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March 3, 2016
Romance Author Janie Franz for #EggcerptExchange
Meet author Janie Franz, who comes from a long line of Southern liars and storytellers! She also toldother people’s 
stories as a freelance journalist for many years, and she has twelve booksto her name! I don’t know about you, but I’m already interested! She’s here to shareher book, Sugar Magnolia, which offers an inside look at the music industry and one woman’s place in it.
About the Book:
Music journalist and artist Shivaun Corbin is on assignment at Sugar Magnolia, the Mississippi home of...
February 28, 2016
Romance Author Pamela S. Thibodeaux for #EggcerptExchange
I’m delightedto be hosting award-winning author, Pamela S. Thibodeaux, who writesromantic fiction andcreative non-fiction. She’s sharing an excerpt from her novel Lori’s Redemption.
About the book:
In Lori’s Redemption, Lori Strickland (fromTempered Fire) has always been known as her father’s “wild child” with no desire to change, until she meets ex-bull-rider-turned-preacher Rafe Judson. Her attempts to change her wanton ways come to naught until she realizes redemption only comes with true...
Helen Peppe on Honesty and Memoir: Pigs Can’t Swim
Helen Peppe’s memoir,Pigs Can’t Swim, is a pinnacle of family dysfunction: funny, heart wrenching, stupefying and sometimes infuriating. Herparents’ insistence on nonsensical rules, old wive’s tales and skewed morals befuddle the youngest child of nineraisedin the backwoods of Maine. Here is a girl who is told by her parents that their house is haunted, is convinced she’s to blame when a married man guilts her into performing sexual favors at age 12, and has never purchased anything from a st...
February 26, 2016
Romance Author Traci Sanders for #EggcerptExchange
My guest today is successful author Traci Sanders, who’s written books from potty-training guides to romance novels. Her most recent release is Unsevered: “Five stars have never made me feel like this. Where are my Kleenex?” says Allaina Daniels, author of Xfinity.Traci is also an avid reader, having logged forty books last year.
Who is Traci Sanders?
First and foremost, I am a mom of three great kids: boy 18; boy 16; and girl 10. Being a mom is the best job I’ve ever had. I’m also married t...
Vampira – She’s like Family
My cousin says we should call ourselves “shirttail relatives” of Vampira. Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, was born in1921 in Petsamo, Finland. Mygrandmother, who was also born in Finland, had the same last name. They both lived inOhio for a spell. Who knows — maybe they were indeed distant cousins.Vampira claimed she wasrelated to the Finnish Olympian, Paavo Nurmi, so maybe there are two famous relatives in our family tree.
A pictureof Vampira from Rue Morgue magazine is pinned to a bulletin board...
February 24, 2016
Historical Romance Author Diana Rubino for #EggcerptExchange
Today I’m so pleased to host historical romance author Diana Rubinowho is sharingher novelFrom Here to Fourteenth Street.
About the book:
It’s 1894 on New York’s Lower East Side. Irish cop Tom McGlory and Italian immigrant Vita Caputo fall in love despite their different upbringings. Vita goes from sweatshop laborer to respected bank clerk to reformer, helping elect a mayor to beat the Tammany machine. While Tom works undercover to help Ted Roosevelt purge police corruption, Vita’s father arr...
Snowbird Facebook Contest: $10 Amazon Gift Card
Just after a spring teaser with near 60º F temps, Michiganis under an official Weather Alert with a winter storm warning. Total snow accumulations around 17 to 12 inches. Visibility will be as low as one quarter of a mile in the heaviest snow.
Ugh. What’s your weather like? Are you a northern snowbird basking on the beach? Who else is under a winter alert or advisory?
Since it looks like I’ll be snowed in today, I thought I’d run a weather contest to get some attention to my new author Facebo...
February 23, 2016
Romance Author Tina Gayle for #EggcerptExchange
Tina Gayleisthe fabulously generous author who started the Authors Helping Authors Eggcerpt Exchange. She’s here on my blog to share an excerpt from her romance novel titled The Marketing Exec’s Widow,and an interview from the main character.
First, about the novel:
Four women…
One fatal car wreck…
Everyone’s lives changed…
Letting go and rebuilding a life comes at a price.
Having come to terms with losing her husband, Jennifer is ready to move on with her life, but she faces opposition fro...
February 22, 2016
Romantic Suspense Author Kathleen Rowland – #EggcerptExchange
I’m excited to feature award-winning authorKathleen Rowland, whowrites romantic suspense with “sizzling magnetism and a blast of adrenalin.” She’s sharing anexcerpt fromher novel titledDeadly Allianceand an interview with one of the main characters.
About the book:
In Deadly Alliance, Finbar Donahue, former Army Ranger, walked on the wild side in Iraq, but now he lives in the shadows. After his evasive partner, Les, was shot in a random drive-by, Finn discovers cash is siphoned monthly. He fi...
February 20, 2016
Paranormal Author Kimbra Kasch for #EggcerptExchange
Paranormal author Kimbra Kasch stopped by my blog today for the Authors Helping Authors Eggcerpt Exchange toshareher book,The Cats of Cullaby Creek.
About the book:
When Savannah meets Kyle, its love at first sight. And why wouldn’t it be? He’s perfect, as far as she can tell. But Kyle appears whenever things go wrong. Maybe he isn’t everything she thought he was. It’s a complete mystery until she discovers the water in Cullaby Creek is being bottled and sold as vitamin “infused” water. Misti...
