Read for Charity! & Author Overload With Lynne Silver

Title: Desperate Match
Author: Lynne Silver
Series: Coded for Love #5
Genre: Sci/Fi Romance
Publisher: Self
Release Date: Mar 27 2014
Synopsis:

A woman on the run…

Abused wife, Jill Thompson knows she has to get out of her bad marriage. Like yesterday. With no money, no job and no friends, this small town girl can’t find a safe harbor. But when she sees a news report that The Program, a US military base, is seeking women to be matches for their genetically enhanced soldiers, she sees her opportunity. If she is lucky enough to be a match, her snake-mean husband, Jack, won’t be able to find or hurt her ever again.

A man looking for acceptance…

Rowan Blacker is the only soldier of his cohort to request a breed match. He’s the newest soldier on campus and thanks to his genetic defect, he feels like an outcast. Matching and breeding with a woman will help him fit in with the team. Unfortunately Rowan’s match is nothing like the sexy, fun woman he was hoping to romance. The woman they claim is his perfect DNA match, is a scared shell of a woman carrying a trunkful of emotional baggage. Against their better judgment, they move in together and as Jill shakes off the shackles of abuse, their attraction ignites.

Read for Charity!

For this week only (Week of March 31-April 6) 50% of Lynne's sales revenue from Desperate Match will be donated to House of Ruth. “House of Ruth helps women, children and families in greatest need and with very limited resources build safe, stable lives and achieve their highest potential. At House of Ruth, women, children and families heal from lifetimes of traumatic abuse.”

Sounds like just the kind of place Jill from Desperate Match needed. And so for all the women like Jill, 50% of all the  proceeds from sales of Desperate Match will go to House of Ruth.

Please help spread the word.

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Find an Excerpt from Desperate Match HERE

Author Overload
with
Lynne Silver
It’s been a good two weeks in Romancelandia. Some big name authors had book releases. I had a book release too, and I know I should probably pimp my own book, but I’m such a fan girl of these authors, I can’t resist the temptation to squee over their books. I promise I’ll get to mine at the end.
Without further ado, here are the awesome books that came out recently:
1. Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins- I finished this on day one. I’m a fan of Kristan, both personally and professionally. I reread Maggie & Malone’s story at least once every three months. I’m pleased to report I adored Colleen and Lucas from this book. Colleen had all the sass typical of Higgan’s heroines, and the book had heart.
2. Three Weeks with Lady X by Eloisa James- I’ll admit it, the title made me nervous. I thought the premise would be one big plot device. It wasn't. I should’ve known to trust Eloise. She writes such intelligent romance. I loved how it incorporated reality TV home design shows with the love story. And I loved, loved revisiting Villiers & Eleanor. Plus Thorn, sigh… Can’t wait for Vander’s story.
3. Four Friends by Robyn Carr- I haven’t read this one yet. But of course, anything by Carr is an auto-buy for me.
4. The King by JR Ward- At the time I’m writing this blog post, I haven’t read the book yet. It comes out April 1. I assume by the time you’re reading this on April 2 or 3, I’ll have finished the book. Ward is that addictive. Can we say Crahck?
5. Desperate Match by Lynne Silver (Yes, me) I can’t really give an honest review of the book. I wrote the sucker. It rocks. Just go buy it, trust me. And 50% of all sales THIS WEEK ONLY will go to House of Ruth, an organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic abuse.

