Terry Spear's Blog, page 415

Happy Hump Day!

 He's not a SEAL, probably not a wolf, but maybe a jaguar??? Shifter, that is!

Woohoo, I got a great review from Synchronized Reading! What a way to go on hump day!

Title: A Seal In Wolf's Clothing (Heart of the Wolf, #9)
Author: Terry Spear
Release Date: March 1st 2012 by Sourcebooks, Incorporated 
Edition: eBook

My Thoughts: 
Meara Greyson is determined to find a mate. So while her brother is away, it's her only time to find one without anyone getting in the way, except for Navy SEAL and alpha wolf Finn Emerson. With all the danger brewing, which seems to be targeting Meara, Finn is determined to protect her but isn't prepared for the danger brewing while also dealing with the heat between the two of them.


I received this book via Netgalley.com, and am so happy that I did. I requested this book not knowing it was part of series. (Unobservant me. I saw a wolf and and Navy and clicked request!) So with that being said and this being the 9th book, I haven't read the previous 8. But when I started reading the book, I realized I could get the drift of what happened in the previous book. This was its own book and I wasn't confused at all with the storyline/plot of the story and after reading this book, I definitely need to read the other 8, since this one was so good!


On to the review...

I really loved all the characters in this book. Meara, Finn, Hunter, Rourke, and everyone in the SEAL team. Finn and Meara are by far my favorite. I love the relationship they started out with, and I love the relationship they ended with. They started off a little rocky. Meara with her feisty attitude and Finn with his dominant take on issues that dealt with her. But from the very beginning you could tell they had a chemistry with each other that they where both skeptical to pursue, which I loved by the way. At the end... So happy!


Hunter was your typical big brother and he prayed the role exceptionally. I really like Hunter. Rourke was kind of dorky to me, but that is what made me love him. The SEAL team, especially Anna, all made me laugh. Even though Anna wasn't an "official" member of the team, she was my fave within them. Bjornoff (definite spell check there. Don't have my kindle beside me..) was something else. He made me laugh, especially when he got socked in the face! His response was too funny!


This book was filled with action, which by now you guys know is a major point I love in a book. This book was definitely a page turner. Filled with romance and filled with action. I am undeniably a werewolf kind of girl. But the ending of this book shock me. I did not expect so and so (Lol) to be apart of it! I was like what? Nooo? Not you, why you... Great ending!

Overall this book was very enjoyable. It was a pleasure to read and I did not want to put it down. If you are a paranormal romance and a werewolf fan, you should really read this book!



Thanks to Janina!

Have a super hunky hump day!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com

Goddess in Training...

I wish I was back here at the restaurant in Disney World where I took the picture. Yummy Italian food. Mama Mia! That's a meatball. And lovely decor, statues, paintings. Air conditioning! And sit down seating. Really nice when you've run all over the Disney sets and all from the time the place opened for those staying at the Disney hotels, I think 9 am, until midnight and the last ferry left the place. Every day. Every night.

I was happily exhausted after my Romance Writer's Conference stay, but mostly because my daughter and I DID Disney!

The story, Goddess in Training, is about a librarian, and I wrote this WAY before I started working at one, so no, I didn't base it on any librarian. And the library is actually based on the one we used to frequent when my kids were little in Poteau, Oklahoma. But I always had a fascination with Greek and Roman mythology, so, I just thought, what if a mousy little librarian, who also loved Greek and Romany mythology, ended up in the sights of a demi-god, who isn't mousy in the least?

And so that's the novella.

Oh, and speaking of libraries, our self service checkout and all public computers were down, and everything else that could go wrong... did yesterday. Monday.  The computers are still not up. But we had people turning them on, as if to say we didn't know what we're doing and they're going to use them anyone. One teen said, "Well can't I print off something?"

Hmm, I should have said, "Sure, print all you like." I just reminded him the computers were down. Not working. Down.

One time we put sheets of paper on every single computer (32 total), saying the computers were down. We still had a couple flip the sheet over the monitor and turn on the computer. Then when it wouldn't work, they asked why? One of my coworkers flipped the paper back over the monitor and pointed to it. "Out of Order"

*sigh*

Have a terrific Tuesday! I'd like to be able to say TGIF, but it's not. So I guess I'll have to wait!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com

Okay, I love the Water, Don't You?

It's a Monday, so it's time to do it right!



And I redid the cover for The Dragon Fae so the title's more noticeable. Does this work better?


Off to work!!! That's the problem with working half the weekend. Having only Sunday off means Monday comes WAY too quickly!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Nightmares from a Book???

The good news, if you're a writer and wrote the book, is that if it gave the readers' nightmares, it shows how well you wrote the book. It seemed so real and memorable, the reader incorporated it into his or her dream.

