tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87289570885850174282024-03-05T10:17:37.287-06:00Release NotesKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-13932905274409549392015-05-15T10:01:00.002-05:002015-05-15T10:01:50.269-05:00Featured Author Lorna Peel and An Incredible Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em>Release Notes is thrilled to feature Lorna Peel and her novel, Into the Unknown. Set during in England during World War II, the story provides a look at love during the time of war. Make sure to read through the entire post and check out the giveaway at the end of the post. Make sure to visit Lorna and let her know you saw it here on Release Notes. Her information is below! I hope you enjoy!</em> </div>
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outbreak of World War Two in September 1939, almost a quarter of the British
population was entitled to wear some sort of uniform. The increased demand for
uniforms put enormous pressure on Britain's textile and clothing industries and
rationing was introduced in June 1941. Silk was one of the first fabrics to go
as it was needed for the war effort, so Into The Unknown’s Kate Sheridan was
very lucky to have been bought two sets of silk lingerie by her aunt Helen to
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worked by allocating each type of clothing item a value in points. Every adult
was initially given an allocation of 66 points to last one year, but this
allocation shrank as the war progressed. Eleven coupons were required for a
dress, two needed for a pair of stockings, and eight coupons for a man's shirt
or a pair of trousers. Women's shoes meant handing over five coupons, and for
men's footwear seven. </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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these shortages, people were encouraged to keep looking fashionable in order to
keep up morale and the 'Make Do and Mend' campaign was launched to encourage
people to make their existing clothes last longer. The ability to repair, alter
and make clothes from scratch became increasingly important as the war went on.
Kate would have studied needlework at school in Ireland, so she wouldn’t have
found making clothes from a pattern too daunting a task.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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million gas masks had been distributed around Britain by the outbreak of war.
The population were told to carry them at all times in the standard-issue
cardboard box tied up with string. Fashion designers quickly saw a gap in the
market, turned the ugly boxes into handbags at the top and a space at the
bottom for the mask, and these were snapped up by many women like Kate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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never rationed, but was taxed and very expensive. As with their clothes, women
found imaginative ways around shortages. Bright red lipstick was a way to look
glamorous, even if you couldn’t afford any other cosmetics. And when it just
couldn’t be found, beetroot juice was used instead of both blusher and lipstick
and boot polish instead of mascara. When stockings were in short supply, an
eyeliner was used to draw a ‘seam’ up the back of the legs—which may also have
been carefully painted with gravy browning to appear like a tan shade of
stockings. So, instead of being moth-balled for the duration of the war,
fashion became more inventive and individual—the colours brighter and the
colours bolder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Helen into a department store’s lingerie department, and into a changing room,
Kate stripped right down to her embarrassingly old-fashioned underwear.
Catching sight of the shop girl’s smirking face in the mirror, Kate wanted the
ground to open up and swallow her. The girl measured her before bringing a
selection of bras and knickers for her to choose from. Kate stared in
consternation. How could she choose? They were all beautiful. Thankfully, Helen
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the peach set and the white,” she said. “Would you like to wear the peach set
now, Kate?”</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></div>
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been running her fingers over the silk in awe and jumped. “Yes, I will. Thank
you.”<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><em>She changed
into the lingerie and stared at herself for a long time in the mirror. Silk.
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><em>“Let’s see,
Kate.” She heard her aunt’s voice, opened the curtains, and both women stared
at her. “Good Lord.” Helen seemed astonished. “You do have a figure, after
all.”<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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boutique a little later, Kate stopped and gazed at a suit in the window. Helen
had walked on but returned to her and smiled. “That’s very smart, isn’t it? Do
you want to try it on?”<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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a black handbag and matching shoes in a shop across the street. Again, Kate
paraded up and down, but this time to get used to the high heels. Standing up
in them for the first time, she</em> had <em>almost toppled over. Kate tottered along
the street, finding herself much taller than Helen, and followed her into a
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><em>“Your hair
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Kate opened her eyes and gazed at the film star in the mirror, hardly
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Helen breathed. “You’re beautiful.” She turned to the three women standing
behind Kate’s chair. “Whatever she’s got on, we’ll take it.”<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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September 1939 is in upheaval. War is inevitable. Into this turmoil steps Kate
Sheridan, newly arrived from Ireland to live with her aunt and uncle, and look
for work. When she meets Flight Lieutenant Charlie Butler sparks fly, but he is
a notorious womaniser. Should she ignore all the warnings and get involved with
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lorna Peel is an author of contemporary and
historical romantic fiction. She has had work published in three Irish
magazines – historical articles on The Stone of Scone in ‘Ireland’s Own’, on
The Irish Potato Famine in the ‘Leitrim Guardian’ – and Lucy’s Lesson, a
contemporary short story in ‘Woman’s Way’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Her first novel, Only You, a contemporary
romance, was published in 2014. Into The Unknown, an historical novel set
during WWII, will be published on 5 May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lorna was born in England and lived in
North Wales until her family moved to Ireland to become farmers, which is a
book in itself! She lives in rural Ireland, where she write, researches her
family history, and grows fruit and vegetables. She also keeps chickens (and a
Guinea Hen who now thinks she’s a chicken!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Valentine’s Day hashtags are proliferating on Twitter. That means one thing: #valentinesdayiscoming. For single women, the 14</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;"> of February is tough enough when it’s #nodate and #aloneagain. But for married women, Valentine’s Day is a #minefield #forgetaboutit #norosesforyousister #fml.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For women in general, Valentine’s Day is like trying on a new bikini: single girls hope to find something nice that handles the girls effectively but all too often end up with lingering regrets and maybe a yeast infection from the previous person who tried the bathing suit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All that married women can hope for is that the top half can still work the old black magic while the bottom half still fits the base.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Meanwhile, the average man is completely oblivious to the whole #chocolates #romance and #finedining thing. That’s because he hasn’t set foot in a shop since the day before Christmas when he did his annual shopping trip. Only women know that, just minutes after New Year’s Day is over, every store and mall in the country turns into a raging river of pink and red hearts with fur-trimmed bralettes on display in every window.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s not enough to avoid the flood of lacey crap at the mall. You better stay away from the drugstores too. Trouble is, you forgot to get your flu shot last fall, didn’t you? Now you need lozenges for the bug that is shredding up all the real estate in your throat. In you go, determined to make it past the heart-shaped candies and roses-made-of-chocolate aisle. You quickly skirt the section with the wide selection of ribbed condoms, cherry-flavored lubricants and estrogen massage cream. But, suddenly, you’re confronted by the greeting card aisle. Love is in the air. And it’s sucking all the oxygen from the store.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You pause to look at all the pretty, pretty cards. Maybe it’s a good idea to inject a little romance into your plodding relationship and get your man a special valentine? You pick up a card with a pink satin bow. It says: “You are my forever best friend.” But, last time you checked, your husband wasn’t a Golden Retriever. The card with the velvet trim says, without the tiniest trace of irony: “Every moment I spend with you is a dream.” Every last card is festooned with curvy fonts, cupids, roses, arrows and hearts. As if you weren’t feeling sick enough with the flu before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sad fact is there are no realistic cards for wives to give to husbands. Clearly, companies need to offer cards with more truthful messages, such as: </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">My darling, you deserve the best of me. (Sorry I called you a moron yesterday. The stupid of you got the better of me.)</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or:</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> You can be my Valentine, but only if you stop being a prick</span></i><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">For newer brides, the card could read: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Be mine. (Unless you cheat on me. In that case, I will cut you.)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or:</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> Let’s get married all over again! (Without your drunk cousins this time.)</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Together forever. (Unless you screw it up.)</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Middle-aged marrieds have even more options:</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> Loving you is my mission. It’s right up there with gaining control of the remote someday.</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You make me smile. (To be honest, sometimes I smirk. Sometimes, it’s an evil grin. And sometimes I laugh hysterically. You say tomato …)</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">For older marrieds, the card could say:</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> I can’t believe I’m still putting up with your shit. But, wonder of wonders, I am! </span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nothing can compare with you! Dude, you could win a snoring contest.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Never mind. Skip the card aisle. You have a bad head cold. It’s February for goodness’ sake. Your man doesn’t want a card anyway. He’d prefer a roughly hand-drawn coupon for an anytime, anywhere blowjob-on-demand. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Astor + Blue Editions is proud to release <b><i>A Rant of Ravens</i></b> (ISBN: 978-1-941286-29-6; Fiction/Cozy Mystery & Suspense/Nature), the debut mystery novel by award-winning author Christine Goff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">In an attempt to escape hellish matrimony, Rachel Stanhope sojourns to her Aunt Miriam’s ranch in Colorado in search of some peace and quiet. As a favor to her aunt, a bird enthusiast, Rachel agrees to host meetings of the local bird watching society. On her first expedition, however, instead of finding a LeConte’s sparrow, she makes a much more disturbing discovery—a dead body. Identified as a reporter for Birds of a Feather magazine, this man was trying to dig up troubling information on Miriam’s deceased husband and a bird trafficking scheme. Now sweet Aunt Miriam is the prime suspect in this fowl play</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">.</span></div>
