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Friday, December 6, 2013

Welcome Author Susan Hornell!

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Susan's new release is Blind Achievement,the sequel to Blind Acceptance which received a 4 1/2 star review and a Crowned Heart Award from InD'tale Magazine, October 2013

Blurb:

Phillip Johnson has been blind since the age of six after sustaining a head injury in a wagon accident.

Growing up on a ranch outside of Austin hasn't been easy for the young man but he has thrived with the loving help of his Step-Mother, Rachel, and the faithful support of his father, Luke.

At 18 years old, he has made the decision to head to Macarthur to attend the Wyoming College for the Blind. He plans to study Civil Government Law and Political Economics.

It is here that he meets Belinda and he falls deeply in love with her. Belinda hides a dark and dangerous secret.

A ruthless man is obsessed with owning her. This threat has the power to ruin their relationship and put their lives in jeopardy.

Can they overcome such obstacles and find happiness together?

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It had been a long day and he tapped his way back to his room. He was startled from his thoughts by an ear piercing scream. Coming to an abrupt stop he listened. Sounds of a scuffle and banging came from what he knew was a classroom ahead. He approached and threw open the door without hesitation.

“What the hell? Get out!” a gruff voice bellowed.

“Please help me.” A girl’s agonized plea tore at his heart.

“What’s going on?” Phillip demanded to know.

“None of your damned business, half-wit. Get out.” Phillip could not place the voice.

“Let me go,” she screamed again.

“Let the young lady go.” Phillip said angrily. “Come here to me Miss.”

He could hear her struggling to get free.

“I have asked you to let her go. I will not ask again.” Phillip loaded his voice with menace.

The man guffawed. “Do you really think a blindy like you can stop me?”

Phillip used the man’s voice to help him move closer.

The girl took advantage of her captor being distracted and bit down hard on his arm. He yelped with pain, and she wrenched free of his grip and launched herself into Phillip’s arms.

The air rushed from his lungs as she collided with his chest. He wrapped his arm protectively around her trembling body as she sobbed into his shirt.

Phillip lifted his cane as a warning for the man not to approach. “I am taking her to speak with Mr Carver. I expect he will also want to speak with you.”

The girl in his arms continued to tremble and sob.

“Come with me. We’ll ensure this never happens again,” he told the girl gently.

Thanks again

Sue

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BTS Book Reviews CEO, Myra Nour, was interviewed for Yahoo Voices. Read snippet below. FULL ARTICLE HERE

BTS Book Reviews has steadily built up its fan base since its inception in 2011. Today, the emag offers free monthly issues of its ezine easily accessible on its website in addition to fostering its sister site BTS Virtual Tours. Each issue of BTS emag showcases a variety of romance authors, book reviews, columns from fan favorite authors, and colorful ads promoting new releases.

In years past, The New York Times Book Reviews and Publishers Weekly reigned supreme in the world of romance books, but BTS Book Reviews takes audiences one step further exposing them to interactive blog hops, virtual book tours, and paper-free book reviews complemented by entertaining articles. In cyberspace, BTS Book Reviews is a pioneer among book banks.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Author Charlene Raddon is in the Keep Today!

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Please welcome Charlene Raddon and her new release TAMING JENNA

THE WRONG MAN

Deserted by her father at the tender age of seven, Jenna Leigh-Whittington had taught herself to ride, shoot, brawl…and steer clear of the opposite sex. But now, in a lonely Utah canyon, the Pinkerton agent has drawn her gun on a rugged stranger—only to discover that, far from the dangerous outlaw she’d been tracking, he is Branch McCauley, hired gun…and the most irresistible rascal ever to tempt and torment a woman!

THE RIGHT WOMAN

If there’s one thing McCauley trusts less than a female, it’s a female who packs a six-gun. But what a woman! Vowing to bring the sensuous hellcat to heel, McCauley has no inkling that their passionate battle of wills has just begun. Taming Jenna will be the most seductive—and satisfying—job he’s ever taken on.

