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my first interview!!

Had my first interview last night! It was awesome!! Thank you so much to the guys from One the Forehand for having me!!!

To hear the whole show, which was a hoot, click here!
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Winner!

The winner of the $15 gift card to Amazon or B&N for their comments on the Monday Teasers is: annabanna11!!!! Congrats!!!!!!! email me at toni.aleo@yahoo.com with your email address so I can send you your gift card! Thanks everyone for always commenting on the teasers!

We are currently at 18 reviews on amazon! When we reach 100 I'll start posting Empty Net stuff! Thanks everyone again!!

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My Fallon.

During an amazing conversation with my very intoxicated close friend, she told me that I might need to explain myself a bit with Fallon. That maybe people don’t just get her, or maybe do a back story about her.
I really don’t want to get back into Fallon and Lucas mode, my mind is already in Empty Net and I don’t want to go back. But I do want to say a few things about Fallon.
When I wrote Fallon, I thought of her as this deeply wounded woman that on the outside she is strong and confident (I wanted to do something different since Elli was so insecure). But on the inside, Fallon is falling apart because she lost her person. I personally love the character I made. I know, that if you were face to face with Lucas and he was turning on his Lucas charm, you would be a gonner but he broke Fallon. So at first she is trying her best to resist him.
When Lucas and Fallon met they were young, and everyone remembers young love. The intense, I would never leave you, you are mine and only mine kind of love. I remember it like it was yesterday, thankfully I never had to go through the pain of losing my one and only but Fallon did. She was so engrossed in Lucas, so in love, that finding him in bed with her best friend, just devastated her. Then she finds out she is pregnant and flees home where her father is complete ass to her. He continually reminds her of what she messed up. To top it off, Fallon goes seven years looking at a face that is the exact same one of the man she left, the man that broke her.
So yes, she is angry. She is mean, and bitchy, but if someone ripped your heart out and stomped on it, then you live seven years with the constant reminder of that love and that heartbreak that you lost, would you be nice? Especially when no matter what you still love him even if you don’t want too? It has to suck, and I think the way I wrote Fallon dealing with it was best.
I didn’t want it to be, they meet back up, she hates him but he convinces her not to, they have sex, the end. I mean, I wanted some depth, some feeling. I wanted you to get mad and feel for what they were going through. Whats the point in reading a book and at the end feeling nothing?
That just pointless.

Another thing I want to address.
Everyone has said how much they love Aiden. Y’all don’t know how much that means to me. Aiden is my son, Mikey.
Everything Aiden loves, he does, and the way he acts has been inspired by my own seven year old. Seven years olds are intense. Some are way above their age and my son is one of them. There isn’t a day that goes by where my son doesn’t blow me away. He’s amazing, perfect and my everything. So thank you for saying that you loved Aiden and that you thought he was perfect because I think so too.

Next thing I want to say is AIN’T is a word.
According to Webster Dictionary, it is. See: Definition of AIN'T1: am not : are not : is not2: have not : has not3: do not : does not : did not
I use the word AIN’T constantly. My word document doesn’t even turn it RED anymore. It is now a regular word just like everything else. I am southern belle. Even college educated people use ain’t, and it doesn’t mean that I didn’t go to college or that I’m not educated. It’s just a word in my vocabulary. I write the way I talk. It is who I am, and I am not going to change it. The day I stop saying Aint is the day I die.

And lastly,

Thank you.
Seriously. I have the best and kindest fan and I do love y’all something stupid. I appreciate your kind words of encouragement and your constant love for my books. Thank you so much. Really, y’all mean the world to me.

I swear, I’m almost done, but God, I love Shea Weber and my Preds! Two more games and we are off to round two!!! GO PREDS!!!!!


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Thank you Tabby from Insightful Minds!

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Its been an amazing week over at Insightful Minds! Make sure to join us for the last day, for the dream cast of both Taking Shots and Trying to Score and also a HUGE giveaway!!! Go check it out! Thanks so much Tabby! You're the best!

