tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35663129801217744262024-03-14T11:29:34.893+00:00Allie A BurrowAuthor of 'spicier' contemporary romanceAurelia B Rowlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17679519080629201534noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-11520923418937408312016-06-07T14:51:00.003+01:002016-06-07T14:51:34.008+01:00IT'S BACK... For One Night OnlyDid you miss me?<br />
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Following the closure of Breathless Press last year, both of my titles were regrettably removed from sale. Well, I am delighted to announce that <strong><em><a href="http://www.allieaburrow.com/for-one-night-only.html" target="_blank">For One Night Only</a></em></strong> is now available once again and is still only 99c/99p with all proceeds going to <strong><em>Help For Heroes</em></strong>.<br />
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Please accept my sincere apologies for taking so long while I decided what to do with the story. In the end, I decided to dip my toe in the waters of self-publishing so it's all very new and exciting...and a little mind boggling.<br />
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Oh, and I hope you love the new cover as much as I do! *swoon* Between you and me, I'm really rather proud of it!<br />
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Anyway, it's great to be back online, and I hope to have some new material for you sooner rather than later.<br />
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Allie xAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-57431508812951189162015-04-07T13:00:00.000+01:002015-04-07T13:00:00.230+01:00Cover Reveal... The Back Nine by Gia Stone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
It's time to get this cover reveal party started, so grab your glass and let's get those champagne corks popping!</div>
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After the ultimate cover strip tease over on <a href="https://giastone.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Gia Stone's blog</a>, I can now finally reveal the scorchingly hot cover for <i><b>The Back Nine</b></i> in its entirety, coming soon from Siren Publishing.</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">A lot can happen on the back nine of a golf course, especially if your focus is not on the ball. Alec Marino has been building his clientele list in Cozumel’s most exclusive golf resorts while keeping his private life confidential.</span></b></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Brooke Carmichael’s life revolves around one thing: her career. Her bed is like a permanent sand trap—depressing and empty. When a business trip leads Brooke to the sunny island where she is ready and willing to learn something new, she decides to take a swing at golf. Some temptations are too delicious to resist and one stroke from Alec sends Brooke’s entire world into a backspin.</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Blinded by desire, Alec goes against his own rules and makes Brooke and offer she can’t refuse. As secrets begin to surface, Alec and Brooke must decide if they will let it drive them apart or if mixing work and pleasure will score a hole in one.</span></b></i></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.bookstrand.com/gia-stone">www.bookstrand.com/gia-stone</a><br />
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If you have a Kindle, you don’t have to wait the 4-6 weeks for books to reach third-party outlets. You can have the file sent directly to your device:</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-38720123391870946942014-11-12T10:32:00.000+00:002014-11-12T10:32:32.911+00:00Cover Reveal... A Most Improper Proposal by Molly Ann WishladePlease welcome Molly Ann Wishlade back onto my blog, to share with us the fabulously sumptuous cover for her hot new full-length erotic Regency romance, <i>A Most Improper Proposal,</i> coming soon from Carina UK.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-24945879001412333502014-09-26T12:06:00.000+01:002014-09-26T12:30:08.114+01:00NEW RELEASE... For One Night OnlyThe day is finally here for Kate and Mark to boldly take their steps into the world and see how they fare on their own, without the support of their <em>Serviced</em> chums...<br />
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Kate Powell only went and fell for the soldier she’d met just once before he had to jet off on a year-long posting overseas. </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Seven months in, and Kate is hornier than a blue wildebeest in mating season with only her battery-powered friend for relief. Her skills as a pen-pal scale new heights, but then a text message arrives out of the blue. </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Corporal Mark Butler is back in the country for one night only, and Kate isn’t about to let the opportunity pass her by. After all, who needs a vibrator when the real thing comes calling?</span></i></blockquote>
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I will be donating my royalties for this story to Help For Heroes; they will receive a greater proportion of the list price if you buy direct from <a href="http://www.breathlesspress.com/index.php?main_page=product_free_shipping_info&cPath=9&products_id=638" target="_blank">Breathless Press</a> rather than through a third party like Amazon.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-82850812182308992182014-09-09T22:20:00.001+01:002014-09-26T12:30:20.984+01:00Coming soon... For One Night OnlyIt's gives me great pleasure to announce that <a href="http://www.allieaburrow.com/for-one-night-only.html" target="_blank"><i><b>For One Night Only</b></i></a> is now available for pre-order from Breathless Press, ahead of its release on September 26th.<br />
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If you recall, this is the short story that I wrote as a dare to myself back in 2012 to see if I could write outside of my comfort zone...as it turned out; yes I could, and the story was featured in the <i><b>Serviced</b></i> anthology in March 2013.<br />
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I am absolutely delighted that the story will now be available to purchase separately for the bargain price of $0.99 (about 67p for us Brits), but as before, all proceeds that I receive will be donated to <b style="font-style: italic;">Help For Heroes</b><i>.</i><br />
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For anybody that has already read <i><b>Serviced</b>,</i> could I possibly ask you to leave a few words for <i><b>For One Night Only</b></i> on Goodreads, Amazon, and even your blog if you don't mind? It would be much appreciated. For any reviewers that haven't yet read the story, I have ARCs available so just get in touch or leave a comment below.<br />
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Thanks everyone!<br />
Allie x<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-2523406327778646642014-06-27T13:00:00.000+01:002014-06-27T13:00:33.862+01:00Introducing... The Wild, Wild West by Molly Ann Wishlade<div style="text-align: justify;">
This week has seen the cover reveal of the new mini-series by Molly Ann Wishlade and it is my pleasure to bring them to you all in one place...</div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I’m fascinated by the Wild West, in particular the town of Deadwood, and I love writing about cowboys and their lives and loves. I get my ideas for my writing from all sorts of places - sometimes the title comes to me first, sometimes I envisage a character and sometimes a line or two will pop into my head and I’ll just have to flesh it out. My inspiration for the series came to me with the lines…<i>It wasn’t easy for any of them. She knew that. She’d been where they were now. These poor daughters of Deadwood had little to make their lives bearable</i>…which left me eager to write the stories of three women living in and around Deadwood in the 1800s. The three heroines in the Wild Wild West series are very different, yet they’ve all been affected by their time in Deadwood in some way. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Runaway mail-order bride Layla Powell is terrified when she is captured by two powerful cowboys purporting to work for her fiancé – the mysterious Mr Jackman. At first Layla fights tooth and nail for her freedom, but Charlie and his lover Etu have their own erotic methods to subdue their feisty captive...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Feisty ex-harlot Ellen Finch is finally free to escape her troubled past and make a fresh start, far away from the dusty town of Deadwood. But Ellen’s plans are interrupted when a dark and brooding stranger bursts through the doors of The Gem Theatre and Saloon begging for her help as a midwife. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Ellen can’t refuse his pleas, or allow another woman to suffer when she can help. Nor can she ignore the pang of regret she feels upon discovering this stranger is about to become a father; if only she’d had a man like Clayton Kile to care for her! Relief floods Ellen when she discovers the labouring woman is Clayton’s sister. Clayton can’t afford to pay Ellen for her help; instead he expertly demonstrates his gratitude!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">It’s been years since a man’s passion has moved Ellen, but there is something about this cowboy that tugs at Ellen’s emotions and fires her own long latent desires. Ellen faces a difficult choice, surrender to the demands of her body and risk losing her heart to love, or follow her head and leave Deadwood and her past behind forever...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Grace is wary of these handsome strangers; in her experience men are not to be trusted. However, Matt, fair and athletic, and Blake, dark and ruggedly handsome, are keen to prove to Grace that not all men are alike. The attention she receives from them both thaws her frozen heart and melts her inhibitions; she would welcome either one to warm her bed, but it’s a choice she finds impossible to make. In her dreams she’s allowed them both, but can her brazen desires ever be fulfilled in reality?</span></div>
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Molly Ann Wishlade has always been an avid reader and writer of stories. She regularly indulges her love of romance and passion by getting lost in the delicious worlds created by romantic novelists. When not reading, she’s busy with her current WIP, usually her next highly erotic tale about sexy and saucy heroes and their lady loves – and sometimes their gorgeous male lovers too. </div>
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<b>1) Have you always been a writer or is it something you fell into?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I've always written, but I didn't think I could write and be published until a couple of years ago. As a child I won two Where Does Chocolate Come From writing competitions, but at senior school I was told my writing was too flowery and not factual enough. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I just write what my characters tell me. At home, I sit in my study all day, looking out across the garden to the fields and forest. I don't go into the lounge until the evening. (Well the study is nearer the coffee pot.)</span></i></div>
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<b>3) Is there a book or an author that has influenced you in your writing?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">It was a harlequin writer, Robyn Donald who I met several years ago, in New Zealand. She told me to sit down and try. Her descriptions of New Zealand made me want to visit there, and her. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Just try. You never know until you do, what you're capable if, and as long as you do your best, you're the winner. Also write as you can, not as you think you should.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Er probably not. I didn't start drinking full strength coffee until I was pregnant. I hate the feel of new wet wood. It gives me goose bumps. I always eat the caramels in a box of chocolates before anything else.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Champagne, chocolate, MacBook Air and charger (can I have a power source), comfy feather pillow and my Uggs.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Lessons learned at Miss Simpkins' School is just the education Miranda needs to learn how to seduce her reluctant Lord. Or is it?</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i>Enlisting the help of Miss Simpkins and her School for Seduction, she sets out to tempt Felix. Men can be so difficult sometimes, and not see what's right under their nose.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">It falls to her to show him that age is just a number. She may be young, but she knows what she wants. And she is determined to get it.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i>Will Felix be able to resist temptation, or will he finally see sense and claim what's been his all along.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Little does Miranda know what Felix has in store for her.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Miranda kept shouting at me. She wasn't really a front runner until I realized who she was related to and why she needed her story told. Especially as her story is a reversal of what was expected in those days. She wants her older man. It's him who doesn't think a large age gap is right. Totally the opposite to most Regency marriages.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">It flowed. I love the Miss Simpkins' School series. They're so much fun to write.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">About a week. Seriously. I wrote three of this series' short stories in under three weeks. They just hit me, and when that happens I listen—and write.</span></i></div>
