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Sneak Peek Sunday!

It’s Sneak Peek Sunday!
Today I’m offering another 6 paragraphs from my work in progress – The Changeling.

Coming soon to paperback and ebook at booksellers everywhere.

Setting the Stage:

In this scene, Lenox takes tea with his mother Amelia. She’s received a letter from the Fey queen that says clearly they’ll come for Lenox at the end of the year. In a twist of fate, a distant relative has passed away, giving Amelia reason to send her son out of harm’s way. (previously revealed details: Lenox is a changeling and Amelia has raised him as her own. And Queen Oonnagh plans to revive an ancient barbarism and offer Lenox as a sacrifice during the Ride to Tithe.)

The Peek:

She poured me a cup of tea and set it before me. I knew that mannerism as well as I knew my own name. Tea was the proverbial calm before the storm. I said, “Uh oh. What do you need me to fix, Mother?”

 “Can’t I take tea with my baby boy?” She demurred. “You know how I like quizzing you on my blends.”

No, there was more here than that. I eyed her suspiciously and her blue eyes sparkled back at me. Lady Pendry had a penchant for dabbling. She dabbled in works of art by collecting new artists she had a hunch on, she dabbled in orchids and exotic plants, she dabbled in the Royal Ascot, specifically in the creation of enormously flamboyant hats suitable for race day, and she dabbled in Indian tea blends. She also dabbled in the lives of everyone around her. Of the latter, she possessed a keen sense and could often tell at a glance if a match could be made between this person and that. Of the art, the old dear had not one whit of business sense. Nothing showed that so well as our gallery of dubious masterpieces. Fortunately, my father had left his estate well-cared for before he died relatively young from a ruptured appendix.

I sipped her newest blend of tea and tasted jasmine, apple, oolong and something else. I voiced my appreciation and sipped again determined to identify the new flavor. “Very nice. I detect a different note, a sweeter apple? No…pear. You’ve added pear…and rosehips. A lovely blend, Mother. Your pinochle ladies with adore it.”

She smiled. “Wonderful! I’ve promised them a new flavor this afternoon. I swear darling, you have the keenest senses of anyone I have ever known.”

I chuckled. “Your pastimes have made me all I am Mother…taste this tea Lenox, smell that rose Lenox. My senses sharpened out of self-defense.” At her laugh I asked, “So what did you need of me exactly?” I raised my cup to her, “I’m certain it has nothing to do with this newest blend.”

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 71 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

~ Dr. Seuss

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guest author Mary Jo Putney.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com our contest ends Monday. Come play!

Attention Authors! The RB4U is offering a promo deal: Pay for Oct and Nov and get Dec for FREE. Contact Marianne for details. marianne@romancebooks4us.com.

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I’m participating in Sexy Snippets. Scroll back a day for My Sexy Saturday.

http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Weekend Writing Warriors today. Scroll back a day for Seductive Studs& Sirens http://theancillarymse.blogspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Only one more day to win Jane’s book. http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your September download today. October’s issue is on the way. http://valterramagazines.com/

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The Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop comes to a close tomorrow. One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. 

Click Here for Participants

Here’s my prize:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate.

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Stars falling through the Dome

I read something recently. This September was the most active month for meteors in nearly ten years. Just this week an early morning fireball streaked through the morning sky. Early-risers in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky got to see it. Alas, I was standing at the coffee pot.

Though ambient light from encroaching civilization has taken away a portion of my dark skies, if conditions are right, we often gather with friends in our yard to watch the annual meteor showers. We’ll watch the Perseids, the Geminids, the Leonids in turn, their displays whizzing past the constellations of Perseus, Gemini and Leo.  We call them shooting stars, but they’re actually bits of comet debris and space dust. Every once in a while, we’ll see a chunk of space junk (our trash) hit the atmosphere and burn up in brilliant color on its way to earth.

