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Thursday, May 28, 2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015
The Fictionistas - Sami-Jo's a pantser
The Fictionistas - Sami-Jo's a Pantser
Sami-Jo talks about how she plots - or non-plots. PANTSERS UNITE!
Monday, May 18, 2015
Beautiful Stranger **Review Tour**
Beautiful Stranger
**Review Tour**
Beautiful Stranger
Twenty-four year old Claudia has always
been the sensible one. From her boring call centre job right down to her
practical wardrobe, flash and extravagant are not part of her normal
vocabulary. She may live in Ascot, the home of British horseracing, but the
presence of all the moneyed revellers blocking her route home from work are
more of a nuisance than a thrill. Until one of them catches her eye...
Peter’s life couldn’t be more different. All his life he’s worked hard to make
it in the banking industry, to give his wife all she’s ever wanted. After a day
of sipping champagne and watching the races, an indiscretion of hers with
Peter’s colleague changes this picture-perfect vision of middle class life
forever. He decides to cut and run, only, he hasn’t a clue where he’s
going.
A chance meeting by the side of the road
brings them together, making them forget their opposing backgrounds. Is passion
alone enough to overcome their differences?
Beautiful Stranger is book 2 in the Chance
Encounters series.
Chance
Encounters is a series of stand-alone novellas set
in jolly old England, following a set of loosely connected people as they find
love in unexpected places. Can love conquer all, from class differences to age
gaps? Read on and find out.
Buy Links: Amazon
Review:
Beautiful Stranger is quick read that delivers on heat, romance, and an overall fantastic story.
We begin with Claudia, a young woman bored with her job and her life, and tired of the worthless men she's used to dating. On a chance encounter she meets Peter. He's drunk in his car, and seems utterly hopeless...except he's incredibly good-looking and somehow urges an uncharacteristic response from Claudia.
She offers to drive him to her house to sober up.
Interesting...
Once at her home it doesn't take long for his charm to spark something new in her. She learns of his wife's betrayal and immediately empathizes with him. How could anyone cheat on a man so attractive, wealthy, and genuinely kind?
Passions ignite, and the two heat up the pages as they explore and please each other's bodies. The sex scenes deliver, and are well written...but what pleases me is that it doesn't end there. There is so much more to this story that you must explore. Beautifully written, with characters that feel real almost immediately, this book is one that I would recommend.
Bio
Hedonist (or simply "H.") is a
Romance writer based in rainy England. Addicted to caffeine, chocolate and
impure thoughts, she likes to write short stories and serial novels dealing
with those aspects of the human condition that we all think about, yet dare not
discuss openly. No-one is perfect, neither are her characters, which makes them
all the more relatable and well-liked by her fans.
Quick Facts about Hedonist Six
·
She's an independent author,
who started her career in 2012.
·
Her work can best be described
as "Uncensored Romance". The connection between the main characters
takes centre-stage, but not much happens behind closed doors.
·
Some of her favourite words
contain only four letters, yet another thing left "uncensored" in her
work.
·
Unlike every other writer out
there, she does not drink coffee. But take away her chocolate and tea, and all
hell will break loose.
·
She lives in London with her
husband and seemingly ever-expanding collection of motorised two- and
four-wheeled companions.
·
When she's not writing, she's
off living her secret life as a boring office worker.
·
When they first meet her, most
people can't quite figure out the origins of her accent.
·
Her catalogue consists of two
serialised novels and three novellas, all of them contemporary (steamy) romance
featuring characters so realistic you feel you might bump into them at your
local supermarket.
·
Find her publications here: Amazon Author Central
(Social Media) Links
Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Darkest Corners (The Club) by Katherine Rhodes
★✩★ #NEWRELEASE ★✩★The Darkest Corners (The Club) by Katherine Rhodes
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$1.99. FREE to KU subscribers.
Blurb:
The darkest corners hold the most sinful delights.
Tally Fremanis lives in the dark corners, seeking those
sinful delights. It's been her whole life since college. A founding owner of
The Club, she is a demanding mistress both in and out of the bedroom.
