Dead Faint by Lizzie T Leaf ~Blog Tour~

Waking up to discover you're a vampire then fainting at the sight of your number one food source isn't healthy.
 
Billie Joyce’s dream visit to New York City turned into a nightmare. Now not only is she one of the living dead, but she has to contend with a know-it-all vampire who wants to tell her how to talk. Not gonna happen!

~My Thought~

I'm totally IN LOVE with "BJ"!!!!!!

She stub-born,hill-billy and she has a great name :0)

This story is wonderful.....I mean who would of thought of a vampire who faints at blood?

Or Better yet....A pregnant vampire!!!!

Yes..You read that right!

The characters are so lovable..the men actually act like real men....Totally aloof to how to handle their feelings when it comes to women, never there when you REALLY need them, and always think they know better.

Of course the women are stub-born, bitchy, hide their true feelings and of course are always right (duh!)

So, basically real humans just with some fangs and some have lived a bit longer..LOL

BJ and Dovey are two fun best friends, I would totally want to hang out with them. I mean Dovey totally saved BJ and helped her adjust to the style of NY, among other things. BJ, in turn was Dovey's lifesaver since of course men seem to miss a bunch...!

I really enjoyed BJ's and Daniel's relationship, it was like a give and take. They were truly made for each other. Each one pushing the others buttons right down until the very end. 

Thankfully, the end is not the end and the next story looks to be even more interesting.

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~About the Author~

Award winning author, Lizzie T. Leaf started life in Kansas, continued her growing in North Carolina, and currently shivers through the winters in Colorado.  She has numerous e-books in varying lengths and her first print book, Struck by Lightning, won dual 2007 Beacon awards, in addition to being a finalist in two other contests.
In addition, Making Christmas, a Christmas Historical novella set during the Civil War won Love Romances Café Best Historical for 2011 and is a finalist in the Aspen Gold for Best Novella.
Beyond Magic, the first book in the Magical Love series won the 2012 Award of Excellence Best Paranormal/Fantasy/Sy-Fi, and is a finalist for Best Paranormal in the Aspen Gold.  Winners are announced in mid to late October.
Since discovering the fun of writing paranormal, she plays with creating vampires, faeries and other immortals. Her current focus is the DEAD series.  Musa Publishing has re-released the first four novellas in the series and DEAD Hot, a new novella, is scheduled to release in October.  Emerging Magic, the second novel in the Magical Love series will also release in late October or early November with Passion in Print Press.
When not creating mischief for paranormal beings, she can be found exploring the other genres she wants to write.  She also serves as the 2012 President for the Heart of Denver Romance Writers.
Lizzie loves to read, spend time with her family and travel with her best friend husband during her free time, on which most of friends ask…“what free time?”

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Better Than Chocolate by Sheila Roberts ~Blog Tour~

Sweet Dreams Chocolate Company has been in the Sterling family for generations, ever since Great-Grandma Rose literally dreamed up her first fabulous recipe. But now it looks as if they’re about to lose Sweet Dreams to the bank—and that would be a disaster, not only for the family but for the town of Icicle Falls, Washington. Can Samantha, the oldest daughter and new head of the company, come up with a way to save it?

After Samantha does some brainstorming with her mother and sisters, inspiration strikes. They’ll have a chocolate festival! Time’s running out, but the Sterling women are determined and the town’s behind them, so everything’s bound to go smoothly .

Or not. Events seem to be conspiring against Samantha, and her mother’s attempts to help aren’t helping. To make matters worse, the fate of her company is in the hands of her archenemy, Blake Preston, the bank manager with the football-hero good looks. It’s enough to drive her to chocolate. But Blake’s also enough to convince her that (believe it or not) there’s something even better than chocolate.

~My Thoughts~

Aside from this strong craving for chocolate after reading this book....

Ms. Roberts wrote a wonderful book full of characters that kinda of remind me of my trip to Washington, but the town I visited wasn't called anything as cool as Icicle Falls!!

Samantha, was in NO way going to let her family business go down without a fight and she prove that meant by all means possible.

She brought her sisters, her  mom, the town, the press, TV and finally love saves it in the end...and of course a check...LOL

I really enjoyed how this story didn't just hand over the company over and say..."Oh we're sorry" or work some love scene from there. Instead , Ms. Roberts made her characters work for it and romance was found along the way....well maybe for some.

The only one character  that kinda got a bit boring at times was Muriel....I know she just lost hubby number 2 and her part was major to the whole downfall, but I just didn't understand why some parts of her grieving were needed in the book.(Just commenting...don't shoot me)

I do look forward for more tales from Icicle Falls, since there are so many different characters that we introduced that still have tale to tell.   