Most meteors burn up and all that remains are small bits for collectors. Some have hit the earth with astounding impact (no pun intended…well maybe). In the USA we have the old Barringer Crater  in Arizona, one in Mexico, and more recently, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia. Of course our moon has the Tycho crater and a slew of others. Thank goodness for our atmosphere. Few people know about the chip-shot that hit the earth at the end of the Jurassic period millions of years ago. Chicxulub crater is a prehistoric impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. That asteroid was so huge and hit with such force, it’s thought to have scorched the earth and led to a mass extinction. Now there’s a picture.

Meteors fall all the time. This site has info:

http://www.amsmeteors.org/

Here’s a documentary on the Tunguska event. Some say this was done by an air burst caused by the explosion of a comet just above the surface of the earth.

Some say a spaceship crashed!

This one is interesting too

http://youtu.be/8WXeIGsEAcM

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 72 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

~ Jeremy Taylor

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a guest blog from Random House Editor, Sue Grimshaw.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com only two days left to find those falling leaves and win!

Attention Authors! The RB4U is offering a promo deal: Pay for Oct and Nov and get Dec for FREE. Contact Marianne for details. marianne@romancebooks4us.com.

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I’m participating in My Sexy Saturday today & Sexy Snippets tomorrow

 http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Seductive Studs& Sirens today & Weekend Writing Warriors tomorrow: http://theancillarymse.blogspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Only two more days to enter! http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize and be sure to leave your email in comments. Click on My Novels at the top of this page to see all of my book trailers.

Click Here for Participants

Here’s my prize:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate. Only two more days to enter!

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Ancestor Appreciation Day

It’s Ancestor Appreciation Day!

In 1959, the October issue of Saturday Evening Post had a cover drawn by artist extraordinaire Norman Rockwell. He did many covers for that magazine. I’ve always loved his detailed work, loved too that he recycled faces. A face might be a shopkeeper in one painting and a child’s doll in the next.

That particular Saturday Evening Post cover featured a symbolic American family tree. Norman’s concept tree had branches sporting a Fur trapper and Plains Indian, a Yankee and Confederate, a ladybird (prostitute) and buccaneer, an outlaw and saloon gal, and more. They all distill down to a cute freckled-face, red-haired, boy, presumably the artist himself. In that entertaining artwork, he shows there’s a complexity to one’s heritage. Mine goes back to the first European footfalls on the new continent on one side of the family, and second generation American on the other. My husband’s goes back to the days of knights on one side and nothing but a dead end with an impassable brick wall on the other.

Genealogy often turns up surprises. My husband has found many on all side of our collective tree. History buff that I am, I know the times in which my ancestors lived. I can so clearly see their struggles to just simply survive. And yet they did. All that I am, I owe to those who came before. I give my thanks. This quote from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 fits my sentiment perfectly:

“A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farthest of the two.”

Genealogy Links to get you started.

A wonderful resource.

www.ancestry.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFtVn8q6SR8&feature=share&list=TL60Br7HNvFla90cCKRqmC3D4_8ln22r_4

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 73 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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author Janice Seagraves’ blog day.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com find those falling leaves and win all sorts of prizes.

Attention Authors! The RB4U is offering a promo deal: Pay for Oct and Nov and get Dec for FREE. Contact Marianne for details. marianne@romancebooks4us.com.

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Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize and be sure to leave your email in comments. Click on My Novels at the top of this page to see all of my book trailers.

Click Here for Participants

Here’s my prize:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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Think About it Thursday

Quote collector I, I found this today and it has me thinking:

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

– Huxley

My first thought was huh? Then I looked up a broader definition of religion.

The World English Dictionary defines religion as:

1. belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or to have control of human destiny
2. any formal or institutionalized expression of such belief: the Christian religion
3. the attitude and feeling of one who believes in a transcendent controlling power or powers
4. chiefly RC Church the way of life determined by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience entered upon by monks, friars, and nuns: to enter religion
5. something of overwhelming importance to a person: football is his religion 
6. archaic a. the practice of sacred ritual observances b. sacred rites and ceremonies

Is it 1, 3, 5, or 6? I see a little of each when I think about Huxley’s quote. Writers have powerful and original minds. It’s no small feat to pull a world out of the depths of your imagination. I’m wondering if all writers feel this way about solitude. There are times when I am so thoroughly in my head, I have to remember to come out for the people in my life.

