Friday, August 26, 2011

August Daily Giveaway - Day #26 - Vaughn Shepherd and Bunni Darling

August Daily Giveaway Day #26 Formally Introduces
Vaughn Shepherd & Bunni Darling

The Aetherwood Chronicles - Volume 1

Winner will have a choice of a signed copy or e-book version
Signed copy is a 6 x 9 size and will be shipped worldwide
Adult Erotica - Paranormal Romance
Winners must be 18 years of age

Description of book:  
The Aetherwood Chronicles – Volume I is an anthology of the first five episodes in the Aetherwood Chronicles, a lush, intriguing world filled with sensuality and the supernatural. This anthology combines Episodes 1 through 5, including: Davian and Starr - Episode One: "A Charm", Pheo and Silky - Episode One: "Aos Si", Blair and Dresdin: "New Friend, Old Friend", Davian and Starr - Episode Two: "Twisted", and Pheo and Silky - Episode Two: "Raising the Stakes". This anthology includes scenes of graphic sex, and the episode Blair and Dresdin: "New Friend, Old Friend" includes descriptions of violence and torture.




About the Authors:

Lion and Mermaid Publications consists of two authors, Bunni Darling and Vaughn Shepherd. They collaboratively author stories of a romantic and erotic nature. They have recently begun publishing these works, featuring several series, featuring wildly differing couples (or triples... or... well, you get the point).


Nearly every combination of man, woman, poly, monogamous, sexuality, dom, sub, vanilla, fairy, vampire, mermaid, demon, angel, incubus, sorcerer, sweet, violent, young, experienced, shy, outgoing, unique, uncommon, kinky, swinger, married, wonderful, fantastical and unbelievable relationship is represented.
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For our blog, we decided to let our readers determine the content by asking questions.
Q: Do you guys have a pre-planned storyline for each of the character pair ups or do you let them run the show and follow them down the proverbial rabbit's hole to see what kind of roller-coaster ride they take you on?
Vaughn: I think it’s a little of both. Sometimes we have an idea right out the gate of who we want together, and how their story is going to play out. Other times, the characters lead us into surprising territory. That’s the great thing about fiction, you can never quite tell what’s going to happen.
Bunni: I totally agree with Vaughn here, and I have to add I just love it when they surprise us!
Q: How do you guys come up with the stories and keep them all flowing so well? I love the imagination you have.
Vaughn: I think that ties in partly to the previous question. A lot of times, its character led. It’s kind of a schizophrenic feeling, the way that they can drive ideas and motivations. The other part, in my opinion, is the fact that the imagination is like an all-you-can-eat buffet for the mind. If you want something, you can always live that vicariously through your fiction. Writing opens up the opportunity to experience everything you’ve ever dreamed up.
Bunni: Also, we tend to live in each other’s headspace a lot, which helps a great deal when you’re spinning lives and building worlds.
Q: What advice would you give young ladies today?

Vaughn: I’m going to paraphrase a quote that Bunni told me once. Figure out what your dream is and do something every day to make it happen. It may be hard, grueling, repetitive work, but it’s worth it to live your life how you want to live it.

Bunni: Masturbate well and often, and invest in high quality vibrators. 

For the following two questions, we will assign each one to one of our released couples, as to answer each of them for all the characters would get a bit lengthy.
Q: What are Davian and Starr’s concepts about war and peace? 

Davian would say that war is a necessary evil, and that the best way to handle such nasty business is to do just that – make it a business. If people are going to be dying, other people should be making money off of it.

Starr was raised as a flower child, and as such was raised with Peace and Love being paramount. She’s a fairly peaceful soul, but does understand it sometimes takes war to create and maintain that peace. 

Q: What do Dresdin and Everett think is critical in making a kingdom safe?

Dresdin is well-versed in the idea that safety means a close eye on the enemy, and little mercy for those who cross the line.

Everett believes in a quiet and strong leadership. He carries a big stick, true, but he doesn’t want the enemy to know he has it. Everett rules with a silken glove hiding an iron fist.
If the Aetherwood characters could get rid of any one person - by sending them away, banishing them, packing them off for a looong holiday, or just plain booting them out, who would it be?

GG. You, the readers, don’t know who that is yet, but you just wait. 

Q:What’s coming up for Lion and Mermaid?

Vaughn: One of my favorite series will be out August 26th. It includes Everett’s children, who are some of the most vivid, unique characters to grace my imagination. 

