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Six Sentence Sunday 1/29

Welcome back to another Sunday. Find all the other authors by CLICKING HERE!

I'm going to get right to my six this week since I'm super excited that LOVE ON LANDING is officially available in all formats on Silver Publishing's website! Woot!! I love new releases!

This week we get to find out how Gavin gets roped into shopping with Tali…

Did he want to listen to her whine about something silly while spending mountains of money on things she didn't need?

Tali turned and bent to slip her feet into a pair of boots, pulling them up to her knees over the skinny-legged jeans. He caught the slightest glimpse of a pink lacy thong peeking out from under the edge of her jeans.

Yes. Yes he did want to listen to her whine all day. Sign me up.

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Release Day!! LOVE ON LANDING!

 

Today LOVE ON LANDING is officially available at Silver Publishing!! You can download it there in any format you want. It will also be coming to Amazon, Barnes and Noble and a bunch of other places in the next week or two!

To recover from a recent break-up Tali takes a spontaneous trip to Paris for some retail therapy. A spark of chemistry and a flash of friction with her pilot Gavin reveals shopping isn't the only cure for a broken heart.

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Excerpt–LOVE ON LANDING

Hi everyone!

My newest book, LOVE ON LANDING, the second of the Meadow Ridge Romance series, is almost here!! Yay! Only 3 more sleeps until it released on Jan 28! Too exciting. I'm so thrilled to get to share Tali's story with you.

If you'd like to read more of (I hope you do!!) then you can check it out at SILVER PUBLISHING for preorder now. It will also be available from Amazon, Nook and a bunch of other places very soon!!

If you'd like to check out the first Meadow Ridge Romance (You don't need to read it first to read the second. They stand alone!) you can find out more about it by CLICKING HERE!

So without further ado, here is the excerpt from the beginning of the book. And boy to think get off to a rough start for miss Tali… Enjoy!

 

Tali Radcliff leaned her head back against the headrest and gazed out the window. Raindrops splattered onto the double-paned glass blurring her view of the runway. Not that she could look past her sad, pathetic reflection anyway.

The reflection staring back at her turned the raindrops to tears on her cheeks and she instinctively wiped them away, only to find her cheeks sensitive and slightly swollen. She sighed and closed her eyes, desperately trying to block out the urge to start crying again. Instead, she focused on the white noise of the engines revving as the jet picked up speed for takeoff.

Her body was pushed harder into the back of the soft, cream-colored leather seat, her stomach falling as the wheels of the aircraft left the solid tarmac below. The jet crept higher and higher, increasing the distance between Tali and the life she would temporarily leave behind–the heartache she tried so hard to forget.

If only it were as easy as a little distance.

"Don't do it," she whispered. "You left your tears in your bedroom, where they belong." A beauty queen never cries unless she's got a shiny new tiara on her head and a bouquet of fragrant flowers in her arms.

It was a good rule of thumb to remember, one she'd learned long ago and tried to stick to at all cost. Of course, sometimes she had to give in and cry, but not often. Tali wasn't a crier, she was far too feisty to give in to silly tears.

But sometimes tears came no matter how hard she fought against them. Like when her boyfriend Roger broke up with her for no good reason and was then spotted with Samantha two hours later. Yep. That was a good reason to cry.

Roger can suck it.

Tali opened her eyes when the aircraft leveled out as it reached its cruising altitude and grabbed her bag, dragging it onto the seat next to her. The shiny silver clasps clinked together on the seat as she pulled out her laptop. She flipped it open and signed on to her private in-flight Wi-Fi service.

She clicked on the Facebook icon on her home screen and scrolled through her news feed. Halfway down the page, her gaze froze and her heartbeat thundered in her ears. No frickin' way.

Roger Wilcox is engaged to Samantha Swanson.

"I'm going to kill her. I'm going to kill him." She slammed the laptop closed again and tossed it back into the bag.

How could he? How could he already be engaged to Samantha–Samantha Swanson of all people!–when he'd only broken up with Tali a couple of days ago? How does anyone fall in love so fast?

Little two-timing jackoff. He had to have been cheating on me. That's how.

That had to be it. There could be no other reason for two people to get engaged when one of them had "loved" someone else a mere forty-eight hours earlier.

She'd only known one couple to fall in love that fast–Chase and Julia. They'd met at a club one night then Julia had become his new employee by accident a few days later. They'd fallen in love practically overnight. Tali had been so happy for them, and she'd hoped to find love herself. Then Roger came along and she thought he was the one.

Tali didn't believe in fairytale love anymore. Love didn't happen in only a few days. She wasn't even sure she believed in a love of any kind after all this crap she'd recently been through with Roger.

She fixed her tailored cotton blouse, pulling the edges of the material taut and smoothing out the invisible wrinkles. Well good for them. They were perfect for each other. Roger was a cocky asshole and Samantha would make a perfect accessory at the Yacht club.

