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Weekly words of wisdom: Who are you?

In case you think I wrote this for you or about you, I need to tell you that you’re wrong. I’m all up in my head but your welcome to come along. I’ve been thinking a lot about choices and decisions. Right now, I think that these decisions I have to make are like a game of twister and what happens depends on who I am.

So, let’s say your right foot is on blue and your left foot is on yellow. Your hands are spread just so to keep you comfortable, but now you have to make a decision which color do I move my right foot too.

You move your foot to the blue circle next to you. It was the easy, comfortable choice. Instead of relaxing the game board expands and now you’re stretched so thin that you’re sure you’re going to fall. Your fingers are gripping the surface around you to help you stay up.

What happened? There is a river between where your foot is and where it was. It could be a river, a forest, or even dessert, let’s call it the great divide. No matter what it is, you’re not going to be able to go back to the comfortable place you just left. Now person one on your right moves her foot. She chooses a red space, and there are balloons falling out of the air for her. She wins the lottery buys a house in the Hamptons and retires. What just happened?

Some people always step in the right place without trying or thinking about it. You may be one of those people, but let’s face it most of us aren’t.

Person number two on your left chooses the yellow circle. Her legs are spread uncomfortably wide also. Does this mean you’re vindicated? She looks around and realizes she simply has to cross a street. Yes, it will take her a week or two. She’ll have to dodge cars and bikes, make sure she doesn’t bump into anyone but before you know it she’s back in the comfort zone, and you are talking eloquently about how unfair life is.

Let’s call you the writer. See I told you I was up in my head, but don’t worry you’re about to meet the rest of the world shortly.

Writer, you’re in a bad spot. Since you made the wrong decision and your obviously not person one or two you have to dig yourself out the hole you’re in and find a way to be successful. I know you decide to listen to a podcast. Not any podcast but your favorite one. The one where the voices don’t irritate you and the people running it make you want to be them. They have the best guest both males and females. You listen and get an idea that positively genius and you put your effort into making it work for you.

Your great divide gets bigger. The money you expected to roll in doesn’t, and now you’re going to have a month that you don’t know if you’ll be able to survive. Your fingers are clutching for anything to hold onto, and you’re sure that a gentle breeze will knock you on your a$$

Well, that just sucks for writer, I agree, but what about everyone else.

You, we’ll call you Athen, like writer you can be male or female but I will simply refer to you as female because it’s easier for me.

Athen someone treated you wrong. It could be your boss, or maybe your significant other; it could be a child or a friend or even an authority figure. Whoever it was has you madder than you want to acknowledge. So, you got to your best friend. You know the one who has the balls of steel.

She talks to you, gets you psyched up and sends you home determined to defend yourself, because gosh darn it’s your right.

Now you don’t have balls of steel, but that’s okay because you bought that new product out on the market. The balls of steel thong that still makes you feel feminine and soft. You wake up the next morning and put it on. It’s kind of heavy between the legs but what worries you more is the weight on your chest. Let’s say it was your boss that bothered you.

Armed with your new steel balls and confidence from your friend you go into your boss’s office where you have a beautifully intense conversation. You walk out without a job.

Athen what do you have in common with writer?

Writer listened to some very good and sound advice but she never stopped to ask herself is that the best advice for me? Was the person giving the advice they type that if she threw one hundred dollars up in the air, it would come down as one thousand? Could she be the type that even if she choose the wrong path she could make it up before it affected her? There was always the possibility that choosing the wrong path wouldn’t bother her bottom line because of the cushion she had. Or maybe she was like writer who seemed to struggle for everything she achieved.

Athen, you made the same mistake. You never stopped to ask yourself who your friend was and was she like you. Now you’re sitting on the Southside in some elegant coffee shop drinking something that is designer dealing with the fact that you have no job.

Writer is sitting somewhere on the eastside in a slightly dingier coffee shop drinking a knock off dealing with the fact that because she zigged when she should have gone straight that soon a month was coming when her royalties would suck.

That is where we will leave both writer and Athen. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to reread this and see if I can find out who I am.

 

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Dev’s Mate is live

#Shifter #Military #ontherun

Dev was military until they locked him up and used him for experimentation. When they finally made him a shifter, what made them think he wouldn’t escape? Now he was running for his life. He was never going back no matter what they tried to do to him.

When a man escapes what can bring him back?

Rissa was in hiding living her life on the down low until the military abducted her. They made her into a shifter and sent her after a certain male. She was running and confused until she met Dev. Now the last thing she wants is for him to be hurt in any way.

If they want to be together, they’re going to have to outsmart the military and her past. The task looks impossible, but they refuse to give up because the reward of outsmarting them all is love and a life together. The only thing Rissa and Dev want.

