Link of the Week – Holiday Contests

Holidays contests are under way! Here is your chance to nab you some goodies.

I am running a Goodreads contest for a free paperback copy of Dead Man’s Kiss.

The blurb:

Forced to make a bargain…
One drunken night in Cuba lands Captain Valeryn Barone in a life or death situation. To escape the gallows, Valeryn must agree to a bargain only a fool would make: Escort the tempting and tenacious niece of his captor across the Caribbean or lose his ship, his crew and his life! The caveat? The beautiful Spanish woman must remain untouched for the entire voyage.

Determined to get what she wants…
Catalina Montoya will stop at nothing to get what she wants—even when trouble is certain. Sent to live with her uncle after a scandalous affair, Catalina intends to concentrate on her dream to become a renowned naturalist. She never expected her uncle would send her with a notorious pirate to further her studies. Worse, she never expected to want the devilishly handsome pirate more than anything else.

It’s a battle of wills…
Now Catalina only has 8 weeks to seduce Valeryn and collect her specimens before he returns her to her uncle. And Valeryn has 8 weeks to secure his redemption. Except neither would be that lucky. Not when ruthless enemies threaten to destroy them at every turn. Can Valeryn save those that foolishly depend on him? Can he resist Catalina’s heart? Does a dead man walking even have a chance?

Enter the contest below!

 

Dead Man’s Kiss

by Jennifer Bray-Weber

Giveaway ends December 15, 2016.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

Goodreads Book Giveaway

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/212767-dead-man-s-kiss

 

But that’s not all! The Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood is having a Ruby Cookie Exchange. Not only can you collect luscious cookie recipes, you could win a grand prize of a $150 gift card! Plus, there are opportunities all along the hop to win more prizes. Yours truly is participating! You can stop by my website starting the 8th for a chocolatey treat plus a $10 Amazon gift card. www.jbrayweber.com

http://www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com/announcing-the-ruby-holiday-cookie-exchange-hop-starting-december-8/

 

Roller Coasters and Crabs

On this roller coaster of publication, writers expect to be faced with a certain amount of, let’s say, excitement. We hear the unmistakable clackety-clack-clack on the way up the ride of publishing a book. Feel the adrenaline build as we teeter on the top of the first dive. Throwing our arms high or hanging onto the bar, we plummet down, down, down picking up speed. Hairpin curves with sales, rankings, good reviews, harsh criticism, and how we will be received by our peers.  It’s all part of the fun, right? Right?

This summer, the roller coaster took me by surprise by blasting me through a barrel roll. First, I received scores from a prestigious contest I did not final in. Oh, you know how this story goes. The book is either incredibly awesome or the reader would rather drink antifreeze before turning one more page. I’m usually good with that. It means that my writing has produced extreme emotional reactions. But when one of the judges not only claims the book had no satisfying ending but that it wasn’t even a love story, well, that floored me. Most of you know that I write historical romance, paranormal romance, and some erotic romance. Romance is always a central theme in my books, no matter the genre. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around how a judge felt that the book failed to meet the requirement of a happily ever after love story. Where did I go wrong? Did I go wrong? Maybe not. I try to remember that this is just an opinion of one person and that’s okay.

But wait.  Three different reviewers have given three of my books high accolades in recent days, including the one mentioned above. For them, my tales are a real pleasure to read. I should be overjoyed, busting at the seams. And I am, truly and humbly. While poking around Amazon, I stumbled across another review written several months ago that basically states  my characters suck, my writing sucks, I suck. This was not a malicious attack, but rather someone who simply hated my book. Regardless, it still stings. And this is why I don’t make it a habit of reading my reviews. Then there is the personal message a reader sent to me via social media and another who emailed me just this week. Both ladies took the time to reach out to me, to say they really love my books and want more.

Round and round my emotions go. Yep – I’m a little green in the gills. I know I’m not the only one. Fellow MuseTracker Stacey has experienced the same thrills and chills. And I’m quite certain that most of our writer friends and acquaintances have, too. The stomach-dropping dips are simply part of the ride.

Stacey, a pillar in my support system, probably won’t remember this, but she once said, “You’re a creative crab.”

Huh?

Imagine if you will a basket of crabs. There’s always one who tries to escape but the other crabs in the basket will keep pulling it back down to certain doom. The would-be escapee crab is the creative crab and the other crabs are critics. All this is true whether you are a newbie author or a seasoned pro. The unsavory opinion of one or two really poisons the pot. It is always that bad review or awful contest score that sticks with us, almost negating all the praise. Almost.

We shouldn’t let the critic crabs keep us down. We can climb out of their basket, yes we can. We must remember all the acclaims, successes, happy readers, and, most of all, stay true to ourselves. Dismiss the negativity, honest or otherwise, grab ahold of the rim, and pull yourself up.

Ours is a path that will surely have its ups and down, topsy-turvy flips, and bone-jerking turns. So buckle and enjoy the ride.

Anyone care for melted butter with their crab legs?

 

Link of the Weekend – Goodreads Giveaway

Here’s a bit of shameless promo for your weekend. I’m giving away a paperback of DEAD MAN’S KISS. Enter for your chance to win. It’s easy!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Dead Man's Kiss

by Jennifer Bray-Weber

Giveaway ends January 21, 2016.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/widget/168447

It’s Pitch Day at Editor Shop with Karen Grove of Entangled Publishing.

Good Morning and welcome to another round of Editor Shop.

Make sure you follow the rules for pitching. You can find all the details under the Editor/Agent Shop tab above.

Good Luck!

GO!

We have the awesome Karen Grove with Entangled Publishing as our guest Editor, and she coming with a BANG!

Entangled just launched it’s New Adult line Embrace, and they’re doing a mega give-a-way! Here is the link to the Embrace Launch Giveaway. It is open to everyone (whether you’re pitching or not) and it will run through the end of the month:

Entangled Embrace, our New Adult line, launches today!

They’re giving away a Kindle Fire, an iPod Shuffle, and a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card.

And even more… Entangled is doing something special for some of our ‘pitchers’. They’ll be giving away some advance reading e-galleys of Embrace’s upcoming December releases!

• Forged by Fate by Reese Monroe (NA paranormal)

• Sneaking Candy by Lisa Burstein (NA contemporary romance)

• Ruined by Jus Accardo (NA paranormal)

*FROM KAREN: [Please note that these are early peeks at upcoming books, and they may have errors in them as galleys are made from uncorrected proofs…but a few tiny errors are worth getting a first look, aren’t they?]

