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June 3, 2016
June 2, 2016
Big, Black and Beautiful Snippet
“Come on, honey.” Tony decided to try a different tactic since his He-Man attitude didn’t seem to be working. “Let me in. I have to pee.”
“Go behind a bush,” was Shelly’s response.
“Damnit, Shelly!” So much for that, Tony’s anger was simmering too close to the surface for him to hold it back. “I didn’t come all the way here to talk to you through a door.”
“You shouldn’t have come here at all. I’m a big girl, Anthony. My brother had no right to ask you to babysit me.”
Tony released a harsh breath and leaned his forehead against the door. She knew that he hated when people used his full name. “I swear to God, if you don’t open this fucking door—” He heard the click that indicated that Shelly had unlocked it, but he knew she wouldn’t open it, she was just that stubborn. By the time he opened the door, Shelly was walking away from him.
“Come on in Mr. Big, Black and Beautiful,” she said in that teasing tone she used whenever she called him that.
Tony’s gaze automatically fell to her ass, admiring the way the soft roundness filled out the sweats she was wearing. Shit, don’t go there, man. She’s off limits. He closed and locked the door.
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“Go behind a bush,” was Shelly’s response.
“Damnit, Shelly!” So much for that, Tony’s anger was simmering too close to the surface for him to hold it back. “I didn’t come all the way here to talk to you through a door.”
“You shouldn’t have come here at all. I’m a big girl, Anthony. My brother had no right to ask you to babysit me.”
Tony released a harsh breath and leaned his forehead against the door. She knew that he hated when people used his full name. “I swear to God, if you don’t open this fucking door—” He heard the click that indicated that Shelly had unlocked it, but he knew she wouldn’t open it, she was just that stubborn. By the time he opened the door, Shelly was walking away from him.
“Come on in Mr. Big, Black and Beautiful,” she said in that teasing tone she used whenever she called him that.
Tony’s gaze automatically fell to her ass, admiring the way the soft roundness filled out the sweats she was wearing. Shit, don’t go there, man. She’s off limits. He closed and locked the door.
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Tease Me Thursday
May 31, 2016
Pre-Order Available at Amazon Now!
Due out on 8/25 CARNAL HUNGER is now available for pre-order at Amazon! You can also read an excerpt there which has yet to be edited or finalized so please keep that in mind.
Blurb - Straight out of prison and into the president's chair of the Mad Dogs MC! VD's set for taking the reins but he's not ready for the impact one curvy little brunette has on his libido the second they lock eyes. It's instant, it’s hot and it’s consuming! It's the forever after kind of shit he's not looking for, especially when the trouble heading the club's way threatens to rip them apart.
Blurb - Straight out of prison and into the president's chair of the Mad Dogs MC! VD's set for taking the reins but he's not ready for the impact one curvy little brunette has on his libido the second they lock eyes. It's instant, it’s hot and it’s consuming! It's the forever after kind of shit he's not looking for, especially when the trouble heading the club's way threatens to rip them apart.
May 30, 2016
Author Services
I just want to say that if you have a website and you offer author services for promotion please, please, please respond to that author if they contact you. We already spend hours and hours away from writing to promote our books and I can't tell you how many of you never respond back. In a timely manner, too. It's unprofessional when you let a week or more go by without a word back to what is basically your client. Someone requesting your offered services, whether it's free or a paid advertisement shouldn't have to wait, wonder and sometimes resubmit the request.
I spend all of my Saturdays, and sometimes Sundays doing nothing but promo. Mon-Fri I try to save for writing, but even then I find myself doing promo some evenings. We're all busy and life sometimes gets in the way but a little note giving the author a timeline heads up would go a long way. If you started your author services with good intentions as I know most of you have, and then find that it's too time consuming to keep up with, don't leave the author hanging by ignoring their requests. We're understanding creatures and communication is much appreciated.
I spend all of my Saturdays, and sometimes Sundays doing nothing but promo. Mon-Fri I try to save for writing, but even then I find myself doing promo some evenings. We're all busy and life sometimes gets in the way but a little note giving the author a timeline heads up would go a long way. If you started your author services with good intentions as I know most of you have, and then find that it's too time consuming to keep up with, don't leave the author hanging by ignoring their requests. We're understanding creatures and communication is much appreciated.
May 29, 2016
I Have the Best Son-in-Law EVER!
Look what he surprised me with yesterday when he came home from work. I am so lucky. Damein surprises me once in a while with flowers. Always brings a tear to my eye because he's so thoughtful. My daughter couldn't have found a more perfect husband, and he's a hands-on dad that means so much to us all.
May 27, 2016
Carnal Hunger Snippet
From VD's point of view:
I glanced up just in time to watch her cute little ass disappear inside the house. Was she running because of me? I’d known that I was way out of line with that kiss back at the airport but fuck, it was the best thing I’d done since getting released from prison. The next best thing? Well, that was gonna involve us naked and her underneath me. On second thought fuck that, I wanted to pound her from behind, if the lady was willing. I bet she was gonna make me work for it, too, but hell, she was worth it.
