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Launch for Falling in Puppy Love

10 Thursday Sep 2020

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He’s used to stories with no happy ending…

Aiden Hughes never expected to return to Birdsong, but after a scandal rocked his professional world the former hard-hitting reporter needs a plan B. Covering local events for the small town newspaper after chasing down national news is a huge step backwards. But when he interviews the founder of a dog rescue whose heart is bigger than New York City, he wonders if there’s more to life than his byline in a prestigious paper.

Emily McLane has always had a sweet spot for animals. She plans an ambitious adoption festival to fund the expansion of her beloved dog rescue, but she needs publicity. When a former local boy offers to help her design a promotion, she finds herself falling in love for the first time. They both have big dreams, but Aiden’s will take him far from Birdsong. Will they follow their hearts or are they only falling in puppy love?

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From Scottish lairds to billionaire businessmen, Kelsey McKnight will ignite your soul, no matter what century it lives in. Kelsey is a university-educated historian from southern New Jersey. She has married her great loves of romance, history, and literature to create her own tales of dashing heroes, sultry bad boys, and lovable heroines who have their own stories to tell. They will take you through the ballrooms of Victorian London, the hills of the Scottish Highlands, New York City penthouses, and into small towns with big hearts, all at the flip of a page. When she’s not writing, Kelsey can be found reading, drinking too much coffee, spending time with her family, and working for a nonprofit organization.

Sarah Fischer works hard fighting the good fight in personnel security. She graduated with a degree in criminal justice and married the calm to her crazy. Then Sarah had a health scare and needed heart surgery. While recovering, she finally had the time to write the stories playing out in her mind. Her college romantic suspense series, Elton Hall Chronicles, is now available in its entirety on Amazon. First Semester, Second Snowfall, and Third Wheel remind you what you loved about college, show you what you missed, and make you yearn for what could have been. Sarah also has a contemporary short story in the Craving Bad anthology. In her spare time, you’ll find her with a book in her hand, at the movies, or watching just one more episode of reality TV.

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Launch for Girls Who Wear Glasses

02 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Sometimes you need to take a chance…on yourself.

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Plus-sized Rachel Simon has settled into her life. But in a lifetime (so far) of not-quite fitting in, and battling demon food issues, she has given up on finding love, despite the well-meaning nagging of her close circle of friends.

Now, Rachel has received some big news: a fashion blog, which she secretly wrote on the side, has caught the eye of a major fashion magazine, who not only want her to write a column, but are giving her an award at an upcoming banquet. The problem? She used her best friend Lisa’s picture on her bio, and believes they expect a tall beautiful blonde to walk through the doors of the magazine.

She asks Lisa to pose as her at an upcoming meeting, as well the awards banquet, believing that she would lose everything if they knew someone who looks like Rachel was behind the writing. Then, she meets Nathan: cute, smart, and just a little bit weird, but she’s absolutely convinced men like that don’t ask out “fat girls” like her, and places him decidedly in the Friend Zone, and to her dismay, find that her best friend has decided to date him.

Along her journey toward love, self-acceptance, and being true to oneself, Rachel finds that sometimes, “Men Do Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses.”

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Launch for Bobby Robot

20 Friday Mar 2020

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I hear that if you have kids at home, this is a wonderful YA sci-fi that teens will love!

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Sixteen-year-old Bobby is the only human on a robot-inhabited planet. Aided by LINC, his cybernetic haywire task assistant, he must prove to the bots that the human race is worth restarting by passing his Programming, the training he receives to think and act in perfect precision-and without emotion. Failure will force him to upload his mind into the Tether, a robotic host, stripping him of his humanity and terminating his species’ last chance for survival. As he repeatedly falls short of the bots’ rigorous standards, he begins to question if the human race is even worth reviving. But when a beautiful girl named Jen crash-lands on his planet, she makes him question everything the bots have told him, including what it means to be human.

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Cover reveal – The Innkeeper’s Daughter

04 Wednesday Mar 2020

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Today is the cover reveal for my good friend’s wonderful book – The Innkeeper’s Daughter by Bianca M. Schwarz. Isn’t it gorgeous?

Release January 12, 2021

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In the twilight of a November evening, Sir Henry, a man of wealth and charm, comes across a badly beaten Eliza, desperate to escape her vicious stepfather. Realizing she has nowhere to go, Sir Henry takes her to his home in Mayfair.

There, as she recovers, Henry introduces the lovely Eliza to a world of art and literature she never knew existed. But Eliza’s brutal world follows her to London, where the salons of the aristocratic elite co-exist with the back alleys of the criminal underworld.