AWESOME!

And here’s some information about what Karen is looking for:
Embrace is seeking fresh, strong voices that capture the emotions and complexities of characters straddling the line between high school and the adult world of work and family. Our ideal protagonists are from 18-24 years old; these characters are legally adults but are still finding their way to adulthood, separating from their parents, heading off to college, experiencing full-time employment, searching for love, and even beginning families. For these characters, it’s a time of experimentation and metamorphosis. Embrace novels are digital first and priced from $2.99 – $4.99.
At Entangled, we believe New Adult is an extension of Young Adult fiction—dealing with many of the same issues of identity and exploration but with a more focused perspective toward breaking away from parental supervision and the impending responsibility that goes with adulthood. We are looking for books told from the point of view of the emerging adult, defining a critical period of decision making and growth. There should be an element of romance in every Embrace title, though it does not need to be the main focus of the story.

Entangled New Adult publishes across genres, and we are looking for engaging voice and bold, fresh stories in
• Contemporary
• Romance
• Mystery
• Suspense/Thrillers
• Historical
• Fantasy
• Science fiction
• Paranormal

And here’s a bit about Karen!

Karen Grove, Editorial Director of Embrace (New Adult) and Senior Editor

Karen Grove has been an editor for 28 years, working with authors at Harcourt and then Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, concentrating in young adult fiction. She has worked with such prestigious authors as Han Nolan, Carol Plum-Ucci, L. A. Meyer, Ann Rinaldi, Adele Geras, Kathryn Reiss, Gary Paulsen, and New York Times bestselling author Susan Beth Pfeffer. The majority of her books have earned starred reviews from major review journals and such prestigious awards as the National Book Award, Michael L. Printz Honor, multiple Edgar Allen Poe Awards (Mystery Writers of America), and a RITA Award (Romance Writers of America). In addition to her editing, she owned and operated a local business newspaper for 10 years. She resides in Southern California with her husband and college-age son.

Karen looks for stories with quirky characters, compelling voices (even snarky ones, if there’s heart behind it), and settings that are so strong they become characters themselves. She adores small-town and Southern novels, with their strong sense of community and personal relationships, as well as stories with deeply flawed characters that she can both love and hate. Karen reads across a wide range of genres and enjoys gritty contemporaries, dark urban fantasy, apocalyptic stories, suspense/thrillers, mystery, romance, and tales that contain elements of the supernatural as well as sports (hockey, soccer, football, equestrian)—though maybe not together. Although Karen edits both Adult romantic fiction and YA, she is especially interested in stories that feature protagonists grappling with life after high school…those 18-24 year olds embarking on their first foray into independence. The only topics that don’t particular interest her are high fantasy (she prefers her fantasy to be firmly grounded in the real world) and deeply rooted science fiction. No matter what the age group or genre, Karen wants a story to move her—to make her laugh, cry, tense in fear, or cause her to think in some way she hasn’t considered before.

Good luck everyone!

I’ll see you Saturday morning around 10:00am E.S.T. Wait until you see me post the word GO!

Happy reading and writing.

~Candi

Link of the Week – Shameless Promotion and Giveaway!

Forgive me, but I’m doing a little something different for Link of the Week today. I’m up for the prestigious RONE award and need your help.

There are three rounds to the contest. First, an author’s book has to have had a 4 star or better review from the InD’tale magazine. The second round of the contest is up to the readers. Readers get to vote for their favorite books. In the third round, the book goes to a professional industry judge.

My title A KISS IN THE WIND is in the middle of its voting period, which is only one week long. – WEEK #2 HISTORICAL POST MEDIEVAL.

Please, please, if you are so inclined, follow the link and vote. The only kicker is that you must register to vote, but it is quick and painless. Promise. But you should have already done that, right? As InD’tale was my link of the week not too long ago.

Here’s link. I’ll love you forever. 😀

http://www.indtale.com/2012-rone-awards

And while we are at it, starting tomorrow, I AM RUNNING A MONTHLY CONTEST. All you have to do to be eligible is sign up for my newsletter on my website. That’s it! I only send out a newsletter 2-4 times a year, so you’ll receive no clutter from me. For the month of May, I’m giving away a $10 Amazon gift card.

http://www.jbrayweber.com/contact.html

I’ll return to your regularly scheduled Link of the Week next Tuesday. I’ve got more wonderful sites to share with you.

Thanks in advance for participating.

A KISS IN THE WIND – One Year Celebration and Giveaway!

Song of the day: What Have You Done by Within Temptation (theme song to A KISS IN THE WIND)

This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of A KISS IN THE WIND, the second in the Romancing the Pirate series. I’ve enjoyed success over the year and excited by the continuing sales.

And so to celebrate, I am giving away an e-copy of the book.

There are two chances to win.

1. Comment on this blog post.

2. Join my mailing list here at my website.

Easy peasy!

So let’s get this party started.

For those of you who have read the book, you have my gratitude. And I offer you a little known fact. A KISS IN THE WIND was written with an epilogue. My publisher had decided not to add it. But I couldn’t just let it go. Ooooh no! Sure, there was a happily ever after. But I had more to tell. More important nuggets for the reader. And so, if you have read the book, click this link to read the rest of the story. *SPOILER* If you haven’t read the book, I’d advise skipping the epilogue. Just sayin’.

For kicks and grins, I thought I’d give a taste of the book. You know, to entice you.

The Blurb:

Marisol Castellan is in trouble–again. Against her pirate father’s orders, she snuck off their ship to intercept a message meant for a rival captain, one that offers a clue to the whereabouts of her estranged brother Monte.

Pirate captain Blade Tyburn is not pleased to find the letter he’s been waiting for is missing. He’s even less pleased when he discovers the thief is a raven-haired beauty who bewitches his senses and muddles his thinking. The note gives the location of a silver-laden ship that’ll make his fortune; Blade must find it, and if that means bringing Marisol along on the voyage, so be it.

Marisol believes Monte sails on the very ship Blade is to meet and strikes a deal with the handsome rogue. If he will give her passage to her brother, she will give him the exact location he needs. And both will get more than they expected…

One of my favorite steamy exchanges:

“We need to talk.”

