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April 23, 2014
Cover Reveal – Forgiven by Vicki Green
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Forgiven, Touched #2
Author: Vicki Green
Genre: Contemporary Romance
SYNOPSIS:
Bo Dunway’s young life has been fortunate. His parents being wealthy and providing him and his sister a loving environment growing up, he’s never wanted for much but he has a heart of gold. With his good grades and basketball scholarship he’s able to attend a prominent college, but he doesn’t want to live out of state. He can’t bear the thought of leaving behind the one thing he loves more than basketball. Stormy Reece.
Stormy Reece grew up in the most unusual conditions. Meeting Bo and his family was the best thing that ever happened to her. They met when he was seven, and she was five behind the Mexican Restaurant he and his family frequented. Her single mother worked there most day and nights so Stormy was always there hanging out in the kitchen or the back alley. Without a father figure in her life, she rebelled in her late teens, going to party’s with the friends she had made that were horrible influences, staying out till all hours of the night and worrying her mother sick.
Bo and Stormy became inseparable until he reluctantly left for college. He promised he’d never leave her. She believed him. Never again will she trust anyone but herself. He knew from the moment he saw her that he was going to marry her one day. Being forced to attend a college away from his home town, his promising career hangs in the balance as his concentration is only on one thing. Stormy.
Will Bo follow his dreams or his heart and will they ever be able to live out their dream of being together?
*Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Vicki Green
Vicki Green grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and currently resides in Olathe, Kansas. Along with her husband and two teenage boys, she shares her home with her cocker spaniel’s Shadow and Mocha. She has been working full time at the same Company for 35 years. Her life has been filled with the most loving and caring parents, who are both gone now but are still in her heart and mind daily.
Vicki enjoys reading Romance books which is what inspired her to begin writing this book. She has always admired Author’s dedication and hard work. She had a dream that played out for over a year, came home one day after work and decided to put it on a word document to see how it read and that became ‘My Savior Forever’, the beginning of her Forever Series.
Social media links:
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Tour organized by: HEA Book Tours, PR & More
Giveaway
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April 20, 2014
Blog Tour Winners – Monster Unleashed
Blog Tour Winners…If you know anyone on the list please tag them so they can contact me with either their address or email! Thank you and Congrats everyone :)
Terri Carle – Signed Paperbacks
Betul Erikci – Both Ebooks
Mary Goodman – Both Ebooks
April Alvey – Both Ebooks
Lennisa Davis – Both Ebooks
Denise Zaky – Both Ebooks
Everyone else signed postcards
Karen Elizabath
Claire Ress
Cathy Chandler
E LR Jones
Belinda Raia
Heather Stanley
Donna Harms
Tamera McIntosh
Denise Zaky
Susan Johnson
Liza Dequilla
Jo Ann Boothby
Brenda Dagwan
Joseph Hawksaw
Lennisa Davis
Lenna Wright-Berry
Betul Erikci
Kerri Mclauglin
Crystal Flannery
Karen Roloff
April 17, 2014
WIN A FREE KINDLE
All you have to do is enter the pinned post at my release event on Facebook. Just read the instructions and you can be entered for a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD….www.facebook.com/events/239231172945... so come out and celebrate and play games for a ton of cool prizes.
April 15, 2014
Release Day It’s LIVE – Dark Indiscretions: Monster Unleashed by Shakuita Johnson
Buy Links
Barnes and Noble – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-indiscretions-shakuita-johnson/1119231232?ean=2940149201037
Blurb
What would you do if the one fate chose for you vanished into thin air? What would you give up? Who would you become to stay with that person?
Krista Bell finally knows what it’s like to be free. The torture she endured at the hands of her psychotic father have unleashed the monster her mother tried so hard to help her suppress. The only thing she wants to do is be the shadow in the night that everyone is afraid of.
Taser is barely holding it together. He lost Kris once to her father and now he’s losing her to the monster she is becoming. He’s also barely containing his own monster since Krista decided she didn’t need her mates anymore. Nathan is still near but he may not be enough.
Nathan is on the verge of losing not one but both of his mates. One vanished without a trace. The other is avoiding him. He has run out of patience with them both.
But when the monster that Krista has become comes to them with a proposal will they take her up on it and possibly lose themselves or will they try to talk her down and get the beast to put back on her chain?