Discretion in all matters is her modus operandi, and to this
end The Club needs new security system. But when she hires Liam Dunfrees, she
finds herself wondering if there might be more to him.
The sparks that fly in the
bedroom burn both Tally and Liam. With other scars beneath the surface, neither
of them are sure they have the strength to fight for this potential new love.
At the club, there are three rules--
1. Keep your mouth shut.
2. Keep your mouth shut
3. Keep your mouth shut.
But sometimes,
someone has to speak up...
***CONTENT
WARNING: This book is intended for audiences 18+ and contain adult themes,
including bondage, spanking and sexual situations.***
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Not a Romance Novel- Kim Alexander
Not a Romance Novel-
Kim Alexander
In which I do some matchmaking with fictional characters in
other people's books, and figure out my own novel might be
a touch more murdery and a little less romantic than I
thought.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Vlogger's Choice with K.N. Lee- Author Platform
Vlogger's Choice with K.N. Lee
- Author Platform
This week I share with you how to create or strengthen an author platform, I hope my tips help. If you have any other ideas or comments, please comment below!
Monday, May 11, 2015
The Para-Portage of Emily- Top 28 Favorite Authors!
The Para-Portage of Emily
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Top Twenty-Eight Favorite Authors
The Para-Portage of Emily
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Top Twenty-Eight Favorite Authors
Top Ten (28) Favorite
Authors ~ Muffy Wilson
Virginia Wolfe
Pat Conroy
C.S. Lewis
Kahlil Gibran
Stephen King
Erica Jong
Robert Service
Rod McKeun
Jack London
Tom Clancy
James Patterson
Nora Ephron
Hemingway
J.D. Salinger
W. Somerset Maugham
Sylvia Plath
George Eliot
Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Kerouac
Faulkner
Richard Price
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Bukowski
Oscar Wilde
Dorothy Parker
Dylan Thomas
Margaret Mitchell
Stieg Larsson
The Para-Portage of Emily
The Shadow Seduction Series
By
Muffy Wilson
@SexyMuffyWilson
Emily Macque, a young, beautiful junior partner in her father’s law firm, is but a heartbeat away from love or destiny. Duty brings Emily to a frozen Island estate two hundred and fifty miles north of Chicago. Devotion requires she delve into the property history to settle an estate probate. Death lures her into the arms of the shadows seduction created by the flickering light and dark shadows.
What flames the timeless passions spanning the decades? Love, desire or obsession?
Colin Jorgenson, once a Great Lakes mariner, is a strong man haunted by love and loss. How long will he return each night, gripped by desire, hoping to find the woman he has loved for a century?
Beneath the pristine Island beauty, passions hungered, lingered in the ardent darkness. His passions, fueled by decades of loneliness and longing, could no longer be denied. Will they face eternity together or love in secret as dark things are to be loved between the shadows and the soul?
I just finished The Para-Portage of Emily. Quite the
page-turner!!
I was gifted a free copy by the author and found it to be a
cleverly woven plot with descriptive characters you won’t soon forget. I’m not
one to give out spoilers,
but if you like paranormal intrigue, hot romance, and
mystery, you will love it. Looking forward to more works by Muffy Wilson as I’m
sure they will be just as brilliant.
~ By Love
To Read
It looked like a magical castle
rising from the mist in an enchanted forest. Oh, it was enchanted, all right, Emily thought to herself. And so very beautiful. It must have felt
wonderful to be loved by such a man who honored his love, his wife, with such
magnificence.
“To be adored like that is how
dreams may come true, if one truly believes.” Emily said aloud, to no one but
Barkley who looked at his love adoringly. “Yes, your love is constant, but the
love of a man like that, took a woman like Amalya. Those days have passed with
the centuries. Men and women are not like that anymore, Barkley. Love is a
fleeting convenience, now, between professional people needing healthy sex. Ah,
Barkley…but we can dream, can’t we?”
