tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33003757752753580802024-02-18T18:37:43.931-08:00Scenes From A Chaotic MindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-52058620019559511832016-07-22T09:51:00.001-07:002016-07-22T09:51:17.862-07:00On the hunt for co-bloggers<span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">I</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">'m looking for two co-bloggers. One for my website www.bookishfangirl.com and one for my website www.scenesfromachaoticmind.com. I prefer my co-bloggers to not have their own blogs or websites. My co-bloggers will be responsible for self editing their posts. I'm looking for co-bloggers who are able to post a minimum of two times a week. You can sign up here.</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1eRMzIDuTtTf0tHlfiHyyfi2ZK-OAFPrN_eNXYxCXbOI/edit" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> </a></span><br />
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I just wanted to let everyone know that Scenes from a Chaotic Mind now has its own website and I'm working on getting all of the posts added to it. Once I have all the posts added to www.scenesfromachaoticmind.com I'll be deleting this blog so I hope that some of you will follow the new website. You'll be able to follow by email or through Google Friend Connect.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-76308742329786967392016-02-09T04:22:00.000-08:002016-02-09T04:22:28.568-08:00The Bride Wore Starlight Blog Blitz and giveaway<div>
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<span id="E13" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E13" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">By </span><span id="E14" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E14" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lizbeth </span><span id="E16" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E16" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selvig</span></div>
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<span id="E29" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E29" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once comfortable on stage in front of thousands, </span><span id="E31" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E31" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joely</span><span id="E33" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E33" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Crockett is now mortified at the thought of walking—or rolling—down the aisle at her sisters’ wedding. Scarred and wheelchair-bound, the former beauty queen has lost more than the ability to walk—she’s lost her fire. But when one handsome, arrogant guest accuses her of milking her injuries and ignites her ire, </span><span id="E35" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E35" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joely</span><span id="E37" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E37" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> finally starts to feel truly alive again, and soon it’s impossible for her to resist her heart’s desire.</span></div>
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<span id="E40" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E40" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alec Morrissey knows a little something about loss. A famous rodeo cowboy before he was injured in Iraq, he’s managed to create something of a normal life, even if it’s not the one he always imagined. Encountering stunning but damaged </span><span id="E42" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E42" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joely</span><span id="E44" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E44" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, he sees a kindred spirit who can learn from his mistakes.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2s6RI4kYgEmEsW4ns8vxov62z6LsMb9Ww3C85hTjmQVIslZuw-YSPWq9FLwssT0JI-tU94qD-NO5Utd2e0Hn3WQoRoThYGNhxUMdJVmgn7anfwIJfBvSBSJ0ldFbpGWO_9qxVZFq2JI/s1600/LizbethSelvig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2s6RI4kYgEmEsW4ns8vxov62z6LsMb9Ww3C85hTjmQVIslZuw-YSPWq9FLwssT0JI-tU94qD-NO5Utd2e0Hn3WQoRoThYGNhxUMdJVmgn7anfwIJfBvSBSJ0ldFbpGWO_9qxVZFq2JI/s1600/LizbethSelvig.jpg" /></a><span id="E71" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E71" style="display: inline; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span><span id="E72" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E72" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span id="E73" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E73" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lizbeth </span><span id="E75" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selvig</span><span id="E77" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E77" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lives in Minnesota with her b</span><span id="E78" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E78" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">est friend (aka her husband), </span><span id="E81" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E81" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and a gray Arabian gelding. After working as a newspaper journalist and magazine editor, and raising an equine veterinarian daughter and a talented musician son, she won RWA’s prestigious Golden Heart® Contest in 2010 with her contemporary romance The Rancher and the Rock Star. In her spare time, she loves to hike, quilt, read, horseback ride, and spend time with her new granddaughter. She also has four-legged grandchildren—more than twenty—including a wallaby, two alpacas, a donkey, a pig, a sugar glider, and many dogs, cats, and horses (pics of all appear on her website www.lizbethselvig.com). She loves connecting with readers—contact her any time!</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E20" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E20" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Warm enough?” he asked. “Your back’s okay?”</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E24" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E24" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What would make it </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E25" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E25" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">fine now</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E26" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E26" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">?”</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E30" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E30" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">He chuckled. “Your version of the cabana boy fantasy</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E31" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E31" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, huh</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E32" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E32" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Fine, I can do Sven.” She</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E33" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E33" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">’d been</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E34" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E34" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> joking; he was not. “Come on. Stretch out on your stomach.”</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E36" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E36" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She started to turn and changed her mind. “What about you?”</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E40" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E40" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Wait, I never said that.”</span></div>
<div id="E41" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E41" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E42" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E42" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, long and deep, taking the lead, pushing him onto his back instead of </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E43" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E43" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">following his directive</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E44" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E44" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. When he groaned and pulled her to lie on top of him, she broke the kiss. She’d done it now, and her nerves almost got the better of her. Instead she closed her eyes and took a brave breath.</span></div>
<div id="E45" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E45" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E46" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E46" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Your leg has to be killing you,” she said. “I’m worried about it. I have no idea how to ask you about it because you never say anything, so I’m just blurting it out.”</span></div>
<div id="E47" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E47" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E48" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E48" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“My leg is okay,” he said.</span></div>
<div id="E49" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E49" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E50" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E50" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You haven’t taken off the prosthetic in two days.”</span></div>
<div id="E51" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E51" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E52" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E52" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have. Didn’t you wonder what the heck took a guy so long in the woods at night?” He took his turn kissing her</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E53" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E53" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E54" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E54" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and she </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E56" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E56" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">reveled</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E58" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E58" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, not just in his kiss but in the breadth of him beneath her. And in the swift, undeniable swell that proved what power her mouth had over him. </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E59" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E59" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E60" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E60" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">hrills pooled low in her pelvis.</span> </div>
<div id="E61" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E61" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E62" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E62" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next words hung in her throat for a long time. If she said them, she’d have </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E63" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E63" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be willing to offer the same in return</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E64" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E64" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her greatest fear rose in front of her.</span></div>
<div id="E65" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E65" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E66" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E66" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I want to know all of you. I want you to . . . trust me.”</span></div>
<div id="E67" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E67" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E68" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E68" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I haven’t wanted to weird you out.”</span></div>
<div id="E69" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E69" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E70" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E70" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The words were light, slightly jokey, and still she clearly heard the underlying tension.</span></div>
<div id="E71" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E71" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E72" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E72" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“That’s just dumb, Alec. Weird? It’s not weird. It’s you.”</span></div>
<div id="E73" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E73" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E74" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E74" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did she mean it? Of course she did. Then how could she do anything but open herself up in return? </span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E75" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">N</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E76" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E76" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">o matter how much it scared her.</span></div>
<div id="E77" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E77" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E78" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E78" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You’ve never made love to a one-legged guy.”</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E80" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E80" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">F</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E81" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E81" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ear flared hot just before her grin broke loose. “Am I about to?”</span></div>
