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Portal Soundtrack Blitz

The Portal Chronicles Soundtrack Single!

About a year ago, when Imogen Rose, author of the cult bestselling series, the Portal Chronicles, was surfing YouTube she stumbled upon a song, “If We Fall” by SHE SAID SAVE ME, and instantly fell in love with both the lyrics and the male vocal. She put the song on her writing playlist and looked up the Toronto-based band on Facebook… and liked their page. A while later, Imogen received a PM from Joe Vercillo, saying that if her books were ever adapted for film or TV she should feel free to use his music. She had no idea who he was, but looked him up. Imagine her fan girl sqee moment when she discovered that he was the lead vocalist for SHE SAID SAVE ME! Imogen and Joe have been Facebook friends ever since.

The Portal Chronicles starts off with a serendipitous meeting in a London pub, which propels the lives of the characters into a time warp of what-ifs. During the prologue, which is the key to the story, Rupert is humming a song in that London pub where Olivia and he seal their fate. Imogen Rose always wondered what he was singing. Until late one night, when she closed her eyes and “heard” it. Imogen wrote the lyrics and SHE SAID SAVE ME put it to music. What better day than Valentine’s Day to release this song that defines the romance that is PORTAL?

Download Link: https://soundcloud.com/imogen-rose-6/portal/s-z348x

Joe Vercillo - vocals, guitar
Randy Lee - violin
Mike Olsen - cello
Ryan Granville-Martin - producer, engineer, arranger
Mastered by Nick Rawson
Lyrics by Imogen Rose

Imogen Rose Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImogenRosePage

Website: http://www.imogenrose.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImogenRoseTweet

Instagram: ImogenRoseGram


SHE SAID SAVE ME Links:

Website: www.shesaidsaveme.bandcamp.com  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shesaidsaveme

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shesaidsaaveme

YouTube: www.youtube.com/shesaidsaveme


PORTAL BOOK LINKS:

Kindle: http://amzn.to/YQ8H16

iTunes: http://bit.ly/VLA0qL

KOBO: http://bit.ly/1l50C0U

NOOK: http://bit.ly/1e8ZR0p

Paperback: http://amzn.to/1lFNXoP

German, French, Japanese, Spanish language editions: links on Imogen Rose’s website

Audiobook Sample: https://soundcloud.com/imogen-rose-6/portal-prologue-mp3
 


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PORTAL Lyrics
Tonight you wished upon our starI had this feelingReleasing dreams into the darkStarlight revealingA shooting star of promisesNo delusionsFades into the lights belowA spark of illusion
It’s fantasy, unwritten destinyA portal to a secret wishIs this real, or is this just a midsummer night dream’s what-if
Is this a dream of you and meIs this a dream of you and meIs this a dream of you and me
What if you’re not real, just hallucination?An imaginary fixationWhat if we escape to a new dimension?Through a time warp in a broken constellation
It’s fantasy, unwritten destinyA portal to a secret wishIs this real, or is this just a midsummer night dream’s what-if
Is this a dream of you and meIs this a dream of you and meIs this a dream of you and me
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My Secret Weapon: Cover Designer Adara Rosalie - Guest Blog and Giveaway with E Van Lowe

Ever since the first book in the Falling Angles Saga, Boyfriend From Hell, was published back in 2011, I’ve often been asked "Who does your book covers? They're gorgeous!"  My secret weapon in attracting new readers to the franchise is my friend Jayde, also known as Adara Rosalie.


 Known as Adara Rosalie, Jayde, is a self-taught digital artist living in the Sydney Region of New South Wales, Australia. Her works bring forth the beauty in the dark, strange and Gothic. Her images are beautifully rendered, with a blend of photo manipulation and digital painting that shows off her natural talent for creating new and fantastic visual artworks that are original in concept.

Fast becoming sought after for her particular style, Adara has been commissioned for the design of a number of CD covers, promotional displays, and book covers. She has also been featured in magazines such as Advanced Photoshop (Issue 81), and won numerous awards on artist community websites.
With the up-coming release of Falling (White Whisker Books March 13th 2014) the final book in the Falling Angels Saga , Jayde decided it was time to update the covers for the entire series.  She did this on her own, without any additional charge.  The updated Earth Angel cover is below:


Jayde currently lives in New South Wales, Australia, with her partner, Michael, and is available to add her secret sauce to your book covers or any other art project you may have.  You can find her here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/jayderosalie/collections/19282-book-covers
For those of you who haven’t read Boyfriend From Hell, Earth Angel or Heaven Sent, judging from the reviews, what’s between the covers is pretty good, too.  I hope you’ll check them out.



FallingFalling Angels SagaBook FourE Van Lowe
Genre: Paranormal YA
Think twice before you agree to marry Satan. There’s no divorcing the devil.
The End is Near
Will Megan Barnett go falling back into the arms of dreamy earth angel, Guy Matson? Or, is she in fact, falling in love with the demon, Orthon?  Or, will her out-of-control abilities send her falling into Satan’s open arms?
In the final, heart-stopping chapter of the Falling Angels Saga, Megan Barnett is on a quest to rid her life of Satan forever, but Satan has other plans, including a lavish wedding, and he’s willing to destroy her family and everyone she loves to have his way.  To add to the drama, rogue demons have risen from hell with plans of their own.
Will Megan finally have her happily-ever-after, or is she doomed to an eternity in HELL?
As Amanda Ashby, author of Zombie Queen of Newbury High, writes, “E. Van Lowe is a writing force to be reckoned with and you are in masterful hands from the first page to the last.”

Heaven SentFalling Angels SagaBook ThreeE Van Lowe
Genre: Paranormal YA
What Does It All Mean?
Readers who devoured Boyfriend From Hell and Earth Angel will be captivated by the third book in the Falling Angels Saga.
As summer break for Glendale Union high begins, heartsick Megan awaits Guy's return while struggling to control her emerging abilities.  Love is in the air, but can the new loves in Megan, Maudrina, Suze and Aunt' Jaz's life be trusted? Nothing is what it seems.  Meanwhile, the Satanists are set to hatch their most diabolical scheme ever, and if it comes to pass, Satan may finally win out.
Megan has precious little time to unravel the cryptic message hidden in the riddle she received at the end of Earth Angel. If she doesn’t, the life of someone most dear to her will be lost forever, and Megan may yet find herself living in HELL.
Excerpt
Earth AngelFalling AngelsBook TwoE Van Lowe
Genre: Paranormal YA
Heaven Can Wait!
Just because Megan Barnett recently defeated Satan, has a fantastic new best friend, and has won the love of deliciously handsome, Guy Matson, doesn’t mean her troubles are over.  Far from it.  For Megan doesn’t realize it, but in her possession is a powerful weapon, a weapon sought after by both angels and demons and everything in between.  They will do ANYTHING to get it.
In E. Van Lowe’s humorous, romantic and thrilling sequel to  Boyfriend From Hell , Megan winds up in a gripping life or death battle to save herself, the boy she loves, and all of mankind from unthinkable evil.
Megan Barnett has recently defeated Satan, found a fantastic new best friend, and has won the heart of deliciously handsome, Guy Matson.  But that doesn’t mean her troubles are over.  Far from it.  For Megan doesn’t realize that she is in possession of a powerful paranormal weapon, a weapon sought after by both angels, demons and everything in between. 
In E. Van Lowe’s romantic yet thrilling sequel to  Boyfriend From Hell , Megan finds herself in a gripping life or death battle to save the boy she loves, and all of mankind from unthinkable evil.

