Meredith Schorr "A State of Jane" on Chick Lit Author Blog Hop This Week

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About the book:

Jane Frank is ready to fall in love.

It's been a year since her long term relationship ended and far too long since the last time she was kissed. With the LSAT coming up she needs to find a long term boyfriend (or husband) before acing law school and becoming a partner at her father's law firm.

There's just one problem: All the guys in New York are flakes. They seemingly drop off the face of the earth with no warning and no explanation.

Should she join her best friend Marissa in singlehood, making cupcakes and watching True Blood? Or should she follow her co-worker Andrew's advice and turn the game back on those who've scorned her? As Jane attempts to juggle her own responsibilities and put up with the problems of everyone around her, she starts to realize that the dating life isn't as easy as she originally thought.

 

 

About the author:

 

Author Meredith Schorr

 

 

A born and bred New Yorker, Meredith Schorr discovered her passion for writing when she began to enjoy drafting work-related emails way more than she was probably supposed to, and was famous among her friends for writing witty birthday cards. After dabbling in children’s stories and blogging her personal experiences, Meredith found her calling writing “real” chick lit for real women. When Meredith is not hard at work on her current work in progress, she spends her days as a trademark paralegal at a law firm in New York City. Meredith is a loyal New York Yankees fan and an avid runner. She also loves to read and is always on the lookout for her new favorite author. A State of Jane is her second novel.

 

 

 

In Meredith's words:

 

I'm so excited to be participating in the International Chick Lit Month Author Blog Hop for the second year in a row.  Long before I started writing chick lit, I was an avid reader of the genre. I love chick lit because it is grounded enough in reality to be relatable, yet embellished enough to be entertaining. I love chick lit because the career, friendship and romantic woes faced by the characters provide a much-needed escape from my own. I love chick lit because it makes me laugh, sometimes makes me cry and almost always makes me believe in happy endings.

 

 

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Samantha March "The Green Ticket" on Chick Lit Author Blog Hop

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About the book:

College junior Alex Abrams scores her dream job at the ripe age of twenty – manager to a successful salon and spa. Thrilled to finally have a real adult job, Alex enthusiastically jumps into the world of schedules, conference calls, and getting a massage when interviewing prospective employees. What she doesn’t expect are the very grown-up issues that comes with a demanding boss. Kevin Dohlman quickly becomes Alex’s worse nightmare – covering up his affairs, dealing with his enormous ego, and trying to protect her female staff from him becomes a full-time job in its own right. Alex has also befriended Kevin’s wife and co-owner, Dani, and is trying to keep Kevin’s secrets hidden from her. The situation only worsens when Kevin starts paying Alex off to make sure she keeps her insider knowledge to herself. While struggling to keep her wits and stay happy with her new grown-up job, Alex is juggling college courses, a new love interest, and keeping up with her close group of girlfriends. When her roommate and best friend Lila gets offered an opportunity to move to Los Angeles and sign with an agent, Alex realizes her life truly is changing, and everyone around her – including herself ­­–– is growing up. Knowing she is faced with some hard decisions ahead, Alex struggles with keeping her job at Blissful. But does she really want to throw away what she dreamed of as a career – or will the secret-keeping for Kevin become too much to handle? The Green Ticket is a story about morals versus money, and how one young woman navigates the shaky line between the two.

About The Author:

Author Samantha March

Samantha a book blogger, blog tour coordinator, editor, author and publisher. She loves all things books - and the GB Packers! While Samantha is keeping busy with her duties she is also in bridezilla mode – 3 months until the wedding!

Learn more about Samantha on the links below.

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Keep up with all the authors on this year's Chick Lit Author Blog Hop by clicking here.

Celebrating Chick Lit May 20 - 27, 2013. Meet An Author A Day For A Week.

May is International Chick Lit Month. To celebrate the talented women who specialize in this genre, I am posting an author a day to coincide with the Chick Lit Author Blog Hop that runs from May 20-27

The Blog Hop was started last year by author Tracie Banister, who appeared on Book Talk last May 29, 2012 with her novel Blame It On The Fame. You can read her post by clicking here. Her latest release is In Need Of Therapy. Tracie will be joining us again here later in the week.

The Chick Lit Author Blog Hop tradition continues this year by  Julie Valerie on her book blog, Chick Lit Chit Chat. Stop by her blog and join in the hop with twenty-five authors. There's a grand prize raffle and you can find the rules there. Bookmark her blog for the latest in women's fiction and chick lit after the hop.

