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Uncovering YouScarlett Edwards
Genre - Dark Romance
Release Date - March 27th, 2014
Book Description:
When I wake up in a dark, unfamiliar room, I have no idea what's waiting for me in the shadows. My imagination conjures up demons of the worst kind.
Reality is much worse:
A collar with no leash. A prison with no walls. And a life stripped of meaning.
I am presented with a vile contract and asked to sign. It outlines the terms of my servitude. The only information I have about my captor are the two small letters inked at the bottom:
J.S.
Armed with only my memories, I must do everything I can to avoid becoming ensnared in his twisted mind games. But in the end, it all comes down to one choice:
Resist and die.

Or submit, and sign my life away



About the Author:
I live near beautiful Seattle, Washington.  I grew up reading all types of fantasy books before discovering the wonderful world of romances in high school.  Now, I spend most of my time writing about sexy men and the women who love them.
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Cover Reveal: Shattered Secrets by Krystal Wade

Popular YA author Krystal Wade has a thrilling new novel coming out on March 3rd, 2014! 

Meet Abigail Nichols and Derrick Crawford in SHATTERED SECRETS, a story about love and magic that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Shattered Secrets
Krystal Wade

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Release Date: March 3th, 2014

Pages: 300 pages

Publisher: Curiosity Quills

Book Description:

After being kidnapped, hogtied, and stuffed in the trunk of a car, seventeen-year-old Abigail Nichols' boy problems seem unimportant. 

She couldn't be more wrong.

The boy who saves her holds her heart. 

But Derick Crawford also holds secrets. 

Magical beings who guide human emotions are fighting an invisible war dating back to the dawn of time, and Abigail's one of them. The more she learns of her heritage, the less she wants to know. Armed with a very old, very massive book to teach them about their history, Abigail and Derick run away to a place where they think they can be safe and happy, only to have their troubles secretly hitch a ride.

Her history book is in a sharing mood, and it tells her to keep a secret of her own.

But has she put her trust in the wrong place?

And will the world survive if she has?

Add SHATTERED SECRETS to your TBR pile on Goodreads!


About the Author 

Krystal Wade can be found in the sluglines outside Washington D.C. every morning, Monday through Friday. With coffee in hand, iPod plugged in, and strangers - who sometimes snore, smell, or have incredibly bad gas - sitting next to her, she zones out and thinks of fantastical worlds for you and me to read.

How else can she cope with a fifty mile commute?

Good thing she has her husband and three kids to go home to. They keep her sane.

Website: http://www.krystalwade.com

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Interview, Excerpt and Giveaway:Know When to Run by Connie Flynn