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Boyfriend from HellFalling Angels SagaBook OneE Van Lowe
Genre: Paranormal YA
Aww, Hell No!

Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together.

“But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes?  Of course not…”

The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start dating again.  She hasn’t had a man in her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago. 

Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer, Armando.  Before long Megan and Suze both wind up in steamy relationships.  But neither of the handsome guys is quite what he seems.  In fact, one of them is Satan, with his sights set on a new bride.  Megan has precious little time to figure out how to stop him.  If she doesn’t, either Megan or Suze are quite literally going to  HELL .
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About The Author
E. Van Lowe is an author, television writer, screen-writer, playwright and producer who has worked on such TV shows as "The Cosby Show," "Even Stevens," and "Homeboys In Outer Space." He has been nominated for both an Emmy and an Academy Award. His first YA Paranormal novel, "Never Slow Dance With A Zombie," was a selection of The Scholastic Book Club, and a nominee for an American Library Association Award. 
The first two books in the Falling Angels Saga:  “Boyfriend From Hell” and “Earth Angel,” are best sellers. “The Zombie Always Knocks Twice” is the first book in the Hollyweird series.
In December 2014, he received a letter and certificate from the Writers Guild of America for his work on The Cosby Show, which had been selected as one of the 101 best television shows in history. 
E lives in Beverly Hills California with his spouse, a werewolf, several zombies and a fairy godmother who grants him wishes from time-to-time.
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All Books Are About Love- Guest Blog for How to Be a Man by Tamara Linse

All Books Are About Love
On this Valentine’s Day, let me just say: all books are about love. Bear with me, though, while I get around to why.
I wish I could remember who said it. Horror is the defamiliarization of the ordinary.  You have to set up a world that people recognize and then add a twist.  There’s an alien spacecraft buried out in the woods and it turns everyone into the worst versions of themselves.  There’s a virus killing everyone, and in terror the remaining people revert to ritualistic cannibalism. Only a few people in this world have this amazing power, and they only use it for evil.
The normal is always there ~ people going about their lives, reacting as they normally would ~ and then the abnormal puts the situation in stark relief and people are forced to confront themselves in extreme situations.
Other types of fiction do exactly the same thing.  They take the ordinary and defamiliarize it.  They force the reader to look closely at something they take for granted or to question what they would do in extreme circumstances. Romance looks closely at courtly love and twists it or deconstructs it or imagines a different ending, so that the reader feels those emotions right along with the characters.  Science fiction is the perfect crucible ~ it puts people in extreme circumstances by its very nature.  The genre of literary fiction ~ and it is a genre ~ does the same thing.  It examines the everyday and looks into those tiny unpredictable and weird parts of it, those complex emotions you don’t like to put a name to.
Another thing these all have in common is that they have to get the world right.  In order to be effective, the basics of craft have to be observed.  Fiction is about eliciting emotion, and if you’re clumsy, the most you will do is step on your reader-partner’s toes. That’s why the study of craft, gobs of reading, and critiquing others’  work is so important.  You only learn by doing and thinking about it.  You have to put in your 10,000 hours.
And at its most basic, writing and reading are a way to connect with other human beings.  It is the only technology that allows you to see inside another person’s head and heart and to try to understand what they’re feeling and thinking.  It tells us we are not alone, that there are others out there who feel the same.  Whether you’re fictionally fighting off a machete-wielding maniac, clenching your muscles “in the most delicious fashion,” piloting an intergalactic cruiser, or feeding your dying mother, it’s all about emotion, but especially about love.
Books are love, and we love books. May you have a loving and literary year.
Thank you so much for letting my drop by Fang-tastic!  You rock! How to Be a ManTamara Linse
Genre: Literary Short Story Collection
Publisher: Willow Words
PrintISBN: 0991386701ISBN-13: 978-0-9913867-0-3
EpubISBN: 099138671XISBN-13: 978-0-9913867-1-0
ASIN: B00HKSLFSQ
Number of pages: 238Word Count: 59,650
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Book Description:
“Never acknowledge the fact that you’re a girl, and take pride when your guy friends say, ‘You’re one of the guys.’ Tell yourself, ‘I am one of the guys,’ even though, in the back of your mind, a little voice says, ‘But you’ve got girl parts.’” – Birdie, in “How to Be a Man”
A girl whose self-worth revolves around masculinity, a bartender who loses her sense of safety, a woman who compares men to plants, and a boy who shoots his cranked-out father.
These are a few of the hard-scrabble characters in Tamara Linse’s debut short story collection, How to Be a Man. Set in contemporary Wyoming—the myth of the West taking its toll—these stories reveal the lives of tough-minded girls and boys, self-reliant women and men, struggling to break out of their lonely lives and the emotional havoc of their families to make a connection, to build a life despite the odds. How to Be a Man falls within the tradition of Maile Meloy, Tom McGuane, and Annie Proulx.

The author Tamara Linse—writer, cogitator, recovering ranch girl—broke her collarbone when she was three, her leg when she was four, a horse when she was twelve, and her heart ever since. Raised on a ranch in northern Wyoming, she earned her master’s in English from the University of Wyoming, where she taught writing. Her work appears in the Georgetown Review, South Dakota Review, and Talking River, among others, and she was a finalist for an Arts & Letters and Glimmer Train contests, as well as the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize for a book of short stories. She works as an editor for a foundation and a freelancer. Find her online at tamaralinse.com and tamara-linse.blogspot.com

Excerpt- A Dangerous ShineWhen Shine told people she bartended at the Buckhorn, their eyes widened. “What’s a nice girl like you,” they said, and then their voices trailed off. “I heard somebody got shot,” they said. There was a real bullet hole in the mirror, but it was ancient history—part of the bar’s character, like the heads on the walls and the smell of stale beer. To Shine, it felt safe, like sitting on a gargantuan comfy couch with all your cousins—sunk into the softness, everyone good-naturedly elbowing everyone else.Not only that. As the bartender, Shine was the center of everything. She entertained the loners, introduced people, facilitated everyone’s good time, and decided who stayed and who went. It was the next best thing to being on TV. Maybe someday she’d walk back through that door and everyone would whisper, “That’s Shine. She used to work here.”Someday. Shine flipped a beer glass upside down and stuck it onto the brushes in the sink full of hot soapy water. She worked it up and down, rinsed it, then put it on the metal drain board. “Who’s the most famous person who’s come through that door?” she asked Doc, a forever regular who walked like a ship rolling on the high seas. Doc sat with his elbows resting on the edge of the bar, framing his draft of Bud.“In the old days, this was a tent,” Doc said, “and everybody stopped here because right out there was the railroad depot.” He lifted his right elbow toward the tracks a half a block away. “Before they moved it on down.”“Even you weren’t alive for that,” One-ball Paul said. Paul stood watching the door, leaning with his back against the bar and his thin elbows hooked over the edge. Everybody knew he was waiting for Serita, only everybody also knew Serita was over at Coppers Corners with Lee Mangus, the UPS guy.“I don’t know,” Shine said and winked at Doc. “I heard the reason Doc got his nickname was because he doctored up at Crow Agency when Custer had his last stand.” The real reason Doc had his nickname was because he was a medic in Vietnam.Doc’s eyes squinted a smile. “The most famous person to walk through that door is going to be Shine.”“Yeah,” Paul said. “She’s going to replace Kathy Lee as America’s top anchor, once she gets that TV degree.”Shine shook her head. “I’ll be lucky to bring coffee to Geha over at KGWN in Cheyenne.”Doc shook his head and Paul turned around and looked at Shine. Paul said, “It’s going to be you, Shine. You’re beautiful and smart and … and …” He blushed and glanced at Doc. Doc was nodding his head.“If Regis hits on you, pressures you, you let me know,” Doc said, his face serious.“Naw,” Nance said and raised her head off the bar. Nance, who was married to Tommy Jon the trucker, was drunk on Gin Rickeys. “That’s Kelly what’s-her-name. Kathy Lee hasn’t been there for ages.”“We’ll put your … Seven-Up can? … up there on the Wall of Fame,” Paul said. The Wall of Fame was empty cans and bottles—Coors Light and Mickey’s Big Mouth, McGillicuddy’s and Jack Daniels Green Label—resting on little shelves with names on wooden plaques underneath them. They were tributes to regulars who had died.



