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#BookChat CIA FALL GUY by Phyllis Zimbler Miller #thriller

Short synopsis:
For fans of the romantic suspense spy stories by Helen MacInnes and Dorothy Gilman --When Beth Parsons is summoned to CIA headquarters for the bogus purpose of identifying someone from her past, she realizes she must find out what is really going on. Forced to partner with the man who may have been responsible for her husband's death, she has to unmask the real traitors or end up as the fall guy.
After the CIA driver who brought her to D.C. is shot and killed, Beth escapes her C...

#AuthorInterview R. Lynn Archie, multi-genre author

Today, I'm happy to have R. Lynn Archie tell us about her writing. Lynn, I’ve had a look at your website and read a sample of Trial of Marriage. It looks like you’ve written across several genres, contemporary romance, vampires and urban fantasy. How do you approach the challenge of building an author brand and communicating to the reader what to expect?

I would have to say that hands down I am a romance author. Although I do write in three different genres (contemporary, vampire and urban fan...

#BookReview RUNNING AGAINST TRAFFIC by Gaelen VanDenBergh #womensfiction

Running Against Traffic by Gaelen VanDenbergh
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

No!!! I can't believe she left him. I'm so sad. Al was the perfect romantic hero, hot, hunky, with a heart of gold. He was Paige's first friend when her lawyer husband dumped her in a small town in a dilapidated house to "get rid of her."

Paige soon realized she was an empty shell, just going through the motions, not really existing. But after meeting Al and the other denizens of Well's Lake, Paige began to exercise, care abou...

Maryanne on the Rebound - Hidden Under Her Heart (A Story of Abortion & Courage) Chapter 7 - Scene 4

Maryanne drained the tub and dried herself. The bath had only made her more worried and sick. She really knew how to pick the winners. Was she brain dead or what? Despite herself, she picked up her phone. No missed calls. He was still busy enjoying his lunch date. But would Sandra confront him? Nah, she didn’t seem too upset, dancing around with her iPod. Maybe they had an open relationship.Maryanne ground her teeth. She was way too jealous for an open relationship. She pulled on a pair of ti...

#AuthorInterview Diane Rapp on Murder on a Ghost Ship

1.     Hi Diane Rapp, tell us a bit about your latest book.
Hi Rachelle!  I’m so pleased you asked me to join you today.  I’m here to describe Murder on a Ghost Ship.   This novel is the second book in a High Seas Mystery series. The book can be read as a stand-alone story since I introduce new readers to characters introduced in the first book.  I didn’t want a new reader to feel cheated. 
Emily Schultz calls Kayla Sanders and Natalia Baliskov to he...

#AuthorInterview Melissa Foster on her #NewRelease TRACES OF KARA

Hi Melissa, thanks for dropping by and talking about your writing. I've always been intrigued by the dramatic storylines you portray so vividly. Tell me first off, where do you get your ideas?
Thanks for allowing me to share your blog with you today. I’m really inspired by life and by my own insecurities and fears. When I begin to write, I think about what the biggest obstacles are for my characters. Then, while I’m writing, the ideas I started with tend to change and morph into something else...

#BookReview SAILING DOWN THE MOONBEAM by Mary Gottschalk #memoir #adventure

Sailing Down the Moonbeam by Mary Gottschalk
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Bravo! This was more than a sailing adventure, but a journey of personal discovery. Sometimes we don't want to look to closely at our lives, fearful of what we may discover. For Mary and Tom, their well ordered Wall Street life provided them with the perfect avenue to leading parallel and superficial lives, one populated by schedules, routines, predictable events and social gatherings. When they threw off the shackles of corpo...

Hidden Under Her Heart : Free eBook for Kindle and Nook

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 5:05AM [reblogged]
Freebooksy in Chick-Lit, Fiction, Free Kindle Books, Free Nook Books, Free eBooks, Free eBooks for Kindle, Free eBooks for Nook, Kindle, NookEditor's Note: This book deals with a tough topic, but it's also an important one for everyone to face. Between the tough challenges, the author wove in a sweet and tender romance that makes for an uplifting ending. 

This book was wonderfully thought-provoking and definitely an emotional roller-coaster.

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#AuthorInterview Mike Ronny Interviews himself #humor

We authors love talking to our characters and even to ourselves. So for your ultimate self-pleasure today, I present humorous author, Mike Ronny, with a self-interview.
Thank you for being here today, Mike.My pleasure, Mike.
What’s it like being a great author?The next time I speak to one, I’ll be sure to ask.
How witty! So, what’s the best part of the writing experience?What I’ve enjoyed most about my experience so far is getting to meet, via the Internet, many bloggers and fellow writers from...

#GuestPost My Mother's Sari by Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed

When I was first married, my mother gave me her best saris. When a young woman gets married in Indian tradition, she is sent off with a fine wardrobe of fancy traditional outfits that she will wear for the first year of her married life, at each function to which she and her new husband are invited. Since every community friend or family member is expected to celebrate the new couple with an event at their home, these clothes are put to good use. It is a special time, to be so fêted and not a...