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April 4, 2016
Mind, Body, Soul by Karen Michelle Nutt @KMNbooks @RebeccaJVickery #yoga #romance
Hi all, Karen Michelle Nutt here. I'm at Once Upon A Word chatting about what I do to exercise. What's your favorite activity? Love to know. Come by and share it with us. Mind, Body and Soul: http://onceuponaword1.blogspot.com/2016/04/mind-body-soul-by-karen-michelle-nutt.html
April 2, 2016
My, my what big teeth you have… Flowers and Fangs @KMNbooks #8sunday #snippetsunday
Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 4 #1
This week's snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs.
Chapter 4. What happened last week: Before Derek arrived, Tim told Sloane he was a vampire. Now, it seems he is proving his claim when he attacks Derek. They are locked in a fight to the death.
This is in Derek's POV.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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Derek pushed the heel of his hand into the guy's jaw, trying to shove him away before fangs sunk into his flesh, and with his other hand he fumbled to find something to hit the vamp with. He managed to get a hold of a glass shard. He jabbed it into the side of Tim's neck. Tim leapt away like a spider springing up its web, but he screamed like a wounded beast. Instead of attacking again, he chose escape and dashed toward the front door.
Derek leapt to his feet and lunged for his crossbow. He loaded and rolled to get off a shot, but he was too late. Tim was gone.
The dog in the backyard continued its excessive barking and scratched at the door.
"Omigod, omigod!" Sloane kept repeating the word as if she expected the Lord almighty to explain what had just happened.
No such luck.
*********************************************************************************Now Derek and Sloane are alone. Derek must be thinking Sloane is infected too. What do you think?
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About Flowers and Fangs, "Stake and Dust series, Book II":
(ONLY 99¢)
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he's been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek's brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iPad / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories. (ONLY 99¢)
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats' prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She's only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she's determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter's phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She's a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter's charms.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
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*****If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us and share a snippet of your work in progress, a new release, or an oldie but goodie.
Hashtags: #8sunday #snippetsunday
Participating Authors are listed at these sites:
Weekend Writing Warriors for Eight Sentence Sunday
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New Valentine Romance Collection from VTP is available!
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About the Book: My story in the collection is Heart of the Sea. Mermaids anyone?
March 26, 2016
Sometimes, you just don’t know a person… Flowers and Fangs @KMNbooks #8sunday #snippetsunday
Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 3 #6
This week's snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs.
Chapter 3. Tim attacked Sloane and was about to sink his fangs into her neck, when Derek arrives with his crossbow, and demands Tim to leave her alone.
Skipping ahead to Chapter 4-- Tim pushes Sloane away from him as he whirls on Derek...
This is in Derek's POV.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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He let the arrow fly, but it went wild as Tim plowed into him, sending him flying into the wall. The arrow slammed into the cupboard door above Sloane's head and she screamed again. He really wished she wouldn't do that.
He lost his grip on the crossbow from the tackle and it slid over the tile floor, bouncing off one of the kitchen table's legs. Tim slammed him against the wall again. The picture hanging above him fell to the ground and glass rained around him like sharp razor blades.
Tim proved unnaturally strong even for a newbie. He must have fed not long ago, but thank God for small favors, he was still getting use to his new supercharged limbs that had grown in size. All vampires—originals and hybrids went through a growth spurt where they grew taller and more muscular, and of course the hybrids got spanking new set of fangs just like their creators, but unfortunately, the hybrids also lost their sense of right and wrong.
"Stop it, Tim!" Sloane yelled. She obviously had not grasped that the Tim she knew no longer existed.
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Somehow, I don't think Tim is going to listen.
Spring Sale at VTP and PbRJV... 99¢ books!
About Flowers and Fangs, "Stake and Dust series, Book II":
(ONLY 99¢)
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he's been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek's brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iPad / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories. (ONLY 99¢)
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats' prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She's only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she's determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter's phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She's a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter's charms.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
**********************************************************************************
*****If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us and share a snippet of your work in progress, a new release, or an oldie but goodie.
Hashtags: #8sunday #snippetsunday
Participating Authors are listed at these sites:
Weekend Writing Warriors for Eight Sentence Sunday
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New Valentine Romance Collection from VTP is available!
Be My Everything 2016 Valentine Collection Available at Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook/ Createspace
About the Book: My story in the collection is Heart of the Sea. Mermaids anyone?
March 19, 2016
I believe the lady asked you to let her go… Flowers and Fangs @KMNbooks #8sunday #snippetsunday
Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 3 #5
This week's snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs.
Chapter 3. Skipping ahead a few paragraphs. Tim tells Sloane he's a vampire and wants to finish what he started a few nights ago, and make her one too. Only Sloane isn't thrilled with the prospect.
This snippet is Sloane's POV.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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He was upon her in a second, spinning her around to face him and slamming her against the kitchen counter. She ignored the sudden jar to her body and pushed at his chest, but he was so strong…so very strong. "Let me go, Tim." His fangs lengthened. "Oh God, no!" she said and would have screamed but a deep baritone voice, from somewhere behind Tim, halted her cries.
"I believe the lady asked you to let her go."
Tim's body went rigid as if rigor mortis had set in and turned his body to stone.
