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Tomorrow’s signing (Update) and other stuff

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Due to the weather going on in my neck of the woods, I’m going to have to cancel my plans to attend the signing in Cincy tomorrow, Saturday 12/7/2013.  We’ve been getting ice fairly steadily and it’s changed over to snow.  I don’t want to chance the 90 minute drive from Louisville to Cincy under the circumstances.

I donated a book to help out with Friends & Vets Helping Pets.  More info…

The first 100 people to donate $20 to Friends & Vets Helping Pets on our Paypal account will receive a signed book from one of these fabulous authors listed on our website. Donations will help families and animals out and you will get a fun and unique holiday surprise when the signed book arrives! These books also make the perfect gift for that book worm in your life!

Please click the link below to learn more.

http://www.friendsandvetshelpingpets.org/sponsors/

Also, make sure you check out the Coastal Magic Blog Hop. Final days!

 

Interesting…and sad story

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I read this over the weekend.

 

He was hired to hunt pirates, dealt with sickness, mutiny and overwhelming odds.  In the end, though, the people who hired him didn’t want to deal with a mess created by the times and he’s the one who paid.

 

Tree is up, lights are on, nobody is home…

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At least it feels that way. I’m focused on finishing up the books I’m working on…plus, I’ve got the rough outline for a new RS series coming together in my head.

So I’ve been absentee author.

We have our Christmas tree up. I’m almost done shopping. Almost, not quite. I almost spend more than I should. I need to focus on work and I can’t. Anyway, I’m going to get back to work in about five minutes.

Here’s a snippet from one of the RS books due out next year, SWEETER THAN SIN…

It could be said that Adam Brascum loved women.

It could be said.

But it would be off-target. Adam didn’t love women—he didn’t hate them, but he didn’t love them, either. He needed them.

The soft curves, the scent of their skin, the husky voices as they whispered to him in the night. If he worked it right, he could spent the night with any number of them, and he wouldn’t have to be alone unless he wanted.

Wouldn’t have to be alone, with just the voices in his head, the memory of a phone call, the memory of a smile, the memory of the girl he might have been able to save.

If only he’d done something.

Part of the SECRETS & SHADOWS series…

Coastal Magic… prizes, fun stuff…

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Post is sticky. Newer ones may be below.

 

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, my lovely reader friends!! Now that Thanksgiving has passed (and while we’re all trying to fit back into our clothes after yesterday’s dinner) it’s time to start passing out presents!!! Ok, maybe not ALL the presents, but how about some virtual “Secret Santa” presents to our favorite characters in the urban fantasy and paranormal romance world, and some very real convention registrations for two of YOU!!

That’s right. One blog hop commenter will win free registration to the 2014 Coastal Magic Convention in Daytona Beach, Florida, in February. A second winner will win registration to the 2015 event!! This is a weekend full of fun panels, meet & greets and face time with some of your favorite authors in the UF/PNR genre. Over 50 authors will be featured, and you’ll be surrounded by fellow book lovers.

A few of the participating blog hosts are Featured Bloggers for the Coastal Magic Convention, and a few are Featured Authors. Be sure to ask them questions or leave them comments about the con if you’re curious about it, or if you’re planning to attend. They’ll be thrilled to hear from you!! To find a list of confirmed Featured Authors and other information about Coastal Magic, be sure to check out the website.

In addition to the two overall, grand prize winners… some of the blogs will be featuring individual prizes, so keep an eye out for those as you’re checking out the other stops on the hop!!

Here’s how to enter:

1 – The ENTIRE urban fantasy and paranormal romance world is yours to choose from. Imagine every name in a giant Santa hat… whose name do YOU pick?? List that person’s name, what book they’re from, and what gift you would give them in the comments section of this blog.

2 – Click on the Rafflecopter link and complete the entry tasks you’d like to participate in. The ONLY mandatory entry is your “secret santa” comment, but there are a few other ways to get extra entries. (just a few, I promise )

3 – Visit other blogs on the list between today and December 6th to play again!

So… easy peasy, right?!? I’m excited to see who each of you chooses!!!

GOOD LUCK, everyone!! Let the season of giving begin!!

Participating Blogs:

Coastal Magic Convention Official Website
Books Make Me Happy
Little Read Riding Hood
Readers Confession
Smart Girls Love SciFi and Paranormal Romance
Sarah Nicolas
Aria Kane
Lucienne Diver
Shiloh Walker
Lia Davis
Sandy Williams
MANtastic Fiction

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Pretty cool… :)

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There’s music, be warned.

BROKEN BLADE at Netgalley

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If you want to request BROKEN BLADE from NetGalley, please do so soon.

It won’t be up there forever.

What do you write?

