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In other news, I’m working on some public appearances and book signings. Will keep you in the loop.

AND I’m almost done (I know, I know this has taken FOREVER) with Book 3 in the Red Carpet Series.

Hope you’re all well? Anything new to share? Any books worth reading? Movies that are MUST see?

I did finally see Life of Pi and am now very sad I missed it on the big screen – WOW!

Happy Monday.

And apparently bandwidth is an issue as well… making my blog crash altogether. Which sort of defeats the purpose of blogging, ya know?

I’m sad – but working on it - I promise.

Stay with me as I work through these lovely *sarcasm* technical issues and *fingers crossed* upgrade the website to something more fantastic, more interactive, and less worm-plagued and bandwidth deficient…

Anyone know what bandwidth is exactly? All I know it, I’m not a fan…

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The Evolution of Lily Drake

When the Lily Drake series began, Lily was a normal, single-mother who worked too hard and played too little.  She was a little bitter from her divorce, a little self-conscious and not terribly confident.

Over the course of the first book, Lily became more comfortable with herself.  She begins to make time for herself, lets herself fall in love with not just one but two men and becomes less self-conscious.

In the second book, Lily has grown into the person her Aunt Rose saw in the premonitions.  She is confident, in-charge and a force with which to be reckoned.  Lily is turning into that savior and fighter she was always meant to become.  But don’t worry, our vampire mother is still as neurotic and silly as ever.

I’ve read Book One – I cannot wait to read Book Two!

Blurb:

You only get one chance at life then you die. The game’s over, no second chances.  But she was never one to follow all the rules.

In a strange twist of fate, a woman flees purgatory only to jump into a newly vacated body. When she wakes in the hospital, she has a brand new life and a whole lot of unanswered questions.  Now she’s Micah Munroe, a real estate agent with broken memories of the messed up life she once lived. A mysterious man who claims to be Death says she’s his granddaughter and that she’s something called a grimm.

Sully knows she’s an imposter because he reaped the soul of the real Micah only a week ago. He suspects she might be a misplaced shadow, what he calls spirits and vengeful ghosts. He becomes obsessed with finding out who she really is and just how she inhabited a new body.  He’ll stop at nothing to find the truth and send her back to purgatory where she belongs.  What he didn’t bargain on was how his body would react to her or how powerful the white light within her is.

When a powerful shadow and her horde of angry spirits kidnaps Sully’s best friend, they must work together to get him back.  Fighting their feelings for each other isn’t half as difficult as fighting the army of shadows bent on starting a war with the living.

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Hi Sasha! Thank you so much for letting me blog with you today. I always enjoy being over here with you!

I’m excited to announce that my newest release, Warrior Lover, is currently available in Kindle only format and will be available everywhere on Friday, April 19^th. Woot!! Warrior Lover features Enar and Lily, two secondary characters from Magical Lover, the first book in the series. There is one more book left in this series and I’m busy trying to get it out of my head and onto the page.

And how did I come up with the idea for this series, you might ask? Well, I knew I wanted a series as opposed to a single title and I also wanted a common villain in all the books (don’t worry, he gets it in the end!). So then I needed a place and several heroes and heroines. After sitting and thinking a scene popped into my head. And it starred dragon shifters. The story would not work in a modern setting, so it quickly got placed into a different world, one that I like to call fantasy-land. I live there sometimes, so it’s a pretty familiar place to me.

As usual for my stories, the beginning changed and morphed into Magical Lover, featuring Thoren and Keara. Enar, though, tried his best to take over the story and I had to write him out of most scenes, since he had a nasty habit of one-upping Thoren. Can’t have that happen, it was Thoren’s book. So I gave him his own story to shut him up. I think it worked out well as his and Lily’s story is my favorite. I hope you enjoy it too!

Blurb:

As a Watcher, a guardian warrior of the Draconi, Enar has never fit in with his kind. When he sees Lily–the ideal Watcher’s woman–he instantly claims her, believing she will bring him the acceptance he craves. Falling in love with her was not part of his plan.