Interview with Meglena Ivanova Author of The Legend of the Moonstone

Title: The Legend of the Moonstone
Author: Meglena Ivanova
Series: Sacred Stones Trilogy
Genre: SciFi /Fantasy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date: Aug 8 2013
Synopsis:

When Daniel first met Professor Stransky,
he was only fifteen. Daniel was amazed by everything in the hall. All gems and minerals the Professor had exhibited behind the glass panes seemed to bewitch him, and the story of the Moonstone changed his life and philosophy thoroughly. What happened the day they met, predestined events that would have happened anyway, but this was the best way to start them.
After his encounter with the Professor, Daniel improved his results and soon was admitted to the University where Stransky taught. It had been several years since the meeting between the mysterious Professor and the boy with extraordinary power. Some very important moments of this meeting were engraved in the memories of both of them, but they seemed to be replaced by others, required by the present. When they met again, the thought of these past memories lurked in their minds as if this meeting had not been fully completed and that gave them no peace day or night. For a long time none of them had remembered their first encounter. While Professor Stransky was telling the legend of the Moonstone, however, something had broken in both of them and they had started tying up the events of their lives that had led to this current moment when the story of The Moonstone was perceived as fact rather than fiction.

Book Blitz Spark by Alicia Michaels

Title: Spark
Author:: Alicia Michaels
Series: The Bionics Series (#4)
Genre: Sci/Fi / Dystopian
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
Blurb/Synopsis:

Most nineteen year-old girls are thinking about college, stretching the wings of newfound adulthood, and boys. Well, I’ll probably never go to college, and all my dreams of the future are gone. I’ve been an adult for much longer than I should have been, and my girlhood was stolen the minute the North Koreans dropped their nukes over the United States. As for boys … well, that’s pretty much out of the question now, too. My love life is too messy to even talk about.
I have nothing.
Except, maybe, my cause, my mission, The Resistance. It is the hope I have to cling to, I am counting on it to pave the way to my future. As things heat up and the terrorist sect known as The Rejects make themselves known opponents of society in this war, the choice to be on the side of good is harder than ever. My friends are broken; Olivia is a shell of her former self and Jenica is barely hanging on. Dax and Gage … well, we’re not talking about my love life, remember?
The Rejects, the government, President Drummond; they are pressing in on us from all sides, and the weight is tremendous. Still, when given the choice to crumble or stand, I’d rather stand. Times are dark, but we are here, a rebellion, a whisper in the dark, a spark that lights the flames of change.

Ever since she first read books like Chronicles of Narnia or Goosebumps, Alicia has been a lover of mind-bending fiction. Wherever imagination takes her, she is more than happy to call that place her home. The mother of two and wife to an Army sergeant loves chocolate, coffee, and of course good books. When not writing, you can usually find her with her nose in a book, shopping for shoes and fabulous jewelry, or spending time with her loving family.

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Evanescent by Carlyle Labuschagne Release Day Blitz

Title: Evanescent 

Author: Carlyle Labuschagne

Series: A Broken Novel (#2)

Genre: SciFi/YA/Dystopian

Publisher: Sensational Publications

Release Date: Nov 16 2013

Editions/Formats It Will Be Available In: eBook & Print

Blurb/Synopsis: 

Ava knows much more, and feels much more than she is allowed to. When she starts questioning her origins and the destruction of Earth, things go horribly wrong for her. She is saved by a Minoan boy from an attempted kidnapping on her life – the perpetrators are evil Zulus and their dark ancient magic. Humans and Minoans are forbidden to interact with each other, and as she is taken back to their village she finds out why – they know of her, her kind and her destiny to save a dying race. Ava must rid them from the Council’s ruling and free the galaxy of The Shadow. Her destiny is to rise above the fall, because within her soul is the key to an archaic weapon that has been missing in the mix of a genetic code since the time of the ancients. As the prophecy unfolds she learns of her bloodline – a bloodline that makes her less human than she could ever have imagined. She alone has the power to destroy or save, but the mind-shift is a horrible thing. Ava will become what she hates to save the ones she loves. Beaten, poisoned, possessed and betrayed by her own emotions, she has no choice but to rise above it all… for that is her Destiny.

