tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38573066201652791302024-02-21T01:14:17.300-08:00An Author's MusingsKiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.comBlogger568125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-61739099895883617752022-05-29T07:54:00.000-07:002022-05-29T07:54:15.748-07:00A Tell-All Post about my Newest Release!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86Imga8UCcwAZlXgBQ048fE3K2Eohf04tk8A5CjFj2lZZ0RtXdlgG89CU6kGTHUhmpgLMsZyCVyBod0szMO0BA2XACjdlgkamRQXS4R6mc4cdHhqPzljexKs_Fii4Y31B8D_5xRTuoQ5Rxm-EoV_V8ks-gghNgIgNZpbNO5hR9x9aJDscUAn7QlYMCQ/s2560/000%20Darkness%20Calls%20Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86Imga8UCcwAZlXgBQ048fE3K2Eohf04tk8A5CjFj2lZZ0RtXdlgG89CU6kGTHUhmpgLMsZyCVyBod0szMO0BA2XACjdlgkamRQXS4R6mc4cdHhqPzljexKs_Fii4Y31B8D_5xRTuoQ5Rxm-EoV_V8ks-gghNgIgNZpbNO5hR9x9aJDscUAn7QlYMCQ/s320/000%20Darkness%20Calls%20Final.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Book Details:</b></span><br /><br />Title: Darkness Calls, A Gray Magick Novel<br /><br />Author: USA Today Bestselling Author, Kiki Howell<br /><br />Word Count: 63,790<br /><br />Genres: Literary, Psychological, Dark Paranormal, with moments of both Romance and Suspense, A Not-So-Cozy Mystery<br /><br />Additional Genre Key Words: Atmospheric Thriller, Psychological/Motivational Novel, a Not-So-Cozy Mystery, Pagan, Witches, Gray Magick, Literary, Dark Paranormal, Romance<span id="docs-internal-guid-23397583-7fff-2f41-c7b0-3c4c9c128386"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quick Author Note:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrote this novel to keep my sanity during the pandemic. In doing so at the time, I told myself it was never to be published, I was writing for only me, and therefore, I silenced my inner critic, didn’t hold myself back, just truly, in its purest form, let the story of my heart come through in a way that in over fifteen years of writing I had not allowed myself. I had the need at the time to write a deep, more psychological novel involving witches and their internal struggle with their gifts. My inspiration came from an eclectic mix of a meme, of all things, along with issues I had written about in my own personal journal.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VQrPG5TuVImWdIVG5hsZAurbkGf43s8zwjGI8X-WDwEbelEwuSZOu5P4iBVT-gyssjwxyW9VEGDSw5uc6GP199cBrkcxYQtuiGN1ddGutlgB2BRPqa1kiJXX8oK7nD80IFMDLI8Ld0wefP4hXcazYw62EXQ3otiNfTShYeBlb9SvOf4XXFvJ_3MyEw/s707/Darkness%20Calls%20-%20Gray%20Witch%20Meme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="552" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VQrPG5TuVImWdIVG5hsZAurbkGf43s8zwjGI8X-WDwEbelEwuSZOu5P4iBVT-gyssjwxyW9VEGDSw5uc6GP199cBrkcxYQtuiGN1ddGutlgB2BRPqa1kiJXX8oK7nD80IFMDLI8Ld0wefP4hXcazYw62EXQ3otiNfTShYeBlb9SvOf4XXFvJ_3MyEw/s320/Darkness%20Calls%20-%20Gray%20Witch%20Meme.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blurb:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Townspeople flock to the O'Quinns to secretly meet with Alannah in the front room of the main house where magick always happens. There, the fire under the cauldron consistently and eternally burns, believed to be kept ablaze by ancestors. These spirits help the four witches who live and run the inn, coffee shop, and gift shop on the property to create spells for those in need.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life is rather idyllic until one stormy night, a stranger is found dead in the room with ritualistic markings carved into his chest to match the ones circling him on the floor. None of it makes any sense, even to ones who’ve practiced magick for as long as they can remember. To make matters worse, their ancestors have suddenly gone silent. While the fire under the cauldron continues to burn, more fiercely than before, the current spirits become aggressive. Bottles of herbs break on the floor. Books get tossed from the shelves. A darkness stifles the house.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When relatives of the deceased show up, all hell breaks loose. A secret long held by her aunt reveals a curse that ties the families together. The women now have to find a way to work with the two strangers, brothers, they don't trust. In all of this mess, Alannah begins to discover that sovereignty over oneself is a continual process often achieved by diving deep into one’s own shadows while letting in the light of love. When push comes to shove, when darkness calls, all forms of magick take on shades of gray in the end.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase on Amazon: ebook or print</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also Free in Kindle Unlimited!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B1P198NX/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B1P198NX/</a></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Character Details </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I worked from when writing the story:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alannah O'Quinn (Main Character) - oldest sister, 38 years old, lives on main floor of the house, coordinates running of place, but mainly works in front room for those in need. Her parents are John and Nora Morrigan/O’Quinn who were killed in accident in overseas trip when she was young. Witchy Details: Reads celtic dragon tarot cards, Dragon Spirit, Morrigan-Macha, Affinity for horses and water. Physical Details: Wavy Red hair, Blue Eyes, Freckles. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aine O'Quinn (on-yah) - younger sister, 35. lives in main house, upstairs, runs gift shop. Witchy Details: Knits and sews her magick spells, Morrigan -Anu. Physical Details: Straight Brown hair. Green Eyes. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kayleigh Morrigan (kay-lee) - Cousin 32years old. Lives in 2 bedroom cabin behind house with mother. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Works gift shop with Aine.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Witchy Details: Paints and sculpt spells, Makes candles for spells too. Morrigan -. Badb. Physical Details: Midlength, curly blond hair, Blue eyes. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brianna Morrigan - aunt, (sister of Aine and Alannah's mother, widowed). </span><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Works kitchen. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Witchy Details: Cooks and bakes her spells. Physical Details: Mid-length silver hair, Blue eyes. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Mitchell - cop investigating the death. His family has long lived in the town and has had dealing with the O'Quinn family. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finn Fitzpatrick - victim. Physical Details: Mix of red and blond hair (facial hair too), Blue eyes. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tomas Fitzpatrick - cousin of Finn. Physical Details: Dark curly hair, Dark brown eyes. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kane Fitzpatrick (MC Love Connection) - cousin of Finn/Tomas' brother. Witchy Details: Practices openly dark magick. Physical Details: Dark hair, Light brown eyes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HfQVj93UjwV66v4SVC3T1Inw42XMWOB0nR7b7sYFrznkBpwLcFtIMNoqCRFAVkyuwNwlIioE5VOkdWV4kLgbLK5MeAHQFaM8-uQtZ8MqSKHswXu6ct-V0vLmqPexaY0JL-k0vc01HFIIqvqf1p6jDdVH127GP3sMwnYkm79UMa5H8BMB2aUHof5GXw/s1036/Darkness%20Calls-Pinterest%20Board.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="1036" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HfQVj93UjwV66v4SVC3T1Inw42XMWOB0nR7b7sYFrznkBpwLcFtIMNoqCRFAVkyuwNwlIioE5VOkdWV4kLgbLK5MeAHQFaM8-uQtZ8MqSKHswXu6ct-V0vLmqPexaY0JL-k0vc01HFIIqvqf1p6jDdVH127GP3sMwnYkm79UMa5H8BMB2aUHof5GXw/w400-h184/Darkness%20Calls-Pinterest%20Board.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />Pinterest Board I Worked from while writing the story</span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Excerpt</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from the first paragraphs of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapter One</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alannah's intuition registered the darkness, which had nothing to do with the night. A temper of death howled around her, much like the wind outside her bedroom window that brought in the snow at a furious clip. Her thudding pulse noted the warning. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whatever the source, it didn't approach from the outside, but from within the house. She warred with her mind, wrestling with a never-wrong gift of knowing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She called upon the knowledge of her magick, on the strength of what made her a woman, a witch. Fight or flight—a burgeoning need—would not be silenced. Breathing in the power of her ancestors, always present, she struggled to stay still.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is all about to change</span><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, hissed a voice in her head. She flinched at the sheer volume of the spirit.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regardless of her valiant disposition, her heart beat frantic in her chest, a notable noise, as she fought for the tranquil composure she needed. The scent of the holy basil, skullcap, damiana, spearmint, and licorice, infused with a hunk of both rose quartz and amethyst, she'd chosen to brew to calm her before bed, hit as a question of foreshadowing. She endeavored to let the powerful combination bring both safety and ease, to center her back into her body as it began to tense.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An aura of depraved magick slithered around her like a ghostly snake. Cold. Slimy. Constricting. The strangling vice of nefarious energy terrified her only in the sense of the unknown. She stilled her mind to hear the guidance of the spirits. Only, as time ticked by, not in any hurry today, the ancestors didn't answer with the whisper of a comforting phrase in her mind, the knock of a needed book over on the shelf, or the scoot of a required crystal across a surface as they usually did. They offered her nothing outside of her own resources, her own knowledge, her own reasoning. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thus, a lesson cometh,</span><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> she heard in her head, merely a memory of her mother's voice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fine. So be it</span><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, her brain hissed back.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shaking herself, straightening her back, she pushed her hands out to steady the air. With a deep breath, she grappled with her fumbling confidence, the idea irking her more than anything else. </span><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have all I need</span><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the familiar refrain rang out in her mind. Confidence shivered around her as a false bravado took her back in time to the timid little girl she’d once been, the frail child who'd lost her parents. Her early years had given her quite the schooling in the ways of the world. Since then, she walked like a tightrope on the balancing act of living: going with the flow, knowing when to go forth, when to hang back, as well as the need to feel and release the emotions of it all without harsh, stereotypical judgment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She co-existed with her sister, her aunt, and her cousin within a world she would forever be grateful to not fit into. Her way of seeing through the bullshit to what marked life as important was a blessing bestowed upon her by her Aunt Brianna who had, with a benevolent and gracious heart, taken over her upbringing. The four of them became a force to be reckoned with, and thus, feeling them near, she turned from her errant thoughts to focus on her erratic breathing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The empty hush that followed worried her, though she fought the temptation to give in to the nothingness, the lack. Grim thoughts attempted to fill the void. Her mind raced, if only to get past the cruel, bleak, and ominous foretelling of the savage silence before the storm, so to speak. Weighted down by the space it bore, an immense chill climbed into her body. It sought to bite muscles and shake bones, as wayward emotions swirled in the emptiness, ravaged the vacancy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She knew how desperate one could grow in true silence, maddened by the beat of their own heart, the growing unsteady rhythm of their breaths. Some had called quiet a canvas for dreamers, or a place where one could find the true colors of their soul, but this loss of sound bore no such riches, no peace. Instead, it shattered any hope of them as easily as a boulder dropped upon glass. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking back out the window, a band of snow had coated the drenched yard with another uneven layer of white as surfaces froze at varying rates. Not a streak, but a burst of fuzzy light illuminated the lines of trees and bushes covered in powder. Another out-of-place clap of thunder struck seconds later. While a thundersnow event such as this was not unheard of in Ohio, she jumped, nonetheless, undoing the cozy cocoon she'd made for herself in her bed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layers of colorful blankets shifted as her hands flailed for freedom. As her thick socks hit the wooden floor, she slipped into her attempt to stand, before she found herself upright. Her hands remained out to her sides as she moved in a graceless dance toward the door. The whimsy failed to bring a smile. Still, she half-stepped, half- slipped, half-danced forward to answer the knock that had yet to sound upon the wooden surface. Her fingers gripped where her hands rested on the vintage five-panel door, the markings left reminiscent of days gone by. In this moment, the emotions of such memories raced through her, offering comfort and courage for whatever battle awaited them. The house had survived so much meant to weather it. She would too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a flash of thought to the contrary, her nails scratched over the old wooden surface, until they found purchase on the smooth doorknob. Her tight grasp of cooler metal, the fitful turn, allowed a tiny relief in the expenditure of mounting intensity. Pulling it open with a trembling hand, air pushed from her lungs at a violent speed. The force of it registered as did the pale face of her sister, Aine, who stood there, the same knowledge coursing through her blood. Unable to ignore the knowledge of death anymore, they moved together to explore the old farmhouse they’d turned into an inn. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -0.1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt; text-indent: -0.1pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6t1n8IPqTpPpq3PEfvlmQGToVq3S615g89yTiJPgfkeTl0FmYfYolKdBCWgySW3Xxj4_rmDyp8CduIsokD473I0Wp1FZ2EDqczug30kx8xHBHFQVVI3CT57HfhE3NdtmkLK8YXbisE2IoNMdzqcAWnimIY9OPgLKJ1baVV75pXJsaaed_xYkjJQ7DTA/s940/000%20DK%20New%20Release%20Graphic%202%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6t1n8IPqTpPpq3PEfvlmQGToVq3S615g89yTiJPgfkeTl0FmYfYolKdBCWgySW3Xxj4_rmDyp8CduIsokD473I0Wp1FZ2EDqczug30kx8xHBHFQVVI3CT57HfhE3NdtmkLK8YXbisE2IoNMdzqcAWnimIY9OPgLKJ1baVV75pXJsaaed_xYkjJQ7DTA/s320/000%20DK%20New%20Release%20Graphic%202%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-67013946441537762962021-11-20T14:27:00.000-08:002021-11-20T14:27:17.121-08:00Journey to Bridgehouse<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Before I get to Bridgehouse, I have to mention a stop on our way there. Lanterman's Mill in Youngstown, Ohio is worth the walk if you go drive the scenic backgrounds from Kent, OH to New Wilmington, PA. We loved the synchronicity of getting to see a covered bridge plus a flowing creek before getting to the one were were going to stay at for three nights.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-gH7GCkJ0UXAS1ZUDVKAzxf2rDe0ufnAUM-AluU-vsQYJ7PeoCszPNQkIpyJv2afpPkvecwrzQVjysSR_oNEx9f-4-4yQ0NkvTYBVKAP0Zh4zUGZhWdJjJ339EB0mjs7pxMl4ub4188ed/s2560/20211116_141039_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-gH7GCkJ0UXAS1ZUDVKAzxf2rDe0ufnAUM-AluU-vsQYJ7PeoCszPNQkIpyJv2afpPkvecwrzQVjysSR_oNEx9f-4-4yQ0NkvTYBVKAP0Zh4zUGZhWdJjJ339EB0mjs7pxMl4ub4188ed/w152-h320/20211116_141039_HDR.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FkubEliVL0gd_rCEVMpbWhaJabvwbbcSVfLlAgO81Ff3wEhFDofT3UJYHFevXpTmdmrnFCclQVO59xOTaz-CUfsZXi8Qly7IryRKvi7fMYjGZCLTJt3ZYXuTuhzORhfGOMMiXVaxd1VA/s2560/20211116_141508_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKTrHi8LFRZ2aoYpZmlsTxlU2eUzqAGbo4WcoFX33q-6cL9N8aKirPs8hVqvP60q1IZTv45lN5tjfcvjKMIawT056GKydfNC52-esvlwv7rljMC9dWiivPCrJtfWF1U3WuvZthtuzMMe4/s320/Screenshots_2021-11-17-12-28-57.png" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, onto Bridgehouse. I want to start with the inside accommodations. The place is quite rustic. The story of the original covered bridge waits in framed newspaper articles throughout the house. In the original covered bridge is the kitchen, a double log bed, and two person kitchen table, plus bathroom. Beyond that, a hall lined with a stocked bookshelf of books, magazines, and games, leads to three more bedrooms, and one more full bathroom built on as an addition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwK8gHtggZTebLZ2udWxVXw1wj4A8MaASwaDeLRU773KjiIGfnKuxENGVbM22RmJRwbwQt2_sQpKSTeIppIsbbDQsOwvxxifSx3uda42Y46M0bDKj0fB_VIO26TJor1RIf3Dwo3L3XFYN/s1694/20211117_070345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwK8gHtggZTebLZ2udWxVXw1wj4A8MaASwaDeLRU773KjiIGfnKuxENGVbM22RmJRwbwQt2_sQpKSTeIppIsbbDQsOwvxxifSx3uda42Y46M0bDKj0fB_VIO26TJor1RIf3Dwo3L3XFYN/s320/20211117_070345.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVITjw42-Tx__AbZUsRWOWEkvQaZxr3-mVAgp_wc_72ANxPZTqYqExs1lwQJeonUfFzh4kRf-XoOOTM9ftKfe63v9_Y_M-gZEdkOvsvBlMBwNVlVxXEGf6xKaALuigyeJpKHjnt3US7ci/s2560/20211117_065917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVITjw42-Tx__AbZUsRWOWEkvQaZxr3-mVAgp_wc_72ANxPZTqYqExs1lwQJeonUfFzh4kRf-XoOOTM9ftKfe63v9_Y_M-gZEdkOvsvBlMBwNVlVxXEGf6xKaALuigyeJpKHjnt3US7ci/s320/20211117_065917.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6jcimlDpRqNv_bIxmmWRWqpGoxSRMD-QUP9qxPMJjHbz7-_gpySQI3ZHRllXiBGWzmAomMWGQKhG38Zr4AaewJaYCayazIwM0Xr1ozymjauQudZAmZugDrUbPAxb1InZyAlhvtQKBK_E/s1711/20211116_163741_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1711" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6jcimlDpRqNv_bIxmmWRWqpGoxSRMD-QUP9qxPMJjHbz7-_gpySQI3ZHRllXiBGWzmAomMWGQKhG38Zr4AaewJaYCayazIwM0Xr1ozymjauQudZAmZugDrUbPAxb1InZyAlhvtQKBK_E/s320/20211116_163741_HDR.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw8C2AcfadYN5IPqW-x9kR3ld7RFp1N9GmoZtQfMnhSWbFxQxN1JpA9zHrLBuecfGrS9glAMpcV9E2d3yeAIiw06a1Wb969vr9WQc4EAEOEVwoSj-1UdfH8-So0oooicfXgh6C7s5XW-if/s2560/20211117_063758.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw8C2AcfadYN5IPqW-x9kR3ld7RFp1N9GmoZtQfMnhSWbFxQxN1JpA9zHrLBuecfGrS9glAMpcV9E2d3yeAIiw06a1Wb969vr9WQc4EAEOEVwoSj-1UdfH8-So0oooicfXgh6C7s5XW-if/s320/20211117_063758.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdldkNMVrKq6HbMk_g3AYIvt1jT5Nmh496ZO6i1Z_hRjnGkAyPT1Kk9zs-g5RrKMTGnvYAX5bM5g1WOI8Ue3ZZWp0V5NhKDS5EPohYd_UXIImPRBuymkFrcsadZzcNvrH4l9AkHntB43g/s2560/20211117_100434_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdldkNMVrKq6HbMk_g3AYIvt1jT5Nmh496ZO6i1Z_hRjnGkAyPT1Kk9zs-g5RrKMTGnvYAX5bM5g1WOI8Ue3ZZWp0V5NhKDS5EPohYd_UXIImPRBuymkFrcsadZzcNvrH4l9AkHntB43g/s320/20211117_100434_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Luckily, my girlfriend, Mary Ann, wanted a bedroom in the addition, but I wanted to stay in the original bridge. With the floor to ceiling windows cracked open around me, as the gas fire place on it's lowest setting kept the place too hot for me, I got to fall asleep to the sound of the creek flowing. It was literally like floating into sleep between the sound and the thought that water flowed right under my bed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What you see through the sliding glass door in another part of the original covered bridge left as a covered porch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfrFq6H3a-BXWRDvhtJ1rhCxune-Fy_JKy9IggN30ODGa0v1vrGZhQy4_mgGvXCgePMeWD0EVMzH5ojijKDEKLJG6Xg2c-AXPO0TaeOVtMvIkz-eTjM1GIy1hqC6BqrEhSIFPJZnUO92H/s2560/20211117_064014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZfrFq6H3a-BXWRDvhtJ1rhCxune-Fy_JKy9IggN30ODGa0v1vrGZhQy4_mgGvXCgePMeWD0EVMzH5ojijKDEKLJG6Xg2c-AXPO0TaeOVtMvIkz-eTjM1GIy1hqC6BqrEhSIFPJZnUO92H/s320/20211117_064014.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEgatjHYRQaBphXKtARnQreGueDB5rlOcZt4vMW8xfWOhIJ9gLRmS742sk5o3hc7xZOM0K-yEGK_NEAinXuVAFJaRSysNMS6PpAh_ZYyDYLVGBimrvMABkRoGy0OdkluVkCsuBzW83uJ3/s2560/20211117_163129.