As her town’s outcast, Lily wants nothing more than to escape. When Enar locks a necklace around her throat and declares she belongs to him, she jumps at the chance to leave. Her excitement soon becomes trepidation when Enar won’t tell her what to expect in his world. But even her worry can’t overcome her growing attraction to him.

Soon Lily learns what life as a Watcher’s claim entails, and refuses to submit. To keep Lily, Enar must turn his back on everything he thought he wanted. Will he choose his people? Or the other half of his soul?

Excerpt:

“You don’t mind leaving?”

All brawn, no brain obviously. Hadn’t she just said that downstairs?

“That’s right. I want to leave. You want to take me. It works out well for both of us. Now, how much can I take?”

“You do not feel a need to take your entire shop do you?” A small wrinkle appeared between his brows.

“As you noticed earlier, there’s not much to take. I have clothes and personal items. A couple of bags, maybe.”

“One bag. Thoren travels light. Insists we do the same.” He glanced to the bed and back to her, grinning. “Besides, the less time you take packing, the more time we’ll have for pleasure.”

Lily’s whole body stiffened, as blood pounded in her ears. Oh, Goddess, not now. She hadn’t left the town. Now she’d never leave. He’d crush her before she could be free.

He took a swaggering step toward her, cupping her face in his hand. “Don’t be frightened. I won’t hurt you.”

Sure you won’t, look at the size of you.

Bending forward, he placed his lips against hers, pressing gently. And just like that, her nervousness vanished.

www.karilynbentley.com

Warrior Lover: http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Lover-Draconia-Tales-ebook/dp/B00AU6VKGW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365462908&sr=8-1&keywords=warrior+lover

Magical Lover: http://www.amazon.com/Magical-Lover-Draconia-Tales-ebook/dp/B005I63WW4/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Karilyn-Bentley/120814741330722?ref=hl

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4051943.Karilyn_Bentley

Thank you for visiting today, Shawna! Let’s jump in and get to know more about you.

What was the first book you read that grabbed you? What genre? Who is the author?

 S.R: I’ve always loved books. Probably A Wrinkle in Time by Madelein L’Engle when I was in elementary school. I was always crazy about books. The elementary library called me her Greek mythologist because each week I’d come in asking for anything new Greek myth books.

 Is there an author that you get fan-girl crazy over? Have you ever met him/her? Do you want to?

 S.R: I like a lot of classic writers, so I’d say if any of them are still alive, but I don’t think a lot are anymore. George RR Martin is my favorite can’t wait for the next book author at the moment. But I’d probably be excited to see Anne Rice, who I called at her house once when I was vacationing in New Orleans to see if she wanted to go out for dinner or something. She didn’t answer, but yes, her number was listed in the phone book back then. Marion Zimmer Bradley.

What’s your:

• Favorite color? green
• Favorite season? fall
• Favorite Hero – movie or book? Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones
• Snack weakness (food or drink)? Chocolate, sweets, any and every kind
• What’s your Astrological sign?  scorpio
• Do you write sweet and cuddly or toe-curling steamy lovin’ stories? Sweet and cuddly.
• Do you read sweet and cuddly or toe-curling steamy lovin’ stories? I read everything but mainly sweet and cuddly or dark and creepy.

What’s on your desk when you write?

I write in bed with my lap top, so blankets and sometimes a dog.

 Do you write to music or quiet? If you do write with music, can you share one song that’s significantly impacted this story?

I usually write with quiet unless I need inspiration, like I’m writing a party scene and I want the mood of the scene or a violent fight scene then I might listen to something heavy. Generally I do best without distraction.

What’s your favorite line from your most recent release? Why?

“Sometimes the child is the guardian.” It might be a spoiler but I had fun trying to explain the paranormal and the existence of angels, so when I wrote it, it was an Ah ha! Moment for me.