Until tomorrow, happy reading. Barbara

Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday, book one INHERITANCE by Victoria Wilcox

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Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday

The Old South meets the Wild West in a trilogy of historical novels about the life of legendary Doc Holliday. The saga begins with Inheritance released this month, May 2013

Doc Holliday

About The Book

The name Doc Holliday conjures images of the Wild West and the shootout at the OK Corral, but before he was a Western legend he was a Southern son, born in the last days of the Old South with family links to Gone With the Wind. Now this amazing story is told for the first time in a trilogy of novels entitled Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday.

The story begins with Inheritance set during the American Civil War, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic father and learns a terrible secret about his beloved mother. His only confidant is his cousin Mattie, the childhood sweetheart who shares his memories of plantation life and better days before the War. But Mattie isn't around to comfort him when tragedy strikes and John Henry's young hero worship turns to bitter anger.

As the Confederacy falls, John Henry becomes a troubled teenager and joins in with a gang of vigilantes trying to chase the Reconstruction Yankees out of their small Georgia town. But when a murderous plot brings threats of military prison, he vows to change his reckless ways and leaves Georgia to attend dental school in Philadelphia, hoping to come home as a respected professional man worthy of asking for cousin Mattie's hand.

But as he returns after two years in the Yankee north to begin dental practice in Atlanta, he finds his courtship beset with challenges. Their are family intrigues, lies and revelations, rivals for Mattie's affections, and a violent encounter that changes everything.

Inheritance is the first novel in an epic tale of heroes and villains, dreams lost and found, families broken and reconciled, of sin and recompense and the redeeming power of love

About the Author

Victoria Wilcox was born in California to a pioneer Hollywood film industry family and grew up loving dramatic stories of all kinds, especially those with a sense of history. As a young woman she developed a passion for the stories of royal families found in English historical fiction, and felt certain she was descended from King Arthur himself and destined to discover the historic Camelot. So she began her college career as a Medieval English History major - admittedly a narrow field in American academia - before receiving a degree in English Literature and doing graduate work in Playwriting. In her professional life she has been a teacher of English and composition on the college level and worked as a technical writer and instructional designer for industry and universities.

A move to Atlanta, Georgia inspired a love of all things Southern and introduced her to a project that would fill the next few years of her life: the white-columned Greek Revival home built by the uncle of the legendary Doc Holliday in the last days before the Civil War. Although the Holliday House was one of Georgia's only remaining unrestored antebellum homes it was slated to be torn down and replaced by a parking lot, so Wilcox founded a non-profit organization to save it and turn it into a museum site. It was while researching the history of the house and its former owners that she discovered the untold story that led to Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday.

Victoria Wilcox is a member of the Western Writers of America, with her writing on the history of the Old South and the Wild West featured in such publications as TrueWest Magazine, North Georgia Journal, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. As Founding Director of the HollidayDorsey-Fife House Museum she has lectured extensively and been a guest on various television programs. Drawing on her lifelong love of music and theater, she has written songs for Nashville recording artists and authored the musical Goin' to Zion! along with numerous smaller theatrical works. To celebrate the upcoming release of the first book of Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday, she began a national speaking tour last fall with a return to Tombstone, Arizona, site of Doc Holliday's legendary gunfight at the OK Corral.

Visit the author's website to read more of the fascinating history behind Doc Holliday.

Fayetteville, Georgia's, historic museum the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House

In the author's words:

This house, the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House in Fayetteville, Georgia.  It’s been standing here since the 1850s, watching the world go by: small town folks walking to Church, Yankee soldiers marching toward battle, model T automobiles bumping along dirt roads before the asphalt pavement came, sweltering summers and snowy winters, prized green roses planted one spring and blooming for a generation and sapling trees that grew taller than the roof.  It’s been the home of three families and welcomed dozens of cousins and kin; housed the first telephone answering service in town; stood vacant and lonely until it became a museum and welcomed company again.  It’s full of stories, this house.  I guess that’s why it spoke to me.  I like old stories and old houses.

Dorsey family descendant Beth Kissel and me hosting a “Victorian Christmas” fundraiser at the unrestored, and unheated, Holliday House (I’m the one shivering in the red plaid skirt).