“Talk?” Her brow lifted in what he decided was ridicule. “ Shouldn’t you be topside looking for the enemy ship you let slip away?”

The time long since passed for her to end her biting words. “I understand your thirst for revenge, but you will hold sway your spiteful tongue. I will have no more of it.”

“Then I suggest you take your leave for I have nothing else to offer.”

Her words brought him close, irresistible like honey to a bee. “Oh?”

She stiffened, realizing too late the delicious challenge she presented him. “That’s right,” she said.

“This I know to be a lie.” He put his hand on the door and she pressed her back against the wall. “I can think of many things you can offer me.”

An excerpt:

Puerto Plata, Hispaniola, 1726

“Crazy wench. Let go!”

Marisol tightened her grip on the coarse barrel of the pistol poised a mere inch from her face. Death’s diseased aroma wafted over her with the depraved wretch’s breath. A frenzy of alarm pumped through her veins, fueling new untapped strength. “Bloody hell, I will!”

She struggled with him, unwilling to release his gun and reach for her own weapon. She pushed and pulled with the ruffian in a gruesome dance of sorts, a ballet amid the squalid dregs and wet filth of the dark alley. Their curses and grunts chased the shrouded silence back up the stone walls. No passerby would take notice, no more than they would a cheap strumpet and her jack.

Marisol slipped on the slick cobblestones and, losing her balance, brought the vile man down with her.

The pistol went off. An unforgiving percussion echoed down the alley.

He landed on top of her, knocking the wind from her lungs. Sharp pain sliced through her back with the force of the fall. A moment passed, then another.

The man’s weight crushed against her. She gulped shallow, tainted breaths in the pocket of air between his shirt collar and sweaty neck. I must get free. Marisol thrashed beneath the cur. Fear urging her on, she pressed against his chest and shoved him off, rolling him to his back. She scuttled to her knees. But he didn’t move, didn’t get up to finish her off.

What have I done?

Marisol dropped the gun. Blood on her hands trickled down between shaky fingers. She stared at them, turning her hands over to see the crooked red pathways on her skin. Even in the shadows, the deep color glistened. Slowly, she curled her fingers into fists, resting them on her knees, and looked down at the dead man before her. The blood from his chest wound filtered through his tunic, spreading down his side. Spent gunpowder still singed her nose.

Numb emotions lingered beneath her breastbone. She willed herself not to think of him as a man who might be mourned by someone who loved him, a mother, or a wife with children. Would they be waiting for him? Wondering when he would return home?

No. No pity would be spared for the likes of him, a paltry criminal. Had Alain taught her nothing about survival? Warm your rum with the blood of another, for if the bastard gets the chance, your course will be run and the devil will have you.

She would not let the compassion seize her heart. Leave that for the weak-minded.

Marisol took one quick glance around the darkened back street. She wiped the blood against her lap then reached into the dead man’s coat, searching his pockets. She pulled out a pouch containing silver coins, three of them. Marisol forced a smile. How fortunate. Something for her troubles. She stuffed the pouch into the folds of her dress.

Continuing her search, her hand grazed across paper in another pocket. She smiled again as she picked up and read the letter for which she’d been searching. The missive was cryptic but given more time she would be able to decipher it. With any luck, it would reveal the information she so desperately sought, information that could lead her to her missing brother. She would do anything to find Monte. Marisol glanced down at the corpse. Perhaps she had become too desperate. Foolish man. You really should’ve been more careful.

The book trailer:

Fun Fact:

The pirate ship Rissa featured in most of the books in the Romancing the Pirate series is modeled after the notorious Black Beard’s ship Queen Anne’s Revenge.

Buy links:

Carina Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Audible

Thanks for being a special part of my world!

Don’t forget to either leave a comment or join my mailing list for your chance to win an eBook of A KISS IN THE WIND.

*Congratulations to winner Kimberly Rocha!*

It’s Agent Shop Pitch Day!

Guess what? It’s that time…

 

GO!

 

All pitches need to be sent to Candi_agent_shop (at) yahoo . com

 

Yes, I’m posting this early so everyone has the chance to join in…

Welcome to another round of Agent Shop! (Pitching will officially start Sat. March 16th at 10:00 am EST when I post the word go. Please wait until I update the page with a big ‘go’ at the top of the post before sending in your pitch. Don’t worry, it’ll be big so you won’t miss it!)

I’m super excited to be hosting the awesome Mollie Glick. Best of luck to everyone pitching.

And welcome to our spotlight author – one of Mollie’s lucky authors – Gennifer Albin, with her new release, CREWEL.

Check out this cover!!!!

Enter a tangled world of secrets and intrigue where a girl controls other’s destinies, but not her own

Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has always been special. When her parents discover her gift—the ability to weave the very fabric of reality—they train her to hide it. For good reason, they don’t want her to become one of the elite, beautiful, and deadly women who determine what people eat, where they live, how many children they have, and even when they die.

But Adelice is forced into this powerful group, and she must learn to navigate the dangerous politics at play. Caught in a web of lies and forbidden romance, she must unravel the sinister truth behind her own unspeakable power. Her world is hanging by a thread, and Adelice, alone, can decide to save it—or destroy it.

Links to Buy: Amazon, B&N, Powell’s

Links to Author: www.genniferalbin.com, http://genniferalbin.blogspot.com/

Make sure you check her out, and feel free to comment!

BONUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come one, come all. Even if you’re not pitching, feel free to come join in the conversation. I’ll be giving away THREE prizes. All you have to do is join in the fun! Every comment will be entered for a chance to win one of these prizes!

1 – Ebook copy of Primitive Nights

2 – $25.00 Barnes & Noble or Amazon Giftcard (Winners choice)

3 – The Top Pitch Slot!

Easy breezy…

Here’s what we’ll start with as our opening topic…

What is the one thing a hero can do in a story that makes you fall in love with him?

Editor Shopping Day!

UPDATE: JENNIFER SENT ME HER REQUESTS… THIS IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY…

“I had lots of fun reading these. 🙂 I really wish I had the time to read them all! Thanks for having me on Musetracks, and I wish them all the best of luck with
their stories!”

GOOD JOB EVERYONE! SHE MADE A TOTAL OF 9 REQUESTS! AND INVITED THE OTHERS TO SUBMIT THROUGH SAMHAINS STANDARD SUBMISSION PROCESS IF YOUR MS FALLS WITHIN SAMHAIN’S GENRE AND WORDCOUNT GUIDELINES. (HERE’S WHERE I SAY CHECK, CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK!)

