Please check out LADY OF THE TWO LANDS, featured on POTL (Princess of the Light): https://princessofthelight.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/lady-of-the-two-lands-by-elizabeth-delisi-romance-entertowin-potlreads/.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Monday, October 10, 2016
Guest Author Maya Tyler
Help me welcome my guest Maya Tyler, romance author. Today, she's sharing a wonderful article on writing seasonal stories. Check it out!
Writing for the Seasons by Maya Tyler
The seasonal books, taking place during Easter,
Thanksgiving, Christmas, might be written at a completely different time of year.
A book about Christmas could be written in the scorching heat of summer. A
thanksgiving tale could be written during an unforgiving blizzard. How to get
in the mood to write a seasonal story?
There are countless ways to drum up some holiday
spirit… Some authors may play Christmas music to get them in a festive mood.
Some authors may immerse themselves in holiday foods and treats.
I see the approach to writing holiday stories just as
I do all stories though. I write paranormal romance. There is never a season
for the paranormal. Whenever it is, wherever you are, a paranormal story is
composed through complete imagination. So take your season, imagine your story,
and give it life. Anytime. Anywhere.
My book Dream Hunter took place during a hot Chicago
summer. I choose summer, not because I wrote the book during that season, but
because it suited the atmosphere I wanted to create. In summer, with soaring
temperatures, I find it’s harder to think. I can be more reckless, less patient.
Hot weather puts me in a ‘pool and beach’ mood, not necessarily a ‘work and be
productive’ mood. It’s easier to react (and overreact) emotionally. Without
divulging any spoilers, the muggy, humid weather added to my heroine’s fatigue
and emotional state of mind. It helped her appearance come alive and added
elements of foreshadowing to my story.
Inspiration can be found anywhere. An author takes a
moment, a conversation, a fleeting thought and can convert it into an idea. I
often think my best ideas come from my subconscious thoughts – dreams – often
inspired by my real life circumstances. Like internal brainstorming. Some ideas
materialize into stories. Some ideas are put on the back burner. Sometimes
permanently.
I do enjoy reading seasonal books, especially in the
right season… Although on a hot summer day, a tall glass of iced tea might pair
nicely with a Christmas story.
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Maya
Tyler is a romance author, blogger, wife, and mother. She has a degree in
Commerce and her day job is in Finance. Over the past few years, she decided to
unleash her creative streak and get serious about writing. So far, she has
published a short story “Just for Tonight” in an anthology titled With
Love from Val and Tyne, and
has written a few books. Writing mostly paranormal romances, all of her books
have a common theme–happily ever after. Dream Hunter is her debut novella. When she’s not
writing, you can find her playing with Lego and watching superhero movies with
her husband and sons. You can visit her anytime on Twitter, Facebook or her
website or sample her quirky writing style on her blog.
You
can find Maya on the web at the following locations:
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Saturday, October 01, 2016
Guest Author Abbey MacMunn
Today my guest is Abbey MacMunn, author of TOUCHED. Help me welcome her!
Blurb:
When
inquisitive antique dealer Cami Wilson learns she’s the revered offspring of an
immortal mother and a mortal father, it’s not just her hybrid status that has
her all flustered. The title comes with her very own super-sexy guardian.
Jaded immortal
Joseph Carlisle has only one thing on his mind; his sworn duty to protect the
hybrid from those who wish her harm. Anything else would be complicated. That is
until they meet.
Chemistry sizzles
between them but there’s a problem—the hybrid’s
curse. Cami’s touch, skin to skin, proves near fatal to her and all immortals,
Joseph included.
But the fated lovers discover her
curse is the least of their concerns when a friend’s deadly betrayal threatens
to tear them apart forever.
Author Bio:
Abbey MacMunn writes paranormal, fantasy
and sci fi romance. She lives in Hampshire, UK with her husband and their four
children. She is a proud member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.
When she’s not writing, she likes to
watch films and TV shows – anything from rom-coms to superheroes to science
fiction movies.
Excerpt:
Joseph wore a faded, black T-shirt
which clung to his well-toned pecs, and hip-hugging, worn jeans. A silver chain
around his neck and two leather bracelets hinted at a ‘bad boy rock star’ image
that somehow didn’t befit his formal, authoritative manner.
Cami swallowed. Just her type. Not
that she’d dated many bad-boy rock star types, but still...
Among her disastrous relationships
to date were Bad-Breath Barry from the village Post Office, who’d been sweet
but oh so boring, and still lived with his overbearing mother—always a bad
sign. And Shaun, the prematurely-balding, assistant manager at Morrisons—a
total wet lettuce who thought himself God’s gift to women and whose only
interest was getting his leg over. Sex with Shaun had been… ahem, experimental;
what she’d ever seen in him escaped her now. But living in a tiny village with
the average age of its frail population working out at seventy-two, the
pickings were slim to say the least.
