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MOLLY HARPER is 99 CENTS & the prequel novella DUETS is FREE

SPECIAL PROMOTION...MOLLY HARPER is 99 Cents. DUETS is FREE   Only through May 5, 2014!
DUETS offers alternating looks into the lives of two women who would seem to have little or nothing in common. Screen star Molly Harper has it all...beauty, success in her profession, a loving family and an upcoming marriage to actor Ben Delmonico. But as Molly is on the verge of marrying the man who has swept her off her feet, she still wonders if he hasn't swept all her feelings for her first love away, Cruz Morales.

A handsome and cerebral college professor, Molly and Cruz have an on-again, off-again history stretching back to Molly's early teen years. He's not a man who a girl can ever forget about, and his feelings for Molly are equally conflicted.

Anne Sullivan, happily married for twenty-five years, is fighting to hold onto the man she loves, and hold off a confrontation that could shatter her family's image of what they are. It involves the beautiful screen star and her mother, upper crust matron Norma Wintz, who Anne has traveled to California to meet under the most dramatic of circumstances.

DUETS confronts the most intimate type of family secret that ties these two women's lives together, just as chance events turn Molly and Anne's worlds upside down.
Praise for DUETS "...exceptionally well written...a very intriguing and somewhat sad story. A story of lovers separated by fate. When they meet again, sparks fly, but this story is not a fairy tale romance. This is more like real life, and made my heart hurt a little. Long and Short Reviews

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"MOLLY HARPER ...is the first book I've read by this author, but it won't be my last! Ms. Gamble does a wonderful job of drawing these characters and making them just leap off the page."  Long and Short Reviews

"I rarely gush over a book these days. I read at least one, sometimes two books a day and so I can be hard to move. But, this one really got to me... you do not want to miss... Molly Harper."  Clue Review
MOLLY HARPER...Movie star Molly Harper has it all, beauty, success in her field, and a loving family and marriage to actor Ben Delmonico. Norma Wintz, Molly's mother, has it all, a lovely life style and two children who adore her, and a respite from the battle against cancer she's been fighting. Anne Sullivan, at age fifty, is optimistic that her move to sunny Santa Barbara, California, will allow her to be closer to her youngest son and his family, and help her start her life anew after the death of her beloved husband.

But all three of these women, despite their considerable blessings, are plunged into turmoil when the most intimate of secrets that ties their lives together is revealed. At this same time, Molly Harper is confronted with the news that her marriage to actor Ben Delmonico is over. As she navigates this heartbreak and tries to keep the personal details of the drama off the front pages of the newspapers, Molly must also find a way to once and forever negotiate a way forward with her ex- lover and best friend, the volatile and compelling Cruz Morales.

How each of these characters handles the resulting upheaval in their own life, and in their relationships with one another, forms the compelling story of family, secrets and trust in the romantic women's fiction novel, MOLLY HARPER.
Thinking about Mother’s Day? Buy your Mom the paperback of MOLLY HARPER which includes the prequel novella DUETS ! It’ll give you plenty to talk about at brunch! 
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SECRET SISTER only 99 Cents April 28-May 2, 2014!

"If you're looking for a typical women's fiction/romance, don't look here... this story has a twist of the paranormal that will have you willingly stretching your belief in order to enjoy the plot. Emelle Gamble has created a story that will tear your heart out."  Long and Short Reviews 

 
SECRET SISTER has 100 reviews on Amazon...an extraordinary love story you can't put down.
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     SECRET SISTER. Nick and Cathy. And Roxanne... To their friends, Nick and Cathy Chance have the perfect marriage. High school sweethearts who’ve been together for ten years, they’ve weathered challenges and are as committed as they were when they first fell in love. Cathy trusts Nick, Nick’s world revolves around his wife, and the future looks golden.

     To everyone who knows them, Cathy Chance and Roxanne Ruiz have a perfect friendship. They connected in grade school and since then have been each other’s confident and trusted advisor. Cathy loves the gorgeous Roxanne like a sister, Roxanne has fun-loving Cathy’s back in every situation, though lately there’s been tension between these two best friends . . .

     And then, on a sunny summer morning, the unthinkable occurs, throwing into doubt the truth of what each of these people really know about themselves and one another.

