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Holiday Blog Hop Last Day

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Come join a party of talented Indie authors at the Holiday Blog Hop! You can win lots of great books and there will be tons of freebies.

My giveaway for the Hop today:

Click here and visit my raffle at Rafflecopter for a second chance at getting all my ebooks for free! (Sorry, the widget won’t show up on a WordPress.com site.) Continue reading

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Holiday Blog Hop Day 4

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Come join a party of talented Indie authors at the Holiday Blog Hop! You can win lots of great books and there will be tons of freebies.

My giveaway for the Hop today:

Free PDF download of Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic today only! Continue reading

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Holiday Blog Hop Day 3

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Come join a party of talented Indie authors at the Holiday Blog Hop! You can win lots of great books and there will be tons of freebies.

My giveaway for the Hop today:

Free PDF download of The Lustre today only! Continue reading

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Holiday Blog Hop Day 2

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Come join a party of talented Indie authors at the Holiday Blog Hop! You can win lots of great books and there will be tons of freebies.

My giveaway for the Hop today:

Free PDF download of The Disenchanted Pet today only!

The Disenchanted Pet

Click to download PDF

This download link will be deactivated tomorrow, so download now!

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The Indie Writers Unite Holiday Blog Hop

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Come join a party of talented Indie authors at the Holiday Blog Hop! You can win lots of great books and there will be tons of freebies. Visit the links below to win. (Some links are day-specific and won’t work until their day. Be sure to drop by each day to win something new!)

Here is the rundown of holiday festivities on my blog for the week: Continue reading

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Holiday Blog Hop Day 1

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Come join a party of talented Indie authors at the Holiday Blog Hop! You can win lots of great books and there will be tons of freebies.

My giveaway for the Hop, starting today and for the week: Continue reading

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Holiday Blog Hop Goodreads Giveaway

Now until December 14th, you can enter to win a paperback of The Lustre and Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic!

I’m being so generous because of the Indie Writers Unite Holiday Blog Hop from Dec 10th to Dec 14th. Visit this link on Dec 10th to get links to all the great Holiday Blog Hop giveaways from me and over 50 other authors.

https://katepolicani.com/2012/12/10/the-indie-writers-unite-holiday-blog-hop/

(It won’t work until the 10th, but don’t worry if you forget. I’ll be sure to remind you!)

Here are the giveaways: Continue reading

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When I Just Can’t Write

There are those times when I just can’t write. I may even have great ideas in my head but they get stuck like the glue bottle with the big glue booger in it that won’t come out.

Reasons why I can’t write:

  • My head is too full
  • My head is empty
  • My life is too busy to stop and write
  • Not enough sleep

Ways to get myself started again:

  • Sleep (sometimes it’s not going to happen)
  • Wait until everything calms down
  • Squeeze in my writing anywhere I can – Evernote app is great for this
  • Read books, watch inspiring movies and TV, read manga (I think of it as recharging my writing batteries)
  • Get some time alone

Sometimes these still don’t work. What do you do?

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Author Blog-in last day: Juli D Revezzo

Once again I am participating in Kate Policani’s Author blog-in.

House of Cards

I wrote this originally for a horror zine that I’m fond of but it ended up being too long for her. I showed it to another, pagan, editor I know and she suggested a whole new theme that made the story what it is today. So, yes,I’m glad I showed it to someone else. :) I hope you all will like it.

Available at Amazon and Barnes and Nobleand Smashwords

House of Cards

 

Can you gamble with Fate?

A young nobleman escapes the Reign of Terror in 18th century France to find himself dragged into an even worse fate–a hellish underworld wherein he is cajoled and put on trial by a demon tribunal for crimes he never committed. Can he thwart his fate, one worse than the guillotine?

Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Mythic. $.99

Find out more about House of Cards:

HoC’s page on Kindleboards, here.

I hope you enjoy it!

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Author Blog-in: Home to Stay by June McCullough

This week I am participating in Kate Policani’s Author Blog-In. Over the next week I will publish different posts about other author’s novels. If you are looking for your next read, or perhaps a gift for someone, make sure you visit this site throughout the week to see if something catches your interest. Something like

Home to Stay

With the weather getting colder and the busy season about to descend upon us, don’t forget to put an evening aside just for you. Get yourself a cup of hot chocolate, or a glass of wine and escape with this contemporary romance that will take you to a ranch just outside Calgary, Canada.

Synopsis

Although she has never stopped referring to Aces Corral as her home, it has been two years since Diana Crawford has stepped foot on the ranch. Her decision to return home was made just as abruptly as her decision to leave, but as Diana’s car pulls into the long driveway, she knows it is time once again to build the family ranch into a successful business. Little does she know that waiting for her return is a man determined to change everything.

