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Goodwill Stores Accepting book Donations for kids

Countrywide Goodwill's BookWorks preschool literacy program starts Feb. 1 and continues through March 14. The program is seeking volunteers and donations of new or like-new books for children ages 2 to 5.

Volunteers read to children at Head Start centers, then present each child with a personalized book to take home.

Donated books should include a note indicating they are "for BookWorks." For Goodwill book drop off sites, visit goodwill-suncoast.org or call toll-free 1-888-279-1988; those interested in volunteering can call either ext. 1013 or 1976.






Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

Romance Books Contest

Some of my amazing author friendly friends are having contests!! Check it:

Carrie Ann Ryan - Comment for a chance to win some signed bookmarks. Ends 1/31/12
Roni Loren - Comment for a chance to win a $25 Amazon GC. Ends 1/27/12
Maggie O'Malley - Comment for a chance to win Claiming Their Cat. Ends. 1/28/12
Dana Little John - Comment for a chance to win a promo pen and a T-shirt. Ends 1/27/12
Kat Henry Doran - Comment for a chance to win a Funky bag and Toiletries Bag. Ends 1/27/12
Tom Mach - Comment for a chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card. Ends 1/27/12
Marie Astor - Comment for a chance to win a custom made jewelry set. Ends 2/3/12
Tori St. Claire - Comment for a chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card. Ends 1/27/12
Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

Manic Monday Traingle

Felt like a little free writing today. Join in using the Comments!

3 of us and I angle away from you 2, not knowing what to do. Should I be through or go to him or him or both of you? Yes, keep you both where you love me the most: side-by-side, hearts open wide to me and I am free to waffle from 1 to the other because we love each other. 3 star-crossed lovers. Until 1 blows the deal, tries to take and steal, makes life unreal. Fired. Pealing. Life stealing you. The wind blows him out and I shout what I once whispered, whimpered. But he's still beside me. The 1 who sticks around, whether up or down. Always. His calm to my kill. His laugh, my thrill. And no longer will I look to take what another took. His. Always.


Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

She Can Run by Melinda Leigh

A few weeks ago, I received an ARC but I was soooo busy, plus I hated the cover so I left the book unread...why didn't I remember the old saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover"?

Just read She Can Run by new author Melinda Leigh, a romantic suspense novel about a woman on the run from her abusive husband. Thrill-packed and full of mystery, it was a fast and enjoyable read.

Publishers Weekly has called her "an author to watch" and after reading her debut book, I can see why.

Here's the full blurb:

Ten months ago, Elizabeth Baker uncovered a dangerous secret about her politician husband—a secret that nearly got her killed. Now she and her children are running for their lives. When Beth is hired as the caretaker of a remote Pennsylvania estate, she dares to hope she has found a corner of the world where Congressman Richard Baker can't find them. But when her new boss dies suddenly and his nephew inherits the estate, Beth is faced with outwitting a former homicide detective who is very smart, very suspicious—and very attractive.

Forced into retirement by an injury and grieving the loss of his uncle, Jack O'Malley is unprepared to share his new home with a strange woman and her two kids. He is even less prepared for the instantaneous attraction he feels whenever Beth enters the room. She is beautiful, intelligent, kind…and obviously terrified of someone or something. As Jack's investigation uncovers the shocking details of Beth's past, the rural community is shaken by the murder of a local woman Driven by instinct and desire, Jack is determined to keep Beth and her children safe, even if doing so means putting his heart—and his life —on the line.


And here's a killer excerpt:

Beth's hand trembled. Her knuckles hovered an inch from the recessed oak panel. The office door was closed, which meant Richard didn't want to be disturbed. She glanced at the box in her hand, delivered by messenger just moments before. It must be important. Would Richard be angry if she interrupted him? Or angrier if she didn't? Her stomach clenched. He'd be angry no matter what she did.

With a hitched breath, she rapped lightly. The latch hadn't caught properly and the door swung open. Beth froze, paralyzed by the scene before her.

Confusion shifted into comprehension, and fear turned her insides to ice water.

Could she slip out before he noticed her? She eased backward, but Richard sensed her presence. He turned and stared. Their gazes locked for a few seconds, his feral, hers panicked. The lion and the gazelle.

Then he grabbed the crystal letter opener on his desk and lunged.

Beth ran.

She couldn't leave the house. Her children were upstairs. She needed a weapon. Her eyes locked on the kitchen doorway ten feet away.

His Italian loafers scraped the wood floor of the hall behind her as he fought for traction. The rubber soles of her sneakers fared better. She almost outran him. Almost.

At the threshold, he caught her in a flying tackle. She flung her hands out. Pain shot through her wrists and palms as she braced her fall before her face slammed into the tile.

After all this time wondering if he'd eventually kill her, there was now no more doubt. If she didn't get away, she was dead.