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“You see, Felix, ladies gossip. I know so much happens that is rarely admitted to openly. And it intrigues me. I want to experience some of those things. However, I’m greedy. I want you to be my tutor. No one else. And added to that, I want to know it is only me you...attend to, shall I say? You keep telling me I’m too young for you? Really? Or are you scared? Scared you won’t be man enough for me?”</blockquote>
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She had never known just what the words “a pregnant silence” meant before then. His eyes now widened and something unknown to her flashed in their depths.</blockquote>
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“Oh, Miranda, I will be more than enough for you, my dear.” The velvet tones poured over her, and surrounded her with notes of heat and intention. She had never felt so taken in thrall by a voice before. Each word, each nuance, enveloped her and encouraged her body to tingle. His smile was one-hundred-percent sex. Never before had she been the recipient of that expression and it was the most juice-inducing look ever. “The thorny question is...” </blockquote>
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Felix paused, and one side of his mouth quirked up in what she thought of as delicious. “Are you woman enough to cope?”</blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Well, if you like feisty women, hot bod men and a story with lots of hints and intimacy…Evidently I write very hot. <b>Snigger</b> I try to hint and tease, and let you give your imagination full reign…</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Well, There's two more Miss Simpkins' stories, Jane and Molly with my editor, so I'll be doing edits for those. (Breathless Press) Plus two books out of a series of six, all finished with Totally Bound. The series is set in a Scottish castle which is a BDSM club, called Diomhair. Secrets Shared is up for pre-order in April and on general release in May, and Secrets Uncovered will be out in July. Oh and I'm writing Nina's story, (Nina's Dom) which is book three of Dommissimma after Master, And A Dom's Decision- Athol's Story. Um after that? Who knows. I write as my characters tell me to.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Facebook because it's easier to find everything on my lap top.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Morning every time. As often seen by my comments at 2 am, 5 am or whatever on FB.</span></i><br />
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Thank you so much for taking part, Raven I wish you every success with your new release.<br />
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<i>ISBN: 978-1-77101-253-9</i><br />
<i>Released: 7 March 2014</i><br />
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The bag over his head took him by surprise. Before he had time to react his arms were bound to his side, and then someone kicked his feet from under him. In his soft house shoes he was powerless to kick out and injure. He did his best to relax to cushion his fall. The last thought he had was he hoped to hell he didn’t topple down the stairs.</div>
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He didn’t. Before he hit the floor, strong arms held him horizontal, something rough—rope he surmised—was wrapped around his ankles. How he wished he had his top boots on, it would have been so much harder for him to be secured. Resigned for the moment, he assumed he was carried along the corridor. Even though he knew the house as well as his own, unsighted, and with his hearing muted, he was hard pressed to tell just where they were.</div>
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<i>Kidnap? Unlikely in this house. Mistaken identity? Also unlikely. Her?</i> He thought of the tormentor of his dreams. <i>Surely not. She is not capable of executing such a thing.</i></div>
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Several minutes later he wasn’t quite so insouciant about everything. He was still being carried. They had, as far as he could tell under the circumstances, descended a long flight of stairs and ascended a shorter one, entered and also exited several rooms. Sometimes the footsteps of whoever carried him sounded heavy and hollow, at other times he heard nothing at all. Without reverberations, he assumed that sometimes they moved over carpeted floor and others bare boards. It was no help. His host’s house was old and had a mish mash of floors and coverings in no particular order. They could be going around in circles for all he knew.</div>
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His captor, he decided that was the best name applicable, halted and through the fusty material that enveloped him, Felix heard several faint door hinge squeaks and dull thuds. The dust and fibers over his face made breathing ever more difficult, and his mouth was dry. <i>If I’m not released soon, I won’t have to worry about my knotty problems. I’ll be deceased and Soutar can deal with the lot of them.</i></div>
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That morbid thought didn’t sit well with him. Instead he began to get annoyed. Whatever was happening had been going on far too long, and it was no longer a joke. As his captor paused once more Felix kicked out. The curse he heard was loud enough to cut through his covering like a knife through butter, and it was good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon. The jarring went up his leg, travelled through his body, and made his teeth rattle.</div>
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Felix wondered if he recognized the voice, and decided he didn’t care. If it was who he thought it was, he deserved the kick for his roughness. If it wasn’t, he deserved the kick anyway. He struck out again and to his delight his bound feet connected with a body. He could only hope he’d got him in the bollocks.</div>
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<i>Bugger, that wasn’t in the plan.</i> It was Felix’s last thought before he saw stars and then nothing else.</div>
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I am delighted to welcome Molly Ann Wishlade, author of <i><a href="http://www.carinauk.com/trying-too-hard" target="_blank">Trying Too Hard</a></i> released last month by Carina (Harlequin UK), onto my blog for today's round of <a href="http://blog.allieaburrow.com/search/label/20Twenty" target="_blank">#20Twenty</a>...</div>
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<i>Molly Ann Wishlade has always been an avid reader and writer of stories. She regularly indulges her love of romance and passion by getting lost in the delicious worlds created by romantic novelists. When not reading, she’s busy with her current WIP, usually her next highly erotic tale about sexy and saucy heroes and their lady loves – and sometimes their gorgeous male lovers too. </i></div>
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<b>1) Have you always been a writer or is it something you fell into?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I’ve always written stories and longed to be published but I didn’t think I had what it takes. I fell into teaching instead of following a career in journalism as I’d planned. Motherhood and a very busy time followed and I tried to forget about my dream. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">In 2007, I submitted a medical romance to HM&B but it was rejected and I’m not surprised! Then I wasted time procrastinating. A few years ago, after confessing my burning desire to write to my husband, he encouraged me to try again and after a few bumps and bruises (i.e. rejections and revise and resubmits) I finally made it and Totally Bound contracted my debut novella <b>Desire in Deadwood</b>.</span></i></div>
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<b>2) Do you have a particular writing style or ritual?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Whenever and wherever! ;) As I work fulltime, have two young children and a gorgeous and supportive husband, writing doesn’t get the time I would like to give it. So I seize every opportunity!</span></i></div>
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<b>3) Is there a book or an author that has influenced you in your writing?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Growing up, I loved the passionate intensity of <b>Jane Eyre</b> and <b>Wuthering Heights</b>. I adore a good romance but I also read every Stephen King novel I could get my hands on. I like all genres and I admire good writers. It’s a craft and one that I hope to improve with every book I write. </span></i></div>
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<b>4) Is there one piece of writing (or life?) advice that has stuck with you, or that you would like to share?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Be true to yourself and your author voice. Don’t try to write what doesn’t come naturally because it will show.</span></i></div>
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<b>5) Can you tell us three things about yourself that we probably don’t already know?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I have a bulldog and a greyhound and when we take them out, people often comment on them being an odd pair.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I make a tasty curry using my own special blend of spices.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I’m an Olympic snowboarder. (I wish! I have enjoyed the Winter Olympics enormously and I’m addicted to the snowboarding and skiing events. I can ski but not at Olympic level. YET!!!)</span></i></div>
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<b>6) What five luxury items or gadgets would you hate to be without?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">My laptop. I NEED it!!!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">My husband. He is a luxury and a necessity and a gadget in a way because he drives me around. (I hate driving.) I’m kind of an emotional scatterbrain and he grounds me.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">My kids. They ground me too but they’re also a luxury because they keep me smiling and give me lots of hugs.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Wine. YUM! (Not necessity but luxury. Well…kind of necessary luxury.)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Net Flix – since we discovered this, it’s been amazing. I love House of Cards and Louis Theroux’s weird weekends. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Hired as an intern at a coveted talent agency, blonde bubbly Catrin Owens knew she could be brilliant at the job. The code of conduct is crystal clear – business is business, pleasure is pleasure…and the two should never, ever meet! No problem for Catrin - she’s hardworking, and determined to excel. Until, that is, she meets the 6 ft-something wall of lean muscle that is her boss’ top client…</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Scarred, and brimming with forbidden sex appeal, the French rugby star Henri Chevallier crashes through the walls of Catrin’s neatly-ordered life – and throws her polished professionalism aside like a scrap of sheer French lingerie!</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">The sex is fierce, exhilarating…life-changing – and almost all the more exciting as she knows she’s risking the career she dreamed of. Catrin knows she should step away. The problem? Henri is a temptation she can’t seem to resist…</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I wanted to write a romance featuring a rugby player set in Wales. The story idea came to me and I sketched an outline then when I started writing, it just flowed.</span></i></div>
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<b>8) Did the story flow from your finger tips or did some scenes take a bit of cajoling?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">This one pretty much flowed. It’s a novella about an intense and passionate affair between a Welsh celebrity agent and her firm’s handsome client, a French rugby player. </span></i></div>
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<b>9) How long did it take for the initial spark of the story to make it onto the page and then onto the publisher’s desk?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Taking into account the day job and my busy life, a couple of months.</span></i></div>