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<span class="ecxelementone"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Christine Goff is the award-winning author of the bestselling "Birdwatcher's Mystery" series. A former Colorado journalist, Goff is a Willa Literary and Colorado Authors’ League Fiction Award finalist. Named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2002 Writer of the Year, her most recent work is a thriller set in Israel.</span></span><b><u><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span></u></b></div>
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-57391522943703367292014-11-21T13:44:00.001-06:002014-11-21T14:05:19.430-06:00New Release - Amazon Burning by Victoria Griffin<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>“Victoria Griffith’s debut novel is a triumph! Amazon Burning is a spellbinding tale of love, intrigue, and murder set in the imperiled Amazon rainforest. A young woman’s coming of age story is deftly woven into this vast ecological conflict, as indigenous tribes struggle to defend their land against the loggers, ranchers, and miners who are destroying it. A nonstop thrill ride that will leave you wanting more.”</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Astor + Blue Editions is proud to present, <b><i>Amazon Burning</i></b> [ISBN: 978-1- 938231-94-0 (paperback); New Adult/ Romance/ Fiction; US $12.95; 338 pages; Pub Date: October, 2014 (paperback)], a debut Young Adult novel by Victoria Griffith. In this page- turner, Griffith weaves a suspense- action thriller centered on coming of age in a tangled web of romance, mystery, and chaos in the Amazon jungle. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When 22-year-old aspiring journalist, Emma Cohen, is forced to flee the comforts of her NYU student life, she maneuvers an internship from her father at his newspaper in <i>Rio de Janeiro</i>. There, Emma is immediately swept into a major news story--and a life-threatening situation--when a famous jungle environmentalist, Milton Silva, is mysteriously murdered.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victoria Griffith is the author of the award winning non-fiction picture book<i> The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont</i> (Abrams, 2011), which won numerous awards, including the prestigious <i>Parents’ Choice</i>. The book was recently translated into Portuguese for the Brazilian market and was also released in audio book version.<br /><br /> Before becoming a full-time author, Victoria spent twenty years as an international journalist, fifteen of those years as foreign correspondent for the UK’s<i> Financial Times</i>. During that time, she had fun writing on a wide range of topics, including Brazil’s Yanomami Indians, architecture, space exploration, the human genome, and the growth of the Internet. She even managed to fit in some children’s book reviews. Her most terrifying assignment was preparing lunch for Julia Child, who praised the Brazilian fish stew but refused to touch the blackberry dessert. Victoria lives in Boston with her husband and three daughters.</span></span></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB">"You have to go. I won't be able to control myself. I've
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<em><span lang="EN-GB">"Mine." His voice is raw, savage and for a moment I
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<span lang="EN-GB">Two years ago, Jake and Amanda were going hot and heavy. But when
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<span lang="EN-GB">A high-powered lawyer, Amanda was a no-strings-attached kind of
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<span lang="EN-GB">Jake is darker, sexier, and impossible to resist. As their
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Totally immersed in painting the cupboard, I freeze mid–paint stroke at the sound
of Jake’s deep voice behind me.<br />
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“What? Am I doing something wrong?”<br />
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He closes the distance between us and runs his finger along the back waistband
of my gym pants, sending delicious tingles up my spine. Then he slides his
hands around my waist, bared by the rise of my T-shirt as I stretch to reach
the top of the cupboard with my paintbrush.<br />
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“Yes. You look too damn sexy. Do you know what it does to a man when he catches
a glimpse of something he isn’t meant to see?”<br />
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“I hope it makes him tell the woman she can call off the panic attack and drop
her arm,” I mutter as I do just that. “I also hope it makes him decide his
hands might be of better use somewhere other than around her waist.”<br />
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Jake slides his fingers around to my stomach, resting them just over my mound
and his voice drops to a low growl. “I could make use of them here.”<br />
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“So says the man who turned down a good offer just the other night at
Redemption.” I remove his hands and turn to face him, putting on a brave face
while inside I seethe. Who does he think he is coming on to me after brushing
me off?<br />
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“No games, Jake. You made your position clear. I got that. I’m not interested
in being screwed around.”<br />
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He presses his hands against the cupboard on either side of my head, caging me
with his body. “What are you interested in?”<br />
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“Moving on,” I say honestly.<br />
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His pulse throbs in his neck and his eyes harden. “With whom?”<br />
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“No one right now.”<br />
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He gives a satisfied grunt as if I had just cleared up a question in his mind.
“Everyone is out back having a good time. You should be there too.”<br />
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“There’s a lot of work to do. I want to get it done. The faster I open shop,
the faster I can start my lawsuit against Farnsworth.” I slip under his arm and
edge along the counter.<br />
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“You’ve been working since six o’clock this morning.”<br />
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Grabbing a clean cloth from the counter, I make an effort to wipe the grease
off my face. “I’m used to working twenty-hour days. I’m not afraid of hard
work.” But I am afraid of mercurial fighters who run hot one minute and cold the
next.<br />
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His face softens, and he takes the cloth from my hand and holds it under the
tap. The pipes gurgle when he turns the rusty faucet and water gushes out,
skimming over the cloth and trickling into the sink below. Without warning, he
lifts me and settles me on the counter.<br />
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“You don’t have to work like that anymore.” His voice is calm, soothing. I am
momentarily lulled out of work mode and into heat mode as he eases his hips
between my legs and reaches to turn off the faucet. “It’s Saturday night. Time
to relax and have fun.” With a firm hand, he cups my jaw and then wipes the
cloth gently over my nose, forehead, and cheeks.<br />
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His gentle touch, the warmth of his hand, his breath, minty and sweet, and his
hard body nestled between my thighs all converge in an unbearable rush of
sensation. I grab his wrist, forcing his hand away.<br />
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“Jake…I’m good. Really. There’s so much to do. I’ll come out when I’m done and
I’ve cleaned myself up.”<br />
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“I like you this way,” he murmurs. “You look…cute. Real.”<br />
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“Real?”<br />
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He brushes his thumb over my cheek. “Amanda without the armor. Your clothes,
hair, makeup…nothing is perfect. It’s just the real you. I never got to see the
real you before.”<br />
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Torn between being mortified and pleased, I reach for another cloth. “Real
Amanda is covered in dirt and has holes in her sweats.”<br />
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He traces a finger down my throat to rest in the hollow at the base of my neck.
The room heats to one hundred degrees, and if I’m not mistaken, I hear the
sound of my blood boiling.<br />
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“I like holes in sweats.” His voice drops, husky and low, and his finger
continues its downward journey into the vee of my shirt.<br />
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“Jake…”<br />
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He traces lightly over the crescent of my breast. “I like dirty girls,” he
whispers, his voice thick with desire. “I can’t stay away.”<br />
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Oh God. Every bit of warmth rushes to my center as his deep, sensual voice
ignites one of my dark fantasies. Jake, straddling my bound body, growling
commands, telling me what he’s going to do to me in the filthiest language I
know. A soft moan escapes my lips and we’re back on the roller coaster again.<br />
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“This game you’re playing confuses me.” His heart beats strong against my palm
when I lay my hand over his chest.<br />
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“Me too.”<br />
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“Then what are you doing?”<br />
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His eyes take on a feral gleam and my breasts tingle.<br />
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“Playing dirty,” he growls. Tangling his hand in my hair, he tugs my head back,
exposing my throat to the heated slide of his lips. “Sometimes you have to stop
thinking too much and just go with it.”<br />
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My breath comes in short pants as he sucks gently on the pulse at the base of
my throat. Barely able to form a coherent thought for the pounding of blood in
my temples, I scramble for sanity. “There’s too much between us to just go with
it. We need to talk…”<br />
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His hand closes in my hair, twisting roughly. “Lawyers talk. You don’t look
like a lawyer now. You look fucking sexy, and your mouth is all lush and pink
and needing to be kissed. You want to talk, Amanda, or you want that kiss?” He
nips the hollow at the base of my neck.<br />
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Pleasure and pain meld together and I whimper as a heated rush of sensation
floods my veins. “Kiss.”<br />
<br />
Jake smiles. “My dirty girl wants a dirty kiss.” Holding my face, he slants his
mouth over mine and kisses me.<br />
<br /> Soft kiss. Sweet kiss. Warm, firm lips tasting faintly of coffee. His five o’clock shadow brushes my chin as his tongue eases my lips open to stroke against mine. My body melts against him as he explores my mouth, leaving nothing untouched. Tongues wind and tangle. Two years of fantasies coalesce in a single rasping breath.<br />
<br /> “’S not so dirty,” I mumble against his lips.<br />
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“Oh, you don’t know how dirty I can be.” Jake grips my hair and tugs my head
back with a firm, hard yank, sending little bolts of lightning straight to my
core. Then he kisses me hard and fast. Rough. His teeth scrape my bottom lip as
his tongue dives deep, filling me, taking what I have to give and demanding
more. The pounding of my heart shifts from lust to fear as he consumes me, and
for a moment I worry he has forgotten I need to breathe.<br />
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When he breaks the kiss, I draw in a long, ragged breath. “You never kissed me
like that before.”<br />
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“You were never like this before,” he murmurs, his fingers easing up my shirt,
his thumb tracing over the crescent of my breasts. “Raw and open, vulnerable,
needing my help. So fucking real.”<br />
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My breath catches in my throat as he explores, cupping and squeezing my breasts
and then teasing my nipples through my lace bra until they are tight, aching
peaks.<br />
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“My clothes. Take them off.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">New York Times</span></em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> and <em>USA Today</em> Bestselling author,
Sarah Castille, worked and traveled abroad before trading her briefcase and
stilettos for a handful of magic beans and a home near the Canadian Rockies.