Excerpt
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It had been two months. Two months since she killed her whole family. Two months since she ran and never looked back. Two months of looking over her shoulder. Something was wrong with her. Jennifer Johnston just knew it. She was craving things she had never wanted before, never ever had needed. It was getting harder and harder to resist the silent call, the cravings that started to crawl up her throat to the point of choking her with their mounting intensity. She didn’t know how much longer she could run, how much longer she could say no to these sudden scary and violent urges.
She needed to find someone to talk to, another Mystic perhaps, but she didn’t know who she could trust. She had done something no other Mystic had done before. She wasn’t like the rest of them. She was different. Some may even say defective. She didn’t want to become an inbred freak like the rest of them, but she feared it had been done. The things her uncle had succeeded in doing before she could get away from him, before she had the strength to kill him, may be coming back to haunt her.
She needed to rest for just a little while. That old barn looked like as good a place as any. She would only rest for a second more. As she quickly and quietly made her way to her destination, she heard noises in the distance. What sounded like a tiny cavalry was coming up fast behind her. She tried to duck before she was spotted, but it seemed her luck was still running thin. She braced herself for a possible fight.
“Halt! What business do you have on this land?” a male voice called out.
“I’m just a bit lost. Could you point me in the direction of an inn?” Jenny asked, trying to appear disoriented.
“Lying Mystic scum! We can smell your trickery and deceit from here. Where are the rest of you? What trap is this?” the male demanded.
Shit. Humans she could have easily dealt with, other paranormals not so much. This would be tricky. She counted eight soldiers. They should have brought more.
“I don’t want any trouble. Leave me be and I’ll be on my way,” Jenny tried to reason with the creatures.
“Grab her!” the male demanded.
Awesome! They were going to play try to capture the Mystic. Jenny did something she had never done before. She used her Mystic powers. She called upon all the energy she could muster, which was a whole hell of a lot, and let loose. Damn, something was defiantly changing with her right now, but she didn’t have time to explore it. She heard screams from all eight men. She had overloaded their nervous systems. She could see blood start to seep from any and everywhere possible. It was disgusting.
Not wanting them to suffer more than they were already, Jenny sent a final blast and everything stopped. Not a single heart beat anymore. She had killed them, every last one of them. She didn’t have time to feel bad for the lives she had taken. They left her no choice. The worst part of it all, she thought to herself, was that she should have drained at least one of them dry. She was so fucking hungry! She performed a quick spell to turn the bodies to ash and continued on her way to that damn barn.
About The Author
Shakuita Johnson is a 29-year-old Psychology major. When she isn’t going to school or working, she is doing what she loves most. Writing. She started writing in middle school. Starting with poetry. Then short stories in a creative writing course her senior year. Her love for paranormal and supernatural started with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and TV show, Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles, and Christopher Pike books. She is an avid reader with over 100 books on her bookshelf and 1000 plus on her iPad. This is her second novel. Visit her online and read her poems and one attempt at songwriting on her blog.
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April 14, 2014
Signed Paperbacks Announcement
Ok…now you can buy signed paperbacks from me for $14 (hope that’s not too much…it includes everything even shipping) from my website it’s on the Home screen at the bottom :) Let’s see how this goes Right now it’s set up for Dark Indiscretions and Dark Indiscretions: Monster Unleashed (which should be in stock towards the end of the month since it’s only releasing tomorrow in Ebook) but you can put your orders in as late or early as you want so spread the word bird!!!
http://sljay1184.wix.com/shakuita
April 11, 2014
Dark Indiscretions: Monster Unleashed Release Date
Hello all! How are you? I’m just taking it one day at a time and trying not to burn myself out you know…my work days are counting down and so are the days to my finished degree. I’m excited and nervous for both. I have big plans this year and we aren’t even halfway into it yet. I can’t wait to start the next chapter in my life….
Speaking of next chapters book 2 in my Dark Indiscretions Series is scheduled to release April 15th!!! Yes you heard right that’s only 4 days from now. I’m so damn stoked it’s not even funny. There is currently a blog tour going on for it and a giveaway linked with it…here is the mobile friendly link…
Here is the direct link as well…
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/88b6446/
As soon as I have the purchase links for Dark Indiscretions: Monster Unleashed I will be posting them everywhere :) For now here is the Goodreads link….
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20570459-monster-unleashed
April 10, 2014
Guest Post – Stephanie Williams
OFFICE PLAY By Stephanie Williams Coming this Spring.