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Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum, Fayetteville, Ga

"Perpetual Life" New Release by Jamie Salisbury, Final Installment in the "Albert & Anne" Series

New Release!

 Perpetual Life, the fourth and final installment of the "Albert & Anne" series is now

 available on Kindle for 99 cents!

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About the book:

Just when Albert and Anne think they're settling into family life with their newborn son, William, Anne's father is up to some high jinks of his own. Still determined to get his hands on Anne's inheritance by hook or by crook, John is getting more and more dangerous. And he has help!

Having previously dismissed Anne's so-called gut instincts when it comes to reading people, Albert learns quickly she's almost as good as George, his father's long-time Chinese cook. When George distrusts a stranger in Albert and Anne's house, Albert learns the hard way to listen.

Anne learns more family secrets her father has kept well hidden all these years. Secrets which are closer than she knows. 

Perpetual Life is the fourth and final installment of the "Albert & Anne" series, which include: Perpetual Love, Perpetual Emotions, Perpetual Family and now Perpetual Life.

About the author:

Jamie Salisbury cannot imagine a time when she did not write. A skill that has served her well throughout her diversified professional career that encompassed public relations in and around the entertainment industry, photography, editing, and special event planning.

 An avid reader of history, biographies, and romance it's only natural that she prefers to write romances with characters said to be "so authentic they spring forth from the page and shake the reader's hand." No stranger to life threatening situations Jamie pulls from life experience when she creates her stories. Such as when her family had to escape Chile when she was a teen because of the unstable political climate.

Finding herself unable to walk great distances any longer, she started writing once again as a way to pass the time. With the completion of her first novel Perpetual Love she dove head first into the eBook and digital publishing paradigm. She couldn't be happier with her decision to grab the publishing industry by the shoulders and force it to pay attention to all she has to offer.

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More books of contemporary and historical romantic fiction by Jamie Salisbury!

 

"Losing It All" Marsha Cornelius - Get It This Week For 99 Cents

This week you can read Marsha Cornelius' new book, "Losing It All", for just

99 cents on Kindle. Click here to get your copy. Special sale runs from April lst to April 7th.

Marsha has been featured on Book Talk before with her action paced  “The Ups And Downs of Being Dead” about a man whose body is cryogenically frozen, but his soul is wide awake and mobile. Click on her book title and see the earlier post. Be sure not to miss her book “H10N1″ about a deadly virus that rages out of control either.

Marsha recently answered some questions about her newest book!

 

Tell us a little about your new book.

     It’s 1984. Frank Barnes has been living on the streets of Atlanta since his release from a POW camp in Vietnam. He’s not a wino, or a crazy guy, but he just never could get his life together once he came back to the states.

     Chloe Roberts grew up poor in the South, and she’s made some bad choices. Now she’s a young mother with two small children and little education to fall back on.

     These two meet by chance at a local soup kitchen, and although it seems like they will strike up a friendship, fate has other plans. Evidently, they haven’t lost everything yet, and they won’t meet up again until they have.

Why is the story set in 1984?

     I guess the most obvious reason is because Frank was in the Vietnam War, so I had to pick a date where he wasn’t too old. And I chose a date when he’d been on the streets long enough to know his way around.

     It was fun writing about that time. Things were much simpler then: no computers, or cell phones, or video games. And it was a walk down memory lane, researching music, movies, and news events that were happening at that time.

How did you come up with the story idea?

     I live in the country north of Atlanta where there are several horse farms. One day I was walking along a dirt lane, and came across an abandoned cinderblock house. It was almost completely covered in weeds and vines, the windows were broken, the front door hanging open. Inside, the bathroom was trashed, and it looked like kids had kicked holes in the drywall. But the structure itself was sound.

     I think most people would find the house disgusting, but to a homeless person, having a dry roof overhead, and a place to live, would mean a lot.

So is "Losing It All" a romance?

     Not really. At least not in the current context of the ‘romance’ genre. Frank isn’t rich. He doesn’t have washboard abs or a chiseled chin. And he certainly isn’t the CEO of a corporation or a Black Ops soldier or a randy cowboy on a dude ranch.

     Chloe has two small children, she isn’t a blonde bombshell, and she’s very insecure. Not the formula you usually associate with romance novels. These two are just trying to fight their way through life.

How does this book differ from your first two books?

     "H10 N1" is pretty much a non-stop adventure for the two main characters, - Rick and Taeya -  who are trying to find a safe haven after a flu pandemic has wiped out much of the world’s population. It’s considered a present-day thriller.

