tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58980842015991386502024-03-13T10:55:01.583-07:00Magic City WritingThe saga of writing an urban-fantasy set in Birmingham, Alabama (the Magic City) Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-30758650574268623562015-08-24T00:00:00.000-07:002015-08-24T00:00:05.021-07:00Sundance's Sidewalk Preview of Love Between the Covers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi y'all! I'm Sundance, J-Dog's little brother (my nickname is Outlaw). He normally doesn't let me near the computer, but since he has some new mice-mice, I was able to sneak in some keyboard time. As a big fan of independent movies, I'm here to let y'all know about a great film that will be showcased this weekend at Birmingham's <a href="http://sidewalkfest.com/" target="_blank">Sidewalk Film Festival</a>.<br />
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As y'all know, J-Dog's and my mom, big-loud-blonde-lady who-has-the-thumbs-to-open-cans-of-wet-food writes romance ("big blonde lady" for short). Romance fans are voracious readers. It is one of the best selling genres out there. Who doesn't love a happily every after? I sure do, especially if it involves me catching that blasted red dot.<br />
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Anyway, <a href="http://www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/" target="_blank">Love Between the Covers</a> is an amazing documentary about the unbelievable community of romance writers. Surgeons. Lawyers. Homemakers. Librarians. Physicists. You name it - every walk of life is represented among this group of hard-working ladies. You've met a bunch of them through J-Dog's #FuzzyFridays.<br />
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If you're an aspiring writer or someone who loves reading a story that will always deliver a "happily every after," you must watch Love Between the Covers. You will be inspired by the determination and dedication these authors devote to their stories and fans. There is nothing like the romance community, and Love Between the Covers lets you be a part of it. <br />
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Per Sidewalk's <a href="http://sidewalkfest.com/schedule/" target="_blank">schedule</a>, the film will air Saturday, August 29, from 1:15 to 2:38 at the ASFA Lecture Hall. <br />
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<i>The romance novel, often casually spotted in the hands of a woman on the subway or on a grandmother's shelf amongst hundreds of titles is an easily dismissed genre. However, to many, it's more than a paltry fictional category, it's a lifestyle . . . one that yields a reading speed of 3 to 5 books a week. This rapidly consumed genre is largely responsible for keeping the book industry alive. Love Between the Covers uncovers the camaraderie behind the romance novel's authors and readers and the fight for deserved respect in the world of book snobs.</i><br />
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Every time, the big blonde lady watches this, she screams out who her friends our. She must really love that Manda Collins lady because she whoops every time she comes up in the trailer.<br />
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Check out Love Between the Covers this weekend at Sidewalk. There are so many great films, it is hard to choose which to see. This one is Sundance, the Outlaw, approved. For more information on film festival tickets, go to: <a href="http://sidewalkfest.com/get-tickets/">http://sidewalkfest.com/get-tickets/</a> <br />
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-4416601278745765882015-08-21T05:50:00.002-07:002015-08-21T05:50:21.419-07:00White Hot #FuzzyFriday with Lily and Lulu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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J-Dog is thrilled to introduce you to Lily White and Lulu white, award-winning author Meda White's fur babies. Their Southern charm shines on this #FuzzyFriday.</div>
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firstborn furbaby of award-winning author Meda White, or as I like to call her,
Mama Meda, yip-yip, or the lady trying to hide a pill in my cheese. She rescued
me from hot, humid Florida and brought me to hot, humid Alabama. Yeehaw! That’s
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I’m on my third or fourth life now. A country kitty like me tends to lose count
after a while…and teeth. Geriatric. Pfft. I’ll claw that vet’s eyeballs out the
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“So, we have to make this quick because Mama went to teach
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“Shows how much you know, my feline companion. Don’t make me
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“Stop trying to show off. We’re here to promote Mama Meda
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“So true. Her first Southland Romance just won an award.”
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“That trophy is heavy as all get out. I’d hate to knock it
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and unlike me, you only have the one life.” Lulu licks her shoulder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Alrighty then, old gal.” Lily huffs a short laugh. “Since
you weren’t living here when she wrote that one, let me tell you, you’re so
lucky. My sleep schedule was all jacked up. She’d be up writing or revising at
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Lily pants with a big grin. “Thanks. Anyway, Mama got the
idea for the start of that story when she and dad were knocking down the old
deck. For <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Play With My Heart</i>, it’s
kinda like the meet cute. When Ian sees Liz for the first time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Let’s give her a moment, folks.” Lulu rolls her eyes and
yawns. “I’ve been at Casablanca, ahh, that’s a fancy name for The White House,
long enough to know about the late nights Mama Meda spends in front of the
computer. Those are the best times because the lightweight over there,” she
glances at Lily, “is dead to the world, and I have Mama all to myself. Her lap
is the best. Especially, when she’s on the desktop computer. I have a problem
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“If you like those tasty treats she spoils you with, you’ll
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“So much.” Lulu shakes her head. “I happen to be a fan of
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“Later. Mama needs us to help her sell some books. All of
the books are wonderful, and we’re not biased or anything. The Southland
Romance Series is based on a fictional family called the Bakers.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yeah, they’re kinda like the Brady Bunch in boots and blue
jeans, and Southland is the name of the family ranch, where they have all kinds
of animals. Except a barn cat.” Lulu coughs up a hairball.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well the dogs are bulldogs because the family all went to
the University of Georgia. I mean, how unoriginal is that? Adopt a collie,
people. Go, SEC football.” Lily actually barks, which resembles Sanford Stadium
on game day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“My tiny, sensitive ears can’t take much more of this.” Lulu
rotates said body parts several degrees. “Here’s my advice; buy the book, read
it, then leave an honest review somewhere. My potbelly and I thank you very
much.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Squirrel!” Lily disappears down the stairs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s a good thing Mama Meda can count on me. I’m hoping for
some serious cuddle time after all this.” Lulu sticks her tongue out while she
copies and pastes. “Here you go. If you have a Kindle, try this one: <a href="http://bit.ly/Fool_Amazon">http://bit.ly/Fool_Amazon</a> If you have an
iPad, try this one: <a href="http://bit.ly/Fool_iBooks">http://bit.ly/Fool_iBooks</a>
And, if you have a Nook, go here: <a href="http://bit.ly/Fool_Nook">http://bit.ly/Fool_Nook</a>
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“I’m back. What did I miss?” Lily paces side to side. “Did
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“I love my sister.” Lulu sighs. “I really do. Mainly because
my mama’s trying to teach me to love everybody. But I refuse to love that ugly
orange cat that jumped me last week. Scared the crap out of me. Literally. But
don’t worry, Lily ate it.” Lulu rolls on her back and wallows a second. “Just
kidding.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Thanks for visiting with us, and thanks to Ms. Heather for
hosting. For more on all of the books, check out Mama Meda’s website at <a href="http://www.medawhite.com/">www.MedaWhite.com</a> . We love y’all, and
don’t forget to pet your favorite fur baby.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Treats are awesome! Hashtag share the love. I need a nap,
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-52589038440310806912015-08-07T07:28:00.000-07:002015-08-07T07:28:29.275-07:00Jerry, Sammie, and Thor Invade #FuzzyFriday. All your bases are belong to us.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lap Man accidentally caught </div>
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treats, we three superior lifeforms have agreed to an interview with our
like-bodied companion J-Dog. Our mission is to somehow learn from the many
fingered humans how to open the tasty bags of treats she has placed on a high
shelf. Once we have mastered this skill, we will be gods among cat kind. Until
that time we live peacefully, accepting the soft human’s treats and sitting in
the warm spot provided by her partner, lap man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What is Mommy currently reading? <o:p></o:p></h1>
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half read books in the dining room (Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs), books in the living room (The Cat Made Me Buy It by Alice
Muncaster), books in the bedroom (Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters)
and even books on her light up toy that she’s always carrying and tapping on
(Charlotte & the Pirate by Patricia Green) and the large lighted toy that
she types on in front of the big moving window in the living room (The Boys on
the Mountain by John Inman). We see her reading all of them at the same time.
She moves from room to room and picks up a different book for each room. It is
most peculiar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1>
What was the most recent thing I did to get in trouble?<o:p></o:p></h1>
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admonishing us for not adhering to their human ways. One day they washed all
the throw rugs in the house and laid them out to dry on the tile in the
kitchen. This made the rugs smell terrible, so we took the catnip from the pantry
and spread it all over the rugs. We three enjoyed it very much. And then we
shoved the baggie of catnip behind the stove so they wouldn’t find it until their
next spring cleaning. They did not appreciate our efforts. We have resigned
ourselves to continuing to educate them on the attractiveness of catnip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1>
What are my observations of Mommy's writing process?<o:p></o:p></h1>
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time during her writing process. We take shifts. The five a.m. writing hour is
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on the big lighted toy. It’s early and they don’t talk much but she knows he’s
there. At night, Sammie is in charge. He burrows under her arm so he can view
the screen and make sure she’s not writing anything objectionable, i.e.,
anything bad about cats. On the weekends, it’s Jerry’s job to help her drape
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What is Mommy currently writing?<o:p></o:p></h1>
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Sammie uses his death glare to keep the soft human
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The soft human is working on more than one project, predictably.
That is all Sammie reports back. He has seen the different pictures she
attaches to each one. One has ghostly images and teenagers. Another has strange
flying humans in a sepia toned Western background. And another involves a
colorful and sinister carnival. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1>
Why you should buy my Mommy's most recent book b/c pet treats aren't cheap<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
were very disappointed that there are no cats in the current book the soft
human published. Instead she has a human with tentacles which made Jerry and
Sammie think of seafood. Thor only eats chicken. She read some of it out loud.
The tentacled man helps a space man buy a rocket. The tentacled man likes the space
man but the space man doesn’t likes his tentacles. Again there are no cats in
the story. But she told us that more treats would be forthcoming if people
bought the story. We think more people would buy it if there were cats in it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h1>
Meet the Soft Human<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aidee
Ladnier began writing fiction at twelve years old but took a hiatus to be a
magician’s assistant, ride in hot air balloons, produce independent movies,
collect interesting shoes, and amass a secret file with the CIA. A lover of
genre fiction, it has been a lifelong dream of Aidee's to write both romance
and erotica with a little science-fiction, fantasy, mystery, or the paranormal
thrown in to add a zing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h1>
The Soft Human's Book <o:p></o:p></h1>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the right space pilot walks into his bar,
a desperate bartender uses all his wiles (and tentacles) to talk the man into
business and his bed--but the spacer is still enslaved by his past and isn't
sure he can deal with a two-armed lover, much less one with six.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
the supply shipments stop coming, Teo Houdin needs all his tentacles to keep
his waystation bar open. Facing a riot by thirsty miners stranded in the
backwater of the galaxy, Teo helps a greenie space pilot buy a ship in return
for a regular haul of liquor. But he longs for the courage to invite the
enigmatic spacer to fill his lonely bed as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still
smarting from his newly implanted navigational ports, Jimenez knows owning his
own ship will prevent him from ever being bought and sold again. For a former
slave, transporting cargo through the emptiness of space sounds like paradise,
but after meeting the compassionate and sexy Teo, his heart feels empty, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
the edge of the galaxy's spiral arm, can Teo convince Jimenez that the heart
has its own tentacles and theirs should be entwined forever?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Jimenez opened the bar’s airlock and the urge to run out again
washed over him like a splash of cold water. He commanded his frozen legs to
shuffle forward and inside. This could turn ugly if he lost his concentration
for even a moment. But he wouldn’t. He’d been practicing, becoming accustomed
to groups larger than this for revs now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">He could be just like everyone else. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">None of them would see the scars on his back or the brand of his
tattoo that had marked him since puberty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Men and women filled half the tables and booths, some laughing and
drinking, a few puffing blue smoke. The gaming tables on the side were empty,
while a lone player at the billiard table opposite pocketed ball after ball.
The room rang with loud voices, clinking glasses, and raucous music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Jimenez slid into an empty spot at the pale stone bar and caught
sight of the clearest, happiest eyes he’d ever seen, a shade lighter than the
man’s tousled brown mop above. A dimple quirked at the side of his full lips,
mesmerizing Jimenez. The loud voices behind him slid away and for a moment, it
was quiet in his mind. Jimenez flinched when his shoulder was jostled and the
spell broke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hey, you okay, buddy? First time? What can I pour for you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Jimenez blinked, realizing the tall bartender was speaking to him.
The man’s smiling eyes crinkled at the corners of his bronzed face. Jimenez
swallowed, and he ducked his chin, trying not to stare again, trying to hide
his hot cheeks. He’d never been so close to such a handsome man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Did you want a drink?” The bartender quirked an eyebrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yeah… I mean yes. Whiskey neat.” His voice came out gruffer than
he expected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Bourbon, Scotch, Rye…?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Surprise me.” It was a game Jimenez played. He’d order whiskey
and discover what the bartender served. If he reached for the rail bottle
closest to hand, it meant he would pour either the cheapest or the local
favorite. If he pulled something from the top shelf, the bartender angled for a
bigger tip. But if he grabbed a decanter off to the side or behind another
bottle, he’d score the bartender’s personal pick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Coming right up.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The bartender raised a tentacle in greeting, calling out to
another patron. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh, God. The man was a Pod. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course he was. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In a joint named the Klockwerk Kraken, who better to tend the bar
than a tentacled man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1>
Find the Soft Human on the Internet:</h1>
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<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook:
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twitter:
</span><a href="https://twitter.com/AideeLadnier"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://twitter.com/AideeLadnier</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-2521350135513268152015-07-31T05:55:00.000-07:002015-07-31T06:00:46.050-07:00Author Annie Adams' Fur Baby Wilson Arranges #FuzzyFriday with Floral Flair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My name is <st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place>.