Jeanette Foster is an outside auditor for hire and she’s very good at her job but nothings prepared her for this.
Someone is stealing at Lambert, Parker and Bradley, a prestigious advertising agency. And not just office supplies. Laptops, company cars and expensive software just for starters.
But that’s not what makes her assignment interesting. It’s her new working partner, the head of IT. A modern day Tarzan by the name of Adam. And she’s more than willing to be his Jane.
Adam Strathmore is the head of IT. The new outside auditor had him wanting to pound his chest and drag her off to his lair; where he’d keep her naked. He does something he swore he would never do again—get involved with someone at work. But the attraction is instant and he can’t contain himself. In or out of the office.
Can they solve what looks like ordinary office supply pilfering and get their relationship back on track without both of them getting fired?
EXCERPT:
Adam looked up from his cell, and stood in front of the Miss Foster’s office door. He pressed his ear to the door. He could hear her on the phone, but knocked anyway, hoping that she would let him in and he could set her up while she continued her conversation.
“Come in.”
He opened the door quietly and walked in. The woman hung up the phone and got up, a brilliant smile swept across her face. Her beautiful face.
“Hello, you must be Adam. I’m Jeanette Foster. I’m the new Chief Auditor of Operations.” She stepped from behind her desk and reached out to shake his hand.
“Yeah…Adam….Strathmore,” he barely croaked out. Va-va-va-voom! His crew wasn’t just talking this time. This woman in every sense of the word was drop dead gorgeous.
He took her hand, but kept his eyes focused on her. All of her. From her head to her feet. She was tall, at least five ten. Stacked! It’s been a long time since he’s seen a woman with real curves like this. Now he would admit, his thirty-five years hasn’t exposed him to every woman on the planet. But it seemed every woman he met at the club, or at work, seemed more focused on having a hard, lean, body more than him.
Her skin coloring reminded him of a rich cup of coffee, with just a dollop of creamer. Even with the hair pulled back, the thick black ponytail hung below her shoulder blades. Her face was heart shaped and her large round hazel eyes were dazzling.
Adam found himself moving closer to her, her hand still in his. It was her mouth that was pulling him. Those full, burgundy lips were calling to him. And damn it, if he didn’t want to answer.
In that brief moment, a vision of him and her on the floor of her office having buck wild sex played in his mind. The thought of them naked together made his groin ache. He never had a reaction this fast to any woman.
“Mr. Strathmore?”
Adam shook his head, when he realized that Miss Foster had been calling him. “Huh?”
“I asked if that’s my new laptop.” She pointed downward.
He looked under his arm. “Oh yeah. And please….call me Adam.” He finally let go of her hand. “I’m here to set things up for you.”
“Great, I want to get started as soon as possible.”
“That’s what I’m here for Ms. Foster.”
“Please, call me Jeanette. Ms. makes me feel old.”
“I don’t think anything could ever make you feel old. You’re an exquisite looking woman.”
Before anyone could react to his words, they both stood there looking at each other, while what sounded like her cell phone rang in the background.
Author Bio
My name is Stephanie Williams. I am a native to Los Angeles, born 48 years ago. I am a full-time home business owner in the export/import trade as well as a contract Purchasing Agent for a medical facility. I enjoy opera, classical music and am a huge history buff. Reading is my passion and it is not unusual for me to read a book a week, whether it’s War in Peace or short stories of Poe and of course romance and erotica. I’ve traveled extensively and it’s not unusual to find me celebrating Christmas in the Land Down Under with a Shrimp on the Barbie
Where you can reach Stephanie Williams
Blog: http://missstephaniewilliams.blogspot.com/
Blog: http://stephaniewilliamsauthor.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StephanieWilli5
Facebook: http://facebook.com/StephanieWilliamsWriter
April 9, 2014
Cover Reveal – Blurred by Kim Karr
BLURRED SYNOPSIS:
The story before the love story….
When he lost the only woman he’d ever loved, it seemed there was nothing left to live for.
Even as a boy, all Ben Covington ever wanted was to spend forever with Dahlia London, the beautiful girl next door…then one life-altering decision tore them apart and he was forced to leave her.
Now, despite having returned to win her back, he’s still alone. She’s with someone else—someone she’s never going to leave.
