tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83413751141493811362024-02-06T23:21:56.120-06:00Stephanie's BookshelfBook Blog: Stephanie's Bookshelf is a book blog devoted to book reviews, book tours, authors, guest posts, interviews and everything else book related!
Stephanie writes for a variety of sites and posts her reviews and ratings on a number of sites. If you would like to submit your book for review please contact her via stephaniesbookshelf@gmail.com Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603547172046484323noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341375114149381136.post-69602560654057371282014-01-11T14:19:00.002-06:002014-01-11T14:19:58.669-06:00Social Media Saturday Link Up! #SocialMediaSaturday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This link up was created to allow bloggers to find awesome new blogs, gain exposure and increase their social media fans & followers!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Please be aware that this is the FIRST time I have posted this link up so it's going to be a little slow until the first 4-5 people link up. So, go ahead and be one of of the first in line. As everyone else see's folks joining they will hop in!</b></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be fair, please follow others in each social media category you add your link.</span></li>
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If you already host book tours on your blog with other groups then you know the wonderful benefits involved with hosting. You can sign up to host with Beyond Words at our <a href="http://www.beyondwordsbooktours.com/tour-hosts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Host Page</strong></a>.<br />
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There are several tour groups out there and we are just one of many. I actually host for several different tour groups on my own personal book blog, so if you already host for a group, you can still host for Beyond Words Book Tours. The more groups you host with the more chances you have to promote, get new content and free books.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Faced with frustration from her loved ones and the dark machinations of a new colleague, Viive feels herself getting pulled under by guilt, apologies, and workplace shenanigans. But then she meets the Migraine Mafia, a quirky, vibrant support group, and her fragile camouflage begins to crumble. She discovers that a room full of strangers just might be able to change the way she views her illness--and realizes that if she doesn't learn to ask for help, her health isn't the only thing she stands to lose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This Much is True</i> is the first book I have read by Katherine Owen, but it will not be the last. I agreed to read the story as part of the book tour and I am very glad I did. While, <i>This Much is True</i> is a rather long book, it's well worth the read and every chapter has it's own mini-climax. I thoroughly enjoyed that about this book as there was no, 'waiting around to see what happens' next or boring chapters that were simply put there to fill space in the binding. It's very fast paced, but not so much that you feel like you are missing out on anything and have to wonder what happen between point A and point B. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I won't go into too much detail because I wouldn't want to spoil a <strike>good</strike> great thing, but I will tell you that this is the most heartfelt, drama-filled story I think I have ever read. Don't get me wrong, I've read dozens of great, well-written, engaging, 5-star books, but none that had so much drama! Drama, drama and more drama... all of which was a good thing of course. While most books have a few unexpected twists turns, this one was full of unexpected events and outcomes that kept the plot entertaining and engaging. Just when you think you what's going to happen... the unexpected happens and Tally's hit with yet another curve ball in life and is left helplessly hanging on to what's left of her heart. Some of which, she brings on herself, others are simply another hard twist of fate. </span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've written four novels in as many years: "When I See You, "Not To Us", Seeing Julia" as well as my latest release "This Much Is True" (which hit #1 on Amazon best seller lists for Sports Romance, Holiday Romance within a week of its release). </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Competitive; much, KO</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh yes.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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Dylan “Dee” Cosgrove is one fourth of Australian band, The Devil’s Tattoo. Loveable, cocky as hell, but one thing is missing. He’s never been in love. He doesn’t want meaningless, he wants meaningful and all he keeps hearing is I’m sorry… Forever the good guy finishing last.<br />
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A year after their first tour, The Devil’s Tattoo are making it big in LA recording their next album. For Dee, all he wants is to stand on stage and play. After all, music is his first love. He could care less about the money and the fakery that comes with the LA scene and the big executive types with dollar signs in their eyes. But in walks the woman who is about to obliterate him and she’s one of them. So, what’s a guy to do when one look is all it takes?<br />