She writes erotic contemporary romance and romantic suspense featuring
blazingly hot alpha heroes and the women who tame them.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Website <a href="http://www.sarahcastille.com/" target="_blank" title="">http://www.sarahcastille.com</a><br />
Sign up for Sarah's Newsletter for info on new releases: <a href="http://bit.ly/LgFZlb">http://bit.ly/LgFZlb</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook/sarahcastilleauthor.com" target="_blank" title="">http://www.facebook/sarahcastilleauthor.com</a><br />
Twitter (@sarah_castille): <a href="http://www.twitter.com/sarah_castille">http://www.twitter.com/sarah_castille</a>
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Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6920675.Sarah_Castille" target="_blank" title="">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6920675.Sarah_Castille</a><br />
Amazon Author: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/author/sarahcastille" target="_blank" title="">http://www.amazon.com/author/sarahcastille</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">The first book in the series (all standalone stories), Against the Ropes, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Pick for Romance & Erotica for Fall 2013 and was also a #1 Erotic Romance Best seller on Amazon. It also won the JABBIC contest for sexiest cover. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Against-Ropes-Sarah-Castille-ebook/dp/B00DDWIT3M/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389292061&sr=1-2&keywords=against+the+ropes" target="_blank"><b>http://www.amazon.com/Against-Ropes-Sarah-Castille-ebook/dp/B00DDWIT3M</b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-61657069890408471472014-06-27T21:12:00.000-05:002014-06-27T21:12:58.434-05:00Blog Tour: One Night in Paris by Lucy Felthouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jacob is nearly forty, and has recently
come to the sudden realisation that he’s not doing much with his life. Sure,
he’s got his own successful business, but what’s the point in earning lots of
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He’s in serious danger of being all work and no play, so he starts to rectify this by organising a twenty four hour layover in Paris en route to a meeting in Dubai. Whilst there, he goes on a bus tour of the city, and there meets Annabelle, a fellow Brit who’s studying in Paris. There’s clearly an attraction between the two of them, so when the gorgeous Annabelle makes an indecent proposal to help Jacob fill his time in Paris, who is he to refuse?</div>
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Jacob huffed out a breath as he reached the
kerb, shooting a dirty look at the motorist who’d caused him to leap for the
relative safety of the pavement. Christ, he’d heard talk of Parisian drivers,
but until he’d experienced the place for himself, he’d thought the claims were
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Running a hand through his hair, he tried to regain some modicum of composure. It was not the best start to his day—all he’d done was catch the Metro to the Eiffel Tower so far, and he’d barely caught sight of the iconic monument before an insane motorist had almost run him down.</div>
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Checking his pockets to make sure nothing
was amiss, he retrieved his pre-booked ticket for one of the hop-on, hop-off
bus tours of the city while he was there. Horribly touristy, he knew, but given
he’d never visited the French capital before, he felt it was excusable. Hell,
he’d even booked a plane ticket with a nice twenty-four-hour layover so he
could sneak in some sightseeing. It was going to be non-stop work when he got
to Abu Dhabi, so he felt he was entitled to a little chill-out time before he
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tell him what to do, where to go, or when. If he wanted to head for a brief
jolly in Paris before a bunch of intense meetings with his Arabic clients, then
he damn well would. What was the point in working his arse off constantly if he
couldn’t reap the benefits? His fortieth birthday was approaching and the
realisation had made him think. Almost forty and he hadn’t seen nearly enough
of the world. Especially if you discounted hotels and conference rooms. Once,
he’d flown to Rome, had a meeting in a hotel near the airport, then turned
around and boarded a flight home. It had been worth it financially, but only
months later, it hit Jacob what a colossally wasted opportunity it had been.
Yes, the client had insisted on a face-to-face meeting, rather than a Skype
chat, and yes, he’d needed to get back home to continue with yet more work, but
it could have waited a day or two. Even a couple of days in the Italian capital
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With a decisive nod, Jacob checked his ticket for the location of the bus stop. He’d just headed for the Eiffel Tower in the first instance because he’d figured it would be the easiest thing in Paris to find. He’d been right in assuming that; the mighty iron structure pierced the sky, impressive and strangely beautiful. It was next on his list, after the bus tour, which he felt would help him get his bearings. He only had twenty four hours—there was no time to waste getting lost.</div>
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He quickly located the bus stop he’d been
looking for, helped by the vehicle that had just arrived, emblazoned with the
tour company logo. There was already a group waiting, and he hurried over to
join the back of the queue. After a couple of minutes, it was his turn to have
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It seemed the majority of people who’d
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Bio:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She
writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and
has over 100 publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These
include several editions of Best Bondage Erotica, Best Women's Erotica 2013 and
Best Erotic Romance 2014. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has
edited and co-edited a number of anthologies, and also edits for a small
publishing house. She owns <a href="http://eroticaforall.co.uk/">Erotica For All</a>, is book editor for <a href="http://cliterati.co.uk/">Cliterati</a>, and is one eighth of <a href="http://www.thebritbabes.co.uk/">The Brit Babes</a>. Find out
more at <a href="http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk/">http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk</a>.
Join her on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lucyfelthousewriter">Facebook</a>
and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/cw1985">Twitter</a>, and subscribe to her
newsletter at: <a href="http://eepurl.com/gMQb9">http://eepurl.com/gMQb9</a></span></div>
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-84204883743849344142014-06-27T20:04:00.002-05:002014-06-27T20:04:19.484-05:00Review - Rise Headless and Ride (Book 1 of the Jason Crane Series) by Richard Gleaves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>NOTE: This E-Book edition INCLUDES "THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW" by Washington Irving (full text)! <br /><br />JASON CRANE just turned seventeen years old.
