Jillian Jacobs's Blog, page 12
December 12, 2014
FRAZZLED FRIDAY
Today I'm celebrating the release of EMBER'S CENTER.
My contemporary romance with a jagged edge.
Preorder here:
http://bit.ly/EmbersCenterAMZ
I'm also talking Water's Threshold. Sign up for your chance to win a signed paperback copy and Green Moose fridge magnet giveaway here:http://wp.me/p1tsn7-GP
I'm also talking about something very important in my writing career-Author Collaboration.
http://contemporaryromance.org/2014/12/my-2015-moose-mantra-author-collaboration/
December 10, 2014
A Dad for Christmas
Please welcome,LaNora Mangano.
A Dad for Christmas is the perfect read for the holidays.
Hey Lanora, thanks for stopping by the moose cave.
Hi Jillian,
Thanks for having me here today!
One trait you share with your heroine in this book?
I wrote this book specifically for the trait that she and I share in this book. My heroine, Samantha Brooks, is a widow and has two kids. She lost her husband to cancer five years before the book starts and she is just trying to get through each day making the best decisions she can for the sake of raising her kids alone. I understand the fears and uncertainty of her plight as I recently lost my own husband due to cancer. However, at the time I wrote this book, my husband was still battling his disease and it was then that I attempted to subconsciously, write a happy ending. I hope I succeeded in writing a satisfying story.
One thing you have learned as a writer this year?
This year was a tough year, I hate to say, but if I've learned anything, it's that I need to honor my soul before I can honor my writing with any real conviction.
One writer, you'd LOVE to have lunch with?
I would love to have lunch with Catherine Mann. I've had the pleasure of meeting Cathy several times but each time it's just never enough to really sit and talk. She is so warm and genuine and so interesting that I would love to chat for hours while having lunch at a restaurant on the ocean (She lives near an ocean).
http://www.amazon.com/Dad-Christmas-L...
Blurb: A Dad for Christmas
Samantha Brooks became a widow at the point in her life where she was convinced life was just about to hit her stride. Facing the facts that every decision she made from that point forward, would have to be one that had her children's best interest at heart, which is why she was relocating to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin to accept an Elementary Principals position.
With kids and the family dog in tow they move next door to the town's celebrity Billy Baker, high school hockey Legend, professional hockey sensation, and the town's hockey coach for the youth travel team.
Both Billy and Sam were content with life as it was but when their lives slowly began to entwine, they found themselves on a collision course to love.
The best present Sam's kids could get was a Loving Dad for Christmas.
LaNora Mangano Bio:I am a mother, a wife, a daughter and sister, active in volunteering, a writer and a friend. Not necessarily in that order, though. I was born and raised on the South side of Chicago, Illinois during my early years then moved to the suburbs and lived there until my husband and our children relocated to central Indiana. I’ve been exposed to many personality types and several interesting situations. All of which provided opportunities to create heroes, heroines, villains and fictional towns to place my creations.
I started reading romance novels in high school when a friend introduced me to a Harlequin book. I thought it was so refreshing that I bought another one, then another one and read them every spare moment I had. This was also around the time I developed a passion to write my own stories and I’ve been writing ever since.
I write romantic suspense, contemporaries and paranormal romance. Half of my novels are part of a 3-6 book series.
Feel free to follow me at:
email - Lanora.mangano@yahoo.com
Facebook is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004742172011
website - http://jeanne1965.wix.com/finding-lanora#!bio/c1ktj
December 6, 2014
Friday Celebration
Friday, December 12th, I'll be celebrating a fantastic year with my Juicebox Dialogues pals. Not only that, I'll reveal my new Contemporary, Ember's Center. Then, on Saturday, I'll be hanging with my Indiana Romance Writers of America friends. Thanks to everyone for their support in 2014. And watch out because my mantra for 2015 is Author Collaboration. Happy Holidays!
November 25, 2014
Mellanie Szereto talks Just Desserts and blueberry pie.
During Thanksgiving, I generally take a moment to consider the people for which I am grateful. Mellanie Szereto has made my writing journey so much easier. In thanks, please take a moment to join her as she talks, Just Desserts. Or just go straight to the buy-links at the bottom. ;)
One trait you share with your heroine in this book?