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Jessie Ware is an intern at Galaxy Records, New York. When she’s asked to go to LA to help her boss schmooze with the latest big thing to come out of Australia, The Devil’s Tattoo, it’s her chance to get her foot firmly wedged into the door. If she can pull this off, then there could be a permanent job in it. But she didn’t count on one thing. Dee Cosgrove and his cocky Australian attitude. He makes her question everything without even trying and it might just push her over the edge… if she doesn’t give her heart to him first.<br />
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The more Dee gets to know Jessie, the harder he falls and he’d walk over fire and back to win her over. That’s if she doesn’t deliver him straight into the ranks of the scarred and broken first.<br />
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The Fire Walker is a companion novel to The Devil’s Tattoo. It has a dose of drama, some colourful language, a HEA and some sex scenes. It’s recommended for readers 18 and up.<br />
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<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=da4d22d260&view=fimg&th=1426ecd9d0d7aba9&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&attbid=ANGjdJ-hxi2zXX0F0cumWBVo196aiZnwaDtj_xm9UFl9-Rs13lkLMqmVYjgN9xhXyUp2Jp4HweoWOI1fHmHLJMHiY28FSQRAb6hGl6Su9L4_kIE86mPLT73bG4cX-xc&ats=1384916044186&rm=1426ecd9d0d7aba9&zw&sz=w1254-h495" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Displaying Nicole.jpg" border="0" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=da4d22d260&view=fimg&th=1426ecd9d0d7aba9&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&attbid=ANGjdJ-hxi2zXX0F0cumWBVo196aiZnwaDtj_xm9UFl9-Rs13lkLMqmVYjgN9xhXyUp2Jp4HweoWOI1fHmHLJMHiY28FSQRAb6hGl6Su9L4_kIE86mPLT73bG4cX-xc&ats=1384916044186&rm=1426ecd9d0d7aba9&zw&sz=w1254-h495" /></a>Nicole R. Taylor is an Australian born paranormal, fantasy and contemporary fiction author. She is a graduate of the University of Ballarat Professional Writing and Editing programme and is a former music memorabilia sales person and grocery merchandiser.<br />
She currently lives in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia with a two year old rescue cat named, Burger. She enjoys reading, writing (of course!), traveling and a little too much chocolate. One day she hopes to sky dive, but has to work up the courage first.<br />
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The first in her new paranormal fantasy series, The Witch Hunter Saga is available in e-edition and print from March 20th 2013<br />
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<b>~ Connect with Nicole R. Taylor ~</b><br />
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<br />Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603547172046484323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341375114149381136.post-37155497012947024802013-11-19T01:00:00.000-06:002013-11-19T01:00:12.362-06:00COVER REVEAL & GIVEAWAY: Calm Before the Storm S. K. Hartley<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When she stumbles into the arms of her old high school crush, Storm Mathews, the notorious bad boy, thunder crashes, lightening flashes and the rain just keeps on coming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We finally paid for our mountain of items and left the grocery store. But as we stepped towards my baby, my whole body froze. My feet became rooted to the ground as a clap of thunder crashed over head, the first of the summer raindrops grazing my goose pimpled skin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Dylan?" I heard Tyler say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything echoed around me, the lightening, the thunder, the sound of the rain now coming thick and fast, pounding against every surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What's wrong, Dylan?" Her voice was barely audible as I willed my body to move, but I was frozen in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I felt the brown paper bag disintegrating in my arms, the contents of the bag suddenly hitting the ground. My heart was in my throat, my hands shook and my knees were weak.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Storm."</span><br />
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<strong>Title:</strong> Snowed Over<br />
<strong>Release date:</strong> October 2012<br />
<strong>Age Group:</strong> New Adult<br />
<strong>Genre:</strong> Contemporary Romance Novella<br />
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To college student, Katie Brandt, ‘Home for the Holidays’ sounds like hell. When her parents separated, their holiday traditions shattered like a dropped ornament. What could be worse than celebrating Christmas with her suddenly single mom and mom’s new boyfriend?<br />
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Alex Walker, an engaged 20-year-old, dreads going home for his own reasons. He has a daunting task ahead of him and wishes he could skip the holidays altogether. So when a friend of a friend needs a ride north, Alex finds that having beautiful Katie seated by his side proves to be just the distraction he needs.<br />
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A simple ride home for Christmas turns into a nightmare when light snow rages into a full-scale blizzard. Katie and Alex find themselves stranded, and a vacant cabin becomes a haven from the storm. <br />
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Under different circumstances, time alone with Alex would be the ultimate Christmas gift, but Katie knows Alex is engaged and she must hide her growing attraction.<br />
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<em>Snowed Over</em> is the perfect little addition to any Christmas book list! Whether you enjoy a sweet romance, a holiday themed book, or just a great read in general, <em>Snowed Over</em> is a wonderful Christmas Novella that won't disappoint you.<br />
