October 30, 2015 at 12:01 am (Uncategorized)
Friday, October 30, 2015.
Release day for Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology: SLOTH!
This is volume 2 of a seven-volume series highlighting Scribophile Young Adult authors. Here are the links! Please consider posting a review!
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October 27, 2015 at 2:40 pm (Uncategorized)
The second volume of Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology is due to be released shortly. I’m going to whet your appetite for more excellent YA stories from Scribophile members.
Sloth. (/ˈsloʊθ/ SLOHTH, /ˈslɒθ/ SLOTH/) 1. Failure to do things one should. 2. A wasting due to lack of use; concerns a person, place, thing, skill or tangible ideal that would require maintenance, refinement or support to continue to exist. 3. Evil that exists when good men fail to act.
The writers of the Seven Deadly Sins Anthology celebrate and pay tribute to the emotional and mental turmoil that is being a teenager. Fourteen authors, fourteen stories. One theme: Sloth.
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THE AUTHORS AND THEIR STORIES:
The Locker Monster by Elizabeth Archer
Mom always told you to clean up, or you’d regret it. But how bad could your locker get? Two girls find out it could get much stranger than they ever expected. . .
Elizabeth Archer lives in Texas and dreams of other places and other worlds. She writes poetry, fiction and too many novels. Her current passion is fairy tales. She has been published in a variety of places, including Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology, Volume 1: Pride.
Connect with Elizabeth on Twitter @elizabetarcher
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Tangled Threads by Teresa Bassett
Art student Raine loves her boyfriend, but his lazy ways drive her crazy. When her self-portrait is included in an art exhibition, her relationship also comes under scrutiny.
Teresa Bassett is a writer from Cornwall’s ‘clay country,’ UK. She has written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies, including Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology, Volume 1: Pride. A graduate of the University of Bath, she has worked as a foreign tour guide, translator and teacher. Her favourite times are spent ‘up on the Downs,’ exploring Cornwall with husband Mark and rescued greyhound Jinty.
Connect with Teresa on her Website
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David and the Devil by RL Black
David Wheeler must get a book report finished, or else he won’t get his driver’s license. He comes up with a plan, only to find that the lazy way out may cost more than what he bargained for.
RL Black lives in Tennessee and writes mostly flash fiction. She is EIC of two online journals, and her own work has been published in journals across the web.
Connect with RL on her Website where she blogs and reblogs about writing, LOST, and art.
Twitter @rlblackauthor.
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Puzzled by Embe Charpentier
Jolene reluctantly cares for her aging aunt in the wilds of Mississippi. As more and more evidence of the supernatural sends her into unknown territory, an abandoned city, the Elysian Fields, provides the clue. Jolene dispenses with her lazy ways to fight back. But did she wait too long to avoid a fate more terrifying than death?
Embe Charpentier, a teacher by day and writer by night, has always been fascinated with the strange and unusual. Kellan Books will publish her paranormal romance novella, “Beloved Dead,” in December 2015. She has been published in nine magazines in 2015, including LitroNY, Gambling the Aisle, and Polychrome Ink. Embe is presently working with publishers at Written World Communications on a book series for struggling readers.
Connect with Embe at her Website or on Facebook
Twitter @embecharpentier
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Regrets and Reflections by Alisia Faust
Briana is enthusiastic about her first year in college, and soon gets caught up in a whirlwind romance with another woman. Distracted by her new-found love, Briana ignores her family’s attempts at communication. Now she is haunted by her past choices as she watches her mother’s funeral continue around her.
Alisia Faust began writing when she was between jobs with too much time on her hands. Now she’s juggling work and three different writing projects with no time on her hands. She is primarily a flash fiction writer because it caters to her ever-shortening attention span. Her stories have been published in Fifty Word Stories, 100 Worlds: Lightning-Quick SF and Fantasy Tales anthology, Apocrypha and Abstractions, SpeckLit, and Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology, Volume 1: Pride.
Connect with Alisia at her Website
Twitter @eurasianflavour
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Natural Enemies by Sylvia Heike
Zombies aren’t the only thing wanting to eat you in the woods, but only one person can see that, and no one believes a teenager. How can he get adults and other kids to see that the sluggish zombies–dead and sick and thus relatively harmless–aren’t the real danger? Something else roams outside the camp, hungry and waiting.