Thankfully, Henry, a secret agent to the crown, is able and willing to deal with the man Eliza’s stepfather had sold her to, and the pimp who plans to enslave her.

As romance blossoms between them, Eliza unearths an old secret that leads them into the dark sadistic world of sex trafficking, and finally allows Henry to identify the traitor responsible for selling military secrets to the French, causing the death of thousands.

A natural at the spy game, Eliza proves herself a worthy partner in their fight for truth and justice. But with time running out, and the fate of one girl hanging in the balance, Henry and Eliza must find a way to outwit a nasty pimp and eliminate a dangerous enemy agent.

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Goodreads Review: Rise of the Phoenix by Jamie McLachlan

24 Tuesday Oct 2017

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Rise of the Phoenix by Jamie McLachlan
Rise of the Phoenix (The Memory Collector, #3)
by Jamie McLachlan (Goodreads Author)

4 stars

 

This is the 3rd and final installment of the Memory Collector series. Our familiar characters are back, sort of. The detective is his usual stoic self, but Moira isn’t quite Moira. She is, but she has some internal stuff going on (trying not to be spoilery). Even with this, she makes familiar decisions that we’ve come to be both admirable of and infuriated at. Sometimes I really just want to shake her shoulders… really really hard.

The writing immerses the reader in the time period and era the author has built. She does a great job of being authentic – although this is a fantasy world, it is rooted in turn-of-the-century North America. I can imagine the clothes, the motor vehicles, and the demeanor.

The author is especially good at getting the reader to care about secondary characters where we even worry for them when they’re missing. Even the phoenix is multidimensional and when certain things happen, you have mixed feelings about it (again, trying not to spoil).

I would have liked to have more time with Keenan and Moira together, but I understand why that wasn’t really possible given the plot. I still missed their give-and-take though.

Overall, this was a great ending to the series where all questions were answered and the future set out for us. I would highly recommend this entire series for all lovers of fantasy or just a great story.

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Review of Love Unlimited by Kendra Olson

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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Great review for the latest anthology I have a story included in. My story, Summer Healing, is one of the titles specifically reviewed. Thanks to Kendra Olson for taking the time to review. The ebook version of this anthology is free btw (links in the review).

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29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Evergreen book recommendations

29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Fantasy

One of my favorite genres.

Time travel

  • Kindred by Octavia Butler
  • Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (this could fall in many genres)
  • River of Time series by Lisa Tawn Bergren (also fits under YA)
  • Out of Time series by Monique Martin

General fantasy

  • The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Claire (also author of The Mortal Instruments but you probably know all about that already) (also YA)
  • The Godsland series by Brian Rathbone
  • The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney
  • Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
  • Landline by Rainbow Rowell
  • Innkeeper Chronicles series by Llona Andrews
  • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  • The Trinity Saga by Ronnell D. Porter

Young Adult

  • Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  • Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
  • Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Historical Fiction

  • Cane River by Lalita Tademy
  • An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
  • Victorian San Francisco Mystery series by Louisa M. Locke
  • Pluto’s Snitch series by Carolyn Haines
  • The Alienist by Caleb Carr
  • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  • Whiplash by Yvie Towers

Mystery, Thrillers, & Intrigue

  • Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
  • Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
  • Agents Irish & Whiskey series by Layla Reyne
  • Millennium by Stieg Larsson
  • The Burden by Mary Westmacott
  • Ape House by Sara Gruen
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
  • The Alienist by Caleb Carr
  • Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries by Carolyn Haines
  • Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow
  • Rai Rahotep series by Nick Drake
  • Liv Bergen Mysteries by Sandra Brannan
  • The Dead Saint by Marilyn Brown Oden
  • An Arsonist’s Guide To Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke

The Classics

  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (actually a novella, completely love)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (my all-time favorite)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Contemporary Lit & Romance

  • One Day by David Nicholls
  • Crossfire series by Sylvia Day
  • He Say, She Say by Yolanda Joe
  • Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
  • Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
  • Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Cosmopolis: A Novel by DeLillo

New Adult

  • On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
  • Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
  • Point of Retreat (#2 of the Slammed Series) by Colleen Hoover
  • Song of the Fireflies by J A Redmerski

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Love Unlimited Anthology

28 Monday Aug 2017

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Explore the unlimited nature of love and its many incarnations in the Love Unlimited Anthology, featuring eleven stories that cross generations, cultural backgrounds, and borders. Love Unlimited will warm your heart, tickle your funny bone, and envelop you in the wonderful and complex human emotion the world calls “Love.”

Bryana Beecham — Love Letters to the Universe

When Ursula aims her cupid’s arrow at an office colleague, the drama begins with a series of handwritten letters. Penned to charm and disarm, the one-sided letters take on a life of their own… until one day Ursula decides it’s time to take their relationship to the next level. What could possibly go wrong?