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEgatjHYRQaBphXKtARnQreGueDB5rlOcZt4vMW8xfWOhIJ9gLRmS742sk5o3hc7xZOM0K-yEGK_NEAinXuVAFJaRSysNMS6PpAh_ZYyDYLVGBimrvMABkRoGy0OdkluVkCsuBzW83uJ3/s320/20211117_163129.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As nice as this was, with check in at 3pm on Tuesday, and the weather a perfect low sixties on Weds, I couldn't keep inside. I explored the little city the creator of the place, Ron Garrett created here on Tuesday before it got dark. On Wednesday I took a sunrise walk. Then, not able to stay inside with such beauty and so much to see outdoors, I spent a lot of time sitting on a rock by the creek right outside the bridge. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhywzkjUDobq0a5sK5FuLen6kCauqJBl5qM3AIGMw-4U7ztbmmH449iCYFm-BpR8FfOdvNZly0kz3-O4RfwjdsZUUrGdw0YeBwUAkYbfvQMaVJvQ12Uey69nanzATG5lU2wPiEWYjmZlis0/s769/Screenshots_2021-11-17-10-08-21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhywzkjUDobq0a5sK5FuLen6kCauqJBl5qM3AIGMw-4U7ztbmmH449iCYFm-BpR8FfOdvNZly0kz3-O4RfwjdsZUUrGdw0YeBwUAkYbfvQMaVJvQ12Uey69nanzATG5lU2wPiEWYjmZlis0/s320/Screenshots_2021-11-17-10-08-21.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q18xbVXOyIFrIcwfo7QNGSb2elG9Sxded6L-9xQZ0l5NKjFzEZn3jVDruzTQ8N9mdGEhUhq1PCmWeUb9EqIpUA5D5xN3gu7CUXYB_-bQIcxylX0vMCbXScJCSj3qAicOHpBjTl1JpApG/s762/Screenshots_2021-11-17-12-27-24.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q18xbVXOyIFrIcwfo7QNGSb2elG9Sxded6L-9xQZ0l5NKjFzEZn3jVDruzTQ8N9mdGEhUhq1PCmWeUb9EqIpUA5D5xN3gu7CUXYB_-bQIcxylX0vMCbXScJCSj3qAicOHpBjTl1JpApG/s320/Screenshots_2021-11-17-12-27-24.png" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is thin but amazing, and runs the length of the front of the property. I would like to note, that the kitchen, while stocked with pots and pans, bowls and plates, silverware and cups of all sorts, there is a pizza place that delivers. We brought and cooked all of our own food while there, but since it sits on a road right down from the city, you have two grocery stores, a drug store, within minutes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, back to this tiny city... While outside our first full day, we had the honor of meeting Mr. Garrett, who not only showed us inside the one room school house that serves as another Airbnb on the property, but he also took us through each building there. Each place he built and filled with eclectic treasure, some bought, some his unique creations, are a tribute to a memory of his life. Over the course of that day and night, when he had time, he gave us tours and told us many stories. Now, Mr. Garrett is a creative man, but you can tell when a story has been created to go with a piece of artwork, or when it is a precious memory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3Af4dTH6qVFq39tk20srUaZWG3Gkyiq-_uv-bjqIQIfK_7AAJAouavHupPRrbKz0lyQoi953O8ejOY4_UsT-I4RoZ5Woi2jBqboh0B8NiWT9e3eLXzQypxFHho18-aqJhCaaH5PAlCvy/s2416/20211117_070959.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="2416" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3Af4dTH6qVFq39tk20srUaZWG3Gkyiq-_uv-bjqIQIfK_7AAJAouavHupPRrbKz0lyQoi953O8ejOY4_UsT-I4RoZ5Woi2jBqboh0B8NiWT9e3eLXzQypxFHho18-aqJhCaaH5PAlCvy/s320/20211117_070959.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">These are just four of the building, that sit together right by the bridgehouse. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While the stories are his to tell, and he does have three small books to explain a few too, I must say that in my humble opinion, this creative genius has poured his heart and soul into each building, manifesting both sentiment and memory and study of life, his beliefs, into each artistic, wonderfully made, nook and cranny.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So first, this is the schoolhouse airbnb, created from memory from one he attended as a child. So, if you have more than the 5 people the Bridgehouse can sleep, you can get the school house too, which sleeps another four, and would be great for small children with classroom and small hut inside, and have the whole city to yourselves. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMtnVFP4VZFY21kW4F6DYs6tmameth_PUOuR5gSayXfmHx16kR9tX5zCyTqVEf3zqpwwWb9HBRXoaw6Q1PxeyZ6u4gRxecad7FaKs5JBP175tbr5aspZ_G1Llg0i92OtgVhjly-fHFkNg/s1966/20211117_070920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1966" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMtnVFP4VZFY21kW4F6DYs6tmameth_PUOuR5gSayXfmHx16kR9tX5zCyTqVEf3zqpwwWb9HBRXoaw6Q1PxeyZ6u4gRxecad7FaKs5JBP175tbr5aspZ_G1Llg0i92OtgVhjly-fHFkNg/s320/20211117_070920.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then comes the September Chapel. One of his books is about how he used the materials of a historic building in the town that was torn down to make wonderfully made place. Again, his story to tell, but it is am amazing place to spend some time, or just list to the chimes he made, which he has a fan blowing on at all times. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzGjyfgTCTcgJ-9upOEbmUgW1yfi5xrrPa6OM05b6jZKe2vK2rFAAo_2cnPosKUQ0p7sSBGs6ntt65rFfGkVqXJgj0yVMvOb_iDDZo0kZO56OigxJBGXxsjseXPtxjd-kI233Swsf7CFo/s1684/original_2bc54bec-a298-4760-ba47-27c32cb14a66_20211116_163516_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1684" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzGjyfgTCTcgJ-9upOEbmUgW1yfi5xrrPa6OM05b6jZKe2vK2rFAAo_2cnPosKUQ0p7sSBGs6ntt65rFfGkVqXJgj0yVMvOb_iDDZo0kZO56OigxJBGXxsjseXPtxjd-kI233Swsf7CFo/s320/original_2bc54bec-a298-4760-ba47-27c32cb14a66_20211116_163516_HDR.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwf9TTE5ZAeW-L_hKI0ORVrphq5CGNgs64aNALsmc8s5AkxtFjDB2IkDEKiPoBQuhWQr43noZfJZuDKp7T5AqwapFdyPD0IRwoQHVcvsnaB3N4LlFynKPyEImalKFPqZd1vP03vf15PUb/s1824/20211116_162013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1824" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwf9TTE5ZAeW-L_hKI0ORVrphq5CGNgs64aNALsmc8s5AkxtFjDB2IkDEKiPoBQuhWQr43noZfJZuDKp7T5AqwapFdyPD0IRwoQHVcvsnaB3N4LlFynKPyEImalKFPqZd1vP03vf15PUb/s320/20211116_162013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbw35WBZxMWlOnEXlpvzMtYFOWa-u5G4j9e0UtVDxw0qk-nXYKgDVSNxxt7ASywBowtA_nm1YoAMorrehQTQDsfQDgpeX58-jRtBSUY6dtBupkk2VarGLHIf8o27A1RZgEv0ErYRrT9Gw/s2560/20211117_164710.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbw35WBZxMWlOnEXlpvzMtYFOWa-u5G4j9e0UtVDxw0qk-nXYKgDVSNxxt7ASywBowtA_nm1YoAMorrehQTQDsfQDgpeX58-jRtBSUY6dtBupkk2VarGLHIf8o27A1RZgEv0ErYRrT9Gw/s320/20211117_164710.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyXJAKlPdHN0yyv3cOlH-MPTWJicrxmKNW6_1Axt-koig4lb9vMDevhV57YP1QbmKX2WagRQCMUde13dWJtHA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The chimes!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVXnDbKjJchy0PYqEpI2RdrDbJivJtF1YWMuwfDP3x_2MYykteaCFfGI5vTPoq8aRzhwKBFc6YxowIKvVyoxe9bAJkJCyFJHDCO2-atwHAcVoNvsEV26QGtaBZLdi-kas9Q9y5cv1oRl8K/s2560/20211117_164847.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVXnDbKjJchy0PYqEpI2RdrDbJivJtF1YWMuwfDP3x_2MYykteaCFfGI5vTPoq8aRzhwKBFc6YxowIKvVyoxe9bAJkJCyFJHDCO2-atwHAcVoNvsEV26QGtaBZLdi-kas9Q9y5cv1oRl8K/s320/20211117_164847.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOXG3AHK3zlRYoAbvznZL2HltY62T_frtmzNhgUSjeFjDiBeycdTNIFrYQMKNkDcwPlfBKodFieK39Ecg8sA_KBp63AsDJBrfFdvaT6yCEvrzeswwgNK_8UVUZzIq7pXy4GLmE5T_wh1l9/s2560/20211119_081331.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOXG3AHK3zlRYoAbvznZL2HltY62T_frtmzNhgUSjeFjDiBeycdTNIFrYQMKNkDcwPlfBKodFieK39Ecg8sA_KBp63AsDJBrfFdvaT6yCEvrzeswwgNK_8UVUZzIq7pXy4GLmE5T_wh1l9/s320/20211119_081331.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is a log cabin next door with a water wheel. Then a pizza place with a working oven.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2NafGAnThgjQaozB8MxmP9MHfq381G76Q1g9-VRRVinIHQN-C7Wqd7FUT2JTcWY27vobR5J-NL8j2Q2JWcFHq0s9EvnxRd4ewSgJ2nP0cf9CazRJjQ6zzhKNVcAedwh2HJTpEjFj0l0NA/s2560/20211117_071806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2NafGAnThgjQaozB8MxmP9MHfq381G76Q1g9-VRRVinIHQN-C7Wqd7FUT2JTcWY27vobR5J-NL8j2Q2JWcFHq0s9EvnxRd4ewSgJ2nP0cf9CazRJjQ6zzhKNVcAedwh2HJTpEjFj0l0NA/s320/20211117_071806.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagWjkgbOVHj8Ix73312eN5deZtkAhzCyVNWTfFc9h50PoGJWbGqyxmOWYshXBvtZca7ge9I8LlpEcm6-nQlJatMyb8vN7C6DaiIShiGqn0Xjf7NhyphenhyphennlDvKDGSO3KvbRNANeMhUCVecA6j/s2560/20211117_071759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagWjkgbOVHj8Ix73312eN5deZtkAhzCyVNWTfFc9h50PoGJWbGqyxmOWYshXBvtZca7ge9I8LlpEcm6-nQlJatMyb8vN7C6DaiIShiGqn0Xjf7NhyphenhyphennlDvKDGSO3KvbRNANeMhUCVecA6j/s320/20211117_071759.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While there are a million little eclectic things to see, the tractor that makes milk was an interactive story that was an experience in and of itself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigXsbs4a43FqDy9iT7T8FnP-g2wQVObZ6OK_dhZNs5VNf-aIqO5oK38kvUtjvW6FhlozGd_9b-iUZtQdcAgsGIQ_Shr3-XbXUTRCy1s76zWEnjzxkLB7aom4JYPLXe0AM_LW4n5KuLHlek/s2560/20211117_071706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigXsbs4a43FqDy9iT7T8FnP-g2wQVObZ6OK_dhZNs5VNf-aIqO5oK38kvUtjvW6FhlozGd_9b-iUZtQdcAgsGIQ_Shr3-XbXUTRCy1s76zWEnjzxkLB7aom4JYPLXe0AM_LW4n5KuLHlek/s320/20211117_071706.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And oh the places there are to sit everywhere, but none more unique than Mr. Garrett's birdcage swings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4RxpkGG0AsT_bBmyaH9JJdC8u9a8B-NuDVbCzPm7prsbQTsXl_T6NG3W-soN515eh1vpLMvWyZr-OIfzkPsq-fsCJ2hZToH-aNCVPzGPz9QQOLCSabn0EebhGP8B7xd6ANuHpK_36GyV/s1824/20211116_162631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4RxpkGG0AsT_bBmyaH9JJdC8u9a8B-NuDVbCzPm7prsbQTsXl_T6NG3W-soN515eh1vpLMvWyZr-OIfzkPsq-fsCJ2hZToH-aNCVPzGPz9QQOLCSabn0EebhGP8B7xd6ANuHpK_36GyV/s320/20211116_162631.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy3vqKaMrkUTA-k29rpHBdCXWqnPAEQquP67n1VK5vAcgOKTmpBuOn9OwpXTIVn3N74l7VaxwlPos0BhZjIeQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The front of this is where the water wheel is. It was amazing just before the sun came up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And you seriously never know what you are going to stumble upon inside of it, or what wonderful story situation Mr. Garrett will put you into next. He is often on the property, creating away, and happy to share from what I hear. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then there is the corral, aka green house, which has a rich family history for Mr. Garrett.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs1c2IWl78PJcuyb0i2j8P4lL9xBAafNt4fXWehAn6mbfYAMHXIECsth8NC10UpYcszR_pciF8__lXo5W-Q9Y7fsghVy6UES4yex5FinvV5EZZs_PPlYNCXtr41mbTEuddrsinGCroJTDp/s2560/20211119_081513.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs1c2IWl78PJcuyb0i2j8P4lL9xBAafNt4fXWehAn6mbfYAMHXIECsth8NC10UpYcszR_pciF8__lXo5W-Q9Y7fsghVy6UES4yex5FinvV5EZZs_PPlYNCXtr41mbTEuddrsinGCroJTDp/s320/20211119_081513.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6LLtia-CLEW5ow7VFkDQ0Dq2QwzjbyNA6QveAG1b1Et_EWcaphWDeDZDq6OIr6tD_cLWtcMQ_9f3BuT8AyPQVZhEoAXWQ08XYJSH2GnNeHSvye3BndVfQ4Vbjg7Nf5hgdNyzZArWqVTNY/s2560/20211119_081521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6LLtia-CLEW5ow7VFkDQ0Dq2QwzjbyNA6QveAG1b1Et_EWcaphWDeDZDq6OIr6tD_cLWtcMQ_9f3BuT8AyPQVZhEoAXWQ08XYJSH2GnNeHSvye3BndVfQ4Vbjg7Nf5hgdNyzZArWqVTNY/s320/20211119_081521.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN5j96NNV81zTIAaj4g4_g9IFuGNzHfLip8278dS8VnqiQnETee_zZrnUH2rxhZyG_9osBbAdjMX70qgC5YjtWmUXTADu4hnfz-uWhFhKknDe8vKRESJ3XXZcosWpHuH7Z-CgonXH-lli0/s2560/20211119_081539_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN5j96NNV81zTIAaj4g4_g9IFuGNzHfLip8278dS8VnqiQnETee_zZrnUH2rxhZyG_9osBbAdjMX70qgC5YjtWmUXTADu4hnfz-uWhFhKknDe8vKRESJ3XXZcosWpHuH7Z-CgonXH-lli0/s320/20211119_081539_HDR.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjotYaB0FWvnFB77veQ-Ojp6tAkK12-TTcIxgGd0UsZs1XrZoSHKbMtC6xtORLde_e1rxtTjRSGOhBsU4AsWJwMU1FjGVW_7rqtpB8a7W_ywoVFHQ6pfGGPsf7D8_i9mqrXIQqU8vhyphenhyphenWnHo/s2560/20211119_081558.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjotYaB0FWvnFB77veQ-Ojp6tAkK12-TTcIxgGd0UsZs1XrZoSHKbMtC6xtORLde_e1rxtTjRSGOhBsU4AsWJwMU1FjGVW_7rqtpB8a7W_ywoVFHQ6pfGGPsf7D8_i9mqrXIQqU8vhyphenhyphenWnHo/s320/20211119_081558.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is also a healing springs, though too cold for us to test the waters in Nov, they were a peaceful spot with more little shelters on them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVDvz0-wRx30EXqn_NJr4CeG5pIa0_rWpNHGKanYMC07wSxjvhKK7HCXk6ihyII78OkryvQDcozpMif7yxQRtqusLIvT2Rj7f9T_qZ-9kreNX5T_-ro1DbGok0QQx8DSZYTKOMrKMBTDV/s2560/20211117_071229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVDvz0-wRx30EXqn_NJr4CeG5pIa0_rWpNHGKanYMC07wSxjvhKK7HCXk6ihyII78OkryvQDcozpMif7yxQRtqusLIvT2Rj7f9T_qZ-9kreNX5T_-ro1DbGok0QQx8DSZYTKOMrKMBTDV/s320/20211117_071229.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another log cabin is a smokehouse, and a wonderful place to sit with your own thoughts, or read, or journal, or whatever you want to do. It is his newest addition to the property, and he is still working on improving it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-GW-jY0Svqm5X-UrWt33CqakVEceWke2UxmJADzkeyj_QmwK7AMf_VDOwEMoHmAOKbCOL0WYH7d2iVGi_NXd6UBXObqCrYTWErjxj0VvR67dRgjP-HnpHxdgC5GKFUdNkUUPW7cS6xXj/s1624/20211117_072032_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1624" data-original-width="984" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-GW-jY0Svqm5X-UrWt33CqakVEceWke2UxmJADzkeyj_QmwK7AMf_VDOwEMoHmAOKbCOL0WYH7d2iVGi_NXd6UBXObqCrYTWErjxj0VvR67dRgjP-HnpHxdgC5GKFUdNkUUPW7cS6xXj/s320/20211117_072032_HDR.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I found it a great place for self-reflection, as this picture taken inside symbolically shows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynyTnl1ABmzikPZsz9G_rzwhbcB-LZSfPKbMOLRLeVzZkUsoTCHVSBYMBG3D42sBYd4sh_TUjyQg6OinSEZ1lsBCPQ9T0UptDpW4hShbqhNQSiZIsgGh_L7aTYSWGC_6kjWSUbKC_6aU0/s320/20211117_133841_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That ends at a neighboring horse farm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, let me tell you about the sky on my walks. With our weather having gone from low sixties to the high twenties, we had sun, rain, and spitting snow while there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TIwHhv_veRMMpI5Q5hZQrANg_NgdiISWeTYDlRzszAmFjb2UHGNN-bxhiLQj8O-QsWCYkgDR11hEhEcxi8OvpRSyaA_qELIFbg5eiq4MwzPB9YPQ56YN7OY1puxX69bHFOQf8NlQRGrK/s1640/20211117_071522_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="1185" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TIwHhv_veRMMpI5Q5hZQrANg_NgdiISWeTYDlRzszAmFjb2UHGNN-bxhiLQj8O-QsWCYkgDR11hEhEcxi8OvpRSyaA_qELIFbg5eiq4MwzPB9YPQ56YN7OY1puxX69bHFOQf8NlQRGrK/s320/20211117_071522_HDR.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-VzuOo2CmY7cX0EG2rwiLmdDTCij932xhDDEDHj2PrlidyEduxgP7r3eQBRkp4-5fr3iBLXZKzpK2IGHKCChwotsBYzOHwh-NDjT5YsiSQAI0YqMDx4uFSbeWpMUlFi-7cUkOJhZaul-/s2560/20211117_071936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">I took 169 pictures according to my camera, so while this blog may hold many, it is only a smattering of what I saw and experienced.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS64pUe4qIckDsV_dhRkxiRnplU1IkmLpqcPoAiCFLLQKsrtuyzRBsmytKeXe2NEkg7lb7-lz5m3MR2XYJkLNcHG7PwHLK4h7EB_WZafCIIkHQBNezUujX5JsloAPZ0dqkU6W0xL8xFk-c/s1604/20211117_163019_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1604" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS64pUe4qIckDsV_dhRkxiRnplU1IkmLpqcPoAiCFLLQKsrtuyzRBsmytKeXe2NEkg7lb7-lz5m3MR2XYJkLNcHG7PwHLK4h7EB_WZafCIIkHQBNezUujX5JsloAPZ0dqkU6W0xL8xFk-c/s320/20211117_163019_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWpS3i57ripNLx2a9phYO5O-SvQZ8PlNQLVmsXpN0R3hlmdI4LGPZ6C83T2mj52T5k0NoOsLWptbqWaonkKnwZiGfbqF87alcMK5K_rXpTx4MrDUp1G5CGLdN0hX47HjJEKqKuBh31be6/s2560/20211117_163035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uO9_s0VbGAVmAoQddKJkUJQnElN7DoxstYwmQgeFX2V3w2sX51PGQytP4Kn-wyfodWghScGt59hAVneVCmflEgM6HnlMbwh6dIPYHoR5msCbIlBrv4dOg9Vb-0x_En-ndjhMg9N3wljA/s2560/20211118_074459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uO9_s0VbGAVmAoQddKJkUJQnElN7DoxstYwmQgeFX2V3w2sX51PGQytP4Kn-wyfodWghScGt59hAVneVCmflEgM6HnlMbwh6dIPYHoR5msCbIlBrv4dOg9Vb-0x_En-ndjhMg9N3wljA/s320/20211118_074459.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rain!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTwjIKPtLDZvJvATV35zoaQarxUyNnBcm6UScdSocWREMoFPkR5tjB70bD9x7fu1u1t6xPrBA-gf_U3QODzo8npSRcWpe4wCXOHXCDrjUw9G6wsxGq7HePKjQRefz3WslfQ96b-Y4T2Gd/s2560/20211119_081723.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTwjIKPtLDZvJvATV35zoaQarxUyNnBcm6UScdSocWREMoFPkR5tjB70bD9x7fu1u1t6xPrBA-gf_U3QODzo8npSRcWpe4wCXOHXCDrjUw9G6wsxGq7HePKjQRefz3WslfQ96b-Y4T2Gd/s320/20211119_081723.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ice</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYrI75aSnWHHR2_VHygyiXgPWqvfT_0NP98Qc1jItT0XqJ622meODK4Ui4YcuPR2j39_DCapRvXSYHBLrmVfYLxdg-XniRafea3Iq83RCiONLupORWca4m3xU2AAhaVQ36QNCwHWq4RyY/s2560/20211119_082506.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYrI75aSnWHHR2_VHygyiXgPWqvfT_0NP98Qc1jItT0XqJ622meODK4Ui4YcuPR2j39_DCapRvXSYHBLrmVfYLxdg-XniRafea3Iq83RCiONLupORWca4m3xU2AAhaVQ36QNCwHWq4RyY/s320/20211119_082506.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snow!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPV9SwDyINXbFdFAAz3R_yQJxCrD18zUI-SuBqyNASFCVp48E2AyoJjLAHLl_x9dHUXKSPis8Bu6IsMHj6WB_XwTIaSA1NX7TfFj-etqBtx_yvSS7KYxArzcnj_2cqR_B7iznEHUCCe61N/s2560/20211119_085011_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPV9SwDyINXbFdFAAz3R_yQJxCrD18zUI-SuBqyNASFCVp48E2AyoJjLAHLl_x9dHUXKSPis8Bu6IsMHj6WB_XwTIaSA1NX7TfFj-etqBtx_yvSS7KYxArzcnj_2cqR_B7iznEHUCCe61N/s320/20211119_085011_HDR.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And we had a full moon who came in and out of the clouds!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKP2uagTxnrI0uGLbhUig98BWyEZ_L1b7b9IV3E9RCSa5BiQ0QCQ93-ktuGMvBc4WUkSDBbzFX723BhKvTwGAjsB-pGQKtYnLjCx6Iw6jbbUcBvS7FKPbRYr0iQyzy7JNbCHaXjUwoAEA/s2560/20211118_201006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKP2uagTxnrI0uGLbhUig98BWyEZ_L1b7b9IV3E9RCSa5BiQ0QCQ93-ktuGMvBc4WUkSDBbzFX723BhKvTwGAjsB-pGQKtYnLjCx6Iw6jbbUcBvS7FKPbRYr0iQyzy7JNbCHaXjUwoAEA/s320/20211118_201006.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When the weather was bad, I can't say I minded, because even inside I was one with nature there, as you can see from these views from the windows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNvjFGyhCc5tik95UOwUlX2ROzGmEa2ei5FGClHqJY-lNqBBERxskMIXhrrg6egmaAE_e00e4GWW1Nnz_aGRTcxKLlTUm-j_ccp1-Ld85vQbomsmREFYhsuUytCygvLCgeqvc8ttOv6Etq/s2560/20211118_105243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="2560" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNvjFGyhCc5tik95UOwUlX2ROzGmEa2ei5FGClHqJY-lNqBBERxskMIXhrrg6egmaAE_e00e4GWW1Nnz_aGRTcxKLlTUm-j_ccp1-Ld85vQbomsmREFYhsuUytCygvLCgeqvc8ttOv6Etq/s320/20211118_105243.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beside unstill waters,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in a house on a bridge that goes nowhere,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I sit at the small curve</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">where water tumbles effortlessly over stones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The healing of this flow washes over me,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I took the time for self-reflection,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">finding love among other things.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Nr9VZlcwsuFQyMpPJKqXYHuxUwdUCh3sKrEcKRzdl2xioHPrQOJ-cGEYZAZ53ZOVdLvnLIsUL2yj9uBsqq-tH0WQs8UQeEacYScYaNNB05MlUcvrw-fzfPjyN-GuYcFBgudFE0Mj1n0g/s2560/20211118_154227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTubJjlxDtrEONgfcHl-tYAhB6HHzXAO4zZC4pnw9T2397ly9TbIT_C1MfnGF3DRCEhEDxK4uK4HoNkOx2_e3oiXrRfVB_CeMdSIbmYBfj0H28uqSX8X2tC7ZPPuERRJN18LxBMFU03S-x/s320/20211118_103726.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I never left my creek, no matter where on the property I sat by it, day or night, I always heard it's rushing waters. I meditated sitting on a quilt on a rock. I read, I journaled, I sipped tea, I ate, etc.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy2bF7ieYIEKw9T2uHFhdxbcpJlc1OgxYj_KhNmkPKEfJvbGNaZI8wFkYJnAvxOvKzCVaNvsi2UJbGrBjxu2A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxykUBZTVqkfRsx3_TYFso0HM62LmXrhipq5wMUpF38SCsF_nC64qlpq4XYSA5yZCP1DlVaEiemIbKoYF9CmaW_Jn1FBb49gvczAO4n1bQ5_2GZEypLdwku2rvqzgJX_kDkKAy-fjQRT_n/s2560/20211118_070008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxykUBZTVqkfRsx3_TYFso0HM62LmXrhipq5wMUpF38SCsF_nC64qlpq4XYSA5yZCP1DlVaEiemIbKoYF9CmaW_Jn1FBb49gvczAO4n1bQ5_2GZEypLdwku2rvqzgJX_kDkKAy-fjQRT_n/s320/20211118_070008.