<br /><br />He's a STAR WARS fan and a history geek. He doesn't believe in ghosts or
the afterlife. He doesn't believe in psychic powers or tarot cards. He doesn't
believe in the Headless Horseman. <br /><br />But Sleepy Hollow will change all
that. Because Jason Crane has a heritage to claim. Jason Crane has a Gift to
discover. And Jason Crane has an old enemy who will RISE HEADLESS AND RIDE</i><br />
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From beginning to end, this first book in the Jason Crane series will keep you captivated. Using the tale of the Headless Horseman as the framework for the story, Richard Gleaves has woven history into a throughly modern tale of suspense, mystery and drama. While the book is considered YA, this is one story that can be enjoyed by the young adult and the not so young adult as well. The story moves at a pretty good pace and I hated to see the end of it. The author has a clear art for bringing the reader into the story with clear descriptions of the locale and all the activities taking place. In my mind, I could actually SEE what he described and the intensity of the action made it hard to put this down. I can't wait until October for Book Two! If it's as good as Book One, it'll be worth the impatient wait!Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-17041151972087692382014-06-27T19:39:00.000-05:002014-06-27T19:39:02.359-05:00New Release - Lost in Starlight by Sherry Soule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">High school is tough. Romance with a sexy alien—even tougher.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Like any good journalist, Sloane sets out to uncover the truth, even if it includes a little stalking. When the superhuman feats start to pile up and the undeniable heat rises between them, Hayden has no choice but to reveal his secret: he’s an alien hybrid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">They’re as different as night and day—she’s a curvy, purple-haired, horror junkie and he’s a smoking hot, antisocial, brainiac—yet the intense fascination between them refuses to go away. Even at Hayden’s insistence that dating each other is “off limits” and dangerous, their fiery attraction threatens to go supernova. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Now Sloane’s dealing with creepy government agents, über snobby extraterrestrials, and a psycho alien ex-girlfriend out for revenge. After a crash course on the rules of interstellar dating, Sloane must decide if their star-crossed romance is worth risking her own life....</span></div>
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-11470114559157262972014-05-26T08:00:00.000-05:002014-05-26T08:00:02.997-05:00#MondayBlog - New Release - Unbridled by H.K. Rowe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethan clenched his jaw in annoyance. Apparently, he was trying to be serious when she wasn’t taking his anger to heart. Elekta didn’t want to be serious; she was still too scared.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“No, it’s not,” Ethan said. But he said nothing. Elekta regarded him curiously.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elekta nodded slowly. “Besides, it should cool you off.” She locked eyes with him, her expression intense. “We both had a bad night.”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Her confidence wavered though when Ethan began undressing himself at the edge of the pool, standing before her in nothing but his underwear. She eyed him hungrily, with his taut, youthful muscles, his darkened flesh, and his skin still glistening from sweat. She tried to avoid looking below his stomach, but could not resist. He was wearing tightly fitted black briefs after all. </em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They almost killed you tonight,” he said, his voice an angry whisper. “I can’t believe how stupid you were.”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I know, Ethan,” she said softly. She shifted in his grasp, and she felt him rub against her body under the water. She lifted her head and stared at him. “I know. I shouldn’t have followed you and Howin. I didn’t know that you’d be in such danger.”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But why, Elekta? Why are you following me? Why do you even care? Haven’t I rejected you enough? When will you get the hint?” he asked bitingly at her, and his grip on her arms tightened. Elekta winced, and she knew she’d have bruises there tomorrow.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m… I’m sorry, but I can’t stop,” she whined. “I had to know where you work. I wanted to find out more about you because…” She stopped. Could she really tell him her grand plan? She was afraid how he’d take it. She was sure, given Ethan’s personality, he would get angry at the idea of a silly girl wanting to save him.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Because what, Elekta?” He shook her in the water. “Tell me!”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Because I want to save you!” she yelled out, sobbing. Her head fell down against his chest as she cried. Ethan froze, stunned from her words. She slowly lifted her head to him, cupping his jaw in her hands. “I don’t know how, but I’m in love with you. I’ve felt your suffering since day one. Something wasn’t right, and I knew you were cursed. I also knew it had to be me that would help you.” She pleaded with him as he started to back away.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She grabbed his face. “Listen, Ethan Carpenter, you give me purpose. I’m nobody here. I’m stuck in this family with parents who barely acknowledge me, and they push me away and drop me into stupid ballet classes and piano lessons so I’ll keep away from them. My mother is an alcoholic and my father doesn’t love his family anymore. He’d rather sit downtown in a cathouse than spend time with his family. If someone annoys him enough, he just throws money at them. No one has ever cared for me, but I can still care for others.”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She paused and smiled at him. “Ethan, I have all this love to give someone, and I want to give it to you because you have none.”</em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Hypnotist, Darren Braid, is getting ready to launch
a new line of erotic hypnosis CDs. A potential publicist suggests that he
collaborate with her other clients, wannabe film producer Scott Sunderland
and his discovery Liza Hill. Her plan calls for Darren to hypnotize Liza and
transform her into a dominatrix. Sunderland will film the transformation
and produce a series of BDSM videos. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>But shortly after Darren begins hypnotizing the
starlet, repressed memories of her childhood abduction begin to surface.
Investigating further, he and FBI Agent, Kristen Parker, discover that
Liza had been stolen as a child and sold to a ring of pedophiles. While
they help Liza deal with her trauma and build her self-esteem, they
discover she can identify one of the FBI's most wanted, a sadist who mentors
pedophiles in hidden regions of the internet. The FBI has never identified this
man offline, but finding him is their only hope of tracing Liza's origin. To
find her birth mother, Darren and Kristen must help Liza control her fear and
face the man who tortured her as a child. </i></span></div>
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"Braid!" Kristen Parker pounded on his apartment
door. She couldn't hear anything inside, but it was almost 10 pm. He had to be
in there. "Braid, I'm not going away. Open this door."</div>
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After pounding for several minutes, Kristen finally heard
the bolt being drawn. She didn't wait for him to open the door. As soon as it
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She caught a glimpse Latoya Douglas standing by the sofa
before reeling on the hypnotist. "You should have told me."</div>
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"Told you what?"</div>
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"Liza. You should have told me she's being
abused." </div>
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"I didn't see anyone abuse her, did you?"</div>
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"No, of course not. But he is, and you know it. Or you
wouldn't have told me to watch her. Sunderland has got her so messed up, she
afraid to even form an opinion, let alone express one." </div>
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"Maybe, but her problems could just as well be the
result of past abuse. Unless we see it, or she complains, there's no way to
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Kristen gaped at him until she remembered that he had been a
psychology professor as well as a hypnotist. He might actually know what he was
talking about. </div>
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Kristen fumed as she turned away. But Latoya's presence
brought her up short. The slender black woman wasn't moving. She stood
completely still. She wore high heels and a black lace corset, which left her
shoulders complete bare. The lace was cut high over her thighs, and dipped low
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Hypnotized and frozen, Latoya was a statue of elegant
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Kristen had experimented a bit with other women, but always
preferred men. She had the sudden feeling that Latoya Douglas could change
that. She swallowed hard as she tore her eyes away. </div>
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"We have to do something." </div>
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"Tell me what happened. First, do you want something to
drink?"</div>
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Kristen nodded. "Beer, if you have it." She sat
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Darren went to the kitchen and came out with an open bottle
of beer. Kristen took a large swig then related her experience with the
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"I was afraid of that. Her self-esteem is so badly
damaged that she's afraid to make even small decisions. It makes her totally
dependent on Sunderland."</div>
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"We have to get her out of there."</div>
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"If you take her away from him now, she'll become
dependent on you. She has to decide to leave. And before she can do that, she
has to learn to make decisions and trust them.</div>
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"What can we do?"</div>
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"Exactly what we are doing. I'm hypnotizing her, and
you're being her friend. Together, we encourage her to start eating properly
and taking care of her health. Then we encourage her to start observing and
thinking analytically. It's important to get her to start exercising her own
judgement; and then to start trusting her judgement. Start with other actors,
then her own acting, then other aspects of her life.</div>
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"Eventually, hopefully, she'll be able to see that she
can make her life better by relying on her own judgement."</div>
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Kristen eyed Latoya's frozen body. "Like your uh,
boy-toy here."</div>
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"Believe it or not, Latoya is one of the most confident
and capable women I've ever met. Her self confidence lets her enjoy being
controlled in the bedroom, and taking control in the boardroom." </div>
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Darren got a mischievous gleam in his eye. "Her self
confidence even enables us to enjoy an occasional threesome." He was
obviously teasing. But seeing this stunning black woman like this, completely
vulnerable, completely available, Kristen felt tempted; too tempted. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Before writing my first novel, I worked as a technical writer for 17 years. I hold a BS in Engineering and an MS in Technical Communication. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since 2000, I've been pioneering the art of hyperempiria (creating sensory experience through hypnotic suggestion.) This is
accomplished by integrating hypnotic language patterns, positive affirmations
and NLP into the narrative of an audio story. One of my hypnosis programs, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic","serif";">The Ultimate Kiss</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, was nominated for an
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic","serif";">The
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is my second novel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-88429717000460105052013-12-30T15:48:00.000-06:002013-12-30T15:48:04.012-06:00New Release - Stately Pleasures By Lucy Felthouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Stately Pleasures by Lucy Felthouse<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i>Alice Brown has just landed her dream job.
