Realms of the Raven

I’ve been told Tort & Retort will release mid-February 2008! That’s only two and a half weeks away!

TORT & RETORT

Ambitious and driven patent law attorney, Gayle Osborne, has a secret. Her power suits and take-no-prisoners attitude hide a passionate nature whose only outlet is reading and reviewing erotic romance. If anyone finds out that she is “Miss Retort,” the snarky and opinionated blogger from the Hits & Misses review blog, she’ll lose everything — her reputation, her clients, her job and, worst of all, her gorgeous mentor and boss, Tyler Monroe.

Please join myself and my fellow Aspen Mountain Press authors Aline de Chevigny, Melissa Glisan, and Michelle Hasker at the Realms of Love where we’ll tell you all about our current and upcoming releases.

(Feel free and encouraged to forward - from the Authors Pay it Forward blog)

Wow! The owner’s of The Romance Studio have outdone themselves. This drawing is for six month’s of advertising at The Romance Studio. Open to published authors only, this is a prize that is sure to benefit our royalty checks. Right all? ;)

So, da rules are:
- Open to published authors with three or fewer releases, please.
- Your information will not be shared beyond the necessary disbursal for the prize.
- Winner chosen using random.org
- Drawing open until 2/29/08 and winner will be announced on 3/1/08.

You can enter on the Authors Pay It Forward blog!

(Feel free and encouraged to forward)

Some of you may know me and know I’m a huge believer in paying forward all the help that’s been given to me. Toward that end, my friend and fellow author Celia Kyle and I have banded together in an effort to start paying forward in a way we hope will make a difference to some new and aspiring authors.

One of the hardest things seems to be that many new and aspiring authors are constantly told how very important it is for them to have some sort of web presence and a website. It’s true – a nice web presence that speaks to your style and writing is a huge advantage. But how many times is it nearly impossible to do if you aren’t technically savvy or have extra money to spend on the effort?

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(I’m cheating today, my head hurts and I’m dealing with Refinancing paperwort. This is actually my non-winning entry in a contest)

Hacking Immortality
(c) 2008 by Maura Anderson, all rights reserved

Death wasn’t easy, but couldn’t it be a little cheaper? Hettie Andrews stared at the deposit figure shown on the bank statement she’d hacked into. That’s a whole lot of zeros.

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(Feel free and encouraged to forward)

Some of you may know me and know I’m a huge believer in paying forward all the help that’s been given to me. Toward that end, my friend and fellow author Celia Kyle and I have banded together in an effort to start paying forward in a way we hope will make a difference to some new and aspiring authors.

One of the hardest things seems to be that many new and aspiring authors are constantly told how very important it is for them to have some sort of web presence and a website. It’s true – a nice web presence that speaks to your style and writing is a huge advantage. But how many times is it nearly impossible to do if you aren’t technically savvy or have extra money to spend on the effort?

Read the rest of this entry »

Babes in Toyland II has received an honorable mention from the Love Romances Cafe for Best of 2007 Anthology!

If you haven’t read this wonderful book yet, you should!

You can read more about it here!

I’ve started an intermittent series on the Aspen Mountain Press Blog that will contain tips, insight and even pet peeves from my editing experiences.

Today’s post is on Action vs Reaction.

Feel free to leave comments or suggestions, link to it or pass it around.

Title: Riding Wild
By: Jaci Burton
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN-13: 978-0425219317
Pre-Order Trade Paperback

Blurb:
Mac Canfield was the last man Lily West expected to see again, never mind aim her gun at. But there he was, the bad boy who’d broken her heart years ago-still a thief, hijacking a priceless artifact-and it was all she could do to push aside the memories of how it felt to have his perfectly chiseled body next to hers.

Mac was no less shocked to see the beautiful girl next-door again, threatening to shoot him. Little did she know she was blowing his cover. He had to get her out of harm’s way without succumbing to his desire to take her on a hot trip down memory lane.

But Lily has no intention of going anywhere with Mac, which means he’ll have to resort to kidnapping. Unless she agrees to let him take her for the kind of ride destined to drive them both unbelievably wild.

Review:
I was really excited to win a copy of this ARC from Jaci. Not only am I a fan of her writing, I’ve ridden my own motorcycles since I was eighteen. I love bikes and hot, sexy biker guys!

Mac definitely seems the epitome of the biker bad boy but he has depths and a huge sense of honor and loyalty that endear him to me. He’s alpha and hot but not a jerk — well, not most of the time, anyway!

Lily is the Daddy’s little girl that didn’t want to be and insists on making her own way in the world. If anything, she always seems to choose the hard way. I laughed and cheered her on so many times!

Like all Jaci Burton books, the sex was hot and absolutely delicious but the characters and plot were compelling as well. I loved the idea of the Wild Riders and their mission and I sincerely hope to see more of them in future books.

For a hot and sexy read, pick up a copy of Riding Wild - you won’t want to put it down!

I’m seriously hoping this book is the start of a series!

Title: Mine to Possess (Psy-Changeling Book 4)
Author: Nalini Singh
Publisher: Berkeley
ISBN-13: 978-0425220160
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Blurb:
Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed…and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead.

Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life–the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows…

Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past…or lose everything that ever mattered.

Review:
Nalini hooked me on her Psy-Changeling series with the very first book in the series and each book has only drawn me deeper into her fascinating world. Mine to Possess has certainly continued that trend.

We’ve met Clay in previous books and he’s always intrigued me because of his torment. I love tormented heroes! I always know he had to have a dark secret in his background and now we discover just what it is and how much it has affected his entire life since.

Talin is a fascinating heroine whose emotions run high but whose loyalty to her kids and her cause force her to face her own fears and past.

I devoured this book in about two hours. This time I was smart enough to NOT start reading it late at night but I was engrossed. Once again Nalini Singh has taken us to new parts of the Psy-Changeling universe and shown us new heights and depths of emotion. Love, honor, emotion and coming to terms with decisions and events of the past to go on to a new future.

Nalini is one of my absolute favorite paranormal authors and an auto-buy for me. I whole-heartedly recommend her Psy-Changeling books to anyone who is looking for a fascinating universe with compelling love stories and a complex arc of suspense underlying it all.

Read Excerpts on Nalini’s Site