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Sheila Roberts lives on a lake in the Pacific Northwest. She’s happily married and has three children. She’s been writing since 1989, but she did lots of things before settling in to her writing career, including owning a singing telegram company and playing in a band. Her band days are over, but she still enjoys writing songs. When she’s not speaking to women’s groups or at conferences or hanging out with her girlfriends she can be found writing about those things near and dear to women’s hearts: family, friends, and chocolate.

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Fem Dom by Tony Cane-Honeysett ~Blog Tour~

When faithful wife Tara Drew suspects her advertising executive husband is seeing a Dominatrix, she sets out to trap him in the act. She pays the Dominatrix to teach her how to please men by dominating them and inflicting pain. But her plan to snare her husband has very bizarre consequences. Way out of her comfort zone as an undercover Fem Dom, Tara discovers a kinky world that both intrigues and disgusts her. But now she is the one with a secret life that she doesn’t want her husband to find out about. A sexually fueled, fast-paced story about women who want to control men.

~My Thoughts~

Totally not what I expected. I mean I planned for Tara to learn the trade per se, but man I so did not plan for the amazing story line that surrounded her "teaching".

I honestly was drawn to Tara's character from the beginning, sweet wife wanting to please her hard working husband...Only real friend is a man hating/eating, but well meaning, self centered girl friend (kinda like most wives in the US today if we'd only admitted it...LOL).

 She did what she thought was the only thing she could do....Beat him at his own game!

If that meant learning to be a Dominatrix as sick and twisted in her little world as that seemed...So Be It!

I thought she played the role very well right down to the end....when she handed Fitz (Sissy Boy) his tooth...LOVED IT!!

Then on the other end I felt rather sad for Tara as well. It kinda sucks when you have to go to this extreme because your husband can't be up front with you in the first place!

Really Clem!!!!

If only he had once ounce of knowledge of what "Mistress Angel" did for him!

Guess he'll never know will he....

An amazing story....worth every word written!

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~About the Author~

Tony Cane-Honeysett 

is an Emmy Award winning writer and filmmaker. His documentary work includes The Royal Academy and Mondo Bondo. A graduate of Ealing College of Art & Design in England, Tony was the recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship awarded by The Tennessee Arts Commission in 2006. He has worked professionally as a copywriter in advertising for over 20 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville and Minneapolis. Tony was born in London, England.

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Guest Post by Sandy Nathan, Author of Lady Grace

The Earth has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust. Technological wizard Jeremy Edgarton and a few of his friends were whisked off planet moments before the horror by the goldies, a race of super-evolved aliens who seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for Jeremy, that’s exactly what they were and now he wants out.

Jeremy’s mother, Veronica Edgarton, is awakening from a cryogenic sleep in a chamber deep beneath the ice near the North Pole. She is facing life with one of the most ruthless and cruel men ever to have lived. She is not the kind of person to take this lying down.

In another place, 105 generations after the missiles struck, the inhabitants of a bunker designed to preserve them until the radiation has receded are preparing to emerge. Regrettably, evolution can work for evil as well as good.

Each of these events is potentially volatile. Combine them and the results are explosive! The players from across time and space are catapulted into a struggle of cosmic scale, challenging them to draw upon every ounce of their physical, intellectual and spiritual strength.

Lady Grace is a thrilling, action-filled adventure wrapped in the embrace of epic love.

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~A Special Welcome to Author Sandy Nathan~

The Story Behind Lady’s Grace and other Tales From Earth’s End

By Sandy Nathan

I call my approach to writing “literature through disaster.” I’ve always written. I wrote professionally and academically before starting any kind of literary career. People who received my letters said, “You write so well, you should be a writer.”

It’s a long step between “you should be a writer” and completing a manuscript. I wrote sporadically for years; back in the 1980s and 90s. I tried to write a biography of my dad. I wrote stories about our horses. A goofy Christmas newsletter.

All this was for naught. I couldn’t finish anything but the most insignificant projects.

Until disaster struck. In 1993 something happened that shattered my existence and destroyed everything I thought about many people in my life. It was a catastrophe of unmitigated proportions. And it didn’t go away, either.

I spent until 1995 healing from the calamity. Being pretty healed, I went to a meditation retreat in ’95. I’m very big on meditation and spiritual practice, transcendent and unifying experiences. The world and life of spirit. I go on retreat a lot and my writing––though it’s labeled sci-fi or fantasy, is really about mysticism and how to heal when the worst thing that can happen to you does. I say that I write visionary fiction, though it’s a pretty dark, dangerous kind of vision sometimes.