I’m a yellow Lab, technically speaking, but my mom describes me as cream
colored, like a Vendela Rose, whatever that means. A few weeks ago, the
doorbell rang at my house, I barked like I’m supposed to and the humans I lived
with opened the door. A stranger, a woman stood at the door and it was love at
first sight. I jumped up on her and half an hour later I let the new stranger
take me to her house and I’ve lived there ever since. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I also go to work at the flower shop with her and Daddy
every day. What a strange place. Every day, there’s a guy named Keith who backs
his big truck up to the front door and Mom goes outside and looks in the truck
and then comes back with her arms full of flowers. I like to walk directly
under those flowers so I can do a smell inspection. I have to be sure to stay
no more than six inches away from her legs as she walks, that way I’m in
optimum range for keeping my nose in everything. Got to stay on top of things! My
mom seems kind of uncoordinated. She’s always tripping over me as I help her in
with the flowers. Lots of strangers come in and out every day to take flowers
away with them. I try so hard not to bark at them, because I know my mom and
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hard on the leash when I walk them. They’re just so slow! The other day, Mom
left a sandwich out on the design table at work for me. I politely waited until
she answered the phone, and then once again, for politeness’ sake, I stealthily
stood on my hind legs and strenuously reached for the sandwich with my teeth. I
swallowed it whole to keep down the mess of crumbs. I try so hard to be thoughtful;
I have to wonder why my mom put the sandwich in a place that was so hard for me
to reach. I guess she just gets distracted with all the things going on at once.
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I love to lay my head on my mom’s lap when she sits at the
desk to write or on her foot when she stands at the computer at work or uses
her laptop. I think she’s writing books when we do this. She’s working on a
novella right now. It’s about a mystery that happens at a New Year’s Eve party.
Lots of other authors are going to put their stories in with hers and they will
sell it in October. Mom also writes The Flower Shop Mystery Series and right
now she’s working on the fourth book in the series. I understand there’s a new
dog in those books, but I’m sure he’s not half the flower shop dog that I am. I
think Mommy’s books are funny. They tell the story of Quincy McKay, who is a
florist with a wacky delivery driver named K.C. They solve mysteries and get in
a lot of trouble. <st1:city w:st="on">Quincy</st1:city>’s
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After we go home, we’ll work in the yard. I don’t know how
they did it without me! Then, Mommy will go into her room and work on her books
while I go to bed and dream about another sandwich at the flower shop.</div>
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<i>Wilson's mom, Author Annie Adams, writes cozy mysteries with a kick of romance. She is the author of the ARRANGEMENTS series. When not writing, she can be found arranging flowers or delivering them in her own Zombie Delivery Van. She's a member of the Romance Writers of America, the Utac chapter of RWA (URWA) and the Kiss of Death chapter of RWA (KOD).</i></div>
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<i>You can also find her on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnnieAdamsTheAuthor"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/AnnieAdamsTheAuthor</span></a></i></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-56976984615233181352015-07-24T00:30:00.000-07:002015-07-24T00:30:00.428-07:00#FishyFriday with Lou Anders' Blue the Fish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a beta, which is a fish, and I</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">m Blue. Yeah, I
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Thrones & Bones series, because he certainly isn</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t
expending it on creative names for pets. I see him most days across the room,
standing on those leg things of yours at his high kitchen table, banging away
at the keys. Sometimes he giggles and sometimes he swears. I don</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t
know if it</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s any good or not because books don</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t
do well inside of an aquarium. But the humans seem to like it. I</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">m
told that the books are for kids eight and up</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">—</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">which
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which was plenty of room for a beta, so they added a Grecian urn, a Chinese
lion, a plastic plant, and a tiny house and a tiny castle. Unfortunately, they
also added something called a p</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">lecostomus</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">. Her name (I think she</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s
a her, but really who can tell?) is Lilly Pad. She sticks to the bottom eating
muck (yuck!) and I swim at the top. Unfortunately, she also sleeps in my
Grecian urn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lion isn't hollow,
neither is the house or castle, and the plastic of the plant isn</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t
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filters for my water wheel, and if you're feeling really adventurous, buy <i>Nightborn</i>
too. Because this plecostomus is hogging my urn and I want my owner feeling
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glass, gobbling fish pellets, and hiding in the shadows. He absolutely does not
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books. He drew on a recent visit to Norway along with his adventures traveling
across Europe in his teens and twenties to write <i>Frostborn</i> and <i>Nightborn</i>,
combining those experiences with his love of globe-trotting adventure fiction
and games (both tabletop and role- playing) However, he has yet to ride a
wyvern. With the addition of characters Desstra and Tanthal, Anders hopes that
his second book in the Thrones and Bones series will continue to appeal to boys
and girls equally. Anders is the recipient of a Hugo Award for editing and a
Chesley Award for art direction. He has published over five hundred articles
and stories on science fiction and fantasy television and literature. A
prolific speaker, Anders regularly attends writing conventions around the
country. He and his family reside in Birmingham, Alabama. You can visit Anders
online at louanders.com and ThronesandBones.com, on Facebook, on Tumblr, and on
Twitter at @ThronesandBones and @LouAnders.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-6690288479271494192015-07-17T05:47:00.000-07:002015-07-17T06:33:09.800-07:00Golden Heart® Finalist Kelly Farmer’s dogs Jack and Al invade #FuzzyFriday and share Puppy Love!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi! My name is Jack. Do you have
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My brother Al will be here in a
minute. He’s sleeping. People call us “old timers”, but our mommy prefers to
say we’re teenagers. We still act like dogs half our age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Al,
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Huh? What? Is there food? No? Okay. <i>(Falls
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Want to go for a walk? We’re
Mommy’s personal trainers. Since I’m a Labrador retriever and Al is a Lab-husky
mix, we love to go for walkies. If Mommy has been sitting in front of that
glowing thing she calls a “laptop” too long, I stare at her until she takes me
out. I can stare for a <i>long</i> time.
Sometimes it’s because I want food, too. Are you sure you don’t have treats?
Here, I’ll roll on my back in the grass to entertain you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Al
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kitchen? I love the kitchen! Oh, hi. I’m Al. When did you get here? Do you have
treats? Here, I’ll sit. And nudge your hand. Everyone says I’m very silly.
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“writing romance novels”, which is when she stares at that laptop for hours,
muttering to herself. Jack and I sometimes think she’s talking to us and we wag
our tails. She also talks to “Siri” when we’re out on our walkies and she gets
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mulch. Mommy is a finalist in a contest called the Golden Heart. She’s going to
a big conference next week for the Romance Writers of America. That means Al
and I get to hang out at Grandma and Grandpa’s house--<i>yes!</i> The book Mommy wrote is called <i>Puppy Love</i>. It was inspired by the time she spent working at an
animal shelter. Don’t talk about that with Al--that’s where she adopted him
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Al,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The lady in the book is a
veterinarian who moves to a small town in Southwest Michigan to work at an
animal shelter clinic. Some of the cats and dogs in the story were inspired by
pets Mommy knows. There’s a naughty husky who talks she says is like Al, and
two needy Weimaraners she says are like me. I don’t think so. <i>(Crawls up on your lap)</i> Tell me I’m a
good boy. <i>(Al woofs in his sleep)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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giving pets a second chance at a forever home. The man in <i>Puppy Love</i> is, too. He’s a lawyer from Chicago who’s back in his
hometown to help his mommy because his daddy “crossed over the Rainbow Bridge”.
He rescues an injured dog in the pouring rain at the start of the book. I like
him--he has treats. These two lost people find their way together by helping pets
in need. It’s like the shelter’s motto: <i>Where
Two Hearts Become One</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mommy is excited about making lots
of new friends as she pursues her dream of being a published author. She asks
people to “Like” and “Follow” her, which I think means sniffing each other’s
butts at the park. If you see us, say hi! Al and I love making friends, too.
Especially if they have treats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kelly Farmer has been writing
romance novels since junior high. In those days, the heroes were the star
quarterback on the high school football team who drove Corvettes and were named
Brad. Now, she writes down to earth stories about the guys and girls next door.
Her current manuscript, <i>Puppy Love</i>, takes place at a small-town animal
shelter in a fictional Southwest Michigan resort town. It is a 2015 Romance
Writers of America Golden Heart</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8.0pt;">®</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Finalist in the Contemporary Romance category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When not writing, she enjoys
walking her two large, spunky senior dogs, quoting from Eighties movies, and
following NHL hockey. Kelly lives in the Chicago suburbs, where she complains
about the weather 300 days a year.<br />
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kellyfarmerauthor"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/kellyfarmerauthor</span></a><br />
Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/KellyFarmerAuth" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/KellyFarmerAuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One of the great things the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic does is a <a href="http://alspay.org/programs/trap-neuter-release/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">TNR program</span></a>. Trap-Neuter-Return involves trapping the cats in a feral colony, getting them spayed and neutered, adopting out kittens and friendly cats, then returning the adult feral cats to their territory and providing them with food and shelter. TNR significantly reduces noise from fighting, odor from spraying, and more litters of kittens. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">J-Dog does all his shopping through </span><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/" style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">AMAZON SMILE</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Through this program, Amazon donates 0.5% of eligible purchase to a charity of your choice, like the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic. J-Dog is giving away a $10 Amazon gift card (purchased through Amazon Smile to help the Spay Neuter Clinic) to one of the people who leaves a comment. Check back Wednesday to see if you won.</span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-42696948296272257712015-07-10T05:26:00.003-07:002015-07-10T07:23:08.477-07:00Zoe Hernandez Has #FuzzyFriday Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">My name is Zoe Hernandez. I’m a seven-year-old golden retriever. Here are a few secrets about my mom Gwen Hernandez.</span><br />
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She’s not allowed to read anything right now because she needs to focus on her writing. But her favorites are romantic suspense and historical romance. Even better is both combined!</div>
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<b>• What was the most recent thing I did to get in trouble?</b></div>
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I stole a tennis ball out of Mommy and Daddy’s bedroom, a place I’m not supposed to go. In my defense, it looked just like mine. You know, bright green, round, small enough for my mouth. Never mind that it was out of sight around the corner. I could SMELL it.</div>
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<b>• What are my observations of Mommy's writing process?</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">If I didn’t tell her I need to go for a walk every now and then, she’d sit in her favorite chair or on the couch in front of her laptop all day. She tries to plot out the basics of her book before she starts, often while we’re walking or she’s on a run (without me, because apparently I’m nothing but a "furry boat anchor"). I’m a good sounding board for major plot points, GMC, and characterization, though. Mommy says it looks better when she talks to me instead of herself.</span></div>
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Despite that, she changes almost everything, rewriting the first 10K words about 50 times before she finally figures out the gist of the story. And she’s always complaining that she didn’t get enough written. She started doing meditation and yoga, which helps her relax, but I think she needs more time in downward dog.</div>
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<b>• What is Mommy currently writing?</b></div>
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Book 3 in her Men of Steele series (romantic suspense). This one is about Kurt Steele--the founder of Steele Security--and charter pilot, Caitlyn Brevard. He’s a former Air Force pararescueman (PJ) and a double above-the-knee amputee, and she’s an old military friend he’s always had the hots for. Mom says readers have been asking for Kurt's book, and she’s worried about getting it right.</div>
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<b>• Why you should buy my Mommy's most recent book (b/c pet treats aren't cheap).</b></div>
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Well, I can’t read, but <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Laura Griffin said, "Packed with action and emotion. BLIND AMBITION is a page-turner!” Mommy was really excited about that!</div>
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Here’s a short blurb for BLIND AMBITION (Men of Steele #2).<br />
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Former pararescueman Dan Molina’s mission to rescue a kidnapped aid worker from St. Isidore’s rebels falls apart when the woman—who once shattered his heart—refuses to leave the island.<br />
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Alexa Alyssandratos won't leave until she’s certain the orphans she cared for are safe from the rebels. On the run from ransom-hungry soldiers, old passions reignite as she and Dan race to save the children before they disappear forever.</div>
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Thanks for letting me hang out with you today, Ms. Heather!</div>
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Gwen Hernandez was a manufacturing engineer and programmer before she turned to writing romantic suspense. She’s also the author of <i>Scrivener For Dummies</i> and teaches Scrivener (writing software) to writers all over the world.<br />
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She loves to travel, read, jog, practice Kung Fu, and explore the Boston area where she currently lives with her Air Force husband, two teenage boys, and a lazy golden retriever (that’s me!).</div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-65882134190653024232015-07-08T05:58:00.000-07:002015-07-08T06:13:59.475-07:00Meet the 2015 Golden Heart Historical Romance Finalists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cowboys. Rogues. World War II spies. This flight of Dragonflies has gone through time to find the best heroes and heroines to delight readers. It is my pleasure to introduce the 2015 Golden Heart finalists in the Historical Romance category:</div>
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Engagement"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Kimberly
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very handsome devil in this sexy debut romance set in Georgian Era London and
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independent young woman of means, Miss Hannah Howard is as stubborn as she is
beautiful. After she moves to London for her first season among the ton, she
immediately finds herself in a heated dispute with her neighbor, the
ill-mannered Gavan Dalreoch, Earl of Rhone. Giving the Earl a black eye is a
lapse in judgment—even though the Scottish scoundrel deserved it. Now with
her reputation in jeopardy, her only hope for saving face is the man whose
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is content to live up to his rakish reputation, but with family pressuring
him to marry, he and Hannah agree to get engaged just long enough to appear
respectable. Yet as the charade continues with stolen kisses and a trip to
Gavan’s Scottish castle, Gavan and Hannah discover that their false
engagement may be more real than they imagined.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Finalist and 2014 Maggie Award Winner. She writes historical romances from
her home near the beach in San Luis Obispo, California. She lives with her
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She writes action-packed young adult and new adult romance. She used to teach
high school students but these days she only has to wrangle her own
children. Originally from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, she
now battles traffic in southern New Jersey where she lives with her hero
husband and their happily-ever-after: two very energetic boys. When she isn’t
writing, she can be found refereeing disputes between her children, cooking
up something sweet, or hiding from encroaching dust bunnies with a book.
