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September 26, 2013
The Prophecy (Book 3 of The Guardians)
September 25, 2013
Cursed (Book 2 of The Guardians)
September 24, 2013
Sacred Bloodlines (Book 1 of The Guardians)
September 19, 2013
Book Indulgence Hop
September 13, 2013
Words of Encouragement
September 12, 2013
How to help
September 11, 2013
Cover Reveal – The Cowboy’s Baby by D’Ann Lindun
Welcome D’Ann Lindun!
Blurb:
Cat O’Brien moved back to Granite, Colorado, ready to face her past. Before she is completely settled in, the daughter Cat was forced to give up for adoption appears. Eve has been thrown out of her adoptive parents’ home because she is seventeen, unwed and pregnant. Cat is ecstatic when Eve asks to live with her. Tanner Burke brings his younger daughter to Cat’s house for trick-or-treat. Stunned to see Cat again, he is even more shocked by finding his long-lost daughter . . . pregnant. Once again, he thinks adoption is the answer. This instantly puts him and Cat at odds. She will do anything to keep Eve from suffering the same pain she did, while Tanner does not want Eve to give up everything to raise her child. As Eve settles in, Cat and Tanner are forced to work together to help her. In spite of their conflict over Eve’s pregnancy, Cat and Tanner are still attracted to one another. And during the long night of their grandchild’s birth, Tanner and Cat both have to look at the past, and doing so, come to a place where they can forgive and love each other.
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Author Bio:
Falling in love with romance novels the summer before sixth grade, D’Ann Lindun never thought about writing one until many years later when she took a how-to class at her local college. She was hooked! She began writing and never looked back. Romance appeals to her because there’s just something so satisfying about writing a book guaranteed to have a happy ending. D’Ann’s particular favorites usually feature cowboys and the women who love them. This is probably because she draws inspiration from the area where she lives, Western Colorado, her husband of twenty-nine years and their daughter. Composites of their small farm, herd of horses, five Australian shepherds, a Queensland heeler, two ducks and cats of every shape and color often show up in her stories!
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September 10, 2013
You are unique
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You are unique. There is no one like you, nor will there ever be. Celebrate the difference.
I’ve been depressed and suffered from low self-esteem. The best advice I got was this, ‘don’t be a daisy.’ My voice teacher, Debbie Bienhorn, told me I was a tiger lily in a field of daisies upset because I wasn’t a daisy. How awesome is that!?
Find your uniqueness. Celebrate it. Be proud that you are a tiger lily or a ghost orchid or a rare middlemist red and not just a daisy.
September 9, 2013
Liza kidnaps Andrea’s Blog and runs amuck
Liza kidnaps Andrea’s Blog and runs amuck
If you’ve read Worst Week Ever, you know Carrie and Trent come from different walks of life and have nothing in common. They are like two different species. And despite my throwing a lot of guys in her path, some of them even decent, she still fell in love with Trent.
Today, because I felt like painting, you get a visual explanation of the differences and commonalities between Carrie and Trent.
Those are serious differences. If Carrie were in this relationship for the money, she’d have a great motivation (He’s rich; I want to be rich.) But she actually dislikes his money, blaming much of his bad behavior on being raised with too much money.
As for commonalities, these are the only ones I could find.
While having friends they both like is shaky (only one couple and it’s a new relationship.) they do have 3 people they agree are horrible, horrible human beings.
They agree on more people they dislike, but you can’t build a relationship based on who you hate. That is a terrible foundation for love.
Carrie really has an uphill climb to make this relationship work, but she’s the hardest working, most determined and incredibly patient person I’ve ever met. So she might do the impossible in Book 2, Oh Stupid Heart.
Oh Stupid Heart
Book Two of: A Long Road To Love
Humorous Contemporary Disaster Romance
By
Liza O’Connor
Blurb:
Carrie Hanson is in love with a different species: Trent, a pampered, uber-rich socialite who’s also her boss. Everyone keeps telling her it’s a train wreck looking to happen, but her heart wants what it wants. So despite the billion and one reasons not to, Carrie commits to this inter-species relationship. But while she’s off being trained for her new job responsibilities, a beautiful ex fiancée is working hard to get Trent back and Carrie fired.
