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Friday, December 28, 2018

The Cowboy’s Forgetful Bride by Leslie North

The Cowboy’s Forgetful Bride
Leslie North
(Brothers of the Cooper Ranch, #1)
Publication date: December 27th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Bella Whitmore is the heir to the Whitmore Shipping fortune. Refusing to be pigeon-holed into the socialite box, Bella has worked her entire life to show her father that she can be the son he never had and take over the Whitmore Shipping Empire. So when she wakes up, on a ranch in Montana, missing the memories of the last month of her life, you’d think that would be the worst case scenario. And it is…until she realizes the devil she’d worked so hard to avoid for the last year is now her husband.
Sawyer Cooper knows he’s a devil. Handsome, charismatic, and with an eye for feeding people’s vices, Sawyer’s reinvented himself as a shark in the business world, but very few realize that he’s actually a Cooper of the Country Coop fortune. But rather than resting on the laurels (and red-neck reputation) of Country Coop, Sawyer wants to show the world exactly how important farming can be. To do this, he needs Bella Whitmore’s help. Every bit as beautiful as her name suggests, and smarter than everyone else in the room, Sawyer knows that she could make his dreams come true, both inside and outside of the bedroom. And after a year of pursuing her, she’s finally said yes — to everything.
But after a horseback riding accident, Bella’s brain has reset back to the beginning, and Sawyer was never good at starting a game over. Especially not after he’d already won. Now, Sawyer needs to figure out how to woo her for a second time. Because this time around it’s not just his professional pride on the line: it’s his heart.

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EXCERPT:

She had a lot of nerve to show up looking so goddamned gorgeous and not deign to give him the time of day.

Sawyer Cooper liked nerve.

Their game had been going on for the better part of a year now. Function after function, they would circle each other—or more accurately, he would circle, like a wolf closing in on an unsuspecting pronghorn—and when he had all but backed her into a corner, she would finally turn to acknowledge him with a show of polite surprise.

God, their game of cat and mouse turned him on more than he had ever imagined it would. He’d been crossing paths with her since he settled in Boston, and she was one of the reasons he’d stayed so long, even enduring stuffy events like this one. He liked to keep his distance from Montana anyway—and the family business he wanted no part of. The Country Coop chain of farm stores was his family’s legacy; it was an empire, all right, but in a family of three brothers, could you ever really be the undisputed king of it? No, Sawyer wanted to make his own waves in the world, and that meant divorcing himself completely from Country Coop and its redneck reputation.

Sawyer wanted a lot of things, but he had never wanted to bed a woman as thoroughly—and hopefully repeatedly—as he wanted to bed Bella. Problem was, the vixen knew it. How could she be oblivious, when Sawyer himself made it so obvious? He had done everything except outright ask her for a romp between the sheets. He still had some shred of pride, despite Bella’s persistent ability to test it.

Looking like that, tonight just might be the night she brought him to his knees.

Author Bio:
Leslie North is the pen name for a critically-acclaimed author of women’s contemporary romance and fiction. The anonymity gives her the perfect opportunity to paint with her full artistic palette, especially in the romance and erotic fantasy genres.
The truth of the matter is she loves her fictional persona, Leslie North, more than her normal, day-to-day persona! Her bestselling books focus on strong characters and particularly women who aren’t afraid to challenge an alpha male. Inspired after years of travel, her stories are set all over the world, from the tough streets of Russia to the beautiful beaches of the middle east.
Leslie fell in love with romance when she first picked up a scrappy, dog-eared romance book from her local library. She began writing soon after and the rest, as they say, was history. She now lives in a cozy cottage on the British coast and enjoys taking long walks with her two Dalmatians, George and Fergie.
She LOVES reader feedback, and if you have any comments, don’t hesitate to contact her via e-mail: leslie@leslienorthbooks.com.
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Right Where I Want You by Jessica Hawkins

Title: Right Where I Want You

Author: Jessica Hawkins

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 28, 2018

Blurb

There’s a thin line between love and hate . . . and it
cuts right through the middle of their office.

Bad boys? They run
right over good girls like Georgina Keller.