Marnee’s writing is represented by Helen Breitwieser at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.cornerstoneliterary.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #34a8a2;">Cornerstone Literary Agency</span></a><span style="color: #3d3d3d;">.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whether to ransom or run from the wounded warrior, she finds amid the most
recent coastal plunder. The English cape he's wrapped in is a
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be held captive of a woman who orders men around as if she were the lord of
the keep. He wants revenge for the attack on his kinsmen. However, when a mysterious
organization,known as the Dragon, draws upon both their pasts, they are
cast into a deadly game with high stakes, Morgan could lose her home.
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Earl"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Renee Ann
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Never Dare a Wicked
Earl, is about Lord Hayden Westfield and Sophia Camden, a nurse who is sent
to his residence to tend to him after an ex-lover shoots him. After Westfield
fires Sophia, she dares him to give her a week to prove her mettle.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Sophia quickly
realizes the Wicked Earl is willing to resort to nearly
anything to win the dare. Hayden soon realized Sophia is a worthy opponent.
Intrigued, he’s determined to win the forfeit … a night in Sophia’s bed. But
will one night be enough?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renee writes sensual
historical romance. She joined RWA over three years ago. At that time, she had
no idea about POV or GMC, but she shared that this wonderful community of
writers took her under their wings and got out their red pens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Renee is represented
by Jill Marsal of The Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. You can find out more
about her at Reneeannmiller.com. <br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/reneeann.miller.9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.facebook.com/reneeann.miller.9</span></a><br />
Twitter.com/Reneeannmiller<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i> As
the daughter of an American diplomat in early 19<sup>th</sup> century
England, Katrina Vandenberg is stuck adhering to the strict rules of English
Polite Society. She’s eager to return to America, until she has an unexpected
encounter with a mysterious nobleman. There is no denying their attraction,
but Katrina is well aware that English aristocrats do not marry American
women. She soon discovers resisting a man she is inexplicably drawn to is not
easy. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i> Julian
Carlisle, the jaded Duke of Lyonsdale, should be finding a bride. Instead he
finds himself captivated by a woman Society says is all wrong for him—a woman
he cannot resist pursuing, even if she wants nothing to do with him. Now the
most disciplined Duke finds himself schooled in proper behavior by an
alluring American and wondering if she’s willing to join him in going against
centuries of tradition. But for true love to survive they first have to
endure mistaken identities, an interfering countess, a matchmaking dowager,
meddling friends, an arrogant mother, and an unhinged former paramour. Wish
them luck.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Laurie Benson is
a 2015 Golden Heart® finalist and award-winning writer of
historical romance novels. She began her writing career as an advertising
copywriter, where she learned more than you would ever want to know about hot
dogs and credit score reports. Aside from writing novels, she also writes
about snippets of historical information from the Georgian era on her blog, <i>LaurieBenson’s
Cozy Drawing Room</i>. She lives with her husband and two
sons in a house filled with testosterone—even her bunny is a
boy. She is currently seeking representation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where You Can Find Laurie:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blog: <a href="http://lauriebenson.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">lauriebenson.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Twitter:
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Facebook: Laurie Benson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Loyalty"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Ellen
Lindseth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>An ambitious O.S.S.
agent questions his definition of loyalty after rescuing a mysterious woman
who steals his heart in WWII Washington D.C.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After years spent
researching Classical Greek and Roman socities, Ellen moved on to the modern
era and wrote romantic suspense set during World War II. When not writing, she is either flying
around the country with her husband in his Beech Bonanza, or relaxing at home
with her three rescued cats and a bearded dragon. Ellen is represented by Laura Bradford of the Bradford Agency.</span></div>
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Gracey"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Eileen K Barnes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary Smyth<b>,</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the daughter of a Catholic rebel,
tumbles into Alec Gracey’s life from atop a ridge—underfed,
tattered, shoeless—and captures the imagination of his cynical Protestant
heart. Wrong culture, wrong economic class, wrong religion, Mary is
dangerous and forbidden to him. She lives in an overcrowded hut; he resides
in the manor down the hill. She works as a laundress; he is seeking office in
England’s Anglican parliament, the protégé of the powerful Earl of
Roden while her father leads the Ribbonmen, a Catholic organization
that causes havoc for the Earl<b>.</b> Each time those wide, aqua eyes
glance at him or her dimples pop with a grin, his poor heart trips as badly
as his attempt at to dance. Disguising his name, he will slip into her world,
wrapping himself within the web of lies, risking his wealth, career, perhaps
even his life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>He calls himself
Alec Jordan, but Mary knows he is not who he pretends. He is ignorant of her
culture and shockingly clumsy at the simplest native dance. Besides, she is a
skinny laundress. Why would a perfect, strikingly handsome man show interest
in her? Perhaps he is a spy wiggling his way into her life, seeking evidence
against her politically active Da. Yet, he continues to edge his way
into his life—escorting her during evening laundry deliveries, sheltering her
in the rain, plowing her father’s worthless field, rescuing her from
attackers—and when his mesmerizing gaze floats over her face or his teasing
grin makes her laugh her resolve disintegrates. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Someone waits and
watches for the moment to destroy them both, hurtling them into a deadly
collision with history. Can Mary and Alec’s love rise above the ashes
that will be left behind?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eileen K Barnes
is a romantic. The sixth child of a large Irish Catholic family, she married
her own hero and raised four children. Of course, in between reading and a
little writing, life also happened. She worked for the town government
and became a mayor, she wrote for a local newspaper and won an award for best
news story, she published several short stories on motherhood and then went
back to college and got a degree in Early Childhood and soon started her own
preschool. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, her romantic
soul still hungered to write. Then inspiration knocked on her door. She
ran into a cousin who had been researching their family heritage. The
cousin had unearthed a story that their great, great Irish immigrant
grandparents who had to flee Ireland because he was a Protestant Irishman and
she was an Irish Catholic girl. In 19<sup>th</sup> Century
Ireland, mix-faith marriages were illegal and so he left his wealth and
family and took his sweetheart to Canada where they raised ten
children. Soon, the tiny framework of a story became a 100,000
novel. Five years and many contests later, Eileen’s story has
earned her a trip to New York.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seek representation . You may find her at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://rescuingmrgracey.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">rescuingmrgracey.com</span></span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">| </span><a href="http://facebook.com/rescuingmrgracey" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">faceboo<wbr></wbr>k.com/rescuingmrgracey</span></span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/eileenbauthor" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;">twitt<wbr></wbr>er.com/eileenbauthor</span></span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial;"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a big blended family. Her vices are wine, cupcakes and mindless TV. She
has too many favorite romances to pick just one, but in category romance, she
is currently working my way through Mary Balogh's Survivors Club. She is currently querying.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mysterious mail-order-bride on his doorstep. One woman can be more trouble
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the evils of New York seems sensible until she meets the unsuspecting sheriff
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kim Turner writes western historical romance, and discovered her
passion of writing at the age of eight by writing poems, short stories and
journals. Kim graduated from Clayton State University with a Bachelor's of
Science in Nursing and holds a Master's Degree in Adult Education from
Central Michigan University. Working as a registered nurse educator for over
twenty-six years, she enjoys studying the medical treatments of the old west
as well as keeping up with the latest western movies and television series.
While she loves reading anything from highlanders to pirates, she claims to
have an unquenchable thirst for the American Cowboy when choosing her reads.
Kim lives south of Atlanta with her husband and calls her greatest
accomplishment the birth of one daughter and the adoption of another from
China-neither of which came easy. Kim is a member of Romance Writers of
American and Georgia Romance Writers and calls her critique group from
Southside Scribes the best thing that ever happened to her writing, that and
a pretty wonderful group of beta readers. Kim's Motto: It's All About A
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Rose was a Maggie finalist in 2014, and will be coming soon to
publication from Wild Rose Press. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-17783364500419519622015-07-03T06:15:00.000-07:002015-07-03T06:15:20.338-07:00Woof To You Too by Pepper and Gravy Flynn for #FuzzyFriday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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right now. We have to talk to these people about the crucial role we play in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Gravy</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s job is to sleep
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off because her office is in the basement and is pretty much freezing all the
time. While Avery doesn</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">t type with her
toes, she gets grumpy when she gets too cold and ends up cursing at her glowing
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job is to jump up on my hind legs and pat her with my front paws if she</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">s in her office
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Washington, D.C. courtroom, where a judge orders him to perform community
service. His objectives are simple: get in, get out, and move on—without
revealing his true identity. But Ethan isn't prepared for Graciela Ramirez, the
captivating beauty who runs the community center where he's obligated to serve.
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make her the asset he deserved. Ten years of wearing away her will, washing out
her color, and he still doesn't have the perfect trophy. When Kate
learns that her husband never stopped dating, she calls a lawyer, herds
her Newfoundland dog into an economy-sized rental, and heads across country to
her late grandmother’s home in Bar Harbor, Maine. Kate wants to start over, to
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she'd shone like she’d swallowed the sun. Every summer she’d return and with
her the awkward, sweaty, heart-racing obsession of first love. But then one
summer Katie didn’t come back and all the light and color ran out of his
world. Now Katie is back, complicating his empty but controlled
life. He’s an adult now, a widower, and the chief of police. She shouldn’t
still have this effect on him. Fortunately for Aiden, his protests are ignored
by his matchmaking grandfather, who would love nothing better than bouncing
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weekends, when she can shirk her parental and wifely responsibilities, She’s
writing. Being dyslexic, reading and writing have never come easily to Seana
but her love of both has made the struggle worth it. She is am un-agented and
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her business afloat for another month and her dream alive. It’s a lonely,
stressful existence, and she has no time for dating. Besides, the only men she
meets are her clients, who are off limits. And most of them aren’t even cute.
But her newest client, a hotshot attorney visiting Boston for a two-week trial,
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the footsteps of his father, a successful attorney. And after more late nights
and cancelled vacations than he can count, he's finally on the verge of making
partner at a prestigious law firm in Washington, D.C. He knows a long-distance
relationship with a sweet, sexy masseuse could derail his career, but he can’t
just walk away, either. So they burn up the sheets on his last night in town,
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thing—casual sex, no strings attached. But Brenna soon longs for more than Cal
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WINNING HER OVER, a 2015 Golden Heart® finalist, is the first book in Alexa's
sizzling hot series portraying smart, ambitious heroes and heroines struggling
with realistic conflicts as they seek love, success, and that elusive work-life
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Alexa lives in a leafy New England suburb with her husband, two energetic
children, five backyard chickens, a dumb but adorable cairn terrier, and a
female leopard gecko named Fred. An avid romance reader, Alexa also enjoys
hiking, table-top gaming, and planning hypothetical future home renovation
projects her husband will probably balk at.<br />
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You can connect with Alexa via her website (<a href="http://alexarowan.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://alexarowan.com</span></a>),
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-30325308127208576372015-06-26T04:52:00.000-07:002015-06-26T04:52:01.445-07:00Kira Sinclair's Pip Takes Over for #FuzzyFriday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />You know, I'm kind of a small, prickly thing. It's easy for people to take one look at me and think I've got this barbed outer shell and that I don't want to be bothered. That so isn't true. I flinch and hide, mostly because I'm always worried about getting stepped on or hurt. But on the inside I'm just a softy. In some ways, Knox McLemore, the hero is Kira's latest book, In Too Deep, reminds me of me. He's got a barbed outer shell as well, even if his protective layer doesn't consist of sharp quills. Especially when Dr. Avery Walsh is around. There's something about Avery that gets his hackles up...that makes his protective instincts just shoot straight out in the form of anger and irritation.<br /><br />Maybe it's my small size or the fact that I can identify with him that lets me see beneath his sharp words to what's hidden beneath. It's obvious, at least to me, that he's been hurt and instinctively flinches back from letting himself care about other people. What tough, ex-Navy SEAL would let the world know that? None, right. They're trained to be confident, capable and strong. To handle any problem or obstacle put in their path, even an irritating nautical archeologist who, with one word, could put the business that's come to mean so much to Knox in jeopardy.<br /><br />What I find exceedingly funny is that if Avery would simply stop falling for his bluster then she'd realize that underneath the snide comments is a man who can't stop devouring her with his eyes. A man who wants her, even if it really isn't convenient. No one asked me, but I know they'd be perfect together if they could both just relax and draw back those spiny barbs. I know, it took me a little while to suppress my natural self-preservation instincts and let Kira's family close. But I'm so glad I did. I love spending time with her and the girls...especially when they give me watermelon and strawberries. I really wish Knox and Avery would figure out that it can be good to let people in...no matter how scared you are.<br /></div>
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<br />He didn't want to need her...<br /><br />Trouble just walked onto Knox McLemore's ship - trouble with lush curves, red hair and an uptight attitude that both grates on his nerves and heats his blood. But former Navy SEAL Knox knows all about control. Especially when this sexy nautical archaeologist is the only thing standing between his diving team's claim on a famous shipwreck...and utter ruin.<br /><br />Dr. Avery Walsh is grateful her icy persona hides the effect intimidating (and way-too-hot) Knox has on her. For two people who don't trust - or even like - each other much, the physical chemistry between them is <i>unbelievable</i>. But getting in too deep with Knox is the last thing Avery needs. Because she has a job to do...and dark little secrets to hide.<br /><br /></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-16921274891960441972015-06-25T00:30:00.000-07:002015-06-25T04:26:41.806-07:00Meet the 2015 Golden Heart Erotic Romance Finalists: Daring Dragonflies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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auto mechanic Grace Bennett finds the hottest actor in Hollywood stranded on a
mountain road in a snowstorm, she’s not sure what to believe. In a snowed-in
cabin, she gives in to her wildest fantasies, but she's well aware that all
dreams have to end. But after one night together, Aaron Elias can’t get Grace
out of his head. He brings her to Hollywood to experience his world of sports
cars, Malibu beach houses, and movie magic. The Cinderella treatment is more
than Grace ever imagined. Then she finds out why Aaron was really up in the
mountains that day, and Aaron’s dream world brings back Grace’s
nightmares. Grace and Aaron can't live in each other's worlds. Is this
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contemporaries for most of her life but now that she's tested the erotic romance
waters, she's found there's a lot of fun to be had in giving up control. She's
currently working on her second erotic romance project, with a third
percolating in a Notes file, just itching to come out and play. The tagline to
her website says it all: If you can't laugh in bed, you're doing it all
wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Website:
www . carolinebradley . net<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CarolineBradleyAuth"><span style="color: #103cc0;">https://www.facebook.com/CarolineBradleyAuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Caroline
is currently unagented and working toward self publication, unless someone has
better ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;">“Sorting Out the
Kinks” by Elle Mason</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Maddie Harper
is NOT a submissive. Or at least that’s the lie she’s been telling herself
since her twenties, back when a police raid at a play party highlighted the
risks of indulging in her dark and exhibitionist fantasies. But vanilla is
proving to be an unsatisfying flavor.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>After a chance
reunion with Andrew, a Dominant from her old BDSM scene, Maddie is shaken by
something she hasn’t felt for over a decade—desire. He’s still the gentleman
and bad boy she remembers, a man whose love of bondage once called to her like
no other. She wonders if their meeting is a coincidence or wake-up call. Eager
to experience the uninhibited relationship she’s always craved, she’s smitten
when Andrew asks her out despite his insistence on dating without power roles.