Panting, on all fours, he pulled on her legs. She donkey-kicked backwards, catching him on the side of the face. He grunted. His grip loosened, and she belly-crawled forward a few inches before his hand closed around her calf.

She raised her chin and eyed the knife drawer, an impossible ten feet away on the other side of the room. In a frantic visual sweep, her peripheral vision caught the cordless flashlight plugged into the outlet on her left.

She kicked at his fingers. They jerked open. Pulling a knee under her body, she pushed forward and yanked the flashlight from the wall. Richard crawled closer and slashed at her middle. Her skin registered a flash of agony, then went numb.

Without losing momentum, she turned over and swung the flashlight in an arc toward his head. Metal clanged against bone.

His eyes widened in shock before his body went limp.

Shaking, Beth scrambled out from under his torso. Blood seeped through her silk blouse.

Lungs heaving, she rooted through the odds-and-ends drawer and pulled out a roll of duct tape. She rolled him to his side, forced his wrists behind his back, and taped them together. As an extra precaution, she secured his hands to a heavy table leg, then bound his ankles. She slapped a final piece of tape across his mouth. Richard wasn't going anywhere until the cook arrived in the morning.

Adrenaline and nausea coursed through Beth as she glanced at the clock. She had exactly ten hours to vanish.

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Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

Book freebies from Selena Kitt & Blake Crouch

Holiday Giveaways for all you good boys and girls, including--drum roll please--Babysitting the Baumgartvers.

Hunting Season (a love blood story) by Blake Crouch and Selena Kitt is a holiday giveaway for a very limited time!
Hunting Season is approximately word collaboration by thriller/suspense/horror writer Blake Crouch and erotic romance author Selena Kitt includes bonus interview material with the authors about the upcoming sequel to the Konrath, Crouch, Strand and Wilson bestseller Draculas.

BLURB
He's a butcher. She's the trophy wife of a trophy hunter. They used to be high school sweethearts, but that was two decades ago, and times have changed.
Meet Ariana Plano...40 years old, miserable, stuck in a loveless marriage to the worst mistake of her life.
Meet Ray Koski...40 years old, miserable, a lonely butcher who can do nothing but immerse himself in the drudgery of his work.Once a week during hunting season, she brings her old teenage flame
game meat for processing. They do not speak. They rarely make eye contact. Some histories are just too painful.
But this week will be different. This week—a shocking encounter twenty-two years in the
making—will change everything.

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More Freebies!

Selena Kitt also has these books listed free:

Babysitting the Baumgartners

The Surrender of Persephone

The Song of Orpheus

Orpheus Mythological Romance Behaving

Starving Artist

Foreign Exchange


Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

Hippie Chicks blog is having a Holly Jolly Christmas Give...

Hippie Chicks blog is having a Holly Jolly Christmas Give-Away including a free Kindle as the grand prize, and my x-mas shifter lion erotic romance On Vixen is part of the loot!




To enter send an email to hippiechicks68 @ gmail.com with "Holly Jolly" in the subject line. You will be entered upon receipt of the email.
Books that are part of the loot:

​Jewel Adams
Winner's Choice of 3 ebooks from my releases
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​Chloe Reeder
Winner's Choice of 1 ebook from my releases​

J​ulie Lynn Hayes
My Fair Vampire - ebook​

​Liz Crowe
The Tap Room - ebook​

Kacey Hammell
Sinful - ebook
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R. Ann Siracusa ​
​​All For a Dead Man's Leg - ebook
​​​All For Spilled Blood - ebook

Tara Fox Hall
Return To Me - ebook
Surrender To Me - ebook
Wicked Christmas Wishes - ebook

​​Penny Estelle
​​Hike Up Devil's Mountain - ebook

Clare Dargin
​​​​Fugue - ebook

​​Beth Trissel
​​Somewhere The Bells Ring - ebook

Aithne Jarretta
​​​Kissing Santa - ebook

Kat Jones
Her Only Hope - ebook​​​​​

Margay Leah Justice
​​​Sloane Wolf - ebook

Jocelyn Modo  *Look, Ma, I'm famous!* ;)
On Vixen - ebook​​​​​​

Kiss and Tell Tour

On the Kiss and Tell Tour, nine erotica romance authors go on a nine day blog tour through Bewitching Book Tours. Sexsational!


Mina Khan
Elysa Hendricks
Marilu Mann
Melissa Mayhue
Karen McCullough
Nina Pierce
Barbara Monajem
Laura Kaye
Stacey Kennedy
They will be answering the question, "What does your hero/heroine most desire above all else and why?"

Check it out!


Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

Call For Submission: For The Girls

For The Girls is seeking written contributions from skilled erotica writers:


FLASH FICTION
We are looking for high quality super-short (flash) fiction to feature twice a month or more. Ideally we want succinct, erotic pieces that successfully get an idea across in a small number of words. Cleverness is encouraged, as is out-and-out dirty hotness. The piece should, of course, be aimed at a female audience.