Meg Graham hates confrontations and does everything she can to avoid them. She prefers laying low or running away until the drama blows over. That’s me. Fortunately, we’ve both learned when to face those situations head on and speak our minds.
Oh, and she loves pie as much as I do! I’m in the mood for blueberry pie. I think I’ll go make one for Thanksgiving dinner!
One thing you have learned as a writer this year?
I’ve learned so much about formatting for self-publishing in the past year. The requirements for the different retail platforms have forced me to use elements of Word I’d never used before, like section breaks, bookmarks, and hyperlinks. I’m not an overly techie person, so the learning curve was a bit steep. To see everyone else struggling with formatting for print at IRWA’s writers’ retreat made me feel much better about that weakness! Practice does make the process easier. LOL
(When she says everyone here, she means ME!!)
One writer, you'd LOVE to have lunch with?
Only one??? I guess I’d have to choose Louisa May Alcott. I loved her Little Women series when I was growing up. Her female characters were often strong and outspoken in a time when women faced far more barriers than we do today. She took me into the world she created and gave me the escape every avid reader looks for in a book.
Do you want to join us for tea, Jillian? I’ll even bring some pie to go with it!
Here’s the link from “pie” to the recipe on my blog. It’ll go live the same day as the spotlight. http://mellanieszereto.blogspot.com/2014/11/recipe-time-blueberry-pie.html
Author Bio: When her fingers aren't attached to her keyboard, Mellanie Szereto enjoys hiking, Pilates, cooking, gardening, and researching for her stories. Many times, the research partners with her other hobbies, taking her from the Hocking Hills region in Ohio to the Colorado Rockies or the Adirondacks of New York. Sometimes, the trip is no farther than her garden for ingredients and her kitchen to test recipes for her latest steamy tale. She is multi-published with Siren-Bookstrand and is self-publishing her foodie contemporary series, Love on the Menu, in addition to her nonfiction handbooks, Writing Tip Wednesday: The Writing Craft Handbook and Writing Tip Wednesday: The Writing Career Handbook, based on her informational blog series. Mellanie makes her home in rural Indiana with her husband of twenty-seven years, their son, and two cats. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Indiana Romance Writers of America, Hearts Through History Romance Writers, and PASIC. Visit her online at http://www.mellanieszereto.com and http://www.mellanieszereto.blogspot.com.
Book Title: Just Desserts (Book 1 of the Love on the Menu...Extra Hot series)
Blurb: After fifteen years, librarian Meg Graham returns to her hometown to appease her family and reopen the local library. First, the neighbor’s dog steals her underwear. Then its owner, the boy who stole her heart in high school, shows up on her doorstep and does his best to woo her with baked delights. She has no intention of falling for the pie-baking Casanova again, no matter how sweet his desserts or how hot the fire raging between them.
Aidan Rourke’s uncle has promised him ownership of the family bakery if Aidan marries before his 34th birthday. When the only woman he ever truly loved—the one who got away—moves back to town, he pulls out all the stops to recapture her heart. He has only three weeks to convince her of his love and march her down the aisle before she discovers the truth about his uncle’s blackmail scheme.
Buy Links:
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/Just-Desserts-L...
Amazon (e-book): http://www.amazon.com/Just-Desserts-L...
B&N (e-book): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-...
ARe (e-book): https://www.allromanceebooks.com/prod...
Kobo (e-book): http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...
CreateSpace (print): https://www.createspace.com/5090662
One trait you share with your heroine in this book?
Meg Graham hates confrontations and does everything she can to avoid them. She prefers laying low or running away until the drama blows over. That’s me. Fortunately, we’ve both learned when to face those situations head on and speak our minds.
Oh, and she loves pie as much as I do! I’m in the mood for blueberry pie. I think I’ll go make one for Thanksgiving dinner!
One thing you have learned as a writer this year?