Occasionally I find myself with very little to say in social situations and I don’t know why. I don’t like that either. It’s noticeable. My husband has even commented on this recently. He says he worries about me becoming a “crazy cat lady”. (I don’t own that picture. It belongs to Matt Groening. His cat lady has gone so batty she doesn’t even speak anymore. She blargs. lol Thanks for giving my husband a visual, Matt.)

How do you feel about solitude?

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 74 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.”

~ Samuel Lover

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author Bobbye Terry/Daryn Cross’s blog day.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com  find those falling leaves and win all sorts of prizes.

Attention Authors! The RB4U is offering a promo deal: Pay for Oct and Nov and get Dec for FREE. Contact Marianne for details. marianne@romancebooks4us.com.

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We’re doing something new on my group blog. Thursdays are all about the genesis of a story. Today’s guest is Helena Fairfax.

http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

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Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop.  http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize and be sure to leave your email in comments. Click on My Novels at the top of this page to see all of my book trailers.

Click Here for Participants

Here’s my prize:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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Feet to the Flames

Firewalking — Been there, done that. And this is exactly what it looks like.

I’ve joined the October Obsession BIAM Writathon 2013 a.k.a. Book In A Month. Here’s the description:

This is a Book in a Month Writing Frenzy occurring twice a year; the first is April Madness, the second October Obsession. We lock our internal editors in THE DUNGEON and let our imaginations soar, so we can write a rough first draft of a book, work on WIPs, edit and revise, or whatever as long as we write, write, write. Browse around in the Files, Links, Photos, Polls and Database for writing tips and information. Our goal is to write and write some more. Remember: You can always fix it later!

I’ve always wanted to try the NaNoWriMo – The National Novel Writing Month, but life interfered with the last two Novembers and I have a busy fall planned. The BIAM has been called “the gentler NaNoWriMo”.

Why am I doing this? To finish my work in progress so I can leave the romance genre behind and get back to writing my magnum opus. I may return to love stories now and then, but after so many years spent working on my 5-book/500k series, it’s time to get that show on the road. The BIAM is a sort of feet to the flames nudge in that direction.

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 75 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”

~ Dr. Zhivago (penned by Boris Pasternak)

 

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guest author Venus Cahill.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com  find those falling leaves and win all sorts of prizes.

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize and be sure to leave your email in comments. Click on My Novels at the top of this page to see all of my book trailers. Click Here for Participants

It’s a Humpday Hook day over on http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

And it’s a Horny Humpday on http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

Come see!

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop.  http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

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Here’s my prize for the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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Not a bird

It’s mid September and my yard is filled with blooming hostas. We have all sorts. I truly love these flowers. My husband rescued each and every plant from old yards being plowed under for big box stores and other not so negative construction. Many have come in poor condition but he’s tended them and they’ve thrived. The flowers are happy here. So are the hummingbirds. Last week I looked out the window at the largest gathering of hummingbirds I’ve ever seen here. I went for the binoculars and what did I see? Well, they weren’t birds at all. They were giant hawk moths. I’ve only ever seen them in pictures. They’re absolutely amazing. They have a three inch-long tongue and remind me of planes that fuel in flight.  Apparently this is the largest emergence of hawk moths in a long time. 

Here’s a clip from the Chicago Botanic Gardens. It’s exactly what I see here:

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 76

entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”

~ Leo Buscaglia

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author Cara Marsi’s blog day.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com win all sorts of prizes when you find those falling leaves!