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With check out on Friday at noon, there were really cute cities to explore, shop, eat. We went to Volant, a cute little borough in Lawrence county nestled in Amish country. After a short scenic drive, we encountered so many cute shops. The mill, pictured, is a three floor gift shop. I bought bayberry candles for the holidays. There was the Wicked Little Witches shop with so much magical fun and a wonderful homemade cream of rosemary and mint. Shops included one for candles, one for soaps, one for antiques and so on. We ate at a little pizza place, the Foxes Den, where they were easily accommodating to our special diets with thin crust and mounds of veggies with no cheese. After we went to a winery that makes its own cider too. 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Sánchez ~ A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7SBPmoxy6zXQn2KUyhsx1t-gAU70hVst1olBwyD1EmsKVMtd5o7bKocdvAQqYnJXcvgDdhwl5IycElGpYcVf9nVzSRkTRWp6SttaYfgIz176z2I-q0PETneqJH5KX9DKS-saQPoQXFs/s2048/SILVANA+SANCHEZ+AUTHOR+INTERVIEW.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1366" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7SBPmoxy6zXQn2KUyhsx1t-gAU70hVst1olBwyD1EmsKVMtd5o7bKocdvAQqYnJXcvgDdhwl5IycElGpYcVf9nVzSRkTRWp6SttaYfgIz176z2I-q0PETneqJH5KX9DKS-saQPoQXFs/w370-h556/SILVANA+SANCHEZ+AUTHOR+INTERVIEW.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb:</h3><p style="text-align: center;">There are three rules every witch should follow:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Never reveal your wicked nature to a human.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Never cast magic against your own.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>And never, absolutely never, fall in love with a vampire.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">I ignored them all.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Now hell’s broken loose, and the people I love are in danger.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I will fight, broom and cauldron, to save them.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PyX5MyvLa-9aNZv2TGL6HFklf7l3QVhV4oZxOfmS2_9yxGlquElNwuyDN86o9YexIfcPBDH9VWoljRafHfNzk28tArXvn9yH2AMyX-t2mcyIo7n3H6jB_cf00l7WhmKjV0iJ_oQoMyk/s1200/Silvan+G+Sanchez2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PyX5MyvLa-9aNZv2TGL6HFklf7l3QVhV4oZxOfmS2_9yxGlquElNwuyDN86o9YexIfcPBDH9VWoljRafHfNzk28tArXvn9yH2AMyX-t2mcyIo7n3H6jB_cf00l7WhmKjV0iJ_oQoMyk/w513-h196/Silvan+G+Sanchez2.jpg" width="513" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt:</h3><p>“I don’t believe in luck,” I mumbled, trying to zip up my jacket, but failing thanks to my quivering fingers. And as much as I hated to admit it, my hands did not tremble because of the weather; this guy was hot as hell, and I’d never expected I’d bump into him like this.</p><p>He turned and stared at me appraisingly. “Curious,” he said, a slight frown on his face as he drew closer. “I thought all witches trusted in their crystals for good luck,” hinting at my clear quartz pendant, raising his chin a little.</p><p>He said <i>witches</i>.</p><p>Now that broke any poise I’d gathered so far. Flustered, I said, “How do you…?”</p><p>Hot guy joined me by the wall. He leaned next to me, his wondrous cologne slowly penetrating my lungs, clouding my mind. It was a glorious fragrance, like that of the fresh scent of woods after the first spring rain.</p><p>“How do I know you’re a witch?” he said with a low sensual voice, so intimate that it shot gooseflesh up my arms. “I guess you could call it a gift.” He turned. In this nearness, as his eyes fixed on mine, I recognized a flash of magic inside them. That and the hint of pointy fangs as he half smiled told me everything I needed to know…</p><div><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Midnight Kiss</i>?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3></div><p><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Silvana G. Sánchez here with us today. Silvana, thanks for visiting us.</i></p><p><i><b>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</b></i></p><p>I’ve been attracted to storytelling since infancy. My first short story won a State contest and got published when I was ten years old. I haven’t stopped writing since.</p><p> </p><p><b><i>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</i></b></p><p><i>Midnight Kiss</i> is the companion to my vampire series, The Unnatural Brethren. In this story, we learn about the lives of the Stone Witches of Kennington.</p><p>Kiera Stone and her aunt Prim run the family’s Teahouse in London, but there’s more to that shop than meets the eye… Magic and mayhem will ensue when Kiera breaks the rules that bind all witches.</p><p> </p><p><b><i>How did you come up with the storyline?</i></b></p><p>I was inspired by the City, and an underground nightclub I visited once near London Bridge Station. I met some pretty interesting people that night… A few of them were human.</p><p> </p><p><b><i>What inspires you to write?</i></b></p><p>My need to speak for all outcasts, because I’ve always been proud to be one.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Tell us about your other books:</i></b></p><p>My #1 bestselling series, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08886HB2M" target="_blank">Vesely Academy</a>, is my latest release, and it’s available on Amazon. It’s the first Paranormal Academy miniseries ever to be published, so if you’re looking for quick dark romance stories with a paranormal kick, this is the one for you!</p><p>If you’re interested in twisted fairytale retellings, I can’t recommend you enough <i><a href="https://books2read.com/u/3Raqxn" target="_blank">Once Upon Another World, a Twisted FairyTale Box Set</a></i>. My story, <i><b>Ash and Snow: The Curse of The White Throne</b></i>, is featured in this box set along with twenty other bestselling award-winning authors, and at 99 cents, it’s quite a bargain! </p><p>We’re aiming for the USAT bestselling title, so your support is greatly appreciated!</p><p> </p><p><b><i>Where can readers find you?</i></b> </p><p>Want to find out more about me and my upcoming releases? Feel free to stalk me!</p><p>My website <a href="http://www.silvanagsanchez.com">www.silvanagsanchez.com</a></p><p>Newsletter: <a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/silvanagsanchez">https://www.subscribepage.com/silvanagsanchez</a></p><p>Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/silvanagsanchez.author/">https://www.facebook.com/silvanagsanchez.author/</a></p><p>Fan Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/readersdenbysilvana/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/readersdenbysilvana/</a></p><p>BookBub: <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/silvana-g-sanchez">https://www.bookbub.com/profile/silvana-g-sanchez</a></p><p>Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/silvanagsanchez">https://www.goodreads.com/silvanagsanchez</a></p><p>Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/silvanagsanchez">https://www.amazon.com/author/silvanagsanchez</a></p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/silvanagsanchez">https://twitter.com/silvanagsanchez</a></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/silvanagsanchez/">https://www.instagram.com/silvanagsanchez/</a></p><p>Pinterest: <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/iamsilvanagsanchez/">https://www.pinterest.com/iamsilvanagsanchez/</a></p><p>Spotify: <a href="https://tiny.cc/lnt6iz">https://tiny.cc/lnt6iz</a></p><p> </p><p><b>About the Author:</b></p><p>Silvana G. Sánchez writes monsters with a heart of gold, villains who are the heroes of their own stories.</p><p>She lives in Mexico City with her husband Eric, twins Iker (†) and David, and two Shih-Tzu puppies she lovingly calls her dragons, Wookie and Padme.</p><p>When not cutting eyes open in her practice as an Ophthalmologist, she's known to write dark fantasy novels in her writing den.</p><p>You can find her lurking on her Facebook page and at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/readersdenbysilvana/">Readers’ Den</a>, her reader’s group.</p><p>Stop by to say hello. She doesn't bite—not always, anyway.</p><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-45413613971005432372020-10-26T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-26T21:30:01.816-07:00When Wendigos Prey by Nicole Zoltack ~ A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjceQ0bKX3dOHifJ968fQV5geUjMAIO1b9b70R4f3LDlQLcmEiL03sD0L611mHkrhopwauYy4FDi701SRCwt71C1MFfuDJQP-myrLhX-uj4zp4DHwB6rQ-7seC711oP08VpJAMQu9DII8E/s2048/a-cursed-all-hallows-eve-ebook-cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjceQ0bKX3dOHifJ968fQV5geUjMAIO1b9b70R4f3LDlQLcmEiL03sD0L611mHkrhopwauYy4FDi701SRCwt71C1MFfuDJQP-myrLhX-uj4zp4DHwB6rQ-7seC711oP08VpJAMQu9DII8E/w317-h476/a-cursed-all-hallows-eve-ebook-cover.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb: </h3><p style="text-align: center;">Clarissa Tempest has dealt with plenty of bedlam in Bethlehem. There’s been a bit of peace now until she learns that a dear friend has died. Maybe now, she’ll face her fear and take her relationship to the next level because tomorrow isn’t a guarantee. But then, of course, there’s a body.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb4eL2VcrzGfWmye7WW1RzkpCpzp5K7ljoKqARw7s5f_OsHELkmtvT9JASaKkve7ppCIUSkaiqMynQ-_TGbLvDyHFg0YKOV0KNPeVKP9LFamdIqTj5IaMLFMdlHTs90amHpXZbclKcLsA/s1200/119144692_10208163616085938_7519996768144814616_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb4eL2VcrzGfWmye7WW1RzkpCpzp5K7ljoKqARw7s5f_OsHELkmtvT9JASaKkve7ppCIUSkaiqMynQ-_TGbLvDyHFg0YKOV0KNPeVKP9LFamdIqTj5IaMLFMdlHTs90amHpXZbclKcLsA/w472-h180/119144692_10208163616085938_7519996768144814616_o.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt: </h3><p>Footsteps sound behind me, and I don’t bother to turn around.</p><p>“Diego,” I say.</p><p>“Good guess. How did you know it was me?” he asks as he moves to stand beside me and wraps an arm around my shoulders.</p><p>“Who else would be prowling the cemetery at this hour?”</p><p>“Besides you? Not too many.” He tweaks my nose.</p><p>“How romantic.” I slap his chest.</p><p>“I can be romantic when I want to be.” Case in point, he hands me a box.</p><p>I open it to learn it’s a box of chocolates. “Thank you, but how many did you eat?”</p><p>The moon shines on his face as he quirks his lips. “Just one.”</p><p>“I guess that’s all right,” I tease. “I might let you stick around.”</p><p>“There’s a chance you won’t?” he presses, smirking.</p><p>“On second thought…” I place the chocolate box down to the side and stare up into his handsome face, and the words just slip out. I originally intended to ask tonight in bed, but why not here? Some would think a proposal in a cemetery is a bit morbid, and maybe it is, but it fits us. It fits me. “I love you, Diego. Let’s get married.”</p><p>He gapes at me for a split second and then shakes his head and mumbles something in Spanish.</p><p>I lift my eyebrows. “I don’t know what you said, but I also didn’t hear sí.”</p><div><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>When Wendigos Prey</i>?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3></div><p><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Nicole Zoltack here with us today. Nicole Zoltack, thanks for visiting us.</i></p><p><b><i>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</i></b></p><p>I’ve been a writer forever. I’ve always wanted to be a writer since I was four years old, and in 2009, I was published for the first time, and I haven’t looked back since! I started to write because my mom used to sit my sister and I down at the kitchen table while she was making meals. She gave us papers and pencils and told us to write, so writing’s always been a part of my life.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</b></i></p><p>When Wendigos Prey is an epilogue to my Bedlam in Bethlehem series about a detective in Bethlehem, PA who discovers that the creatures that go bump in the night are real and not just myths.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>How did you come up with the storyline?</b></i></p><p>I always wanted to write a short bit about what happens to Clarissa. So much darkness has touched her life that it’s time for some happiness, but there’s a body. There’s always a dead body.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>What inspires you to write?</i></b></p><p>I find inspiration everywhere, from tv shows, movies, dreams, playing the what if game… I have a ton of ideas to write!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Tell us about your other books:</i></b></p><p>There’s the Bedlam in Bethlehem series, which kicks off a huge world with a ton of other series to enjoy. Next is Magical Hunters Academy, a series about a school that teaches paranormal beings how to become hunters, slayers, or executioners of evil paranormal beings. There’s Blood Haven Academy, an academy for vampires. The trilogy is a paranormal retelling of Romeo and Juliet. There’s also Magical Prison, about twin fairies, and finally, Rebel, Supernatural Bounty Hunter is the last series in this world so far. It’s about—you guessed it!—a supernatural bounty hunter. A <i>human</i> supernatural bounty hunter. There’s plenty of crossover in the later books!</p><p>I also have a trilogy called Queenmaker about King Arthur if he had been a girl. Once Upon a Darkened Night is a series of twisted fairy tales where the villain is now the hero. There’s a superhero trilogy and a quartet about dragon shifters… What can I say? I love to write!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Where can readers find you? </i></b></p><p><a href="http://www.NicoleZoltack.com">www.NicoleZoltack.com</a></p><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/authorNicoleZoltack">www.facebook.com/authorNicoleZoltack</a></p><p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/NicoleZoltack">www.twitter.com/NicoleZoltack</a></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/author/nicolezoltack">www.amazon.com/author/nicolezoltack</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bookbub.com/authors/nicole-zoltack">www.bookbub.com/authors/nicole-zoltack</a></p><p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/nicolezoltack">www.goodreads.com/nicolezoltack</a></p><p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/NicoleZoltack">www.instagram.com/NicoleZoltack</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pinterest/NicoleZoltack">www.pinterest/NicoleZoltack</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>About the Author:</b> </p><p>Nicole Zoltack is a USA Today bestselling author who loves to write romances. Of course. She did marry her first kiss, after all!</p><p>When she’s not writing about knights, superheroes, or witches, she enjoys spending time with her loving husband, three energetic young boys, and precious baby girl. She enjoys riding horses (pretending they’re unicorns, of course!) and going to the PA Renaissance Faire dressed in garb. She’ll also read anything she can get her hands on. Her current favorite TV shows are The Witcher and Stranger Things.</p><p>Sign up for her newsletter to learn when her next book is released as well as excerpts, cover reveals, and giveaways!</p><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div></div></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-78826188335351323672020-10-25T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-25T21:30:03.336-07:00Spell of Snow by S.J. Pierce ~ A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5AU8rUgUkPFlOndxs1Yb8v1IRacNLJrqo3d0L1ZhIkam-oW185ZQpRC-d6z9kDnnRcit8qIhhlHvESmryqzY5hQWfsRj1byg1Ky98kqTzryAj0eC0QBJ4kgrPxIMofod3tud7FMnaNlw/s420/SJ+PIERCE+AUTHOR+INTERVIEW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="280" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5AU8rUgUkPFlOndxs1Yb8v1IRacNLJrqo3d0L1ZhIkam-oW185ZQpRC-d6z9kDnnRcit8qIhhlHvESmryqzY5hQWfsRj1byg1Ky98kqTzryAj0eC0QBJ4kgrPxIMofod3tud7FMnaNlw/w312-h469/SJ+PIERCE+AUTHOR+INTERVIEW.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb: </h3><p style="text-align: center;">Life can be a witch...</p><p style="text-align: center;">Six years ago, I discovered my powers - I can make flowers bloom. But in a world where anything magical is met with judgement and swinging from a rope, I have to be careful... until one day I wasn't. The Witch Hunters have been alerted, and now no one, including my loved ones, can save me.</p><p style="text-align: center;">My name is Rosanna Frey, Snow Queen of Ipswich, and this is my story.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_p07ueLWMILKY5BQc5FgppmpTrb-yEp2iUE3QBKgNmBxllMzKszaU8Jf2BcDsm14knR6hlJIjYD5h-GTHlVCcqYdLNflNJjNvIdgILCi-ZUpyxTNaqVV9lhj8rb36fwejhn9HrKofQEY/s1200/SJ+Pierce2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_p07ueLWMILKY5BQc5FgppmpTrb-yEp2iUE3QBKgNmBxllMzKszaU8Jf2BcDsm14knR6hlJIjYD5h-GTHlVCcqYdLNflNJjNvIdgILCi-ZUpyxTNaqVV9lhj8rb36fwejhn9HrKofQEY/w494-h188/SJ+Pierce2.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt: </h3><p>I’ve imagined a million times what it would be like right before you’re hanged—rope taut around your neck. Trembling like a leaf. Tears streaming. Life desperately flashing before your eyes in broken fractals; all the best and worst memories in chronological order. </p><p>But none of those daydreams were anywhere near accurate.</p><p>Numbness consumed me. If I was shaking or crying, I couldn’t tell. A self-preservation thing, to be sure. </p><p>Or maybe it was shock.</p><p>My brain didn’t register sound, my thoughts stationary.</p><p>Mouths opening and closing in front of me. Crying? Shouting. Everyone’s eyes jerked to the man beside the buggy I was standing on. He was reading aloud my crimes. Punishable by death. </p><p>Witchcraft.</p><p>I frantically searched the crowd for Jacob, my love. He didn’t come. He couldn’t bear to watch.</p><p>Some of them covered their eyes. Some looked away. Some watched on, eyes burning flames of hatred. Die, Rosanna! Satan’s seed.</p><p>Eyes screwed shut, my lips parted to release a scream, but the wood beneath my bare feet dragged away and I plummeted to my death with a soundless gasp.</p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Spell of Snow</i>?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div></div><p><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have S.J. Pierce here with us today. S.J., thanks for visiting us.</i></p><p><b><i>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing? </i></b></p><p>I’ve been writing ten years! A story idea came to me, and the characters wouldn’t leave me alone until I let them out. </p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</b></i> </p><p>A Spell of Snow is a YA paranormal romance set in my bestselling Captivated Series world. It’s a spin-off and a standalone. I hope you adore the characters as much as I do!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>How did you come up with the storyline?</i></b></p><p>I loved the idea of exploring the same beings (angel hybrids and witches) that were in the Captivated Series but ones that lived in an earlier time and in a different place. </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>What inspires you to write? </i></b></p><p>Everything. Every heartbreak and happy moment. Every interaction with people and animals. Triumphs and failures…you name it. I find inspiration in all things.</p><p> </p><p><b><i>Tell us about your other books:</i></b> </p><p>All my series are linked together! My adult PNR, my YA PNR, and even my YA Dystopian series: They’re all in the same universe. I like for my readers to experience different facets of the same world.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Where can readers find you? </i></b></p><p>Facebook: <a href="https://bit.ly/3bnYVeu">https://bit.ly/3bnYVeu</a></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://bit.ly/2vOnYbr">https://bit.ly/2vOnYbr</a></p><p>Twitter: <a href="https://bit.ly/2UEhAfp">https://bit.ly/2UEhAfp</a></p><p>Goodreads: <a href="https://bit.ly/2JirZI8">https://bit.ly/2JirZI8</a></p><p>Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/2CceOp9">https://amzn.to/2CceOp9</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>About the Author: </b></p><p>International Bestselling Author Susan James Pierce writes Paranormal, Sci-fi, and Contemporary Romance novels, and they all have the same thing in common - the characters' love defies all odds. Her "unputdownable" stories will make you laugh, cry, swoon, and keep you on the edge of your seat. Enjoy the ride!</p><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div><div><br style="text-align: center;" /></div></div></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-2653246402298709342020-10-19T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-19T21:30:09.746-07:00Tricks, Treats, & Trials By Fire by Sapphire Winters ~ A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNQEg6JwvqxEmJhHo0v5LMW92o5QhUekCctTQQThUXXEczJoP9_qAJQyztLOpqQmuGzXgAk7CGe8Sl-XqELqWl2B-0nwGWD2ToP51R_EIOd-XpB9fB538uRaGC4x3t89dSWMywa9sJWs/s2048/Sapphire+Winters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="513" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNQEg6JwvqxEmJhHo0v5LMW92o5QhUekCctTQQThUXXEczJoP9_qAJQyztLOpqQmuGzXgAk7CGe8Sl-XqELqWl2B-0nwGWD2ToP51R_EIOd-XpB9fB538uRaGC4x3t89dSWMywa9sJWs/w342-h513/Sapphire+Winters.jpg" width="342" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb:</h3><p style="text-align: center;">It's All Hallow's Eve, and Andrea Ralowski is ready to get over her ex and live it up and let it go down at her town's masquerade ball. </p><p style="text-align: center;">But the sleepy little town of Briarwood Hollow just outside Salem is hiding more behind its masks than Andrea knows. Turns out the werewolf she got her howls on with is <i>literally</i> a werewolf and now alpha Rex Rivers wants to make her one too as his fated mate. But it's her choice. After all, he says, someone like her could become too powerful once bitten...