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Friday, December 21, 2012
Giveaway and Book Review of A Soulmate for Christmas Anthology
Giveaway and Book Review of A Soulmate
for Christmas Anthology
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Soulmate For Christmas, Char Chaffin, Aliza Mann, Cindy Racette, JJ Devine,
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Blurb
:
A SoulMate For Christmas, five stories that celebrate the wonder,
the passion and the spirit of love during the Christmas season.
Star-crossed lovers, united by death
on Christmas Eve, search every fifty years to find each other again.
Author Tagline: Char Chaffin Writes
Contemporary and Mainstream Romance that Pairs Flawed Heroes and Heroines with
that One, Perfect-For-Them Love
A VAMPIRE FOR YULE by J.J. Devine
Two lonely hearts come together
during the holidays and discover their destiny.
Author Tagline: Powerful Paranormals and Historicals for the Heart
are J.J. Devine’s forte.STELLAR HEART by Aliza Mann
http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/
Would-be high school lovers Harper
Stellar and Alexis Alston are back together to save his family business during
the Christmas shopping season. Can they correct past mistakes and find their
future?
Author Tagline: Aliza Mann: Romance
with the Lights On.
TO GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE WE GO by Cynthia Racette:
http://www.cynthiaracette.com/
A husband and wife, driven apart by
tragedy, are given another chance during Christmas in the country.
Author Tagline: Cynthia Racette is a
diehard family gal and her books reflect her belief that family conquers all
and, without it, life is empty.
http://angelascavone.com/
A woman’s need to reveal the truth
could ruin the holidays and cost her the man she loves.
Author Tagline: Angela writes
romantic comedies, infusing humor into all situations so that her readers laugh
and can forget their real life troubles, even if for a little while.
About the Authors:
Char Chaffin
Char
Chaffin started reading romance, science fiction and horror at a very young
age. Her love of books is directly responsible for her overflowing bookcases,
and the bounty stored on her Kindle threatens to eclipse her entire paper
collection. Char currently writes mainstream and contemporary romance filled
with family, rich characters and engaging plots. For her, it all comes back to
the love.
Char
began her writing odyssey as a poet, crafting Victorian-style poetry, then went
on to writing short stories. She found her niche when she began writing longer
and longer short stories, until she wrote her first novel. It might never see
the light of day, but writing it taught her a lot. Over the years she worked a
variety of jobs, from farm hand to costume designer to fiscal accountant,
before deciding a writing career was her true focus.
In
addition to writing, Char is also an Acquisitions Editor for Soul Mate
Publishing.
A
native New Yorker, Char currently lives Upstate on a sixty-acre farm with
husband Don, rat terrier Daisy Mae and two barn cats who constantly slack off
on the job of keeping the barn free of varmints. The Chaffin extended family is
scattered all over the continental United States including Alaska.
Char
and Don divide their time between New York State and Alaska.
When
she’s not pounding away at her keyboard or burying her nose in books and
Kindle, she tends a huge vegetable garden and helps Don maintain their
farm.
J.J. Devine
Reading and writing have been J.J.'s passion her whole
life. Starting out with being the poet, everyone came to in high school to get
that "perfect" poem for his or her boyfriend/girlfriend. She spent
her weekends locked away in her room, curled up on her bed, writing short
stories for only a selected few readers.
She has been happily married for 27 years to her trucker
husband. She is a mother of three, grandmother of three; a lover of dogs, cats,
and fish.
J.J. started to pen historical romance as a hobby when
her youngest child was a year old. She got serious about her writing career
joining Romance Writers of America and Indiana Romance Writers of America. She
penned her first paranormal romance, Into the Darkness, in 25 days, taking
herself beyond her comfort zone and just giving the characters free reign of
their story.
Since taking herself out of the outside
working world, she has dedicated her life to her writing and her writing world
and raising consciousness for Domestic Violence Awareness.
Aliza Mann
Aliza Mann has a familiar story in the
world of authors – she has been writing since she was seven, created millions
of worlds in her mind and loves everything about literature. Her affair with
paranormal began with her brother’s role as Aslan in an elementary school
production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Everything about the story
fascinated her and she has never stopped reading since. Much to her mother’s
dismay, Aliza would often skip going outside to play with friends in order to
stay in her room reading. Her junior high school experience was not much
different. She would spend all her time making up stories for her girlfriends,
then spend all evening swapping tales with them over the phone. With high
school, college and eventually her professional life, she found less and less
time to dedicate to her writing. In 2009, she decided to refocus on her writing
career by taking courses and workshops to hone her craft. Her first short
story, a historical fiction piece entitled Anjani’s Song, was selected for
inclusion in Reverie – Midwest African American Journal, an Aquarius Press
publication.