Resigned to a future without his former girlfriend, Ben numbs his broken heart in a haze of liquor and women. But then the only woman who ever even turned his head while he was with his girl reappears unexpectedly. And he’s never forgotten their one incredible night together. But will Ben’s destructive behavior destroy his future with her before it even begins?
Excerpt
PRE-ORDER LINKS:
***BLURRED** (releases 8/5/2014)
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GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19187169-blurred
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
Website: http://www.authorkimkarr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKimKarr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorkimkarr
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6644044.Kim_Karr
Cover Reveal – The Madam by M. Robinson
The Madam – Book II of The VIP Trilogy
Available May 19th, 2014
Some
people need love…
I
need sex, money, control, and power.
Anyone
could have those four things, but only one could have VIP. Becoming
Madam was never a choice for me, it was a mandated order from the
most powerful woman I knew- my mother. I was born to fill her shoes,
never to make mistakes, or to show weakness.
You
are the product of your environment. They say the apple doesn’t fall
far from the tree; you learn from what you see, not from what you’re
told. Nature vs. Nurture. I learned from it all; what I saw, what I
didn’t see, what I was told, and from reading between the lines.
I
was raised with the belief that the world spun ONLY because of me. I
held power as far back as I can remember, saw things no one ever
talks about, and witnessed illegal acts of sex, drugs, and money by
the time I was eighteen.
You
saw a glimpse of me in VIP, now see it from the beginning. Enter my
world where anything goes; no judgments, no remorse, no guilt. You
play by my rules, or you don’t play at all. There are no limits to
what I can do, or to what I can show you…I will ensure my legacy my
any means necessary.
My
name is Lilith Veronica Stone, and I am The Madam.
Book contains adult situations.
Dark
content/sex/drugs/language. Mature readers only.
~ Goodreads ~ The Madam Book Trailer ~
Before you read The Madam – read VIP – Book 1 in the VIP trilogy
32 year old Sebastian
Vanwell, was a very successful yacht broker, who always loved the design
and architecture of a luxurious boat. His only addiction was being on
the water. He loved it, he thrived on it, and he needed it in his life.
After a very stable, loving childhood with only a few bumps, Sebastian
married the love of his life. The one person that he knew would always
be there. Julia was his rock, and he loved her more than life itself.
Sebastian kept his addiction to the water under control, wanting to keep
his time with his wife and son his number one obsession, that was until
he saw her. This new addiction haunted him, the one compulsion that he
couldn’t control no matter how hard he tried.
Ysabelle Telle hit
him hard, knocking the wind from his lungs. Coming from worlds apart,
beautiful, dark complexion Ysabelle Telle didn’t have the rich,
protected background that Sebastian Vanwell had. Ysabelle lived a life
of hell, in poverty, growing up with a drug addict mother that never
cared, and horrific living conditions. Ysabelle lived for one person and
one person only; herself. She was pure perfection, her beauty along
with a flawless body had men lined up, driveling over her ensuring her
success as a VIP.
There are too many words that describe the
effects when two diverse worlds like theirs collide. They both have too
much to lose to get caught in the forceful pull, which could destroy
them both.
Warning sex/drugs/language. Mature readers only
~ Amazon ~ Goodreads ~ B&N ~ Book Trailer ~
About The Author:
M. Robinson loves to read. She
favors anything that has angst, romance, triangles, cheating, love, and
of course sex! She has been reading since the Babysitters Club and R.L.
Stein.She was born in New Jersey but was raised in Tampa Fl. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D in psychology, with two years left.She is married to an amazing man who she loves to pieces. They have two German Shepherd mixes and a Tabby cat.
~ Facebook ~ Goodreads ~ Amazon ~
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April 8, 2014
Writing Process: How to screw it up
Love this
Originally posted on C h a z z W r i t e s . c o m:
1. Talk about it too much without typing. Lose energy that could go on the page. Talking is so much easier than typing. In fact, maybe you should be in radio.
2. Don’t write notes as soon as great ideas, additions and twists occur to you. Better to stay in bed another few minutes than catch the lightning.
3. Don’t outline at all for fear it will screw up your spontaneity. You’re an artiste, man! Let the muse sing! Planning is for wussies and many successful writers.
4. Even if a new and brilliant scene occurs to you, don’t stray from your outline because letting OCD control you is much more important than writing a better book. Readers will understand. Well, not readers plural….
5. Take all opinions from your writing group and try to accommodate everyone. They must know your story better than you do, or you wouldn’t…
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