</p><p style="text-align: center;">As cryptic as that is, it prompts her to dive into her past, sure her life couldn't get weirder than a predestined wolf man mate... but it does. She learns that she doesn't just have a little magic in her past, but a lot. The kind that got her ancestors burned and could make things around Briarwood a little hot for her too. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IgG48z3pypsxE2Wzgw30kCErp_WnuxymDhTd_x7GpAO8MMXNAmBTgHk9AoLX7oAg5wjRrS81_Vyt4M01HhrlS2vTrp7B_S4P0gFezngl6ZtA_NHcCKfgiiMKWDrkjAH7y5ljVU-WwTw/s1200/Sapphire+Winters2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IgG48z3pypsxE2Wzgw30kCErp_WnuxymDhTd_x7GpAO8MMXNAmBTgHk9AoLX7oAg5wjRrS81_Vyt4M01HhrlS2vTrp7B_S4P0gFezngl6ZtA_NHcCKfgiiMKWDrkjAH7y5ljVU-WwTw/w530-h202/Sapphire+Winters2.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt:</h3><p>“You need to realize that I’m not a shifter and I don’t abide by your shifter rules.”</p><p>“You’ll abide by whatever I say,” he says. His voice is grouchy, and the words come out through a growl.</p><p>I close my eyes. I’m not supposed to react this way. I’m not supposed to like him talking to me like this.</p><p>But I do.</p><p>God, I do.</p><p>“You aren’t the boss of me, Rex.” I force my eyes open, only to realize he’s closer to me. Too close. Our bodies are inches away from each other, like we’re magnets just waiting to attach to each other. “You don’t get to tell me what to do.”</p><p>“I hate to break it to you, sweetheart,” he says, tilting his head down so his lips are <i>so close</i> to mine, “but you belong to me. Every inch of yours is mine. And I’ll prove it.”</p><p>With that, he lunges for me.</p><p><br /></p><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Tricks, Treats, & Trials By Fire</i>?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3><div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have SAPPHIRE WINTERS here with us today. SAPPHIRE, thanks for visiting us.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I haven’t been a writer very long. I started on fan fiction in 2018 and when 2020 took a turn for the worst I decided to create my own worlds through writing. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It’s HOT and I mean scorching hot. Andrea and Rex steam up the pages as they learn all about each other and their powers.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>How did you come up with the storyline?</i></b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As cliché as it sounds, it came to me in a dream… just bits and pieces of course but it was enough to create a mini outline and go from there.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Tell us about your other books: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I’m currently have a phoenix shifter book out now and she meets a shifter hunter, its amazing, if I do say so myself ;) I am working on a gentlemans club/ BDSM shifter series that I’m super excited about.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Where can readers find you?</i></b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Winters/e/B0845WYMM9">https://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Winters/e/B0845WYMM9</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="mailto:authorsapphirewinters@gmail.com">authorsapphirewinters@gmail.com</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/authorsapphirewinters/">https://www.instagram.com/authorsapphirewinters/</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSapphireWinters/">https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSapphireWinters/</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16128146.Sapphire_Winters">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16128146.Sapphire_Winters</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5eac8d5482272f0026f9f852">https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5eac8d5482272f0026f9f852</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sapphire-winters">https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sapphire-winters</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>About the Author: </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sapphire Winters is a new paranormal romance author with a love for shifters! Her heroines are strong and sassy fighters who don't give up, and her stories provide an escape where readers can leave their world behind.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-57479526527598261732020-10-18T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-18T21:30:00.191-07:00Persephone's Raven by Mara Amberly ~ A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUw8nRVTJoSRSNj0bqSxo_Ncws4a2Gku6yrKw5gVIw6Od_y-03klByoeYuEY_9g9E3iQDirks7n-bVJ84_U1ibSq_TV_aXPoMeItZHDyvFWW0w0wL1rs0d6SLZ6uqbKztN8fhhclooxA/s420/MARA+AMBERLY+TAMARA+SICHTER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="280" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUw8nRVTJoSRSNj0bqSxo_Ncws4a2Gku6yrKw5gVIw6Od_y-03klByoeYuEY_9g9E3iQDirks7n-bVJ84_U1ibSq_TV_aXPoMeItZHDyvFWW0w0wL1rs0d6SLZ6uqbKztN8fhhclooxA/w338-h508/MARA+AMBERLY+TAMARA+SICHTER.jpg" width="338" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb: </h3><p style="text-align: center;">I always believed mythology to be stories from the past, but what if they're prophecies... and now they're coming true?</p><p style="text-align: center;">I didn't want to take my little sister trick-or-treating on Halloween night, but I'm glad I did. </p><p style="text-align: center;">I'm surprised to meet a handsome stranger with an otherworldly air in the shadows. At first he intimidates me, but when our paths cross again at a masquerade party, I have the chance to get to know him. I find him captivating, but I doubt his claims that his name is Hades—the name belonging to the Greek God of the Underworld. After all, what are the chances it's his real name, God or not, when my name is Persephone—the same as Hades' mythological queen?</p><p style="text-align: center;">What's he going to say next? That he's the real Greek God of the Underworld? That we're destined to be together? It seems more likely he's trying to win me over, and yet, I want to get to know him better. I'm drawn to him more than other men; the difference is like night and day.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'll give him a chance, but I don't believe he's the real Hades or that we have a special destiny. Of course, I've been known to be wrong.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYSXo2jJ2VqNL0MoReey3UrW62bhiUUYavYUnM8NDCSjplXExtf4AmBcp1ew-GKMFJ7uyh0rzUQjklyzs3zjM1wOIYIQwC3SIT2fkxKxrI7cfrqYW9D7B2fXe0q-yzZ8IZ-PNk_AvgTw/s1200/Mara+Amberly2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYSXo2jJ2VqNL0MoReey3UrW62bhiUUYavYUnM8NDCSjplXExtf4AmBcp1ew-GKMFJ7uyh0rzUQjklyzs3zjM1wOIYIQwC3SIT2fkxKxrI7cfrqYW9D7B2fXe0q-yzZ8IZ-PNk_AvgTw/w578-h220/Mara+Amberly2.jpg" width="578" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt: </h3><p>“So what do I call you?” I asked him, wondering if I should be using ‘Your Majesty’ or a term of respect like that.</p><p>“I told you,” he said. “My name is Hades.”</p><p>“Then I will call you that,” I promised him.</p><p>The room was steeped in luxury, but his attention wasn’t on it; it was on me. In my normal, everyday life I might’ve questioned why, but in this land and in my dream, I merely took it as a compliment. We walked on through his castle, and when we reached another room, which seemed a more relaxed reception room, we sat down together at a wooden table. </p><p>It wasn’t lost on me that the castle was exceptionally well-kept, with tapestries decorating its walls, ornate chandeliers, and many beautiful relics and paintings from all over the world. It made me wonder when he had gathered them, if he’d done so himself, but my instincts told me he had. I could sense his touch on everything in our surroundings, even the castle itself. It truly felt like his realm.</p><p>“What are you thinking about?” he asked me, as he leaned forward over the table, steepling his fingers beneath his chin. </p><p>I shook my head, because it was hard to explain. “I’m just experiencing this—your castle, the world it’s in, Hades.” </p><p>His name felt strange as I spoke it, as though it held more power here than in the mortal world. I finally understood then that speaking his name had meaning, and there were many who might not have dared to speak it at all.</p><p>“This is the underworld,” he told me, as he regarded me with interest.</p><p>“I know,” I answered softly. Prior to meeting him, it had merely been a concept, but now I knew it was real, and I was here for a time. I glanced out the window. It was stained glass, and patterned in blues and greens, but I could tell that the day was growing darker outside. It seemed night was swiftly approaching.</p><div><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Persephone's Raven</i>?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Mara Amberly here with us today. Mara, thanks for visiting us.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>One of my majors was in journalism at university (and I later studied a Masters in editing and publishing), and it improved my writing quality and speed. Around fifteen years ago, I got into text-based online roleplaying games, including freeform and system games. I GM’d games over the years: mainly 7th Sea and Serenity, but also other games like Legend of the Five Rings and Stargate. I think that time spent GMing and playing in games built up and improved my fiction-writing skills. I wrote my first book in 2015, and my first novel in 2016.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>‘Persephone’s Raven’ is a clean paranormal romance story mainly set during Halloween. It tells the story of Persephone, a student who lives at home with her family. She had party plans, but they were canceled and she was asked to take her younger sister, Deanna, trick or treating. While they’re out, she learns that someone might have seen a ghost in the window of a deserted house up the street, and she and Deanna check it out. The events of the evening lead her to meet a man who calls himself Hades. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>How did you come up with the storyline?</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I had the idea of writing a romantic story about a god and a human woman. I was originally going to make it a darker story than it is, but as it took form, it came out lighter. I had ideas in mind before I started, but I made it up as I went along. I’d best define myself as a plantser – kind of halfway between a planner and a pantser. I usually plot out a framework for longer stories and plan out early chapters in detail, but this was a shorter story at around 10k and I didn’t need to plan that much.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>What inspires you to write?</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I feel compelled to write and put stories out there. Ideas just come together in my head, but I’m very much a visual person, so I’ll usually create or buy a cover before I’ve even written a story. It’s part of the process for me. Sometimes images inspire me to write, but usually ideas do. I watch a lot of shows (mostly sci-fi) and the genre I’ve read most is epic fantasy. I feel like things I’ve really enjoyed inspire me to want to create things of my own that are (hopefully) equally epic. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Tell us about your other books</i></b>:</div><div><br /></div><div>I’m currently focusing on my A Paradox of Time series, which is time travel sci-fi. It’s probably my favourite series to write so far. I’ve written books 1 and 2, I have the prequel novella to write next (in that series), and I have covers created and bought up as far as Book 4 already. I’m just planning to keep writing books in that series for as long as I feel inspired to. </div><div><br /></div><div>I’m also planning a new sci-fi vigilante series called Shadowstar Vigilantes. I have the first book (Red Astrea) on pre-order now and I’ve bought the cover for the second book (Octavia Rising) already. </div><div><br /></div><div>I’m planning to write another book in my Sisters of Destiny series. It’s epic fantasy, and I currently have books 1 and 2 out. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have other book plans too, but I’m just going to focus on these ones for the time being, because you can’t write everything at once.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Where can readers find you? </i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Web Site: <a href="http://author.maraamberly.com">http://author.maraamberly.com</a></div><div>Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/maraamberly/">https://www.facebook.com/maraamberly/</a></div><div>Twitter Page: <a href="https://twitter.com/MaraAmberly">https://twitter.com/MaraAmberly</a></div><div>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mara.amberly/">https://www.instagram.com/mara.amberly/</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>About the Author:</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>Mara Amberly is an author of epic and urban fantasy, time travel and military science fiction, and roleplaying game content. She's a trained journalist, editor and web developer, and she has experience working in the computer game industry in a support capacity.</div><div><br /></div><div>She works as an author and graphic designer, and lives in Ireland with her husband. </div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-26594426090503895172020-10-13T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-13T21:30:06.657-07:00Their Dragon Mate by Elle Boon ~ A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQipETViATVPcQsqJFwfZwHf2fMyAvHKCDyzLWDYOn0idJzKhADI-RU96BV4sAlxfKJGTR_tqGQqdRs2gvZBBmD_iG8LYXDt5cD7o0XPC6nhZEUfA3raRTOfAFSagXnYfSG9GUDL9dF4w/s420/ELLE+BOON+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="280" height="519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQipETViATVPcQsqJFwfZwHf2fMyAvHKCDyzLWDYOn0idJzKhADI-RU96BV4sAlxfKJGTR_tqGQqdRs2gvZBBmD_iG8LYXDt5cD7o0XPC6nhZEUfA3raRTOfAFSagXnYfSG9GUDL9dF4w/w346-h519/ELLE+BOON+.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb:</h3><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal">She’s always taken the path less traveled. They’ve always
barreled through roadblocks. Can they find a way to be together without losing
themselves?<b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Lula’s a Fierce Dragon... </i></b>She’s given bits of
herself to others when she was sure she had no mate of her own, even knowing it
would cost her life at some point. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Atika and Abyle, Twins with A Purpose... </i></b>They
lived to protect their clan, until their brother took over as alpha. Just as
they think they can relax, they meet their truemate. A feisty dragon female who
runs from them. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>The Triad Bond... </i></b>Their beast won’t be denied,
but finding their little dragon proves harder than they’d anticipated. However,
once they bond with her, there’s no denying the love they share. What they
didn’t foresee was a stranger from Lula’s past coming for her and her mother. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will the trio have a chance at happily ever after, or will
the Dragon King who lost his greatest treasures demand back, or kill who stands
in his way? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Get ready for an exciting return of some of your favorite
characters in this stand-alone...sort of “wink” story. You just might hear from
the Fey Queen, the bad boy alpha Kellen, and what would a reunionish story be
without #dontlookdown aka Creed.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_kFtNNiWAq5zVHFC5Yn3jC2Xtpf2fwJjHOIJVIcw0bJBt4ECTXhyphenhyphen1N0XkQHZaVZ6WwdrPanN_z6iTJkMYoy2BXm66XwTUapgc5K1tAPYbe67UfI-8h4ZhJDQ6XYNSRYfihBRimIBV4A/s1200/Elle+Boon2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_kFtNNiWAq5zVHFC5Yn3jC2Xtpf2fwJjHOIJVIcw0bJBt4ECTXhyphenhyphen1N0XkQHZaVZ6WwdrPanN_z6iTJkMYoy2BXm66XwTUapgc5K1tAPYbe67UfI-8h4ZhJDQ6XYNSRYfihBRimIBV4A/w549-h209/Elle+Boon2.jpg" width="549" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt:</h3><p class="MsoNormal">“Jenna, you realize I’m the alpha here, don’t you?”<o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“You realize you’re out-femaled here, don’t you?” Jenna
retorted.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Both of you, shut it before I set your asses on fire,” Lula
growled. “Goddess, I just sounded like a wolfie.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“That’s unacceptable. Be like a bear. We rumble.” Atika slid
next to her, his nose tickling her ear.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Beary, I will—” her words died in her throat as Abyle moved
in on her other side.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Boys, the three of you won’t fit through the door...or you
will, my bad.” Jenna laughed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“What the flying monkey asses did you do?” Kellen roared, and
this time the liquor bottles shattered.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Kellen Motherfucking Styles, I’m not cleaning up that
mess,” Laikyn yelled.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Wolfies, stop yelling. Aw, look at my little wolfie
babies.” Lula hurried over to the little prison Laikyn had her sons corralled
in. “What kind of thing is this, and what did they do to be put in confinement?
Surely they can get out for good behavior?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lyric, the little female she loved like a crazy sister,
laughed from behind her. “It’s called a playgate, only it’s been shifterfied.
You know, for shifter babes.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“I’m assuming that is a good thing?” Lula bent down to pick
up a little boy in each arm. The sound of two bears moaning made her blush.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Son-of-a-fucking-dragonlovingbear,” Abyle growled.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Down, boys.” Jenna patted Abyle, her touch like a mother
soothing a child.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Um, Jenna, my dragon don’t like you touching them.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Power flooded the room moments before two men, each holding
a little girl, entered.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“For fucks sake. What did I say about that shit?” Kellen
muttered.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Temper temper, wolf.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Damien, didn’t I say to give me ten minutes?” Jenna asked.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Your two crotch goblins wouldn’t wait.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">They all turned at the booming voice. Lula grinned, loving
the batshit crazy male, son of Satan and an angel. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Creed, you probably shouldn’t refer to these two little
angels as crotch goblins.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Creed pointed at Jenna. “That’s what she calls them.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jenna had a finger over her lips making a zipping motion. “I
mean, they kinda gobbled their way out of my vajayjay, and they gobble
everything they get their mouths on. Goddess, don’t glare at me with such censure
on your faces or no fucky fucky for you two.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Please make her stop talking, Damien, or you, Lucas.
Surely, one of you tops her,” Kellen growled while Jenna laughed. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Keep on chuckling, but you’re leaking, so who gets the last
laugh?” Creed folded his arms with a nod.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Dammit. See, what you’ve done? You brought them, and my
boobs wake up.” She stomped over, grabbing one of the little girls with a snarl,
smiling down at the baby.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“You’re not gonna whip a boob out and feed them here are
you?” Xan asked.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Enough,” Lula roared. “This is not a circus show. Jenna,
