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Oh, Come On...

Have you ever read a book that should have ended a long time ago, but won't quit?

In the final Lord of the Rings movie, I felt that way. I read a YA that was four books and could have easily been 2.

I'm listening to a final fight scene in this romance and it's brutal, and goes on and on and on. The heroine has a gun while the villain has sliced up the hero three times, shot him twice, nearly drowned him and her and she's saying..."I don't want to shoot you." ...as the villain is just about to kill her hero dead with this really deadly knife. She already shot him once. But of course he's the villain so bullet wounds and a dunk in the river don't have any effect on him.

She's an FBI agent, so it's not like she doesn't have the training and the right to take down the serial killer to protect a victim.

So why isn't she just shooting. Oh, maybe because it's his brother and forever, if the hero lives, he will resent that she killed his brother to save his life. That could be.

And it doesn't work. Sorry. But if someone's about to kill the person you can't live without, you don't hesitate, don't try to talk him out of the situation. And the hero doesn't act mamsy pamsy about how his brother has killed so many innocent people and tried to kill the love of his life and himself. You're pissed. And you want him stopped, even if it means deadly force, so he doesn't still kill you and the love of your life.

It's too overdone with we love the misguided, sick, sadistic, murderous brother, despite all that he's done. What about the people he mutilated? The families left behind? The terror he caused?

Whatever the reason, I'm ready to give up on the book.

The thumbs down reminds me of The Eagle, about a Roman soldier who returns to the northern reaches to locate the eagle where the wild Brits live and massacred the Roman legion, including his father, sent to conquer the area. The Romans were holding thumbs down that the gladiator should kill the slave who was a Brit in the arena.

But the Roman soldier got everyone to raise their thumbs to save the man's life.

So if I was the Roman soldier and saw the man about to kill his brother and the heroine, I'd say thumbs down on the story if she's going to do any more pleading with him to stand down.

Thumbs down on her. And thumbs down on the nearly dead brother for still moping about his brother. Sorry, in a situation like that, I would think he would be worrying about his lover and how she could still die at the hands of his crazed brother, not about whether he got to face a trial and was executed later.

And that's my quarter's worth. :)

But the good thing is? I've got another book to read... and another... and another. If one doesn't work, there's always another!!! :)

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

USA Today Happy Ever Afters Interview and Review of Dreaming of the Wolf

It's coming! Soon!!!

I have to smile at the mention of Happy Ever Afters, because when men ask me what I write about, I say romance, and then invariably the comment is made, "Happy ever afters." Thankfully, they smile, and don't say it in a demeaning way.

I smile broadly and admit it. I'm a sucker for happy ever afters. Always have been. Always will be.

Even when I write a little darker, my daughter says, "Mom, you always have rainbows in your stories. You can't write completely dark."

At first, I was taken aback. I thought I could write anything my heart desired. But then, I came to realize that's just me. And I see nothing wrong in that.

I was reading a book by an author I much admire, and I was truly disappointed because her writing had taken such a dark tone with no levity any longer. We read what we expect to read, so readers can expect to read the serious side of me, the adventurous, and the humorous. Because they come hand in hand.

My father and mother and me had a quirky sense of humor. We cried when my dad had his stroke, but on the other hand, while he was in the hospital, we made light of his condition--which helped him immensely in overcoming the scariness of his loss of control. We teased him about the blue pill the doctor had given him, that it wasn't to make him fight the depression, but truly was Viagra.

And he felt better for it. Not for the pill, but because we made him laugh about using Viagra at a time like that.

I don't want to feel down after I read a book. I don't want to cry and feel there was no hope for the characters, real or otherwise, in the story.

I want Happy Ever Afters. Life is too short to read only downers for me. Or to write them.

Give me a good romance that ends well, and I'm on top of the world.

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Speaking of HEA, I've got A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing for reviewers! Just came in the mail last night!!

TGIF!!!

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

High Winds and Storms!

Storms came in last night, so I couldn't get connected, and our internet was out at work all day.

