Time to announce the winner of my contests for a free copy of Nightfire
the winner is...
Gale Nelson
Congratulations!
I'm e-mailing Gale now to work out details. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! I hope you will check back in the future because I may have more contests and fun stuff in the coming months.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Author Spotlight: Sara Daniel
Please give a warm welcome to author Sara Daniel today!
“Occupational hazard,” Justin muttered.
Alyson, thanks so much for having me on your blog today.
I’m Sara Daniel. I write contemporary romance fiction—irresistible romance with captivating family drama. Not only do I aim to entertain, I also want to give people hope and a belief that everything can and will turn out happily ever after. So, I really hope my readers have that wonderful, warm fuzzy feeling and come away a little less cynical about the world around them.
I decided to publish with Musa Publishing because they were so author-friendly, completely transparent with sales data and had a great royalty rate. Since then, I’ve found a great community of authors and warm, professional staff that make the entire publishing process a treat.
The Wiccan Haus intrigued me from the moment I heard Musa was developing a magical world that was open to submissions. I saw the cover for the first book in the series, and I couldn’t look away from the intense, rugged hero. I bought my copy of Shifting Hearts by Dominique Eastwick as soon as it was available and read it that night. I fell in love with the quirky cast of characters that inhabited the island, and I knew I wanted to create a story in that world.
I’d never written paranormal before, and I’d never written for a shared world. I had reservations about both. They were both immediately put to rest. Incorporating magic and paranormal elements gave me so much story depth that wouldn’t have been possible in a straight contemporary.
A Man Worth Fighting For
He has nothing left to offer. She's determined to show him just how much he's worth.
Shot by a member of his military team, Justin Lawson retreats to the Wiccan Haus. Holly Walters refuses to accept her boyfriend's out-of-the-blue rejection without an explanation, even if getting the answers forces her to be trapped on a bizarre island for an entire week. She's going to use every minute to work Justin out of her system once and for all. Justin's body and spirit begin to heal under Holly's loving ministrations. As she talks about never seeing each other again, he realizes he never wants to let her go. But the rogue assassin who had gone after Justin before is after him again. Before he can fight to make Holly believe in their love, he'll have to fight for both their lives.
Excerpt:
“How did you hurt your knee?” Holly asked.
“Occupational hazard,” Justin muttered.
That wasn’t very comforting, considering he was in the military and always going off on missions that he couldn’t give her any details about. “Did you fall and break it?”
“Bullet shattered it.” His words were clipped.
She flinched, wanting desperately to reach for him, hating to think of the pain he’d been in, the pain she’d known nothing about. “And how long before or after this happened did you send me an eight word break-up text?”
“About seventy-two hours after.”
She immediately knew she’d been right not to take his text at face value. The self-destruction of a client and the week of lost work were worth it. She’d needed this explanation. More than that, it proved there was still hope for them. “So you conceivably could have still been under the effects of anesthesia.”
“I wasn’t.”
“But you were on pain medication for sure.”
“Don’t make excuses for me. I was an ass. I broke up with you, and you deserve better.”
The Wiccan Haus: A Man Worth Fighting For
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Nightfire Giveaway!
Today I'm running a contest- If you want a chance to win a free digital copy of Nightfire, all you have to do is leave a comment with your e-mail address below. Reposts are appreciated, but not neccesary. I'll be using random.org to choose the winner. The winner will be announcened next Wednesday. Good luck!
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Blog Tour Day 3!
I'm being interview by E.J. Wesley on his blog today. I hope you will stop by and say hello!
E.J. Wesley's blog
E.J. Wesley's blog
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Blog Tour Day 2!
Today is day two of my blog tour! I'm over at Michael Offutt's blog. I hope you will stop over and check it out!
Michael's blog
Michael's blog
Monday, May 7, 2012
I'm kicking off my blog tour today! I'm over on June Kramin's blog. I hope you will stop by!
June Kramin's Blog
June Kramin's Blog
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Author Spotlight: E. H. James
Show some love for author E.H. James, my spotlight guest for today ! :)
For although everything seemed normal, well as normal as a place like that could be, there was something that was not quite right. That she couldn’t put her finger on it only made it all the more perplexing. 
Laura - Blurb
George had seen some pretty strange things over his lifetime, travelling those roads. But if he had thought he’d seen it all, he was sadly mistaken. For if he thought finding Laura alone, along some deserted roadside, in the middle of the night, was strange, then he had no idea that what was to follow would challenge the very boundaries of everything he’d ever known.
Laura– Excerpt
The road was long and black before him, stretching out into the night. He hated these rural roads with no street lights, no homes, nothing but blackness pressing in around him. He strained to see the lines in the road, swallowed as they were by a heavy black haze.