They mounted the steps to the
massive carved oak front door. Emily leaned against the hand twisted and tooled
wrought iron railing, just to catch her breath. The door was etched and carved
with such majesty. She ran her glove-covered hand over the heavy wood, dipping
her fingertips into the plumed design. And
what dreams would you tell if you could talk, of the love and lovers that lived
behind your protection? Emily thought as she scolded herself for waxing
acting so nostalgic when she had a great deal to do.
She opened the door, only to see
what she took as a shadow move into the library. Barkley stood starkly still
when his usual pursuit was the kitchen to eat. His low quiet growl alarmed
Emily—her eyes had not deceived her. No one had come down the drive, nor had
she seen anyone but the man from the jetty walking the grounds. Barkley had not
alerted to anything unusual so it could only be someone else who had come in
the back of the house while she walked the mile and back to South Point. She
was shaken at the prospect someone was in the library, but cast off the thought
as nonsensical. Who would want to hurt
her? It all passed through her head quickly, in but a second of reasoning.
“Hey, there, who are you? What
are you doing here?” And with that, Emily’s brazen personality surfaced. She
subordinated any marker of fear, and took control by walking boldly into the
library. When she strutted into the library, there was no one there, just she
and Barkley, who was standing decidedly well behind the protection of her feet.
Barkley jumped upon the couch and claimed a higher vista around the room. But,
in the same amount of time, Emily determined she was alone—starkly alone. But,
this could not be. She was quite certain she had seen someone or something, a form or a shadow of a man moving
within the foyer to the library. She was intent on finding what it was, but
found nothing. There were no footprints, no melted snow droplets, nothing
askew. It was perplexing.
There was no doubt about it and
it gave way to her questioning herself and her confidence. And then she
realized something…she still had her sunglasses on. Of course, coming in from
outside created a margin of fog on her lens, creating the suggestion of a
shadow.
Silly
woman, she
thought to herself as she saw Barkley curl into a completely unthreatened curl
of fur on the library sofa. She was certainly taken by her clever imagination.
There had certainly been a lot of fodder to stoke her creative imagination and
it certainly had fueled it, indeed. She straddled the armrest and petted her
little friend in an effort to regain her composure.
Yes,
of course, that was it.
This is a story to savor. Ms. Wilson's descriptions are
poetic and enthralling,
placing the reader in the midst of the story, and the
relaxed pace of the story does not lessen the power of suspense. Shrouded in
mystery, romance, and eroticism, "The Para-Portage of Emily" is a
treat for the senses,
a haunting indulgence. Despite hints throughout, the
ending still surprised me, and though satisfied,
I regretted the literary
journey's end. Highly recommended. I look forward to more from this promising
series. ~ By Jordan
Stringfellow
Returning from France with her
family, Muffy finished high
school in Northern California and attended the University of
California, Davis, and majored
in
Business Management.
Muffy entered the work force, independent with a fierce
work ethic, and retired at 39 from IBM as a Mid-West Regional Director in the
Real Estate and Construction Division. She and her husband moved to a small
Island in northern Wisconsin where they owned a historic tavern, restaurant and
resort business which they since have sold. They now live a charmed life by the
water in SW Florida. Muffy
pretends to be a serious real estate business person but, in real life,
indulges her private interest in writing sexy novels and sensual romantic literotica ~ Live, Laugh, Love with Passion.
I really enjoyed the Para-Portage of Emily... a skillfully
and imaginatively told tale of love, lost and found. Mysterious twists kept me
turning the pages until the end.
Love conquers all, AND it was hot!
~ By Barbara
A. Lyle
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Previously Published:
Secret
Cravings, Oysters & Chocolate, Decadent Publishing, Ravenous Romance,
Yellow Silk Dreams
Coming Soon:
Moonbeams of Unintended
Consequences ~ TBA
Spring 2015
Cheerleaders in Heat ~ TBA Summer 2015
Other Novels and Contributions:
Should John Grisham and EL James have a secret love child,
she would no doubt pen legal thrillers with a luscious layer of the erotic.
They would name their child Muffy Wilson and send her to Stephen King for some
pointers in the paranormal.
