tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168949093848372232024-02-20T02:51:01.953+11:00Erica Hayes ~ urban fantasy/romance authorErica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-1821417928485737502014-12-30T20:13:00.001+11:002014-12-30T20:13:20.287+11:00Guest author: Mel Teshco with Taken By The Sheikh<div style="text-align: left;">
Please welcome my buddy (and excellent author) Mel Tescho, with news of her new romance anthology TAKEN BY THE SHEIKH.<b> </b></div>
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Mel's books are always an exciting, intelligent and erotic read - if you want something tasty and well-written, check it out!<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Three desert Sheikhs. Three captive brides…
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Bound by duty to honor their father’s dying wish, three royal brothers must marry their destined brides… by whatever means necessary…
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<b>Book 1: Hostage to the Sheikh ~ Mel Teshco</b>
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Sheikh Shahzad Salah al Din doesn’t have time for hearts and flowers, not when his parents’ bodies are barely even cold in their graves and his country, Omana, is on the brink of revolt. He has to secure peace by honoring a long ago arrangement to make English rose, Lexi Galvin, his wife. The trouble is strong-willed Lexi isn’t aware of her royal Arab lineage let alone her destiny. There is only one way Shahzad can guarantee she will be his queen … and he isn’t above using force to get it.
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<b>Book 2: The Sheikh’s Mistaken Bride ~ Christina Phillips</b>
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In order to secure a powerful alliance for his country, Khalid has no choice but to marry a neighboring princess. It’s not what he wants, but duty must come before pleasure. Yet when he meets the beautiful Sanura he changes his mind… only to discover the virgin in his bed is not his destined bride.<br />
You can <a href="http://christinaphillips.com/?page_id=1507" target="_blank">check out an excerpt of this story</a>. <br />
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<b>Book 3: Sold to the Sheikh ~ Cathleen Ross
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He’d paid a fortune for his bride and he was determined to collect, whether she liked it or not. Rafi Salah al Din doesn't trust easily. In charge of security for his country Omana, he devotes his life to duty. With his parents murdered it is his duty to stabilize his country by finding his parents' assassin, marry and produce a son to ensure the Salah al Din line lives on. So why does the wife he bought disagree?<br />
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Sounds awesome, eh? There's a special introductory price of $0.99. You can check out the buy links at <a href="http://www.melteshco.com/" target="_blank">Mel Teshco's website</a>. <br />
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Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-3515536800403204532014-07-29T18:01:00.000+10:002014-07-29T18:38:45.336+10:00Guest author: D.A. Lascelles, on why it's all my faultAnd now for something completely different... <br />
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This week's guest author writes fantasy and alternate worlds and all kinds of bizarre things, including the sexy stuff - and apparently it's <span style="color: magenta;"><b>all my fault. </b><span style="color: black;">Including the state of world publishing and the Kennedy assassination. I do try.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;">But I dunno. I'll take the credit. Dave's stories are pretty cool. When you read a lot of romance, like I do, you tend to forget there are things other than heroic characters and endless happy endings. It's great to read from a different angle. </span><b><br /></b></span><br />
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So, no doubt in order to make like the Royal Navy and give me my forty lashes - ooh, baby - and to say <span style="color: blue;"><b>interesting things about publishing and erotica vs porn and why we can't all please everyone</b></span> - please welcome small press and indie author D.A. Lascelles...<br />
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<b>I blame Erica Hayes.</b><br />
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For everything (yes, she was there on that infamous grassy knoll some decades before she was born on a completely different hemisphere, she is cunning like that).<br />
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But in particular I blame her for the presence of two short stories I have recently published. If she hadn’t challenged publically on social media, if she hadn’t herself been so adept at writing erotica, then I probably wouldn’t have done it and the world may have been saved. Well, OK, I probably would have still done it but I wouldn’t have had anyone to blame but myself.<br />
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So, I was challenged to do something to match the quality of Erica’s erotica. <i>{ED: flattery will get you nowhere... actually, no, that's not true. See me later...}</i><br />
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I had previously worked with her on a Paranormal Romance anthology (the <i>Shades of Love </i>anthology) and in that I focussed on developing my writing of romance plots, though the sex scenes in my contribution (the novella <i>Transitions</i>) were of the ‘fade to soft candlelight’ style rather than explicit. To match her challenge, I realised I had to up my game. So, for my recent collection of shorts, <i>Lurking Miscellany</i>, I worked on two urban fantasy stories with a sexy theme.<br />
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One was a sequel to <i>Transitions</i>. Called <i>Transformations</i> it follows the characters on a night out to a Goth club where they encounter a very sexy person with unusual gender switching abilities. This was partly inspired by my own experiences in such a club, in fact the very one that is described (which is unfortunately no longer there). Our heroes face concepts of desirability and get into fights before saving the day.<br />
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The other, <i>An Element of Desire</i>, gets a little racier. In this, our hero Simon is an environmental activist with the ability to manipulate the elements through communication with the spirits that control them. He meets a woman for whom he feels the most immediate and insistent attraction. From their initial meeting it is not long before things get very hot and heavy… For some reason I decided to have the female character in this dressed in PVC. Well why on earth not?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3d1EAw5x3MFwmqkD-Y2QVNi00JDm6sOTbX1Brsq2TMRgAIF4R811Zl2XTg7uj6zz879D411mvYi3pMIQBcIekgQI6PdBqZzoC7_9PbhGzBRMx32Ee5Awhy5n6WWPjXfW9SaWcsnij1I/s1600/Transitions-AuthorCopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3d1EAw5x3MFwmqkD-Y2QVNi00JDm6sOTbX1Brsq2TMRgAIF4R811Zl2XTg7uj6zz879D411mvYi3pMIQBcIekgQI6PdBqZzoC7_9PbhGzBRMx32Ee5Awhy5n6WWPjXfW9SaWcsnij1I/s1600/Transitions-AuthorCopy.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a>Did I succeed in my challenge? Well, I will leave that to the readers to decide. I would however say that it is certainly worth a writer challenging themselves to do something outside their comfort zone. If you are finding the writing process too easy you may be slipping into familiar territory and while that may mean you are sticking to what you are good at, it can also mean you are boring your readers by retreading old ground. Rather than stick to this comfortable old armchair of the familiar, why not try to strike out into the unknown? If it gives you a gut wrenching feeling of fear as you consider this, even better. Often, when you get that feeling it means you are doing something right.<br />
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Self publishing has opened up the market to experimentation. I am quite fond of the traditional route of publishing, but it has one major flaw – each book published represents such a huge financial risk for the publisher that they tend to be very careful about their output. If something is not likely to sell they stay well away from it. The advance a publisher gives to an author on acceptance of a manuscript is basically what they are willing to bet on the success of that book. They are saying that the book will make at least this much in profit, so they can give that to the author and not lose any money themselves. Ditto the amounts they spend on advertising, cover design, distribution and printing. <br />
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The more they invest the more convinced they are they have a winning concept. Books that are on the fringes of popularity, or attract only a niche audience or which are so radical they break conventions rarely if ever get published by this route. Similarly, books which might offend a majority of people such as those including the extremes of sex, drugs and rock and roll. However, they can be self published and when they are the financial risks are significantly smaller (although the profits can be equally small) meaning it is more viable to produce. This means that in the current book market, it is a good time to be radical and do something different.<br />
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So, why not push yourself to do something different? There will be an audience for you out there somewhere, even if it is one the big six don’t consider worth selling to.<br />
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<i>D.A Lascelles is the author of Lurking Miscellany, Transitions (Mundania Press) and Gods of the Sea (Pulp Empires). He lives in Manchester UK. You can sometimes see him writing about Zombie porn on <a href="http://lurkingmusings.wordpress.com/">http://lurkingmusings.wordpress.com/</a> but he mostly blogs about books, vampires, science fiction and Terry Pratchett. He is inordinately proud of the fact that one of his Pratchett articles was referenced on the French version of the author’s Wikipedia page.</i><br />
<i><b>Facebook:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DaLascelles">https://www.facebook.com/DaLascelles</a> <br />
<b>Twitter: </b><a href="http://www.twitter.com/areteus" target="_blank">@areteus</a></i><br />
<b>Buy links for <i>Lurking Miscellany</i>:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LR68GYS" target="_blank">Kindle</a> ~ <a href="http://www.dalascelles.co.uk/Publications.html" target="_blank">Paperback </a><br />
<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-52941118416995591672014-07-16T17:51:00.001+10:002014-07-16T17:51:33.260+10:00Guest sci-fi author: Anna Hackett with In The Devil's NebulaPlease welcome Anna Hackett, author of action/adventure romance - and her new release IN THE DEVIL’S NEBULA.<br />
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Check out this cool cover! Love the colours and the starfield. This series is kind of a cross between sci-fi romance and treasure hunting.<br />
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Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-51333761222770521582014-07-07T19:06:00.001+10:002014-07-07T19:06:27.690+10:00Guest fantasy author: J.M. Bray with MENDING THE SHROUD<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today please welcome paranormal author J.M. Bray, as part of his blog tour for his contemporary fantasy/romance MENDING THE SHROUD. Here's J.M:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for having me by for a visit, Erica. I really like the site. The July 1 release of <i><a href="http://www.escapepublishing.com.au/product/9780857991652#" target="_blank">Mending the Shroud </a></i> went by in a blur of tweets, Facebook posts, emails and well wishes. I'm constantly encouraged by the support of the writing community with great authors, like you, who pitch in and lend a hand...umm...or blog as the case may be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About mid-way through writing <i>Tearing the Shroud</i>, I realized that the characters were not done with me. They had a tight hold and refused to let go. So, while still doing the legwork for book one, I jumped into work on <i>Mending the Shroud</i>. The story poured from me relentlessly and here we are to celebrate the results. If you haven't read Tearing, you won't be lost in Mending, but I think you might enjoy it more. You can find a bunch of buy links at <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18520805-tearing-the-shroud" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story picks up a month later and we are instantly thrown back into the lives of Vincent, Jule, Flea, and Knife. What happens with Vincent and Jule's relationship? Is the Master, the evil force behind the Tearer, through with things? How did the events change the four friends? Who, or<i> what</i>, is Mr. Brown and how did he get all his wealth? Will they survive the events that unfold? All these questions and more are answered in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22180310-mending-the-shroud" target="_blank"><i>Mending the Shroud</i></a>.</span><br />