The bad part about writing a book, if you are the author and it gave your readers nightmares, they may not want to read any more of the book, or read anything further from the author. LOL


Is this the light at the end of the tunnel (castle in Scotland), or is it the way into your worst nightmare?

Well, if you're one of the clansmen who live here and you haven't done anything to earn the laird's wrath, it's a home, shelter, a way of life. But if you're the enemy clan or in trouble with your clan...
it's going to be your worst nightmare!

Okay, I'm off to finish up the newsletter and get it sent out and then I'm working on the interview of Finn Emerson, SEAL and gray wolf, yum, for Molly's Reviews.

Remember, if he tells you anything you shouldn't know, he'll have to kill you, or turn you. :) This is all top secret, you know! :)

Have a super Sunday!

I'm going back to my hole, wish it was at the castle above, to get cracking!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality."
www.terryspear.com

Before Internet

Before Internet, there were men like these. Yum. :)

Well, after too, but just saying...

I do love the Internet. I need to fix my laptop, so I went to Best Buy. They can't do it because they didn't have Lenovo when I purchased mine. Fine. I go to the Internet, look at service locations. Call one. They don't have computers anymore. Call another. They can look at it but can't guarantee anything.

I drive out there and found out they're not there. They've moved. A couple of years ago. Phone number's still the same. Both companies were still listed as servicing Lenovo. So what is the problem?

What goes up on the Internet, stays up on the Internet, forever, and ever, and ever.

So some is good stuff, important stuff, great for being a real help. Some is plain old outdated garbage. Long story short? Call the company and find out: Do they do what they say they do? And are they still located where they say the are located?

To make a long story short, before the Internet, I would have had to call the company on the paperwork I  have for the product. Now, I can use the Internet. If it's not too outdated, that is!

And no, I did not make it in time to go to the right place! It was an hour in the opposite direction and would have been closed by the time I arrived there. I have to say it was an interesting drive. Saw tons of horse farms, cattle ranches, and even a llama lying in the dirt looking sleepy. Now, it'll be probably two weeks before I can get the laptop to the right place.

And no laptop for all that time. It's amazing how we rely on our gadgets to keep us going!

Have a super day! Off to work for me...

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Seek and You Shall NOT Find...

Truly, this is the way the saying should go! Why? Because isn't it when you aren't looking for something? Tearing a place apart? Cleaning up everything? Giving up?

That that which is lost is found???

Well, it is. My watch, that is! I found it. Wasn't looking for it. Had searched and searched and searched. And I gave up. At  least until I had a day off to search some more. And voila. There it was. In plain sight. In a place I have never, ever, ever put it.

So if you seek and you cannot find, quit seeking and it shall find you!

My valuable lesson to impart to the rest of the world today!!!

I'm off to a shorter work day today which truly makes it a TGIF because I worked 12 hours on Monday, but still have to work all day tomorrow. Really awful week. And we begin taxes today....not us. The AARP. They are delightful tax preparers, but sometimes the people coming to get their taxes done are unbelievable. I had one woman screaming at me the other day about the tax forms. I was on the phone with another library while a patron was there trying to find out about her returned library card. We had a line of patrons waiting for us to wait on. But some woman who wanted her taxes done is screaming at me about the tax forms like I'm not on the phone and that we don't have a line of patrons to wait on. For one, we are a library. Not a tax service. AARP provides the service. And they're ONLY using our meeting room. If you have a question about ANYTHING, you do not have priority to scream at us ahead of our patrons. Get in line!

We get tons and tons of calls during this time about tax questions. Why is it that we are paying all this money to the IRS when they don't do their job? Why do we have to give out their tax forms and answer their tax questions? We are a library. We are not tax trained. Multi taxed, yes.

I had one last week where the woman was absolutely irate because I wouldn't answer her tax question or give her the number of the people to talk to who would. I repeat, we are a library, not a tax service. I could give all kinds of tax advice. Really I could. :) Just make it up as I go along. Or I can tell the truth--you have to come in and talk to the tax people. Period. No phone calls are taken. You have to wait your turn.

Free service people. Chill.

:) *sigh*

Speaking of chilling, it's COLD here! And I have a hundred thousand blogs I need to do for March for A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing, and two classes to get ready to present in New Orleans, and my editor just asked if I would prepare a video of myself talking about two of my upcoming releases. Ack! I have never done such a thing. But I will try.


Okay, off to work. Y'all have a really lovely Friday! Mine's going to be short at work, so I can come home and work! :) I knew I'd been goofing off too much lately! But at least now I can tell the time and how fast it's slipping away! Speaking of time...

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com

Lost and....Found...Kind of!

Sometimes I have days of not being able to find something. Not really very often, but when it's two important things in one day...

