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August 6, 2012
I won Author of the Month at GraveTells!
I forgot to blog about this! That’s what deadlines do to me. Make me forgetful! But, THANK YOU! I was crowned the Favorite Author of June at GraveTells. I got this awesome badge for it, too! Thank you, everyone, for voting for me! Divinely Ruined came in third place, too, for favorite story of June!
July 28, 2012
Can you vote for Divinely Ruined?
Divinely Ruined is up for favorite book of June, and I’m up for favorite author! Can you hop on over to GraveTells and vote for me and Divinely Ruined? Pretty please?
http://gravetells.com/2012/07/27/june-july-2012-readers-choice-awards-vote-here/
Thank you!
July 27, 2012
Three new books–signed and contracted!
I can share the news now! I signed three contracts with Entangled Publishing last night!
Two are Ever Afters–like On One Condition, Try Me, and Divinely Ruined–and one is an Indulgence, their wildly popular category romance line. I’m so excited for all of you to get to read them!
Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available!
July 16, 2012
In Between by Tara Fuller-COVER REVEAL @entangledpub
Blurb:
Since the car crash that took her father’s life two years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin? Not an option.
It’s not easy being dead; especially for a reaper in love with a girl fate has put on his list not once, but twice. Finn’s fellow reapers give him hell about spending time with Emma, but Finn couldn’t let her die before, and he’s not about to let her die now. He will protect the girl he loves from the evil he accidentally unleashed, even if it means sacrificing the only thing he has left. His soul.
Publication Date: August, 2012
Imprint: Entangled Teen
Novel length: 400 pages
Format: Trade paperback and eBook
Add Inbetween to Goodreads
Pre order: Amazon/Barnes & Noble/The Book Depository/Books A Million
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About The Author: Tara Fuller writes novels. Some about grim reapers. Some about witches. All of course are delightfully full of teen angst and kissing. Tara grew up in a one stop light town in Oklahoma where once upon a time she stayed up with a flash light reading RL Stine novels and only dreamed of becoming a writer. She has a slight obsession with music and a shameless addiction for zombie fiction, Mystery Science Theater, and black and white mochas. Tara no longer lives in a one stop light town. Now she lives with her family in a slightly larger town in North Carolina where they have at least three stoplights.
Where you can find Tara.
Website / Blog / Twitter / Facebook
Go to Tara’s website to read the prologue! http://www.tarafuller.com/
July 8, 2012
#SixSentence– #TryMe Week 4 @entangledpub
And for the fourth week, I am featuring a Six from my latest release, Try Me. Last week you saw how dedicated to Erica Jeremy is–and always will be. I’ll give you another peek inside of his head, as they make their way to her car after she finds him in the desert.
Six:
Of course she had a classy car-she’d always had the best taste in…well, everything. Probably why she’d never dated him, even after his confession. She’d never stoop so low as the son of a lowlife, no-account, good-for-nothing criminal, and he couldn’t blame her. She deserved a prince, not a knuckleheaded piece of shit Marine.
He still remembered the look on her face when he’d told her. She’d turned ghostly white, her pretty little mouth had tightened, and she’d run away like he was diseased.
That’s the end of my six for the week. Come by next week for more–and don’t forget to hop around and visit everyone else, too!
July 5, 2012
And the winner of the #TryMe contest is…. @entangledpub
Even though Try Me didn’t hit the Top 100 overall, it DID hit the Top 100 Romance, and the Top 50 Contemporary Romance, so I decided I’ll go ahead and do the giveaway anyway–and I wanted to show my thanks for all the shares, tweets, buys, likes, and everything all of you did to get Try Me as far as it is. You’re all the best! Thank you SO much!
And now, without further ado, the winner is…
Stella, from Stella Ex Libris! Congrats, Stella! I’ll be emailing you shortly!