Prologue

All my life, I had searched for something, something I thought I ought to be. I felt like I was living someone else’s life, waiting for the awakening of my own. I felt like an empty shell burning for life. That was, until the day I lay dying in the prince’s chambers. I could no longer feel the pain from the tear in my gut. The only sensation left was a hollowed-out feeling that I had made a huge mistake in assuming that taking my own life, would have stopped the ancestors’ spirit from raging out. I had given up. I didn’t want to see myself killing the ones I loved. I was the Chosen one, but I threw it all away for what I thought would save a life. Could you end a life to save a life? I did, and I have regretted it ever since. I realized then that things like me are not meant to exist. What had been missing my whole life? It was I. To find myself, I had to lose myself in the worst possible way. The consequences of my actions became the legend of The Broken.

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Carlyle Labuschagne is a South African Debut Author working her way into the hearts of international readers with her First Young Adult Dystopian Novel “The Broken Destiny. She is not only an author but works as a Sales Rep and Marketing Manager by day. She holds a diploma in creative writing through the writing school at College SA. Loves to swim, fights for the trees, food lover who is driven by her passion for life. Carlyle writes for IU e-magazine India, an inspirational non-profit magazine that aims at inspiring the world through words. The drive behind her author career is healing through words. Carlyle is also the founder of the first annual book drive – Help build a library in Africa project.  “My goal as an Author is to touch people’s lives and help others love their differences and one another.”

A firm believer in - YA Saves!

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Review Shattered Skies: Night Waves by Heather Linn

Title: Shattered Skies: Night Waves
Author: Heather Linn
Series: Shattered Skies Series (#2)
Genre: SciFi/Horror/Fantasy
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: Mar 18 2013

Catalina, or “Cat” as her friends and enemies both lovingly and mockingly call her, continues her quest to free the human race from their dark Vampiric overlords. Confused by love, driven by hate, Cat finds out that the lines of good and evil aren’t as black and white as they once were, but deep and foreboding shades of gray. Just as she has begun to make peace with all of the changes her life has went through, fate shakes things up again. Her closest allies aren’t what they seem, while those who were once enemies may uncover the salvation of human race.  This time will Cat land on her feet or fall to the will to those she thought she could trust. Will the lies that are uncovered turn her life inside out or will the truth be more then she can bear.  As Cat is torn from her reality can she keep from being consumed by the night waves?

Cover Reveal When Night Falls by Airicka Phoenix

Title: When Night Falls 

Author: Airicka Phoenix

Genre: Young Adult Sci-Fi, Thriller w/ Strong Elements of Romance

Publisher: Fire & Ash Publishing

Release date: Dec 2013

Warnings: Language and Sexual Content

Formats: eBook & Paperback

The Earth as we know it no longer exists. Humanity has destroyed itself and with it any chance we may have had of returning. 

What had started as a six month voyage through the stars becomes a nightmare when the passengers are stranded in space without hope. With Earth gone, the crew and passengers of The Dawn Light are left wandering the galaxy in search of a new planet. After years of searching, one is found, but no one is prepared for the terror that takes claim of the Galaxy Cruiser when one by one the people begin to turn, mutating into flesh eating monsters. 

For Scarlett, Hunter and Rolf, this means being trapped in a sardine can full of piranhas. Their only hope... to get the hell out before they’re next, but someone on the ship wants to be the only survivor to reach the new planet and will do anything to stop them. But just how far are they willing to go?

Airicka Phoenix is the best-selling author of the Touch Series with short stories in Whispered Beginnings: A Clever Fiction Anthology and Midnight Surrender Anthology. When she's not hammering away at the

keyboard, she can be found banishing pirates or crawling through the attic looking for lost treasure with her kids. She loves baking, gardening and reading. She also likes to travel and take pictures of everything she comes across. When asked, Airicka describes herself as a sarcastic basket case that has an unhealthy addiction to chocolate, old movies and really bad jokes. She loves to laugh, make friends and write. If she could have one wish granted, it would be to spend one day as a fly-on-the-wall inside Stephen King's mind. If she could have two wishes granted, she would ask for a castle dedicated entirely to her overwhelming collection of books. For more about Airicka, also on how to win giveaways, read author interviews and reviews, visit her website at: http://airickaphoenix.com/Author

