines contemporary in the tradition of ROOM, THE LOVELY BONES, and THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, coming November 2016 from Merit Press.
Run to You Book One: DECEPTION SO DEADLY: Sarah Spencer has a secret: her real name is Tessa Carson, and to stay alive, she can tell no one the truth about her psychically gifted family and the danger they are running from. As the new girl in the latest of countless schools, she also runs from her attraction to Tristan Walker—after all, she can’t even tell him her real name. But Tristan won’t be put off by a few secrets. Not even dangerous ones that might rip Tessa from his arms before they even kiss…
Run to You Book Two: DECEPTION SO DARK: With no more secrets to keep them apart, Tessa and Tristan embark upon a desperate search to find her missing brother and sister. But not even Tristan can keep Tessa safe from the hostile classmates at her new school…or from the nightmare that haunts her even while she’s awake. As Tessa’s nightmare becomes all too real, her hope of getting her family back together feels ever more out of reach. When a psychic warns her that leaving town may mean her death, Tessa still cannot stay when she uncovers a potential lead to her brother and sister. Not even if she must go alone and risk losing it all: Tristan, her family, and even her life.
Run to You is Tessa and Tristan’s story—two books about psychic gifts, secret lives, and dangerous loves. Danger. Deception. Betrayal. It must be true love.
Available at your favorite online book retailers, including Amazon:
DECEPTION SO DEADLY: http://www.amazon.com/Run-You-Book-One-Deception-ebook/dp/B00V3TOJJA
DECEPTION SO DARK: http://www.amazon.com/Run-You-Book-Two-Deception-ebook/dp/B00V3TOFBM
Read the entire first chapter of DECEPTION SO DEADLY at http://clarakensie.com/wordpress/books/runtoyousneakpeek/ .
Visit Clara at http://clarakensie.com/, Like her on Facebook, follow her on Twitter, and sign up for her Newsletter.
7:30 p.m. Kathleen Groger~
Kathleen wrote her first story in elementary school about a pegasus named Sir Lancelot. It had no plot or conflict, but it sparked a dream. After serving a fifteen-year sentence in retail management, the bulk in big box bookstores, she turned her love of reading into a full-time career writing dark and haunting characters and stories.
She lives by the mantra that a day is not complete without tea. Lots of tea. Kathleen lives in Ohio with her husband, two boys, and two attention-demanding dogs. When not writing or editing or revising, you can find her reading, cooking, spending time with her family, or photographing abandoned buildings. She writes Young Adult: Science Fiction, Horror, Supernatural Suspense.
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Trust no one
Never go out in the dark
Always have a weapon
Sixteen-year-old Val lives by these three rules etched on her arm. Her rules and her gun are the only things standing between her and assimilation by hordes of human-looking aliens she calls Raspers.
By day, Val gathers supplies. By night, she hides and wishes she could go back in time…before her family died…before the annihilation…before the Raspers began stalking her and demanding she join their collective.
But when the Raspers attack in broad daylight, the truth becomes startlingly clear.
They’re evolving.
A fellow survivor crashes into Val’s life. Adam’s full of charm and promises—like rumors of a safe haven—but there’s something wrong. He’s survived with no supplies, no weapons…no plans. Time is running out. With the formula for survival shifting around her, Val must decide how many rules she’s willing to break to escape the Colony.
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Happy Thursday!
CJ
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May 25, 2016
Meet the Fabulous Authors for Forgetting Jane FaceBook Launch Party
I want kick off the end of the month with some introductions to my 11 fabulous authors, who will be joining me on Facebook and launch my debut novel, Forgetting Jane, on Saturday June 29th, 2016.
This will be a three day intro, to see who these talented authors are, what they have in store of you and the time slots they will be popping in to say hi.
Today, my featured Authors are DB Kennison, Nicole Leiren, Jenn Windrow and Sonali Dev.
3:30 -DB Kennison –
DB Kennison was born and raised in Colorado where some of her fondest memories took place with a book tightly fisted in her hands and days were spent reading and daydreaming. As a kid, she remembers weekly trips to the library and the excitement of getting to pick something fresh and new from the stacks. She still feels that way when looking for a new book to read.