Tali never did like sailing anyway. All those waves usually made her feel queasy and when she mixed the waves with champagne cocktails, each day at sea became a disaster waiting to happen. Leaning over the railing of a ship, puking wasn't her most favorite position to be in with a man. Nope. Puke was no one's friend.

So this was good. She was good. They were good. Everything's great.

Tali's chin threatened to quiver, but she clenched her jaw. She would not cry over Roger again. Period. End of story. Moving on.

Speaking of moving, they'd only been in the air for a little while but her body already ached like it had been immobile for hours. She needed to clear her head, and since she couldn't, she would stretch her legs instead. She inhaled deeply, steadying her nerves and squashing her feelings back down where they belonged.

There weren't many options of where to walk on the small private jet. She wandered to the back galley to talk to Sara the flight attendant, but she wasn't there. The little window above the handle on the lavatory door was red.

Probably reading a book in there.

She could've kicked herself for forgetting her novel. She'd been in such a hurry to pack her things and get to her flight she'd left her half-read book on her bedside table. She still had a couple of magazines tucked into her bag from her last trip to the beach, but she tired quickly of the glossy photos on every page illustrating a very small amount of text. Trashy tabloid magazines never held her attention for long.

Tali groaned and wandered back through the plane to the front of the aircraft. If Sara didn't want to talk to her, at least Edgar would.

Edgar had been her family's personal pilot for years and he always welcomed her into the cockpit for a visit during these long, boring, transatlantic flights. She had no idea how old he was, at least her father's age, but he was kind and always listened to her stories. Exactly what she needed right now–someone to listen to her, to tell her Roger was an idiot and she would be fine.

Tali rapped on the closed cockpit door before pulling it open and stepping inside. "How's it going in here, Edgar?" She grabbed his arm, squeezing gently.

He must be working out more. His biceps seemed larger and firmer than she expected them to. Lucky Mrs Edgar.

"I'm not Edgar." The pilot turned, eying her up and down. "What are you doing in my cockpit?"

Tali's mouth dropped open as she quickly took her hand back and crossed her arms in front of her chest. The man staring at her with intense brown eyes was not Edgar.

Oh no. Edgar was old. This man was not old. He was her age. And hot. No, make that gorgeous.

She cleared her throat. "I should be the one asking you the questions." She turned to the co-pilot Cameron and was relieved to see his familiar face smiling back at her.

"Hey, Tali," Cameron said.

"Hey, Cam," she replied. "Who is this guy? What happened to Edgar?"

"Didn't your father tell you? Edgar retired. This is Captain Taylor. He'll be flying with us from now on."

Tali turned her attention back to the pilot. Her cheeks grew hot as she processed this information about Edgar and the new–ahem, sexy–pilot. Why wouldn't her father tell her to expect a new pilot so she wouldn't make a fool of herself? Didn't he realize how much she hated change when it was sprung on her like this? How much she hated being left out of the loop so she'd inevitably end up feeling stupid?

"I wasn't told there would be someone new flying my plane."

The man laughed and shook his head. "Your plane, huh? You Meadow girls are all the same," he mumbled under his breath.

Her mind instantly thought of Samantha and her recent indiscretions. Tali could be a lot of things, but a cheater wasn't one of them.

He did not just lump me together with girls like Samantha.

"The last time I checked," the pilot continued, "I was the one sitting in the driver's seat, so I'm pretty sure that makes it my plane, at least for the duration of the flight. Now I'm going to have to ask you to leave since it's against FAA laws to have passengers in the cockpit while the aircraft is in flight."

Oh no. There was no way she was going to give up control of her own plane that easily. He might be the hired pilot, but it was still her damn plane. The initial sting of impending tears prickled her eyes. She clenched her jaw and steadied herself with a deep breath through her nose.

She made her voice as calm as possible. "My family's monogram is on the tail of this plane. I'm pretty sure that makes it mine along with anything in it, including you."

He stared at her without speaking before closing his eyes and rubbing his fingers in circles, massaging his temples. "So you want to have a pissing contest with me at thirty thousand feet? Great. Let me pull over for a minute so I can stroke your ego."

Six Sentence Sunday 1/22

Hi all! Thanks for stopping by for another wonderful Sunday full of snippets. Be sure to check out the other amazing authors participating this week by clicking THIS LINK!

 

Last week I shared the very opening of LOVE ON LANDING and a lot of readers commented on Tali sad state and what had happened to bring her to this point in her life. This week's snippet is a little taste of what caused her to get on the jet to Paris. But for the whole story…you'll have to read the story.

Roger was a cocky asshole and Samantha would make a perfect accessory at the Yacht club.