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<b>The second in the fresh, exciting romantic fantasy Shroud trilogy takes up where </b></span><a href="http://www.escapepublishing.com.au/product/9780857990976" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Tearing the Shroud</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> leaves off – with the lives, the loves, and the mythical world beyond our own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Shroud may not have torn wide open, but it did tear a little, and the retribution for the failure is coming hard, fast, and directly at Vincent and the people he loves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His only hope is to once again accept possession from Coleman and do battle with the deformed, terrifying Kafla. But this time, he's not alone. Jule, the woman he loves and hopes to marry, is possessed as well, and together the four of them become a formidable team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together they hope to stave off the invasion and take the fight to the Realm, but only a supreme sacrifice can mend the Shroud and save both their lives and their worlds.</span><br />
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Firstly, as always - check out the hot dude:<br />
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Mmm. <i>Ghostly-moon-mist-dude-castle!</i> You can see what to expect from this book, eh? Clean, simple, but effective. Nice work!<br />
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<i>Modern woman Kate Manning has always been fascinated by Sir Caleb, a fifteenth century knight whose portrait hangs in the mysterious Castle of Kildare. Now the new owner of the castle, Kate finds herself even more drawn to him, until one day the unbelievable happens: Caleb steps out of the portrait.</i><br />
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<i>Frozen in time since a gypsy cursed him hundreds of years ago, Caleb awakens at the touch of the most desirable woman he's ever seen. Yet to end the curse and free himself from the portrait forever, he must claim the heart of a woman with Romani blood – not this flirtatious blonde who tempts him beyond belief.</i><br />
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<i>As Caleb fights against his growing feelings for Kate, he must also find a way to keep her safe from those obsessed with the castle's hidden treasure. There are some willing to do anything to unearth it, no matter who gets in their way…</i><br />
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Portrait-stepping ghosts! The claiming of tempting hearts! Time travel-ish shenanigans! Hidden treasure! Sounds cool, eh?<br />
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Now, I have a few burning questions for Erin:<br />
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<b>Tell us about the characters in <i>The Knight of Castle Kildare</i>. What inspired them?</b><br />
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The knight of Castle Kildare was inspired by an old TV series called The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It always frustrated me that Captain Greg (the ghost) and Mrs. Muir (a widow with two children) could never actually get together.<br />
My story is based on a sexy young knight called Caleb from the sixteenth century and a modern day, independent woman, called Katrina who has never had a serious boyfriend.<br />
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<b>Your hero in <i>Knight</i> is a ghost, of sorts, and an Elizabethan ghost at that – what challenges did that present for you, in writing a romance with a modern (and living!) heroine?</b> <br />
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My biggest challenge was to restore Sir Caleb, a supposed ghost to life. Aha, he could have been cursed by a gypsy, not actually killed. This frustrates him greatly as he hates the gypsy who cursed him and vows to wring the neck of any gypsy who crosses his path. Big problem.<br />
Another challenge was coming up with a good reason for Katrina to be such an innocent in this day and age. After a bit of thought, I realised it’s Katrina’s infatuation with the handsome Knight and her grandmother’s enthralling stories that have prevented her having a normal relationship with any other man.<br />
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<b>Is <i>Knight</i> a steamy story? Do you like to read/write erotic romance, and if so, what’s the appeal? </b><br />
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I normally write spicy romantic suspense with sensual love scenes and gritty action, although humour always seems to sneak in. I do read some erotic romances by authors who write them well and have good storylines. <br />
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<b>Are you a history fan? What kind of research did you do to write this book?</b><br />
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I’m not a big history buff, although I used Queen Elizabeth I in The Knight of Castle Kildare, so I needed to research her reign and pilgrimages through England. I also needed to research the Romani Gypsies around that time. I was astonished to discover the Romani people (as they liked to be known) were often executed or chased out of the country. It amazes me what humans will do to each other, even in this day. However, this fact helped greatly with my storyline.<br />
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<b>What’s next for you – what are you writing/publishing now?</b><br />
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At the moment I’m working on suspense series based around six ex-SAS soldiers, who have formed a security protection service. They will do whatever it takes to get the job done. Their assignments take place in Australia and other parts of the world, wherever the job requires them to be. Each of my heroes has his own demons to deal with and a woman who will tie him in knots and frustrate him in everyway possible. <br />
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<b>What do you like most about <i>The Knight of Castle Kildare</i>?</b><br />
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It’s a light fun read with a little suspense, passion and a twist or two. The main characters just clicked, even Miles (the butler) with his dry sense of humour. I based him on Colin Firth in a very straight-laced way.<br />
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Well, any kind of Colin Firth - strait-laced or otherwise - is good with me. Thanks, Erin :)<br />
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You can check out THE KNIGHT OF CASTLE KILDARE ebook here:<br />
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And <a href="http://www.erinmoiraohara.com/" target="_blank">check out Erin's website</a><br />
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<b><i>So, do you enjoy ghost romances? Kind of an old-fashioned thing, right... or do you say NOT, and bring back the ghostly hero?</i></b><br />
Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-90576567362690163162014-06-13T19:00:00.000+10:002014-06-13T19:00:00.629+10:00Cool new cover art: TETHERED by Pippa JayA big ol' sloppy welcome, if you please, for <span style="color: red;"><b>sci-fi romance author Pippa Jay!</b></span><br />
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Today is the cover reveal for her <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22085149-tethered" target="_blank">new sci-fi romance novella TETHERED</a>. What do you think? Intriguing, yeah? The dude is kind of a mysterious monk type... but there's a spaceship, and nebulas and stuff. Hmm. What could it mean? Are there monks in space? Or is he just <i>in disguise!</i> which would be really cool, too?<br />
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Either way, it's eye-catching. Leave some comment love and tell us what you think!<br />
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She can kill with a kiss. But can assassin Tyree also heal one man's grief, and bring peace to a galaxy threatened by war?<br />
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For Tyree of the Su, being an assassin isn’t simply something she was trained for. It's the sole reason for her existence. A genetically enhanced clone—one of many in Refuge—she's about to learn her secluded lifestyle, and that of all her kind, is under threat by a race capable of neutralizing their special talents to leave them defenseless.<br />
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For Zander D'joren, being a diplomat has not only cost him his appearance, but also the love of his life. Scarred, grieving, he must nonetheless continue in his role as co-delegate to the fearsome Tier-vane or risk a conflict that could only end one way.<br />
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Now both of them need to keep each other alive and maintain a perilous deception long enough to renegotiate the treaty with the Tier-vane, or throw their people into a war that could wipe out Terrans and Inc-Su alike. But there's more at stake than humanity, whether true or modified. Can the love growing between them save them both? Or merely hasten their destruction?<br />
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Sounds lots of fun, eh? I like assassins, especially space assassins. And scarred dudes are cool.<br />
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TETHERED comes out on 25th July - you can <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22085149-tethered" target="_blank">add it to your Goodreads shelf</a>.<br />
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Also, sign up to <a href="http://www.pippajay.blogspot.co.uk/p/artwork.html" target="_blank">Pippa's newsletter</a> for updates. Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-12776524518861907512014-05-28T01:00:00.000+10:002014-05-28T01:00:04.392+10:00Author interview: Daniel de Lorne with Beckoning Blood<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Welcome to Daniel de Lorne!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Author of the sexy M/M paranormal romance BECKONING BLOOD</b></span></div>
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I met Daniel briefly years ago at Romance Writers of Australia, where he was pretty much the only guy in the room who wasn't someone's husband or a waiter. But hey, men write romance too, and Daniel has this unique voice and cool paranormal ideas that I'm sure you'll love. <br />
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You can check out <a href="http://www.danieldelorne.com/the-boys" target="_blank">The Boys Are Coming</a>, Daniel's free prequel story to Beckoning Blood. But first of all, <span style="color: red;"><b>this awesome cover!</b></span><br />
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Goggle. If this doesn't scream 'hot boy vampires', I don't know what does. That handprint is so cool. This dude will kick your ass.<br />
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<i><b>A gripping, blood‐drenched saga about twin brothers, the men they love, and the enduring truth that true love never dies – no matter how many times you kill it.</b></i><br />
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<i>Thierry d’Arjou has but one escape from the daily misery of his work at a medieval abattoir – Etienne de Balthas. But keeping their love a secret triggers a bloody chain of events that condemns Thierry to a monstrous immortality. Thierry quickly learns that to survive his timeless exile, he must hide his sensitive heart from the man who both eases and ensures his loneliness...his twin brother. </i><br />
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<i>Shaped by the fists of a brutal father, Olivier d’Arjou cares for only two things: his own pleasure and his twin. But their sadistic path through centuries is littered with old rivals and new foes, and Olivier must fight for what is rightfully his – Thierry, made immortal just for him.
