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July 24, 2012
REBORN – Excerpt 2
Here’s another quick excerpt of REBORN. I’m excited to have you read Hudson’s story…it’s almost release day!
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“Hi, Beverly,” Hudson said calmly as he gingerly walked into the room. He had originally wanted to take a nap, but the look she was giving him stopped him dead in his tracks.
“Hello, Hudson,” she said with the same calm.
As the words registered in his ears, he realized that there was a bit of a storm in that calm voice. Kind of like standing in front of an oncoming hurricane. You just knew the bad shit was coming, and all you could do was wait.
He studied her, his fatigue gone. She stood across the room, her back ramrod straight, her hair up in that adorable little bun on the top of her head. A few wisps had escaped and freely hung down framing her face, which was a mask of calm, yet her green eyes seemed a couple of shades darker as they blazed in fury.
“Is there something wrong, Beverly?” he asked, almost afraid of the answer. He didn’t want to tango with this side of her—the side that looked like she could take a chunk out of his hide with a couple of well-placed words.
She continued to stare at him, and it became very apparent that, yes, there was definitely something wrong.
“How dare you?” she said in a low, calm voice, and he found himself wishing she would yell because it wouldn’t be as uncomfortable.
“Excuse me? How dare I what?”
July 20, 2012
A peek at REBORN
Many of you have been emailing me privately and via FB and asking when you get a peek at Hudson’s story, REBORN.
Ask and you shall receive. I’ll be posting snippets over the next few weeks, and then I hope you’ll all join me for the release party, which I will let everyone know about beforehand.
So on to REBORN:
Just like at the bar, her piercing green stare felt like she could see through the charade he had carefully constructed, and she knew the lies he had told.
He studied her face. Goddammit, she was what they described as a classic beauty. Smooth porcelain skin. High cheekbones. Full lips. There wasn’t a flaw anywhere on her face that he could see. She sat with her back ramrod straight, her shoulders pushed back, her chin lifted. He was reminded of pictures of royalty as he looked at her, except they all tended to look like they had a broomstick stuck up their asses and attached to their spines. For Beverly, the way she carried herself was natural.
Women like her had never held an interest for him. He always went for the ones with a bit of a hard edge. The party girls. Hell, he’d been with hookers many, many times. He had always felt that women like Beverly deserved more than he could offer. The others were simply looking for a body or to get paid. Of course, he would love nothing more than to have such a woman, but all he could give her would be a night of nothing but fucking, maybe some cuffs or a blindfold to fulfill to an erotic fantasy. He didn’t have much else. Perhaps an omelet in the morning, but there wasn’t much more to the what-can-Hudson-give-a-woman list.
July 19, 2012
Heated Match by Lynne Silver
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I’m happy to have Lynne Silver here today, and not only because she loves M&M’s but because of her book, Heated Match. She also writing about controversial books.
Take it away, Lynne!
I wrote a controversial book. I didn’t mean to, I swear. As someone who shies from conflict as much as possible, it’s odd I would tackle a controversial subject. But the story was caught in my brain and wouldn’t let go.
So here’s the issue: I’ve built a world where the main heroes are genetically enhanced. And I don’t mean like X-men or freaky enhancements that we know are never possible. No, my enhanced soldiers are entirely in the realm of possibility. In our lifetimes!
I got the idea for the book from a newspaper article talking about designer babies. Science isn’t so far away from having the means for prospective parents to pick the genetic traits for their new baby. Eye color, hair color, height, you name it. We can also imagine the possibility of better cognitive processing and more lung capacity to allow for faster running. The soldiers in my book have enhanced lung capacity, greater strength and eidetic/photographic memories.
Fun stuff, right. Though it’s easy to say that genetics shouldn’t be used for anything so frivolous as eye color.
But where it gets harder is when it comes to disease. There are a ton of genetic diseases such as Sickle cell anemia, tay sachs, cystic fibrosis that could be wiped out thanks to genetic manipulation during the fertility process.
Fabulous. No parent would ever have to watch their child suffer. But what about the gray area, like genetic defects, or non life-threatening diseases? Are we as a society willing to say these children don’t have value? I’m not.
But as a parent, if I could omit any second of physical pain in my child’s life, I’d do it. What do you think? Not an easy question, right?