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To avoid an accidental spoiler, I won't go into any actual details of the book except to say it is a well-written novella that has just the right amount of drama, a near-tragedy and few heart-felt moments to keep you coming back for more without <em>over</em> doing it. <br />
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I didn't quite rate the book a full 5 Stars, but that's not because it wasn't a great read. Honestly, it was a wonderful read! However, there were no extreme shock factors, no major climax and no incredibly exciting moments. Don't confuse that with me saying the book was boring, it was far from it! It just didn't have your typical fireworks, oh's and ah's. <br />
Overall, I would say... <strong>Put it on your holiday reading list! </strong> <em>Snowed Over </em>is a WONDERFUL Novella, and I strongly recommend it for anyone who likes a sweet and innocent read. One that will make you all warm and fuzzy on the inside, without making your grandma blush. <br />
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She loves dipping french fries in chocolate shakes, natural disaster movies and Broadway Musicals. When not writing, Angie is concocting ways to make more dreams come true, whether it be tickets to a Broadway show or convincing her family they should rent an RV and travel the country. She's still working on that one.<br />
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Angie is a proud double finalist of the 2011 National Readers Choice Awards for Love 'em or Leave 'em, as well as a finalist for the Golden Quill Awards.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(A Rook and Ronin Spin-off) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Author:</strong> J.A. Huss</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Publication date:</strong> January 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Genres:</strong> New Adult Contemporary Romance</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="il">Ford</span> Aston is getting the f*ck out of Denver. He does not give a shit about blizzards, getting his old ass Bronco over the Rocky Mountains in one piece, or a girl knocking on his hotel door looking to be saved.</span><br />
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<span class="il">Ford</span> Aston is known for many things. Being an emotionless, messed up bastard, a freakishly smart social outcast, and a cold, domineering master who keeps “pets” instead of girlfriends.</div>
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Ashleigh is getting the f*ck out of somewhere, but she’s not quite sure where she’s coming from, let alone where she’s going.</div>
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Ashleigh is known for nothing, and that’s exactly what she’s got going for her. She’s broke, stranded in the mountains with a three month old baby, and <span class="il">Ford</span> Aston is f*cking with her head.</div>
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It’s a coy game at first, filled with flirting, and innuendo—but <span class="il">Ford</span> soon realizes something is not quite right with Ashleigh. In fact, something is seriously, seriously wrong and the closer they get to their final destination, the closer <span class="il">Ford</span> gets to the truth. </div>
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One night of devastation, self-loathing, and emptiness turns into the best thing that ever happened to <span class="il">Ford</span> Aston. But one day of in-your-face reality threatens Ashleigh's whole existence. Can <span class="il">Ford</span> allow another woman into his heart and risk the possibility of being hurt, or will he walk away from Ashleigh just when she needs him most?</div>
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J. A. Huss likes to write new adult <span class="il">books</span> that make you think and keep you guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but since practically no one reads those <span class="il">books</span>, she writes new adult science fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and <span class="il">books</span> about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).<br />
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She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really–Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads <span class="il">Book</span> Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Danica and Kaylie Snow are about to celebrate the biggest day of their lives—their double wedding—on an island in the Bahamas. But no wedding is complete without a little family drama. The two sisters aren’t ready to face the father they haven’t seen since he divorced their mother and moved away to marry his mistress, and live with Lacy, the half sister they’ve never met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Melissa Foster is the award-winning author of four International bestselling novels. Her books have been recommended by USA Today’s book blog, Hagerstown Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is the founder of the Women’s Nest, a social and support community for women, the World Literary Café. When she’s not writing, Melissa helps authors navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs on Fostering Success. Melissa is also a community builder for the Alliance for Independent Authors. She has been published in Calgary’s Child Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Women Business Owners magazine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Melissa hosts an annual Aspiring Authors contest for children and has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa lives in Maryland with her family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Visit Melissa on The Women’s Nest, Fostering Success, or World