Bunni: And mermaids! Those come soon as well- but I have to agree with Vaughn, Everett’s children are pretty darn awesome. Cannot wait to share them with everyone!
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

August Daily Giveaway - Day #25 - Kenneth Weene

August Daily Giveaway Day #25 Formally Introduces
Kenneth Weene
 Widow's Walk
 Signed Paperback 
(Winners must be residents of USA)
Literary Fiction with some Sexual Content

Description of book:  
 Mary Flanagan's son Sean, a quadriplegic, is leaving home and seeking rehabilitation. Suddenly Mary must face her own life and find new meaning. Widow's Walk is the story of her growth and journey of self-discovery. It is also the story of Sean's new life and the life of Mary's daughter Kathleen. This is a book rooted in faith, religion, and spirituality. It is also about love, sexuality, and disappointment. I hope readers will shed some tears as they get to know these characters.

Watch the Video Trailer for the book here
 
About the Author:
A New Englander by upbringing and inclination, Kenneth Weene is a teacher, psychologist, and pastoral counselor by education.
  
Ken’s short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including Sol Spirits, Palo Verde Pages, Vox Poetica Clutching at Straws, Legendary, Sex and Murder Magazine, The New Flesh Magazine, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Daily Flashes of Erotica Quarterly, Bewildering Stories and A Word With You Press.
Ken’s novels, Widow’s Walk and Memoirs From the Asylum are published by All Things That Matter Press.
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Guest Blog Kenneth Weene
I set this book in my hometown of Boston because, having lived elsewhere for over 35 years, I wanted to revisit. Originally it was to be called "Mary's Story" or possibly "A Widow's Tale: - not very inspiring titles. When I realized that Mary and and boyfriend Arnie had to have at least one sensual and sexual encounter as part of their coming together, I asked if they'd like to take a road trip to Maine, another important site from my childhood. Both characters immediately said yes; although Mary was a bit unsure - sexual fulfillment was a new concept for her. 

Arnie, being a laid-back guy drove up old Route 1; no highways for him. Passing through Newburyport, which is an old whaling town in Massachusetts and where I went to high school, they saw the wonderful old houses built by the whaling captains for their brides. Those houses typically had small walkways, widow's walks, on the roofs so the women could watch for their husband's ships. Mary loved those old houses; she wouldn't stop talking about them. Finally, since they had to get on the road so Arnie could go to L.L. Bean and buy his trademark flannel shirts, I told Mary that I'd name the book for those widow's walks if she'd get in Arnie's Buick. 

I hope you enjoy reading Mary's story.
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Happy Anniversary Kenneth & Mary!!!

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

August Daily Giveaway - Day #24 - Cidney Swanson

August Daily Giveaway Day #24 Formally Introduces
Cidney Swanson

Rippler


Winner will have a choice of a signed copy or e-book version
Paperback copy for US residents only
Young Adult Urban Fantasy Romance

Description of book:  
Samantha Ruiz has a freak gene that makes her turn invisible, or ripple. She can’t control it, and it’s getting worse. Afraid of becoming a lab-rat, Sam keeps her ability secret, until fellow runner Will Baker sees her vanish into thin air. Will promises secrecy and help, and Sam begins to fall in love.

Together, the two discover there are worse things than being a scientific curiosity. Someone’s been killing people who possess Sam's gene. A mysterious man from France sends letters that offer hope for safety, but also reveal a sinister connection with Nazi experiments.

The more time Sam spends with Will, the less she can imagine life without him. When Sam uncovers secrets from her past, she must choose between keeping Will in her life or keeping Will safe.


About the Author:

Cidney Swanson is the author of The Ripple Series. She began writing at age seven; her first novel began with “Ouch,” and her characters have been suffering ever since. Cidney lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, three kids, two cats, one dog, and entirely too much rain.


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Guest Blog from Cindey
Truth and Beauty

A few weels ago in a dark movie theater watching the last Harry Potter movie, I remembered why I love to write, I wasn’t one of those who made it for the midnight viewings. I’d promised my niece that we would watch it together. (We’re both very bookish and deeply devoted to all things JK Rowling.) The promise was a bit hard to keep, as she wouldn’t be coming to visit ‘til July 18th. But a couple of days after the premiere (and taking advantage of cheaper matinee pricing) we marched down to the local Cinemark.

I knew I’d be sad. I’d read a tweet by Cheryl Klein (continuity editor on later HP’s) where she compared her night at the premiere to watching your best friends getting beaten up for two hours. So, yeah, I knew it would probably be a tear-jerker. For some people.

But I wasn’t prepared.

Like many readers, I feel an intense connection to Severus Snape every time I read through the second half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I seriously wasn’t prepared for the effect that his story would have on me when presented on a really, really big screen.