GO PREDS!!!!!
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

GO QUICKLY!!! BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUY IT ON AMAZON AND BARNES&NOBLE (Link to come)!
LEAVE A REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go read Tara's review!!!!!!
THANK YOU AND ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All we need is 100 reviews of Trying to Score on Amazon and I'll release information on Empty Net! Thank you again everyone! I hope you love Fallon and Lucas' story! Please dont forget to join me for the rest of Assassins Week and my blog tour starts on 4/30!!!! So please join me!
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Oh, how I love the Nashville Predators!

I really do.

Shea Weber and Anders Lindback the most!

The whole team signed my hat today and I took pics with my favs! I wanted to share!

Also, have you seen anything more beautiful than me and Shea Weber together?! I THINK NOT!



ALSO CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Assassins Week!!!

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Don't forget about Assassins week!!

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Monday Teaser!

Hello All! And Happy Assassins' Week!!!!! EEKK! So excited for a week just for Taking Shots and Trying to Score! Isnt it fantastic?! I think so! Thank you so much to Tabby over at Insightful Minds, for putting on what I know will be a great week! Make sure to join us girls!!!!

I would like to mention: Autumn at The Autumn Review, Tara at Taters Tall Tails, Karen at a Nose in a Book, Tabby at Insightful Minds, Shawna at Dreaming in the Pages, Lisa at A Tasty Read, Andrea at the Bookish Babe, and Julie at A Tale of Many Reviews. These girls are amazing and the best bloggers in the biz in my opinion. I wish I could go into each reason why I love each of them, but we would seriously be here for hours. So, thank you all for your continued support!

So....we only have 3 Monday until Trying to Score is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! but if I get 7 more reviews on Taking Shots on Amazon then we'll only have 2! Holy Moly! Can you believe it?! I sure cant! hehehe! I am so excited and feel so blessed to have such amazing fans and amazing friends that support me!

The winner of the bookmark from last week is: twentysomethingfictionwriter CONGRATS! hehe. Please email me your address @ toni.aleo@yahoo.com!!! Remember to comment on this post for a chance at a signed book mark and a 15$ gift card to Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

So without further ado, my teaser for the week. I can't wait for y'all to read this book. Fallon and Lucas are a trip, here you go:


"We were good together. Like you said, we are two different people now and the new me can't do what we had. It was too toxic, too intense."
"It was perfect, and you know it. Stop fighting it."
Fallon rolled her eyes. "I mean, what do you want? Do you just want to go fuck and get it over with?"
Hearing that risqué word leave those luscious lips had Lucas rock hard. He had to fight the lust that screamed for him to say 'YES' to say no, because that wasn't only what he wanted. He was ready to be with someone, he was ready to be with Fallon.
"No baby, I want you. All of you. I promise I won't mess up this time, I just need you to believe me," he pleaded, taking a step towards her, but she put her hand on his chest, stopping him.



Happy Teaser Monday all! AND GO PREDS!!!!!!!!!!!


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My note - excuse my dorkness!

Links:
Need 6 more reviews on Taking Shots on Amazon for an early release!
Join me for my blog tour!
And look forward for Trying to Score!
And its Tara at Taters Tall Tails!
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WAY TO GO NASHVILLE PREDATORS!!!!!!!!!

The best team in the league has clinched the 4th playoff spot in the playoffs!!!!

We are playing the Red Wings, and as a lot of you know, my husband is a Red Wings fan, so please pray for our marriage because this will be an intense week!!


But, I am sooooooooooooo excited, and will be at every game cheering on my Preds and Shea Weber while booing the Wings and my husband!!!!!!!

I'm so proud of my team, and I can't wait for this to start! So way to go Nashville Predators! This Pred fan is stupid excited!!! and I know we are going to go all the way to the cup!!!!!!
BRING HOME THE CUP TO NASHVILLE!
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