Lit Cafe. Join Melissa and the YaYa Writer Girls at their annual in-person event. Melissa enjoys discussing her books with book clubs and reader groups, and welcomes an invitation to your event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Living in New England, half Greek half American high school student, Helen, lives a relatively normal life; a mother and father and two bratty younger twin brothers. But it all changes when her mother welcomes two strange but devilishly cute boys, Marcus and Gus, into the house and into Helen’s life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While the boys live with Helen, they help her discover that she is far from normal and she is, in fact, part of an ancient Grecian love story that has stretched to every corner of the world. She is Helen of Sparta from the myth, Helen of Troy. The boys however, ask a difficult favour from her, to leave her modern family and go back in time to help break an ancient cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Given the ability to stop time and travel into centuries past, she and her new friends, Marcus and Gus, are joined by five other boys who try and protect Helen from the evil Decurion soldiers; ancient time travellers who wish to stop Helen from breaking the cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Journeying to Ancient Greece, Helen must act as she once had but when the moment the war begins and Helen must break the cycle, she is given a life changing decision. The question is, will she choose wisely?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Author: AE Kirk</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">About to get up to grab the phone, I heard a car pull into the driveway. Sitting up, I looked out of the window, but only saw the top half of the metallic green people carrier which belonged to my Mom. Groaning that the dweebs were home, I flopped back onto the couch and closed my eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bang! Went the sound of the first door that was usually Castor. One minute older he always got out of the left side of the car first. Bang! That was Sander’s right door being slammed shut. Bang! And there was Mom’s. Bang!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The door banged open and Castor and Sander ran into the hallway, glancing at me in the room, they then gave me the middle finger and ran up stairs to their room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘In you go,’ I heard Mom suggest. Standing up, I saw two tall figures move in front of me with their backs turned. Holding two large navy blue holdalls in each hand, they placed them on the floor. Hearing her shuffle down the hallway, she headed to the kitchen; glancing at me as she passed. ‘Oh Helen,’ Mom smiled as she did a double take and spotted me standing there like an idiot staring at the backs of the heads of two tall guys. ‘This is Marcus and Gus, they will be staying in your brothers' room for... well, until we can sort something out.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Release Date: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1461869671" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 13, 2013</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Format: Ebook and Paperback</span></span></div>
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Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603547172046484323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341375114149381136.post-13678106766530362082013-11-13T00:00:00.000-06:002013-11-13T08:59:41.152-06:00Home For the Holidays Hop: $450 Giveaway + The Best Ever Red Velvet Cake Recipe<div class="Home for the Holidays Blog Hop" style="margin: 0 auto; width: 200px;"><a href="http://www.theromancetroupe.com/p/home-for-holidays-blog-hop.html"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The blog hop consists of several bloggers and authors who have sponsored the event to bring you prizes, recipes, book recommendations, and most of all, holiday cheer!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><h2>The Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe, Ever! </h2><div><span style="font-size: large;">The secret to the <i><b>best red velvet cake recipe</b> </i>lies below...</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Instead of flower, it uses a boxed butter cake mix! Shhh! Don't tell anyone until AFTER they have tried it and they tell you how wonderful it is!... No, this recipe still calls for all the other true-red-velvet ingredients such as the vinegar, cocoa, and butter milk. The boxed cake mix is a substitution to the flour only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Title:</strong> My Beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Series:</strong> The Beautiful #2<br />
<strong>Author:</strong> Alicia Rae<br />
<strong>Genre:</strong> Contemporary Romance 18+<br />
<strong>Publication Date:</strong> November 5, 2013<br />
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Still trying to recover from a tragic loss, Lily’s worst fear is falling in love. Distancing herself from everyone is the only way she can keep heartache away.<br />
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Deep down though, Lily realizes that living without Kyle is too painful. She finds strength in Kyle’s arms, and he gives her the courage to face her past. With every step forward, Lily continues to nurture and mend her damaged heart. <br />
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Just when Lily feels closure within her grasp, secrets from the past finally catch up with her, and Lily will discover that more than her heart is on the line. <br />
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Will love be enough to save Lily?<br />