I’M GOING TO START SENDING OUT THE REQUESTS, SO WATCH YOUR EMAIL.

Good morning everyone.

Thanks for visiting with us yesterday! And best of luck to anyone who made it into this pitch session. I have to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful Samhain authors who came to hang out with us, tell us about their books, and offer up a prize. Ladies – YOU ROCK!

As always, we’ll get the business out of the way first.

Pitches received: 59
Pitches accepted: 30
Pitches rejected: 29 (10 were over the 30 pitch limit)

• Missing info: 5
• Too long: 12 (The pitch)
• Attachments: 2

As always, thank you to those who followed the pitch rules and took the time to make sure your pitch was right! This is a business, even if our writing is personal, and we need to remember to treat it that way. How we present ourselves is as important as what we produce.

Okay – Now that we have that out of the way!

The WINNERS are:

• WATERFALL………………………………Fedora
• KINDRED OF THE FALLEN…………B.L. Foxxe
• SOUL DEEP………………………………..Cynnara
• FALLING FOR FINN……………………GailHart
• PRIMITIVE NIGHTS……………………fionadruce
• COWBOYS DOWN……………………….Catherine Wolfe
• GOD OF FYRE MOUNTAIN………….Suzanne
• REVVING HER UP……………………….Ellie Heller
• WINTER’S THAW………………………..Annabelle Ambrosio

Please send me your e-mail information and the format you’d like for your prize to dancillaw(at)yahoo.com. Please put winner in the subject line and the title you won somewhere in your e-mail. Thanks!

Now, let’s give a big, warm welcome to Jennifer Miller, editor at Samhain Publishing.

Thank you so much for coming Jennifer! I know how busy you are. The pitches are posted below in numerical order. If there’s anything that catches your attention, simply e-mail me the pitch number, title, and what you’d like to see from the author. Also let me know how you’d like them to submit the requested information.

Happy shopping!

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#1
WARDER
Paranormal/Contemporary Fantasy Romance
108,000 words

Someone is setting death-spells targeting mortals and elf blood alike. With her mentor out of commission, it’s up to half-trained Warder Mona Lisa Kubrek to stop the magic. Despite being told repeatedly her job is to nullify spells and not go after the source, too many people are at risk for her to not track the spell-caster down. Even meeting a sexy half-elf shifter who may well be her mate won’t distract her from her goal.

Except Cart Dupree, called in by a high-ranking elf, is fully trained and has the team to search for the evildoer, so she’d be stupid to not use his expertise. Stupid is something she can’t afford to be, not with her enemy’s henchmen after her. Later she’ll deal with Cart and his questions about her special abilities and the non-standard training her mentor has given her. Right now, they need to unravel where the magician is, and who he is, before he builds enough power to decimate them all. First, though, they need to stay alive.

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#2
CONFESSIONS OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST SHOTGUN BRIDE
Contemporary
58,000 words

Business executive Katie St. John has given up on love, which she stinks at, to focus on her red-hot career. All she wants from Steve Tyler, an amazingly sexy, surprisingly sweet, and younger Air Force pilot, is help making her vacation one to remember (and perhaps a little help crossing off a few things on her secret to-do list of sexual fantasies). Sure, the chemistry between them is hotter than the Cayman sun, but once this vacation’s over, she’ll say good-bye and go back to plotting corporate coups.

But Steve won’t settle for being her temporary boy toy. He’s lusted after Katie, the glamorous older woman who lived next door when he was a kid, since he was old enough to know what lust was. Now that she’s finally moved from his fantasies to his bed, he’s not about to let her go without a fight – especially once he learns she’s returned home with the mother of all souvenirs.

CONFESSIONS OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST SHOTGUN BRIDE was a finalist in the Textnovel.com America’s Next Best Celler Contest and several RWA chapter contests.

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#3
SIXTH SENSE
Romantic Suspense with Paranormal Elements
65,000 words

Reluctant psychic Katherine Crystal, dubbed “Crystal Ball Kate,” is thrust into the national spotlight when she accurately predicts that the young son of movie actor Vince Rivers will die in a private plane crash. Skeptical Atlanta police detective Jack Hale—who harbors a deep-seated distrust of psychics—is the by-the-book officer who ignores Katherine’s warnings when she calls to report her premonition. Jack is forced to partner with Kate, who uses her eerie sensitivity to evil to help him catch a serial killer. Their investigation into a mystery surrounding Kate’s birth leads to murder and romance among a secret society of psychics in the quaint spiritualist community of Casa Spirito, Florida.

Sixth Sense won the Georgia Romance Writers 2012 Unpublished Maggie Award of Excellence in the Paranormal/Fantasy category.

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#4
URGENT: ONE NANNY REQUIRED
Sweet Romance
48,345 words

NICHOLAS TRENTON: Widowed, devoted father first. Hollywood director second. Yes his job called him away from home a lot but his son was safe at home with a nanny. Well he was supposed to be! Although his recent shenanigans had left Nick struggling to keep anyone to look after him. He had a shoot coming up in LA for 3 weeks, what was he going to do?!

RANIA GEORGE: Proud sweet shop owner. Yes it was run down but it was hers. Her mother had grand dreams of becoming an actress and would have been disappointed in her daughter’s career but she was fine with this. After all, unlike her mother, she knew if she ever started a family, she would put them first.

Rania was used to children outside her sweet shop but one alone on a dark night was a first. What parent would let their child wander the streets at night!

Nick was surprised to find his son contentedly spending time with a stranger. Why not hire her as the nanny for LA and bring Theo along? He’d pay of course, and judging from the state of her shop she needed all the help she could get.

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#5
DEVOTED
Contemporary/Sci Fi/Fantasy Romance
80,000 words

Matthias of Linley loves spending time with Vivian Redwood. He adores watching her prepare for her day, cooking dinner and laying in bed with her at night. He shivers at her touch, stroking him softly, cherishing him.

But the trouble with this story is that Matthias isn’t real, he is a character in her favorite novel. See humans do not realize that each novel is actually alive; the characters can see, hear and feel us. Each is unique and most are content with their lot; but not Matthias. Matthias wants Vivian and he’s found a way to have her…

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#6
FLAME
Hot Romance/Erotica Romance
50,000 words

“Becky finds herself being chased by three men. Each moment gives her another intense, erotic encounter. With tension and heat rising fast, what will happen when they all find out she’s been having fun with them. Will she be able to choose Mr Right?”