take your babies and your boobs, and I don’t mean your mates, though they can
be boobs too, home to feed. Kellen, I’ll need the use of your office for only a
moment then I’ll take my err, mates to be, maybe, off somewhere else. Everyone
who is not a bear and or a dragon, exit the office. And that means everyone who
is not Lula, Atika or Abyle, get the fuck out of here. Now, please.” She tacked
the last bit on, so she didn’t hurt anyone’s feelings.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Damn, our little dragon grew some balls. I like it.” Laikyn
said. She and Lyric high-fived each other as they turned from the entryway.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah, well, don’t take any notes from her. You can’t shift
into a huge-ass dragon and burn a forest down,” Kellen muttered before scooping
up his boys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Their Dragon Mate</i>?</h1><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Elle Boon here with
us today. Elle, thanks for visiting us.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing? </b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi, and thank you so much for having me here. I’ve been writing for just over five years, or rather published for five years. In all actuality, I’ve only been writing for a little over six years though, which might seem crazy, but it’s true.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: </b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve: Their Dragon Mate is the story of my crazy dragon Lula who if you’re a reader of mine, you’ve met throughout my Iron Wolves and my Mystic Wolves series. She’s kinda popped in as a little side character who has helped the other characters out of situations. She’s always kinda been this larger than life, funny heroine who had wanted to write a story about but hadn’t found the right time to do so. About a year ago I was writing a story with a bear and one of my Mystic Wolves girls and Lula popped in and did a little thing (she’s a huge pink dragon and thought she’d never find a mate since she and her mama had been exiled from their realm before Lula had been born) so she gives little bits of herself to save her friends. Well, as she helps the latest heroine, she come face-to-face with not one, but two bears who set her world a spinning. I had no clue that was coming because I’m a punster when I write. So, I sat back and thought, holy shite, how am I gonna write a menage for Lula? Well, I sort of thought I’d do a chapter a month in my newsletter, but then life interrupted and then bam, this anthology came, and Their Dragon Mate flowed.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lula and her guys are so perfect because she’s a pink dragon she needed more than your average shifter, she needed two bears who were also more than just grizzly bears. Of course, I’ll let you read to find out exactly what I’m talking about, but trust me, I made them...extra “wink.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>How did you come up with the storyline? </b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">The story started when I finished writing Atlas’s Forbidden Mate in my Mystic Wolves series. However, I wrote this one as a stand-alone so that new to me readers wouldn’t feel as though they were lost.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>What inspires you to write? </b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">I find inspiration in just about everything around me. For instance, my girlfriend’s dad who has passed away was a very funny and unique man. One day while we were parked next to one another waiting for our kids to get out of school I rolled down my window to chat with him as he sat in her van and heard him say “Tammy, this van is gotdamn offensive to my nose.” I took that little bit of conversation and put it in a story. I take ordinary things or parts of conversations, twist them, turn them, and make them more. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Tell us about your other books:</b> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have over 40 other titles ranging from shifters, gods and goddesses, badass MC alphas, Navy SEALs, and contemporary. I love them all because they are all at the heart romance with the story revolving around the H/H. I always seem to have a conflict outside of the romance instead of the H/H. So, not like one of the soap opera novels LOL and you are always guaranteed a happily ever after with each one of my stories, never a cliffy or serial. And while I strive to write each title as a stand-alone, I do think once you are on say book 6 or 7 in a series, you will find they read better in order LOL. </p><p class="MsoNormal">My first book in most of my series are either FREE or set at $.99 so that readers can try one of my stories and see if they like my work and hopefully fall in love with my worlds. I do also tend to cross my paranormal people over into each other’s worlds, because I can LOL. But again, you can totally read the Iron Wolves without having to read the Mystic first and vice versa. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Where can readers find you? </b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">Connect with Elle online. She loves to hear from you:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.elleboon.com">www.elleboon.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://amzn.to/3mAnWt9">https://amzn.to/3mAnWt9</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/elle.boon">https://www.facebook.com/elle.boon</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Elle-Boon-Author-1429718517289545/">https://www.facebook.com/Elle-Boon-Author-1429718517289545/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/ElleBoon1">https://twitter.com/ElleBoon1</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/RacyReads/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/RacyReads/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405756769719931/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405756769719931/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8120085.Elle_Boon">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8120085.Elle_Boon</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elle-boon">https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elle-boon</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/elleboon/">https://www.instagram.com/elleboon/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.elleboon.com/newsletter">http://www.elleboon.com/newsletter</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>About the Author: </b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Elle Boon is a reader first and foremost...and of course if you know her, she's the crazy lady with purple hair. She's also a USA Today Bestselling Author who lives in Middle-Merica as she likes to say…with her husband and Kally Kay, her black lab who also thinks she's her writing partner. (She happens to sit next to her begging for treats and so takes a lot of credit). She has two amazing kids, Jazz and Goob, and is a MiMi to one adorable little nugget named Romy or RomyGirl (greatest job EVER) who has totally won over everyone who sees hers (If anyone says a hair bow is too big, they're crazy). She’s known for saying “Bless Your Heart” and dropping lots of F-bombs (I mean lots of F-BOMBS, but who is keeping track?).</p><p class="MsoNormal">She loves where this new journey has taken her and has no plans on stopping. She writes what she loves to read, and that’s romance, whether it’s about Navy SEALs, HOT as F**K MC heroes, or paranormal alphas. #dontlookdown is a thing you will need to google. "Wink" With all her stories, you're guaranteed a happily ever after, no matter what twisted thing her mind has come up with. Her biggest hope is that after readers have read one of her stories, they fall in love with her characters as much as she has. She loves creating new worlds and has more just waiting to be written. Elle believes in happily ever after and can guarantee you will always get one within the pages of her books.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-31777791079718609812020-10-13T00:57:00.001-07:002020-10-13T00:57:05.277-07:00Sighs Matter by Lulu M. Sylvian ~ A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCH7DwwvhqSR8ZQtdfihgJF870NMWxOVmp_stIbyMwDgMhbJJOdrkXlcVlm3VjzHBBjo7TqwQOy9Cz8pelojL0JA-I12zHxSpQ69qXNkdIP63w9DxbbObHmICkSAcHxxzi9v_ZfndBGQQ/s448/LULU+SYLVIAN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="280" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCH7DwwvhqSR8ZQtdfihgJF870NMWxOVmp_stIbyMwDgMhbJJOdrkXlcVlm3VjzHBBjo7TqwQOy9Cz8pelojL0JA-I12zHxSpQ69qXNkdIP63w9DxbbObHmICkSAcHxxzi9v_ZfndBGQQ/w309-h494/LULU+SYLVIAN.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blurb: </h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It’s Halloween and my goals are to party, get a little buzzed, and possibly hook up with some hardbody. But my attention keeps being pulled back to a group of furries, and my friend has joined the harem around some guy dressed like an anime wet dream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Things go from sexy hot to hot mess when I discover my friend is missing, and that furry cosplay, isn’t cosplay. Also, there’s a reason hottie anime guy is so hot, he’s an incubus.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I need to save my friend, not blow my fingers off in the process, and decide which one of these guys that keeps kissing me I want to end up with. But they do work well together. It’s going to be a tough choice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQg8S_XqTI_snSNpiMUYC6e-PBG0tKx8VAKA7TCgS1A_CHCKYMsPgOAxczsV4IzHwpmd8UU3TvETpMVm-aplL-WBoE-rhVs0qvU7R7Ls0XJ_xXudgbrV1UN24N9JWWtrZHk9yK3BUvhYY/s1200/Lulu+M+Sylvian2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQg8S_XqTI_snSNpiMUYC6e-PBG0tKx8VAKA7TCgS1A_CHCKYMsPgOAxczsV4IzHwpmd8UU3TvETpMVm-aplL-WBoE-rhVs0qvU7R7Ls0XJ_xXudgbrV1UN24N9JWWtrZHk9yK3BUvhYY/w562-h214/Lulu+M+Sylvian2.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both;">Excerpt: </h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“This demon isn’t Christian, and that cross isn’t blessed. But it is silver, and supernaturals don’t like silver,” Vlad said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I toyed with the cross. “Is that why you don’t like it?” I asked Vlad.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He gave me a sharp nod.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“What about you?” I asked just as I placed the cool metal against the exposed skin on Biker’s forearm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The car swerved and he clamped his other hand over the spot I touched. “What the fuck did you do that for?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Oh, like that hurt you,” I snarked in reply.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Biker lifted his hand, and underneath I could see the angry red skin, and blisters forming.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“No,” I started. “No, no, no, no. This isn’t happening.” This wasn’t real. The silver on that cross did not just burn the man driving my car like a bat out of hell across town to who knows where and I was willingly going along for the ride.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Stop the car. I need to get out.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He glared at me and kept driving.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Stop the car,” I screamed and began beating my feet and hands against the car. Thrashing as if I could make him stop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The tires squealed and I could smell the burn of rubber as he stopped in the middle of the street. I scrambled to undo my belt and open the door. I fell out of the car and was on my feet and running. I knew enough back in the club to not take a drink I hadn’t seen prepared myself, but… Oh God, there were two of them, what if they had distracted me? The demons were just a hallucination. I had gone with them to one location, and I was willingly going to a second. How stupid was I? Never let them get you to a second location. Oh crap, I was gonna die. One of their friends had Vin. I would never see her again. She would never meet some nice man her parents approved of. I didn’t want to be killed on Halloween. What a stupid cliché mistake that would be.</div><div><br /></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Sighs Matter</i>?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Lulu M Sylvian here with us today. Lulu, thanks for visiting us.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I’ve been published for 3 years now. I grew up drawing and creating characters. Maybe for a comic, maybe for future stores? I’m not sure. But I wasn’t that kid that wrote stories. I didn’t start writing down my characters until I was older. And not until those characters became much more noisy and demanding that I document their stories.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sighs Matters is about a girl who falls in with the wrong crowd on Halloween night, only to discover, they really are the right crowd for her. At first she’s drawn to a group of hotties who are showing off their exceptional furry suits. She can’t help but flirt with them as her friend takes off to join the harem forming around a super hottie dressed like an anime character.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It turns out they aren’t furries, and her friend has attached her self to an incubus.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Other characters that get involved are a not-quite-billionaire vampire, a Bollywood wanna-be, and a swarm of mummy-like demons. Things get explosive when incendiaries are brought into fight off the bad guy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is a reverse harem romance, so she ends up with her happy for now, and a bevy of new boyfriends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>How did you come up with the storyline?</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The tagline “A vampire, a werewolf, and a demon walk into a bar,” came to me first. I spent a few weeks trying to figure out what it meant. The wolves are the ones who let me know about their costumes first. Then I knew about the beautiful demon. To be honest I didn’t expect him to end up doing what he does. He surprised me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was very much a “ride along and document,” type of story told by the characters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>What inspires you to write?</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My characters. Somehow they show up and have these situations and they want their stories told. The process really does feel like I cast out the need for X-type of story and the characters respond. That’s how Sighs Matters happened.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also have characters who are hanging about but they haven’t attached themselves to a story yet. And then suddenly I’ll have a story that has to happen (like part of a series) and that character will step up and claim the spot. They can really change the direction of what I may have thought was going to happen. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The idea can come from anywhere— a call for submissions, a dream, a plot bunny meme on Facebook— but until a character shows up and takes that idea, nothing really happens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>Tell us about your other books:</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I mostly write paranormal. I love shifters, but I also have a thing for male strippers. I do write contemporary, that’s been limited to the strippers until recently when I started with some rock star romances.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Holiday Strippers are short rom-com stories that started off with The Twelve Stripper of Christmas. I try to make sure I have a new stripper short every Christmas season.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Legatum is a family saga series that revolves around wolfshifters and the impact genetic science, and long dead enimies, have on theirsurvival and finding romance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Second Endings is a paranormal series with ghosts, psychics, and love that spans the veil between life and death. A definite spin on the idea of second chance romance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wolves of Wet Waterfalls is the first mini-series that takes place in the miniscule magical municipality of Wet Waterfalls, Wyoming. Werewolves, demons, and withces populate the world of this reverse harem series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ballad Ares is my first rock star romance. I have three planned, no series name yet, but these contemporary romance stories do revolve around issues dealing with recovery and substance abuse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>Where can readers find you?</i></b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Website: <a href="http://www.lulumsylvian.com">www.lulumsylvian.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Newsletter: <a href="http://www.lulumsylvian.com/newsletter">www.lulumsylvian.com/newsletter</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lmsylvian">http://www.facebook.com/lmsylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Come play with my Facebook group: Lululandia <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/519202371904484/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/519202371904484/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Instagram: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/lmsylvian">www.instagram.com/lmsylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Amazon Author Page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lulu-M-Sylvian">https://www.amazon.com/Lulu-M-Sylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bookbub: <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lulu-m-sylvian">https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lulu-m-sylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/LuluMSylvian">https://www.goodreads.com/LuluMSylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Pinterest: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/lmsylvian">www.pinterest.com/lmsylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lulumsylvian">www.twitter.com/lulumsylvian</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>About the Author:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bio-engineered to be the only redhead in a generation of blonds, Lulu feels that “aliens” may actually be the best answer for a lifetime of being asked, “Where did you get that red hair from?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She did not come into writing from years of scribbling words on paper. Her background is rooted in visual arts and making pictures. Encouraged to make those pictures out of words Lulu began writing just to see what would happen. What happened was two full-length manuscripts in three months.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lulu cannot ride a horse, a motorcycle, spin a hula hoop, or play roller derby. Yes, she has attempted all of those, even if it has been decades since she’s been on a horse or a motorcycle. She embraces the crazy that comes with the one little genetic mutation and attempts to live up to the reputation that proceeds her as a redhead. Lulu would like to apologize for her contribution to the hole in the ozone layer from her use of hairspray in the 1980’s.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div></div><p><br /> </p>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-31639219171262910842020-10-11T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-11T21:30:01.447-07:00Malediction by Erzabet Bishop ~ A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0aPoWP6wMF8LFBNR-nRMSXhPWNrw5DRWYwxPddyoWA6yWJslJOI1Hgcy3ZdDQOvq5T33yHaLidI0Husm-f10whYk07hf16w7qdyHs8aUqGaMd4t9iP8pyWn9oIxLJ1QV0XDov139FpE/s1875/Erzabet+Bishop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1875" data-original-width="1250" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0aPoWP6wMF8LFBNR-nRMSXhPWNrw5DRWYwxPddyoWA6yWJslJOI1Hgcy3ZdDQOvq5T33yHaLidI0Husm-f10whYk07hf16w7qdyHs8aUqGaMd4t9iP8pyWn9oIxLJ1QV0XDov139FpE/w336-h505/Erzabet+Bishop.jpg" width="336" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Blurb:</h3><p style="text-align: center;">It’s witchcraft…</p><p style="text-align: center;">Nestled in the shadowy thoroughfares of Salem, Bridget has created a new life for herself. Saved from the noose by the mysterious Mr. Black during the witch trials, she runs Broomstix, a thriving curse worker and hex shop. Dangerous cravings thrust her back in harm’s way as evil stalks the streets. Will the allure of the forbidden be her curse or her salvation?