What inspired you to become an author?
I can thank the downsizing trend for becoming an author. When I knew my middle management job was at risk I also knew I wasn’t happy enough with what I did to keep doing it at another place. So I took an apptitude test that revealed why my job was so unfulling. It seems I am a creative type and middle management is about maintaining the status quo. This works, do more of it. That doesn’t work, fix of eliminate it. While life certainly needs this kind of management, I could only do so much for it. I crave the ups and downs of the creative process and while I developed a number of useful skills in management, I really opened up when I began to writing. The outcome was the sale of a book ultimately called HOMECOMING to Harlequin. I truly became a writer then, grateful I’d found my calling. I’ll write my fingers off until they come to pry my hard, cold hands off the computer keyboard because this is how I want to spend my life.
Do you write in different genres?
Several. I started out at Harlequin, writing a classic romance. With them, I broadened my scope into romantic adventure and romantic comedy. When I moved to Penquin I entered the paranormal romance market and when I chose to become an indie author I branched out into romantic suspense and cozy mysteries.  
If yes which is your favorite genre to write?
The darker paranormal stories really dig deep and require a lot of energy—mental,  emotional and physical. The romantic suspense and lighter mysteries give my mind a badly needed break that lets me take my full energy back to the bigger books.
How did you come up with the title for your latest book?
One of my critique partners and I stayed over after our group broke for the morning and we brainstormed the title for my new romantic suspense. The book has several large themes to draw from —amnesia, spousal abuse, patricide, legalized gambling—and as we knocked ideas around I talked about how the glamour of the floating casinos and the huge paddlewheel riverboats that housed them had always enchanted me. The talk drifted to Kenny Roger’s song, “The Gambler,” and we went through the famous lines of the chorus: Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away and . . .
At that point, my friend and I locked eyes. We both knew we had the title and we said it aloud together. KNOW WHEN TO RUN was christened and now it’s about to be launched.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
I caution new writers about starting a book with a message in mind because the temptation to preach is too strong. My exact words are, “If you have a message don’t let your characters know what it is.” However (isn’t there always a ‘however?’) every time I finish a book I later notice that it does have a theme, usually something that relates to the happenings in my own life at the time. I suspect this is true for lots or writers. In retrospect I feel this kind of organic theme actually strengthens a book because it lets in the power of the writer’s personal journey. So, I guess my answer is both no and yes but I still stand behind my advice to avoid consciously incorporating a theme.
What books/authors have influenced your life?
The first book to absolutely sweep me away was GONE WITH THE WIND, and it inspired me to love stories with sweeping settings and larger than life characters and stakes so high they left me breathless.  Nowadays I look to George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowlings and Suzanne Collins for that kind of high tension and stakes. The Hunger Games does it so well that I frequently have tears in my eyes even in quiet scenes because the backstory and its threats just simmer on the page.
What is your current “work in progress” or upcoming projects?
FIRST WE KILL ALL THE ZOMBIES, a Derek Shriver mystery. A few years back I was invited to write a mystery for a Christmas-themed anthology.  I’m actually known for the delight I take in tormenting my characters.But at Christmastime? I just couldn’t write anything so grim as a bloody murder.  So my entry into cozy mystery writing was born, along with a character I fell in love with. Derek Shriver is an ex-Green Beret, a practicing CPA and an amusement park owner. He loves his partner’s wife from afar and knows it can never be. But when a dead elf is found in Santa’s workshop, Derek’s life changes and the events that come after that lead him directly to his meeting with the zombies.
Can you share a little of your current work with us?
Derek is now married to his ex-partner’s ex-wife and they are honeymooning at a nineteen-twenties themed amusement park that he wants to buy. Suddenly what they thought would be a testimony of their love becomes a kidnapping by an evil scientist who wants to use the unique talents of Derek and his wife for his own twisted ends.
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Let your readers be your guide . . . First make sure it’s clear, then make it beautiful . . . Don’t be intimidated by better writers; let them inspire you . . . Stay connected to your story; when you stop for the day make notes of what happened and what’s coming up . . . Keep adjectives and adverbs to a minium (except when you’re writing blurbs and synopses) .  . . And now I need someone to stop me, I could go on so, please somebody,  stop me. 
It’s  time I thanked Roxanne for having me as her interview guest and all of you for dropping in.


Know When to RunConnie Flynn       
Genre: Romantic Suspense       
Publisher: CKF Enterprises
ASIN: B00H0R8AFSNumber of pages: 280Word Count:  61,000
Cover Artist: Carol Webb         
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Book Description:
She woke up one morning on a Mississippi riverboat casino with a huge headache and no clue to who she was.
With the help of new friends she rebuilt her life. Now, nearly two years later, a tall dark man with killer good looks comes after her. A bounty hunter, who claims she killed her father then ran out on her bail. She says he's got the wrong woman. He says she's guilty as sin. One of them is right . . .
Suddenly so many people are after her, she can't tell the good guys from the bad guys. But one thing she can do is KNOW WHEN TO RUN.