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize. Click on My Novels at the top of this page to see all of my book trailers. Click Here for Participants

Today is the last day for the Book Indulgence Hop on my satellite blog — last chance for prizes too! http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Come see! http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

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Here’s my prize for the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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>>Subscribe to this blog for all the what’s up with Rose news!<<

The biggest fan, blog hops, & more

I’ve said before that I prefer non-fiction to fiction. On occasion, I’ll come across a novel that will just tickle my fancy and I’ll leave my reference books for a time. As far as fiction goes, I love stories with elements of history. More than that, I adore a good time-travel. Talk about capturing my fancy. What would it be like to be a person of this time thrust into the past to live by wits alone? Many years ago while my daughter was at her music lesson, I went to a large bookstore and poked around the fiction shelves. I saw a rather plain cover with a broken clock on it. Picking it up, I learned that this was the first of three novels about a WWII army nurse thrust into pre-Culloden Scotland. Wow.

I bought the hefty books (approximate 1000 pages each) and read them in a week. (I’m a very fast reader) I was hooked.

Today on Romance Books ’4′ Us, we’re hosting that very author — Diana Gabaldon. I’ve been a fan for so long and have read all of her books. I’ve even read the paperback versions until their pages have fallen out! Great story. I can’t say enough. And now this famous author and her soon-to-be-a-movie story  is a guest on my other authors’ group. The world takes some interesting turns doesn’t it?

guest author Diana Gabaldon

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

If you haven’t heard of the infamous battle of Culloden, here you go ~

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 77 entries to come!  Here’s one for today:

beguile

1. to charm, fascinate

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll downt to see my prize. Click Here for Participants

I’m also participating in the Book Indulgence Hop on my satellite blog — we have prizes too! http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Come see! http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com win all sorts of prizes when you find those falling leaves!

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Here’s my prize for the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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>>Subscribe to this blog for all the what’s up with Rose news!<<

Sneak Peek Sunday & Day 6 of Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop!

It’s Sneak Peek Sunday!
Today I’m offering another 6 paragraphs from my newest Enchanted Skye.

Available now in ebook and coming soon to paperback and ebook at booksellers everywhere. Read the legend in the Look Inside  on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Skye-ebook/dp/B00F0XLF5Q

Setting the Stage:

Jenna and Alex stand at the tidal pool. She explains this was where she scattered her grandmother’s ashes. Alex already knows that. He was in his shape-shifted Selkie form that day and saw her there. His older brother Lachlan swims near. Wary of the large seal, Jenna steps backward and asks Alex if they are normally so friendly.

The Peek:

“They are, and they’re overly curious.” Alex watched his brother slowly making his way toward them. He asked silently, What are ye still doing here, Lachlan?

Goin’ for that swim. The seal barked, his nostrils opening and closing made his whiskers swing to and fro.

Jenna jumped and grabbed onto Alex’s arm before releasing it just as quickly. She took several steps backward. “Are they dangerous?”

Alex narrowed his eyes at the creature who now floated on his back scratching his belly with his flipper. “They keep to themselves and are harmless if you leave them be.”

Surprised by his lecturing tone, Jenna quickly assured him, “Believe me, I wouldn’t dream of bothering them.” The seal did a barrel roll on top of the water then blew bubbles. It made Jenna laugh. “They certainly are funny animals. My grandmother and I used to love watching them at the zoo.”

Alex chuckled. “Aye, nature’s clowns.” To Lachlan he said, What d’ ye think about living in the zoo, brother? I might be able t’ arrange that for ye.

Here’s the story

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I’m one of 112 authors joining in the Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll back to yesterday’s post to see my prize.

Click Here for Participants

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100 Things Blogging Challenge!

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 78 entries to come!  Here’s one for today:

“Your love comforts me like sunshine after the rain.”

~ William Shakespeare

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I’m having another busy weekend. Come see!

I’m participating in the Book Indulgence Hop, My Sexy Saturday & Sexy Snippets, all at once on my satellite blog.

 http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Weekend Writing Warriors today &Seductive Studs& Sirens yesterday here: http://theancillarymse.blogspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Come see! http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

Stop by the Romance Books ’4′ Us for author Desiree Holt’s blog day.