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<i><b>Nom nom. </b></i>Okay, you lot, enough with the drooling. He had me at 'gripping, blood-drenched saga', but hey, I'm like that.<br />
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Here's a few questions I asked Daniel about his book. Leave him some comment love, ask some of your own. Go right ahead. <i>He</i> doesn't bite...<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Why do you write about vampires—what's the attraction?</b></span><br />
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What’s not to love? Their immortality gets me the most. I find something comforting about a being (even a fictional one) having been present through so much of history. They’re also incredibly flexible – in the storytelling sense. You can do whatever you want with them because they exist on the edge of ‘normal’ humanity. Then there’s the power over life and death, and the intense meanings evoked when talking about blood. I could go on but I’m starting to sound like a groupie. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>No, no. It's okay. We're all vampire groupies here...</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Who's your favourite character in Beckoning Blood, and why?</b></span><br />
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Olivier. He’s the nastier of my twin vampires <b>{ED: <i>twin vampires,</i> folks. <i>You know you want this book</i>}</b> but he’s got a whole lot more going on than his killer instinct. He is a bit of a jerk but there’s just something about him that draws me in. Everyone loves a bad boy, right?
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Totally :) Who would win a fight: your vampires, or Buffy? Explain.</b></span><br />
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Don’t make me choose! Picturing Buffy dead (again) is too horrible. If it were just Buffy on her lonesome, then I think my vamps would win – though they’d have to really want to fight her. And there wouldn’t be any of that standing around soliloquizing that bad guys always do. They’d get in and get the job done quick. If it’s her and all the sidekicks, then I think my boys would be in trouble.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Your vampire heroes walk into a bar, looking for a late-night snack. Whom do they choose to menace, and why? <br />
a) Any human who smells good. They're not fussy.<br />
b) That weak-ass sparkling vamp over there. He looks like a real loser.<br />
c) A bike-chain-wearing, vodka-swilling vampire rival. Might as well eliminate the opposition while we feed.<br />
d) Each other. Fight's on!</b></span><br />
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Again with the choosing! Olivier would go for that bike-chain-wearing, vodka-swilling vampire rival. Ain’t nobody going to intimidate him (and seriously, vodka? Is that vamp on a diet?). Thierry would go for a human and make it quick, then leave his brother to the fighting.<br />
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(And poor Edward…he’s never going to be able to live that sparkling thing down.)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>No. {evil giggle} No, he never will.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Is Beckoning Blood part of a series – what's next from Daniel de Lorne?</b></span><br />
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I’m working on a sequel, which has a working title of Binding Spirit. I’ve got a first draft already but it’s still early days. Revisions ahead! It’s been fun writing about these characters again, spending more time with them and seeing what I can make them do.<br />
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Thanks for coming, Daniel. Sound awesome? Yes, yes it does. And guess what? You can <span style="color: red;"><b>get a free taste of these sexy boys</b></span> at Daniel's website: <a href="http://www.danieldelorne.com/the-boys" target="_blank">www.danieldelorne.com/the-boys</a><br />
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Buy links for BECKONING BLOOD: <a href="http://www.escapepublishing.com.au/product/9780857991553" target="_blank">Escape Publishing</a> ~
<a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00JD7EYX0" target="_blank">Kindle</a> ~
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/beckoning-blood/id852042874?mt=11" target="_blank">iBooks</a> ~
<a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/beckoning-blood" target="_blank">Kobo</a> ~
<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beckoning-blood-daniel-de-lorne/1119118529?ean=9780857991553&isbn=9780857991553&itm=1&usri=9780857991553" target="_blank">Nook </a><br />
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Links to Daniel's social media:<br />
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<a href="http://www.twitter.com/danieldelorne" target="_blank">Twitter</a> ~
<a href="http://plus.google.com/+DanieldeLorne" target="_blank">Google+</a><br />
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<i><b>Any questions for Daniel? Tell us why you love vampires or M/M romance or anything with a bloody handprint on its chest? Let's hear it.</b></i>Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-52583208883742846452014-05-23T02:14:00.001+10:002014-05-23T02:16:16.786+10:00SCORCHED release day! Superheroes! Cool book giveaway!Happy release day to SCORCHED!<br />
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Yes! My new urban fantasy book about superheroes and villains. First in a new series, published by HarperImpulse. And to celebrate, I'm giving away a pack of 4 cool Kindle books about superheroes. You know you want them, right?<br />
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First, <span style="color: red;"><b>behold the dark action-y awesomeness that is SCORCHED:</b></span><br />
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<i>In a world where everyone wears a mask, you can't trust anyone… not even yourself.</i><br />
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Verity Fortune was once Sapphire City’s top crime-fighter, wielding
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Having escaped from the asylum they left her to rot in, Verity dons
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her own family, she’s suddenly on the run, alone and hunted by those she
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Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-89101808139965206692014-04-24T03:00:00.000+10:002014-04-24T03:00:07.813+10:00Guest author: Nikki Moore with Crazy, Undercover, Love...Today's guest is Nikki Moore, author of hot contemporary romance <i>Crazy, Undercover, Love.</i><br />
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I like it: cheeky, doesn't take itself too seriously, but there's a hint of sexiness and intrigue. And, y'know. Dude in a tux. Makes a change from all those frickin' tattoos. Cool!<br />
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Nikki says: "If you like pacy, sexy romance and fancy a long weekend in Barcelona with a smoking hot guy <i>{ED: and who doesn't?}</i> this one's for you!"<br />
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<i>When uber-feisty career girl Charley Caswell-Wright takes on the assignment as PA to the gorgeous Alex Demetrio, CEO of Demetrio International, she's there under entirely false pretences; to get her life back on track. Having lost the job she worked so hard to earn, she’s determined not to give it up so easily, especially when she didn’t deserve to lose it in the first place.
Mr Dreamy CEO is her only chance of clawing back her career – and her reputation. So she has to keep things strictly professional… boy, is she in trouble! </i><br />
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You can check it out here:<br />
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Nikki is on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NikkiMooreAuthor" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/NikkiMoore_Auth" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.<br />
<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-27378986271778917732014-04-07T23:59:00.000+10:002014-04-07T23:59:01.716+10:00Cool new cover art: J.M. BrayPlease welcome my friend J.M. Bray, to reveal the cover for his <span style="color: red;"><b>cool new romantic fantasy</b></span> MENDING THE SHROUD ~ book 2 in the Shroud Trilogy, releasing in July.<br />
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The first book is called TEARING THE SHROUD - cool creepy title, yeah? <br />
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(Erica jumps in: this is very cool. Simple, nice colours with the neon swirl behind the title. Aaand hot, in an understated, come-hither kind of way. I like the feather - intriguing, raises questions. And the dude's eyes say, 'I may be pretty, but I'll still kick your butt.'</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">exciting sequel to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tearing-The-Shroud-JM-Bray-ebook/dp/B00FB3MWYS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394487606&sr=8-1&keywords=tearing+the+shroud">Tearing the Shroud</a> is coming July 1, 2014 and here's the cover! Once again Escape Publishing did an amazing job on the artwork and tying the two books together visually. JM is hard at work on the third book, so keep a lookout for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Vincent thought saving the world once was a challenge, he didn’t figure on retribution putting a price on his head. It means college takes a back seat again as he’s possessed by Coleman to fight a new battle with the Kafla. But this time he’s not alone, Jule, the woman he loves is also is possessed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">About the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Author</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcvLjWeUXdEKIQ7V-Z0FC8Cl91RRulW6Wu4700Zk9kFr5zlhwTwFt5nt8JdA24qbzGqnZ8voWpkJDJCfA4cd1nlOSO7KIn_EE1clrpzjo1vv-HFikqmO4gUj1i1dlfbh4pssH-DUZyg/s1600/IMG_6052+(E1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcvLjWeUXdEKIQ7V-Z0FC8Cl91RRulW6Wu4700Zk9kFr5zlhwTwFt5nt8JdA24qbzGqnZ8voWpkJDJCfA4cd1nlOSO7KIn_EE1clrpzjo1vv-HFikqmO4gUj1i1dlfbh4pssH-DUZyg/s1600/IMG_6052+(E1).jpg" height="200" width="187" /></a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">J.M. Bray lives in Southern California with his college sweetheart and their two dogs. After a lifetime together, they are happier than the moment they met. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When not writing or working his "day job", he loves to cook, play the guitar, and travel with his wife. Every chance he gets, he races an old Porsche named "Tuffy" at tracks in the southwest.</span><br />
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Thanks, J.M. :) so what do you guys think? You a fan of fantasy/romance, featuring stuff other than vamps and weres? A fellow member of the 'we're so over tattoos on book covers' club?Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-64667728345037246672014-03-13T03:39:00.000+11:002014-03-13T03:39:17.690+11:00Publishing decisions, and why they're none of anyone else's businessI don't blog a whole lot (heh, you might have noticed that) but I just can't keep my mouth shut any longer about this. Excuse my language, but it's the kind of post that needs lashings of cursing to be cathartic. And I totally need catharsis, folks.<span style="color: red;"><b> Ready for a rant?</b></span><br />
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I am <i>so</i> over those best-selling authors who assume <i>every</i> author in the world lives in the same special little ivory-tower universe that they do.<br />
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Things like Hugh Howey's Amazon data scraping exercise, which basically proved nothing other than if you're already selling a zillion copies, you'll make more money at 70% royalty than you will at 25%. <b>Duh.</b><br />
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Posts like this one <a href="http://brennaaubrey.net/2014/03/09/the-road-not-taken/">http://brennaaubrey.net/2014/03/09/the-road-not-taken/</a>, where one author is talking candidly about her reasons for her publishing decisions, and a certain bestselling author comes along and writes a lengthy comment that, despite its sort-of-helpful intent and its effort to provide useful info, which I do appreciate, basically boils down to <i>if you think traditional publishing has any benefits for anyone ever, you're a fucking idiot.</i><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Well, let the record show that I am <i>not</i> a fucking idiot.</b></span> Most authors are not idiots. They're business people with decisions to make. And they make those decisions based on <i>their</i> situation. Not some random bestselling author's, or anyone else's. Theirs. <br />