He requires they build trust to ensure she’s ready. After romantic—but
chaste—dates, she hungers for more than kissing. She wants to kneel and serve.
He unleashes his dominant side and ensnares more than her body with rope; he
captures her heart.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>But when their
playtime at a fetish event threatens her privacy, resurrecting old fears, it’ll
take more than what she feels for Andrew to keep from running again. She’ll
have to make peace with the one person out to sabotage their
relationship—herself.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elle is a wife,
mom of a preschooler and terrier, social worker, the person people seek for
advice when visiting The Mouse, wannabe photographer, and a jokester. She’s
lived in the West, Northeast, and has called South Florida home for the past
ten years. In her relatively short history as a writer, she’s learned she has a
thing for gerunds, British spelling of words (though American), and that she
loves to write steamy sex scenes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Calvin: A very good day to you on this #MadogMonday (you'll see why I call it that shortly). My name is C.K. White Label, but everybody calls me Calvin. I’m a companion to a writer, C.R. Bailey, who’s so obsessed with me that she made me a hero in her book. Not a talking one. I am not a publicity hound. I’ve only consented to speak here so that if you ever read the book, you’ll know that everything she says about me is true. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The facts, then. I am an ordinary farm dog with an ordinary suburban life. No flock, no herd. Only people to protect. An important job. But not too demanding for a dog with talent. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Calvin: I should explain the other dog. She’s always trying to get a word in. My human was worried that I might not be getting enough exercise while she was writing. Clearly projecting her fears onto me, she decided I needed a companion. She invited a rescue woman to bring me a pet. I agreed to the adoption, if only because my heart went out to this puppy mill mama. She needed spaying more than she needed another litter. She looks almost like me, but she’s only half my size. I call her: Mini-Me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Calvin: Go find something to chew on, Mini. NOT another book. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">That little— She’ll eat anything. I’m much more discerning. I have an extraordinary ability to locate snacks. Such as discarded chicken bones. My human included one of those roadside finds in her book. She calls it an inciting incident. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Calvin: We go out for walks almost every day. All the people we meet want to pet me. Everybody says I’m beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">People who drive by while we’re walking yell out their windows. The unimaginative scream, “Hey, Lassie!” Once a teenager yelled, “I love your dog!” Most people speak the truth. With awe in their voices, they say, “That’s the most beautiful dog I’ve ever seen. Can I pet him?” The admiration, the meet-and-greets—they’re in the book, too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">But once in a while, we come across people who are not quite right.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Calvin: Mini-Me and I don’t agree on this point. An emotional roller coaster, that Mini. She ought to wear a sign that says, “You must be at least four and a half feet tall to pet this dog.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Me, I love kids. Unless they’re riding freakin’ skateboards. Seriously, though, some people set me off from three or four feet away. It’s something my human doesn’t sense—an aura of danger. I will not let them get close to us. Sometimes my human gets embarrassed, because a good person and a bad person might be together, and I’ll only let the good one pet me. She knows my instincts are on target, though, because in her book, I’m the only one who recognizes the bad guy from the very beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I guess you’d say I’m an inspiration. I do what I can. And Mini—</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Calvin: In my human’s book, my name is Madog, the same as the Welsh prince rumored to have explored the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Valley three hundred years before Columbus. Madog and his girl, a misunderstood twelve-year-old, uncover a labor trafficking ring the adults on the island are too busy to notice.</span></div>
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<b>C.R. Bailey</b> focuses her writing on stories for tween readers. A member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, her career has included newspaper reporting and public relations writing. She lives on a Gulf Coast barrier island with her husband, two dogs, and one cat. You can find her on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/crb.writer/timeline">https://www.facebook.com/crb.writer/timeline</a> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Calvin and Mini are bit supporters of the<a href="http://alspay.org/" target="_blank"> Alabama Spay/Neuter Clinic</a> and Amazon Smile. They are giving away a $10 Amazon Gift Card purchased through Amazon Smile to benefit the Spay/Neuter Clinic. Leave a comment below for a chance to win. </span></div>
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<i>~Peeks out from behind the internet~</i> I'm Cupid. I'm very shy and very scared of pretty much everything, but my mommy, Kimberly, promises this is a safe place and that y'all are nice people. And she says if I do the interview, I'll get a pig's ear with peanut butter as a reward. Those are my favorite.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The folks at the Humane Society called me Cupid when I lived there because if you look at the white spot on my neck the right way, you can see it's shaped like a little heart. Mommy says we were meant to be -- something about the fact she writes romance and needs a Cupid in her office. My family adopted me three years ago and brought me to my new home where I have lots of toys that are all mine.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><i>What are my observations of my mommy's writing process?</i></b> She sits in her chair and I sit behind her, under the printer table, and take long naps. My snores provide a calming background noise.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><i>What is the most recent thing I did to get in trouble?</i> </b>I sat under Mommy's desk, farted really bad, and then left the room. Mommy says that's not cool and not conducive to writing love scenes.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><i>What is Mommy currently writing?</i></b> Mommy has a new series set in Magnolia Beach, Alabama, and is writing lots of books set there. The first one is called <i>Something to Prove</i>. I know all of this because Mommy talks about it all the time. She says the cover is the prettiest thing she's ever seen, and I know that can't be right because <i>I'm </i>the prettiest thing ever.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b><i>Want to win something?</i></b> Leave a comment and a compliment for me and you could win one of my mommy's books (paper or e, winner's choice). She'll also make a donation to the Greater Huntsville Humane Society in your honor.<u></u></div>
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<i>Cupid's mommy is also known as USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Lang. When she's not writing, she and Cupid do yoga together -- Up Dogs and Down Dogs mostly. You can connect with Kimberly and Cupid on Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKimberlyLang">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>AuthorKimberlyLang</a>), Twitter (@booksbykimberly), or through her website,<a href="http://www.booksbykimberly.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.booksbykimberly.com</a>.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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Not matter which thing that goes bump in the night is the subject of a paranormal romance, it is sure to not only get your heart racing, but also your blood boiling. It is my pleasure to introduce the RWA® 2015 Golden Heart® finalists in paranormal romance:<br />
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<i>In a world where experts in magical security work out of strip-malls and vampires get woken up by unwise tourists on Twilight tours through Romania, Tulsa’s prestigious College of Magic has a problem. Five talented students from Kate Lafon’s senior seminar have hacked through the spells that lock the Rare Book Room and released several magical animals from a famous medieval bestiary. At the end of a chaotic night, one of those creatures is missing. And Kate, as the Senior Curator, is going to be held responsible. </i><br />
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<i>So begins Kate’s search for the Great Serpent of Greece. She’s helped by Merle Horvath, an academic hotshot with a specialty in magical creatures, who has a lurking smile and a late-night-radio voice that make Kate’s toes curl. All seems headed for a quick happy ending until a student goes missing and Kate discovers the hard way that contact with the Serpent causes people to change sex. So, sporting a stronger jaw-line, shorter hair, and rearranged private parts, Kate sets off with Merle and a group of academic misfits on a road-trip across the country, aiming to recapture the Serpent from a disgruntled magician fired by the College and a black-market collector of magical creatures. The search takes them all the way to Las Vegas and the newest casino in town, Prospero’s Island. There the Serpent is only one of many unusual exhibits and acts. . . .</i><br />
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Nancy grew up where she’s set the opening of her book—in Tulsa—and growing up there meant growing up safe and loved but also restless. So as soon as she could, she set out on academic adventures. After she earned a BA on the east coast, a master’s in England, and a doctorate from Stanford, she taught at the college level for many years. Now she teaches literature to troubled, smart, creative, wonderful kids at a high school in Massachusetts. Nancy lives with her husband among the trees. And on the weekends, she writes.<br />
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She is seeking representation.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Demons Don’t" by Jeanne Oates Estridge</span></b></i><br />
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<i>After the demon Belial enrages Satan by beating him in a poker game, Belial must think quickly to avoid spending the next century up to his eyes in maggots. He convinces God and Satan to revisit their ancient wager over free will and to let him represent Evil. If Belial wins, he’ll be promoted to Chief Operating Demon. If he loses, the maggot pit will be the least of his worries. He has just seven weeks to seduce and corrupt his target.</i><br />
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<i>God chooses Dara Strong, a nurse, as his champion. Dara has demon-fighting in her genes, so when Belial walks into her free clinic, disguised as a doctor offering to volunteer, Dara feeds his application into a shredder and orders him out. Thus begins a battle between two cosmically well-matched opponents. As conflict breeds passion and passion transforms into love, the couple face two seemingly insurmountable obstacles: how can they prevail over the Lord of the Underworld, who is determined to win at any cost? And how do they ransom the soul of a fallen angel from an unforgiving God?</i><br />
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Jeanne is currently seeking representation.<br />
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Websites: The Raisin Chronicles - <a href="http://raisinchronicles.blogspot.com/">http://raisinchronicles.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JeanneEstridgeFanPage?ref=aymt_homepage_panel">https://www.facebook.com/JeanneEstridgeFanPage?ref=aymt_homepage_panel</a><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Howlin Hearts" by Kristal Hollis</span></b></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/lpwrmgpx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kristal Hollis" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/lpwrmgpx.jpg" /></a><i>Raised by an alcoholic mother, Cassie Albright craves stability. When Brice Walker, the sexy grandson of the elderly woman with whom Cassie now lives reveals to her that he is a werewolf and she is his one, true mate, Cassie’s world careens out of control and she fights the fiery passion that flames between them. But, Brice’s patience and constant presence calms her insecurities. Until, she witnesses the savagery of wolfan justice. Horrified, Cassie must learn to accept man and beast, or reject the bond that brought them together and forever destroy the only true love they will ever know.</i><br />
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Kristal is curious by nature and firmly believe that life happens off the beaten path. When not exploring the world around her, she is furiously penning romantic tales about feisty, independent heroines, and sexy, stubborn Alpha heroes. Whether it’s a fantasy, futuristic, or paranormal world, these couples will learn they must let go their past and use both hands to grab onto their futures if they want to claim their happily-ever-after. Because although Fate provides opportunity, choices determine destinies.<br />
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Kristal is seeking representation.<br />
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Website: <a href="http://www.kristalhollis.com/">www.kristalhollis.com</a><br />
Twitter: @KristalHollis<br />
Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/authorkristalhollis">www.facebook.com/authorkristalhollis</a><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Better Dead" by Pamela Kopfler</span></b></i><br />
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<i>Holly Davis believes her cheatin’ husband deserves to choke on his divorce papers and spend eternity roasting in hell after nearly bankrupting her Louisiana bed and breakfast. At least, she’s half-right when he turns up dead, but she’s dead wrong when she accidentally calls him back from the grave. Unless she wants to be stuck with her ghostly ex forever, she has until Halloween to wedge him through the pearly gates by cleaning up the mess he left behind—a smuggling ring he started behind her back at her B&B. Thirty days isn’t much time and only one man can help. But it’s gonna cost her. Jake McCann is back in town after he left with a hunk of her heart years ago. After her disastrous marriage, another blow could be fatal, but she'll worry about her heart later. First, she has to stay out of jail, while she gets her ex into paradise.</i><br />
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Pamela Kopfler was born a Texan and tumbled through twelve schools all over the USA before she finished high school, but she's a Southerner - through and through. Now, she calls South Louisiana her home and writing her passion. Her evolution to the writing life took the scenic route, just like her early romp through the country. She's a certified teacher but traded in that profession for writing, hosting, and reporting for local TV and telling stories on local Public Radio. Then the unthinkable happened. Her prince finally arrived but with a catch. Love always has a catch. She had to relocate and leave her career behind. The writing and the romance survived the move. Now, she's determined to conquer the novel. In addition to her Golden Heart finals, she's won or placed in thirty-two contests, including the overall Daphne du Maurier, Sandy Star, Emily, and Dixie Kane. Pamela is the program director of her local RWA chapter (SOLA) and loves to meet and help other writers.<br />
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Pamela is a finalist in the paranormal category of the 2015 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® contest. She is seeking representation and can be reached through her website, pamelakopfler.com, or Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pamela.kopfler.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Magic City" by Heather Leonard</span></b></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/bxnrtsbr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Heather Leonard" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/bxnrtsbr.jpg" /></a><i>Most people believe Birmingham, Alabama is called the Magic City because it sprang up overnight, like magic. A select few know the city’s secret. It sprang up overnight because of magic. In Magic City, closeted witch (although she prefers to be called an "elemental engineer" or "skilled in chance reduction technology" due to the historical baggage associated with the "w" word) Hazel Matthews confronts how her secret is intertwined with the Magic City’s in order to find the inconsiderate so-and-so who not only killed her former fiancé (who truth be told, probably needed killing), but also infected her with a fatal effluvium curse. Hazel must face creatures the Grimm brothers couldn’t explain, the persistent carnal interest of her former fiancé’s brother, an insatiable Leanan Sidhe and the overprotective tendencies of a perpetually drunk Brownie to find a way around the curse or die within four days. </i><br />
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<i>Throughout its history, Birmingham has always been a city of dueling worlds. Race. Class. Old South. New South. Industry. Gentility. Magic City uses the lessons from Birmingham’s tumultuous past as a backdrop to contrast the worlds of the Natura (humans) and Diaspora (remnants of the supernatural beings who have turned Birmingham into magical Casablanca).</i><br />
<i>Magic City puts a Southern twist on the themes of La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats. </i><br />
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Heather Leonard, a labor and employment lawyer/mediator by day, writes paranormal romance and romantic suspense in her ever so sparse free time. If she were a super-hero (and she wants to be - capes are sooo in this year), her superpowers would be the ability to find the best bottle of cheap champagne and answer all questions relating to Star Wars trivia. Her weaknesses would be the inability to resist good champagne and Star Wars trivia challenges. She also likes to talk about herself in the third person, as this bio indicates. <br />