What’s next? You don’t have to get specifics – but feel free to leave a tantalizing snippet or cryptic hook.

I’m working on book two of The Speak of the Devil series. It’s in the final stages where I’m prepping it for submission. It’s the planned middle book in the trilogy, and in this one the demons strike back!

Working Blurb:

Lily is now working with the angels to stifle the last of the demon outbreaks and to figure out how to stop the Silence of God, so life can get back to boring normality. But all hell breaks loose when she’s stolen from school and brought face to face with the devil himself. Lily has to find her way back home and to Luc, crack the prophecy that breaks the curse silencing God, and figure out how she and Luc can ever really be together; but Lucifer has other plans for her that don’t include her ever getting out of Hell in tact.

Who is your favorite character from Greek Mythology OR which Olympian would you want to be? And why?

I’m a huge fan of the Amazons, so I’d have to go with Artemis, the huntress. I love women who kick ass.

 Wanna find more about Shawna? You know you do! here’s where you can find her…

Website  | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Goodreads

 Here’s where to find her book: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

Amazon Print | Amazon eBook

Barnes & Noble Print

Book Trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDSoRBRIiDY

Medusa, Ariston, and I are hitting the blog circuit to celebrate a year of wonder! Honestly – I have been so blown away by the support and friendships I’ve forged over the last year. 

I can’t give you all the details YET, but I can tell you that the next month promises all sorts of goodies.

In honor of Medusa, A Love Story’s  birthday I will be sharing a FREE short-story here on my blog! So many of you have been heart-sick about Thea… What happens to her? I will tell you…

Giveaways – books, swag, other stuff I want to keep a secret. But I will tempt you a little. When I saw it, I admit I cried a little bit.

The birthday celebrations start here…

8CST – you can video chat with me!!!

Hope to SEE you there!!! EEk!

(note how excited i am from all the exclamation points!!!)

Followed by a month long of interviews, reviews, and giveaways! I hope you’ll stop by and visit.

***Bloggers and Reviewers, interested in participating in Medusa’s Birthday Bash?

BLOGGERS WANTED: “Medusa” by Sasha Summers, Author BIRTHDAY BASH! Email Enchantresstours AT gmail DOT com w/ the following information:

Your Name:
Your Blog’s Name:
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Title – The Grave Winner

Author – Lindsey R. Loucks

Genre – YA Paranormal/Fantasy Romance

Publisher – Crescent Moon Press

Release Date – May 15, 2013

Blurb:

Leigh Baxton is terrified her mom will come back from the dead — just like the prom queen did.

While the town goes beehive over the news, Leigh bikes to the local cemetery and buries some of her mom’s things in her grave to keep her there. When the hot and mysterious caretaker warns her not to give gifts to the dead, Leigh cranks up her punk music and keeps digging.

She should have listened.

Two dead sorceresses evicted the prom queen from her grave to bury someone who offered certain gifts. Bury them alive, that is, then resurrect them to create a trio of undead powerful enough to free the darkest sorceress ever from her prison inside the earth.

With help from the caretaker and the dead prom queen, Leigh must find out what’s so special about the gifts she gave, and why the sorceresses are stalking her and her little sister. If she doesn’t, she’ll either lose another loved one or have to give the ultimate gift to the dead – herself.

Bio:

Lindsey R. Loucks works as a school librarian in rural Kansas. When she’s not discussing books with anyone who will listen, she’s dreaming up her own stories. Eventually her brain gives out, and she’ll play hide and seek with her cat, put herself in a chocolate induced coma, or watch scary movies alone in the dark to reenergize.

She’s been with her significant other for almost two decades.

Links:

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I don’t think of myself as a science fiction fan. Those complicated names are just too weird and hard to pronounce, and I hate getting new world-building rules 300 pages in. You know the ones I mean. They’re the lines that go, “But Kinkavinska couldn’t jet off in her Personal Personnel Person Machine, because when it was colder than minus 300 Fooses on the Fooses Scale of Chilly, the gas froze up.” Yeah. Time to close the book.