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Anyone who thinks that just because <i>this</i> or <i>that</i> happened for some zillion-copy-selling author, it will doubtless happen that way for them too, because hey, they're indie and <i>INDIES ROCK! You can do it! Group hug! </i>– well, perhaps they should think about it some more.<br />
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Can we all stop insisting that because XYZ happened to us when we published and we made a squillion dollars, that means <i>our</i> way is the <i>only</i> way? Just because subright X or publicity plan Y is (or isn't) important to us doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. Just because an offer is bad for one author or book doesn't mean it's bad for everyone else too.<br />
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Can we all stop listening to those authors who, because they turned down an offer from a print publisher, apparently think they know <i>everything</i> about what's happening in New York, for <i>every</i> other author at <i>every</i> stage of his or her career?<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>And can we <i>please</i> stop throwing around 'know what your rights are worth' as if it always and forever means 'traditional publishing sucks'?</b></span><br />
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Because I do know what my rights are worth, thanks very much, and for some books, I still choose traditional publishing.<br />
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I don't pretend to know much about what's really going on for anyone else. Everything I have is anecdotal, and the plural of 'anecdote', etc.. But let tell you about me.<br />
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I'm not a bestseller. I've done a few books in New York, a few with digital-first imprints of big houses and a few self-published. My self-pubs haven't set the world on fire, but I'm learning, and I do my research – I can see what the very successful authors are doing, even if as yet I haven't been able to emulate it. I've had glowing reviews, and shockingly bad ones. I've had starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and 'this is the worst, sickest book ever written' reviews from Kirkus. Some readers love my work. Some hate it. Basically, my books are no better and no worse than anyone else's. I'm just an author.<br />
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I am a relatively new author, true, but I fancy I have at least a little bit of a handle on what all those aspects of the publishing industry are doing, thanks. <span style="color: red;"><b>Just because I haven't yet turned down a million-dollar offer doesn't mean I'm clueless.</b></span> Just because you have doesn’t make you an expert. Piss off. <br />
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Got that? Good. Let's move on.<br />
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So. My last two trad-pubbed series were discontinued by the publisher. (I got all my advances, by the way. Where this shit is coming from about people not getting paid their advances on delivered books is a mystery to me.) What's more, the fan following I do have is in paranormal romance. I don't write twenty-book short contemporary romance series, new adult anything, BDSM billionaires or rock star romance. I don't even really write erotic romance at the moment. Suffice it to say: my books are not exactly hot property in New York this week.<br />
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But I can tell you that the advances I am being offered – and no, I won't tell you what they are, or from whom, because unlike some authors, I still harbour lingering respect for business confidentiality – the advances I'm being offered are <i>more</i> than I could reasonably expect to earn in the same period if I self-published the same book.<br />
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Let me say that again. I've self-published a couple of books now, and I have no expectations of being an overnight word-of-mouth bestseller – it's something to aim for, but I don't expect it. I expect to have to build my career slowly – and no, it isn't because I've been trained to think that by evil traditional publishers. It's just reality, for most authors. I don't write the kind of thing that sells like that, and I don't have the drive towards promotion that it requires. But I do have a good idea of what I can reasonably expect my earnings on a new book to be in the next little while.<br />
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<b><i>The advances I'm being offered are more than I foresee I would earn self-pubbing, over the period during which the advance would be paid.</i></b><br />
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So don't come at me with your 'know what your rights are worth' as if it means 'indie is the only way, suckah!' IT IS OKAY TO CONSIDER TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING. IT IS OKAY TO DECIDE TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING IS BEST FOR YOUR BOOK. Just because some other author's rights are worth more than mine doesn't give them cause to tell me I'm an idiot (however nicely they put it) for so choosing.<br />
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In short: I <i>do</i> know what my rights are worth. You, on the other hand, don't have the first clue what my rights are worth. Piss off.<br />
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I am not afraid of e-publishing. I could care less about Goodreads or Amazon reviews or author 'bullying'. Bring it on. I would self-publish my next novel in a heartbeat - <u>if</u> I thought it would sell more copies and/or make more money. I am not yet at a stage of my career where I believe it will.<br />
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Oh, and while I'm at it? <span style="color: orange;"><b>Enough with 'print is dead'.</b></span> I still buy print and enjoy bookstores. My friends still buy print and enjoy bookstores. Excuse us for being relics of the Enlightenment. Piss off.<br />
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What's more, I've done trad-pubbed books before. I know what to expect in terms of marketing, publicity, branding and editorial, no matter what stories I'm told by well-meaning company staff. I have an agent, whom I consider to be worth every penny of her 15% and then some, to advise me, and I also do my own research.<br />
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So don't come at me with 'but traditional publishers don't do branding/publicity/marketing! They lie! They suck! They tell sucky lies! Indie is the only way!' Just don't. Okay? Of course it's not all book tours and front-of-store placement and national media. We know that. Publishing is a sales business. <i>Caveat emptor.</i> You have to do due diligence. Inform your decisions. You don't automatically believe everything you're told.<br />
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And that includes what you're told by authors who live in that bestseller's ivory tower, where it makes total sense to decline a big traditional offer, because they're already doing better on their own.<br />
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I understand that decision. I really do, and good luck to them. I wish them every success.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">But I'm not them. I'm me. </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b>Hunter's Heart</b></i> is what you might call a good, old-fashioned vampire romance. With demons and violence and juicy smexxin'. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HVMFTUQ" target="_blank">You know you want one, right?</a><br />
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<b><i>A reckless young demon-huntress longs for the ultimate excitement—but is a powerful shadow demon more than she can handle? </i></b><br />
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<i>For vampire Colleen O’Hara, work is also play. She hunts demons not just for the paycheck, but also for the thrill of the fight. It’s better than sex, at least the sex she’s had so far. But then she meets Seth, a smoldering-hot shadow demon. With him she feels an undeniable, untamable urge to blur the lines between ally and enemy, predator and prey.</i><br />
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<i>Meanwhile, as the barrier between hell and earth grows weaker, threatening thousands of human souls, Colleen must track down the traitor who opened the rift. Only with Seth at her side can she defeat the villain. Colleen must risk everything—including her soul—to both follow her desire and save her city from impending damnation.</i><br />
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For those of you familiar with my books: <b><i>Hunter's Heart </i></b>is in the same series as <b><i>Hunter's Blood</i></b>, but with a new romantic couple. The heroine is Colleen, Gina's sassy BFF. The hero… well, he's kinda bad… :D<br />
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You can <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17980661-hunter-s-heart" target="_blank">feed it cookies on Goodreads</a>. Or, here's the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HVMFTUQ" target="_blank">Kindle link</a>.<br />
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Here's a teaser; you can <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/hh-excerpt.html" target="_blank">read a bigger excerpt on my website</a>.<br />
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<i>Such a beautiful enemy.</i><br />
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In his shadow form, Seth drifted above Colleen’s head, a silent breath of blackness in the night. Invisible. Deadly.<br />
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And fascinated. The fiery glint of her spell-wreathed knives mesmerized him. Her lean shadow slipped along the moonlit alley wall like a ghost. The power that flashed in the magical bloodstone at her throat made him tingle. If he’d had a mouth right now, it would have watered.<br />
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He’d been watching this Hunter every night for a week. Stalking the stalker, tracking her sweet vampire scent through midnight streets, as she killed imps and fleshcrushers, her lethal blades flashing. Her victims were lower-level minions, hell’s dross, mere lumps of flesh and hatred. Expendable, easily replaced . . . yet her grim taste for death intrigued him.<br />
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He drifted closer, whispering his shadowy fingers over her braided red hair, and his particles shimmered, aroused. Hellfire, she smelled good, of strawberries and female sweat. She hadn’t detected Seth—but this was no reflection on her fighting prowess. Seth was a shadow demon, ancient and powerful. Just a strange shiver down your spine, a warm whisper on your shoulder, a coil of blacker darkness in the night. It was pitifully easy for Seth to drink human and vampire souls.<br />
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Warm weariness washed through him. Soon, it’d be Yule, when the hellflux would be at its lowest ebb. His mistress—Jezebel, cruel demon empress, curse her oily hide to eternities of agony—was amassing her forces for a frontal assault. And these helldamned Hunters were just getting in the way.<br />
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Which was where Colleen came in. Her powerful magic-user’s soul would strengthen Seth. Feed him. Sustain his power, make him invincible, and so on and so forth. As Jezebel’s consort—and yeah, that was about as much fun as it sounded—he’d eaten countless souls in his time, both human and vampire. It was getting old, the excitement wearing thin.<br />
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Seth sighed, a stirring of shadow. Hells, <i>he</i> was getting old. Couldn’t recall when he’d last properly relished a meal. He didn’t even bother taking corporeal form anymore. Just dived down their throats and sucked the soul from their fleshbags.<br />
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But this prey—this juicy lady Hunter—woke something inside him that he hadn’t felt for . . . Mmm. Would she taste as good as she looked?