EXCERPT 
The shooter has disappeared.  Ky and Gabe have made it to shore and are waiting for the crew to come rescue them.        
She could see the Belle's staff rushing up and down the boarding ramp preparing a rescue cart. Behind the rescue team, paced Rosie, hands flying everywhere as she gave directions. Hoping to relieve her friend's worry, Ky waved.
"Maybe you shouldn't draw attention to yourself," commented McGregor. "The shooter could be hiding among the crew."
Good advice, and another reason to think he was a cop. He remained in the water and took off one boot, then the other. They were lizard skin, and judging from his pained expression as he poured out muddy water like from a pitcher, they were the real deal.
"Lost my hat," he said, morosely. "My daughter gave it to me when she was a first grader."She wanted to take petty satisfaction in his misery, but the river had cost him, too. Although she'd bet a rack of poker chips that he looked a whole lot better sans hat and boots than she looked without her cosmetics.
The sunset glowed behind him, softening the harsh lines on his face. Without the Stetson, he looked less formidable. Almost as if he might truly be on her side.
Finished emptying the boots, he tossed them on the shore and walked over to Ky. He stopped within arm's reach, dug into his jacket pocket, then extended his hand. "These yours?"
He held her pushup pads. Both of them.
She'd only noticed losing one.
Her gaze dropped to the V of her blouse, which was no longer filled out by the pads, and now hung open to reveal her water-puckered nipples. She flushed, tugged the blouse together. "Let those things go. They're ruined anyway."
He grinned wickedly. "And pollute the mighty Mississippi? No can do."
Though at her expense, his humor was infectious. And very needed after they'd been shot at and half-drowned. She felt lighter, giddy even. She smiled despite herself.
"And, Red," he added with a broad, theatrical wink, "I must add that you've never looked more natural."
This time Ky laughed outright. She stripped off her remaining eyelash extensions and placed them on top of the foam lumps in McGregor's large hand. "If I must look natural, I'm going all the way. And you're in charge of carrying out the trash."
McGregor stared wide-eyed at the mess in his hand. "You want me to slay this beastie? Oh, no. Oh, no."
She laughed again, absorbed in the moment.
As if in blessing, the sun fell to the horizon in a last blaze of orange, red and yellow. She closed her eyes against the brightness, let the rays warm her chilled body.
This time Ky laughed outright. She stripped off her remaining eyelash extensions and placed them on top of the foam lumps in McGregor's large hand. "If I must look natural, I'm going all the way. And you're in charge of carrying out the trash."
McGregor stared wide-eyed at the mess in his hand. "You want me to slay this beastie? Oh, no. Oh, no."
She laughed again, absorbed in the moment.
As if in blessing, the sun fell to the horizon in a last blaze of orange, red and yellow. She closed her eyes against the brightness, let the rays warm her chilled body.
Light. Warmth. Laughter. Well-being. Ky sensed these had been missing from her life for a long time.
She'd have to let go of this moment soon, have to deal with a past that might be scarier than she'd ever dreamed, but not now. . . . Not now.
She took in a deep breath, holding on for a little longer.
"Kathleen Templeton?"
The name was spoken in a hushed voice — McGregor's voice.
Ky opened her eyes to find him staring at her. He wasn't smiling anymore.

Suddenly, neither was she.
About the Author:
Award-winning, bestselling author Connie Flynn writes both long and short fiction and is published in multiple genres, including paranormal romance, romantic comedy, mystery and suspense and contemporary fantasy/sci-fi. She lives in Arizona on a lush green park where she walks her dog and escapes from the hot desert sun. Her latest release is the twists-and-turns romantic suspense, KNOW WHEN TO RUN.
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Guest blog and Giveaway: Leadership and Redemption Series by Michael Cantwell

Do you believe own a soul? Caeles Novo and his disciples know you do. 
If you don’t appreciate all that has been given to you, Caeles will steal it. He has removed the souls of musicians, stock brokers, fashion models, star athletes and hundreds of others. However, he is at odds with others like him who want to retain the stolen souls because their own existence is dependent upon the power derived from stealing dark souls. 
Caeles Novo wants to offer redemption to souls who want a second chance. He must battle the gatekeeper of the stolen souls as well as his own disciples to finish the mission started centuries ago. 
So be aware the next time someone is snapping your photograph or shaking your hand, you may have just lost something very valuable to you.
Soul IntentionsLeadership and RedemptionBook OneMichael Cantwell, CCIM
Genre: Fiction, fantasyPublisher: KSM Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615725741ASIN: B00A3DCRCI
Number of pages: 292Word Count: 95,068
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Book Description:
Caeles Novo has lost count at how many times he has have taken a soul. He now fears his actions are not saving his existence, but damaging it. It is a painful transition when you question if your life has been a lie

Soul DirectiveLeadership and RedemptionBook TwoMichael Cantwell, CCIM
Genre: Fiction, fantasyPublisher: KSM Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615838359ASIN: B00DJV4B9I
Number of pages: 302Word Count: 87,067
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Book Description:
Caeles Novo continues his journey of seeking broken souls that he started in “Soul Intentions”. Caeles is now the leader of his disciples and must discover the mystery as to why so few soul stealers remain on earth. He learns the high cost of both leadership and success. Caeles is assigned to remove the soul of an internet blogger who is spreading false information for the President of the United States, a man who trains fighting dogs and others. He meets up with a Doctor about to cure cancer and a woman with multiple personalities. He does all this while attempting to lead his people and be a good husband and father.