<div id="E82" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E82" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E83" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E83" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">He pulled her back down against him and ran his hands over her seat, pulling her tight and rolling his hips. “</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E84" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E84" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E85" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E85" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">t might be too soon.”</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E87" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E87" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">She rest</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E88" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E88" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ed</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E89" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E89" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> one elbow beside his ear</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E90" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E90" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E91" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E91" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> brushing his hair back with the other hand, drinking in the texture with her fingertips. “I’m afraid to let you see, too.”</span></div>
<div id="E92" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E92" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E93" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E93" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“See what?” A light, perhaps one of hopefulness, brightened his eyes.</span></div>
<div id="E94" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E94" style="display: block; font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E95" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E95" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have more scars than the one you’ve seen on my face.” She stopped combing through his hair. The breath she took this time was shakier than any so far. “I’d show you mine if you show me yours. Let’s be weirded out together.” The words were silly, and her heart skittered around her ribcage—a scared bird that had trapped itself.</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman" id="E97" is="qowt-word-run" named-flow="FLOW-4" qowt-eid="E97" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">He didn’t speak. Carefully, he rolled her off of him and placed one hand on her stomach. With </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">gentle fingers he unsnapped her jeans and slowly rasped down the zipper. Then he sat up, and reached for her boots. One at a time he tugged them off.</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E152" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E152" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi Lizbeth, Thanks for joining us! To get started, why don’t you give readers an intro</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E153" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E153" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">duction</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E154" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E154" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> into the </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E155" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E155" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seven Brides for Seven Cowboys</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E156" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E156" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series, and </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E157" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E157" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bride Wore Starlight</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E158" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E158" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">? </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E162" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E162" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E163" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E163" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have a passion for horses and horseback riding. How did that influence the themes and settings around your books?</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E165" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E165" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pictures</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E166" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E166" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of horses </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E167" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E167" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">adorned </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E168" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E168" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">my bedroom walls </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E169" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E169" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">from the time I was five, when</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E170" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E170" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I was</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E171" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E171" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E172" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E172" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E173" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E173" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> little</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E174" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E174" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> city girl in Minneapolis. I </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E175" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E175" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">collected</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E176" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E176" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all the</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E177" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E177" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stories about horses</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E178" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E178" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I could</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E179" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E179" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and had my first book boyfriend crush on Alec Ramsay in </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E180" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E180" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Black Stallion </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E181" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E181" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">series. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E182" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E182" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got m</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E183" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E183" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">y first horse </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E184" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E184" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a graduation from college present from my husband</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E185" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E185" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E186" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E186" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was hooked for life</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E187" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E187" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, even getting m</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E188" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E188" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">y daughter </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E189" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E189" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">her </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E190" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E190" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">her first pony when she was six years old</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E191" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E191" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E192" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E192" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">we </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E193" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E193" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">could ride together</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E194" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E194" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She went on to become</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E195" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E195" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> an equine veterinarian, and I still help her care for all the horses she’s collected since that first pony! </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E196" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E196" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I still have a horse of my own, s</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E197" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E197" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">o </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E198" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E198" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">you can see I’m obsessed and</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E199" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E199" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have a hard time imagini</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E200" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E200" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ng a world without horses in it!</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E201" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E201" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E204" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E204" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">All my books have included horses to some extent. I’m not even stuck on one type of horse, or riding or rider—my first series of books revolved around English riding</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E205" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E205" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, dressage and </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E207" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E207" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">eventing</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E209" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E209" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. My</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E210" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E210" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> current series “Seven Brides for Seven Cowboys” takes place on a Wyoming ranch so I get to </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E211" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E211" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">spend a lot of time with horses in these books. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E212" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E212" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my stories, I’ve used horses as therapy animals, as challenges for my characters, and as comforting best friends. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E213" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E213" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love sharing the beauty and versatility and healing power of horses with my readers.</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E216" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E216" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E217" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E217" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E218" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E218" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is it about your two main characters,</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E219" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E219" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Alec and </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E221" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E221" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joely, that</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E223" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E223" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have made them so strong after going through such</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E224" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E224" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"> traumatic experiences</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E225" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E225" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">? </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E227" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E227" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think what’s amazing about Alec and Joely is that </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E228" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E228" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">neither of them has any</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E229" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E229" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> idea when their story starts just where their real strengths lie. Joely was a beauty queen several </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E230" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E230" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">times</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E231" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E231" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and even though she isn’t vain she has always believed that what she has to offer the world revolves around her physical looks. What she discovers after her physical body is broken and scarred is that she doesn’t need to trade on outer beauty—her talents of kindness, understanding, and the ability to love despite peoples’ flaws are her truest assets—and they (along with Alec’s help) are what make her strong in the end. </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E233" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E233" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alec completely believes what makes him strong is the ability to bury things that remind him of pain and could make him bitter. He has a major physical disability, but he ignores it and gets on with life—and he even has the sunny disposition to go along with it. But what he doesn’t know is that burying his past and his anger really is a weakness. When he learns (with Joely’s help) to embrace what he sees as weaknesses and truly face his fears—he grows into the truly strong and resilient man he wants to be. </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E236" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E236" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E237" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E237" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">How long have you been </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E238" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E238" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">writing and who influenced you?