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November 26, 2012
The Mists of Midnight by Michelle M. Pillow
Review
“5 Quills! Michelle Pillow has created a love story filled with twists and turns that will keep you wondering what will happen next.” –Novelspot
“5 Blue Ribbons! In THE MISTS OF MIDNIGHT by Michelle M. Pillow I found a treasure. The plot is exceptional and the characters were wonderful.” –Romance Junkies
“Occasionally a romance comes along that has all of the components needed to make it great, and THE MISTS OF MIDNIGHT is just such a book. … The romance is unique and truly romantic, as is the ending.” –Romance Reviews Today
Product Description
Historical Paranormal Romance
England, 1812
Imogen Drake has always been willful, rarely doing what’s expected of her. When she refuses to obey her parents and marry an industrious Colonel, they decide to hire tutor to train her to be a proper lady wife.
Imogen assumes the handsome Dougal Weston is the man sent to instruct her from her rebellious ways. Her attraction to him is instant, but the confusing man seems set in keeping her in her place–even if she detects he feels something for her. With his arrival at Rothfield Park comes an abundance of unrested spirits. Suddenly, Imogen doesn’t know who is alive and who is dead. Why have they come now? And what are they trying frantically to tell her? Imogen must discover the truth about the eerie night mist that surrounds the manor before it comes to claim everyone she holds dear–including Mr. Weston.
November 22, 2012
Vlog: Favorite Holiday
Michelle’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow
Michelle M. Pillow: Favorite Holiday
Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.
Answering the reader question: What is your favorite holiday?
About Michelle:
Michelle M. Pillow, Author of All Things Romance™, is a multi-published (over 70 published books!) , award-winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. Ever since she can remember, she has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural–ghosts, magical powers, and oh… vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful? After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She’s glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.
She has been on the Amazon bestseller list multiple times, nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2011, the winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.
Publishers include everything from Indie to small press to big NY pubs: Random House, Virgin Books, Rouge (Ebury), Pocket Books, The Raven Books, Adams Media, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain, Running Press, Robinson, etc
Michelle is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a BGS in History/Business with an English Minor, and a Photography degree. In 2009 she and fellow author Mandy M. Roth started their own highly successful self-publishing endeavor named The Raven Books.
Readers can contact her through her author website http://www.MichellePillow.com
For photography, visit http://www.PrettyPoisonPhotography.com
Join her email newsletter at http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe
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November 20, 2012
Vlog: Favorite Halloween Costume
Michelle’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow
Michelle M. Pillow: Favorite Halloween Costume
Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.
Answering the reader question: What was your favorite Halloween costume?
Reader Help!
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November 19, 2012
Call of the Lycan: Complete Trilogy by Michelle M. Pillow
This Collection Includes The Novellas:
Call of the Sea, Book One
Ian O’Connell, heir prince to his clan, has no plans to settle down even though his untamed nature keeps him on the prowl for female company. The only woman he could ever want saved him from a watery grave before disappearing from his life forever. But that was a long time ago, too long for a mortal woman to have survived. Though he searched for her, in the end it was in vain.
Cursed by the power of the Cancerian crab, Ceana is doomed to spend her eternity in the ocean as a mermaid. Her only relief is on a full moon, when she becomes human and must find shore. Centuries have passed and she’s all but given up on the one who could save her. Brief passion is all she has and she’s willing to take what she can get–especially if it’s with an intriguing lycan who’s untamed nature just might be her salvation.
Call of the Untamed, Book Two
Roark O’Connell is a lycan on the prowl. For what, he’s not always sure. His job within the clan keeps him moving around and boredom often sets in. It’s boredom that causes him to make a bet with his brother James to hire an etiquette coach. Expecting an old schoolmarm type, he’s blown away to discover the sexiest woman he’s ever laid eyes on. The prim and proper Natasha might be there to tame his untamed ways, but he’s just the man to fulfill her wildest, most erotic dreams.
Call of Temptation, Book Three
James O’Connell lives simply, except for the whole hunting werewolves part. As one of the three lycan princes of the O’Connell clan, it’s his duty to enforce the lycan law. When a member of their clan begins killing humans, he’s sent to bring the rogue wolf in.