About the Author:
Tamara Linse grew up on a ranch in northern Wyoming with her farmer/rancher rock-hound ex-GI father, her artistic musician mother from small-town middle America, and her four sisters and two brothers. She jokes that she was raised in the 1880s because they did things old-style—she learned how to bake bread, break horses, irrigate, change tires, and be alone, skills she’s been thankful for ever since. The ranch was a partnership between her father and her uncle, and in the 80s and 90s the two families had a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud.
She worked her way through the University of Wyoming as a bartender, waitress, and editor. At UW, she was officially in almost every college on campus until she settled on English and after 15 years earned her bachelor’s and master’s in English. While there, she taught writing, including a course called Literature and the Land, where students read Wordsworth and Donner Party diaries during the week and hiked in the mountains on weekends. She also worked as a technical editor for an environmental consulting firm.
She still lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with her husband Steve and their twin son and daughter. She writes fiction around her job as an editor for a foundation. She is also a photographer, and when she can she posts a photo a day for a Project 365. Please stop by Tamara’s website, www.tamaralinse.com, and her blog, Writer, Cogitator, Recovering Ranch Girl, at tamara-linse.blogspot.com. You can find an extended bio there with lots of juicy details. Also friend her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter, and if you see her in person, please say hi.
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Valentine’s Day and Vampires with Charles O'Keefe

Valentine’s Day and Vampires

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Roxanne asked me to do a post for today as part of my blog tour (she’s excellent by the way, if you’re an author and would like to do a blog tour check her out here). So like lots of people I’m in a relationship (married for almost 10 years now) and we celebrate Valentine’s day. 
Sure I’ve heard the usual things, it’s a commercialized day (what holiday/event isn’t now?), you should be romantic all the time, you should say you love your significant other all the time and so on. 
Come on though, it’s just a fun day where you get to eat chocolate (or whatever you prefer), go out to dinner and hopefully have sex afterwards. 
When you think about it though a lot of the things we do is a little gruesome/weird. We give flowers that we know will die, we give candy in the shape of a heart and then open it up to eat heart shaped candy. We give cards that say something like, “I love you with all my heart” or “my heart belongs only to you”. When you think about it’s all kind of strange, the hearts on candies, boxes and cards doesn’t look anything like a real heart. Furthermore what does it mean? The heart is what keeps us alive sure but it has nothing to do with emotions or love. 
You could say I love you with all my brain but then you’d have to have brain shape candy (and I’d be writing about zombies instead!) so that doesn’t work. In fact the largest organ we have is out skin, it makes up anywhere from six to ten percent of our body weight. Try giving a card with a big picture of skin on it; I don’t think that would go over well (unless perhaps you’re dating a cannibal ;)
The real history of the day (and actual Saint Valentine’s) is so muddled and lost to time that now we’re just celebrating a notion invented by Chaucer in the 18th century (and even that we’ve gotten wrong is he meant May 3rd and not February 14th). Whether it’s an excuse or not it’s fun to celebrate a day wrapped up with the idea of love (though it certainly has less appeal if you’re by yourself) and I enjoy most of it (just don’t wait to get a card the day of, that can be rough!). 


So to finally come to my point, what would a vampire do on Valentine’s day? Since I’m a vampire author (you can check out my series here) I will provide my insight. I think a vampire would take his companion out for dinner but maybe not to a restaurant (there’s plenty of tasty people walking around everywhere after all!), give them a heart shaped vial of blood (always nice for a snack later). Then if they’re in the mood  have sex covered in the blood of their latest victims, what could be more romantic than that?

Have a great valentine’s day everyone, eat chocolates, buy a card and flowers, have a yummy meal and maybe buy a vampire book or two.

And if you're in the mood for more Vampires and Valentines be sure to check out  the Vampire Valentine Issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine





The Newfoundland VampireBook II: Killer on the RoadCharles O’Keefe
Genre: Horror / Paranormal / Romance / Vampire
Publisher: Penumbra PublishingDate of Publication: August 31, 2013
ISBN-10: 1938758293ISBN-13: 978-1938758294ASIN: B00EWTYM3G
Number of pages: 193Word Count: 74,020
Cover Artist: Nils Dannemann
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Book Description:
Joseph O’Reily is still adjusting to the lifestyle and the dangers that come with being a new vampire. He and Cassandra recently fought to the death with Cassandra’s estranged husband John Snow, and now Joseph has experienced his first ménage a trios, as only a vampire can. As if all of this was not complicated enough, he and Cassandra have been tasked with hunting down and killing a rogue vampire, Donald Rathmore.
Another of John Snow’s creations, Donald is an evil misogynistic killer in his own right. Donald has no interest in avenging his creator’s death, but killing Cassandra is at the top of his list.
While Donald continues his murderous spree, Joseph and Cassandra always seem to be one step behind him. The chase is further complicated as they encounter other vampires and learn more about the mysterious nature of the Vampire Council and the coming war between good and evil.
Joseph is only now beginning to trust Cassandra, and this trust will be shaken when he discovers she has even more secrets than he imagined. Her idea of justice and morality is at complete odds with his own. Despite all his powers and growing skill, Joseph is tested physically as a vampire and emotionally by Cassandra. This time the answers and challenges may be too much for the young vampire to handle.