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#7
MAISIE MCGRANE: METER MAID
Humorous Thriller
95,ooo words

Unsinkable Maisie McGrane is desperate to join her Irish family’s cop fraternity. Expelled from the police academy, she takes a job as a meter maid to weasel her way back on to the force. When she over-enthusiastically boots the mayor’s limo and the ensuing scuffle goes viral, Maisie becomes a target with little more to protect herself than her ticket gun.

Similar in tone to: Stephanie Plum meets Blue Bloods

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#8
SWEET SANCTUARY
Contemporary romance with paranormal elements
120,000 words

Kate’s twentieth wedding anniversary plans never included discovering her husband’s long term affair. She quickly takes steps to rid herself of the man, while keeping her children and recovering a fraction of everything he has stolen from her life. Determined to make a fresh start for her kids, Kate follows her heart and buys the farm of her dreams in the North Georgia foothills. Sweet Sanctuary comes complete with an ancient and unusual Victorian house, a fish-stocked lake, and a reclusive handyman who not only lives on his own island in the middle of it, but cares about her children, and steals her breath away every time he looks at her.

Alone, Ian Stuart has walked the familiar paths of this old farm for more decades than he cares to count. Now, for the first time since an angry mother’s curse banished him to this place, he wants a normal life. He foolishly allows himself to fall in love with Kate and her children, knowing he doesn’t deserve them and will never have anything to offer. But he needn’t worry. His age-old secret will one day soon destroy everything he holds dear, and leave him with nothing.

Again.

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#9
AMBUSHING THE HEIRESS
Historical/Regency romance
100,000 words

Bored and gorgeous Lady Evangeline ‘Mischief’ Moorecroft delights on dancing the razor’s edge between scandal and infamy.

Cynical, duty-bound Major Vicks Geale returns to England to find he’s inherited a title, the family’s crumbling estate and a mountain of debt. To free a fortune held in trust, he must restore the estate’s land sold off by previous heirs, the bulk of which is attached to the Duke of Moorecroft’s feckless daughter’s dowry. Pragmatic Geale, who finds love irrelevant, is certain she’ll suit.

Unable to resist Geale’s bait of a notoriously naughty masquerade, Evangeline awakens to discover she’s been ambushed into marriage. Smugly certain her father will pay her way out of the unequal marriage, she’s horrified when he won’t.

Evangeline wages a campaign of secrets, flirtation and seduction to win her freedom from the hardened soldier. The trouble is, matching wits with her brooding new husband is proving to be the most fun she’s ever had.

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#10
DARKNESS UNDONE
Paranormal Romance
105,700 words

Bound to a vengeful goddess, immortal warrior, Reynner, has little time for the fairer sex. The last thing he wants is to be aligned with another female, even if she is the key to finding an artifact and saving his realm. His stone-cold resistance is tested, his attraction undeniable for the feisty mortal. But she demands the one thing he cannot give her…his trust.

Eve Leighton keeps away from intimacy of any sort after an accident in her teens left her with a painful gift—the ability to see into another’s soul through physical contact. When an ice-cold warrior claims she is his world’s savior, she’s intrigued, until she dares a look into his soul and sees a man who’s been cruelly betrayed. She agrees to help him and loses her heart. But the man is an unassailable fortress. With quiet determination, she chips away his barriers and a passion darker than night pulls them under.

But Reynner must overcome his own personal demons as battles are fought to claim the woman he loves or lose her to a vicious goddess. And Eve has to face her own mortality and fight for a love of a lifetime.

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#11
FIRE ANGEL
Suspense/Romance
69,697 words

Criminal profiler, Jake McKenzie, volunteered to go to Afghanistan and came home minus a leg. Concerned that he can’t do the work the way he did before, he only takes on cold cases. When a pyromaniac serial killer terrorizes Paradise, he agrees to return to police work and prove to himself, once and for all, that he can do the job.

Sixteen years ago, Alexis Michaels escaped Paradise and an abusive uncle, and after surviving a deadly fire, became one of the country’s leading fire and arson investigators. She reluctantly returns home to lead the hunt for the killer. Her uncanny ability to put herself in the arsonist’s place is the skill they need to find this maniac.

After a threatening note, she grudgingly agrees to partner with Jake. Their past history intensifies their attraction, and sparks fly, but Alexis mistakenly believes that he’s married, and withdraws from him, leaving Jake frustrated and confused. They must set aside their differences and work together to catch the killer who sees Alexis as a threat to his agenda. Lives are at stake, and according to the killer, Alexis is next.

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#12
LOVE & VENGEANCE
Historical Fiction with Romantic Elements
100,000 words

Back during the reign of Trajan, c. 108 AD, at the pinnacle of Rome’s power, Marcus, a fine Roman citizen, is stripped of his position to be condemned as a slave to fight in gladiatorial games. Sentenced to die in the Colosseum, he lives and excels at the blood sport, becoming Champion of Rome, possessed by a demon to win his freedom to exact vengeance against his accusers.

Gustina is a Roman slave, never tasting the joys freedom, serves her owner, her domina, but when she finds the woman dead, poisoned by her husband, Gustina is accused as the killer and sentenced to die in the Colosseum.

Marcus saves her by using the coin he wins to buy her life. He will protect her from death by his status as champion and she will save him from the dark demon of vengeance but together, their love is tested by the very Romans who condemned him to slavery – his family – the same people he must rescue her from before they kill her.

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#13
GREAT & UNFORTUNATE THINGS
Historical
87,000 words

Operating as a British spy, Tristan St.James, the new Marquis of Wrenworth, barely escapes Afghanistan with his life in the spring of 1869. He plans to seek vengeance against the traitor who exposed him and for the agent he’s forced to kill. Returning to England, as a lord, he must marry. Haunted by guilt from the horrors of war, he avoids love at all costs, but finds himself drawn to the only woman who is disinterested in him.

Lady Evelyn Hurstine has waited over two years for the return of her love, a man who left for war in the East. But during that time, she suffered a brutal assault, resulting in a child and fear of any man touching her except for the man she once knew. The pursuit by the marquis scares her but her excuses against his proposal dwindle.