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OMG. The suspense is killing you, right? What will happen? Will there be blood? More importantly, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">will there be nakedness and hot smexxin'?</span></b><br />
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Well, what do <i>you</i> think?<br />
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You can <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HVMFTUQ" target="_blank">buy this cute little sucker at Amazon</a>. $1.99. What a bargain!Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-58436101108612374262014-02-11T17:56:00.000+11:002014-02-11T17:56:31.436+11:00Death! Betrayal! Vampire revolutionaries! Just in time for Valentine's Day...A new release, yay! It's been a while, so I hope you enjoy this little piece of bloodthirstiness and heartbreak...<br />
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<b>MY BLOODY VALENTINE</b></div>
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<b>Eight cutting-edge stories</b></div>
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<b>of the darker side of love.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.tiffiniehelmer.com/" target="blank">Tiffinie
Helmer</a> ~ <i>Heartless</i><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.alexbledsoe.com" target="blank">Alex
Bledsoe</a> ~ <i>Tantrabobus</i><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.vrbarkowski.com" target="blank">V.R.
Barkowski</a> ~ <i>Just A Lie</i><br />
<a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/bloodyvalentine.html" target="_blank">Erica Hayes</a> ~ <i>Unforgiven</i><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.lizlipperman.com" target="blank">Lizbeth
Lipperman</a> ~ <i>Sweepers: A Kiss To Die
For</i><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/myselfaswritten.blogspot.com" target="blank">Charlie
Holmberg</a> ~ <i>Salt and Water</i><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.coreenecallahan.com" target="blank">Coreene
Callahan</a> ~ <i>Fury of Fate</i><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.goodreads.com/author/show/5321964.S_G_Redling" target="blank">S.G.
Redling</a> ~ <i>The True Love of Sherry
Papers</i>
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The premise of this antho was simple: the story had to begin with the words 'love hurts'.<br />
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So, y'know. Vampire revolutionaries. Bwahaha. Just in time for Valentine's Day…<br />
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Here's the first little snippet of my story, <i>Unforgiven</i>.<br />
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Love hurts, they say.<br />
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Still, I find it an impractical tool. In all my years, I've never extracted a traitor's confession with the threat of a broken heart, for the simple reason that on the subject of love, imagination fails us. We cannot conceive before the fact how excruciating its loss can be. Whereas any torturing scoundrel will tell you that the instinctive human dread of physical pain—a dagger pressed into the eye socket, for example—is often more persuasive than the pain itself.<br />
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I poke my blade in a little harder. "Give me a name, <i>monsieur,</i> or by Jupiter, I'll slice your eye in two."<br />
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"Don't know what you mean." The boy's in shirtsleeves, and sweat darkens his white linen. The pleasure den's warm gaslights slant my shadow across his face. He's bleeding all over his waistcoat, poor lad, his cupid's-bow lips split and swollen, and it isn't making my job any easier.<br />
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A few feet from us, behind the half-drawn curtain, the dance whirls on, oblivious, a riot of silk and brocade, paste jewelry, painted faces, dusty relics of the bad old days. When he approached me at these revels—me, a lady wearing a gentlemen's swallow-tailed coat and breeches, rapier and dirk at her belt, glossy brown curls twisted in a red ribbon—he had more erotic recreation in mind.<br />
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Perhaps, so did I. He's handsome, this minion of evil. Delicious. The eye I'm threatening to pierce is ocean blue, bright with belladonna, and the smell of his skin maddens me. Absinthe and fear and a succulent boy's sweat, a toxic reminder of days long gone, when truth and liberty were more important than tomorrow, and my blood raced wild and free.<br />
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But I'm a different woman now. A married woman. And though I worship my lord husband with my entire heart, on evenings such as this—with the prey trembling in my grip, warm night air sparkling on my skin, the scent of satisfaction inches from my reach—the interminable emptiness of that tomorrow stretches ahead of me, terrifying.<br />
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"Your coven master's name, villain." I slide my dirk under his chin. "Or perhaps you can do without the eyeball. Should I instead slice your throat asunder?"<br />
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"Please, don't hurt me. He'll kill me if I tell you." He's sobbing now, begging in the fashion I once enjoyed so ruthlessly, and sweat trickles between my breasts. I'm burning. Eager. Parched inside, as if my soul wastes away for want.<br />
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"Yet so shall I, if you remain silent. What a dilemma." I twist his hair in my damp fist. My mouth is dry. I want to lick his swollen lips, taste that shimmering moisture. "Give me his name, minion, or you'll know sorrow."<br />
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The boy's eyes harden, the besotted glitter of the Possessed. "His name is <i>master</i>," he rasps. "But he signs himself <i>Charlot</i>."<br />
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The syllables echo backwards in time.<br />
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I taste them. Mysterious, slightly bitter, like an old wine. Enticing. Just as he tasted, long ago in those restless days of revolution, when he and I were drunk on power and fury and the sheer brilliant bliss of being alive.<br />
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Charlot.<br />
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My heart beats faster. Fear or excitement? I ought to feel nothing.<br />
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I must feel nothing.
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Cool, eh? You can <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/unf-excerpt.html" target="_blank">read a bigger excerpt at my website</a>.<br />
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Buy links for the antho: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ICNBDP8" target="_blank">Amazon</a> ~ <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1118600361?ean=2940148191131&isbn=2940148191131" target="_blank">B&N</a><br />
<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-12515224086260329952013-10-31T09:00:00.000+11:002013-10-31T09:00:05.090+11:00Mega paranormal book giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <a href="http://darksidedownunder.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dark Side Down Under</a> are having a huge ebook giveaway for Halloween! DarkSiders unite to bring you a <span style="color: red;"><b>mega pack of book giveaways</b></span>. It's seriously scary how good it is!<br />
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The mega prize pack includes:<br />
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Cheryse Durrant
- The Blood She Betrayed<br />
Maree Anderson
- Freaks of Greenfield High,
Ruby’s Dream,
Seer’s Promise<br />
Erica Hayes
- Demon Chained,
Cherry Kisses<br />
Shona Husk -
The Outcast Prince (print)<br />
Cathleen Ross
- Her Demon Prince<br />
Tania Walsh
- Cloaked in Fur<br />
Kim Cleary
- Path Unchosen<br />
Maggie Mundy -
Blood Scent,
Hidden Mortality<br />
Christina Phillips
- Bloodlust Denied<br />
Nicola E. Sheridan's
‘Magic’ series - Magical Gains, Magical Creations, Magical Redemption
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Giveaway starts October 31. Check it out! <br />
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<script src="//d12vno17mo87cx.cloudfront.net/embed/rafl/cptr.js"></script>Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-56576063546253886462013-08-17T04:19:00.001+10:002013-08-17T04:19:37.001+10:00Free stuff!! and a new Shadowfae book<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDIszybKuaaz6eVxpnNHHvjgTSw9kFQpvOzLzvsueLngOQv8f9rR2txUHGh6vwq_akFeMlTvmEjWAn1wNvPST0I049GJ_3boj0lDLKsvBRDkFT3Wb8qCopgWnWHJpB4vEEfXVWZW1jDo/s1600/Cherry+Kisses+Cover+preview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDIszybKuaaz6eVxpnNHHvjgTSw9kFQpvOzLzvsueLngOQv8f9rR2txUHGh6vwq_akFeMlTvmEjWAn1wNvPST0I049GJ_3boj0lDLKsvBRDkFT3Wb8qCopgWnWHJpB4vEEfXVWZW1jDo/s200/Cherry+Kisses+Cover+preview.jpg" width="133" /></a>Creeping out of deep lurkdom... to squee about a few freebies!<br />
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First of all, <b>CHERRY KISSES is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CZCXRRO" target="_blank">free on Kindle to US readers</a>.</b> Yay! It's also <a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/cherry-kisses" target="_blank">free on Kobo</a> right now.<br />
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I'm getting a great response from readers on Lena and Ethan's story. If you love witches, demons, sword-fighting and hot ninja guys? Go grab yourself a free one!<br />
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Also, without further sekrit squirrel ado... <span style="color: red;"><b>the new Shadowfae book is here! </b></span><br />
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Check out this brilliant cover art from <a href="http://www.ravven.com/" target="_blank">Ravven</a>. Isn't it gorgeous?<br />
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A snarky, sexy undead hero. A feisty djinni heroine. A jealous fairy best friend... oh, my. <span style="color: blue;"><b>This book is <i>juicy</i>.</b></span> And yes, before you ask - Kane is in it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310455-demon-chained" target="_blank">Check out the deets on Goodreads</a>, and add it to your TBR! I love love <i>love</i> this story, and I'm so happy to be able to bring it to you at last :D<br />
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You can already <a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/demon-chained" target="_blank">pre-order it from Kobo</a> (yay!) and other sites will soon follow. Release day will be <b>18 September.</b><br />
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For reviewers? <a href="https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/35133" target="_blank">It's up on NetGalley</a>, so flip me a request and I'll oblige.<br />
<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-88729750245053771662013-05-17T19:59:00.002+10:002013-05-17T19:59:52.985+10:00Cover art... and a free story!Check out my awesome new cover art!<br />
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From Ida at <a href="http://www.amygdaladesign.net/" target="_blank">Amygdala Designs</a>, for my Shadowfae novella CHERRY KISSES. Isn't it gorgeous?<br />
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<i>Sexy con-artist Lena Falco isn't a witch, not
technically. She uses her cache of stolen magic
tricks to seduce and bedazzle her marks. When
she's hired by a demon to steal a cursed magical
amulet from a monstrous tower in Hell, it must be
her lucky day.</i><br />
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<i>The prize? A single wish—whatever she wants. The catch? There's competition: Ethan Benford,