The Newfoundland Vampire
Book One
Charles O’Keefe

Genre: Horror/Paranormal/Vampire
Publisher: Penumbra Publishing
ISBN: 978-1935563853ASIN: B007TRWUCS
Number of pages: 224Word Count: 86,737
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Like every other geek alive, Newfoundland native Joseph O’Reily secretly wants to be a superhero. At thirteen he fantasized about being a vampire, and ten years later he’s still fantasizing – but mostly about a beautiful redheaded woman who has eyes only for him. The one thing different about Joseph’s adult fantasy is that, amazingly, it comes true one night when he goes to a local university pub. Cassandra Snow, literally the woman of his dreams, invites him to her place for an evening of personal pleasure. Of course he’s not going to say no. But when strange things start happening afterward, Joseph quickly learns that not all dreams should come true.
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Charles O’Keefe lives in the beautiful province of Newfoundland, Canada, with his wife and two feline ‘children,’ Jude and Esther.
He works in IT support and enjoys many hobbies and activities that include writing, reading, watching fantasy/science-fiction movies and television shows, gaming, poker, walking, Pilates, and of course fantasizing about vampires.
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Vampire Most WantedArgeneau Vampire SeriesBook 20Lynsay Sands
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Avon
Date of Publication: 2/18/2014
ISBN: 9780062078179
Number of pages: 384
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Take a road trip with the undead . . . in this latest in the argeneau series by New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands
For Basha Argeneau, anything is better than facing her estranged family. Even hiding out in sweltering southern California. But when a sexy immortal in black shows up determined to bring her back to the clan, she'll do anything to keep far, far away from the past she can't outrun.
Marcus Notte isn't here to play games—especially not with someone as crazy as the infamous blonde. Asked by Lucian Argeneau to bring her back for questioning, Marcus is determined to carry out Lucian's request—no matter how the seductive little mind-reading vamp feels about it.
Basha doesn't mind fighting fire with fire, especially with a hot immortal involved. But if he wants to take her away, he'll have to catch her first . . .
Chapter One
Divine saw her latest customer out, surprised to note that there was no one outside her door waiting for a reading. It was the first time that day that there was no line outside her RV. A glance at her watch explained why-- it was dinnertime. That was the only time she ever had a lull in customers. Right now the food stalls would have ridiculously long line as everyone at the fairgrounds converged on them in search of greasy treats to power the rest of the evening’s rides and fun. Which meant she had a few minutes to catch her breath and relax a bit.She’d barely had the thought when she spotted a couple of women moving purposefully toward her trailer. After a brief hesitation, Divine quickly flipped the “Back in five minutes!” sign, let her screen door slide closed and descended the few steps to the ground. Ignoring the fact that the women were looking alarmed and rushing forward, she slipped around the side of her RV. Most customers would have stopped then, sagged with disappointment and waited, probably impatiently, but waited just the same, so Divine was a little surprised when her arm was grabbed from behind. She was more surprised, however, by the strength in the hand that latched onto her…until she turned and noted that it wasn’t one of the women at all, but a man.A couple inches taller than her, dark haired and good-looking, he was built like a line backer. He was also looming over her, deliberately invading her space in a threatening manner as he growled, “What the hell did you say to my wife?”Divine rolled her eyes with exasperation, wondering how she was supposed to know since she didn’t know who his wife was. She was about to say as much, but then realized that there was something familiar about the man and quickly dipped into his thoughts. A heartbeat later she was relaxing.“Allen Paulson,” she murmured his name, getting an almost childish satisfaction when his eyes widened incredulously.“How do you--?”“I told your wife that you were having an affair with your buxom, blonde, twenty year old secretary, Tiffany,” Divine interrupted sharply, silencing him at once. “I told her that this Tiffany was pushing for marriage and that you, not wanting to lose her, but unwilling to give up your wife’s money preferred widowhood to divorce. I told her about your plans to bring about that widowhood on your upcoming vacation. I believe it was either her drowning or suffering a fall while camping in Yosemite National Park?” She tilted her head. “As I recall that trip was scheduled for this week, wasn’t it?”When his mouth dropped open and his hold on her arm eased, Divine added, “I’m guessing by the fact that you’re here rather than in Yosemite, that she listened to my advice to make an appointment with her lawyer the next morning to change her will as well as remove you as the beneficiary on her life insurance.”His hand dropped away, falling limply by his side.“No doubt she also listened to my advice and hired a private detective. I gather she sent him to get photographic proof of your infidelity at that cheap little motel you like to take your secretary to everyday at lunchtime?” She slipped into his thoughts briefly, read the answer in the chaos there, and smiled with satisfaction. Not only had the wife done that, she’d then taken the proof straight to a good divorce lawyer. The woman was now safe and on her way to being single again. After that, though, the woman had told her dear hubby that the fortune teller at the carnival was the one who had given her the heads up and put her on this path and it had been the best twenty bucks she’d ever spent. Which was why Divine now had an irate and soon to be divorced and destitute husband on her hands.Divine waited, braced for the man’s anger. But instead of the explosive rage she expected, he asked in a small, frightened voice, “How did you know? No one knew. I didn’t tell anyone what I planned. Not even Tiffany.”“Did you even bother to read the sign when you walked your wife to my trailer that day two weeks ago in Pahrump?” she asked with amusement and then reminded him, “Madame Divine. Let her do a reading and define your future,” she reminded him.“Yeah, but that’s just… It’s a scam,” he protested. “You’re a carnie. You just scam people out of their money for a laugh.”“Yes, of course ,” Divine agreed coldly, and then tilted her head. “So why aren’t you laughing?”Allen Paulson flinched as if she’d struck him, and then his awe and dismay gave way to the rage she’d expected earlier. Divine saw it roll over him, knew he was about to blow his top without the need to read him, but slipped into his thoughts anyway. It was like cutting through soft, half melted butter with a ceramic knife. The man was so angry his thoughts were wide open. Divine wasn’t terribly surprised to read that he’d brought a gun with him and planned to use it. She waited until he’d pulled the weapon from inside his jacket and raised it, though, before reacting. In fact, she let him get so far as to put his finger on the trigger before snapping her hand out, latching onto his throat and lifting him off the ground. She then whirled and slammed him against her RV.When the gun fell from his hand and he moaned in pain, she released him. The man fell like a rag doll. He landed on his ass with his legs splayed, a dazed expression on his face, and Divine immediately dropped to straddle his lap. Gravel ground painfully into her knees, but she ignored that, caught him by the hair at the nape of his neck, pulled his head to the side and sank her fangs into his throat.A little shiver of pleasure slid through Divine as thick warm blood began to gush from the wound, was collected by her teeth and passed into her body. It gave her an immediate rush as the nanos in her body swarmed, eager to collect this new supply of nourishment. The man had jerked in surprise when her teeth pierced his skin, and he’d raised his hands to try to push her off, but he never actually got around to exerting any pressure. Instead, he froze briefly, his mind overwhelmed as hers automatically began to transmit her own pleasure to him. In the next moment, he was moaning and tugging at her instead, pulling her closer with one hand, clasping her head with the other and murmuring encouragingly, “Oh, yeah, baby. Please.”He was also arching his body under her, rubbing a sudden hardness against her. Divine usually didn’t cause pain in her victims, but this one deserved it. She also wasn’t terribly eager to let a man who had planned to murder his own wife dry hump her there on the carnival grounds, so she deliberately withdrew the pleasure that she was experiencing and had unintentionally shared. But she also slipped into his mind to control his reaction to prevent him from screaming out in horror and pain as his mind cleared and he became aware of what was happening.Divine was always careful not to kill her hosts. Why kill the cow that gave the milk? Besides, killing was wrong, no matter how despicable the person was, so while she drank more than she normally would have, she pulled back and freed him at the point when he was weak and woozy, but long before the man could come close to dying.Smiling coldly at his horrified expression, Divine stood, lifting him as she went. Once they were both upright, she released him, leaving him to lean weakly against the RV rather than have to touch him anymore.“Listen carefully Allen Paulson,” she said grimly. “You will not hurt your wife, or ever again consider harming or killing anyone for profit or any other reason. If you do, I’ll find out, and then I’ll find you…” She raised her hand to run one finger lightly over the wound on his neck. “And then I will finish this meal, cut your head off and leave your cold dead body somewhere no one will ever find you. Do we understand each other?”Allen Paulson nodded weakly. The man’s face was as white as his t-shirt, his eyes almost sunken with horror and he was sliding slowly along her RV, obviously eager to escape, but afraid to try and be stopped. Divine scowled. “And if you tell anyone about this, about me,” she emphasized, “I’ll do worse.”He began shaking his head frantically and whispered, “I won’t. I swear.”She narrowed her eyes, and then her nose wrinkled as the acrid scent of urine wafted up between them. Glancing down, she saw the wet spot growing on the front of his trousers and stepped back with disgust. “Get out of here before I change my mind and wipe yours.”Allen Paulson didn’t have a clue what she meant by that-- she could see it in his expression-- but he didn’t stick around to ask.  