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<b>10) Do you have a favourite paragraph or sentence from your story that you would like to tantalise us with?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">The voice was like silk against Catrin’s skin and a flicker of lust darted like a hot tongue between her legs. </span></i></blockquote>
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<b>11) Over to you, what can you tell us about <i>Trying Too Hard</i>, to make us rush out and buy it?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">If you like your romance hot, fast, emotional and with a dash of humour, this is the read for you!</span></i></div>
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<b>12) What can we expect from you next? Is there something you are working on right now? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I have a mini-series of three Western novellas (currently in edits with Carina UK) centred around three young women living in Deadwood in 1890 as well as a release due in March with Totally Bound called <b>Harlot at the Homestead</b>. It’s the first in a series of historical Westerns called <b>The Duggans of Montana</b>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Both! I love my Kindle because it can hold so many books and I can download them immediately. But I also love a print book – the feel, the smell, the cover! Yummy! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Earl Grey</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Introvert. I hate being the centre of attention.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Both have their good points.</span></i></div>
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<b>18) Christmas or birthday? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Morning person if I have a day of writing planned.</span></i></div>
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<b>20) Sweet or savoury?</b></div>
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Thank you so much for taking part, Molly, I wish you every success with your new release.</div>
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To discover even more about Molly Ann Wishlade and to keep up with her latest projects, you can visit her at:</div>
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You can also catch up with Molly on the <a href="http://totalebound.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Total-E-Bound Blogspot</a> on the twelfth of every month.</div>
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<i>ISBN: 9781472090478</i><br />
<i>Released: 29 January 2014</i><br />
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The voice was like silk against Catrin’s skin and a flicker of lust darted like a hot tongue between her legs. The poky, clinical office kitchen suddenly seemed too warm, its aroma of burnt toast overpowering. The air conditioning hummed in vain as Catrin’s body was flooded with heat.</div>
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The new arrival took hold of her shoulders in large, powerful hands and pushed her towards the counter so that her stomach pressed against the hard melamine edge. Her heart picked up its pace. The fine hairs on the back of her neck pricked up.</div>
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“Catrin,” he whispered into her right ear, causing a blonde tendril of hair that had freed itself from her chignon to flutter.</div>
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“Yes?” she whispered, her nipples tightening in anticipation.</div>
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“I missed you this morning.” He nibbled her earlobe. She shivered as he ran his fingers slowly down her sides.</div>
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“Henri.” She leaned into his warmth, felt the strength of his stomach muscles against her back, his heat searing through her thin blouse. “I had to get back to my apartment. You know...feed the cat.”</div>
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“What cat?” he said, trickling slow kisses down her neck then sliding his hands under her arms to cup her breasts.</div>
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She sighed as his exquisite touch fired her passion and her breathing quickened. She slid around in his arms then pressed a trembling hand upon his broad chest.</div>
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“Please, Henri…”</div>
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“What is it, <i>chérie?</i>” He tipped her chin upwards with a fingertip and his cologne washed over her. She savoured the fresh green woody tones. At their edge she could make out something else, something even more delicious: his musky masculine scent. It made her want to open his shirt and press her face against his belly to breathe him in.</div>
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“I can’t keep going like this,” she smiled, trying to regain her composure but desire pulsed through her core like a lusty demon possession.</div>
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“Like what, Catrin?”</div>
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He reached out and stroked the back of his free hand over her black satin skirt and she groaned, moving towards him even though a voice at the back of her mind reprimanded her. He laughed softly at her body’s betrayal and turned his hand around, pressing it against the apex of her thighs and cupping the ready flesh beneath.</div>
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She slumped against the counter, her eyes half-closed. Her legs turned to jelly as he lifted her skirt to her thighs.</div>
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He pushed her skirt right up to her hips then fingered the tops of her hold-ups and she realised what he meant. This Frenchman loved a woman’s body with all the trimmings, which was lucky as she liked pretty underwear. It was just more fun to have someone to appreciate it.</div>
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It was hard to believe that it was only two nights ago, on a rather cold, drizzly July evening that she’d accompanied her boss – the renowned celebrity agent Liam H. Clarkson – to an annual dinner. It had been the sixth anniversary of the establishment of Clarkson and Gwillam Celebrity Agency. It now had five branches across Europe, with the possibility of further growth, so spirits were at an all-time high.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-28338406590859769122014-01-20T13:29:00.000+00:002014-01-20T13:29:15.376+00:00#20Twenty with... Jane O'ReillyHAPPY NEW YEAR!!!<br />
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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that your 2014 got off to a good start. I'm now back from my short 'Allie' blogging break but hope you kept in touch via my <a href="http://blogspot.aureliabrowl.com/">Aurelia</a> blog. <br />
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Continuing with my regular <a href="http://blog.allieaburrow.com/search/label/20Twenty">#20Twenty</a> guest slot - twenty questions on the twentieth of each month - I am delighted to welcome Jane O’Reilly, author of <i><a href="http://www.escapepublishing.com.au/product/9780857991126" target="_blank">The Holiday Survival Guide</a>,</i> onto my blog today to kick off 2014 in style.<br />
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<i><i><span style="color: #666666;">Jane O’Reilly started writing as an antidote to kids' TV when her youngest child was a baby. Her first novel was set in her old school and involved a ghost and lots of death. It’s unpublished, which is probably for the best. Then she discovered contemporary romance, and that, as they say, was that. She lives near London with her husband and two children.</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I had played around with the idea as a teenager, but then I’d played around with a lot of ideas at that age. It was then forgotten for quite a long time, as I did all the usual things – went to university, did some jobs I was totally unsuited to, got married, had children. When my youngest was 10 months old, I got up one day and decided that I was going to write a book. I’d given up work when I had my first baby, and my life had been a constant cycle of no sleep and CBeebies, and I needed something that would challenge me, intellectually, and that wouldn’t cost any money or need childcare. I had read somewhere that Janet Evanovich had written her first book when she’d been at home with toddlers, and that was what really sparked the idea in my head. I wrote a terrible ghost story set in my old school and randomly decided to make it 75 thousand words long, just to see if I had the stamina to finish a manuscript. I did. It was awful. I wrote another, and then another. Once I’d started, I didn’t want to stop. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;">My children are both in full time school now, so I write in school hours. I write 3 thousand words a day, 5 days a week. I try not to write at the weekend. During school holidays, I write 1 thousand words a day and try to write every day. My ritual is really simple – do the school run, sit down, turn on laptop, write.</span></i><br />
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">I’d say that Vogler’s book The Writer’s Journey has definitely influenced me. I’m fascinated by story structure and how a story is so much more than a series of consecutive events. It is a bit of a tome, I admit, but well worth reading.</span></i></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I’ve got 4 tattoos, I’m an obsessive knitter, and </span></i><span style="color: purple;"><i>I went to school with Anita Rani from the One Show.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Can I count my husband as a luxury item? I’m really bad with gadgets, because I am too impatient to learn how to use anything properly. I would say a Radley bag, my knit pro knitting needles, Courvoisier and my collection of Karen Millen dresses, of which I have far too many (plus the husband, as mentioned above).</span></i><br />
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">I actually didn’t this year. Usually I make a resolution to try and keep my house tidy, then I realise that I have no idea how to do that, so it pretty much crashes and burns by mid January. </span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">When tabloid journalist Erica Parker is forced to take a holiday, she's determined to make it the most miserable holiday she possibly can, but not even her impressive imaginative powers could have come up with sharing a tent with survival expert Nathan Wilde.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Nathan was a married man with a successful TV show before Erica got to work on his life. Now the hottest man she’s ever met is single, furious, and he’s got her alone in the wilderness for three long days…</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I had wanted to write a story with a Bear Gryll’s type hero for quite some time – the sort of man who is completely at home in surroundings that would turn the rest of us into nervous wrecks, who is physically fit, intelligent, and prone to stripping off at every give opportunity. I’m rambling. I’ll stop now. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">As the story is fairly short – just under 30K – it flowed pretty well. I had a clear idea of my heroine, and where she wanted to end up. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I wrote the story in January 2013, in response to a submission call that Carina Press were running. They were looking for Winter Holiday stories. The turnaround was pretty tight, as I recall, so it was probably about 3 weeks work in total. I sent it to Angela James, who replied to let me know that she really liked it, but it didn’t fit the anthology theme (as ‘winter holiday’ doesn’t quite have the same meaning in the U.S. that it does here in the UK). She was keen to work on it but suggested that as I was already published by another Harlequin imprint, Escape, that I might want to sell it to them, so I did. </span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">It is a fun, quirky contemporary romance novella built around one of my favourite tropes – enemies to lovers. Plus they get naked in the snow. What more could you want? </span></i></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">I have an erotic romance trilogy coming in March – three very naughty stories featuring three very different couples. The first one, Indecent Exposure, is about a shy photographer with a sideline in boudoir photography who finds herself taking nude shots of a man she really shouldn’t.</span></i></i></div>