</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E240" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E240" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I started making up stories and telling them to myself at night in bed as far back as when I was four and five years old. Later, when other kids were reading themselves to sleep, I started writing down these stories</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E241" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E241" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I guess it was what </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E242" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E242" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">would now be called fan fiction</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E243" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E243" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E244" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E244" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had lots of fun affairs</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E245" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E245" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and adventures with </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E246" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E246" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">my favorite pop stars </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E247" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E247" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">from Paul McCartney to Bobby Sherman</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E248" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E248" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">! Eventually I started writing “real” short stories and then novels. In the 80s and 90s I fell in love with the </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E249" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E249" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">romances of </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E252" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E252" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">LaVyrle</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E254" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E254" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Spencer</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E255" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E255" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. To this day she’s my ideal when it comes to telling a love story and I don’t try to copy her, but I do try to live up to her example. </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E258" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E258" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E259" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E259" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have a favorite </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E260" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E260" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">romance</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E261" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E261" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Tell us!</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E263" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E263" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mentioned </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E265" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E265" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">LaVyrle</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E267" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E267" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Spencer</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E268" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E268" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E269" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E269" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and whenever I’m asked this question I have to go back to her. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E270" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E270" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadly</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E271" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E271" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E273" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E273" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">most younger</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E275" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E275" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> romance readers today don’t know her work, but she was known for her beautiful lyrical writing and her warm, identifiable characters. My favorite romance is a book by her called “Hummingbird.” It’s an American historical about a “spinster” who takes in a wounded train robber. Their love affair was so tender, and </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E277" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E277" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">LaVyrle</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E279" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E279" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> wrote such a memorable first-attempt at sex scene that I’ll never forget it. Suffice it to say the first try at lovemaking was awkward at best—but so realistic. Naturally, she made up for it later—and it was totally worth the wait!</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E282" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E282" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E283" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E283" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E284" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E284" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">is your favorite place to write?</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E286" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E286" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mostly write in my office at home. Lest you think that sounds hoity </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E288" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E288" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">toity</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E290" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E290" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">, however, it’s also my sewing room and storage for my granddaughter’s “grandma’s house toys,” so it’s </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E291" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E291" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">very far from</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E292" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E292" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tidy and it’s not all that private. Still, it’s my clutter</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E293" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E293" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and filled with things I love,</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E294" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E294" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and during the day it’s very quiet. I have two windows so I can always see outside—perfect for daydreaming</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E295" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E295" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-ah, brainstorming</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E296" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E296" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E297" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E297" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<div id="E304" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E304" style="font-family: Calibri, Carlito, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px 0px 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E305" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E305" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m already planning to attend Romance Writers of America’s annual meeting in San Diego as well as the Romantic Times Reader Convention in Las Vegas. My “bucket list” addition is that I want my hubby to come meet me at both of them since I’ve never been to either city. I’d like to see Cirque du Soleil’s “Beatles Love” performance in Vegas</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E306" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E306" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E307" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E307" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and I want to visit the zoo in San Diego because I love zoos. I’d also </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E308" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E308" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">love to go back to Alaska and visit my dear friends—those I made when I lived in Anchorage from 2006-2009!</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E316" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E316" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh my goodness, I look back on that and I still can’t believe it happened! I was so flattered and honored because it’s a peer award, and to have made the cut with some of my absolute idols (Nora Roberts, Jill </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E318" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E318" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shalvis</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E320" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E320" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">) was a dream com</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E321" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E321" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">e true. I swear it’s also true that i</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E322" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E322" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">t was an honor just to be a finalist. I mean, </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E323" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E323" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">with all the stellar fellow finalists—it didn’t matter in the least that I didn’t win.</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E324" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E324" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It was </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E325" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E325" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">extremely</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E326" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E326" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> special to be wined and dined and</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E327" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E327" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> treated like a</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E328" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E328" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> queen for a week at the convention—a very meaningful </span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E329" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E329" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;">sure wouldn’t mind</span><span class="qowt-font1-TimesNewRoman" id="E332" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E332" style="display: inline; font-family: "times new roman" , "tinos" , "baskerville old face" , "bell mt" , serif "important"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bringing home one of those gorgeous, golden RITA ladies!</span></div>
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But no one can outrun their past, and the more lies that swirl around her-even from her new and trusted friends-the more disoriented she becomes, until she is confronted by a man who claims to have been sent to kill her. Sent by the darkest force in the universe. A force that absolutely will not stop until she is dead. Thankfully, she has a Rottweiler. But that doesn't help in her quest to find her identity and recover what she's lost. That will take all her courage and a touch of the power she feels flowing like electricity through her veins. She almost feels sorry for him. The devil in blue jeans. The disarming fry cook who lies with every breath he takes. She will get to the bottom of what he knows if it kills her. Or him. Either way.</div>