Aliza joined Romance Writers of America in
2010, as well as the Greater Detroit Romance Writers of America local chapter.
She holds a Savvy Author membership and continues to participate in workshops
and critique groups.
Today, she is the mother of two and works
in the Healthcare industry as an IT professional. She shares her home with her
13-year-old son and her own personal Alpha-superhero-best-friend. Her daughter
lives off campus at a college nearby. She has lived in Michigan since she was a
small child and still considers her home state of Georgia near and dear to her
heart.
Aliza loves paranormal and contemporary
romances, leaning towards searing hot
heat levels. Her favorite authors include Sylvia Day, Maya Banks, Lora Leigh
and Karina Cooper. She still reads excessively and works on too many stories at
once. She wouldn’t have it any other way.
You may find her at her own blog, Aliza’s Garden or on the popular Heroes
and Heartbreakers
blog, where she occasionally contributes.
Cynthia
Racette
Cynthia has been writing all her life, as a
newspaper reporter, editor, and novelist. To be near her children and
granddaughters, she and her newly retired hubby moved to the Buffalo, NY area.
Through her daughter, who is also a writer, she got hooked up with RWA and good
things started to happen. She is now writing more novels, taking lots of trips,
and relaxing by the pool on gorgeous summer days in Western, NY.
Angela
Scavone
Angela, who lives in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada, sharing her home with her father and much loved trio of pups. She
currently works for the Board of Education behind the scenes, supporting and
analyzing student data, however, in her spare time, apart from her avid love of
storytelling, she likes to read and spend time with family and friends.
Contacts:
Giveaway:
$15 Amazon Gift Card to those that
purchase the book
Review
I love Christmas stories. The heartwarming love and cheer that are the
Spirit of Christmas make these my favorite types of stories, especially given
the horrible things we have heard in the news lately.
I admit it. I like happy endings and Christmas stories
always have happy endings. This
anthology has fabulous stories. I loved
all of them. I don’t think I could pick a favorite out of
the stories.
I love that with an anthology you get
to sample many authors. I enjoyed the
history with the Indian mythology from the first story. Now I want all weddings that I attend to have
“I know you” incorporated into the vows.
The stories contain vampires,
witches, Santa’s granddaughter, a couple reuniting, and the high school freak
dating the popular jock. Every story had
a heartwarming ending that brought a smile to my face. Exactly what you want during the holiday
season.
I give this book 4.5 out of 5
clouds.
This
product or book may have been distributed for review; this in no way affects my
opinions or reviews.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Giveaway and Book Review of Shadow Play
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Shadow Play
By Christie Palmer
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal
Date of Publication: 12/12/2012
Blurb
:
A small town in the mountains of Marshall, Montana is
being plagued by an unknown entity and it is mutilating and killing the women
of the town. At his wits end the Sheriff of Marshall has nowhere to turn but to
a friend. A friend, with the abilities to track and kill any prey.
Ryder doesn’t normally do mortal issues. However, he
can’t turn his back on a friend. Besides he is the best at what he does. After
all he is a Tracker, an ancient race with unparalleled abilities to track down
any prey. With one of the three essential elements: Taste, Touch or Smell.
Heartless and cold, Ryder knows what needs to be done and performs his duty
without feeling.
Kyra, an Air Element and the only female Elemental
Enforcer, is sent on a fact finding mission to Marshall, by the Druid Council.
She needs to find out exactly what is happening in Montana before the Tribunal
goes in and kills everyone.
The last thing she expects to find is a Tracker, and is
even more surprised to find out that he is on her side. But can they get past
their initial feelings upon meeting and the sexual tension? Or will the evil
that is living in the mountain kill them both.
Ryder
and Kyra must learn to work together to destroy the shadow and save Kyra from a
fate worse than death. When pure evil is involved is love enough?
About the
Author:
Christie was born and raised in a suburb of Salt Lake
City, Ut. She lives less than a mile from the home she grew up in. World
traveler she is not. But what she lacked in travel she more than made up for in
her imagination. Within her vivid imagination she has traveled the world over
as well as different worlds and different times.
She works a full time day job to pay the bills but looses
herself in books and her writing whenever possible.
She is a loving mother of two wonderful children that she
admits she is obsessed with. She has been married for 18 years to a very tolerant
man that is grounded in reality in order for her to fly to the heights of her
own imagination.
She
started writing when she was a teenager after reading a book that she didn't
like the ending too. Took a hiatus to raise her wonderful children but has
dedicated herself to becoming a published writer for the last several years.