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Thank you so much for taking part, Jane, I wish you every success with your new release.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Dianna combines a titillating mix of paranormal romance and urban fantasy into her writing to bring you stories that are action-packed, fast-paced and not short of heat, with the focus on both character development and the plot. She writes both full-length novels and short fiction. All further info can be found at <a href="http://www.diannahardy.com/">diannahardy.com</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">At my core, I have always been a writer. From as young as I can remember I was writing stories, writing in my diary, writing poetry and writing songs. Life gets in the way, so it wasn't constant throughout the years, but I have always written.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Er … furiously type out the words and hope for the best!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I love the way J R Ward writes, and also Larissa Ione. I supposed they influenced my desire to write in a more “raw” way (particularly seen in my <b>Eye Of The Storm</b> series), although my writing style is definitely my own.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">About fifteen years ago I learnt and assimilated that I, and only I, am responsible for my life. I choose. That changed my way of thinking completely, and opened a valuable door for me that has led me to abundance and a wonderful sense of peace.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I also love almost everything Neil Gaiman says – he makes a lot of sense to me.</span></i></div>
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<b>5) Can you tell us three things about yourself that we probably don’t already know?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Now, that would be telling … you don't know for a reason :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Hot showers, coffee, my laptop, the internet and I guess that means electricity, too.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">ACT TWO – all about your new release…</span></h2>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">The Earth is in a state of shock after the apocalypse. The veil between dimensions is no more. Demons and fallen angels walk among humans, and everyone is trying to find their place in the new world - Morgan le Fey's world.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">But the fairy queen finds herself cemented within humanity and struggling with human emotions, and her right-hand-man, Lucifer, has secrets which are causing fissions among every race.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Meanwhile, Karl and Elena struggle with their powers, Katarra delivers an important message, and two men will stop at nothing to protect their unborn child - the Messiah of the New Age - and the woman they love.</i> </span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Far to the east, the fallen Archangel Michael is fighting for the one he holds above all others.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">The last Dragon is about to rise and seal everyone's future, which depends solely on its survival ... or its extinction.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">NOTES: The Witching Pen series is comprised of a paranormal romance trilogy (books 1-3) and an urban fantasy novel, The Last Dragon. It is HIGHLY recommended that you read the trilogy first, so that you are not lost with this story. Contains explicit scenes of sex and some violence. Written in British English. (Full novel-length at approx. 90,000 words.)</span></i></div>
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<b>7) Congratulations on your recent release of <i>The Last Dragon,</i> what was your inspiration for writing this story?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Well, this is the final instalment of a four-part series, which is made up <b>The Witching Pen</b> trilogy (books 1-3, paranormal romance) and <b>The Last Dragon</b>, which is book 4 and an urban fantasy. My inspiration for writing the series is made up of an awful lot of things, but I suppose I wanted to write something that brought both light and dark together, and had a theme of “unity” running through it. It's sort of hard to explain – so many parts of me when into making the series.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Most of the story flowed. Of course, there are always scenes that are harder to write. The hardest character in the series to write was probably Gwain – he was hard to pin down, particularly in book three, <b>The Demon Bride</b>. And all of <b>The Last Dragon</b> was difficult to write, not least because of the direction that some of the characters went in, but it was necessary to tell the story.</span></i></div>
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<b>9) How long did it take for the initial spark of the story to make it onto the page and then onto the publisher’s desk?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">The series as a whole, I began writing on 6th May, 2011 with book one, <b>The Witching Pen</b>, and the series finished with the publication of <b>The Last Dragon</b> on 4th October, 2013. Two years and five months. It's been quite a journey :)</span></i></div>
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<b>10) Do you have a favourite paragraph or sentence from your story that you would like to tantalise us with?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">From <b>The Last Dragon</b>:</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.”</span></blockquote>
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<b>11) Over to you, what can you tell us about <i>The Witching Pen series</i> and <i>The Last Dragon,</i> to make us rush out and buy it?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">In a nutshell: Witches, angels, demons, Heaven and Hell all come together in a dizzying story of friendship, love and forgiveness. Oh, and book one is FREE :)</span></i></div>
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<b>12) What can we expect from you next? Is there something you are working on right now?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I'm working on <b>Heart Of The Wolf</b>, book three of the <b>Eye Of The Storm</b> series – all about lusty British werewolves :D</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">QUICK FIRE ROUND – it’s pop quiz time…</span></h2>
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<b>13) Plotter or pantser?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Both. I plot the pivotal moments, and then leave it chance as to how I'll get there.</span></i></div>
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<b>14) Secret Seven or Famous Five? </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(please tell me you know them!?)</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Famous Five! No contest. I wanted to be George, and we named out family pet (a Springer Spaniel) Timmy at my absolute insistence.</span></i></div>
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<b>15) Digital books or print books?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I still like print best – there's nothing quite like physically holding a book you love, with the cover and everything.</span></i></div>
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<b>16) Tea or coffee?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Coffee</span></i></div>
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<b>17) Cats or dogs?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Cats</span></i></div>
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<b>18) Extrovert or introvert?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Introvert</span></i></div>
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<b>19) Save or spend?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Save</span></i></div>
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<b>20) Facebook or Twitter?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Oooo, that's a hard one. I think Facebook wins, but not by much.</span></i></div>
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<b>And that’s a wrap!</b></div>
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Thank you so much for taking part, Dianna, I wish you every success with your new release.</div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Thank you! This was fun!</span></i></div>
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To discover even more about Dianna Hardy, and to keep up with her latest projects, you can visit her at:</div>
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I am taking a moment out from my Aurelia tour shenanigans to host my regular 20Twenty feature, so pull up and chair and make yourself comfortable. Today, I am delighted to welcome Jennifer onto my blog today, author of <i>Love and Lies,</i> which was released September 3rd.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Born and raised in Texas, Jennifer is a transplant to Missouri long enough ago she should probably consider that her hometown. But she will forever be a Texan. She loves to write any story that will make a reader smile, laugh, and maybe even cry (although you won’t ever hear her admit that she cries). Whether the next story she writes is contemporary, urban fantasy, LGBT, or whatever other crazy idea she comes up with, there will always be love and romance in the midst of trials and turmoil.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">This story actually started as 4 points of view, one for each of her friends. The further into that dreadful first draft, the more her story came to the forefront. She yelled the loudest, so after a few starts and stops, revises and rewrites, Carissa ended up telling her story. </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I’ve been told this story is similar to the movie </i><b style="font-style: italic;">First Daughter</b><i> starring Katie Holmes. There’s laughter, a little suspense, secrets, and sexy. I like to think these characters are laid back for the most part, not a lot angst going on at Beaux-Artiste University. </i><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Right now I’m working on a short story for an upcoming anthology. After that I will start on the next book in this series—for now it’s the <b>Love and Lies</b> series—which will feature Logan and Mari. I’m really excited to write Logan’s story. He’s a musician who wants to follow his dreams, but every time he gets the chance something else stops him in his tracks. </span></i></div>
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Thank you so much for taking part, Jennifer, I wish you every success with your new release.</div>
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“Oh, I didn't tell you already? What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine. So, these...” I shoved some Cheetos in my mouth. “Are mine,” I said around a mouth full of chips and wiggled my cheesy fingers in his face before licking them one by one, slowly savoring the flavor. </div>
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With one hand, Eric grabbed the hand I clutched the bag with, while his other went to my waist, brushing against a slice of exposed skin. I squirmed and coughed, choking on the chips still in my mouth. He pulled back long enough for me to swallow and catch my breath. When he moved off the couch, he took the bag with him. </div>
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With my elbow on the arm of the couch and my head propped in my hand, I watched Eric stand in front of me with a mouthful of Cheetos, one hand on his hip, the other out toward me, palm up. He crooked a finger in my direction and motioned me over. I lay back on the couch looking at the ceiling. </div>
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Eric looked defeated. His shoulders slumped, his head hung low. I grinned at him. Like a snake, I slid off the couch and eased onto the table in front it before jumping toward him. He was faster than I expected, because he caught me in midair. I wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled the bag from between us. He held me up, his arms around my waist, hands cupping my butt. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">Mature Young Adult/New Adult fiction<br />Release date: 19 September 2013<br />Publisher: Carina (Harlequin UK)<br />ISBN: 978-1-472-01805-2</span></i><br />
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I am delighted to welcome Kierney Scott onto my blog today, author of <i><a href="http://www.carinauk.com/twice-in-a-lifetime" target="_blank">Twice in a Lifetime</a>,</i> soon to be released from Carina UK.</div>
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Don't let the cheeky smile fool you, this fabulous lady has a wicked sense of humour so I couldn't wait to get her in the twenty questions hotseat.<br />