Sylvia Heike lives in Finland. When not writing, she enjoys hare spotting in the garden and long walks in the forest. Her stories have appeared in freeze frame fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Molotov Cocktail, and other publications.
Connect with Sylvia at her Website or say hello on Twitter @sylviaheike
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Five Definitions of Sloth, With Examples by Rae Kennedy
Good things can happen in foster homes. Terrible things can happen in foster homes, things no one ever wants to discuss. When her foster mother requests a written task, Maisie takes the opportunity to write a letter to the authorities that will reveal years of neglect, abuse and alcoholism. The question is: will they believe her?
Rae Kennedy works for a Sixth Form College in Hampshire, England. Her hobbies include eating avocado sandwiches and sitting in libraries pretending to write. She hates slugs.
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Micro-motivity by Chris Kennedy
Greg wasn’t like the rest of the kids in his class. He had to forego college in order to run the Youth Hostel his stepfather owned. But Greg didn’t mind at all. He enjoyed cooking for the guests and getting to know them. He had a time schedule to get everything done, along with an amazing system to encourage the visitors to help out. Then what was the problem with his stepfather?
Chris Kennedy lives in Hampshire and works for a modern communications company when he isn’t typing or researching for his master’s degree. He took up writing at the insistence of his wonderful wife and three clever children so that he could ‘stop annoying them.’ Once he started he found he couldn’t stop. His perfect holiday is a sunny Mediterranean beach as close as possible to the last remains of an ancient civilization. That’s where he gets his ideas.
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Eternal Life by Yvette O’Kay
A word, nothing but a simple word created a being of pure energy. It vampires off of us, our actions are what sustains it’s life. You can almost never see it. But in the middle of the night when you are sitting all alone and the only light is coming from the television, you can see it at work. You reach for the remote, but it’s gone… and you discover you’re too lazy to go and get it. So, instead, you fall asleep, and it survives.
Yvette O’Kay is a writing goddess that has been writing ever since she was a little girl. She is from New York and this is her very first publication. Yvette is a full time student and author and often has troubles balancing the two, but in the end the satisfaction of finishing a story outweighs anything else for her.
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the truth by Blake Parker
Everyone around Olivia is frustrated that she isn’t living up to her potential. Her mother tells her she won’t put up with an indolent teenager. Her teacher gazes upon her with clear disappointment. But there is someone who knows the truth about Olivia.
Blake Parker is of the female gender, since the name itself doesn’t give that away. Physically, she resides in Canada. Otherwise, she lives in the contrivance of whatever place she’s wanting to visit – like Oslo. At times, Blake’s love of travel merges her imagination with reality. In day-to-day life, Blake loves paradoxes. For example, the paradox of supporting her obsession with scotch on a limited budget. Or the paradox of running her own business as a social media consultant while, to the chagrin of her friends, never actually using social media for personal use. Somewhere, in between the paradoxes and fantasy of living in far-away places, Blake finds the time, and enjoyment, to write.
Connect with Blake on Twitter @iwrotethis_
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One More Level by John Rickett
In the game, World of Dragons, Josh has mountains of gold, a sprawling castle and a slew of followers. At home, his soccer gear sits unused in the corner; he hasn’t moved from his chair in months; urine stains his pant legs. His mother worries she’s losing her son to the virtual world. As Josh wastes away, both realize that when you hate your reality, you construct another.
John Rickett dwells in the armpit of America, where he claws at the walls, escaping his suburban nightmare by performing woodworking ninjutsu and moonlighting as a word-sorcerer. His post-apocolyptic fairytale retelling, Three Brittle pigs, recently appeared in The Molotov Cocktail and has been selected to appear in their first print anthology.
Connect with John on Twitter @JohnnyRickett
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Earth Ethics 5~Ö: Sloth by Kathy Steinemann
Four adolescent Zarminixian recruits must learn about Earth before they infiltrate the planet. The time could be the future—or now. They struggle to understand the human sin known as sloth. Zarkaa, Vaardon, Kahilii, and Raiidorr must provide the correct answers to a pop quiz within two time units. However, Professor Wixnaar puts an unusual obstacle in their path. Will anyone succeed? Or will they all be sent to the principal for expunction and reassignment?