First, I look in all the usual places. Then I get more creative. Then I think of places they can't be. One was a book I'm reading for a contest. I thought I'd taken it to work to read on break. At least I had already done that with one of the books. Began reading another book the other day, and realized I'd already read it. So two down. Off to the 3rd.

I intended to take it to work with me, but couldn't find it. Maybe it slipped out of my bag and was at work in my desk drawer. No. Maybe it slipped out of my bag and was on the car floor. No. Couldn't do any more looking until I returned home.

Watch is missing also. I knew I had put it on before I went to bed. I thought maybe the clasp had come undone, but I've looked in the usual places for it, and then all around the bed. It's nowhere. I can't stand not having a watch. We have clocks in the library, but none of them are working. :)

Okay, so, I get home last night, search some more for my watch. Can't find it. Search for the book, and spy one sitting on the coffee table. But it's the one I just finished reading, isn't it?

Both have shirtless Highland hunks on the cover, blue kilts, and a blue background. They're not all that similar otherwise, but glancing at them, they look nearly the same. I had put the one I hadn't read away, thinking it was the one I had read.

Mystery solved, lost book found. Now...where is my watch?

Have a super Thursday!!! Today is Hump Day for me!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

The Dragon Fae...at least the Cover

We had violent storms that knocked out my internet, then my electricity yesterday, but everything's working again!!!

I've been busily working on The Highlander, Dougald's story, book 3 in the Winning the Highlander's Heart series. Donna promised me she's keeping Tom Silver, who is stuck in a blizzard in Colorado, nice and occupied until I get back to him. I'm not asking how she's keeping him entertained. Some secrets just shouldn't be revealed.

And I had a bit of fun with making the cover for the 5th book in the World of Fae series, Dragon Fae.

Doesn't she look like she could be one???

Off to work. It's going to be a really long week!

Have a super Hump Day!!!

Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male."
www.terryspear.com

Warning! Wolves!

Remember to play nicely with the wolves!


Yes!

Okay, had to share this. I do NOT work at this library!!! One of our patrons said that he used to go to people's homes and retrieve library books that were way past overdue, but I think he's on medication for something...and I'm not sure what he says is real or just his imagination. Anyway, here's the story!     Library Sends Cops To 5-Year-Old's House For Overdue Books (VIDEO) www.huffingtonpost.comA five-year-old girl from Charlton, Mass. burst into tears after a local library sent Police Sergeant Dan Dowd to her house to retrieve the child's two overdue library books, CBS Boston reported. "I thought it was way overboard," the girl's mother, Shannon Benoit, said. ***  So when patrons get upset with us because they don't return their books on time, and I mean way overdue books that are now in collections, they should be glad we don't send the police to their homes. Jeesh, we need our cops to take care of REAL police business!!! Okay, off to writing! Terry"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"www.terryspear.com

Guest Blog Schedule for March...

Guest Blog Schedule for A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing for March and Beyond
3/1 You Gotta Read Reviews & Love Romance Passion
3/2 Book Savvy Babe
3/3 Weekend No Blogs--Teaching Workshops
3/4 No Blogs
3/5 Open
3/6 Rom Fan Reviews
3/7 Sia McKye's Thoughts Over Coffee
3/8 Night Owl Reviews
3/9 Open
3/10 Weekend
3/11
3/12 SOS Aloha
3/13 SciFiGuy
3/14 Sizzling Hot Books
3/15 Open
3/16 Fresh Fiction & 7 Scribes
3/17 Weekend
3/18
3/19 Reading Between the Wines
3/20 Cindy Loves to Read
3/21 Open
3/22 Reviews by Molly
3/23 Open
3/24 Weekend
3/25
3/26 Star-Crossed Romance
3/27 Open
3/28 Mrs Papillion's Bookworm Reviews 
3/29 Long and Short Reviews
3/30
3/31 Weekend

Additional Dates:
March: Paranormal Addicts, Literal Addiction
April: ARRA
July 4: Petit Fours and Hot Tamales

So if anyone wants me to post on their review site, just email me for the open days. I can also do weekends.




Okay, I'm going to see this with my coworkers this weekend. One of them is leaving us, and we've had a lot of fun seeing some of the civic theater shows together. I can't remember if I saw the movie, but note the heroine's name? She's Bella! Maybe our wolf Bella?

But if he's driving her insane with kindness, it's more the sexy kind! :)


Have a super great Saturday! I'm going to try and get the newsletter out this weekend also! :)  Terry

Angel Street (Gaslight)
The Manninghams are your average, everyday couple in 1890's England. No one would every guess that Jack is slowly driving his wife Bella insane with kindness. It's up to the Inspector Roughy of Scotland Yard to try to solve the mystery and save Bella before it's too late.