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ACT ONE – all about you… </h2>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Originally from California, Kierney Scott moved to Scotland to enrol in the Ph D programme in Educational Research at the University of Edinburgh. <br /><br />Four days after she arrived, she met her husband, who persuaded her it would be more fun to get married than write a thesis. After the birth of her daughter she decided it was time to go back to school, but soon discovered all she wanted to write was romance novels. She admitted her literary proclivities to her husband, who promptly bought her a laptop and told her to start writing her book. <br /><br />When she is not writing, you will probably find her at a spinning class or baking (read eating) cupcakes. Her butter cream icing is legendary, if only in her mind. If you want her recipe, or just want to chat, you can contact her at <a href="mailto:KierneyScott@gmail.com">KierneyScott@gmail.com</a> or follow her on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Kierney_S" target="_blank">@Kierney_S</a></span></i></div>
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<b>1) Have you always been a writer or is it something you fell into? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I think it was inevitable I became a romance writer. My mother has always been completely addicted to romance novels, so much so that she would read them to us as bed time stories so she did not have to put her book down. She always left out the sex scenes but when I was eleven or so I started reading them for myself. Totally inappropriate, I know, but it explains so much… </i></span><br />
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<b>2) Do you have a particular writing style or ritual? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Every book I write has a theme song(s) I listen to on a loop. For <b>Twice in a Lifetime</b>, I listened mostly to Pink’s Give Me a Reason and Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. For the dark moment I listed to Stay by Rihanna. For the sex scenes I listened to S&M by Rihanna. It is impossible to feel uptight when you listen to that song! </i></span><br />
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<b>3) Is there a book or an author that has influenced you in your writing? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I have read A LOT of old school romance so it stands to reason some of it has permeated my subconscious. Sometimes you can see it in my heroes. At the start of a book, before the heroine shows them the light, they can cross the line from alpha to jackass. Luckily I have an editor who calls me on it. </i></span><br />
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<b>4) Is there one piece of writing (or life?) advice that has stuck with you, or that you would like to share? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>My writing advice is to avoid info dumps. I like to feel drop kicked into a scene. Readers are smart, they can figure out what is going on, so wait until they care about your characters before you give them their back story. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>My advice for life is: be kind, be positive, and always seek out the joy in life. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"></span><b>5) Can you tell us three things about yourself that we probably don’t already know? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I have the world’s smallest tattoo: a forget-me-not flower on my second toe. My sisters have matching ones. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I am freakishly strong as a result of my enormous quadriceps. I can leg press 900 lbs. My husband likes to refer to my legs as my Chris Hoys. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I am teetotal but people often assume I am drunk because I am always the first to hit the dance floor and my dancing is not great... </i></span><br />
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<b>6) What five luxury items or gadgets would you hate to be without? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>My electric toothbrush, my kindle, my laptop, my ipod, and my vitamix. I love that blender. I feed my daughter spinach smoothies and call them ice cream. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">ACT TWO – all about your new release… </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b><i>A second chance at redemption...</i></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>A lifetime ago, Sarah and Liam were childhood sweethearts in a dingy Edinburgh block, dreaming of making it in the big wide world. But reality called. Sarah stayed to make a difference in her community, while Liam forged a career in international finance and never looked back.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Ten years on, a friend in crisis brings Sarah and Liam together in Dubai. There’s no trace of the boy she once loved – the man Liam has become is hard, mercenary, infuriating… and arousing. In an opulent desert city far away from everything she knows, can Sarah take the heat? </i></span></blockquote>
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<b>7) Congratulations on your recent release of <i>Twice in a Lifetime,</i> what was your inspiration for writing Sarah and Liam’s story? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>The jobs from my pre writing life were the inspiration for this book. I taught emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children. In theory the school was for children from all over Edinburgh, but there was a disproportionate number from certain areas, like the council estate that was home to Liam and Sarah. I often thought about what it would look like if one of my pupils really succeeded in life. I wondered what scars they would carry from their start in life. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I also worked in harm reduction doing near enough the same job as my heroine Sarah: giving condoms and clean needles to sex workers. </i></span><br />
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<b>8) Did the story flow from your finger tips or did some scenes take a bit of cajoling? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>This was by far the easiest thing I have ever written. I am not sure why but I am very grateful for how smoothly the writing process was. </i></span><br />
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<b>9) I see <i>Twice in a Lifetime</i> is your debut, how long did it take for the initial spark of the story to make it onto the page and then onto the publisher’s desk? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>It took me less than two months to write. </i></span><br />
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<b>10) Do you have a favourite paragraph or sentence from your story that you would like to tantalise us with? </b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">She shrugged her shoulders. “You hide behind your penis. It is not a bad thing, it is just your crazy. You flirt with me to deflect your feelings. You aren’t good at dealing with emotion so you fall back on what you are good at.” <br /><br />“No Dr. Campbell, I flirt with you for the reason men flirt with women-I fancy you.” <br /><br />She shook her head. “Nope, it has nothing to with fancying. You do it when I bring up something you don’t want to talk about, anything related to the past.” <br /><br /> He turned and looked at her directly in the eyes. “I do it because I want to screw you in every position ever tried, and some they haven’t thought up yet. Simple as that, Sarah. I want to fuck you.” </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>*Confession time* This is my favourite bit of dialogue because I was certain my editor was going to cut it. I automatically love anything I think is going to get the chop. </i></span><br />
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<b>11) Over to you, what can you tell us about <i>Twice in a Lifetime,</i> to make us rush out and buy it? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Twice in a Lifetime is a fast sexy read set in Dubai . What is not to like?!</i></span><br />
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<b>12) What can we expect from you next? Is there something you are working on right now? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I am almost done with my second book. The working title is <b>My Gay Husband</b>. I have no idea what my publisher will call it in the end. I love the surprise. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">QUICK FIRE ROUND – it’s pop quiz time… </span></h2>
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<b>13) Plotter or pantser? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Plotters for the win! I write a very detailed outline, chapter by chapter. The book may change as I write and flesh out the characters. If this happens I go back and change the outline because nothing goes in the book unless it is in the outline. </i></span><br />
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<b>14) Secret Seven or Famous Five?</b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(please tell me you know them!?) </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>I was raised in California so I did not discover Enid Blyton until I moved to Scotland. I prefer Robert Munsch and Shel Silverstein. They are gods of children’s literature. Trust me I was a teacher, I know kid’s books ;-) </i></span><br />
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<b>15) Digital books or print books? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Digital all the way. I love the instant gratification. I am not great with impulse control. </i></span><br />
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<b>16) Tea or coffee? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Can I be awkward and say toffee nut Signature hot chocolate from Starbucks? I am addicted. I am never away from that shop. They even have a copy of my cover on their community notice board because I am that friendly with the baristas. One of them is called Liam and I tease him and say I named my hero after him. </i></span><br />
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<b>17) Cats or dogs? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>My husband is very allergic so we are pet free. But growing up I had enough pets to last a lifetime: cats, dogs, chickens, fish, rabbits, hamsters and goats. I think the goats were my favourite. They were thick as mince and ate everything in sight. I could get on board with that. </i></span><br />
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<b>18) Extrovert or introvert? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Total extrovert. If I know you more than five minutes, we are friends and I will invite you to my house for dinner. I love being around people. You know the missionaries that come knocking? I have them over for dinner. We all look past the fact I write naughty books and am unconvertible (is that even a word?!) </i></span><br />
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<b>19) Save or spend? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Save </i></span><br />
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<b>20) Facebook or Twitter? </b><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Facebook but everyone else seems to love Twitter.</i></span><br />
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Thank you so much for taking part, Kierney, I wish you every success with your new release. <br />
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To discover even more about Kierney Scott, and to keep up with her latest projects and shenanigans, you can connect with her at:<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>ISBN: </i><i>978-1-4720-1819-9</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>Release date: <b>29th August 2013</b></i></span><br />
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Business magnate Luca Venancio is returning to Rio to pay his respects to his late brother, and to seduce his once fiancée, Daniella, back into his bed. Five years ago she left him without so much as a word, shunning him and the rich life he could offer in exchange for his younger, reckless brother. Now Luca wants revenge—seduce her and dump her, that's all he intends to do. <br />
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Blackmailed into a violent farce of a marriage, Daniella had no choice but to comply to protect Luca's life, even though it meant never being able to see him again. Years later, a twist of fate reunites them, throwing her plans of fleeing Rio out of the window and the love of her life straight back in. <br />
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<![endif]-->I live in Essex, not too far from London, with my very understanding husband, our identical twin boys, and two Bedlington Terriers. We're crammed into our rather cozy two-up two-down terrace and we can barely swing a cat, but hey, we love it. I work part-time as a nurse, but when I'm off duty, you will find me either chasing the toddlers around like a headless chicken, head buried in a book, or tapping away at my stories. <br />
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I have always loved to read and romance is by far my favourite genre! You can easily escape into such promising worlds, where sexy Alpha males lead the way and strong heroine's often can't help but fall head over heels in love. I adore a Happy Ever After - as I'm sure we all do if we're honest, right?! <br />