Heated Match
By Lynne Silver
Book Blurb:
A lead byline and a cover story were what journalist Loren Stanton wanted most. Until she meets genetically enhanced soldier, Adam Blacker. Team leader of a top-secret covert ops group, Adam never wanted to search for his genetic match, but whenever he gets close to Loren, things turn hot quickly, making him forget every reason he had for retaining his bachelor status.
After a scorching night together, neither is in any doubt they are connected at the DNA-deep level, although both fear the high stakes of what it means to be together. Loren gives Adam two weeks to prove he is bred for more than war. He must show he is coded for love.
EXCERPT
“Adam!”
Slowly he turned back to face her and her stomach clenched with a thrill of fear and desire. Last night’s civilized dancer in a tuxedo was completely gone. In his place stood a snarling, angry, completely aroused soldier.
She used the balls of her feet to scoot farther against the wall and measured the distance between her current location and the bathroom door. Her calculations proved unnecessary.
With an untranslatable growl, Adam flung himself into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
She waited a minute then tapped on the door. “Um, Adam? Are you okay?”
“The damn door doesn’t lock. Back. Away.”
Alrighty then. With him behind a closed door, the aching in her lower belly subsided a degree. “Adam, will you tell me what’s going on?” She bit her lip and fondled a stiff nipple through her blouse before registering where her hands were. Adam needed to answer her questions, like right now, because she had no idea why she was locked in this small conference room with an angry, sexy man. “Adam, please.”
“You work for a newspaper. Don’t you read it?”
“Well, sure, but that doesn’t explain why we’re locked in here together.”
“Think, Loren. What did the articles say about how the Program gains new members?”
She racked her brain trying to remember. “Um, through birthing a new generation, right? But…”
The door opened a crack and she could see his anguished expression peeking through.
“Use your brain. Do I have to explain the birds and the bees? You’re no virgin, are you?”
“I know how babies are made, Adam,” she said. “But the article said you only breed with women who are your perfect genetic match…oh…” Shep’s words came back in a flash. “They think I’m your genetic match?”
He gave a curt nod and started to close the door again. She shoved her foot in to stop him. “How did they figure that out so quickly?”
“The cheek swab at the entry. I’m such an idiot. I should’ve guessed last night.”
About the Author:
Award-winning author Lynne Silver lives the life of a suburban soccer mom, volunteering [image error]with the PTA, doing laundry and working. By night she enters the sensuous world of alpha males and passionate heroines. She lives in an old fixer-upper with her husband and their two sons. When not writing romance, she reads it. Lots of it. Over and over and over again, preferably with a bag of M&Ms in hand.
Website: www.lynnesilver.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/LynneSilverAuthor
Twitter: @lynnesilver
Murphy’s Law by RS Emeline
[image error]I’m happy to be featuring Murphy’s Law by R.S. Emeline today, a fellow escapee from Washington State to the desert!
There is a copy of this book, as well as Purrfect Storm, to be given away. To enter please leave a comment. Winners will be chosen on July 23rd.
I will be reviewing this book and posting my review at a later time.
Welcome, R.S.!
MURPHY’S LAW
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Purchase Link: smashwords
Blurb/Book Description:
Alexis MacGuire is just like other college students. She goes to class, eats pizza, and holds down a job. The difference is, her job could get her killed.
As the unluckiest member of a family of elite assassins, she spends her spare time jetting from one country to another neutralizing scum the government doesn’t want to be attached to–often in unconventional and unplanned ways.
When she receives an email exposing the secrets of her last job she enters into a game of cat and mouse with someone known only as the Hunter. With the help of her brother, her best friend, and an FBI agent who makes her heart skip beats, she must find the Hunter before he destroys everything and everyone she loves.
EXCERPT for Murphy’s Law:
I was close to where the car was hidden, and I could see the flames rising in the dark behind me. Lights strobed from the emergency vehicles, as they tried to control the blaze. I took a deep breath and walked into the clearing where the car was parked and looked around. No car.
“What the Hell!” I stomped my foot on the ground and let out a feral growl.
All the markers were where they were supposed to be. White paint on the ground. Black X on the tree. Empty dirt road. I checked the time. If I didn’t get back to my hotel in the next hour I wouldn’t make my flight.
I looked down at the ring I wore on my right hand. Two simple silver bands surrounded a Celtic design wrapped around my finger entwined with a shamrock and a blood red stone in the center. Each person in my family had a similar ring. Each designed the same, only the stone was different. We never took them off, because to take them off could mean our deaths.