He simply nodded wildly and sidled along the RV for a couple feet before finding the courage to turn his back to her and run.“You should have wiped his mind.”Divine stiffened at those words from behind her, and then turned slowly. She peered at the tall fair-haired man who had spoken. He was a greenie, an unskilled laborer and supposedly a local who had been hired to help out at the carnival while they were in town. The name he went by was Marco. Divine knew this secondhand, because while she was normally in on the hiring process, using her “special skills” to help Bob and Madge Hoskins who owned and ran Hoskins Amusements, this time she hadn’t been here. Family issues had kept her away and the hiring had been done by the time she’d caught up to the carnival. Had she been here to help weed out the troublemakers in the hiring process as she usually did, she never would have allowed Bob and Madge to hire the man. One, she couldn’t read him, and that was usually a sign of insanity in a mortal. This leads into the second reason she wouldn’t have hired him; the man, like herself, was an immortal. She’d sensed that about him quite quickly. Divine wasn’t sure how she’d known. She didn’t run into a lot of immortals. In fact, she’d arranged her life so that she wouldn’t. But there had been a frisson of awareness as she’d first passed him on returning to the carnival just before noon that day, as if the nanos in her body recognized and sent signals to those in his. She’d been avoiding him ever since.But that hadn’t stopped her from finding out all she could about him. Not that there had been much to learn. He went by Marco, last name Smith of all things. The women all thought he was a hunk. The men thought he was practically a God because he was strong and could do the work of four men, and Bob and Madge were hoping he’d not just help out through their stay in this town, but travel with them to the next and the next and so on. For herself, Divine was wary. She had avoided other immortals for a reason and had been doing so for a very long time. She didn’t like having one around. It made her anxious and she disliked feeling anxious.“Don’t you have something to do?” she asked, moving past the man and toward the back of her RV. The sign she’d turned had said back in five minutes and that time was up. Besides, she’d snacked on Allen Paulson and felt better for it. Break time was over.“You should have wiped his mind,” Marco repeated, falling into step with her.“He’ll keep his mouth shut,” Divine muttered, annoyed, mostly because she knew he was right. The truth was she hadn’t wiped Allen Paulson’s mind because it was slimy, and she hadn’t wanted to have to spend any more time inside his mind than necessary. Besides, he deserved to go through life terrified that she might someday revisit him should he set a foot wrong.“And if he doesn’t keep his mouth shut?” Marco asked as they neared the end of her RV. “What if he goes to the police?”“If he goes to the police, and if they don’t immediately lock him up as crazy but instead come to speak to me…” She shrugged. “I’ll wipe his mind, the officer’s mind and leave this carnival for another.”“Is that how you landed at Hoskins’ Carnival?” Marco asked as they rounded the end of the vehicle. “You didn’t wipe someone you should have and had to move on?”Divine turned on him sharply, an angry retort on her lips, but just as quickly caught back the words that wanted to spill out and merely said with forced calm, “You’re an inquisitive fellow, Marco. It’s not healthy around here. Carnies mind their own business. I suggest you do the same.”Turning away from him, she smiled at the two women who were waiting in front of her door. Others had joined them. In fact, Divine now had a line up of a half a dozen people and it was growing by the minute, but she reserved her smile for the first two only and said, “Which of you would like to go first? Or shall I take you together?”“Oh, me first,” one of the women said eagerly. “This was my idea.”Divine nodded and led the woman inside, leaving Marco and all thought of him out on her stoop.
“Here, Mister.”Marcus tore his gaze from the door Madame Divine had just ushered her client through and peered down at the small boy tugging at the top of his pant leg and holding out a half eaten ball of cotton candy on a cardboard cone.“Here,” the boy repeated, holding it a little higher. “I don’t feel good. You can have the rest.”Marcus arched an eyebrow, but took the cotton candy. He suspected the boy didn’t feel good because he was stuffed full of cotton candy, something drenched in mustard, powdered elephant ears and—he considered the last stain on the boy’s shirt consideringly and then decided it had to be – ice cream. The kid was a walking menu of everything he’d eaten that day. At least, Marcus hoped it was all the kid had eaten that day. Otherwise he’d be wondering if Dante and Tomasso hadn’t fathered the little tyke. They were the only two people he knew, mortal or immortal, who could have eaten like that as a boy.“Danny! What are you doing? Get over here and leave that man alone.”Marcus glanced at the woman rushing toward them from the midway and offered a reassuring smile even as he slipped into her thoughts to ease her mind that he wasn’t a child molester and nothing untoward was happening. By the time she reached them, she’d slowed to a fast walk, and was smiling in a relaxed manner.“I hope he wasn’t bothering you?” she said apologetically as she took the boy’s hand.“Not at all,” Marcus assured her.The young mother smiled again and then nodded and turned away with the boy, saying, “Come on, honey. Your daddy is waiting with your sister in the Ferris wheel line. They’ll be worried.”Marcus watched them go and then turned his gaze back to Madame Divine’s RV. The door was closed now as were the blinds. He couldn’t see the woman anymore, except in his mind’s eye and he was definitely seeing her there. Madame Divine was more than memorable in her gypsy getup. A white peasant blouse, worn off the shoulders, a crimson under skirt, a bright teal scarf skirt, an orange sash tied at the waist with gold chains hanging from it and tinkling merrily, a wide leather belt and a crimson scarf around her head. Gold hoops had dangled from her ears, a gold chain hung around her neck, several gold bracelets dangled from her wrist, and knee high black leather boots with stiletto heels strapped up the front of her legs had finished the outfit.The woman looked damned sexy in the getup, so sexy in fact that when she’d straddled the would-be wife killer, Marcus had wanted to pull her off the man and onto his own lap. He’d been rather startled by that urge. Marcus hadn’t been interested in women for a while. Okay, for a couple millenia. Still, he hadn’t come across a woman like Madame Divine in quite a while either. The woman was walking sex in her get up, and his body was waking up and responding to it.Obviously he had a gypsy fetish, Marcus thought wryly. It made as much sense as anything else at the moment. Certainly more sense than his own life presently did. It appeared at the ripe old age of 2548 he was having a midlife crisis of sorts. That was the only explanation for how he found himself doing a favor for Lucian Argeneau.Marcus smiled wryly at the thought. Lucian Argeneau was not only the head of the powerful Argeneau clan, but also oversaw the Rogue Hunters and led the North American immortal council. Rogue Hunters were the immortal police force, they hunted down rogue immortals to be presented to the immortal council who then passed judgment on them and sentenced them to whatever punishment they saw fit, often death.As the head of those two organizations, Lucian could arguably be the most powerful immortal in North America. It was hard to imagine him needing anyone’s help. But he did. He was searching for a family member, his niece, Basha Argeneau, who had been thought to be dead for millennia, but who may now be alive after all…and whom he feared had gone rogue.Which is how Marcus had come to find himself at the carnival, eyeballing the trailer of a woman he couldn’t read and found incredibly sexy. Not that his not being able to read her bothered him. If this was Basha Argeneau, she was even older than he was and younger immortals usually couldn’t read immortals older than themselves. It wasn’t like any of the other signs of having met a life mate were cropping up, like renewed interest in food and such. Thank God, because if she had been a possible life mate and was Basha Argeneau…well, that would have been a doomed relationship from the start. Because Basha Argeneau was considered rogue…and rogues were executed. The last thing he needed at this point in his life was a rogue life mate.“Hey! Marco! Are you going to stand around stuffing your face all night or help me with the pogo stall?”Marcus glanced around with surprise to find Kevin Morrow walking toward him. The twenty-year old carnie was tall and stick-thin, his face a collection of freckles so thick that from a distance it looked like a tan. Up close though you saw that his face was definitely freckled, and it was also presently scrunched up with displeasure, reminding him that he was only supposed to take a fifteen minute break from helping to man the food stall.“I was--”“Stuffing your face,” the young carnie interrupted dryly and then turned away, gesturing for him to follow. “Come on. If you’re hungry you can have a corn dog while you work. It’s probably better for you than that sugary fluff anyway.”Marcus blinked and glanced down at the cone with the half eaten cotton candy the boy had given him several minutes ago. Or what had been half eaten cotton candy. There was nothing left of the sweet treat now. Surely he hadn’t eaten it? He hadn’t eaten in more than a millennia. He didn’t remember eating it. But he did have a sweet taste in his mouth that was rather pleasant.“Damn,” he muttered, tossing the cardboard cone into a garbage bin as he headed after Kevin. He’d eaten it. Couldn’t read Madame Divine, and was lusting after the woman. Oh, this wasn’t good.