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alistair is a wolf caught between desire and duty to his pack. His Alpha goes missing and evidence of arcane magic and murder come a little too close to home. A chance encounter at a Halloween party brings his beast to the forefront and one night of passion leaves him wanting much, much more.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A war is brewing in Salem between the wolves and witch kind. When more deaths are found linked to rogue wolves, the two join forces, but wild magic reigns on Samhain and the moon may just have a mind of her own…</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO8GR5Q6Dm8LzxAddD3WIz4Ay_1uctZGtqjyhMl4iM-w61THX-ssfbU8mHrFcRSJcb76SWIbeZmAoGmWrxWvJLAqqn-1ZCwUJM-1uh2ltXjmyI7PtpP7mCmUx45mmaEGfLR5qu8bFzZ9Y/s1200/Erzabet+Bishop2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO8GR5Q6Dm8LzxAddD3WIz4Ay_1uctZGtqjyhMl4iM-w61THX-ssfbU8mHrFcRSJcb76SWIbeZmAoGmWrxWvJLAqqn-1ZCwUJM-1uh2ltXjmyI7PtpP7mCmUx45mmaEGfLR5qu8bFzZ9Y/w569-h217/Erzabet+Bishop2.jpg" width="569" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">Excerpt:</h3><div><br /></div><div><div>Chapter Four</div><div><br /></div><div>Bridget stood at the entrance to the Hawthorn Hotel, fidgeting with her cranberry red skirts. She’d bypassed the Witch’s Ball for the first time in a decade, instead opting for the Hawthorne Hotel Halloween Gala the following night. The Seven Deadly Sins theme fit a little bit better with her state of mind these days. </div><div><br /></div><div>The thought of going to the Witch’s Ball and being surrounded by a room full of people dressed as the white rabbit or the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland made her want to close herself in her apartment above Broomstix and stay there till the season passed. Not this witch. Hells no. Not this year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Limousines and expensive cars queued up at the entrance through the valet parking area. The red carpet to the entry door was packed with women in brightly colored gowns and glittering jewelry. Men in tuxedos held out their arms, and Bridget thought it was just the thing to get her out of the witchy politics of her everyday life.</div><div><br /></div><div>When she’d stepped in front of the mirror after trying on the dress her best friend and fellow witch Isabel had chosen for her, she’d almost feigned a case of the flu. Except, she didn’t get sick and Isabel knew it.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Put the dress on. And yes, the shoes too.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Long and flowing, the dress was made for a woman with moderate assets on top, not the ones she was blessed with. They had long been a source of fascination for the various men in her life, and the undoubted reason for many of the shadowy curses carved into her body. And the heels… goddess but they were fuck me shoes and she’d be lucky if she got through the night without either breaking her ankle or falling on someone—or for them.</div><div><br /></div><div>The shoes could be enchanted. It had happened before. Bridget knew Isabel just wanted to make sure she went out and actually had a good time, but the thought niggled. She shot her a glance.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Did you?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Did I what?” </div><div><br /></div><div>“Spell the shoes.” </div><div><br /></div><div>“Would you stop that?” Her best friend frowned, grabbing at her hands. “You’re supposed to be Lust. Not anxiety.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“What? Anxiety isn’t one of the seven deadlies.”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Are you sure? Cause, I’m thinking it should be.” Isabel narrowed her eyes, witch fire glimmering in their depths.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Okay… okay. But, if I find out you did…”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Yeah, you’ll curse me. I know. How long have we known each other?” Isabel arched an elegant eyebrow in her direction.</div><div><br /></div><div>True. </div><div><br /></div><div>“What did you say your costume was again?” Bridget eyed the gorgeous dress and sidled beneath the large green overhang, avoiding the spit of October rain that decided to make an appearance. </div><div><br /></div><div>“I didn’t,” Isabel smirked. “But, I’m Envy. Don’t you love it?” </div><div><br /></div></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>Malediction</i>?</h1><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3><p><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Erzabet Bishop here with us today. Erzabet, thanks for visiting us.</i></p><p><b><i>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</i></b></p><p>Thanks for having me! I’ve been writing since I was a child, but it’s only within the last seven years that it has really taken off for me.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve.</b></i></p><p>Malediction is the second book in the Curseworkers Series. It centers around Bridget, a witch hung in Salem, who is given a second chance by a mysterious stranger. She meets a sexy wolf shifter at a Halloween party and together the two of them work to discover who is behind the murders happening in Salem.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>How did you come up with the storyline?</b></i></p><p>I always wanted to write a book about Salem and well, it ended up being a series.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>What inspires you to write?</i></b></p><p>Everyday life is choc full of inspiration and well…I love spinning worlds from my coffee cup.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Tell us about your other books:</i></b></p><p>That would take a while. Lol. I have over forty paranormal and contemporary works out there with more on the way. </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Where can readers find you?</i></b> </p><p>Where to Find More of Erzabet Bishop</p><p>Follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/erzabetbishop" target="_blank">@erzabetbishop</a>.</p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/erzabetbishop/">https://www.instagram.com/erzabetbishop/</a></p><p>Bookbub: <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/erzabet-bishop">https://www.bookbub.com/authors/erzabet-bishop</a></p><p>Website and newsletter: <a href="http://erzabetwrites.wix.com/erzabetbishop">http://erzabetwrites.wix.com/erzabetbishop</a></p><p>Facebook Author page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/erzabetbishopauthor">https://www.facebook.com/erzabetbishopauthor</a></p><p>Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6590718.Erzabet_Bishop">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6590718.Erzabet_Bishop</a></p><p>Street team: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1018269998190112/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1018269998190112/</a></p><p>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/erzabet.bishop">https://www.facebook.com/erzabet.bishop</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>About the Author:</b> </p><p>ERZABET BISHOP IS A USA TODAY BESTSELLING and award-winning author of over forty paranormal and contemporary romance books. She lives in Houston, Texas, and when she isn’t writing about sexy shifters or voluptuous heroines, she enjoys playing in local bookstores and watching movies with her husband and furry kids.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-24838318036173235692020-10-07T21:30:00.001-07:002020-10-07T21:30:07.212-07:00In the Cards by Ariel Dawn ~ A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve Author Spotlight Interview<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHh5ELD71-S8MBRDiz_q8dTkdVwyQ1S-P79wT4xbEVR9lOdVvAWEWZsDfaR9XijOffMgph2Exv5dcaLgy3OLnAwg8q4W5_n0k2U5-AU4gRuZM2NpB37-G7pPv0AY3Jht9pVtbaLqFc5bs/s2048/Ariel+Dawn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHh5ELD71-S8MBRDiz_q8dTkdVwyQ1S-P79wT4xbEVR9lOdVvAWEWZsDfaR9XijOffMgph2Exv5dcaLgy3OLnAwg8q4W5_n0k2U5-AU4gRuZM2NpB37-G7pPv0AY3Jht9pVtbaLqFc5bs/w337-h506/Ariel+Dawn.jpg" width="337" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blurb:</h3><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A family curse, a powerful warlock bound by love, and a woman bewitched. Psychic Ember Stone has been dreaming of a blue-eyed, dark-haired man for as long as she can remember. When a man named Derek shows up as her next client, she’s shocked to see he resembles the man in her dreams. Who is Derek, and why does she feel drawn to him? As secrets emerge and answers come to light, Ember’s feelings for Derek intensify. But on Halloween, a centuries-old curse will change everything, requiring a sacrifice neither of them can bear. Follow Ember, Derek, and their strange connection through the ages as they navigate the haunting secrets that will either bring them together or tear them apart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1KCcqWb306W0KrhY2ABDuG3Rc_K6Oqn3mbot6B22Xn3VV7T8r9L0urxl_rMzg3irWVGhQsvbHZFA6ezsspEaLt2IGn2zcuNbFx4uXaeoq7eYRXkeKqWpsNPcVYizcntmX10qGqzra-6E/s1200/Ariel+Dawn2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1KCcqWb306W0KrhY2ABDuG3Rc_K6Oqn3mbot6B22Xn3VV7T8r9L0urxl_rMzg3irWVGhQsvbHZFA6ezsspEaLt2IGn2zcuNbFx4uXaeoq7eYRXkeKqWpsNPcVYizcntmX10qGqzra-6E/w604-h230/Ariel+Dawn2.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Excerpt:</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Do you always dress like you’re going to a funeral?” She took a sip of the warm apple wine and gestured to his black slacks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Only when I’m trying to be brooding and mysterious.” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Perhaps the brooding part was missing, but Ember couldn’t deny he had the mysterious part down pretty well. He smiled, a perfect white-toothed smile and Ember could feel her insides flush with warmth. She wasn’t sure if it was the wine, his presence, or a combination of the two.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where can readers find <i>In the Cards</i>?</h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>AUTHOR INTERVIEW</b></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Hello and welcome, readers! We have Ariel Dawn here with us today. Ariel Dawn, thanks for visiting us.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b><i>How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I have been writing stories all my life honestly, but this year I started sharing them with the world. I became a published author officially in April, with my short story Faded, which was part of a charity anthology to help fund research for breast cancer. Fated Souls, by The New Romance Café.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><i><b>Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>I wrote In The Cards during the first 8 weeks of quarantine. I read tarot, and have an interest in the paranormal and magic, or manifestation. As someone who reads cards, I thought it would be fun to play into the idea of that kind of “real magic”. The idea that some people are linked, through destiny or fate or even reincarnation was something that has always appealed to me, and that’s what In The Cards is about—connection. The magic of love, of soulmates. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>How did you come up with the storyline?</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>I answered a call to participation for A Cursed Halloween because the theme just was perfect for me—curses, and Halloween. Halloween IS my Christmas. I knew I wanted the tarot cards to play a factor, and I knew I wanted there to be an air of mystery and spookiness surrounding the cards, and the connection felt between the psychic, and the man she reads for. I’d often seen writing prompts that list a few things, that are so vastly different and the prompt is to make all of the things that don’t belong, belong. That’s essentially how I came up with the rest of the story—I thought about all the things I wanted to convey, no matter how “out of place” it might be. Psychics, warlocks, curses, wine, the 1920s, magic, and love. All of it is the fabric that makes up In The Cards.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>What inspires you to write?</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>I love romance, especially paranormal romance. I’m a daydreamer and an incurable hopeless romantic. Honestly, I find inspiration everywhere—photographs, songs, the couple in the coffee shop. I’m always writing a story, even if it does not make it to paper. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Tell us about your other books:</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>I started with In The Cards, but there will be more stories from that universe. When I was writing In The Cards, there seemed to be one character, Ava Crowley who would not relent in my mind, and so I wrote her story. I’m hoping to release it soon, hopefully before the New Year. I have plans for several books, that take place in the spooky town of Chester.</div><div><br /></div><div>I’ve also got several projects lined up for the next 2 years, and I intend on spreading my wings and writing fantasy, contemporary and YA as well as paranormal romance. In The Cards is only the beginning!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Where can readers find you? (links to your social media, website, etc.):</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/authorarieldawn">http://www.facebook.com/authorarieldawn</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/author/arieldawn">http://www.amazon.com/author/arieldawn</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/authorarieldawn">http://www.goodreads.com/authorarieldawn</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.bookbub.com/author/ariel-dawn">http://www.bookbub.com/author/ariel-dawn</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>About the Author: </div><div><br /></div><div>I grew up an avid reader and daydreamer. As a creative soul, I enjoy many forms of expression aside from writing. I am a photographer, an artist, a cosplayer, a gamer, a foodie and a self-professed geek. When I'm not at a convention in cosplay, writing love stories, or editing photos; I can often be found reading with a cup of tea, running my Instagram Wrong Turn Romance, entertaining friends and family with great food, and playing video games or board games with my retro gamer husband.</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-48127336711882368662020-10-07T12:33:00.000-07:002020-10-07T12:33:12.295-07:00Hers to Bear by C.D. Gorri ~ A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve Author Spotlight Interview <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojl8u4V7gXixXrY_uZtl_aC8VgNQIRLqQ66cJ5h1TTxcbnBmiENKOT-NcbDklzUvBXzRFmFQMadqcaAIOfGAexhFB5s-1bD8-NnjGmiEJ0C6Eaq6_XF1e3HThGjZIFFrnn3OHj3ui8Eo/s448/CD+GORRI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="280" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojl8u4V7gXixXrY_uZtl_aC8VgNQIRLqQ66cJ5h1TTxcbnBmiENKOT-NcbDklzUvBXzRFmFQMadqcaAIOfGAexhFB5s-1bD8-NnjGmiEJ0C6Eaq6_XF1e3HThGjZIFFrnn3OHj3ui8Eo/w315-h504/CD+GORRI.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Blurb:</span></b></h3></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Barvale might be home to one of the biggest Bear Shifter
Clans in the entire continent of North America, but shhhh…it’s a secret! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Crazy” Maisy Daniels couldn’t leave Barvale fast enough
after high school. She’d earned that hated nickname after telling her classmates
she’d seen a boy change into a Bear just behind the football field! A social
pariah and the butt of every joke in her grade, it was no wonder she’d promised
herself to never step foot in that godforsaken town again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But when her dad has emergency surgery, who else can help? Maisy
returns home to find things are a mess. The tractor is broken and there are only
a few hours until the Daniels Farm Annual Haunted Halloween Hay Ride &
Spooky Soiree begins. Unfortunately, the only repair shop open belongs to the
bane of her high school days, Arthur Lance himself. It’s time for Maisy to just
grin and bear it!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Arthur Lance just opened his third full service garage and automotive
repair shop in his hometown of Barvale, New Jersey. Business was going great,
but his Bear wasn’t satisfied with a job well done. The silly animal was still
pining for the one who got away back in high school. Burying himself in work was
the only thing he could do to keep his beast placated and his human side sane. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maybe his fate is to be alone as punishment for hurting the
only female he’d ever wanted? His Bear can’t stand the thought. He’s stuck at
work on Mischief Night, when to his surprise he gets a frantic call from Maisy
Daniels herself. Finally, Arthur has another chance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Will Maisy accept him as her fated mate when he
finally reveals the truth?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiOEa0HN9LFWHTbBUzTy67hv5ovcJg4Y7XKF79yW8HvGhTUaTzP1XSfIUTsXTwJpAtTSX8GHxZZ43oK8lMGKYpcm-8fJXT6wxwe8TpvLPaILGupuaiWYV5bJ-0cW-t5tRQ-NWfEl7MXA/s1200/CD+Gorri2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiOEa0HN9LFWHTbBUzTy67hv5ovcJg4Y7XKF79yW8HvGhTUaTzP1XSfIUTsXTwJpAtTSX8GHxZZ43oK8lMGKYpcm-8fJXT6wxwe8TpvLPaILGupuaiWYV5bJ-0cW-t5tRQ-NWfEl7MXA/w591-h225/CD+Gorri2.jpg" width="591" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Excerpt:<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her eyes widened when she saw what Arthur was about to do,
but wild horses couldn’t make Maisy look away as he pulled his sweatshirt over
his head to reveal smooth, bronzed skin. He seemed to be sweating, and he
grunted like he was in pain, grimacing and gritting his teeth hard before
pushing down his pants. She covered her mouth with her hands. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It wasn’t that she was seeing a naked boy for the first time
that had her so freaked out. Or the fact that said naked boy was one she’d
often daydreamed about. Nope. None of that was as frightening as what had
happened right before her eyes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Arthur Lance, high school royalty, had crouched down on all
fours, panting and groaning, wait, was he growling? Holy smokes! Yes, he was
growling. He was like some kind of wild animal. Maisy gasped as she realized he
was getting bigger, and bigger, and, oh goodness, <i>furrier</i>. She bit back
a scream when he stopped writhing and grunting. The enormous, dark creature that
was Arthur Lance turned his glittering black eyes on her and chuffed out a cloud
of warm breath in the cool night air.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Holy crap! The boy she’d been crushin’ on had just turned
into <i>a Bear</i>!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Where can readers find Hers to Bear?</span></h2><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available exclusively in A Cursed All Hallows' Eve: Limited Edition Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, and Reverse Harem Halloween Themed Collection</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grab Your Copy Today!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Available to read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</a></span></h3><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The veil is thin. Darkness calls. Will you answer?</span></b></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Halloween curses plague the daring heroes and spunky heroines in this spirited collection of tales. A Cursed All Hallows' Eve brings you 20+ stories stuffed with everything from dark gods to brooding shifters, delivering hours of decadent, pleasure-filled reading from bestselling and award winning urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you can't get enough of those supernatural creatures—vampires, ghosts, witches, demons, and fae—this limited edition collection will alternately thrill you with the spicy and tempt you with the sweet. Delve into these worlds where the living haunt the dead and the undead tempt the breathing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Answer the call, because this Halloween, not all the costumes are disguises.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s810/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFLSvfMPnz2BzCK2Jm7NvejASuFCl76iboT9DUMUyYdAWAjCOJpLPMejDy-OxSUUKRa7erP9xNHyaTwta1O318YSPADbm-w2qSCP95fEFaNAEof62G-q2OlOzKDO3XjEcoLm5ome9LkQ/s320/119883448_10208201012140816_1225427148494089129_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">AUTHOR INTERVIEW</span></b></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hello and welcome, readers! We have C.D. Gorri<span style="color: red;"> </span>here with us today.