Kathy Steinemann has loved writing for as long as she can remember. As a child, she scribbled poems and stories. During the progression of her love affair with words, she won public-speaking and writing awards. Her career has taken varying directions, including positions as editor of a small-town paper, computer-network administrator, and webmaster. Her work has appeared in various online and print publications, including Fine Linen, Saturday Night Reader, Unbroken, Vræyda Literary, and Mash Stories. Kathy tries to write something every day.
Connect with Kathy on her Website and Facebook
Twitter @KathySteinemann
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Treasures by K.T. Stephens
Jay made a mistake. Now his mom sends him across the country to live with his dad, who he hasn’t seen since he was three years old. Jay is thrust into a world of bachelorhood and unreasonable rules. After his first day at the new school, his father insists on a schedule change: drop his favorite class to do community service. He complies, but when he arrives at the job, Jay finds much more than yard work: an old man with a strange story, a treasure hunt involving his father and a foreigner who has been searching for peace for over sixty years. But the biggest surprise is yet to come.
K.T. Stephens writes YA and children’s books and is especially enamored of anything having to do with the circus. Her story, “Balancing Act,” appears in Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology, Volume 1: Pride. K.T.’s stories tend to be multi-generational, as she loves to explore the past and how it relates to the present. Her adult persona, Katie Stephens, has numerous literary and romance publications, the most recent through Mélange Publishing. Although her grown children are scattered east and west across the country, she lives solidly in mid-America with two kitties and a husband who keeps asking when she’s really going to retire.
Connect with K.T. on Facebook
Twitter @standardishue
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By Birth Alone by M.J. Travis
Seventeen-year-old Brian Whitley takes his athletic abilities for granted. While the team’s second-string quarterback works tirelessly on the field, Brian skips practices, stays up late and feels entitled to the favors and admiration that come from being East Boone High’s winning quarterback. With the State Championship game only a few days away, will Brian realize too late that putting in the effort benefits not only the team, but himself?
M.J. Travis is a native southern Californian who began writing four years ago when her second child was no longer in need of constant supervision. Her love of books began at an early age. She mostly writes short stories for YA and children, but has just started to leap into the workings of a novel. “By Birth Alone” is her first publication.
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THE ARTIST AND LAYOUT EDITOR:
Luke Spooner, a.k.a. ‘Carrion House’ and ‘Hoodwink House,’ currently lives and works in the South of England. Having graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a first class degree he is now a full-time illustrator and writer for just about any project that piques his interest. Despite regular forays into children’s books and fairy tales, for which he has won awards for literary and artistic merit, his true love is anything macabre, melancholy or dark in nature and essence. He believes that the job of putting someone else’s words into a visual form, to accompany and support their text, is a massive responsibility as well as being something he truly treasures.
Luke can be found on Facebook, and at his Carrion House and Hoodwink House websites.
If you like this cover, you should see his other designs at freeze frame fiction!
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D.Laserbeam, our Layout Editor, has been an icon at Scribophile for many years, so it’s no wonder we jumped at the chance to have Dino do the e-book formatting for the SDS anthologies. Dino writes, edits (Laserbeam Edits), is the founder & editor-in-chief of freeze frame fiction, and oh, yeah–is an engineer in real life!
September 25, 2015 at 9:12 am (Uncategorized)
Happy Fall Reading! This is my second week of blog hopping with Books N Pearls! Kudos to Nicole Ulery for giving us an incredible month of great authors and books.
This weekend features Historical Romance. Who can resist? So I’d like to introduce my readers to the talented and gorgeous Haley Whitehall!
Haley Whitehall lives in Washington State where she enjoys all four seasons and the surrounding wildlife. She writes historical romance set in the 19th century U.S. When she is not researching or writing, she plays with her cats, watches the Western and History Channels, and goes antiquing. She is hoping to build a time machine so she can go in search of her prince charming. A good book, a cup of coffee, and a view of the mountains make her happy.