But after a
confidence-shattering breakup, she’s determined not to let anyone at her new
workplace push her around—least of all the brooding creative director, a “bad
boy of publishing” who’s made it clear she’s enemy #1.

Sebastian Quinn's
taste for fast cars, late nights, and beautiful women may have gotten him to
the top of a leading New York magazine, but the reputation that made him is
suddenly threatening to end his career.

Georgina can
help Modern Man shed its bad reputation, but in order to do
that, she’ll have to start at the top—and no amount of rakish charm or
inconvenient attraction will distract her.

Because if Sebastian
gets her right where he wants her, it means she’s going down.

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Excerpt

At the stadium’s
concession stand, I took a tall stool, putting Georgina and I at eye level
since she stood. “So, why didn’t you kiss François?” I asked. “Bad breath?”

She gasped
into her hand. “My breath is fine.”

“I meant
his. I’m sure yours is pure relish on a hotdog.”

She made a
face. “Gross.”

“I happen
to love relish,” I said. “But does François?”

Each time I
said François with flourish, she
flinched. I didn’t care. Something about him bugged me—I just couldn’t put my
finger on it.

“We didn’t
kiss because you interrupted us,” she pointed out.

“So? If I
were in his position, and we both wanted that kiss, I wouldn’t let anyone stop
me.”

“Frank and I are clicking,” she said,
scowling. “There was even mention of spending time at his summerhouse.”

“Hamptons?”

She coughed
into her fist. “Boca Raton.”

The idea of
Georgina spending a summer with him in Boca Raton was tragic enough that I
almost smiled. I got the sense she was playing up the date. If it was so great,
why wasn’t she sitting here with him? And why was I more relieved than smug
about that? “Meanwhile, Justin and I will be clamming in Montauk.”

“You two
should really just make it official and announce your love to the world.”

“But then I
wouldn’t get to flirt with pretty girls.”

“For
someone who pretends to have as much game as you,” she said, “I still haven’t
seen you successfully flirt with any
girls since I’ve known you.”

I smirked.
“How do you know I’m not flirting with you right now?”

Author Bio

Jessica
Hawkins is a USA Today bestselling
author known for her "emotionally gripping" and "off-the-charts
hot" romance. Dubbed "queen of angst" by both peers and readers
for her smart and provocative work, she's garnered a cult-like following of
fans who love to be torn apart...and put back together.

She writes
romance both at home in New York and around the world, a coffee shop traveler
who bounces from café to café with just a laptop, headphones, and coffee cup.
She loves to keep in close touch with her readers, mostly via Facebook,
Instagram, and her mailing list.

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Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Young Adult Writer’s Journey by Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds and Janet Schrader-Post

The Young Adult Writer’s Journey

Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds and Janet Schrader-Post

Genre: Nonfiction Reference

Publisher: Tell-Tale Publishing Group

Date of Publication: November 23, 3018

ISBN: 978-1-944056-98-8

ASIN: B07K3VZ2ZK,

Number of pages: 232

Word Count: 60,000

Tagline: An Encyclopedia for YA Writers

Book Description:

Finally, an all-inclusive book on young adult fiction must-do, don’t do and how-to. If you want to write a young adult novel, you need to read this book first. Coauthored by an award-winning YA author and an acquisitions editor, both experts on kids and what they like to read, this encyclopedia contains all you need to start or improve a career as a YA fiction author.

From an examination of the market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is at your fingertips. This amazing writer’s resource is written in a relaxed and interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for clear understanding and easier application.

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Praise:

"The Young Adult Writer's Journey is a 'Must Have' at your fingertip reference for anyone who writes (or wants to write) for or about kids. Engaging text with topical and thought-provoking insights leading from idea to submission . . . and beyond to populate a story with believable characters young readers can relate to."—Nancy Gideon, Award-Winning author of the By Moonlight series

“The trouble with “how to” books on creativity is that they usurp creativity. Not so with this very insightful guide for YA writing. If it doesn’t become a standard or even a classic among reference books, it will be an oversight. Janet Schrader-Post and Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds have all the marinated smarts and credentialed experience to pull this off, and they do! No dictated wisdom from on high here, no grafted creativity, THE YOUNG ADULT WRITER’S JOURNEY is accessible, motivational and a clear map that leaves plenty of room to discover for anyone wanting to explore their creative side.”-Thomas Sullivan, Pulitzer-nominated author of THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON

Excerpt:

When you talk about
world-building, many writers think you’re talking about fantasy lands like
Narnia, Westeros, Panam or Middle Earth. For most teens, school is their world.
What kind of home life they have is their world and these worlds need to be
just as complicated as Narnia. Well-developed teen worlds like Hogwarts, North
Shore High School, home of the Mean Girls, Rydell High School of Grease, and
Panem of Hunger Games are so well-developed they seem real, and you remember
them as though they were a place you visited.

To create a real world for teens
in our times, you really need to know them: what they do every day, what they
like, what motivates them, the environment in high schools and many other
details. Home life for kids is very different from twenty or even ten years
ago. It takes two incomes now to support a growing family or to succeed, so
both parents most likely work. This leaves kids as young as nine or ten at home
alone for long periods of time (or even younger, unfortunately). The enemy of
these parents is the school holiday, and it seem like there’s more than ever.
These parents have no idea what to do with their children. Many can’t afford
childcare, so the kids are home alone. It’s a thing you must think about when
writing for them.

Children come from all levels of
society. Poor kids will view the world through different eyes than kids who
have well-off parents. Kids living with a single parent might have a different
view of the world as well as different social structures. The kids with single
parents or working parents might have to go hungry on weekends, on school
holidays and especially during the summer. It’s hard to think about, but true.
There are teenagers out there who eat breakfast and lunch at school and their
families provide dinner. Sometimes all they get is their school meals some
days. When school is out, they scavenge and fend for themselves or they don’t
eat.

About the Authors:

Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds knows kids well. She spent decades teaching teens and adults to write and improve their reading skills. As a literacy expert and certified coach, she helped both teachers from elementary to secondary and preservice graduate students learn to improve reading and writing instruction. She has taught at both the secondary and graduate level, everything from rhetoric, essays, and thesis statements, to poetry, short stories, and how to write a novel. She has learned to use both sides of her brain simultaneously, but enjoys the creative side the most, learning to play piano, draw and paint, and find time for her own writing since retiring from her “day” jobs.

A “true believer” in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythic structures, she uses that lens when considering manuscripts for Tell-Tale Publishing Group, a company she founded with some friends from her critique group a decade ago.

Daughter of a Colonel, Janet lived the military life until she got out of high school. She lived in Hawaii and worked as a polo groom for fifteen years, then moved to Florida where she became a reporter. For ten years she covered kids in high school and middle school. Kids as athletes, kids doing amazing things no matter how hard their circumstances. It impressed her, and it awed her. “How wonderful teens are. They have spirit and courage in the face of the roughest time of their lives. High school is a war zone. Between dodging bullies, school work and after school activities, teens nowadays have a lot on their plate. I wrote stories about them and I photographed them. My goal was to see every kid in their local newspaper before they graduated.”

Janet love kids and horses, and she paints and writes. Now she lives in the swampland of Florida with too many dogs and her fifteen-year-old granddaughter. She started to write young adult fiction with the help of her son, Gabe Thompson, who teaches middle school. Together they have written a number of award-winning YA novels in both science fiction and fantasy.

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Interview with Janet Schrader-Post

Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?

The characters always take over. Plot as tightly as you want, if you create real characters, with real personalities, they run off in all kinds of directions. This is actually what makes writing fun. You’re writing along and suddenly your characters are doing things you never imagined they would and going in a direction you never planned.

Convince us why you feel your book is a must read.

Too many authors think writing Young Adult fiction is done by dumbing down writing for adults and taking out all the sex. The Young Adult Writer’s Journey explains why this isn’t true. Writing for teens and middle-school kids is all about the characters, their suffering, their problems, their emotions. Teenagers are going through the most difficult changes in a person’s life. Becoming an adult is hard. They have so much to learn, they make crazy, funny mistakes, and they achieve so much greatness all on their own. In our book, Elizabeth and I worked hard to give any writer a path to creating a truly exceptional Young Adult book. We didn’t write a basic book on how to write. We expect most of the readers of our book to already know how to write. The Young Adult Writer’s Journey includes information YA writers can use, all in one place. I had six kids and a fifteen-year old living with me. I worked as a reporter covering high school sports and events. I know teenagers and in our book, we explain who they are and what writing for that market is all about.