Their marriage strengthens into love until she discovers her husband isn’t the safety she believed but the one who killed the man she once loved. Caught in a world of intrigue and mayhem, Tristan must prove his love to her before the traitor destroys them both.

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#14
COMANCHE HAVEN
Romance – western romance
106,416 words

From the moment Celia, the emerald-eyed, Comanche half-breed, gets off the stage in Tyler, Texas, Seth Loflin realizes he is on a collision course with the past. She was his first love and now Shooter Creek’s ranch boss can’t allow her to succumb to the danger that stalks her.

Someone wants to kidnap her and sell her as a slave, but now that she’s in his protective arms, he intends to keep her safe.

Celia can’t run back to the safety of her former life in South Carolina. If she stays at Shooter Creek with Seth, she’ll be putting the man she still loves and his ranch in danger of harboring a Comanche. Seth refuses to leave her side. His vow to protect her comes with a price. Yet he gives Celia the hope and courage she needs. Now she’ll fight for her new life with Seth…or die trying.

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#15
SUGARWATER RANCH
Contemporary Western Romance
84,400 words

Sean O’Connell’s life was perfect until drinking affected his bull riding, and he ended the season too broke to leave the Northwest for the warm southern rodeos. Worse, yet, he had to get a real job.

After a wild night with his buddies gets out of hand, he wakes up naked in a strange house, staring into the intense blue eyes of a woman he’s never met. Turning to his infallible O’Connell charm, he’s dumbfounded when it leaves her cold. It’s obvious she’s not his usual good-time girl, so how did he get here?

When bar manager Catherine Silvera finds a waterlogged, unconscious cowboy in danger of freezing to death in front of the Sugarwater Bar, she saves his life–then runs away faster than a jackrabbit with a coyote on its tail. Any man who makes his living following the rodeo circuit is not for her, especially if he thinks partying is part of the competition. Since he’s everything she doesn’t want in a man, why can’t she shake an irresistible attraction to the rugged cowboy?

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#16
THE DEVIL’S IN THE DELTA
Thriller
90,000 words

My name is Lolita Vette, a seventh generation seventh daughter of a long line of witches. And I’m a fake. A charlatan. While telling fortunes and selling love potion in the Delta isn’t as sexy as running a grift, it’s a lucrative and steady business.

I’m not a witch. Just a girl with an elevated Kinesic ability. My brain processes a person’s microscopic tics and tugs so clearly, I’m a human lie-detector. Combine my God-given curse with a decent ability to cold read, and you’d be surprised how many rational people start believing in magic.

So when hard-ass ex-Army Ranger Collie-Roy Souther asked me to find his no-good brother–last seen working for crime lord Queenie Trent–my answer was no. As in no way in hell. But the man’s persistent. So much so I started nosing around where I shouldn’t.

And now, before I’d decided on whether Collie-Roy belonged in a shallow grave or in my bed, he’s disappeared. Vanished into the ether, unless you count his little finger and a helluva lot of blood.

Now even I can’t help but search for a little backwater magic in this mess of a world.

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#17
ACES WILD
Paranormal Romance
62, 806 words

A simple life’s all fun and games until you become the target of fire breathing dragons. So much for simple.

When Val Draig saunters into Ace’s Southern occult bookstore she accidentally almost emasculates the tall, emerald-eyed hunk. Just as well, he’s the type she knows she’s better off avoiding. What she finds out too late is that he’s a dragon and a simple phone call placed her humdrum life in danger. And not just hers: dragons and humans alike will fall if the long drawn-out war hits a crescendo. Suddenly, all Ace wants is her boring old life back: a return to a time when she wasn’t falling out of helicopters and unsuccessfully dodging bullets.

Val can keep Ace safe, but she won’t accept anything less than safety for everyone. To stop the rival clan, she and Val will have to rely on each other’s strengths and wits. They’ll unravel a past fraught with lies only to discover a future together is the key to their survival. Ace may not have it all, but who she is may just be wild enough to make it work.

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#18
SEASTRUCK
Women’s Fiction – Paranormal
92,500 words

Encounters with mortals brought Lura nothing but grief. All the same, when the mermaid sees a man drowning in the Gulf of Mexico off St. Pete Beach, the words of the Law of One ring through her mind and she swims out to save him. Seven Sacred Laws rule the mer world; ignoring them leads to corruption and self-destruction.

Before the moon cycle ends, she must mate with a human in hopes of conceiving – her only chance to preserve her ancestral memories. The slim, muscular man found in her waters has the genes she seeks for her offspring. Once on land, Lura shape shifts into a leggy blonde to seduce him. Tyler isn’t about to get careless, though, not with an accidental pregnancy and a failed marriage behind him.

When the mermaid is captured by a treasure hunter, he triggers an ancient curse that keeps her in his power. It’s Tyler she wants. Only unlocking the secret of the last Sacred Law allows her to use the power of love against the curse and enlist Tyler’s help in her escape.

***
#19
IMMORTAL BLOODLINES
Paranormal Romance
88,000 words

Kila’s mother severed their relationship in hopes of keeping her lineage a secret. When Kila meets Ethan, a charming and lethal man from the bayou, things take a passionate but bitter twist. Their illicit love affair acts as a catalyst to her birthright. Bringing her destiny to the forefront awakens the Sepulturans, riling unprecedented anger from shape-shifting clans, and reveals the truth behind the voices in her head. One act of forbidden romance shatters the carefully sculpted facade on reality, one where shape-shifters prey on humans, creatures of the grave distort minds, and an unknowing hunter walks among the immortal bloodlines.

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#20
PRIYA IN HEELS
Contemporary multicultural romance
88,000 words

Priya is the epitome of an obedient Indian daughter. Her loyalty to her parents is carved by their love and sacrifice, but the manipulations of her aunts pushes her to forge an even tighter bond. Priya will fiercely uphold her family’s honor and has done so by becoming a medical resident, remaining a virgin, and agreeing to marry her intended. Life is near perfect, her fiancé is tolerable, and her friends are the intervals of excitement she needs. The only thing that can derail her world is the sexy Irishman down the hall, the one who wants to get into her bed and shatter her walls. Logic is clear. Tyler is no good for Priya’s life plans. Love, on the other hand, is unreasonable and clashes with the carefully sculpted life her parents gave her. Maybe going after her heart isn’t such a big deal, or maybe it’s the thing that will unravel her world and leave her an emotional wreck.