So I'm running late on everything. Working on some interviews this morning, and still having trouble with emails and a connection. We have really high winds today. I'm not sure this will even post.

Hope your Friday is super! Time is just slipping away too fast!!!

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

Upcoming Blog Tour

If you're not listed and are supposed to be, email me! :) If you're not listed and have a review site and lots of followers and want to be listed, email me! :)

Otherwise, this is what I'm working on now, in edition to everything else. Blogs. Guest blogs. Interviews. And writing. And editing! Somewhere in there I've got to do some Christmas shopping!

Thanks to everyone for hosting me! And ahem, Jake Silver of course, because he's really the star of the show. And thanks to Sourcebooks and Danielle for setting these up and providing the free books for the contests, and to reviewers who had the opportunity to review the book. It's going to be a very busy month...before December!

So here's the schedule!

12-1 Preternatura
12-2 Over the Edge
12-5 Night Owl Reviews
Casablanca
12-6 Rom Fan Reviews
12-7 SOS Aloha
12-8 Fresh Fiction
12-9 Literary Escapism
12-10
12-11
12-12 Cindy's Love of Books
Bitten by Paranormal Romance
USA TODAY'S Review and Interview: Happy Ever After
12-13 Love Romance Passion
12-14 The Long and Short of It
12-15
12-16 Debbie's Book Bag
Paranormal Haven
12-17
12-18
12-19 Sia McKye's Thoughts over Coffee
12-20 Thoughts in Progress
12-21 Star-Crossed Romance
12-22
12-23
12-24
12-25
12-26
12-27
12-28 Fang-tastic Books
12-29 Book Lover and Procrastinator
12-30

I'm off to update my website, and even get a guest blog done before it's time to run to work. So have a super great Thursday!!

A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing edits are done!!! Finn's just too sexy for his own good. :)

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

Final Edits on A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing

Working on final edits to A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing. It's hot! :)

Meara, well, she just brings the bad boy out in Finn Emerson. What can I say???

Okay, so this is a teaser...remember, you get Jake in Dreaming of the Wolf first up. But just to whet your appetite, here's a little about Finn and Meara. :)

It was time to take charge of the situation—and Meara.

Finn closed the bedroom door without making a sound, then yanked off his clothes again, littering them all over the floor. Afterward, he mussed up the sheets and comforter, inhaling Meara's appealing, feminine scent. God, she was sexy, but under no circumstances did he want to tangle with her in that respect.

He figured the best means to get rid of the guy in the kitchen and protect her from the possible threat to her well-being, was to lay claim to her—in a pretend way, of course. She and he had butted heads enough in the past when he and Hunter had returned from missions that he wasn't going down that vine-twisted path. She was under the mistaken impression that it was he who had always talked Hunter into another mission after they had left the Navy. But half the time, Hunter had sought him out to conduct another privately contracted undercover operation.

Finn headed into the bathroom, started the shower, and entered the glassed-in stall. He figured any scenario would work to his advantage as he quickly soaped up, using her vanilla-scented bath soap—wondering just how enticing it would smell on her skin—rinsed off, and grabbed a towel. The two of them had to have heard him taking a shower. Either she would send Joe in to investigate, or they'd both check him out. In any event, they'd find her lover waiting for her in the bedroom—for better effect. If they didn't investigate, he'd quickly remedy that.

He walked out of the bathroom towel-drying his hair, naked, water droplets dribbling down his shoulders, his chest, and thighs, and found a slack-jawed Meara staring at his body. Which made his loins react as if on cue. Hell.

As beautiful as ever, her dark hair curled over her shoulders in a cascade of silk tresses, black denims fit her hips and legs in a seductive way, and a turquoise satin blouse accentuated pert breasts. He finally managed to pull his gaze away from her and consider the hulking black-haired man aiming a rifle at him, his eyes nearly as dark. Joe looked at home holding the rifle, as if he'd used one in military operations, and as short as his hair was, he did look like he was in the military. Which made Finn question who he really was. Although, if Joe had been the assassin, he would have made his move already.