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Review Heated Match by Lynne Silver

Title:Heated Match
Author: Lynne Silver
Series: Coded for Love (#1)
Genre: Science Fiction/Romance/Erotic
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Release Date: June 22 2013


A lead byline and a cover story—that’s what journalist Loren Stanton wants most. Until she meets genetically enhanced soldier Adam Blacker. Team leader of a top-secret covert ops group, Adam never wanted to search for his genetic match, but whenever he gets close to Loren, things turn hot quickly, making him forget every reason he had for retaining his bachelor status. After a scorching night together, neither doubts they’re connected at a DNA-deep level, although both fear the high stakes of what it means to be together.
Loren gives Adam two weeks to prove he’s bred for more than war. He must convince her that he’s also coded for love.

Giveaway & Interview Oddities & Entities by Roland Allnach

Title: Oddities & Entities
Author: Roland Allnach
Genre: Sci Fi
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press
Release Date: Mar 2012


Oddities & Entities is a surreal, provocative anthology of six tales within the supernatural/ paranormal/horror genres, exploring a definition of life beyond the fragile vessel of the human body. The stories are: ‘Boneview’, in which a young woman struggles to balance her ability to see through people with the presence of a supernatural creature in her life; ‘Shift/Change’, inwhich a hospital worker struggles to regain his memory as he is confronted by a series of desperate people; ‘My Other Me’, inwhich a lonely college student finds himself displaced from his body by his alter ego; ‘Gray’, in which a frustrated man is stunned to discover a little creature has been living in his head; ‘Elmer Phelps’, in which a brother and sister find themselves linked in a strange reality by a bat bite in their youth; and lastly, ‘Appendage’, in which a cynical mercenary is hired by his son to protect a research lab on the verge of a stunning discovery.

Guest Post Heated Match by Lynne Silver

Title:Heated Match
Author: Lynne Silver
Series: Coded for Love (#1)
Genre: Science Fiction/Romance/Erotic
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Release Date: June 22 2013


A lead byline and a cover story—that’s what journalist Loren Stanton wants most. Until she meets genetically enhanced soldier Adam Blacker. Team leader of a top-secret covert ops group, Adam never wanted to search for his genetic match, but whenever he gets close to Loren, things turn hot quickly, making him forget every reason he had for retaining his bachelor status. After a scorching night together, neither doubts they’re connected at a DNA-deep level, although both fear the high stakes of what it means to be together.
Loren gives Adam two weeks to prove he’s bred for more than war. He must convince her that he’s also coded for love.

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Giveaway and Guest Post The Remnant by Roland Allnach

Title: Remnant
Author: Roland Allnach
Genre: Sci Fi
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press
Release Date: November 11 2010


A stirring, thought provoking anthology of three novellas within the speculative/science fiction genres. The stories are linked in theme by characters seeking self- truth, redemption, and their moral center.   The novellas, in order ofappearance, are: “All the Fallen Angels”, in which a convicted war criminal attempts to make peace with his past; “Enemy, I Know You Not”, in which a military officer that was captured and tortured tries to find his loyalty in an abyss of suspected betrayals; and “Remnant”, in which the survivor of a global pandemic is confronted with the prospect of making peace with hismemories when other survivors attempt to bring him back from self-imposed isolation.

Spotlight Shattered Skies: Beginning's End by Heather Linn

Title: Shattered Skies: Beginning's End
Author: Heather Linn
Series: Shattered Skies
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Vampires
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: Mar 2010




Shattered Skies, Beginning’s End, is a dramatic story of twisted killings and love and hate that takes place within a horrific world where alien vampires have taken over the earth and made humans their slaves. The vampires have created a new genetic race, the Dominus, breeding a scary blood-drinking race of human and vampire that prey off the humans that are left. People are relegated to the classes of slaves, food and mates.