Property manager at Davenport Manor, a British stately home. It’s only a
nine-month contract to cover maternity leave, but it’s the boost up the career
ladder she so desperately needs.</i></div>
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<i>Unfortunately, things don’t get off to the
best start, when Alice finds her boss, Jeremy Davenport, in a compromising
position. Far from being embarrassed by what’s happened, Jeremy turns things
around on Alice and makes her out to be the one in the wrong. So when he and
his best friend and head of security, Ethan Hayes, then throw an ultimatum at
her, she’s so stunned and confused that she goes along with their indecent
proposal.</i></div>
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<i>When the dust settles and Alice has time to think about things, though, she realises that perhaps it isn’t such a bad thing. There are worse things she could be doing to advance her career, after all.</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Buy links: <a href="http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/published-works/stately-pleasures/">http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk/published-works/stately-pleasures/</a></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Alice took a deep breath, in through her
nose and out through her mouth. Repeated the process once more. Then, realising
she could sit there all day doing it and not feel any calmer, she forced
herself to step out of the car and close and lock the door.</div>
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She bent to peer into the wing mirror of
the vehicle and checked her hair and make-up. Satisfied, she straightened, then
turned on her heel and walked quickly across the driveway to the great house
before her nerve failed her.</div>
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Davenport Manor was currently open for
visitors, so she walked in through the front door and was met by a smiling
elderly lady.</div>
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‘Can I help you?’ the woman asked kindly.</div>
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‘Yes, please.’ Alice twisted her hands
together nervously. ‘I’m here to see Mr Davenport. I’m here for an interview
for the property manager’s role.’</div>
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‘Yes, of course,’ the woman replied,
‘that’s today, isn’t it? Follow me; I’ll take you to Mr Davenport’s office. But
just hang on one second.’</div>
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She ducked through the doorway into the
next room and spoke with her colleague. Alice guessed she was letting her
co-worker know she’d be gone for a few minutes. A few seconds later, she was
back. ‘OK, follow me, Miss …’</div>
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‘Brown,’ Alice said, then fell in behind
the other woman as she led her to Mr Davenport’s office, and the interview that
could change her life for ever. It was hardly surprising that she was shaking
like a leaf.</div>
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Alice quickly felt lost as their journey
took several twists and turns along dim corridors – their blinds drawn to
protect paintings, tapestries, and furniture from the sunlight – and up a
flight of stairs. She had a few seconds to worry about finding her way if she
was lucky enough to get the job, then, suddenly, her guide stopped outside a
door and turned around.</div>
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‘Here you go, Miss Brown. Mr Davenport’s
office. Good luck with your interview.’</div>
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Alice smiled and thanked the elderly woman,
then smoothed down her skirt, which also conveniently helped wipe the nervous
sweat off her hands. She stood up straight, gave herself a mental pep talk
about being more than qualified for the role, and knocked on the door.</div>
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‘Enter.’</div>
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Alice knew that voice could only belong to
Jeremy Davenport. The posh accent, and the fact he’d said “enter” instead of
“come in”, screamed money and an upper-class upbringing. Alice was suddenly
nervous of her broad Midlands accent and lowly background, despite the fact
she’d worked her backside off to get into a decent university in order to gain
a Bachelor of Arts degree and then a Master’s degree. No matter what she
sounded like, or what her past was, she had all the skills necessary to do the job
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Suddenly, she realised that she’d left
rather a long pause before opening the door, and she turned the handle before
the occupants of the room thought they were about to interview some kind of
simpleton who couldn’t follow a simple instruction.</div>
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Fixing a polite – but hopefully not inane –
smile onto her face, Alice stepped into Jeremy Davenport’s office. Her first
thought – which certainly did nothing to help her nerves – was good God, he’s
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Jeremy sat behind a desk, with a heavily
pregnant woman sitting beside it. Alice barely noticed the woman. All she saw
was him. A man with cropped dark brown hair, hazel/green eyes, a jawline you
could cut bread with, and lips that looked capable of doing incredibly wicked,
sexual things to a woman. Or a man. Alice had no idea what his sexuality was,
but she found herself hoping he liked women.</div>
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She chastised herself. Even if he did like
women, he wouldn’t go for someone like her. A Plain Jane, with mousy brown
shoulder-length hair, blue eyes, average height and above average weight. Alice
had always known she’d never be a supermodel, so she’d worked extra hard
academically, and here she was. About to be interviewed for her dream job.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over eighty publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include several editions of Best Bondage Erotica, Best Women's Erotica 2013 and Best Erotic Romance 2014. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies, and also edits for a small publishing house. She owns <a href="http://eroticaforall.co.uk/">Erotica For All</a>, and is book editor for <a href="http://cliterati.co.uk/">Cliterati</a>. Find out more at <a href="http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk/">http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk</a>. Join
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-24965025877828742172013-07-18T21:39:00.003-05:002013-07-18T21:39:40.793-05:00Review - Louisiana Fever by D.J. Donaldson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">“Louisiana Fever” is the second offering by author D.J. Donaldson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Returning are chief medical examiner Andy Broussard and Dr. Kit Franklyn, criminal psychologist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are top-notch detectives as well as experts in their respective fields. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set in New Orleans, anyone who has visited the city on more than one occasion will recognize several of the settings of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought that was interesting and added realisms to the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">There are two mysteries in one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, there is a rash of deaths taking place
in New Orleans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first glance, it
seems the people are dying of heart attacks but soon it’s discovered that an
Ebola type virus has been unleashed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of the victims is a stranger who sent roses to Kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she arrived to unknowingly meet him, he
dies before she can find out who he is and what his connection is to her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While searching for him, Kit is kidnapped and
this provides the second mystery within the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">D.J. Donaldson has constructed an excellent
storyline and the attention to detail is great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One can really tell that he understands the world he describes in the
novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is intense and definitely a page-turner.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Portly & Proud CSI Catches Louisiana Fever<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Threat of Outbreak Drives Latest in Southern Suspense
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“D.J. Donaldson is superb at spinning medical fact into
gripping suspense. With his in-depth knowledge of science and medicine,
he is one of very few authors who can write with convincing authority.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Andy Broussard, the
“Plump<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> and Proud” New Orleans medical examiner, obviously
loves food. Less apparent to the casual observer is his hatred of
murderers. Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn,
Broussard forms a powerful, although improbable, mystery solving duo.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Astor
+ Blue Editions is proud to release <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Louisiana
Fever</b> (ISBN: 978-1-938231-33-9; Fiction / Mystery & Suspense; $5.99
E-Book) the latest Broussard mystery by DJ Donaldson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When Kit goes to meet an anonymous
stranger—who’s been sending her roses—the man drops dead at her feet before she
could even get his name. Game on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Andy Broussard soon learns that the man
carried a lethal pathogen similar to the deadly “Ebola”—a highly contagious
virus, feared worldwide for killing its victims (grotesquely) in a matter of
days. When another body turns up with the same bug, widespread panic becomes
imminent. The danger is even more acute, because the carrier is mobile. The man
knows he’s a walking weapon and… he’s targeting Broussard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And when Kit Franklyn investigates her
mystery suitor further, she runs afoul of a cold- blooded killer, every bit as
deadly as the man searching for her partner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Louisiana
Fever</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
is written in Donaldson’s unique style: A hard-hitting, punchy,
action-packed prose that’s dripping with a folksy, decidedly southern sense of
irony. Mix in Donaldson’s brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics,
along with the sultry flavor of New Orleans, and readers will be fully
satisfied with this irresistibly delectable mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">D.J.
Donaldson is a retired professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His entire academic career was spent at the
University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, where he published dozens of
papers on wound-healing and where he taught microscopic anatomy to thousands of
medical and dental students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He
is also the author of seven published forensic mysteries and five medical
thrillers. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife and two West Highland
terriers. In the spring of most years he simply cannot stop buying new flowers
and other plants for the couple’s prized backyard garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-60002347439838317982013-07-18T19:54:00.000-05:002013-07-18T19:54:33.251-05:00Review - Ripped by Shelley Dickson Carr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kate, grieving the loss of her parents and
having to move to England, finds herself transported back to the time of Jack
the Ripper along with her cousin and a family friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discovering her romanticized version of Victorian
England to be a lie, Kate has to deal with fitting in while not letting others
find out she is not from that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I enjoyed the history of the Jack the
Ripper story and was surprised by the reveal at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author did take liberties with the historical
story of Jack the Ripper but it works with the novel and still contains enough
factual history to make the whole thing believable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the characters are enjoyable but I
found Toby to be the most interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The book is definitely YA with enough
action to keep anyone interested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
are looking for gore, this is the wrong novel for you but it has enough mystery
and suspense to keep you turning the pages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I was given a complimentary copy from the
publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.</span><br />
Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-4758906974336142182013-07-18T16:59:00.002-05:002013-07-18T16:59:31.756-05:00Review - Sunshine by Nikki Rae <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunshine is the story of Sophie, a high school
senior with a tough home life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
mother is crazy and while she has a protective older brother and two great
friends, she is still lonely and angry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She suffers from a severe allergy to the sun and must stay covered or
become seriously ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Miles, a new
student comes along, Sophie is reluctant to let him in her life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a bad experience with the last guy she
was with, Sophie is emotionally scarred and hiding it from everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and Miles find themselves constantly
interacting and soon, he begins to convince her he is not a bad guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her friends think he is a great person and