But I’ve always liked the action/adventure kinds of television and movies that have space settings. I went to all the Star Wars films. My graduate school roommate was a Star Trek fan, and I always came home from the library early so we could make popcorn and watch the afternoon episode on the rerun channel. I freaked out in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I never missed an episode of My Favorite Martian. (Well, okay, that wasn’t really about space. It’s barely about Martians.)Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Wall-E, I’ve enjoyed them all. Firefly, I mourn you still.

What I like about space action/adventure is that writers can present new worlds with new rules and present new ideas that aren’t constrained by what we already know about the universe. For our literary interplanetary travels, we can make up anything we want. Hate gravity? It’s gone. Want Alvin and The Chipmunks to rule as an emperor triumvirate? Done. Need to mix your cowboy Western shoot-em-up with your space clunker adventure? Talk to Joss Whedon.

In a space adventure, you can make your characters be and do anything you want. Has there never been a child-bearing male? Ha! You can write that. Or a female football star? You got it. Your characters can work together on any project, solve any problem that you can imagine. They can be eternally optimistic, enthusiastic, smart, kind, and cooperative. Or evil, nasty, dishonest, short-tempered, and mean. They can be so totally over the topthat you need a stepladder to see them.

I once read an analysis of 1950s science fiction (sorry that I can’t remember where!) in which the author theorized that in times of political tension, space aliens are depicted as violent brutes who shoot their way to earth and kill its inhabitants. In calmer periods, space aliens are depicted as benevolent, intelligent beings who interact with humans in interesting and mutually beneficial ways.That’s probably true—as true as that the aliens are the creations of people who want to tell a certain story a certain way.

When I wrote Zero Gravity Outcasts, I didn’t know I had a space adventure in me—until I wrote about an ancient, steam-powered spacecraft and its clever crew who meet the universe’s power brokers and—well, I’m not revealing any spoilers here. But let me just say this: Serenity meets Miracle on Ice meetsGreenfingers. It sounds weird, I know. But in space, you can do anything.

Kay Keppler is a writer and editor living in northern California. Zero Gravity Outcasts is her first novella with Carina Press.

**Yes, you may groan, that was bad**

I loved Stephanie Lawton’s predecessor WANT and am really looking forward to reading NEED.  However, readers need to know that NEED is not YA/NA – it is very much an adult read…

And since I’m an adult, yay for me!

Need

By Stephanie Lawton

Published by Inkspell Publishing

http://www.inkspellpublishing.com

Release date: May 17, 2013

Synopsis:

Isaac Laroche is cursed. All he wants to do is hide out and feel sorry for himself. Never mind that he got caught sleeping with his seventeen-year-old piano student, or that he abandoned her when the truth was exposed.

Isaac’s feisty high school sweetheart has different plans. Heather Swann has returned to their hometown of Mobile, Alabama, to regroup after breaking up with her troll of a fiancé. She’s restless and looking for a diversion, but she bites off more than she can chew when she sets her sights on rehabilitating Isaac with her unorthodox sexual, mental, and physical plans.

The two quickly reconnect, but their happiness is threatened by family secrets, old vendettas and the death of a beloved father-figure.

Can Heather handle Isaac’s baggage, or will her own come back to haunt them both?

Author’s Bio:

After collecting a couple English degrees in the Midwest, Stephanie Lawton suddenly awoke in the deepest reaches of the Deep South. Culture shock inspired her to write about Mobile, Alabama, her adopted city, and all the ways Southern culture, history and attitudes seduce the unsuspecting.

A lover of all things gothic, she can often be spotted photographing old cemeteries, historic buildings and, ironically, the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast. She also has a tendency to psychoanalyze people, which comes in handy when creating character profiles.

Links:

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