TAMING JENNA EXCERPT

Jenna scowled as she studied the man by the flickering glare of his campfire. He had the right build and appeared close to thirty, Mendoza's age. But something didn't fit.

The Denver police chief had described her quarry as a spoiled aristocrat, too busy wooing Lady Luck and every other female to be much of a train robber, let alone a killer. But the rogue in front of Jenna looked too lean and hard to be spoiled, too wary and aloof to be a ladies' man.

To Jenna he seemed the perfect gunslinger: cold, tough, and ready to spring. Like a big yellow cougar perched on a ledge. Or a rattler, tightly coiled. Either way, his bite would be deadly.

In spite of the cool night breeze, sweat oozed from her pores. She couldn't forget that lightning draw. Why had she come here? How had she expected to take an outlaw Pinkerton's other agents had failed to bring in? No, she refused to think that way. She was every bit as capable as any man to capture Mendoza. She had to believe that, the same way she had to do what she'd set out to do. Only one question remained: Was this Mendoza or not?

"Who are you, mister?"

"Who am I? Hell, who are you? "

Blast! Did no male exist in this empty wilderness who wasn't so taken with himself that he couldn't cooperate for a change?

She took a calming breath. A body could catch more flies with honey than vinegar, old Charley Long Bow used to say. Jenna figured flies might fancy the hairy creature facing her, so she decided to try being friendly. "Listen, I smelled your coffee and hoped you might spare a cup, is all. You can understand me being a mite leery of walking into a stranger's camp without knowing who I'm hooking up with."

Firelight glinted on the man's straight white teeth as his whiskers parted in a cold smile. "Don't recall inviting company, but I'll play your game. Name's Branch McCauley. Now it's your turn."

His smile unnerved her. It held no humor, only a lethal sort of grimness that cannoned her stomach into her throat and made her wish she'd wired William Pinkerton for instructions instead of going off half-cocked this way. "I'm Jim...Jim White," she lied.

"All right, Jim, how about some honesty? You come here looking for me?"

"I'm not looking for anyone named Branch McCauley. If that's who you are, you've nothing to worry about."

The wide, innocent eyes McCauley studied held honesty. He relaxed. "In that case...be glad to pour you some coffee." He reached for the battered graniteware pot. His visitor's next words froze him in a half-stoop: "I'd feel more welcome if you'd set aside your gun first."

Cool as Montana sleet, McCauley straightened, hand poised above his holster. "Reckon you would. Wouldn't do much for my sense of well-being, though."

So much for trying to be friendly, Jenna thought. What now? She clenched her knees together to still their shaking and swallowed the fear knotted in her throat.

"Look." McCauley shifted his weight to one leg. "Why don't you put your gun away and have a sit? Could be I might know something about the hombre you're hunting.

Hombre. Sounded Spanish. Like Mendoza. It must be him. She had to get his gun away from him. Surprise seemed the best means. She squeezed the trigger of the .44 Starr. The bullet kicked dirt onto the man's scuffed boots. He jumped and let out a yelp as though she'd set his feet afire.

"Dammit, kid, going up against me won't get you anything but a six-foot hole in the ground."

"Shut up and toss over your gun or I'll turn them boots into sieves. 'Course, my sights might be a bit off." She raised the muzzle toward his groin.

"You made your point," he growled as he unbuckled his gun belt and tossed it over.

Instead of the fancy weapon she had expected a gunslinger to own, an ordinary, six-gun lay at her feet. No ivory handle or engraved barrel. Only an ordinary .44 Peacemaker, crafted and worn for one reason—to kill. The thought did funny things to her innards.

"All right," she said, getting back to business. "You aren't going to like this, mister, but I don't know any other way to be sure who you are. Drop them trousers to your ankles."

"Do what?"

Watch the Video here:TAMING JENNA VIDEO

Find Charlene on the Net here:

htp://www.charleneraddon.com/

http://www.charleneraddon.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/CharleneRaddon http://www.twitter.com/CRaddon

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1232154.Charlene_Raddon

http://www.amazon.com/Charlene-Raddon/e/B000APG1P8/

Thanks so much for visiting us today, Char! Wishing you loads of success with TAMING JENNA!