Curiosity proved too strong and she chanced a peek around Tim's shoulder. A man with dark reddish brown hair and eyes as green as a cats stood there in the archway of her kitchen with a medieval crossbow aimed at Tim's back.
This time she did scream.
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It's about time Derek shows up. lol But I have a hunch Tim won't be pleased with the interruption.
Spring Sale at VTP and PbRJV... 99¢ books!
About Flowers and Fangs, "Stake and Dust series, Book II":
(ONLY 99¢)
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he's been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek's brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iPad / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories. (ONLY 99¢)
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats' prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She's only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she's determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter's phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She's a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter's charms.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
**********************************************************************************
*****If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us and share a snippet of your work in progress, a new release, or an oldie but goodie.
Hashtags: #8sunday #snippetsunday
Participating Authors are listed at these sites:
Weekend Writing Warriors for Eight Sentence Sunday
*********************************************************************************
New Valentine Romance Collection from VTP is available!
Be My Everything 2016 Valentine Collection Available at Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook/ Createspace
About the Book: My story in the collection is Heart of the Sea. Mermaids anyone?
March 16, 2016
A Wee Bit of Good Luck @KMNbooks @RebeccaJVickery #superstitions #Irishblessings
Luck of the Irish isn't easy to obtain, and you don't have to be Irish to have a wee bit of good luck come your way. Here are some superstitions and bad omens you'd be good to avoid, and more than a few charming ones as well.Join me today at:
http://onceuponaword1.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-wee-bit-of-good-luck-by-karen.html
March 14, 2016
March 13, 2016
Spring Sale Starts March 15 – April 15. What’s your Reading pleasure? @KMNbooks
March 12, 2016
Tell me it isn’t so… Flowers and Fangs @KMNbooks #8sunday #snippetsunday
Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 3 #4
This week's snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs.
Chapter 3. Skipping ahead a few paragraphs. Sloane doesn't care for Tim's strange mood. He tries to kiss her, but something pricks her tongue. She wonders what in the heck is going on. Well, she's about to find out...
This snippet is Sloane's POV.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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When he grinned she caught sight of two pointed incisors. Vampire came to mind, but that was insane. Self-consciously, she touched the side of her neck where he had bitten her the other night and stumbled back a few steps.
Tim's mouth quirked and a low menacing chuckle greeted her. "I can see your wheels are turning inside that pretty little head of yours, but I'll make it simple, unlike how my brother did for me. I'm a vampire. You know—the kind that drinks blood and all that."
The kind that drank blood—was there another kind? "That's impossible. You've been ill...and you must be…running a fever still."
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So nice of him not to keep her guessing. lol Poor Sloane. She's still in denial.
About Flowers and Fangs, "Stake and Dust series, Book II":
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he's been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek's brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iPad / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories.
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats' prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She's only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she's determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter's phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She's a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter's charms.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
**********************************************************************************
*****If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us and share a snippet of your work in progress, a new release, or an oldie but goodie.
Hashtags: #8sunday #snippetsunday
Participating Authors are listed at these sites:
Weekend Writing Warriors for Eight Sentence Sunday
*********************************************************************************
New Valentine Romance Collection from VTP is available!
Be My Everything 2016 Valentine Collection Available at Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook/ Createspace
About the Book: My story in the collection is Heart of the Sea. Mermaids anyone?
March 7, 2016
VTP Banners and PbRJV romances for everyone… @RebeccaJVickery @KMNbooks
PbRJV Books available at: Amazon / Smashwords /Barnes&Noble
March 5, 2016
Eyes gleamed a weird sheen before turning red… Flowers and Fangs @KMNbooks #8sunday #snippetsunday
Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 3 #3
This week's snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fang.
This is still Chapter 3. Skipping ahead a few paragraphs. Sloane has invited Tim in, but she's sensing there is something off with him. He pulls her into an embrace. "Don't be scared," he tells her, and she promptly tells him she's not...
Tim is speaking first.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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"Your heart is beating fast."
Her brows drew together as she said, "How do—" She didn't have a chance to finish her question. He captured her lips and her words were swallowed into a passionate caress. His tongue swept inside her mouth and she met his passion, but something pricked her lip and she drew back in alarm. Her hand flew to her mouth, and when she looked at her fingers, she spotted drops of blood coloring the tips. "You bit me." Again, she thought the last to herself.
"You say it as if it is a bad, thing." He stalked toward her, and this time there was no mistake; his eyes gleamed with a weird sheen before turning red.
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Does Tim seem a little pleased to be invited in?
About Flowers and Fangs, "Stake and Dust series, Book II":
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he's been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek's brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iPad / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories.
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats' prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She's only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she's determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter's phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She's a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter's charms.
Available at:
Ebook: Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook
In Print: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes and Noble /Createspace
**********************************************************************************
*****If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us and share a snippet of your work in progress, a new release, or an oldie but goodie.
Hashtags: #8sunday #snippetsunday
Participating Authors are listed at these sites:
Weekend Writing Warriors for Eight Sentence Sunday
*********************************************************************************
New Valentine Romance Collection from VTP is available!
Be My Everything 2016 Valentine Collection Available at Amazon / Amazon UK / iTunes / Smashwords /Nook/ Createspace
About the Book: My story in the collection is Heart of the Sea. Mermaids anyone?
