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January 23, 2017
3 romantic comedies for .99
I don’t usually put my latest release on sale, but here it is anyway–along with some other great romantic comedies of mine that you’ll love. (And as always, every time you leave a review, another angel gets its wings…) This sale ends soon, so don’t wait!
To buy the ebook for .99 click here!
The best day of his life, the worst day of hers.
Back in college, Marco Dawson never thought of Belle as anything more than a friend. If she had crossed his mind on his wedding day, it was probably only to wonder why she hadn’t shown up to be a bridesmaid. After all, his new wife was her old roommate. Seven years have passed since then, and Belle just found out that Marco is divorced and vacationing with his family in an elegant Cancun resort. She’s not about to let the right man get away twice. She heads to the resort where she plans to casually bump into Marco and ignite some romantic flames.
But Belle hadn’t planned on one thing: Flynn Dawson, Marco’s handsome, charming, and determined twin brother. He thinks Marco and his ex-wife can make amends and he’s not about to let Belle stand in the way.
Part Sabrina, part While You Were Sleeping, romantic comedy readers will eat this book up!
To buy the Masquerade .99 ebook click here!
A little white lie never hurt anyone.
When Clarissa takes a much needed job under slightly false pretenses, she doesn’t think it will be such a big deal. She may have told her movie-star boss that she was married but that shouldn’t matter. After all, she doesn’t want anything to do with men for a long, long time.
It’s hard for a woman to keep up the masquerade when her boss is as handsome as Slade Jacobson and the job takes her to Hawaii with him. In between handling his whirlwind four-year-old daughter and dealing with a whole cast of Hollywood personalities, Clarissa has to keep a tight hold on her heart.
Masquerade is romantic comedy at its best–clean and funny with lots of heart.
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To buy the .99 ebook click here!
Who says cheerleaders have to be nice?
Chelsea’s school year has taken a turn for the worse. After being dumped by her boyfriend and humiliated at the pep assembly by her younger sister’s boyfriend, Rick, she’s just concentrating on avoiding any other major embarrassments.
That’s when Rick and his band debut their new album, complete with a whole set of songs bashing cheerleaders. Chelsea’s humiliation has reached a whole new level now that everyone is walking down the halls singing the words to “Dangerously Blonde.”
It’s time to make Rick pay. All he wants is to win the High School Idol audition, so he can be on his way to rock star fame and fortune. But with the help of her best friends, Aubrie and Samantha, Chelsea is going to steal his victory right out from under him.
January 20, 2017
free romance ebook novella A Longtime (and at one point illegal) Crush
From the day Elsie’s big brother brought his friend Kye McBride over to their house, Elsie adored him. When she was eight, she secretly blew kisses to him. When she was twelve, she sat on
the stairs, unnoticed, and watched him escort another girl to prom. When she was a senior in high school, she walked into math class and found out he was her new math teacher.
With that much emotion fueling her, things were bound to go wrong. And they did. Elsie not only spent the last two weeks of school avoiding him, she turned avoiding-Kye-at-all-costs into her life-long philosophy.
Now three years have passed and Elsie has come home for her brother’s wedding. She’s got to face Kye—hopefully without getting crushed again.
Publishers Weekly has called Janette’s romantic comedies “Hilarious.”
January 15, 2017
Free dialog class, Jan 19th
Libraries are awesome because they do cool things like sponsor writing classes. This Thursday I’ll be at the Southeast Regional Library in Gilbert talking about talking. Or at least talking about character dialog.
Dialog: How to get your characters talking–the right way
Dialog isn’t real speech but must sound that way to your reader. In this workshop, you’ll learn ten techniques that will help you create the artful deception. You’ll learn which deadly tagline mistakes to avoid, how to do away with unnecessary taglines, and the right way to convey needed information to your readers through dialog (and when you shouldn’t.)
Thursday, January 19, 1:30-2:30 pm
Southeast Regional Library, Gilbert, AZ
775 N. Greenfield Rd
Gilbert, AZ 85234
January 11, 2017
winners are: Tanya Macote, Emily Burnham, Maria, and Becca
There’s a downside to choosing winners from the podcast comments as opposed to blog comments. I have no way to tell what people’s emails are on the podcast. So, I hope you guys are also checking in with the blog.
Books you can choose from are: My Fair Godmother, My Unfair Godmother, How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend, My Double Life, It’s a Mall World After All, Just One Wish, Slayers, Slayers: Friends and Traitors, Erasing Time, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Life, Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws, or Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-do List (Or Echo in Time if you’re willing to wait. I have it on order but don’t have it yet.
email me at jrallisonfans @yahoo.com and let me know which book you’d like as well as the address you want it sent to.
January 10, 2017
Back to work on Slayers 4 (Into the Firestorm)
Perhaps by the time I’m finished with the book, I will remember that firestorm is one word. Although you probably shouldn’t hold your breath. I’ve written multiple books that involve either the Renaissance or renaissance festivals and I still spell the word wrong. Every. Single. Time.
Thank goodness for spellcheck.
