Showing posts with label friends ebook releases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends ebook releases. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Tuesday Blue Plate Special - Heart of The Sea

My good friend Sela Carsen has an awesome book out today, entitled Heart Of The Sea.


You know what sucks?

Meriel Byrne became a selkie – a shapeshifting seal – just because Great Granny Whoever dumped some loser a few generations ago.

What also sucks? 

Ronan Burbank, ex-billionaire and ex-boss, was blamed for her disappearance and became a recluse with an attitude problem.

How to make things not suck? 

When Meriel saves a sailor in trouble, she and Ronan get another chance to find real magic together. All they have to do is defeat an ancient curse with love’s sacrifice.

Now that would make for a very happy ending…if Meriel can pull it off.
If.

This is a 21K fantasy romance novella featuring shapeshifting seals who are sick of sushi. (Say that three times fast.)

AMZ: http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Legends-Lore-Sela-Carsen-ebook/dp/B018CJ0A9G/


Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Friends With Benefits Holiday Reading

I have to admit, one of the best things about being friends with other authors is I often get to beta read some awesome material, get ARCs of upcoming titles, and have an entire bookcase of autographed books.

It's good to have friends with benefits. ::wide grin::

I received an ARC the other day from friend and fellow author Grace Draven. I have often said that I'm not a big fan of historical romance, but there are exceptions to the rule (Cia Leah sweet romance westerns, Morag McKendrick-Pippin historical romances, and Grace Draven fantasy romances that have this immense historical layering).

Her book Master of Crows was perhaps the best fantasy romance I'd ever read, up until now. Her upcoming book Entreat Me is a masterpiece of storytelling. You will fall in love with Ballard, the man and the beast. His character is drawn with precise lines, layer by layer, adding such depth that he feels so real you connect with him on a level so deep, you forget you're reading a novel. Yep, I got swept away. The heroine is a perfect match for him. Louvaen is no wimpy too stupid to live girl. Nope, she comes across as real and vibrant, determined and smart, witty and strong.

The story blends fantasy and magic with incredible living history, never mind that the book is a fantasy novel, it reads like the best historical folktale. Like other wordsmiths of storytelling such as Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. Le Guin, you are drawn into their world of fantasy with a realism that is so pure, you can't help being a part of the drama and the romance. You feel that tug of recognition, knowing that Grace Draven tapped into something special, a part of the universe, where time and space collide, that this incredible romance had to have happened.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a total fan girl and am on Team Ballard. ::grin:: Watch for Grace's book, coming soon!

Blurb for Entreat Me by Grace Draven

Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her arrival may herald Ballard’s salvation.
…until they confront her elder sister.

Determined to rescue her sibling from ruin, Louvaen Duenda pursues her to a decrepit castle and discovers a household imprisoned in time. Dark magic, threatening sorcerers, and a malevolent climbing rose with a thirst for blood won’t deter her, but a proud man disfigured by an undying hatred might. Louvaen must decide if loving him will ultimately save him or destroy him.

A tale of vengeance and devotion. And how!

Another friend with a new book!

My friend Lu (aka L.K. Campbell) has a new book out and it's also available in paperback! Oh yep indeedy! I love her stories, they are sweet romance, with intriguing plots, and are pure romance at heart.

Inheriting Evergreen
by L.K. Campbell

Kristy Miller’s aunt dies suddenly, leaving Kristy a large portion of her multi-million dollar estate including her mountain home, Evergreen. Kristy soon discovers that Aunt Leslie had kept a few secrets from her family, not the least of which is how she earned her fortune. One of her aunt’s secrets leads Kristy into a new relationship with the charming but stubborn Drew Stone.

Each of Drew’s young sons received a large inheritance from Aunt Leslie, but Mr. Stone maintains that he has never met or heard of Kristy’s aunt. The other secret may be the biggest of all—Evergreen might be haunted, sending Kristy in search of a ghost.

Amazon ebook: http://www.amazon.com/Inheriting-Evergreen-L-K-Campbell-ebook/dp/B00GNQZ9V0

Amazon trade paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Inheriting-Evergreen-L-K-Campbell/dp/1494705303

About the Author

L.K. Campbell has been writing for most of her life. Her professional writing career began with a weekly newspaper column called Scenes from Real Life. She wrote this column for her hometown newspaper for four years. She began writing fiction in her early twenties, choosing the romance genre because she enjoyed reading books by Victoria Holt as well as the Harlequin and Silhouette lines. From 1986-2007, she worked for her hometown, daily newspaper, becoming the paper’s composition supervisor in 2000. In 2007, she left the newspaper and now does e-book formatting for “indie” authors and for two publishers as her full-time business, LK E-Book Formatting Service.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Tuesday Special: Right Now by Marie Hall



Sometimes in life....