Anyway, I went to the retreat. While I was there, I did all the meditations and exercises and everything else as hard as I could. It worked. By the time I left, I was healed. That was partly the work of my soul and its surroundings, and in part my reaching past the retreat and contact some of those I had business with.

I felt as good as a person can feel. I went home thinking, “Wow. What a gift.”

But the gift hadn’t arrived. A few days after the retreat, I was standing in the shower when Wham! Something like a lightning bolt hit me in the right temple, shot through my brain, ricocheted around for a while, and disappeared. It was accompanied with lights and sparkles that Pixar couldn’t cook up. I had a cracking of my ordinary reality, an opening to a mystical world.

When I came back to normal, I realized that the plot of something had been left in my brain. I ran downstairs, typed out an outline, and gave it to my husband. “What do you think? I asked.

“It’s good, but it’s too short. Make it longer.”

I did. When I hit 275 pages, I realized I had a book. Writing a bit more than that, I realized I had a series. The book that appeared in my head wasn’t the first in the series. It was about the third.

Something else came to me, a little bridge to get my readers from the beginning of the story to what had been injected in my brain. That word-bridge is Numenon: A Tale of Mysticism & Money. Numenon is what happens when the richest man in the world meets a great Native American shaman. It was ranked #1 in 3 categories of Mysticism on Amazon and cruised way up there in sales rankings for almost a year. It also won six national awards.

I was not only able to write the book, I had the discipline to finish it and see it in print. All of that was the result of that mind-boggling experience after the retreat. Which came because I’d done my healing work after the worst disaster of my life in 1993. Literature through disaster.

Getting Numenon in print took years. I started working on the book in 1995, and it was finally published in 2008. What did I do in that time? Learned to write. I was in two writing groups for a total of eleven years. I’ve worked with a top editor since. I also learned what went into publishing an excellent book, spending countless hours learning the ropes.

Numenon had been published. People were writing me and calling me, saying, “Where’s the sequel?” I was working on it, suffering every form of writer’s block that exists. I was working, but not producing much.

Until it happened again. Disaster. My little brother and only sibling died unexpectedly and tragically. I was in shock, looking calm and collected on the outside, but grief-stricken on the inside. Images of our life together swirled in my brain. I railed against what only I knew had happened to him.

About three months after his death, I had a dream. In the dream, a radiant being, pure light and love and everything good, hovered above my body. She lowered herself––-it was female energy––merging with me so that I could know what being so angelic was. Bliss. Transcendence. Love. Everything good, all at once.

The experience lasted for a while, and the “angel” left. I carried with me the remnants of that state. For hours, I knew the angelic realm. Then that dissipated and I was my regular self.

That experience formed the basis of The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy. That golden light became the angel in the book. Except in the book, the angel is an extraterrestrial who makes a stop on Earth the day before it blows up.

The rest of the book was revealed to me in the next few days. I had a draft manuscript in four or five weeks. When I was done with that, the characters in The Angel were very real to me. The story kept unspooling in my brain, and I wrote it down. That bit of writing became Lady Grace: A Thrilling Adventure Wrapped in the Embrace of Epic Love, Book II in my new series, Tales from Earth’s End. When I finished II, the story was still alive in me. It became Sam & Emily: A Love Story from the Underground. That’s how the three volumes of Tales from Earth’s End were created.

Effortless writing. No––writing that required me to face my greatest fears, pain and loss. The writing world offers no easy trip.

That’s how I work. I’ve been working on Numenon’s sequel very productively these days, so maybe I’ve gotten more mileage out of my most recent disaster. Or maybe I don’t need a disaster to unlock the doors to the inner kingdom any more. I’ll find out.

It’s been a pleasure sharing my story with you.

~Author Sandy Nathan~

Sandy Nathan writes to amaze and delight, uplift and inspire, as well as thrill and occasionally terrify. She is known for creating unforgettable characters and putting them in do or die situations. She writes in genres ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and visionary fiction to juvenile nonfiction to spirituality and memoir.

“I write for people who like challenging, original work. My reader isn’t satisfied by a worn-out story or predictable plot. I do my best to give my readers what they want.”

Mrs. Nathan’s books have won twenty-two national awards, including multiple awards from oldest, largest, and most prestigious contests for independent publishers. Her books have earned rave critical reviews and customer reviews of close to five-star averages on Amazon. Most are Amazon bestsellers.

Sandy was born in San Francisco, California. She grew up in the hard-driving, achievement orientated corporate culture of Silicon Valley. Sandy holds Master’s Degrees in Economics and Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling. She was a doctoral student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and has been an economic analyst, businesswoman, and negotiation coach, as well as author.

Mrs. Nathan lives with her husband on their California ranch. They bred Peruvian Paso horses for almost twenty years. She has three grown children and two grandchildren.