Tali never did like sailing anyway. All those waves usually made her feel queasy and when she mixed the waves with champagne cocktails, each day at sea became a disaster waiting to happen. Leaning over the railing of a ship, puking wasn't her most favorite position to be in with a man. Nope. Puke was no one's friend.

LOVE ON LANDING releases next Sat Jan 28th! SQUEE!! CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER your copy now or get more info!!

LOVE AND LATTES the first of the Meadow Ridge Series is available now! Chase and Julia had a one-night stand, now he's her new boss! Available from  SILVER — AMAZON — NOOK

Six Sentence Sunday 1/15

Hello again Sunday peeps! Thanks for stopping by once again to check out my writing and to leave comments. I read and appreciate every comment you leave here. Be sure to check out the other fantastic authors participating this week by CLICKING HERE!

This week I'm sharing the a snippet from my upcoming release LOVE ON LANDING. Squee!! This is the second book in the Meadow Ridge Romance series, but fear not, you can read it even if you didn't read the first — LOVE AND LATTES. Each book in the series focuses on a different character so you won't be missing anything if you didn't read the first. Alright! Enough chitchat. Let's get to it shall we? And what better place to start a new book than at the beginning!

 

Tali Radcliff leaned her head back against the headrest and gazed out the window. Raindrops splattered onto the double-paned glass blurring her view of the runway. Not that she could look past her sad, pathetic reflection anyway.

The reflection staring back at her turned the raindrops to tears on her cheeks and she instinctively wiped them away, only to find her cheeks sensitive and slightly swollen. She sighed and closed her eyes, desperately trying to block out the urge to start crying again. Instead, she focused on the white noise of the engines revving as the jet picked up speed for takeoff.

 

 

LOVE ON LANDING is coming Jan 28!! But don't let that stop you from buying up your copy today!

PRE-ORDER NOW at SILVER PUBLISHING!

Are you curious about the book that started the series? Find out more about LOVE AND LATTES here!

Guilty Pleasures… Part 2!

Last week I came clean about my secret guilty pleasure—reality TV! After my top 5 were listed, I realized I'd only just scratched the surface and I still had so many more shows to cover. Check out my first 5 favs here:

My Secret Guilty Pleasure

And now here's my next 5 favs!

6. Jersey Shore: "We're goin' to the shore, B*tches!" This is by far my most guilty of the guilty pleasure shows I watch. But for some reason, I just can't stop! The people that live in the house live such a different lifestyle than my own that I can't help but watch to find out what new crazy thing will happen in their lives. Every week I tune in to get my dose of GTL and to find out who's DTF in the smoosh room! If you don't know what I just said, then you should tune in too!

7. Millionaire Matchmaker: This one is just fun to watch. The main lady Patty tells it like it is whether anyone wants to hear it or not. And every week there's a new (often dysfunctional) millionaire who's looking for love. Seeing their fantasy dates is pretty awesome. When have you ever been helicoptered out to Vegas on a first date?

8. The Rachel Zoe Project: Stylist to the stars. Once in a while you see a celebrity on the show, but often it's just the behind the scene style stuff of getting celebrities ready for their big events. I don't know why I keep watching it, but I do!

9. Top Chef: I love seeing what crazy thing these chefs are give to cook with each week and the food usually looks so delicious!

10. Real Housewives of New York: I know there are a lot of these Real Housewives shows, but for whatever reason, the NYC girls are the only ones I can watch. They're fully of catty comments and drama and it's very entertaining. Borders on annoying at times, but hey, that's par for the course, isn't it? I enjoyed the first few seasons the best, back when Bethany was still on the show. I enjoyed her spin off show too.

So those are my top ten reality shows. Sadly, there are so many others I could list, but I won't. I'll spare you every detail of my reality TV habit. What's your favorite? Do you love or hate my favorites? Chime in and let me know!!

 

My Secret Guilty Pleasure…

It's time to let the secret out. I don't want to hide anymore. It's time you all knew my secret guilty pleasure…

I'm a total Reality TV junkie!

Sigh.

I know there are some of you out there gasping and shaking your head at your computer screen right now, but I can't hide any longer. It's true. I LOVE REALITY TV!!! I just can't help myself. I love seeing real people compete for things! I know it's ridiculous and probably more scripted than true reality, but I still love it… LURVE IT!!

My top favs are:

1. THE AMAZING RACE: There will never be a better show than this. I have loved it since the first season. The only season I didn't care for was the one where it was families and they travelled around the USA. Boring! Hint to producers: If I wanted to see a Civil War reenactment, then I would go to one. This is the one show I would actually love to be on. Not that I ever plan on going on one the reality shows. But if I ever did want to, it would be this one.