Sophie soon finds herself wanting to know more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Miles is not all that he seems, however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He has secrets of his own and those secrets will change Sophie’s world! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This story is was interesting from the
beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sophie could have been
written by the author as a tragic character but instead, Nikki Rae gave her an
inner strength that we get to see throughout the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was loved by her family and friends but doesn’t
share the devastating event that happened to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miles is a welcome addition because he doesn’t
force her to open up, he’s just there for her and that begins to break down
that wall. He shows that he does care for her and that helps her to begin healing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This was a wonderful read and I do look forward to
reading Book 2 to see more of Sophie and Miles’ story! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">I was given this book in exchange for
an honest review.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>More about the author</strong><br />
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<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6751095.Nikki_Rae" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Goodreads</span></a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiRaexX" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Twitter</span></a> <br />
<a href="http://nikkixrae.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Blog</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nikki-Rae/394844663902407?ref=hl" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Author page</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sunshine-Series/125028937642434?ref=hl" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">The Sunshine Series page</span></a><br />
<a href="http://nikkixrae.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Tumblr</span></a> (a.k.a. my inspiration board) </div>
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<strong>Where the books are available:</strong> <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B6T24H6/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1HAC4ZA5SQFM260FBZPS&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Sunshine</span></a> on Amazon<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Poisoned-Sunshine-Series-ebook/dp/B00DOOCY8A/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Sun Poisoned</span></a> on Amazon<br />
<a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NikkiRae" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Smashwords</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/nikki-rae" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Barnes and Noble </span></a></div>
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-56261762108541934902013-07-03T12:43:00.000-05:002013-07-03T12:43:35.690-05:00New Review: The Golden Crystal by Nick Thacker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">I must say that I found “The Golden Crystal”
interesting on several levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
opening brought to mind “The Lost Symbol” with the hidden meaning in the
building of Washington, D.C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the
hiding of a valuable artifact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story
started out slowly but the action was fast-paced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a well thought out thriller but some
parts were a bit choppy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, it was
a very enjoyable read.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">I like history so I enjoyed the back-story of the
crystal and the work that was done to keep it safe from people who would use it
for the wrong reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scientific
research also interested me and it was good to see the moral compass or the
lack of that compass in some of the story’s main players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the things, however, that really
rather threw me was the lesson about the pyramids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While interesting, it did not add much to the
story and it seemed to be filler more than anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, if you are not a fan of action
involving killing, I am not sure how you would take this novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am an action movie fan so it did not bother
me but YMMV.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Overall, it was an enjoyable read. The tie-ins with
the past and the present make this an intriguing story and I think anyone who
is interested in thriller or science fiction would find something to enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Thacker did a good job and I would be
curious to read more by him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kindle version of this book from Story Cartel. All opinions are my own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-17966187018998903592013-05-24T07:07:00.001-05:002013-05-24T07:07:35.533-05:00Amazon introduces fan fiction publishing platform<a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/05/22/amazon_introduces_fan_fiction_publishing_platform/">Amazon introduces fan fiction publishing platform</a>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-82999129651260496092013-02-11T07:00:00.000-06:002013-02-11T07:00:01.231-06:00New Release: Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is
1842, London, and the gorgeous, ever-capricious twenty-two-year-old Eliza
Gilbert, (a.k.a. Lola Montez) is in deep trouble and seeks escape from a divorce
trial. Desperate, Lola accepts an alluring offer of a paid trip to Spain,
provided she fulfill a few clandestine tasks for Juan de Grimaldi—a Spanish
theatre impresario who is also a government agent and spy for the exiled
Spanish queen.</span></span></i></div>
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soon finds herself in Madrid, undercover as a performer in a musical play. But
when she falls dangerously in love with the target, General Diego de
Léon—the “perfect Spanish soldier, lover and horseman”—Lola becomes a double
agent and the two hatch a plot of their own. Disaster strikes when the plot is
exposed and Lola is forced to flee on horseback to France, with a
dangerous group of Loyalists in hot pursuit. Will Lola’s reckless daring,
feminine whiles, and signature whip be enough to save her life, her lover and
her cause?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She will have to be more whip
smart than ever before.</span></span></i></div>
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Smart</i></b> irresistibly whisks readers into a vivid journey through 19th
Century France, England and Spain, riding sidesaddle with Eliza Gilbert, the young,
hot-headed Irish girl destined to transform into Dona Maria Dolores de Porris y
Montez—a.k.a. Lola Montez, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sensation
of Europe</i>!</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ABOUT
THE AUTHOR</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kit
Brennan is a nationally produced, award-winning playwright, and teaches writing
and storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
Victorian era and its personalities have always been of major interest to
Brennan. Her play <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tiger’s Heart</i>
explores the life of Dr. James Barry, who was actually a woman living a double
life disguised as a man in order to practice medicine, which was not an option
open to women at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kit
divides her time between the vibrant city of Montreal and the quiet lake
wilderness of Ontario alongside her husband, Andrew, and a variety of animal
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers
the Spaniards</i></b> is her debut novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Visit
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>Where To Buy:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Amazon: <a href="http://amzn.to/SnFGTj" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/SnFGTj</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">B&N: <a href="http://bit.ly/UCKNP6" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/UCKNP6</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">MEDIA
CONTACT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony
Viardo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="mailto:Tony@BlueDotLiterary.com">Tony@BlueDotLiterary.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">(773)
697-9580</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">GENERAL
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Whip
Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ISBN: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>978-1-938231-47-6
(Paperback)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ISBN: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>978-1-938231-45-2
(E-book)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Historical Romance; Women’s Fiction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">247 Pages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">February 14, 2013</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Coming Soon from Kit Brennan and Astor + Blue Editions:</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Whip
Smart: Lola Montez and the Poisoned Nom de Plume</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009MRN9P0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009MRN9P0&linkCode=as2&tag=lucyfelt-20">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009MRN9P0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009MRN9P0&linkCode=as2&tag=lucyfelt-20</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">*****</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Excerpt:</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He waved a hand in
front of her face, but she didn’t blink. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
lights are on, but no one’s home</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Carly, my angel,” he whispered and cupped
her cheek into his palm. He revealed in the silkiness and warmth of her skin.
Still, she didn’t react. She was almost…a zombie.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His own body jerked in reaction to the
fear she was emanating. She was clearly sleepwalking and in the throes of one
hell of a nightmare, yet she didn’t cry out any longer. It was all now playing
out inside her mind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Charlotte, see me,” he implored.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her lips twitched at the mention of her
real name. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“See me,” he repeated.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, her body gave way and she
collapsed. Catching her, he lifted her into his arms and carried her to the
bed. As he laid her down, her breathing became ragged. He placed a hand over
her heart as it raced, and passed healing calmness through his hand, feeling
the energy pulsate against her skin. Beneath his hand, he would feel her
heartbeat slow to a normal rhythm. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Daniel?” Her voice was mere caress.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m here, my angel. You’re having a
nightmare. You’re frightened. It’s okay now, I’m here, and I will never leave
you,” he promised.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Everyone leaves, Daniel. You can’t
understand, you can’t…” Her body started to tremble.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He climbed onto the bed and straddled her
body. Leaning close to her face, he said, “Carly, let go of your fear. I can
take it. Let go and see me,” he commanded.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her breath came out in a whoosh, and a
wall of fear and resistance hit him like a blow from above. It wasn’t exactly
painful, more startling than anything else. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His vision flip-flopped, and he could see
an image from inside her mind of two souls forever entwined as the result of
one act. It made perfect sense. She was reliving the day their souls became
one. The day of the fire.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then saw black, suffocating water. She
was reliving her own death, as well. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the visions left him, he was consumed
with the mishmash of fear, loneliness, and resistance within her. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to make her understand that it was
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A flicker of life ignited in her eyes. Her
hands came up to his face, and to Daniel’s surprise, tears bubbled from his own
eyes. He was releasing the pain and fear he had absorbed from his beloved.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m so sorry, Daniel, so sorry,” she
murmured.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There’s nothing to be sorry for, my love.
It’s over. It’s time to move forward now.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You don’t understand what I am, Daniel.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I do understand, Carly. I am what you
are. See me for what I am.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his mind, he could see the moving
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telling her to be true. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Just accept it, and let’s move forward.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She drew his face to hers and her lips
parted beneath his. Time blurred and he drank in the essence of his Carly. Her
soft, barely covered curves molded themselves against his the hard planes of
his body. Her hands were under his t-shirt, her fingers stroking him. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he pressed on, he knew she wouldn’t
refuse him. But in her vulnerable state, he wouldn’t let anything progress
further that night. Carly needed time to process everything that happened.