     "The Ups and Downs of Being Dead" starts in the present, but it continues into the future. The main character has been cryonically-frozen, and must wait to be thawed out. The story is about his interaction with other ghosts, some who are also waiting to come back, and some who are not.

     "Losing It All" is the first time I’ve gone back to the past to tell a story.

All of my books are similar in some ways though. Each story deals with how human beings react to situations, and how they interact with each other. And in each of the books, just when things look bleak, I like to add some humor to relieve the tension.

Where can readers find "Losing It All"?

     It’s on Amazon, both in paperback and Kindle versions. The easiest way to find all my books is on my Amazon author’s page. You can also read more about my books on my website

You can find out more about Marsha Cornelius from her first interview on June 3, 2012.

One week only

April 1 – April 7

"Losing It All"

Only 99¢ on Amazon US and Amazon UK

About the author:

     After 15 years as an elementary school cafeteria manager, Cornelius has quit her day job and now writes full time at home. That is, when she’s not posting on Twitter or sharing jokes on Facebook or chatting with other readers on Goodreads.

     She has even been known to wipe a Swiffer over furniture surfaces and declare her home clean.

     Her two grown sons lead their own lives, while her husband competes with two mollycoddled cats for affection.

     Read Marsha's first interview in June 2012 here.

 

Enjoy a few excerpts from the book!

CHAPTER ONE EXCERPT

Pain’s a bitch. 

The doctor at the VA called it phantom pain, nerve trauma that would eventually go away. Yeah, right. Frank was twelve years and counting.

This morning, he woke to a cold, sluggish fog that had his foot throbbing before he even stood. His only relief was to shift his weight to his toes and keep pressure off the heel. Of course, the gimp-walk didn’t do much for his appearance. People already shied away from his long hair and shaggy beard. The shuffling limp and tortured expression convinced onlookers that he was a derelict.

They should have seen him twelve years ago at the VA. The pain was so intense all he could do was lie in bed, groaning and thrashing, his hospital gown soaked in sweat. Once he was up and around, he’d rolled down the hallway in his wheelchair, ranting at other Vietnam veterans with missing legs and arms. His rage seemed to ease his pain, but like a drug, he needed more. So he started ramming into other wheelchairs, then chasing after those who could walk, bruising their ankles with his metal foot-plates.

On his feet, Frank was a regular fighting machine, wielding a crutch like a club, or throwing sucker punches when least expected. It never occurred to him that those guys were battling their own pain.

In desperation, he pinned a doctor to the wall with his own clipboard, threatening to decapitate him if he didn’t up Frank’s morphine dosage. An orderly put him out on the street.

Then the pain really took hold. The dribble of morphine still in his system wore off while he slouched in the back of a city bus headed for downtown Atlanta. When he threw up in the aisle, the driver tossed him off. Unable to stand, much less walk, Frank crawled into an alleyway and passed out.

A wino rummaging through a trashcan woke him. Frank offered the bum some dough for his bottle of Thunderbird, and slugged the wine down in one long gulp. From there it was all downhill.

CHAPTER TWO EXCERPT

     Clutching a metal cash box, Chloe slipped into her checkout lane at Foodtown, a pitiful excuse for a grocery store, with rusty stains on the floor tiles, and the rancid odor of old meat. She slid the box into her drawer and turned on the light.

     In the next lane over, Jennifer popped her gum as she swiped food items across her scanner. “You’re late again.” 

     “Sorry.” Chloe gave a weak smile. Just because she worked in a rundown part of town didn’t mean she shouldn’t look her best. It took time to find just the right shade of eyeshadow to coordinate with her lavender blouse from K-Mart. Chloe wasn’t the type to just smear a quick coat of lipstick on her mouth. She outlined her lips with a deeper shade, like she’d seen in the magazines. And after what she had paid to get her hair colored, she wanted to make sure it was teased and sprayed to look just like Lucy Ewing on Dallas.

     Jennifer’s Foodtown smock was unbuttoned enough to show a peek of the red bra she wore. Chloe bristled as a construction worker buying a sub sandwich and a quart of beer bent in for a closer look. His hands were filthy. Was he going to wash those hands before he ate?

      Puffing out her chest, Jennifer grinned at him! Sure, Duane loved to see Chloe dressed in short skirts and low-cut blouses. But not the whole world.