2014 Finalist in InD'tale Magazine's RONE AWARD for best Contemporary Romance
" SECRET SISTER is one of those books that leaves you re-thinking everything you once believed... Along with being a very unique and captivating plot, SECRET SISTER offers a shocking turn of the paranormal kind....I cannot recommend SECRET SISTER strongly enough for those of you that enjoy a book that not only touches your heart but has you tingling in anticipation for whatever comes next." Fresh Fiction- Fresh Review

Who is Your Mr. Perfect?

Emelle Gamble’s DATING CARY GRANT and the Search for ‘Mr. Perfect’
So who is your “Mr. Perfect?”. Your Prince on a white horse. Your tall, dark and handsome, that Mr. Happy Ever After you imagined since childhood.
Your Ryan Gosling?  (Have I revealed too much…HA!)

Writers, particularly those of us who include romance in our novels, all have our templates, for both literary and real men. Mine is husband of thirty years ‘Phil-the-fist’. He’s loyal. Kind. Honest. Intelligent. Protective and encouraging, in equal measures, to both myself and our children.
And sexy as a warm breeze on bare skin. (Don’t hate me…okay, you can a little.)
But when I think back all that way to before I met and fell in love with Phil, I can’t quite remember the priority order I would have had for a characteristic list for a “Mr. Perfect”. And when I write books and those heroes like Nick Chance, or Cruz Morales, or Mike Connor of DATING CARY GRANT walk into my life, they don’t seem much at all alike.
Nick, SECRET SISTER’s hero, has some personal problems, is kind of goofy and emotional. Cruz, MOLLY HARPER’s guy, is taciturn and tough, and not easy to convince of ANYTHING. (Damn him!) Mike Connor is easy going and charming, civic minded and cute, but stubborn as a mule.
The only things these three men from these three novels share are that they’re all loyal. Kind. Honest. Intelligent. Protective and encouraging. And sexy as a warm breeze on bare skin. 
OMG!!!
And there you go. I just explained to myself who Mr. Perfect is. (Phil-the-fist, Long Island, with our kids...hero.)



He’s the guy with the set of characteristics that are must-haves, with a lot of variations in the packaging. And the variations have to do with looks, ethnic background, athletic prowess, money, and profession. They don’t have anythingto do with what you need a man to be made of so that you’ll want to be with him for the rest of your life. That’s the biggest lesson Tracy Connor learns in DATING CARY GRANT.
Leave a comment below and tell me, when did you learn this? 



 If you would like to read DATING CARY GRANT, click on this link to go to Amazon.com



Originally posted April 1, 2014 stop at Aly’s Miscellany   http://alysmiscellany.blogspot.ro/

A Writing Process Blog Tour!

Welcome to a blog tour where writers and authors answer questions about their writing process. My critique partner, the fabulously talented Evie Owens, posted hers last week, where she gives you the inside scoop on her journey and she tagged me to join the tour. Thanks, Evie Owens! And all I can say to you is, where the heck is Psychic Detective II? 
What am I working on?I’m working on a book with a draft title of  Kiss Me Twice from that great old song “It’s Been a Long, Long time”. It’s a bit more suspenseful in the genre sense than my past few books, all about a college reunion, our heroine’s doubt about the identity of an old lover, and her mother’s struggles with Alzheimer’s disease. So it’s thematically all about memory, faulty and otherwise.

How does my work differ from others of its genre?I would say broadly I write women’s fiction, stories about women and those they love, their families, their triumphs and bumps in the road. But I am unable to imagine a story without a little detour into some other genre, a touch of mystery here, a paranormal occurrence there, even a visit to a past time, a la the 1950’s. So I differ most in that I can’t do anything by the book! HA! No surprise to anyone who knows me.
Why do I write what I do? I’m a firm believer that writers write because they must. And each individual writer chews on issues that are important to them, even subconsciously. I am always in some way writing about identity. And secrets. And the 'why' of that is my personal life, and that’s all I’ll share about that. For now.
How does your writing process work?An idea comes calling, a little explosion of ‘what if’,triggered by an image, or a sentence, or a thought about something I’ve read or heard. The ending of the story leaps into my head. Always the ending first. Title next. Main characters issues begin to materialize. First 3 chapters take shape in a lump. Then I outline, plot, do structure overviews. Meet other characters. Think about it. Decide to throw the whole thing out. (HA, just kidding. But only a little.) Rewrite the first 3 chapters about 10 times. Start slogging through the rest. Thank all the good things in heaven that I have a wonderful, long term critique group that is supportive and constructive and brilliant. Even when I disagree with one of them, they school me every meeting on the good, bad and ugly of what I’m doing. Then, write every day until the sucker is done. Then rewrite it another 10 times. Not kidding.