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<i>Remember, it’s never too late to give LSD a shot.</i><br /><br />—T-SHIRT<br /><br />I stood beside the booth and poured coffee into a beige cup that had the words FIRELIGHT GRILL written across it, wondering if I should tell my customer, Mr. Pettigrew, about the dead stripper sitting next to him. It wasn’t every day a dead stripper accosted one of my regulars, but telling Mr. P about her might not be a good idea. He could react the way I did the first time I saw a walking corpse a little over a month ago. I screamed like a twelve-year-old girl and locked myself in the bathroom.<br /><br />For seven hours.<br /><br />I admired the rascally old man, a decorated war veteran and retired NYPD detective. He’d seen more action than most. And with it, more atrocity. More depravity and desperation and degradation. He was a tough-as-nails, real-life superhero, and I couldn’t picture any situation in which Mr. P would scream like a twelve-year-old girl and lock himself in a bathroom.<br /><br />For seven hours.<br /><br />In my own defense, the first dead guy I saw had fallen to his death at a construction site in Kalamazoo. Thanks to a hundred-foot drop and an unfortunate placement of rebar, I had another image to add to my things-I-can-never-unsee collection. Silver linings, baby.<br /><br />I pulled three creamers out of my apron pocket where I stashed them, mostly because keeping creamers in my jeans pocket never ended well. I placed them on the table beside him.<br /><br />“Thanks, Janey.” He gave me a saucy wink and doctored his coffee, an elixir I’d grown to love more than air. And French fries. And hygiene, but only when I woke up late and was faced with the heart-wrenching decision of either making a cup of the key to life itself or taking a shower. Strangely enough, coffee won. Every. Single. Time.</div>
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<a href="http://darynda.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/darynda2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignleft" height="200" src="http://darynda.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/darynda2.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 10px;" title="darynda2" width="267" /></span></a>For Reasons known only to the Big Guy upstairs, NYTimes and USA Today Best Selling author Darynda Jones won both a Golden Heart and a RITA for her manuscript FIRST GRAVE ON THE RIGHT. But even before that, she couldn’t remember a time she wasn’t putting pen to paper. When she was five, she would pick up a pencil and notepad, scribble utter chaos onto the page and ask her mom to read her masterpiece aloud. Thankfully, her mother would play along. Later she wrote plays for the neighborhood kids, made up stories for her brother as he played cars, and fell in love with Captain Kirk. Those raging, seven-year-old hormones only fueled her imagination, prompting her to create fantastical stories for Barbie and Ken to enact. Ken was such a bad boy back then. </div>
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After years of being repeatedly sent to the principal’s office for daydreaming in class, she managed to make it to high school where she almost finished her first manuscript. Sitting with her BFF in a corner booth at the local Tastee Freeze for hours at a time, she wrote a post-apocalyptic story about a group of teens who bore a remarkable resemblance to the members of Van Halen and were trying to escape the tunnels of a huge government fallout facility decades after World War III had destroyed the surface of the earth. It was a science fiction version of The Warriors and destined to be a classic.</div>
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Life was good. Writing was good. Then she graduated and the real world came crashing through. She forced the dream aside in favor of sustenance and shelter, got married to a local rock star, and had at least two kids that she can think of, the oldest of whom was born Deaf, probably to spite her. When he was five, she packed up her boys and moved to Albuquerque to put him in a Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing program. The rock star stayed behind with the business, and they took turns going back and forth on the weekends to see each other for seven really long years.</div>
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But bit by bit, the desire to write needled its way back to the surface. Unable to squelch it any longer, she started writing seriously again in 2002 with one goal in mind: A publishing contract. Unfortunately, she sucked. Thank goodness practice makes almost-perfect and three complete manuscripts later, she won that Golden Heart, landed an amazing agent and sold to St. Martin’s Press in a three-book deal.</div>
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She currently has two series with St. Martin’s Press, the Charley Davidson series a<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;">ars and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;">Dirt On Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones is the latest book in the Charley Davidson series. I found this book very enjoyable. It was smart and witty with the perfect amount of paranormal action. The character of Charley was wonderful. She was funny and down to earth which I loved. There was plenty of action and some hot men. Darynda Jones knows how to describe things in a way that really allows the reader to picture whatever she is describing at the time. I give Dirt On Ninth Grave five stars for having a fantastic plot and great characters. I am looking forward to reading the other books in this series soon.</span></div>
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-71705551324171030422015-07-24T09:30:00.000-07:002015-07-24T09:30:01.137-07:00Hello and GoodbyeHello everyone! So you don't really know me and that's because I only joined the blog yesterday. My "name" is Fantasy Angel and I am the blogger behind <a href="http://avdreader.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Avid Reader</a>. Avid Reader is a blog about books, their movies and writing. I joined the blog as Tanya's co-administrator and I'm here today to tell you one other piece of big news:<br />
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yup! One day after we join, this blog moves hahaha. Anyway, we have moved to Wordpress and the "new" blog is called <a href="http://bookishbabes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bookish Babes</a>. We will be doing pretty much the same posts and everything as on here, we'll just be elsewhere and under a new name. I hope you come over and take a look at the new blog. It's in its initial steps to greatness so excuse the construction :)<br />
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All in all, I hope you join us at Wordpress and stay with us! Thanks, have a great day/night and tata for now!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549864388774229498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-6394152409475571842015-07-24T05:51:00.000-07:002015-07-24T05:51:30.593-07:00GAME ON by Michelle Smith Cover Reveal<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Release Date:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> January 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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named the new starting pitcher in a town that thinks baseball is everything and
he is nothing but trouble, Eric knows he has to clean up his act. Lay low, his
coach tells him—at least long enough to actually pitch a game. But when a
fight with his teammate lands him in jail yet again, his season may be over
before it starts…until his next door neighbor, Bri, comes to the rescue. Making
a deal with Eric's coach, she offers him one final chance at redemption:
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Eric. Matt didn’t like a lot of things Bri did or said or wore, which is why
she ends it with him the same night he and Eric get into a fight—a fight over
her. That night is the reason Bri offers to take Eric with her to the community
center each week, so he can keep his spot on the team. But spending time
with Eric only makes her life worse, as scandalous rumors start flying and Matt
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stories of stargazing, first kisses, and a time when they were friends start to
re-connect them. As they open up their secrets and their hearts to each other,
they start to see that they are more than what other people think they are—and
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links for GAME ON yet. A Goodreads page will be created Monday, if you’d like
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Play-Lewis-Creek-Michelle-Smith/dp/1939392594/ref=sr_1_3_twi_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1428181303&sr=8-3&keywords=Play+ON" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span></div>
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appreciation for college football, sweet tea, front porches, and a well-placed
“y’all.” She’s a lover of all things happy, laughs way too much, and fully
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549864388774229498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-3655104001690674322015-07-23T07:22:00.003-07:002015-07-23T07:22:28.010-07:00Interview with Jenny Martson<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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I’ve been blogging for just over 2 years and had my 2 year blogoversary in March! I can’t believe how fast the time has gone and how much has changed over the 2 years!</div>
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John Green is an absolute favourite of mine, as I’m sure he is for lots of other people too! James Patterson is my favourite Crime author. His books are what made me love Crime novels. Cecelia Ahern is a beautiful writer and I absolutely love her books. Her stories emit so much wisdom which is incredible, considering how young she is. Markus Zusak is another favourite.</div>
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Jenny in Neverland. I really like my blog name; it’s a name I’ve always used for emails and usernames for years (like since I was about 13) because of how much I love Disney and Peter Pan. When I came to think up my blog name, it just made sense!</div>
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Ooh I think I’d meet John Green. Not just because he’s my favourite author but because he seems like such a genuine lovely guy who adores his fans, and that’s always something you want in an author. I reckon he’d be a right laugh to spend the day with!</div>
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Eeek, I don’t think I really belong in any ‘fandoms’. Please don't hate me! I like Harry Potter a lot but I wouldn’t say I love it enough to be in the fandom.</div>
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I have a few; The Book Thief is the most beautiful book I’ve ever read in my life. Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska by John Green are another 2 favourites and so is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I’ve read that 3 times and that book has so much meaning to me. I’m a pretty big YA fan and although I love most genres, YA books are those that seem to stick with me.</div>
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Jade "Chuckles" MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13444031187937375313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-9687820408256959222015-07-23T07:21:00.002-07:002015-07-23T07:21:33.430-07:00The Darkest Corners by Kara THomas<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">THE DARKEST CORNERS is about two estranged childhood friends who are forced back together when one’s father dies in prison. Now eighteen, they’re forced to confront what really happened one summer night when they were kids and witnessed something that helped put a serial killer behind bars. It was inspired by The West Memphis 3 case and Gillian Flynn’s DARK PLACES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tessa really just popped into my head. I was very inspired by the West Memphis 3 case and witnesses who told stories that didn’t add up in court. I was fascinated by the idea of false memory syndrome, but then I started to think of motivations for lying, and Tessa grew from there. She’s deeply conflicted, but also damaged, because a lot of ways, she’s alone in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A little bit of both. I usually just start writing, but when I get to the third chapter, I usually have to stop and outline the nuts and bolts of the mystery before I continue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Silence! No music, TV, husband being loud. I’m weird like that.</span></div>
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Jade "Chuckles" MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13444031187937375313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-37488964971913379792015-07-19T04:16:00.001-07:002016-07-12T02:55:11.755-07:00Interview with Sarah Glenn Marsh, Author of Fear the Drowning Deep<div class="MsoNormal">
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FEAR THE DROWNING DEEP tells the story of sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill, who’s
living on the Isle of Man in 1913. She’s hated the ocean ever since she was a
little girl, when she saw her grandfather leap from the cliffs and drown with a
smile on his face. As the story begins, Bridey sees a body washed up on the
shores of Port Coire, her small town, and it isn’t long before her friends and
neighbors start disappearing one by one. It’s up to Bridey to convince everyone
of the danger in the water before she loses the people she loves most…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here are a
few things this story contains that I love: a handsome boy with a mysterious
past, kissing, an old woman who might be a witch, lots of Manx culture and
mythology, sea monsters, sisters, and kissing. Did I mention the kissing
already? ;) Oh good. Just so you know, this book has plenty of brooding sea
atmosphere and danger, but it’s most definitely a kissing book, too!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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2. Is it a part of a series or a standalone book?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FEAR is a
standalone book; however, I’m hoping for/planning a companion novel in the
future, which would feature one of Bridey’s sisters as the main character, and
would focus on a different aspect of the Isle of Man’s fascinating mythology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before I dive
into actually drafting a story, I have to have a solid concept, have written a
pitch and mini-synopsis, and know how the book will end. I don’t follow a very
rigid outline (that takes the fun out of getting to know my characters, I
think) but I’ll still say I’m a plotter because I do need to have a lot figured
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">I need silence,
definitely. But I like to listen to music <i>before
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I’m writing, I get too distracted and just want to dance or sing along! With
FEAR in particular, I listened to a lot of </span><span lang="EN-US">Méav
Ní Mhaolchatha’s album <i>Silver Sea</i>, which
is partly in Gaelic, partly in English, and a little French in the mix, too; it
helped establish a perfect mood for windswept, mysterious island town where my
characters live.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nope! Bridey is
purely a product of my imagination, but I love her to pieces. However, her fear