Wilson, in the obliquely titled "The Para-Portage of Emily",
interweaves these three diverse genres into a compelling, magic carpet of a
novel that takes Emily Macque from Chicago to a bitter island estate two
hundred miles north in the frozen sea. Emily is the striking junior partner in
her father’s law firm, her mission, to settle the probate on an estate, her
destiny to fall into the arms of Colin Jorgenson, a seaman haunted by a past
love that torments his life.
Intelligent, well-written, with fully fleshed out characters and a story with
more twists than a spiral staircase, "The Para-Portage of Emily" had
me gripped until the very last page.
~ By Chloe
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
Fictionistas - Daphne's Musical Inspirations
Fictionistas - Daphne's Musical Inspirations
Daphne takes you through the musical wonderland that walks hand in hand with her writing. The work of cinematic masters? Check. Funny hats? Well, okay...
Blind Influence Blog Tour **Introducing Author, Linda Riesenberg Fisler**
Blind Influence Blog Tour
**Introducing Author, Linda Riesenberg Fisler**
AUTHOR BIO
When Linda Riesenberg Fisler isn’t working on her next book she is
painting in her studio or riding her Trek bicycle along the many bike trails of
Ohio. The former Fortune 500 consumer products manager explores art through her
worldwide Internet radio show, “Art Chats with Linda Fisler”. Linda has been
creative since childhood, writing stories and scripts of movies and TV shows to
entertain friends. She discovered oil painting in the 1990s and began trying to
express words visually.
Writing Blind Influence helped Linda realize she
had been blind to letting others run her life, so she began to transition to
the more artistic life she has today. In addition to The Blind series
of books, Linda has created a fantasy book based on her exploration of
spirituality. She hopes readers will learn how to open their own eyes instead
of blindly following the expectations of those around them.
Check out Linda's Top Ten Favorite Foods!
10. Milky Way bars
9 Snickers bars
8 Babe Ruth bars
7 Rollos (are
you seeing a pattern yet?)
6 M&Ms
5 Hershey's Dark Chocolate
4 Dove Milk or Dark Chocolate
3 Graeter's Double Chocolate Chip
Ice Cream (OMG—if you have never had this, shame on you! HUGE
chocolate chips and the creamiest ice cream ever made! And I count
it as calcium for my bones!)
2 Esther Price Chocolate
Covered Cherries (Fruit is good!)
1. Esther Price Fudge Creams
Chocolate is a food group, right?- Linda Riesenberg Fisler
Blind Influence
Successful, sexy attorney Nicole Charbonneau feels content with her life and career as a star at a powerful law firm in Washington, DC. She is blind, however, to the circumstances that will put her at the center of a web of deceit, murder, power plays and conspiracies. Across the ocean, British MI-6 Agent Sean Adkins is tracking a cold-blooded assassin known as the Serpent, who’s been hired to kill President Andrews. The Serpent cares only for the millions he’ll get, not why the powerful group of men wants Andrews killed.
The Serpent, a master of disguise, completes his job, but will it be his last? Sean will stop at nothing to get revenge, which includes setting a trap. Nicole, through her work and her connection with Robert Jenkins, a powerful young senator who happens to head the Intelligence Committee, pieces together who hired the assassin. Will the senator reveal to the public all he knows, or will revealing the identities of the powerful businessmen, politicians and government officials be too much for a country already in a fragile state?
Blind Influence, set in 1979 when the United States was on the brink of its second oil crisis, takes readers on a wild ride of political intrigue and personal discovery.
Are you ready for an exclusive teaser from Blind Influence? Check it out, and tell us what you think in the comments!
Then
it started. The siren was the first thing to warn him something was wrong.
The golden light turned dark. The bittersweet taste of adrenaline began
in his mouth, and he swallowed, trying to quell it. A red flashing light
accosted his eyes, and he could see himself running to his home—their
home. He ran into the house, unable to catch his breath. He tried to wake
himself from the nightmare. He didn’t want to live this again.
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