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October 28, 2013
Tuesday Tales - SWEET
.•*¨*•♫ It's time for Tuesday Tales •*¨*•♫♪
Oliver is a Baseball player in Melbourne, Tyra is from Perth and has just moved to the Victorian Capital. Their first meeting wasn't as pleasant as Oliver has been used to with females.
So this week's Tuesday Tales prompt is SWEET.
Enjoy - and feel free to leave a comment. And don't forget to click the link below to go back to the main Tuesday Tale site for more stories by very...
October 27, 2013
New Beginnings has made it into the local Newspaper "The Courier"
NEW BEGINNINGS By Iris Blobel Publisher: Astrea Press R.R.P.: Not available Review: Frank Nolan
How would you feel if you were advised quite unexpectedly that you had inherited a house at 46 Chestnut Avenue, Battery Point, Tasmania? Then, to add to your surprise, you learn that your generous benefactor is some one you have never heard of. In her fourth romantic novel, Ballarat writer Iris Blobel places her heroine Sophie...
October 25, 2013
Review: Jill Shalvis "Out of this World"
Publisher: Kensington-Brava ISBN: 9780758214447
My rating: 3.5/5
Three weeks ago Rachel Bond inherited a bed-and-breakfast. Too bad that it's in a remote part of Alaska, staffed by a house chef who can't cook and a guide who can't read a map. There's something distinctly strange going on...and that's not counting the fact that Rachel just got hit by lightning, and her good friend Kellan is suddenly possessed with animalistic sexiness she's never seen before. Turns out, Rachel's inhe...
October 23, 2013
This Week's Book Choice: Alison F. Prince "In Shadows of Magic"
In Shadows of MagicbyAlison F. Prince. Blurb:In Shadows of Magic is a newly released Young Adult Paranormal novel.
Mandy McKinney lives the charmed life. She is beautiful, athletic, popular, dating the hottest jock in school, and certainly doesn't have any time for her loser twin sister. But Mandy also has a secret. When the truth is unveiled, her world is twisted upside down, and her very life is at stake.
Mandy's twin sister, Brianna, has never had any success in...
Mandy McKinney lives the charmed life. She is beautiful, athletic, popular, dating the hottest jock in school, and certainly doesn't have any time for her loser twin sister. But Mandy also has a secret. When the truth is unveiled, her world is twisted upside down, and her very life is at stake.Mandy's twin sister, Brianna, has never had any success in...
October 20, 2013
Tuesday Tales - RAILING
.•*¨*•♫ It's time for Tuesday Tales •*¨*•♫♪
Oliver is a Baseball player in Melbourne, Tyra is from Perth and has just moved to the Victorian Capital. Their first meeting wasn't as pleasant as Oliver has been used to with females.
So this week's Tuesday Tales prompt is RAILING.
Enjoy - and feel free to leave a comment. And don't forget to click the link below to go back to the main Tuesday Tale site for more stories by ver...
Snippet Sunday 20/10/2013 - Journey to Her Dreams
Welcome to Snippet Sunday ! Thanks for all your kind comments last week. I do appreciate it. My Snippet Sunday today is from "Journey to Her Dreams"
Blurb:
Would you travel around the world to uncover the reason for your dreams?
Hollie Anderson does.
A young woman from Tasmania who lives on a farm just outside Launceston, she has got good looks, likes her job and loves to hang out with her friends. She should be happy, right?
But it’s a recurrent...
Blurb:
Would you travel around the world to uncover the reason for your dreams? Hollie Anderson does.
A young woman from Tasmania who lives on a farm just outside Launceston, she has got good looks, likes her job and loves to hang out with her friends. She should be happy, right?
But it’s a recurrent...
October 16, 2013
This Week's Book Choice: Charlene Wilson "The Transformation of Anna"
The Transformation of AnnabyCharlene Wilson For centuries, Cole Shilo has harvested the homeless, wiped their memories, and delivered them as servants to the nobles of Cornerstone Deep. When Cole is sent to harvest a second-class woman who has broken curfew, he expects no different. But Anna Sinclair’s soul calls out to him. Soul mates aren’t possible on Cornerstone Deep… Are they? “My life is a mirage of endless time. But you engulf me, r...
October 14, 2013
Tuesday Tales - Picture Prompt
~~~It's time for Tuesday Tales~~~
We're having a picture prompt this week and whichever way I turned, I wasn't able to fit it into my baseball story, so I give that story a break this week.
The story today is another one close to my heart. I thought I had posted a little teaser before, but I cannot find the link. My apologies!
This is roughly the second paragraph in the story of Sadie who's found her Grandmother's diary shortly after her mother's passing - and so begins her journey, not als...
We're having a picture prompt this week and whichever way I turned, I wasn't able to fit it into my baseball story, so I give that story a break this week.
The story today is another one close to my heart. I thought I had posted a little teaser before, but I cannot find the link. My apologies!
This is roughly the second paragraph in the story of Sadie who's found her Grandmother's diary shortly after her mother's passing - and so begins her journey, not als...
October 12, 2013
Snippet Sunday 13/10/13 - Innocent Tears
Welcome to Snippet Sunday ! Thanks for all your kind comments last week. I do appreciate it. My Snippet Sunday today is as well from my previous release "Innocent Tears"
Blurb:Becoming a parent can be daunting at the best of times, but for Flynn, a business lawyer in Melbourne, it almost pulls the feet from right underneath him. He’s become a father to six-year-old Nadine literally overnight! He had no idea about her existence, and the news thro...
Blurb:Becoming a parent can be daunting at the best of times, but for Flynn, a business lawyer in Melbourne, it almost pulls the feet from right underneath him. He’s become a father to six-year-old Nadine literally overnight! He had no idea about her existence, and the news thro...
Review: Carla Neggers "Cold Dawn"
Publisher: MIRA Books ISBN: 13:978-0-7783-2824-7
My Rating: 3/5
The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again—until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim’s identity…and that his death was no accident.
Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist’s deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California months ago. Now the rugged smoke jumper is determi...