 

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Enzo is live on Amazon

Let me start by saying I can still remember sitting in the movie theater with one of my friends watching Jurassic Park. When we left the theater, we stopped to look at the horizon looking for dinosaurs. We laughed hard because we both did it. They just felt so real.

I started writing Enzo last year spring/summer. I had some lofty goals. I don’t know if I met them, but I tried. I wanted something fun that dealt with relationships and love. I wanted some twist and turns and laughter. I also wanted you to walk down the street and catch a glimpse of someone out of the corner of your eye and wonder if you had just seen an alien.

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you ran into a male that wasn’t born on earth? Deja never wondered that. Right now, all she wanted was a job and a new place to live. When she found herself standing on the steps of what looked like an old-fashioned gentlemen’s club, she squared her shoulder. They were going to hire her.

Enzo knew he should stay away from Deja, but the minute he saw her, he had to have her. Life was never going to be the same, and they were both fine with that.

This romance has both sci-fi and paranormal elements but is also set in a contemporary setting. Deja could be anyone looking for a job that meets the male of her dreams who wasn’t born on this planet.

 

Amazon

 

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Willow’s Dragon

Willow’s Dragon the last book in the Dragon Mates series is now live on Amazon.

Willow has spent years on the run. She has no idea what’s chasing her all she knows is she has to stay on step ahead of it. All of that is now over or at least she hopes so as she decides to take a cruise. Its the first real vacation she can remember. Thoughts of sitting around the pool and drinking exotic drinks when she reaches Jamaica are keeping her busy until she meets someone that makes her need for self preservation go off. He’s a threat and she doesn’t know why.

Javon has been frozen for centuries. His life is at an end, but he still searches fro the one person who can make him flesh and blood again…his mate. Finally, he locates her. He knows that all he will ever be able to do is watch over her, until his enemy finds her. Now it’s a race against time to see who gets to her first.

Willow will have to believe the impossible, that dragons exist. Javon will have to convince her that even though he’s frozen and unable to love her, he is still her mate. Mutufa his enemy, the enemy of all dragons will be trying to kill them before Willow has a chance to to reverse his frozen state. It’s a race against time and if Mutufa wins the beginning of a new world order is on the horizon.

Click below to enter the world of dragons and their mates.

Willow’s Dragon: Dragon Mates: A BBW Paranormal Romance

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Do characters take on a mind of their own

Yes! Let me repeat that, yes, they do. When I wrote the first Love Me Harder book, I was in seventh heaven. I was driving one day, and a song came on the radio. The rest was history. I had a story idea which quickly became a series idea.

I’m a pancer but I knew who would be in the first book and I was writing happily as I shared my idea with my friend from work. Who by the way is great and was like you can do it!

The story was coming along fine when suddenly another character showed up that I never intended to put in the story. I bet you already know who I’m talking about.

Rena says we need him he’s important. I disagreed. He whispered in my ear saying he was here to stay. Finally, I gave in and said he can have a walk on role. Bring the food and leave.

He gave me a smile. You know the smile that says nothing you just said is important and I’m going to have my way.

Yep, he had his way. Before I knew it, the name Dante was as special as the male himself. But trying to be true to myself I tried to make his role a cameo, but he was important to the story as well as the other characters.

Aran and his brothers weren’t supposed to know him, but they did. Each book he became more important telling me the story was bigger than I thought.

Now he’s whispering to me about another group of Created.

Does anyone remember that he started out with a scar one that comes and goes?

So, my answer once again is yes characters take on a life of their own. Now I’m just a writer, but I swear I think they exist somewhere in the galaxy and they simply want their story told.

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Why I write aliens

I bet if I said Star Trek you would immediately say to me you were a Spock fan, girl, babe, etc…

I would grin like crazy, shake my head for emphasis and say yes loudly. I love me some Spock.

What is it, you might ask. Is it the eyes? Heck yeah. Is it the eyebrows? Definitely. Then I would say let’s not forget the green blood.

After I finish fangirling, I would have to admit I wasn’t even ten when I first saw Star Trek. At that age, I wasn’t thinking of boys as cute. If I were born in the last ten years, I would have tons of posters everywhere of cute boys, especially if they were in a band. My daughter did at that age.

Now you might be wondering if it wasn’t the looks that attracted me, how did I become a Spock fan?

It was his intelligence and logic that attracted me. I found that to be hot although I didn’t know what hot meant when I was ten. (yeah, I feel old, Smile.)

At least I can say I watched Star Trek when it was in reruns.

Yep, that’s why I write aliens because there are worlds out there that think and act differently than we do. Just like there are people on the Earth that think and act differently than we do.

Some of these aliens are peaceful. Some are evil, but some have our struggles. They seek balance in their lives as well as mates.

I write aliens because they see the world differently and they allow me to see through their eyes.

We have some new aliens that will be revealed in 2017 as well as a different look at The Created.