Oh, my goodness, from the moment Alan Rickman first walked on the screen, and without his having uttered any words, you could feel Snape's inner turmoil. It was painful, hearing him deliver that initial warning about not sheltering Harry Potter. If you’ve seen it, surely you felt what I’m talking about. How conflicted Snape was as he made those demands of all of the Hogwarts students? I got shivers.

And then the pensieve scene. Oh my. Oh I so did not see my reaction coming. Liquid just started gushing from my eyes and nose. I was shaking with tears.  And, of course, trying to do it quietly so as not to disturb other people near me. But I couldn’t stop. I think the tears started the moment I heard young Severus’ voice. So small, so earnest. So obviously over-the-top in love with Lily, his one friend in all the wide world.

And Snape’s anguish when he comes to Dumbledore knowing Lily’s been killed? “They put their trust in the wrong person, just like someone else I know.” Which brings us to the on-screen moment when Snape weeps over the dead body of his best friend, his compass-star, his one true love.

That was the moment when I leaned into my husband, took his hand, and whispered, “I want to tell stories like this—the kind that make you ache because of their beauty and truth.” He squeezed my hand back.  I think he might have been crying a little, too.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

August Daily Giveaway - Day #23 - Katina Fergunson

August Daily Giveaway Day #23 Formally Introduces
Katina Ferguson
Fergyville Episode 1: The New Plan

 Giveaway a E-book edition
Contemporary Fiction for Adults
Description of book:  

Fun, light read. Very short, very entertaining, and yes, there is a cliffhanger at the end. That's why I wrote Episode 2…so you won't shoot me.

Synopsis:
Frank and Catherine are parents worn down by three young children, and life. As they try to come up with a new, more efficient, way of managing their lives, they are met with a series of unforeseen obstacles. When Frank gets home from work, things don't seem quite right. He begins to wonder if some of the problems experienced by his family are in fact the work of malicious people from his past.


About the Author:


Born in Montreal, Canada (to Caribbean parents), Katina feels that her multicultural upbringing has shaped a unique voice for her in the realm of storytelling. Katina describes her initial connection with writing as unexpected. “My mother gave me a journal for my tenth birthday and after penning a few entries I really felt like ‘journaling’ was the perfect outlet for my random intellection. I wrote almost every day”. Journal entries evolved into poems, personal essays and short stories.



Presently, Katina Ferguson is a freelance writer and author of the family-themed blog Fergyville. Her e-book, Fergyville Episode 1: The New Plan (of no relation to the blog) is the first to be released in the Fergyville serial novelette installment.

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Guest Blog From Katina

Inspiration Can Come from Anywhere



The Fergyville series is not something I envisioned writing.  I had it in my mind (like most rookies) that I would write an epic fantasy novel; one that was mind-blazing. Yes, that's what I said…mind-blazing!  People were going to walk around, holding their heads saying, "Jesus Christ! I can't handle all this awesomeness!"  I even had a concept (something I got from a dream) that had not been done before.  It was a fresh angle on paranormal material and I was really excited about writing it. I was sure that my voice would make me the next J. K. Rowling.



When I started to work on this concept of mine, I discovered something interesting about myself…one of those hidden talent thingies.  I found out that I was extremely creative in the way that I butchered a story beyond repair. I mean really…even I had no clue as to how I took a sure-to-make-me-famous story and turned it into a sure-to-kill-'em-with-boredom story, but that's what happened.  Everything fell flat, especially the characters, and I put the manuscript to rest in my "crashed & burned" files. 



Okay…so back to the general idea that inspiration can come from anywhere.  I talk to my dad every three to four weeks, just to catch up things and see how he's doing. I tell him about the chaos of having three young kids in the house (what he calls payback), I talk about how tired I am, how tired my husband is and about the car that needs fixing.  For instance, right now, the driver-side door of my car won't open. Initially I thought someone tried to break into the car and messed up the lock, but my husband was skeptical about my theory. Naturally, I had to open his eyes and make him see what was in plain sight…the multiple scratch marks near the keyhole where the wanna-be car thief (blind as a bat) kept missing the lock and scraped around it.  After having a police officer look at the car, it was determined that there was absolutely no evidence of an attempted break-in (at all).  Those scratch marks by the keyhole all point back to me…oops!  Until we rack up some cash to get the door fixed, I find ingenious ways to get into the driver seat without giving anyone the impression that I'm mentally retarded. Still, I know there were times did not escape that label. 