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#21
WINTER SONG
Mystery/suspense
82,000 words

Grieving widower, detective Noah Daugherty, focuses his energy on winning over his late wife’s resentful Yorkie and taking scumbags off the street. Scumbags like The Driver, an honest to God hit man who advertises on Craig’s list. Noah has never believed in hit men, at least not ones that offer their services to the public, and he certainly never envisioned The Driver, a teenage killer who professes to take jobs to pay his college tuition, but in fact, simply loves his work.

When The Driver senses Noah closing in on his true identity, he takes steps to eliminate the detective and his annoying little dog. That’s when it gets personal. But Noah isn’t that easy to kill. After his first attempt fails, The Driver is left wondering–what’s it going to take to kill this man, silver bullets? A stake through the heart? He’d better think of something quick, because Noah is now aiming for him.

Winter Song is the first book in a four part series

***
#22
IN THE HEART
Contemporary romance/womens fiction
100,000 words

After a tragic shooting claims the life of her fiancé, Celia Bailey returns to her small hometown vowing one day to find love again. A year later, she’s finding it difficult to keep that vow when the man occupying her thoughts and haunting her dreams is a man she knows shouldn’t get involved with.

Toby Colton is about to find his new life turned upside down. He has a steady job as a prison guard and is forming ties in the close-knit community he recently moved to. However, one chance meeting on the side of a road brings a string of complications he never counted on.

For the ex-rodeo rider, Celia is one sad cliché after another: the boss’s daughter…his best friend’s sister…and love at first sight. While the two fight a losing battle to resist their attraction, a scheming and dangerous inmate by the name of Vince Monroe sets his sights on escape—and Celia.

When Toby must risk his own life to save a kidnapped Celia, they learn love doesn’t always play by the rules.

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#23
DR. STRANGE LOVE Short Story Series #1
Erotica/ Erotic Romance
8,000 words

Toni Reynolds loves her fiancé, Luke Campbell, more than anything. Still something is missing. They both recognize their love life has become predictable. Toni, realizes she’s not satisfied. She fears that she’s missing something and the closer her wedding date gets, the more unhappy she becomes.

It’s her secret though, until the night, Luke announces they’re hiring a sex therapist. Uneasy about a professional poking around in their relationship, especially one who makes ‘house calls’, Toni feels betrayed. Her love for and her trust in Luke win out as she agrees to meet the good doctor. Neither Luke nor Toni is prepared for the talents of Damon. This story is 8,000 words.

***
#24
THE FOUND GIRL
Contemporary paranormal romance
100,000 words

Jonas Kavanagh’s life was predetermined.

One day he will be king to a magical elf kingdom and he will also be the first in the royal line to take a human as queen. Only two complications stand in his way. First, the human woman fated to be this queen doesn’t believe in love, magic or even the prediction. Second, and far more difficult to overcome, the person assigned the task of finding this human wants nothing more than see Jonas joined with someone else and he possesses enough power to accomplish this.

Alvina McKellen’s life has been one loss after another. Orphaned and unwanted by relatives forced to care for her, then framed by a man who said he loved her, she seeks a new life far from where she began. She sure never expected that new life to involve a frightening man with strange abilities and an unexpected marriage to a supposed king.

Together, a reluctant elf king and a lost girl find passion, love and their destiny together, something not even the most powerful magic of one who would tear them apart can destroy.

***
#25
LOVING EMMALYNE
Paranormal romance
37,000 words

Growing up in a gothic royal castle, young Emmalyne has been in love with the handsome wizard Donovan for as long as she can remember, never believing he is aware of her affections.
She watches from afar as he trains to one day take his position beside her cousin, the prince.

Donovan is dedicated to becoming a wise and powerful wizard so when the time comes to serve his friend, Prince William, he will be the best there is. He has more important things to worry about than a small girl’s infatuation with him; namely, exacting his revenge on the vampire Keiron who killed Donovan’s family almost a century before.

When Emmalyne returns to the castle after two years away, now grown, captivating and beautiful, Donovan can no longer ignore what she stirs inside him. However, before he can make Emmalyne his, Keiron again shows up to steal the life of someone he loves.

Keiron is fascinated by the beautiful Emmalyne and instead of killing her; he changes her, making her into a being Donovan hates the most. Years later, Donovan must decide whether his love for Emmalyne is stronger than his hatred of the creature she’s become.

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#26
TRUTH BE TOLD
Single Title
90, 570 words

Jill Barlow has come a long way—Texas to Vermont—in search of a safe haven after her husband, and then her father are murdered. A letter she receives from him after his death suggests he was killed because of his fight to keep the Texas Legislature from adopting casino gambling. Jill wants nothing more to do with politics despite the attraction drawing her to the son of the woman whose crystal shop Jill wants to buy.

Jerrod Phillips, a Vermont State Assemblyman, has come a long way in the twenty some years since his wife abandoned him and their two children. He’ll do anything to keep his family from being hurt again, especially when the threats come packaged in the attractive form of Jill Barlow who he suspects is involved in murder.

Jill and her friends are physically threatened. The possibility of justice for her husband and father’s murders pales beside the need to keep her grown kids and her friends safe. If she survives, what chance can she and Jerrod have when he holds her responsible for his brother’s death, and she fears the consequences of involvement in the life of another politician?

***
#27
BIG BAD WOLFE
Contemporary Category Romance
55,000 words

When desire comes head-to-head with feelings from the past, sparks are bound to fly.

Sarah never planned on seeing Falon Wolfe ever again. The he walked into the conference of her grandfather’s company. Falon was the one thing in her life she couldn’t forget. And she’d tried. For nine years she tried forgetting the scent of his skin and the way his body felt.

Falon’s overbearing ego, coupled with his dark good looks and undeniable charm grate on Sarah’s nerves. The cold cynicism that replaced his quicksilver spontaneity had Sarah devising a plan of her own: seduce the man who didn’t know he held her heart, and make him remember who he really was.

Returning to Chicago after fifteen year, Falon learns that things weren’t as simple as his cynicism had him believing. Faced with their strong attraction, Falon vows to have Sarah until he gets her out of his system.

When feelings change from cold agendas to blazing passion Sarah and Falon must come clean about their motives or risk losing everything. Sarah must move past her insecurities and Falon’s frigid walls if she truly wants to tame the Big Bad Wolfe.