Social Media Links:
Website | Blog | Facebook | Fan Page | Twitter | Amazon Page | Pinterest
Haley is also the author of
Midnight Caller (Moonlight Romance, book 1)
Midnight Heat (Moonlight Romance, book 2)
Midnight Kiss (Moonlight Romance, book 3)
Wild and Tender Care
Soldier in Her Lap
Alpha’s Voodoo
Caged Bird
Civil War Valentine
Pleasured by a Ghost in Sexy to Go, Volume 6
Sing for me in Sexy to Go, Volume 7
Fire Woman in Sexy to Go, Volume 8
Drawn by the Dream Catcher
By Haley Whitehall
Genre: Interracial/Multicultural Historical Romance
Heat Level: Hot
Blurb:
Zachariah, a mulatto slave, doesn’t find much reason to be happy after being sold away from his mother and sister. However, he keeps having dreams of a beautiful woman with amber skin and this gives him some measure of joy. On a cold winter’s day, he is shocked to meet his fantasy woman in the flesh. Drawn to her, he feels compelled to help her the only way he can—by giving her his warm coat.
Lillian Hildebrand is a member of the Cherokee elite, but she doesn’t feel like a socialite on the Trail of Tears. After meeting the charming and kind-hearted white one held in chains, she begins having reoccurring dreams of him. As if cast into her dream catcher, Zachariah fills her dreams from that day forward. Since he continues to call to her in her dreams four years later, Lillian is convinced the ancestors have deemed they meet again.
With the help of her wealthy white brother-in-law, she tracks Zachariah to the Kentucky restaurant he helps manage. Her plans for the future run deeper than Zachariah ever imagined. Will her attempt to help him pass as white and start life anew with her on the Indian reservation pay off, or spell disaster for them both?
Exclusive Excerpt:
Her hand felt smooth in his—like silk. He couldn’t believe his hand was on her waist. He wanted to keep it there forever. Zachariah took a deep breath, but couldn’t calm his racing heart. Each step made him more nervous. They were so close he smelled her rose perfume. It was like being surrounded by the Garden of Eden.
She looked up, her emerald eyes locked with his, her lips spreading into a seductive, sultry smile.
An excited shiver spread up his spine, through his arms to his fingertips. He leaned in, his lips close to hers, inhaled her peppermint breath. What was he doing? He pulled back, his face hot.
They continued dancing and he stiffened. His face became stoic. He had to remember his place. He couldn’t kiss her.
After the sixth song, Lillian sat on the edge of the bed, her face glowing with new found freshness.
“Thank you, Zachary. I love dancing.”
“Thank you for teaching me to dance, Miss.”
Lillian lay down, stretched her arms above her head and yawned.
Zachariah shifted upon the balls of his feet and gnawed on his lip. He felt uncomfortable seeing her in that position, but he couldn’t tear his eyes away.
“It is a long boat ride. I will teach you many things,” she said. “You may go now. Shut the door behind you.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Zachariah said.
He walked into the parlor eagerly anticipating what she would teach him next.
Buy Links:
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September 18, 2015 at 8:29 am (Uncategorized)
I’m very excited to be part of Books N Pearls Fall Into Reading Blog Hop! Today, I’m going to introduce my readers to Dahlia Donovan, writer extraordinaire! Enjoy her book blurbs (and buy, buy, buy!), register for prizes and follow the Books N Pearls Blog Hop to discover other amazing authors! Happy Reading!!
Dahlia Donovan
Dahlia Donovan started out working in the insurance world. After ten years, she morphed her love of investigating accidents and studying people into writing about them. She’s a bit of a hermit and despises being in front of a camera. Her life wouldn’t be complete without her husband and her massive collection of books and video games.
Her first novel, Ivy, started out as a crazy dream which she turned into an adventurous and suspenseful paranormal romance. It was followed up by Natasha, Masquerade, Twelve Days and now Alicia. A fourth main novel in the series, Lorcan, is due out late 2015.
Readers can find Under Fire, a free short story available to all her newsletter subscribers. See her website for more details.
Follow Dahlia: Website | Amazon | Facebook | Twitter
Born into a Moroccan family both wealthy and well-connected, Alicia has wanted for nothing her entire life. Choosing to abandon her family business for fashion, she has built her own business and lives off the fruits of her own labour. Her traditionalist mother has longed for her to settle down with a good man.
Alicia has never wanted a good man until Josh Withers. Tired of meaningless flings, Alicia has found someone who challenges her in all the right ways. So what if he occasionally turns himself into panther?
No one’s perfect.
Now in a fight for her life as enemies from both her family’s past and her best friend Ivy’s recent nightmares come hunting for her. Alicia can only hope Josh’s military background and shifter strength will keep them safe.