I glanced up just in time to watch her cute little ass disappear inside the house. Was she running because of me? I’d known that I was way out of line with that kiss back at the airport but fuck, it was the best thing I’d done since getting released from prison. The next best thing? Well, that was gonna involve us naked and her underneath me. On second thought fuck that, I wanted to pound her from behind, if the lady was willing. I bet she was gonna make me work for it, too, but hell, she was worth it.
May 25, 2016
Tease Me Thursday!
Bet on Me by Mia HoddellAmazon – http://amzn.to/1Tpbyvc Barnes & Noble – http://bit.ly/1YPS9Su IBooks – http://apple.co/27PelC9
We Shouldn't And Yet by Stephanie WitterAmazon – http://amzn.to/1U87igwBarnes & Noble – http://bit.ly/1TpdlQVIBooks – http://apple.co/1U6PuzC
May 24, 2016
May 22, 2016
Wanderlust by Bernadette Marie
BLURB:
Gia Gallow has traveled the world. Her wanderlust landed her in Georgia where she has created a life for herself away from the petty differences of relatives and domineering ex-lovers. Having settled in America, she has a successful business and dear friends—and the attention of both Dane and Russell Walker. Due to her own family's dramas over dueling hearts, she might have to forget about her feelings for Dane to keep peace within the Walker family, but sometimes even running thousands of miles away can't keep a heart from going after what the heart wants. And Gia's heart wants Dane.
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Excerpt:
Dane awoke in his childhood bedroom with a start. As he sat there, a bead of sweat rolling down his forehead, he realized it wasn't that he'd heard anything to wake him—in fact, it had been too quiet.
The sun was up and warm as it filtered through the window and onto his skin.
He wiped his brow with the back of his hand and then tucked it under his head. He closed his eyes and thought about the room.
It was his and Gerald's room. Oh, if the walls could talk, he amused himself with the thought. They'd lived too far from town to have girls climbing in the windows, but they'd climbed out a few times. But once again, they'd lived too far from town to sneak out without being noticed.
They'd done things such as walk down to the river and fish by a full moon. There had been an enormous tree outside the window and during a storm it could be menacing and scary. But on a warm summer night, it was a refuge as the big branch came right to their window like a bridge to the outdoors.
There had always been two beds in the room. Sometimes they'd be pushed together for comfort, especially when that tree outside swayed in the wind. They'd also been the walls to some of the greatest forts ever built with blankets and sheets.
Long talks were had in that room. Some of those talks went well into early morning. They'd debated over Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. There were some very serious discussions over Super Bowl XXXIII. Atlanta's new team had gone to the big game under the coaching of Dan Reeves, and they had to play his old team, the Denver Broncos. It seemed unfair to Gerald, but Dane thought it was just. He'd been a fan of John Elway his whole life. If he thought back hard enough, he was fairly sure that when he'd taunted Gerald with Elway's win, he'd gotten a black eye. The thought of it had him chuckling to himself in the quiet.
Talks about football and fishing soon gave to girls and talks about birds and bees. He was grateful that walls couldn't actually talk.
No longer were there posters and drawings on the walls. His mother had redesigned the room, he knew, for future grandchildren. The room was clean of everything but a dresser and a rocking chair. The closet door, another menacing nightmare maker, was cracked open as the door was too warped to stay closed.
Some poor grandchild would be as afraid of the abyss of the closet as he and Gerald had been.
It wasn't long before the sound of the cattle caught his attention. He'd have to admit it was a much better sound than early morning traffic. Then he heard the roaring of the first pickup truck engine. Surely he'd actually slept through the first. The sun was up after all, and he knew his father and brothers were up before the sun.
Dane rolled to his side and pulled the blanket up to his ear. This was why it was good to be visiting. No one had awakened him and made him help out with the early morning chores. Suckers!
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AUTHOR Bio
Bernadette Marie has been an avid writer since the early age of 13, when she’d fill notebook after notebook with stories that she’d share with her friends. Her journey into novel writing started the summer before eighth grade when her father gave her an old typewriter. At all times of the day and night you would find her on the back porch penning her first work, which she would continue to write for the next 22 years.
In 2007 – after marriage, filling her chronic entrepreneurial needs, and having five children – Bernadette began to write seriously with the goal of being published. That year she wrote 12 books. In 2009 she was contracted for her first trilogy and the published author was born. In 2011 she (being the entrepreneur that she is) opened her own publishing house, 5 Prince Publishing, and has released contemporary titles and has begun the process of taking on other authors in other genres.Bernadette spends most of her free time driving her kids to their many events. She is also an accomplished martial artist, working her way to her second degree black belt in Tang Soo Do.
An avid reader she loves to meet readers who enjoy reading contemporary romances and she always promises Happily Ever After.
Bernadete Marie
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