Anyway, I am working on Slayers 4 again. I’m having a hard time getting excited about the book because I want to be already done with this series and it still needs so much work, and oh yeah, the climax and ending. It still needs that.
And–this is why I shouldn’t write series–I know at some point soon, I’m going to have to go back and reread all three books to make sure I’m not inadvertently changing facts and details.
I’ve said since book two that I was going to write two endings, one where she ends up with Jesse and one where she ends up with Dirk so that both camps will be happy. Oddly, even though the (super) rough draft is written up until the climax, I’m still not sure which version I’m writing now. I guess we’ll all be surprised…
January 6, 2017
Blue Eyes and Other Teenage Hazards is free Jan 6-10
This was the first novel I ever completed. (Well, I’m not counting that really bad one I wrote at sixteen.) I started a lot of other ones that I never finished. I probably should comlete those other ones some day.
Anyway, enough about my procrastination and all of the resolutions I make that go unresoluted year after year. You can get the updated version of this book for free until Jan 10.
Here’s the description:
Cassidy knows everything about Chad–everything, that is, except how to get him to notice her. Someday, somehow, she vows, those deep blue eyes are going to look her way. But romance is more complicated than all her teen novels have led her to believe. Guys. Is there any understanding them? Is there a psychology behind the reason they love their cars? A methodology to their fist bumps? It’s a subject she doesn’t mind researching.
Cassidy has always been happy being the studious, reliable type . . . until Elise and her good-looking eighteen-year-old brother move into the neighborhood. Elise is determined to introduce Cassidy to the partying life. But will Elise’s carpe diem ways land Cassidy in more trouble than she’s prepared for? Can a girl be smart and have fun too? Cassidy is about to find out.
Publishers Weekly has called Rallison’s YA contemporary romances “Hilarious.”
December 31, 2016
Valentine’s novella collection available for preorder
In which I torment another poor heroine. Yes, there will be embarrassing mishaps that lead to a brush with the law and a hot policeman. And of course other great stories from other awesome authors. You can preorder it here: Preorder the Valentine’s Day Collection
December 23, 2016
five free ebooks through Christmas
Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
Slayers: Playing with Fire
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws
My Double Life
My Fairly Dangerous Godmother
Having superpowers is overrated. It requires Tori to go to way more team practices than can comfortably fit into a normal teenager’s schedule. Being a dragon slayer has other drawbacks too—like fighting dragons and keeping one step ahead of power-hungry dragon lords, all without blowing her cover.
Tori Hampton is a presidential candidate’s daughter, which means she not only has a public reputation to maintain, she also has a humorless bodyguard to ditch every time she needs to go on a mission.
And Dr. B has plenty of missions for the Slayers. When he discovers that someone is selling dragon scales on the black market, he’s convinced the seller can give him the dragons’ location. A surprise strike could turn the tide in the Slayers favor, but when they track down the seller, they find more than they’ve bargained for.Suddenly, strategies need to change, alliances shift, and Tori finds herself caught in the precarious middle.
Jesse, the captain of the other Slayers team, is everything she wants, but then there’s Dirk, the dragon lord’s son—who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. He’s determined to convince her that she should love dragons, and love him too. The fact that he and his father plan to overthrow the government? Details not worth arguing about.
Tori believes she can turn Dirk around and convince him to rejoin the Slayers, but he’s just as convinced that she should leave the Slayers and become a dragon lord. Dirk can teach Tori how to control dragons, and it’s a skill she desperately wants. It could make all of the difference in a battle. It could save her friends’ lives. When Dirk offers to let her ride a dragon, she knows that meeting him is like playing with fire.
Praise for Slayers: “More than a worthy equal of the works of Rick Riordan or Christopher Paolini.”–Booklist
Slayers: Playing with Fire
Some people bomb auditions. Sadie Ramirez throws up during hers. Her performance on America’s Top Talent is so bad it earns her a fairy godmother through the Magical Alliance’s Pitiful Damsel Outreach Program. Enter Chrysanthemum Everstar: a cell-phone-carrying, high-heel-wearing fairy godmother in training who is every bit a teenage girl. She misinterprets Sadie’s wishes and sends her back in time to be a part of The Little Mermaid story and then makes her one of the twelve dancing princesses. Wishes are permanent, and if Sadie wants to get back to her home, she’ll have to strike a magical bargain—one that involves stealing a goblet from a powerful fairy queen. With a little help from a handsome and talented thief, she might be able to pull it off.
With romance, humor, and magic, My Fairly Dangerous Godmother is the sort of fairy tale that both teen girls and their mothers will love.
Publishers Weekly has called Rallison’s fairy tale retellings “Hilarious.”
Praise for My Fair Godmother: “With comical chaos erupting everywhere, this magical (and romantic!) adventure will keep you grinning.!” -Girls’ Life
“A charming YA treat … funny with plenty of laugh out loud lines and moments” -Romantic Times.
My Fairly Dangerous Godmother
Josie loves hottie Ethan Lancaster, the captain of the basketball team, but she never can do or say the right thing in front of him. So how can it be fair that Ethan is only interested in her best friend, Cami, when Cami isn’t even trying for his affection? Or is she?