Available At:
THE BLACKBIRD SERIES
IVY
Widowed photographer Ivy Langdon avoids people in general after her husband’s death. She ventures out days before Christmas for last minute gifts and stumbles into the middle of a terrorist attack in London. Will her luck ever change?
Steven Samuels and his partner Gareth Richardson are called in with their company, Blackbird Security Firm, to rescue the hostages. They never expected to find their perfect mate while saving the world. The more the two wolves learn about Ivy, the more that they want to make her theirs.
Love is never simple or straight-forward and life is often stranger than fiction.
Ivy finds herself drawn into a strange world of shifters and human traffickers.
Can love’s true bite find her before trouble does?
Available At:
Amazon – Nook – Smashwords
NATASHA
Undercover Interpol agent Natasha Itsov is the ice queen of the European shifter world. Her reputation for loving and leaving without a second thought is well known. Until she met Darren Martel, another fox shifter. She broke both of their hearts when she ran from the bond forming between them.
It’s been years since they’ve crossed paths with each other.
The threat of the Auctioneer looming over Ivy brings the two shifters together for one last mission. Old wounds are reopened, while they struggle to ignore the bond formed all those years ago. Neither wants to risk another catastrophic broken heart, yet neither wants to walk away from the chance of happily ever after.
Is it ever too late for love?
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MASQUERADE
As the months have gone by since Ivy and her wolves bonded, hints have continually been dropped about moving in together and marriage. It’s unfortunate then that the romantic proposal which Ivy had hoped for never quite arrived. Her two alpha wolves instead merely demand her hand in marriage.
Suitably unimpressed, Ivy tells her gits to bugger off and hops on a private jet for a swanky masked ball in Monte Carlo with Alicia, Alim and Dane.
Can Steve and Gareth find the right words to win the yes from her lips?
You just never know who or what you’ll find at a masquerade.
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TWELVE DAYS
There are only twelve days until the Christmas bash Ivy is throwing at Steve and Gareth’s penthouse. How much trouble can a small pack of shifters get into in less than a week? While working to plan the perfect party, she keeps her eye on all of the members of her newfamily. Each day, a different couple seems to be moving closer together, and she hasn’t even brought out the ruddy mistletoe yet.
At the heart of it all, though, this party started with a wish three years ago for only happy Christmas memories after the worst time of Ivy’s life.
Be warned, things get hot and spicy in this anthology.
Available At:
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June 27, 2015 at 11:56 am (Uncategorized)
I’m happy to announce that my story, Love Weavers, is up for pre-sale in the Satin Romance (Mélange Publishing) anthology, Propose To Me! The official release date is July 16, 2015.
On Amazon
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From betrayal and shock to surprise, these stories cover a spectrum of emotions that will keep you in romantic suspense until the big question is popped.
We’re doing a Rafflecopter giveaway, so make sure you sign up for the goodies! Here’s a sneak preview of the stories:
Artificial Tears by Charmaine Pauls
Lourdes faces the split image of the man she is trying to forget when she walks into her new optometrist’s office.
Cappuccino Dreaming by Louise Redmann
What does a woman do when she has changed her personality for her boyfriend, only to discover his deceit?
Proposal Unexpected by Elena Kane
Adele is faced with the difficult choice of forgiving her husband, or starting a life with the man she loved before life got in the way.
Love Weavers by Katie Stephens
Connected by nearly five hundred years of blood and art, two witches tempt fate when they create love spells in Love Weavers.
One Perfect Moment by Tara Fox Hall
Cori starts doubting her engagement when she reconnects with an old flame.
The Spark by Ellyse Roberts
Can fate reignite a long-lost spark?
Running Late by Caroline Andrus
Paige reflects upon their seven-year relationship and prepares herself to be dumped.
June 16, 2015 at 10:53 am (Uncategorized)
Scott Bell, author.
Looks good, doesn’t it? Well, hold on to your armchair, because if you enjoy crime, mystery, a little romance, thrillers and good old-fashioned belly laughs, there’s a new kid on the block.
New as in “first novel” new. (Scott has several short story publications lurking around the universe.) My advice is to buy this book and beg, beg, beg for Scott to autograph it, because we’re witnessing the creation of a rising star in the genre.