And now it's myturn to tag some people! I've chosen three wonderful writers. One is my critique partner. The others are up and coming Soul Mate Publishing sister authors. Be sure and go check them out next Monday at the addresses below to find out their revelations of how they handle that “I have to write” thing.
Mary Blayney : A dear friend and critique partner for over fifteen years, Mary is a New York Times best selling writer of the Pennistan family series of Regencies from Bantam books,  as well as  wonderful and compelling Contemporary romances.   http://maryblayney.com/
Elizabeth Janette, author of Redemption For Liars , is a fellow Soul Mate Publishing sister, who writes “Romantic suspense to die for”. http://www.elizabethjanette.com/
Patricia Patterson, a poet and writer, will see her debut novel, Crushed Circle, published by  Soul Mate Publishing in the summer of 2014.   http://www.patricia-patterson.com

SOUL MATE PUBLISHING Author BLOG HOP FEB 25-28, 2014!

Hi readers! Thanks for stopping by from the Soul Mate Blog Hop. Answer the question highlighted in yellow below for your chance to win a $15 gift card or a copy of my SoulMate novel, SECRET SISTER!


First, let me introduce myself to you if we haven’t met. I used to write Harlequin Intrigues as M.L. Gamble, and after a decade away from writing, I came back with SECRET SISTER for Soul Mate Publishing! And changed my name to Emelle Gamble, which I get many compliments on for sounding foreign and elegant. Yay name change!

My first Soul Mate novel, SECRET SISTER,  is  a blended genre women’s romantic fiction novel about Nick and Cathy and Roxanne. HA! No, it’s not one of those kinds of triangles, but it is one of the weirdest ones you’ll come across.  It all started with ‘what if everything about me changed, would my husband know it was me?’  I say yes, because I believe in romance. Here’s a link to SECRET SISTER if you’d like to take a look. 

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What would your hubby or significant other do if everything about you changed, your looks, your voice, your identity…would he still know it was you inside? 
 
 Leave your answer below  by February 28th  and you’ll be entered to win a $15 gift card or one of 3 FREE copies of SECRET SISTER  at this blog!

And after you leave me a comment, go back to Cheryl Yeko’s blog  at http://www.cherylyeko.com/2014/02/kin...

Soul Mate authors are giving away a wonderful KINDLE GRAND PRIZE at Cheryl Yeko’s blog so be sure to enter. And good luck!

As a special bonus…my novella, DUETS, the prequel to my full length novel MOLLY HARPER, is FREE on Amazon until February 27th. Go get you one if you’d like. MOLLY HARPER is on sale for only 99 cents, too, so you can get the whole story of love, family secrets, and how and why a Hollywood actress screws up her life just as bad as the rest of us!



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Enjoy! And do leave a review at Amazon or Goodreads on any or all of these books. Authors love hearing from readers, and other readers appreciate knowing what you thought! My favorite reader review so far is this one from Bookworm … “I knew absolutely nothing about the book when I began reading it and was hooked from the beginning. It took such an unexpected turn I simply couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next.”

Images and Imagination...The Writing Mind

“How do you get those ideas?” 
It’s a question all authors get, and for good reason. The plots we come up with do seem off-the-wall to normal humans who spend their days realistically interpreting images they see for what they are, engaged with family and friends and jobs. Normal folks who do not get stopped in their tracks by an image that suddenly shouts, ‘what if?’
Normal people, who don’t write fiction for a living but instead use their imaginations reading books and watching TV shows and movies and willingly giving their creative minds over to enjoying the stories being told to them.
While others are doing these very marvelous things, reading and watching and enjoying, writers are doing something else. They’re stealing, from everyone and everything they see, and letting their imagination go wild as they come up with new scenarios and characters and questions, and then rush to answer all their own questions with a situation that could lead to their next great plot!
On the bus, a normal person might notice an older woman sitting by herself with a sad looking crinkled-up paper sack on her lap. They would smile and nod and look away, maybe pull out their cell phone and read their email.
But if you’re me, or most writers, you would immediately ask yourself,  ‘What’s inside that bag?’ Drugs? An iguana? Poisoned cookies for the woman’s cheating s.o.b. husband?
HA! See what I mean. Writers are always on the lookout for intrigue and a twist to reality. 
We can’t help it. We want to rearrange the facts of life to make a better story.
It doesn’t happen every day, however. It comes when it comes, and for me, usually right out of the blue.
Hubby, ‘Phil-the-fist’, and I were recently in London, visiting beautiful daughter and her accommodating husband. We saw a million incredible sights…a roman amphitheatre found buried in 1988 under the City of London’s Guildhall, Shakespeare’s grave at Trinity Church in Stratford on Avon, the incredible, 500 year-old Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford…amazing, stupendous, sights to take one’s breath away. But I really didn’t have any of those whacko moments of creativity until I saw this.