of the ocean was partly inspired by my friend Erin, who hates swimming and is
afraid of drowning—traits that seemed so fitting in my story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I’m happiest when I’m writing some sort of fantasy. I won’t say too much, but
here are a few things that feature in my recent YA epic fantasy: sisters,
witches, mythical beasts, Japanese mythology, and diversity.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jade "Chuckles" MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13444031187937375313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-69180718224516361022015-07-18T05:23:00.000-07:002015-07-22T18:29:59.578-07:00Interview with Nicole Castroman, Author of Black Hearts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">My debut novel, BLACKHEARTS, is a Blackbeard origin story, or pre-pirate. It's my idea of what led him to become one of the most notorious pirates to sail the seas.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">One of my main characters was obviously inspired by Blackbeard. Only the last two years of his life are known or documented. Blackbeard could read and write, which meant he was educated. It's believed he came from Bristol, England. I took whatever information I could find and deconstructed it to create my own story of his early life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I do require silence when I'm writing, but it doesn't mean I always get it. :) I'm a mother of two, so I've learned how to write around interruptions. But no, I don't have music playing in the background. That would be too distracting for me. However, I do like to have each story I write have a "theme song" and will listen to that before I begin.</span><br />
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Jade "Chuckles" MHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13444031187937375313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-5384103199818408672014-09-12T04:15:00.000-07:002014-09-12T04:15:18.133-07:00Blog tour Feral by Holly Schindler<br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">You know, that’s such an interesting question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FERAL is a psychological thriller, but like
psychological thrillers, the book borrows from other genres: horror’s one of
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">I think one of the most important components of horror is
isolation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve got to be alone to be
vulnerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s tough, in
contemporary life—modern technology has ensured that someone is always within
reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One way I gave the book a feeling
of isolation was through sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The book takes place during a brutal ice storm that knocks out
power throughout the town of Peculiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With no TV or computer—or cars navigating the slick streets—the town has
a stillness about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the midst of
that stillness, we hear noises: the crack and snap of ice-coated limbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The echo of footsteps in snow…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Rather than a soundtrack of songs, I’d have to say that the true
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the silence…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thriller with twists and turns that will make you question everything you think
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<i>It’s too late for you. You’re dead</i>. Those words continue to haunt Claire
Cain months after she barely survived</span></span></div>
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father is offered a job in another state, Claire is hopeful that getting out
will offer her a way to start anew.<br />
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But when she arrives in Peculiar, Missouri, Claire feels an overwhelming sense
of danger, and her fears are confirmed when she discovers the body of a popular
high school student in the icy woods behind the school, surrounded by the
town’s feral cats. While everyone is quick to say it was an accident, Claire
knows there’s more to it, and vows to learn the truth about what happened. <br />
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But the closer she gets to uncovering the mystery, the closer she also gets to
realizing a frightening reality about herself and the damage she truly
sustained in that Chicago alley….<br />
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Holly Schindler’s gripping story is filled with heart-stopping twists and turns
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">FERAL falls squarely into
the realm of the classic psychological thriller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the book features mystery, horror, and
paranormal elements, the emphasis is on the “psychological” rather than
thriller / action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The novel features a
Hitchcockian pace and focus on character development (here, we’re exploring the
inner workings of the main character, Claire Cain).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Essentially, every aspect of FERAL is used to
explore Claire’s inner workings—that even includes the wintry Ozarks
setting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water metaphor is employed
frequently in psychological thrillers to represent the subconscious, and here
is incorporated in the form of a brutal ice storm (that represents Claire’s
“frozen” inner state).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The attempt to
untangle what is real from what is unreal (another frequently-used aspect of
the psychological thriller) also begins to highlight the extent to which Claire
was hurt in that Chicago alley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the
explanation of the odd occurrences in the town of Peculiar offers an
exploration into and portrait of Claire’s psyche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, FERAL is a book about recovering
from violence—that’s not just a lengthy or hard process; it’s a terrifying
process, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The classic psychological
thriller allowed me to explore that frightening process in detail.</span></div>
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the author of the critically acclaimed A BLUE SO DARK<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(Booklist starred review, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year silver
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Her
debut MG, THE JUNCTION OF SUNSHINE AND LUCKY,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>also released in ’14, and became a favorite of teachers and
librarians, who used the book as a read-aloud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kirkus<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Reviews<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>called THE JUNCTION “...a heartwarming
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self-empowerment and artistic vision delivered with a satisfying verve.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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is Schindler’s third YA and first psychological thriller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publishers Weekly gave FERAL a starred
review, stating, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Opening with
back-to-back scenes of exquisitely imagined yet very real horror, Schindler’s
third YA novel hearkens to the uncompromising demands of her debut, A BLUE SO
DARK…This time, the focus is on women’s voices and the consequences they suffer
for speaking…This is a story about reclaiming and healing, a process that is
scary, imperfect, and carries no guarantees.” </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Schindler
encourages readers to get in touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Booksellers, teen librarians, and teachers can also contact her directly
regarding Skype visits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She can be
reached at hollyschindlerbooks (at) gmail (dot) com, and can also be found at
hollyschindler.com, hollyschindler.blogspot.com, @holly_schindler,
Facebook.com/HollySchindlerAuthor, and hollyschindler.tumblr.com.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm a player. I'm an asshole. I'm someone you should stay away from.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have demons.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I've made mistakes.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And the biggest can't be taken back.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I've gone to hell and back in twenty-nine years and I'm only now coming to terms with moving forward, righting my wrongs, and making amends. Except not everyone deserves forgiveness. Sometimes the damage done is beyond repair.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyday is exactly the same. I focus on the pain, in the quest to feel and forget, but I remember everything. When I close my eyes the darkness encroaches and some days it feels like the things that kill me are the things that make me feel alive.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I hovered over her sweet body, the soft flesh beneath my fingers like fucking silk. Her hands laced in the rungs of the headboard above her head, propping her breasts high and full for me. Her head was thrown back in ecstasy, full lips formed in a a perfect O as moans escaped her throat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She was fucking stunning. I moved in and out of her, slowing my pace, hitting her as deep as I could, rounding my hips with each slow thrust and drag. She was everything, had been my everything for a few months, the only one that had ever gotten me.</span></div>
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We are currently seeking short stories in the Young Adult and New Adult categories (<b>all genres</b>) that feature unusual superstitions or traditions.</div>
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“White Rabbit. White Rabbit. White Rabbit.”</div>
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On the first day of every month thousands of people
say “White Rabbit”, “Rabbit”, or “bunny” three times to grant luck
throughout the month, even to this day. While this odd ritual could be
considered either superstition or tradition it has been honored by many
families for centuries. Even famous presidents of the Unite States have
admitted to honoring the superstition/tradition. Wall Street men say it
for financial luck, knights in Europe for health and of course, everyday
people like you and me. As the idea spread the reasoning behind the
idea changed to the point where now many children in traditional
families say it without understanding why (only knowing that good will
come) and as the habit continues through generations the meaning is
further skewed.</div>
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This unusual phenomenon sparked an idea.</div>
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Superstitions and traditions are common place but not
necessarily noticed because we’ve grown so accustomed to them. So what
would happen if a superstition or tradition went wrong? What if a pact
had been made and as a tradition was broken that pact was broken too?
What if supernatural creatures or children in the future had their own
strange traditions? How strange could traditions truly get before it
seemed out of place to the people doing them?</div>
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History changes like a childhood whispered game of
telephone but what fascinating traditions should be listened to and
which were meant to one day be broken?</div>
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White Rabbit started out as an unusual fixation and
became a phenomenon. Featured in stories throughout the ages in many
cases a white rabbit even became a sign of good luck or innocence. We
hope to honor the strange tradition (with a bit of luck) and put
together a novel featuring the unusual and unique from names both new
and old.</div>
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If you would like to submit a short story for inclusion please e-mail your completed work to <a href="mailto:Submissions@HallowedInkPress.com">Submissions@HallowedInkPress.com</a> with ‘White Rabbit Anthology’ in the title. We ask that you send the finished story inside of the e-mail – <b><i>not attached</i></b> – along with a short summary of the work and biography at the top.</div>
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<b>Cover Art: Image by </b><a href="http://scared-princess.deviantart.com/"><b>Raquel Neira</b></a><b> – Typography by </b><a href="http://www.emmamichaels.com/"><b>Emma Michaels</b></a></div>
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August 1<sup>st</sup> though submissions
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call has the possibility of closing early.</div>
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The superstitions or traditions used do
not have to be accurate and can be fictitious. We are more fascinated
with the concept of unusual traditions and superstitions than factual
accuracy.</div>
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We do not plan on being very strict in
this regard. We are more focused on quality than length. We would,
however, suggest that all stories be in the 2,000 – 10,000 word range.</div>
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YA & NA only</div>
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All</div>
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Any including and not limited to historical, modern and futuristic.</div>
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<b>Payment:</b></div>
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This is a royalty based anthology. All authors will be given a percentage of the earnings though no advance.</div>
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<b>Formats:</b></div>
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This anthology will be released in both ebook and paperback. Ebook cards may also be added overtime along with other formats.</div>
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<b>Editing:</b></div>
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We have an in house editor and copy editors.</div>
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<strong>DROWNED by Nichola Reilly</strong></div>
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<em>Coe
is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed
and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land
dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in
her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam—but love has
long ago been forgotten by her society. The only priority is survival.</em><br />
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the day their King falls ill, leaving no male heir to take his place.