About the Author:
Lynsay Sands is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. She’s been writing stories since grade school and considers herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and if there’s occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that’s just a big bonus. For more information, go to www.lynsaysands.net.
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The Everlasting Appeal of the Vampire with Amber Belldene

Thanks for inviting me to Fang-Tastic Books today!  I’ve decided to share some of my thoughts about the appeal of vampires and why they continue to hold our imagination. Just when everyone insists the vampire fad is over, Jonathan Rhys Myers *swoon* gets cast in a steampunk retelling of the Dracula story and….they’re back!
One of my theories about the perpetual popularity of vampires has to do with love and lust.  A vampire’s hunger is symbolic of lust—a physical desire, fixated on an object without regard for his or her character—in other words, it’s all about the blood and it doesn’t matter whose. The predatory vampire becomes a fascinating character when he (or she, in the case of Uta, the heroine in my new release) falls in love. Suddenly emotions complicate the hunger, and concern for the beloved complicates the vampire’s life. 
A romance is exciting enough when it’s about a duke and a spinster, or two contemporary heroes who live across the tracks from each other, but when the story is about a vampire, it has the potential to be even more romantic: tragic pasts, immortality, sexy fangs. Need I say more?
The kinds of conflicts vampires face are larger than life, cranked up several notches from our every day experience, and yet, they shine a light onto our ordinary lives, making us consider what it means to hunger for something, or someone, and whether we can find ways to have what we desire without harming those we care about.
Before vampires became romantic figures in our literature, they were frightening demonic blood guzzlers in the folklore of Eastern Europe.  The fact our vampire mythology and the Zinfandel grape both originated in Croatia was a huge part of the inspiration for my Blood Vine series, about a family of vampires in exile from Croatia.   
The first record of an actual deceased person being thought to have come back as a vampire was a guy named Jure Grando from Croatia in the seventeenth century.  He was a peasant, and twenty years after his death, local villagers claimed he returned from the dead and began drinking blood from the people. The village leader ordered a stake to be driven through his heart, but when the method failed to kill him, he was subsequently beheaded and that apparently worked. They’ve found skeletons of people buried with stakes through the heart at sites spanning over Eastern Europe. 
These vampires were demonic and scary and not at all sexy.  It wasn’t until Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897, that we really get the idea of a seductive, gentlemanly, cultured vampire.  And the sex appeal of the species evolved from there, because the romance genre loves to redeem a dangerous bad guy!
The vampires in my Blood Vine series have their own customs and mythology.  They live all around the world in secret households, and they are mostly good guys, if a little jaded and grumpy after having lived so long, persecuted by vampire Hunters. My love of studying history and mythology heavily influenced the world I built for this series.  In Blood Reunited, the hero and heroine travel from California all the way to Turkey to investigate the bloody origins of the war between vampires and Hunters.  This Pinterest board shows some of my research into their journey.
There is so much more I could say about vampires in mythology.  I’m fascinated that the folktales make drinking blood a frightening, demonic thing, and yet for certain vampire fans it’s become something very erotic. How did that happen?  And I want to know more about the vampire hunts in Eastern Europe—if vampires aren’t real, who was hurting innocent people, and were the people staked through the heart the real culprits? 
I can’t promise you’ll find the answers to any of these question in the Blood Vine series, but you will find a new, rich and complex vampire world, with a dash of history and lots of sexy characters.  It was bittersweet to wrap up the series with my new release, Blood Reunited, because I had fallen so deeply in love with my characters and my world.  But now that all the books are out, I get to experience it all over again with my readers.  If you decide to check out my books, I do hope you’ll enjoy them, and I always love to hear from readers!



Blood Reunited   Blood Vine SeriesBook ThreeAmber Belldene
Genre: paranormal romance
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Date of Publication: January 28, 2014
ISBN:9781623420956
Book Description:
Book Three in the Blood Vine Series.
Brooding vampire halfling and biologist Bel Maras is determined to create a cure for the wasting disease that plagues his vampire family. His work becomes essential as the Hunters intensify their global and bloody campaign. When Bel's cure fails, only his ancient and estranged godmother Uta Ilirije can help. But seeing the ice-cold Uta reveals something shocking--she is his bonded mate.
She may be a dangerous warrior, but Uta feels her failures acutely. She has been unable to protect her kind from Hunters, and vampires are dying out. Worse, she tied Bel to her long ago in an accident of blood, then abandoned him for his own good--a choice he has never forgiven. Many days, she is convinced Bel and the vampires would be better off if she just walked into the sun.
Biology has fated them to be mates. Now these old enemies must overcome their past to save the vampires and come to peace with the bond they never chose.