swordsman and enchanter, arrogant, maddeningly
sexy and the only incorruptible man in town.</i><br />
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<i>Lena's been burnt before by Ethan's easy charm,
and she vows he'll meet his match this time. But
is ultimate power worth betraying the only man who
truly believes in her? </i><br />
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It's so pretty! This 11K novella was previously published in the HEX APPEAL anthology from St Martin's Press, edited by PN Elrod. But this is my fancy new ebook edition. It's an urban fantasy, not a romance. Just so you know.<br />
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<i>Where can I get one?</i> I hear you ask. Well, that's the cool thing. Right now, I'm giving CHERRY KISSES away free! to my email newsletter subscribers. One day soon, I'll put her up for sale on Amazon, but for now... she's all yours!<br />
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You can <a href="http://mad.ly/signups/78508/join" target="_blank">sign up here</a>, or use the <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/contact.html" target="_blank">form on my website</a>. I hope you enjoy!Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-79403449279914492472013-05-03T09:00:00.000+10:002013-05-03T09:00:00.041+10:00Sci-fi book giveaway with Amanda BridgemanPlease welcome new Aussie sci-fi author <b style="color: red;">Amanda Bridgeman</b>! At the bottom, you can get a chance to comment to your heart's content and win her fab new release, AURORA: DARWIN. Doesn't it look awesome?!?<br />
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<i><b>A distress signal on the edge of inhabited space. A mission that is far outside normal parameters. Two very different people with one common goal – survival.</b></i><br />
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<i>When a distress signal is received from a black-ops space station on the edge of inhabited space, Captain Saul Harris of the UNF Aurora is called in from leave to respond. But the mission is not what it seems. Female members of the United National Forces have not been allowed to travel into the outer zones before, but Harris is ordered to take three new female recruits.</i><br />
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<i>For Corporal Carrie Welles, one of the Aurora’s new recruits, her first mission in space seems like a dream come true. Determined to achieve the success of her father before her, and suddenly thrust into a terrifying mission, she must work with her new captain and the strained Aurora crew to make it home alive.</i><br />
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<i>When the Aurora arrives at the station, Harris and Welles soon find themselves caught up in a desperate fight for survival. Station Darwin is not what they expected.</i><br />
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<i>The lights are off. But somebody is home.</i><br />
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<b>Brr... spooky!! Welcome, Amanda!</b></div>
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<b>Seeing as you're a new author on the scene, tell us about your path to publication. Did you consider self-publishing, or was a traditional publisher your ultimate aim?</b></div>
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I’d been working on my books (for the Aurora Series) for about five years before I had the confidence to seek publication. I always intended to approach a traditional publisher, mainly because I really didn’t know enough about the industry to go it alone. I also like the fact that being represented by a publishing house means they have confidence in me and my work, so it’s great to have that visible ‘backing’ in the industry. I think the expertise and contacts that a traditional publisher can provide is incredibly valuable and should never be dismissed. So far my experience with Momentum has been great, so I have no regrets.<br />
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Would I think about self-publishing in the future? Possibly. I certainly would’ve considered it as an option if the traditional publishing houses had rejected me. So, I guess never say never, but for now I’m all good.<br />
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<b>Tell us how you came up with the idea for AURORA: DARWIN. Did the characters come first, or the scenario?</b></div>
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I tend to come up with key scenes in my head and develop my stories from there. With Aurora: Darwin, the character of Carrie was first to develop, as I pictured the desperate scenes she’s involved in during the climax of the story, and then developed the rest from there. I knew that Carrie couldn’t face the ordeal on her own, she was going to need back-up, and that was how Captain Saul Harris came to be.<br />
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So, I start with the key scenes and the characters, then backfill their stories and dream up the backdrop/settings, all the while drawing inspiration from the sci-fi and action films I grew up watching. It’s like baking a cake – you mix together your favourite ingredients, and a splash of yourself in there, mix it all around, and that’s how your own little story is born.<br />
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<b>How would you describe the sub-genre: space opera? Military? Interstellar suspense? Do you think sub-genre matters to readers when they're choosing a book, or do they just want a good story?</b></div>
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I would describe Aurora: Darwin as a soft sci-fi thriller / military space opera. Ha ha! Too many sub-genres?<br />
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I aimed to write a book targeted at a unisex audience, that would hopefully appeal to sci-fi fans and non-sci-fi fans alike. In other words, it’s a mainstream sci-fi, not a niche. I think sub-genres help readers decide if this is the type of book for them. The book’s genre will class it for them, and the sub-genre will tell them what slant the book’s going to take. At the end of the day people want a good story, but I also think they want a ‘heads up’ as to what to expect from the novel.<br />
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<b>Sci-fi isn't all about space battles and death stars. The world-building in AURORA: DARWIN sounds intriguing – kind of like <i>Aliens </i>meets <i>Riddick</i> with a bit of spooky <i>Event Horizon</i> thrown in. Tell us about your world: what makes it stand out from others?</b></div>
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I think you’ve described it very well, actually! A:D is set in the future, but not eons away - it’s the near future, so there is a lot of familiarity to life nowadays. I’ve actually tried to make it as realistic a sci-fi as I could, so people don’t really need to stretch their imaginations too far to try and grasp what I’m trying to say.<br />
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The world-building elements of the military and space colonisation are important to provide that backdrop to the story, but the key focus of A:D are the characters and the plot. So hopefully it will stand out as the character-driven story, luring in potential readers that wouldn’t normally go for a sci-fi, yet at the same time, keeping the sci-fi fans happy.<br />
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<b>The cover copy for AURORA:DARWIN sounds like you have more than one 'main' character. Were their stories difficult to handle? Did you use multiple points of view?</b></div>
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Yep, I always wanted two characters – one male pov, one female pov, as I always intended to write a unisex book. I didn’t find it too hard writing the Saul Harris character, as I have three older ‘blokey’ brothers and grew up watching ‘boys’ films, so I like to think I’ve been well-trained in the male action hero. I did use the occasional female phrase/word in his speech in earlier versions, but my brother (one of my beta readers) promptly picked me up on that. I basically just applied my tomboy side to Harris and my feminine/girly side to Carrie. Hopefully it worked!<br />
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<b>Heroines in sf. Kick-ass is great, but as a reader I like to see other sides to the heroine, too. Tell us about your heroine, Corporal Carrie Welles: what are her strengths and weaknesses?</b></div>
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Carrie Welles is a bit of a loner. She’s a perfectionist, who’s driven, stubborn, fiery and determined to succeed. She’s somewhat estranged from her father, and is ultimately trying to follow in his footsteps to prove herself to him. So, being a sharp-shooter in the military, she has that tough element about her, but her emotional side is actually quite fragile (not as tough as she makes it out to be). She tries hard not to wear her heart on her sleeve, but at the end of the day she is only human, and she needs to learn that it’s ok to be weak sometimes. <br />
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There may be….*she smiles coyly*. For someone as career driven as Carrie, there’d be nothing quite like falling for a guy to side-swipe you! For me, mixing romance and action can be a tricky fine line. Too much romance and you turn the male readers off, not enough romance and the female readers are left unsatisfied.<br />
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Again, I’ve gone for trying to keep things as real as possible. When you’re in a world of a shit-storm, the last thing you’re thinking about is shagging someone. But hey, if you make it through alive, that’s a different story… *winks*.<br />
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<b>Are you planning to write more books featuring these characters or their world? </b></div>
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Definitely! This is the first book in a series, and hopefully book 2, tentatively titled Aurora: Pegasus will be out by year end!<br />
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<b>You have a cool <a href="http://pinterest.com/ayjay76/" target="_blank">Pinterest page</a>, with images related to AURORA: DARWIN. (Go on, everyone, go look. It's really cool!) Tell us how that came about: did you use these images as inspiration while writing, or collect them afterwards?</b></div>
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I actually collected these images afterwards! I’ve always been a photography fan, so when I stumbled across Pinterest I just started collecting nice images. But then I began gathering the world-building/inspirational images for sci-fi, fantasy and horror, etc. As they say, a picture tells a thousand words, so by collecting these images I’m drawing inspiration for future works.<br />
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I remember doing writing exercises at Uni whereby you’d be given a picture/s and then have to construct a story based on that images/s. They were my favourite exercises to do! From one picture you can develop a character, a setting, a plot, you name it. It all comes down to your imagination. But even your imagination needs to be jump-started from somewhere – so why not a cool picture?<br />
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<b>What's next for you? Any more stories in the works?</b></div>
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I’ve got another four manuscripts ready for the editing process, and I’m dying to start work on some more! As far as I’m concerned, this is only the beginning. Fingers crossed you’ll be reading a lot more of me in the future!<br />
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<b>We hope so too! Amanda's links:</b></div>