Have you written any other books that are not published?

I started writing in 1995. I wrote my first book. It was about 600 pages long and had everything in it but the kitchen sink. Then I became a reporter and learned how to write. I have one good book on my computer that’s not sold.

Pen or type writer or computer?

My first book was in pen. I took a computer class and since then, write directly into a computer. You can’t do anything else when you’re a reporter. You have so many assignments, so much work, no time for pens and paper, no time to search for a muse. You write.

Anything you would like to say to your readers and fans?

Thanks for choosing our book. It’s a terrific guide. Use it to write a great Young Adult book. Readers are out there waiting for it.

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A Caribbean Christmas by Olivia Noble

A Caribbean Christmas
Olivia Noble
Publication date: December 21st 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Catherine Duncan is down on her luck.

Life is stressful enough for the hardworking single mom when she gets unexpectedly fired from her job. Right before Christmas. But her sister is there to cheer her up, with a gift of a vacation to Jamaica, to take her mind off all the stress.

Enter Derek—tall, dark, handsome, and everything Cathy needs to refresh her weary spirits, and have some fun for the first time in forever.

But Derek is not all that he seems.

A businessman with an overbearing father, he ropes Cathy into a fake fiancée agreement that promises to end her financial troubles. Feeling skeptical, but desperate for the money, Cathy wonders if this sexy man will end up turning her Jamaican vacation into a perfect paradise, or a complete nightmare…

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Author Bio:
Olivia Noble is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, two beautiful children-- and a new baby on the way! The husband recently thought it was a good idea to read Olivia's books, and he blames their "extremely inappropriate" content for their little accident. (She happily takes responsibility.)
Raising two rambunctious rug rats makes it nearly impossible to escape long enough to finish writing an entire book, but Olivia does her best to find "Mommy time." She likes to keep her books romantic, steamy, and filled with fun characters that get into all kinds of trouble-- the kind of trouble she wishes she could get into.
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A Tiger's Gift by Ariel Marie

Title: A Tiger's Gift

Author: Ariel Marie

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Release Date: January 2, 2018

I’m sorry, son. Your mother had a one-night stand, and I never caught your father’s last name...

Those were the words that single mother, Deja Scarlett dreaded having to ever utter to her child. The past year she has made the most out of her situation, working hard and making ends meet. She’s had to think of what was best for her son, and lived her life for him. She loved her son more than life itself and knew that one day that she would have to admit to him that he was conceived during a one-night stand on Christmas Eve, and she never caught his father’s last name.

He almost let his mate slip through his fingers…

Tiger shifter, Dixon Blackburn needed to find a reason to head back to Breckenridge, Colorado. He decided to have the tiger’s council’s retreat in Colorado the second year in a row to give him an excuse to go back. He had left something behind in the snow-covered town in the form of a curvy waitress named Deja. His tiger had thought of nothing else since last Christmas Eve, leading him to believe that he may have left his mate behind in Colorado. Determined to remedy his mistake, he heads back to the mountains and finds that he left more behind than just his mate.

Dixon isn’t the only one that discovered the secret that was nestled in Breckenridge. His rival, the alpha of the lion shifters has taken an interest in Deja, and Dixon is willing to do whatever it takes to protect his newly discovered family—even if it’s a fight to the death.

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Ariel Marie is an author who loves the paranormal, action and hot steamy romance. She combines all three in each and every one of her stories. For as long as she can remember, she has loved vampires, shifters and every creature you can think of. This even rolls over into her favorite movies! She love a good action packed thriller! Throw a touch of the supernatural world in it and she’s hooked!

She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where she currently resides with her husband and three beautiful children.

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After receiving a BA in Journalism from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago, Madison abandoned her writing to find her way in the corporate business world. Daughter of a librarian, it was inevitable that she would return to the world of books.

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