"Meara," Finn said, in a deeply seductive way, his gaze shifting back to hers as if the armed man didn't worry him in the least, "I didn't expect you back from the airport so soon after seeing Hunter and Tessa off. You must have missed me." He gave an inviting wink, telling her just how much he'd enjoyed being with her.

He slipped the towel around his waist, as if it was an afterthought, but noted Meara had been taking her fill of his nakedness, her enticing lips still parted in surprise. Even though their kind shifted and it wasn't all that big a deal to be seen naked by others in a pack, he wasn't of her pack, and he wasn't shifting. Which he thought explained some of her reaction.

Then he turned his attention to Joe and said in a dark way that left no doubt that he was worried she was already throwing him over for someone else, "Who's he?"

***

Okay, so now, who wants to answer Finn???

Have a great Hump Day!

Terry

"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"

www.terryspear.com

Why More Demons?

That's the problem with being a writer. Truly. I have all these demons in my head. Well, not really. But I can be minding my own business, and the next thing I know, a story is filling pages. I had this teen book halfway written, the scenes just coming to me for Demon Trouble Too. I wrote 16 pages on the flight out to see my son and daughter-in-law in Pensacola, and when I was there, I was revising and writing and having fun.

Because that's what creating stories is all about. Sweating through the bad stuff. Not my bad stuff, but their bad stuff. Trying to figure out a way that despite all that's going on, they can have a happily ever after.

Oh, sure, I know a lot of teen drama doesn't have. But sorry. When I was a teen, my dad was laid off with countless other space program employees. We struggled to keep our house until we could sell. I love happily ever afters. I want a happily ever after. So even if the stories are a little dark, as my daughter would say, there's always a rainbow.

What about you? Do you love the tear jerkers? Or are happily ever afters the preferred reading material for you?


[image error] The Trouble with Demons (Demon Guardian Series, Book 1) Ebook By Terry Spear
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: March 10, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Words: 65301
B & N Amazon
Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way.


Hunter is half human, half Matusa demon, fighting to keep the evil ones out of the human world. When he's poisoned, he sees the vision of a girl watching him, only she's not really all demon and not really all there. She offers to save his life, if he offers to protect her from one of his kind. But no lesser demon dictates terms to a Matusa.

Jared is a full Elantus demon, raised by humans, who's searching for his real parents. When Hunter saves his life, he vows his loyalty to him and designs a tracker device to locate demons entering the human world.

When Alana beats on Hunter's chest to get his heart beating again after he dies, twice, he knows the half demon is hot for him.

Often at odds, the three teens work together to stop the plans of a group of Matusa to take over the human race before it's too late.

I finally finished Demon Trouble Too, book 2 of the Demon Guardian series. Book 1 was The Trouble with Demons. They're both about teens who are part demon, or full demon, who take it upon themselves to stop summoners from bringing demons into the world. Sometimes it works out well. Sometimes not!

Demon Trouble Too




Demon Trouble Too[image error] Ebook By Terry Spear
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Oct. 24, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Words: 43165
B&N, Amazon, ARe

Alana Fainot is a demon gate guardian, stuck in her last boring year of school. But not for long. Hunter and the rest of the gang show up when her astral form can't return to her physical form, and she's at the police station trying to talk her way out of having seen the murderer of a summoner. Hunter always knew Alana was trouble, but his kind of trouble, and he's not leaving Alana alone again.


But this time, the police are involved, paranormal investigators pounce on the area, and the whole mess seems to be spiraling out of the demon guardians' control.

Have a super day!

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

Demon Trouble Too (Demon Guardians Series)

I'm running late! How did Monday get here so fast???

I finally finished Demon Trouble Too, book 2 of the Demon Guardian series. Book 1 was The Trouble with Demons. They're both about teens who are part demon, or full demon, who take it upon themselves to stop summoners from bringing demons into the world. Sometimes it works out well. Sometimes not! This one is at Smashwords right now, and will be at B&N, Amazon, and ARe soon. :)

I found a copy of Woman's World in the grocery store, and there was Heart of the Highland Wolf looking mighty fine!