I’ve learned so much about formatting for self-publishing in the past year. The requirements for the different retail platforms have forced me to use elements of Word I’d never used before, like section breaks, bookmarks, and hyperlinks. I’m not an overly techie person, so the learning curve was a bit steep. To see everyone else struggling with formatting for print at IRWA’s writers’ retreat made me feel much better about that weakness! Practice does make the process easier. LOL
(When she says everyone here, she means ME!!)
One writer, you'd LOVE to have lunch with?
Only one??? I guess I’d have to choose Louisa May Alcott. I loved her Little Women series when I was growing up. Her female characters were often strong and outspoken in a time when women faced far more barriers than we do today. She took me into the world she created and gave me the escape every avid reader looks for in a book.
Do you want to join us for tea, Jillian? I’ll even bring some pie to go with it!
Here’s the link from “pie” to the recipe on my blog. It’ll go live the same day as the spotlight. http://mellanieszereto.blogspot.com/2014/11/recipe-time-blueberry-pie.html
Author Bio: When her fingers aren't attached to her keyboard, Mellanie Szereto enjoys hiking, Pilates, cooking, gardening, and researching for her stories. Many times, the research partners with her other hobbies, taking her from the Hocking Hills region in Ohio to the Colorado Rockies or the Adirondacks of New York. Sometimes, the trip is no farther than her garden for ingredients and her kitchen to test recipes for her latest steamy tale. She is multi-published with Siren-Bookstrand and is self-publishing her foodie contemporary series, Love on the Menu, in addition to her nonfiction handbooks, Writing Tip Wednesday: The Writing Craft Handbook and Writing Tip Wednesday: The Writing Career Handbook, based on her informational blog series. Mellanie makes her home in rural Indiana with her husband of twenty-seven years, their son, and two cats. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Indiana Romance Writers of America, Hearts Through History Romance Writers, and PASIC. Visit her online at http://www.mellanieszereto.com and http://www.mellanieszereto.blogspot.com.
Book Title: Just Desserts (Book 1 of the Love on the Menu...Extra Hot series)
Blurb: After fifteen years, librarian Meg Graham returns to her hometown to appease her family and reopen the local library. First, the neighbor’s dog steals her underwear. Then its owner, the boy who stole her heart in high school, shows up on her doorstep and does his best to woo her with baked delights. She has no intention of falling for the pie-baking Casanova again, no matter how sweet his desserts or how hot the fire raging between them.
Aidan Rourke’s uncle has promised him ownership of the family bakery if Aidan marries before his 34th birthday. When the only woman he ever truly loved—the one who got away—moves back to town, he pulls out all the stops to recapture her heart. He has only three weeks to convince her of his love and march her down the aisle before she discovers the truth about his uncle’s blackmail scheme.
Buy Links:
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/Just-Desserts-L...
Amazon (e-book): http://www.amazon.com/Just-Desserts-L...
B&N (e-book): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-...
ARe (e-book): https://www.allromanceebooks.com/prod...
Kobo (e-book): http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...
CreateSpace (print): https://www.createspace.com/5090662
November 23, 2014
Bewitching Tour Schedule
Water’s Threshold by Jillian JacobsBewitching Tour Schedule
November 24- December 8
November 24 Spotlight
Lisa’s World of Books
www.lisasworldofbooks.net
November 24 Spotlight
Cassandra M's Place
www.cassandramsplace.com
November 25 Guest blog
ParaYourNormal
http://parayournormal.wordpress.com
topic: The Elementals
November 26 Interview
The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom
www.creativelygreen.blogspot.com
November 27 Spotlight
Share My Destiny
http://sharemydestiny.blogspot.com
December 1 Guest blog
Fang-tastic Books
www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com
December 2 Interview
Roxanne’s Realm
www.roxannerhoads.com
December 3 Review
Natural Bri- Pursuits of Life
Http://www.naturalbri-pursuitsoflife.blogspot.co.uk
December 4 Interview
Pembroke Sinclair.
www.pembrokesinclair.blogspot.com
December 5 Character Interview
Anya Breton Author's Blog
http://blog.anyabreton.com
December 8 Character Interview
Eclipse Reviews
www.totaleclipsereviews.blogspot.com