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Sunday, November 10, 2013

This Weeks Word Means "Argumentative"

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Eristic

Adjective and Noun [ih-RIS-tik,e]

Adjective: of or characterized by debate or argument.

Noun: a person given to debate or argument.

Eristic means argumentative as well as logically invalid. The word traces its ancestry back to the Greek word for strife. Eristic and the variant Eristical come from the Greek word Eristikos, meaning fond of wrangling, from Erizein, to wrangle, and ultimately from Eris, which means strife. The adjective appeared in print in English in 1637. It was followed about 20 years later by the noun Eristic.

Eristic is worth 9 points in Scrabble

Synonyms
belligerent, combative, contentious, controversial, disputatious , eristical, litigious, quarrelsome, scrappy, testy

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I think most writers agree that conflict and suspense make for a good novel. In Decadent Deceptions, the conflict between the heroine, Olivia, and Morgan, the hero, is endless. Did I mention suspense? The serial killer in the book brings forth oodles of suspense now that Olivia is his next target!

About Decadent Deceptions:

* 25 Five Star Reviews

* Special Content Alert: Voyuerism

* RWA Molly Contest Finalist (Erotica category)

Desperate to win Morgan’s love, Olivia Breedlove embarks on a reckless folly of cat and mouse. Morgan stays one step ahead of the woman he's loved for years, more so when he discovers the road Olivia travels is strewn with duplicity and murder.

A decade ago, Morgan was a heartbeat away from taking Olivia’s virginity. Her father, Thaddeus, intervened and threatened to meet him over pistols if he ever looked at his daughter again. Thaddeus is dead now, and Morgan will not ignore the ravenous hunger he’s harbored for the woman. One way or the other, he will quench this burning desire and make Olivia his forever.

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Author RAIN TREAUX is in the Keep!

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If you are a writer and have been doing it a long while, you know there are those stories that never seem to quite come together—right away. Then there comes a time when the whole story is ther,e and you can’t type fast enough to get it down.

Such a book for me is Luck of the Draw. I wrote it when I was close to the age of the heroine. I always knew I liked the two lead characters, but I didn’t really understand how much it was a story of its time. In 1974 rodeo was undergoing change from the rough and ready era of the cowboy to the athlete. The country was also going through change with Vietnam finally rolling to an end, and the nation wondering what it had all meant.

Billy represents those changes; and when I looked at this story as an eBook, I knew it had to stay in the years it had been written. It’s about a lot more than a romance. Yes, it’s a love story of two young people trying to decide what they want in life; but it is also about the blood and guts of getting on a bucking animal and lasting eight seconds.

For this month and not sure how much longer, its Kindle version is 99¢ -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008FRH9D6. Trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Yzcr3ocFY It will have a paperback version when we can get around to making it happen as I think Billy and Sara deserve that.

Luck of the Draw

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Billy tightened his own chaps, walking to the fence, the leather of the chaps moving roughly against his jeans. As he climbed the fence, another rider was coming out of the chute. Tice came up beside Billy and they both looked down on Apache, a nicely conformed brown gelding.

The horse was uneasy, not liking any part of this, as he shifted position again and again. He especially didn’t like the man now above him. Billy straddled the fence, easing himself onto the animal’s back. He adjusted the strap and then moved a little forward; so that he was almost sitting on his hand. This strap and his own balance were all that would keep him on. He didn’t try to soothe the horse as he might have on a ranch. He wanted him bucking and bucking good.

He nodded to Tice. “Let’er go,” Tice yelled. The chute gate swung open and Billy was out, spurring high on the horse’s shoulder with the first buck. Rhythmically then, he spurred as Apache surged across the ground, onto the grassy center of the arena for where for a second he changed his gait and then was bucking hard again. It was going to be good ride if he could stay on, stay in control.