June 29, 2012
If #TryMe hits 100 by July 4th–I’m donating $150 to Wounded Warriors Project.@wwpinc @entangledpub
CONTEST EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 4th! Also, in honor of Jeremy and heroes like him in real life–If it hits the Top 100 by the 4th of July, I’m donating $150.00 to the Wounded Warrior Project.
I’m upping the ante for if I get to the Top 100. The prize is now a Nook Color or a Kindle Fire. But remember, I only get to give one away if enough people hear about it and buy it for me to hit the Top 100! Enter as much as you want, but unless I hit the Top 100, no one gets a Kindle Fire or Nook Color! Buy, share, and tweet this contest! Let’s reach our goal!
That’s right, I’m planning a celebration already! I’m going to give away a Nook Color (Est. Value $199), or a Kindle Fire (Est. Value $149) if Try Me hits the Top 100 on either site! Already have an e-Reader? I’ll give you a giftcard for the value of the e-Reader if you prefer, to Barnes and Noble OR Amazon! I know a lot of people don’t have one yet, and I’d love for more people to get to read my books.
To help make that happen, all you have to do is spread the word in any way you can–blog about it, post on twitter, Facebook, etc! The sky is the limit! While a purchase is not required to win, those fans that have already purchased Try Me, can get an extra ten entries! Simply submit your order confirmation number.
Can it get any easier than that?! Help make Try Me hit the Top 100 today, and spread word about the contest. The more people involved, the higher the chances of hitting the Top 100! Also, in addition to the e-Reader, I’ll be giving away a second place price of a signed picture of the book cover–aka Jeremy’s abs! The winner for the second place prize will be chosen randomly from the participants entered in Rafflecopter.
You can gain extra entries by tweeting about the contest EVERY SINGLE DAY! Winners will be picked after the contest closes, on July 4th, 2012. Contest opens today, June 4th, and the deadline to enter is midnight on July 4th, 2012.
If Try Me doesn’t hit the Top 100, I’m still giving away a consolation prize–a twenty-five dollar gift card to the store of your choice, Barnes and Noble or Amazon!
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/try-me-diane-alberts/1111098286?ean=2940014388931
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Try-Me-Take-Chance-ebook/dp/B0085YEUJU/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
Suggested tweet(in Rafflecopter below): If #TryMe hits the Top 100, @DianeAlberts is giving away an e-Reader! Check out the book now & RT! http://www.amazon.com/Try-Me-Take-Cha... http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/try-m...
June 28, 2012
Angels and Demons Blog Hop– Divinely Ruined! #AvDHop
We’re hosting a Blog Hop! Me, along with 102 other Authors, Bloggers, and Reviewers are hosting an Angels vs Demons Blog Hop! We want to know: Angels or Demons…who do you want? From June 28th – July 1st, you can HOP around the blogs, comment on each and follow their rules, and be entered to win over 100 giveaways. Yep. I said 100 GIVEAWAYS.
Each blog will have it’s own giveaway, PLUS we have TWO grand prizes. ONE Commenter from the blogs will win a KINDLE TOUCH and another Commenter will win a $60 Amazon or Barnes & Noble Gift Card!
Yep! We’re doing THAT MUCH. You can comment on 1 or all 103 and be entered up to 103 times for the grand prizes.
So for my post, I’m going to share a bit about my Angel novella, out with Entangled Publishing, called Divinely Ruined. It’s the first of the Divine Temptations Trilogy, and with my angels–you must expect the unexpected. My angels are not pious and well-behaved. Rebecca curses, has a lack of faith needed to earn her wings, and desperately aches for her first charge ever–Tony Weis. She is the opposite of what you would expect when you think angels–and oh so fun.
Blurb:
She finally meets a decent man–after she’s oath-bound never to touch men again!
Rebecca’s life sucked before she became an angel. Crappy apartment, awful jobs, abusive boyfriends–it was no wonder she jumped at the chance to escape it all and become a real live angel. The problem is Rebecca’s not very angelic, and she’ll have to do more to earn her wings than end her love affair with the word f–er, frick.