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Reading and writing go hand in hand and from the day I could read, I enjoyed writing. To put pen to paper and conjure up weird and wonderful little stories was what I thrived on! English was my favourite class at school right throughout to secondary - and I will always be thankful for the teachers who gave me the opportunities to develop and be creative! If I remember rightly, one of my first stories was called 'The Turkey Who Could Talk'...but I'll tell you more about that some other day :-) </div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I'm Iyana Jenna and you can call me Iyana. I like writing, romance, and man love so as you can see on this site, you're mostly going to find m/m stories whether they are for adults or young adults. They are not going to be too heavy on explicit sex, though, as many say that my stories are considered sweet romance.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">When I don't write, I teach English to children, teens, and adults. I also work in the curriculum and materials department in an institution. Among my responsibilities are writing books and tests.</span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">Hmm, let’s see. I started to write something about eight years ago because I couldn’t find the thing I wanted to read. But if I went back more to the past, when I was at elementary school I already liked scribbling. My school once pointed me to represent them in a writing competition. I didn’t win anything but I felt very proud. So I guess to answer the question, I might have always been a writer. :)</span></i></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">I think deadlines play an important role here. When I face a deadline, suddenly I can push myself to write, so anywhere I sit and any writing tool I have will be enough for me to start writing. The perfect place must be in front of my computer, but I can also write in my cell phone on my way to the office and back. In fact, that is mostly my writing mode recently, writing into my cell phone.</span></i></i></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Honestly, my main inspiration is J.R.R. Tolkien. I’d never have started writing again or been inspired to keep writing in these eight years. Because of him and his books, <b>The Lord of the Rings,</b> I feel like I can’t stop writing. I extend my highest gratitude for him for that.</i></span></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">It’s just that you shouldn’t give up writing, editing, and sending your pieces to the publishers. Rejection is a normal thing. The point is you should keep doing it and improving your writing at the same time.</span></i></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">1. I like squid. Squid cooked in red chili pepper is the best.</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">2. I’m totally forgetful. I have to put reminders on my cell phone or I will never remember doing things I have to do.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">3. I’m crazy about Sam and Dean Winchester, the two sexy ghost hunters from the series <b>Supernatural.</b></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">Uh, I guess I don’t have too many luxurious items. All I need are my netbook and smartphone. I don’t even have an e-reader. I know, I know…</span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Taking a break from dealing with his father’s clients on legal matters, Nicholas Haynes went out to the sea on his yacht—only to find a man floating in the water. The man was still alive, much to Nicholas’s relief.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Gregory Phillips was a private investigator and his last job almost turned him into fish food if not for Nicholas. Little did he know that the main suspect in his case was one of Nicholas’ father’s clients. When Nicholas insisted on taking care of Gregory after the incident that almost killed him, can he trust Nicholas enough with his life?</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">Thank you very much! For the characters, my inspirations are still these two guys that I love so much. They look so good together and it’s obvious they love each other. Sorry I can’t tell their names, though. :) As for the story, it’s because I like to watch action thriller movies, but in this case I mix drama and romance into it. I love romance. :)</span></i></i></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>When I first wrote it, it seemed to just flow from my fingertips. But when it got to the editor’s hand, I found that I needed to fix quite a number of things. I don’t know if my logic is too weird or what. :)</i></span></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">I can’t write very fast. The most I can do in one day is probably just 1,000 words, what with going to the office, teaching, and all. That happens for every story I write. It’s the same with this one. But the process from getting the idea to the writing was quite fast because I didn’t make an outline first. It was all in my head.</span></i></i></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i>Nicholas practically carried Gregory back to bed. Gregory’s pale face turned greenish when Nicholas laid him down and tucked him in. His breaths were short and fast. Nicholas couldn’t help brushing Gregory’s brow with his thumb, and froze as he thought Gregory would snap at him. But Gregory said nothing. He lay still, eyes closed, but caught Nicholas’s wrist when he was about to pull back.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">It’s a gentle romance between two men, a story where one guy saves another’s life and despite the condition and who they are, they fall in love and decide to be together for the rest of their lives.</span></i></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="color: purple;">This July 21 I will have an m/m short story released by Alfie Dog Fiction. Some future releases include short stories and a novella that will be published by <b>Books to Go Now, Leap of Faith</b> (October 2013), and <b>JMS Books</b> (January 2014). Right now I’m revising a short story after I got inputs from some friends. I’m also working on a novella that I hope I can finish in time to be included in an anthology. Please cross your fingers for me. :)</span></i></i></div>
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Thank you so much for taking part, Iyana, I wish you every success with your new release.</div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Thank you so much for having me! It’s been such a pleasure.</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-61330767186177389542013-06-29T10:41:00.002+01:002013-06-29T11:04:17.861+01:00Armed Forces Day 2013I am posting today to show my support and appreciation for the service personnel, who make many personal sacrifices on my behalf, on this Armed Forces Day.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-26104106807142235672013-06-20T08:30:00.000+01:002013-09-01T17:55:24.915+01:00#20Twenty with... Faberge Nostromo<div style="text-align: justify;">
I am delighted to welcome Faberge Nostromo onto my blog today, author of <i>His Secret Dancer</i>, recently published by Breathless Press.</div>
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Faberge burst on the social network a fair few months ago now and was an instant hit. Having followed his progress from contract to publication and beyond, I cannot wait to dig a little deeper with a game of twenty questions. </div>
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<i><i><span style="color: #666666;">I grew up in the East End of London before escaping to East Anglia. I’ve been a civil servant, a tea boy, sound engineer, a librarian and an IT consultant but deep down, I always knew that I was a writer. I now live deep in the heart of Suffolk with my wife, son and too many guitars.</span></i></i>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I'd always thought that I was a writer until I actually became one then I realised that I'd not been one at all. A writer writes, writes and writes – and has readers. Writing in an echo chamber – tweeters tweeting to tweeters, bloggers blogging about blogging – isn't being a writer. Writing a book is a bloody pain in the derriere and takes time and effort and then more time and more effort. Then a bit more. And a little bit after that. Then it comes out and you realise you should have done it better. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I've had a career in the true sense of the verb – 'move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way'. I think it's that very aspect of it that's helped. I've banged off a lot of walls and fallen over a lot of obstacles and gathered a lot of moss on the way. Just got to try to make sense of it and wrap it up in a story… or two… or three. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Mostly I sit at a keyboard (MacBook Air or Smartphone) whenever I'm not doing anything else and try to think of reasons not to write. Then maybe a sentence will fall out unexpectedly and if there's a following wind I'll have a paragraph eventually and then – and sometimes I'm really lucky – it all starts flowing and I'll look up and there's a chapter on the screen in front of me. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">More annoying is when a scene, or character, or crucial event occurs to me and I'm meant to be busy doing something else and I have to find a way to scribble it down somewhere. Being in a business meeting and suddenly realising that your transgender hero/ine is going to wear the six-inch heels and fishnets on his first date can make for some interesting note taking. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Meeting Raven McAllan kick started me. I read <a href="http://www.breathlesspress.com/index.php?main_page=product_free_shipping_info&cPath=17&products_id=29" target="_blank">Almost Entente Cordiale</a> after meeting her as she sat, glass of wine in hand, MacBook on lap, by a swimming pool in South Africa and decided that, finally, I was going to write a book. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I'm too tall to buy trousers in Marks & Spencer, I'm a Reiki healer and I recently qualified in Indian Head Massage. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I'm glued to my MacBook Air when I've not got my face in my Android Smartphone, so that's two but I really can't be without a guitar or a ukulele - and my Kindle would make five! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Having found 'her' inner T girl as a student, Danielle has discovered the power of her femininity and her talent to entice and excite - but she realizes that Dan's life is losing the passion it once had.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">As Danielle's relationship with Tomasz takes her deeper into both her lover and his world, encountering passions neither thought they dare explore, demure Francine is too often left to her own devices and desires. Her only release is in the fantasies inspired by the customers who pass through her life and her patisserie.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Seeing her man exploring her wardrobe she decides to embrace the power of her own sexuality. Then a sizzling encounter with Tomasz unlocks the vixen in her and sets their two worlds on a collision course.</span></i></blockquote>
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<b>7)<i><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></i>Congratulations on your recent release of <i>His Secret Dancer</i>, what was your inspiration for writing Dan/Danielle, Tomasz and Francine’s story?</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(no, I didn’t make a mistake then folks, intriguing isn’t it!?)</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">It was two things – meeting Raven McAlland and then a few days later I actually met a man who'd been a transvestite burlesque dancer! So I thought – well, that's my twist on boy-meets-girl. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">The story did sort of flow and tell itself – mostly - but writing the scenes between Danielle and Tomasz took me miles out of my comfort zone. </span></i></div>
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<b>9) I know <i>His Secret Dancer</i> is your debut (and hopefully the first of many), but how long did it take for the initial spark of the story to make it onto the page and then onto the publisher’s desk? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Funnily enough, almost exactly a year to the day from that swimming pool meeting and meeting the real life Dan/Danielle. His Secret Dancer was rejected at the first attempt but with such positive comments I had to revise and resubmit. </span></i></div>