The rings were our safety nets. The one way we could protect ourselves when an assignment didn’t go right, when we were in danger, or in my case when I was stranded because some little punk ass stole my car. I twisted the Celtic band, enabled the tracking device and notified my brother of the S.O.S. With a sigh, I climbed into the tree and waited to be rescued. Again.
[image error]Purrfect Storm
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Book Description:
Tavin Chauncy thinks he has his work cut out for him when a fellow Marine gets arrested for assault. He soon realizes that it’s nothing compared to the way his life gets flipped upside down when a mysterious woman appears in the middle of his living room during a rare desert storm.
EXCERPT
Mist rolled through the loft like ghosts. It covered the floor and crept along the furniture, silent, and gray. The temperature dropped in the room, and a shiver crawled up his spine. He looked up and watched the writhing mass wrap itself around his body. “What the hell?” He quit his search for candles and grabbed his Maglite out of the drawer, switching it on.
The beam bounced back and forth, blocked by the thickness of the mist. A low level hum broke through the shifting wall, and energy tingled through his body. His hair stood on end as electricity sparked around him. His heart beat loudly in his chest, and his pulse quickened with each second. He’d spent days living in cramped quarters under harsh conditions in the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan, the sound of gunshots, mortar fire, and explosions haunted him in his dreams, but until that moment he’d never wanted to run.
In spite of that, or maybe because of that, he calmed his racing heart, straightened his shoulders, and prepared for battle.
Wind blew around him, but barely shifted the veil covering his vision. Sparks of light flashed from the center of the brume like a mystical strobe light and he saw a flash of movement in the distance; nothing more than a shadow–a hint of something. His eyes strained to make out familiar objects around him as he slowly maneuvered toward the growing cloud.
He understood on a base level that whatever was happening inside the mist wouldn’t–couldn’t–be stopped with gunpowder and lead, but his hand still reached reflexively for the weapon he carried during combat.
Just as quickly as the eerie fog rolled in, it thinned out and faded.
He blinked.
Then he blinked again. He rubbed his free hand over his eyes. Maybe he’d hit his head when the power went out, and he was unconscious on the floor. Maybe he was dreaming, because in reality strange mists didn’t roll into living rooms, and mystical lights didn’t flash from inside them.
About the Author
Author Bio:
R.S. Emeline grew up in the sogginess of Washington State where she nurtured her love of writing with dark teenage poetry. Today she spends her time in the perpetual dryness and [image error]sun of the California desert. She lives there with her husband, the Marine; her niece, the Artist; her daughter, the Munchkin; and two animals–King Furry and Mistress Meow– who are the true rulers of the roost.
Author web links:
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/rsemeline
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rsemeline
Website: www.rsemeline.com
IAN: http://www.independentauthornetwork.com/rs-emeline.html
July 17, 2012
Hot Summer Nights Blog Hop
As this blog hop begins, I’m currently writing the fourth installment of the Six Savior Series and preparing for the release of the third, so I gotta talk about my boys. 
They are beautiful Warriors from another universe who have taken on human forms to battle the evil from their planet that has been unleashed on Earth.
There is Noah, the reluctant, yet fearless leader of the group…
Click on the picture for excerpt and reviews
Then there’s Rayner, the troubled Warrior who sees spirits caught between life and death…
Click on the picture for excerpt and reviews
And the Warrior Hudson who seems to have it all – good looks, fine clothing, expensive jewelry and women just waiting for their turn to sleep with him. But, what he safely keeps hidden from the world is the terrible pain he’s suffered for many years.
Click picture for full book blurb
I love my Warriors, and to celebrate Hot Summer Nights, I’m giving away two copies of the first book of the series, The Light Within Me.
Please enter below, and thank you for stopping by!
July 16, 2012
Meeting Destiny by Nancy Straight
[image error]I’m excited to have Max and Lauren, the main characters from Nancy Straight’s book, Meeting Destiny here for an interview. So let’s get on with the interview, and then learn a little about the book!
Beautiful book cover, isn’t it?
1. What’s your Favorite Movie?
Max: Transformers
Lauren: Erin Brockovich, but I’d love to see Samael go up against Optimus Prime!
Max: These guys don’t know who Samael is.
Lauren: Oh, should I tell him who he is and what he did to you?
Max: No, you don’t want to spoil the story for them.
2. Name one book you could read over and over again.
Max: Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Lauren: Just one? How about ten?
Max: We don’t have all day.
Lauren: Okay just a few, Significance by Shelly Crane, Inescapable by Amy Bartol, Enchantment by Charlotte Abel.