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When I was in New Jersey, I went out to dinner with a lady from my street team and a couple of writers.  We had a great time and one of the writers looked at me and asked me what I wrote.

But she wasn’t exactly talking about genre.  She’d mentioned a discussion she’d had with another writer.  He’d just looked at her and told her she wrote about tribes.  Families.  And he was right. She did.

I thought about it for a minute and then I said, “I write about broken people.  Then I fix them.  And sometimes second chances.”

I’d never really boiled it all down in a nutshell like that, but I guess that’s the running theme throughout my books.

One of the reasons I ended up writing the Kit Colbana books was because I wanted to play with the idea of having somebody who was weaker than the others, who had frailties and weaknesses others around her wouldn’t understand, but who got by because she was stubborn and wouldn’t give up.

I didn’t want a kick-ass heroine who bowled everybody over.  I wanted somebody who was battered, who had to fight and scrabble for every step she took, but she kept taking those steps anyway.  It’s a different sort of strength, but sheer will and determination keep her going.

Underneath all that stubbornness, she was a broken mess and I see all those wounds even though some of them don’t really start to come out until the third book, maybe even the fourth one.  She’ll probably still be finding out who and what she is as the series goes along, but I couldn’t fix her in one book.

The Protected had a broken hero…he was messed up.  We can’t even call him a bad boy.  He spent his life taking care of one person–himself–and whoring, stealing, fighting his way to accomplish his goals and then a phone call changes everything and he has to go from watching his back, to fighting for a kid’s life.  He never trusts anybody and then he suddenly has no choice.  Fixing him was fun and it was just as much fun to watch him fall.

A Forever Kind of Love had a hero who walked away from the girl he loved in high school all because he wasn’t ready to be the responsible guy, be an adult, all that.  He comes back years later, realizing he still loves her, only to find her married to his best friend.  Then life sucker punches all three of them.

Yeah.  I think broken people are just my thing.  :)

I guess, being a writer and all, that knowledge should come in handy.

So, writers out there… what do you write?

 

Romancing the Holidays

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I totally flaked out and forgot to post the details about the annual Cincy signing at the West Chester B&N.

It’s December 7 from 1-3 pm.

Barnes & Noble

Streets of Westchester

The Streets of Westchester, 9455 Civic Centre Blvd

West Chester, OH

This really IS my last signing of the year.

Wanna send some Christmas Cards for some troops?

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Got an email from my friend Kelley who works with an SOS unit.  She had this names passed onto her…

 

GySgt Heather Vecchia;

GySgt Fatima Herrera;

Sgt Kim Barton;

Cpl Liza Cabanillas;

Cpl Tylena Murray;

Cpl Chavez;

Cpl Tiffany Webster;

LCpl McCartney; LCpl Rhodes.

CLB-13

Unit 16045

FPO AP 96427-6045

 

~*~

Cpl Showni Anderson

MCE-A BAGRAM

APO AE 09354

 

~*~

LCpl Jordan Somerson

1/9 A Co.

UNit 13955

FPO AE 09510-3955

~*~

Lcpl Miquel A. Vidal

Lcpl Nicholas Mcdonald

Lcpl Juan M. Molina

Lcpl Mathew Guelzow

Cpl. Klye Vanalmkerk

BLT 1/4, Det 2, Charlie Co.

UNIT 16053.

FPO. AP. 96427-6058

~*~

Sgt Jo Moody

CLR2 TS Company

Unit# 73760

APO AE 09510-3760

~*~

Sgt Jorge A. Pineda

HMH-462

Unit 26050

FPO AE 96427-6050

~*~

Roneshia D. Owens

MALS 40 SUPPLY/ S-SHOP

UNIT 78372

APO AE 09510

~*~

SPC Nailea Silguero

NATO ROLE 3 MMU

Kandahar

APO AE 09355

Works in the trauma hospital in Kandahar. She shares with all of the injured men and women.

Sgt Nichols, Ashley

8th Ordnance Co

APO, AE 09354

 

~*~

Lcpl Logan, Adam E

R4OG IMEF

UNIT 42190

FPO-AP 96427-2190

 

Kelley says we’re mostly looking for Christmas cards, although if anybody wants to adopt a name for gifts, etc, that’s fine.  Ideas for gifts, care packages can be found here.  Keep in mind, these people are looking for cards, letters, support…nothing beyond that  This is being stated because …well, it needs to be stated.

RT Award Noms!

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Let me squeal a moment…

 

 

The Protected and Night Blade were both nominated for an RT Reviewer’s Choice award.

Okay.  Squee moment is over.  Gotta get back to work.  Really close to finishing up Darker than Desire and Forged Blade, so my brain is mush.