And the best part? Scott has “Yeager” sequels in progress as well as a few other irons in the fire—one about a smokin’ hot Texas Ranger.
[Okay, he might take a tiny bit of offense to that portrayal, but don’t let Scott’s descriptive prowess or sheer genius with action scenes fool you. He’s got some manly men between those pages. Hence his motto: What would John Wayne do?]
Head over to Red Adept Publishing and bookmark the page, and then mark your calendar for the July 21, 2015 release date. Check back here next month for a possible author interview! Congratulations, Scott!!
Yeager’s Law by Scott Bell
Abel Yeager is dead broke, down on his luck, and suffering from a serious case of what-the-hell-does-it-matter. His transition from active Marine to stateside long-haul trucker hit a wicked speed bump when his rig was involved in a wreck that claimed the life of a pregnant woman and laid him up for several months.
Back at work but deeply in debt, Yeager meets bookstore owner Charlie Buchanan in St. Louis and jumps at the chance to haul a load of remainder books to Austin for her. On the way south, a crew of truck thieves tracks his every move. But none of them know what Charlie’s ex has smuggled inside the book pallets, who he stole it from, or how far the owner will go to get it back. Charlie’s the first person Yeager has cared about in a long time, but as their bond deepens, so does the danger they’re in.
With enemy forces closing in, Yeager battles greed, corruption, and his own fatalism in a bid to hold true to Yeager’s First Law: come home at the end of the day.
May 11, 2015 at 6:00 am (Uncategorized)
Coming July 2015!
Special Introduction by Julie Ann Walker
All proceeds go to Wounded Warriors
PRE-ORDER>>>http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Code-DC-Stone-ebook/dp/B00X602S8I/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1430841988&sr=8…
GIRL CODE TRAILER:
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HOPE by Jessica Jayne-Josephine “Joey” Lockhart escapes her past, herself and her home town of Pearl, Ohio to Florida after high school. Years later, she meets a man that refuses to let her hide behind her camera lens and encourages her out of her shell. Will he be the one to push her to feel for the first time?
LIVE by Lea Bronsen-After seven years in drug hell, detoxing Juliette “Juls” Carrington returns to her hometown Pearl to attend her grandmother’s burial. Once more rejected by her family, she has a swim in a pond nearby when a mysterious camper, an ex-drunk, coaxes her to come to his hut in the woods. Together they must fight their inner demons for a chance to love…and live.
FAITH by Cait Jarrod-Selena Bodine escaped into the United States Air Force to leave behind a painful past and the one man who she refused to let herself love. Years later, an urgent call from her father brings her back to Pearl, Ohio and face to face with the man she still loves. But will the secret that Cullen is investigating her threaten their second chance?
PERSISTENCE by DC Stone-Laydi Michaels has been running away from her past and bad memories for years. Finding herself wasn’t an easy task, but she’s managed to finally get to a point to where she wants to be. Only to wake up married to her boss….who fired her the night before. Wrapped in a case that puts her life in danger, and dealing with a grave situation back home in Pearl, Laydi figures out she wasn’t close to finding herself, and now, she’s risked everything.
CONTACT INFO
CAIT JARROD
Cait’s Classy Chicks Street Team: https://www.facebook.com/groups/629181983825796/
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Webpage: caitjarrod.com
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Author bio:
From writing ‘every girl’s dream heroes’ to ‘strong, down-to-earth heroines,’ Cait Jarrod twists ‘cliff hanging plots’ and ‘clever, unpredictable sub-plots’. She loves diving into a good book as much as she loves writing one. Mother of three gorgeous daughters, she’s married to her best friend, hangs out with a great group of women—the WWC, and loves a good glass of wine.
DC STONE
Website: www.authordcstone.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/authordcstone
Facebook Profile: www.facebook.com/dc.stone.92
Twitter: twitter.com/DCStoneauthor
Email: authordcstone@gmail.com
Author bio:
DC Stone has over sixteen years of investigative experience, including working as a criminal investigator in the United States military and a private investigator. Currently, she works as an internal affairs investigator by day and a romantic suspense author by night. She has her Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and is dubbed, “The Investigative Whisper.” Commonly called upon to act as an expert witness, she also trains with local, state, and federal law enforcement officers. She provides numerous workshops that help authors gain insight into “digging” into a character’s mind to better understand motives, create suspense, and help maintain conflict.