But the rain had stopped now, and the wipers screeched in complaint as rubber drew across the dry windshield. He turned them off. The remaining water formed rivulets that ran together, making their way slowly up the glass.
At times like these, he wished he had gotten the radio fixed. He reached for the dial as though it would work this time, but all he got was a faint popping sound and some static. He turned it off and leaned back into his seat. “Damn.”
His annoyance wasn’t so much at the dead radio as at himself. He should have started sooner. He'd had one—no, two—drinks for the road. Now, here he was with two more hours of driving ahead and already it was well past midnight. He couldn't refuse a free drink, though. After all, he was retiring next week, and this was the last time he’d have to make a trip like this—all the way out here, into the middle of nowhere, holding the hand of one more client.
He drew his hand across his face as if to pull the weariness from his mind. Straining against the darkness, he thought he saw something in the headlights, a movement perhaps, maybe a reflection. He slowed down, staring out into the blackness. It was then that he saw her, standing on the side of the road. She turned toward him, staring into the headlights.
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Laura-ebook/dp/B006WSVWF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331218995&sr=1-1
Amazon Germany: http://www.amazon.de/Laura-ebook/dp/B006WSVWF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331219292&sr=1-1
Amazon France: http://www.amazon.fr/Laura-ebook/dp/B006WSVWF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=english-books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331219426&sr=1-1
Amazon Italy: http://www.amazon.it/Laura-ebook/dp/B006WSVWF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1332930412&sr=1-1
Bookstrand:http://www.bookstrand.com/laura-1
Smashwords:http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/123041
Barnes& Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/laura-e-h-james/1107226299?ean=2940032996781&itm=11&usri=laura
Diesel ebook Store: http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/item/SW00000123041/James-E.-H.-Laura/1.html
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The Visitor’s Room - Blurb:
If Amy thought this day on the psych ward would be just like any other she would be sadly mistaken.
For although everything seemed normal, well as normal as a place like that could be, there was something that was not quite right. That she couldn’t put her finger on it only made it all the more perplexing.
Don’t go asking questions you don’t want to know the answer to, especially when you're on a psych ward, and even you begin to question your sanity.
The Visitor’s Room - Excerpt:
“Today’s as good as any to get a shock treatment.”
Amy lifted her head from the pillow to see Larry standing at the foot of her bed.
She waited as he turned and shuffled out the door, then laid her head back down and closed her eyes. Sleep began to return.
And then he was back, the rhythmic swish of slippers on tile as he approached.“Today’s as good as any to get a shock treatment.”
She sighed and waited a moment. Silence. Melanie was sound asleep in the next bed, unaware of the intrusion.
“Today’s as good as any to get a shock treatment.”
“Larry!”she said, her eyes snapping open. “Shut up and get the hell out of here!”
Larry smiled half-heartedly, turned, and wandered again from the room. This time, his shadow disappeared out of the doorway completely.
That had done it. She was definitely awake now.
She looked at Melanie and frowned.
Dead to the world. Like I should be. That girl could sleep if a freight train came roaring through here. Then again, who knows what meds they have her on this week?
She climbed out of bed and pulled on her slippers — blue terry cloth, just like her bathrobe, so cheap, her toe poked through the seam.
She padded over to the window.
The sun was rising over the horizon, but the building directly across the street was still buried in darkness. She wasn’t normally awake this early — though someone did knock promptly at seven every morning to inform her breakfast was ready.
It was quiet though. Peaceful as a grave. She could get used to this.
And then she heard it: the sound of water dripping.
Stepping away from the window, she walked — as she had yesterday and the day before, and every day for the past three weeks — to the bathroom. The sound wasn’t louder there, but she couldn’t imagine where else it might be coming from. It wasn’t muffled, as it would have been inside the wall. No water came through the collapsible ceiling. It wasn’t raining. No drain pipes ran outside her window.
The sound was like Larry: it came and went and was irritating.
And now it was gone.
The Visitor’s Room – Buy Links:
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/145010
Amazon France: http://www.amazon.fr/The-Visitors-Room-ebook/dp/B007NRVOBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=english-books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332929455&sr=1-1
Amazon Germany: http://www.amazon.de/The-Visitors-Room-ebook/dp/B007NRVOBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1332929614&sr=1-1
Amazon Italy: http://www.amazon.it/The-Visitors-Room-ebook/dp/B007NRVOBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1332929755&sr=1-1
Author Bio:
E. H. James is an author writing novels, short stories, and poetry in the science fiction, horror, thriller and fantasy genres.
Contact Links for E. H. James
Web Page: http://www.wix.com/ehjames1/ehjames#!
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/EHJames1
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