Especially when she’s assigned to save single father Tony Weis, whose less-than-pure thoughts wreak hell on a telepathic angel’s nerves. It’s all Rebecca can do to keep her hands off him…but when she loses her memory injuring herself to save Tony’s daughter, now it’s Tony’s turn to be her angel and care for her. But will Tony’s devotion tempt her from her angelic path, even if it means being human again?
Here’s an excerpt from Divinely Ruined:
Chapter 1
Angel Rule #1: Never lie to your assignment.
From the moment Rebecca set out to become an angel, she’d known she wasn’t the ideal candidate. She cursed. She coveted. She thought highly uncharitable thoughts—and those uncharitable thoughts often led to losing her temper.
Just like she had this morning.
It wasn’t her fault. The assistant kitchen angel wouldn’t give her any apple pie. Rebecca would swear until she turned blue in the face that the wench deliberately skipped over her—and Rebecca really,really liked apple pie. But she’d made herself cool off, and even apologize…until the brat had stuck her tongue out.
That was when the hair-pulling had started.
Like that wretch would ever earn her wings, either. Hmph.
Rebecca rubbed at the bite-mark the stupid brat had left on her forearm, and leaned against a telephone pole. Across the street, a U-Haul truck sat before a modestly sized house. Boxes strewed across the sidewalk. A little girl sat on the steps, clutching a doll in her arms. Her eyes were grave, and her chestnut hair gleamed in the sunlight. She was beautiful, Rebecca thought. As beautiful as the child Rebecca would never have.
She pushed those thoughts away. Her training—a strenuous ten-hour daily lecture combined with good old hands-on experience—warned her against dwelling on her mortal life, or the personal sacrifices she’d made to answer a higher calling. She’d tried, especially after the Archangel of New Recruit Training, Her Holiness and Eminence Miss Sally of the Disapproving Stare, had held her back an extra year.
Most aspiring angels were allowed contact with humans after the mandatory twelve-month training program. It had taken Rebecca two and a half years of endless book studies and lectures on why slouching was bad for her shoulders before Sally even considered letting her accept a case on Earth—and now here she was.
She believed she just might be stalling.
No, there was no “might” about it. Rebecca tore herself from her pensive thoughts and looked away from the child. She wasn’t here for the girl.
She was here for one Anthony Richard Weis, single father of four-year-old Miranda and a man sorely in danger of losing his soul.
A gruff voice rumbled from inside the U-Haul, echoing throughout the cavernous space. Well. He had a mouth on him, didn’t he? The tips of Rebecca’s ears heated, but she lifted her chin, wiped her sweaty hands on her skirt, and crossed the street to the truck.
She could do this. All she had to do was make sure Anthony remained on sound moral footing. In the course of three years, Anthony had lost his job, his house, and the mother of his child—and would soon commit a murder. Her job consisted of stepping into his life and persuading him to take the higher ground. Or in this case, not to kill anyone.
Easy enough, right?
Except that Rebecca had never really succeeded at much in life, unless there was an award for sucking the most. Her life before Sally had been a miserable failure. She couldn’t fail again. She had this situation under control, and she would succeed.
Why, then, was she so nervous?
Maybe because her entire life depended on this mission. Her future as an angel. A purpose that would finally make her life mean something.
She couldn’t panic now.
She’d been chosen by God as one of the elite few humans given the opportunity to become an angel. A real, honest-to-goodness, ever-serene angel.
She just had to get Tony to believe in God, and in her. And work on that serenity thing. Then, maybe she’d be the person she’d always wanted to be. Maybe she’d no longer be a failure. Maybe she’d no longer be alone.
Maybe, just maybe…she’d finally be whole.
You can read the first two chapters for free here.
You can buy it:
As a thank you for stopping by, I’m giving away a copy of any of my eBooks! If you win, you can choose any of them, and you get to read it for free! Simply comment below with what your favorite is: pious angels or cursing ones! Make sure to leave a valid email address, as we will need it to contact you and let you know if you won the Kindle Touch, gift card, or eBook!