Geralyn Corcillo — In Her Space

A sixty-four-year-old woman lives quietly, content with all she has survived in life. But things change when she discovers a homeless young man living under her small house.

Laura Chapman — Smyth Saves the Date

While clashing with his stern but swoon-worthy producer, George, about the show’s direction—and trying to plan his best friend’s wedding—Smyth will have to choose what he needs more: fame or love.

Katie Leonard — SuperMom and the Theory of Mind

When her mother-in-law is injured, Lauren is forced to bring her wife’s son (okay, he’s her son, too) to a comic book convention. As she navigates a world of masked heroes, flirty villains, and a giant gorilla, she learns unexpected lessons about empathy and love.

Kelly Cain — Summer Healing

A contemporary enemies to lovers romance about a poly-sci major home for the summer from college. While visiting her ailing grandfather in the hospital, she meets a hot RN with strong political opinions, completely opposite of her own.

Anne Hamilton — The Shining Girl

Surviving a cyclone, Caroline travels from India to London and back again, to find – maybe – the man she once loved but shouldn’t have. En route, a surreal encounter with her would-be guardian angel helps her redefine love, life, and what she really wants from both.

Zainab Muhammad Shahid — Kaneez’s Bulbul

Set in Lahore, the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, this love story features a young couple whose marriage of convenience reveals dark family secrets from the pre-Partition era. If love gives life, it certainly has the power to take it away.

Samantha Bryant — Flygirl’s Second Chance

Jessica “Flygirl” Roark has no problem with flying headlong into danger to save the citizens of Springfield, but that doesn’t mean she’s immune to nerves on the eve of her wedding. Sure, she’s survived ovarian cancer and learned to control her new powers of flight, but is she ready for her second chance at romance?

Therese Gilardi — Paris in April

An American woman has her life upended on an April day in Paris.

Lizbeth Durano — Starting Over

When her flight is delayed due to a snowstorm, a young painter, recently betrayed by her boyfriend and best friend, finds herself stuck overnight at Gate 27. But she’s not alone for she finds a new friend in a carefree young man who just might be the perfect friend for the duration of the wait… maybe even longer.

Amy Gettinger — Kiss My Sweet Skull

Is Indiana sugar cream pie seriously the only answer for Betty, an anthropology professor with a daunting forensic task and suffocating skull dreams that haunt her nightly? Or could a perfectly timed, yummy kiss be just the thing she needs to see her through this Halloween?

 

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Déjà You: Stories of Second Chances

28 Monday Aug 2017

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The Birth of Déjà You

About two years ago, a group of five novice writers signed with the same small publisher, each inexperienced in the publishing world yet committed to understanding the process and finding success. Through their mutual dive into unchartered territory, Amanda Linsmeier, Bianca M. Schwarz, C.H. Armstrong, Kelly Cain, and Jamie McLachlan reached out to one another and became instant friends, sharing laughs, tears, and the struggles of life and writing. We soon dubbed ourselves “Book Besties.”

During the fall of 2016, we decided to write a book of short stories together. As friends, we wanted to combine our talents to create a collection that would inspire hope and happiness. After much deliberation, we chose the theme “Second Chances” and decided to title this anthology, “Déjà You.” Though each story contains the same theme, they all are as unique as the author who wrote it. Including New Adult, Women’s Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, and Contemporary Romance, each short offers a different take on the theme and involves varying heat levels, from sweet to steamy.

In Déjà You, five authors share stories of second chances, as varied in telling as the writers themselves.

Kelly Cain’s We’ll Always Have Oahu takes us on a whirlwind New Adult romance set in the 80s between a young woman on a high school graduation trip and a handsome Navy sailor.

Bianca M. Schwarz transports us to 1760 in The Pearl with the story of Marcus Landover, who attends a card party and ends up with more than he bargained for in the beautiful Sophia Chelmsford.

Amanda Linsmeier’s Joy and Sorrow reunites lovers separated by death in a Women’s Fiction tinged with the unusual.

The Eyes of the Heart by Jamie McLachlan gives us Rosalina, who is forced to confront her attraction and the truth about her blindness when a new gardener is hired at the Greystone house.

Finally, C.H. Armstrong brings us Mr. Midnight, where tragedy reunites two star-crossed lovers, but misunderstandings soon rip them apart. Now, six years later, the stars are realigning with the help of the smooth voice of a late night radio DJ.

Some of the stories are sweet, some sad, some steamy, but all carry the same theme. Déjà You is a collection of stories for those who believe in love, but most of all, second chances.

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