Things were supposed to get better when Ryan met Lili. I was supposed to move on, get a life... but I'm stuck and lost. Things with my father are not good. There are demons in our closet, big ones. Ones I want to kill him for, I'm seeing a shrink, I'm trying to get better... but my life feels out of control, like I'm a raft adrift on the sea. I don't know where to look, how to get anchored again, and then I meet Zoe Stone. Something about her draws me out of my rut, makes me laugh for real, smile, and for the first time in years I want to be more. But what will she think when she discovers who I really am?

...all we have...

When Alexander Donovan, aka The Golden Adonis, walks into my tattoo parlor, I know I'll do anything to make that man mine. There's an instant connection, a need to know more about him. Everything about him. But there's also a mystery surrounding the guy, when people look at him they only see the man that laughs, that cracks jokes and makes the world think that everything's okay, but I see the truth... I see the darkness that lurks so deep inside few would ever recognize it. I want to help him, I want to be with him, now I just have to make him trust me enough to let me in.


Is Right Now.

Right Now|Marie Hall|New Adult Contemporary Romance|Moments Series, book two|September 2013


Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Right-Moments-Series-Romance-ebook/dp/B00F6ELODW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1379452094&sr=1-1&keywords=marie+hall

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/right-now-marie-hall/1116875145?ean=2940148723882

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/354006

Read Marie's first book in her Moments Series...


Ryan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don't know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.

Spending Valentine's Day at a burlesque bar, hadn't been Liliana's ideal way of spending a Friday night. She'd much rather be back at campus, doing homework... until she meets Ryan. Tall, athletic, and gorgeous, Lili can't keep her eyes off him, and despite his gruff manners and drunken disposition she's intrigued.

Ryan's got demons, and they're deep, dark, and eating him alive. Regardless of his attraction to the petite brunette he's tired of fighting, of pretending the last fifteen years haven't been a daily struggle just to get out of bed every morning. That night he decides to end his pain, to leave it all behind and float away into the blessed darkness of oblivion. But fate has other plans for him, Lily finds and rescues Ryan, determined she'll not only save his body, but his soul too.

This is their moment...


A Moment|Marie Hall|New Adult Contemporary Romance|Moments Series, book one|March 2013
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Moment-Moments-Series-Romance-ebook/dp/B00BTN2DSY/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1363293830&sr=8-13&keywords=marie+hall

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-moment-marie-hall/1114832734?ean=2940044378513&isbn=2940016268996

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/295016

Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/a-moment-1

To learn more about the author and her backlist of popular books, check out her blog at: http://mariehallwrites.blogspot.com/


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Friends With Books, pt.1


Books that are coming soon but aren't out yet will be noted, so you can get a *heads up* on ebooks and paperbacks to watch for in the coming months.


Art of Sensuality
by Jax Cassidy


ISBN: 978-1-6004-3044-2

Publisher: Parker Publishing
Contemporary Romance, Erotic
Order Print Book on Amazon / eBook

Brought together by art, but does falling in love come at a price…or is it the ultimate masterpiece?

Art was not only a passion of Machiko Barrett, but also a destiny- a way of life she has known since her talent was discovered at 3-years-old. Caught in a turbulent storm of celebrity, scandal, and corruption, she disappeared from the art world only to re-emerge 15 years later. Her sheltered existence is disrupted when she is lured back to her one true passion: painting.

While she struggles to discover her own identity through her art, she encounters a man who opens her eyes to the art of sensuality, and awakens the woman buried deep inside the broken girl.


One of the most sensual books I've ever read! A must for romance fans!
~Cassandra Curtis, author of the Shifting Tides trilogy.


Coming in 2012 from
GrrlX Publishing

At the Edge of Twilight is
a collection of erotic faerie
stories by Cora Zane.

Features shape shifting pixies, and sensual oak men who use the promise of pleasure to lure their lovers to the Realm of the Fae.

Release date TBA (currently in production)

Will be available at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com in both electronic and print formats.

Lyrical and enchanting, spicy and alluring, you won't want to miss Cora's spin on the Faery folk! ~Cassandra Curtis, author of the Shifting Tides trilogy.



Tempt Me
by R.G. Alexander

In the sultry he
at of the Big Easy, desire can be a dangerous thing...

Gabriel Toussaint Giodarno has returned to New Orleans to make amends with his estranged family. The last thing he expected was to be hounded by a magical wannabe-guardian angel-or to be tempted by a beauty who's strictly off-limits. Angelique Rousseau has always lived a safe, uneventful life. But when her friend's twin brother arrives, Angelique finds herself drawn to him. Neither Gabriel nor Angelique is prepared for the intensity of their joined passions, or what the voodoo spirits have in store for them...