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Thank you to my dear sister, Kels, who showed me a few years ago how much I truly missed reading. And to my loving husband, for not throwing away my Nook, and planting the seed of writing into my mind. I am forever grateful. Xo</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Reckless #2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">At nineteen, Ellie Martin is finally happy. Deliriously, delightfully, delectably happy. Her junior year in college, while not without some major issues, is turning out better than she ever dreamed. She’s finally found closure to a question that has bothered her for as long as she can remember. She’s even been able to put some serious distance between herself and her twisted mother. Best of all, she’s in love with the hot, handsome, and mysterious Logan Walker.</span><br />
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She writes contemporary romance featuring sexy spies and plenty of adventure and humor. The Spy Who Left Me, the first book in her new Agent Ex series, published by St. Martin's Press, is available now. Diamonds Are Truly Forever, the next book in the series, will be released on May 22, 2012.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Leanna Matthews enjoys flying below the radar. She does well in school, has a few close friends and hides the fact she’s an astral-traveling telekinetic. But there’s no escaping her creepy dreams or Simora, the bizarre little spirit lady, that suddenly pops out of nowhere to warn her against keeping secrets and predicts an encounter with a sinister evil. For the first time in forever someone…or something…is on to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But life turns around when Leanna meets Piper one sunny afternoon. She’s inexplicably drawn to him, almost as if she’s been waiting for him to come. Forbidden to have a boyfriend Leanna throws caution to the wind, lying to her family and friends to be with him, while ignoring Simora’s ominous message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She squirmed restlessly in Biology – the final, insufferable class of the day – listening to Ms. Alvarado drone on-and-on about non-polar bonds in her last, torturous act of the term. Somewhere between ‘atom’ and ‘electronegativity,’ Leanna nodded off, nearly conking her head on the desk while daydreaming of summer vacation: shopping, beach, friends, shopping, vacation, shopping, sun, shopping, but not necessarily in that order. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Someone snickered from behind, no doubt amused by her wobbly head, as her eyelids grew heavier. Shut-up Ms. Alvarado, she thought bitterly. Thank God that in less than 20 minutes ninth grade would be officially over! School, and all its stupid inhabitants (present company included), would be history for a good two months; or rather two months too short - but it didn’t matter. Somewhere a beach chair sat waiting on white, fluffy sand and a plane ticket had her name stamped all over it. The fun was just about to begin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That next morning, instead of awakening to the sweet taste of freedom, Leanna lay whimpering, shivering feverishly in her sleep. She curled tightly into a knot as a tiny beam of light crept through the shutters while she slept, casting eerie shadows on the wall - one of which grew abnormally in size until completely encircling the white canopy bed.</span> </span><br />
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<a href="http://cmbooktours.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lowQpic-219x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="lowQpic" border="0" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2414" src="http://CMBookTours.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lowQpic-219x300.jpg" height="300" width="219" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Audra's love of writing began in the third grade, when she was chosen to go to a young author’s conference based on her story, "The Dragon Cookie,” which is about a giant cookie that comes to life. She continued writing, and was sometimes asked to write stories for friends as birthday gifts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Audra went to college thinking she would go into journalism, but opted to go into publishing instead, and even took an internship at Yale University Press. She married right after college and was unable to find a publishing job where they were living in Seattle. Audra took an office job. After helping put her husband through law school, she went back to school and got her teaching degree. Audra enjoyed teaching, but once her oldest was born, she chose to stay home. At the encouragement of friends she started writing again, the result being her first novel, <i>Watcher</i>, which was released in January of 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">By L.P. Dover<br />
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<strong>Publication Date</strong>: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_14542420" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">November 15th 2013</span></span><br />
