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January 28, 2014
The NOVEL Experience: HUGE Book Signing Event, March 28-30th – Altlanta, GA
The Novel Experience Event is a 3-day mass signing event in Atlanta GA March 28-30th 2014.
This event is looking for more AUTHORS & READERS!
I will be signing at the event and would love to see you there!
All info for rooms and reservations will be to emailed to you when you register and get your conformation.
Filed under: Events Tagged: atlanta, Author Jean Murray, book signing event, GA, soul awakened, the novel experience
January 24, 2014
Contest Alert: YA Paperback Giveaway Extravaganza!
Hey folks, a fellow CMP author, Heather Topham Wood, is having a huge YA giveaway with six other authors. It is worth a look!
Click this link:
YA Paperback Giveaway Extravaganza!
Enter for a chance to win one of these amazing books! Giveaway ends February 4 and open to US and Canada. Good luck!
Filed under: Events, Uncategorized Tagged: contest alert, giveaway, YA, young adult
January 17, 2014
ENDS TOMORROW NIGHT ~ Guest Blogging @Delilah Devlin’s: Rising from the Ashes ($10 GC Giveaway)
Hi everyone!
I’m guest blogging over at Delilah Devlin’s Blog, USA Today Best Selling Author. We are talking about Rising from the Ashes, the theme of my book, Soul Awakened.
For love of blood or honor.
“Who is more worthy?” — The son that has always done the right thing in his life or the son after a life of indiscretions discovers his honor. Is one more deserving than the other? And, at what point would you consider the two sons equal, if at all?
Come join the fun and enter to win a $10 gift card (rafflecopter ~ easy ways to enter).
Click to Answer and Enter Drawing:
Are you – Team Life of Honor
or
Team Bad Boy Turned Good?
Filed under: Events, Giveaway Tagged: Author Jean Murray, delilah devlin, key to the cursed, soul awakened, soul reborn, USA Today best selling author
January 11, 2014
Guest Blogging @Delilah Devlin’s: Rising from the Ashes ($10 GC Giveaway)
Hi everyone!
I’m guest blogging over at Delilah Devlin’s Blog, USA Today Best Selling Author. We are talking about Rising from the Ashes, the theme of my book, Soul Awakened.
For love of blood or honor.
“Who is more worthy?” — The son that has always done the right thing in his life or the son after a life of indiscretions discovers his honor. Is one more deserving than the other? And, at what point would you consider the two sons equal, if at all?
Come join the fun and enter to win a $10 gift card (rafflecopter ~ easy ways to enter).
Click to Answer and Enter Drawing:
Are you – Team Life of Honor
or
Team Bad Boy Turned Good?
Filed under: Events, Giveaway Tagged: Author Jean Murray, delilah devlin, key to the cursed, soul awakened, soul reborn, USA Today best selling author
January 4, 2014
Huge Night Owl Reviews Giveaway – Enter to win my “A little naughty – a little nice” Gift Basket
Don’t forget this giveaway! It ends January 15th at Night Owl Reviews. I’m giving away a gift basket ($40 value) – $25 Amazon Gift Card, E-book of Soul Reborn, and some naughty dark chocolate. A great way to start the New Year!!!
Huge Night Owl Reviews Giveaway – Enter to win my “A little naughty – a little nice” Gift Basket.
Filed under: Events Tagged: Author Jean Murray, holiday giveaway, key to the cursed series, NOR, soul awakened, soul reborn
January 1, 2014
The Best of Wicked Romance 2013
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
Filed under: Events Tagged: Author Jean Murray, wicked romance 2013, year in review
December 25, 2013
Wicked Romance wishes you happy holidays!!
Christmas is my favorite holiday above all others.
From my door to yours, where ever you are in this world, may you find happiness and joy to last you through the year.
Best wishes for love, laughter and cheer.
Your Wicked Romance Host ~ Jean
*****
Enter to win my “A Little Naughty / A Little Nice” Gift Basket – $40 Value ($25 Amazon GC, Soul Reborn Ebook, Naughty Dark Chocolate)
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Author Jean Murray, cheer, holiday, wicked romance 
December 21, 2013
Great Buy at $2.99: January Black by Wendy Russo
As the son of The Hill’s commandant, sixteen-year-old Matty Ducayn is expected to conform to a strict, unspoken code of conduct. Small acts of defiance over years—such as walking on the grass—have earned him a reputation for being unruly. When sarcastic test answers finally get Matty expelled from school, King Hadrian offers him a diploma if he can answer a deceptively simple question.
What was January Black?
The challenge takes Matty, and his girlfriend Iris, beyond The Hill’s walls and tightly controlled media into a gritty world kept in check by riot police. There, the young couple follows a path through old books and clandestine news pages that becomes a collision course with a deadly royal degree.
As he realizes he’s been set up to fail, Matty must make a choice: walk away from the challenge with Iris and his life. Or call the king’s bluff.