Claudia Hughes lives an ordinary life as a computer software analyst. Her mother and grandmother had psychic intuition, but hers is severely underdeveloped. Taking a solitary vacation, she trusted where instinct led her and ended up at the end of some crazy woman’s fangs. She’s led into a surreal world where lycans exist and passion for the man who saved her is the least of her worries.
November 16, 2012
Vlog: Pantser or Plotser?
Michelle M. Pillow: Pantser or Plotser?
Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.
Answering the reader/author question: Are you a Pantser or a Plotser?
Michelle’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow
About Michelle:
Michelle M. Pillow, Author of All Things Romance™, is a multi-published (over 70 published books!) , award-winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. Ever since she can remember, she has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural–ghosts, magical powers, and oh… vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful? After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She’s glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.
She has been on the Amazon bestseller list multiple times, nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2011, the winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.
Publishers include everything from Indie to small press to big NY pubs: Random House, Virgin Books, Rouge (Ebury), Pocket Books, The Raven Books, Adams Media, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain, Running Press, Robinson, etc
Michelle is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a BGS in History/Business with an English Minor, and a Photography degree. In 2009 she and fellow author Mandy M. Roth started their own highly successful self-publishing endeavor named The Raven Books.
Readers can contact her through her author website http://www.MichellePillow.com
For photography, visit http://www.PrettyPoisonPhotography.com
Join her email newsletter at http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe
Visit Author Michelle M. Pillow
http://www.MichellePillow.com
The Raven Books
http://www.TheRavenBooks.com
November 14, 2012
Vlog: Writer’s Block
Michelle M. Pillow: Writer’s Block
Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.
Answering the author questions: What do you do about writer’s block? Do you get it?
Michelle’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow
About Michelle:
Michelle M. Pillow, Author of All Things Romance™, is a multi-published (over 70 published books!) , award-winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. Ever since she can remember, she has had a strange fascination with anything supernatural–ghosts, magical powers, and oh… vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful? After discovering historical romance novels, it was only natural that the supernatural and love/romance elements should someday meet in her wonderland of a brain. She’s glad they did for their children have been pouring onto the computer screen ever since.
She has been on the Amazon bestseller list multiple times, nominated for the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2011, the winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.
Publishers include everything from Indie to small press to big NY pubs: Random House, Virgin Books, Rouge (Ebury), Pocket Books, The Raven Books, Adams Media, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain, Running Press, Robinson, etc
Michelle is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a BGS in History/Business with an English Minor, and a Photography degree. In 2009 she and fellow author Mandy M. Roth started their own highly successful self-publishing endeavor named The Raven Books.
Readers can contact her through her author website http://www.MichellePillow.com
For photography, visit http://www.PrettyPoisonPhotography.com
Join her email newsletter at http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe
Visit Author Michelle M. Pillow
http://www.MichellePillow.com
The Raven Books
http://www.TheRavenBooks.com
Vlog: Mandy Makes Me Eat Weird Things
Mandy Makes Me Eat Weird Things
Michelle M. Pillow: Mandy Makes Me Eat Weird Things
Very informal micro chat about my experiences as a published author.
Answering questions about the research trips I take with Mandy M. Roth.
Mandy M. Roth, Mean Foodie
http://www.MandyRoth.com
Michelle M. Pillow, Foodie’s Victim
http://www.MichellePillow.com
Michelle’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/michellepillow
November 12, 2012
Red Light Specialists (Volume 1) by Michelle M. Pillow and Mandy M Roth
Futuristic Romance
Three sexy secret agents. Three even sexier missions…
Bianca, Sonja and Trinity were given a choice–become RLS-69 special agents or continue to serve out their prison sentences at the Restigatio Woman’s Correctional Facility. Trained to complete their mission by any means necessary, these women aren’t afraid to pull out all the stops. With their freedom on the line, they’ll do whatever it takes to get the job done. From combat to seduction, their targets won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. There’s only one problem…their handsome targets have a few secret weapons of their own.
BOB |PRINT
November 6, 2012
Vivian Arend, Interview by Michelle M. Pillow
Vivian Arend, Interview
Michelle M. Pillow, www.michellepillow.com
Paranormal Author, Vivian Arend has hiked, biked, skied and paddled her way around most of North America and parts of Europe. Throughout all the wandering in the wilderness, stories have been planted and they are bursting out in vivid colour. Paranormal, twisted fairytales, red-hot contemporaries—the genres are all over. Between times of living with no running water, she tries to keep up with her husband—the instigator of most of the wilderness adventures.