<strong>Genres</strong>: Fantasy | New Adult | Romance<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The scroll has been found and now the fae know how to defeat the dark sorcerer, to end his evil existence in the Land of the Fae. However, the only thing standing in the way is the one bond that must be formed; the one that will empower all four courts together and make them invincible. Ariella and Brayden’s bond will not come easily, for Ariella is mischievous and head-strong with a heart full of love, while Brayden is strong and loyal with a heart made of <span class="il">ice</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What do you do when the fate of your land rests upon your shoulders because of the bond you must form to save it? How are you supposed to do that when the one man to help you fulfill the prophecy is the one who doesn’t believe in love?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">With all four princesses bound together as one, will they be strong enough to save the life of Ariella, who is destined to be the one who ends it, the one who will sacrifice everything to save the people she loves? In this final installment of the Forever Fae series you will see how the bonds of love and all the sacrifices it takes to truly conquer the evil once and for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Author: </strong>Liz Grace Davis</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Publication date:</strong> September 24th, 2013<br /><strong>Genres:</strong> Adult | Contemporary</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>The past is never far behind.</i><br />Senia Loato’s life has been needled by disappointment, and the wounds that fester go beyond skin deep. She is certain if she puts miles between her and her tainted past, she will somehow outrun it. When she’s offered the chance to leave her island home of Mintang to become an au pair for three boys in Germany, she takes the opportunity to start running.<br /><br />In Germany, she meets Miina, another au pair. What builds between them is a life-defining friendship, one they will risk everything for.</span></span><i><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And soon, they’ll be asked nothing less</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">.<br /><br />When Miina is betrayed and left stranded, Senia stands by her, risking much more than just her stay in Germany. She also stands to lose rich, handsome, turquoise-eyed Roman Dorenwald, the first man she has allowed into her heart.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>But they’re risks worth taking.</i><br />Eventually, Senia makes a sacrifice that catapults her back to her past, where she’s forced to draw back the curtain and discover the shocking truth of her history.<br /><br />Can she confront her nightmares, reach deep into her soul, and forgive those who have hurt her? Or is it easier to just keep running?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikx-OE4Qjo8h1mwVJpAeeQa7kiVyKeNc_hG9lZ3aS-ExAiGpWfew72id7cGzBIYMMKHw3A1c4wryEDlh4Z2G2zg6pLt2zZsyHsfaYrQ4PdrcRkZlkMu_fmjqvA4o_zo5pzP9u1SdIs9ICc/s1600/Liz+Grace+Davis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikx-OE4Qjo8h1mwVJpAeeQa7kiVyKeNc_hG9lZ3aS-ExAiGpWfew72id7cGzBIYMMKHw3A1c4wryEDlh4Z2G2zg6pLt2zZsyHsfaYrQ4PdrcRkZlkMu_fmjqvA4o_zo5pzP9u1SdIs9ICc/s1600/Liz+Grace+Davis.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Liz Grace Davis is a Namibian author. She grew up in Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Germany. She now lives with her husband in Vienna, Austria.<br /><br />Growing up, Liz spent most of her days in school libraries, diving into the world of books.<br /><br />In her spare time she loves to travel as well as creating jewelry and digital scrapbooks. She's in her element when she is doing anything that requires creativity.<br /><br />Liz is the author of a young adult fantasy novel, Tangi's Teardrops, and a romantic women's fiction novel, Chocolate Aftertaste.<br /><br /><strong>Connect with Liz Grace Davis</strong></span></span></div>
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<strong>Publication date:</strong> October, 2013<br />
<strong>Genres:</strong> Adult, Contemporary, <wbr></wbr>Romance<br />
According to Hayley love is a subject of ridicule, a myth created by hopeless romantics.<br />
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When Hayley makes a resolution to declare her loose lifestyle era R.I.P, it’s all good in theory…<br />
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Opinionated, sharp tongued Hayley accidently steps into his office leaving Daniel resolved to put Hayley in her place and have her in his bed.<br />
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Both Hayley and Daniel can’t avoid the immediate instigation of the attraction between them.<br />
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In a unanimously agreed upon verdict by Hayley and her two best friends, Ian the gay self-absorb, aspiring model and Natasha the witty, borderline neurotic soul mate, Daniel Stark is to be Hayley’s pure physical attraction, emotions aside era closure.<br />
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I was in my late twenties, in between contracts in California, and only had an
old Remington typewriter, loads of copy paper---</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">borrowed</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> from a previous employer---and my
local Boulder Creek Library as my tools for writing---there wasn't a world-wide
web or extensive internet yet---my first forays into putting together
entertaining, evocative narratives based more on fact than fictions was tedious
to say the least. There followed a lot of just plain life for many years before
I finally, actually, started writing as a vocation. That was by then rather
late in life, relatively speaking. By that time, well after the advent of the
internet, POD, social media and other such marvels of industry, getting
published had become a relatively simple matter of formatting one's materials
properly, choosing a reliable and efficient printer and bam, you've got a book
published. But that's not the end of it by any stretch---unless one is content
to merely have one's own shelves populated with one's own books and have no
exposure or audience beyond that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No matter if you're writing about totally imaginary worlds devoid of seemingly