C.D. Gorri, thanks for visiting us.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">How long have you been a writer and how did you come to writing?</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you so much for having me! I began publishing in 2014, but I have always wanted to be a writer. I went to school for English Lit and Creative Writing, but I have been a doodler and dabbler for years. Raising my children was very important to me so I waited until the youngest was school aged before setting about to get published. This is basically my dream come true. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tell us about your title featured in: A Cursed All Hallows’ Eve</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hers to Bear is the second in my Barvale Holiday Tales. The Barvale Clan is made up mainly of Black Bear Shifters in the fictional South Jersey town of Barvale, which literally means Bear Valley. Maisy left her hometown after being bullied in high school for claiming to see a boy turn into a bear, only to return years later to help her dad with their farm and wouldn’t you know it, that same boy still lives there! Halloween is a time for all sorts of magic, wouldn’t you say? Maybe even the kind that brings fated mates together.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">How did you come up with the storyline?</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is a spinoff series of my Bear Claw Tales and Barvale Clan Tales which feature the Bear Shifters of Barvale and their mates. I wrote a Christmas short over the summer and knew immediately when I saw this anthology that I would write another one of these holiday shorts for this set. My story is lighthearted, romantic, and most of all, fun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">What inspires you to write?</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Inspiration comes from so many sources for me. I find it in my husband, my children, a song, the tiny little day to day nothings that a million people go through but for some reason get stuck in my head. Hopefully I don’t foul it up too much when I put ink to my ideas. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tell us about your other books:</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I started out writing Young Adult Urban Fantasy which then developed into Paranormal Romance. Now with over fifty titles published, I have to say I can’t even imagine a time when I won’t be writing. Most of my books are set in the same paranormal world and mainly take place in my home state of New Jersey. I call it the Grazi Kelly Universe in honor of my first heroine, Maria Graziana Kelly aka Grazi (grah-tzee). Characters and creatures overlap, but each series can be read alone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes, I get to play in other authors' worlds and each experience has been unique and has enabled me to write a broader cast of characters and scenarios. My thanks to those wonderful authors who opened the doors and let me in! You can find me in MT Worlds and Evel Worlds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I like to write sizzling Shifter romance books that are sexy and fast-paced with epic heroes, sassy heroines, and guaranteed happy endings for all!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Where can readers find you? (links to your social media, website, etc.)</i>:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You can find me just about everywhere online! Here are
some links for you:<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.cdgorri.com">http://www.cdgorri.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="windowtext"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cdgorribooks">https://www.facebook.com/Cdgorribooks</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/c-d-gorri">https://www.bookbub.com/authors/c-d-gorri</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://twitter.com/cgor22">https://twitter.com/cgor22</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00IS7820W">http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00IS7820W</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/cdgorri/">http://www.amazon.com/cdgorri/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Newsletter Sign-up here:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5e80cd3dee06f00026d579f3">https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5e80cd3dee06f00026d579f3</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">About the Author: </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hello!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm C.D. Gorri, Bestselling Steamy Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy YA Author, and Creator of the Grazi Kelly Universe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've always been an avid reader, and I have a profound love for books and literature. When I'm not writing or taking care of my family I can usually be found with a book or tablet in my hand. I live in my home state of New Jersey with my husband, our children, and our dogs, Dash and Chewie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm a busy mom of three and finding time for leisurely reading is never easy, so I write stories that are fast-paced, yet detailed with satisfying conclusions. If I thought making time to read was difficult, I was in for a huge surprise when I started writing! But now that I started, I can't picture myself doing anything else!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I love writing powerful women and strong heroes who face relatable problems in supernatural settings! Read my books and watch my sassy, curvy heroines and sexy heroes find true love in one another.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Discover Werewolves, Bears, Dragons, Tigers, Jersey Devils, Lions, Witches, Romani, Lynxes, Foxes and even more Shifters and supernaturals in my PNR! Fated mates who find each other and always get their happily-ever-afters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Want to know how it all began? Enter the Grazi Kelly Universe with Wolf Moon: A Grazi Kelly Novel #1, my very first YA/Urban Fantasy book that sets the stage for the universe I write in. You can also start my PNR with the Macconwood Pack. Pick up Charley's Christmas Wolf today!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you and happy reading!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">del mare alla stella,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">C.D. Gorri</span></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get more Halloween themed stories like this in </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Cursed All Hallows' Eve Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve"><span style="font-family: georgia;">books2read.com/cursedallhallowseve</span></a></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/s1080/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8R8tJvWuiIqnVz3ROwL7q9AkB8KVqgJs9SAYTlCHOvvKh0qOM355zWyEBz9ONc6lwoa0sK7xjMqWkDZwXQX_CL6SLg7V6BWUcPxt3WoqOd_rnl2H6rt1Kbt9FpdqMRypmvwfyzwcwOcg/w439-h439/119145554_10208163615485923_968327946702859212_o.jpg" width="439" /></a></div>
Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-12464483497036820282020-03-25T15:41:00.000-07:002020-03-25T15:42:52.963-07:00Yoga For Anxiety<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">I've been asked
what I'm doing to stay calm in these trying times, so I thought I would share a
few things that really help me when my stress level gets off the charts. And I
will confess, they have a few times already. If you know me as an author, you may or may not know that I am also a certified yoga teacher. Everything that follows (breathing
exercises, poses, meditations, etc) in this post can be done in the comfort of your home. I
like to practice in a small space in the bedroom, as it is the only place I can
close a door and not be disturbed other than by the dog. By the way, despite the
photos, no dog is required. But if you have a dog or cat, try doing yoga alone!
I dare you! *giggles* Everything can also be done with what you have. I will
show in pictures how you can replace two bolsters and two blocks with pillows
and books for a restorative pose. Even
if you don't have a mat, you can use a rug. Last, please bare with this
unedited post. Felt more important to share than grab an editor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Pranayama
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Full Yogic Breath
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">1. In a comfortable
position I prefer laying down, discover your breath by closing your eyes and
taking notice of your body. Go within for a moment, leaving the world behind.
Place your hands on your chest. See if your breath is short and shallow or long
and deep. Our goal here is some nice light breathing, working toward even,
normal, smooth breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the breath. Move your hands to your rib cage. Your goal here is to feel the
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">3. Deepen the
breath a little more. Slide your hands to your stomach. Goal here is to feel
the rise and fall of lower belly bringing as much air in as you can before
letting it all out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">4. If you want to
take this a step further toward calm, then count your inhale and exhale. You
want to try for, not force or get dizzy, your exhale to be a bit longer than
your inhale. An example is 4/6 Breath -
Inhale to a count of four, pause as feels comfortable, and then exhale to a count of 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Asana (poses) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Tension causes us
to be tight. I like to counter that body stress with unhurried, soothing,
flowing movements. Keep movements mindful, turning inward by focusing on what
the body is doing. The goal here is to
follow your breath with movement, as if your inhale and exhale are running the
show. Also, big movements, in opposition, have been shown to reduce anxiety,
help you calm the tough emotions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">1. <i>A Seated
Modification of Breath of Joy<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Cues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Take a comfortable
seated position. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">As you exhale,
round your back (think seated cat pose), round your shoulders, let your gaze
drop to the mat, and give yourself a big hug!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">As you feel the
need to inhale, arch your back (think seated cow pose), roll your shoulders
back, let your gaze move toward the ceiling, and throw those arms out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">2. <i>Knees to
Chest</i> (Exhale) to <i>Supine Five-Pointed Star</i> (Inhale)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Cues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Move until you are
resting comfortably on your back on your mat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">As you exhale,
bring your knees into your chest. Take your hands to your lower legs, and hug
them into your body as is comfortable. No pushing or forcing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">As you feel the
need to inhale, move your arms out wide to your sides, and your legs out as
well. Again, do what feels comfortable. We are more working with the extremes
of the movements, but they need not be extreme, if you know what I mean. Be kind
to your body. Be conscious of what feels good. What it wants to do. Modify as
needed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">3. If you are
familiar with yoga, and are wanting more movement, I suggest a simple sun
salutation. Moving with breath, not to sweat, but to calm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Meditation<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">While there are
many Guided Meditations on YouTube or through Amazon, here is a simple one I
like to do, as it not only grounds me, but also helps me send positive energy
out into the world. I think we need it right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">You can do this
seated in a chair with your feet on the ground, or standing in a Mountain pose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">1. Feel your feet
connected to the earth. Lift your toes, spread them out a little, and then
gently lay them back down, making more of a triangle of support with your feet.
Tune into your body. Wherever you feel stress, see it as a dark mass, and send
it down to your feet into the ground. Literally let it run out of you. Keep
breathing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">2. Imagine roots
are sprouting from your feet, and connecting you to Mother Earth. Feel them
move through whatever surface you are standing on, into the dirt, the rock, the
underground rivers, all the way into the molten center of the earth. The heat
doesn't burn, but warms the roots, gives them life, as they bring that warmth
back up to your body. Relax. Notice where there is still stress, say your
shoulders are raised, or your tongue is on the roof of your mouth. Relax. Keep
breathing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">3. Now that you are
rooted, take your attention to the space above you. Feel the wonderful energy
of the universe there to support you. Breath it in. Imagine it as a white, warm
light flowing from your lungs throughout your body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">4. Now, begin to
concentrate this light into your heart. Don't worry about taking it in. Energy
cannot be created nor destroyed, so there is plenty for everyone, and the
Universe is more than happy to fill you up with the energy you need. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">5. Begin to let the
light in your heart flow down you arms. Raise your arms out in front of you.
Have your palms facing up, hands as close together as comfortable. Start to imagine
that light forming into a ball in your palms. Let it fill and grow. You should
still feel the warmth of it, all the positive energy that it has to offer. You
are now going to offer it to the word around you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">6. Let the ball
grow big enough to encompass your house, and all you love in it. Let it grow
big enough to flow through your neighborhood, your town, your country, until
you can imagine it covering the whole world.
Give your healing light to a world in need. Spend as much time here as
you want. You can get more specific as to where it goes and what it does if you
wish. I have been using it lately to heal the virus. I imagine that ball the
media uses to represent it, and I soften and blur the imagine, weakening the
virus with my energy, my love, as it came from my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">7. Last, start to
bring the ball of light back to you. Let it get smaller and smaller, until
again it fills your hands and can move back into your heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Remember, as above,
so below. As within, so without. We are all connected, and your energy helped.
You must believe that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Two more possible
mediation options I like to use:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Find a Safe
Haven<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Visualize a place
you feel secure, safe, loved whether memory or creative imagining. Alone or
with someone who loves you. Then, slowly create that image in your mind. Give
it as many wonderful details as you can. Imagine with all five of your senses.
I like to go to an underground cave that has a waterfall, crystal ceiling, and
a large lily pad that I can float on in the pond in the middle of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Progressive
Relaxation</span></i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"> - Deep
skeletal-muscular relaxation balances the nervous system. I do this lying down
on my mat or sometimes in bed before falling asleep. You can prop your knees
with bolsters or pillows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Following
instructions below, hold each body part tight for a few breaths and then relax
for a few breaths. Add on one step at a time until entire body is tight and
then relax. For example, do #1 and relax. Do #1 and #2, and then relax. And so
on until you are doing 1 through 7. Then, you may do the full body several
times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">1. curl toes and
flex feet tightening muscles of lower legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">2. bring knees
together tightening muscles in the legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">3. tighten stomach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">4. make fists
tightening lower arms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">5. straighten arms
tightening upper arm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">6. shrug shoulders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">7. scrunch face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Restorative
Asana<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Restorative Boat
Pose<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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If using yoga
props, then you place one end of a bolster up on 2 blocks. Scoot your hips up
against the end of the bolster on the floor. Take another bolster and place it
under your knees. Now, recline back against the bolster behind you. As I said, and as you can see in the
pictures, if you don't have blocks and bolsters, you can use a stack of books
and two pillows.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Your goal here is
to just focus in on your breath. Let your thoughts go, without judgment when
they come. Try to stay for as long as you can. A few minutes will help, 15 to
20 minutes will do you wonders! I love to use a blanket too, but for picture
purposes, left that off. I even incorporate essential oils here and hold
crystals. Use what you have. Again, no dog required! Mine doesn't let me rest without him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;">My wish for you is
that you are calm, happy, and safe during this time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">I know this is a blog intended to promote books, mine and other
authors, but it is my blog, for my musings *giggles* (you are all scared now, right), and I have been working
just as hard on training and teaching yoga as I have been writing and promoting
my books these days. While there may have been some confusion with names
lately, my given name is Kirstein, and my family nickname given to me by my
grandfather that I use as a pen name is Kiki - I answer to either, or sometimes anything that starts
with a k sound. Anyway, sitting behind a computer all day can take a toll on
the body, and the yoga practice I have cultivated these past few years has
helped me so much in caring for myself, mind, body, and spirit, as well as
helping me find ways to cope with all my daily stresses including many aspects
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with some private classes, so for those local to me, I wanted to not only
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at Centerpeace Yoga and Wellness Studio, </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">1951 State Route 59,
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "segoe script";">From the Centerpeace
Website: "Restorative yoga uses props (blankets, bolsters, blocks, straps)
and poses held for longer periods of time in order to create a practice that
cultivates stillness, relaxation and a calmer state of being. Using the aerial
silks adds another dimension to this already amazing practice."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">So let me add that </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">this is a Pamper-Yourself-Because-You-Deserve-It
class! Students will let gravity do most of the work as they stretch and relax
into poses propped with blankets and bolsters along with the silks hung close
to the floor. Sometimes the bolsters and blankets are even inside the silks,
and sometimes light swinging is involved!!! There will be guided meditation and
more! This class is a dream to teach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AM at Centerpeace Yoga and Wellness Studio, </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">1951 State Route 59, Suite D</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kent,
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to stretch and strengthen, but in a more gentle fashion. More poses are done
supine or sitting, with limited standing poses in the middle of class. Gentle
yoga is a great way to move the body, release tension, and achieve a better
state of mind among other things. We do utilize the bolsters for a few poses in
the beginning and end of classes along with breathing techniques and guided
progressive relaxation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">Restorative Yoga</span></i></b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">, Wednesdays 4:30 - 5:30 at Kent State University </span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">Student Recreation and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Wellness Center,</em></span></i><em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"> </span></em><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";">1550 Ted Boyd Dr, Kent, OH 44242</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "bookman old style";"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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students through poses where their bodies are propped with bolsters, blankets,
and blocks. The poses are held for several minutes, letting gravity do the majority
of the work. What benefit can you get from holding poses for 2-5 mins? In a
fast-paced world, restorative yoga helps to balance the body. With no muscular
contractions involved, we "work" to increase flexibility and release
tension from our lives, helping to still the mind, enhance mood, restore and
boost the immune system, all while helping us to develop compassion toward
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semester, I spend several weeks exploring all levels of basic yoga poses as an
introduction. Following that, I spend several weeks going beyond the poses to
play with many variations and combinations of them, letting the students explore what their bodies can do and what
is best for them with each pose. I also teach a few classes that brings poses
together to work certain parts of the body from stretching the shoulders to
strengthening the abs. Finally, we take all of this knowledge and work through
some slow and gentle salutations, focusing on further pairing breath and
movement. We really do it all at the level each student needs. A great
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reasons and occasions to book for: Birthday Parties, Girl's Night Out, Try It
Out (especially if you are hesitant in a group setting), Work Out, Stress
Relief, Just to Pamper Yourself, to name a few...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>RELEASE DATE: Monday, June 26, 2017</b></div>
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<b>Title:</b> Chasing Darkness</div>
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<b>Series:</b> Rune Alexander, book 10</div>
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<b>Author:</b> Laken Cane</div>
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<b>Genre:</b> Urban Fantasy/Horror</div>
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<b>Rune Alexander captured a dangerous prisoner and turned her over to the Annex, unaware of the trouble that act would unleash on her Crew...</b></div>
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A small, dangerous group has slipped into River County, determined to retrieve Lee Crane from the Annex.</div>
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But Eugene has no intention of handing over his prisoner.</div>
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Then the group takes something that's precious to Rune.</div>
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Something that breathes, and cries, and bleeds.</div>
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She pressures Eugene to make a trade--and prepares to take the decision out of his hands if he refuses.</div>
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But when he unintentionally loses their leverage, Rune and her crew must race against time to break down a wall of magic and save the battered life behind it.</div>
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And that may not be possible.</div>
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Book 1: <b><a href="http://amzn.to/153SuUV" target="_blank">Shiv Crew</a></b></div>
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Book 2: <b><a href="http://amzn.to/19Egyid" target="_blank">Blood and Bite</a></b></div>
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Book 3: <b><a href="http://amzn.to/1fO6LfM" target="_blank">Strange Trouble</a></b></div>
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Book 4: <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Obsidian-Wings-Rune-Alexander-Laken-ebook/dp/B00K9V6IF6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401220760&sr=8-1&keywords=laken+cane" target="_blank">Obsidian Wings</a></b></div>
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Book 5.5 <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QFT43FS" target="_blank">Shadows Past</a></b> (Rune Alexander short)</div>
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Book 6: <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TWIS5T4" target="_blank">Wormwood Echoes</a></b></div>
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Book 7: <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0140JZKO2" target="_blank">The Witch's Daughter</a></b></div>
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Book 8: <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Land-Rune-Alexander-8/dp/1530710693" target="_blank">Killing Land</a></b></div>
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Book 9: <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Switch-Rune-Alexander-Book-ebook/dp/B01M4M09AY" target="_blank">Kill Switch</a></b></div>
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Book 10: Chasing Darkness-<b>coming 06/26/2017</b></div>
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The coffee addicted urban fantasy/paranormal and horror writer Laken Cane lives in Southern Ohio with her genius son, two Yorkies named Daphnis and Lexi, and one Golden named Chloe who rules them all. </div>
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<b><br /></b>Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-5937491116090460772017-06-09T00:30:00.000-07:002017-06-09T00:30:06.632-07:00#99cents for a limited time only! Blood Bio-Med: A #Shifter #Paranormal #Romance #kindle #countdown #deal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Feline shifter, Aleah Macleod, is excited to start work as a member of a supernatural research team—until she meets William Wolfe. The alpha shifter makes life on the team miserable for her, and she’s not sure why. As the pressure intensifies and the stakes increase, the only person she can turn to is Wyatt Masterson, a shifter she finds she has more in common with than she thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition to being a highly sought-after researcher, Wyatt Masterson has the ability to shift into the rare crocodile alpha. He tries to focus on the research, but finds himself distracted by Aleah Macleod. Not only does his respect grow for the sexy shifter, but so does his attraction. When she asks for help against William Wolfe, he readily agrees, but he doesn’t realize it will have devastating consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like most authors, Elvira Bathory has always loved to read. When she was younger she had always been creative and dreamed of being the next big thing in music but found she didn’t make the cut for that creative outlet so she turned to other means of creativity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She started spinning worlds and fell in love with the idea of being a writer. When she turned 28 years old she decided it was time for her to settle down and married the man who had been pursuing her for years. Shortly after the two got married they started a family and Elvira decided it was time to dust off those old notebooks that contained her creative words so she would be able to stay home with her children. Five children later and Elvira took a chance, submitting some of her worlds wherever she could. Despite the fact that she hasn’t been published for very long she hasn’t slowed down in creating her worlds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She writes in the erotic genre, with a paranormal flair. She prefers to write about shifters, using animals that have never been used before or haven’t been used that often and she loves delving into the research to make her characters come to life. She’s been known to write a contemporary romance or two but just has more fun adding the paranormal aspect to all of her work.</span>Kiki Howell - Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505178053235472922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857306620165279130.post-4421695878390318922017-04-25T04:30:00.000-07:002017-04-25T04:32:06.155-07:00New Release!!! Prowlers & Growlers: A Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy Collection<div style="text-align: justify;">
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few more deep breaths later, she shivered violently, but began her
trek around the labyrinth. She stumbled over the stones that edged
the pathway a few times when patches of clouds blocked out the moon’s
light. Looking up, she expected to just see a glimmer of white
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hadn’t realized that she’d fallen to a crouch until her body
swayed as she looked up, trying to get a better impression of what
had to be a plane or something descending to the earth. Strangely,
she hadn’t heard a sound. In fact, the eerie silence unnerved her
further. Her trembling fingers pressed against the frigid dirt as her
only source of support. Falling to her butt as her gaze followed the
tremendous mass, she made out a body too rounded for a plane, with
wings too animal-like to be inanimate. In a split second, a scream
lodged in her throat as the wing things flapped, rustling the tree
branches with sudden gusts of air. A long tail seemed to follow
behind, swinging to one side as it glided effortlessly around to come
back her way, losing altitude as the thing moved.</span></span></div>
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stayed in that odd position, seated on the ground, body curled up,
with one arm back behind her holding her up as she used the other one
to cover her face while the ground shook beneath her when the beast
landed maybe ten feet away. With her heart pounding so hard she could
hear the erratic beat of the damned thing in her head, she blinked
several times as the image before her registered to fantastical
proportions. The fact that Anna saw something out of a storybook or a
fairy tale made the only sense her perceptions could come up with,
and that unnerved her. So much so, she was wound up like a clock
about to explode, spewing gears and gadgets all over the place. The
analogy for her head being about to explode based on an image from an
old cartoon she’d watched as a child gave her pause. A moment of
lunacy that served as a much needed reprieve, since reality didn’t
make any sense at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Coping
mechanisms. She’d heard a lot about them in therapy. In fact, she’d
basically left the practice since she hadn’t been ready to give
them up. Snippets of songs would come into her head now, memories
from childhood of dancing like a loon in the kitchen with her mother
when holidays provided long days of baking. These created a
preoccupation with remembering every word of the tune, looking up the
video, studying the career of the singer, all in an attempt to calm
the sudden onslaught of tears. To numb the painful ache in her chest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">At
times, she raged at her body. Her heart had the audacity to feel like
it had stopped beating, if even for a second. Her lungs deflated,
ceased to do their job. All of these sensations served as a tease
when she had to remain in this life, too squeamish, too much a
coward, to end her own existence though she’d failed their suicide
test more than a few times. The desire to find peace in the afterlife
with her lost family got trampled by a lesson on suicide and sin her
mother had once taught her. Though, she didn’t even know what or if
she believed anymore as far as beliefs went, anything to do with
faith and religion.. The closest thing she’d come to prayer was the
screaming in her head. The raging at some invisible entity around her
so-called life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This
confusion continued, rattling her to her core, as this thing,
whatever the hell it was—and hell born it could be, given its
monstrous size and shape—stared at her. Metal-colored eyes
glistened in the faint, cloud-infused moonlight. The size of
footballs, they blinked in a never-ending gaze that mesmerized her.