     Once the construction worker left, Jennifer leaned against her register, and dug something out of her teeth with a polished fingernail. “So, what’s your excuse today?”

Chloe reached under the counter for a bottle of glass cleaner and spritzed her scanner. “You know how my niece Staci has been babysitting for me?  Well, she was late because she had to stay after school to meet with a teacher.”

     “Yeah, right.” Jennifer snorted a laugh. “You believe anything, Chloe. That’s why you’re in deep shit.”

     Chloe glared at her. “I do not.”

    “Right. Your husband took off, and you think he’s looking for a better job in Chattanooga.”

    “He is!” Chloe felt the heat rising up her neck. “He should be back any day now.”

     “Back my ass.” Jennifer’s glossy red lips curled into a sneer. “It’s been three months.”

     “He’s training for a career,” Chloe repeated what she had been told. “Not just a job.”

    Jennifer wasn’t buying it. “Wake up. He hasn’t even called you. And as close as Chattanooga is, surely he could get away to come home some weekend.”

     Chloe’s bottom lip quivered as she swirled her paper towel over the glass. 

Remember, this week on Kindle for only 99 Cents!

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"High In Trial" New Raine Stockton Dog Mystery by Donna Ball

Available on Amazon and Kindle

HIGH IN TRIAL is the seventh installment in the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series, available March 20

Available on Amazon, Kindle, and at your favorite retail book shop.

Don't Miss Out On This Special Offer!

From Thursday - Sunday ( March 24 ), buy SMOKY MOUNTAIN TRACKS, the first in the series, for only 99cents on Kindle. A great way to see how it all started if you haven't read the early books!  Click this link to order.  


Note: The print version of HIGH IN TRIAL will come with a bonus: the Christmas short story ALL THAT GLITTERS, which tells how Raine and Cisco met.

About The Book:

Dog trainer Raine Stockton and her happy-go-lucky golden retriever Cisco have been looking forward to the opening weekend of AKC competitive agility all winter.  They travel to the low country of South Carolina to compete against some of the top dogs in the southeast for blue ribbons, squeaky toys, and perhaps even that elusive title of High in Trial.  But even in this carefree atmosphere of high-spirited dogs and dedicated owners ambition runs high, and when one of the competitors is found brutally murdered  it begins to  look as though corruption might have penetrated even this last bastion of decency and sportsmanship, the AKC. 

While Raine and Cisco stalk a killer, a twenty-year old mystery is unfolding back home that will have devastating consequences for Raine and those she loves, and  every hour that passes brings a deadly threat closer.   

About The Characters:

Raine Stockton is just a small town girl from the mountains of North Carolina with money problems,men problems, and dog problems.  She does the best she can to balance her full-time boarding kennel and dog-training business, her part time forest-service job, and her volunteer therapy dog and wilderness search-and-rescue work while trying to keep her mischeivous Golden Retriever, Cisco-- not to mention the rest of her canine crew-- under control. It would be a lot easier if she didn't keep getting distracted by murder...

Learn more about the Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries by clicking here.

Meet The Author:

Donna and Destiny

Donna Ball is the author of over a hundred novels under several different pseudonyms in a variety of genres that include romance, mystery, suspense, paranormal, western adventure, historical and women’s fiction. Recent popular series include the Ladybug Farm series by Berkley Books and the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series. Donna is an avid dog lover and her dogs have won numerous titles for agility, obedience and canine musical freestyle. She lives in a restored Victorian Barn in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains with a variety of four-footed companions. Visit her web.

 

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Read more about Donna Ball on Coffee With A Canine

Praise for the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series

"An exciting, original and suspense-laden whodunit... A simply fabulous mystery starring a likeable, dedicated heroine..."

--Midwest Book Review

"A delightful protagonist...a well-crafted mystery."

--Romantic Times

"There can't be too many golden retrievers in mystery fiction for my taste."

--Deadly Pleasures

Other books in the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series:

Smoky Mountain Tracks

Rapid Fire

Gun Shy

Bone Yard (a novella)

All That Glitters (digital short story)

Silent Night

The Dead Season

Get the first book in the series, Smoky Mountain Tracks, for 99cents on Kindle from March 21 - March 24

Look inside feature on Kindle site. Click to go to Kindle

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For The Dogs:

Dog Daze Journal

The Pet Coach


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