Contacts:
Author
Links:
Giveaway - 1
prize pack to include a Where Fantasy Meets Reality journal, pen, mug and water
bottle. 1 journal, 1 mug, 1 pen, 1 water bottle. Open to US/Canada only. Ebook
prize for international.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Shadow Play
by Christie Palmer
Giveaway ends December 01, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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Schedule:
December 12 - Kimberly
Lewis Novels
December 12 - Reviewed at All Things Books
December 13 - Margaret West's Blog
December 15 - Reviewed at Books, Books, The Magical Fruit
December 16 - Reviewed at Marked By Books
December 12/17 - Reviewed at Kaidan's Seduction
December 18 - Reviewed at Let's Get BOOKED!
December 19 - Lori's Reading Corner
December 20 - Reviewed at Books, Books, and More Books
December 29 - Reviewed at A Book Lover's Library
December 30 - Reviewed at Books-Marks The Spot
December 12 - Reviewed at All Things Books
December 13 - Margaret West's Blog
December 15 - Reviewed at Books, Books, The Magical Fruit
December 16 - Reviewed at Marked By Books
December 12/17 - Reviewed at Kaidan's Seduction
December 18 - Reviewed at Let's Get BOOKED!
December 19 - Lori's Reading Corner
December 20 - Reviewed at Books, Books, and More Books
December 29 - Reviewed at A Book Lover's Library
December 30 - Reviewed at Books-Marks The Spot
Excerpt:
Ryder followed the scent that was uniquely Kyra. Screams
echoed through the dark, and after several minutes, her smell changed. Tinged
with iron, she was bleeding. Anger perfuse him in a way he couldn’t understand.
He ended up at several dead ends. Kyra was stumbling blindly through the caves.
But he felt he was getting closer; her scent stronger.
He halted when he finally entered a large cavern. And
froze, trying to take everything in. Then he saw her, her blue eyes sparkling
in the dark of the cavern. He didn’t move as her eyes darted around, panicked.
“Kyra?”
Her head swung in his direction but he knew she couldn’t
see as well in the dark as he could. “It smells like death,” she whispered.
“It’s choking me.” She clawed at her throat, causing small scratches that
started to bleed.
“Kyra, are you hurt?” he asked, stepping toward her
slowly. He wasn’t sure what had prompted her to take off like she had, or why
she was now curled up in a ball.
She shook her head no, and he could see tears streaking
down her cheeks. “Did you know that air holds memories?” she said frantically.
“Holds pictures, visions, life, and death, stories of what has come and gone.
Lives it has touched.”
Ryder hadn’t known that. He couldn’t imagine hearing and
seeing what could be trapped in the air. As a Tracker, he knew the air held
many things, things he explored as a Tracker. But as an Air Element, the air
did something completely different to Kyra. And at the moment, it looked like
it was killing her.
“The air,” she looked around the dark cavern, “is trapped
with the souls and lives of what happened here.” Her body stiffened and then
convulsed. Ryder rushed over to her. Once the convulsion stopped, she looked at
him. Her bright blue eyes glowed in the dark, beautiful as ever. “Terrible
things have happened here,” she whispered in pain.
Kyra clutched at the front of his shirt. “There isn’t any
air down here, Ryder. I’m an Air Element and this air is dead” She shook her
head, struggling to take a full breath. “I can’t breathe down here.” Tears ran
down her face and he brushed them away.
“Then let’s get out of here.” He offered her his hand.
Kyra closed her eyes and leaned her head back. “There
isn’t any air down here and something horrible is going on. Look around! The
souls are trapped. The screams held in the air are desperate to be heard. But
they aren’t because there isn’t any air!” she bellowed.
Ryder stood and looked around. Several tables sat
littered with things you would find in a laboratory—microscopes and incubators.
A generator rested in one corner. “What is this?” Metal fridges hung open, the
contents spilled all over the floor.
Kyra grabbed his pant leg. “Someone is doing something
very, very wrong. Creating things, living and dead.” She looked around
frantically as if someone would stop her next words. “Mostly dead, and they
hurt,” she cried. “They hurt so badly.”
More screams pierced the darkness, and Ryder thanked the
Gods they weren’t from Kyra. He sent up a prayer for the poor soul. Kyra
wrapped her arms around her head, as if that would stop the sound. Kyra was
right—something horrible was taking place in this mountain. And they needed to
find out exactly what it was. But at that moment, his main concern was Kyra.
“Make
it stop,” she moaned. “Something very, very bad is happening down here,” she
said again.
Review
Can you imagine if your kiss might
kill the one you love? Loved this
romance. The paranormals were fascinating. I was impressed with the imaginative characters
and type of paranorms. I would love to
have this kind of imagination.
The book was a great mix of romance,
fantasy, and paranormal characters. Very
well written and descriptive.
I give it 4.5 out of 5 clouds.
This
product or book may have been distributed for review; this in no way affects my
opinions or reviews.