Her latest books are The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy, Lady Grace: A Thrilling Adventure Wrapped in the Embrace of Epic Love and Sam & Emily: A Love Story from the Underground, which are all part of the Tales from Earth’s End series.

You can visit her website

Visit her blogs: http://sandranathan.net and http://yourshelflife.com (blog for writers)  http://talesfromearthsend.com (series blog)

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Warrior's Last Gift by Melissa Mayhue

An enthralling eNovella that combines time-travel, the Scottish Highlands, and a touch of Norse mythology—linking the Daughter of the Glens series with the Warriors series spin-off.

When Jeanne MacGhie had nowhere to turn, Eymer Horvesson stepped in with an offer of marriage. He asked for only one favor in return…and now that he’s dead, Jeanne will stop at nothing to keep her promise to the young warrior—even though it means turning to the one man she swore she’d never speak to again.

Eric MacNicol never expected a cavalier refusal to wed would result in his losing the one thing he truly wanted in life. When a warrior’s final request forces him on a cross-country quest with the widow, he must battle his inner demons to make the right decision this time. Only one last gift from a fallen warrior can offer them both a second chance at true love….

~My Thoughts~

Melissa totally packed a punch of emotions in this novella. The characters were so believable you felt as if you were right there along with them on their journey. 

It amazes me that the two of them even made it through alive :0)

From loosing half their supplies, to the cliff dangling,and the little boat breaking, truly a test in their well hidden feeling for each other.

Yet in the it seems Eymer knew best!

Now I know you are DYING to know what I'm taking about....

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All About Melissa Mayhue!

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~Coming October 30,2012~

Former special ops agent CHASE NOBLE has been searching his whole life for the place where he belongs. As a descendant of Fae, he senses fate has more in store for him. And he will not rest until he discovers what his true purpose is. When he travels back in time to medieval Scotland, he discovers his mission is to save a beautiful woman—the same woman he is destined to be with.

CHRISTIANA MACDOWYLT possesses the gift of foresight. Prisoner of her evil half brother, Christiana has visions that show her that only one warrior can rescue her—a man she is mysteriously drawn to. The only problem is, he’s in the future. Now she must rely on the magic of a fairy to transport him to the past. And when Christiana finally meets Chase, the sparks between them set off a smoldering desire. But will the magic that brought them together also tear them apart?

Yep...I Know!!!!

Deathless Love by Renee Rose ~Blog Tour~ and Giveaway

Paranormal Erotica (Spanking)

Title: Deathless Love

Author: Renee Rose

Date Published: 8/29/12

Publisher: Stormy Night Publications

Synopsis: 

Kate Strand has always had a crush on Dominic, the owner of the club where her band plays, despite--  or perhaps because of-- the fact that he's a vampire.  But when he sniffs out her predilection for spanking and brings her fantasies to reality one night, she falls head over heels.  The trouble is, Dom is allergic to relationships, or so it seems.

Dom loves knowing how to turn Kate on and domination comes naturally to him.  But he believes he likes Kate more than is good for either of them.  In his mind, mortals and vampires don't mix, and the best thing he can do for her is stay far away.  But when another vampire targets Dom, Kate gets tangled in the dangerous web and Dom finds himself prepared to sacrifice his own life to save hers.  Can he get her back alive?  And if so, will they find a way to be together?

~My Thoughts~

Ahhhhh...Kate and Dom were amazing together.

Dom knew just what Kate needed and gave it to her....I loved reading every bit of it!!!!!

At first, I thought maybe it was going to be just another run of the mill, but heck no! There are parts where he truly shows her he really cares, that right there made the book for me. It wasn't all about sex, it was the trust.

Of course they had their ups and downs...that's what made the story so fun to read. I don't think she'll ever touch the shades again.

Even in the heart of the book when Dom thought he lost it all, about to give up......she was there!

I have to say the ending of the book was something that I never saw coming...nice twist.

Loved it.....the writing, the characters, wouldn't mind having my own Vampire giving me a lesson.

Wonderful job.

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Renee Rose is an author of erotic romance. She received a Bachelor's of Arts in Creative Writing from Knox College, where she was trained to write poetry and literary fiction and was the recipient of the Lorraine Smith prize for short fiction. 
Upon graduation, she took a gig writing instruction manuals (yawn!) and sales and marketing copy for an engineering firm. After thirteen years numbing her mind and allowing her creative juices to evaporate, she read her first romance novel and was hooked. 
Because she believes no romance is complete without spanking, she is thrilled to be incorporating her fantasies into fiction, publishing soft core spanking romances with Blushing Books and Stormy Night Publications. She lives in the Southwest USA with her husband and young children.

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