Unrest grows, and for reasons Coe cannot comprehend, she is invited into
the privileged circle of royal aides. She soon learns that the dying
royal is keeping a secret that will change their world forever. </em><br />
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there an escape from the horrific nightmare that their island home has
become? Coe must race to find the answers and save the people she cares
about, before their world and everything they know is lost to the
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<em>"A
resourceful and smart heroine and a society literally on the edge of
survival. Take a deep breath, once you start reading you won't be able
to stop!" -Maria Snyder, author of Poison Study</em></div>
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<em>"It's
difficult to find a really unique premise in today's crowded literary
front, but Cyn Balog has done it in Drowned! This is a world like you've
never seen before but with themes and issues that strike surprisingly
close to home. A society where you literally earn your safety twice a
day when the tide comes in and submerges everything? I admit, I wish I'd
thought of it first. A thrilling, brilliant read!" -#1 New York Times
bestselling author Aprilynne Pike</em></div>
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<em> "A
gripping and romantic tale featuring a truly original heroine facing
seemingly insurmountable odds. I loved it!" -- Morgan Rhodes, NYT
Bestselling Author of Fallen Kingdoms</em></div>
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Nichola
Reilly spent much of her childhood on the Barrier Islands of New
Jersey, where late summer hurricanes would sometimes bring the ocean to
her front door. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and
daughters, where she dreams of low tide.</div>
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<strong><em></em></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-45694939851791352122014-02-25T00:00:00.000-08:002014-02-25T00:00:01.410-08:00Release Day Blitz for Hard as you can by Laura KayeRelease day is finally here! And I’m thrilled to share Hard As You Can, the second book in my Hard Ink series, with all of you here today!<br />
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Hard As You Can follows the surviving members of a disgraced Army Special Forces team as they fight to regain their stolen honor, and finds their investigation crossing paths with a waitress willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive and protect her younger sister. For Shane McCallan, saving Crystal Dean is a mission he refuses to turn down.<br />
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“Don’t look at me like that, Crystal,” Shane said, his voice a raw scrape. It wasn’t a demand or a threat. It was a plea. And the thought that this big, strong, powerful man was begging her for anything was thrilling.
“Like what?” she asked, dragging her gaze up to his. In the diffuse light of the streetlamp, she could tell his eyes were absolutely blazing, and it only fueled the arousal rising up inside her.
“Like maybe you want me the way I want you.” Tilting his head, he nuzzled his face against hers, the tip of his nose trailing over her cheek, his breath ghosting over her lips. “Like maybe you’d let me kiss you and touch you.” A quick brush of his lips against her temple and ear. “Like maybe you’d let me in.”
Crystal could barely breathe for the way her heart was pounding and her pulse was racing.<br />
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She slid a hand up his chest to his neck, wanting, needing, just absolutely yearning to have this. Just this once.
Leaning into him, Crystal held his gaze and adored the way his expression filled with such expectant satisfaction, like she’d surprised him. Pleased him. She pressed her lips to his.
The groan he unleashed was needful, almost triumphant. His arms came around her gently and pulled her in. And it wasn’t enough. She needed to be closer. Deeper.
She needed more of Shane McCallan.
She might never get another chance.
A flicker of unbidden panic whipped through her body. Bruno had been her only lover for the past four years, and she’d only been able to take him inside her after months’ buildup of trust and familiarity of touch. That was back before he’d shown his true colors. Or before she’d shed her naïveté. Maybe they were the same thing. Who knew? Stop thinking about Bruno and get out of your head. Just feel. You deserve this. You need this.<br />
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Besides, cart before horse, much?
Shane pulled away and rested his forehead against hers. “I didn’t come here expecting this. Hoped, maybe.” He smiled. “But I really just needed to see you.”
“I’m glad you came,” she said, combing her fingers through the sides of his hair, then holding his face in her hands.
“What do you want, sweetness? I’d give you anything.” Over her hoodie, his hands rubbed up and down her back, hip to shoulder, hip to shoulder.
Crystal couldn’t find the words, so she tilted her face and claimed his lips, and this time the kiss unleashed a fire that seemed to flash through both of them.<br />
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She shifted into a kneeling position between his thighs, and he hauled her into his lap so that she straddled him. The position brought the hard length of his cock between her legs and she gasped and moaned at the feel of him so close to where she was wet and wanting.
They pressed closer, held tighter, kissed more deeply until all Crystal knew, all that existed in the world, was this moment, this place, this man.
Shane’s hands moved over her body. Fisting in the long lengths of her hair. Gently cupping and massaging her breasts. Stroking her bare thighs. Crystal adored the way he seemed to need to touch her. How powerful and necessary human touch was.<br />
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How life-giving and affirming. And how simply mind-blowing was it to discover that touch could be a giving thing, not just about taking, that touch could be healing, and not just about hurting, that touch could comfort, and not just exert control. Even when things had been better with Bruno, they’d never been like this.
And to think she’d found someone who could teach her something so fundamental that she’d never known before. Or, maybe, she’d known but hadn’t believed. Now she did. Because of Shane. No matter how little time she got to have him in her life, she would always be grateful that he’d shown her what it could be like. With the right person.
Gripping her hair in his fist, Shane reclined her head, opening the line of her throat to his worshipful lips and tongue. He trailed a path of liquid fire over her flesh that left her dizzy, totally awash in sensation.<br />
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He tugged her hips in tighter, and Crystal moaned at the friction the movement created. He was deliciously hard and thick between her legs. Unable to resist, she rocked herself against him as he laid her back farther so he could kiss her the small part of her chest the V-neck of the hoodie revealed.
Slowly, he drew down the zipper, trailing kisses lower and lower until the heat of his breath fanned over her nipple through the thin fabric of her uniform. Just as slow, Shane raised her back up, bringing their bodies together again. Crystal ran her hands over his chest and stomach, but what she most needed was to feel him, skin on skin. Pulling back from their kiss, she tugged at the hem of his shirt, silently asking for permission.
“Anything you want,” he whispered, taking her belly and her heart on a loop-the-loop.<br />
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Man, I just loved writing these two! *grins* Did you have a favorite line? Thanks for reading!
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Five dishonored soldiers.
Former Special Forces.
One last mission.
These are the men of Hard Ink.
Ever since hard-bodied, drop-dead-charming Shane McCallan strolled into the dance club where Crystal Dean works, he's shown a knack for getting beneath her defenses. For her little sister's sake, Crystal can't get too close. Until her job and Shane's mission intersect, and he reveals talents that go deeper than she could have guessed.