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Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/AmandaBridgemanAuthor">http://www.facebook.com/AmandaBridgemanAuthor</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/AmandaBridgema1">http://www.twitter.com/AmandaBridgema1</a><br />
Pinterest: <a href="http://pinterest.com/ayjay76">http://pinterest.com/ayjay76</a><br />
Website: <a href="http://amandabridgeman.com.au/" target="_blank">http://amandabridgeman.com.au</a><br />
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Right-y-o! <b style="color: red;">Want to win an .epub or .mobi copy of AURORA: DARWIN?</b> You bet. Just leave a comment, and answer this question:<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">You're a spaceship crew member. Would you rather be on the </span><i style="color: blue;">Enterprise D</i><span style="color: blue;"> (ST:TNG), the </span><i style="color: blue;">Serenity</i><span style="color: blue;"> (Firefly) or the Battlestar </span><i style="color: blue;">Galactica</i><span style="color: blue;"> (BSG)? And why?**</span></b><br />
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**Special consideration if your answer has nothing to do with Captain Mal's tight pants. This is a family blog, people!<br />
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<u>For extra entries:</u> follow/Like/friend Amanda on FB, Twitter or Pinterest (links above) and let us know in your comment. One extra entry each. <br />
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Giveaway is international and will run until Tues 7 May. Go to it!!Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-58378673361281770082013-03-20T06:22:00.000+11:002013-03-20T06:22:01.329+11:00More Kindle Fire linky contesty giveaway stuffJust returned from a lovely weekend in the sunny yet chilly city of Prague, Czech Republic. It's very pretty there. Nice to have a couple of days off!<br />
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Meanwhile, the blog tour continues! Visit each stop and leave your Rafflecopter mark for a chance to win a Kindle Fire. And, y'know. Read cool stuff about ME and MY BOOK :)<br />
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The contest is fun! It's free! It makes you better in bed... well, I can't absolutely guarantee that, but hey, there's a chance. Reading about hot angels certainly can't hurt.<br />
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<a href="http://frankieblooding.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/interview-erica-hayes-who-lives-by-hogwarts/" target="_blank">Frankie Blooding's Bookshelf,</a> wherein I confirm that yes, <b style="color: red;">I do live near Hogwarts</b>.<br />
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And, an <a href="http://frankieblooding.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/review-redemption/" target="_blank">awesome review</a> of REDEMPTION by Frankie Blooding herself. Yay!<br />
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<a href="http://bibliophilesthoughtsonbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/tour-redemption-by-erica-hayes-guest.html" target="_blank">Bibliophile's Thoughts on Books</a>, wherein we discuss <b style="color: blue;">whether paranormal is dead</b>. Snigger. Riiight.<br />
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<a href="http://empyreanedge.com/archives/9056" target="_blank">Mother/Gamer/Writer</a>, whose reviewer <b style="color: magenta;">loved this book so much she nearly had a heart attack</b>. Seriously. You have to read this review to understand the health risks involved.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tyngasreviews.com/2013/03/redemption-blog-tour-guest-post-by.html" target="_blank">Tynga's Reviews</a>, where we discuss how to stage your very own apocalypse, and <b style="color: purple;">the best methods for ensuring world domination</b>.<br />
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More links in the next few days, so get your clicky on :)<br />
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<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-6128921518779803912013-03-14T08:21:00.000+11:002013-03-14T08:21:05.594+11:00More linky giveaway fun...First: I'm <b>giving away an ebook of REVELATION</b> at <a href="http://www.rwofthea.com/2013/03/stopping-end-before-it-ends.html" target="_blank">Romance Writers of the Apocalypse</a>. Zombies, demons, hot angel warriors. You know you want one. It's open until Friday night. <br />
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Now, some <b style="color: magenta;">more Kindle Fire giveaway goodness!!</b> You know the drill. Here are the latest links in my tour:<br />
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<a href="http://suzanne-johnson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/redemption-and-surviving-apocalypse.html" target="_blank">Preternatura</a>, wherein we discuss what you'll need in your apocalypse go-bag, should you be <b style="color: red;">sucked into some weird meta-fiction universe</b> where you're the heroine of my book. Hey, don't laugh. It could happen.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kaydeeroyal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/erica-hayes-redemption-fallen-angels.html" target="_blank">Kay Dee Royal's blog</a>, with an interview about <b style="color: orange;">how bad-ass my characters are</b>.<br />
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<a href="http://wowfromthescarfprincess.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/book-tour-for-redemption-by-erica-hayes.html" target="_blank">Words of Wisdom from the Scarf Princess</a>. With a <b style="color: purple;">really smexy excerpt</b>, and an A review! Brilliant! Thanks :)<br />
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<b>Also, some more links, though they're not part of the giveaway:</b><br />
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My interview at <a href="http://thereadingcafe.com/catching-up-with-erica-hayes" target="_blank">The Reading Cafe</a>. What am I up to next, writing-wise? Come and see!<br />
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<span style="color: black;">My post on </span><b style="color: blue;">How to Build Your Very Own Paranormal Romance Series</b>, at <a href="http://star-crossedromance.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/guest-erica-hayes.html" target="_blank">Star-Crossed Romance</a>. Step One: choose your posse of hot supernatural dudes.Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-16112222399222446042013-03-12T05:51:00.002+11:002013-03-12T05:51:48.210+11:00You know you want to win an ereader...More stops on my REDEMPTION blog tour of coolness. You can win a Kindle Fire! You know you want one. Go check out these links, and rafflecopter to your sweet little heart's content :D<br />
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(Yes, 'to rafflecopter' is a verb. I'm an author. I'm allowed to re-purpose words. Shut up.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.romancebookjunkies.com/2013/03/book-spotlight-redemption-by-erica-hayes.html" target="_blank">Romance Book Junkies</a><br />
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<a href="http://the-avidreader.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/blog-tour-redemption-by-erica-hayes.html" target="_blank">The Avid Reader</a>, in which I blog about hot supernatural dudes, and there is a cool review<br />
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<a href="http://booksbooksthemagicalfruit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/author-interview-redemption-seven-signs.html" target="_blank">Books, Books the Magical Fruit</a>, in which I answer the big questions, such as Which is the most important section of the bookstore? and What is the best book ever?<br />
<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-24955851095792311882013-03-09T05:25:00.001+11:002013-03-09T05:25:19.551+11:00Kindle Fire giveaway goodness...This month, I'm doing a blog tour for REDEMPTION, and the tour-wide giveaway is a <b style="color: red;">Kindle Fire!</b><br />
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Awesome! You know you want one of those... and if you've already got one, or you don't live in a Fire-friendly country, the prize is an equivalent gift card. Yes indeedy.<br />
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So how do you enter to win one of these fabulous items? You visit my blog tour links, of course. Check out the posts, and get your Rafflecopter on. Easy? Sure it is.<br />
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You can get more entries at each stop. Here are the links that are active so far:<br />
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<a href="http://www.queenofallshereads.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/virtual-book-tour-giveaway-redemption.html" target="_blank">Queen of All She Reads</a> including a cool 4/5 review!<br />
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<a href="http://magluvsya03.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/revelation-blog-tour-w-giveaway-2/" target="_blank">Happy Tales and Tails</a> with an interview and another cool 4.5/5 review, which includes the word 'creeptastic' :)<br />
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<a href="http://victoriadanann.me/2013/03/05/redemption-feature-giveaway/" target="_blank">Victoria Danann</a><br />
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<a href="http://cloeyk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/erica-hayes.html" target="_blank">Cloey's Book Reviews</a><br />
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<a href="http://alliwantandmore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/tour-wide-giveaway-promo-redemption-by.html" target="_blank">All I Want and More</a> with an interview<br />
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<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-17033512865203155732013-03-05T23:30:00.000+11:002013-03-05T23:30:05.037+11:00REDEMPTION release day!Yay! Release day! REDEMPTION (Seven Signs #2) is out in the wild today. Hot paranormal romance with fallen angels. Behold!<br />
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I'm doing a bit of a blog tour -- so check out my <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ericahayes" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ericahayes.author" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> for links later this week. You'll have the chance to win a Kindle Fire, so don't miss it!<br />
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I hope you love this book as much as I do. Japheth is hot. He's angry. He's a little crazy. And Rose is a tough chick with a vulnerable core. It has a demon with a costume fetish. It has hungry vampire hordes. The sky will rain fire at some point. What more do you need?<br />
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You can read the first couple of chapters for free <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/redemption-excerpt.html" target="_blank">on my website</a>.<br />
If you live in the US, you can download the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Seven-Signs-Book-2/dp/0425258386" target="_blank">Kindle sample</a>.<br />
And hell, you can even buy it! Paperback and ebook.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0425258386" target="_blank">Amazon</a> ~ <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/redemption-erica-hayes/1112719804" target="_blank">B&N</a> ~ <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Redemption-Erica-Hayes/9780425258385" target="_blank">BD</a> <br />
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What's it about, you say? I'm so pleased you asked: <br />
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<b><i>Japheth the Tainted is on the hunt for a mysterious demon vampire.