3. Who would you like to meet, (dead or alive)?
Max: John McCain
Lauren: Vin Diesel
Max: Vin Diesel? Kind of shallow of you, don’t you think?
Lauren: Just call me “baby pool.”
4. Do you have a favorite song or singer?
Max: Norah Jones
Lauren: Kesha’s Tik Tok and anything from Taylor Swift.
5. One place you would love to visit:
Max: The Bahamas
Lauren: I’m with Max, the Bahamas. But not during Hurricane season. I have enough action in my life without adding the weather as an enemy.
6. Do you have any Guilty Pleasures?
Max: Waking up next to Lauren.
Lauren: Awww, I’m blushing. I like that I get to wake up next to Max, but I LOVE fighting demons!
7. Pet Peeve:
Max: Lauren taking on evil forces by herself.
Lauren: Someone rolling their eyes at me. I see you doing it right now, Max.
8. What’s your Favorite Food?
Max: 5 Guys Burgers
Lauren: Mint Chip Ice cream with a warm brownie.
9. One thing you cannot leave the house without
Max: I’m a paramedic so I go everywhere with my emergency kit, just in case.
Lauren: My keys, we live in the middle of nowhere and unless I have my keys, I have to walk six miles to the nearest town.
10. Do you have any hobbies?
Max: Camping, shooting, skiing, hiking or any activity with Lauren.
Lauren: Let’s just say I HATE camping and will never go again. If you want to know why, you haven’t read Meeting Destiny. Shopping, hanging out with Rachel, Seth, Amanda and Max.
And now on to the book….
Other books in series: Book 2 Destiny’s Revenge and Book 3 Destiny’s Wrath have been released
Genre: Paranormal Romance
ISBN: 978-1-4507-2109-7 (E-book) / 978-1468121377 (Paperback)[image error]
ASIN: B003U2RUP8
Number of pages: 295
Word Count: 98,000
Book Description:
Lauren is visited in her dreams for years by a stranger claiming to be her destiny. Destiny becomes reality when paths cross during a failed robbery attempt. Lauren and the stranger experience chemistry like no other and now her doubt over her long time relationship with her high school sweetheart is not her only secret…someone else knows about her keen intuition and sixth sense. A mysterious clairvoyant seeks Lauren out and tells her not only of her life now but what the future may hold. Soon Lauren is in the middle of a murder investigation and a questionable friendship with the key suspect. Law enforcement, friends and family are concerned for Lauren but unfortunately they are unaware of the true danger…Sinister forces are at work and will stop at nothing to destroy Lauren’s abilities.
Available for free at Amazon, BN, and Smashwords
Short Excerpt:
His words made my heart soar, my whole body felt warm and my heart rate began steadily gaining speed. Knowing how badly this visit could have gone, I couldn’t help but push my luck, “Max, I need to ask you one more thing. Could you stay just another minute?”
Max glanced at the watch on his wrist, and I could tell he really did need to leave. “Yeah, but I’ve already been gone for way too long. My partner’s got to be looking for me by now.” He moved a hair closer to me, and I could hardly contain my excitement.
“I know this isn’t the best place, and I understand if you tell me no, but if I don’t ask, it’s going to drive me crazy. I was wondering if you feel anything weird around me?” This sounded so strange, but I didn’t know how best to articulate my question. I needed to know if it was only my imagination.
Max looked me straight in the eye, “Weird, like what?”
I felt the flush of embarrassment on my cheeks as I asked quietly, “Like, chemistry, a little?”
Max stood still as a statue staring at me sitting almost straight up in my bed. His smile faded a little as he leaned into me and whispered, “You mean like this?” He softly slid his hand behind my head, pulling my lips up to his. Gentle at first, then increased intensity until I found that I had wrapped both my arms around him, wires protruding from every direction, and my entire body tingled. I grew lightheaded as he eased his face away from mine. He gently lowered my head back to my pillow and moved his hand to my face. Max traced my lips with his index finger. After a few outlines of my lips, he responded quietly, “Chemistry, huh? No, I hadn’t noticed.” His wide smile reappeared with a vengeance.
My heart monitor went crazy, jumping well into the 100s as an alarm blared to life as if to tell the world what had just happened. Max reached over and pushed a button on the monitor and the alarm muted instantly. As he leaned in for what I was sure was going to be just as passionate as our first kiss, his pocket beeped.