This is a world where sex kills and a rogue group of humans kills as many of the Dominus as they can by bedding them. This warrior group is led by mysterious doctor who has raised the 16 members of the group since infancy, hidden away in an underground bunker.

The plot twists and turns as the heroine, the unselfish Catalina, rejects her traditional female role and demands to fight the Dominus alongside the men, bedding and killing as she goes. Her emotions tear her apart as she struggles with herself, torn between a mad attraction for the Dominus King and her fellow warrior, Darien.
As the clashes between Dominus and Vampire and Humans continue, Catalina is forced to face herself. Could she really be destined to save the world as the enigmatic Doctor’s ancient prophecy predicts?

Where did the inspiration for this story come from?  What is the story behind the story so to speak? 

OK time to cue the crazy author.. Honestly I don’t know it has just always been there waiting to be written. The characters are as real to me as my old friends.

Tell us about the book cover. How does it represent your book?  How did you choose the artwork? 

The book covers shows the back of a strongly built woman, she has a gun in her hand and she is ready to fight. The sick is torn apart and the land is very bleak and dead looking.  The cover just screamed at me to be honest. The moment I saw it I knew that it was meant to be the book cover.

I am a mother of three beautiful children, they keep me busy. I have no intentions of ever growing up, someone told me once that you are only as old as you feel, I plan on being 18 forever lol. 

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Isadora DayStar by P.I. Barrington Interveiw & Giveaway

Title: Isadora Daystar

Author: P.I. Barrington

Goodreads Synopsis:

When drug addled assassin Isadora DayStar finally snags a major interplanetary killing job, she thinks it will both support her habit and revise her status as the laughingstock of her profession. Instead, she embarks on a journey that brings her face to face with her tortured past.After botching yet another assassination job, ex-military gunner Isadora steals a highly desired new type of weapon as payment. To escape her infuriated employer she stows away on a plague infested ship that spirals downward toward the nearest planet. In an attempt to escape the crashing craft, Isadora finds both an escape pod and the only other survivor, a teenage girl, Iphedeiah. They take flight on a series of encounters from murderous monks to interplanetary pirates while Isadora tries to hide her addiction along the way. They slowly form a grudging bond that grows into friendship and trust. When Isadora kills an old contact to save the girl, they are separated only to be captured individually and then tortured by Caine Dureaux, Isadora's employer to extract the location of the weapon. Who will blink first?

 
Interview with P.I . Barrington

BLOG TOUR ANNA INTERVIEW:

Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself?


I come from an entertainment background. It was my goal in life, LOL! I worked in Hollywood at a major music company and before that I was a journalist. I've always lived in Southern California so working in the industry was almost a given. I never really took my writing seriously, at least the fiction side of it and put it all away for decades until I thought I'd give it another shot—hopefully no other journalists will read this but I never considered journalism as "real" writing—it was fiction I always felt was real. As a journalist you report the facts so it's not creative even if you're writing a feature article. So, in my mind, fiction writing was always the real writing because you're creating an entire world from nothing other than an idea.
Where did the idea of Isadora DayStar come from?

Actually she sprouted from two things: I used to watch a show called CreationScapes on the DayStar religious channel and they would show incredibly beautiful landscapes with music and Bible quotes—I was hooked on it! One night—late I used to start watching at 1:00 a.m. lol—the show was over and the DayStar channel logo came up. It was literally a light going off! I thought "What a great name for a character, especially a sci-fi character!" Right before I fell asleep, the name Isadora (not my favorite at that time) popped into my head: Isadora DayStar!

The second part of her character came from an interview of another author…can't remember the name…and the interviewer asked the author how she came up with tremendously difficult obstacles for her main character to overcome. The author replied that she hated the character so badly that she thought up the most horrible things to happen to her. The interviewer said that the character overcoming those obstacles was what made her love the character. My response was a little different. I wondered if I could consciously create a character that I hated. At first I made Isadora rude and crude but it just wasn't working. So I made her a drug addict and voila! Isadora DayStar was born!