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#28
HER UNREASONABLE DOUBT
Romantic Suspense/Thriller
90,000 words

Assistant District Attorney Madison Montgomery has a choice: work with an accused killer to save her life, or die.

When some crazed person bent on revenge stalks and threatens Madison, she turns to Joshua Baldwin for help, the former violent crimes detective she just prosecuted for murder. Although the jury acquitted him, this man she once loved and the only cop she ever trusted is still trying to prove to Madison and the world that despite the incriminating evidence the jury was right.

Amid accusations of police corruption, deep mistrust, and unrelenting passion, Madison and Josh navigate a dangerous road toward finding the real killer and the person threatening her and, perhaps, alleviating her unreasonable doubt.

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#29
BRANDED
NA Suspence Romance
97,000 words

Allison barely escapes her brother’s wedding reception alive. When the invaders raid the party, she and her siblings flee, avoiding the massacre.

Three weeks later, Ali is captured by the heartless General, who led the invasion, as she and her siblings search for other survivors. When she refuses to submit to him, he brands her for death. In a wild act of defiance, she snatches the branding rod and sears the mark onto his face. Furious at the humiliation she forced upon him, she is taken out to join the rest of the captives in front of the firing squad. But she escapes, and flees again.

She finds a small group in hiding who nurse her back to health physically and emotionally. While among them, she falls in love with the young man who found her – Damien Rogers.
But the General is hunting her. When he discovers their location, and finds her with another man, his obsession is inflamed. Allison discovers that his hunt for her may not kill her, but his mind games may break her and Damien apart. She must put herself on the line or he could kill her family and the man she loves.

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#30
KOMODO KABOOM
Paranormal,Sub-genre: Horror, Romance
25,000 words

Set in a series of valleys named Hekati’s Wrath, a corrupt family, Matriarchal Oriane, seeks to overpower the ruling queen and council of Hera’s Paradise Kingdom. What stands in the way of those plans is one not so innocent female, Trestle Oriane, and a recruiter rebel, Clink Doggerel, seeking an inside weapon in taking it down.

Trestle despises her family, grew up abused and disdainful of the lcientiousness her dame and sire fostered to control outlying subjects and family members. She had no problems accepting the bargain Clink offered her, take down the power seat, and gain freedom.

Deep within Hekati’s Wrath is a labyrinth that the Oriane stronghold surrounds. That is the rumored power source of the entire set of valleys. Remove the power source, remove the threat, and lastly remove the corrupted family members came the orders to Clink. Only one problem resulted, he’d recruited Trestle from a very early age and then fell in love with her.

Trestle is aware of treachery lurking everywhere and trusts no one, except perhaps Clink. She carries his child, she has a secret ability that only Clink knows about. She shape shifts into a komodo dragon, one that goes Kaboom upon reshaping.

It’s the first Pitch Day of 2013! Say hello to all the authors!

TIME TO STOP PITCHING! THANKS FOR COMING TO SEE US. FEEL FREE TO KEEP TALKING, BECAUSE I WON’T PICK THE WINNERS OF THE BOOKS UNTIL MORNING.

HAVE A GREAT EVENING!

I can’t tell you all how excited I am for this Editor Shop.

Jennifer Miller is my editor at Samhain. I adore her and am so thankful to have her in my corner!

PRIMITIVE NIGHTS released from Samhain on Jan 8th. and to celebrate, Jennifer agreed to be our attending editor. NINE other authors from Samhain agreed to come as well and we’re all giving away prizes!

I’ll start taking pitches around 10:00 am EST. But please don’t send me anything until you see the word ‘GO’ posted in big letters as an update at the top of this page. Once it’s there, send your pitch to candi_agent_shop (at) yahoo.com.

Yes, I know, it’s hard to wait, but while your waiting (and after you pitch), check out the new or soon to be released authors and their works below. Each link will take you to a page with their information, blurbs, excerpts and yummy covers!

Please feel free to comment and chat. We’ll all be here through the day and the more you comment, the more times you’re entered to win!

Here are the links to each authors info:

(PLEASE DON’T POST COMMENTS ON INDIVIDUAL PAGES. COME BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE TO POST COMMENTS OR WE MIGHT MISS THEM!!!!)

•  Joy Daniels – REVVING HER UP
•  Mari Carr – WINTER’S THAW
• Lacy Danes – WATERFALL
• Isis Rushdan – KINDRED OF THE FALLEN
• Anne Hope – SOUL DEEP
• Jackie Ashenden – FALLING FOR FINN
• Candi Wall – PRIMITIVE NIGHTS
• Cynthia D’Alba – TEXAS TWO STEP
• Barbara Elsborg – COWBOYS DOWN
• Renee Wildes – GOD OF FYRE MOUNTAIN

Good luck to everyone!

It’s almost time to pitch again… by Candi Wall

I have to tell you all how excited I am to start hosting editors here on Musetracks for Agent/Editor Shop.

Agent Shop has been a baby of ours here at Musetracks for some time. I’ll give you a little reason why.

When Jenn, John, Marie-Claude and I first met at Charlotte Dillon’s critique group, I can honestly say we were ALL rather green. Maybe not so green that we’d never written anything… We all had novels to share, were ‘sort of” prepared to tackle the publishing world, were semi-certain we had some talent, and one if not all of us had come to realize it wasn’t as easy as simply writing the novel. But we were – newbies.

Together, and with Stacey coming on board, we learned that the road to publishing is a paved road full of potholes big enough to swallow a writer walking with false-bravado blinders. We also found that even if we recognized and worked on our weaknesses, we were very susceptible to falling down, bruising our egos, our hearts, and our muse.

But one of the most important things we learned was how incredibly supportive other writers could be. Not only were we there for one another, hordes of other writers were there as well, offering suggestions, encouragement, quick fixes and heavy hands as was needed.

None of us would have made it to where we are if we’d gone it alone. It simply wouldn’t have happened…

That’s where Musetracks came in. It was our way to give back, to inspire. Our way to support writers at any stage in their career – like we were once and still are supported. Agent Shop is another venue for writers to interact with publishing professionals and has been hugely popular in the almost two years it’s been up and running. We’re hoping that Editor Shop will be as much of a success.

I’m happy to say the awesome Rhonda Penders with The Wild Rose Press will be our first ever guest editor at Editor Shop, and I wish you all the best of luck on pitch day.

December 15th is pitch day, so mark your calendars!