Bucking, twisting, turning, and coming down hard now on his front legs, Apache did anything and everything to dislodge the rider. He was good at it but not good enough this day.

Billy was not thinking, no plans, no future or past. He was like the horse and totally in that moment. They were one, both operating on instincts that had been honed through many such rides. It was a magnificent moment, born of the now, flying like the wind; testing his strength and ability against that of a powerful animal. It was why he rode.

When the whistle blew, the pick-up man, Harrison, came alongside Billy as he let his legs drop down around the horse’s body. It had been a damned good ride, and he knew the score would be high as he swung off by grabbing Harrison’s waist and dropping to the ground. This was the way it was supposed to be. The horse, freed now of the irritating strap around his middle and that rider, spiritedly galloped off, glad to be escaping the arena for another day. At the cost of a few minutes of wild exercise, Apache had a soft life most of the time with good food and care. The spurs that encouraged him to do his best left no marks as they were dulled and intended only to encourage more action.

“76 for Billy Stempleton,” came the voice. “That’ll be the score to beat today, folks.” He heard the stands come alive with cheers and clapping. He hadn’t ridden for that though. It was good to know people liked it, but the big thing was that moment with the horse, the moment when it all went right.

As he got back to the fence, he was smacked on the shoulders by the other cowboys-- another sign of a good ride. Tice said only, “There’ll be money on that one.”

Billy again avoided looking toward the stands, but he couldn’t help but wonder, for the umpteenth time, if she was there. Had she watched; and if she had, what had she thought about it? He felt like a kid in school wondering whether the pretty neighbor girl had seen him walk a fence without falling off. He was a fool. She would not have come.

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Sunday, November 3, 2013

This Week's Word - Stop In For A Visit!

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Polyglot

Adjective [PAH-lee-glaht]

(1) a: Speaking or writing several languages. b: Composed of numerous linguistic groups.
(2) Containing matter in several languages.
(3) Composed of elements from different languages.
(4) Widely diverse (as in ethnic or cultural origins).

You've probably run across the prefix poly before - it comes from Greek and means many or multi.

But what about glot? That part of the word comes from the Greek term glōtta, meaning language or tongue. (Glōtta is also the source of glottis, the word for the space between the vocal cords.) Polyglot entered English in the 17th century, both as an adjective and as a noun meaning one who can write or speak several languages. You could call the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V a polyglot. He claimed that he addressed his horse only in German, he conversed with women in Italian and with men in French, but reserved Spanish for his talks with God.

Synonyms

    linguist
    adapter
    cryptographer
    cryptologist
    decoder
    dragoman
    explainer
    glossator

This word reminded me so much of Ethan Gray (MEKO) from WHERE THE RAIN IS MADE. He is a widely-diverse man who has to speak several languages, English and Cheyenne.

A Native American time traveler, you ask? Yes, Ethan's a museum curator in today's world - a brutal dog soldier when he travels into the past. He's taken an oath to protect and lead his People, the Cheyenne, in times of trouble. And he's taken an oath to never fall in love while wandering the edges of time. But then, he didn't expect to meet Francesca, the white captive he can't dismiss from his heart. Nominated for a Bookie Award by Authors After Dark with over 30+ five star reviews.

(Ethan Gray)
MEKO - Leader of the Cheyenne
Dog Soldiers

* Nominated for Best Romance of the Year
* Book of the Month – Black Raven’s Café

* Top Recommended Read

A decadent savage has captured Francesca DuVall and her brother Marsh. Now she spends every waking moment planning an escape from the camp of the brutal Dog Soldiers.

Ethan Gray is a curator at a national museum . . . until he travels through time to help his beloved People. In the Cheyenne world he’s known as Meko, leader of the most revered tribe of the plains.

Cultures and hearts battle, violence and death haunt the road ahead, but when kindred souls collide, anything is possible. From the windswept plains of Colorado to the placid life of a curator, their love is fueled by passion and kindled by destiny.

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Kobo: http://bit.ly/PciWn2

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