I hope you will continue this five-year mission…wait I meant journey into 2017.

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Happy New Year

It’s 2017 y’all! I hope this year is everything we want it to be and that it puts 2016 to shame. For all of you, that loved 2016 ignore that last remark!

This year I’m looking for the best I decided on Thanksgiving that 2017 would be my year. After the champagne or faux champagne is drunk and the ball drops. Then there will be the cringe-worthy bullets that hit the air.

After all of that, it will be time to make this year work for us. And while we’re doing that I will be writing stories and taking old story lines in different directions that I think you’ll love while unveiling new stories.

That will all happen tomorrow. Today sleep in with the love of your life, play with your children and be thankful that we’ve been given a new year to make our mark in the world.

Happy New Year and Hugs.

Serena Simpson

Romance with a Twist

Damon is live on Amazon

Book two in The A’rouk Brothers series

Damon has been living under the curse of The Darkness all his life. All he can do is hope that he never meets his mate. That hope ran out when he met River. Now that’s he met her, touched her, healed her; he’ll do everything he can to defy The Darkness for one more minute with her.

River thought captivity would be the only thing she knew until she died. Then her captors tossed her out like yesterday’s trash. Now she’s dying with no hope in sight until she meets Damon. The death she was willing to accept turns into a fight for both of their lives. All she wants is one more day with him. Then one more day after that…

Kore’s Angel is Out

A Christmas Romance

Snow is falling, and the world is holding hands and singing songs, but Kore is alone in a home that he thinks he will one day die in. Every day his sanity grows a little less reliable. He knows the only thing that can save him is a mate, but all the female angles were killed years ago. It is now his fate to die alone.

She was stuck in a body that wouldn’t respond to her. The doctors told her she was dying from some rare disease. Lucky her. All she wanted to do was be held in the arms o the man who said he loved her. Instead, she found out he was the one killing her. All she could do was run but who would be able to save her.

A chance encounter when her car went over the ravine brought her face to face with Kore, her personal angel. She didn’t have, much time left and together they would have to defeat the man trying to kill her and find a way for their hearts never to be separated again.

The A’rouk’s: What’s love got to do with it

(If the Tina Turner song went through your head you’re in good company)

Setting right after Niko and Dee mate.

“Do they do that all the time?”

Hale looked over at Julian with a smile on his face that morphed into a grimace.

“Yep, all the time. They kiss each other or trade smiles. Aran is always running his hands over his mate’s curves. Niko is always nuzzling Dee’s neck.” He gave a small shudder and turned to look anywhere except at the happy couple.

Julian turned to look at his bothers their eyes met, none of them understood what could make strong warriors go so soft. They moved a little further across the lawn not wanting to be too close to Aran or Niko in case it was communicable.

“Never going to happen,” Raphael said softly. His brothers nodded their heads each lost in their thoughts.

“I understand brotherhood,” Julian said softly.

They were brought up on brotherhood their blood was forged in it. You loved your brothers you watched out for them. Hell, you even died for them. That was love not what was happening to their friends. How would they have each other’s backs if they had a female distracting them?

“Passion makes sense,” Lucas murmured.

They had been born with needs as A’rouk’s those needs were something they couldn’t ignore. The sheer power they carried in their bodies needed an outlet and a night of passion with a female they found warm and funny or just downright beautiful helped to relieve what they were feeling, but it was only for a night.

Once the need wore off, they never wanted to go back or make it permanent.

“The curse,” Mick said just loud enough for his brothers to hear but not their friends.

They had been born under a curse that said if they ever laid eyes on the female that was destined to be their mates; The Darkness would come with only one thought to harvest their soul. Together they entered a pact never to look for a potential mate. They were confirmed bachelors and proud of it.

Rena’s laugh rang in the warm air making them all reluctantly turn their heads to see the smile on her lips as Aran bent over and murmured something in her ear.

“Love,” Dante said loudly stirring them up and making them almost shake in their boots. Not even the vilest of assassins could do that, but that one word made them cringe like nails on a chalkboard.

They didn’t understand love. They understood loyalty; they even realized that both Aran and Niko would die for their mates just like they would die for their brothers, but beyond that the concept of love was a mystery.

It was the opposite of hatred something they had dealt with all of their lives. The scientist the very people who created them hated them.

Mick raised his hand to his heart; he didn’t know love. He knew brotherhood, fealty to the Dante and the rest of his brothers, but that was all. He acknowledged within himself that he didn’t have the capacity to love, then he smiled.

He would never love, and he would never suffer the curse. The brothers looked at each other once again renewing the vow they took centuries ago. They would never mate; they would live and die for the brotherhood.

Aran raised his eyes and looked at Dante. Dante met his gaze over his brother’s head. Both of them nodded. One day the A’rouk’s would meet their mates and together they would make sure it happened.