New Books for the Festive Season #3

Susan Vaughan PRIMAL OBSESSION Sensual The Wild Rose Press paperback $15.99, digital $6.00 http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=547&zenid=b1abc3d9ff1afec71889b2857fe6c16b PRIMAL OBSESSION is set in northern Maine on a canoe and camping trip, but one that paddles into dangerous waters when a killer stalks the outing. The heroine Annie, an investigative reporter, and the Maine Guide hero Sam, an injured former […]

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New Books for the Festive Season #2

Another title for your consideration: Pepper Goodrich CHRISTMAS CHEER: THE LOVE GENIE Erotica Whispers Publishing Download price: $1.95  http://whispershome.com/erotic/christmas-cheer-the-love-genie/ http://www.peppergoodrich.com/index2.html Can the Love Genie work his magic on a widow looking for a cuddle-buddy and a lonely divorced man in search of a hot Christmas? Sandra Carey Cody LEFT AT OZ #4 in series, but […]

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New Books for the Festive Season #1

Thank you for responding to my call for your books! Here are the first titles for your consideration: Sandra Carey Cody LEFT AT OZ #4 in series, but it’s a prequel so a good idea to read first mystery, heat level – G (it is, after all, an Avalon book) Avalon Books $23.95 (hard cover) […]

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Festive Support

My friend, Jeff, (you can find him at FourFoxesOneHound) has set the benchmark for support to his colleagues and I want to do the same for mine: All this month and through the Festive season, I will be featuring your books on my blog. All you have to do is leave a comment on either […]

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A Writers’ Super Group

I’ve added a new link to my Blogs I Read list: New Kid on the Writer’s Block. See what you think. Writing is a solitary occupation but groups like this, Four Foxes One Hound and Avalon Authors help us all to keep in contact to assist and encourage one another as well as talk with readers. […]

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Interview with Ilsa Mayr: The Widow

Ilsa Mayr, Avalon Romance and Mystery writer, talks with me about her latest release, The Widow. Ilsa takes an age old story and brings it to the brink of contemporary conflict.

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Wait a Lonely Lifetime: April 2012

My editor at Avalon Books has just told me that Wait a Lonely Lifetime will be published two months earlier than originally scheduled. Avalon Books releases 60 titles a year, the majority of which are romance novels. Wait a Lonely Lifetime will be in the April releases so I’ll be editing/proofreading the book early in […]

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Defending Romance – Again.

USA Today Interview with Sarah Wendell (Smart Bitches Trashy Books) While there is an erotic subgenre for romance fiction and this seems to be overwhelming the market at the moment, there are many more areas of the commercial genre, as in any other type of genre fiction. Crime fiction often has major sexual overtones but […]

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Nine Eleven

11 September 2001: 1:45PM: On the road between Alltyblaca and Cribyn, just where the road curves and dips into a wooded glen, I am crying. For no reason. This has happened before and will happen a few years later, but today, I am overwhelmed with sorrow and desolation. When I reach my office at Theatr […]

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Summer Reading

Is there any activity more iconic to the warm weather than picking up a book and losing yourself in another world? Probably, but I’ve had the extraordinary pleasure of actually 1) finding the time and 2) discovering books that warranted the commitment of precious hours. On a day when the sun hasn’t found any break […]

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