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Guest Post and Giveaway with Aubrie Dionne

Please welcome author Aubrie Dionne to the blog on the release of her latest science fiction romance HAVEN 6, and there's a cool giveaway too. :)


Book Blurb:
A product of an illegal pairing, Eridani is the only woman without a lifemate aboard the colonization ship, the Heritage, and she is determined her less than perfect DNA will not get in the way of finding love. As the ship nears it's final destination of Haven 6 after five hundred years of travel, images of the surface show evidence of int...

I'm not Arachnophobic but...

...I do have a life long problem with spiders. So much so that I had hypnotherapy for it in my twenties. I've now reached the point where, rather than screaming like a shark's chomping me, I can at least get a glass over the latest monster and evict it from my home. I can't bring myself to kill them. It's bad luck. Well, definitely from the spider's point of view at least.


But I do not like them not at all. Especially the big house spiders. Some people might tsk at my fears. It's not as if I l...

This Blackened Night Blog Tour

13 Days until the release of This Blackened Night, The Order: Book 3!
Every author has a set of characters more dear to their hearts than any others. In most cases, this stems from these characters being among the first ever created. I won't claim Lori and Terrence were my very first, but they did come close. Their first book, Stalking Shade, which released in 2011, was originally written in 2007. And rewritten. And rewritten.
And now it feels like a dear friend is moving away. With the releas...

SFFSAT #48

Hello! *waves* wow, it's been a while since I've posted for #sffsat, and note the new venue. For my return, I'm going to post a snippet from my current WIP Keir's Fall, the sequel to my current published work Keir, and my hero's landed in some trouble...

Pain etched through his skull. Green light blazed across his vision. Figures moved within the light and his gaze locked onto them. Knights in odd emerald armor, warriors of a kind he had never seen before. Mirrored lenses covered their fa...

Interview and Giveaway with Patrick Stutzman

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Announcing the Winners - Romancing the Hop and Third Anniversary Giveaway

So, there are some winners to announce!


From the Romancing the Hop -

Grand Prize Winners:
Kindle Fire Winner:Laurie Goudge(from It's the Journey that Counts's Blog)
$130 Amazon Gift Card:Ellie(from Carrie Ann Ryan's Blog)
Swag Pack:Cassandra (from Dana Delamar's Blog)The grand prize winners have already been notified and have their prizes or the prizes are on their way!
On my blog the winner was comment number 18 JFA for a $10 gift card
And the winner for my Third Anniversary giveaway of...

Romancing the Hop - Keir's Denial

"Romantic?" Keir shakes his head and hands me a glass of red wine. "No. I would not say that I am romanctic."

I take a sip and watch him from over the rim of the glass. The wine's good, but not as much as the company. I wouldn't mind him warming me up instead. I shake myself. "I'm sure Quin would say that you are." In fact she has--to me--in private. But why embarrass him?

He smiles, a little shyly, but the light in his eyes now I've said her name makes me feel seven shades of jealous. About fi...

Upcoming - Romancing the Hop Blog Hop

What is your favorite thing about Romance? Well, we authors are ready to share our romantic tips and favorite romance reads! Starting on Friday and ending on August 31st, over 100 Authors and Bloggers will share their favorite things about romance, reading romance, and dating.And while we do that, we are EACH doing a giveaway. Yep. There will be over 100 giveaways on each blog hosted by that Author or Blogger.But that's not all....We have THREE grand prizes. You as a reade...

essens:1 - Music Worth Flying For

I suppose that to some people it might seem a little mad to fly the length of the UK and back again in one day to watch a one-hour performace. I guess it depends how badly you want to see someone play live. In this case, very, very, VERY badly. :)

I've been following essens:1 since I friended one part of the eclectic duo on Facebook through his book page Who is Kai? I don't know a lot about classical music - I wouldn't know a piece by Mozart from one by Mendelssohn without looking it up - but...

News, News, and more News...

Last week was unbelievable! And I mean in a good way, before anyone thinks this is going to lead off into one of my rants. Sorry to disappoint anyone there... :-P

So what came first?

On Saturday 11th August we added to our family with three bantam pekins - Scoop (blue), Tails (buff) and Blaze (lavender). Yes, the kids named them. Could you tell?

Tails, Blaze and ScoopThey're settling in nicely, and already happy to take food from our hands. By next week we should be able to let them scratch arou...