Flash fiction stories should be a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 500 words in length.

BEDHEAD GRAFFITI - GUEST COLUMNISTS
For The Girls is introducing a new column: Bedhead Graffiti. This column will appear monthly and feature a different writer each month. We are looking for opinions, epistles, musings, rants and reasoned argument on the topic of sex and relationships.

The writing may encompass diverse topics such as sex, porn, erotica, feminism, sexuality, popular culture, memes, politics, reproduction, health, children, family, life and death. Personal anecdotes are welcome, research and fact-checking are encouraged. Humour is also encouraged but not required. The column needs to be witty, entertaining and well-written. It should be written explicitly for a female audience. We encourage both established writers and newcomers to the field.

Columns should ideally be 1000 to 1500 words in length.

PAYMENT
US$20 per Flash Fiction piece
US$50 per Bedhead Graffiti piece
Payment will be made electronically, so you must have an appropriate account the best known online payment system (who I won't mention here due to their unusual methods of dealing with adult sites). If you cannot be paid this way, we cannot publish your work.

SUBMISSIONS
Email submissions to:  submissions AT forthegirls DOT com
We prefer .doc or .txt attachments with no html formatting, but will also accept submissions in the body of the email. Do not send rich text format (rtf) or Word 2007 (docx) documents. If we can't read your submission, it will go in the trash.

We accept stories with standard formatting however we prefer documents to be single spaced and without indents or tabs, each paragraph appearing as a separate block of text. This helps with our online formatting.

Subject heading should be "For The Girls Writing Submission." Writers should state the column to which they are submitting and must include the author declaration (see below) in the body of the submission email.

You will receive a confirmation email upon submission. You will be contacted by the editors if your story is selected for publication. Turnaround time is approximately 4 weeks and rejection emails will be sent. However If you haven't heard from us after that time, feel free to submit elsewhere.
Payment is made upon publication although we may from occasionally pay for a piece some time ahead of it appearing in FTG.

Please note: Your submission will be published within the members area of For The Girls and will only be accessible to paying members. Small excerpts, however, may appear on our blog (www.forthegirls.net/blog/) and in the RSS feed produced from this blog. No more than a paragraph will be used on the blog.

TERMS
Submitted items must be in English, original and previously unpublished.

Submitted items should use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. Poor quality or unedited work will not be considered. Writers who are unable to follow the guidelines will also not be considered.

Writers must be aged 18 years or over as at January 1, 2011.

For The Girls will retain exclusive electronic rights to the work for six months and non-exclusive rights indefinitely.

Very small extracts from published work may appear on our blog and RSS feeds.

For The Girls reserves the right to edit submitted stories if necessary. You may use a pseudonym if you wish.

We will not accept stories that feature any of the following themes or acts: non-consensual sex, bestiality, underage sex, incest, ass to mouth, violent or abusive sex, or anything where women are treated without respect (although consensual BDSM scenes are fine).

The author agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Purple Kama, its officers and assigns from and against any and all claims, suits, damages, and liabilities (including reasonable attorneys' fees) which are based on any claim of copyright infringement, plagiarism or unauthorized use.

AUTHOR DECLARATION
I hereby declare that I am the original author of this article and that it has not been previously published in any form. I own the copyright to the work. I am over 18.
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Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

Eat, Fry, Love

You all should know by now that I love sci fi so it should come as no surprise that I'm a Trekkie. Yes, I know, I'm a dork, but I just had to share that Mr. Star Trek himself, William Shatner is starring in a docudrama about exploding turkeys called Eat, Fry, Love!

Shatner, who is 80 years-old btw, is so funny and smart in this. Good on State Farm for doing a Public Safety announcement and good on Shatner for being brilliant!



Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com

The Hunger Games Trailer is Here!

The Hunger Games joy is rising in the dystopian adventure fans all over the world. Yes, at last Lionsgate has dropped its first and only full-length trailer! And may I say, "Squee!"

Almost immediately, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from District 12 are introduced to the happiness of all their fans.

In Suzanne Collins' bestselling novel The Hunger Games , the future is filled with impoverished districts that are forced to serve the central government. Each year a Hunger Game contest is run to remind everyone about a past uprising against the Capitol.

The rules of the game are simple. Two teens from each of the twelve districts must compete in a violent fight to the death.

The movie trailer looks like the movie really captures the world and feel of The Hunger Games . We also get a quick peek at the book's most popular characters:

Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen
Josh Hutcherson - Peeta Mellark
Liam Hemsworth - Gale HawthorneAlexander Ludwig - Cato
Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy
Elizabeth Banks - Effie Trinket
Lenny Kravitz - Cinna
Donald Sutherland - President Snow
Stanley Tucci - Caesar FlickermanCheck out the movie trailer for yourself:


Love, light, and laughter!
Jocelyn Modo
www.jocelynmodo.com