Blood EntangledBlood Vine SeriesBook TwoAmber Belldene
Genre: paranormal romance
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
ISBN: 9781623420437ASIN:B00E3ER9KI
Number of pages: 318
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Book Description:
KOS MARAS’s orderly life is in shambles—he must distribute Blood Vine to a population of ailing vampires, but Hunters block him at every turn. To make matters worse, each night he watches over a temptingly beautiful woman sleeping in his bed. He is convinced love cannot last a vampire-long lifetime and an entanglement will only cause them grief, but he doesn’t have the heart to send her away.
From a long line of blood servants, LENA ISAAKSON is destined to serve a vampire, but a string of humiliating rejections thwarts her pleasure. When Kos shows her kindness, she hopes he will claim her. Instead he proves himself a coward in the face of love and sends her to serve another.
Will the dark seduction of a rakish new vampire finally bring Lena the pleasure she desires or deliver her into the hands of Hunters who want to destroy everything the Maras family has worked for?
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Blood VineBlood Vine SeriesBook OneAmber Belldene
Genre: paranormal romance
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Date of Publication: January 6, 2013
ISBN:9781623420048ASIN: B00AXREPM4
Number of pages: 206
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Book Description:
In Blood Vine, bites are an inconvenient bliss, exiled vampires are wasting away, and the fate of their kind depends on the perfect PR campaign.
When public relations pro Zoey Porter arrives at an enchanting California winery, she discovers her sexy new client is the almost one-night stand she can't forget. After her husband's suicide, Zoey has vowed never to risk her heart again. But can she walk away from the intriguing winemaker a second time?
Driven from Croatia by his ancient foes, vampire Andre Maras has finally made a blood-like wine to cure his fellow refugees. Now he needs Zoey's PR expertise to reach them. After his wife's death, Andre has a vow of his own—never to risk another painful blood bond. And one taste of the tempting Zoey would bind him to her eternally.
His secrets stall her PR plans. Her jealousy is stoked by the blissed-out beauties leaving his bedroom. At every turn, he utterly fails to resist her. When she discovers he is a vampire, will she be lost to the golden-eyed Hunters, or lose herself to the emptiness in her heart, before she can help him save his kind?
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 About the Author:
Amber Belldene grew up on the Florida panhandle, swimming with alligators, climbing oak trees and diving for scallops…when she could pull herself away from a book.  As a child, she hid her Nancy Drew novels inside the church bulletin and read mysteries during sermons—an irony that is not lost on her when she preaches these days.
Amber is an Episcopal Priest and student of religion.  She believes stories are the best way to explore human truths.  Some people think it is strange for a minister to write romance, but it is perfectly natural to her, because the human desire for love is at the heart of every romance novel and God made people with that desire. She lives with her husband and two children in San Francisco.
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Guest blog and Giveaway: Launching Sisters to WitchCamp by LRS

Hi there, would you be kind enough to humor me and share the following information:
1.     the name of your best friend in middle school2.     the name of your middle school3.     the name of the sibling closest in age to you4.     the name of your baseball home teamBased on the information you have provided, I’m going to ask you another question, and for this one you need to be wearing your honesty cap. Hold it, you don’t have one? Back in the old days, elementary schools should have given them out along with those terribly helpful thinking caps they doled out during arithmetic lessons. Eh, but if my workbooks attest to the powers of caps, you didn’t miss out on much. Okay, so psychological integrity is a foreign concept to some of us. Let’s try a more manipulative method. Stare at the edge of your nose, close your eyes and think Truth. Truth. Truth. You’re going to say the truth. Now that you’re in a hypnotic state, what’s the first thing that comes to your head when I say the answer to number three? (Please refer to the list above.)What? I didn’t hear you. Oh, I see, you’re wary of speaking up. Hmm, then I guess I’ll have to take the keyboard back, big brave me. I’m not scared of retribution; I’m also probably the only one here today who’s writing under a pen name that is unknown to her siblings, but that’s beside the point. Maybe I’m not being fair claiming to be more courageous than you; perhaps you’re all grownup, and believe you’re so over “that”— the petty torments of your childhood.  So what if the answer to number three flushed your card collection of the answer to number four down the toilet, hung up pictures of you as a baby in the bath in the answer to number two’s main entrance, and stole the answer to number one? You harbor no ill feelings. But here I am, stuck in my nursery. Hey! That explains why I wrote Launching Sisters to WitchCamp while other authors out there are writing the next great American novel.On a more serious note, tapping into those raw childhood emotions was one of the first steps I took to write my middle grade fantasy. Though I have more than ten years of experience working with families, and I myself am a mother in a dynamic family, I wrote from neither of these vantage points. Instead, I traveled back in time and wrote from my own middle grade mindset. Critics will doubt the feasibility of doing that, and I admit I couldn’t remove the effect of my adult hindsight, but I tried to stay in that time period and emotional framework as much as possible. I don’t have a remarkable memory when it comes to facts and figures, but I do have a strong episodic memory.  More significant is the fact that I was “blessed” with an acute emotional awareness, and my memories evoke the same emotions I experienced at the time of occurrence. I wasn’t kidding about being stuck.   At least I found a way to take advantage of my baggage when I played out my feelings of sibling rivalry and familial frustrations with J.J. and his sisters.   I hear you. So what can those writers who aren’t bogged down by phenomenal episodic memories do? I basically said it already, but am going to reiterate, in a different order, the steps to writing in an authentic middle grade voice: Be brave. Man up and own up to the demoralizing fact that indeed, you were once a kid. And that kid lived through many different types of experiences. Put on your honesty cap. What emotions stand out from those times? To me the need of affirmation, the lack of control, and the desire to be number one lay at the very top of my middle grade emotional storage box.  Get hypnotized. Or whatever it takes for you to deal with those long-buried emotions; they are real and raw, but therein exists their power to transport you back in time. Just a cautionary note: before you embark on this emotion-laden historic journey, dash off a text warning the answer to number three. It’s only ethical to give your potential victim a chance to run away from the rage crime of the century.





Launching Sisters to WitchCampLRS
Genre: Middle grade fantasy
Publisher:  MuseItUp Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-77127-482-1
Number of pages: 118Word Count:  31474
Cover Artist: Charlotte Volnek
MuseItUp Publishing
Book Description:
Sixth-grader J.J. learns there are no easy breaks in life.
When J.J. discovers the opportunity to send his maddening sisters off to WitchCamp, he has fantasies of a delightful summer. However, J.J. and his friend are soon off on a ride they didn't anticipate -- one that lands them in a chilling mess of witch hunts and creature feasts.
With his creative ideas, J.J. utilizes their risky escapades to escape. But making deals with superhuman creatures just lands them in hotter water.
Now it’s up to J.J. to save them all from certain death by being more imaginative and daring than ever before.

Excerpt  The witches don’t descend immediately, but take their time circling the clearing in the woods. Is this to give us a sneak preview of their camp, or is it simply landing regulations?Crowds of long-haired figures in dark clothing sit around in circles, and in their center a huge circle appears to have been drawn in red paint. Smack in the middle is a roaring bonfire pit.   A heavy beat rocks the area. The figures each have a big pot turned upside down, and they’re banging on them with long spoons. The rhythm is steady, eerily paced.  The sound effects seem to signal something deliciously spooky is about to happen. A tree trunk sails through the air, directly below our feet, but above the groups around the bonfire.  It comes to a stop and descends till its right above the fire pit and hangs there midair. The tree trunk starts rotating over the fire. As it turns, I see a dead giant all tied up!  The wood, still suspended in the air, keeps on rotating over the fire. The giant’s body reminds me of the chicken on the rotisserie in our supermarket.  “What’s going on down there?” I ask my driver in a high-pitched voice, trying to sound like a girl. “A barbeque.” She cackles. “A special barbeque.  It’s not every day we get to slay a giant, but this one was really asking for it.”A terrible smell, which makes me think of garbage dumps, public bathrooms, and the stash of molding food under my bed, saturates the air. Great cheers sound up from the circles below. The old witch behind me chuckles. “The girls are eager for their dinner.” ****


About the Author:
LRS has a master’s degree in psychology. For more than ten years she pretended to be working while she was on the floor enjoying playtime with kids.
She has lived on the eastern and western coasts of the U.S.A, as well as abroad, and currently resides in Canada with her family. Wherever she is, she can’t pass by a toy store without going inside.
When she's not writing, she can usually be found in her kitchen, where she’s either baking (and sampling) cookies or stirring a pot. (Unfortunately, she has yet to find a magical spoon.)  
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Interview and Giveaway: Temptation in a Bottle by Shona Husk