ISBN-13: 9780425243336
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Publication date: 11/1/2011


From the minute you start reading R.G.'s Tempt Me, you're drawn into a thrilling, magical world of sensual and erotic delight. Laissez les bons temps rouler. ~Cassandra Curtis, author of the Shifting Tides trilogy.

FLESH AND BLOOD

by Kristen Painter


Gothic Urban Fantasy



Sacrifice is a choice…


With the ring of sorrows still missing, and the covenant between othernaturals and mortals broken, Chrysabelle and Malkolm’s problems are just beginning. Chrysabelle still owes Malkolm for his help, but fulfilling that debt means returning to Corvinestri, the hidden vampire city neither of them is welcome in.

The discovery that Chrysabelle has a brother could mean reneging on her promise to Malkolm, something that might make him angry enough to loose the beast living inside him. And fulfilling her vow could prove devastating for Chrysabelle — especially when you throw in power hungry witches, dead fringe vampires, and the Kubai Mata.

ORDER NOW: Amazon | B & N | Target

Kristen's HOUSE OF COMARRE series is stunning, rich and complex with characters you won't forget and a storyline that is spellbinding! ~Cassandra Curtis, author of the Shifting Tides trilogy.


FEARLESS IN HIGH HEELS
by Gemma Halliday

High Heels book #6 
Available now!

Fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer is back!

Morning sickness sucks. Which is why fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer has spent the last six weeks being a couch potato and Moonlight vampire movie devotee. But when Maddie's best friends finally convince her to venture out, Maddie stumbles on a dead body of a girl who has been bitten on the neck, and life suddenly imitates art in the most deadliest of ways. Now Maddie is smack in the middle of a murder investigation involving a deadly dance club and a coven of Hollywood "vampires". Not to mention navigating the world of baby showers, diaper genies and Lamaze classes with her LAPD Homicide detective husband who would rather his pregnant wife not continue popping up in his murder investigation.

Between the hormones, the homicides, and a flurry of fangs, Maddie and her gang work to track down the deadly truth... before the killer bites again!

Gemma's High Heels series will have you laughing and cheering for Maddie, one of the most delightful heroines ever written. Smart and witty, Fearless In High Heels is a keeper and a great addition to the series. ~Cassandra Curtis, author of the Shifting Tides trilogy.

AND COMING SOON...

St. Martin's Minotaur
Available March 14th, 2012
First book in a brand new series!

She faked her death to escape life as an assassin. But now her enemies have tracked her down, and this time they want her to stay dead.

Anya Danielovich was a highly-trained killing machine in her former life. But that was a long time ago. Today she's just Anna Smith - a single, thirtysomething woman living in San Francisco with an undemanding day job, a loving, if dim-witted, dog, and a simple desire to lead a simple better life. But she's still haunted by her past - the people she killed, the mentor she betrayed, the woman she was. She's taken care to cover her tracks, but she's beginning to feel like she's being watched...

Nick Dade is a hired gunman, the best of the best. He's read Anya's file inside-out and, after weeks of surveillance, he's ready to pull the trigger...until someone else beats him to the punch. With his agenda shattered, Nick suddenly finds himself thrown together with the woman he's been sent to eliminate. Who is she really? Who hired the second hit? And who can he trust? Together Nick and Anna find themselves embroiled in a web of deceit and desire as an unknown enemy - one with dangerous ties to Anna's former life, and a present-day political assassination - closes in. To unravel the truth, Anna must face her past even if that means risking both Dade's life and her own...for good this time.



Friday, June 24, 2011

Meeting of The Minds and New Releases From Friends

I've spent the better half of a week planning future good things with my CP Cora Zane, plus finishing up projects so I can get them out the door and into readers hot little hands. :-)

Speaking of projects, Cora's project turned ebook is coming out today (look for it sometime this afternoon on Cobblestone's website) called Wicked Obsession. The book is a sequel to her best-selling ebook, Wicked Temptation.

Once she gets approval on her official blurb and excerpt, I've invited her to drop by and talk about her latest ebook, so ya'll watch for that.


Another friend of mine is Jennifer Colgan and her latest ebook is available on Smashwords and Amazon.com. I love the cover and the story is flat out fabulous! You. Must. Read. Married To The MIB!


Blurb:
Spence is a MIB, a special agent dedicated to protecting Earth from extraterrestrial threats. Three years ago, he fell in love with Dulcie, an alien abductee. Now the fate of an empire rests on Dulcie’s hidden memories of their affair. It’s Spence’s mission to retrieve them. It should be easy, but will Spence be able to remain objective when the love of his life experiences total recall?