Filed under: Events, Uncategorized Tagged: January Black, kindle, sale, Wendy Russo
December 3, 2013
New Release Spotlight: Daughters of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
From critically acclaimed historical fantasy author, Stephanie Dray comes the long-awaited new tale based on the true story of Cleopatra’s daughter.
After years of abuse as the emperor’s captive in Rome, Cleopatra Selene has found a safe harbor. No longer the pitiful orphaned daughter of the despised Egyptian Whore, the twenty year old is now the most powerful queen in the empire, ruling over the kingdom of Mauretania—an exotic land of enchanting possibility where she intends to revive her dynasty. With her husband, King Juba II and the magic of Isis that is her birthright, Selene brings prosperity and peace to a kingdom thirsty for both. But when Augustus Caesar jealously demands that Selene’s children be given over to him to be fostered in Rome, she’s drawn back into the web of imperial plots and intrigues that she vowed to leave behind. Determined and resourceful, Selene must shield her loved ones from the emperor’s wrath, all while vying with ruthless rivals like King Herod. Can she find a way to overcome the threat to her marriage, her kingdom, her family, and her faith? Or will she be the last of her line?
Read the Reviews
“A stirring story of a proud, beautiful, intelligent woman whom a 21st century reader can empathize with. Dray’s crisp, lush prose brings Selene and her world to life.” ~RT Book Reviews
“The boldest, and most brilliant story arc Dray has penned…” ~Modge Podge Reviews
“If you love historical fiction and magical realism, these books are for you.” ~A Bookish Affair
Read an Excerpt
Below me, six black Egyptian cobras dance on their tails, swaying. I watch their scaled hoods spread wide like the uraeus on the crown of Egypt. Even from this height, I’m paralyzed by the sight of the asps, their forked tongues flickering out between deadly fangs. I don’t notice that I’m gripping the balustrade until my knuckles have gone white, all my effort concentrated upon not swooning and falling to my death.
And I would swoon if I were not so filled with rage. Someone has arranged for this. Someone who knows what haunts me. Someone who wants to send me a message and make this occasion a moment of dread. My husband, the king must know it, for he calls down, “That’s enough. We’ve seen enough of the snake charmer!”
There is commotion below, some upset at having displeased us. Then Chryssa hisses, “Who could think it a good idea to honor the daughter of Cleopatra by coaxing asps from baskets of figs?”
The story the world tells of my mother’s suicide is that she cheated the emperor of his conquest by plunging her hand into a basket where a venomous serpent lay in wait. A legend only, some say, for the serpent was never found. But I was there. I brought her that basket. She was the one bitten but the poison lingers in my blood to this day. I can still remember the scent of figs in my nostrils, lush and sweet. The dark god Anubis was embroidered into the woven reeds of the basket, the weight of death heavy in my arms. I can still see my mother reach her hand into that basket, surrendering her life so that her children might go on without her. And I have gone on without her.
I have survived too much to be terrorized by the emperor’s agents or whoever else is responsible for this.
If it is a message, a warning from my enemies, I have already allowed them too much of a victory by showing any reaction at all. So I adopt as serene a mask as possible. My daughter blinks her big blue eyes, seeing past my facade. “Are you frightened, Mother? They cannot bite us from there. The snakes are very far away.”
I get my legs under me, bitterness on my tongue. “Oh, but they’re never far enough away.”
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Available now in print and e-book!
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Available now in print and e-book!
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo | Powells | IndieBound | Goodreads
STEPHANIE DRAY is a bestselling, multi-published, award-winning author of historical women’s fiction and fantasy set in the ancient world. Her critically acclaimed historical series about Cleopatra’s daughter has been translated into more than six different languages, was nominated for a RITA Award and won the Golden Leaf. Her focus on Ptolemaic Egypt and Augustan Age Rome has given her a unique perspective on the consequences of Egypt’s ancient clash with Rome, both in terms of the still-extant tensions between East and West as well as the worldwide decline of female-oriented religion. Before she wrote novels, Stephanie was a lawyer, a game designer, and a teacher. Now she uses the transformative power of magic realism to illuminate the stories of women in history and inspire the young women of today. She remains fascinated by all things Roman or Egyptian and has-to the consternation of her devoted husband-collected a house full of cats and ancient artifacts.
Stephanie Dray
Author of Historical Fiction & Fantasy
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December 1, 2013
Night Owl Reviews Giveaway ~ starts TODAY!!
Author Jean Murray – Soul Reborn – If the _____ god discovers her role in the dig that released the goddess, she will lose everything, including his heart. – http://www.nightowlreviews.com/V5/Authors/Jean-Murray
Basket: A Little Naughty & Nice -$40-4-U – $25 Amazon Gift Card, EBook – Soul Reborn ($7.99 value), Yummy Dark Chocolate ($7.00 value) All Digital – All items can be emailed to the winner – USA ONLY
TO ENTER CLICK HERE and SCROLL DOWN TO MY ENTRY
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