Can you tell readers a little bit about yourself and what inspired to write in this particular genre?
I think my twitter bio sums me up nicely: I write paranormal romance, read books and eat chocolate—not all at the same time. Goblins, fairies, aliens...just another day at the office. I grew up reading fantasy novels but always hated the way the relationships suffered. Paranormal romance blends that world building and sense of adventure but with a happily ever after. The hero and heroine have to work together to save the day (and each other).
What is it about the paranormal, in particular vampires, that fascinates you so much?
I love that paranormal adds an extra layer to the ordinary world. I like that there is a touch of something else and that maybe if we look closer our world isn’t as ordinary as it first seems. Some of the first stories I wrote featured rock star vampires (Sex with Strings series, Ellora’s Cave). Vampires are the bad boys of paranormal romance, some are misunderstood, others need to be tamed. However there is always that element of danger with them as they are predators.
Do you have a special formula for creating characters' names? Do you try to match a name with a certain meaning to attributes of the character or do you search for names popular in certain time periods or regions?
Names can be tricky. I usually know what I want the name to start with or if it’s short or long, but other than that I just start flicking through my baby name book :) Sometimes I’m after a name from a particular culture but rarely do I go by meaning (sometimes though the perfect name comes along). If a book isn’t working I do change a character’s name as it seems to tweak their personality just a little.
Do you have a formula for developing characters? Like do you create a character sketch or list of attributes before you start writing or do you just let the character develop as you write?
A little of both. I have an idea about what they look like, their job and social status. And I also like to know what they want and fear and why before I start, but after that they develop on the page and I like watching them grow as little tidbits of their lives suddenly form in my mind.
What is your favorite scene from the book? Could you share a little bit of it, without spoilers of course?I like the moment that Gage decided to break his bottle. He’s been thinking about it for a while and he knows it’s risky and yet he decides to do it anyway because he can’t keep living as a genie.
Gage raised the hand holding his bottle, the green glass almost black in the night. It had been his home for centuries. “Forgive me.”
Before he could examine his doubts, he threw the bottle up into the air. It arced and spun, sparkling in the streetlights. Inanna’s rage at being defied burned in his blood. He fisted his hand to prevent himself from reaching out for the fragile glass as it fell toward the road. His breath caught as glass hit the asphalt and shattered into a million pieces of stardust.
Light burst around him in a flash of burning white. Knives scored his skin. Pain ripped up his back and lodged in his skull like an axe. So, this was what it felt like to die. He couldn’t force a smile to celebrate his freedom.
With the book being part of a series, are there any character or story arcs, that readers jumping in somewhere other than the first book, need to be aware of? Can these books be read as stand alones?
These books can be read as stand alones. While they are set in the same world there are no interlinking plots. It is each genie’s path to freedom :)
Do you write in different genres?
I write paranormal romance predominantly, however I have written a few fantasy romances (including two weird west stories with magic and guns, Dark Vow and Dark Secrets) and last year I started writing sci-fi romance.
Do you find it difficult to write in multiple genres?
I really enjoy the change of pace and writing in different genres (as well as different lengths) allows me to play with lots of different ideas.
When did you consider yourself a writer?
Probably when my first print book came out. It felt like such an achievement to get to that point. I’m really happy to able to say I’m now a full time author, which only a few years ago seemed like an impossible dream.
What are your guilty pleasures in life?
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. Life is for enjoying. If you enjoy it (and it’s not hurting anyone) why feel guilt about it?

What was the last amazing book you read?
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan was wonderful (but not a romance!). After finishing it I immediately went and pre-ordered book 2 in the series:)
Where is your favorite place to read? Do you have a cozy corner or special reading spot?
I’ll read anywhere! I always have a book with and some note paper just in case an idea hits. When I’m at home I like to lie down on the 2.5 seater sofa and have a cup of hot chocolate so I can relax for half an hour after dinner. It’s turned out to be a great strategy as the kids see me reading and sit down and join me.
What can readers expect next from you?
I have two more sci-fi romances coming out this year (one in just a few days!). Lunar Reunion and Lunar Dancer are books 2 and 3 in the Decadent Moon series, which is set on an alien pleasure resort (there are no humans in these sci-fis). Later this year I have two more paranormal romances in the Annwyn series (set in and around the fairy Court of Annwyn)…after that, well let’s say there’s some very exciting news on the way ;)
Where can readers find you on the web?
www.shonahusk.com  www.twitter.com/ShonaHuskwww.facebook.com/shonahuskNewsletter: http://eepurl.com/lySiD I’m also putting together a street team so reader can email me to be added to the group shona@shonahusk.com
Temptation in a BottleIn a BottleBook 2Shona Husk
Genre: paranormal romance
ISBN: 9780992423902ASIN:
Word Count: 22000
Cover Artist: Helen Katsinis
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Book Description:
His only wish is to be free…
For centuries Gage has existed only to fulfill the most intimate desires of the woman who holds his bottle. Now Gage has a wish of his own—to be a real man and a have a real life even though he knows it’s an impossible dream. This time he plans to take his bottle and break it just to see what will happen.
Paramedic Sasha Watts has seen the damage falling in love does to people and she has no intention of being another of Cupid’s victims. She accidentally frees Gage without knowing what he is. After one kiss he walks away and she never expects to see him again, but the goddess Inanna has other ideas.
As punishment for breaking his bottle she erases Gage’s memory of everything but Sasha. Only Sasha can give him the life he longs for and only Gage can be the man she’s always dreamed of, but first she’ll have to open her heart and he’ll have to finish the job Inanna gave him. If he fails, he’ll cease to exist.

About the Author:
Three time ARRA finalist Shona Husk lives in Western Australia at the edge of the Indian Ocean. Blessed with a lively imagination she spent most of her childhood making up stories. As an adult she discovered romance novels and hasn’t looked back. Drawing on history and myth, she writes about heroes who are armed and dangerous but have a heart of gold—sometimes literally.
With stories ranging from sensual to scorching, she is published with Carina Press, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain Publishing and Sourcebooks.
You can find out more at www.shonahusk.com

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A Review of Biting Bad by Chloe Neill

Biting Bad by Chloe Neill
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The story starts with Merit meeting BFF Mallory for pizza. They've had some issues...with Mallory going all dark sorceress on everyone, but she's over that now and Merit hopes to reignite their freindship because she misses her bestie- a lot.

Of course their dinner is interupted...because when you're a supernatural the mundane things humans enjoy and take for granted always seem to be out of your reach.

An explosion rocks the area then a riot breaks out...full of vampire hating humans.

And that's just the first in a string of riots and violence towards vampires that don't make complete sense- and they have no idea who is behind it. Merit has a suspect, but no evidence to connect him.

Things are rocky in relationshipland too. Not personally between Merit and Ethan but because of all the outside forces trying to come between them.

Merit and Ethan are finally in a good place with their relationship- unfortunately life just won't let them enjoy it.

GP drama, human issues...all interfere in the daily lives of Chicago's vampires, especially those in Cadogan House. Ethan and Merit can't even appreciate their first Valentine's Day as a couple- and after everything they've been through they really deserve it.

This book is a non-stop action filled and full of angst, drama, heartache, freindship, love and a touch of mystery interspersed with violence that will keep the pages flipping.

Biting Bad is a fang filled adventure that will keep you guessing and second guessing, right up to the very end.

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