The four of us were walking around the London theater district, after an adventurous dinner at a Chinese restaurant (up 30 narrow stairs, down a hallway, sit here and enjoy!) when I paused and glanced down a small side street and stopped dead. “What is that? Oh my gosh, how magical? But what is it?” I demanded of my beloved trio.  One at a time they offered calm answers. 
“It’s a connector bridge between the two buildings,” offered patient Jon. “It’s a pedestrian walkway,” said brilliant Olivia. “What are you talking about?” said hubby, who was as usual looking where I was pointing, which was not exactly where the bridge was. (I am very bad at pointing.)
Olivia and Jon were, of course, correct. But what they described wasn’t at all what my writer’s brain saw, or imagined in a nanosecond of contemplation. 
It was a magical portal to the future! It was a highway to heaven! It was Harry Potter’s back door, or the Star Trek Enterprise’s docking station, or or or….
You get the picture. 
Now, three months later, I’ve got two solid ideas for books built around what that glowing, exotic, totally brilliant little architectural detail could be. I’m not ready to share either of them  yet. But I am sure one day I will.
Until then, I’ll share another photo from London that didn’t inspire a book, but we all shared a few nervous, double entendrechuckles over. This writer and the non-writers all agreed it is a great way to finish a blog post about images and imagination.  

Originally published as guest blog at http://heasareus.blogspot.com/2013/12...

The Challenges in Writing Secret Sister

 

     There were two big challenges in writing Secret Sister.
     The first was to use a supernatural/paranormal event, which of course is not ‘real’, as a structural plot element and not scare off readers who want a traditional love story that also examines faith, trust and how much anyone really knows about those they love.
     Women’s fiction, particularly stories about a central romance, tend to be very reality based; many stories revolve around every day domestic and work situations, relationships with family, lovers and husbands, and generally have two feet firmly planted in realistic happenings. So when I decided to write a ‘trading places’ story, where one character’s ‘being’ or ‘soul’ is transferred by an extraordinary event into another character’s physical body, I wanted to be sure not to undercut the emotional impact and feel of the story by using something too weird.
     I think it worked based on the feedback I’ve had from readers and the seventy plus reviews on Amazon.
     The second challenge was dealing with the sexuality and ‘moral character’ of Nick and Cathy and Roxanne, my three main subjects.
     I believe the mind is a free roaming beast, and despite our good natures and moral beliefs, it can sometimes (often times) imagine or project a fantasy thought that surprises the person having it. I think it’s normal and average for a woman to have a ‘what if?’ thought about her best friend’s husband as a sexual partner, and I don’t think having that thought brands a person, in any way, as bad or shameful. I’ve been surprised by the reaction of a few readers who felt that this honest depiction of these ‘untamed thoughts’ characters in Secret Sister have, but don’t act on, made the character unlikeable.
     Some readers didn’t think it was okay for a woman to silently consider the sexual prowess of a friend’s boyfriend, or that it’s traitorous for a man to wonder what sex would be like with his wife’s dearest friend. I think real people do this all the time, with no intention of acting on any of their thoughts. They’re mature and in control of their actions, but who can control their own thoughts?
     But that’s one of the things about writing and putting your stories out there…you will often get feedback about something you weren’t aware you were revealing about your characters, or yourself. HA!
     Who knew that what I thought was normal wasn’t a good fit for others? This was naïve of me, and when you add into this mix the fact that many readers want ‘ideal’ characters in their romance, it could have been a fatal mistake.
     That said, I took on the challenge of realistically examining the situations this extraordinary event of  
Cathy Chance being trapped in another woman’s body would have on an ordinary woman. I thought it was fun and intriguing way to look at the big issue in Secret Sister, which was, how well do we really know our true love, or our self?
     So far most readers I’ve heard from enjoyed the depiction of these struggles in Secret Sister.
     Which is what writers probably always hope for when they choose an unusual structural or thematic element in a story. Fifty shades of Grey? You think S/M will sell millions? Twilight? Teen Vampires, really? A Wizard School for kids? No way will that sell, I’m sure more than a few people said.
     But as a dear friend, Alice Seaman, once wrote in a card to me when I first got published… ‘No guts, no glory’. So bring on the challenges and Emelle Gamble will give them a try!