Excerpt:
Carrie Hanson couldn’t believe it. Her four year sex-drought was about to end. She shivered in anticipation until a sinking dread over came her. Oh God, what if I’ve forgotten what to do?
Please God, let this be like riding a bike.
Trent pulled back from their kiss and studied her, his brow furrowed. “Are you cold?” He reached across her bed and tugged the edge of the comforter over her, tucking the fabric beneath her body so she became a human corndog.
She wiggled out of captivity and scooted across the bed, closer to him. “I’m fine. I’m just happy our horrible week is over and we can start anew. This time not as boss and an employee, but best friends who love each other.
Trent pulled her to his chest and kissed her. She opened her mouth to his and met his tongue with her own, determined to give as good as she got. His soft groan inspired her to do more.
She unbuttoned the waistband of his suit pants and slipped her hand beneath his boxers, determined to move matters along and end her drought forever. He broke their kiss and his hands captured hers.
He didn’t want her?
She turned away, mortified with shame…and confused. Why the hell had he kissed so provocatively if he didn’t want to make love to her? She tucked her head, so he wouldn’t read all the emotions bouncing about her confused head right now, but he forced her chin upward, his dark eyes somber and concerned.
“Carrie, I have screwed up every relationship I’ve ever been in. I think part of the problem is I gravitated to glamour girls with no brain and no personality, but I would have realized that if I had just taken a moment to talk to them first.”
This was the stupidest excuse she’d ever heard. “We’ve known each other for two years, in which time I’ve certainly established I’m not a glamour girl.”
He chuckled and nodded.
Her eyes narrowed and a low growl emitted from her chest. “You don’t have to be so quick to agree.”
“But you aren’t. You’re not an image of beauty, you’re the real thing. While I have no complaints about your small, but perfect body, silky long brown hair, and gorgeous green eyes, your real beauty comes from inside. When you smile I feel like I’m standing before an angel of joy.”
Now she saw where his thoughts headed. He didn’t want to make love to an angel. She recalled Elvis Presley did something this crazy. He refused to touch his wife after she bore him a child because he couldn’t make love to a mother.
She pulled her hand from his and gripped his shirt as she stared sternly into his eyes. “Do not go Elvis Presley on me. I am not an angel. I’m a small, catastrophe-prone woman who wants to make love to you.”
A Long Road to Love
Book Two
Oh Stupid Heart
Coming Mid-September
Book One
Worst Week Ever
Liza O’Connor
Author Bio:
Liza lives in Denville, NJ with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing novels. She loves to create interesting characters, set them loose, and scribe what happens.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT
LIZA O’CONNOR
Liza’s Blog and Website Facebook Twitter
Other Books by Liza O’Connor
Coming Soon:
Oh Stupid Heart
Coming To Reason
Ghost Lover
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September 8, 2013
Suicide
Suicide is not glamorous. It’s painful. Death, for the most part, is not pretty. You have been given a gift – your life. If others have you down and depressed, prove them wrong. If they laugh or bully you, make them eat their words. Time is the best revenge. Even though it may not feel like it, this too will pass.
Don’t give up!
If I had listened to others, I wouldn’t be a writer, much less published. My ex (when we were married) took a poem of mine to work with him. He said he read it aloud. That he and his coworkers laughed at my writing. I could have accepted this that I wasn’t a good writer and walked away. But I didn’t. I had a passion to write even if no one ever saw a word of it.
I also didn’t have support from other family members either. A novel I needed feedback on sat on a relative’s desk collecting dust until they gave it back to me – unread and still dusty.
Find those who do and will support you. I have a terrific sister who has read both of my published novels and given me feedback and encouragement.
Know that sometimes when people put you down or what you do, it’s because of their own insecurities.
Don’t give up! But show those critics, those bullies, that you are worth everything. The greatest triumph you can gain is to live your life and strive to be happy. Your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy – so imagine yourself happy and your life the way you want it. It will not be easy, but you can do it.
If you can’t, please seek help (see my post dated 9/8/13 for more info).
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