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Heather is seeking representation.<br />
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You can find her on this blog (<a href="http://www.magiccitywriting.com/">www.MagicCityWriting.com</a>), Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/HNLeonardAuthor?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/HNLeonardAuthor?fref=ts</a>), and Twitter (@HNLeonard - <a href="https://twitter.com/HNLeonard">https://twitter.com/HNLeonard</a>)<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Mapping Fate" by Kimberly MacCarron</span></b></i><br />
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<i>Her newly-nominated book MAPPING FATE is a New Adult mashup of magic and murder/mystery. When local girls are found dead in front of broken mirrors, Moira Cassidy teams up with the hot admissions officer at the local college to solve the murders, as rumors spread that Bloody Mary is back, seeking revenge against the town where she was killed 100 years ago.</i><br />
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Kimberly graduated with majors in Writing and Communications with minors in English and Public Relations. She worked as a speech writer, an assistant editor for a magazine, and a public relations specialist. It wasn’t until after she was married with children that she decided to pursue her dream of writing her own books.<br />
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She lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband, five kids (ages 9-14), a demanding cat and one neglected garden. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found volunteering at school, chauffeuring kids to soccer, and covertly listening to her teenage daughters talk to their friends. In the name of research, of course.<br />
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Kimberly is a member of RWA, WRW, YARWA and The Golden Network. She is represented by Michelle Grajkowski at 3 Seas Literary Agency.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Undercover Enchanter" by Melanie McCarthy</span></b></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/ltktjcbz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Melanie McCarthy" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/ltktjcbz.jpg" /></a>With over a decade of professional writing experience, Melanie is the writer of eight fiction manuscripts, including four fantasy romances, three contemporary romances and one children's fantasy. Her manuscripts have seen success in various RWA-sponsored contests including First Place in the Sweet Spicy Spooky Contest, Unsinkable Heroine Award in the Molly, Third Place in the Southern Heat Contest, Third Place in the STAR Contest and two semi-finalist showings in the Molly Contest. She was also a finalist in the FRW Golden Palm, the Cleveland Rocks Romance and the RWA Emily competitions.<br />
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Melanie is represented by Marisa Cleveland of The Seymour Agency.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/dwrwcypq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Maria Powers" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/dwrwcypq.jpg" /></a><i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Coyote Walks" by Maria Powers</span></b></i><br />
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<i>Prudence Porter, born a witch, is blood bonded to be the next family keeper of the Gabriel Hell Gate. But when her mother's death is foretold, Prudence will do anything to save her mother's life, even if it puts the entire human realm in jeopardy. Of course, the sexy coyote messenger who walks through her door may just have the power to change everything.</i><br />
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<i>Alex Driscoll, a shape shifting coyote from the Messenger clans, is determined to finish one last assignment in Gehenna and then he’s leaving to find his brother. Trouble is this assignment bonds him to Prudence and now he must face the Prince of Hell or risk losing Prudence forever. Only how can he ever be sure that she loves him when it was magic that brought them together. A shape shifting coyote and a born witch brought together by magic and betrayal must find the courage to trust each other and their love or risk plunging the world into a new dark age ruled by demons and fallen angels.</i><br />
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Maria Powers grew up in Southern California. She graduated with a degree in English and<br />
promptly entered the Business world. By day she works in Affordable Housing wrangling <br />
contracts and agreements with several government agencies, and by night she writes kickass<br />
heroines and tough heroes with sensitive hearts ready to be tamed by the girl next door or beaten <br />
into submission by the witch on the corner, whatever works. Maria’s current work in progress is<br />
a Paranormal Romance series set in the San Gabriel Valley. The first book in the series, Coyote <br />
Walks, is a finalist in this year’s Golden Heart® contest. She’s a member of the Romance <br />
Writers of America® and is a member of three of the four local chapters, Los Angeles Romance <br />
Authors, Orange County Chapter – RWA, and East Valley Authors.<br />
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Maria is currently unagented and seeking representation. She’s on Facebook <br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/MariaPowersWriter?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/MariaPowersWriter?ref=hl</a> and on Twitter @MariaPowers1. You can find her at <a href="http://www.mariapowers.com/">www.mariapowers.com</a>.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">"Stone Hunter" by Tara Sheets</span></b></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/khdpbhpr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tara Sheets" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/khdpbhpr.jpg" /></a>Two-time Golden Heart® finalist, Tara Sheets, is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Romance Writers of America, and a graduate of the University of Washington’s Popular Fiction Writing Program. She is a PNWA Literary Contest judge and has also served as a coordinator, moderator, and category chairperson for the annual PNWA Writers’ Conference. Tara spent most of her childhood as an American abroad, growing up in different countries. Always a voracious reader, she learned from a very early age that books have the power to take you anywhere you want to go, no matter where you are. In college Tara studied English Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, and Journalism. She received a B.A. in Communications from California State University of Sacramento and worked as an editing intern at a public relations firm. Shortly after graduating, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she discovered lots and lots of rain. It took her ten years to decide to stay. Now she has a book-loving family, a furry mop of a dog named Merlin, and one of Tolkien’s ents in her backyard. She wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else.</div>
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Behind every great author are four paws and a wagging tail. New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Eden is no exception. For Fuzzy Friday, her fur baby Yogi is being interviewed by my cat, J-Dog. Here is what he has to say:</div>
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Who knows? The woman is always checking out her iPad.
She was muttering about serial killers the other day, so could be that she’s
researching again. Once she’s done with the research, though, I know she wants
to read SHATTERED DUTY by Katie Reus. She’s mentioned that about 100 times
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Um, Cynthia *may* have been trying to write today when
I realized that—obviously—the lawn guy was there to destroy me. So perhaps I was a bit overzealous as I threw
myself at the front door—again and again—and tried to let that guy know he was
NOT welcome in my territory. She said my frantic barks distracted her. Totally
ungrateful. I saved her life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>My mom Heather is always talking about how good your human's books are when I am trying to get her to put down her Kindle and give me treats. They must be awesome because I don't know she resists my cuteness. What is your human's writing process?</i></b></div>
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She stares at her computer screen—a lot. She talks to
herself. She makes weird faces. And she drinks way too much Red Bull. That *is*
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I know this!! She’s working on a new romantic suspense.
BEWARE OF ME. When she first said that, I thought she was trying to warn me to
stay away from her, but no…it was just her book title.</div>
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People should buy DEAL WITH THE DEVIL because it’s got
shifters and vampires and monsters. I LOVE monsters. Did you check out the pic
of me in my Sleepy Hollow costume?
Monsters—beware!</div>
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Thanks for interviewing me, J-Dog—Yogi, out!!!!</div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">New York Times</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> and <i>USA
Today</i> best-selling author Cynthia Eden spins a hot new paranormal Purgatory
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<span style="background: white;">Eric Pate is used to making his own rules—as the
director of the PARA Unit, he is the boss. Everyone rushes to obey his
commands, and no one knows his secrets. No one ever gets too close to him. But
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<span style="background: white;">Ella Lancaster is tired of being a prisoner. She
escaped one hell just to find herself in another, though Eric doesn’t consider her
containment with his agents as punishment. He actually thinks it is a form of
protection. But Eric is so very wrong. Ella doesn’t need protecting, not for
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<span style="background: white;">When the PARA Unit comes under attack, Ella and
Eric both find themselves battling a supernatural beast that they never
expected. Forced to join forces, to make a deal, Ella and Eric are soon
fighting side-by-side, and their attraction for each other can’t be contained
or controlled. Hot. Wild. Consuming. Ella’s deal with her devil is soon taking
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<span style="background: white;">And as Eric falls deeper and deeper under the
mysterious Ella’s spell, his legendary control begins to crack. The beast that
he has kept chained so carefully inside rises to the surface. Unfortunately,
when the devil loses his control…there is real hell to pay.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Award-winning author Cynthia Eden writes dark tales of paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World,</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>IndieReader</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>best-seller. Cynthia is also a three-time finalist for the prestigious RITA® award. Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over fifty novels and novellas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cynthia is a “hybrid” author. She has published extensively with New York (her New York publishers include Avon, Kensington, Grand Central, and Harlequin), and she has also enjoyed success in her indie writing career.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cynthia lives along the Alabama Gulf Coast. She loves romance novels, horror movies, and chocolate. Her favorite hobbies including hiking in the mountains (searching for waterfalls) and spelunking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-82350260696585949652015-06-10T01:00:00.000-07:002015-06-10T05:04:24.974-07:00Dangerous Dragonflies: Meet the 2015 Golden Heart Romantic Suspense Finalists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Danger. Heat. Romantic suspense delivers thrills and chills with a happily ever after. It is my pleasure to introduce the 2015 Golden Heart® Romantic Suspense finalists. They are sure to be rising stars in the genre.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Jessica Darago</span></b></i><br />
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Jessica Darago is a two-time Golden Heart finalist, an American Title Finalist, and a Golden Pen winner. SCANDAL was inspired by her 30-year love affair with the Sherlock Holmes stories and raises the question no other adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia" has: "What if Irene Adler was framed?"<br />
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A modern retelling set in a gritty underworld of rogue spies and freelance terrorists operating just beneath London's glamorous surface, SCANDAL follows Renee Norton, a successful American actress with a murky past, and Will Gillette, a former MI6 operative whose brilliant mind and personal demons do daily battle. When Renee's diplomat ex-boyfriend accuses her of blackmail, Will thinks catching the woman will prove his worth to his former superiors and get him back in the game. But when the chase turns deadly, and Renee proves a worthy (and intriguing) adversary, he won't just have to stop Renee, he'll have to win her over to his side. Because he's no longer just trying to stop a scandal; if Renee's secrets get out, millions of lives will pay the price.<br />
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Social media:<br />
Twitter: @justjayj<br />
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Brynn Kelly is a New Zealand journalist and author whose Golden Heart-nominated debut manuscript will be published by Harlequin's HQN single title imprint in 2016.<br />
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DECEPTION ISLAND is a romantic thriller in which a rogue French Foreign Legion officer and a Californian conwoman reluctantly team up to fight modern-day pirates and slave traders in the azure waters and steamy jungles of an Indian Ocean paradise.<br />
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Find her at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/brynnkellyauthor">www.facebook.com/brynnkellyauthor</a>, on Twitter @brynnwrites, and at <a href="http://brynnkelly.com/">brynnkelly.com</a>.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Arlene McFarlane</span></b></i><br />
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They say write what you know. Arlene owned and operated a full-service salon for thirteen years, and because she loved reading comic mysteries, she combined her knowledge of all things beauty with all things comedic, and the Murder, Curlers series was born.<br />
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Blurb for Murder, Curlers, and Cream: Valentine Beaumont is in for a hair-raising shock when her spoiled client, socialite Portia Reynolds, is strangled right under her nose. Unfortunately, a dead customer in the beauty industry is not exactly a drawing card, and Valentine feels obligated to find the killer. She learns Portia had more kinks than curls in her personal life and, as she untangles the mystery, she finds out just how nasty Portia was. With Guccis on her feet, a bag of tools-of-the-trade over her shoulder, a hard-nosed cop on her back, and a kooky cast of characters in her midst, will Valentine survive her own investigation?<br />
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Arlene is currently seeking representation.<br />
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Website: <a href="http://www.arlenemcfarlane.com/">www.arlenemcfarlane.com</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/lcnmscwd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tracy Poole" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/lcnmscwd.jpg" /></a><i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Tracy Poole</span></b></i><br />
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A Shot Worth Taking blurb: After stopping terrorists from detonating a dirty bomb, Special Ops soldier Tony Vincenti and FBI linguist Angela Hoffman intend for their next joint mission to involve under-the-covers work, only someone wants to cash in on a contract on Angela’s life. With little evidence to support their suspicions of who is trying to kill her, Tony must convince Angela to violate her own ethics to expose the would-be assassin before they can get a shot at a future together.<br />
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Tracy is currently unagented, but seeking representation. She is working on book three of her series about the Bad Karma Spec Ops -- who's love lives are just as dangerous as their missions.<br />
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You can find Tracy spending too much time on Facebook at Tracy Poole (she'd love for you to Like her page *:D big grin) and occasionally remembering to tweet @BadKarmaWriter.<br />
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A librarian/archivist who also studied dress design in the couture houses of Paris, Sharon is an eight-time RWA Golden Heart Romantic Suspense author (who is a double Golden Heart finalist this year) repped by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency. In her spare time, she snaps photos of her family and her garden while negotiating backyard territory rights with her dog Donut. Sharon lives in Northern Virginia with her three biggest supporters — her amazing husband and twin teenagers. As she waits for the “call”, Sharon writes stories of adventure, suspense and love and blogs at some of her favorite romance sites:<br />
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<a href="http://www.sharonwray.com/">www.sharonwray.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kissandthrill.com/">www.kissandthrill.com</a> (Romantic Suspense and other things that do the night-bumps!)<br />
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<a href="http://www.ghfirebirds.com/">www.ghfirebirds.com</a> (where she joins her 2012 Golden Heart class for all things romance writing)<br />