Coming home is emotional for Diana. She is thrilled to reunite with her elderly next-door neighbours, Len and Dot Mackenzie, who are the closest thing to family she has left. But when she meets their nephew for the first time, his captivating eyes and quiet strength hypnotize her. There is no mistaking the attraction, and it is not long before Barry Daniels lassoes her heart. As Diana works on reconciling her past, she knows she has a lot to learn about running a business and when Diana finds evidence of a betrayal that could destroy everything she has worked for; she is desperate to find a way to expose the scheme.

In this contemporary cowboy romance, a woman on the fringes of finding her own inner strength must expose a web of deceit before she loses everything she has ever loved.

Excerpt

“I better go. Think about what I said. There’s something between us and I don’t think we should deny it. I’m willing to take a chance and I want to know if you are, too, but I don’t want you to answer right now.”

He walked over to the door, opened it, and turned back to face her. “It would be sad if we never took a chance and ended up missing out on one of the best things to happen to either of us. You can let me know tomorrow at the barbeque.”

With that, he shut the door and was gone. Diana stood at the counter for a long time after. The feelings he stirred in her both excited her and scared her. Her mind was swimming as she slid her back down the cupboard, until she was sitting on the kitchen floor.

What am I going to do? Should I back off and play it safe, so I won’t be sorry? Or will I be sorry if I play it safe?

Reader’s Comments
You feel like you are right in the tale with the way she describes the characters and their way of life. S.O.
You need to do a sequel to this. C.M.
A “feel good” book that we could use more of! M.H.

Grab a Copy Now!

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Author Blog-in: My day!

Please visit my book on these wonderful sites:

http://blog.seditionbook.com/?p=175

http://jmccullough.authorsxpress.com/2012/11/20/amputeddy-goes-back-to-school-by-jean-boelter-and-kate-policani

http://julidrevezzo.com/2012/11/20/amputeddy-goes-back-to-school-by-jean-boelter-and-kate-policani/

 

 

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Author Blog-in: Scarlet Bastards by Sean MacUisdin

 

“Breathe deeply, jawan, it shall be your last.”

So was the memorable opening dialogue of The Scarlet Bastards, the memoirs of a young man named Alexander ”Sikunder” Armstrong. A seventeen year old  runaway from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, “Sikunder”  fled the tedium of a well planned life to the frigid dystopian wastes of the Serberor Campus on the distant colony of Samsāra some 20 light years from Earth. Here, as a jawan in the United Nations Off-World Legion, “Sikunder” experiences the dumping ground of the refugee camps of the United Nations; where tribes and warlords rule with an  iron fist and life is cheap and easily lost.

Come join “Sikunder” as he fights pirates on the decks of a paddlewheeler, teaches the finer points of the j-stroke to his decuria leader, MacShaka the Tartan Zulu, and encounters members of the villainous Chinese gang, The Black Hand, after a bottle of bad pinot noir and a plate of the foulest fish in the Seleucus Lacus!

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Don’t Judge a Book by its Magic by Kate Policani : Review, Author Specials and Giveaway

Don’t Judge a Book by its Magic by Kate Policani : Review, Author Specials and Giveaway.

Big thanks to Gaele for her great review! Drop on by her blog to win a copy.

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Author Blog-in: Sedition by Tom Abrahams

SEDITION is what you might call a new style political thriller.

Sedition. A Political Thriller

As international bestselling author Marc Cameron wrote, Sedition is a “thinking person’s thriller.  If you are a lover of details, you will enjoy this book.”

Bestselling Amazon author Steven Konkoly called it a “tightly written, suspenseful thriller from start to finish.”

And the Kindle Book Review recommends it for “its intensity, realism and overall sense of urgency.”

It reads like a cross between a movie and a historical novel.  And it’s my first book:

The President of The United States is dead. There is no Vice President to take 
his place.

As the nation slips into a constitutional crisis, a small group of 
disenfranchised neo-patriots conspire to violently seize power. They have the 
will. They already have someone on the inside. And they have the explosives.

SEDITION navigates the thin line between good versus evil and 
patriot versus traitor, proving there’s always a reason behind treason.

I’m a lifelong political reporter who finally decided to trade the daily turn of soundbites and highlights for an in-depth, well-researched relevant narrative.

SEDITION is not a typical blow ‘em up, shoot ‘em down tale of suspense.  Instead, it is heavy on art, history, and detail a la Clancy, Baldacci, or le Carre.

Please see the website http://seditionbook.com for more about the story, an excerpt of the opening pages, and more about me.  You’ll also find links to artwork, photographs of locations, and downloadable documents mentioned in the story.

It’s available at Amazon, iBooks, B&N.com, and CreateSpace.

 

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Seattle author spotlight: Laura Yirak

Seattle author spotlight: Laura Yirak. Another Examinar author spotlight.

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