Shane would never turn his back on a friend in need, especially a former Special Forces teammate running a dangerous, off-the-books operation. Nor can he walk away from Crystal. The gorgeous waitress is hiding secrets she doesn't want him to uncover. Too bad. He's exactly the man she needs to protect her sister, her life, and her heart. All he has to do is convince her that when something feels this good, you hold on as hard as you can--and never let go.<br />
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Great-aunt Anna died from pneumonia when she was sixteen. They couldn’t cure it because her heart
was broken and penicillin hadn’t yet been invented. It happened late one July afternoon. Anna’s
younger sister, Bertha, ran howling into the garden and saw that with Anna’s rattling, dying breath all
the red currants in the garden had turned white. It was a large garden; the scores of old currant bushes
groaned under the heavy weight of the fruit. They should have been picked long before, but when
Anna fell ill nobody gave a thought to the berries. My grandmother often told me this story, because it
was she who had discovered the currants in mourning. Since that time there had only ever been black
currants and white currants in my grandmother’s garden, and every attempt to plant a red bush had
failed—only white berries would grow on the stems. But nobody minded: the white ones tasted almost
as sweet as the red, when you juiced them they didn’t ruin your apron, and the jelly they made
had a mysteriously pale translucent shimmer. “Preserved tears,” my grandmother called it. The shelves
in her cellar still housed jars of all sizes with the currant jelly from 1981, a summer particularly rich in
tears, Rosmarie’s final one. Once when my mother was looking for some pickled cucumbers she came
across a jar from 1945: the first postwar tears. She donated it to the windmill association, and when
I asked her why on earth she was giving away Granny’s wonderful jelly to a local museum she said
that those tears were too bitter. My grandmother Bertha Lünschen, née Deelwater, died long after
Great-Aunt Anna, but for many years she hadn’t known who her sister was, what her own name was,
or whether it was winter or summer. She had forgotten what shoes, wool, or spoons were for. Over a
decade she cast off her memories with the same fidgety ease with which she plucked at the
short white locks of hair at the nape of her neck or swept invisible crumbs from the table. I had a clearer
recollection of the noise the hard, dry skin of her hand made on the wooden kitchen table than of the
features of her face. Also of the way her ringed fingers always closed tightly around the invisible crumbs,
as if trying to catch the shadows of her spirit drifting by; but maybe Bertha just wanted to cover the
floor with crumbs, or feed the sparrows that in early summer loved taking dust baths in the garden and
were forever uprooting the radishes. The table she later had in the care home was plastic, and her hand
fell silent. Before her memory went completely, Bertha remembered us in her will. My mother, Christa,
inherited the land, Aunt Inga the stocks and shares, Aunt Harriet the money. I, the final descendant,
inherited the house. The jewelry and furniture, the linen and the silver were to be divided up between
my mother and aunts. Bertha’s will was as clear as springwater—and just as sobering. The stocks and
shares were not particularly valuable, nobody except cows wanted to live on the pasture of the north
German lowlands, there wasn’t much money left, and the house was old.<br />
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1. How different was writing a middle grade book from writing young adult books?<br />
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In some respects, writing a middle grade is very similar to writing a YA—they both hinge on
really knowing your main character and getting a handle on their voice.
The pacing was a bit different, though—a middle grade novel is a full twenty thousand (or
more) words shorter than a YA. You choose different situations to include in a middle grade—
complications you throw at your character are different, too. That’s not to say you can’t deal
with tough issues in MG—you absolutely can. In THE JUNCTION OF SUNSHINE AND
LUCKY, we deal with issues of poverty and even eminent domain. But every issue that’s
introduced to an MG character has to be solved by that character. It’s not the child’s adventure
or journey anymore if the adults in her life suddenly swoop in and save the day.<br />
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2. Do you see yourself writing more middle grade books in the future?<br />
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Absolutely. Auggie may very well be my favorite character of all time. But to a great extent,
her sweetness and the way she looks at the world is possible because of her young age. I also
think MG readers and characters are all in the midst of really figuring themselves out—what they
love, what their passions are, what they’re good at. I’d love to spend more time with characters
who are that age.<br />
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3. If you could pick any song as the theme song, what song would you choose and why?<br />
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At the beginning of the book, Auggie’s out to find her own special talent or “shine.” So the very
first song that comes to mind is “This Little Light of Mine.”<br />
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4. Are there any authors that you’ve had a fangirl moment after meeting them?<br />
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I have those moments every time I meet a new author I admire—even if that meeting
occurs online rather than in person. I enjoy meeting authors so much, I became the
administrator of two group author blogs: Smack Dab in the Middle for MG authors:
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com">
smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com</a>, and YA Outside the Lines for YA authors:
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com.">
yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com.</a><br />
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5. What made you want to write a middle grade novel and was there someone or
something that inspired the book?<br />
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I love writing in multiple genres—my first YA was a literary problem novel, my second YA a
romance. THE JUNCTION is my first contemporary MG, and my next YA is a psychological
thriller. Part of the reason I love writing is that I never know where a new book will lead me.
Each book turns out to be its own unique world.
THE JUNCTION comes, in part, from the years I spent attending antique auctions—especially
farm auctions. I attended those auctions with my folks when I was little, and now I attend them
with my brother (an antiques dealer). I love those one-of-a-kind antiques that show up at farm
auctions: benches made from old barn wood, dolls made from feed sacks, lampshades made from
old galvanized buckets. To a great extent, the idea of writing about folk artists came from those
years of attending farm auctions!<br />
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“Beasts of the Southern Wild” meets Because of Winn Dixie in this inspiring story of hope.
Auggie Jones lives with her grandpa Gus, a trash hauler, in a poor part of town. So when her
wealthy classmate’s father starts the House Beautification Committee, it’s homes like Auggie’s
that are deemed “in violation.” But Auggie is determined to prove that there’s more to her—and
to her house—than meets the eye.
What starts out as a home renovation project quickly becomes much more as Auggie and her
grandpa discover a talent they never knew they had—and redefine a whole town’s perception of
beauty, one recycled sculpture at a time.
Holly Schindler’s feel-good story about the power one voice can have will inspire readers to
speak from their hearts.<br />
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"...a heartwarming and uplifting story...[that] shines...with vibrant themes of community, self- empowerment and artistic vision delivered with a satisfying verve." – Kirkus Reviews<br />
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"Axioms like 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' and 'Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder' come gracefully to life in Schindler's tale about the value of hard work and the power
of community…Auggie's enthusiasm and unbridled creativity are infectious, and likeminded
readers will envy her creative partnership with [her grandfather] Gus." – Publishers Weekly<br />
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usually through Twitter or FB. But I had to create a site where I could interact with the MG
readership. I’m devoting a page on the site to reviews from young readers themselves! Be sure
to send your young reader’s review through the Contact Me page.<br />
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Author: Samantha Holt
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Genre: Contemporary Romantic Suspense
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Release Date: 17th January 2014<br />
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I’ve just buried my husband. I was going to divorce him and now he’s dead.
After five years as a military wife, Sienna is moving on. She’s keen to leave behind the misery of her marriage to Rob but for some reason the past won’t let her go. It doesn’t help that her closest friend, Nick, is also a soldier. Unfortunately Sienna is struggling to deny her attraction to the sexy marine, even knowing there can be no future in it. When the injured soldier admits he wants her just as badly, and has always wanted her, the fight to control her feelings becomes harder.
And now she’s learning things about her late husband that surprise even her. When the secrets of Rob’s life come to light, Sienna finds herself involved with some very nasty people and Nick is determined to protect her, no matter what.
As the danger grows to both her heart and her life, Sienna needs to decide if it was the army that was the problem or her late husband. Is Nick worth the heartache of being a military spouse again? And will he be able to protect her from the ring of drug dealers slowly closing in?
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Samantha lives in a small village in England with her gorgeous twin girls and husband who is a trained bodyguard and ex-soldier (Yes, seriously!). She traditionally writes historical romances involving chivalrous knights and hot highlanders, but occasionally dabbles in contemporary romance. When she reluctantly leaves her computer, she enjoys exploring old ruins and indulging an early midlife crisis. Adrenaline filled suggestions for the bucket list are always welcome!