These situations from my life are no big deal to me, but to my dad, they are much more. He's constantly entertained and because of this, he insisted that I write, "this kinda stuff," and put it in a book.   I'm glad that I followed through with his suggestion. I'm having a great time writing the Fergyville series and I believe that people are having a great time reading it too. The characters are highly relatable, the story line keeps readers in anticipation for the next book, and as long as I pay attention to my surroundings, there is a constant stream of material. 


So yeah, I'm not writing the mind-blazing, 20-part'er, paranormal-themed novel I set out to write, and it's okay.  Sometimes one doesn't need to craft an epic story, they just need to know how to tell the ones that are already there.
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Monday, August 22, 2011

August Daily Giveaway - Day #22 - J.A. Belfield

August Daily Giveaway Day #22 Formally Introduces
J.A. Belfield
Darkness & Light



 Giveaway a Kindle or E-book edition
Plus the winner will receive a signed bookmark
Adult Paranormal Romance - Fiction

Description of book:  

Jem Stonehouse, a housewife with a neurotic husband bent on keeping her in line, dreams about werewolves in, what she believes, is a bid to escape boredom.
Sean Holloway is a werewolf, living a charade within the human race, whose mind drifts to a bond he shares with a woman he hasn't met--at least, not in this lifetime.
Apart, the two are safe but live unfulfilled lives.
Together, they'll become prey to rival packs just as they have been for hundreds of years.
When their worlds collide, and not for the first time, instinct takes over. Dreams become reality. Futures are uncertain. To keep history from repeating itself, Sean must teach Jem about his heritage, convince her of her role, and win her love.
Can Jem accept her destiny before it's too late, or is her inner wolf buried too deep to save her future with Sean?


Watch the Video Trailer



About the Author:


J. A. Belfield lives in Solihull, England, with her husband, two children, three cats and a dog. She writes paranormal romance, with a second love for urban fantasy.

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Guest Blog From J.A. Belfield

A BIG SHOUTOUT!

This post is purely to thank those I owe immense gratitude to. However long you have been along with me for the journey—be it from the second SEAN! started echoing inside my head, or now as Darkness & Light is beginning its journey into the hands and minds of readers—I cannot thank you enough for all the support and encouragement.

For any of you who enjoyed Darkness & Light, I have a couple of shorter works due out soon:

Marked—a Sean & Jem short story set a couple of months after Darkness & Light, part of the Into The Unknown anthology—will be available December 2011

 

Instinct—a Sean & Jem novella that takes the reader back to the very beginning—will be available January 2012.

I would love for you all to continue on my writing travels with me, and—once again—cheers to you all.



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Sunday, August 21, 2011

August Daily Giveaway - Day #21 - Carrie Pulkinen

August Daily Giveaway Day #21 Formally Introduces
Carrie Pulkinen
To Catch a Spirit



 Giveaway is for a E-book or Epub
Paranormal Romance
Adult Only - contains erotic scenes
(you must be 18 to win this giveaway)

Description of book:  
Psychic Allison Gray has a soft spot for Logan Mitchell, even though she’s never met him. All it takes is one encounter for the millionaire’s true emotions to slip through Allison’s shields, and she is intrigued. He needs her help, but Allison soon discovers that the kind of help Logan needs is the kind she isn’t willing to give. Logan has a ghost, and Allison doesn’t work with spirits anymore.
 
But the ghost is the least of Logan’s problems. Born an empath, Logan is constantly barraged with human emotions. And while his talent has come in handy in the business world, it’s about to drive him insane. Literally. Logan has OCD, and his ability triggers unbearable attacks that have him counting and cleaning until he collapses from exhaustion.
 
Sex and money. That’s all anyone wants from him. Even worse, he’s plagued with recurring visions of his future wife’s death, so Logan has spent his entire life avoiding love. He’s given up hope of ever having a normal life, until he meets Allison. She’s everything he’s ever dreamed of, and now he has to decide if loving her is worth risking her life.
 
If she’ll even have him. Allison’s lost too much already - her mother to cancer, her father to suicide. But, Logan is so charming and so real, she can’t help but fall for him. Now she has to overcome her fear of commitment . . .and ghosts . . .or face spending the rest of her life alone.
 
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About the Author: 
Carrie Pulkinen has always been fascinated with the paranormal. Of course, when you grow up next door to a cemetery, the dead (and the undead) are hard to ignore. Pair that with her passion for writing and her father’s insatiable love for monster movies, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for an exciting storyteller. When she’s not writing stories of amazing sex with devilishly handsome men, Carrie likes to read, take pictures, and play with her kids.
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