(Originally published on Read Your Writes blog, September 2013. Thank you Kim!)

Books Belong to Readers

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Books Belong to Readers

“How do you think Secret Sister ended?”My dear friend Kathleen R. asked me this question when we were discussing my new book and the reviewer’s response to it. I was surprised at her question, and my first thought was, ‘what do you mean, how do I think it ended? I know how it ended. I wrote it .’But of course her question was brilliant, as are most things Kathleen R. says are. And it got me thinking.My opinion on how Secret Sister ends is just that, my opinion. I weaved hints, clues, and statements of fact throughout the 90,000 word novel.  I  ‘showed’, like all we authors try to do, what the various characters were thinking, mulling, and concluding about the very strange situation Cathy and Nick Chance found themselves in. And my opinion is solidly based on my reading (and writing) of this contemporary ‘trading places’ romance.But that doesn’t make me the final word, or ‘right’. About any of it. Authors tell their story, and if we do it well, the ending themes and situations are clear and factually grounded in the incidents that make up the story.  Yet, I knew this but may have forgotten it, readers bring themselves to every story. The novels we immerse ourselves in reflect back into us, illuminating each of our unique life experiences.  They let us confirm, and question, our positions on life and love, and innocence and guilt, and on all the wonderful complexity of the human soul. How many wonderful arguments have each of us had over the years about a particular character’s true motives or emotional make-up? I’ve had several heated ones in my critique group about New Yorker magazine short stories, books and numerous films…some of the most heated about characters in each of our books! “What do you mean he’s a sniveling weakling, I think this shows he’s empathetic,” I believe is an exact comment I uttered. Possibly more than once. (My male characters are very in touch with their feminine side. HA!)The reviews about Secret Sister have certainly proven this to me…I have been shocked at readers judging the book as ‘intense’ or ‘painful’.  I’ve loved that most find the plot really hooks them and they can’t figure out how it’s going to end. But I’ve also been unhappy that some have pretty much hated my characters ‘at one time or another’ when reading. How could they hate these folks, I wondered? Yes, they are flawed and make mistakes, and are a bit self-involved, but… Okay, I just read that and realize, yeah, readers could hate them. Some of the time (the author wrote hopefully).But why did some readers love these guys, and others not? But of course, Kathleen R.’s comment is the answer. The words of the story touched something in each of the readers, something unique and wonderful in their memory or heart, something I may not have intended, but something real for that reader. And real for the reader is real. Reading is a collaborative sport , and the author doesn’t get to complain about what a reader concludes. No matter what.  So, as for the ending of Secret Sister ? Cupcake’s review on Goodreads and Amazon said, “The ending  is not as neat as it appears, and you will find yourself asking "what if ..." This, in my somewhat shocked opinion as a writer, is a valid take away.  It wasn’t consciously designed to be an ending open to interpretation. But I realize that, if I tell the honest truth, a case can be made for Secret Sister’s final scene to prove almost the opposite of what I intended.   Ahhh…the subconscious mind. All those experiences in my life, rising up and ambushing my good narrative intentions. Or, fulfilling them?   The bottom line is ‘Yay readers’. They get the final say what your book ‘means’. It is what the reading experience is really all about. Thank you, Kathleen R., for reminding me of this.  