Fortunate SoulLeadership and RedemptionBook ThreeMichael Cantwell, CCIM
Genre: Fiction, fantasyPublisher: KSM Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615937380ASIN: B00HMTEIQ4
Number of pages: 328Word Count: 90,620
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Book Description:
In this third installment, Caeles Novo has been removed as leader of the Council. He now seeks revenge for those who have taken away his power to remove souls and is on a journey to return his disciples back to their original mission.
About the Author:
Michael Cantwell, CCIM (1958-present) is an author and commercial real estate agent in Florida as well as a published photographer. He was born in Ft. Campbell KY, raised in Trenton, NJ, graduated college at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA. He now resides in Palm Beach County, Florida. He is married with three children and one dog. He loves music and is a Miami Marlins, Dolphins, Panthers and Heat fan. He also enjoys strolling Florida with his camera at hand. He has served on many board of directors and volunteered many hours as a coach for baseball and basketball as well as for Junior Achievement in many schools around South Florida.

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I Admit It- I'm a Horror Writer : The Unholy by Paul DeBlassie III

What kind of writer am I?
Don’t tell anyone, but in the quiet moments of my day and in secret times of contemplation I admit to myself that I am a horror writer. 
A balls out write horror. I clean it up and say I write psychological thrillers and dark fantasy; but, rock bottom its horror. It’s my own kind of horror that is quite different in many ways from what is out there in the marketplace. I see huge volumes with convoluted tales. The old horror master, my true inspiration and guiding lights, wrote without ungainly complexities.
There was good and there was evil and they were set at life threatening odds with one another so that the reader was scared to death because they had secretly wondered if something like this could ever be or ever happen and the old masters brought that dark wondering out of the cupboard and set it loose on the earth. 
That’s what I do, can’t clean up except when I feel compelled to in professional and academic societies of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. But, more and more I’m making my way out of the closet and saying plain and simple that I’m a horror writer. Yikes…there…I said it…wasn’t bad…tooo baaad…Yikes! You can see by my conflict how the only way for me to write is to unplug from this conflict and get down to the nitty gritty and be the horror man. 
This is what jazzes me and makes me write…pure, raw, human fear and horror..the stuff of this writer’s life.
The UnholyPaul DeBlassie III
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN-10: 0865349592ISBN-13: 978-0865349599
Paperback: 202 pages
Genre: Psychological thriller
Book Description:
A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, the Unholy is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.

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About the Author
Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and writer living in his native New Mexico. A member of the Depth Psychology Alliance, the Transpersonal Psychology Association, and the International Association for Relational Psy- choanalysis and Psychotherapy, he has for over thirty years treated survivors of the dark side of religion.
SoulCare, his professional consultation practice  is devoted to the tending of the soul. One of the few therapists writing fiction with a healing emphasis, Dr. DeBlassie has been deeply influenced by the surreal beauty and natural magic of the mestizo myth of Aztlan.
The Unholy is his first novel.
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Character Interview with Caeles Novo from the Leadership and Redemption Series by Michael Cantwell

So what have you been doing lately, Caeles?
I still wander around stealing souls. But I no longer sit on the High Council. My wife Kalani is pregnant with our second child, so I am trying to stay close to home.
Do you enjoy removing souls?
No. I hate it. I wish the day would come when everyone could see the beauty in this world and I was forced to retire. Nothing would please me more.
Why did you fight so hard to return souls?
Everyone deserves a second chance, don’t they? I have only met a handful of people who I can say are pure evil. Everyone wants to justify why they get off course. They all have a reason. I never considered myself the world’s judge and jury. I’ll leave that to a higher authority.
Do you think being a father for a second time will change you?
I don’t know about me, but it has changed my wife. I think with our first child, Nicon, Kalani wasn’t ready to be a mother. She was still determined to be the world’s best soul stealer. I think her priorities have changed. She is embracing motherhood more this time. Me, I just do the chores around the house and hope I get a hot meal now and again.
Do you have a favorite song?
I love many styles of music. Of course I love the music from my good friend Dylan James and the Overture. I have signed copies of all their music at home. I like Billy Joel’s song, Summer Highland Falls, Dan Fogelberg’s, Part of the Plan and Too Much from the Dave Matthews Band.