any touch with reality, in order to connect with an audience you're going to
have to get your facts straight. Even if you are making them up as you go
along, everything needs to be at least internally consistent. Most fiction and
all non-fiction, however, requires a more constant reality check. In my youth
it was the library that stood as the bastion of facts and data, history and
general information. With a laptop and the web, constant trips to the local
branch aren't the impediment to sound research any longer. But you must still
check and cross-check your data. Just because there's a lot available out there
doesn't mean it's all valid, even correct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NINE:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Make sure you say
what you really want to say. That may sound obvious, but unless your thoughts
are clear in your own mind, what comes across to the reader will be a fog of
notions. Take the time to hash out your ideas, opinions and most importantly:
storyline, so that there are no loose ends, no internal inconsistencies, no
circular logic sabotaging your best efforts to bring your story to an expectant
audience. See my blog: <span style="color: black;">Preparing for Interviews</span>,
<i>How Writing is Therapy...</i> section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EIGHT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You gotta have
style. You can put one word after another in a convincing manner, but would the
average reader recognize your writing from, say, their own or some other
writer's hand? I will not encourage anyone to adopt the bon ton paradigm of the
day: the overpopulation of crude language, steamy and out-right explicit
sexuality or the omni-present tone of disdainful cynicism that appears to
pervade the marginalia-made-book-form of some contemporary
'literature'---Unless that's actually your chosen genre! What you <i>must</i>
attempt to cultivate in any event is your own voice. Your writing style will
follow as surely as night follows the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SEVEN:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Nothing new under
the sun. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but whatever astonishing </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">new</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> idea you have for
your </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">best-seller</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> has very probably,
most very likely been written... many times before... to death. Cold facts. But
here's the kicker: Shakespeare didn't come up with anything new either! His
plots were already old and moldy before he picked them up. What breathed new
life into that staleness was: HOW he filled them out; WHO his characters really
were; with WHAT cleverness, depth and flow he imbued their dialogues and
soliloquies. So take heart. Even </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boy-Meets-Girl</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> can come to new life
in your hands---just make it your own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SIX:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> So you have your
narrative. Your friends and family grudgingly read through it and are
pleasantly surprised that it doesn't stink. Then the other foot falls: you need
some editing---not just proofreading for typos and the odd transposed word or
out of place homonym---seriously cut, move stuff around Editing. If you're
brave (or masochistic), you can post it on your blog and open it up to readers'
comments. Probably better however, and less demeaning, is to have a
professional dispassionately make your work shine as it was intended. It may
cost a bit, but what's the price of avoiding Professional Embarrassment?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FIVE:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Judging a book by
its cover. That little phrase is still with us because it's more than a
splinter of truth in this business---it's axiomatic. I assure you that I have
built my own covers, was pleased at how they appealed to my eye, but set them
up next to others in their genre and they were the red-headed step-children.
Sad, disheartening, but true. Look at what's catching the eyes of Bookstore
customers---brick-and-mortar stores or the on-line variety---there's always a </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here's what others
are looking at...</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> section to be
inspected. What catches <i>your</i> eye as <i>you</i> look at those shelves?
That should be a clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FOUR:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Knock on the biggest
door. Unfortunately, major publishing houses, almost without exception, do not
accept unsolicited manuscripts. You'll need an agent to go there in your stead.
What? Not enough budget for hiring and retaining an agent? How about a
publicist, a marketing analyst, a distribution agency? No? Don't give up just
yet. How about utilizing an indie press and taking on the marketing, sales and
distribution with your own sweat and tears? It has been done successfully. In
fact, that's likely why you're reading this right now---you ARE using the
available means at your disposal and spending as little as possible to make
your title a household word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THREE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: Location, location,
location. It's the marketing of published work that creates the greatest
challenges and forces the most attention and creativity an author can muster.