2. SURVIVOR: Another great show. No other show will ever put people in quite the same position as these poor contestants have had to be in. I love to watch this show, but you couldn't give me a guaranteed 2 million to go on that show for one week let alone 39 days. Nope! The lack of a bathroom, the smell of unclean contestants, OMG the spiders!!!!!, and the diet of rice and mangos….no way! I'm staying home on my spider-free couch with my bowl of ice cream and sprinkles. I barely made it through a 3 day juice cleanse to live and tell about it!

3. THE BACHELOR/BACHELORETTE: This show is just so full of awesome sauce, I don't even know where to begin. The drama, the drama, the drama. Did I mention the drama? LOVE IT!! And I'm a serious romantic so I really can't resist the possibility of a happily ever after. *happy sigh*

4. BACHELOR PAD: Have you seen this one yet?? It's a spin off of The Bachelor/Bachelorette. Basically all the rejected contestants from the other show get thrown into a house together for a chance to win some money. LOVE IT!!! It's so fun to watch all the familiar faces sucking face… Did I forget to mention how much they hook up with each other? A lot. Oh and the eye candy. Yum. What's not to love about a bunch of hot guys walking around shirtless half the time?

5. BIG BROTHER: Oh big brother, how you make my summer nights complete… The competitions and ruthless and so are the contestants. LOVE!

OMG, I just realized that this list could just keep going and going!!! I haven't even left the basic cable channels yet! LOL. Wowza, I watch a lot of reality TV. I think I have a problem. Good thing I don't watch a whole lot of other kinds of TV.

So I guess I'll call this part one….

…and now you know my guilty little secret.

Six Sentence Sunday 1/8

Hello again! Thanks to all of you who keep coming back to read my snippets each week. I appreciate all of your comments. To check out all the other awesome authors participating this week, CLICK HERE!

This is the last snippet  you're getting from BUNNY HILLS AND BIKINIS. After this, I'm going to give you snippets of something else! We've seen a lot of good moments between Nate and Amelia, but no romance can be all candlelight, roses, and sexytime. Especially not when there a grabby colleague in the mix who's making his presence known.

 

She was something special. And he wasn't about to let William take her away from him anytime soon. Yet there William was, sitting across from her—right where Nate should be. Their table so small and cozy, their knees could be touching under the table and no one would ever know.

As if on cue, William dropped his hand to his lap and it disappeared under the white linen tablecloth. Nate gripped his menu so hard it crumpled in his hands.

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New Year's Blog Hop! And a GIVEAWAY!

Hi everyone!

Hope you all had a safe and happy New Year's Eve. Today I'm participating in a blog hop with over 60 other authors and we're all chatting about our favorite New Year's Eve memories. There's a ton of great prizes offered at each stop. All you have to do is drop by and visit the participating authors and leave a comment for your chance to win. And the great news is, you can win more than once!!

 

 

Also, one lucky commenter from somewhere on the blog stop will win A Kindle Fire!!! And another random commenter will win an $80 Amazon.com gift card!!! The commenter will be chosen from all of the comments left at each of the stops so be sure to leave a comment here and everywhere else!! So many great prizes to be won. Don't miss out!

 

 

 

Now on to my favorite memories of New Years. I have to say I don't have one specific memory. I haven't had one NYE that really stands out from the rest as the end all, be all of NYEs. Sure I've had a few great ones out partying at some club somewhere. And I've had a few not so great ones. But none of those are the ones I come back to in my mind.

Instead, I think back to the ones that I spent with family and friends, eating lots of fattening appetizers, making mixed drinks (usually only halfway successfully), and sitting around a table playing games. Sometimes it's Chicken Foot (dominoes). Sometimes it's Canasta (cards). And sometimes it's something silly like Yatzee. But whatever we do, we always share a ton of laughs. It's the most perfect way to step into the New Year!

So, you want a chance to win a $10 Amazon.com gift card from yours truly?? All you have to do is leave a comment and tell me a little something about your New Year's Eve! Who do you like to spend it with? How do you like to ring in the new year? What's your favorite food or drink for the occasion?

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And while you're here, why not check out LOVE AND LATTES and BUNNY HILLS AND BIKINIS? They're both available now and guaranteed to give you at least a few laughs, some uber-hunky man candy and even a steamy scene or two.

 

Six Sentence Sunday 1/1

Happy New Year!! I hope 2012 is a good year for all of you. I'm excited to see what the new year will bring. As always, be sure to check out the other awesome authors participating this week by CLICKING HERE.

 

 

This weeks snippet comes from BUNNY HILLS AND BIKINIS again. Nate and Amelia have finally found their way into each other's arms. Amelia's a tad impatient…

"You're not even naked yet." He laughed as she groaned with impatience.

"Close enough, damn it. Let's go already." She pleaded as best she could, trying desperately to convince him to move things along quicker. Pulling at his clothing with no effect for a few moments, she got frustrated and finally dropped her arms to the bed, giving into the feeling of his mouth on her skin.

 

 

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