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<b>10) Do you have a favourite paragraph or sentence from your story that you would like to tantalise us with? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Two paragraph from the scene that's had the most comments – </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">She idly ran one finger along a flour-dusted rolling pin, tracing its long smooth wooden lines and rounded end as she licked the warm chocolate dripping from the index finger of her other hand. There was a private sensual pleasure in baking. It was so very tactile and sensual, so very full of evocative aromas to accompany the textures of pastry, warm dough, and melting chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sexual, almost, and so feminine. The mixing and blending of ingredients, the creation of something new. She ran her tongue over her lips to catch the last traces, like a sweet chocolate kiss, closing her eyes and letting the heady aroma of the rich, dark chocolate fill her senses.</span></div>
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<b>11) Over to you, what can you tell us about <i>His Secret Dancer</i>, to make us rush out and buy it?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Tired of boy-meets-girl? Try boy/girl meets boy who meets boy/girl's girlfriend. Twist, turns and some hot scenes – and chocolate! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Well, I am hard at work on a sci-fi erotic romance. I'm a full-on Trekkie, having been brought up on the original Star Trek series so at this very moment I have a shuttle being flown by a mysterious alien empath down to a planet where gender is a very big issue while back at the star ship the Captain and his green skinned First Mate are having relationship problems. </span></i></div>
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A woman, slim, tall, smart business attire – dark blue jacket, strong shoulders, just above knee length skirt, black tights – possibly stockings, but an expensive pair – and a very nice pair of black court shoes, heels just under the low side of slutty but just above the high side of sensible. Her friend/partner was a little shorter; her hair a very neat, jet black bob over piercing eyes very subtly made up and the sexiest mouth Francine had ever gazed upon. Full, almost pouting dark red lips, shimmering with an understated but overwhelming moist invitation to kiss, if you dare. She seemed to smolder with an androgynous sexuality that made Francine catch her breath. They were plainly together, holding hands, eyes on each other and when the taller woman picked up one of the samples of cake that Francine had out on the counter and placed it with an innocent nonchalance, but oh so sexually, in the shorter woman's mouth Francine felt a shiver tingle from her clit through to the depths of her pussy. The shorter woman’s eyes closed as the fingers brushed her lips, dropping the sweet pastry onto her tongue. Her lips closed on the fingers and a soft ‘mmm’ escaped like a sigh as they were pulled away.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07406011233816031095noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566312980121774426.post-58434081530293490972013-05-24T13:04:00.000+01:002013-05-24T13:30:38.985+01:00Help For Heroes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An act of barbarity took place on the streets of my country's Capital this week; a young man in the prime of his life was brutally killed in broad daylight.<br />
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I don't think I'll ever truly be able to understand why, but this husband and father to a two-year old son, happened to be a British soldier and he happened to step out of the barracks, wearing his Help For Heroes t-shirt. It was an act of terrorism committed by radical extremists, British men, whom that fallen soldier had served to protect.<br />
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This despicable crime horrifies and sickens me, on every level; as a wife, mother, daughter, aunt, sister, niece, cousin, friend, as well as former partner of a soldier, but more importantly, as a human being. Whilst many stood by and watched the horror unfolding, a small number of women shielded Drummer Rigby. Those regular women, who just happened to be there, made a difference.<br />
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So, I have chosen to donate all royalties for my story, <i>For One Night Only</i>, as featured in <a href="http://www.allieaburrow.com/serviced-anthology-vol-1.html" target="_blank">Serviced: Volume 1</a> to <a href="http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/" target="_blank">Help for Heroes</a>.<br />
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Serviced is available from most major e-retailers but I will receive more to then pass on if you purchase <a href="http://www.breathlesspress.com/index.php?main_page=product_free_shipping_info&cPath=18&products_id=427" target="_blank">direct from the publisher</a>. Please see my website for <a href="http://www.allieaburrow.com/serviced-anthology-vol-1.html" target="_blank">details</a> and the links you'll need, and feel free to <a href="http://www.allieaburrow.com/for-one-night-only-excerpt.html" target="_blank">try before you buy</a> by reading the first chapter for free.<br />
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When I set out to write <i>For One Night Only</i>, I did not do it for the financial reward; I did it as a personal challenge to myself to see if I could write outside of my comfort zone and push myself as a writer. It turned out I could, with the story immediately contracted, and that is more than enough of a reward for me. With the backing of my family, I am happy to be able to give something back to show my support and appreciation of our troops, as per my dedication in the book itself:<br />
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“That’s okay, love. You did good, considering it was your first try. Let me help you.” He took a wide stance behind her, helping to reset her posture. “Now,” he whispered into her ear, placing another dagger in her hand. “Let’s see if we can get this right.” Winding his hand around her hand and the dagger, he guided her to the draw. “It’s all in the shoulders and wrist.” He wiggled their wrists back and forth as if they were one. </div>
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Her whole body tensed, as both their arms drew back then flew forward, releasing the dagger. It soared through the air, landing just above the bulls-eye. </div>
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Ascher was proud and gave her an encouraging smile. He’d used minimal strength and only held her arm to give the illusion of his guidance. She’d done ninety percent of the work. “Great job, love.” He flashed over to the target tree, retrieving two iron poles from behind the bumpy bark—no way would he put a silver javelin in her inexperienced hands. He’d stowed them earlier in the morning while Shauna was showering. </div>
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His mood perceptively brightened. Javelin fighting was his preferred method of battle. He held the bars out, whipping them in measured circle eights, each slice of the metal heating his blood. Handing her the second bar, he watched her again. </div>
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“Part of cheerleading was learning to twirl a baton—you know for parades and stuff. Sometimes, I filled in for the girls who twirled the flags. Our football and basketball teams sucked, but I loved doing the dance routines. This bar is longer and heavier, but the movements are similar.” </div>
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Cheerleader Shauna in her short skirt and swaying pompoms had been the star of a few of his fantasies. Watching her swing the pole made the skin on his neck prickle. This was a new sensation for him. He stilled, watching the strong muscles flexing in her newly sculpted body. <i>Damn, that’s really hot!</i> </div>
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Giving her a come-hither flick of his hand, Ascher widened his stance, gripping the bar between his down-facing palms. “This is a neutral position.” He waited for her to imitate his movement and only continued when he was pleased with her positioning. “All poses start from here.” Raising the bar in one hand and above his head, he gave it a series of turns, the velocity of the revolutions resembling the blades of a helicopter. </div>
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“Ursula has never had to fight a battle on her own, so she’s not very good with weapons. Sure, she can overpower someone weaker and with less skill, but she has limited training with daggers and spikes and only a basic knowledge of sparring. Her strengths are evasion and swimming. She can swim for miles and submerge just as long. You’ll be strong sweetheart, but you’ll be a newborn with lingering human weaknesses.” Bringing the bar back to neutral pose, he motioned for Shauna to reciprocate. </div>
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Her stance was now self-assured, cocky even and evident in her smug expression. “I can beat her. If she’s a novice, she’ll be easy to beat.” </div>
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He sensed the wheels turning in her head; clearly, she didn’t take this seriously at all. “Damn it, Shauna! This isn’t a game. One false move—just one moment of lost concentration and that’s all it takes. She’ll pick up on your weaknesses and use them against you. Then, you—will—die.”</div>
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<b>“Forever. For always. For eternity.” </b><br />
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He shook the bottle, his thumb plugging the opening.</div>
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She sprang to her feet, running to the far corner of the room, but he gave chase and willed himself to the opposite wall. His strong arms seized her and cornered her against the wall.</div>
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“That’s not fair,” she seethed. “You won’t always be faster than me.”</div>
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“You wouldn’t dare!”</div>
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He shook the bottle more. “Wouldn’t I?”</div>
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She squealed, “No,” but it was too late.</div>
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The bubbly stream deluged her, raining down, soaking her with its sticky sweetness.</div>
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Ascher dropped the bottle then rubbed the stickiness all over her, massaging the liquid into her skin. His mouth journeyed between her breasts and lips, kissing, sucking and nibbling at her. “You’re so delicious.”</div>
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“I’m sticky. There’s a difference.”</div>
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“I’ll just have to prove my point to you.” He reached down, plunging a finger into her.</div>
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Her eyes widened with surprise.</div>
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Licking his finger clean, he said, “Nectar from the gods.”</div>
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He was so dirty and she liked it. His no fear approach to their sex life shocked and delighted her. His kisses migrated south, his lips and tongue equally stirring her hot skin.</div>
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“No,” she whimpered. “Haven’t you had enough?”</div>
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“I’ll never get enough of you.”</div>
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“Oh, no,” she faux protested.</div>
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He lifted her into the air, gently parting her thighs while his arms guided her legs over his shoulders. Her back was firm against the wall while his hands effortlessly supported her weight, holding her snatch at his face level.</div>
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He glanced up at her, grinned then growled, “Oh, yes.”</div>
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She squirmed, attempting to get away from him, knowing it was impossible and downright foolish to attempt it.</div>
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He squeezed the soft flesh of her ass cheeks, as his tongue burned hot laps onto her swollen clit. “You’re not getting away from me.”</div>
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“You’re—driving me—crazy!” she stuttered with spastic pauses, her fingers threading into his raven locks.</div>
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A muffled laugh came from below.</div>
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Her eyes rolled as her neck dropped back. She didn’t resist or protest—why would she when it felt so amazing. She let him have his way. When he wanted something, he always got it. She collapsed as the waves of orgasm flooded her violently shaking body.</div>
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He shifted her, cradling her into his arms, gazing at her with a hint of smugness on his face. “Guess I’d better clean you up. Care for a shower?”</div>
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“You’re such a bad boy.”</div>
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“True, but I’m your bad boy.”