When she isn’t trying to solve a new puzzle in the world of fraud, she is engulfed with coffee, her laptop, and all those crazy characters in her head. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, Hudson Valley Romance Writers, Rom Vets, RWA Kiss of Death, and the Liberty State Fiction Writers. She served as the 2014 Vice President and Conference Chair for NJRW. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, or her at www.authordcstone.com.
JESSICA JAYNE
Website: http://jessicajayneauthor.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Jessica-Jayne/388268367912903?fref=ts
Twitter: @JessicaJayne13
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“My writing interests very much like my reading interests. Though I mainly write romance type novels with a spicy twist, I have lived what some might call a suspenseful life. As a survivor of stalking and sexual assault, I learned the ins and outs of the legal system pretty quickly. It helped to precipitate my interest in getting my law degree… that and the fact that I grew up around attorneys. So adding suspense to my writing is no big surprise to me or anyone that knows me.”
I am a born and raised small town Ohio girl, who moved to the Sunshine State after graduating from college. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English because I could not imagine doing anything else but reading and writing. It is such a pleasure to be able to share all the stories in my head!
LEA BRONSEN
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Author bio:
Lea Bronsen likes her reads fast, hot, and edgy, and strives to give her own stories the same intensity. After venturing into dirty inner-city crime drama with her debut novel Wild Hearted, she divides her writing time between psychological thriller, romantic suspense, and erotic contemporary romance.
May 2, 2015 at 12:11 pm (Uncategorized)
Tell me that doesn’t sound like it should be whispered in the deep, dark recesses of a candlelit bedroom that contains a king-sized bed covered in black satin with various whips, chains and other nefarious devices strewn about the room. I’ll let you think on that for a minute or two or ten.
Okay, that’s enough.
I started Story a Day in May yesterday, but this year, instead of writing complete flash fiction/short stories, I’ll be working on my WIP. It’s due, completely edited, by September 15, so I figured this is a very good time to create the first draft. This is for a boxed set steamy Christmas Anthology. If anyone would like to keep up with the first draft, head on over to Scribophile and join George Well’s group. Blog access and passwords are posted there!
Keep writing, my friends!
March 27, 2015 at 8:00 am (Uncategorized)
We asked our illustrator, Luke Spooner, how he came up with the central idea for the cover of our book and what he thought of when he heard of the theme for the Anthology.
“I really like the symbolism that surrounds the ideas of ‘the sins.’ It’s something that all humans can relate to, probably because we are nearly always somewhere on that spectrum at any given moment. There’s a very primal quality to the understanding of this particular set of emotions and thought patterns. Irrespective of language or culture, they seem to be universally recognised, and the opportunity to cobble that into some sort of visual interpretation is something that is both massive and rare.”
If you like this cover, you should see his other designs at freeze frame fiction and on his web site, Carrion House!
Our layout editor, D. Laserbeam, has been an icon at Scribophile for many years, so it’s no wonder we jumped at the chance to have Dino do the e-book formatting for the SDS anthologies. Dino writes, edits (Laserbeam Edits), is the founder & editor-in-chief of freeze frame fiction, and oh, yeah–is an engineer in real life!
March 25, 2015 at 8:00 am (Uncategorized)
Seeing Better by Eliza Archer
Eliza Archer writes poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Technical writing pays the bills. She lives in the Texas Hill country with too many cats and too many books. Her work has appeared in Every Day Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Niteblade and other places.
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A Mother’s Pride by Teresa Bassett
Teresa Bassett is a writer from Cornwall’s ‘clay country’, UK. In late 2013 she won the US-based Next Novelist contest with her debut science fiction novel “The Time Crystals”, which is scheduled for publication. She has also written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies and is currently being published by Dagda Publishing, Alfiedog and Popcorn Horror. A graduate of the University of Bath, she has worked as a foreign tour guide, translator and teacher. Her favourite times are spent ‘up on the Downs’, exploring Cornwall with husband Mark and rescued greyhound Jinty.
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Commando by Willow Becker
Willow Becker has been writing non-fiction for over ten years. While her articles and stories have been published widely online, this is her first fiction publication. She is currently working on a series of flash fiction audio pieces and a musical adaptation of “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom. She also regularly shares hilarious, partially-nude stories on her blog Weird Little Worlds.