Vivian’s newest shapeshifter book Wolf Line: Granite Lake Wolves #5, releases in ebook June 13, 2012. It can be purchased at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Q: In your series, Granite Lake Wolves, you delve into the world of shapeshifters and you place them in an extreme northern setting. What inspired you to write this?
Vivian: In 2005 my family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon. Over the next two years I had the opportunity to travel throughout the territory and adventure into neighboring Alaska. The places are remote, lonely and yet the people who live there are there out of choice—they love it. The north truly calls to them. When I decided to try my hand at writing a story, it was natural to pick a location that had really captured my imagination—yes, there really is a Granite Lake, set off by itself in the bush of the Yukon wilderness. It’s the perfect place for a couple of wolf-shifters to go for a quiet get-away.
As the series progressed I found more locations popping up in the books—sections of the Chilkoot Tail used during the hey-days of the Gold Rush, the bays and harbours of Alaska, and even the far far north where there are current oil development and wild resource debates occurring. It’s a huge land, and yet the people who live there are so laid-back about existing on the edge of potential disaster. One-step from the grave for some of the old-timers who still trap and live alone in the bush—it was impossible to leave them out of the stories.
Q: When world building, did you base your story off of known myths throughout history?
Vivian: The Granite Lake and Takhini Wolves books are a blend of different folk lore, and also a bit of that ‘Northern Attitude’. The one that pretty much takes anything in stride. While the shifters live in secret, there are humans that know they exist. And when the occasion intermingling occurs, there’s a bit more laid-back approach.
The First Nations of Northern Canada had a lot of beliefs about the local animals and the good that they brought to the humans in their territory. It’s not that far a step to have the shapeshifters as a part of that reasoning for the good will between races.
Q: Why do you think readers, and society in general, are fascinated by the paranormal?
Vivian: I think in terms of especially the big shapeshifters like wolves, bears, etc, there are traits in the animal nature that people would love to experience in their human lives. Some of the nature is truth, some is legend and folklore all in itself.
For example, the idea of mating for life creates powerful emotional imagery. Recognizing your mate and knowing you belong together is a step beyond love at first sight because in the tradition of the shapeshifter, you know it’s a forever thing.
Q: If given the chance, would you become a shifter?
Vivian: Wow- I totally would, but picking what kind would be nearly impossible. Yes, I love wolves. But the water is an incredible place, and being able to travel through the oceans easily would make my scuba loving self very happy. Same thing with avian forms—flying and using the air swells to get from place to place? What would make me possibly give up that possibility?
So I’d be greedy. I want to be like this Mary Sue of the shifter world. I want it ALL- the ability to shift into any of the forms. And I get to keep my hubby of 25 years, okay? Then we totally have a deal.
Q: How would you react if you came face to face with a ghost or a vampire?
Vivian: O_o
That would be my face. And then you’d see my footprints on the ground, and I’d be out of there so fast you’d be spinning. See, I’m a wimp. Which is why even my shifters are nice guys. And…well, okay, maybe I should slow down. Because SINCE I’m a wimp, I’m going to assume these are nice ghosts and vampires. That’s it.
So I’d have them in, we’d play a little cards. Chat for a while and maybe watch House or something. They can bunk in the barn if the ghost promises not to scare the hens into stopping laying. It would be just fine. Right?
Q: What does the future hold for the Granite Lake Wolves and the Takhini Wolves?
Vivian: There is a brand new novella coming to the Granite Lake world- the first since 2010. Wolf Line is Jared’s story, and June 13 you can find out what this Romeo of the wolfies does when trapped on a cruise ship.
Book 2 in the Takhini Wolves, Silver Mine, is coming September 11. The follow up to last year’s Black Gold continues the adventures of the group of shifters living in Whitehorse, Yukon. This time we follow a lone wolf into even more remote territory in the northern bush. Duct tape, moonshine, sarcasm—the usual when you get the wolfies together. Along with some scorching hot shifter sex. You’ve been warned!
There will be at least one more Granite Lake novella, and two more novels to complete the Takhini storyline. And then…we see!
To learn more about Vivian and her books visit www.vivianarend.com
Interview by Michelle M. Pillow, www.michellepillow.com