New Again...courtesy of the Rockville 8

This week the Rockville 8 (http://rockville8.blogspot.com/2013/0...) welcomes Emelle Gamble! She's been an invaluable resource for me, personally, and I am thrilled about her new book, Secret Sister, hitting the virtual shelves. You can find her at www.EmelleGamble.com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Emelle.Gamble
*~*~* On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Secret Sister by Emelle Gamble went on sale at Amazon.
It's  my first new book for sale in over a decade. I won’t bore you with the details of why this is (but it is spelled L-I-F-E), but let me say that, while it's just as exciting now being a ‘new author’ as it was the first time,  it’s also a lot more nerve-wracking and challenging the second time around.
In my past life as Harlequin Intrigue writer M.L. Gamble, when I got a new  idea for a book (always the ending first, then the title), I’d get a thrilling, chilling little ‘pop’ of excitement inside my head. Sharp inhale.I knew the creative process had begun.
Very soon after that I’d begin plotting, outlining, and note card noting…The evenings saw the first pages blooming on my computer screen, the next weeks would find me bundling those exciting ‘first three’ chapters off (surely they were perfect) to my critique group. This would be followed by hearing from my honest, supportive and encouraging critique group that the chapters were, in fact, not perfect . So I wrote and rewrote, suffered middle book malaise, last chapter loathing, and re-evaluation jitters, but completed the first draft. And the second draft. And the fifth draft.
A few days before the contract deadline (most of the time) I printed the whole thing out on paper. Addressed a big-ass envelope. Drove to the United States Post Office. Bought postage and insurance (“It’s a manuscript, I’m a writer.” This sentence was always worked into conversation with the postal worker). Watched the now impressed (surely) postal employee throw  the package in a bin, giddy with the knowledge it was going to end up on my New York Editor’s desk in 48 hours.
Over the next few months, after a couple of exchanges of edits, and proofed copy checks, art approval (which meant saying, “Yes, I like it” even though my concept of a hot guy on a motorcycle turned into a psycho bowler - see If Looks Could Kill cover) , the creative work was done.

Then four to six months later there would be a knock on the door and you’d get a box of books. Beautiful books. Your books. This was the reason for the long hours and hard work.  (The reason you lived!)
Exhale. Delirium. My book will be read, my story will be shared. I’m a new author.
Now, ten years later, the creative process hasn’t much changed, except for the fact it’s done electronically instead of on paper. But everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING else has changed.

Though I am still contracted with a publisher, albeit a smaller one, in this new publishing environment I immediately discovered that there was much, much more I had to do to give my new book a chance of success. For many publishing houses now no longer support authors as they did in the Wizard of Oz olden days when I was at Harlequin. Publishers expect you, as an author, especially a new author , to not only write a great book, but hunt down your prospective readers and introduce yourself..
On behalf of Secret Sister , I’ve personally contacted hundreds of blogs, review sites and readers with email pitches for review consideration. I’ve asked friends, family members, and fellow authors to read an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) and consider posting a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads, and have offered to spend the time required to read others’ books and return the favor.
I’ve spent many, many hours working with a pro to set up a website, without a pro to set up a Facebook Author page, a twitter account, a Goodreads Authoraccount. And a blog. (Worth the ten hours it took figuring that out just to see the look on hubby’s face when I explained what a blog was. HA!)
I’ve designed storyboards to help create a book trailer and put it up on YouTube . I’ve talked to half a dozen local book sellers, three librarians, and two newspaper columnists about Secret Sister . I’ve spent money on a website, book covers, copy editors, and a top notch review/ARC giveaway site, Netgalley. I’ve spent money on a Facebook ad campaign and a Goodreads ad campaign and a publicity Blog tour campaign with a highly recommended company named Goddess Fish Promotions. (And I have the surreal Paypal receipt for the IRS to prove it!)  I spent money on an ‘expert’ social media consultant who advised me to do everything I’d already done. And frankly, I have no idea if any of this effort is going to result in my finding an audience for Secret Sister .
Which brings me back to Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
Exhale. Delirium. My book is being read, my story is being shared. I’m a new author. AGAIN.
Secret Sister by Emelle Gamble is a romantic novel with a paranormal twist. It came to me (with that thrilling, chilling little pop of excitement) when I thought of a single question… “  What if everything about you changed, would your true love recognize you?”
It’s a contemporary story set in Southern California about Nick and Cathy, happily married. And Cathy and Roxanne, best friends forever. It’s about faith and friendship and true love, secrets and lies and the ties that bind. And an extraordinary twist of fate.
It’s a brand new book from a brand new author in this brand new world. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Watch the Secret Sister trailer here.
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