Funny thing was, she didn’t know
she had a type until now. And she was looking right at him.
Joseph scrubbed the back of his
neck and massaged his shoulder. She imagined those massive shoulders of his
were stiff as a board by the way he held them rigid all the time.
She zeroed in on the tattoo on
Joseph’s wrist and followed the thick veins snaking up his forearm. The way his
muscles flexed hypnotised her, quickened her pulse. The guy oozed sex appeal
with his Mr. Dark and Moody persona. If only he cracked a smile now and then.
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Friday, September 30, 2016
Guest Author Charlotte Howard
Today my guest blogger is Charlotte Howard, author of THE BLACK DOOR. Please help me welcome her!
The Black Door By Charlotte
Howard #EroticRomance #eBook
ISBN:
9781311762207
ASIN: B00LP0EN70
ASIN: B00LP0EN70
BLURB:
Imogen Pearce is a single mum of four children and
fast approaching 40, she works at Ryedale Incorporated where she has to battle
a younger and smarter generation to get to where she wants to go. If that means
taking on the account of Cherry and Sean Rubin’s adult shop, then she will. But
what happens when Imogen discovers the private club that they run at the back?
And what happens when she realizes she knows quite a few members?
EXCERPT:
Men. All the bloody
same.My mind traced back to the day I had given up on one-sided monogamous
relationships.
The children were
at school or work, and the sun was beating down. It was a glorious day, and I
had decided to go home for lunch, rather than spend it in a stuffy office.
I pulled up outside
the house and a fleeting thought passed through my mind when I saw Connor’s car
sitting in the driveway. My husband of eighteen years had had the same idea.
I crept into the
house, hoping to surprise him. But, it turned out that his idea had involved a
slutty bottle-blonde.
I wanted to blame
the events that followed on a red mist descending over me. The truth is that in
the time it took for my mind to register that some tart was riding my husband
in what I later found out was known as reverse cowgirl, my mind had calculated
the necessary response.
The skank lost a
good handful of bleached hair, roots and all. I allowed her to gather her
clothes and watched as she tugged her pants on whilst running out of the house.
If nothing else, the neighbours got a good show.
Connor yelled at
me. But his words were drowned out by the blood pumping in my ears. I marched
back up the stairs and into his little study. Opening the window, I saw Miss
Slut stood in the middle of the road, screeching obscenities at me. I looked at
the Ferrari in our driveway and smiled.
I think his Xbox
enjoyed its first and final flying lesson as it sailed out of the window. The
fact that it landed in the bonnet of his prized mid-life crisis proved that
Karma does exist.
Connor. Holly.
I made a mental
note of the two names at the top of my imaginary hit list.
I blinked and I was
back in the boardroom.
REVIEWS:
"So score one
for a forbidden office love affair. Throw in the temptations of a private club
sealed behind the titular black door and you’ve got the makings of one saucy
erotic romance." ~ Laura Roberts, Button Tapper Reviews
"Excellent
novel!
The Black Door is a story that takes you on a ride of deceit, friendship and the murky underworld of what happens behind the black door......I've have read all of Charlottes work and this is up to her usual standard, it is exciting and keeps you guessing at every turn and reveals twists you were not expecting.....well worth curling up with a cuppa." ~ Ms. D. Barrett, Amazon UK
The Black Door is a story that takes you on a ride of deceit, friendship and the murky underworld of what happens behind the black door......I've have read all of Charlottes work and this is up to her usual standard, it is exciting and keeps you guessing at every turn and reveals twists you were not expecting.....well worth curling up with a cuppa." ~ Ms. D. Barrett, Amazon UK
"This is one
of the most original books that this reader has read in ages! One can never
predict what is going to happen next in this sexcapade filled novel. The
characters, are all likeable in spite of their flaws . . . Just when things
begin to settle down, another crisis is thrown at Imogen and therefore, the reader.
There is never a dull moment in this fast moving piece. It is well worth taking
an afternoon to read this zany adventure and to finally learn what' behind the
black door!" ~ Belinda Wilson, Amazon
AUTHOR
BIO:
British author,
Charlotte Howard, was born in Oman and spent much of the first part of her life
flitting between Oman, Scotland, and England. Now settled in Somerset, Charlotte
lives with her husband, two children, and growing menagerie of pets.
Her career as a
writer began at an early age, with a poem being featured in an anthology for
the East Midlands. Since then Charlotte has written many short stories and
poems, and finally wrote her first full-length piece of fiction in 2010.
During what little
spare time she has, Charlotte enjoys reading and writing (of course), spending
time with her family, and watching action movies whilst eating curry and
drinking tea.
Charlotte is an
active member of Yeovil Creative Writers Group.
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