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Masterpiece by J. C. Davis
J.C. Davis has been in love with books since she was old enough to start chewing on the covers. She’s since seen the error of her ways and spends her spare time reading books rather than drooling on them. A programmer by day, Ms. Davis writes YA fiction, the occasional short story and has far too many hobbies to keep up with. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, two kids and a hedgehog named Percy Jackson. Ms. Davis’s short stories have appeared in Spark: A Creative Anthology, Writing Tomorrow, Bastion Science Fiction Magazine and NewMyths.com.
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Good Intentions by Michael Donoghue
Michael Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver, Canada. His stories have appeared in various anthologies including Fernwood’s Everything Is So Political, and sci-fi magazines such as Abyss & Apex, as well as literary journals such as FreeFall. Michael works in healthcare, where he spends much of his time preoccupied with hand washing.
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A Wish From the Fountain by Alisia Faust
Alisia Faust began writing when she was between jobs with too much time on her hands. Now she’s working full time and juggling four different writing projects with no time on her hands. She is primarily a flash fiction writer, partially because it caters to her ever-shortening attention span. Her stories have appeared in Fifty Word Stories, 100 Worlds: Lightning-Quick SF and Fantasy Tales anthology.
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In the Name Of Art And Love by Sylvia Heike
Sylvia Heike writes poetry, short stories, and is working on her novel. She lives in Finland with her fiancé and two rabbits. A lover of animals and nature, she’s also in her element with computers and has a degree in Computer Science.
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Quitter by Day Jamison
Day Jamison reads and writes YA and speculative fiction in the Provo Valley at the foot of Mt. Timpanogas. She is a freelance copy editor with Lawrence & Jamison Editing Services and a first reader at Fantasy Scroll Magazine. Her work appeared in the first volume of freeze frame fiction.
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The Hazel Crayon, by Wendy White Lees
Wendy White Lees was voted “Most Likely to be a Writer” by her 3rd grade class, which really made her mad because she was gunning for movie star. She concedes, however, that they were right, as she became a professional copywriter, and her dream job is to one day write for Sesame Street. Her fiction has appeared in Every Day Fiction, Free Flash Fiction, Fifty Word Stories, and in 2014 she placed as a runner-up in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (an international literary competition to compose the worst possible opening sentence for a novel). Her online writing portfolio is at wendylees.writerfolio.com. Wendy lives in the Greater New York City Area with her husband, two daughters and their English Setter, Annie, who eats everything except her dog food.
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Summer Rains, by E.N. Loizis
E.N. Loizis is a Greek writer trapped inside the body of a technical translator who lives in Germany. Her love for literature could be the result of the lack of Internet when she was growing up and for that she is eternally grateful. She has been published in Youth Imagination and her story “Till Death Us Do Part” appeared in Stupefying Stories. Two more of her stories are due for publication in Apocrypha and Abstractions and freeze frame fiction. She is working really hard on her ADD, so that she may finally complete her first novel one day.
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Great-Great Aunty Edna, by Anita Russo
Anita Russo is a full-time nurse, spare-time writer, and every-minute-of-the-day dreamer from Auckland, New Zealand. “Great-Great Aunty Edna” is her first published piece. Her influences include John Green, J.K. Rowling, Dr. Seuss, and many more. When she’s not nursing, writing, or dreaming, Anita is travelling the world, people watching, and seeking out things that capture her imagination.
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The Tasmanian Girl, by S. Sadedin
S. Sadedin is an evolutionary biologist who writes too much. Her favorite poet is Piet Hein. Most of her writing is about obscure science topics, such as why pregnancy is a war, and the horrifying truth behind menstruation. As a teenager she planned to save the world. (She still does. But don’t tell the adults, they’ll revoke her grown-up license.)
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Balancing Act, by K.T. Stephens
K.T. Stephens writes YA and children’s books and is especially enamored of the circus. Just mention acrobats and strongmen and she’ll jump headfirst into this world of magic, color and precision and take you with her! She also has published adult literature under the pseudonym Katie Stephens in Spark: A Creative Anthology and Mused—The Bella Online Literary Review. Her latest release is a romance story in the anthology “Love Least Expected” called Alphabetical Disorder. You’ll never believe it’s about the circus… or will you? K.T. lives in Ohio with her husband and three adorably obsessive felines.
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