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<b>“No fate other than the one I choose.” </b><br />
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The timeless creed, and tattoo, bore by the Rousseaus— a vampire clan with the purest bloodline of any vampire family. Out of this clandestine group came one who was different, yet the same: Ascher-a half-bloodling— half- human, half vampire. </div>
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Ascher questions the purpose for his existence and which world he truly belongs to: the human world or the vampire world. Two months from sealing to Ursula— a prearranged union to a woman he abhors — he’s at his wit’s end. He knows if he calls off the sealing, the Romanian clan will strike with deadly force, but he cannot see eternity with a cold empty shell of a woman like Ursula. </div>
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“No!” The ceiling rumbled, water raining down from the sprinklers. Shauna pointed towards the door. “Move!” At her command, it flew open, nearly ripping off its hinges. </div>
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She scowled. “Go away!” An unseen force removed him from her path. Turning, she backed away from both of them, her eyes fixated on the two. Her finger twirled and pointed at each of them. “Stay!” </div>
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A strange burn started in her legs. <i>What’s happening to me?</i> She’d had rage issues all her life, never anything like this. Her clear eyesight blurred gray. The hall she’d seen for three months and knew like the back of her hand, became an unfamiliar maze veiled by her fuzzy vision. </div>
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Taking a stumbling step, she regained her balance against the wall. “I told you how important honesty was to me, and you’ve kept this from me the whole time. You told me she was nobody—that it was only physical curiosity. It doesn’t look that way to me. She talks like she owns you. You said that was over. How were you going to cover up getting married to someone else?” </div>
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Shauna shook her head. “I’ve listened enough, and I can’t trust you. Without trust, we have nothing. All you’ve done is feed me lies. You’re a liar! I despise liars! I can’t believe I was going to sleep with you, allow you to be my first.” She gripped her stomach and doubled over as the nausea crept from her depths. “I’m going to be sick.” </div>
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“Don’t touch me!” Every ounce of restraint left her body, and chaos flooded her brain. She wanted to lash out. No, she <i>needed</i> to lash out. </div>
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“What part of <i>I don’t want to hear your lies</i> don’t you understand?” Pushing her hands away from her body, toward him, she barked, “Back!” He flew back and against the wall. “I don’t want to hear anymore lies!” She sobbed into her hands. “I hate you. I wish I’d never met you!” </div>
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Pain and disbelief creased his face. “Shauna? You don’t mean that. You’re just upset. Let’s talk things through.” </div>
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“There’s nothing left to say, Ascher. Just leave me alone. I never want to see you again.” </div>
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“Oh, yes I do. I mean it and I quit! I can’t work here anymore.” She ran out the emergency exit, setting off the door alarm, sprinting into the night.</div>
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At its core, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Progeny-Series/129418917161599?bookmark_t=page">The Progeny Series </a>is simply about a man and woman who fall in love, and the fact that he’s a half-blood (half-human, half vampire) and she’s a Wiccan human are secondary factors. When we meet Ascher, he’s grumpy. Frankly, who could blame him? He’s engaged to seal to Ursula—a cold and careless vampire who wants nothing more than to get her hands on a bloodstone— and he feels conflicted about his existence.</div>
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All of that changes when he meets Shawnette McCutchin. She’s beautiful, intriguing and possesses some of the most potent blood that he’s ever smelled. A war immediately begins inside Ascher. He craves Shauna’s blood just as much as he craves her body and the closer they get, the harder it is for him to control his urges. After Ascher calls off the sealing to Ursula, the trouble begins. His family’s peaceful period ends when Ursula’s army attacks the Rousseaus.</div>
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This series encompasses a family dynamic of which we’ve never seen. The Rousseaus share a common mortal and immortal bloodline, but loyalty is the thread binding this clan. Shauna and Ascher’s dissuaded love only strengthens the family bonds. Their unique union transcends bloodlines and completes the prophecy, defying the beliefs of centuries old covenants while shattering the wall between the Wiccan and vampire worlds that has existed for ages. This series is erotic paranormal romance intended for adults, as it contains adult sensuality, language and themes.</div>
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Ashlynne-Laynne/118945981513261">Ashlynne Laynne</a> has always had a soft spot in her heart for vampires but grew tired of the garlic fearing, sun-loathing creatures of old. An avid horror movie fan, she tends to enjoy media and music that is of a younger, more eclectic nature. This was the catalyst for her writing The Progeny. The vampire/witch pairing is unique and different when most books pair vampires with werewolves.</div>
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Ashlynne loves writing on the edge—combining the erotica and romance genres—and thinks of Ascher and Shauna as the wicked, damned version of Romeo and Juliet. She is currently working on book four of her Progeny Series, book one of her upcoming Rocker Series, and an untitled novella WIP. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, reading and spending time with her family. She juggles the hats of wife, mother, full time employee and part-time writer, hoping to write exclusively one day soon. Find and follow here online on <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/qlane">Twitter</a>. Check out her <a href="http://www.manicreaders.com/AshlynneLaynne/">Manic Readers </a>page, <a href="http://ashlynnelaynne.blogspot.com/">Blog</a> and <a href="http://ashlynnelaynne.com/">Website</a>, or leave her a note in her <a href="mailto:ashlynnelaynne@aol.com">Reader Email</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Jocelyn considers herself sexually experienced, a leader and manipulator. She is looking for the next challenge. The rumors surrounding Blue Moon House sound like just the thing she's looking for. Losing her roommate to marriage, she also needs a new place to stay. Hoping to find both in the same entity, she follows the rumors to their source and finds much more than she bargained for, beginning with a discovery that defies her biological science background - vampires.</i></span></blockquote>
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Twice more he pushed her hips, resuming the swinging, but after the second she was lost in the pleasure of his fingers finding their way into her, tickling her exposed lips, teasing her clitoris. She huffed on the member in her throat as her eyes rolled. He seemed to throb and she closed her mouth on the next swing. </div>
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His ejaculate coated her face as his penis collided with her closed lips. It flew into her hair, onto her breasts. She pulled her hands to her face, trying not to scream, trying to stay calm. Normally it wouldn't bother her to wear a man's seed, but hanging like this, she was already on edge. </div>
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Masculine arms came under her shoulders, lifting her. His free hand untied her legs, letting her fall against him. As he carried her to the tub, she noticed Sophia standing nearby, empty kettle dangling from her fingers. </div>
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“You're all right,” Harry whispered. “You did amazing.” </div>
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Jocelyn splashed water on her face, trying to wash away the semen and the tears. The water was blessedly hot, just short of scalding. She shook her head from side to side. Nails bit into her wrists as her hands were pried away. She found herself staring into Sophia's jewel-like eyes. </div>
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“You are fine,” she said with authority. “You are not less. You are not trash. You are proud. You did this. You chose this. You gave and now you have received. This is not a sign you are powerless. It is a sign that you grant power, power that is now and is always yours.”</div>
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Angelica Dawson is no stranger to blood sucking hordes. Unfortunately, in her day job as an environmental scientist, they aren't vampires but black flies and mosquitoes. Angelica is the author of Blue Moon House, a vampire BDSM story. She has also contributed to two anthologies, Campus Sexploits 3 and Serviced Vol. 1. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Writing sizzling paranormal romance and erotica and dark paranormal horror SJ Thomas has been published in several anthologies and had her first stand alone novellas published in 2012. She reads, writes, and breathes sexy possessive paranormal creatures and the heroines (or heroes) that bring them to their knees. SJ lives in the South West of England with her wonderful husband and a very spoilt Springer Spaniel and she has a full time day job so has to fit her writing in when she can, but of course would love to write full time one day. When not writing or working she enjoys reading, walking, geocaching, and surfing badly.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Firstly thanks for having me and I am glad we went for the comfy couch! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Anyway writing is definitely something I fell into and only in the last couple of years. I've always had an active imagination and fancied writing when I was about 16 but I honestly didn't think I could come up with anything original. It was reading an interview with Gena Showalter and Kresley Cole about their inspiration/inklings for stories that made me remember the ideas I'd had when I was 16 and I started writing again. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">The joint goddesses of paranormal romance, Gena Showalter and Kresley Cole. I have always leaned toward fantasy, vampires, werewolves in my reading but it wasn't until I discovered Gena's Lords of the Underworld that I actually realised there was a genre called paranormal romance. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Something that just happened. When I first started writing I was aiming for a full length novel but Candy Crum, a wonderful indie author, put out a call via Facebook for a paranormal horror anthology, the Withering Darkness. I had a go and my story Winter King got accepted and was my first ever published work. (It also happens to feature my all time favourite character, Malum, who had a follow up story in the second anthology Candy published and who I am determined will have a full length story one day!). </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">The first few things I had published were all anthology shorts and it turns out they were a brilliant way to practice my skills and learn the craft. I am trying to move away from short stories and get a full length novel out, but I am sure I will be tempted again. </span></i></div>
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<b>10) Out of all the stories you have had published, do you have a favourite paragraph or sentence, that you would like to tantalise us with? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Oooh hard. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">The story that has the most meaning for me is my werewolf novella Alpha Chase because to date it the longest story I have written, it was one of the first complete stories I wrote, and it received a rejection from one publisher before finding a home with Breathless. There are several lines/paragraphs I love but my favourite has got to be this one: </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">She was not going to be intimidated, even when she was flat on her back with a pissed-off werewolf on top of her.</span></i></blockquote>
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<b>11) Over to you, what can you tell us about your stories, to make us rush out and buy one, and which one would you recommend trying first? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">My romance/erotica features strong alpha males, feisty heroines, heart-stopping action and sizzling sex. The characters don't always play nice but they will give you a hell of a ride. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">My horror will linger with you long after you finish the story and will send a shiver up your spine. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">To get a feel for my writing any of the anthologies would be a good place to start particularly Ravaged, Dark Hunger or Sinister Seductions. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">If you fancy something longer I have the best reviews for Alpha Chase and Oh Christmas Tree so they are probably both my strongest writing. </span></i></div>
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<b>12) What can we expect from you next? Is there something you are working on right now? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I have just contracted a novella with Breathless Press for their Naughty Nursery Rhyme line. It’s based on they nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle and is a bit Alice in Wonderlandish with a very sexy anti-hero and lots of sizzling…erm…situations! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I am also waiting to hear on a submission to a new publisher and I have a short story I am expanding for another Breathless anthology. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">After they are done I will be working on another Naughty Nursery Rhyme based on Little Red Riding Hood and a full-length sequel to Alpha Chase. </span></i></div>
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<b>13) Plotter or pantser?</b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Half and half </span></i></div>
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<b>14) Secret Seven or Famous Five?</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(please tell me you know them!?) </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Err sorry don't really know either. Can I choose the Avengers? </span></i></div>
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<b>15) Digital books or print books? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">In my heart print, in my head digital </span></i></div>
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<b>16) Tea or coffee? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Tea </span></i></div>
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<b>17) Cats or dogs? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Dogs </span></i></div>
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<b>18) Extrovert or introvert? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Confident introvert </span></i></div>
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<b>19) Save or spend? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Try to save but normally spend </span></i></div>
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<b>20) Facebook or Twitter? </b></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Facebook </span></i></div>
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<b>And that’s a wrap! </b></div>
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Thank you so much for taking part, I wish you every success with your stories and hope a certain other impending new release of the biological kind doesn’t wear you out too much.</div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Thanks for having me, it's been lots of fun.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">I have some lovely swag that needs a home (Alpha Chase and One Wild Vegas Night postcards and Alpha Chase and SJ Thomas fridge magnets) and I'll pick one or maybe two winners from all those who comment.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">ISBN: 978-1-77101-912-5<br />Heat Rating: 2<br />Word Count: 25363<br />Release Date: October 26, 2012</span></i><br />
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