There was plenty of time to pursue a physical relationship. They weren’t going
any where…he hoped.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">*****</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Natalie-Nicole Bates
is a book reviewer and author. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Her passions in life
include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and
antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey
to being born in Russia.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She currently resides
in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of
19<sup>th</sup> century post-mortem photos.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Visit Natalie online
at <a href="http://www.natalienicolebates.com/">www.natalienicolebates.com</a> </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Twitter:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BatesNatalie">http://www.twitter.com/BatesNatalie</a>
</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Facebook</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/natalienicole.bates">http://www.facebook.com/natalienicole.bates</a></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Blog:</span></b></i><span lang="EN-GB"><i> <a href="http://www.natalienicolebates.com/">www.natalienicolebates.com</a></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Series:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> (Book 3, Accidentally Yours Series)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Author:
<b>Mimi Jean Pamfiloff</b></span></div>
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<b>Paranormal Romance (Action/Adventure, Comedy)</b></span></div>
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Seller, ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED TO…A VAMPIRE?, this story has it all! Vampires,
gods, and our favorite evil Mayan priests, the Maaskab.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When 24-year-old Penelope learns of a new miracle drug that
could cure her ailing mother, it’s the answer to her prayers. Until she sees
the cost. But for every door that closes, a window opens. In this case, the window
calls herself Cimil, and she’s quite possibly the most insane person Penelope’s
ever met. Could it be because this complete stranger just offered Penelope one
million dollars to carry her wealthy brother’s baby?</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But Cimil’s brother isn’t your everyday millionaire. In fact,
he gives new meaning to the word hot.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Click here for my review - <a href="http://release-notes.blogspot.com/2012/09/vbt-sun-god-seekssurrogate-book-3.html">Review </a></b></span> </span></div>
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in Mexico City (developed a taste for very spicy food), and Arizona (now hates
jumping chollas, but pines for sherbet sunsets). Her love of pre-Hispanic
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When 24-year-old Penelope learns of a new miracle drug that could cure
her ailing mother, it’s the answer to her prayers. Until she sees the
cost. But for every door that closes, a window opens. In this case, the
window calls herself Cimil, and she’s quite possibly the most insane
person Penelope’s ever met. Could it be because this complete stranger
just offered Penelope one million dollars to carry her wealthy brother’s
baby?<br /><br />But Cimil’s brother isn’t your everyday millionaire. In fact, he gives new meaning to the word hot.<br />
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This story totally sucked me in from the beginning. Penelope is totally devoted to caring for her ill mother when the offer of a life time falls into her lap from Cimil, the craziest person she has ever encountered. Cimil offers the money she needs in order to save her mother. Once she finds out what the terms are, Penelope attempts to walk away in spite of the immediate heat she feels with Kinich, Cimil's brother, but discovers, like it or not, her life is tied up in an other worldly experience. It doesn't help that she finds Kinich irresistible and tends to lose all trains of thought in his presence, except the one thought to get into his pants! <br />
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I love the main female character, Penelope. She is feisty and strong and she knows what she wants. She's more than a match for Kinich, who in spite the fact he's a god, is very human in his male actions. Their interactions are very realistic and they are dealing with a strong attraction as well as new dangers. It was exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat.<br />
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The story is also very funny. The characters (especially Cimil) have hysterical moments and I caught myself giggling at parts of the book. The humor Mimi Jean has woven into the dramatic moments have made this a throughly enjoyable read! <br />
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If you are looking for a great Labor Day read, grab this one! Don't forget to go back and grab the first two in the series and just lose yourself in the 'Accidentally Yours' series. It's a great way to spend the last weekend of your summer! Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-38949467325977478752012-08-11T06:00:00.000-05:002012-08-11T06:00:00.840-05:00Dog Days of Summer 99 cents Sale #dogdays99c<div align="center">
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<span style="color: black; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">I write about men, women, sex, & chocolate. My
experiences, my truth, my martinis. If you're looking for satire, love and
romance, and sex depicted with humor, buy this book!</span></div>
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You can find Rachel most days on Twitter, Facebook,
Goodreads, providing social media tips on her own interactive Twitter stream
and popular blog, consulting with social media clients (See BadRedhead Media),
or promoting her books <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Walk In The Snark </i></b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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<i><span style="color: black;">Little girls are vanishing from Deadwood, South
Dakota, and Violet Parker's daughter could be next. She's desperate to find the
monster behind the abductions. But if she's not careful, Violet just might end
up as one of Deadwood's dearly departed.</span></i> </div>
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<span style="color: black;">Once upon a time, I thought my
crush on Deadwood, South Dakota was going to be just a summer fling. Boy, was I
wrong. I had fallen head-over-heels. Deadwood had gotten under my skin. Its
golden history filled my mind with daydreams; its promising future spurred
tales that needed to be told.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Nearly Departed in Deadwood is a contemporary mystery
full of colorful characters that have been taking root inside of my noggin for
almost three decades. The seed was planted when I was a young teenager sitting
on the bench outside of the old Prospector Gift Shop on Main Street, waiting
for my mom to get off work. Over the years, the seed sprouted as I hiked all
over town, strolling around Wild Bill Hickok's and Seth Bullock's gravestones
at Mount Moriah Cemetery, sitting on the steps outside the Deadwood Public
Library, walking up and down Main Street, perusing the tourist shops.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">As times changed, so did Deadwood. The drugstore
where I used to buy candy, the clothing store where I bought my favorite
Levi's, and the Prospector Gift Shop are all gone now. At first I was sad to
see them go, but then I realized that Deadwood had to transform and grow in
order to survive. Just like I did.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">A couple of years ago, I was driving down Strawberry
Hill on my way into Deadwood when an idea hit me. It was a "what if"
moment that sparked the fire of a story in my head. This time, the "what
if" involved a single mom, living in Deadwood, struggling to make ends
meet with two kids--twins--for whom she had to provide. I had one young child
and another on the way at the time, so taking care of kids was front and center
in my mind (and my body).</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">As I drove through Deadwood that day, memories ran
rampant in my mind, and the story you hold in your hands began to take shape. I
could see it clearly. I'd name the heroine Violet, an old-fashioned name. I
could hear her voice; see her in her favorite purple cowboy boots. I knew
exactly the location of the realty office where Violet would work, the street
she'd live on, and how I'd pull Deadwood's past into the story and intermingle
it with the present.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Over the following month, I plotted this story. My
poor husband was forced to listen to my ideas morning, noon, and night; there
was no shutting me up. Then he caught the Deadwood bug, too, and he joined me
in brainstorming and planning. Before I even wrote the first line, I knew that
one book was not going to be enough to tell this story, but I had to start
somewhere. Finally, after months of writing, I reached "The End" of
Nearly Departed in Deadwood, the first book in a series, with much hooting and
hollering in celebration.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Now, after several rounds of editing and a lot of
polishing, I want to share Violet's story with you. If you have half as much
fun reading it as I had writing it, you'll close the book when you're finished
with a big grin on your face--especially since you know there is more fun to
come.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Thank you for joining me in this adventure. Hold on
to your hat!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Welcome to Deadwood.</span> </div>
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<i><span style="color: black;">The Tylers have a perfect
life--beautiful home, established careers, two sweet and talented daughters.
Their eldest daughter, Leah, an exceptional soccer player, is on track for a
prestigious scholarship. Their youngest, Justine, more responsible than seems
possible for her 12 years, just wants her sister's approval. With Leah nearing
the end of high school and Justine a seemingly together kid, the parents are
set to enjoy a peaceful life...until Leah
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As Leah's parents fight to save their daughter from a world of drugs, sex, and
wild parties, their divided approach drives their daughter out of their home
and a wedge into their marriage. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Justine observes
her sister's rebellion from the shadows of their fragmented family-leaving her
to question whether anyone loves her and if God even knows she exists. Can this family survive in Leah's wake? What
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<span style="color: black;">Terri Giuliano Long has written
marketing pieces for print and online media, edited technical articles, and
written news and feature stories for numerous publications, including the
Huffington Post. She lives with her family on the East Coast and teaches at
Boston College. In Leah's Wake is her debut novel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Please visit her website: www.tglong.com Or connect
on her blog (www.terriglong.com/blog), Facebook (www.facebook.com/tglongwrites)
or Twitter (www.twitter.com/tglong).</span> </div>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-46803251813527398042012-08-03T18:29:00.001-05:002012-08-03T18:30:32.450-05:00New Review - Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody by Fanny Merkin a.k.a. Andrew Shaffer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have to admit, I started this novel with a great deal of apprehension. After reading the entire Fifty Shades trilogy, I must confess, I was underwhelmed and mad at the same time. I had lost countless hours reading it, hours in my life I can never get back. When I received this book from my Net Galley request, I was wary but I was so glad to discover I was wrong and it was worth the read.<br />
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The main characters are Ana Steal, a naive college student and Walmart cashier who meets Earl Grey, a young billionaire with his own secrets or his "Fifty Shames" among them being his man-crush on Tom Cruise and his love for shopping in Walmart. From the beginning, hilarity ensues. The novel parallels many of the main highlights of the original novel but with amusing twists. <br />
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The author did an excellent job of skewing the themes of the original book but taking them and creating new scenarios. I laughed throughout most of the book especially when names from the original "Twilight" and "Fifty Shades" were tossed in the story, reminding you that this was meant to be a joke. There are also many cultural references that add to the humor and most readers will recognize the movies or songs that get mentioned along the way.<br />
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The novel was very enjoyable and while reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy might increase your enjoyment, I don't feel it was necessary to really enjoy this book. For a good laugh, I would definitely recommend "Fifty Shames".<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Release Notes is honored to feature Kevin Anthony,author of Mad Moral, the first book in his Mad Series, in this "In The Author's Own Words" segment. I hope you will enjoy his guest post on his thoughts behind his novel.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">The moment I started
writing my Urban Fantasy novel Mad Moral, I made the decision not to include any
vampires or werewolves. I know vampires and werewolves play huge roles in many
Urban Fantasy novels and many other genres and that’s the main reason I didn’t