The world seemed to spin as millions of overacting nerve cells tensed
her muscles to run. Yet, she didn’t move for some strange fear of
being swallowed up whole or burnt to a crisp like in those stories of
dragons. Sadly, as her eyes focused, the more this thing as tall as a
house resembled just such a mythic creature. It seemed the
fundamental law guiding her decision to remain a statue was the
thought that if prey moved, it got eaten.</span></span></div>
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Amara, a powerful witch, loses the love of her life in a horrible accident. A month later, she’s finds herself still living in their 'fixer-upper house,' Kyle hadn’t gotten around to fixing up much before he died. While it had looked haunted before, now it truly is. </div>
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Her grief giving rise to something just short of insanity, Amara is hell bent on resurrecting her soulmate. She plans a mix of many spells, intent on achieving her goal, despite the echoes of her elders in her ears about how he will come back different, something sinister and dark. The ghost of her boyfriend protests the loudest among the voices swirling about her, pushing her even farther over the edge. </div>
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How far will she go? What lines she will cross, or not, remains to be seen as she is literally playing with magic.</div>
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Turn up the heat on those cold winter nights with 13 sweet and steamy contemporary holiday romances from some of your favorite New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Bestsellers! You'll make Santa's Naughty List when these Hot Alpha Males and Sexy Billionaires stuff your stockings!</div>
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Top advertising executive, Rachael, was on a roll until hot and sexy Aaron showed up and gave her more than just a run for her campaign budget. Over the course of the last few months their work relationship has gone from helpful friends, to downright mortal enemies. With a terrible winter storm upon them, through an unlucky chain of events, she finds herself in the arms of Aaron, her most hated and heated adversary. Yet, when the lights go off…the heat turns up!</div>
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Summer had proven the two of them couldn’t work together. He had flirted relentlessly at first, even been overly helpful, but all that had waned and then disappeared after working on just two account proposals together. August had found them hot and bitchy, snapping at each other like the territorial mama turtles she found in her yard each year. Yet, fall’s cooling temps had only fired them up, in the heat of battle, like burning leaves. By Halloween, the witchy season had made them outright, mortal enemies, like some dark magic spell had been cast over them. Lord only knew what this winter, now rearing its ugly head, would bring.</div>
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Hitting him in the head with a snowball would feel pretty damn good most days, she mused as she watched him get back out and swipe at the heavy snow on his car again. “Make sure you get the top too, Mr. Inexperience, or cleaning the back widow will be a waste of time once you start moving forward.” There, she had been nice, returned the favor. Rachael shook her head, thankful that was over with. Now the sick feeling in her stomach could abate.</div>
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At first the competition between them had been just to gain accounts and recognition as the top account execs at Social Living, a local company offering advertising and PR services in Cleveland, Ohio. But, as of the last few months, their fights had gotten downright ugly and moved beyond just business. They went at each other, behind the scenes, about everything, overtly and covertly. In fact, she’d started to feel like a CIA operative, spying, always on the alert, guns at the ready if needed. She was on a mission.</div>
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In fact, until him, she’d worked full time and only dated occasionally. Currently, thanks to a secret online dating account, she’d had a rash of dates, one often more hideous than the other. She endured this agony to keep up with his constant stories of the floozies Mr. Every Woman Wants Me bragged about scoring with every time he found Rachael within earshot.</div>
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If nothing else, she gave as good as she got. Who knew what percentage of his sexcapades were fabricated or exaggerated. The tall tales of her dates she talked about, when she knew he could hear her, could win her writing awards they were so fabricated. Last week’s Mr. Computer Nerd And Then Some, who would’ve bored her to sleep if it wasn’t for his constant onslaught of laughter – consisting of uneven vibrations and intermittent squeaks – had become a smart and wealthy man in her retelling of the night. Their fictitious, amazing conversation and dinner had gone head to head, and won in her mind, against his blond bimbo who gone down on him, in his car no less, on the way back to his place from the bar he had picked her up in. <i>So one night! So cheap!</i> Her guy held promise, she’d claimed, if only she could find the time to go out with him again. <i>Not going to happen! Ever!</i></div>
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Warming her wet, gloved hands over the car vents, Rachael looked over at Aaron’s vehicle. The windows were too foggy to be able to see what he was doing. If it didn’t feel like some degree way below zero out there, she would’ve gone to see if he was reading the owner’s manual just for kicks. She remembered the ugly verbal battle they’d had when he’d purchased his new car for winter.</div>
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The thousand slices of light tearing through the sky reflected in the grey water beside the road. Kyna perceived the ominous black shadows cast by the trees as decrepit, arthritic fingers reaching out for her from the heavy flowing stream. A resounding flood of sound, deep undulating thunder, made her curl her body in on itself as she angled away from the window streaming with tears from the sky. The squall so violent, she imagined the glass would shatter. Never one to cower, she swore in a whisper to herself. Ever since she’d landed in Ireland, someone or a something, specifically an indescribable dark presence, followed her. Sure, it made no sense, but she couldn’t convince her over-stimulated brain and racing heart.</div>
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Trying to swallow despite the dryness in her mouth, looking straight ahead, her gaze following the peaks and valleys of the deserted stretch of road, she sought a moment’s peace from the raging internal war. Deep breathing exercises had yet to award her tranquility. This unexpected twist in her life over the past few days propelled her toward her wits end. From the moment she’d pulled the cream-colored, gold-trimmed envelope containing the correspondence from her mailbox, every part of her being had been altered in some way. From bursts of indefinable energy making her want to run a marathon, to unbidden ideas reminiscent of familiar dreams, to a feeling of having a sixth sense that warned of impending danger, she warred within to maintain some semblance of composure. She didn’t understand her own body anymore, but had not the time or the mental capacity to analyze the abrupt changes as she traveled.</div>
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Erratic thought patterns plagued her instead, a barrage of unanswered questions. Prior to that fateful letter, she’d just been a girl from the foothills of the Alleghany Mountains, having lived her whole life in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. Her mother’s confession of her true heritage came when confronted with the communication, the damned letter, scrolled in a shaky hand, from an aunt from Ireland she never knew existed.</div>
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Apparently, Kyna was more Irish than she knew, as in born in Ireland and adopted through the Irish Mafia into the United States. The father she barely remembered, a man who’d died in a mining accident when she’d been barely five years old, had ties to the organization. She’d been a black market baby, for the love of all that is holy! The adoption had born conditions. Telling the poor child of her adoption a deal breaker, punishable by death. None of these random facts brought about feelings of safety and security as she traveled abroad to meet her aunt on her biological mother’s side.</div>
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She speaks with the dead.<br />
He was cursed by them.<br />
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Four hundred years ago, a coven of dead witches stripped Caleb Jensen of his soul. Now, his only hope is to convince local necromancer, Autumn Kane, to track down and restore it before his eternal hunger consumes him. Beautiful, powerful, and confident, Autumn is more than Caleb bargained for.<br />
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Except, Autumn has problems of her own. The dead are crying for help. A serial killer has begun targeting the young brides of Salem, and she is the only one who can save them. She has no time to break the curse on this rakish man who steals her breath. Everything about him unsettles her, from his dark nature to his wicked allure. He’s no knight in shining armor.<br />
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At the Women’s College of Salem, Sarah hopes to meet like-minded students of The Craft. But after joining a coven, the other girls seem to have it in for her and she can’t figure out why . . .<br />
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. . . until Tanner, the new, cute IT guy, helps uncover her family’s dark secret. Sarah will have to learn to trust Tanner if she’s to survive a killer freshman year. And Tanner must accept his paranormal powers to save Sarah when the blood moon rises at Samhain, the witch’s Halloween.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Malediction by <a href="http://erzabetsenchantments.blogspot.ca/">Erzabet Bishop</a></b></span><br />
Nestled in the shadowy thoroughfares of Salem, Bridget has created a new life for herself. Saved from the noose by the mysterious Mr. Black during the witch trials, she runs Broomstix, a thriving curse worker and hex shop. Dangerous cravings thrust her back in harm’s way as evil stalks the streets. Will the allure of the forbidden be her curse or her salvation?<br />
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A war is brewing in Salem between the wolves and witch kind. When more deaths are found linked to rogue wolves, the two join forces. But wild magic reigns on Samhain and the moon may just have a mind of her own…"<br />
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Kassandra Darkmorré is hiding behind the mask of humanity, living her life as nothing more than a spectator. She watches, knowing the outcome of the lives around her.<br />
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They lived.<br />
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She never imagined one of her hospice patients would figure out what she was or ask for an explanation on her death bed. And Kassandra surely didn’t expect the dying woman to give her something she hadn’t had in almost two hundred years. Hope.<br />
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“What you desire most is achievable. You must accept the invitation when it’s presented.”<br />
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While on the search for her true desire, she finds the man of her one and only dream, Cyrus Good. The attraction between them is instantaneous, but Kassandra can’t help but feel like something is missing. And that maybe he has secrets as sinister as Salem itself.<br />
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And what about Xavier Drago? The mysterious man keeps popping up when she least expects him to. As annoying and demanding as he is, though, she can’t help but be drawn to him just as intensely.<br />
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It all began with an invitation, but will it end with a happily ever after?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ethereal Protector by <a href="http://angelicadawson.blogspot.com/">Angelica Dawson</a></span></b><br />
Summer Parker has moved to Salem, into her great-grandmother's house. Once there, she is plagued by the sensation of someone watching her. Added to that, she is having strange dreams about her ancestor, Mark Parker, who was one of Salem’s witches. Her human roommates remove most of the eeriness of her predicament, but the intangible roomie is making himself at home too. After a close call, the identity of her resident ghost is revealed. But if Geoffrey is the ghost, does that make her Mary Parker? One thing is certain, Geoffrey is as determined to protect her.<br />
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Raina had the perfect life, until the day she lost everything. Wanting to pull her out of her depression, her best friend Gaby suggests a Halloween escape to the spooky town of Salem. It's a weekend to indulge and forget about everything else.<br />
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Upon entering one of the many psychic shops that call Salem home, Raina is handed a flyer for one of the biggest Halloween parties of the year. It's a promise of good music, mysterious drinks, tempting men, and a night she won't soon forget.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A Million Shadows by <a href="http://www.ceciliadominic.com/">Cecilia Dominic</a></span></b><br />
Former model and heartbreaker Kyra Ellison is accustomed to making trouble, not being on the receiving end. When she’s kicked out of her family’s Ozarks cabin where she's been taking refuge - okay, hiding - after a wicked ancient syndrome wrecked her old life, she's forced to go to Salem, Massachusetts. Yes, that Salem, where a murder, witches with secrets, and handsome billionaire make danger irresistible. Kyra finds she's not the only one with secrets and skeletons in her family closet, but some are more deadly than others. A confrontation with ancient danger and a new foe forces her to choose between the old life she's been craving and the new love that might make everything worth it in the end.<br />
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Kamillia is an author of paranormal romances living in an upscale suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Accused of being an actual witch by an ambitious group of businessmen with a dark agenda, she is surprised when she finds a man who resembles one of her fictional, alpha male heroes at her door offering his protection.<br />
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Luca is an immortal Watcher from the River of Light. Sent to Earth to help Kamillia, whose true heritage has yet to be revealed to her, Luca is caught off guard by the fighting spirit of the woman, and unnerved by the way his human body betrays him in her presence.<br />
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Research for her next novel requires Kamillia to travel to Salem, MA the week of Halloween, where she and Luca are forced to join together, overcome numerous obstacles, and conquer the evil of many centuries blocking a portal. Only then can she return to the problems awaiting her in her own city, with or without this stranger who has captured her heart but cannot share her future.<br />
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She's one powerful Goddess, with acolytes she loves as children. They're her coven, and she will protect them however she can. She is Hecate. As she wills, So Mote It Be.<br />
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This inclusion tells the tale of a powerful coven in Salem. They face off against Bokors, demons and fellow witches. Will the power of their Goddess be enough to protect them as they fight to keep Salem safe? Will the women who lead them get the love they desire? Or will they burn in the fires that condemned their ancestors so many years ago?<br />
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Solitary witch Meghan Nightshade is torn between hiding inside her self-made company in Atlanta and returning to stay in her hometown of Salem. One represents new beginnings, and the other her past. When an illness forces her to return to Salem for a short time, she realizes there are forgotten memories among the magic and nothing was the same as she remembered. Between preparing for the upcoming Halloween traditions and falling for the sexy Eathan Callaghan, Meghan is pulled back into the world of magic, covens, and witchcraft. Is she strong enough now to battle for the freedom of Eathan’s innocent sister, or will it cost her too much, and send her running back to the safety of Atlanta?<br />
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Witness to her own mother's murder, Lena Scott long ago gave up any hope that she would be able to lead a normal, healthy life. She also thought that she'd left Salem, and that night, behind. She was never going to look back. But, looking back may be the key to more than just that mysterious Halloween night. And her home, her life, and even her work at the Salem Cafe are more intertwined than she ever imagined.<br />
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And the past is full of more secrets than Lena could ever have imagined. Everything she believed about herself, everything she knew about herself… all of that comes into question on yet another dark, Salem Halloween night.<br />
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In Salem for business, werewolf Kade Willis's new hostess is an intriguing woman whose species begins with the same letter of the alphabet. She's a WITCH. The way Loren Beck Broom gets his fur twitchy might be due to the laws of animal attraction. It might be the way she handles her magic when dark forces come calling. Or . . . she might just truly know the ins and outs of a decent lust spell that will require him to be "de-witched."<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Pandemonium Unleashed by </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hopewelsh.net/">Hope Welsh</a></span></b><br />
Micah has one job--to keep the demons in Pandemonium. He's done it without problem for more than three hundred years. It all changes when a powerful witch unwittengly opens portals to the Pandemonium Demon Realm he guards. Can they work together to close the portals before Salem is taken over by the demons?<br />
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