Max stopped, rolled his eyes and fished in his pocket, pulling out his blackberry. He looked at the screen with disappointment in his eyes. “Hey, we just got a call. I really have to go. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for continuing this conversation tomorrow, but I really can’t stay.”
“I’d like that, too,” unable to say anything else.
He kissed my cheek, “I can’t wait to tell Missy about tonight. Bye.” Max darted out the door as he sprinted off to save someone’s life. The jealous part of me hoped he was being called to help an old fat man.
[image error] Author Bio:
Nancy was born in Sioux City Iowa, left the cold of the Midwest in 1991 and only returns to see family in the summer time. She spent ten years traveling the world as a US Marine and settled in rural SC with her husband and two children. She has three rotten dogs, enjoys RVing with her family, reading and writing all types of Paranormal literature.
Blog: www.authnancystraight.blogspot.com
Twitter: @NancyStraight
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nancy-Straight/243616005687882
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4114202.Nancy_Straight
July 13, 2012
July 11, 2012
Beta Test by Eric Griffith
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Today I’m happy to have Eric Griffith here with his book, Beta Test.
Take it away, Eric!
I get asked a lot about romance.
“Eric,” people will ask me as I walk jauntily down the street, “tell us about romance.” I typically stroke my beard and say sagely: “You know, women love a man who makes them laugh.”
Then I wake up screaming, hoping that’s true. My girlfriend, startled awake by my noise and wild flailing, hits me with a rolled up copy of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Not that I’m not a romantic guy. I buy flowers. I send innuendo-laden text messages. I take my lady out on date nights regularly, because we both love to eat food and she likes to fall asleep on my shoulder at movies.
But there are always doubts. Can a guy ever be romantic enough? Too much?
In BETA TEST, the main character, a guy named Sam, barely gets a chance to put his own romantic notions to the test before the world goes topsy-turvy (there’s a Rapture-esque event, some monsters, you know…the usual things that interrupt date night).
But I like to think that Sam, given his druthers, would be even more the romantic than me. He’s take his gal, Molly, not to dinner and a movie, but dinner AT a movie. They’d dine on Italian while watching BIG NIGHT, afterwards go salsa dancing (Sam would be disappointed at the lack of chips), and end the evening with a stroll along San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, where he’s make jokes about the fish smell and how that’s probably just like the B.O. of Worf on Star Trek.
Get it? Wharf/Worf? Yeah, neither would Molly, probably, but she’d laugh and make Sam’s heart soar. Because romance is a two way street when you’re in love.
Book blurb:
Sam Terra is having a bad week. He lost Molly, the woman he secretly loves, when she vanished before his eyes at the exact same time that ten percent of the inhabitants of Earth disappeared.
Naturally upset, Sam follows clues about the global vanishing with questionable help from his friends including a misanthropic co-worker and a childhood pal. When Molly reappears in the body of a man during a night of monster-laden devastation, Sam finally learns the truth. Not just about her, but about the planet Earth and the entire cosmos surrounding it.
What we consider mundane reality, others consider a game…and not a very good one. The whole thing is about to be shut down.
Hardcover
http://www.amazon.com/Beta-Test-Eric-Griffith/dp/0983953104
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beta-test-eric-griffith/1107954178
[image error] Author bio:
Eric Griffith is the author of the sci-fi novel BETA TEST from Hadley Rille Books, which Publishers Weekly called “an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale.” By day he works as the features editor for PCMag.com. By night he sneaks out of the house to write fictions. He currently lives in Ithaca, New York. You can follow his online exploits daily via http://egriffith.info
http://www.hadleyrillebooks.com/betat...
https://twitter.com/#!/egriffith
July 10, 2012
Why Editors Reject Books – Adrienne deWolfe
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get published? Well, today I have a very special guest, Adrienne deWolfe who is here to talk about exactly that.
Take it away, Adrienne!
“Is there some deep, dark secret to getting published? Why won’t an editor buy my book?”
As a book writing coach and multi-published author, I’m asked that question a lot.
Believe me, I can empathize with the pain of other aspiring authors! Even after I’d achieved success as a business writer and had earned prestigious non-fiction awards, I still [image error]couldn’t figure out how to bust through the fiction barrier.
In fact, it took me 10 years to learn how to write commercial, book-length fiction well enough to get my debut novel, Texas Outlaw, bought by Bantam Books.
When Carly asked me to blog about writing tips, I got excited! My passion is to help other writers break into the fiction market so they can live their publishing dream.