Cami dreams of winning her basketball team’s coveted MVP award, and earning the chance to take the court during a special halftime demonstration with WNBA star Rebecca Lobo, but her best friend, Josie, is a better player. So how can it be fair that Josie is a shoo-in for the honor if she is barely interested in basketball in the first place and isn’t even trying to be the best? Or is she?
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws
Her whole life, Alexia Garcia has been told that she looks just like rock star Kari Kingsley. But being a famous person’s doppelganger hasn’t turned out to be the teen fantasy you’d expect. People look at Alexia like she must be as ditzy as her counterpart. One day when Alexia’s photo filters through the Internet, she’s offered a job as Kari’s double. This would seem like the opportunity of a lifetime–or at least a way to make some fast cash–but Alexia’s mother has always warned her against celebrities. They can’t be trusted. They’ll use her.
Alexia can’t resist the siren call of fame. Who could say no to Hollywood, hot guys, and . . . um, did we mention hot guys already? She flies off to L.A. and gets immersed in a celebrity life. Not only does she have to get used to getting anything she wants, she also romances the hottest lead singer on the charts and finds out that her own father is a singing legend. Through it all, Alexia must stay true to herself, which is hard to do when you are pretending to be somebody else!
This Prince and the Pauper retelling is teen comedy at its best.
Publishers Weekly has called Janette’s YA contemporary romances “Hilarious.”
My Double Life
PC school principal turns West Side Story into a comedy of errors.
Sixteen year-old Jessica dreams of Hollywood fame, and when Jordan moves into her small town, she dreams of him too. He’s a movie star’s son, and hey, he’s gorgeous to boot. Jordan has always wanted to get out from the shadow cast by his superstar father, but now that he and his mother have moved so far away from LA, how can he get his divorced parents back together? Jessica convinces Jordan the way to get his father to come for a long visit is to be a part of the school play. And if she’s “discovered” in the process, all the better. Things go wrong when she lets Jordan’s secret identity slip, and grow even more disastrous when the principal tries to change West Side Story into a gangfree, violence-free, politically correct production.
Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
December 12, 2016
Podcast launch–book giveaways!
Hey, I’ve started podcasting with writer friends Randy Lindsay, Brock Booher (and eventually Aaron Blaylock) about all things writing. I’ve got one podcast playing right now as I write this and I’m cringing at my voice. I know, I know, most people don’t like the way their voice sounds, but… sigh… Ok, here’s the thing: as some of you know, my mother got cancer when I was two, was sick for four years, and died when I was six. My Dad remarried when I was ten. But during my formative years, instead of hearing my mother’s lovely soprano voice, I mostly heard my father’s deep voice. I had a music teacher explain to me once that when this happens to girls they very often speak in a lower tone than they normally would.
I don’t think about this fact until I hear my voice on a recording and then I always think, why do I sound like that? Ahh! So, in future podcasts, I’m going to try and remember to sound lilting and not like I’m trying to impersonate a man.
But enough about my voice.
There are four 15-minute podcasts. I’m giving away a book per podcast to one of the commenters. (Chosen by Random.org) Also Randy Lindsay will be also giving away copies of one of his books as well as Ryan Hancock’s Uncommon Blue. (Ryan is also our friend, and some of you may know him as Darth Beta because he rips my stuff apart when he beta reads it.)
Here’s the link: Ready, Set, Write!
Books you can choose from are: My Fair Godmother, My Unfair Godmother, How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend, My Double Life, It’s a Mall World After All, Just One Wish, Slayers, Slayers: Friends and Traitors, Erasing Time, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Life, Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws, or Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-do List (Or Echo in Time if you’re willing to wait. I have it on order but don’t have it yet.
Podcast launch–book giveaway!
Hey, I’ve started podcasting with writer friends Randy Lindsay, Brock Booher (and eventually Aaron Blaylock) about all things writing. I’ve got one podcast playing right now as I write this and I’m cringing at my voice. I know, I know, most people don’t like the way their voice sounds, but… sigh… Ok, here’s the thing: as some of you know, my mother got cancer when I was two, was sick for four years, and died when I was six. My Dad remarried when I was ten. But during my formative years, instead of hearing my mother’s lovely soprano voice, I mostly heard my father’s deep voice. I had a music teacher explain to me once that when this happens to girls they very often speak in a lower tone than they normally would.
I don’t think about this fact until I hear my voice on a recording and then I always think, why do I sound like that? Ahh! So, in future podcasts, I’m going to try and remember to sound lilting and not like I’m trying to impersonate a man.
But enough about my voice.
There are four 15-minute podcasts. I’m giving away a book per podcast to one of the commenters. (Chosen by Random.org)
Here’s the link: Ready, Set, Write!
Books you can choose from are: My Fair Godmother, My Unfair Godmother, How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend, My Double Life, It’s a Mall World After All, Just One Wish, Slayers, Slayers: Friends and Traitors, Erasing Time, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Life, Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws, or Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-do List (Or Echo in Time if you’re willing to wait. I have it on order but don’t have it yet.