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Book 1: Hope Craves an Execution<br />
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When Sarah Monroe, a strong-willed historian, attempts to solve the last unbreakable Revolutionary War cipher, she draws the attention of a ruthless arms dealer. Now her life, and the secret hidden within the cipher, is at the mercy of ex-Green Beret Major Nate Walker, a man who suffers from seizures, memory loss, and regret. A man whose SF unit is serving life sentences for murders they didn’t commit. A man determined to do anything to save his men, prove their innocence, and take down the arms dealer, even if it means betraying the woman he loves.<br />
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Book 2: Every Unworthy Thing<br />
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When Madeleine Ashton, a Charleston, SC couturier and socialite, is targeted by an arms dealer in search of a 17th Century secret hidden in tunnels under her city, her last hope to save her family is Alex Mitchell: ex-con, ex-Army Ranger, and the baddest boy she’s ever met. Alex, besides being forsaken by his family and damned by the price on his head, has a secret — he used to work for the arms dealer. And when he’s given the opportunity to do so again, he must choose between a life of unlimited money and power and the prim and proper woman who’s stolen his heart. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">J-Dog is thrilled to welcome the best nose in the literary world, Buford of BookEnds Literary Agency to #FuzzyFriday! Check out this great interview between him and his human Jessica Faust:<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They say Buford is a St. Bernard mix, but we at <a href="http://www.bookends-inc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">BookEnds</span></a> are a little skeptical. With a head and smile like that we’re thinking there’s a little more Pit to that mix. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since Buford isn’t much of a writer (although the neighbors will argue that he’s quite the talker, er barker), he’s opted to answer some questions instead of free-writing his own post. Of course, let’s be honest, it’s because Jessica Faust (his person) is too lazy to think of anything off the cuff and answering questions is easier.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What is his human currently reading?</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Yard</i> by Alex Grecian. She’s been on a historical mystery kick lately (well for the last two books).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>What was the most recent thing he did to get in trouble?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wandered off. Buford is a wanderer and there have been a few times he’s escaped the fenced-in yard. As any pet owner knows, this is terrifying, especially terrifying since he seems to go deaf the minute he finds freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Early one morning Buford took himself for a little walk. Almost immediately we sent out search parties, and after 30 minutes and still no sign of the lug we posted alerts on Facebook and notified Home Safe, his microchip service (everyone should have this by the way). Another 15-20 minutes went by and we still had no clue where he could have gone. We were starting to wonder what to do next, we needed to get going on our day and, understandably, panic was setting in. Just as we picked up the phone to call the police another call came in. I knew immediately he had been found. Apparently our dear sweet 75-lb, giant-headed dog went on quite an adventure. He made friends with one neighbor’s toddler before leaving her behind to chase another neighbors’s cat straight into the house while the poor mother was trying to get her three children organized for school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By the time we got there to retrieve him, three different families were giving him love in the driveway, the police had shown up and I’m pretty sure that cat might never feel safe again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>What are his observations of an agent’s process?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mostly he snores and curls up under Beth’s feet. He does get really excited when a new box of books arrives thinking it’s a box full of snacks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Buford does spend most of the day in the office with us, it’s the perk of owning a Literary Agency. If I had to see what we do from his perspective I imagine he wonders why we stare at these screens all day and tap these little keys. Much of the day is spent with email, reading and phone calls to discuss things like edits, marketing plans, contracts and other things that any good dog would find horribly tedious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>What does he think his agency may be looking or in submissions?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Buford knows for a fact that the best thing any querying author can do is read the agency’s submission guidelines: <a href="http://www.bookends-inc.com/submit.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.bookends-inc.com/submit.html</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That being said, the most exciting thing happening at BookEnds right now is the addition of our newest agent <a href="https://twitter.com/inthesestones" target="_blank">Moe Ferrara</a>. That means there are now five agents at BookEnds, all hungry for a variety of work.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="mailto:JFsubmissions@bookends-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jessica Faust</span></a> is open to all submissions in mystery, thrillers and suspense including, but not limited to, psychological thrillers, historical mystery, cozies, romantic suspense, YA thrillers and anything with a strong female protagonist. She’s also looking for contemporary YA, sports-themed romance, and women’s fiction. All other genres are accepted by referral only.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="mailto:klsubmissions@bookends-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Kim Lionetti</span></a> is open to all submissions in historical and contemporary romance, women's fiction, cozy mysteries, and contemporary new adult fiction and young adult fiction.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="mailto:JAsubmissions@bookends-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jessica Alvarez</span></a> is looking for romance (but no paranormal at this time, please), romantic suspense, female-focused erotica, and women's fiction.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="mailto:MFsubmissions@bookends-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Moe Ferrara</span></a> is interested in fiction for adults, young adults, and the middle-grade reader. She's particularly looking for all subsets of science fiction and fantasy, contemporary or historical romance, and LGBTQ romance.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="mailto:BCsubmissions@bookends-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Beth Campbell</span></a> is accepting submissions in urban fantasy, science fiction, YA (no middle grade), suspense, romantic suspense, and mystery. She is particularly interested in stories with diverse characters across all the above genres.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Why does Buford think readers should buy some recent releases from BookEnds authors (besides the obvious fact that pet treats aren’t cheap)?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Vet bills are worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Do I need to come up with a reason other than the fact that they are great books? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">BookEnds represents such a varied group of authors and genres. It makes it fun for us and for readers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Why should people should find their fur family members at shelters like <a href="http://www.sthuberts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">St. Hubert's</span></a>?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Because they are the most amazing dogs ever. Buford is Jessica’s third rescue. Each was distinctive and wonderful. Sweet, loving dogs who only needed homes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve long been a very strong advocate of adopt don’t buy and Buford is just another example of why this is so important to me. All three of my dogs were in tough situations (born to a mother rescued from a fighting ring, found wandering the streets of Newark, and trapped in a Newark shelter). All were rescued by people and organizations who cared and cared enough to find not just any home, but the right home. Sure Buford wanders occasionally, but I can’t guarantee another dog wouldn’t do the same and, frankly, I couldn’t ask for a better dog to spend my day with. Just ask Beth Campbell. She’s a cat person through and through and yet spends every day with Buford curled on her feet. Literally on her feet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Despite this adorable post, Buford cannot read or write and, frankly, has no interest in submissions. He does however love the taste of a good paperback mystery.</b></i></span></div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-49322504832953171102015-06-03T06:50:00.002-07:002015-06-03T10:19:42.171-07:00The International Flight of Dragonflies: Meet the 2015 Golden Heart Contemporary Romance Finalists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jo Anne lives in the eclectic Montrose area of Houston with three overly pampered cats. She has owned a bookkeeping service for thirty-five years, and finds balance to the mundane through the creativity of her writing. She enjoys the theater, good books, good food, good friends, and her family. She loves reading anything by anything by Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz, Sarah Maclean, Sharon Sala, & Shana Galen, and her most recent favorite is <i>Heroes Are My Weakness </i>by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She is a Golden Heart finalist with manuscript <i>Homecoming.</i><br />
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Susan is a self-employed decorative artist and a co-owner of a vintage retail shop, The Painted Dragonfly, She does most of her writing while waiting for paint to dry. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and college-freshman daughter. She's a proud member of Music City Romance Writers and loves living in a city full of great artists, musicians, and writers.<br />
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Currently, she is seeking representation for her Contemporary Single-Title, <i>The House of D’Innocenzi</i>, in which a young widow fights to keep her business afloat after her husband’s accidental death. She’s offered the career opportunity of a lifetime by a man she suspects is nothing but trouble. She has no idea how right she is. Her would-be hero is a mob defector on the run, but he’s a man needing redemption. Saving her from bankruptcy is a small thing, even if he doesn’t need her kind of complication. In no time, he's in her business, she's in his, and the pull between them is hard to resist—until his past comes calling. She learns there’s more at stake than her business and her heart. Her savior may cost her everything.<br />
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Jennifer Brodie is a Scottish transplant who lives in New England with her Scottish husband and their two boys. She is fiercely guarded (from the men in her house) by her butterfly-eared, fluffy piranha of a dog named Buster. When not lost in story land, Jennifer can be found mowing the dandelions or scaring her boys with a new recipe.<br />
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Blurb for <i>Mace, Men and Margaritas</i>:<br />
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A choca-slimma-holic with a secret aversion to exercise, curvy physiotherapist Emma Hughes resolves to transform herself into a kick-ass Charlie’s Angel, after her ex develops an unhealthy obsession with her. However, lacking both discipline and the ability to coordinate her body parts, the transformation does not go smoothly… Emma’s always believed The Universe had great things planned for her, but she’s approaching thirty, her supply of eggs is dwindling rapidly, and when her lease expires next month, she’ll be going back home to live with her parents.<br />
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Seasoned bachelor Dr. Mark Falconer has returned home on a pit-stop to check on his ailing father, but home is the last place he wants to stay – despite Ballacrae’s white sandy beaches, ruined castles and coastal golf courses. In an attempt to avoid his meddling sisters - who’d love nothing more than to see him settle down with A Nice Local Girl - Mark throws himself into work, helping the local hospital get their surgical waiting list down. He’s determined to stay focused on the surgery and not get sucked back into small town life, but his physiotherapist has other ideas.<br />
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He’s traveled the world and isn’t ready to come home. She’s a homespun jeans-and-wellies girl who’s never ventured out of mainland Britain. He’s not looking for a wife and she’s certainly not looking for a confirmed bachelor, but now they’ve found each other, letting go isn’t an option.<br />
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Kimberly Buckner is active with RWA as a PRO member, and has used what she learned to teach at local writers' meetings and conferences. She won the 2014 Maggie, and the 2015 Emily, and is a 2015 RWA® Golden Heart® Finalist. After fourteen fabulous years below the Mason-Dixon, Kimberly now makes her home in Denver.<br />
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Blurb for <i>Call Me Mrs. Whitlock</i>:<br />
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Della was wicked close to her dream of opening a wellness studio, when her boyfriend disappeared with all her money. With no leads and no help from the police, she must go to his small southern town and convince his friends and family she’s his wife so they’ll help her track the goob down.<br />
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Jude, a reluctant new fire chief, knows he’s the last person to be called a hero, but will do whatever he can to protect the people he loves. Even if it means keeping an eye on the mysterious woman who shows up claiming to be married to his AWOL former best friend. Della wants something, but clearly doesn’t plan to stay forever which should be fine. And yet, the longer she’s around, the less willing he is to see her leave. But Jude can’t let himself fall for Damien’s wife. Not again.<br />
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As Della and Jude become closer, its hard to deny their growing attraction. If she comes clean, will he help her find Jude? Or lead the party to drive her out of town?<br />
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Alice Faris grew up in a small community in Northern California that proudly boasts of having more cows than people. She raised Guide Dogs for the Blind, is dyslexic, and can shoot a gun and miraculously never hit the target (which at some point becomes a statistical improbability). Alice also publishes science fiction and fantasy under the pen name Tina Gower, has won the Writers of the Future, and Daphne du Maurier Award for Mystery/Suspense (paranormal category).<br />
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blog: www.smashedpicketfences.com<br />
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gowertina<br />
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Alice is represented by Rebecca Strauss at DeFiore and Company.<br />
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Blurb for <i>Good Girl's Guide to Talking Dirty</i>:<br />
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When budget cuts slash her school psychologist job, relationship-shy East Winters lands an interview across country for her dream job. She breaks all her strict rules and works as a phone sex operator to finance the trip. Worse, she hitches a cross-country ride with a hunky, emotionally unavailable truck driver. Soon she's counseling him for his intense anxiety issues from surviving a school shooting. Close quarter ignite an attraction that forces her to decide which is more important, her job or her heart.<br />
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<i><b>Kelly Farmer</b></i><br />
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Kelly has been writing romance novels since junior high. In those days, the heroes were star quarterbacks on the high school football team who drove Corvettes and were named Brad. Now, she writes down to earth stories about the guys and girls next door. Her current manuscript, <i>Puppy Love</i>, takes place at a small-town animal shelter in a fictional southwest Michigan resort town.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/fzdtvmmh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kelly Farmer" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/fzdtvmmh.jpg" /></a>When not writing, she enjoys walking her two spunky senior Labrador retrievers and following NHL hockey. Kelly lives in the Chicago suburbs, where she complains about the weather 300 days a year.<br />
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She is represented by Melissa Jeglinski at The Knight Agency.<br />
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellyfarmerauthor<br />
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<i>Puppy Love:</i><br />
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Welcome to Serenity, Michigan, home of Two Hearts Pet Sanctuary. The animal shelter is a haven for cats and dogs and a cast of quirky characters. It’s “Where Two Hearts Become One”. Where two lost people find their way in Puppy Love.<br />