So this post is based largely on the publishing insights that I gleaned as a “working” Romance novelist.
All you readers and writers know that book publishing is a business. What you may not know is the types of personal and professional decisions that impact the purchase of a fiction manuscript.
On the personal side, a book editor must read your manuscript a minimum of 2 times (plus all your revisions) before your story goes to press.
[image error]Mind-boggling, eh? If I were a book editor who had to read every blessed word in a 400-page manuscript more than 2 times, you can be sure that I would only purchase a story that I absolutely loved!
On the professional side, editors have to deal with their marketing departments – which can keep editors on a tight leash.
Remember the days when brides, babies, and castles seemed to show up in the book titles or cover illustrations of most Harlequin Romance novels? That publishing trend occurred because Harlequin’s Marketing Department determined that brides, babies, and castles were “hot” selling points among avid Romance readers.
When I was writing historical Romances for Avon Books, my editor insisted that I add two more love scenes to Scoundrel for Hire (eRelease: Winter 2012). Since I was accustomed to writing my Wild Texas Nights series for Bantam Books (which had looser editorial guidelines), I asked my Avon editor to explain her motivation.
I reminded her, “The hero and heroine have professed their love for each other. They’ve already become lovers, and they’re ready to take their vows. Adding more love scenes – especially in the last chapter — won’t further the plot or develop the characters.”
I was thinking like a writer. But my editor was thinking like a marketer. She explained, “Ending Scoundrel for Hire with another love scene will sell your next book.”
Translation: readers would remember that Scoundrel for Hire was “hot” and would want to buy its spin-off, His Wicked Dream (eRelease: Winter 2012.)
Here’s another eye-opener about the internal workings of a legacy publisher: in mega corporations like Doubleday Random House, fiction book editors don’t make decisions by their lonesome. If they fall in love with your story, they have to convince a [image error]whole slew of other publishing professionals (sometimes referred to as the Editorial Committee) that you’re worth spending money on — and I’m not just talking about your advance against royalties.
Publishers have to hire an artist and models to pose for your book cover’s illustration. They have to consider the price of advertising and promotion, commodities (like paper), and the commissions that they’ll owe to their sales team for shopping your book to national distributors.
In short, publishers incur a lot of operating expenses to print and market a book. So you can bet that the book editor who is reading your story for the first time is not only evaluating your writing skills, she’s weighing the business consequences of championing your fiction proposal to the Editorial Committee.
If your story should fail to generate revenue for the editor’s employer — the publisher – she’ll have some explaining to do. And if that editor finds herself buying a few too many books that bomb financially . . .
Well, let’s just say that book editors have career aspirations, too.
Because I love to mentor aspiring authors and help them achieve their publishing dream, I offer professional story critiques as well as online workshops and courses, plus special writing resources for aspiring Romance writers, including characterization worksheets and my e-book series, The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novel Published (Books 1 – 3). Be sure to drop by my website to enter my raffles and to learn more about my award-winning Wild Texas Nights series, which is being released for e-readers later this month.
In the meantime, if you want to know how to become an author, here’s my best advice: keep the faith in your publication dream, and keep writing! In the immortal words of Irwin Shaw, “If you’re a real writer, you’ll write no matter what.”
About Adrienne deWolfe
Originally published by Bantam and Avon Books, Adrienne deWolfe’s five novels have won 9 awards, including the Best Historical Romance of the Year. She loves to mentor aspiring authors, which is why she offers professional story critiques, as well as online writing workshops and courses. Visit her virtual home, WritingNovelsThatSell.com to download her free report, 20 Questions Editors Ask Before Buying a Book. You can also follow Adrienne on Twitter Facebook, and Google Plus.
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July 4, 2012
Cocked and Loaded Blog Hop
[image error]Welcome to Cocked and Loaded, Shootin’ Stars & Blasting Giveaway Hop!
Whew! That’s a mouthful!
I would like to thank Queentut’s World of Escapism and Close Encounters with the Night Kind for hosting.
I also have to say I love the banner for this hop! That is one sexy patriot!
I’m offering up one $5 gift certificate to Amazon and one person will win either Shackled to the Night or The Light Within Me – their choice.
Click on the pictures, pick your poison, and enter below.
Book 1 of the Six Saviors Series
Book 1 of the Dark Forces Series
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Thanks for stopping by, and don’t forget to visit the other participating blogs:
