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Truth And Fairy Tales Let me tell you a bit more about Naomi, the female protagonist in Under the Same Sun. Imagine that, after years and years of living a lonely, quiet life, after having lost the one person you loved more than all others, your dream comes true, and he walks in your door.   Nothing else matters—the love, the heady passion, the desire are back, as alive and strong as they ever were.   Nothing will keep you from making this work; you want him back, you want him forever. Obstacles and misgivings are nothing more than motes of dust, easily wiped away. This is how it went for Naomi in The Distant Shore, and she got what she wanted: she is the wife of famous rock star Jon Stone, his beloved, his only love. But she paid a high price for it. After having been shot down at the Academy Awards by one of Jon’s former lovers, her health is impaired, her spirit broken.  Under the Same Sun isn’t just another love story. I wanted to show ho...

The Book Waitress Serves Up Evil With A Side of Real Gooooood… Deena Remiel here with my latest series release, The Book Waitress! Thanks to Leanne for offering up her blog today, and to all of you for sharing in the wicked fun. So I thought I’d share with you my journey to the dark side. Haha! I started my writing career steeped in romance. I love all the facets involved in such an intricate relationship as love. But as I created my first paranormal romance series, The Brethren, I began to feel something else pulling me in. The DARK SIDE. I had a blast writing as Agremon and Namirha. Evil and snark go very well together. I felt so satisfied after writing those harrowing scenes with Emma enduring Namirha’s torture. Now, don’t worry! It’s not because I’m sadistic or have turned evil myself. I found these scenes to actually be the hardest, the most challenging, and the most exhausting to write. And I loved it. And I love exploring the theme of Good versus Evil. I...

Please Welcome Author Lacey Wolfe!!! Thank you so much for having me today. It wasn’t too long ago that I released an erotic romance novella titled, Tempting The Manny. Yum. And in my head, the manny is very similar looking to Mario Lopez. *Fans herself.* So, what was my inspiration for this story? The story really began as something fun. As a writer, I always hit this spot in a story where I sit back and think. What’s next? Do I like what I just wrote? I would then take a step back and write something else. Tempting The Manny started as just something to help me keep my creative energy going.  But then, all of a sudden, my heroine Olivia, demanded attention. Out of nowhere, she was weaving all these lies and really making a mess of things. And I had to stop all other stories and get this all taken care of. A tale that was meant to be a little fantasy about a single mom hiring a sexy manny, suddenly got a lot more plot. And when the story came to an end, I sa...

Worth a Thousand Words  Or worth 95,000 words, in the case of my book, Giving It Up.   Oh, imagery. Writing is about painting pictures with words. There’s a certain magic to that; the way an author’s writes what they see and a reader uses their imagination to bring it to life. There’s also a certain mystique, because we never really know how close readers get.   For that matter, I never really know how close I get to the real world. I’m not one of those writers who starts from a picture or a celebrity as inspiration. My characters come fully formed, both their stories and their appearances, in my head. So it’s not necessarily a simple matter to find someone who looks like them.  The first and possibly most important piece of imagery for my book is the cover. I described my characters and setting to my cover artist. Allie, the girl next door who’s all dolled up like a slut. Colin, a little mean, a little cold. And both of them against a da...

Title: Accidental SEAL Author: Sharon Hamilton Publisher: Self Length: 100,000 words Genres: Contemporary Erotic Navy SEAL/Military Romance Available at: Amazon Blurb: Christy Nelson embarks on her new career in Real Estate by holding her first open house. Entering the wrong house, by accident, she finds the nude sleeping body of a young man. Navy SEAL Kyle Lansdowne, on a mission to find his AWOL Team buddy, is staying at his buddy’s home while investigating the disappearance. When someone breaks in, he takes protective measures. He doesn’t expect to find that a beautiful young woman is responsible for his teammate’s abduction. What starts out as a meeting by accident becomes a hot affair neither one is ready for. Kyle is conflicted about getting Christy involved in his mission, but his hand is forced when he learns the same San Diego gang responsible for his teammate’s abduction has kidnapped her. Battling a cadre of dirty law enforcements hell-bent on g...

Please Welcome Author SHERRY GLOAG to Books Read 'N' Makeup Done Thank you for inviting me to visit with you today, and I hope I can answer your query about how my characters evolve. Where characters come from and how do they form? Not as straight forward a question as it may seem, because if you asked 100 authors you’d get a 100 different answers. There may be a thread of similarity weaving through their answers, but not one of those authors would offer the same explanation. My characters usually turn up when I am doing something completely unrelated to writing. I often wonder, whether like actors, they wait in the wings of my subconscious until they ‘hear’ their cue. Take Melanie in From Now Until Forever. I was busy minding my own business when she turned up and ‘showed’ me the scene of Liam being shot at. The settings, the smells, the sounds were all in vibrant colour and sound. His cussing (which had to be toned down for my publisher – LOL) equalled the in...

  Flame Thrower Release + Silver Pendant Giveaway, by Alice Wade Flame Thrower (Release date MAY 14, 2012) This novel is more my traditional style of writing and the first in a series of six books in the Flame Thrower saga. It spins an interwoven epic timeline spanning three different kingdoms and the families involved. These are romance novels, through and through and the tag line on the cover sums up the first book Flame Thrower perfectly - ‘Love heals all wounds through blood and sacrifice’. This first book sets a story arc into motion that carries through the entire erotic saga. Here’s the blurb to introduce you: While out hunting with his men, King Ryan of Yorath finds a badly-beaten woman who had been left for dead by her attackers. He is surprised to discover that she is none other than Tillian, the Princess who had been reported missing by messengers from the neighboring realm of Folkyn. Despite her injuries and the circumstances behind her disappearance, Ry...

Please Welcome  Tonya Vrba  Writer & PR Specialist to BRNMD Falling In Love With Books  Deep in the heart of America’s Midwest, where fields of corn and bean surround every small town and the distant smell of cows and pigs hangs ever present in the air, there lay a 16-year-old girl. On her stomach propped up on her elbows she reads furiously. The book she finished that mornings sits to her left and the next book to come sits to her right. She is lost to all, her mind consumed by the words she reads. All would be perfect if she didn’t have to stop every once in a while to go to the bathroom. If she could, she wouldn’t even eat until the book was finished, but her mother’s insistence.  That girl is me six years ago reading the Twilight Saga. She was obsessed with those books for a good year. I’ve heard all the gripe about the series since the movies came out. None of that changes the fact that, for one year this girl read an...

  Announcement + Giveaway :: Debut novel TALON is LAUNCHING TODAY by ALICE WADE Blurb: Talon (BOOK LAUNCH TODAY April 7, 2012) Vampires only fear one name -- Talon. The elven prince and his mate, Kailani, have made it their mission to hunt down the violent vampire covens that have been destroying hundreds of innocent lives in their pursuit of selfish and depraved entertainment. Their strategy would have been fool-proof, except for one problem: Talon and Kailani are vampires too. But when they enter a castle overrun, they realize they are out of their league. The vampire leader has stolen elven magic, something Talon takes personally and can’t fight alone. This sets them on a path of redemption, destruction and closure. Along the way, they pair up with two humans who are destined to become the family Talon craves. Excerpt: Talon There was a movement off to the left of where Talon moved towards the center of the room. His arm shot out and stabbed, making a s...