After moving to Wisconsin, she came to love life in a small town and along with it, an appreciation of great beer, and cheese. Her heart is there among the rolling hills and limestone bluffs.
DB currently lives in the middle of nowhere with her handsome, supportive husband, and three spoiled dachshunds, which vie for position as daily muse.
As someone with an active imagination, she is constantly weaving tales and now putting it all down on paper. What an adventure!
Good art is subjective. Bad art can be murder.
The Randi Lassiter Series, Book 1
Randi Lassiter is twenty-nine, divorced, and remarkably content with her non-existent social life. Mainly because she moonlights for an attorney, nabbing adulterers—like her ex—with her camera. When she stumbles across a mutilated body, it takes fast talking to convince the arrogant detective she’s not a suspect. One look at him, and she pegs him as a guy who uses his sexy smirk to separate women from their panties.
When Detective Jon Bricksen is named the lead investigator the first murder this microscopic town has seen in forty years, he questions his decision to leave the death and violence of Milwaukee behind. Randi’s cleavage—and her questionable sleuthing skills—aren’t making his job any easier.
Theirs is a mutual aggravation society until her small-town network results in critical progress. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they battle a growing attraction—and a killer who’s out to make them the stars of his next piece of deadly performance art. Warning: Pepare for a thrill ride of disturbing plot twists, profanity, dirty thoughts, and filthy behavior. Who knew small town life could be this exciting.
Visit DB at:
Look for her book at Amazon, Kobo, Samhain Publishing and Barnes and Noble
https://www.amazon.com/Still-Life-Randi-Lassiter-Kennison-ebook/dp/B00Y05TY1C
4:00 -Nicole Leiren
Nicole is a fun-loving (and sometimes sassy) contemporary romance author. She has been an avid reader and lover of books from a very young age. Starting with mysteries, her love for reading expanded to include romance and suspense. A Midwest girl, born and raised, she resides in the Western Suburbs of Chicago with her real-world hero and hubby of almost 28 years. Her stories capture the love and laughter in her real world heroes and heroines.
The Few. The Strong. The Brave.
Cody Jenkins thought serving in the military would help him escape heartbreak, but he never imagined meeting a woman like Evelyn. The only problem? After spending one unforgettable night together, she returned to her life far away from him and his service in the Army.
Perfection defines Evelyn Walters every moment, every day of her
entire life. But with a recent divorce from her husband and a career
in jeopardy, maintaining that carefully constructed facade is proving to be her biggest challenge yet.
A chance encounter at her sister’s wedding brings Evelyn face-to-face
with Cody again, and sparks fly as memories of their night together
prove a powerful force. But troubles from his past and problems from
her present threaten to keep them apart. Will they give in to their
personal demons or will they remember the night that proved, without a
doubt, they are better together than they will ever be apart?
Visit Nicole at:
You can find her books at: Amazon and Nook
4:30 -Jenn Windrow- 
Jenn Windrow loves characters who have a pinch of spunk, a dash of attitude, and a large dollop of sex appeal. Top it all off with a huge heaping helping of snark, and you’ve got the ingredients for the kind of fast paced stories she loves to read and write. Home is a suburb of it’s-so-hot-my-shoes-have-melted-to-the-pavement Phoenix. Where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and a slew of animals that seem to keep following her home, at least that’s what she claims.
Her first full length novel, Struck By Eros will be released July 8th, 2016 from Muse It Up Publishing.
Visit her online at BLOG / FACEBOOK / TWITTER
Struck By Eros
A Redeeming Cupid Novel
Released July 8th, 2016
One jaded woman. Two hot men. A challenge to prove Cupid doesn’t always know best.
After a lifetime of dating losers, Noel Chase thinks she’s found love with college professor Len Holder. But Cupid’s aim sucks worse than his crap-tacular curse, sticking her with supposed soul mate, Grayson Adler. Grayson is gorgeous, Greek, and an exact replica of the man-whores of her past. No matter what the chubby cherub thinks, Noel is sure Grayson is Mr. Wrong with a capital “W.”
Forced to do Cupid’s bidding, Noel must spend her days with Grayson matchmaking the unlucky-in-loves, and trying to resist Grayson’s charm and do-me-now sex appeal. But when Cupid tries to match her fiancé, Len, with another woman, Noel must make an excruciating decision. Defy Cupid and hang on to Len? Or succumb to her fate and trust Grayson with her heart?