There are now an over-abundance of resources and advice out there. Let me offer
a shamelessly promotional example: I am writing this now, because I am part of <span style="color: black;">Orangeberry Book Tours</span> because Pandora Poikilos has
connections and know-how I don't. I have contracted with <span style="color: black;">Substance Books</span> for other branding and marketing
efforts for the long haul because Hajni Blasko has the experience and expertise
I don't have. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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work at <span style="color: black;">Voyager Press</span> who utilizes: <span style="color: black;">KDP</span>, <span style="color: black;">iBooks</span>, <span style="color: black;">Bowker</span>, <span style="color: black;">CreateSpace</span>,
for print and eBook production, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, GreatReads and many
other outlets for distribution---including their own online VPDirect Store. For
Industry exposure they contract with the <span style="color: black;">Jenkins
Group</span> and <span style="color: black;">Combined Book Exhibit</span>, as
well as those firms affiliates. The gist of this note is that networking with
those who have the know-how, the connections and talent is how to put together
a winning team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the penultimate Need-To-Know item in Publishing: <b>It takes a Village!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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like raising children or getting a mom-and-pop store out of the red, getting a
book into the hands of potential readership takes all the talent, experience
and relationships you can garner and gather around yourself from the very
beginning. Anyone who thinks they can go it alone in this most highly
interconnected world village of today is either fabulously wealthy already and
can buy their way into a reader's hands, or is, as was suggested at the outset
of this article: </span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">...content to merely
have one's own shelves populated with one's own books and have no exposure or
audience beyond that.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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end, a writer has to make informed decisions and never let loose of her/his
pursestrings all too easily for un-researched, un-validated, un-verified
printing, editing, developing or marketing avenues constantly bombarding email
portals with wildly fantastic claims for success. Keep it Simple---Read,
Research, Review, Write, Re-write, Request---those are the new R's of
publishing success in this day and age. But be prepared: Change is always a day
away---it wasn't long ago there was no interweb...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">“If you had virtually unlimited resources and a pristinely practicable imagination, and a knack for turning air into butter, what do you suppose you’d do next?”<br /> —Tera Elphinstone, Drummond Group Director</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Just A Curtain is the remarkable, fast-paced gateway to both The Elf series and the grander epic recorded in J. L. Lawson’s other works: The Donkey and The Wall trilogy and The Curious Voyages of the Anna Virginia Saga.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjPw3fAxmJG5t6DlOSinyNcWDteeuiq5GSUpdoyM-B9ddst5JMgtBAVZ7TEt0iiRxPWwirXwA2kGzPusm6mOWNXg7WSBg0gg8x2eCs9Tha9Es4b_mv7MhbqJ8r7Q4EN07xpoY6F0xdRYS/s1600/Author+J.+L.+Lawson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjPw3fAxmJG5t6DlOSinyNcWDteeuiq5GSUpdoyM-B9ddst5JMgtBAVZ7TEt0iiRxPWwirXwA2kGzPusm6mOWNXg7WSBg0gg8x2eCs9Tha9Es4b_mv7MhbqJ8r7Q4EN07xpoY6F0xdRYS/s1600/Author+J.+L.+Lawson.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I am a father, a grandfather and a “Came-to-Writing-Professionally-Late-in-Life” kinda guy. After rewarding careers as a Land Planner, Standards Engineer, Technical Writer/Graphic Designer, and as an Educator (High School and College Literature/Composition) I settled down at the laptop and began storytelling for a living. My wife and I live in the Cross-timbers country of North Texas and spend as much time seeing this amazing country, its National Parks and Forests, as we can manage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Sulfur Heights #2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Publication date: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_699650937" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">November 6th 2013</span></span></span></div>
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<i>“From the moment I locked eyes with hers, we’ve had this undeniable connection that was and will always be wicked. A love that would literally kill me if it didn’t survive, but lately, could kill me if it did.” ~Drake Evans.</i><br />
For Drake and Presley, life has handed them more challenges than any one person should ever face in a lifetime. Together, they’ve survived Presley’s captivity from her deranged uncle, but now they must learn how to live with the events that surrounded her time spent with him, while keeping the details of her rescue a secret.<br />
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For Presley Quinn, living the last two years has been practically unbearable, constantly drowning in nightmares put there by a man responsible for the violent images continually playing in her mind. She keeps moving forward, but is barely clinging onto the edge when she’s faced with another obstacle from her past that is so unavoidable, so tragic, it threatens to break her apart—herself.<br />
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Drake will do anything to protect Presley from ever feeling pain again. His love is irrefutable. He walks side by side with her, vowing he will never let anyone harm her again. However, when an unexpected event turns Presley against everyone she’s ever loved, Drake is faced with trying to save the only woman he’s ever loved or severing the only lifeline she’s ever had—himself.<br />
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**Mature Content Warning** 17 years and older for language and sexual content.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today I am featuring <i>Audubon Springs, </i>a contemporary romance by RoseAnn DeFranco. The book currently holds 5 prestigious stars on both Amazon and Goodreads! To add to the fun, the author is also hosting a giveaway which, you can find below!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yeah, you—Miss Macrobiotic Princess!” They used the barstools for support, and pulled themselves up from the slippery floor. “You’re immovable just like your mother.”</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a predatory look in his eyes and gait, Rafe advanced. In two long strides he pinned her to the counter, his hands grasping her hips. “Don’t!” His voice, low and dangerous, and his near proximity overwhelmed, charging her body with a jolt of electricity rendering breathing impossible. His gaze locked on hers for an eternity, then without warning, he dipped his head and licked lavishly at the syrup on her chest and neck.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div>
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