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Today, we meet Christie A.C. Gucker, author of The Cliff. Can a childhood pact affect the lives of three adults? Love and betrayal surrounds the lives of lifelong friends Lanie Rhodes, Grant Bennett, and Dane Voight. Years ago, they made a pact to remain together as friends forever. The boys also made another secret pact that same day—to never vie for Lanie’s love.Grant and Lanie have

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Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop! Welcome, blog hoppers. Perhaps we've never met. I'm Anne Holly by name and holiday writer by trade (eight or nine of my titles are "holiday books"), quite by accident - almost. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Anne Holly 11.9999 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![

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A guest post by Gemma Coole, Publisher, CoolMain Press In only two years, CoolMain Press, a micropublisher, has published eighteen superb books, all of them international bestsellers, including six previously published backlist books republished as ebooks. Among the other recognitions are prizes to our authors for literary quality and threats of lawsuits for truth-telling that no one else

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A guest recipe from Coral Moore I don’t like soup. I know, I’m a little weird that way. My husband is constantly trying to find recipes for soups that I’ll actually eat, and we’ve happened on some real gems in the process. This is one of my favorites. Shakshuka is a North African dish of eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce. This recipe was found on Smitten Kitchen. I’ve seen roughly the

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Here's a look at what new holiday delights Decadent Publishing is serving up this Christmas, to keep your winter nice and toasty... and they're even offering you a freebie (see below)! A Very Russian Christmas&nbsp; by Krystal Shannon For most of her adult life, bodyguards have shadowed Ksenia Sharanov, daughter of a Russian mobster. Her one serious relationship left her broken hearted

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&nbsp; A guest post by André Jute In the last two years I’ve twice had heart surgery. The first time I was cycling again on the third day but the second time I nearly died from a stupid, minor, unforeseen complication to do with an allergy to iodine which — you won’t believe this — doesn’t kick in until the second time you have the stuff injected into your body to act as a contrast in

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Today I welcome Dakota Franklin, an author with CoolMain Press. Welcome, Dakota!&nbsp; What's the earliest story you can remember writing? Before I started school, my Dad told me to tell him a story and he’d help me turn it into a game on his computer. The story I made up was about a pilot protecting the president from dive bombers. My parents gave me my own Mac and by the time I was eight

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Between the crosses, row on row, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That mark our place; and in the sky &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Loved and were loved, and now we lie &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&

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The holiday season is approaching fast, but before you break into the Christmas romances there's still Thanksgiving. Luckily, I have a book for that, too - Charity, a short erotic-romance for the turkey season! Charity Miller has spent her whole life in an urban island surrounded by the wilds of Montana where she’s never ventured too far from her plans. But when she heads into the Big

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Today I welcome my Twitter friend, author Jennifer Wilck. Hi, Jennifer! Let's start with how you got started with writing. I’ve always been interested in words and writing. In elementary school, I used to LOVE vocabulary tests (yes, as you can guess, that made me REALLY popular with the other kids in my class). Although I’ve never been the most creative person – I have set ideas about what

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New this week on Kindle, and coming soon to Kobo and other formats, including paperback - What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank, a Fantasy Lover's Food Guide. Equal parts writer’s guide, comedy, and historical cookbook, fantasy author Krista D. Ball takes readers on a journey into the depths of epic fantasy’s obsession with rabbit stew and teaches them how to catch the blasted creatures, how to

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Today, I welcome Carla Caruso, author of the new novel, Mommy Blogger. Stella lands a fab job as a mommy blogger. The catch is she’s never had children. Plunged into a world of insanity every mother faces, she must learn to cope as her lies build upon one another. A sexy ex comes into the picture, forcing her to choose between him or the job and a handsome ‘keeper’ of a coworker. It can’t

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When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween. Have a great Halloween!

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Available on Nook, Kindle and eBook:&nbsp; Like Magic, an erotic-romance for Halloween - now only $1.99! Ian Hannigan was having the worst day of his life. A real estate prospect turned out to be a prank, his car has been stolen, and he’s stranded in the worst neighborhood he can imagine on Halloween night. If he believed in magic, he would swear he’d been cursed. Nothing could possibly make

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Textbook Romance was written during NaNo 2010. Here it is, the end of October and Halloween is plainly in sight, and I still am waffling on NaNo. I have a couple ideas in mind, but nothing that has yanked me by the scruff of the neck towards signing up this year. Wanna help? Below are three of the general areas my project ideas fall into; if any of them reach out and grab you, comment to

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What happens when a band nerd sets his sights on the jock next door, a flighty witch thaws out a corporate stiff, or an uptown girl falls for a bartender? How about when a city slicker roughs it with a cowboy, a free spirited Spaniard seduces his calm and collected professor, or a fantasy writer teaches a no-nonsense doctor to see the magic around him?&nbsp; Attraction, friction, and

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It's time again to make a submission call for a few holiday festivities here on my blog. &nbsp; Coming Soon: October 30, 2012: "It Was The Scariest Thing" Megapost A nice simple one: Authors, to set some spooky atmosphere, send me a few lines about what you think is the scariest thing, book, movie, nightmare, whatever. Just send me your "Scariest Thing" statement, your name, a title and genre

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NaNoWriMo starts in just about 15 days, give or take, but I am still undecided. I have at four three ideas for projects I could do, if I really felt like it, but... Do I feel like it? The issue is, I'm becoming a little less RAWR, I think. I mean, I've written things, and they've been published. I did NaNo. Twice. That mountain, she has been climbed. So, do I feel like climbing it again? In

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Earlier this month, my friend and colleague JL Oiler visited to talk about her newest release Glimpses of Midnight, vol 1. Today, her colleague (and my new friend) Suzzana C. Ryan talks about her new book, the continuation of the series, Glimpses of Midnight, vol 2. Glimpses of Midnight: Decadence&nbsp; By Suzzana C Ryan Cyrus&nbsp; Bellefleur ruled the underworld but couldn’t rule his mate

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A Guest Post by Coral Moore You probably don’t know me. My name is Coral and I’m a speculative fiction writer. At first glance, my fantastical fiction and Anne Holly’s contemporary romance don’t seem to have much in common. You might even wonder what I’m doing here, on a very romance-y blog. The answer is pretty simple—I love romantic storylines. I do have a couple of problems with the way

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Fill The Shelves is the brainchild of a small group of writers - but we were all readers first. &nbsp;Kids who tucked into corners and forts and crannies at our school libraries, harassed the librarians for something new to read, fed our imaginations with the worlds we found in the pages.Not one of us can imagine growing up without books. The basics: School librarians compile Amazon

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October 10, 2012.&nbsp;Today marks two years since my first title, Waking Kara, hit Amazon. I remember it was Thanksgiving when I got the email that the story (set for Oct 11) had gone live a few hours early. I was so clueless at the time, I didn't even know when it was expected to be released. It was a grand moment, seeing my title on the major online bookstore. I felt like a "real writer",

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Today, I'm pleased to welcome my friend and colleague, author Michel Prince, who is celebrating the release of her new book, The Guardian's Heart: <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {

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