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Maggie Day has moved to small-town Serenity to start a new life as the veterinarian for the Two Hearts clinic. She’s hoping to find professional satisfaction and a place to call home while avoiding thoughts about her noncommittal ex-fiancée. Trevor Hart is trying to get back to his orderly, private life in Chicago. He’s been helping his mother at Two Hearts since his father’s sudden death. An established law career and peace and quiet await him in the big city. Brought together by a three-legged dog named Jenny, Maggie and Trevor learn that letting go of past hurt and the idea of a perfect life will lead to the home and contentment they’ve been searching for. Puppy Love is a story about finding yourself and true love where you least expect it. And Kurt Russell movies--it’s definitely about Kurt Russell movies.<br />
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<i><b>Jen Gilroy</b></i><br />
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Jen Gilroy writes heart-warming contemporary romance about finding home, family and <br />
<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/qsllfstq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Jen Gilroy" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/qsllfstq.jpg" /></a>happy ever after, and finding yourself too. She lives in England with her husband and tween daughter, but small-town Canada is still her heart’s home and writing inspiration. She loves cats and dogs (which find their way into her stories), ice cream and vintage style.<br />
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<i>Port Fairlight Summer</i><br />
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What if everything you ever wanted is in the place you left behind?<br />
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Globe-trotting journalist Charlotte (Charlie) Gibbs isn’t into roots. Or family. Or reminders of Port Fairlight, the Canadian resort town where she spent childhood summers. But when her last assignment almost kills her and she comes back to recover and sell the family cottage, she’s intent on letting go of the past she’s spent years avoiding.<br />
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Sean Carmichael is all about roots. And family. He had his heart broken by Charlie once but the sexy single dad has moved on. Running the boat building business that’s been in his family for three generations, he likes his life just fine. All Sean wants is to stop Charlie from selling the cottage to a developer, and turning his ordered world upside down. The last thing Charlie and Sean expect is to still have feelings for each other. And when their no-strings fling turns serious, can they change enough to get what they both really<br />
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Agent: Represented by Dawn Dowdle, Blue Ridge Literary Agency<br />
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Arianna James lives in the aptly named Valley of the Sun with her husband and their genetically ambiguous rescue dog. When not typing dictation for the voices in her head, she can be found baking, singing at the top of her lungs, or avidly consuming all types of fiction. <br />
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Having grown up hounded by paparazzi, Gwen Blackmore shuns the limelight and her famous parents’ help scaling Hollywood’s ladder of success. But her moment has finally come. After years toiling as a production assistant on America's #1 reality singing competition, she's offered a promotion with an up-and-coming network drama—as long as she makes it through the competition's current season without incident, that is. So when a harried escape from an overzealous fan sends show star Luke Grayson headlong into Gwen’s life, she can't risk offending the popular mentor, no matter how much she despises his rock star sense of entitlement and baffling efforts to be the most dated celebrity in Hollywood. Yet as their forced refuge continues, Gwen finds herself falling for the man beneath the public image. Too bad they can’t hide from the paparazzi forever—nor from the person whose obsession with Luke has taken on a sinister edge. <br />
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Arianna is presently unagented and seeking representation.<br />
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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arianna-James/275178892662653<br />
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<i><b>Priscilla Kissinger</b></i><br />
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Pris is a romance writing, sports loving, beach going, super busy Latina single mom of three. Her contemporary romances have a hearth and home tone, with a Latino flavor. One of her favorite mantras is: Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. She loves pretty much anything by Suzanne Brockmann, love Tracy Brogan's contemporaries.<br />
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His Perfect Partner shares the love story between two people headed in different directions—one to the bright lights of Broadway, the other determined to lay down roots in their close-knit community. Until their paths collide.<br />
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Yazmine Fernandez is an experienced Broadway dancer struggling with the need to meet her family’s expectations and the personal sacrifices her career demands. Tomás Garcia is a single father and advertising whiz that has convinced himself his daughter and career success are enough.<br />
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When his nanny is called away for a personal emergency, Tomás realizes that instead of a nanny, he needs a partner to help parent his daughter. But after his ex walked out because she valued her job more than family, he vowed never to fall for a woman who would view him and his child as a weight slowing her down. For Yazmine, changing her career plans would negate everything her ailing father sacrificed for her, every plan she’s ever made for herself, leaving her uncertain of who she is and where she belongs. But when she steps in to help care for Tomás’s daughter, her relationship with them both deepens. She and Tomás experience family life together, from every day ups and downs to a heart-breaking tragedy, and attraction sparks from initial awareness to a soul-stirring intensity. In the end, Tomás and Yazmine must choose between the separate paths they have been stubbornly trying to forge and a new one that could ultimately lead to their Perfect Partner.<br />
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Pris is represented by Rebecca Strauss with Defiore and Company.<br />
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/prisakiss @prisakiss<br />
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<a href="https://www.rwa.org/media/kkqtsssj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kelly Siskind" border="0" src="https://www.rwa.org/media/kkqtsssj.jpg" /></a><i><b>Kelly Sikind</b></i><br />
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A small-town girl at heart, Kelly moved from the city to open a cheese shop with her husband in Northern Ontario. When she's not neck deep in cheese or out hiking, you can find her, notepad in hand, scribbling down one of the many plot bunnies bouncing around in her head.<br />
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Blurb for <i>Chasing Crazy</i>:<br />
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Pininfarina's rise to shame began the moment her father branded her with those five syllables. Predictably, her reinvention as Nina, non-disaster magnet, tanks within seventy-two hours. In New Zealand. All it takes is scalding soup and a picture-happy mean girl. Then there's mayhem-inducing Sam. Falling for his infuriating self has no place in her fiasco-free life plan. Not when her coordination nosedives in his presence, and landing him means owning her crazy.<br />
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Kelly is represented by Stacey Donaghy of the Donaghy Literary Group<br />
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Not to keep you on the edge of your seat (see what I did there?!?!?!), but drop by next week to meet the ladies who are the Golden Heart Romantic Suspense finalists!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">J-Dog here. I hope you have been enjoying my #FuzzyFriday interviews with the fur-babies of the publishing world. Those have been some cool cats (and dogs). Stay tuned because I have more great interviews coming up. Next week <a href="http://www.bookends-inc.com/about_us.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Buford, the dog who sniffs out great authors for the BookEnds Literary Agency</span> </a>will be visiting us. Hope you'll drop by to meet him. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Because I love introducing you to authors, I wanted to hijack the blog today to give you a chance to meet tons of fabulous authors at one time. My mommy Heather (or as I call her, Keeper of the Catnip) has been counting the days until the 18th Annual Heart of Dixie Readers Luncheon on June 13 in Huntsville, Alabama. The keynote speaker is New York Times best seller Sylvia Day. She is the international bestselling author of over 20 award-winning novels, and her Crossfire series has been optioned for television. Attendees get goodie bags packed full of fun stuff, including books, bookmarks, postcards and other treasure. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To make the event even better, there will be over 20 meow-tastic local and regional authors hosting tables and attending the event. They include:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Betty Bolté (Historical) - </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://magiccitywriting.blogspot.com/2015/05/betty-boltes-calli-has-fuzzyfriday-fun.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">She's Calli's mom</span></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kim Boykin (Women's Fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jennifer Estep (Paranormal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lexi George (Paranormal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lori Handeland (Paranormal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lynn Raye Harris (Romantic Suspense)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pamela Hearon (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Linda Howard (Romantic Suspense)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Linda Winstead Jones (Paranormal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Linda Joyce (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Sally Kirkpatrick (Contemporary) - </span><a href="http://magiccitywriting.blogspot.com/2015/04/feline-destroyer-of-toes-rocket-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rocket and Blix call her The One Who Taps</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kimberly Lang (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Andrea Laurence (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Trish Milburn (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rhonda Nelson (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alicia Hunter Pace (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kira Sinclair (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tracy Solheim (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jennifer St. Giles (Gothic Historical/Paranormal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Vicki Lewis Thompson (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dani Wade (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Shiloh Walker (Romantic Suspense)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="text-align: left;">Marilyn Baxter (Contemporary)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bonnie Gardner (Contemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Christine Glover (Contemporary) - </span><a href="http://magiccitywriting.blogspot.com/2015/05/catadora-tonks-tells-tales-for.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">I hope she'll have Tonks there</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lesia Flynn (Cotemporary)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bambi Lynn (Historical/Paranormal)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tickets are on sale through May 31, so there isn't much time left to get your tickets. To register, go to <a href="https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1467"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1467</span></a> You can also learn more about each of these authors from their profiles on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heartofdixieevents?ref=bookmarks" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Heart of Dixie Events Facebook page</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And while I have you here, I wanted to remind you about the awesome people at the <a href="http://alspay.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Alabama Spay/Neuter Clinic</span></a>. Even though they took my binkies, I think they are the cat's pajamas. One of the great things they do is a <a href="http://alspay.org/programs/trap-neuter-release/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">TNR program</span></a>. Trap-Neuter-Return involves trapping the cats in a feral colony, getting them spayed and neutered, adopting out kittens and friendly cats, then returning the adult feral cats to their territory and providing them with food and shelter. TNR significantly reduces noise from fighting, odor from spraying, and more litters of kittens. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />I do all my shopping through <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">AMAZON SMILE</span></a>. Through this program, Amazon donates 0.5% of eligible purchase to a charity of your choice, like the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic. If you shop through Amazon, consider using this program to support one of your favorite non-profits (or mine).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I would love to hear who you would like to meet next. If there is an author's fur baby(fish baby, fang baby, frog baby, feather baby, etc.) you want to meet, please comment below. </span></div>
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It is my pleasure to introduce you to the Dragonflies, the <a href="https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=536" target="_blank">2015 Golden Heart</a>® Finalists. Each Wednesday I'll introduce you to the finalists in each category. Be sure to keep up with these ladies' names because you will want to be reading their books as they come out.<br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;"><i><b>Julie Glover</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Diana Munoz Stewart’s award-winning young adult and adult romantic fiction includes paranormal, science fiction, and contemporary stories. No matter the genre or whether her characters face death, danger, or the daunting trials of everyday life, readers are guaranteed a fast-paced story along with all the tingly temptations of a swoon-worthy romance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition to writing multi-genre fiction, Diana runs her own company providing web content on health, writing, and family. She earned her Master’s degree in Creative Writing from University of Southern Maine and is an active member of RWA and SCBWI. When not writing, she can be found off-roading in her Jeep—easy to spot by the license plate WRITE ME—or behind her lakeside home, kayaking and hiking with her kids and the man who’s had her heart since they were teens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Allied with Rainer, present secret crush and future commando heartthrob, Able travels through her own mind and into her future body to wage a war through time. Her desperate actions could reverse the alien plague devastating her world, but could also separate her from the boy she loves forever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="mailto:thewritecatch@blogspot.com" target="_blank">thewritecatch@blogspot.com</a> </span></div>
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Mary teaches anthropology at a small college while incorporating her first career, archaeology, into her stories. She is currently seeking representation. <i>The Jade Quest</i> is her 2015 Golden Heart novel. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Forever
optimistic and easily amused,<strong> </strong></span><strong><span style="line-height: 107%;">T.L. Sumner </span></strong><span style="line-height: 107%;">is the author of magical
stories about strong, athletic heroines chasing their dreams on and off the
playing field. She holds both a B.S. and M.S. in business from Villanova
University where she ran cross country and track on a full athletic scholarship.
When not hiding in her writing cave, T.L. works in healthcare information
technology, enjoys running, and being the number one fan for her kids’ sporting
events. Her work has garnered several awards, including being named a 2015
Golden Heart<sup>®</sup> finalist for her YA novel THE CULLODEN IMMORTALS. Sometimes
you can find her hanging out on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tlwrites" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> or in </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.tlsumner.com/category/my-dreamworld/page/26/" target="_blank">TL’sDreamworld</a></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">. She is
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getting a full ride to run track in college, seventeen-year old Kyra Siefert
doesn’t have time for distractions like the PTSD induced daymares tormenting
her since she was mugged; or Aidan MacGregor, the über chivalrous guy who sits
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Kyra, a romance between them quickly develops; but bound by a strict code of
silence and honor, Aidan can’t tell Kyra he belongs to a clandestine society of
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Kyra becomes the pawn for one rogue immortal pursuing a sacred Templar artifact
protected by Aidan’s clan and another seeking to settle a centuries-old blood
feud. Aidan must betray his family to protect the girl he’s
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may cost her everything </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; display: none; letter-spacing: -3.7pt;">– including the boy she loves. </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; display: none; letter-spacing: -3.7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seventeen-year old Kyra Siefert doesn’t have time for distractions like the
daymares tormenting her since she was mugged; or Aidan MacGregor, the über
chivalrous guy who sits next to her in Calc.