And I'll tell you another amazing thing: I was looking online at hairstyles and haircuts that I might try. All these hundreds of headshots came up and the models, men and women, were all immaculately styled and made up. Suddenly, in the middle of a page that had like six columns of headshots, there was this odd picture of a woman with a soft, longish Mohawk cut, thin beyond skinny, wearing a tank top and pants no shoes crouched upon the top of a small pillar. She had no make-up and her face was thin and angular and she wasn't even looking at the camera! It was her profile. She was Isadora come to life!

Have you written a book that you love but have not been able to get published yet?


I have several but they're not finished yet. Both are sci-fi with major romantic lines running through them, one is dark-ish like Isadora and the other is…well, complicated. They still have quite a way to go to be ready for submission but when I love a story or stories I get obsessed with them so soon…very soon…

What was your favorite chapter (or part) to write and why?


It has to be when the worm turns so to speak. Isadora finally takes on the worst prostitution job ever and it's her limit. She can't take it anymore and yet she sacrifices herself for someone else rather than the Ingentin. At that point she snaps and though she's almost dying herself, saves another person, she thinks. I think the scene when she returns and uses the Bio-Eraser for violence and revenge, knowing she has nothing left to lose. When she recounts what happened to her, I think it depicts just how far she will go to save someone else, just how horrible it was—it's both her lowest point and highest point—she kills only for revenge for once but she also is willing to die to save an innocent person. And in both situations, she never uses Ingentin. It wasn't the easiest scene to write but for me the most rewarding.

Did you have a playlist while writing Isadora DayStar like many authors have?


No! I never have anything other than my mom watching TV in the background. I have to either focus on the music or the writing, I can't do both. Music is my first love and always distracts me and I have to stop writing and listen to it. There's no multi-creative tasking here, lol! The television is just white noise and I can ignore it for the most part. It does have annoying moments like when she cranks it up because she's not wearing her hearing aids and the voices kill a great line or point I'm trying to write lol. A lot of authors say they write better to music but it's not for me. When I'm in the story I'm in the story—again, it's that movie in my head and I have to concentrate solely on it.

Do you have any rituals or writing quirks?


Again no and that's something I really want. I've been trying to develop one but nothing sticks or gets me in the mood to write. Some of the things I've tried were using a special coffee cup, sitting and staring at the birds in my yard and listening to them in the early a.m., and turning off the morning news. None of it helps. I wish I could find something like other authors, some of them meditate (don't have the patience anymore), burn incense or candles—it just sounds so cool but nothing works for me other than sitting down and firing up the desktop.

If you could ask yourself any interview question, what would you ask, and how would you answer it?


I LOVE it when I get asked about casting my characters! You know, it's funny but I was actually around before the Internet, lol, and back then you didn't have instant access to pictures of actors or models or just average people. You had to rely on memory or literally imagination to create the characters' looks! And while that was great, I don't think the Internet has had any negative effect. I think it's even better to have pictures because for me, I can literally give characteristics and quirks and voices, pretty much every physical aspect that for me at least, really completes a character. I've used everyone from Jared Leto to Vin Diesel (surprised the heck out of me!) for my characters. One day I dream of splashing Isadora's picture over all my social media at once! But for right now, she's under wraps!

JUST FOR FUN:

Favorite Candy?

Wow, so many! Mars Bar or Big Hunk

Beaches or Mountains?

Both! I'm from the desert so either one is fine with me!

Twitter or Facebook?

Twitter, definitely!

Spontaneity or Planning Ahead?

Spontaneity! My sister & co-author is OCD about pre-planning everything! I'm the opposite.

PC or MAC?

I used to swear by PC's but then I bought an MSI and adore it and everyone tells me it's just like a MAC. So I may be changing over to MAC!

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