Visit Jenn at:
5:00 -Sonali Dev-
Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and writing, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler.
Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog.
Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s lists of Best Books of the year. She won the American Library Association’s award for best romance 2014, and is a RITA® finalist, RT Reviewer Choice Award Nominee, and winner of the RT Seal of Excellence. She was hailed by NPR.org as a ‘stunning debut’.
Ria Parkar is Bollywood’s favorite Ice Princess—beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof—until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin’s wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar.
Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria’s tragedy-ridden family in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love—until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom and it’s taken him years to rebuild his life. But he’ll risk it all again if Ria can find the courage to face the secrets she’s been guarding for everyone else’s benefit and finally stop acting and start living.
Rich with details of modern Indian-American life, here is a warm, sexy, and witty story of love, family, and the difficult choices that arise in the name of both.
Sonali’s books are available at: Amazon, BN, IndieBound, Hudson Booksellers,Target, Walmart, BAMKindle, iBooks, Kobo, Buy a signed copy from Anderson’s Bookshop, Buy the Audiobook
Visit Sonai at:
Thanks for joining me and for more information, please go to:
http://www.cjwarrant.com/books.html
To pre order Forgetting Jane: https://amzn.com/B01G28ULXE
Smooches
Cj
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May 19, 2016
Forgetting Jane: Meet Jane Doe
Hi Everyone,
I like to introduce you to Jane Doe, my wonderful strong heroine from Forgetting Jane.
Hello there,
This is awkward for me, since I don’t much about myself…Actually, I don’t anything about my past at all, or my real name. However, what I can tell you is that I went through hell getting to where I am today.
Even though Chief Elias McAvoy thinks I’ve lost my mind or delusional, with his help keeping me safe, he’s finding clues to who tried to kill me. I’m learning so more about myself–the new me, and my growing feelings for Eli.
I don’t know how Eli feels about me, but I’m not going to dwell on it since I have a killer still after me, and a girl who happens to be a ghost who won’t leave me alone.
Please come on this journey with me and discover who I really am, and if Eli and I really make to the end, together.
Have a great day!
Thanks Jane!
Keep a look out next week for the my awesome list of authors, who will be joining me during Forgetting Jane’s Facebook Launch Party! I will also have links to my pre-sales for Forgetting Jane.
Smooches
CJ
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May 16, 2016
May 9, 2016
May 5, 2016
Forgetting Jane-Meet Eli
For the month of May, I’m introducing a few of my characters from Forgetting Jane, so you can get to know them a little of who they are and what they are made of.
Also at the end of the month, I’ll post the list of the 12 Fabulous Authors who will be part of my AWESOME Facebook Launch Party for Forgetting Jane, which is on June 29th, 2016, from 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. central time.
Now I like to introduce you to…Elias, or Eli for short.
Name: Elias James McAvoy
Birthday: November 12
Birth place: Beaver Ridge Wisconsin
Parents: James and Barbara McAvoy
Marital Status: Definitely HELL NO
Jobs: Marine-Special Forces/Military Police/ Half Moon Bay Police Department/ Beaver Ridge Police Department
Take it away, Eli. Tell us about yourself.
Thanks CJ.
I’m grew in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin and got the hell out of there the second I turned eighteen. I went into the military, which I can’t discuss what that entailed, but it was pretty f***ing gruesome. Saw too much, and had to get out.
I settled in Half Moon Bay, California for a little while and fell in love with the place. More shit went down and drank myself to near death. My only saving grace was the place I escaped from. My birth home.
Quit drinking and now I’m trying to stop smoking, which I can’t seem to fathom why I put myself through this crap. Next to drinking coffee from the Barn, it’s my only vise. I wonder what other shit I have to give up to be content in my life.
Marriage is a mix bag of nuts for me. Being tied down to one person is the last thing I ever want. I like my solitary life. So I’m not going to tell you much more.
Now, if you want to know more of me, buy FORGETTING JANE by CJ Warrant, and come check us out at: www.cjwarrant.com and join the Facebook party on June 29th, and win some fabulous prizes from all of the great authors.
Thanks Eli!
There you have it!
Happy Thursday
CJ
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