Tell the truth, was there every anything between you and Rose?
I admit that I visit with Rose now and again. The good news is that she has resumed her life as Isabella and is working full time at the library. Doc Winfield was forced to find a new nurse. Isabella is working on her first novel about people who remove souls from others who no longer see the good in the world. Rose will always have a special place in my heart, but I have never been untrue to my wife. I know Kalani had her suspicions about me and Rose, but we were never more than good friends.
Lastly, how does one keep their soul? 
There is an old saying about doing the right thing while no one is watching. Someone is always watching. Do the right thing and do it with a smile.




Soul IntentionsLeadership and RedemptionBook OneMichael Cantwell, CCIM
Genre: Fiction, fantasyPublisher: KSM Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615725741ASIN: B00A3DCRCI
Number of pages: 292Word Count: 95,068
Amazon
Book Description:
Caeles Novo has lost count at how many times he has taken a soul. He now fears his actions are not saving his existence, but damaging it. It is a painful transition when you question if your life has been a lie

Soul DirectiveLeadership and RedemptionBook TwoMichael Cantwell, CCIM
Genre: Fiction, fantasyPublisher: KSM Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615838359ASIN: B00DJV4B9I
Number of pages: 302Word Count: 87,067
Amazon

Book Description:
Caeles Novo continues his journey of seeking broken souls that he started in “Soul Intentions”. Caeles is now the leader of his disciples and must discover the mystery as to why so few soul stealers remain on earth. He learns the high cost of both leadership and success. Caeles is assigned to remove the soul of an internet blogger who is spreading false information for the President of the United States, a man who trains fighting dogs and others. He meets up with a Doctor about to cure cancer and a woman with multiple personalities. He does all this while attempting to lead his people and be a good husband and father.

Fortunate SoulLeadership and RedemptionBook ThreeMichael Cantwell, CCIM
Genre: Fiction, fantasyPublisher: KSM Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615937380ASIN: B00HMTEIQ4
Number of pages: 328Word Count: 90,620
Amazon
Book Description:
In this third installment, Caeles Novo has been removed as leader of the Council. He now seeks revenge for those who have taken away his power to remove souls and is on a journey to return his disciples back to their original mission.
About the Author:
Michael Cantwell, CCIM (1958-present) is an author and commercial real estate agent in Florida as well as a published photographer. He was born in Ft. Campbell KY, raised in Trenton, NJ, graduated college at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA. He now resides in Palm Beach County, Florida. He is married with three children and one dog. He loves music and is a Miami Marlins, Dolphins, Panthers and Heat fan. He also enjoys strolling Florida with his camera at hand. He has served on many board of directors and volunteered many hours as a coach for baseball and basketball as well as for Junior Achievement in many schools around South Florida.

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Giveaway and Character Interview with Olivia from Corporate Ties by EL Loraine

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Several readers wanted to know more about Olivia Grayson, so she’s here today to try and answer as many as possible.

Nikki wants to know: What’s your biggest fear and do you have anyone close enough to you to share it with?

Olivia: Samantha is my best friend, she knows where all the bodies are buried, lol My biggest fear is not being good enough. Disappointing people. I don’t like to do that.

Nora wants to know what happened in a past relationship to make you scared of commitment?

Olivia: I loved him, and he left me. Just one day, was gone. Said he loved someone else. 

She also wants to know if you’ll ever move back to LA and do you have meetings with the ‘elders’ and how do you know someone needs to be saved?

Olivia: Good questions. No I don’t think I’ll ever move back to LA, I love it here in New York too much. Yes, the elders meet and discuss things. They talk to school councilors. They find run a ways, run ads, do blogs. Stuff like that. When you have uncontrollable sexual urges at any age, it needs to be controlled, and you need help, not to be exploited or get into bad situations your reputation can’t recover from.

Do you have family besides your Aunt Loralie?

Olivia: Loralie has an adopted daughter, but we’re not close. So I’m on my own, and I’m fine with my life and my choices.

Are you going to open your own business or go into business with Brian?