But meeting her face-to-face might disarm his warrior spirit—and spark
an unquenchable passion with apocalyptic consequences.</i></b><br />
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As a fallen angel, Japheth is determined to make his way back to heaven
by staying pure and slaying hellspawn. With a new scourge of vampires
unleashed by a blood-drinking demon, the Prince of Thirst, there’s
plenty to be done. But Japheth is after one vampire in particular—the
one they call the Angel Slayer.<br />
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Rose Harley never wanted to be a vampire, but the Prince of Thirst can
turn even the kindest soul into a soldier of hell. Feeling abandoned by
God, she stalks the West Village taking revenge on his angels—until she
meets her match.<br />
<br />When Japheth and Rose encounter each other, the battle is fierce and
charged with desire. But when they discover a common enemy—the Prince of
Thirst himself—they form a dangerous alliance that could either cost
them their eternal lives, or spark a love more powerful than heaven or
hell. Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-14178039013426786712013-03-03T23:44:00.000+11:002013-03-03T23:44:08.768+11:00Excerpts and a deleted scene...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRhsvYLmvKy_Fzw5PHGD0tfLS7WyBrB7Gba5_AZ7OEcs38WRImdzbJeCd3ay7wxmqjuWku8rdVIf5EvRJwq9hL8lLsRKiJgs9_hMo_6E3qL16FF2d9yELrGexqgZtr5oNUgrvN08gsfc/s1600/Redemption_Cover+Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRhsvYLmvKy_Fzw5PHGD0tfLS7WyBrB7Gba5_AZ7OEcs38WRImdzbJeCd3ay7wxmqjuWku8rdVIf5EvRJwq9hL8lLsRKiJgs9_hMo_6E3qL16FF2d9yELrGexqgZtr5oNUgrvN08gsfc/s200/Redemption_Cover+Image.jpg" width="123" /></a><b><span style="color: red;">New stuff on my website!</span></b> Yes, it's that time of year again. Another book out (did I mention that REDEMPTION releases on Tuesday?) means more website updates.<br />
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And a blog tour! I'll be kicking off early this week, and you'll have a
chance to <b style="color: magenta;">win a Kindle Fire</b> or equivalent gift card. So keep an eye out
on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ericahayes.author" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a> or <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ericahayes" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a> for details.<br />
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In the meantime: new website stuff!<br />
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There's some coolness about the <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/sevensigns.html" target="_blank">background to my Seven Signs series</a>, and some character profiles on my <b style="color: blue;">fallen angels</b>, <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/taintedhost.html" target="_blank">the Tainted Host</a>.<br />
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There's the <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/redemption-excerpt.html" target="_blank">first 2 (and a bit) chapters of REDEMPTION</a>, my brand new book. Wherein my hero and heroine meet, sparks fly, and they <b style="color: orange;">try to kill each other</b>. <br />
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And, a short <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/revelation-deleted.html" target="_blank">deleted scene from REVELATION</a>. I rarely do deleted scenes, because usually there aren't any. So this is a special treat :) yay! It <b><span style="color: red;">may or may not involve an angel in bed</span></b>. You've been warned.<br />
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Last but not least: some character profiles and world info <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/dragonfly-world.html" target="_blank">about my sci-fi book DRAGONFLY.</a> Where did the Empire come from? Who are these crazy rebels, and what's their beef? And what the hell is Spider's problem, anyway?<br />
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It's fun to share some behind-the-scenes details. Hope you enjoy! <br />
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<br />Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-86090794858698100962013-02-25T23:28:00.001+11:002013-02-25T23:28:27.385+11:00Location, location... blog tour giveaway goodness...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1euAEa7JqHr_UpHLKDPmEMGJM1IbBkLyyPSeF8xsg91Can1pGTsb5804ox7cKIcfXk_SiO9l4LnMIs5OJkkwfKHfq9DPQcN7hhrBp7GtiO6FvT12-7X9hxywVFhSe5KC4Nin4ysBQvHE/s1600/WSP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1euAEa7JqHr_UpHLKDPmEMGJM1IbBkLyyPSeF8xsg91Can1pGTsb5804ox7cKIcfXk_SiO9l4LnMIs5OJkkwfKHfq9DPQcN7hhrBp7GtiO6FvT12-7X9hxywVFhSe5KC4Nin4ysBQvHE/s200/WSP.jpg" width="200" /></a>How do you write a book set in New York City?<br />
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You go there, of course! Come share my NYC experience at <a href="http://ramblingsfromthischick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/guest-post-with-author-erica-hayes-and.html" target="_blank">Ramblings From This Chick</a>, and don't forget to enter the giveaway!<br />
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What giveaway, you ask? Let me remind you. All over my blog tour, you can win:<br />
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<b>A signed set of Shadowfae books (erotic paranormal)</b></div>
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<b>A $25 gift card (yay!)</b></div>
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<b style="color: red;">2 Kindle copies of my vampire romance HUNTER'S BLOOD</b></div>
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<a href="http://nightskydarkstar.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/book-tour-revelation-by-erica-hayes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Books and Other Spells (interview)</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://janieraeldridge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/promotional-spotlight-giveaway.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Books and Beauty</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://whatthecatread.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/willows-review-of-revelation-by-erica-hayes/" target="_blank">What the Cat Read (review)</a> (the cat gives it 4 out of 5 paws!)</span></div>
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<a href="http://victoriadanann.me/2013/01/30/revelation-feature-giveaway/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Victoria Danaan</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://queenofallshereads.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/virtual-book-tour-giveaway-revelation.html" target="_blank">Queen of All She Reads giveaway</a> and <a href="http://queenofallshereads.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-revelation-seven-signs-book.html" target="_blank">review </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://lauriethoughts-reviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/revelation-by-erica-hayes-character.html" target="_blank">Laurie's Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews</a> (character interview, ha ha...)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.immortylcafe.com/2013/02/bewitching-book-tours-chatting-with.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Immortality and Beyond (interview)</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://simplyinfatuated.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/giveaway-revelation-the-seven-signs-1-by-erica-hayes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Simply Infatuated</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://littlereadridinghood.com/book-tour-revelation/" target="_blank">Little Read Riding Hood</a> (review and giveaway) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://magluvsya03.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/revelation-blog-tour-w-giveaway/" target="_blank">Happy Tails and Tales</a> (review and giveaway)</span></div>
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<a href="http://stormgoddessbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/spotlight-on-revelation.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Storm Goddess</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://melissastevens.us/2013/02/22/guest-author-erica-hayes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Melissa Stevens</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://ramblingsfromthischick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/guest-post-with-author-erica-hayes-and.html" target="_blank">Ramblings from This Chick </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And there's more to come! Oh, yes. You haven't nearly shut me up about my awesome series yet. Let me show off my covers. May I? Thank you.</span></div>
Erica Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450003467988908406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894909384837223.post-15064067879180702122013-02-23T21:50:00.001+11:002013-02-23T21:50:32.291+11:00New release goodness<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRhsvYLmvKy_Fzw5PHGD0tfLS7WyBrB7Gba5_AZ7OEcs38WRImdzbJeCd3ay7wxmqjuWku8rdVIf5EvRJwq9hL8lLsRKiJgs9_hMo_6E3qL16FF2d9yELrGexqgZtr5oNUgrvN08gsfc/s1600/Redemption_Cover+Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRhsvYLmvKy_Fzw5PHGD0tfLS7WyBrB7Gba5_AZ7OEcs38WRImdzbJeCd3ay7wxmqjuWku8rdVIf5EvRJwq9hL8lLsRKiJgs9_hMo_6E3qL16FF2d9yELrGexqgZtr5oNUgrvN08gsfc/s320/Redemption_Cover+Image.jpg" width="198" /></a>I have a new book coming out in ten days! Yay!<br />
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Yep, it's REDEMPTION, Seven Signs book #2. <br />
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(In the meantime, you can get <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revelation-A-Novel-Seven-Signs/dp/0425258378" target="_blank">book #1 (REVELATION) from Amazon at 40% off!</a> Cool!)<br />
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So. Behold this fantastic evilsexy cover. Isn't it crazy? I <i>adore</i> those wings...<br />
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<b><i>Japheth the Tainted is on the hunt for a mysterious demon vampire. But meeting her face-to-face might disarm his warrior spirit—and spark an unquenchable passion with apocalyptic consequences.</i></b><br />
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As a fallen angel, Japheth is determined to make his way back to heaven by staying pure and slaying hellspawn. With a new scourge of vampires unleashed by a blood-drinking demon, the Prince of Thirst, there’s plenty to be done. But Japheth is after one vampire in particular—the one they call the Angel Slayer.<br />
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Rose Harley never wanted to be a vampire, but the Prince of Thirst can turn even the kindest soul into a soldier of hell. Feeling abandoned by God, she stalks the West Village taking revenge on his angels—until she meets her match.<br />
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When Japheth and Rose encounter each other, the battle is fierce and charged with desire. But when they discover a common enemy—the Prince of Thirst himself—they form a dangerous alliance that could either cost them their eternal lives, or spark a love more powerful than heaven or hell.
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Is this awesome or what? I have no words for much I love this book. And Japheth. I had an excellent time with him.<br />
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You can check out the <a href="http://www.ericahayes.net/sevensigns.html" target="_blank">first couple of chapters for free at my website.</a> You can <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13163308-redemption" target="_blank">add it to your shelf on Goodreads</a>.<br />
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And to celebrate, I'm running a Goodreads giveaway. Of course you want one, right? So go check it out!<br />
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by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2922003.Erica_Hayes" style="text-decoration: none;">Erica Hayes</a>
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Giveaway ends March 03, 2013.
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See the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/45299" style="text-decoration: none;">giveaway details</a>
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