And, while you’re here, I’m having another contest right now! If my latest release, Try Me, hits the Top 100 on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, I’m giving away a Kindle Fire or Nook Color! Be sure to enter in your information here, too. If you buy Try Me for $2.99, you get TWENTY-FIVE entries! and it’s getting closer and closer to that Top 100! Enter now!
Don’t forget to hop around all the stops. You can comment at each stop to be entered for the grand prize 103 times!!
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Carrie Ann Ryan
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June 26, 2012
#TryMe Contest-Win a Kindle Fire/Nook Color-Get 25 entries just for buying it! Extended through the 4th! @entangledpub
CONTEST EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 4th!
I’m upping the ante for if I get to the Top 100. The prize is now a Nook Color or a Kindle Fire. But remember, I only get to give one away if enough people hear about it and buy it for me to hit the Top 100! Enter as much as you want, but unless I hit the Top 100, no one gets a Kindle Fire or Nook Color! Buy, share, and tweet this contest! Let’s reach our goal!
That’s right, I’m planning a celebration already! I’m going to give away a Nook Color (Est. Value $199), or a Kindle Fire (Est. Value $149) if Try Me hits the Top 100 on either site! Already have an e-Reader? I’ll give you a giftcard for the value of the e-Reader if you prefer, to Barnes and Noble OR Amazon! I know a lot of people don’t have one yet, and I’d love for more people to get to read my books.
To help make that happen, all you have to do is spread the word in any way you can–blog about it, post on twitter, Facebook, etc! The sky is the limit! While a purchase is not required to win, those fans that have already purchased Try Me, can get an extra ten entries! Simply submit your order confirmation number.
Can it get any easier than that?! Help make Try Me hit the Top 100 today, and spread word about the contest. The more people involved, the higher the chances of hitting the Top 100! Also, in addition to the e-Reader, I’ll be giving away a second place price of a signed picture of the book cover–aka Jeremy’s abs! The winner for the second place prize will be chosen randomly from the participants entered in Rafflecopter.
You can gain extra entries by tweeting about the contest EVERY SINGLE DAY! Winners will be picked after the contest closes, on July 4th, 2012. Contest opens today, June 4th, and the deadline to enter is midnight on July 4th, 2012.
If Try Me doesn’t hit the Top 100, I’m still giving away a consolation prize–a twenty-five dollar gift card to the store of your choice, Barnes and Noble or Amazon!
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/try-me-diane-alberts/1111098286?ean=2940014388931
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Try-Me-Take-Chance-ebook/dp/B0085YEUJU/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
Suggested tweet(in Rafflecopter below): If #TryMe hits the Top 100, @DianeAlberts is giving away an e-Reader! Check out the book now & RT! http://www.amazon.com/Try-Me-Take-Cha... http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/try-m...
June 24, 2012
#SixSunday– #TryMe #3 @entangledpub
And for the third week, I am featuring a Six from my latest release, Try Me. Last week you saw him realizing who was coming to his rescue in the desert, and his empty bitterness. This week, I’m showing you just how dedicated to Erica he is–and always will be.
This week’s Six:
She slung an arm under his and gave him her shoulder.
He’d have laughed if it didn’t hurt so much-Jeremy had a good foot or more on Erica. She’d hit five foot one when they were eleven, and hadn’t grown an inch since. He still remembered her marking off her height on the doorframe of her family’s antique frame house, and finally giving up after it didn’t change for six straight months. Sad that he still remembered that—her pretty, slim fingers curled around the marker, the way she pouted.
But he always remembered things like that. Story of his life.
End of six!
Now that you’ve read that, I’m having a contest here on my site where if Try Me hits the Top 100, I’m giving away a Kindle Fire or Nook Color. Don’t forget to enter to win! It’s climbing the charts. Here’s the link to sign up.