Olivia: Another great question. I guess I haven’t decided, but Brian and I will work on things together more often. We’ve talked about starting security business’ in other cities, so only time will tell.

What’s on you music list right now?

Olivia: Passenger’s ‘Let her go’,  A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera, ‘Say Something’, but I really like so many kinds of music.

How about TV shows? What are you really into?

Olivia: Oh I’m a HUGE The Walking Dead fan! And being from New York I love watching Sex in the City marathons!

Thanks so much for being here Olivia. We look forward to hearing much more about you!

Corporate TiesA Silken Ties NovelE. L. Loraine
Genre: Mystery, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Arriis, Inc.ASIN: B00HV3ITR0
Number of pages: 192Word Count:  63,488
Cover Artist: Creative Paramita
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Corporate Ties the latest title by Best Selling Author E. L. Loraine
Olivia Grayson, smart, beautiful and rising star of the corporate world of Dolby, Inc.
Olivia is determined to be successful. She’s smart, beautiful and driven. While working her way up the corporate ranks in her first job out of Grad School at Dolby Incorporated, Olivia finally has a chance to prove just how talented she is.
The client she’s been given is Matasuki International, but when she starts reading through the files on the company she finds something disturbing. There are convenient deaths associated with their acquisitions division. The man behind this company is Isamu Matasuki, a powerful and ruthless chairman. Yet there seems to be only generic press release type information on him. When she asks her longtime friend and co-worker in the legal department to get her more information from his former job at the FBI, he disappears and Olivia knows it’s because of Matasuki and his shadowy companion.
Determined to find out what happened to her friend Paul, and keep her boss, Tyson Grant and Dolby protected, she enlists the help of new neighbor and lover, corporate security specialist, and private investigator, Brian. Olivia knows she can use Matasuki’s interest in Dolby and her to get close enough to stop him, but is the risk worth it? Even if she saves Dolby, he’ll just move on to the next, and that company is Dolby’s chief rival, Stein Brothers. Can she just sit back and let that happen or is Olivia willing to lose everyone and everything she loves in order to take Matasuki down?
E.L. Loraine’s Corporate Ties, is a sizzling hot, mystery romance set among the concrete and steel jungle of New York City and the corporate ties that bind it. Another multi level plot keeps you turning pages as Olivia finds she’s caught right in the very middle of this world of love, lust, and greed as the players fight for power on the corporate battle field.

About the Author: 
E. L. Loraine resides in Florida with her best friend and husband. She enjoys cooking, gardening and traveling the world looking for places to make a novel come to life.
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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

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

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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.
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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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Feb 10 SpotlightThe Creatively Green Write at Home Momwww.creativelygreen.blogspot.com

Feb 10 Spotlight
Night Owl Reviews
http://www.nightowlreviews.com

Feb 11 InterviewPembroke Sinclair.  pembrokesinclair.blogspot.com
Feb 12 InterviewRoxanne’s Realmwww.roxannesrealm.blogspot.com
Feb 13 SpotlightEclipse Reviewshttp://totaleclipsereviews.blogspot.com
Feb 14 Guest blogFang-tastic Bookswww.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com
Feb 17 Guest blogCloey's Book Reviews and Other Stuffcloeyk.blogspot.com
Feb 18 SpotlightAuthor Karen Swarthttp://authorkarenswart.blogspot.com/
Feb 19 SpotlightLisa’s World of Bookswww.lisasworldofbooks.net
Feb 20 Spotlight and reviewLuv Books Galorewww.luvbooksgalore.blogspot.com
Feb 21 InterviewBooks Directhttp://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com.au/
Feb 24 SpotlightSaph’s Book Blogwww.saphsbookblog.blogspot.com
Feb 25 SpotlightAnnette Gisbyhttp://agisby.blogspot.co.uk/
Feb 26 SpotlightDarkest Cravings - Adult Bloghttp://darkestcravings.blogpsot.com
Feb 28 spotlightBooklover Sue http://bookloversue.blogspot.com/
March 3 SpotlightMidnight Musings with Bertena www.bertena.com
March 4 Spotlight and reviewParanormal Romance and Authors That Rockwww.pratr.wordpress.com
March 5 SpotlightBookwormBridgette's Worldhttp://bookwormbridgette.blogspot.com/
March 10 Guest blogMythical Bookshttp://mythicalbooks.blogspot.ro/

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