want to include them in Mad Moral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">I’m a big fan of vampires
and werewolves, but I didn’t want to travel down a road that had been explored
so many times. I decided to give a new set of beings time to shine in more humanizing
roles, horror movie characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">I’m aware the word
“horror” instantly causes many to lose interest. My novel isn’t a horror, just
inspired by the many elements and characters of horror movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Imagine as I did, horror movie villain Michael
Myers dropping his children off at his parents’ house for the weekend and
heading out on his first date post-divorce. After a disaster date, to blow off
some steam he decides to head to the nearest college campus and slash some
sorority girls. He spends the morning after sipping a cup of coffee as he
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">That visual sparked my
series about a mad world where others like the horror movie villain mentioned
are your friends, neighbors and lovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">My first main character I
created was a young adult named Ford Fischer. He’s a slasher, unemployed and
does his best to live a straight and narrow lifestyle. I was raised by a single
mother and I consider my sister my best friend, so I had to have strong female
presences in my story. Ford’s mothers play huge roles and both are bystanders
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Another main character is an exorcist named
Sidnee Vincent whose romantic life is constantly sabotaged by pesky demons. I’m
sure we all have a bit of evil in us all and she just happens to have the
ability to communicate with it. My final character I included was a dreamer
named Milo Amos. His identity is questioned the most by readers who haven’t
started the series yet. His character enters dark nightmares every time he
sleeps and must fight for his survival or risk death not only in his fantasy
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This novel faced the toughest set of critics
yet, teenage girls. I posted it on website mostly used by those in that age
range. It sometime took a lot of convincing and me constantly explaining it
wasn’t entirely about blood, gore and things that go bump-in-the-night. I’ve
received a lot of positive feedback from these young readers who instantly
started to root for my characters to overcome the madness in their lives. I
encourage putting all pre-judgments aside and giving my novel, Mad Moral, the
opportunity to entertain you.</span></div>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8728957088585017428.post-60010600682979320702012-07-17T14:32:00.001-05:002012-07-17T14:32:12.249-05:00Feature Novel and Giveaway - Mad Moral by Kevin Anthony<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Release Notes is happy to feature the novel, 'Mad Moral' by Kevin Anthony. I hope you enjoy the excerpt and Kevin is giving away free copies on smashwords! Just see the link below the excerpt and click to get your free copy! </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Book Description</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Mad Moral is the world of Ford Fischer, where in murderous stuffed
animals, demonic possessions, gigantic creepy crawlers, knife wielding slashers
and much more madness are common place. Fischer, coupled with a romantically
conflicted exorcist and a dreamer who redefines night terrors, leads us through
a twisted world that can be best defined as one of a kind. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The 80, 000 word,
urban fantasy novel is only the beginning of the Mad series.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Mad Moral Excerpt</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Chapter 4 - Comedian:</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford made his way down a narrow hallway
decorated with plaques awarded to the community center, turning into the second
door on the left. Inside waited familiar faces, a few socializing, few
occupying themselves with their cell phones, and a pair at the snack table. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford
approached the low-cut, dark haired girl at the table. “Hello Lu.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">The narrowed
eyed Lu faced him. “Luke brought his famous pizza bites.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford scanned
the room again. “Shit, which one is Luke again?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Lu laughed.
“He’s the youngest slasher here.” She nodded toward a corner. “That’s him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford met eyes
one the young, dark haired slasher and smiled at him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Luke
nervously returned the gesture and looked away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “I wish I had
his smarts to attend these meetings when I was his age,” Ford said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Me too,” She
stuffed her mouth with more food “But we‘re here now.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford browsed
the room for the group’s leader. “Where’s Miriam?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Lu shrugged.
“She’s not here.” She stuffed a few mini-candy bars into her jeans pockets.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “How long has
everybody been waiting?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Half an
hour.” Lu glanced at a wall clock near the entry door. “A few left. I’m about
to leave myself.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “It’s not
like Miriam to miss a meeting.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Maybe she’s
tired of the bullshit,” Lu scanned the crowd. “We all come here, sit around and
lie about how we haven’t slashed in years or how we fight our will to harm
others. This is all an act. I slashed a young couple three weeks ago. Be honest
Ford, you’re only here to rid yourself of the guilt. Who did you slash?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Nobody,” He
quickly answered, hoping to create false surety.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “You’re
lying, but it’s common in this room.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “If this
place is such a waste, why are you here?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “The free
food and the cute guy,” She softly nudged him. “I’m talking about you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Thanks for
the compliment.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “But now it’s
mainly the food since we’ve already done the dirty.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford tasted
one of the pizza bites and spit it out. “It tastes like beef jerky.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Lu ate a few
more. “I fucking love beef jerky.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “How about we
go check on Miriam? She would do the same.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Because
she’s a lonely old woman.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “Yes, but she
lives close by anyways,” Ford dug his keys from his pocket. “I’ll drive.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “I suppose
it’ll be more entertaining than sitting home alone petting my kitty.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> “I thought
you were allergic to cats?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> She winked.
“I am, now let’s go.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> As he
followed her, he realized what ‘kitty’ she was referring to. He played with it
once, nearly a year ago. Since that moment, they remained distant friends. It
was odd dating somebody who possibly had the urge to stab you in your sleep. He
loaded her pink and silver bicycle into his back sea and they drove to
Miriam’s house. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> The woman
lived in a small trailer park that was a short drive from the downtown area.
Many nights Ford skipped meetings only to receive a phone call from Miriam
questioning his whereabouts. She was a kind woman even though it was rumored
she slaughtered an entire sorority house back in the seventies. They arrived at
the woman’s trailer, the front yard decorated with gnomes dressed as
businessmen and women. The streetlights weren’t operational, the neighborhood
nearly ghost town like. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Ford and Lu
exited the car and headed up to her front door. He raised his clenched fist to
knock only for Lu to notice the trailer door was half-ajar. It creaked as she
pushed it open, Ford stepping in first. The front yard theme continued inside.
No matter where they looked, a gnome was visible. There were photos, miniature
figures, dishware, and plush gnomes on her couch. Ford resisted greeting them,
not accustomed to silent stuffed animals. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Lu passed the
kitchen area and headed to the bedroom door knocking. “Miriam, you here?”</span></div>
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</b></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are your thoughts on the explosion of popularity
concerning the YA genre?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think it might very well be that
it started with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter</span></i>, that young adult
writers are trying to tell good stories and adults have moved into that kind of
dream.</span></span></div>
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</b></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You are the master of writing across a realm of different
genres, what excites you about connecting with different audiences?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
not so sure that these are different audiences, I think we all love stories,
whether we’re children or great-grand and when you move from genre to genre you
are still telling a story like Scheherazade and the king is always waiting for
the next tale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><b>3.</b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <b> </b></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your writing is so precise, yet evocative - how do you work
at crafting your unique style of prose?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Everything
begins and ends with the word, with the music of the sentence and as Tolstoy
once said, “I’m always composing.”</span></span></div>
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</span></span></b></span></span></span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being a published author for nearly 50 years, what do you
think of eBooks? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
think that this is a kind of logical step as we move from the internet into
eBooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Publishing
is changing even as we speak. I think there now will be a more complicated
dance between the eBook and the printed book, and as we’ve seen recently,
successes in eBooks allow the author to move into print.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><b>5</b><b>.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></b></span></span></span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would be your
advice to young people who aspire to a literary career?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
not worth the money – only write if you’re absolutely in love with it.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How much of your life is in <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Back
to Bataan</span></i>? How did you personally experience New York during World
War II?</span></b><a href="" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
think so much of the source of my writing comes from my childhood, I grew up
during the War<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- so many of the terrors
and the magic of certain films have remained with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all of this appears in the character of
Jack.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your older brother was a detective. Did your experiences
with him influence the plot?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Not
really, I think all writing is crime writing. And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back to
Bataan</span></i> is a crime novel with a very original twist.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why did you decide to include the fascination with the
famous as a theme - Gary Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">These
people were heroes to me as a child, particularly Eleanor Roosevelt, who was
one of the most extraordinary women who ever lived, and of course as a child I
fell in love with Gary Cooper’s face and with his very slow drawl, that seemed
so exotic to me.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jack finds acclaim through his writing, yet feels guilty for
exploiting other people (Mrs. Fink). How does a writer starting out work to
bridge this gap?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You’re
always cannibalizing other people and writers when you start to write, so it’s
natural that Jack should be a young cannibal.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How important is the <i><span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span></i> in your own life? Why did
you decide to make it a form of connection between Jack and the Leader?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As
a child, I didn’t even know that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times</span></i> existed –
I grew up in a neighborhood without newspapers and books, so that when I first
fell upon the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</span></i>, I was very very
greedy, and wanted to include it in Jack’s middle-class life.</span></span></div>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04413800597591335779noreply@blogger.com0