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February 3, 2014
Review Day – The Eternity Cure
Once a month or so I’ll share a book review. Last month was a book to laugh. This month a book to let your imagination out to play.
The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa – This is the second book in the series after The Immortal Rules. I highly enjoyed the first book and it’s take on vampire cities and human farms. The second book doesn’t disappoint and continues the story. I really liked the ending and am looking forward to the 3rd book.
Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.
Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike
Similar books in the genre I also recommend: (we’re going with vampires here)
Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series
J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Twilight series if you’re one of the few who hasn’t read it
My next review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Cheers!
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January 20, 2014
Audiobook for Desired by Shadow Almost Done!
Annie McQueen is my narrator and wow! She has a fantastic british accent. I hope you guys love it as much as I do.
Should be live around the end of February (I'll keep you posted). And if you already have the ebook or paperback you'll be able to get the audiobook for a steal!
Feeling excited :)
January 17, 2014
Review Day – Garden Spells
Once a month or so I’ll share a book review. Last month was a book to laugh. This month a book to let your imagination out to play.
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen is a wonderful tale. And she’s a local North Carolina writer. I love how her stories all have a bit of the supernatural in them and always a few strange characters. Almost like modern-day grown up fairy-tales. Read all of her books, you’ll enjoy them.
The women of the Waverley family — whether they like it or not — are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina. There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible flowers that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone who eats them.
For nearly a decade, 34-year-old Claire Waverley, at peace with her family inheritance, has lived in the house alone, embracing the spirit of the grandmother who raised her, ruing her mother’s unfortunate destiny and seemingly unconcerned about the fate of her rebellious sister, Sydney, who freed herself long ago from their small town’s constraints. Using her grandmother’s mystical culinary traditions, Claire has built a successful catering business — and a carefully controlled, utterly predictable life — upon the family’s peculiar gift for making life-altering delicacies: lilac jelly to engender humility, for instance, or rose geranium wine to call up fond memories. Garden Spells reveals what happens when Sydney returns to Bascom with her young daughter, turning Claire’s routine existence upside down. With Sydney’s homecoming, the magic that the quiet caterer has measured into recipes to shape the thoughts and moods of others begins to influence Claire’s own emotions in terrifying and delightful ways.
As the sisters reconnect and learn to support one another, each finds romance where she least expects it, while Sydney’s child, Bay, discovers both the safe home she has longed for and her own surprising gifts. With the help of their elderly cousin Evanelle, endowed with her own uncanny skills, the Waverley women redeem the past, embrace the present, and take a joyful leap into the future.
Similar books in the genre I also recommend:
The rest of Sarah Addison Allen’s books
Lost Lake – Sarah’s newest book out in February
My next review: The Eternity Cure
Cheers!
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January 8, 2014
Surprise!
I ran an ad in Ereader News Today yesterday for the first book in the Shadow Walker series – Lost in Shadow. This site sends you emails with bargain and free ebooks so if you don’t already receive them, you can sign up here. It’s a great way to fill up your eReader and find new authors.
Anyway, I woke up this morning to see my book snuggling up next to Stephen King and Anne Rice. Made me feel all giddy inside so I had to share.
Hope you all have a fantastic week and stay warm with all this awful cold weather!
Hugs,
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January 4, 2014
Reborn in Shadow is Coming...
Hi Everyone!Whew - I'm almost ready to send the next book in the series, Reborn in Shadow off to my editor.
All of you on Team Colin: Give Hamish a chance. The love of a good woman can work wonders.
Team Hamish: thank you for asking for his story. I hope you'll like it.
And for Team Monroe: it's coming! The last book in the series, Embraced by Shadow is his story. I was going in a different direction but you pointed out the attraction between he and Amy and said they had to have a chance. So this one's for you!
Hugs,
January 3, 2014
Calling readers – new book beta reader and reviewer club
Do you enjoy getting the first peek at new books? Do you read with a critical eye? We have the perfect place for you!
The WG2E Street Team has a new group for beta readers and reviewers, where authors and readers can come together to help each other.
What’s the difference between a beta reader and a reviewer?
A beta reader reads a book that is still a work-in-progress and provides feedback to the author in order to make the book the best it can be. They are not reviewing the work publicly. All thoughts on the book go directly to the author. The book they read is not the finished product.
A reviewer reads a completed book either right before it’s published or shortly after and leaves their opinion of the book on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, etc. to help other readers make a decision on whether to read the book.
Beta readers are not reviewers and vice versa, though you can do both for different books (or if you re-read the book in its completed form).
Let’s have a little fun!
Once every three months, all authors who used beta readers or reviewers will contribute to the pot and a gift card will be given to one random beta reader or reviewer.
Want to find new authors and help out those you love? Head on over to the WG2E Beta/Review Club on Facebook and request to join at https://www.facebook.com/groups/WG2EBetaReviewClub/
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January 1, 2014
2014 – Already?!
Seems like it was just 2013. Now I have to get used to writing 2014. I thought we might have flying cars or be able to change our looks with the push of a button by now. Though don’t get me wrong, the world has changed dramatically over the past twenty years.
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I like to spend the New Year reflecting on my goals of the previous year and focusing on goals for the coming year though this year I’m still tweaking the last couple. What are your goals?
Happy New Year! May 2014 be a wonderful, successful year for all!
Cynthia
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December 24, 2013
December 19, 2013
Happy Winter Solstice!
December 21st marks the Winter Solstice. This day marks the return of lighter days and the coming Spring. Winter is a time of renewal, reflection and rest. The Solstice is a time to celebrate and make plans for Spring.
What are your plans? I’ll be working on revisions to book 4 – Reborn in Shadow to finish out the year. In the months leading to Spring, I’ll send book 4 to my editor and I’ll write and send the final book in the Shadow Walkers Series to my editor as well. The final book, Book 5, is titled Embraced by Shadow. Yes, all my patient fans, it’s time for Monroe’s story. And time to find out the fate of all humanity. Who will win the Walker War?
As Spring comes, I’ll start work on a new trilogy. It takes place in North Carolina and is about three friends surviving the end of the world as we know it. They are so unprepared for what’s coming!
Cheers and Happy New Year!
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December 13, 2013
Are you the superstitious type?
Today is Friday the 13th. Are you superstitious? Do you step over cracks in the sidewalks, avoid black cats and walk around ladders? Or perhaps you take the opposing view and believe this is an auspicious day…might want to buy that Mega Millions ticket today 
Go out and enjoy the day or hide under the covers. But if you’re hiding–don’t look under the bed, in the closet or behind the shower curtain…shudders. And whatever you do, when the phone rings and there’s a killer on the line…don’t run UPSTAIRS, get the hell out of the house and don’t look back!
Cheers!
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