As Kyra and Aidan spend more time together, a romance between them
quickly develops. But bound by a strict
code of honor, Aidan </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">hides
a powerful secret from Kyra; he is the son of Scottish immortals, guardians of
ancient Templar treasure.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In this <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>
meets <i>Highlander</i>, Kyra becomes the
pawn for one rogue immortal pursuing a sacred artifact and another seeking to
settle a centuries-old blood feud. Aidan
must betray his family to protect the girl he’s forbidden to love; but haunted
by visions of Aidan's death, Kyra's secret may cost her everything – including
the boy she loves. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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My human, <a href="http://www.nanceecain.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Nancee Cain</span></a>, is a writer, when I allow her access to the computer. As you can see, at times I make it a little difficult. I'm a huge help in making this stuff she calls "swag." I don't understand why she wants to stuff the feathers in those baggie things, they are much more fun to play with outside of the bag.</div>
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Her paranormal romance <b>Saving Evangeline </b>features an angel, a girl and a dog named Goner. I mean, really. How repulsive. The dumb mutt's name is the only good thing about him. I tried to tell her a cat would be more interesting, but <i>noooooo,</i> she wouldn't listen. That being said, please, buy her book. I need kitty treats and watermelon for the holiday. I always get my very own piece of watermelon for the holiday.</div>
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Personally, I think Nancee's time would be better spent petting me, feeding me and letting me in and out the back door at least 15 times a day. I like to demand things when she is deep into her writing. <i>Bahahaha</i> It reminds her who is boss around here. Luckily, I have her Devoted Hubby who is retired and has the time to cater to my every whim. He's a good human. </div>
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So Ms. Heather is all about spaying and neutering. <i>Ahem. </i>Yeah<i>, </i>been there, done that, got nothing to show for it, if you know what I mean<i>. </i>I mean really, how's a guy supposed to get worked up over a romance when...<i> Never mind. </i>However, I was a rescue cat and neutering has probably prolonged my life. Which means I can torment my humans for years to come.</div>
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So, please. Rescue a cat. (or dog if you insist) Spay/neuter them. Rescue pets will love you forever. Comment below for a chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card (US only, please). Ms. Heather will let Nancee know. Nancee will also mail you one of those swag feather thingamajigs. (If allergic to feathers, please say so, she'll include a different kind of swag).</div>
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You can find Nancee on <a href="https://twitter.com/Nancee_Cain?lang=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Twitter</span></a>: @Nancee_Cain, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nancee.cain?fref=ts" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Facebook</span></a>, and her <a href="http://www.nanceecain.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">website</span></a>.<br />
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About Nancee:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; text-align: center;">During the day Nancee Cain works as a nurse in the field of addiction to support her coffee and reading habit. Nights are spent writing paranormal and contemporary romances with a serrated edge. Authors have always been her rock stars, and she's been known to stalk a few for an autograph, but not in a scary, Stephen King way. Her husband swears her To-Be-Read list on her e-reader qualifies her as a certifiable book hoarder. Always looking to try something new, she dreams of being an extra in a Bollywood film or a tattoo artist. (Her lack of rhythm and artistic ability may put a damper on both of these dreams.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Check out Nancee's debut novel, <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Saving-Evangeline/Nancee-Cain/9781623422035" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Saving Evangeline</span></a> which comes out May 26!</span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-7550558490791182942015-05-18T06:12:00.001-07:002015-05-18T06:12:48.530-07:00Fear and Publishing - M. V. Freeman's Journey of Changing Publishing Houses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Choosing the right path in publishing is one of the hardest decisions an author must make. Urban fantasy author M.V. Freeman is guest blogging today about her story of changing paths. </i><br />
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Fear is an emotion that can help one move forward, complete a project, and get the job done—or it can paralyze.<br />
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I learned this with my first book—INCANDESCENT. In 2012 I signed with a brand new digital publishing house and I was excited; but within months I realized I’d made the wrong decision. It wasn’t the fact I signed or was published – it was the kinds of stories being represented by the publisher. Their focus was on Category Romance (To be clear--There is nothing wrong with Category, and I know some fabulous authors who write this very well.) I write a cross-genre; Urban fantasy Romance, heavy on plot with numerous characters, which didn’t work well with where I signed. My word counts were higher---80- 100k compared to the 50-70k average. <br />
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What was I supposed to do? I’d written the second book-ILLUMINATION, obtained an agent, and I knew I couldn’t send my current story to them, because it just wouldn’t fit. It wasn’t fair to them or to me; I felt it was misleading—people buying my book expected a certain type of story related to category and mine wasn’t. <br />
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The only option I saw was to get my rights back. But, I was uncertain, if I asked for my rights was I committing professional suicide? If I stayed I knew it would be. What’s worse? Staying where I knew I couldn’t go forward or taking a chance? Fear had taken hold and I struggled with a decision.<br />
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I was uneasy—but I took a chance and asked for my rights back—and was awarded them. Now I had my first book -- what was I going to do? For a little while, I shelved the first book and tried shopping my second book in the series.<br />
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As many seasoned authors know most publishing houses rarely pick up a series, especially after the first book has been published. There was interest, but I wasn’t surprised when there was some reticence about ILLUMINATION, because of my first book. Self-publishing was an option, but the truth was, I had neither the time or the funds. <br />
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I started getting frustrated. I don’t like being afraid. Sure, things are in flux in publishing. There are publishers going under and still others opening their doors. Self-publishing authors are struggling, even as others are finding success.<br />
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At this point I could’ve just dropped it. Moved on, started another series. Used this experience as a graphic training aide of what not to do. But I decided not to let fear rule me. I’d been published – now I understood how important it is to make the correct decisions. I hate to say—it’s easier to find these sorts of epiphanies after the fact.<br />
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I took a chance and pitched to a few publishers. I was nervous, but really, I’d given up on being afraid. All it did was make me second guess myself and I stopped taking chances. No more.<br />
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I did find a publisher who liked Romances outside the box. They said yes to my second book in the series (ILLUMINATION) and agreed to republish my first book (Incandescent). I was floored—and very pleased. I really had thought I’d never find a book home, or that I deserved one.<br />
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Now I have my first book INCANDESCENT re-edited and published, and my second book in the series, ILLUMINATION is now out. (I love the covers)<br />
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Fear, while helpful can be a detriment— and my advice, is don’t let it rule you. Be fearless! Take chances and never let someone tell you that you are trapped. There are always options — sometimes you have to create them if you can’t find them.<br />
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Author Bio: <br />
M.V. Freeman lives in North Alabama. A nurse by day, at night she enjoys creating and exploring alternate worlds within our own. She gravitates toward stories of determined heroines and anti-heroes who push the boundaries as they both fight to find their light in the dark.<br />
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M.V. is represented by Victoria Lea from The Aponte Literary Agency. Her award-winning and best-selling debut novel INCANDESCENT is the first in the Hidden Races Series. Currently she is working on the third book in the series, while plotting others. When not writing, she can be<br />
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You can find her here: Website: <a href="http://www.mvfreeman.com/">http://www.mvfreeman.com/</a><br />
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Simon & Schuster (pre-order links) <a href="http://bit.ly/1OscWoP">http://bit.ly/1OscWoP</a><br />
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Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/M.V.-Freeman/e/B008QYIYMS/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1">http://www.amazon.com/M.V.-Freeman/e/B008QYIYMS/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1</a><br />
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-33774195311444411542015-05-15T06:14:00.000-07:002015-05-15T06:14:00.950-07:00Betty Bolté's Calli has #FuzzyFriday Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi there! Calliope here. My mom, Betty, calls me Calli, most of the
time, in that silly singsong voice she thinks I like. She also calls me other
strange names, like Calli Alley Cat I act like I don’t care so I don’t hurt her
feelings and then delay feeding me dinner or something. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I even let her pet me after I’ve ensured she’s been writing
like she’s supposed to be doing. When she starts roaming the house like she’s
lost or something, or maybe just refilling her water glass, I follow after her
as a reminder to get back to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretending to nap while she works. She’s pretty good about it, but like I said
before, sometimes I have to put my paw down and remind her to write. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I help her when she’s putting together prizes and raffle
baskets, inspecting the contents to make sure they’re good enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My job can be challenging, but I’m the right cat for the job!</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;">Betty Bolté writes both historical and contemporary stories featuring strong, loving women and brave, compassionate men. Join Betty at the Heart of Dixie </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #141823;">Luncheon on June 13th at the Westin in Huntsville! The keynote speaker is Sylvia Day. Be sure to ask Betty about her latest release, </span><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Samanthas-Secret-More-Perfect-Union-ebook/dp/B00UDOSOJC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431695313&sr=8-1&keywords=Samantha%E2%80%99s+Secret" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Samantha’s Secret</span> </a><span style="color: #141823;">set in Charleston, South Carolina!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;">Visit Betty here: </span><a href="http://www.bettybolte.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.bettybolte.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">J-Dog and Calliope were being chatty catties about all things feline. He learned Calliope has one of the best vets around. Calliope give four paws up and a swish of the tail to <span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Wendy Rosenbek who works long days to ensure every animal and its human are taken care of, often calling the animal's human after the clinic closes to discuss treatment options. She runs the Ardmore Companion Animal Hospital (26889 Main Street, Ardmore, TN 38449; </span><a href="tel:931-427-8383" target="_blank" value="+19314278383">931-427-8383</a><span style="background-color: white;">) with loving care and genuine concern for each critter in her hands.</span></span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03267367299834306309noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898084201599138650.post-78231841599058943252015-05-08T05:28:00.000-07:002015-05-08T05:50:52.126-07:00Catadora Tonks Tells Tales for #FuzzyFriday, and J-Dog Supports TNR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Hey,
Catadora Tonks here. Or Tonks for short. I’ve taken over my <a href="http://www.christinegloversite.com/" target="_blank">Fur Mommy’s</a>
computer while she sits on the veranda with the Physicist and drinks her glass
of wine. My Fur Mommy <a href="http://www.christinegloversite.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Christine Glover </span></a>is the author of sensual, sizzling,
emotional contemporary romances. But to me, she’s just the Treat Lady with a
great lap for Fur Baby snuggles and cuddles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I love my
Fur Mommy, so when Golden Heart finalist Heather Leonard asked me to write a
blog about her, I purred and said, “Sure, I’ll do anything for treat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Currently,
my Fur Mommy is working on a story called THE ITALIAN TYCOON’S MARRIAGE
BARGAIN. She’s in what she calls the “rediscovery process.” She’s been hauling
character naming and writing craft books out of her awesome office and lugging
them into the dining room. She likes to figure out her characters’ birthdays
and personalities. What she doesn’t like is making a timeline, but ever since
she sold her first book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mavericks-Reunion-Sweetbriar-Springs-Book-ebook/dp/B00KUY4D04/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431087507&sr=8-2&keywords=maverick+red+hot" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">THE MAVERICK’S RED HOT REUNION</span></a> to<a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;">Entangled Publishing</span></a>,
she’s been making them because the editors like timelines. Yesterday, she told me
she finds them useful in finding story holes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Now, I’m a
sweet and adorable Fur Baby and Christine spoils me so I don’t get disciplined.
I’m not supposed to go on the counters or tables, but I do. She just picks me
up, kisses me, and pets me. She does get annoyed at me when she prints her
manuscripts out. I sit on the chair next to the printer and attack the papers
when they shoot out of it. If you see a bite mark on any of her papers, that’s
a Catadora Tonks’ seal of approval. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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should see Christine’s office! It’s got a big window that overlooks the front
yard, a basket of cat toys, and a sitting perch for me to look outside while
she works on her revisions. If I get bored watching the birds, I jump onto her
desk and knock things off (she scolds me, but she doesn’t sound mad at all. She
sounds amused). I like to crawl onto her lap and try to capture her fingers
while she’s typing. She tells me she’s not a toy, but I disagree. Aren’t all
humans put on this planet to amuse cats? I think so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mommy’s process is called Crapper Pantser Fixer Upper. She does a story
discovery where she builds characters, works out the story tropes (a trope is a
mechanism to hook her characters together like a marriage of convenience, a
secret baby, or enemies to lovers), and starts building the scene cards with
times, dates, setting notes, and character points of view. Then she works out
the emotional turning points because she believes characters and emotions drive
the story’s plot. In the beginning she’s happy with her story but she gets mad
and asks herself who the heck wrote this crap after she reads it. Then she
spends days fixing it. She drinks a lot of wine during this phase of the
process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Christine
works really hard to write her contemporary romances about two lost souls who
find each other and discover home. Please buy her novella <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P5UDEJE/ref=series_rw_dp_sw" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">THE MOVIE STAR’S REDHOT HOLIDAY FLING</span></a> because Kitten Treats
aren’t cheap. It’s modern Cinderella story with a cool twist. Jessie Sullivan
is an ex marine who never gives up, despite the pins in her leg. And movie star
Blake Johnston isn’t just a Big Screen Sex Machine. When a harmless dare leads
to sizzling fireworks, Jessie and Blake generate some serious heat between the
sheets. And it's more than Jessie could have imagined. Much, <i>much</i> more. But
flings don't last forever. And in two weeks, Jessie will have to say goodbye to
her red-hot Christmas fantasy...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">J-Dog has a crush on Tonks, so he dressed up. He wanted to remind you of the good work the <a href="http://alspay.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic</span></a> does. They provide much needed low cost, high quality spay/neuter services. You can learn more about them on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/helpsavealabamaspayneuter/notes" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the great things the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic does is a <a href="http://alspay.org/programs/trap-neuter-release/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">TNR program</span></a>. Trap-Neuter-Return involves trapping the cats in a feral colony, getting them spayed and neutered, adopting out kittens and friendly cats, then returning the adult feral cats to their territory and providing them with food and shelter. TNR significantly reduces noise from fighting, odor from spraying, and more litters of kittens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">J-Dog does all his shopping through </span><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">AMAZON SMILE</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Through this program, Amazon donates 0.5% of eligible purchase to a charity of your choice, like the Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic. J-Dog is giving away a $10 Amazon gift card (purchased through Amazon Smile to help the Spay Neuter Clinic) to one of the people who leaves a comment. Check back Wednesday to see if you won.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Up next week,<a href="http://www.bettybolte.com/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;">Betty Bolte's</span></a> fur baby takes over. It is going to be awesome. Can't wait! </span><br />
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