Okay, got to run. Hope you all have a lovely Monday!!!

Demon Trouble Too Ebook By Terry Spear
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Oct. 24, 2011
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance
Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Words: 43165 (approximate)
Language: English

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Ebook Short Description Alana Fainot is a demon gate guardian, stuck in her last boring year of school. But not for long. Hunter and the rest of the gang show up when her astral form can't return to her physical form, and she's at the police station trying to talk her way out of having seen the murderer of a summoner. Hunter always knew Alana was trouble, but his kind of trouble, and he's not leaving Alana alone again.


But this time, the police are involved, paranormal investigators pounce on the area, and the whole mess seems to be spiraling out of the demon guardians' control.

Have a super day!

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

A Wolf and Breast Cancer Awareness

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Thanks to Donna for sending this picture to me!

This is breast cancer awareness month. If I haven't mentioned what happened to my mother, she died from breast cancer. She'd had a mammogram that hadn't found any evidence of breast cancer. After self-examination a week later, she found a lump. I don't believe the lump would have grown that fast in that short of time. It wasn't a fast acting cancer like some can be. And she was able to have the breast removed and the lymph nodes were clear, plus she had the kind of cancer that worked well with medicine that kept any cancer from spreading if she'd had any left.

The medicine was great and she lived for 5 years cancer free. But after 5 years, the doctor was afraid it could cause some other cancer. So she was taken off the medicine. That year, the cancer spread, and within the year, it was in her liver and stomach and she died.

I believe she would have been fine for a number of years if she'd stayed on the medicine. But what do I know?

Both my manager and a coworker have breast cancer. It seems like it's a deadly epidemic.

The moral of the story is don't just rely on mammograms. Although now they give a digital image and it's much better, but still, self examination might find what a mammogram could miss.

Again, thanks to Donna for sharing with me the wolf who is our breast cancer awareness mascot for the month!

Get regular tests! And be aware!

:)

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

Heart of Highland Wolf in Woman's World!!!

Thanks so much to Rhonda Valverde who was interviewed by Woman's World for mentioning my werewolf books!!!

I loved it: Werewolves for Grown Ups! Yes!!! I couldn't have been more thrilled, and again, want to thank Rhonda for thinking of my wolfish hunks when she was interviewed!!!

And Romantic Times Magazine gave Dreaming of the Wolf a great review!

DREAMING OF THE WOLF (ISBN 9781402245558)
by Terry Spear

Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Sensuality: HOT

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REVIEW: In the eighth in her Werewolf series, Spear gives us a love-at-first-sight romance with intense and almost immediate lovemaking that really works with her fascinating characters and exciting action-packed crime drama plot. A great fantasy twist and yet another way to interpret the legend of weres.

Sub pack leader Jake Sliver is in Breckenridge, Colo., to drop off of his photography at a gallery when he catches sight of a woman staking out two deadly criminal types. She more than intrigues him, she turns him on.

Alicia Greiston is a bounty hunter, only this hunt is personal. She's after the mob men who had her mother killed. She's also attracted the interest of a certain Jake Silver, who offers her his protection, which pleases her as she's used to taking care of herself. She and Jake enter into a torrid affair which proves to be impossible to escape from, but they're also on a crash course with disaster in the form of the mob. If they survive, will the feelings they have for each other survive too? (SOURCEBOOKS, Dec., 384 pp., $7.99)

Reviewed By: Debbie Haupt

Also, my wolf books at the B & N in Pensacola, FL are autographed!

My daughter's in town with her husband while she presents a program at Baylor U. Did I mention how proud I am of her?

So I'm off to work before I can share a movie and dinner with them.

Have a super lovely Saturday!!!

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

Yum

Heart of the Highland Wolf (Book 7), Dreaming of the Wolf, (Book 8), A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing (Book 9)

I just updated my webpage and added these to the line up. :) They are just beautiful, aren't they???

Yeah, I'll take any of them. All of them. I'm not greedy! :)

What about you?

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