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Embarrassing Memory Murderer</span><span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> (</span><a href="http://www.iuniverse.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;">published by iUniverse</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">) <span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">shares the memoir of author David Tieck’s endless array of humiliating memories as he comes to grip with his past, finds his adventurous spirit, and offers hope, wisdom and understanding to anyone who is willing to laugh about their own disconcerting moments, WELL, that was the idea at least </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I had a plan. It was simple, if I could let all of my worst, most humiliating, and most painful memories each inspire some sort of adventure or challenge, then these memories would finally be adding something positive to my life, and by doing so I could murder the pain, and live a happier life. Ah, thinking about all my most horrible memories all the time, this is going to be awesome, what could possibly go wrong?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">It started out great, my horrible past epic shyness, extremely late puberty, and fondness for bleeding and then crying in front of my friends led me to the Cannes Film Festival, tulip shopping in Amsterdam and hanging out with real life vampires in Paris. However then I had an awful break up, I had a bunch of things go really wrong, suffered a smidge of severe mental and physical pain, started to flirt with madness, went on a jovial jaunt through the darkest realms of my brain, and started flinging away everything that was important to me. Oh and along the way and I had a bunch of fun, a ton of laughs, met some awesome people and some celebrities, partied a lot, had some adventures, and eventually learned a lot about life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">You’ll laugh, you’ll want to slap me in the face, maybe give me a hug or two, then slap me a few times more – I really am a big stupid damn idiot. Please laugh at my pain; I truly deserve it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","Arial";">Amazon.com - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Embarrassing-Memory-Murderer-Tremendously-ebook/dp/B00AZK8VII/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383878551&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family: "Times","Arial"; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Embarrassing-Memory-Murderer-<wbr></wbr>Tremendously-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B00AZK8VII/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&<wbr></wbr>ie=UTF8&qid=1383878551&sr=1-1</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times","Arial";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","Arial";">iUniverse - </span><a href="http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000592137/The-Embarrassing-Memory-Murderer.aspx" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family: "Times","Arial"; text-decoration: underline;">http://bookstore.iuniverse.<wbr></wbr>com/Products/SKU-000592137/<wbr></wbr>The-Embarrassing-Memory-<wbr></wbr>Murderer.aspx</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times","Arial";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Email - <a href="mailto:dtieck@gmail.com" target="_blank">dtieck@gmail.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Twitter - </span><a href="https://twitter.com/davidtieck" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;">https://twitter.com/davidtieck</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Facebook - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Tieck/286319268157871" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>pages/David-Tieck/<wbr></wbr>286319268157871</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Blog – </span><a href="http://www.fleetingforever.com/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family: "Arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;">www.fleetingforever.com</span></span></a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-38230597425966388112013-11-02T08:05:00.003-07:002013-11-02T08:05:38.541-07:00Hallowed Ink Press now open for submissions in all YA and NA subgenres<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span>Are you a YA or New Adult author looking for a publisher to submit a query to? Hallowed Ink Press is now accepting submissions. Queries can be sent to submissions@hallowedinkpress.c</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>om</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300375775275358080.post-4191811961564211312013-11-01T03:42:00.002-07:002013-11-01T03:42:48.071-07:00Hallowed Ink Press launch day!<br />
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From <em>The Legend of Sleepy <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hollow</b></em> to the most beloved boy in literature whose journey led him to the <em>Deathly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hallows</b></em>, both terms have been a fantastical, mystical theme used in a wealth of phenomenal literature. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hallowed Ink Press</i> was created to serve as ‘hallowed ground’ for our authors; a publisher they know will always offer their amazing ideas a home, and remain dedicated to everything their work stands for.</div>
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As a publishing house we strive to bring forth innovative and inventive forms of storytelling to the eager readers out there. With an experienced ‘team’ that brings the skill and knowledge of writing, designing and editing to the table - yet also offers a youthful exuberance when it comes to producing fresh, unique ideas to enhance the future of publishing—H.I.P. does it all! </div>
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Both previously published authors, as well as those looking to debut with a strong support team behind them who will show them the ropes, are welcome. We understand the reality of this difficult-to-break-into industry, and we use the knowledge and skill we have gained in order to give each one of our authors the best chance of reaching a thoughtful, eager audience. With innovative techniques and an honest look at all sides of the marketing spectrum, Hallowed Ink Press will become the solid ground and perfect home base for talented writers everywhere.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSn5K-PR1z369nDpxWl3PrVvc48PEZy8bTNBBWlyKhwt7c-DhotY4IrZaBbgidLnAklEA2RHJkKPjSoyrOqyxGSVy7wPcl3-OlFzaWJmEgXU45-P0FbNbVooDojA0vJhDFB5KxAhk53WGJ/s1600/1375955_1416285201922651_577475115_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSn5K-PR1z369nDpxWl3PrVvc48PEZy8bTNBBWlyKhwt7c-DhotY4IrZaBbgidLnAklEA2RHJkKPjSoyrOqyxGSVy7wPcl3-OlFzaWJmEgXU45-P0FbNbVooDojA0vJhDFB5KxAhk53WGJ/s1600/1375955_1416285201922651_577475115_n.jpg" /></a><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""><b>Amy Lignor</b> began her career in publishing as the Editor-in-Chief of Grey House Publishing. Working in the industry for twenty years, she is now the Owner/Operator of <i>The Write Companion</i>, an editorial house offering authors a range of services. The daughter of a career librarian, Amy Lignor’s first love is books, and helping the debut or experienced author polish their stories and find success in the marketplace. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif="">As an author, Amy Lignor has published titles in the genres of:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""> Historical Fiction: </span></b><i><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif="">The Heart of a Legend</span></i><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""> YA Bestselling Series: </span></b><i><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif="">The Angel Chronicles </span></i><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif="">(<i>Until Next Time,</i> <i>Gilded Wings & A Privilege</i>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""> Thriller/Suspense: </span></b><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif="">The Tallent & Lowery Series (Books I & II: <i>13 </i>& <i>The Sapphire Storm</i>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""> Romance/Humor:</span></b><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""> <i>A Captivating Conundrum</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif="">Inducted into the International Thriller Writers Organization, Amy is also a writer/contributor for various magazines, newsletters, companies, and review organizations: Authorlink; The Feathered Quill; Random House YA; Suspense Magazine and more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwrtdu6JD8tzFfURcH5JtXQVnwvBFdFu0bWEeNEeNVeNTZnlfwEYU7PhP0_fiBgwzSWDRrVPMUoBwbZbGWnnj2BJ9EPMo4tFrxRUANA3v2yst2d1fOgz2eXmZ7mrdCfR_ETkXnipJlLFRv/s1600/1383762_1416285415255963_1727841849_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwrtdu6JD8tzFfURcH5JtXQVnwvBFdFu0bWEeNEeNVeNTZnlfwEYU7PhP0_fiBgwzSWDRrVPMUoBwbZbGWnnj2BJ9EPMo4tFrxRUANA3v2yst2d1fOgz2eXmZ7mrdCfR_ETkXnipJlLFRv/s200/1383762_1416285415255963_1727841849_n.jpg" width="181" /></a><span 107="" 12pt="" americana="" bt="" serif=""><b>Tanya Contois</b> started as the creator of the blog All Things Books. Shortly after creating the blog which quickly became very popular, Tanya signed with the publishing company Trestle Press and had four parts of a serial novel titled Wicked Little Lies published through Trestle Press. She eventually came to the decision to break ties with Trestle Press as well as the blog she created to focus on other endeavors such as starting a new blog and offering editing and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>proofreading services under the name Starlight Editing and Proofreading.</span></span></div>
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