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

Find the falling leaves and win prizes on the RB4U website!

http://www.romancebooks4us.com/

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Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop! Day 5

BTS e-magazine and Decadent Publishing are hosting a rather large blog hop from now until the end of the month. I’m one of 112 authors joining in, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize.

Click Here for Participants

 Today I’m introducing Loving Leonardo — a Victorian polyamorous romance with a touch of reader-interactive art history. Take a peek at the first book in the series with the Look Inside feature on Amazon.com:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009LS3H6Q

Here’s the Story

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100 Things Blogging Challenge

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 79 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”

~ Sarah Bernhardt

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Come visit my blogs to see what’s going on this Saturday and Sunday.

I’m participating in the Book Indulgence Hop, My Sexy Saturday, & Sexy Snippets, all at once on my satellite blog.

 http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Seductive Studs& Sirens today & Weekend Writing Warriors tomorrow over on another satellite blog, http://theancillarymuse.blogsspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Come see! http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

And…I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

 

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author Renee Vincent’s blog day.

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And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com win all sorts of prizes when you find those falling leaves!

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Here’s my prize:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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Sunset on Summer Fun Blog Hop! Day 4

BTS e-magazine and Decadent Publishing are hosting a rather large blog hop from now until the end of the month. I’m one of 112 authors joining in, and we all have prizes! For the Grand Prize: One winner will receive their choice of a Kindle Fire 7″ HD or NOOK HD. This option is for US contestants only. International winners will receive Paypal Cash to spend how they wish. Scroll down to see my prize.

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Here’s a bit more from The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo ~ Scroll back a day to see the trailer. Take a peek at the first book in the series with the Look Inside feature on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFFFESI

This scene tickled me when I wrote it. I hope it does the same for you.

Setting the Stage:Ash, the ancient Native American shape-shifting shaman is slowly integrating himself into the modern world. At dinner with new friends, Ash drinks beer for the first time and later determines this is not a drink to underestimate, even in small quantity. He’s been staying at Livie’s house as a dog, and he needs to get back there before she does. He suspects the beer is interfering with his ability to concentrate. The following is the best slapstick by an ancient shaman.

Knowing he had to resume his wolf form at Livie’s home, he took a deep breath and shifted, but his inebriated mind was not concentrating and he ended up with a raven’s head atop his man’s body. He tried again. Forgetting that he still wore clothes, he found himself a small bird, pinned and struggling under the heavy garments that had fallen to the ground in a heap. He shifted into a feathered snake before taking the form of a mouse and working his way out of a sleeve.

The movement caught the attention of an owl on its nightly hunting foray. Just as it was about to swoop low on silent wings, intent on nabbing the large field mouse, a naked man with a mouse tail and whiskers appeared. The owl, clearly startled, flew off into the night. Laughing, Ash raised his arms and yelled after it, “This is not your night, my brotherrrr!”

Tail and whiskers absorbed into his changing form and once again bare skin grew feathers. He shifted into a raven — a six-foot-tall raven. Laughing at himself, he made his body small and flew fast to Livie’s home, albeit not in a straight line.

Read the origins of this tale on USA Today

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100 Things Blogging Challenge

For 100 days, I’m posting a little something from my chosen topic of Words & Quotes of Love. There are 80 entries to come! Here’s one for today:

“Until I loved, I never lived – enough.”

~ Emily Dickenson

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On my satellite blog, I’m participating in the Book Indulgence Hop! We have prizes!

http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

Over on my other satellite blog. I’m hosting Jane Leopold Quinn for the Fall Into Romance Hop. Come see! http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/

I’m talking love quotes in the FREE September issue of Hidden Desires Magazine. Get your download today! http://valterramagazines.com/

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our guest Entangled Publishing

http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com

And over on the RB4U website http://romancebooks4us.com win all sorts of prizes when you find those falling leaves!

۞>>>>۞<<<<۞>>>>۞<<<<۞

Here’s my prize:

One lucky winner chosen randomly will receive

a Love Waits in Unexpected Places coffee cup,

a collection of Victorian reproduction trinkets,

and chocolate!

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